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13826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub | Hub | A hub is the central part of a wheel that connects the axle to the wheel itself.
Hub, The Hub, or hubs may refer to:
Geography
Pakistan
Hub Tehsil, Balochistan, an administrative division
Hub, Balochistan, capital city of the tehsil
Hub Dam, in Balochistan
Hub River, in Balochistan
United States
Hub, Californi... |
13828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Commons%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | House of Commons of the United Kingdom | The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster located in London, England.
The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represe... |
13829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20%28card%20game%29 | Hearts (card game) | Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although most variations can accommodate between three and six players. It was first recorded in America in the 1880s and has many variants, some of which are also referred to as "Hearts"; especially the games of Black Lady and Black Maria. Th... |
13830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings | Hastings | Hastings () is a seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west at Senlac Hill in 1066. It later became one of the medieval Cinque Ports. In the 19t... |
13831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights | Human rights | Human rights are moral principles or norms for certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent... |
13833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20table | Hash table | In computing, a hash table (hash map) is a data structure that implements an associative array abstract data type, a structure that can map keys to values. A hash table uses a hash function to compute an index, also called a hash code, into an array of buckets or slots, from which the desired value can be found. During... |
13834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello%2C%20World%21%22%20program | "Hello, World!" program | A "Hello, World!" program is generally a computer program that outputs or displays the message "Hello, World!". This program is very simple to write in many programming languages, and is often used to illustrate a language's basic syntax. "Hello, World!" programs are often the first a student learns to write in a given... |
13839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20metal | Heavy metal | Heavy metal may refer to:
Heavy metals, a loose category of relatively dense metals and metalloids
Toxic heavy metal, any heavy metal chemical element of environmental concern
Heavy metal music, a genre of rock music
Heavy metal genres
Heavy Metal (magazine), an American fantasy comic book magazine
People
Heavy Metal... |
13845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Hebrew%20grammar | History of Hebrew grammar | Hebrew grammar is the grammar of the Hebrew language.
History of studies in Hebrew grammar
The Masoretes in the 7th to 11th centuries laid the foundation for grammatical analysis of Hebrew. As early as the 9th century Judah ibn Kuraish discussed the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew. In the 10th century, Aaron b... |
13846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Hebrew%20phonology | Modern Hebrew phonology | Modern Hebrew is phonetically simpler than Biblical Hebrew and has fewer phonemes, but it is phonologically more complex. It has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 to 10 vowels, depending on the speaker and the analysis.
Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two mi... |
13849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Hohenzollern | House of Hohenzollern | The House of Hohenzollern (, also , , , ) is a German royal and from 1871 to 1918, imperial dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire (respectively), and Romania. The family came from the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabi... |
13850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang%20gliding | Hang gliding | Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered with synthetic sailcloth to form a wing. Typically the pilot is in a harnes... |
13851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hole (disambiguation) | A hole is a hollow place, an opening in/through a solid body, or an excavation in the ground.
Hole or holes may also refer to:
Places
Hôle, a municipality in Belgium also called Halen
Høle, Norway, a borough and former municipality
Hole, Norway, a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway
People with the name
Hole... |
13854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20France | History of France | The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, the Aquitani, and the Belgae. The Gauls, the largest and best attest... |
13855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween | Halloween | Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' evening"), less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the... |
13859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayling%20Island | Hayling Island | Hayling Island is an island off the south coast of England, in the borough of Havant in the county of Hampshire, east of Portsmouth.
History
An Iron Age shrine in the north of Hayling Island was later developed into a Roman temple in the 1st century BC and was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Histo... |
13860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn%E2%80%93Banach%20theorem | Hahn–Banach theorem | The Hahn–Banach theorem is a central tool in functional analysis.
It allows the extension of bounded linear functionals defined on a subspace of some vector space to the whole space, and it also shows that there are "enough" continuous linear functionals defined on every normed vector space to make the study of the du... |
13861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire | Hampshire | Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a county in South East England on the coast of the English Channel. The county town is Winchester, but the county is named after Southampton. Its two largest cities are Southampton and Portsmouth which are administered separately as unitary authorities; the rest of the county is ... |
13862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20science%20fiction | Hard science fiction | Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The complementary term soft science fic... |
13863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handloading | Handloading | Handloading, or reloading, is the process of making firearm cartridges by assembling the individual components (case, primer, propellant, and projectile), rather than purchasing mass-assembled, factory-loaded ammunition.
The term handloading is the more general term, and refers generically to the manual assembly of am... |
13864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20Texans | Houston Texans | The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston. The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division, and play their home games at NRG Stadium.
The Texans were founded in 1999, and were owned by Bob McNair unti... |
13865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20Oak | Heart of Oak | "Heart of Oak" is the official march of the Royal Navy. It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies, including the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was also the official march of the Royal Australian Navy, but has now been replaced by the new march, "Royal Australian Navy".
The m... |
13867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Holt | Harold Holt | Harold Edward Holt (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his presumed death in 1967. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party.
Holt was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne in childhood, studying law at the University of M... |
13869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20metal%20music | Heavy metal music | Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distortion, extended guitar solos, em... |
13870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetii | Helvetii | The Helvetii ( ), anglicized as Helvetians, were a Celtic tribe or tribal confederation occupying most of the Swiss plateau at the time of their contact with the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. According to Julius Caesar, the Helvetians were divided into four subgroups or pagi. Of these, Caesar names only the Ver... |
13871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretics%20of%20Dune | Heretics of Dune | Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels. It was ranked as the No. 13 hardcover fiction best seller of 1984 by The New York Times.
Fifteen hundred years have passed since the 3,500-year reign of the God Emperor Leto II Atreides ended with his assass... |
13873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha | Halakha | Halakha (; , ), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halacho ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandments (mitzvot), subsequent Talmudic and rabbinic laws, and the customs and traditions which were compiled in ... |
13876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ancient%20Israel%20and%20Judah | History of ancient Israel and Judah | The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah were two related Israelite kingdoms from the Iron Age period of the ancient Southern Levant.
According to the Hebrew Bible, a United Kingdom of Israel existed in the 11th and 10th centuries BCE under the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon. The Biblical account reports tha... |
13877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20monarchs%20of%20Persia | List of monarchs of Persia | This is a list of monarchs of Persia (or monarchs of Iranic peoples, in present-day Iran), which are known by the royal title Shah or Shahanshah. This is a list starts from the establishment of the Medes around 678 BC until the deposition of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
Earlier monarchs in the area of modern-day Iran ... |
13878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology | Homology | Homology may refer to:
Sciences
Biology
Homology (biology), any characteristic of biological organisms that is derived from a common ancestor
Sequence homology, biological homology between DNA, RNA, or protein sequences
Homologous chromosomes, chromosomes in a biological cell that pair up (synapse) during meiosis
H... |
13879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20J.%20Heinz | Henry J. Heinz | Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur who, at the age of 25, co-founded a small horseradish concern in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. This business failed, but his second business expanded into tomato ketchup and other condiments, and ultimately became the internationally known H. J... |
13881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz | Heinz | The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories. ... |
13883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman%20coding | Huffman coding | In computer science and information theory, a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression. The process of finding or using such a code proceeds by means of Huffman coding, an algorithm developed by David A. Huffman while he was a Sc.D. student at MIT, and... |
13885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density%20lipoprotein | High-density lipoprotein | High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins. Lipoproteins are complex particles composed of multiple proteins which transport all fat molecules (lipids) around the body within the water outside cells. They are typically composed of 80–100 proteins per particle (organized by one, two o... |
13887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu | Honolulu | Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is located in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oahu, and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city. Honolu... |
13889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolozoa | Percolozoa | The Percolozoa are a group of colourless, non-photosynthetic Excavata, including many that can transform between amoeboid, flagellate, and cyst stages.
Characteristics
Most Percolozoa are found as bacterivores in soil, fresh water and occasionally in the ocean. The only member of this group that is infectious to human... |
13890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20India | History of India | According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. However, the earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Settled life, which involves the transition from foraging to farming and pas... |
13891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20%28franchise%29 | Highlander (franchise) | {{Infobox media franchise
| title = Highlander
| image = Highlander film Connor MacLeod.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod (Christopher Lambert)
| creator = Gregory Widen
| origin = Highlander (1986)
| years = 1986–present
| novels =
| comics =
| films =
| tv =
| atv = Highlander: The... |
13893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ships%20called%20HMS%20Hood | List of ships called HMS Hood | Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable naval officers:
, a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859. She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was sold in 1888.
, a ... |
13894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20Astros | Houston Astros | The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston. The Astros compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division, having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL).
The Astros were establish... |
13895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Clement | Hal Clement | Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard.
In 1998 Clement was inducted by the Science Fictio... |
13896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r%20Laxness | Halldór Laxness | Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freu... |
13899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20oscillator | Harmonic oscillator | In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force F proportional to the displacement x:
where k is a positive constant.
If F is the only force acting on the system, the system is called a simple harmonic oscillator, and it under... |
13901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers | Heathers | Heathers is a 1989 American black comedy teen film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. It stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, and Penelope Milford. The film portrays four teenage girls—three of whom are named Hea... |
13902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20Expellees | Federation of Expellees | The Federation of Expellees (; BdV) is a non-profit organization formed in West Germany on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans and their families (usually naturalised as German nationals after 1949) who either fled their homes in parts of Central ... |
13904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Albania | History of Albania | The history of Albania forms a part of the history of Europe. During classical antiquity, Albania was home to several Illyrian tribes such as the Ardiaei, Albanoi, Amantini, Enchele, Taulantii and many others, but also Thracian and Greek tribes, as well as several Greek colonies established on the Illyrian coast. In t... |
13908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handfasting | Handfasting | Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the term's usage, may define an unofficiated wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant, usually with the intent of later undergoing a second wedding with an officiant), a betrothal (an engagement in which a couple has formally promised to wed, and w... |
13910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Pacific%20Islands | History of the Pacific Islands | History of the Pacific Islands covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Histories
Easter Island – Rapanui
Easter Island is one of the youngest inhabited territories on earth, and for most of the history of Easter Island it was the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth. Its inhabitants, the Rapanu... |
13911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp | Harp | The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, including standing or sitting and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and m... |
13912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow%20Earth | Hollow Earth | The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experimen... |
13913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas | Hamas | Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and became the de facto gove... |
13914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20graphical%20user%20interface | History of the graphical user interface | The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Several vendors have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basi... |
13919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah | Hezbollah | Hezbollah (; , lit. "Party of Allah" or "Party of God", also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the L... |
13920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland | Homeland | A homeland is the concept of the place where a cultural, national, or racial identity had formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations. A homeland may also be referre... |
13924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hani%20Hanjour | Hani Hanjour | Hani Saleh Hasan Hanjour (, ; August 30, 1972September 11, 2001) was the lead hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, crashing the plane into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.
Hanjour first came to the United States in 1991, enrolling at the University of Arizona, where he studied English for a ... |
13926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena | Hyena | Hyenas, or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek , ), are feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae . With only four extant species (each in their own genus), it is the fifth-smallest biological family in the Carnivora and one of the smallest in the class Mammalia. Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vit... |
13928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey%E2%80%93Chase%20experiment | Hershey–Chase experiment | The Hershey–Chase experiments were a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that helped to confirm that DNA is genetic material.
While DNA had been known to biologists since 1869, many scientists still assumed at the time that proteins carried the information for inheritance becau... |
13929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20religion | History of religion | The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,220 years ago (3200 BC). The prehistory of religion involves the study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of written rec... |
13930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20music | House music | House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115 to 130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture in the 1980s, as DJs from the subculture began altering disco songs to give them a more m... |
13937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover%2C%20New%20Hampshire | Hanover, New Hampshire | Hanover is a town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 11,870. The town is home to Dartmouth College, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Hanover High School. The Appalachian Trai... |
13942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Beagle | HMS Beagle | HMS Beagle was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803 (roughly equivalent to £ in 2018), was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. Later reports say the ship took part in celebrations of the coronati... |
13945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20St%20Albans | History of St Albans | St Albans is a city located in Hertfordshire, England. It was originally founded as Verlamion a settlement belonging to the Catuvellauni (a Celtic tribe or state of southeastern Britain before the Roman conquest, attested by inscriptions into the 4th century).It was subsequently transformed into the Roman settlement of... |
13948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20end | Head end | Head end may refer to:
cable television headend, the central facility serving a local area for cable television systems
SMATV headend, Single Master Antenna Television, receives and rebroadcasts satellite TV throughout a property
See also
Head-end power is the electrical power distribution system used in passenger... |
13951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%206309 | Hitachi 6309 | The 6309 is Hitachi's CMOS version of the Motorola 6809 microprocessor, released in late 1982. It was initially marketed as a low-power version of the 6809, without reference to its many internal improvements.
While in "Emulation Mode" it is fully compatible with the 6809. To the 6809 specifications, it adds higher c... |
13953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominy | Hominy | Hominy (Spanish: maíz molido; literally meaning "milled corn") is a food produced from dried maize (corn) kernels that have been treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization ( is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye.
History
The process of nixtamalization has b... |
13955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Heath%20Robinson | W. Heath Robinson | William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.
In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson contraption" gained dictionary recognition around 1912. It became part of popular langu... |
13956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius | Heraclius | Heraclius ( Herakleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), sometimes called Heraclius I, was the Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas.
Heraclius's reign was marked by several milit... |
13957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20the%20Fowler | Henry the Fowler | Henry the Fowler ( or ; ) (c. 876 – 2 July 936) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ottonian dynasty of kings and emperors, and he is generally considered to be the founder of the medieval German... |
13959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal | Hannibal | Hannibal (; , Ḥannibaʿl; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history.
Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, wa... |
13961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie%20Cronje | Hansie Cronje | Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. A right-handed all-rounder, as captain Cronje led his team to victory in 27 test matches and 99 one day internationals. He was voted the 11th... |
13963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hultsfred%20Municipality | Hultsfred Municipality | Hultsfred Municipality (Hultsfreds kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden. The seat is in the town of Hultsfred.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the market town (köping) of Hultsfred (instituted in 1927) with a number of surrounding municipalities. ... |
13964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Parliament of the United Kingdom | The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and the British overseas territories. It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and the overseas territories. Parliament is bicameral but... |
13966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea | Hosea | In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea ( or ; – Hōšēaʿ, 'Salvation'; – Hōsēé), son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BC prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the Book of Hosea. He is the first of the Twelve Minor Prophets, whose collective writings were aggregated and organized into a single book in the Jewish Tanakh by... |
13967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habakkuk | Habakkuk | Habakkuk, who was active around 612 BC, was a prophet whose oracles and prayer are recorded in the Book of Habakkuk, the eighth of the collected twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. He is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Almost all information about Habakkuk is drawn from the book of the Bible bearing h... |
13968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggai | Haggai | Haggai (; – Ḥaggay; Koine Greek: Ἀγγαῖος; ) was a Hebrew prophet during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the author of the Book of Haggai. He is known for his prophecy in 520 BCE, commanding the Jews to rebuild the Temple. His name means "my h... |
13969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Hollerith | Herman Hollerith | Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in... |
13971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20painting | History of painting | The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativi... |
13972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20language | Hungarian language | Hungarian () is a Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by communities of Hungarians in present-day Slovakia, western Ukraine (Subcarpathia), cen... |
13974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera | Hymenoptera | Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic.
Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that ar... |
13976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%20Hamlin | Hannibal Hamlin | Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician from Maine. In a public service career spanning over 50 years, he served as the 15th vice president of the United States. The first Republican to hold the office, Hamlin served from 1861 to 1865. He is considered among the most inf... |
13978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopwood%20Award | Hopwood Award | The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.
Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905 of the University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the regents for the enco... |
13980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis | Homeostasis | In biology, homeostasis is the state of steady internal, physical, and chemical conditions maintained by living systems. This is the condition of optimal functioning for the organism and includes many variables, such as body temperature and fluid balance, being kept within certain pre-set limits (homeostatic range). Ot... |
13981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey | Hockey | Hockey is a term used to denote various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium.
There are many types of hockey. Some games make the use of skates, either wheeled, or bladed while others do not. In order to help make the... |
13983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawick | Hawick | Hawick ( ; , ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-southeast of Selkirk. It is one of the farthest towns from the sea in Scotland, in the heart of Teviotdale, and the biggest town in the fo... |
13985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%2C%20Hertfordshire | Hatfield, Hertfordshire | Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 29,616 in 2001, and 39,201 at the 2011 Census. The settlement is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of Salisbury, forms the nucleus of the old town. From the 1930s when de Havillan... |
13986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire (; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It is bordered by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it is placed in the East of England region.
I... |
13987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene%20Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller | Helene Kröller-Müller | Helene Kröller-Müller (11 February 1869 – 14 December 1939) was a German art collector. She was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection. She is credited with being one of the first collectors to recognise the genius of Vincent van Gogh. She donated her entire collection to the Dutch peop... |
13988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg%20Gadamer | Hans-Georg Gadamer | Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode), on hermeneutics.
Life
Family and early life
Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, the son of Johannes Gadamer (1867–1928), a ... |
13991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon | Honeymoon | A honeymoon is a vacation taken by newlyweds immediately after their wedding, to celebrate their marriage. Today, honeymoons are often celebrated in destinations considered exotic or romantic.
History
In Western culture and some westernized countries' cultures, the custom of a newlywed couple's going on a holiday tog... |
13992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Kushner | Harold Kushner | Harold Samuel Kushner (born April 3, 1935) is a prominent American rabbi and author. He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism and served as the congregational rabbi of Temple Israel of Natick, in Natick, Massachusetts, for 24 years. His 14 books include the best-sellers When Bad Things Happen t... |
13994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot | Hotspot | Hotspot or Hot spot may refer to:
Places
Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Hot Spot (comics), a name for the DC Comics character Isaiah Crockett
Hot Spot (Transformers), any of several characters
Films
Hot Spot (1941 film), later retitled I W... |
13995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heapsort | Heapsort | In computer science, heapsort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm. Heapsort can be thought of as an improved selection sort: like selection sort, heapsort divides its input into a sorted and an unsorted region, and it iteratively shrinks the unsorted region by extracting the largest element from it and inserting it... |
13996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20%28data%20structure%29 | Heap (data structure) | In computer science, a heap is a specialized tree-based data structure which is essentially an almost complete tree that satisfies the heap property: in a max heap, for any given node C, if P is a parent node of C, then the key (the value) of P is greater than or equal to the key of C. In a min heap, the key of P is le... |
13998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy | Hierarchy | A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important concept in a wide variety of fields, such as philosophy, architecture, des... |
14002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20health%20sciences | Outline of health sciences | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences:
Health sciences – are those sciences which focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. These two subject matters relate to multiple academic disciplines,(and as such) both STEM disciplines, as well as ... |
14004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour | Hour | An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as of a day and scientifically reckoned as 3,599–3,601 seconds, depending on conditions. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.
The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of of t... |
14005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezekiah | Hezekiah | Hezekiah (; ), or Ezekias, (born , sole ruler ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah.
According to the biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in and was king of Judah during the siege of Jerusalem by Sen... |
14006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia | Haemophilia | Haemophilia or hemophilia (), is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding. This results in people bleeding for a longer time after an injury, easy bruising, and an increased risk of bleeding inside joints or the brain. Those with a mild c... |
14008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hickory (disambiguation) | Hickory is a type of tree (Carya species) found in North America and East Asia.
Hickory may also refer to:
Places in the United States
Hickory, Alabama, a place in Pickens County
Hickory, Kentucky, a census-designated place
Hickory, Louisiana, a place in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Hickory, Maryland, an unincor... |
14009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicellulose | Hemicellulose | A hemicellulose (also known as polyose) is one of a number of heteropolymers (matrix polysaccharides), such as arabinoxylans, present along with cellulose in almost all terrestrial plant cell walls. While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicelluloses have random, amorphous structure with... |
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