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14011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly | Hillbilly | "Hillbilly" is a term (often derogatory) for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in southern Appalachia and the Ozarks. The term was later used to refer to people from other rural and mountainous areas west of the Mississippi river too, particularly those of the Rocky Mountains ... |
14012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host | Host | A host is a person responsible for guests at an event or for providing hospitality during it.
Host may also refer to:
Places
Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
People
Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
Michel Host (1942–2021), French writer
"Host", an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Tho... |
14013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n%20Cort%C3%A9s | Hernán Cortés | Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th cen... |
14015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory | Herstory | Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story",... |
14017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Cards%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | House of Cards (British TV series) | House of Cards is a 1990 British political thriller television serial in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was televised by the BBC from 18 November to 9 December 1990, to critical and popular acclaim.
The story tells the manipulative and sudden ... |
14018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Gandy | Helen Gandy | Helen Wilburforce Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was the longtime secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable". Serving in that role for 54 years she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the workings of the Bureau. Following Hoover's de... |
14019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower | Horsepower | Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about 745.7 watts ... |
14020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20London | History of London | The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years. In that time, it has become one of the world's most significant financial and cultural capital cities. It has withstood plague, devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and riots.
The City of ... |
14021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astronomy | History of astronomy | Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy... |
14022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber%20process | Haber process | The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today. It is named after its inventors, the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed it in the first decade of the 20th century. The proc... |
14023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20or%20Not | Hot or Not | Hot or Not, currently rebranded as Chat & Date, is a rating site that allowed users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. The site offered a matchmaking engine called 'Meet Me' and an extended profile feature called "Hotlists". The domain hotornot.com is currently owned by Hot Or Not Li... |
14024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.263 | H.263 | H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was standardized by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) in a project ending in 1995/1996. It is a member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.
Like previou... |
14026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Orange%20%28disambiguation%29 | House of Orange (disambiguation) | The House of Orange is a branch of the House of Nassau active in European politics.
House of Orange may also refer to:
The House of Orange (song), by Stan Rogers
House of Orange-Chalon, a medieval Frankish dynasty of Burgundy
House of Orange-Nassau, a branch of the European House of Nassau
See also
Order of the H... |
14029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone | Histone | In biology, histones are highly basic proteins abundant in lysine and arginine residues that are found in eukaryotic cell nuclei. They act as spools around which DNA winds to create structural units called nucleosomes. Nucleosomes in turn are wrapped into 30-nanometer fibers that form tightly packed chromatin. Histones... |
14031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20organization | Hierarchical organization | A hierarchical organization is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity. This arrangement is a form of a hierarchy. In an organization, the hierarchy usually consists of a singular/group of power at the top with subsequent levels of power be... |
14033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Secombe | Harry Secombe | Sir Harold Donald Secombe (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, most notably Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and ... |
14034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin | Heroin | Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is an opioid used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt which is distinguished from black tar heroin, a variable admixture of morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-mo... |
14035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas%20Verona%20F.C. | Hellas Verona F.C. | Hellas Verona Football Club, commonly referred to as Hellas Verona or simply Verona, is an Italian football club based in Verona, Veneto, that currently plays in Serie A. The team won the Serie A Championship in 1984–85.
History
Origins and early history
Founded in 1903 by a group of high school students, the club w... |
14036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana | Hinayana | Hīnayāna () is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "small/deficient vehicle". Classical Chinese and Tibetan teachers translate it as "smaller vehicle". The term is applied collectively to the Śrāvakayāna and Pratyekabuddhayāna paths.
This term appeared around the first or second century. Hīnayāna was often contraste... |
14045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%20Bogart | Humphrey Bogart | Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
B... |
14051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20painting | History painting | History painting is a genre in painting stated as a subject matter rather than artistic style. History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, as in a portrait. The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, meaning "story... |
14052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbola | Hyperbola | In mathematics, a hyperbola (; pl. hyperbolas or hyperbolae ; adj. hyperbolic ) is a type of smooth curve lying in a plane, defined by its geometric properties or by equations for which it is the solution set. A hyperbola has two pieces, called connected components or branches, that are mirror images of each other and... |
14055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humayun | Humayun | Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad (; 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), better known by his regnal name, Humayun (), was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and Bangladesh from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to 1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost... |
14056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector | Prince-elector | The prince-electors ( pl. , , ), or electors for short, were the members of the electoral college that elected the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
From the 13th century onwards, the prince-electors had the privilege of electing the monarch who would be crowned by the pope. After 1508, there were no imperial coronat... |
14059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Hughes | Howard Hughes | Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film pr... |
14062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook%20of%20Holland | Hook of Holland | Hook of Holland (, ) is a town in the southwestern corner of Holland (hence the name; hoek means "corner" and was the word in use before the word kaap – "cape", from Portuguese cabo – became Dutch), at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal into the North Sea. The town is administered by the municipality of Rotte... |
14063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Binning | Hugh Binning | Hugh Binning (1627–1653) was a Scottish philosopher and theologian. He was born in Scotland during the reign of Charles I and was ordained in the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland. He died in 1653, during the time of Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth of England.
Personal life
Hugh Binning was the son of John Binni... |
14064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Home%2C%20Lord%20Kames | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Henry Home, Lord Kames (169627 December 1782) was a Scottish writer, philosopher, advocate, judge, and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, he acted as patron to some of the most influential ... |
14065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich | Harwich | Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the northeast, Ipswich to the northwest, Colchester to the southwest and Clacton-on-Sea to the south. It is the northernmost coastal t... |
14067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick%20Avercamp | Hendrick Avercamp | Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) – May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569–1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Av... |
14068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Baldung | Hans Baldung | Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was an artist in painting and printmaking, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer, whose art belongs ... |
14070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammered%20dulcimer | Hammered dulcimer | The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer, dulcimer, santouri, or tympanon) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legged on the... |
14071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanae%20vitae | Humanae vitae | Humanae vitae (Latin: Of Human Life) is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and dated 25 July 1968. The text was issued at a Vatican press conference on 29 July. Subtitled On the Regulation of Birth, it re-affirmed the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding married love, responsible parenthood, and the rejection o... |
14072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Wikipedia | History of Wikipedia | Wikipedia began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, and the concept of a free-as-in-freedom on... |
14073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower | Hydropower | Hydropower (from , "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a water source to produce power. Hydropower is a method of sustainable energy production.
Sinc... |
14076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20breed | Horse breed | A horse breed is a selectively bred population of domesticated horses, often with pedigrees recorded in a breed registry. However, the term is sometimes used in a broader sense to define landrace animals of a common phenotype located within a limited geographic region, or even feral “breeds” that are naturally selecte... |
14082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20breeding | Horse breeding | Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses. Furthermore, modern breeding management and technolo... |
14084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality | Heterosexuality | Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to persons of the opposite sex; it "also refers to a person's sense of identity ... |
14086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell%20Centre%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong) | Hopewell Centre is a , 64-storey skyscraper at 183 Queen's Road East, in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The tower is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is named after Hong Kong–listed property firm Hopewell Holdings Limited, which constructed the building. Hopewell Holdings Limited's headquarters ... |
14089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich%2C%20Massachusetts | Harwich, Massachusetts | Harwich ( ) is a New England town on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. At the 2020 census it had a population of 13,440. Harwich experiences a seasonal increase to roughly 37,000. The town is a popular vacation spot, located near the Cape Cod National Seashore. Harwich'... |
14090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull%20classification%20symbol | Hull classification symbol | The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type. The system is analogous to the pennant number sy... |
14091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas%20corpus | Habeas corpus | Habeas corpus (; from Medieval Latin, ; in law: a Court, command] that you have the body [of the detainee brought before ) is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to ... |
14092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Henry%20the%20Navigator | Prince Henry the Navigator | Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as ... |
14094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20cloning | Human cloning | Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins. The possibility of human cloning has rai... |
14097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Asia | History of Asia | The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe. See History of the Middle East and Outline of South Asian history for further details.
The coast... |
14098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Americas | History of the Americas | The prehistory of the Americas (North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an Ice Age. These groups are generally believed to have been isolated from the people of the "Old World" until the coming of Europeans in the 10th century from... |
14099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Africa | History of Africa | The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and - around 300-250,000 years ago—anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. The earliest known recorded history arose ... |
14104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Oceania | History of Oceania | The History of Oceania includes the history of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific island nations.
Prehistory
The prehistory of Oceania is divided into the prehistory of each of its major areas: Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australasia, and these vary greatly as to when ... |
14105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic%20League | Hanseatic League | The Hanseatic League (; , , ; ; ; ) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in central and northern Europe. Growing from a few north German towns in the late 12th century, the League ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across seven modern-day countries; at its... |
14107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20%28disambiguation%29 | Harvard (disambiguation) | Harvard University is a university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvard may also refer to:
People
Allison Harvard (born 1988), model and television personality
John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), clergyman after whom Harvard University is named
John Harvard (politician) (1938–2016), former Lieutenant-Governor... |
14108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20African%20place%20names | Historical African place names | This is a list of historical African place names. The names on the left are linked to the corresponding subregion(s) from History of Africa.
Axum - Eritrea and Ethiopia
Mauritania Tingitana-Morocco
Africa (province) - Tunisia
Barbary Coast - Algeria
Bechuanaland - Botswana
Belgian Congo - Democratic Republic of ... |
14109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20fiction | Horror fiction | Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to ... |
14110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic%20function | Holomorphic function | In mathematics, a holomorphic function is a complex-valued function of one or more complex variables that is complex differentiable in a neighbourhood of each point in a domain in complex coordinate space . The existence of a complex derivative in a neighbourhood is a very strong condition: it implies that a holomorphi... |
14113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Algeria | History of Algeria | Much of the history of Algeria has taken place on the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb (or Maghreb). North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas, i... |
14114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Zimbabwe | History of Zimbabwe | Until roughly 2,000 years ago, what would become Zimbabwe was populated by ancestors of the San people. Bantu inhabitants of the region arrived and developed ceramic production in the area. A series of trading empires emerged, including the Kingdom of Mapungubwe and Kingdom of Zimbabwe. In the 1880s, the British South ... |
14115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Russia | History of Russia | The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians. Staraya Ladoga and Novgorod became the first major cities of the new union of immigrants from Scandinavia with th... |
14117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Christianity | History of Christianity | The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christian countries, and the Christians with their various denominations, from the 1st century to the present. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God and was crucified in Jer... |
14121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz | Hertz | The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose expression in terms of SI base units is s−1, meaning that one hertz is the reciprocal of one second. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894... |
14123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic%20couplet | Heroic couplet | A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, and generally considered to have been... |
14127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6%C3%B0r | Höðr | Höðr ( ; often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin and Frigg, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg, Baldr's mother, made ... |
14128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herat | Herat | Herāt (; Dari/Pashto: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (Selseleh-ye Safēd Kōh) in the fertile valley of the Hari River in the western part of the coun... |
14130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby | Hedeby | Hedeby (, Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the most important archaeological site in Schleswig-Holstein. Aro... |
14131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazaras | Hazaras | The Hazaras (; ) are a Persian-speaking ethnic group native to, and primarily residing in the Hazarajat region in central Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. They speak the Hazaragi dialect of Persian which is mutually intelligible with Dari, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
Th... |
14132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala | Hawala | Hawala or hewala ( , meaning transfer or sometimes trust), also known as in Persian, and or in Somali, is a popular and informal value transfer system based not on the movement of cash, or on telegraph or computer network wire transfers between banks, but instead on the performance and honour of a huge network of mo... |
14133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics | Hydroponics | Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops, without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in an aqueous solvent. Terrestrial or aquatic plants may grow with their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid, or, in addition, the roots may be physically... |
14134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist%20%28disambiguation%29 | Humanist (disambiguation) | Humanist may refer to:
A proponent or practitioner of humanism, which has several distinct senses, which are listed at:
Humanism (disambiguation)
A Renaissance Humanist or scholar in the Renaissance
Humanist, typeface classes under the Vox-ATypI classification, which may refer to:
Humanist sans-serif typefaces
H... |
14135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Purcell | Henry Purcell | Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although he incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell's style was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English composer... |
14136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobe | Hydrophobe | In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water (known as a hydrophobe). In contrast, hydrophiles are attracted to water.
Hydrophobic molecules tend to be nonpolar and, thus, prefer other neutral molecules and nonpolar solvents. Because water molecule... |
14142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson | Harley-Davidson | Harley-Davidson, Inc., H-D, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Along with Indian, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression. The company has survived numerous ownership arrangements, subsidiary arrangements, periods ... |
14144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English | Hiberno-English | Hiberno-English (from Latin Hibernia: "Ireland") or Irish English (, ) is the set of English dialects natively written and spoken within the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
Old English, as well as Anglo-Norman, was brought to Ireland as a result of the Anglo-Norman inva... |
14147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20analysis | Harmonic analysis | Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms (i.e. an extended form of Fourier analysis). In the past two centuries, it has become a ... |
14148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20run | Home run | In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process. In modern baseball, the feat is typically achieved by hitting the ball over the out... |
14149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa | Harappa | Harappa (; Urdu/) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River which now runs to the north. The current village of Harappa is less than from the ancient site. Although modern Harappa has a legacy r... |
14153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendecasyllable | Hendecasyllable | In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables. The term "hendecasyllabic" is used to refer to two different poetic meters, the older of which is quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry and the newer of which is accentual and used in medieval and modern poetry. The term i... |
14155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrides | Hebrides | The Hebrides (; , ; , "southern isles") are a Scottish archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands fall into two main groups, based on their proximity to the mainland: the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
These islands have a long history of occupation (dating back to the Mesolithic period), and the... |
14158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Dreadnought | HMS Dreadnought | Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would "dread nought", i.e. "fear nothing". The 1906 ship was one of the Royal Navy's most famous vessels; battleships built after her were referred to as 'dreadnoughts', and earlier battleships became know... |
14159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmann%20Schedel | Hartmann Schedel | Hartmann Schedel (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514) was a German historian, physician, humanist, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Matheolus Perusinus served as his tutor.
Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, kno... |
14160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexameter | Hexameter | Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek and Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables). It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such ... |
14162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Polish%20history | Timeline of Polish history | This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland.
Centuries: 5th6th7th8th... |
14168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalia | Himalia | Himalia may refer to:
Himalia (moon), a moon of Jupiter
Himalia group
Himalia (mythology), a nymph from Cyprus in Greek mythology
Himalia Ridge, a ridge on the Ganymede Heights massif on Alexander Island, Antarctica
See also
Himalaya (disambiguation) |
14169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleidae | Heracleidae | In Greek mythology, the Heracleidae (; ) or Heraclids were the numerous descendants of Heracles (Hercules), especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira (Hyllus was also sometimes thought of as Heracles' son by Melite). Other Heracleidae included Macaria... |
14170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV | HIV | The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Wit... |
14173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOL | HOL | Hol or HOL may refer to:
People
Hol (surname)
K'inich Popol Hol, 5th-century Mayan king
Places
Hol, a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway
Old Hol Church
Hol, Tjeldsund
Hol, Nordland, Lofoten
Hol Church (Nordland)
Hol, Ludhiana, a village in India
Stations
Hollywood station (Florida) (station code: HOL)... |
14174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile%20witness | Hostile witness | A hostile witness, also known as an adverse witness or an unfavorable witness, is a witness at trial whose testimony on direct examination is either openly antagonistic or appears to be contrary to the legal position of the party who called the witness. This concept is used in the legal proceedings in the United State... |
14179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20I%20of%20England | Henry I of England | Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus inherited Normandy a... |
14183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai | Hentai | Hentai is anime and manga pornography. A loanword from Japanese, the original term ( ) does not describe a genre of media, but rather an abnormal sexual desire or act, as an abbreviation of . In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games (commonly known as e... |
14186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20VII%20of%20England | Henry VII of England | Henry VII (; 28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of the Lancastrian branch of the House of Plantagenet. Henry... |
14187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20VIII | Henry VIII | Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, including his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the... |
14189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haryana | Haryana | Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern-part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 November 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land area. The state capital is Chandigarh, which it shares with the neighbori... |
14190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himachal%20Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh | {{Infobox settlement
| name = Himachal Pradesh
| native_name =
| image_skyline =
| image_caption = From top, left to right: Shimla, Kinner Kailash, Spiti, Khajjiar, Dhauladhar, Kalpa, Parvati Valley, Rupin Pass
| native_name_lang = =
| image_blank_emblem ... |
14192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene | Helene | Helene or Hélène may refer to:
People
Helene (given name), a Greek feminine given name
Helen of Troy, the daughter of Zeus and Leda
Helene, a figure in Greek mythology who was a friend of Aphrodite and helped her seduce Adonis
Helene (Amazon), a daughter of Tityrus and an Amazon who fought Achilles and died after he s... |
14193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion | Hyperion | Hyperion may refer to:
Greek mythology
Hyperion (Titan), one of the twelve Titans
Hyperion, a byname of the Sun, Helios
Hyperion of Troy or Yperion, son of King Priam
Science
Hyperion (moon), a moon of the planet Saturn
Hyperion (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae
Hyperion (tree), a coast red... |
14194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20medicine | History of medicine | The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. The Hippocratic Oath was written in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, and is a direct inspiration for oaths... |
14196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamoaze | Hamoaze | The Hamoaze (; ) is an estuarine stretch of the tidal River Tamar, between its confluence with the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound, England.
The name first appears as ryver of Hamose in 1588 and it originally most likely applied just to a creek of the estuary that led up to the manor of Ham, north of the present-day D... |
14197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover | Hanover | Hanover (; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 534,049 (2020) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the third-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and ha... |
14199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20game%20console | Handheld game console | A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the console, screen, speakers, and controls in one unit, allowing people to carry t... |
14200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Abeken | Heinrich Abeken | Heinrich Abeken (19 August 18098 August 1872) was a German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin.
Early life
Abeken was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rud... |
14201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Bruce%2C%201st%20Baron%20Aberdare | Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare | Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895), was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council.
Background and education
Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of J... |
14203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers%20Ferry%20%28disambiguation%29 | Harpers Ferry (disambiguation) | Harpers Ferry is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Harpers Ferry, Iowa, a city in Allamakee County, Iowa
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory (construction begun 1799) and s... |
14204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halophile | Halophile | The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, such as the alga Dunaliella salina and fungus Wallemia ichthyophaga. Som... |
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