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14,082 | # 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 ma... | 531 | Horse breeding | 0 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Estrous cycle of the mare {#estrous_cycle_of_the_mare}
### Effects on the reproductive system during the estrous cycle {#effects_on_the_reproductive_system_during_the_estrous_cycle}
Changes in hormone levels can have great effects on the physical characteristics of the reproductive organs of the ... | 621 | Horse breeding | 1 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Breeding and gestation {#breeding_and_gestation}
While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 i... | 763 | Horse breeding | 2 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Foaling
Mares due to foal are usually separated from other horses, both for the benefit of the mare and the safety of the soon-to-be-delivered foal. In addition, separation allows the mare to be monitored more closely by humans for any problems that may occur while giving birth. In the northern he... | 644 | Horse breeding | 3 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## How breeds develop {#how_breeds_develop}
Beyond the appearance and conformation of a specific type of horse, breeders aspire to improve physical performance abilities. This concept, known as matching \"form to function,\" has led to the development of not only different breeds, but also families o... | 774 | Horse breeding | 4 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## History of horse breeding {#history_of_horse_breeding}
The history of horse breeding goes back millennia. Though the precise date is in dispute, humans could have domesticated the horse as far back as approximately 4500 BCE. However, evidence of planned breeding has a more blurry history. It is we... | 1,442 | Horse breeding | 5 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Choosing breeding stock {#choosing_breeding_stock}
Some breeders consider the quality of the sire to be more important than the quality of the dam. However, other breeders maintain that the mare is the most important parent. Because stallions can produce far more offspring than mares, a single sta... | 762 | Horse breeding | 6 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Covering the mare {#covering_the_mare}
### Artificial insemination {#artificial_insemination}
Whereas the various national Thoroughbred associations typically require live cover, by 2009 most horse breeds allowed for the artificial insemination of mares with cooled, frozen or even fresh semen.
Ar... | 385 | Horse breeding | 7 |
14,082 | # Horse breeding
## Covering the mare {#covering_the_mare}
### Advanced reproductive techniques {#advanced_reproductive_techniques}
Often an owner does not want to take a valuable competition mare out of training to carry a foal. This presents a problem, as the mare will usually be quite old by the time she is retire... | 506 | Horse breeding | 8 |
14,086 | # Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong)
**Hopewell Centre** (Chinese: 合和中心) is a 222 m, 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 construct... | 500 | Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong) | 0 |
14,086 | # Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong)
## Floors
- Basement: Supermarket
- Ground floor, Floor 2: Shops, Queen\'s Road East Entrance
- Floor 3: Stores, lift lobby to office buildings
- Floors 4--5: Car park for trucks (with the entrance located on Spring Garden Lane)
- Floors 6--8: Chinese Restaurant, used to be the... | 430 | Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong) | 1 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
The human **history of the Americas** is thought to begin 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 1492 with the voyages of Ch... | 502 | History of the Americas | 0 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## Pre-colonization {#pre_colonization}
### Migration into the continents {#migration_into_the_continents}
### Lithic stage (before 8000 BCE) {#lithic_stage_before_8000_bce}
The Lithic stage or *Paleo-Indian period*, is the earliest classification term referring to the first stage of human... | 656 | History of the Americas | 1 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## Pre-colonization {#pre_colonization}
### Mesoamerica, the Woodland Period, and Mississippian culture (2000 BCE -- 500 CE) {#mesoamerica_the_woodland_period_and_mississippian_culture_2000_bce_500_ce}
After the decline of the Norte Chico civilization, numerous complex civilizations and cent... | 589 | History of the Americas | 2 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## Pre-colonization {#pre_colonization}
### Classic stage (800 BCE -- 1533 CE) {#classic_stage_800_bce_1533_ce}
#### Cahokia
Cahokia was a major regional chiefdom, with trade and tributary chiefdoms located in a range of areas from bordering the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
##### Hau... | 1,088 | History of the Americas | 3 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## European colonization {#european_colonization}
Around 1000, the Vikings established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, now known as L\'Anse aux Meadows. Speculations exist about other Old World discoveries of the New World, but none of these are generally or completely accepted by ... | 530 | History of the Americas | 4 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## 20th century {#th_century}
### North America {#north_america}
As a part of the British Empire, Canada immediately entered World War I when it broke out in 1914. Canada bore the brunt of several major battles during the early stages of the war, including the use of poison gas attacks at Y... | 1,008 | History of the Americas | 5 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## 20th century {#th_century}
### Central America {#central_america}
Despite the failure of a lasting political union, the concept of Central American reunification, though lacking enthusiasm from the leaders of the individual countries, rises from time to time. In 1856--1857 the region succ... | 374 | History of the Americas | 6 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## 20th century {#th_century}
### South America {#south_america_1}
In the 1960s and 1970s, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay were overthrown or displaced by U.S.-aligned military dictatorships. These dictatorships detained tens of thousands of political prisoners, many... | 474 | History of the Americas | 7 |
14,098 | # History of the Americas
## 20th century {#th_century}
### Caribbean
Throughout the 20th century, several island countries, such as Jamaica and Barbados gained independence from British rule. As a result, many of the English-speaking states and territories shifted their economies to tourism and offshore bank industr... | 552 | History of the Americas | 8 |
14,108 | # 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 | 29 | Historical African place names | 0 |
14,110 | # Holomorphic function
`{{Complex analysis sidebar}}`{=mediawiki}
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 `{{tmath|\C^n}}`{=mediawiki}. The existence... | 856 | Holomorphic function | 0 |
14,110 | # Holomorphic function
## Properties
Because complex differentiation is linear and obeys the product, quotient, and chain rules, the sums, products and compositions of holomorphic functions are holomorphic, and the quotient of two holomorphic functions is holomorphic wherever the denominator is not zero. That is, if ... | 919 | Holomorphic function | 1 |
14,110 | # Holomorphic function
## Several variables {#several_variables}
The definition of a holomorphic function generalizes to several complex variables in a straightforward way. A function `{{tmath|f \colon ( z_1, z_2, \ldots, z_n ) \mapsto f( z_1, z_2, \ldots, z_n ) }}`{=mediawiki} in `{{tmath|n}}`{=mediawiki} complex va... | 363 | Holomorphic function | 2 |
14,114 | # 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 18... | 1,529 | History of Zimbabwe | 0 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## Colonial era (1890--1980) {#colonial_era_18901980}
In the 1880s, British diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes\' British South Africa Company (BSAC) started to make inroads into the region. In 1898, the name Southern Rhodesia was adopted. In 1888, Rhodes obtained a concession for mining rights from Ki... | 415 | History of Zimbabwe | 1 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## Colonial era (1890--1980) {#colonial_era_18901980}
### World War I {#world_war_i}
As a British territory, Southern Rhodesia immediately joined World War I after the UK declared war on the Central Powers, in August 1914. Rhodesia was noted for its patriotic zeal in joining the war. The main pr... | 701 | History of Zimbabwe | 2 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## Independence and the 1980s {#independence_and_the_1980s}
The country gained official independence as Zimbabwe on 18 April 1980. The government held independence celebrations in Rufaro stadium in Salisbury, the capital. Lord Christopher Soames, the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, watched a... | 1,223 | History of Zimbabwe | 3 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 1990s
Elections in March 1990 resulted in another overwhelming victory for Mugabe and his party, which won 117 of the 120 election seats. Election observers estimated voter turnout at only 54% and found the campaign neither free nor fair, though balloting met international standards. Unsatisf... | 609 | History of Zimbabwe | 4 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 1999 to 2000 {#to_2000}
However, Zimbabwe began experiencing a period of considerable political and economic upheaval in 1999. Opposition to President Mugabe and the ZANU-PF government grew considerably after the mid-1990s in part due to worsening economic and human rights conditions brought ... | 361 | History of Zimbabwe | 5 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 2003--2005 {#section_1}
Divisions within the opposition MDC had begun to fester early in the decade, after Morgan Tsvangirai (the president of the MDC) was lured into a government sting operation that videotaped him talking of Mr. Mugabe\'s removal from power. He was subsequently arrested and... | 853 | History of Zimbabwe | 6 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 2006 to 2007 {#to_2007}
In August 2006 runaway inflation forced the government to replace its existing currency with a revalued one. In December 2006, ZANU-PF proposed the \"harmonisation\" of the parliamentary and presidential election schedules in 2010; the move was seen by the opposition a... | 726 | History of Zimbabwe | 7 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 2008 {#section_2}
### 2008 elections
Zimbabwe held a presidential election along with a 2008 parliamentary election of 29 March. The three major candidates were incumbent President Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union -- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), Morgan Tsvangirai of the Mov... | 872 | History of Zimbabwe | 8 |
14,114 | # History of Zimbabwe
## 2009 to present {#to_present}
### 2009--2017 {#section_3}
In January 2009, Morgan Tsvangirai announced that he would do as the leaders across Africa had insisted and join a coalition government as prime minister with his nemesis, President Robert Mugabe . On 11 February 2009 Tsvangirai was s... | 666 | History of Zimbabwe | 9 |
14,121 | # Hertz
, `{{val|1.0|u=Hz}}`{=mediawiki} and `{{val|2.0|u=Hz}}`{=mediawiki}; that is, at 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 flashes per second, respectively. The time between each flash -- the *period* *T* -- is given by `{{frac|1|''f''}}`{=mediawiki} (the reciprocal of *f*`{{px1}}`{=mediawiki}); that is, 2, 1 and 0.5 seconds, respecti... | 267 | Hertz | 0 |
14,121 | # Hertz
## Definition
The hertz is defined as one per second for periodic events. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as \"the duration of `{{val|9192631770}}`{=mediawiki} periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state ... | 477 | Hertz | 1 |
14,121 | # Hertz
## Applications
thumb\|upright=1.8\|A sine wave with varying frequency thumb\|upright=1.8\|A heartbeat is an example of a non-sinusoidal periodic phenomenon that may be analyzed in terms of frequency. Two cycles are illustrated.
### Sound and vibration {#sound_and_vibration}
Sound is a traveling longitudina... | 630 | Hertz | 2 |
14,123 | # 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... | 447 | Heroic couplet | 0 |
14,127 | # Höðr
**Höðr** (*Hǫðr* `{{IPA|non|ˈhɔðz̠||Höðr (RP).ogg}}`{=mediawiki}, Latin **Hotherus**; often anglicized as **Hod**, **Hoder**, or **Hodur**) is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
Ac... | 1,154 | Höðr | 0 |
14,127 | # Höðr
## Attestations
### The *Poetic Edda* {#the_poetic_edda}
Höðr is referred to several times in the Poetic Edda, always in the context of Baldr\'s death. The following strophes are from *Völuspá*.
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14,127 | # Höðr
## Attestations
### Skaldic poetry {#skaldic_poetry}
Höðr appears in both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda. The name of Höðr occurs several times in skaldic poetry as a part of warrior-kennings. Thus *Höðr brynju*, \"Höðr of byrnie\", is a warrior and so is *Höðr víga*, \"Höðr of battle\". Some scholars have fou... | 1,262 | Höðr | 2 |
14,127 | # Höðr
## Attestations
### *Hversu Noregr byggðist* {#hversu_noregr_byggðist}
Höðr appears in the genealogies of *Hversu Noregr byggðist* (\"How Norway was inhabited\"). In this, he is the ruler of Haðaland and the father of Höddbroddr (instead of being Höddbroddr\'s son, as in the *Gesta Danorum*). Höddbroddr\'s des... | 262 | Höðr | 3 |
14,132 | # Hawala
**Hawala** or **hewala** (*حِوالة* *ḥawāla*, meaning *transfer* or sometimes *trust*), originating in India as **havala** (*हवाला*), also known as ***havaleh*** in Persian, and ***xawala*** or ***xawilaad*** in Somali, is a popular and informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a hu... | 460 | Hawala | 0 |
14,132 | # Hawala
## Procedure
In the most basic variant of the hawala system, money is transferred via a network of hawala brokers, or *hawaladars*, without actually moving money. According to the author Sam Vaknin, there are large hawaladar operators with networks of middlemen in cities across many countries, but most hawal... | 832 | Hawala | 1 |
14,132 | # Hawala
## Regional variants {#regional_variants}
### West Africa {#west_africa}
The 2012 Tuareg rebellion left Northern Mali without an official money transfer service for months. The coping mechanisms that appeared were patterned on the hawala system | 36 | Hawala | 2 |
14,147 | # Harmonic analysis
**Harmonic analysis** is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded domains such as the full real line or by Fourier seri... | 450 | Harmonic analysis | 0 |
14,147 | # Harmonic analysis
## Abstract harmonic analysis {#abstract_harmonic_analysis}
Abstract harmonic analysis is primarily concerned with how real or complex-valued functions (often on very general domains) can be studied using symmetries such as translations or rotations (for instance via the Fourier transform and its ... | 299 | Harmonic analysis | 1 |
14,147 | # Harmonic analysis
## Applied harmonic analysis {#applied_harmonic_analysis}
Many applications of harmonic analysis in science and engineering begin with the idea or hypothesis that a phenomenon or signal is composed of a sum of individual oscillatory components. Ocean tides and vibrating strings are common and simp... | 508 | Harmonic analysis | 2 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
The **Hebrides** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɛ|b|r|ɪ|d|iː|z}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|HEB|rid|eez}}`{=mediawiki}; *Innse Gall*, `{{IPA|gd|ˈĩːʃə ˈkaul̪ˠ|pron}}`{=mediawiki}; *Southern isles*) are the largest archipelago in the United Kingdom, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands fall into two main gr... | 726 | Hebrides | 0 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Etymology
The earliest surviving written references to the islands were made circa 77 AD by Pliny the Elder in his *Natural History*: He states that there are 30 **Hebudes**, and makes a separate reference to **Dumna**, which Watson (1926) concluded refers unequivocally to the Outer Hebrides. About 80 y... | 355 | Hebrides | 1 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Etymology
### Outer Hebrides {#outer_hebrides}
Lewis and Harris is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest of the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland. It incorporates Lewis in the north and Harris in the south, both of which are frequently referred to as individual islands, altho... | 413 | Hebrides | 2 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Etymology
### Inner Hebrides {#inner_hebrides}
There are various examples of earlier names for Inner Hebridean islands that were Gaelic, but these names have since been completely replaced. For example, Adomnán records *Sainea*, *Elena*, *Ommon* and *Oideacha* in the Inner Hebrides. These names presumab... | 640 | Hebrides | 3 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Etymology
### Uninhabited islands {#uninhabited_islands}
The names of uninhabited islands follow the same general patterns as the inhabited islands. (See the list, below, of the ten largest islands in the Hebrides and their outliers.)
The etymology of the name \"St Kilda\", a small archipelago west of ... | 406 | Hebrides | 4 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## History
### Prehistory
The Hebrides were settled during the Mesolithic era around 6500 BC or earlier, after the climatic conditions improved enough to sustain human settlement. Occupation at a site on *\[\[Rùm\]\]* is dated to 8590 ±95 uncorrected radiocarbon years BP, which is amongst the oldest evide... | 416 | Hebrides | 5 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## History
### Norwegian control {#norwegian_control}
*Main article: Kingdom of the Isles* Viking raids began on Scottish shores towards the end of the 8th century, and the Hebrides came under Norse control and settlement during the ensuing decades, especially following the success of Harald Fairhair at th... | 397 | Hebrides | 6 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## History
### Scottish control {#scottish_control}
As the Norse era drew to a close, the Norse-speaking princes were gradually replaced by Gaelic-speaking clan chiefs including the MacLeods of Lewis and Harris, Clan Donald and MacNeil of Barra.`{{refn|The transitional relationships between Norse and Gaeli... | 436 | Hebrides | 7 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## History
### Early British era {#early_british_era}
With the implementation of the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Hebrides became part of the new Kingdom of Great Britain, but the clans\' loyalties to a distant monarch were not strong. A considerable number of islesmen \"came out\" in support of the Jacobi... | 361 | Hebrides | 8 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Language
The residents of the Hebrides have spoken a variety of different languages during the long period of human occupation.
It is assumed that Pictish must once have predominated in the northern Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. The Scottish Gaelic language arrived from Ireland due to the growing ... | 320 | Hebrides | 9 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Modern economy {#modern_economy}
For those who remained, new economic opportunities emerged through the export of cattle, commercial fishing and tourism. Nonetheless, emigration and military service became the choice of many and the archipelago\'s populations continued to dwindle throughout the late 19t... | 293 | Hebrides | 10 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Media and the arts {#media_and_the_arts}
### Music
Many contemporary Gaelic musicians have roots in the Hebrides, including vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis (North Uist), Catherine-Ann MacPhee (Barra), Kathleen MacInnes of the band Capercaillie (South Uist), and Ishbel MacAskill (Lewis).... | 697 | Hebrides | 11 |
14,155 | # Hebrides
## Natural history {#natural_history}
In some respects the Hebrides lack biodiversity in comparison to mainland Britain; for example, there are only half as many mammalian species. However, these islands provide breeding grounds for many important seabird species including the world\'s largest colony of no... | 319 | Hebrides | 12 |
14,158 | # 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, which revolutionized battleship design, became one of the Royal Navy\'s most famous vessels; battleships built after h... | 249 | HMS Dreadnought | 0 |
14,159 | # 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 *... | 448 | Hartmann Schedel | 0 |
14,160 | # 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 as well as in Latin a \"foot\" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables). It was the standard epic metre in classical Gr... | 299 | Hexameter | 0 |
14,160 | # Hexameter
## Application
Although the rules seem simple, it is hard to use classical hexameter in English, because English is a stress-timed language that condenses vowels and consonants between stressed syllables, while hexameter relies on the regular timing of the phonetic sounds. Languages having the latter prop... | 349 | Hexameter | 1 |
14,162 | # 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 P... | 763 | Timeline of Polish history | 0 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 15th century {#th_century_6}
Year Date Event
------------ -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1401 Union of Vilnius and Radom
1409 Polish--Lit... | 494 | Timeline of Polish history | 1 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 17th century {#th_century_8}
Year Date Event
------------ ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------
1606 5 August Zebrzydowski rebellion begins
1609 ... | 389 | Timeline of Polish history | 2 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 18th century {#th_century_9}
Year Date Event
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1704 February 16 Warsaw Confederation formed
May 20 Sandomierz Confederation formed
July 12 Election ... | 281 | Timeline of Polish history | 3 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 19th century {#th_century_10}
Year Date Event
------ ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1806 November 3 Greater Poland Uprising begins.
The Town of Łódź became a part of the Nap... | 295 | Timeline of Polish history | 4 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 20th century {#th_century_11}
Year Date Event
------ -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1908 September 26 Bezdany raid near Vilna on a Russian imperial train
1... | 515 | Timeline of Polish history | 5 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 20th century {#th_century_11}
### Occupation of Poland (1939--45) {#occupation_of_poland_193945}
Year Date Event
------ -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1939 September 1 ... | 363 | Timeline of Polish history | 6 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 20th century {#th_century_11}
### Communist takeover, Polish People\'s Republic {#communist_takeover_polish_peoples_republic}
+------------------+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 2,338 | Timeline of Polish history | 7 |
14,162 | # Timeline of Polish history
## 20th century {#th_century_11}
### Democratic Republic of Poland {#democratic_republic_of_poland}
Year Date Event
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1990 May 27 Local elections
November 14 Signi... | 325 | Timeline of Polish history | 8 |
14,169 | # Heracleidae
The **Heracleidae** (`{{IPAc-en|h|ɛr|ə|ˈ|k|l|aɪ|d|iː}}`{=mediawiki}; *Ἡρακλεῖδαι*) or **Heraclids** `{{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɛr|ə|k|l|ɪ|d|z}}`{=mediawiki} were the numerous descendants of Heracles, especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira (Hyllus ... | 470 | Heracleidae | 0 |
14,169 | # Heracleidae
## Dorian invasion {#dorian_invasion}
At last, Temenus, Cresphontes and Aristodemus, the sons of Aristomachus, complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them. They received the answer that by the \"third fruit\" the \"third generation\" was meant, and that... | 450 | Heracleidae | 1 |
14,169 | # Heracleidae
## List of Heracleidae {#list_of_heracleidae}
### At Lydia {#at_lydia}
Herodotus says the Heraclids ruled Lydia for 505 years through 22 generations with son succeeding father all down the line from Agron to Candaules. While Candaules was the last of the Heraclids to reign at Sardis, Herodotus says Agr... | 637 | Heracleidae | 2 |
14,174 | # 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 p... | 379 | Hostile witness | 0 |
14,183 | # Hentai
**Hentai** (*ヘンタイ*) is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games (commonly known as *eroge*).
The development of hentai has been influenced by Japanese cultural and historical attitudes toward ... | 557 | Hentai | 0 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## Etymology
(*hentai*; shinjitai; `{{pronunciation|Ja-Hentai.oga|listen|(|help=no}}`{=mediawiki}) derives from *變態* (classical Chinese, also kyūjitai), which is attested in classical Chinese texts. It functioned as a verbal phrase, from its two component morphemes, *變* meaning \"to change\" and *態* meaning ... | 690 | Hentai | 1 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## History
With the usage of *hentai* as any erotic depiction, the history of these depictions is split into their media. Japanese artwork and comics serve as the first example of hentai material, coming to represent the iconic style after the publication of Azuma Hideo\'s *Cybele (doujinshi)* in 1979. Henta... | 867 | Hentai | 2 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## History
### Origin of erotic anime {#origin_of_erotic_anime}
*Hentai* is typically defined as consisting of excessive nudity, and graphic sexual intercourse whether or not it is perverse. The term \"ecchi\" is typically related to fanservice, with no sexual intercourse being depicted.
The earliest pornog... | 596 | Hentai | 3 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## History
### Origin of erotic games {#origin_of_erotic_games}
The term *eroge* (erotic game) literally defines any erotic game, but has become synonymous with video games depicting the artistic styles of anime and manga. The origins of *eroge* began in the early 1980s, while the computer industry in Japan ... | 474 | Hentai | 4 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## Censorship
Japanese laws have impacted depictions of works since the Meiji Restoration, but these predate the common definition of hentai material. Since becoming law in 1907, Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Japan forbids the publication of obscene materials. Specifically, depictions of male--female s... | 514 | Hentai | 5 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## Societal effects of hentai {#societal_effects_of_hentai}
There is existing research on the social implications of pornography, in general, as it pertains to the sexualized and objectified image of women. In regards to how hentai particularly contributes to the conversation of the image of women, recent re... | 718 | Hentai | 6 |
14,183 | # Hentai
## Classification
The hentai genre can be divided into numerous subgenres, the broadest of which encompasses heterosexual and homosexual acts. Hentai that features mainly heterosexual interactions occur in both male-targeted (*ero* or *dansei-muke*) and female-targeted (\"ladies\' comics\") form. Those that ... | 672 | Hentai | 7 |
14,196 | # Hamoaze
The **Hamoaze** (`{{IPAc-en|h|æ|m|ˈ|oʊ|z}}`{=mediawiki}; `{{IPA|kw|ˈhɒmøz|[[Cornish language|Cornish]] pronunciation:}}`{=mediawiki}) is an estuarine stretch of the English tidal River Tamar, between its confluence with the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound.
## Etymology
The name first appears as *ryver of H... | 270 | Hamoaze | 0 |
14,210 | # Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The **Harrison Narcotics Tax Act** (Ch. 1, `{{USStat|38|785}}`{=mediawiki}) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and wa... | 364 | Harrison Narcotics Tax Act | 0 |
14,210 | # Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
## Background
### Domestic
Between 1895 and 1900 there were probably more morphine addicts in the United States than today on a per capita basis. Opium usage peaked in 1896 and then began to decline gradually. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., then dean Harvard Medical school, blamed the prevale... | 882 | Harrison Narcotics Tax Act | 1 |
14,210 | # Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
## Congressional passage {#congressional_passage}
When Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York placed HR 1966 for debate before the full House of Representatives on June 26, 1913, he began by noting that the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 failed to limit importation of opi... | 335 | Harrison Narcotics Tax Act | 2 |
14,210 | # Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
## Enforcement
Enforcement began in 1915. The act appears to be mainly concerned about the marketing of opiates. However, a clause applying to doctors allowed distribution \"in the course of his professional practice only.\" Physicians believed relieving the suffering of physical dependan... | 463 | Harrison Narcotics Tax Act | 3 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
*Homeopathy* (journal)}} `{{pp-vandalism|small=yes}}`{=mediawiki} `{{good article}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Use Oxford spelling|date=September 2016}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Infobox alternative medicine
| name = Homeopathy
| synonyms = Homoeopathy
| pronounce = {{IPAc-en|a... | 615 | Homeopathy | 0 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## History
Homeopathy was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann rejected the mainstream medicine of the late 18th century as irrational and inadvisable, because it was largely ineffective and often harmful. He advocated the use of single drugs at lower doses and promoted an immaterial, vitalisti... | 747 | Homeopathy | 1 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## History
### 19th century: rise to popularity and early criticism {#th_century_rise_to_popularity_and_early_criticism}
Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the United States in 1825 by Hans Birch Gram, a student of Hahnemann. The first homeopathic school... | 388 | Homeopathy | 2 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## History
### Revival in the 20th century {#revival_in_the_20th_century}
According to academics `{{Interlanguage link|Paul U. Unschuld|lt=|de||WD=}}`{=mediawiki} and Edzard Ernst, the Nazi regime in Germany was fond of homeopathy, and spent large sums of money on researching its mechanisms, but without ... | 662 | Homeopathy | 3 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## Preparations and treatment {#preparations_and_treatment}
Homeopathic preparations are referred to as \"homeopathic remedies\". Practitioners rely on two types of reference when prescribing: *Materia medica* and repertories. A homeopathic *materia medica* is a collection of \"drug pictures\", organized... | 677 | Homeopathy | 4 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## Preparations and treatment {#preparations_and_treatment}
### Dilutions
Hahnemann claimed that undiluted doses caused reactions, sometimes dangerous ones, and thus that preparations be given at the lowest possible dose. A solution that is more dilute is described as having a higher \"potency\", and thu... | 872 | Homeopathy | 5 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## Evidence and efficacy {#evidence_and_efficacy}
Outside of the alternative medicine community, scientists have long considered homeopathy a sham or a pseudoscience, and the medical community regards it as quackery. There is an overall absence of sound statistical evidence of therapeutic efficacy, which... | 745 | Homeopathy | 6 |
14,229 | # Homeopathy
## Evidence and efficacy {#evidence_and_efficacy}
### Efficacy
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14,229 | # Homeopathy
## Evidence and efficacy {#evidence_and_efficacy}
### Purported effects in other biological systems {#purported_effects_in_other_biological_systems}
While some articles have suggested that homeopathic solutions of high dilution can have statistically significant effects on organic processes including the... | 223 | Homeopathy | 8 |
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