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H I region: in astronomy, interstellar matter composed of neutral hydrogen atoms. Most of the matter between the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, to which the Earth belongs, as well as in ...
H II region: in astronomy, interstellar matter consisting of ionized hydrogen atoms. Such regions occur as hot, ionized gaseous clouds, sometimes called emission nebulae. The energy that is responsible for ionizing and heating ...
Ha: a Bantu-speaking people belonging to the Interlacustrine Bantu ethnolinguistic family who live in western Tanzania bordering on Lake Tanganyika. Their country, which they call Buha, comprises grasslands and open woodlands. ...
Ha Giang: town, northern Vietnam. The town lies along the Lo River about 215 miles (350 km) northwest of Hanoi. It is a market centre in a forested mountainous region about 13 ...
Ha Long Bay: bay on the northwest coast of the Gulf of Tonkin, near the city of Hong Gai, Quang Ninh province, northern Vietnam. Situated 102 miles (164 km) southeast of Hanoi, the ...
Ha'apai Group: central island cluster of Tonga, in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,000 km) northeast of Sydney. Comprising 36 coral and volcanic islands, the group has a total land ...
Ha'aretz: (Hebrew: "The Land"), newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel's oldest daily and generally considered the country's highest quality newspaper.
Ha'il: town, northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is situated between Mount Shammar on the north and Mount Salma on the south and is on one of the main pilgrimage routes from Iraq ...
Ha-mi: city and oasis in eastern Uighur autonomous ch'u (region) of Sinkiang, China. An important stage on the roads from Kansu province into Central Asia and to the west, Ha-mi was ...
Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre: Norwegian king and one of the most eminent Scandinavian rulers of his time. He fostered the growth of governmental institutions but failed in his attempt to Christianize the lesser Norwegian ...
Haakon II Sigurdsson: king of Norway (1157-62), illegitimate son of Sigurd Munn (d. 1155).
Haakon III Sverresson: king of Norway (1202-04), the illegitimate son of King Sverre Sigurdsson.
Haakon IV Haakonsson: king of Norway (1217-63) who consolidated the power of the monarchy, patronized the arts, and established Norwegian sovereignty over Greenland and Iceland. His reign is considered the beginning of the ...
Haakon Sigurdsson: Norwegian noble who defeated Harald II Graycloak, becoming the chief ruler (c. 970) of Norway; he later extended his rule over the greater part of the country. He resisted an ...
Haakon V Magnusson: king of Norway (1299-1319) whose anti-English foreign policy paved the way for the commercial domination of Norway by north German traders of the Hanseatic League. His reign marked the end ...
Haakon VI Magnusson: king of Norway (1355-80) whose marriage to Margaret, daughter of the Danish king Valdemar IV, in 1363 paved the way for the eventual union (1397) of the three major Scandinavian ...
Haakon VII: first king of Norway following the restoration of that country's independence in 1905.
Haanja: morainal region of southeastern Estonia. The moraine is steep on the north but slopes more gently toward the south, extending slightly into Latvia. Deeply incised valleys separate the hills, and ...
Haardt Mountains: mountain range in Rheinland-Pfalz Land (state), southwestern Germany. They comprise the eastern part of the Pfalzer Forest Mountains and lie west of the Rhine River basin, extending from the French ...
Haarlem: gemeente (commune) and capital, Noord-Holland provincie, western Netherlands. It lies along the Spaarne River, 4.5 miles (7 km) from the North Sea, just west of Amsterdam. Haarlem was mentioned in ...
Haarlem Lake: polder (area 45,700 acres [18,486 hectares]) coextensive with the gemeente (commune) of Haarlemmermeer in Noord-Holland provincie, western Netherlands. Originally, a number of lakes-with a combined area of about 14,000 acres ...
Haarlemmermeer: gemeente (commune), Noord-Holland provincie, The Netherlands, occupying the reclaimed Haarlem Lake, which was drained between 1840 and 1852. There is a network of roads and ditches at right angles within ...
Haas, Ernst: Austrian-born photojournalist who was influential for his innovations in colour photography.
Haas, Walter A.: American business executive credited with saving the foundering Levi Strauss & Co., the major manufacturer of "blue jean" denim pants. Haas's efforts after World War II laid the groundwork for ...
Haasse, Hella S.: Dutch novelist noted for her innovative historical fiction.
Haavelmo, Trygve: Norwegian economist who was a pioneer in what became the field of economic forecasting. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Haavikko, Paavo: Finnish humanist poet, novelist, and dramatist. His work is modernistic, experimental, and linguistically innovative.
Haba, Alois: Czech composer noted for his experiments with microtonal music.
Habad: Jewish movement and its doctrine, an offshoot of the religious and social movement known as Hasidism; its name derives from the initial letters of three Hebrew words that distinguish and ...
Habakkuk, The Book of: the eighth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets. The book betrays the influence of liturgical forms, suggesting that either Habakkuk was a cult ...
Habash, George: militant Palestinian and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Habbaniyah, Hawr al-: lake in al-Anbar muhafazah (governorate), western Iraq. It is a shallow body of slightly saline water, 54 sq mi (140 sq km) in area, separated from the Euphrates River to ...
habeas corpus: an ancient common-law writ, issued by a court or judge directing one who holds another in his custody to produce the body of the person before the court for some ...
Habeneck, Francois-Antoine: French violinist, conductor, and composer.
Haber, Fritz: German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia. With Carl Bosch, he invented a process for the large-scale ...
Haber-Bosch process: method of directly synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen, developed by the German physical chemist Fritz Haber. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for this method, which ...
Haberlandt, Gottlieb: Austrian botanist, pioneer in the development of physiological plant anatomy, and the first person to study plant tissue culture (1921).
Haberler, Gottfried von: Austrian-born American economist, writer, and educator whose major field of expertise was international trade.
Habib, Philip Charles: U.S. diplomat who had a distinguished 30-year career as a U.S. foreign-service officer, notably in his efforts in the Middle East in the 1970s and '80s.
Habibollah Khan: ruler of Afghanistan from 1901 to 1919. Maintaining satisfactory relations with British India, he introduced needed reforms in Afghanistan and steered his country on a moderate political course.
Habima: (Hebrew: "Stage"), Hebrew theatre company originally organized as Habima ha-'Ivrit (Hebrew: "the Hebrew Stage") in Bialystok, in Russian Poland, in 1912 by Nahum Zemach. The troupe traveled in 1913 to ...
habit: in psychology, any regularly repeated behaviour that requires little or no thought and is learned rather than innate. A habit-which can be part of any activity, ranging from eating and ...
habitat: place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment. A host organism inhabited by parasites is as ...
habitual offender: person who frequently has been convicted of criminal behaviour and is presumed to be a danger to society. In an attempt to protect society from such criminals, penal systems throughout ...
habituation: the waning of an animal's behavioral response to a stimulus, as a result of a lack of reinforcement during continual exposure to the stimulus. It is usually considered to be ...
haboob: hot and moist, strong wind that occurs along the southern edges of the Sahara in The Sudan and is associated with large sandstorms and duststorms and may be accompanied by ...
Habsburg, House of: royal German family, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century.
Habshi: African and Abyssinian slaves in pre-British India. The name derives from the Arabic word Habashi, meaning Abyssinian, through its Persian form. Such slaves, frequently employed by the chiefs of Muslim ...
Hachette, Louis-Christophe-Francois: French publisher who issued a wide range of textbooks, dictionaries, and numerous other publications that gave impetus to French education and culture.
Hachiman: one of the most popular Shinto deities of Japan; the patron deity of the Minamoto clan and of warriors in general; often referred to as the god of war. Hachiman ...
Hachinohe: city, Aomori Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. It was a castle town during the Tokugawa era (1603-1867) and served as a small commercial centre and port for ...
Hachioji: city, Tokyo Metropolis (to), Honshu, Japan, on the Chuo Line (railway), west of Tokyo. A castle town in the Middle Ages, it prospered as a market and post town during ...
hacienda: in Spanish America, a large landed estate, one of the traditional institutions of rural life. Originating in the colonial period, the hacienda survived in many places late into the 20th ...
hackberry: any of several trees of the genus Celtis, with about 70 species in the elm family (Ulmaceae), that are valued for their wood or for ornamental qualities. They are distributed ...
Hackensack: city, seat (1713) of Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., on the Hackensack River, just west of the Hudson River and Manhattan Island, New York City. Originally settled by the ...
Hackenschmidt, George: professional wrestler who ranked with Tom Jenkins and Frank Gotch among the greatest in the history of freestyle, or catch-as-catch-can, wrestling. He also held several weight-lifting records.
Hackett, James Henry: U.S. actor, important chiefly for his encouragement of native American drama.
Hackl, Georg: German luger who was the only singles luger to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals (1992, 1994, and 1998). Hackl's cool demeanour and ability to adapt his sled to race ...
Hackman, Gene: American motion-picture actor known for his rugged appearance and his emotionally honest and natural performances. His solid dependability in a wide variety of roles endeared him to the public.
Hackney: stylish carriage horse breed, now used primarily as a show horse. It was developed in the 18th century by crossing Thoroughbreds with the Norfolk trotter, a large-sized trotting harness horse ...
Hackney: inner borough of London, in the historic county of Middlesex. Hackney lies north of the City of London and Tower Hamlets, and its eastern boundary is the River Lea. It ...
hackney: any carriage plying for hire, although hackney coach usually refers to a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses and holding six passengers. Hackneys were introduced into England early in the ...
Hackney pony: heavy harness pony breed derived from the cross of a Hackney horse and a Welsh pony, used almost entirely as a show pony. It has the conformation and high-stepping action ...
Hadad: the Old Testament Rimmon, West Semitic god of storms, thunder, and rain, the consort of the goddess Atargatis. His attributes were identical with those of Adad of the Assyro-Babylonian pantheon. ...
Hadamard, Jacques-Salomon: French mathematician who proved the prime number theorem, which states that as n approaches infinity, pi(n) approaches nln n, where pi(n) is the number of positive prime numbers not greater than ...
Hadano: city, Kanagawa Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, stretching between Tanzawa-yama (Mt. Tanzawa; north; 5,141 ft [1,567 m]) and the Hadano basin (south). It was a regional commercial centre during the Tokugawa ...
Hadar: site of paleoanthropological excavations in the lower Awash River valley in the Afar region of Ethiopia. It lies along the northernmost part of Africa's Eastern (Great) Rift Valley, about 185 ...
Hadassah: American religious organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Jewish social and religious values in the United States and to strengthening ties between U.S. and Israeli Jewish communities.
Haddad, Malek: Algerian poet, novelist, and cultural adviser. Haddad abandoned law studies in Aix-en-Provence to write for French and Algerian weeklies and magazines during the Algerian war. His first published book was ...
Haddington: royal burgh (town), East Lothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland, on the left bank of the River Tyne. Lying in the direct route of English invaders from the ...
haddock: (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), valuable North Atlantic food fish of the cod family, Gadidae, that is often smoked and sold as "finnan haddie." The haddock is a bottom dweller and a carnivore, ...
Haddon, Alfred Cort: one of the founders of modern British anthropology. Virtually the sole exponent of anthropology at Cambridge for 30 years, it was largely through his work and especially his teaching that ...
Haddonfield: borough (town), Camden county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S., a southeastern suburb of Camden. First settled by Francis Collins in 1682, it was later named by Elizabeth Haddon, an English Quaker ...
Hadejia: town and traditional emirate, eastern Jigawa state, northern Nigeria. It lies on the northern bank of the Hadejia River (a seasonal tributary of the Komadugu Yobe, which flows into Lake ...
Haden, Charlie: American bass virtuoso and bandleader, one of the first improvisers to play free jazz and possibly its most influential bassist.
Hadera: city, western Israel. It lies on the Plain of Sharon midway between Tel Aviv-Yafo and Haifa, near the Mediterranean Sea. The first Jewish settlement on the northern coastal plain, Hadera ...