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Hargreaves, James: English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine. At the time he devised the machine, he was a poor, uneducated spinner and ... [2 Related Articles]
Hargreaves, Roger: British cartoonist who created whimsical characters best known in the popular "Mr. Men" series of books for children.
Hari Krishen: eighth Sikh Guru, who was installed at five years of age and reigned for only three years. He is said to have possessed vast wisdom and to have amazed visiting ... [3 Related Articles]
Hari Singh: (from the article "Kashmir") ...for the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the rulers of princely states were given the right to opt for either Pakistan or India or-with certain reservations-to remain independent. Hari Singh, ...
Haribhadra: noncanonical author of treatises on the Indian religion Jainism, known for his authoritative works in Sanskrit and Prakrit on Jain doctrine and ethics. Scholars are still uncertain of the extent ...
Haricandra line: (from the article "Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty") either of two dynasties of medieval Hindu India. The line of Haricandra ruled in Mandor, Marwar (Jodhpur, Rajasthan), during the 6th-9th century, generally with feudatory status. The line of Nagabhata ...
Haridwar: city, northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Haridwar lies along the Ganges River, at the boundary between the Indo-Gangetic Plain (south) and the Himalayan foothills (north). It is the site ...
Harihara: (from the article "South Asian arts") ...dialects of Middle Kannada, yet they drew on archetypal human images as well as ancient pan-Indian symbology for their intense and searing expressions of bhakti. Inspired by these lyrics, Harihara, ...
Harihara: in Hinduism, a syncretic deity combining the two major gods Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara). Images of Harihara (also known as Shambhu-Vishnu and Shankara-Narayana, variants of the names of the ... [2 Related Articles]
Harihara I Sangama: (from the article "India") The kingdom of Vijayanagar was founded by Harihara and Bukka, two of five brothers (surnamed Sangama) who had served in the administrations of both Kakatiya and Kampili before those kingdoms ...
Harihara II: (from the article "India") ...removed his nephews and replaced them with his sons and favourite generals so that centralized authority (and his own line of succession) could be maintained. However, the succession of Bukka's ...
Hariharalaya: (from the article "Jayavarman II") ...(q.v.), or god-king. He established a series of capitals, first at Indrapura, on the lower Mekong River east of Kampong (Kompong) Cham; then, moving northwards, at Hariharalaya, southeast of present-day ...
Harike Barrage: (from the article "Thar Desert") ...brings water from the Sutlej River to part of the northern region. The Rajasthan Canal irrigates a vast amount of land in that part of the Thar region in India. ...
Harimandir: the chief gurdwara, or house of worship, of the Sikhs of India and their most important pilgrimage site; it is located in the city of Amritsar, in Punjab state. The ... [8 Related Articles]
Haring Dam: (from the article "Haring Estuary") ...during the disastrous tidal surge floods of February 1953. As part of the Delta Plan for land reclamation and both Rhine and tidal flood protection, a dam with numerous sluices ...
Haring Estuary: freshwater channel, southwestern Netherlands. A distributary of the Hollands Diep, it ultimately (through other streams) has its origin in the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. The Haring flows for about ...
Haring, Bernhard: German Roman Catholic liberal theologian whose beliefs in pacifism, ecumenism, and freedom of conscience were set forth in some 80 books and 1,000 articles; his 1954 three-volume The Law of ...
Haring, Keith: American graphic artist and designer who popularized some of the strategies and impulses of graffiti art. [1 Related Articles]
Haringey: inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It is located north of Islington and Hackney and south of Enfield. Haringey was established in 1965 by the ...
Haringhata: (from the article "Madhumati River") ...to empty into the Bay of Bengal. In its upper course it is called the Garai; in its lower course it is known as the Baleswar; and its estuary mouth, ...
Harington, Sir John: English Elizabethan courtier, translator, author, and wit who also invented the flush toilet.
Haripunjaya: an ancient Mon kingdom centred in the Mae Nam (river) Ping Valley in northwestern Thailand. It was founded in the mid-7th century by a queen of Lopburi, the capital of ...
harira: (from the article "Morocco") ...daily staple. The premier Moroccan food, however, is couscous, a semolina-based pasta served with a meat stew. Kabobs of various types are common, as are salads and soups.
Hariri, al-: scholar of Arabic language and literature and government official who is primarily known for the refined style and wit of his collection of tales, the Maqamat, published ... [4 Related Articles]
Hariri, Rafiq al-: Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992-98; 2000-04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political ... [8 Related Articles]
Hariri, Saad al-: (from the article "Lebanon") On October 4 U.S. Pres. George W. Bush received Lebanese MP Saad al-Hariri. The meeting was viewed as a sign of support by Bush for the leader of the majority ...
Harirud: river, Central Asia. It rises on the western slopes of the rugged Selseleh-ye Kuh-e Baba range, an outlier of the Hindu Kush mountains, in central Afghanistan. Flowing west past Chaghcharan ... [2 Related Articles]
Harirud Valley: (from the article "Herat") The Harirud Valley is one of the nation's richest agricultural areas, producing grain, cotton, fruit, and other crops. The province is not entirely agricultural, however; petroleum is produced at Tir ...
Harischandra Range: eastward-extending spur of the Western Ghats, in west central India. The range lies between the Godavari and the Bhima rivers in the northwestern Deccan Plateau. With an average elevation of ...
Harishcandra: (from the article "Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand") ...And he kept his promise. Beneath an unprepossessing exterior, he concealed a burning passion for self-improvement that led him to take even the heroes of Hindu mythology, such as Prahlada ...
Harishchandra: also called Bhartendu Indian poet, dramatist, critic, and journalist, commonly referred to as the "father of modern Hindi." His great contributions in founding a new tradition of Hindi prose were ... [1 Related Articles]
Harith ibn 'Amr, al-: (from the article "Kindah") ...al-Murar, the traditional founder of the dynasty, into central and northern Arabia. There they successfully united a number of tribes into a loose confederacy. Hujr's grandson, al-Harith ibn 'Amr, was ...
Harith ibn Hammam, al-: (from the article "Hariri, al-") ...(Durrat al-ghawwas fi awham al-khawass). The Maqamat recounts in the words of the narrator, al-Harith ibn Hammam, his repeated encounters with Abu Zayd al-Saruji, ...
Harith ibn Jabalah, al-: (from the article "Ghassan") The Ghassanid king al-Harith ibn Jabalah (reigned 529-569) supported the Byzantines against Sasanian Persia and was given the title patricius in 529 by the emperor Justinian. Al-Harith was a Monophysite ...
Harith, al-: (from the article "Arabic literature") While defeat in battle is, of course, a primary focus of derision in this type of poetry, the honour of the community and the family has resided to a major ...
Hariti: in Buddhist mythology, a child-devouring ogress who is said to have been converted from her cannibalistic habits by the Buddha to become a protectress of children. He hid the youngest ...
Harivarman: (from the article "Ganga Dynasty") The first ruler of the Western Ganga, Konganivarman, carved out a kingdom by conquest, but his successors, Madhava I and Harivarman, expanded their influence by marital and military alliances with ...
Harizi, Judah ben Solomon: man of letters, last representative of the golden age of Spanish Hebrew poetry. He wandered through Provence and also the Middle East, translating Arabic poetry and scientific works into Hebrew. [1 Related Articles]
Harjedalen: landskap (province), northern Sweden, comprising the upper valley of the Ljusnan (river) in Norrland region. It is bounded by Norway on the west, the landskap of Jamtland on the north, ... [1 Related Articles]
Harjo, Joy: American poet, writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist.
Harkarvy, Benjamin: American dance teacher, choreographer, and artistic director (b. Dec. 16, 1930, New York, N.Y.-d. March 30, 2002, New York City), had an international reputation for his eclectic approach to dance ...
Harken Energy Corporation: (from the article "Bush, George W.") In 1994 Bush challenged Democratic incumbent Ann Richards for the governorship of Texas. A major issue in the campaign concerned Bush's sale of all his Harken stock in June 1990, ...
Harken, Dwight Emary: (from the article "medicine, history of") ...Gross successfully tied off a persistent ductus arteriosus (a fetal blood vessel between the pulmonary artery and the aorta). It was finally swept aside in World War II by the ...
Harkhuf: governor of southern Upper Egypt who journeyed extensively throughout Nubia (the modern Sudan). [1 Related Articles]
Harkins, Paul: (from the article "Vietnam War") ...were beginning to agree with them; but by now there was also a large and powerful bureaucracy in Saigon that had a deep stake in ensuring that U.S. programs appeared ...
Harkins, William Draper: American chemist whose investigations of nuclear chemistry, particularly the structure of the nucleus, first revealed the basic process of nuclear fusion, the fundamental principle of the thermonuclear bomb.
Harkness, Anna M. Richardson: American philanthropist, perhaps best remembered for establishing the Commonwealth Fund, which continues as a major foundation focusing largely on health services and medical education and research.
Harkness, Ned: Canadian hockey and lacrosse coach held the distinction of becoming the first coach to win national collegiate championships in two different sports. He led teams in both ice hockey and ...
Harlan: city, seat of Harlan county, southeastern Kentucky, U.S., in the Cumberland Mountains, on the Clover Fork Cumberland River. It was settled in 1819 by Virginians led by Samuel Howard and ...
Harlan, John Marshall: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal. His best known dissents ...
Harlan, John Marshall: U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971.
Harland and Wolff: (from the article "Titanic") ...displaced (weighed) 66,000 tons. The Titanic was 882.5 feet (269 metres) long and 92.5 feet (28.2 metres) wide at its widest point. It was designed and built by William Pirrie's ...
Harlech: castle and village, Gwynedd county, historic county of Merioneth (Meirionnydd), Wales, on the coast of Cardigan Bay. In 1283, after defeating Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the English king Edward I began ...
Harlem: district of New York City, U.S., occupying a large part of northern Manhattan Island and Borough. Harlem as a neighbourhood has no fixed boundaries; it may generally be said to ... [5 Related Articles]
Harlem: (from the article "art and architecture, Iranian") ...with reliefs. Again approached by an ornamental stairway, a "tripylon" unit between these main buildings leads to others only tentatively identified. The plan of the building, called the Harlem by ...
Harlem Community Art Center: (from the article "Savage, Augusta") ...however, and so when she returned to New York she began to teach art, founding her own school of arts and crafts in Harlem in the early 1930s. In 1937 ...
Harlem Globetrotters: predominantly black professional U.S. basketball team that plays exhibition games all over the world, drawing crowds as large as 75,000 to see the players' spectacular ball handling and humorous antics.
Harlem Renaissance: a blossoming (c. 1918-37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, ... [29 Related Articles]
Harlequin: one of the principal stock characters of the Italian commedia dell'arte; often a facile and witty gentleman's valet and a capricious swain of the serving maid. [6 Related Articles]
harlequin beetle: large tropical American beetle with an elaborate variegated pattern of black with muted red and greenish yellow markings on its wing covers.
harlequin cabbage bug: a species of insect in the stinkbug family, Pentatomidae (order Heteroptera), that sucks sap and chlorophyll from crops, such as cabbage, causing them to wilt and die. Though of tropical ... [1 Related Articles]
harlequin fish: (from the article "rasbora") ...in Southeast Asia, but a few are native to Africa. The fishes are active, generally slender, and have a protruding lower jaw. Several species are kept as pets, one of ...
harlequinade: play or scene, usually in pantomime, in which Harlequin, a male character, has the principal role. Derived from the Italian commedia dell'arte, harlequinades came into vogue in early 18th-century England, ...
Harley 2253: (from the article "English literature") ...goth sonne under wod and Stond wel, moder, ounder rode. Many of the lyrics are preserved in manuscript anthologies, of which the best is British Library manuscript ...
Harline, Leigh: (from the article "1940: Other Winners") ...Thief of BagdadArt Direction, Black-and-White: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse for Pride and PrejudiceArt Direction, Color: Vincent Korda for The Thief of BagdadOriginal Score: Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned ...
Harling, Frank: (from the article "1939: Other Winners") ...Haller and Ray Rennahan for Gone with the WindArt Direction: Lyle Wheeler for Gone with the WindOriginal Score: Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of OzScoring: Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John ...
Harlingen: city, Cameron county, southern Texas, U.S., 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Brownsville, with which it forms an industrial-agribusiness-port complex. Founded in the early 1900s and named after Harlingen, Netherlands, ...
Harlingen: (from the article "Friesland") Leeuwarden, the capital, is the only large town, and Harlingen, the only port, serves as its outlet. Other centres are Sneek, Heerenveen, Drachten, Bolsward, Franeker, and Dokkum. There is a ...
Harlow: (from the article "Harlow") new town and coextensive district, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It was designated by British planners in 1947 as one of London's eight post-World War II new towns ...
Harlow: new town and coextensive district, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It was designated by British planners in 1947 as one of London's eight post-World War II new towns ...
Harlow, Jean: American actress who was the original "Blonde Bombshell." Known initially for her striking beauty and forthright sexuality, Harlow developed considerably as an actress, but she died prematurely at the height ...
harm principle: (from the article "sports") ...from wealthy nations to train more efficiently, with better coaching and equipment, than athletes from poorer countries, a situation that is manifestly unfair. The argument based on the "harm principle" ...
Harman, Martin Coles: English financier and one of the few private individuals-particularly, one of the few persons while alive-to have his portrait on coins.
harmattan: hot, dry wind that blows from the northeast or east in the western Sahara and is strongest in late fall and winter (late November to mid-March). It usually carries large ... [14 Related Articles]
harmine: hallucinogenic alkaloid found in the seed coats of a plant (Peganum harmala) of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, and also in a South American vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) from ... [2 Related Articles]
Harmison, Steve: (from the article "Cricket") ...recorded an unprecedented seven consecutive Test victories at home-four against the West Indies and three against New Zealand-after winning three out of four Tests in the West Indies. Steve Harmison ...
Harmodius and Aristogiton: the tyrannoktonoi, or "tyrannicides," who according to popular, but erroneous, legend freed Athens from the Peisistratid tyrants. They were celebrated in drinking songs as the deliverers of the city, their ...
Harmon, Tom: American football player, a Heisman Trophy winner, who was one of the greatest tailbacks in collegiate football history.
Harmonia: in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, according to the Theban account; in Samothrace she was the daughter of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra. She was carried off ...
harmonia: (from the article "mode") ...A G F E D C B A G F E D C B A. This two-octave row, or disdiapason, was called the Greater Perfect System. It was analyzed as ...
harmonic: (from the article "speech") A second attribute of vocal sound, harmonic structure, depends on the wave form produced by the vibrating vocal cords. Like any musical instrument, the human voice is not a pure ...
harmonic analysis: mathematical procedure for describing and analyzing phenomena of a periodically recurrent nature. Many complex problems have been reduced to manageable terms by the technique of breaking complicated mathematical curves into ... [5 Related Articles]
harmonic analyzer: (from the article "analog computer") ...special-purpose machines, as for example the tide predictor developed in 1873 by William Thomson (later known as Lord Kelvin). Along the same lines, A.A. Michelson and S.W. Stratton built in ...
harmonic construction: in projective geometry, determination of a pair of points C and D that divides a line segment AB harmonically (see ), that is, internally and externally in the same ratio, ...
Harmonic Drive: mechanical speed-changing device, invented in the 1950s, that operates on a different principle from, and has capabilities beyond the scope of, conventional speed changers. It consists of a thin ring ...
harmonic function: mathematical function of two variables having the property that its value at any point is equal to the average of its values along any circle around that point, provided the ... [2 Related Articles]
harmonic mean: (from the article "mean") ...of the pth-power mean, M_p, defined by the formula ... where p may be any real number except zero. The case p = −1 is also called the harmonic mean. Weighted pth-power ...
harmonic number: (from the article "sound") Here n is called the harmonic number, because the sequence of frequencies existing as standing waves in the string are integral multiples, or harmonics, of the fundamental frequency.
harmonic rhythm: (from the article "harmony") ...through contrasting chords and through passages from consonant to dissonant to consonant chords. If the change of chords is frequent in relation to the musical rhythm, there is said to ...
harmonic series: (from the article "wind instrument") ...fourth will be c' at 512. The successive pitches created by the vibration of the air column as a whole (the fundamental) and its various divisions (the series of harmonic ...
harmonic wave: (from the article "light") A simple and useful example of a periodic wave is a harmonic wave; a snapshot of such a wave at one instant of time and a complementary picture showing the ...
harmonic-tone generator: (from the article "music synthesizer") The aforementioned synthesizers used subtractive synthesis-removing unwanted components from a signal containing a fundamental tone and all related overtones (sawtooth-wave signals). The harmonic-tone generator developed by James Beauchamp at the ...
harmonica: either of two musical instruments, the friction-sounded glass harmonica (q.v.) and the mouth organ, a free-reed wind instrument produced by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin in 1821 as the Mundaoline. It ... [2 Related Articles]
harmonicity, theorem of: (from the article "harmonic construction") ...(see Figure), that is, internally and externally in the same ratio, the internal ratio CA/CB being equal to the negative of the external ratio DA/DB on the extended line. The ...
Harmonious Development of Man, Institute for the: (from the article "Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch") ...to Moscow about 1913 and began teaching there and in Petrograd, returning to the Caucasus at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Rejoined by some followers, Gurdjieff established ...
harmonium: free-reed keyboard instrument that produces sound when wind sent by foot-operated bellows through a pressure-equalizing air reservoir causes metal reeds screwed over slots in metal frames to vibrate through the ... [1 Related Articles]
Harmony: borough (town), Butler county, western Pennsylvania, U.S., on Connoquenessing Creek, 25 miles (40 km) north of Pittsburgh. It is known as the first settlement in America of the Harmonist Society ...
harmony: in music, the sound of two or more notes heard simultaneously. In practice, this broad definition can also include some instances of notes sounded one after the other. If the ... [22 Related Articles]
harmony: (from the article "Kepler, Johannes") ...more than two decades of investigations into the archetypal principles of the world: geometrical, musical, metaphysical, astrological, astronomical, and those principles pertaining to the soul. All harmonies were geometrical, including ...
harmony: (from the article "Altaic languages") The Altaic languages exhibit two kinds of sound harmony affecting the vowels and velar stops. In palatal vowel harmony, all the vowels of a given word are back or they ...
harmotome: hydrated barium aluminosilicate mineral, (Ba,Na,K)_1-2 (Si,Al)₈O₁₆ · 6H₂O, in the zeolite family. Harmotome is isostructural with the mineral phillipsite; that is, the three-dimensional structure of the aluminosilicate framework is the ...