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- also called Rene Harris English organ builder whose fine instruments were highly regarded by his contemporaries. Harris was the son and grandson of organ builders; his maternal grandfather was Thomas ...
- Harris, Rene Reynaldo
- Nauruan politician served four times (April 27, 1999-April 20, 2000; March 30, 2001-Jan. 9, 2003; Jan. 17-18, 2003; Aug. 8, 2003-June 22, 2004) as Nauru's president; his 31 years (1977-2008) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Harris, Richard
- Irish actor of stage and screen who became known as much for his offstage indulgences as for his flamboyant performances. [1 Related Articles]
- Harris, Roy
- composer, teacher, and a prominent representative of nationalism in American music who came to be regarded as the musical spokesman for the American landscape. [1 Related Articles]
- Harris, Sir Arthur Travers, 1st Baronet
- British air officer who initiated and directed the "saturation bombing" that the Royal Air Force inflicted on Germany during World War II. [1 Related Articles]
- Harris, Timothy
- (from the article "Saint Kitts and Nevis") In August Saint Kitts and Nevis became the 102nd country to ratify the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. The next month Foreign Minister Timothy Harris attended the Non-Aligned ...
- Harris, Townsend
- U.S. politician and diplomat, the first Western consul to reside in Japan, whose influence helped shape the future course of Japanese-Western relations. [1 Related Articles]
- Harris, Walter B.
- (from the article "Yemen") ...all its remoteness, Yemen is likewise a country of great physical beauty, photogenic and picturesque, with a life and verdancy in the highlands unlike that found elsewhere on the Arabian ...
- Harris, William Torrey
- U.S. educator, probably the most widely known public school educator and philosopher in the United States during the late 19th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Harris, William Wade
- (from the article "African religions") Another prophetic movement, the Harris movement, was one of the first to receive the sanction and support of the governments of Western Africa. Its founder, William Wade Harris, was a ...
- Harris, Wilson
- Guyanese author noted for the broad vision and abstract complexity of his novels.
- Harris, Zellig S.
- Russian-born American scholar known for his work in structural linguistics. He carried the structural linguistic ideas of Leonard Bloomfield to their furthest logical development: to discover the linear distributional relations ... [3 Related Articles]
- Harrisburg
- city, seat (1859) of Saline county, southern Illinois, U.S. It lies about 40 miles (65 km) east of Carbondale. It was laid out in 1853 and named in honour of ...
- Harrisburg
- capital (1812) of Pennsylvania, U.S., and seat (1785) of Dauphin county, on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, 105 miles (169 km) west of Philadelphia. It is the hub ... [2 Related Articles]
- Harrison
- city, seat (1869) of Boone county, northwestern Arkansas, U.S., in the Ozark Mountains on Crooked Creek, 80 miles (129 km) south of Springfield, Missouri. The Union general M. Larue Harrison ...
- Harrison, Alvin
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...Chambers of Great Britain (two years) and 1,500-m world indoor record holder Regina Jacobs of the U.S. (four years). Americans Kelli White, the 2003 women's world champion at 100 m ...
- Harrison, Anna
- American first lady (March 4-April 4, 1841), the wife of William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, and grandmother of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president. [1 Related Articles]
- Harrison, Benjamin
- 23rd president of the United States (1889-93), a moderate Republican who won an electoral majority while losing the popular vote by more than 100,000 to Democrat Grover Cleveland. Harrison signed ... [6 Related Articles]
- Harrison, Calvin
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...m and 200 m, and Alvin Harrison, the 2000 Olympic 400-m medalist, admitted to doping and accepted four-year bans that also annulled their results dating back to late 2001. Harrison's ...
- Harrison, Caroline
- American first lady (1889-92), the wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States. A history enthusiast, she was the first president general of the Daughters of the American ...
- Harrison, Elizabeth
- American educator, a major force in establishing standards and a college for the training of kindergarten teachers.
- Harrison, Francis Burton
- U.S. governor general of the Philippines (1913-21) and later adviser to Philippine presidents. [3 Related Articles]
- Harrison, Frederic
- English author who publicized the Positivism of the French sociologist Auguste Comte in Great Britain.
- Harrison, G Donald
- English-born U.S. organ designer and builder, who designed or extensively rebuilt many of the largest and finest instruments of the 20th century.
- Harrison, George
- (from the article "Johannesburg") ...gold from the Jukskei River, north of what would become Johannesburg. The years that followed brought several modest strikes, but the Witwatersrand Main Reef eluded searchers until 1886, when George ...
- Harrison, George
- British musician, singer, and songwriter (b. Feb. 25, 1943, Liverpool, Eng.-d. Nov. 29, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was the lead guitarist of the Beatles, who infused rock and roll with ... [4 Related Articles]
- Harrison, James
- (from the article "refrigeration") Commercial refrigeration is believed to have been initiated by an American businessman, Alexander C. Twinning, in 1856. Shortly afterward, an Australian, James Harrison, examined the refrigerators used by Gorrie and ...
- Harrison, Jim
- American novelist and poet known for his lyrical treatment of the human struggle between nature and domesticity.
- Harrison, John
- English horologist who invented the first practical marine chronometer, which enabled navigators to compute accurately their longitude at sea. [2 Related Articles]
- Harrison, John
- (from the article "pottery") ...and about 1845 the manufacture of Parian ware began. This unglazed near-white porcelain named after Parian marble had been made first in England by Copeland & Garrett (see above Britain). ...
- Harrison, Lou Silver
- American composer (b. May 14, 1917, Portland, Ore.-d. Feb. 2, 2003, Lafayette, Ind.), was a tireless experimenter who created memorable melodies as he fused the classical Western tradition with idioms ...
- Harrison, Peter
- British-American architect who became popular through his adaptations of designs by the great architects of history. As a sea captain, Harrison went to Rhode Island in 1740 and settled in ...
- Harrison, Ross Granville
- American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ-transplantation techniques.
- Harrison, Sir Rex
- English stage and film actor, best known for his portrayals of urbane, eccentric English gentlemen in sophisticated comedies and social satires. [1 Related Articles]
- Harrison, Thomas
- English Parliamentarian general and a leader in the Fifth Monarchy sect (men who believed in the imminent coming of Christ and were willing to rule until he came). He helped ...
- Harrison, Tony
- English poet, translator, dramatist, and filmmaker whose work expressed the tension between his working-class background and the formal sophistication of literary verse. [1 Related Articles]
- Harrison, Wallace K
- American architect best known as head of the group of architects that designed the United Nations building, New York City (1947-50). [1 Related Articles]
- Harrison, William Henry
- ninth president of the United States (1841), whose Indian campaigns, while he was a territorial governor and army officer, thrust him into the national limelight and led to his election ... [7 Related Articles]
- Harrod, James
- (from the article "Harrodsburg") ...32 miles (51 km) southwest of Lexington. The oldest permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies, it was founded in 1774 on the Wilderness Road as Harrodstown (later Oldtown, then Harrodsburg) ...
- Harrod, Sir Roy
- British economist who pioneered the economics of dynamic growth and the field of macroeconomics. [2 Related Articles]
- Harrod-Domar equation
- (from the article "economic development") ...output and the aggregate capital-output ratio (that is, the number of units of additional capital required to produce an additional unit of output). Mathematically, this can be expressed (the Harrod-Domar ...
- Harrods
- in London, renowned department store. It is located on Brompton Road, south of Hyde Park, in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Henry Charles Harrod founded it as a grocery ...
- Harrodsburg
- city, seat of Mercer county, central Kentucky, U.S., near the Salt River, in the Bluegrass region, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Lexington. The oldest permanent settlement west of the ...
- Harrogate
- borough (district), administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. Harrogate town originated in the 17th century as a spa with chalybeate, sulfur, and saline springs. It ...
- Harrogate
- (from the article "Harrogate") borough (district), administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. Harrogate town originated in the 17th century as a spa with chalybeate, sulfur, and saline springs. It ...
- Harroun, Ray
- (from the article "Indianapolis 500") In 1911 American Ray Harroun won the first 500 in about 6 hours 42 minutes with an average speed of 74.6 miles (120.1 km) per hour; he received winnings of ...
- Harrow
- outer borough of London, forming part of its northwestern perimeter, in the historic county of Middlesex. Previously a municipal borough, Harrow became a London borough in 1965. It includes (from ...
- harrow
- farm implement used to pulverize soil, break up crop residues, uproot weeds, and cover seed. In Neolithic times, soil was harrowed, or cultivated, with tree branches; shaped wooden harrows were ... [1 Related Articles]
- Harrow School
- educational institution for boys in Harrow, London. It is one of the foremost public (i.e., independent) schools of England and one of the most prestigious. Generally between 700 and 800 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Harrsalz
- (from the article "alunogen") ...or slates, as well as in the gossan (weathered capping) of sulfide ore deposits and in volcanic fumarole deposits. In older literature, alunogen and other hairlike sulfate minerals were called ...
- Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir
- (from the article "Ozarks, Lake of the") ...caverns nearby. Lake of the Ozarks State Park includes most of the Grand Glaize arm of the lake, with 90 miles (145 km) of shoreline. Ha Ha Tonka State Park ...
- Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
- (from the article "Independence") ...opportunities are found at the Independence campuses of Graceland University, Park University, and Blue River Community College, as well as at several vocational and technical schools. The Harry S. Truman ...
- Harry The Minstrel
- author of the Scottish historical romance The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, which is preserved in a manuscript dated 1488. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Harsa
- ruler of a large empire in northern India from 606 to 647. He was a Buddhist convert in a Hindu era. His reign seemed to mark a transition from the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Harsa Dynasty
- (from the article "chronology") ...(AD 320), used throughout the Gupta Empire and preserved in Nepal until the 13th century. Later came the era of the Thakuri dynasty of Nepal (AD 395), founded by Amsuvarman; ...
- Harsanyi, John C.
- Hungarian-American economist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics with John F. Nash and Reinhard Selten for helping to develop game theory, a branch of mathematics that attempts to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Harsch, Joseph Close
- American newspaper and broadcast journalist who, during his 60-year career with The Christian Science Monitor, was noted for his presence at many of the period's most historic events and for ...
- Harsdorfer, Georg Philipp
- German poet and theorist of the Baroque movement who wrote more than 47 volumes of poetry and prose and, with Johann Klaj (Clajus), founded the most famous of the numerous ... [1 Related Articles]
- Harsdorff, Caspar Frederik
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...taste was introduced into Denmark and Sweden between 1750 and 1790 by French designers such as Louis Le Lorrain, Nicolas-Henri Jardin, and Louis-Jean Desprez. In Denmark, Jardin's pupil Caspar Frederik ...
- Harshat Mata
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...later times, when the torana (gateway) and the sikhara were added. Other important temples are Harihara Nos. 1, 2, and 3 and two temples dedicated to Vishnu. The ruined Harshat ...
- Harshaw, Margaret
- American opera singer celebrated especially for her Wagnerian performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 22 seasons beginning in November 1942; singing both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles, ...
- Harsusi
- (from the article "South Arabic language") ...Tigre, Tigrinya, and the other Semitic languages of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and The Sudan. Modern dialects of the language include Mahri, Shahri (Ehkali), Harsusi, and Bathari on the Arabian shore of ...
- Hart
- district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, southern England. It occupies an area in the northeastern part of the county and lies south of the unitary authority of Reading. The ...
- Hart brothers
- brothers who, as critics and writers, were key figures of the Berlin group that introduced Naturalism into German literature.
- Hart Memorial Trophy
- (from the article "Gretzky, Wayne") ...NHL scorer) for seven consecutive years, from the 1980-81 to the 1986-87 season, and won it again in 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1993-94. He was the first player to win the ...
- Hart Trophy
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...Crosby, a 19-year-old from Cole Harbour, N.S., became the youngest player to win the league's scoring title when he finished with 120 points in 79 games. The Pittsburgh Penguins' centre ...
- Hart, Charles
- English actor, probably the son of the actor William Hart, nephew of William Shakespeare. [1 Related Articles]
- Hart, Graeme
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...donated to charity the $NZ 47 million that accrued from his personal 6.7% stake in the business, saying that he did not need it. National Business Review weekly named business ...
- Hart, John
- (from the article "dictionary") Spelling reformers long had a deep interest in producing English dictionaries. In 1569 one such reformer, John Hart, lamented the greatness of the "disorders and confusions" of spelling. But a ...
- Hart, Johnny
- American cartoonist created a formidable following of more than 100 million readers as the creator in 1958 of the comic strip B.C., which focused on prehistoric cave dwellers and ...
- Hart, Julia Catherine Beckwith
- (from the article "Canadian literature") The historical romance was the most popular form of novel. Seigneurial life in New France provided the setting for Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart's melodramatic St. Ursula's Convent; or, The Nun ...
- Hart, Leon
- American football player (b. Nov. 2, 1928, Turtle Creek, Pa.-d. Sept. 24, 2002, South Bend, Ind.), in 1949 became the second of the only two linemen to have won the ...
- Hart, Lorenz
- U.S. song lyricist whose commercial popular songs incorporated the careful techniques and verbal refinements of serious poetry. His 25-year collaboration with the composer Richard Rodgers resulted in about 1,000 songs ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hart, Marvin
- American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from July 3, 1905, to February 23, 1906. Hart's claim to the championship has not been universally accepted, although that of Tommy ...
- Hart, Moss
- one of the most successful U.S. playwrights of the 20th century.
- Hart, Nancy
- American Revolutionary heroine around whom gathered numerous stories of patriotic adventure and resourcefulness.
- Hart, Nancy
- (from the article "Summersville") ...45 miles (72 km) east of Charleston. Founded on Peters Creek in 1824, it was named for Judge Lewis Summers, who introduced the bill that created Nicholas county. During the ...
- Hart, Pro
- Australian artist (b. May 30, 1928, Broken Hill, N.S.W., Australia-d. March 28, 2006, Broken Hill), crafted richly coloured oil and acrylic paintings, notably naive rural landscapes inspired by Australia's Outback. ...
- Hart, Sir Robert 1st Baronet
- Anglo-Chinese statesman employed by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12) to direct the Chinese customs bureau and thus satisfy Western demands for an equitable Chinese tariff.
- Hart, Tony
- (from the article "Harrigan, Edward") ...in 1861 he was singing with Lotta Crabtree. After developing his skill as a comedian, Harrigan formed a team with Sam Rickey and returned to New York City. In 1872 ...
- Hart, William S.
- American stage and silent motion-picture actor, who was the leading hero of the early westerns.
- Hartack, Bill
- American jockey who was the second, after Eddie Arcaro, ever to win five Kentucky Derbies and the first, in 1956, to win $2 million in a single year, a record ... [1 Related Articles]
- hartal
- in Ceylon, general strike, organized in 1953 by Marxist parties to express public dissatisfaction over the rise in the cost of living, especially the cost of rice. (Generically, the word ...
- Harte, Bret
- American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction. [2 Related Articles]
- hartebeest
- (genus Alcelaphus), either of two swift, slender antelopes, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in herds on open plains and scrublands of sub-Saharan Africa. They often mingle with herds of zebras ...
- Harteck, P.
- (from the article "tritium") ...12.32 years; it occurs in natural water with an abundance of 10-18 of that of natural hydrogen. Tritium was discovered in 1934 by the physicists Ernest Rutherford, M.L. Oliphant, and ...
- Hartel, Lis
- (from the article "Lis Hartel: Beating Polio") That Danish equestrian Lis Hartel was competing at all in the 1952 dressage competition was perhaps more surprising and impressive than the fact that she won the silver medal. She ...
- Hartenfels Castle
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...at Augsburg (1509-18), which was the first Renaissance building in Germany, or they consisted of bits of Renaissance decoration attached to Gothic structures. An example of the latter is Hartenfels ...
- Hartford
- county, north-central Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the north by Massachusetts and traversed (north-south) by the Connecticut River. Other waterways are the Farmington, Pequabuck, and Quinnipiac rivers and the ...
- Hartford
- capital of Connecticut and city coextensive with the town (township) of Hartford, Hartford county, U.S., in the north-central part of the state. It is a major industrial and commercial centre ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hartford Convention
- (Dec. 15, 1814-Jan. 5, 1815), in U.S. history, a secret meeting of Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, at Hartford, Conn., inspired by Federalist opposition ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hartford wit
- any of a group of Federalist poets centred around Hartford, Conn., who collaborated to produce a considerable body of political satire just after the American Revolution. Employing burlesque verse modelled ...
- Hartford, John
- American musician and singer-songwriter (b. Dec. 30, 1937, New York, N.Y.-d. June 4, 2001, Madison, Tenn.), was a virtuoso banjoist, fiddler, and guitarist whose best-known song, "Gentle on My Mind" ...
- Hartford, University of
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Hartford, Conn., U.S. It consists of the Barney School of Business and Public Administration, the Hartt School (of music), the Hartford Art ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hartlaub, Gustav F.
- (from the article "Neue Sachlichkeit") ...styles of Expressionism and Abstraction) and who reflected what was characterized as the resignation and cynicism of the post-World War I period in Germany. The term was fashioned in 1924 ...
- Hartleben, Otto Erich
- German poet, dramatist, and short-story writer known for his Naturalistic dramas that portray with ironic wit the weaknesses of middle-class society.
- Hartlepool
- seaport and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Durham, northeastern England, on the North Sea.
- Hartley Seam
- (from the article "chemical element") ...burned, and some coal ashes show a remarkable concentration of unusual elements. This was demonstrated by Goldschmidt in 1933, when he found appreciable amounts of germanium in some coal ashes. ...
- Hartley, Blythe
- (from the article "Swimming") ...15-year-old newcomer Jia Tong-won two gold medals each. Guo won handily in the 1-m springboard with 323.70 points, defeating teammate Wu Minxia (a double Olympic gold medalist) and Canada's Blythe ...
- Hartley, David
- English physician and philosopher credited with the first formulation of the psychological system known as associationism. Attempting to explain how thought processes occur, Hartley's associationism, with later modifications, has endured ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hartley, David, the Younger
- radical English pamphleteer, member of the House of Commons (1774-80, 1782-84), and inventor, son of the philosopher David Hartley. As British plenipotentiary he signed the Treaty of Paris (September 3, ...
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