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- (from the article "Newburgh") ...post in the strategic Hudson valley during the American Revolution. It was there that Washington renounced the idea that he become king and officially disbanded the Continental Army. The Jonathan ...
- Hasdeu, Bogdan Petriceicu
- scholar and archivist who was a pioneer in Romanian language and historical studies.
- Hasdrubal
- Carthaginian general, the son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca. [4 Related Articles]
- Hasdrubal
- Carthaginian general customarily identified as the son of Gisco. [2 Related Articles]
- Hasdrubal
- Carthaginian general who unsuccessfully attempted to sustain military ascendancy on the Spanish peninsula in the face of Roman attacks. [5 Related Articles]
- Hasegawa Tohaku
- Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574-1600) and the founder of the Hasegawa school of painting or painters. [2 Related Articles]
- Hasek, Dominik
- Czech ice hockey goaltender known for his unorthodox goaltending style. Hasek was the only goaltender in National Hockey League (NHL) history to win consecutive Hart Trophy awards as most valuable ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hasek, Jaroslav
- Czech writer best known for his satirical novel The Good Soldier Schweik. [2 Related Articles]
- Hasel, Jan van
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...themselves in the missionary enterprise among non-Europeans. A pioneer was Albert Cornelius Ruyl, who is credited with having translated Matthew into High Malay in 1629, with Mark following later. Jan ...
- Hasenclever, Walter
- German Expressionist poet and dramatist whose work is a protest against bourgeois materialism and the war-making state.
- Hashiguchi Goyo
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...women were the primary subjects. Watanabe Shosaburo (1885-1962) was the publisher most active in this movement. His contributing artists included Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), and ...
- Hashim, Banu
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") Muhammad was born in 570 of the Hashimite (Banu Hashim) branch of the noble house of 'Abd Manaf; though orphaned at an early age and, in consequence, with little influence, ...
- Hashimite
- any of the Arab descendants, either direct or collateral, of the prophet Muhammad, from among whom came the family that created the 20th-century Hashimite dynasty. Muhammad himself was a member ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hashimiyah
- Islamic religiopolitical sect of the 8th-9th century AD, instrumental in the 'Abbasid overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate. The movement appeared in the Iraqi city of Kufah in the early 700s ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hashimoto disease
- a noninfectious form of inflammation of the thyroid gland (thyroiditis). [2 Related Articles]
- Hashimoto Gaho
- Japanese painter who helped revive Japanese-style painting in the Meiji era. [2 Related Articles]
- Hashimoto Ryutaro
- Japanese politician, whose election as prime minister in 1996 signaled a return to Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule after a brief Socialist regime (1994-95). He left office in 1998 after ... [5 Related Articles]
- hashish
- a hallucinogenic drug preparation derived from the resin secreted by the flowering tops of cultivated female hemp plants (Cannabis sativa). More loosely, in Arabic-speaking countries, the term may denote a ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hashr, Agha
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The best known playwright of this period is Agha Hashr (1876-1935), a poet-dramatist of flamboyant imagination and superb craftsmanship. Among his famous plays are Sita Banbas, based on an incident ...
- Hasi, Tel
- ancient archaeological site in southwestern Palestine, located southwest of Lachish (Tel Lakhish) in modern Israel. Excavation of the site, carried out in 1890 by Sir Flinders Petrie and in 1892-94 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hasidean
- member of a pre-Christian Jewish sect of uncertain origin, noted for uncompromising observance of Judaic Law. The Hasideans joined the Maccabean revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucids (2nd century BC) to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hasidism
- (from Hebrew hasid, "pious one"), a 12th- and 13th-century Jewish religious movement in Germany that combined austerity with overtones of mysticism. It sought favour with the common people, who had ... [5 Related Articles]
- Hasidism
- (from the article "Ba'al Shem Tov") charismatic founder (c. 1750) of Hasidism, a Jewish spiritual movement characterized by mysticism and opposition to secular studies and Jewish rationalism. He aroused controversy by mixing with ordinary people, renouncing ...
- hasina
- (from the article "nature worship") The concept of hasina among the Merina (Hova) of central Madagascar is very similar to that of mana. It demonstrates the same aristocratic root character as the ...
- Hasina Wazed, Sheikh
- Following two years of political tumult, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, president of the Awami League, was elected prime minister of Bangladesh on June 12, 1996. Her government was expected to bring ... [3 Related Articles]
- Haskala
- a late 18th- and 19th-century intellectual movement among the Jews of central and eastern Europe that attempted to acquaint Jews with the European and Hebrew languages and with secular education ... [12 Related Articles]
- Haskins, Charles Homer
- American educator and a leading medievalist of his generation, known for his critical studies of Norman institutions and the transmission of Greco-Arabic learning to the West. [1 Related Articles]
- Haskins, Don
- American college basketball coach helped bring racial integration to college basketball when in 1966 he started five African American players on his Texas Western College team, and the squad defeated ...
- Haslemere
- town (parish), Waverley district, administrative and historic county of Surrey, England. Located in the southwestern corner of Surrey, Haslemere is attractively situated between the sandy heights of Hindhead (895 feet ...
- Hasler, Otmar
- (from the article "Liechtenstein") Area: 160 sq km (62 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 35,300 | Capital: Vaduz | Chief of state: Prince Hans Adam II | Head of government: Otmar Hasler | ...
- Hasluck, Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla
- Australian politician (b. April 1, 1905, Fremantle, Australia--d. Jan. 9, 1993, Perth, Australia), was a respected Cabinet minister and the first serving party politician to be named (1969) governor-general of ...
- Hasmonean Dynasty
- dynasty of ancient Judaea, descendants of the Maccabee (q.v.) family. The name derived (according to Josephus, in The Antiquities of the Jews) from the name of their ancestor Hasmoneus (Hasmon), ... [7 Related Articles]
- Hasmoneus
- (from the article "Mattathias") ...hills with his five sons and waged a guerrilla war against the Syrians, being succeeded by his son Judas Maccabeus. Because, according to Josephus, Mattathias' great-great-grandfather was called Hasmoneus, the ...
- Hasner, Leopold, Ritter Von (knight of) Artha
- economist, jurist, and politician who served as liberal Austrian minister of education (1867-70) and briefly as prime minister (1870).
- Hass, Robert
- American poet and translator whose body of work and tenure as poet laureate consultant in poetry (1995-97) reveal his deep conviction that poetry, as one critic put it, "is what ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hassam, Childe
- painter and printmaker, one of the foremost exponents of French Impressionism in American art. [1 Related Articles]
- Hassan
- town, south-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. Lying at an elevation of 3,084 feet (940 metres), the town has a cool, humid climate. It dates from the 12th century ...
- Hassan I
- sultan of Morocco (1873-94), whose policy of internal reforms brought his country a degree of stability previously unknown and who succeeded in preserving the independence of that North African nation.
- Hassan ibn al-Nu'man
- (from the article "North Africa") ...of these operations are uncertain, but they must have occurred before 688 when Zuhayr ibn Qays himself was killed in an attack on Byzantine positions in Cyrenaica. The second Arab ...
- Hassan ibn Thabit
- Arabian poet, best known for his poems in defense of the Prophet Muhammad. [3 Related Articles]
- Hassan II
- king of Morocco from 1961 to 1999. Hassan was considered by pious Muslims to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (Ahl al-Bayt). [5 Related Articles]
- Hassan II Agriculture and Veterinary Institute
- (from the article "Morocco") ...at urban centres throughout the country. Its leading institutions include Muhammad V University in Rabat, the country's largest university, with branches in Casablanca and Fes; the Hassan II Agriculture and ...
- Hassan, Abdiqassim Salad
- (from the article "Somalia") ...refugees were in neighbouring countries, Europe, or the United States | Capital: Mogadishu; Hargeysa is the capital of Somaliland | Head of state and government: Somalia's government under President Abdiqassim ...
- Hassan, Sharif
- (from the article "Somalia") ...and his prime minister, Muhammad Ghedi, established itself in Jowhar, 90 km (56 mi) north of Mogadishu, asserting that the capital was insecure. The other wing, led by the speaker ...
- Hassan, Sir Joshua Abraham
- Gibraltarian politician who spent more than 40 years in government; he was especially noted for his leadership in resisting Spain's claims to the British colony and for instilling a sense ...
- Hassaniyah
- (from the article "Mauritania") The Moors speak Hassaniyah, a dialect that draws most of its grammar from Arabic and uses a vocabulary of both Arabic and Berber words. Most of the members of the ...
- Hasse, Ernst
- German nationalist and political leader who turned the General German League (Allgemeiner Deutscher Verband), founded in 1891, into the militantly nationalistic and anti-Semitic Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband) in 1894. [1 Related Articles]
- Hasse, Johann Adolph
- outstanding composer of operas in the Italian style that dominated late Baroque opera. [2 Related Articles]
- Hassel, Odd
- Norwegian physical chemist and corecipient, with Derek H.R. Barton of Great Britain, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in establishing conformational analysis (the study of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hasselbach, Karl
- (from the article "Henderson, Lawrence Joseph") ...the addition of acids or bases resulting from physiological processes, are known as physiological buffers. The chemical expression developed by Henderson, and modified by the Danish biochemist Karl Hasselbach, to ...
- Hasselblad, Mother Elisabeth
- (from the article "Bridgettine") ...of the Protestant Reformation, the order was nearly destroyed when its houses were suppressed and confiscated. The modern Sisters of the Most Holy Savior of St. Bridget, founded at Rome ...
- Hasselburg, Frederick
- (from the article "Macquarie Island") ...coast falls steeply away. Although the island is treeless, its slopes and coastal flats are covered by heavy vegetation, and there are a few small glacial lakes. The island was ...
- Hasselquist, Tufve Nilsson
- (from the article "Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church") church organized in the United States by Norwegian and Swedish immigrants in 1860 in Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin, as the Scandinavian Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Tufve Nilsson Hasselquist, an ordained minister ...
- Hasselt
- capital of Limburg province, northeastern Belgium. It lies along the Demer River near the Albert Canal, northwest of Liege. For centuries it has been a centre of administration, a market ...
- Hasselt, Andre van
- Romantic poet whose career influenced the "Young Belgium" writers' efforts to establish an identifiable French-Belgian literature in the late-19th century.
- Hassenpflug, Hans Daniel
- pro-Austrian Hessian politician whose reactionary, anticonstitutional policies earned him the nickname "Hessenfluch" ("Curse of Hesse").
- Hassett, Lindsay
- Australian cricketer (b. Aug. 28, 1913, Geelong, Victoria, Australia--d. June 16, 1993, Bateman's Bay, New South Wales, Australia), was one of his country's finest batsmen for more than two decades ...
- Hassi Messaoud
- major oilfield, east-central Algeria. The field lies in the Grand Erg (sand dunes) Oriental of the Sahara. The Hassi Messaoud oilfield, discovered in 1956, has a generally north-south axis, and ...
- Hassi R'Mel
- town, containing one of the world's major natural-gas fields (discovered in 1956), north-central Algeria. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Ghardaia. It is also an intermediate stage on ... [1 Related Articles]
- hassium
- an artificially produced element belonging to the transuranium group, atomic number 108. It was synthesized and identified in 1984 by West German researchers at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research ...
- Hassler, Hans Leo
- outstanding German composer notable for his creative expansion of several musical styles. [2 Related Articles]
- Hasso, Signe
- Swedish-born actress (b. Aug. 15, 1910, Stockholm, Swed.-d. June 7, 2002, Los Angeles, Calif.), appeared in a wide variety of moderately successful (often villainous) roles in European and American films, ...
- Hassuna
- ancient Mesopotamian town located south of modern Mosul in northern Iraq. Excavated in 1943-44 by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities, Hassuna was found to represent a rather advanced village culture ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hassuna Period
- (from the article "Hassuna") ...houses were uncovered, each progressively more substantial. Large clay vessels sunk into the ground were used for grain storage, and bread was baked in domed ovens. Characteristic of the so-called ...
- Hassuna-Samarra' Period
- (from the article "Hassuna") ..."Samarra' ware," which seems to have been brought in or made by craftsmen who originally migrated from what is now Iran. These levels, occupied during the so-called Hassuna-Samarra' period (c. ...
- Hassunah, 'Abd al-Khaliq
- Egyptian diplomat who was secretary-general of the Arab League (1952-72) and a skillful mediator, particularly during the international crisis that ensued after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez ...
- hasta
- (from the article "phalanx") ...the close of the 2nd century BC, the Romans found the Greek-style phalanx suitable for fighting in the plains of Latium. The basic weapon for this formation was a thrusting ...
- Hastinapura
- (from the article "India") ...of present-day Delhi. The Kuru-Pancala, still dominant in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab area, were extending their control southward and eastward; the Kuru capital had reportedly been moved from Hastinapura to Kaushambi ...
- Hastings
- city ("district"), eastern North Island, New Zealand. It lies on the Heretaunga Plains, near Hawke Bay. The area's first European settlers arrived in 1864 to take up land leased from ...
- Hastings
- city, seat (1857) of Dakota county, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River where it is joined by the St. Croix River, about 20 miles (30 km) southeast ...
- Hastings
- city, seat (1878) of Adams county, south-central Nebraska, U.S. The city lies along the West Fork Big Blue River, about 100 miles (160 km) west of Lincoln. Pawnee were living ...
- Hastings
- borough (district), administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. The old port of Hastings, premier among the medieval Cinque Ports, has developed in modern times as a ...
- Hastings
- (from the article "Cinque Ports") ...confederation of English Channel ports in southeastern England, formed to furnish ships and men for the king's service. To the original five ports-Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney, and Hastings-were later ...
- Hastings magnifier
- (from the article "microscope") More-complex magnifiers, such as the Steinheil or Hastings forms, use three or more elements to achieve better correction for chromatic aberrations and distortion. In general, a better approach is the ...
- Hastings, Battle of
- (Oct. 14, 1066), battle that ended in the defeat of Harold II of England by William, duke of Normandy, and established the Normans as the rulers of England. [3 Related Articles]
- Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st marquess of, 2nd earl of Moira
- British soldier and colonial administrator; as governor-general of Bengal he conquered the Maratha states and greatly strengthened British rule in India. [3 Related Articles]
- Hastings, Frank Abney
- British naval officer who fought in the War of Greek Independence and was the first commander to use a ship with auxiliary steam power in naval action.
- Hastings, James
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...Philip Schaff, a Swiss-born American church historian, prepared the abridged English edition (1882-84) from which The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge stems. James Hastings, a Scottish clergyman, was responsible ...
- Hastings, Lady Flora
- (from the article "Victoria") Victoria's constitutionally dangerous political partisanship contributed to the first two crises of her reign, both of which broke in 1839. The Hastings affair began when Lady Flora Hastings, a maid ...
- Hastings, Warren
- the first and most famous of the British governors-general of India, who dominated Indian affairs from 1772 to 1785 and was impeached (though acquitted) on his return to England. [9 Related Articles]
- Hastings, William Hastings, Baron
- English soldier and diplomat, a supporter of King Edward IV and the Yorkists against the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. [1 Related Articles]
- hastingsite
- (from the article "amphibole") ...occurs in various plutonic igneous rocks, including diorites, quartz diorites, and granodiorites. It also occurs as phenocrysts in andesite lavas that contained enough water for amphiboles to form. Hastingsite is ...
- hat
- any of various styles of head covering. Hats may serve protective functions but often signify the wearer's sensibility to fashion or serve ceremonial functions, as when symbolizing the office or ... [2 Related Articles]
- hat a dao
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Music as entertainment is mostly a vocal art played without ritual outside the court and still enjoyed by many people. The hat a dao found in the north is the ...
- Hat Act
- (1732), in U.S. colonial history, British law restricting colonial manufacture and export of hats in direct competition with English hatmakers. Part of the mercantile system that subordinated the colonies economically, ...
- hat boi
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") The classic opera, known as hat boi, hat bo, or hat tuong, is a Vietnamese adaptation of the Chinese opera long ...
- hat cheo
- Vietnamese peasant theatre. It is generally (though not always) played out-of-doors in the forecourt of a village communal house. It is basically satirical in intent. Performances are given by amateur ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hat Party
- (from the article "Tessin, Carl Gustaf, Greve") Swedish court official, statesman, and writer who was a founder of the 18th-century parliamentary Hat Party and an influential adviser to the court of Adolf Frederick.leadership of Fersen
- Hat Yai
- city on the Malay Peninsula, extreme southern Thailand. It has become a modern, rapidly growing commercial city by virtue of its position on the major road south to Malaysia and ... [1 Related Articles]
- HAT-P-2b
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...planet. About 20 extrasolar planets had been found by detecting changes in the brightness of a star as the orbiting planet passed in front of, or transited, the star. One ...
- Hata Tsutomu
- politician who was briefly prime minister of Japan in 1994.
- hatamoto
- (from the article "Japan") ...one-fourth of the whole country. Of these lands, more than four million koku were under its direct control, and three million koku were distributed among the hatamoto and gokenin, the ...
- Hatano Seiichi
- Japanese scholar and author of pioneering works on Christianity and Western philosophy that were widely studied in Japanese universities.
- Hatch Act
- (from the article "Atwater, Wilbur Olin") ...in persuading the Connecticut legislature to set up the first state agricultural research station in the United States, at Middletown. In 1887, again at his prodding, Congress passed the Hatch ...
- Hatch Act
- (Aug. 2, 1939; amended July 1940), measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, aimed at eliminating corrupt practices in national elections. It was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico ...
- hatched-triangle motif
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...of the Eurasian steppe. The mirrors were also of a non-Chinese type, with twin knobs placed a little off centre against a tightly composed, geometric design made up of finely ...
- Hatchell, Steven
- (from the article "Rodeo") As the rodeo season ended in December 2004, the crowning of the world champions was eclipsed by the surprise resignation of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) commissioner Steven Hatchell and ...
- Hatcher, J. B.
- (from the article "dinosaur") Another major historic site was the Lance Creek area of northeastern Wyoming, where J.B. Hatcher discovered and collected dozens of Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur remains for Marsh and for Yale ...
- Hatcher, Richard G.
- (from the article "Gary") ...During World War I a sizable number of African Americans moved north to work in Gary, and by the 1930s they constituted one-sixth of Gary's population. World War II drew ...
- hatchery
- (from the article "commercial fishing") Fish farming as originally practiced involved capturing immature specimens and then raising them under optimal conditions in which they were well fed and protected from predators and competitors for light ...
- hatchetfish
- any member of two unrelated groups of hatchet-shaped fishes-deep-sea forms of the family Sternoptychidae or freshwater fishes of the family Gasteropelecidae. [2 Related Articles]
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