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- (from the article "Delaware") Two major museums are located in the outskirts of Wilmington. The Winterthur Museum is noted for its collection of American decorative arts, which are displayed in authentic period rooms. The ...
- Hague Agreement
- (Nov. 2, 1949), treaty between The Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia that attempted to bring to an end the Dutch-Indonesian conflict that followed the proclamation of Indonesian independence in ...
- Hague Alliance
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...found little difficulty in engineering an alliance involving France, England, Savoy, Sweden, and Denmark that was dedicated to the restoration of Frederick to his forfeited lands and titles (the Hague ...
- Hague Conference on Private International Law
- (from the article "conflict of laws") ...used the parties' domicile (narrowly defined). In civil-law countries, by contrast, a person's nationality was until recently the most important connecting factor. Because of the influence of the Hague Conference ...
- Hague Convention
- any of a series of international treaties that issued from international conferences held at The Hague in The Netherlands in 1899 and 1907. [11 Related Articles]
- Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters
- (from the article "conflict of laws") ...bilaterally, either on the basis of express agreements or as a matter of practice, in aiding each other's courts to effect service on the defendant. A very effective multilateral mechanism ...
- Hague Programme
- (from the article "Social Protection") Following the European Union's adoption in 2004 of The Hague Programme, the EU continued its efforts to forge an agreement on a common asylum and immigration policy for its 25 ...
- Hague Rules
- in maritime law, international code defining the rights and liabilities of a carrier. Introduced at the International Law Association meeting in Brussels in 1921, they were adopted first as clauses ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
- (from the article "neutrality") ...territory as a base of operations or engage in hostilities therein. This right applies not only to neutral territory and water but extends to air space above that territory as ...
- Hague school
- Dutch painters who worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1900, producing renderings of local landscapes and the daily activities of local fisherman and farmers in the style of Realism. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hague, Frank
- (from the article "New Jersey") ...by strong county leaders who drew their power from the patronage and contracts that they dispensed through control of the municipal courthouse or city hall. The most notorious of those ...
- Hague, Raoul
- (from the article "Western sculpture") The segmented torso, popular with Arp, Laurens, and Picasso earlier, continued to be reinterpreted by Alberto Viani, Bernard Heiliger, Karl Hartung, and Raoul Hague. The emphasis of these sculptors was ...
- Hague, The
- seat of government of The Netherlands. It is situated on a coastal plain 4 miles (6 km) from the North Sea. The Hague is the administrative capital of the country ... [11 Related Articles]
- Hague, Treaty of The
- (from the article "Oxenstierna, Bengt Gabrielsson, Greve") ...side. Appointed head of the chancellery in 1680, Oxenstierna soon assumed control of Sweden's foreign affairs. By negotiating an alliance with the Netherlands and the Holy Roman emperor in the ...
- Hague, William Jefferson
- On June 19, 1997, 36-year-old William Hague became the youngest leader of a major political party in the United Kingdom in 200 years. As the new leader of the Conservative ... [1 Related Articles]
- Haguenau
- town, Bas-Rhin departement, Alsace region, northeastern France. It lies along the Moder River just south of the Forest of Haguenau, north of Strasbourg. The town developed in the 12th century ...
- Hahn, Archie
- American runner who won gold medals in three sprint events at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri. [1 Related Articles]
- Hahn, Hans
- (from the article "Positivism") A first generation of 20th-century Viennese Positivists began its activities, strongly influenced by Mach, around 1907. Notable among them were a physicist, Philipp Frank, mathematicians Hans Hahn and Richard von ...
- Hahn, Otto
- German chemist who, with the radiochemist Fritz Strassmann, is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 and shared the Enrico ... [7 Related Articles]
- Hahn, Reynaldo
- Venezuelan-born French composer, remembered chiefly for his art songs.
- Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von
- German author of poetry, travel books, and novels that, though written in an artificial, aristocratic style, often show acute psychological insight. [1 Related Articles]
- Hahnemann, Samuel
- German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homeopathy (q.v.). [2 Related Articles]
- Hai ben Sherira
- last outstanding Babylonian gaon, or head, of a great Talmudic academy, remembered for the range and profundity of the exceptionally large number of responsa (authoritative answers to questions concerning interpretation ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hai Duong
- town, northern Vietnam. The town is located along the Thai Binh River in the Red River delta. It lies on the Haiphong railway about midway between Haiphong and Hanoi and ...
- Hai River system
- extensive system of tributary streams in northern China that discharge into the sea through the Hai River. The name Hai properly belongs only to the short river that flows from ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hai San
- Chinese secret society that was influential in commerce and tin mining in 19th-century Malaya. The Hai San had its origins in southern China and was transmitted to Malaya by immigrant ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hai-nan
- sheng (province) of China. The province, whose name means "South of the Sea," is coextensive with Hai-nan Island. Hai-nan is located in the South China Sea, separated ... [4 Related Articles]
- Haia
- (from the article "Ninlil") The Sumerian Ninlil was a grain goddess, known as the Varicoloured Ear (of barley). She was the daughter of Haia, god of the stores, and Ninshebargunu (or Nidaba). The myth ...
- Haida
- Haida-speaking North American Indians of what are now the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Can., and the southern part of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, U.S. The Alaskan Haida are ... [7 Related Articles]
- Haida language
- (from the article "Na-Dene languages") ...Cook Inlet in Alaska; in two isolated areas of the Pacific coast (southwestern Oregon and northern California); and in the southwestern United States (mostly in New Mexico and Arizona). Tlingit ...
- Haidalla, Mohamed Khouna Ould
- (from the article "Mauritania") ...Front in August in an effort to disentangle itself from Western Sahara. This worsened relations with Morocco. Louly was in turn replaced in January 1980 by the prime minister, Lieutenant ...
- Haidari, Buland al-
- Kurdish Iraqi poet who was a pioneer of free verse in the 1950s. His realistic verse, which helped modernize Arabic poetry, often ran afoul of the Iraqi government, and he ...
- haiden
- (from the article "jinja") ...where religious rites are performed by the priests; here are offered the prayers which "call down" the kami (deity, or sacred power) and subsequently send it away; and (3) the ...
- Haiden, Hans
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...several diagrams in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Some apparently highly successful ones (none of which, unfortunately, has survived) were made by the Nurnberg builder Hans Haiden, who ...
- Haider, Jorg
- controversial Austrian politician who served as leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (1986-2000) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (2005-08) and as governor of the state of ... [6 Related Articles]
- Haidle, Noah
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...theatrical voices would continue to emerge across the country no matter how the argument over play development shook out. Among the provocative new works making their debuts during the year ...
- haiduk
- (from the article "Serbia") ...reaya; in addition, individuals accused of crimes or protesting injustice would characteristically head for the hills or forests to live the life of the haiduk, or outlaw. ...
- Haidukevich, Syarhey
- (from the article "Belarus") ...was dominated by a contentious and violent presidential election campaign. Four candidates were registered for the March 19 election: Pres. Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Liberal Democratic Party leader Syarhey Haidukevich, Alyaksandr Kazulin ...
- Haier, Richard
- (from the article "intelligence, human") ...are particularly notable in those areas responsible for close concentration, spontaneous alertness, and the encoding of new information. Using positron emission tomography (PET), the psychologist Richard Haier found that people ...
- Haifa
- city, northwestern Israel. The principal port of the country, it lies along the Bay of Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Haifa is first mentioned in the Talmud (c. 1st-4th century ... [2 Related Articles]
- Haig, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde
- British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as "kill more Germans") resulted in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Haight, Roger
- (from the article "Religion") ...was replaced in August by Metropolitan Theofilos, who was elected by a unanimous vote of the church's Holy Synod after promising to return all the properties that were leased to ...
- Haight-Ashbury
- district within the city of San Francisco, California, U.S., adjacent to Golden Gate Park. The district became famous as a bohemian enclave in the 1950s and '60s and was the ... [2 Related Articles]
- haigon
- (from the article "Japanese literature") ...haikai were distinguishable from serious renga not by their comic conception but by the presence of a haigon-a word of Chinese or recent origin ...
- Haijong
- (from the article "Meghalaya") ...found in Southeast Asia. Khasi and Garo are the main languages and along with Jaintia and English are the state's official languages; others include Pnar-Synteng, Nepali, and Haijong, as well ...
- haik
- (from the article "dress") Outer gowns or cloaks sometimes incorporated head coverings. These included the haik, which was an oblong piece of material (generally striped) that the Arabs used to wrap around their bodies ...
- haikai
- a comic renga, or Japanese linked-verse form. The haikai was developed as early as the 16th century as a diversion from the composition of the more serious renga form. [5 Related Articles]
- Haikang
- (from the article "Leizhou Peninsula") ...Administratively, the peninsula forms part of Zhanjiang municipality. The peninsula forms part of the eastern limit of the Gulf of Tonkin, and it takes its name from the ancient city ...
- Haikou
- city and capital of Hainan sheng (province), southern China. It is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, facing the Leizhou Peninsula, across the Hainan (Qiongzhou) ... [2 Related Articles]
- haiku
- unrhymed Japanese poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The term haiku is derived from the first element of the ... [13 Related Articles]
- hail
- precipitation of balls or pieces of ice with a diameter of 5 mm to 10 cm (about 0.2 to 4 inches). Small hail (also called sleet, or ice pellets) has ... [5 Related Articles]
- Hail Mary
- a principal prayer of the Roman Catholic Church, comprising three parts addressed to the Virgin Mary. The following are the Latin text and an English translation:Ave Maria, gratia plena;Dominus tecum:Benedicta ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hailar
- city, northeastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It lies on the south bank of the Hailar River, at its junction with the Yimin River. Since 2001 Hailar has served as ...
- Haile Malakot
- (from the article "Menilek II") Menilek's father was Haile Malakot, later negus (king) of Shewa. His mother was a court servant who married Haile Malakot shortly after Sahle Miriam was born. His forefathers had been ...
- Haile Selassie I
- emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his country and who steered it into the mainstream of post-World War II African politics. He brought Ethiopia into ... [11 Related Articles]
- Hailey, Arthur
- British-born writer (b. April 5, 1920, Luton, Bedfordshire, Eng.-d. Nov. 24, 2004, Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas), helped launch the disaster-movie genre when his novel Airport (1968) was made ...
- Hailsham of St. Marylebone, Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron
- British politician (b. Oct. 9, 1907, London, Eng.-d. Oct. 12, 2001, London), between 1938 and 1987 served six Conservative governments in a variety of posts, most notably 12 years (1970-74, ...
- hailstone
- (from the article "climate") The hailstones that fall from deep, vigorous clouds in warm weather consist of a core surrounded by several alternate layers of clear and opaque ice. When the growing particle traverses ...
- Hainanese language
- (from the article "Hai-nan") ...the largest minority group, followed by the Miao. The largest cities are Hai-k'ou in the north and the port city of Ya-hsien (locally called San-ya) in the south. The lingua ...
- Hainaut
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") About 1100 such other territories as Brabant, Hainaut, Namur, and Holland began to expand and form principalities, helped by the weakening of the German crown during the Investiture Contest (a ...
- Hainaut
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...the whole of the United Netherlands were to bring about greater community of interests between certain provinces. On Jan. 6, 1579, the Union of Arras (Artois) was formed in the ...
- Hainaut, Olivier
- (from the article "comet") An extremely weak coma appeared in 1984 when Comet Halley still was 6 AU from the Sun. In February 1991, the Belgian astronomers Olivier Hainaut and Alain Smette detected a ...
- Haines
- city, southeastern Alaska, U.S. Located at the northern end of North America's longest fjord, it also lies at the northern end of the Alexander Archipelago on a peninsula between the ...
- Haines, Connie
- American singer was a petite but powerful vocalist who performed with Frank Sinatra in the big swing bands of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey and went on to make more ...
- Haines, Jackson
- American skater known as the father of figure skating. A ballet dancer, he adapted ballet styles and techniques to a sport that had previously comprised a limited number of figures ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hainisch, Michael
- Austrian economist and statesman who served as first president of the federal republic of Austria (1920-28).
- Hainuwele
- (from the article "creation myth") In a myth from Ceram (Molucca Islands), a beautiful girl, Hainuwele, has grown up out of a coconut plant. After providing the community with their necessities and luxuries, she is ...
- Haiphong
- city, northern Vietnam. It lies on the northeastern edge of the Red River delta, beside a distributary of the Thai Binh River, 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of ...
- Haiphong cyclone
- (Oct. 8, 1881), one of most catastrophic natural disasters in history and the third deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. The cyclone smashed into the Gulf of Tonkin, setting off tidal ...
- hair
- in mammals, the characteristic threadlike outgrowths of the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) that form an animal's coat, or pelage. Hair is present in differing degrees on all mammals. ... [20 Related Articles]
- hair cell
- (from the article "acoustic trauma") ...as a result of continuous exposures to sound waves of sufficient intensity and duration. Hearing loss can be caused by damage to the middle ear, tympanic membrane (eardrum), and inner ...
- hair follicle
- (from the article "sebaceous gland") small oil-producing gland present in the skin of mammals. Sebaceous glands are usually attached to hair follicles and release a fatty substance, sebum, into the follicular duct and thence to ...
- hair transplant
- (from the article "baldness") There are three medical treatments for male pattern baldness. The first, hair transplantation, involves the transplanting of hair follicles from areas of the scalp where hair is still growing to ...
- Hair, Darrell
- (from the article "Cricket") In the fourth Test at the Oval in London in August, Pakistan refused to take the field on the fourth afternoon of the match after having been given a five-run ...
- hair-cap moss
- any of the plants of the genus Polytrichum (subclass Bryidae) with 39-100 species; it often forms large mats in peat bogs, old fields, and areas with high soil acidity. About ... [3 Related Articles]
- haircloth
- (from the article "horsehair") Horsehair fabric, or haircloth, stiff and with an open weave, is usually made with lengthwise yarns of another fibre, such as cotton, and long, crosswise yarns of horsehair. It is ...
- hairdressing
- custom of cutting and arranging the hair, practiced by men and women from ancient times to the present. Early records indicate that the ancient Assyrians wore elaborate curly hair styles; ... [8 Related Articles]
- hairpin
- (from the article "jewelry") In the time of the Shang dynasty, in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC, bone and ivory hairpins with ends carved in the form of birds or abstract ...
- hairstreak
- any of a group of insects in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae (order Lepidoptera), that are distinguished by hairlike markings on the underside of the wings. The hairstreaks are small ...
- hairy alpine rose
- (from the article "rhododendron") ...in habit from evergreen to deciduous and from low-growing ground covers to tall trees. The first species available for garden use, in the mid-1600s, was R. hirsutum, ...
- hairy chinch bug
- (from the article "chinch bug") The hairy chinch bug (Blissus hirtus) does not migrate. This short-winged insect, sometimes a lawn pest, is controlled by fertilizing, watering, and cutting grass. The false chinch bug (Nysius ericae) ...
- hairy fungus beetle
- any of approximately 200 described species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are small, oval, and hairy. These beetles are commonly found on shelf fungi, under bark, or in rotting ...
- hairy grama
- (from the article "grama grass") ...grow in tufts or clumps or spread by creeping horizontal stems above or below ground. Sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), blue grama (B. gracilis), black grama (B. eriopoda), and hairy grama ...
- hairy leukoplakia
- (from the article "leukoplakia") Hairy leukoplakia is a white lesion on the tongue or mouth floor, often having rough hairlike projections. It often occurs in persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the ...
- hairy willow herb
- (from the article "Epilobium") The hairy willow herb, or codling-and-cream (E. hirsutum), up to 2 m (6 feet) high, is similar to fireweed but has hairy leaves and stalks and notched flower petals; it ...
- hairy woodpecker
- (from the article "woodpecker") ...the great spotted woodpecker (D. major), about 23 cm (9 inches) long and found from the forests and gardens of western temperate Eurasia south to North Africa; ...
- hairy-cell leukemia
- (from the article "interferon") Despite these setbacks, in the 1980s alpha interferon came into use, in low doses, to treat hairy-cell leukemia (a rare form of blood cancer) and, in higher doses, to combat ...
- hairy-legged vampire bat
- (from the article "vampire bat") ...native to the New World tropics and subtropics. The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), together with the white-winged vampire bat (Diaemus, or Desmodus, youngi) and the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ...
- hairy-nosed wombat
- (from the article "wombat") The hairy-nosed wombats (genus Lasiorhinus) are more sociable. They make a grassy nest at the end of a large underground burrow 30 metres (100 feet) long that ...
- hairy-tailed rat
- (from the article "cloud rat") All cloud rats belong to the "true" mouse and rat family Muridae within the order Rodentia. They are closely related to Luzon tree rats (Carpomys) and hairy-tailed rats (Batomys), both ...
- Haise, Fred W., Jr.
- American astronaut, participant in the Apollo 13 mission (April 11-17, 1970), in which an intended Moon landing was canceled because of a rupture in a fuel-cell oxygen tank in the ...
- Haiti
- country of the Caribbean Sea that includes the western third of the island of Hispaniola and such smaller islands as Gonave, Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Vache. It is roughly ... [52 Related Articles]
- Haiti, flag of
- horizontally striped blue-red national flag; when flown by the government, it incorporates the national coat of arms on a central white panel. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 3 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Haiti, history of
- (from the article "Haiti") The following discussion focuses on events from the time of European settlement. For treatment of earlier history and the country in its regional context, see West Indies, history of, and ...
- Haitian Ciboney
- (from the article "Ciboney") ...base of their cultures. While both were primarily hunters and gatherers, the technology of the Ciboney of Cuba, called variously Cayo Redondo or Guayabo Blanco, was based on shell, while ...
- Haitian Creole
- a French-based vernacular language that developed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It developed primarily on the sugarcane plantations of Haiti from contacts between French colonists and African ... [4 Related Articles]
- Haitian National Police
- (from the article "Haiti") Despite MINUSTAH's presence, Haiti remained in turmoil. Insurrectionists refused to disarm, calling for the restoration of the army, and the decimated Haitian National Police (HNP) yielded public security functions throughout ...
- Haitian Revolution
- (from the article "Haiti") The revolution was actually a series of conflicts during the period 1791-1804 that involved shifting alliances of Haitian slaves, affranchis, mulattoes, and whites, as well as British ...
- Haitink, Bernard
- Dutch conductor best known for his interpretations of Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt. His conducting, which continued the tradition of Willem Mengelberg, was noted for ...
- Hajang
- (from the article "Bangladesh") Indigenous minority peoples in other parts of Bangladesh include the Santhal, the Khasi, the Garo, and the Hajang. The Santhal peoples live in the northwestern part of Bangladesh, the Khasi ...
- Hajar, al-
- mountain chain in northern Oman, paralleling the coast of the Gulf of Oman and stretching in an arc southeastward from the Musandam Peninsula almost to Ra's (cape) al-Hadd on the ... [3 Related Articles]
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