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Hamdani, al-: Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer who represented some of the best aspects of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the 'Abbasid caliphate. From his literary production ...
Hamdanid Dynasty: Muslim Arab dynasty of northern Iraq (Al-Jazirah) and Syria (905-1004) whose members were renowned as brilliant warriors and as great patrons of Arabic poets and scholars.
Hamden: urban town (township), New Haven county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies immediately north of the city of New Haven. The area, which was settled in 1664, was named for John ...
Hamdi Bey, Osman: Turkish statesman and art expert who asserted the right of Constantinople to receive the finds made by various archaeological enterprises in the Ottoman Empire.
Hame: laani (province), southwestern Finland. It lies north of Helsinki and includes part of Lake Paijanne, which serves as much of its eastern boundary. The province produces lumber, rye, oats, barley, ...
Hamelin, Ferdinand Alphonse: French naval officer who was an early advocate of armour for naval vessels.
Hameln: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies along the Weser River, southwest of Hannover. Originating around the Abbey of St. Boniface, which was founded by ...
Hamer, Fannie Lou: African-American civil rights activist who worked to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party.
Hamerling, Robert: Austrian poet remembered chiefly for his epics.
Hamersley Range: mountains in the Pilbara region, northwestern Western Australia, extending east-southeast for 160 miles (260 km) south of the Fortescue River. Part of an ancient tableland broken by faults and gorges, ...
Hamgyong Mountains: mountain range, northeastern North Korea. The range forms a watershed that separates the northern frontier area along the Chinese border from the eastern Sea of Japan (East Sea) area. The ...
Hamhung: city, east-central North Korea. It was the commercial and local administrative centre of northeastern Korea during the Yi dynasty (1392-1910). It began to develop rapidly as a modern industrial city ...
Hamid Dynasty: Turkmen dynasty (c. 1300-1423) that ruled in southwestern Anatolia. It was founded by Felekuddin Dundar, whose father, Ilyas, was a frontier ruler under the Seljuqs and who named it after ...
Hamilcar Barca: general who assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last years of the First Punic War with Rome (264-241 BC). Until the rise to power of his ...
Hamill, Dorothy: American figure skater who won the gold medal for women's figure skating in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.
Hamilton: city, seat (1803) of Butler county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., on the Great Miami River, 25 mi (40 km) north of Cincinnati. With nearby Middletown it forms a standard metropolitan statistical ...
Hamilton: capital of the British colony of Bermuda. It lies on Great Bermuda island in the western Atlantic, along the northern shore of a deepwater harbour. The name also applies to ...
Hamilton: city, Waikato local government region, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies 80 miles (130 km) above the mouth of the Waikato River. Hamilton originated as a military settlement on ...
Hamilton: county, northeastern New York state, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region located in the centre of Adirondack Park (1892), which is one of the largest parks in the United States ...
Hamilton: large burgh (town), South Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Lanarkshire, west-central Scotland, situated near the junction of Avon Water and the River Clyde, just southeast of the metropolitan complex ...
Hamilton: city in the fertile western region of Victoria, Australia, on the Grange Burn River. The original village (founded in 1850) grew around an inn on the north bank of the ...
Hamilton: city, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the extreme western end of Lake Ontario, on the southern shore of landlocked Hamilton Harbour (Burlington Bay). The site was visited by the ...
Hamilton College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Clinton, New York, U.S. It is a liberal arts college and offers a curriculum in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical ...
Hamilton, Alexander: New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95), who was ...
Hamilton, Alice: American pathologist, known for her research on industrial diseases.
Hamilton, Andrew: British American colonial lawyer, judge, and public official who defended John Peter Zenger in a case important as the first victory for freedom of the press in the American colonies ...
Hamilton, Edith: American educator and author who was a notable popularizer of classical literature.
Hamilton, Emma, Lady: mistress of the British naval hero Admiral Horatio (afterward Viscount) Nelson.
Hamilton, Gavin: Scottish-born painter of scenes from history, portraitist, archaeologist, and art dealer who was one of the pioneers of Neoclassicism.
Hamilton, Hamish: British publisher who published works by some of the most renowned authors in Britain, the United States, and France.
Hamilton, James Hamilton, 3rd marquess and 1st duke of: Earl Of Cambridge Scottish Royalist whose vacillating, ineffectual leadership did great damage to King Charles I's cause during the English Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
Hamilton, John Hamilton, 1st marquess of, Earl Of Arran, Lord Aven: Scottish nobleman active in Scottish and English politics and in the unsuccessful negotiations for the release of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
Hamilton, Patrick: English playwright and novelist, notable for his capture of atmosphere and the Cockney dialect spoken in the East End of London.
Hamilton, Scott: American figure skater, who was a four-time world champion and the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in men's figure skating. He has been credited with imbuing men's figure skating with ...
Hamilton, Sir Denis: British newspaper editor who led the postwar campaign for broader media coverage and more innovative journalism.
Hamilton, Sir Ian: British general, commander in chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey in the Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I.
Hamilton, Sir William: British diplomat and archaeologist who was the husband of Emma, Lady Hamilton, the mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan: Irish mathematician who contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra-in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions. His work proved significant for the development of quantum mechanics.
Hamilton, Sir William, 9th Baronet: Scottish metaphysical philosopher and influential educator, also remembered for his contributions in the field of logic.
Hamilton, William Hamilton, 2nd duke of, Earl of Cambridge: Scottish Royalist during the English Civil Wars, who succeeded to the dukedom on the execution of his brother, the 1st duke, in 1649.
Hamilton, William Thomas: mountain man, trapper, and scout of the American West.
Hamiltonian function: mathematical definition introduced in 1835 by Sir William Rowan Hamilton to express the rate of change in time of the condition of a dynamic physical system-one regarded as a set ...
Hamirpur: city, southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Hamirpur lies along the Yamuna River, south of Kanpur. Located at a road junction and near a major rail line, it is an ...
Hamirpur: city, west-central Himachal Pradesh state, northeastern India. It is situated about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Bhakra Dam in the Himalayan-Sutlej Basin and lies on the road from Mandi ...
Hamlet: tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1599-1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from an unauthorized text, with reference to an earlier play. The First ...
Hamlet: legendary prince of Denmark and central character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The character's problematic nature has lent itself to innumerable interpretations by actors and critics. Though the story itself was ...
Hamlin, Hannibal: 15th vice president of the United States (1861-65) in the Republican administration of President Abraham Lincoln.
Hamm: city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Lippe and Ahse rivers and the Lippe-Seiten Canal, at the eastern edge of the Ruhr industrial ...
Hamm, Mia: American football (soccer) player, who became the first international star of the women's game. Playing forward, she starred on the U.S. national team that won World Cup championships in 1991 ...
Hammad ar-Rawiyah: (Arabic: "Hammad the Transmitter [or Reciter]") anthologist of Arab antiquities credited with collecting the seven early odes known as Al-Mu'allaqat (The Seven Odes).
Hammamat, Al-: fishing port and beach resort, northeastern Tunisia, on Al-Hammamat Gulf. Al-Hammamat (Arabic: "Bathing Places") is located on the southeast coast of Cape Bon Peninsula, on the border of the Sahil ...
Hammami, Sa'id: Palestinian nationalist who was the London representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was known for his moderate stance and willingness to negotiate with Israel.
Hammar, Lake: large swampy lake in southeastern Iraq, south of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Fed by distributaries of the Euphrates, the lake (70 miles [110 km] long; 750 ...
Hammarskjold, Dag: Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-61) and enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of the UN. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize ...
Hammarskjold, Hjalmar: statesman who, as prime minister of Sweden, maintained his country's neutrality during World War I.
hammer: tool designed for pounding or delivering repeated blows. Varied uses require a multiplicity of designs and weights. Hand hammers consist of a handle and striking head, with the head often ...
Hammer Films: British production company known for its low-budget, gothic horror feature films.
hammer throw: sport in athletics (track and field) in which a hammer is hurled for distance, using two hands within a throwing circle.
Hammer v. Dagenhart: (1918), legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Keating-Owen Act, which had regulated child labour. The act, passed in 1916, had prohibited the ...
Hammer, Armand: American petroleum executive, entrepreneur, and art collector.
Hammerfest: town, Finnmark fylke (county), on the barren island of Kvaloya, in Soroy Sound, off the northwestern coast of Norway. Chartered in 1789, it was bombarded and destroyed by two English ...
hammerhead: (Scopus umbretta), African wading bird, the sole species of the family Scopidae, within the order Ciconiiformes, which also includes herons, flamingos, and storks. The hammerhead ranges over Africa south of ...
hammerhead shark: any shark of the family Sphyrnidae (class Selachii). Hammerheads are widely distributed in all oceans, in warm and temperate waters. These sharks are named for the unusual shape of their ...
Hammerschmidt, Andreas: Austro-Bohemian composer from whose work were taken most of the chorale tunes used in the Lutheran service of worship.
Hammersmith and Fulham: inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It lies north of the River Thames and west of Kensington and Chelsea. It was created a borough in ...
Hammerstein, Oscar, II: U.S. lyricist, musical comedy author, and theatrical producer influential in the development of musical comedy and known especially for his immensely successful collaboration with the composer Richard Rodgers.
Hammett, Dashiell: U.S. writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction).
Hammond: city, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It is located in the Calumet industrial complex between Chicago and Gary, on the Grand Calumet River, near Lake Michigan. It was founded in ...
Hammond Innes, Ralph: English novelist and traveler known for adventure stories in which suspense and foreign locations are prominent features.
Hammond, John Hays: U.S. mining engineer who helped develop gold mining in South Africa and California.
Hammond, John Hays, Jr.: U.S. inventor whose development of radio remote control served as the basis for modern missile guidance systems.
Hammond, Laurens: American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ.
Hammond, Walter Reginald: English cricketer and former team captain (1939-46) who broke many records during his career as one of the country's finest batsmen.
Hammondsport: village, in the town (township) of Urbana, Steuben county, southern New York, U.S. It lies at the south end of Keuka Lake (one of the Finger Lakes), 20 miles (32 ...
Hammudid dynasty: in Spain, Muslim Berber dynasty, one of the party kingdoms (ta'ifahs) that emerged during the decline of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba early in the 11th century. ...
Hammurabi: sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st (Amorite) dynasty of Babylon (reigning c. 1792-50 BC), noted for his surviving set of laws, once considered the oldest promulgation of laws in ...