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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") ...considered legal territory of the United States. The implication of the ruling was that hundreds of foreign national detainees had a legal right to challenge their imprisonment. The second case, ...
Hamdi, Ibrahim al-: (from the article "Yemen") ...officers have often involved themselves in political affairs: in the north the military played the dominant role in the political system following the overthrow of the civilian government by Col. ...
Hamdollah Mostowfi: (from the article "Islamic arts") ...writing, which is also manifest in the work of a number of Arab historians, can be observed in the cosmographical books and in some of the historical books produced in ...
Hame: historic region, southwestern Finland. It lies north of Helsinki and includes part of Lake Paijanne, which serves as much of its eastern boundary. The region produces lumber, rye, oats, barley, ...
Hamed, Naseem: (from the article "Yemen") ...appeared in Summer Olympic competition in 1984 and South Yemen in 1988; the unified country has sent teams to the Summer Games since 1992. Two Yemeni boxers living abroad enjoyed ...
Hameenlinna: city, southwestern Finland. It lies on the shore of Lake Vanaja, northwest of Helsinki. The city's name is derived from the castle of Hame, parts of which date from about ...
Hamel, Hendrik: (from the article "Korea, history of") ...Asia in the mid-16th century. In 1656 a Dutch merchant ship went aground off the southern shore of Cheju Island, and its 36 surviving crewmen were taken to Seoul for ...
Hamelin, Ferdinand Alphonse: French naval officer who was an early advocate of armour for naval vessels.
Hamelin, Louis: (from the article "Canadian literature") ...of the Princes Charming"; Eng. trans. Some Night My Prince Will Come), he gives a very candid account of the coming-of-age of a young homosexual. Sometimes referred to as Generation ...
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 ...
Hamengkubuwana I: (from the article "Yogyakarta") In rebellion against Dutch intervention in Javanese politics, Sultan Hamengkubuwana I moved his court from Kuta Gede to Yogya in Mataram in 1755 and renamed the town Yogyakarta. The British ...
Hamengkubuwana II: (from the article "Yogyakarta") ...in Javanese politics, Sultan Hamengkubuwana I moved his court from Kuta Gede to Yogya in Mataram in 1755 and renamed the town Yogyakarta. The British captured Yogyakarta in 1811, and ...
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 Basin: (from the article "mineral deposit") ...deposits are remarkable. First, individual thin bands have enormous continuity. During the 1980s, A.F. Trendall, working for the Geological Survey of Western Australia, studied deposits in the Hamersley Basin and ...
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, ... [3 Related Articles]
Hamerton treaty: (from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...Sa'id's economy in due course became less dependent upon the export of slaves, and he therefore showed himself more ready than he might otherwise have been to accept the so-called ...
hames collar: (from the article "horse collar") ...are attached, used to hitch the animal to a wagon or plow. A Dutch collar consists of a broad band across the chest and a narrow band over the withers; ...
hametz: (from the article "Judaism") Leaven (se'or) and foods containing leaven (hametz) are neither to be owned nor consumed during Pesah. Aside from meats, fresh fruits, and vegetables, it ...
Hamgyong: (from the article "Korea, North") ...environment and historical background. Of the eight Korean provinces of the Choson (Yi) dynasty (1392-1910), North Korea contains the three provinces of P'yongan, Hwanghae, and Hamgyong and the northern parts ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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 ...
Hami: city and oasis, eastern Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. An important stage on the roads from Gansu province into Central Asia and to the west, Hami was known to ...
Hami Basin: (from the article "Tien Shan") ...Asia-505 feet (154 metres) below sea level. Thus, the differences in elevation in the Tien Shan are extreme, exceeding 4.5 miles (7 km). The eastern extension of the Turfan Depression ...
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 ... [8 Related Articles]
Hamill, Dorothy: American figure skater who won the gold medal for women's figure skating in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria. [1 Related Articles]
Hamilton: city, seat (1803) of Butler county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., on the Great Miami River, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Cincinnati. In 1794 a town called Fairfield was laid ...
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: 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: city, Waikato regional council, 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 the ... [2 Related Articles]
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: 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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 circuit: (from the article "graph theory") ...Rowan Hamilton invented a puzzle ("The Icosian Game") that he later sold to a game manufacturer for £25. The puzzle involved finding a special type of path, later known as ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Hamilton Gardens: (from the article "Hamilton") ...from the Kapuni and Maui fields. Its prominent institutions include the University of Waikato (1964), a historic Anglican cathedral, the Waikato Museum and its constituent galleries, and the Hamilton Gardens, ...
Hamilton of Gilbertfield, William: Scottish writer whose vernacular poetry is among the earliest in the 18th-century Scottish literary revival.
Hamilton Standard: (from the article "United Technologies Corporation") ...Aircraft and Transport Corporation, it was merged with Standard Steel Propeller Company (organized in 1918 as the Dicks-Luttrell Propeller Company by Thomas A. Dicks and James B. Luttrell) to form ...
Hamilton Tiger-Cats: (from the article "Grey Cup") The CFL consists of two divisions. In the CFL West Division are the British Columbia Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, and Saskatchewan Roughriders. In the East Division are the Hamilton ...
Hamilton's equations: (from the article "mechanics") There is an even more powerful method called Hamilton's equations. It begins by defining a generalized momentum p_i, which is related to the Lagrangian and the generalized velocity q_i by ...
Hamilton's principle: (from the article "physical science, principles of") ...of least action, was proposed by the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis but rigorously stated only much later, especially by the Irish mathematician and scientist William Rowan ...
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 ... [17 Related Articles]
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, Charles, Jr.: U.S. handwriting expert who unmasked the so-called Hitler diaries as "patent and obvious forgeries" and created the term philography to describe his craft (b. 1914?--d. Dec. 11, 1996).
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. [3 Related Articles]
Hamilton, Gavin: Scottish-born painter of scenes from history, portraitist, archaeologist, and art dealer who was one of the pioneers of Neoclassicism. [1 Related Articles]
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 Wars between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
Hamilton, John: (from the article "Scotland") ...Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by Sir David Lyndsay (c. 1490-c. 1555). Nonetheless, reform from within was probably almost impossible. For example, Archbishop John Hamilton, a would-be reformer who ...
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, Lee H.: (from the article "United States") ...Robert M. Gates. (See Biographies.) A bipartisan Iraq Study Group of government elders cochaired by former secretary of state James A. Baker III and former congressman Lee ...
Hamilton, Lewis: (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...de l'Automobile (FIA) Formula 1 (F1) world drivers' champion took several unexpected turns in 2007 as veteran driver Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) of Finland faced off against British F1 rookie Lewis ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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. [2 Related Articles]
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. [9 Related Articles]
Hamilton, Sir William, 9th Baronet: Scottish metaphysical philosopher and influential educator, also remembered for his contributions in the field of logic. [3 Related Articles]
Hamilton, Tyler: (from the article "Cycling") ...EPO was introduced by the UCI in 2001, and the leftover 1999 samples were being analyzed to improve testing techniques. Armstrong denied the allegation, and no action was taken by ...
Hamilton, Virginia: American children's author (b. March 12, 1936, Yellow Springs, Ohio-d. Feb. 19, 2002, Dayton, Ohio), was a master storyteller who preserved black oral tradition following intensive research that uncovered long-forgotten ...
Hamilton, William Donald: British evolutionary biologist (b. Aug. 1, 1936, Cairo, Egypt-d. March 7, 2000, Oxford, Eng.), was one of the most influential evolutionary biologists and a leader of the so-called second Darwinian ... [1 Related Articles]
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
Hamina, Treaty of: (from the article "Finland") The political framework of Finland under Russia was laid down by the Porvoo (Borga) Diet in 1809. Finland was still formally a part of Sweden until the peace treaty of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hamitic component: (from the article "Nilo-Saharan languages") ...strong fundamental features from the "northern zone," also known as Hamitic (and subsequently renamed Cushitic, now part of Afro-Asiatic). The extent and meaning of this so-called "Hamitic component" in Masai ...
Hamitic hypothesis: (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...favoured by European historians of the later 19th and earlier 20th centuries when Europeans were themselves conquering and colonizing black Africa. There thus evolved the so-called "Hamitic hypothesis," by which ...
Hamlet: (from the article "Hamlet") ...Though the story itself was centuries old, Hamlet's famous hesitation-his reluctance or unreadiness to avenge his father's murder-is central and peculiar to Shakespeare's conception of Hamlet (for an example of ...
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 ... [27 Related Articles]
hamlet: (from the article "Pakistan") About two-thirds of the rural population of Pakistan lives in nucleated villages or hamlets (i.e., in compact groups of dwellings). Sometimes, as is generally the case in the North-West Frontier ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Hamlin, Emmons: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...in the United States, notably in New England, where seraphines, lap organs, and melodeons (as some varieties were called) were patented and manufactured in great numbers after about 1830. In ...
Hamlin, Hannibal: 15th vice president of the United States (1861-65) in the Republican administration of President Abraham Lincoln.
Hamlisch, Marvin: (from the article "1973: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: William Peter Blatty for The ExorcistCinematography: Sven Nykvist for Cries and WhispersArt Direction: Henry Bumstead for The StingOriginal Dramatic Score: Marvin Hamlisch for The Way We WereScoring-Original Song Score ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
Hamm, Paul: (from the article "Gymnastics") In the men's all-around competition, American Paul Hamm, the reigning world champion, came back from a fall on vault to win the gold medal. South Korea's Kim Dae Eun and ...
Hammad: (from the article "Abu Hanifah") ...and eventually became moderately wealthy. In early youth he was attracted to theological debates, but later, disenchanted with theology, he turned to law and for about 18 years was a ...
Hammad al-Rawiyah: anthologist of Arab antiquities credited with collecting the seven early odes known as Al-Mu'allaqat (The Seven Odes). [2 Related Articles]
hammada: (from the article "desert pavement") ...form a desert conglomerate. The pebbles often are so packed and smooth that no more wind deflation can occur; in the Sahara such areas are generally followed by caravan routes. ...
Hammadid dynasty: (from the article "Zirid Dynasty") ...Strait of Gibraltar; in the reign of Badis ibn al-Mansur (995-1016) it was divided between the Zirids at al-Qayrawan in the east and their kinsmen, the Hammadids, at Qal'ah (in ...
Hammah, Al-: (from the article "Gabes") ...much of semiarid south-central Tunisia. It contains the settlements of Matmata (Matmatah), which is the home of Amazigh (Berber) olive growers, Al-Hammah (El-Hamma), which is a trading centre of the ...
Hammamat, Al-: fishing port and beach resort in northeastern Tunisia, situated on the Gulf of Hammamet. Al-Hammamat (Arabic: "bathing places") is located on the southeast coast of the Sharik (Cape Bon) Peninsula, ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Hammarskjold, Hjalmar: statesman who, as prime minister of Sweden, maintained his country's neutrality during World War I. [1 Related Articles]
Hammat: (from the article "Tiberias") ...Jewish law, and physician, who died in Egypt in 1204; and those of the Talmudic sages Yohanan ben Zakkai and Akiba ben Joseph. Just south of the city are the ...
hammer: (from the article "piano") The vibration of the strings is transmitted to a soundboard by means of a bridge over which the strings are stretched; the soundboard amplifies the sound and affects its tone ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
hammer drill: (from the article "drilling machinery") Percussive drilling is slower than rotary drilling but has a number of special applications, such as for shallow holes. In percussive drilling, blows are applied successively to a tool attached ...
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. [1 Related Articles]
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. [1 Related Articles]