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Halma Halma (from the Greek word meaning "jump") is a board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks. An English game called Hoppity was the inspiration.
Halmahera Sea Halmahera Sea is a regional sea located in the central eastern part of the Australasian Mediterranean Sea. It is centered at about 1 S and 129 E and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the north, Halmahera to the west, Waigeo and Irian Jaya to the east, and the Seram Sea to the south.
Halmidi Halmidi is a small village in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India, near the temple town of Belur. Halmidi is best known as the place where the oldest known inscription in Kannada language and Kannada script was discovered.
Halmidi inscription The Halmidi inscription is so far the oldest known Kannada inscription in the Kannada script. The inscription is carved on a pillar, which was discovered in a village called Halmidi, a few miles from the famous temple town Belur in Hassan district of Karnataka and is dated to 450 AD.
Halmstads BK Halmstads BK is a Swedish football club located in Halmstad. The club, formed 6 March 1914, is playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan, and has won 4 national championship titles and 1 national cup title.
Halny Halny – a föhn wind that blows in southern Poland and in Slovakia in the Carpathian Mountains. The most turbulent halnyA note attempting to provide the English comprehension of halny, which lacks a one-word translation: Halny is a singular masculine noun in Polish (plural: halne) when denoting the wind.
Halo (video game series) Halo is a popular series of science fiction first-person shooter video games developed by Bungie Studios and published by Microsoft. The games are set in the "Halo universe"—a science fiction universe created by Bungie Studios exclusively for the series.
Halo (visualization technique) In information visualization, the halo technique is a method for viewing large documents on small screens or display windows, which functions by pointing users to the locations objects out of the visible field.
Halo 2 Halo 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed blockbuster Halo: Combat Evolved.
Halo 2, Vol. 2: Original Soundtrack Halo 2: Original Soundtrack Volume 2, is composed and produced by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori for the video game Halo 2. This CD sports 12 tracks featuring music that was not previously available from Halo 2: Original Soundtrack Volume 1.
Halo 3 Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly-anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360. An official announcement on the developers' website states that Halo 3 will end the current story arc of the Halo trilogy.
Halo effect Halo effect refers to the cognitive bias which in a series of perceptions the interpretation of later ones are influenced by perception of former ones. Said another way, if we are told that we are seeing a person that has just returned from psychiatric treatment, we will tend to interpret otherwise neutral behaviors as indicators of mental illness.
Halo Friendlies The Halo Friendlies are an all girl pop-punk band from Long Beach, CA. After snatching up a guitar in a thrift shop while on her first date with then-boyfriend now-husband Matt Wignall of Havalina/Matt Death and the New Intellectuals, Judita Wignall made the decision to start a band.
Halo Graphic Novel On March 17, 2006 Bungie Studios announced that it would partner with Marvel Comics to release the Halo Graphic Novel. Referred to as the HGN by fans, the book is the game series' first entry into the sequential art medium.
Halo Original Soundtrack Halo Original Soundtrack, composed and produced by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori for the video game Halo: Combat Evolved, is one CD comprising 26 tracks. Some editions include a bonus DVD with game trailers for Halo 2.
Halo sign In radiology, the halo sign is a finding on ultrasound that suggests the diagnosis of temporal arteritis. The standard diagnostic test for temporal arteritis is biopsy; however, ultrasound and MRI show promise for replacing it.
Halo vehicle A halo vehicle (or halo model) in automobile marketing is one designed and marketed to showcase the talents and resources of the manufacturers and to promote sales of other vehicles within a marque. Car companies often design a special vehicle, usually a luxury or sports model, with the hope that customers will come to dealerships to see it, but will buy other more practical vehicles instead.
Halo Zero Halo Zero is a free fan-made two-dimensional platform game based on Bungie Studios' Halo series. The game was developed by Dobermann Software, a French independent game studio, and was released for online distribution on December 12, 2005.
Halo-halo Halo-halo (from Tagalog halo, "mix") is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice, milk, and sugar, to which is added various sweet beans and fruits, and generally served cold in a tall glass.
Halo: Custom Edition Halo: Custom Edition, sometimes abbreviated Halo CE, is a free stand-alone expansion for Halo: Combat Evolved by Bungie Studios, which was ported to the PC by Gearbox Software. Halo CE was released by Gearbox as an unsupported add-on, which requires the original game.
Halo: The Fall of Reach Halo: The Fall of Reach is a 2001 novel by Eric Nylund based on the Halo series of computer and video games and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series. The novel expands on the events which led up to the game and explains the origins of the SPARTAN II super soldiers, by narrating the story of the series protagonist, the Master Chief, and how he became one of the SPARTANs.
Haloalkane The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting of alkanes, such as methane or ethane, with one or more halogens linked, such as chlorine or fluorine, making them a type of organic halide. They are known under many chemical and commercial names.
Haloarchaea Haloarchaea are a member of the halophile community, in that they require high salt concentrations to grow. They are a distinct evolutionary branch of the Archaea, and are generally considered extremophiles, although not all members of this group can be considered as such.
Halobacteria The halobacteria (also halomebacteria) are a class of archaea, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. They are also called halophiles, though this name is also used for other organisms which live in somewhat less concentrated salt water.
Halobacterium The genus Halobacterium consists of several species of archaea with an obligate aerobic metabolism which require an environment with a high concentration of salt; many of their proteins will not function in low-salt environments. They grow on amino acids in their aerobic conditions.
Halocarbon Halocarbon compounds are chemicals in which one or more carbon atoms are linked by covalent bonds with one or more halogen atoms: fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. There are also compounds such as methylammonium chloride that include carbon atoms and noncovalent halogen atoms, also called inorganic halogens.
Haloform reaction The haloform reaction is a chemical reaction where a haloform (CHX3) is produced by the multiple halogenation of a methyl ketone (a molecule containing the R-CO-CH3 group) in the presence of a base Chakrabartty, in Trahanovsky, Oxidation in Organic Chemistry, pp 343-370, Academic Press, New York, 1978
Halogen The halogens are a chemical series of nonmetals. They are the elements in Group 17 (old-style: VII or VIIA;Group 7 IUPAC Style) of the periodic table: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At) and as yet undiscovered ununseptium (Uus).
Halogen Communications Ltd Halogen Communications Ltd is a successful political and public relations consultancy with offices in Edinburgh and Washington DC which counts former First Minister of Scotland, The Rt Hon Henry McLeish, and former Scottish Office Minister, Raymond Robertson, among its staff.
Halogen dance rearrangement The halogen dance rearrangement is an organic reaction in which a halogen substituent moves to a new position on an aromatic ring system. The reaction belongs to a class of organic reactions called 1,2-rearrangements.
Halogenated ether A halogenated ether is a subcategory of a larger group of chemicals known as ethers. An ether is an organic chemical that contains an ether group — an oxygen atom connected to two (substituted) alkyl groups.
Halogenation Halogenation is a chemical reaction that replaces a hydrogen atom with a halogen atom. More specific descriptions exist that specify the type of halogen: fluorination, chlorination, bromination, and iodination.
Halogenoarene In organic chemistry, a halogenoarene, haloarene, or aryl halide, is an organic compound in which a halogen atom is bonded to a carbon atom which is part of an aromatic ring. The haloarene are studied separately from haloalkanes because they exhibit a lot of differences in methods of preparation and properties.
Halohydrin A halohydrin is a type of chemical compound or functional group in which one carbon atom has a substituent of the halogen group in a carbon - carbon saturated covalent bond and the other carbon atom has a hydroxyl substituent. A simple halohydrin may look like this:
Halohydrin Dehalogenase A Halohydrin Dehalogenase (HheC) is an enzyme in the bacterial degradation of vicinal halopropanols and structurally related nematocides. In Agrobacterium Radiobacter AD1 it catalyses dehalogenation of halohydrins to the corresponding epoxides.
Haloketone A haloketone in organic chemistry is a functional group consisting of a ketone group or more general a carbonyl group with a α-halogen substituent. The general structure is RR'C(X)C(=O)R where R is an alkyl or aryl residue and X any one of the halogens.
Halomon Halomon is a polyhalogenated monoterpene first isolated from the marine red algae Portieria horenmannii. Halomon has attracted research interest because of its promising profile of selective cytotoxicity that suggests its potential use as an antitumor agent.
Halong Bay Halong Bay is a body of water of approximately 1,500 square kilometres in north Vietnam with a 120 kilometre coastline, in the Gulf of Tonkin near the border with China, and 170 kilometres east of Hanoi. "Vịnh Hạ Long" — Halong Bay — means "Bay of the Descending Dragon" in the Vietnamese language.
Halonium ion A halonium ion in organic chemistry is any onium ion containing a bridged halogen atom carrying a positive charge. This cation has the general structure R-X+-R where X is any halogen and R any organic residue and this structure can be cyclic or an open chain molecular structure.
Haloperidol Haloperidol (sold under the tradenames Aloperidin, Bioperidolo, Brotopon, Dozic, Duraperidol (Germany), Einalon S, Eukystol, Haldol, Halosten, Keselan, Linton, Peluces, Serenace, Serenase, Sigaperidol) is a conventional butyrophenone antipsychotic drug. It was developed in 1957 by the Belgian company Janssen Pharmaceutica and submitted to first clinical trials in Belgium in the same year.
Halophyte A halophyte is a plant that naturally grows where it is affected by salinity in the root area or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores. An example of a halophyte is the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass).
Halorhodopsin Halorhodopsin is a light-driven ion pump, specific for chloride ions, and found in phylogenetically ancient bacteria (archaea), known as halobacteria. It is a seven-transmembrane protein, homologous to the light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin, and similar in tertiary structure (but not primary sequence structure) to vertebrate rhodopsins, the pigments that sense light in the retina.
Halos & Horns Halos & Horns was a 2002 Dolly Parton album. Her third album for the indepdent, roots music label Sugar Hill, the album continued Parton's experimentation with the folk and bluegrass sounds begun on The Grass Is Blue and Little Sparrow.
Halosarcia Halosarcia is a genus of succulent, salt tolerant plant largely endemic to Australia. Of the 23 recorded species one is found along the shoreline of the Indian Ocean with the remainder being endemic to Australia.
Halotolerance Halotolerance is the adaptation of living organisms to conditions of high salinity. Halotolerant species tend to live in areas such as coastal dunes, saline deserts, salt marshes, and inland salt seas and springs.
Halowdale Halowdale, founded by Sir Halowdi, is a town in the Endless online, MMORPG world. It rarely very busy, however, it has nearly all the same services as the much busier, main town of Aeven, with the exception of the Witch.
Halpern-Lauchli theorem In mathematics, the Halpern-Läuchli theorem is a partition result about finite products of infinite trees. Its original purpose was to give a model for set theory in which the Boolean prime ideal theorem is true but the axiom of choice is false.
Halpin-Tsai model Halpin-Tsai model is a mathematical model for the prediction of Elasticity of composite material based on the geometry and orientation of the filler and the elastic properties of the filler and matrix. The model is based on the self-consistent field method although often consider to be empirical.
Hals Municipality Hals is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 191 km², and has a total population of 11,448 (2005).
HalsbrĂĽcker Esse The HalsbrĂĽcker Esse, known also under the name "Hohe Esse", "Halsbrueck(e)ner Esse" admits become ("Esse" means in east Central German: "chimney"), is north of neck bridge with free free on the right valley slope of the Freiberger hollow convenient, from 22 September 1888 to 28 October 1889 by the Chemnitzer factory smokestack building firm H. R.
Halsbury's Laws of England Halsbury's Laws of England (also known as Halsbury's Laws or simply Halsbury's) is a definitive encyclopedic treatise on the laws of England. It includes every proposition of English law (whether statutory or common law), with restatements of the common law and remarks to the relevant judicial authority and the statutory law which has in many cases codified, modified or supplemented common law.
Halsbury's Statutes Halsbury’s Statutes of England and Wales (commonly referred to as Halsbury's Statutes) provides an up-to-date version of the amended text of every Public General Act of Parliament or Church of England Measure currently in force in England and Wales (and to various extents in Scotland and Northern Ireland), as well as a number of private and local Acts, with detailed annotations to each section and Schedule. It incorporates the effects of new Acts of Parliament and secondary legislation into existing legislation to provide an "as amended" version for easy reference.
Halse og Harkmark Halse og Harkmark is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It was created in 1864 and existed until January 1, 1964, when it was merged with Mandal and Holum to form the enlarged Mandal municipality.
Halsey Minor Halsey Minor (born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 (initial plans for the company began in 1992). He is currently investing in new companies via Minor Ventures.
Halsey Street (BMT Canarsie Line) Halsey Street is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located on the border between Brooklyn and Queens at the intersection of Halsey Street and Wyckoff Avenue, it is served at all times by the train.
Halsten of Sweden Halsten Stenkilsson (Old Icelandic: HallsteinHervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Guðni Jónsson's og Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition at «Norrøne Tekster og Kvad».) was king of Sweden after his father Stenkil's death (1066), and he ruled together with his brother Inge the ElderThe Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, in Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese), by N.
Halt and Catch Fire Halt and Catch Fire, known by the mnemonic HCF, was originally a fictitious computer machine code instruction claimed to be under development at IBM for use in their System/360 computers, along with many other amusing instructions such as "Execute Operator".
Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency) Haltemprice (which from 1950-1955 was officialy known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which was a traditoional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Halter A halter, or headcollar, is headgear that is used to guide, train, or tie up an animal; it fits over the back of the neck and across or around the animal's muzzle so that, when a handler pulls on the muzzle end of the halter, the animal's head turns towards the handler.
Halteres (ancient Greece) The term halteres comes from the Greek word for dumbbells. In ancient Greek sports, halteres were used as lifting weights, and also as weights in their version of the long jump, which was probably a set of three jumps.
Haltern Haltern (also: Haltern am See - Haltern at the lake) is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the Lippe River and the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx.
Halterneck Halterneck refers to a type of women's clothing with a single strap around the back of the neck instead of one over each shoulder. This can refer to either a dress or just a seperate top (called a halter top); the latter is a type of sleeveless shirt similar to a tank top (in the American English meaning of the phrase).
Halterworth Primary School Halterworth Primary School is a junior school situated in Romsey, Hampshire, England. The school was opened in 1971, and caters for children aged 7-11, whilst the attached Infants department teaches 4-7 year-olds.
Halti The Halti mountain is the highest point in Finland, at 1,328m above sea level. The Halti fell (also known as Haltitunturi, Haltia or Haltiatunturi – tunturi meaning fell – and Háldi in Sámi) is located in the municipality of Enontekiö in the province of Lapland at the border between Finland and Norway.
Haltija Haltija is a spirit and often gnome or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology, that guards, helps or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from Gothic *haltijar, and referred to the original settler of a homestead - although this is not the only possible etymology.
Haltom City Police Department The Haltom City Police Department serves the city of Haltom City, Texas in Tarrant County. The HCPD consists of approximately 80 sworn police officers and has been headed by Chief Ken Burton since 2003 and Deputy Chief Ron Everett since 2004.
Halton (electoral district) Halton is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988 and since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1902 and since 1999. Its population in 2001 was 100,055.
Halton Curve The Halton Curve is a railway line in the borough of Halton, Cheshire. It runs from Frodsham Junction (north of Frodsham station) to Halton Junction (south of Runcorn station), providing a link from the North Cheshire Line to the Liverpool branch of the West Coast Main Line.
Halton sequence In statistics, Halton sequences are well-known quasi-random sequences, first introduced in 1960 as an alternative to pseudo-random number sequences. They were designed mainly for use in Monte Carlo simulations of integrals that do not have a closed-form expression in order to achieve variance reduction.
Halton Transport Halton Transport is an independent bus operator running within the Borough of Halton (including the towns of Widnes and Runcorn) and into the surrounding area, including Warrington, St Helens, Prescot, Liverpool and Chester. Halton Transport is a limited company wholly owned by Halton Borough Council, which makes it one of the few remaining municipal bus companies in the UK today.
Haltoun House Haltoun House (vulgar: Hatton) was a feudal baronial mansion set in a magnificent park, with extensive estates in the vicinity of Ratho, Midlothian, west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was extensively photographed by Country Life (magazine) about 1920.
Haltya Haltya are Jürgen Sachau and Tommi Sirkiä, a psychedelic trance project from Finland, founded in the mid-nineties. Jurgen has also released under the project name Outolintu, while Tommi has released under the project name Pelinpala.
Haluatko pornotähdeksi Haluatko pornotähdeksi (Finnish for Do you want to be a porn star) is a contest arranged since 2003 for discovering new erotic actress talents in Finland. Winner of the contest gets to play a leading role in a porn movie.
Haluk Kurosman Haluk Kurosman (1 March, 1975, Istanbul) is a successful Turkish music producer of GRGDN (a music production and management company), producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successful young Turkish artists. He graduated from Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART) in 1999 as "perhaps the most brilliant student to attend OIART since its inception".
Halukka The halukka (Hebrew: החלוקּה) was an organized collection of funds for distribution among the indigent Jews in Palestine, and for the aid of those seeking to make aliyah. Sympathizing Jews in the diaspora formed a standing committee, presided over by a gabbai, under whose supervision collections in his city or district were made, the money being remitted by him semiannually to the proper "minahalim" (leaders) in Jerusalem, who distribute it among the needy -- with the learned, elderly men, the destitute, and widows and orphans taking precedence.
Halumatha Kuruba Purana This is an oral epic of the Kuruba Community in the districts of Belgaum, Gulbarga and Bellary.This oral epic has preserved for generations the collective experiences of the community and its cultural heroes, and its living traditions.
Haluntium Haluntium was an ancient city of Sicily, 6 miles from the north coast and 25 miles east-north-east of Halaesa. It was probably of Sicel origin, though its foundation was ascribed to some of the companions of Aeneas.
Haluza Haluza, also known as Halasa and Elusa, is a city in the Negev that was once part of the Nabataean Incense Route. Due to this historic importance, UNESCO have granted four cities in the Negev the joint status of a World Heritage Site; Haluza is one of these, the others being Mamshit, Avdat, Shivta.
Halva The word halva (alternatively halwa, halvah, halava etc.), originally derived from the Arabic root hulw (sweet), is used to describe many distinct types of sweet confection, across the Middle East, Central Asia, and India.
Halved joint A halved joint is a woodworking joint in which the two members are joined by removing material from each at the point of intersection so that they overlap. The halved joint is differentiated from the lap joint in that the members are joined on edge, rather than on the flat.
Halveti Halveti (as it is known in Turkey but is more commonly known as Khalwati) is one of the most widespread orders (Tarikas) in Sufi Islam and after the Naqshbandi, Qadiri and Shadhili is perhaps the most popular. It was founded by Pir Umar Khalwati.
Haly Abenragel Abû l-Hasan 'Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن أبي الرجال) (commonly known as Haly, Hali, Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel or Haly Abenragel, from ibn Rijal) was an Arab astrologer of the late 10th and early 11th century, best known for his Kitāb al-bāri' fi akhām an-nujūm. He was a court astrologer to the Tunisian prince al-Mu'izz ibn Bâdis in the first half of the 11th century.
Halyciae Halyciae (Halykiai, Halykiae) is the ancient name for one of the settlements of the Elymians on the island of Sicily, known as Alicia in more recent Italian scholarship. Though its present location is not known precisely, recent excavations conducted in Sicily by the Scandinavian-Sicilian Project seem to indicate that the present city of Salemi in the province of Trapani is built upon the ruins of old Halykiai.
Halych Halych () is a historic city located on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The town gave its name to the historic province and kingdom of Halychyna (or Galicia), of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of local princes was moved to Lviv.
Halych-Volhynia Halych-Volhynia, or Halych-Volodymyr, was a large state in Ruthenia (Rus' ) which existed in the 13th and 14th centuries. It extended between the rivers San and Wieprz in what is now south-eastern Poland in the west, and the Pripet Marshes (now in Belarus) and upper Southern Bug in modern-day Ukraine in the east.
Halych-Volhynian Chronicle The Halych-Volhynian Chronicle (or Galician-Volhynian Chronicle) is a historical record covering 1201–1291 in the history of the Principality of Halych-Volhynia (modern Ukraine). The chronicle was included in the Hypatian Codex.
Ham Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar. Although it can be cooked and served fresh, most ham is cured in some fashion.
Ham House, London Ham House, situated beside the River Thames in Ham, just to the south of Richmond, in the United Kingdom, is claimed by its present owners, the National Trust, to be "unique in Europe as the most complete survival of 17th century fashion and power".
Ham on Rye Ham on Rye is a 1982 autobiographical novel by American author Charles Bukowski. Written in Bukowski’s characteristic crude, straightforward prose, the novel tells of his coming-of-age in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
Ham sandwich theorem In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, the ham sandwich theorem, also called the Stone–Tukey theorem after Marshall Stone and John Tukey, states that given n "objects" in n-dimensional space, it is possible to divide each one in half (according to volume) with a single (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane. Here the "objects" should be sets of finite measure (or, in fact, just of finite outer measure) for the notion of "dividing the volume in half" to make sense.
Ham Tan Ham Tan is a small region located in the middle part of Vietnam. Most people that live in that region are from the middle part, though in recent years (around 1990s), the people in the northern part began to migrate down and live in this region.
Ham Tran Ham Tran is a Vietnamese American film writer/editor/director most famous for his UCLA thesis film "The Anniversary", which was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, and the Vietnamese boat people drama Journey From The Fall.
Ham's Ham's Restaurant is a North Carolina/Virginia based restaurant that offers "A Good Time" combined with great food. Started in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1935, Ham's has grown into a chain of 26 community restaurants.
Ham's Station, California Ham's Station is a snow chain stop on California State Route 88 in Amador County, California. Located at an elevation of 6,000 feet, it opens in the winter when chains are required on vehicles travelling through the Sierra Nevada, however the restaurant at Ham's Station stays open year round.
Ham, son of Noah Ham (חָם, Standard Hebrew Ḥam, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥām, Ḫām, Ge'ez Kam), Tiberian Hebrew , , Ge'ez Kam), according to the Genealogies of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. David Rohl has identified this nation with the Poeni of Punt.
Hamaam (village) Hamaam (Hebrew: חמאם, Arabic الحمام) is a Bedouin village near the Sea of Galilee and Mount Arbel in Northern Israel. It contains one fairly modern mosque and the trailhead for the steep ascent of Mount Arbel.
Hamad al jaser hamad al jaser (died in 2003) is one of the main historians and geography people of Arabia and mainly Saudi Arabia in the 20th Century. He was the first writer to index all the tribes of Saudi Arabia and write a detailed discription of all Saudi areas in his large encyclopedia (the geographic dictionary of Saudi Arabia) and (the encyclopedia of tribes in Saudi Arabia).
Hamad Al-Jasser Hamad Al-Jasser (1907 - september 14, 2000) was a prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and historian. He is particularly noted for founding Saudi Arabia's first central region magazine, the first comprehensive geographical locations reference in Saudi Arabia and the authorship of a comprehensive genealogical work popular in the country.
Hamad Aquatic Centre Hamad Aquatic Centre is a large swimming pool complex in Doha, Qatar. As part of the Doha sports city that encompasses a number of other complexes in the area it is currently the venue for aquatic events at the 2006 Asian Games.
Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (Arabic: حمد بن عيسى آل خليفة) (born January 28, 1950 in Riffa, Bahrain) is the current King of Bahrain (from 2002), having previously been its Emir (from 1999). Upon succeeding his father, King Hamad brought in sweeping political reforms to the Kingdom which included the release of all political prisoners, granting women the right to vote, and holding elections for parliament.

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