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HMS Warrior (1860) HMS Warrior was the world's first ocean-going iron-hulled armoured battleship, built for the Royal Navy as a counter to the first ironclad warship, the French battleship La Gloire (launched 1859). When she was launched, the 4.
HMS Warspite (1884) One HMS Warspite was an Imperieuse-class first-class armoured cruiser, launched on 29 December 1884 and commissioned in 1886. Warspite was the flagship on the Pacific Station between 1890 and 1893, then a portguard ship at Queenstown until 1896.
HMS Waterwitch The HMS Waterwitch was a British hydrographic survey vessel active in eastern Asian waters in the early twentieth century. It was an all-wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work.
HMS Whaddon (L45) HMS Whaddon (L45) was a Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Govan and launched on 16 July 1940. She was laid down on July 27 1939 and commissioned February 28 1941.
HMS Whirlwind (R87) HMS Whirlwind (R87) was an W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F187.
HMS Whitshed (D77) HMS Whitshed (pennant number D77) was a V and W class escort destroyer of the Royal Navy, laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend on June 3 1918, launched in 1919 and commissioned on July 11 of that year. She served throughout the Second World War, finally being sold for scrap on 18 February 1947.
HMS Wild Goose (U45) HMS Wild Goose (U45) was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of several ships of that class that took part in the famous "six in one trip" in 1943 (in which six U-boats were sunk in one patrol).
HMS Wolverine (1910) HMS Wolverine was a Beagle-class coal-burning destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 15 January, 1910. At the outbreak of the First World War, Wolverine was part of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Destroyer Flotilla involved in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben.
HMS Yarmouth (F101) HMS Yarmouth (F101) was this first Modified Type 12 frigate of the Rothesay class to enter service with the Royal Navy. From her commissioning in 1960, she performed in numerous roles, including the Falklands War.
HMS York (1796) This HMS York was originally laid down at Deptford as an East Indiaman named Royal Admiral, but the shortage of naval shipping caused by the outbreak of the Revolutionary War with France prompted her purchase and eventual commissioning under her new name in 1796.
HMS York (1807) HMS York was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe by the contract firm Samuel & Daniel Brent, and launched on July 7, 1807. She saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, though is best known for her time spent as a prison ship.
HMS York (90) The ninth HMS York, pennant number 90, was a York class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, on 18 May 1927 launched on 17 July 1928 and completed on 1 May 1930.
HMS Zealous (1864) HMS Zealous was one of the three ships (the others being HMS Royal Alfred and HMS Repulse) forming the second group of wooden second-rate warships selected in 1860 for conversion to broadside ironclads in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the increase in French warship building.
HMS Zulu (F124) HMS Zulu (F124) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the third ship bearing the name of HMS Zulu, having been named after an ethnic group located primarily in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
HMS4L: The Many Lives of Walter Rattamus [The Many Lives of Walter Rattamus is a video retrospective of the pioneering funk]/[[Hip hop music|rap/metal band 24-7 Spyz, featuring interviews, backstage footage, promotional videos, and a large amount of live concert clips covering the band's entire career beginning in 1987 and including footage from the band's 2003/2004 reunion tours.
HMT Dunera The HMT Dunera was the ship that took over 2,000 Jewish refugees and prisoners of war in 1940 from England to Hay, New South Wales, Australia for internment. Many of the internees, including those who fled Europe to escape the persecution of the Nazis], were thought to have been agents of [[Germany and were helping to plan the invasion of England.
HMT Rohna HMT Rohna (named after a village in the Sonipat District of Punjab India) was the first troop ship carrying US troops to be sunk during World War II, on 26 November 1943. The ship sank in the Mediterranean north of Bougie, Algeria following an air attack.
HMT Warwick Deeping HMT Warwick Deeping was an anti-submarine trawler of the Royal Navy built in 1934 in Selby for the Newington Steam Trawling Co. of Kingston upon Hull, and sunk by German torpedo boats off the Isle of Wight on October 12, 1940.
HMT-301 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 301 (HMT-301), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Known as the Windwalkers, HMT-301 was part of Marine Aircraft Group 24 (MAG-24) and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
HMT-302 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 302 (HMT-302), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. Known as the "Phoenix", HMT-302 trains newly commissioned Naval Aviators, conversion pilots, refresher pilots, and enlisted aircrew on the CH-53E Super Stallion and is part of Marine Aircraft Group 29 (MAG-29) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMT-303 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 303 (HMT-303), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Known as the "Atlas", HMT-303 trains newly commissioned Naval Aviators, conversion pilots, refresher pilots, and enlisted aircrew on the AH-1W Cobra and and the UH-1N.
HMV Radios HMV and Marconiphone were brand names used on radio and television sets manufactured in their factory at Hayes Middlesex from the 1930s onwards. The name HMV became synonymous with the highest quality; an HMV radiogram with a Garrard automatic record changer was regarded as the Rolls Royce of radio and carried a correspondingly high price tag.
HMX-1 Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), "The Nighthawks", based at Marine Corps Air Facility, Quantico, Virginia, is responsible for the helicopter transportation of the President of the United States, vice president, Cabinet members and VIPs. When the President is aboard, the Marine helicopter uses the call sign "Marine One.
HMY Britannia Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was the 83rd Royal Yacht since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith harbour, Edinburgh, Scotland.
HMY Victoria and Albert II HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360Â foot steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,470 tons, and could make 15 knots on her paddles.
Hnanisho' the Exegete Hnanisho' the Exegete was a 7th century catholic priest in Iraq whose writings give witness to the events of his time including the relationship between the Christians and the Jews and the "new folly" "spread by the sword" which was later to become Islam.
HNCA experiment HNCA is a 3D NMR experiment commonly used in the field of protein NMR. The name derives from the experiment's magnetization transfer pathway: The magnetization of the amide proton of an amino acid residue is transferred to the amide nitrogen, and then to the alpha carbons of both the starting residue and the previous residue in the protein's amino acid sequence.
HNCOCA experiment HNCOCA is a 3D NMR experiment commonly used in the field of protein NMR. The name derives from the experiment's magnetization transfer pathway: The magnetization of the amide proton of an amino acid residue is transferred to the amide nitrogen, and then to the alpha carbon of the previous residue in the protein's amino acid sequence.
HNK Ljubuški HNK Ljubuški is a football club from Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1937 as Ljubuški omladinski športski klub (Ljubuški youth sports club), but soon stopped play after the start of World War II.
HNLC HNLC stands for "high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll" - a term used in marine ecology to describe areas of the ocean where the number of phytoplankton (standing stock) are low in spite of high macro-nutrient concentrations (nitrate, phosphate, silicic acid). HNLC is thought to be caused by the scarcity of iron (a micro-nutrient which phytoplankton require for photosynthesis) and high grazing rates by micro-zooplankton that feed on the phytoplankton.
HNLMS Buffel HNLMS Buffel is a 19th century iron-clad ram ship, now one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry (Hendrik) the Seaman, who actually had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874.
HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) HNLMS De Ruyter was a light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy, the lead ship of her class. She was originally designed as a 5000-ton ship with a lighter armament due to financial problems and the pacifist movement.
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) The HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) was a De Zeven Provinciën class cruiser with eight 152 mm cannons in double towers, 8 × 57 mm and 8 × 40 mm machine guns. The rear tower got replaced in 1962 with a RIM-2 Terrier SAM system.
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802) HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802) is the first ship of the De Zeven Provinciën class of air defence and command frigates in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. There are three more ships in this class, HNLMS Tromp (F803), HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) and HNLMS Evertsen (F805).
HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk was a Tromp-class light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607). She was commissioned on May 10 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands.
HNLMS Jan van Brakel The HNLMS Jan van Brakel (F 825) was named after Jan van Brakel, a Dutch naval commander from the seventeenth century. It was a frigate launched on 16 May 1981, commissioned by the Dutch Navy on 14 April 1983, and was transferred to the Greek Navy on 29 November 2002 as Hellenic Ship (H.
HNLMS Karel Doorman (F827) HNLMS Karel Doorman (F827) is the first ship of the Karel Doorman class of multi-purpose frigates (also known as "M-fregat" class). She is the third ship in the Royal Netherlands Navy to be named after admiral Karel Doorman, who was killed during the battle of the Java Sea.
HNLMS Kortenaer HNLMS Kortenaer was an Admiral-class destroyer, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer. She served mostly in the Netherlands East Indies, and when war broke out in 1941 she was at Surabaya.
HNLMS Van Speijk (K3) The HNLMS Van Speijk (K3) was part of a program to build seven frigates capable of shore bombardments and escorting merchant ships. None of the ships were finished at the time the Netherlands got involved in World War II due to a shortage in material and qualified personnel, however the navy ordered them to be finished and equipped with minelaying rails.
HNoMS Eidsvold HnoMS Eidsvold, or KNM Eidsvold in Norwegian, was a coastal battleship (also referred to as coastal defence ship) and the lead ship of her class, serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9, 1940.
HNoMS Harald Haarfagre The HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, known locally as KNM Harald Haarfagre or Panserskipet Harald Haarfagre, was a Norwegian coastal battleship. She, her sistership Tordenskjold and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.
HNoMS Mjølner HNoMS Mjølner (known localy as KNM Mjølner) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Nidaros (corvette) HNoMS Nidaros was the first steam corvette of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built together with three other corvettes; although different in armament and size, these were quite similar: Nordstjernen, Ellida and Ărnen.
HNoMS Norge HNoMS Norge, or KNM Norge in Norwegian, was a coastal battleships (also referred to as coastal defence ship) of the Eidsvold class in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9th, 1940.
HNoMS Olav Tryggvason The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the Naval yard in Horten in the early 1930's. She was considered a well armed and well balanced ship, with an engineplant consisting of both steamturbines and diesel engines.
HNoMS Rap The naval ship HNoMS Rap is commonly acknowledged to have been the first modern torpedo boat] in use in any navy in the world. Its original [[Norwegian_language|Norwegian name is KNM Rap (KNM, which denotes 'Kongelige Norske Marine', is the correct term in Norwegian).
HNoMS Skorpionen HNoMS Skorpionen (known localy as KNM Skorpionen) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1865, as the lead ship of a three ship strong class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Stord HNoMS Stord was an S-class 2400 ton destroyer in the service of the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War II. She was lauched 4 April 1943 as HMS Success, but was rechristened HNoMS Stord when she was commissioned in the Norwegian Navy on 26 August 1943.
HNoMS Thrudvang HNoMS Thrudvang (known locally as KNM Thrudvang) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scrapped in 1918, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Tordenskjold The HNoMS Tordenskjold, known localy as KNM Tordenskjold or Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal battleship. She, her sistership Harald Haarfagre and the slightly newer Eidsvold class was built as a part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.
HNoMS Valkyrien (1994-present) HNoMS Valkyrien has the pennant number A535 and is the present support vessel for the Royal Norwegian Navy Coastal Combat Flotilla. Valkyrien was built as a civilian supply vessel and was bought by the navy in 1994.
HNTB HNTB Corporation (formerly Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff) is an architecture and engineering firm based in Kansas City, Missouri that built many bridges and professional ball stadiums across the United States and around the world.
Ho Feng Shan Feng-Shan Ho (, sometimes translated as He Fengshanborn in Yiyang], [[Hunan September 10, 1901 (some sources give 1904), died in San Francisco, September 28, 1997, was a Chinese diplomat who saved hundreds, probably thousands of Jews during the early years of World War II. He is known as “China’s Schindler”.
Ho Chi Minh Hồ ChĂ Minh (Chữ nho: čˇĺż—ćŽ, May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1955–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thà nh phố Hồ Chà Minh ) is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong River delta. Under the name Prey Nokor (Khmer: ), it was a hamlet of Cambodia, before being annexed by the Vietnamese in the 16th century.
Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation and Public Works Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation and Public Works (So Giao Thong Cong Chanh Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh) is a city department responsible for transportation and public works projects in Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center (HSTC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was established in July 2000. It is an administrative agency of the Vietnam State Securities Commission, and manages Vietnam's securities trading systems.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Abbreaviation: HCMUT) – Hochiminh City National University , is the leading university in teaching and research activities of Vietnam. The university plays the active role in the fields of talents cultivation and providing manpower with strong technical skills to the Southern areas of Vietnam .
Ho Chi Minh trail The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National Liberation Front (NLF, also known as the Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam Conflict (1960-1975).
Ho Ching Ho Ching () is the CEO of Temasek Holdings (over US$50 billion in assets and owned by Singapore's Ministry of Finance) and the wife of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong (son of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew). Temasek Holdings purchased Shin Corporation in 2006 from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted by coup soon after on allegations of corruption.
Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome The Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome, also known as the Chen-Kung Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome, is a rare congenital malformation syndrome where infants are born with a cleft palate, micrognathia, Wormian bones, congenital heart disease, dislocated hips, bowed fibulae, preaxial polydactyly of the feet, abnormal skin patterns, and most prominently, missing tibia. The etiology is unknown.
Ho King Commercial Building Ho King Commercial Building (好景商ćĄä¸ĺż) and Ho King Shopping Centre (ĺĄ˝ć™Żĺ•†ĺ ´) located at the junction of Fa Yuen Street and Dundas Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Built in 1980s, the shopping centre at lower levels were mainly selling video games and video game console in the early days.
Ho No Hana Ho No Hana Sanpogyo (ćł•ă®čŹŻä¸‰ćł•čˇŚ HĹŤ No Hana SanpĹŤgyĹŤ) is a Japanese sect often called the "foot reading cult." It was called this because its founder, Hogen Fukunaga, claimed he could diagnose illness by examining people's feet.
Ho Tung Lau Ho Tung Lau (Chinese: 何東樓) is a place northeast of Lok Lo Ha (č˝č·Żä¸‹) in Sha Tin, near the KCR and on the former shore of Sha Tin Hoi, in the New Territories. Maps mid-1960s onward shifted Ho Tung Lau southwest-ward in the same place of Lok Lo Ha.
Ho'okipa Arguably the most famous windsurfing site in the world, Hoâ€okipa Beach Park is located on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii (). The waves here are largest during the winter, and break across a system of reefs that extend across the bay.
Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden The Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden (approximately 400 acres) is a botanical garden located at 45-680 Luluku Road, KÄne'ohe, Oahu, Hawaii. It is part of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens, and is open daily, without charge, except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Ho-Ag Ho-Ag is an experimental "noise-rock" band based in Boston, MA. Known for melding the creaky musical worlds of 50s and 60s sci-fi films, Waitsian dissonant underworld, and fast-paced math-punk, Ho-Ag has adapted through several line-up changes, guest collaborations, experimental one-off shows, and infrequent Devo cover sets to evolve into a consistently unpredictable band that has earned them comparisons to acts like Six Finger Satellite, The Dismemberment Plan, Brainiac and the Melvins.
Ho-Am Prize The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Ho-Am Prize in Mass Communication The Ho-Am Prize in Mass Communication was an annual award in South Korea. It was given to people or groups who furthered mass media or communications in a way which was to the "enhancement of the welfare of mankind".
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Ho-Chunk Ho-Chunk or Winnebago (as they are commonly called) are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what are now Wisconsin and Illinois. The term "Winnebago" originally came from a name given to them by neighbouring algonquian tribes, which meant something like "people of the stagnant water" (c.
Ho-Jon Ho-Jon is a fictional character in the film M*A*S*H, where he was played by Kim Atwood, and the television series M*A*S*H, where he was played by Patrick Adiarte. It has been said that the name Ho-Jon is not actually Korean.
Ho-Oh is one of the 495 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise. The purpose of Ho-Oh in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Ho, Ho, Ho Ho, Ho, Ho (officially titled "VH1 Presents RuPaul Ho Ho Ho") is the 1997 album of Christmas music released by drag queen, singer and actress RuPaul. The album was a combination of original music, standards and comedy vingettes.
Hoa Binh Province Hòa Bình Province is a mountainous province of Vietnam in the Tonkin region. It borders Phu Tho Province and Son La Province to the northwest, Ha Tay Province to the north and northeast, Ha Nam Province to the east, Ninh Binh Province to the south and Thanh Hoa Province to the south.
Hoa Hao Hòa Hảo is a Buddhist religious tradition founded in 1939 by Huynh Phu So, a native of the Mekong River Delta region of southern Vietnam. Adherents consider So to be a prophet, and Hoa Hao a continuation of a 19th century Buddhist ministry known as Buu Son Ky Huong ("Strange Perfume from Precious Mountains," referring to the That Son range on the Vietnam-Cambodia border).
Hoabinhian The term Hoabinhian was first used by French archaeologists working in northern Vietnam to describe Holocene period archaeological assemblages excavated from rock shelters. It has become a common term to describe stone artefact assemblages in Southeast Asia that contain flaked cobble artefacts.
Hoagie The hoagie is a type of submarine sandwich. It generally consists of an elongated roll (called a "hoagie roll", similar to a baguette), oil, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, sweet or hot peppers, oregano, mayonnaise and a selection of cold luncheon meats.
Hoagy Carmichael Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), which has been called the most-recorded American song ever written.
Hoak Media Corporation Hoak Media Corporation is a broadcasting media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak owns eighteen television stations (including satellites) in the Great Plains states and Colorado, all in medium and small-markets.
Hoalid Regragui Hoalid Regragui also called Walid Regragui (born September 23, 1975 in Corbeil-Essonnes, France) is a Moroccan Football (soccer) player who plays as a Defender. Despite being born in France, he is a full international for Morocco.
Hoan Bridge The Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is a tied arch bridge that connects Interstate 794 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the Lake Freeway across the inner harbor. It is named after Daniel Hoan, a former mayor of Milwaukee.
Hoard In archaeology, a hoard is a collection of artifacts purposely buried in the ground. This would usually be with the intention of later recovery by the hoarder; forgetfulness, or the death of the hoarder, meant that some hoards were never recovered.
Hoard memory allocator The Hoard memory allocator, or Hoard, is a memory allocator for Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Hoard can improve the performance of multithreaded applications by providing fast, scalable memory management functions (malloc and free).
Hoare Baronets There have been four Baronetcies created for people with the surname Hoare, one in the Baronetage of Ireland, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The second holder of the third creation was raised to the peerage as Viscount Templewood in 1944.
Hoare-Laval Pact The Hoare-Laval Pact was a December 1935 plan concocted by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Hoare and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval for the partitioning of Ethiopia, as a means of ending the Italo-Ethiopian War. It aimed to satisfy the demands of Italy's Benito Mussolini to make the independent nation of Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then called) an Italian colony.
Hoary catshark The hoary catshark, Apristurus canutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from the Leeward Islands off Antigua and Anguilla, at depths of between 500 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 46 cm.
Hoary Comma The Hoary Comma (Polygonia gracilis) is a species of butterfly, common in boreal North America from Alaska, across southern Canada to New England and the Maritime Provinces and south to New Mexico from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge.
Hoath Hoath is a small village situated within the Canterbury area. Within Hoath there is a small primary school, a camp site called Southview Camping, a pub/restaurant (the Prince of Wales), a small church & village hall.
Hoërskool Strand Hoërskool Strand (English: Strand High School) is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa. More than 1 000 students attend the school, mostly residents of Strand, although students from as far as Gordon's Bay, Somerset West, and even Grabouw attend the school.
Hoërskool Waterkloof Hoërskool Waterkloof is an Afrikaans high school situated in the wealthy eastern suburbs of Pretoria, South Africa. It had grown to become the largest Afrikaans school in South Africa by 2004, with 2200 pupils and 140 teachers.
Hob Gadling Hob Gadling is a fictional character from the Sandman comic book by Neil Gaiman . Gadling first appears in the story "Men of Good Fortune" in The Sandman #13 (featured in The Doll's House collection) as a soldier of the Hundred Years' War, arguing with friends in an inn somewhere inside the modern borders of London.
Hoba meteorite The Hoba meteorite, also known as the Hoba West meteorite, is the heaviest meteorite in the world and the largest naturally-occurring mass of iron known to exist on the surface of the earth. The meteorite, named after the Hoba West Farm near Grootfontein, Namibia, where it was discovered in 1920, has not been moved since it landed over 80,000 years ago.
Hoban Washburne Hoban "Wash" Washburne is a fictional character who originated in the science fiction television series Firefly. He later appeared in the comic book series Serenity: Those Left Behind, a sequel to the television series, and the film Serenity, itself a sequel to the comic.
Hobankyo is a shortcut for the organization's actual name , also known in English as the Council for Protection of Copyright of Television Program of Japan. Other names referencing HĹŤbankyĹŤ include HĹŤsĹŤ Bangumi KyĹŤkai.
Hobart Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony, it is Australia's second oldest and eleventh largest city, with a metropolitan population of 206,000.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts institution. The Colleges adhere to a "coordinate system," which retains some elements of the original single-sex institutions, though the student experience is largely co-ed.
Hobart Aquatic Centre The Hobart Aquatic Centre, also known by is naming rights sponsor as the Tattersalls Aquatic Centre, is a major aquatic sporting facility located upon the Queens Domain, within less than 1 kilometre of the CBD of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Australia.
Hobart Baronets There have been two creations of baronets with the surname Hobart, one in England and one in the United Kingdom. The first was part of the original creation of 1611, and was created for Sir Henry Hobart, MP for Norwich.
Hobart Bus Station Hobart Bus Station, more commonly referred to as "Hobart Bus Mall" is a section of Elizabeth Street which serves as Metro Tasmania's primary bus terminus in Hobart's CBD. Hobart Bus Station is utilised by thousands of commuters every day, bringing city workers into Hobart from outlying suburbs, and the neighbouring cities of Clarence and Glenorchy, as well as nearby Richmond, Cambridge and Kingborough.
HMS Warspite (1884) One HMS Warspite was an Imperieuse-class first-class armoured cruiser, launched on 29 December 1884 and commissioned in 1886. Warspite was the flagship on the Pacific Station between 1890 and 1893, then a portguard ship at Queenstown until 1896.
HMS Waterwitch The HMS Waterwitch was a British hydrographic survey vessel active in eastern Asian waters in the early twentieth century. It was an all-wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work.
HMS Whaddon (L45) HMS Whaddon (L45) was a Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Govan and launched on 16 July 1940. She was laid down on July 27 1939 and commissioned February 28 1941.
HMS Whirlwind (R87) HMS Whirlwind (R87) was an W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F187.
HMS Whitshed (D77) HMS Whitshed (pennant number D77) was a V and W class escort destroyer of the Royal Navy, laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend on June 3 1918, launched in 1919 and commissioned on July 11 of that year. She served throughout the Second World War, finally being sold for scrap on 18 February 1947.
HMS Wild Goose (U45) HMS Wild Goose (U45) was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of several ships of that class that took part in the famous "six in one trip" in 1943 (in which six U-boats were sunk in one patrol).
HMS Wolverine (1910) HMS Wolverine was a Beagle-class coal-burning destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 15 January, 1910. At the outbreak of the First World War, Wolverine was part of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Destroyer Flotilla involved in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben.
HMS Yarmouth (F101) HMS Yarmouth (F101) was this first Modified Type 12 frigate of the Rothesay class to enter service with the Royal Navy. From her commissioning in 1960, she performed in numerous roles, including the Falklands War.
HMS York (1796) This HMS York was originally laid down at Deptford as an East Indiaman named Royal Admiral, but the shortage of naval shipping caused by the outbreak of the Revolutionary War with France prompted her purchase and eventual commissioning under her new name in 1796.
HMS York (1807) HMS York was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe by the contract firm Samuel & Daniel Brent, and launched on July 7, 1807. She saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, though is best known for her time spent as a prison ship.
HMS York (90) The ninth HMS York, pennant number 90, was a York class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, on 18 May 1927 launched on 17 July 1928 and completed on 1 May 1930.
HMS Zealous (1864) HMS Zealous was one of the three ships (the others being HMS Royal Alfred and HMS Repulse) forming the second group of wooden second-rate warships selected in 1860 for conversion to broadside ironclads in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the increase in French warship building.
HMS Zulu (F124) HMS Zulu (F124) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the third ship bearing the name of HMS Zulu, having been named after an ethnic group located primarily in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
HMS4L: The Many Lives of Walter Rattamus [The Many Lives of Walter Rattamus is a video retrospective of the pioneering funk]/[[Hip hop music|rap/metal band 24-7 Spyz, featuring interviews, backstage footage, promotional videos, and a large amount of live concert clips covering the band's entire career beginning in 1987 and including footage from the band's 2003/2004 reunion tours.
HMT Dunera The HMT Dunera was the ship that took over 2,000 Jewish refugees and prisoners of war in 1940 from England to Hay, New South Wales, Australia for internment. Many of the internees, including those who fled Europe to escape the persecution of the Nazis], were thought to have been agents of [[Germany and were helping to plan the invasion of England.
HMT Rohna HMT Rohna (named after a village in the Sonipat District of Punjab India) was the first troop ship carrying US troops to be sunk during World War II, on 26 November 1943. The ship sank in the Mediterranean north of Bougie, Algeria following an air attack.
HMT Warwick Deeping HMT Warwick Deeping was an anti-submarine trawler of the Royal Navy built in 1934 in Selby for the Newington Steam Trawling Co. of Kingston upon Hull, and sunk by German torpedo boats off the Isle of Wight on October 12, 1940.
HMT-301 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 301 (HMT-301), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Known as the Windwalkers, HMT-301 was part of Marine Aircraft Group 24 (MAG-24) and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
HMT-302 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 302 (HMT-302), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. Known as the "Phoenix", HMT-302 trains newly commissioned Naval Aviators, conversion pilots, refresher pilots, and enlisted aircrew on the CH-53E Super Stallion and is part of Marine Aircraft Group 29 (MAG-29) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMT-303 Marine Helicopter Training Squadron 303 (HMT-303), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Known as the "Atlas", HMT-303 trains newly commissioned Naval Aviators, conversion pilots, refresher pilots, and enlisted aircrew on the AH-1W Cobra and and the UH-1N.
HMV Radios HMV and Marconiphone were brand names used on radio and television sets manufactured in their factory at Hayes Middlesex from the 1930s onwards. The name HMV became synonymous with the highest quality; an HMV radiogram with a Garrard automatic record changer was regarded as the Rolls Royce of radio and carried a correspondingly high price tag.
HMX-1 Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), "The Nighthawks", based at Marine Corps Air Facility, Quantico, Virginia, is responsible for the helicopter transportation of the President of the United States, vice president, Cabinet members and VIPs. When the President is aboard, the Marine helicopter uses the call sign "Marine One.
HMY Britannia Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was the 83rd Royal Yacht since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith harbour, Edinburgh, Scotland.
HMY Victoria and Albert II HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360Â foot steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,470 tons, and could make 15 knots on her paddles.
Hnanisho' the Exegete Hnanisho' the Exegete was a 7th century catholic priest in Iraq whose writings give witness to the events of his time including the relationship between the Christians and the Jews and the "new folly" "spread by the sword" which was later to become Islam.
HNCA experiment HNCA is a 3D NMR experiment commonly used in the field of protein NMR. The name derives from the experiment's magnetization transfer pathway: The magnetization of the amide proton of an amino acid residue is transferred to the amide nitrogen, and then to the alpha carbons of both the starting residue and the previous residue in the protein's amino acid sequence.
HNCOCA experiment HNCOCA is a 3D NMR experiment commonly used in the field of protein NMR. The name derives from the experiment's magnetization transfer pathway: The magnetization of the amide proton of an amino acid residue is transferred to the amide nitrogen, and then to the alpha carbon of the previous residue in the protein's amino acid sequence.
HNK Ljubuški HNK Ljubuški is a football club from Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1937 as Ljubuški omladinski športski klub (Ljubuški youth sports club), but soon stopped play after the start of World War II.
HNLC HNLC stands for "high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll" - a term used in marine ecology to describe areas of the ocean where the number of phytoplankton (standing stock) are low in spite of high macro-nutrient concentrations (nitrate, phosphate, silicic acid). HNLC is thought to be caused by the scarcity of iron (a micro-nutrient which phytoplankton require for photosynthesis) and high grazing rates by micro-zooplankton that feed on the phytoplankton.
HNLMS Buffel HNLMS Buffel is a 19th century iron-clad ram ship, now one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry (Hendrik) the Seaman, who actually had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874.
HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) HNLMS De Ruyter was a light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy, the lead ship of her class. She was originally designed as a 5000-ton ship with a lighter armament due to financial problems and the pacifist movement.
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) The HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) was a De Zeven Provinciën class cruiser with eight 152 mm cannons in double towers, 8 × 57 mm and 8 × 40 mm machine guns. The rear tower got replaced in 1962 with a RIM-2 Terrier SAM system.
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802) HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802) is the first ship of the De Zeven Provinciën class of air defence and command frigates in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. There are three more ships in this class, HNLMS Tromp (F803), HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) and HNLMS Evertsen (F805).
HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk was a Tromp-class light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607). She was commissioned on May 10 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands.
HNLMS Jan van Brakel The HNLMS Jan van Brakel (F 825) was named after Jan van Brakel, a Dutch naval commander from the seventeenth century. It was a frigate launched on 16 May 1981, commissioned by the Dutch Navy on 14 April 1983, and was transferred to the Greek Navy on 29 November 2002 as Hellenic Ship (H.
HNLMS Karel Doorman (F827) HNLMS Karel Doorman (F827) is the first ship of the Karel Doorman class of multi-purpose frigates (also known as "M-fregat" class). She is the third ship in the Royal Netherlands Navy to be named after admiral Karel Doorman, who was killed during the battle of the Java Sea.
HNLMS Kortenaer HNLMS Kortenaer was an Admiral-class destroyer, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer. She served mostly in the Netherlands East Indies, and when war broke out in 1941 she was at Surabaya.
HNLMS Van Speijk (K3) The HNLMS Van Speijk (K3) was part of a program to build seven frigates capable of shore bombardments and escorting merchant ships. None of the ships were finished at the time the Netherlands got involved in World War II due to a shortage in material and qualified personnel, however the navy ordered them to be finished and equipped with minelaying rails.
HNoMS Eidsvold HnoMS Eidsvold, or KNM Eidsvold in Norwegian, was a coastal battleship (also referred to as coastal defence ship) and the lead ship of her class, serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9, 1940.
HNoMS Harald Haarfagre The HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, known locally as KNM Harald Haarfagre or Panserskipet Harald Haarfagre, was a Norwegian coastal battleship. She, her sistership Tordenskjold and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.
HNoMS Mjølner HNoMS Mjølner (known localy as KNM Mjølner) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Nidaros (corvette) HNoMS Nidaros was the first steam corvette of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built together with three other corvettes; although different in armament and size, these were quite similar: Nordstjernen, Ellida and Ărnen.
HNoMS Norge HNoMS Norge, or KNM Norge in Norwegian, was a coastal battleships (also referred to as coastal defence ship) of the Eidsvold class in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9th, 1940.
HNoMS Olav Tryggvason The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the Naval yard in Horten in the early 1930's. She was considered a well armed and well balanced ship, with an engineplant consisting of both steamturbines and diesel engines.
HNoMS Rap The naval ship HNoMS Rap is commonly acknowledged to have been the first modern torpedo boat] in use in any navy in the world. Its original [[Norwegian_language|Norwegian name is KNM Rap (KNM, which denotes 'Kongelige Norske Marine', is the correct term in Norwegian).
HNoMS Skorpionen HNoMS Skorpionen (known localy as KNM Skorpionen) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1865, as the lead ship of a three ship strong class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Stord HNoMS Stord was an S-class 2400 ton destroyer in the service of the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War II. She was lauched 4 April 1943 as HMS Success, but was rechristened HNoMS Stord when she was commissioned in the Norwegian Navy on 26 August 1943.
HNoMS Thrudvang HNoMS Thrudvang (known locally as KNM Thrudvang) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scrapped in 1918, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.
HNoMS Tordenskjold The HNoMS Tordenskjold, known localy as KNM Tordenskjold or Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal battleship. She, her sistership Harald Haarfagre and the slightly newer Eidsvold class was built as a part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.
HNoMS Valkyrien (1994-present) HNoMS Valkyrien has the pennant number A535 and is the present support vessel for the Royal Norwegian Navy Coastal Combat Flotilla. Valkyrien was built as a civilian supply vessel and was bought by the navy in 1994.
HNTB HNTB Corporation (formerly Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff) is an architecture and engineering firm based in Kansas City, Missouri that built many bridges and professional ball stadiums across the United States and around the world.
Ho Feng Shan Feng-Shan Ho (, sometimes translated as He Fengshanborn in Yiyang], [[Hunan September 10, 1901 (some sources give 1904), died in San Francisco, September 28, 1997, was a Chinese diplomat who saved hundreds, probably thousands of Jews during the early years of World War II. He is known as “China’s Schindler”.
Ho Chi Minh Hồ ChĂ Minh (Chữ nho: čˇĺż—ćŽ, May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1955–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thà nh phố Hồ Chà Minh ) is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong River delta. Under the name Prey Nokor (Khmer: ), it was a hamlet of Cambodia, before being annexed by the Vietnamese in the 16th century.
Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation and Public Works Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation and Public Works (So Giao Thong Cong Chanh Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh) is a city department responsible for transportation and public works projects in Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center (HSTC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was established in July 2000. It is an administrative agency of the Vietnam State Securities Commission, and manages Vietnam's securities trading systems.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Abbreaviation: HCMUT) – Hochiminh City National University , is the leading university in teaching and research activities of Vietnam. The university plays the active role in the fields of talents cultivation and providing manpower with strong technical skills to the Southern areas of Vietnam .
Ho Chi Minh trail The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National Liberation Front (NLF, also known as the Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam Conflict (1960-1975).
Ho Ching Ho Ching () is the CEO of Temasek Holdings (over US$50 billion in assets and owned by Singapore's Ministry of Finance) and the wife of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong (son of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew). Temasek Holdings purchased Shin Corporation in 2006 from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted by coup soon after on allegations of corruption.
Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome The Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome, also known as the Chen-Kung Ho Kaufman Mcalister Syndrome, is a rare congenital malformation syndrome where infants are born with a cleft palate, micrognathia, Wormian bones, congenital heart disease, dislocated hips, bowed fibulae, preaxial polydactyly of the feet, abnormal skin patterns, and most prominently, missing tibia. The etiology is unknown.
Ho King Commercial Building Ho King Commercial Building (好景商ćĄä¸ĺż) and Ho King Shopping Centre (ĺĄ˝ć™Żĺ•†ĺ ´) located at the junction of Fa Yuen Street and Dundas Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Built in 1980s, the shopping centre at lower levels were mainly selling video games and video game console in the early days.
Ho No Hana Ho No Hana Sanpogyo (ćł•ă®čŹŻä¸‰ćł•čˇŚ HĹŤ No Hana SanpĹŤgyĹŤ) is a Japanese sect often called the "foot reading cult." It was called this because its founder, Hogen Fukunaga, claimed he could diagnose illness by examining people's feet.
Ho Tung Lau Ho Tung Lau (Chinese: 何東樓) is a place northeast of Lok Lo Ha (č˝č·Żä¸‹) in Sha Tin, near the KCR and on the former shore of Sha Tin Hoi, in the New Territories. Maps mid-1960s onward shifted Ho Tung Lau southwest-ward in the same place of Lok Lo Ha.
Ho'okipa Arguably the most famous windsurfing site in the world, Hoâ€okipa Beach Park is located on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii (). The waves here are largest during the winter, and break across a system of reefs that extend across the bay.
Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden The Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden (approximately 400 acres) is a botanical garden located at 45-680 Luluku Road, KÄne'ohe, Oahu, Hawaii. It is part of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens, and is open daily, without charge, except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Ho-Ag Ho-Ag is an experimental "noise-rock" band based in Boston, MA. Known for melding the creaky musical worlds of 50s and 60s sci-fi films, Waitsian dissonant underworld, and fast-paced math-punk, Ho-Ag has adapted through several line-up changes, guest collaborations, experimental one-off shows, and infrequent Devo cover sets to evolve into a consistently unpredictable band that has earned them comparisons to acts like Six Finger Satellite, The Dismemberment Plan, Brainiac and the Melvins.
Ho-Am Prize The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Ho-Am Prize in Mass Communication The Ho-Am Prize in Mass Communication was an annual award in South Korea. It was given to people or groups who furthered mass media or communications in a way which was to the "enhancement of the welfare of mankind".
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Ho-Chunk Ho-Chunk or Winnebago (as they are commonly called) are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what are now Wisconsin and Illinois. The term "Winnebago" originally came from a name given to them by neighbouring algonquian tribes, which meant something like "people of the stagnant water" (c.
Ho-Jon Ho-Jon is a fictional character in the film M*A*S*H, where he was played by Kim Atwood, and the television series M*A*S*H, where he was played by Patrick Adiarte. It has been said that the name Ho-Jon is not actually Korean.
Ho-Oh is one of the 495 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise. The purpose of Ho-Oh in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Ho, Ho, Ho Ho, Ho, Ho (officially titled "VH1 Presents RuPaul Ho Ho Ho") is the 1997 album of Christmas music released by drag queen, singer and actress RuPaul. The album was a combination of original music, standards and comedy vingettes.
Hoa Binh Province Hòa Bình Province is a mountainous province of Vietnam in the Tonkin region. It borders Phu Tho Province and Son La Province to the northwest, Ha Tay Province to the north and northeast, Ha Nam Province to the east, Ninh Binh Province to the south and Thanh Hoa Province to the south.
Hoa Hao Hòa Hảo is a Buddhist religious tradition founded in 1939 by Huynh Phu So, a native of the Mekong River Delta region of southern Vietnam. Adherents consider So to be a prophet, and Hoa Hao a continuation of a 19th century Buddhist ministry known as Buu Son Ky Huong ("Strange Perfume from Precious Mountains," referring to the That Son range on the Vietnam-Cambodia border).
Hoabinhian The term Hoabinhian was first used by French archaeologists working in northern Vietnam to describe Holocene period archaeological assemblages excavated from rock shelters. It has become a common term to describe stone artefact assemblages in Southeast Asia that contain flaked cobble artefacts.
Hoagie The hoagie is a type of submarine sandwich. It generally consists of an elongated roll (called a "hoagie roll", similar to a baguette), oil, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, sweet or hot peppers, oregano, mayonnaise and a selection of cold luncheon meats.
Hoagy Carmichael Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), which has been called the most-recorded American song ever written.
Hoak Media Corporation Hoak Media Corporation is a broadcasting media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak owns eighteen television stations (including satellites) in the Great Plains states and Colorado, all in medium and small-markets.
Hoalid Regragui Hoalid Regragui also called Walid Regragui (born September 23, 1975 in Corbeil-Essonnes, France) is a Moroccan Football (soccer) player who plays as a Defender. Despite being born in France, he is a full international for Morocco.
Hoan Bridge The Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is a tied arch bridge that connects Interstate 794 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the Lake Freeway across the inner harbor. It is named after Daniel Hoan, a former mayor of Milwaukee.
Hoard In archaeology, a hoard is a collection of artifacts purposely buried in the ground. This would usually be with the intention of later recovery by the hoarder; forgetfulness, or the death of the hoarder, meant that some hoards were never recovered.
Hoard memory allocator The Hoard memory allocator, or Hoard, is a memory allocator for Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Hoard can improve the performance of multithreaded applications by providing fast, scalable memory management functions (malloc and free).
Hoare Baronets There have been four Baronetcies created for people with the surname Hoare, one in the Baronetage of Ireland, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The second holder of the third creation was raised to the peerage as Viscount Templewood in 1944.
Hoare-Laval Pact The Hoare-Laval Pact was a December 1935 plan concocted by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Hoare and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval for the partitioning of Ethiopia, as a means of ending the Italo-Ethiopian War. It aimed to satisfy the demands of Italy's Benito Mussolini to make the independent nation of Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then called) an Italian colony.
Hoary catshark The hoary catshark, Apristurus canutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from the Leeward Islands off Antigua and Anguilla, at depths of between 500 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 46 cm.
Hoary Comma The Hoary Comma (Polygonia gracilis) is a species of butterfly, common in boreal North America from Alaska, across southern Canada to New England and the Maritime Provinces and south to New Mexico from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge.
Hoath Hoath is a small village situated within the Canterbury area. Within Hoath there is a small primary school, a camp site called Southview Camping, a pub/restaurant (the Prince of Wales), a small church & village hall.
Hoërskool Strand Hoërskool Strand (English: Strand High School) is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa. More than 1 000 students attend the school, mostly residents of Strand, although students from as far as Gordon's Bay, Somerset West, and even Grabouw attend the school.
Hoërskool Waterkloof Hoërskool Waterkloof is an Afrikaans high school situated in the wealthy eastern suburbs of Pretoria, South Africa. It had grown to become the largest Afrikaans school in South Africa by 2004, with 2200 pupils and 140 teachers.
Hob Gadling Hob Gadling is a fictional character from the Sandman comic book by Neil Gaiman . Gadling first appears in the story "Men of Good Fortune" in The Sandman #13 (featured in The Doll's House collection) as a soldier of the Hundred Years' War, arguing with friends in an inn somewhere inside the modern borders of London.
Hoba meteorite The Hoba meteorite, also known as the Hoba West meteorite, is the heaviest meteorite in the world and the largest naturally-occurring mass of iron known to exist on the surface of the earth. The meteorite, named after the Hoba West Farm near Grootfontein, Namibia, where it was discovered in 1920, has not been moved since it landed over 80,000 years ago.
Hoban Washburne Hoban "Wash" Washburne is a fictional character who originated in the science fiction television series Firefly. He later appeared in the comic book series Serenity: Those Left Behind, a sequel to the television series, and the film Serenity, itself a sequel to the comic.
Hobankyo is a shortcut for the organization's actual name , also known in English as the Council for Protection of Copyright of Television Program of Japan. Other names referencing HĹŤbankyĹŤ include HĹŤsĹŤ Bangumi KyĹŤkai.
Hobart Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony, it is Australia's second oldest and eleventh largest city, with a metropolitan population of 206,000.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts institution. The Colleges adhere to a "coordinate system," which retains some elements of the original single-sex institutions, though the student experience is largely co-ed.
Hobart Aquatic Centre The Hobart Aquatic Centre, also known by is naming rights sponsor as the Tattersalls Aquatic Centre, is a major aquatic sporting facility located upon the Queens Domain, within less than 1 kilometre of the CBD of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Australia.
Hobart Baronets There have been two creations of baronets with the surname Hobart, one in England and one in the United Kingdom. The first was part of the original creation of 1611, and was created for Sir Henry Hobart, MP for Norwich.
Hobart Bus Station Hobart Bus Station, more commonly referred to as "Hobart Bus Mall" is a section of Elizabeth Street which serves as Metro Tasmania's primary bus terminus in Hobart's CBD. Hobart Bus Station is utilised by thousands of commuters every day, bringing city workers into Hobart from outlying suburbs, and the neighbouring cities of Clarence and Glenorchy, as well as nearby Richmond, Cambridge and Kingborough.
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