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Holmer Green Anciently, Holmer Green was a hamlet in the parish of Little Missenden, in Buckinghamshire, England. Today it is considered a village in its own right even though it looks to the casual observer like a far corner of High Wycombe.
Holmes on Homes Holmes on Homes is a Canadian television series airing on Home & Garden Television in Canada, and also on several other Alliance Atlantis networks in Canada (including BBC Canada and Life Network), as well as in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and on Discovery Home in the United States. It has been consistently the highest-rated show on the Canadian HGTV (HGTV having once claimed that an episode had gotten its highest-ever ratings), with shows airing upwards of 20 times a week at the peak of its popularity.
Holmes Rolston III Holmes Rolston III (born 1932) is University Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. He is a world-renowned philosopher, best known for his contributions to environmental ethics and science and religion.
Holmes Station Holmes Station was a railway station in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The station served the communities of Masborough and Holmes and was situated on the former Sheffield and Rotherham line between Rotherham Westgate Station and Wincobank and Meadowhall Station.
Holmes' Marine Life Protection Association The Holmes' Marine Life Protection Association was a United Kingdom company set up in the 19th century to produce marine signal lights and foghorns. It was founded by Nathaniel John Holmes, a telegraph engineer from Middlesex; and it passed to his son Joseph R.
Holmestown Road Holmestown Road or known as Horry County Route 1240 is a major 4-lane road in Burgess, South Carolina near Surfside Beach, South Carolina in Horry County. The Horry County South Strand Complex is located off Holmestown Road.
Holmesville (Hamlet), New York Holmesville is situated on the Unadilla River, in the south-east corner of the town, and is a station on the New Berlin Branch of the Midland Railroad, about two miles south of South New Berlin. It contains a Union church, (built in 1861,) a district school, two stores, a grist-mill, a saw, shingle and planing-mill, a cheese factory, (built in 1861,) a cheese factory, (built about fourteen years ago and owned by E.
Holmeswood Holmeswood is a small agricultural village in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England. It lies just north of the Martin Mere wetland and to the south of North Meols about six miles east of the Irish Sea coast at Southport.
Holmfirth (UK Parliament constituency) Holmfirth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Holmfirth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.
Holmium Holmium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ho and atomic number 67. Part of the lanthanide series, holmium is a relatively soft and malleable silvery-white metallic element, which is stable in dry air at room temperature.
Holmium(III) oxide Holmium(III) oxide, a yellow solid, is a compound of holmium sometimes used in making specialty glasses. It was first isolated in 1878 from an impure sample of erbia by Per Teodor Cleve, who named it holmia after the Latin name for his home town, Stockholm.
Holmsland Holmsland is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkjøbing County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 95 km² on a narrow strip of land, Holmsland Dunes (Holmsland Klit), which is connected to the mainland on the north and south, and bounded on the east by Ringkøbing Fjord and on the west by the North Sea.
Holne Holne is a small village on the southeastern slopes of Dartmoor, in Devon, United Kingdom. A community has existed here since at least the 11th century, and today a population of around 250 people is served by a church and a pub - the Church House Inn.
Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency is an inherited disorder in which the body is unable to use the vitamin biotin effectively. This disorder is classified as a multiple carboxylase deficiency, a group of disorders characterized by impaired activity of certain enzymes that depend on biotin.
Holocaust (comics) Holocaust, also known as Nemesis, is a supervillain from the X-Men series of comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character's first appearance was technically in Stryfe's Strike File #1 (1993), though the 'regular' version of Holocaust would first appear in X-Men Alpha (1995) as a component in the Age of Apocalypse alternate timeline.
Holocaust (miniseries) Holocaust was an Emmy Award-winning television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some including noted Holocaust author and survivor Elie Wiesel who (according to the New York Times) called it "untrue, offensive (and) cheap.
Holocaust denial Holocaust denial (commonly called Holocaust revisionism by its supporters'When I turned to the topic of Holocaust denial, I knew that I was dealing with extremist antisemites who have increasingly managed, under the guise of scholarship, to camouflage their hateful ideology.' - Lipstadt, 'Denying the Holocaust', ISBN 0-14-024157-4, p 3.
Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod HEAP is an acronym for a "Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod", a concept created by author Neal Stephenson in his book Cryptonomicon. The HEAP is basically an instruction manual on guerilla warfare, designed to be distributed among peoples at risk of becoming the victims of genocide or ethnic cleansing.
Holocaust in Poland Persecution of the Jews by the German Nazi occupation government, particularly in the urban areas, began immediately after the occupation. In the first year and a half, however, the Germans confined themselves to stripping the Jews of their property and herding them into ghettoes and putting them into forced labor in war-related industries.
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. It was first held in January 2001, and has been on 27 January every year since.
Holocaust Memorial Day and Genocide Remembrance Act A law passed in the Alberta Legislature with unanimous consent of all parties in November 2000. This law provides recognition for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) that falls in April/May according to the Jewish lunar calendar.
Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach The Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach is a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach, Florida. It was conceived by a committee of Holocaust survivors in 1984, formally established in 1985 as the Holocaust Memorial Committee, a non-profit organization.
Holocaust theology Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related literature, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in this human world and the dark events of the European Holocaust that occurred during World War II (1939-1945) when around 11 million people, including 6 million Jews were subjected to genocide by the Nazis and their cohorts. "Holocaust theology" is also referred to as "theology nach Auschwitz" ("after Auschwitz" in German), due to the common practice of using "Auschwitz" as a shorthand for the Holocaust as a whole.
Holocaust victims While the victims of the Holocaust were primarily Jews, the Nazis also persecuted and slaughtered the members of other groups they considered inferior, undesirable or dangerous. They included Poles and some other Slavic peoples such as Serbs; Soviets (particulary prisoners of war); Roma (also known as Gypsies); some Africans, Asians and others who did not belong to the "Aryan race"; the mentally ill and the physically disabled; homosexuals; and political opponents and religious dissidents such as communists, trade unionists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Holocene The Holocene epoch is a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130 calendar years BP (between 9560 and 9300 BC). The Holocene is the fourth and last epoch of the Neogene period (second epoch of the unofficial Quaternary sub-era).
Holocene extinction event The Holocene extinction event is a name customarily given to the widespread, ongoing mass extinction of species during the modern Holocene epoch. The large number of extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods; a sizeable fraction of these extinctions are occurring in the rainforests.
Holocene glacial retreat Holocene glacial retreat had a profound effect on landscapes in many areas that were covered by ice at the Last Glacial Maximum. The many valleys of the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in the Eastern Scottish Highlands are littered with deposits from this period.
Holocube In fiction, a holocube is a small, futuristic object shaped like a cube. It is about the size of a Rubik's cube, and can display short recorded video messages, in which a holographic object talks or demonstrates.
Holodeck In the Star Trek fictional universe, the holodeck is a simulated reality facility, generally on starships and starbases. The holodeck was first seen in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint".
Holodiscus discolor The shrub Holodiscus discolor bears the common names ocean spray and creambush. It is native to western North America, and is most common in the mountainous Pacific Northwest where it is part of the forest understory.
Holodomor The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in modern history with direct loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary). While the famine in Ukraine was a part of a wider famine that also affected other regions of the USSR, the term Holodomor is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by ethnic Ukrainians.
Holody Trophy The Holody Trophy, awarded annually to the champion of the Midwest Division in the Ontario Hockey League, is named for former Guelph and Owen Sound Platers Governor Joe Holody, and was presented following the 1998-1999 season for the first time with the realignment of the League into four divisions.
Holofernes Holofernes (Hebrew, הולופרנס) was an Assyrian Proof of Race invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, who appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. It was said that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the west that had withheld their assistance to his reign.
Hologram of Baal If Magician Among the Spirits was a dark time for the band with band members no longer on speaking terms and original member Peter Koppes sitting in as mainly a session musician, then 1998's Hologram of Baal is the reconvening of The Church proper.
Holographic associative memory Holographic Associative Memory is part of the family of analog, correlation-based, associative, stimulus-response memories, where information is mapped onto the phase orientation of complex numbers operating. It can be considered as a complex valued artificial neural network.
Holographic interferometry Holographic interferometry is a method of reconstructing to a very high precision the original waveform of light emitted or reflected by an object. This method allows image resolution of nearly the wavelength of the light being used.
Holographic memory Holographic memory is a technology that can store information at high density inside crystals or photopolymers. As current storage techniques such as DVD reach the upper limit of possible data density (due to the diffraction limited size of the writing beams), holographic storage has the potential to become the next generation of storage media.
Holographic principle The holographic principle is a speculative conjecture about quantum gravity theories, proposed by Gerard 't Hooft and improved and promoted by Leonard Susskind, claiming that all of the information contained in a volume of space can be represented by a theory that lives in
Holographic Versatile Card The Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) is a data storage format proposed by Optware; the company's projected release date for a Japanese launch is late 2006. They claim it will hold 30GB of data, have a write speed 3 times faster than Blu-ray, and be approximately the size of a credit card.
Holographic Versatile Disc Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology still in the research stage which would greatly increase storage over Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD optical disc systems. It employs a technique known as collinear holography, whereby two lasers, one red and one blue-green, are collimated in a single beam.
Holographic will A holographic will is a will and testament that has been entirely handwritten and signed by the testator. Normally, a will must be signed by witnesses attesting to the validity of the testator's signature and intent, but in many jurisdictions, unwitnessed holographic wills are treated as valid as witnessed wills and need only to meet minimal requirements in order to be probated:
Holography Holography (from the Greek, Όλος-holos whole + γραφή-graphe writing) is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. The technique of holography can also be used to optically store, retrieve, and process information.
Holomatch In Activision's PC game, "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force" and "Elite Force 2," a holomatch is a simulated battle environment via use of Star Trek's holodeck. Using holotechnology, players can beam in via the transporter and begin gameplay.
Holometabolism Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphism, is a term applied to insect groups to describe the specific kind of insect development which includes four life stages - as an embryo, a larva, a pupa and an imago. For example, in the life cycle of a butterfly, the embryo grows within the egg, hatching into the larval stage caterpillar, before entering the pupal stage within its chrysalis and finally emerging as an adult butterfly imago.
Holomorphic function Holomorphic functions are the central object of study of complex analysis; they are functions defined on an open subset of the complex number plane C with values in C that are complex-differentiable at every point. This is a much stronger condition than real differentiability and implies that the function is infinitely often differentiable and can be described by its Taylor series.
Holomorphic functional calculus In mathematics, holomorphic functional calculus is functional calculus with holomorphic functions. That is to say, given a holomorphic function f of a complex argument z and an operator T, the aim is to construct an operator
Holomovement Holomovement is a metaphysical concept invented by David Bohm describing his view of the "fabric of reality", implying "undivided wholeness in flowing movement" to this viewpoint, holomovement is the underlying flow (of possibly not yet defined qualities related to thought, matter and energy) in which reality (or the possible realities) can be experienced.
Holon Holon (Standard Hebrew חוֹלוֹן; Tiberian Hebrew חֹלֹן, ) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, just south of Tel Aviv, and part of the metropolex known as Gush Dan in the Tel Aviv District. It has about 180,000 residents.
Holonephros The holonephros is the kidney of the larvae of cyclostomes and some amphibians. The entire mass of nephrogenic tissue gives rise to this kidney, which is usually of simple form with a single tubule in each segment.
Holonomic brain theory The holonomic brain theory, originated by Karl Pribram and initially developed in collaboration with David Bohm, models cognitive function as being guided by a matrix of neurological wave interference patterns situated temporally between holographic Gestalt perception and discrete, affective, quantum vectors derived from reward anticipation potentials.
Holonomy In differential geometry, the holonomy group of a connection on a vector bundle over a smooth manifold M is the group of linear transformations induced by parallel transport around closed loops in M. There is an analogous notion for connections on principal bundles over M.
HoloNet The HoloNet is the main faster-than-light network used to communicate within the Star Wars galaxy; it is first featured implicitly in The Empire Strikes Back when Darth Vader communicates with his master Emperor Palpatine after the Battle of Hoth, although it is first named and described in works from the Expanded Universe.
Holophony Holophony (or holophonic sound) is an audio recording technique, designed by Argentine researcher Hugo Zuccarelli, which operates on a similar principle to Holography, except it applies these principles to sound and audio recording. It uses a multiple exposure technique where an original recording is combined with a reference recording, and the resulting interference patterns are recorded.
Holophrasis Holophrasis is the prelinguistic use of a single word to express a complex idea. A holophrase may resemble an interjection, but whereas an interjection is linguistic, and has a specific grammatical function, a holophrase is simply a vocalization memorized by rote and used without grammatical intent.
Holophusikon The Holophusikon (or Holophusicon, also known as the Leverian Museum) was a museum of natural curiosities exhibited at Leicester House, on Leicester Square in London, from 1775 to 1786 by Ashton Lever. The collection was acquired by a James Parkinson (not the famous doctor) through a lottery in 1786, but continued to be displayed at Leicester House until Lever's death in 1788.
Holoplankton Holoplankton are organisms that are planktonic for their entire life cycle. Examples of holoplankton include diatoms, radiolarians, dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, salps, and jellyfish.
Holor A holor is a mathematical entity that is made up of one or more independent quantities, and includes complex numbers, scalars, vectors, matrices, tensors, quaternions, and other hypercomplex numbers. A holor is a generalized tensor; muliplying holors (tensor products) is done without regard to direction.
Holos the Healer Saint Holos was a Caucasian female of Armenian descent born in Armenia. She was later relocated to a newly established small village which was populated by Armenian immigrants in the Republic of Iran (Persia) called Peria, because of the 1915 genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in her motherland, Armenia.
Holostei Holostei are bony fish that show primitive characteristics. There are eight species divided among two orders, the Amiiformes represented by a single living species, the bowfin (Amia calva), and the Lepisosteiformes, the gars.
Holosteum Holosteum is a genus of plants in the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae) with 3 or 4 species native from southern Europe through central and south western Asia and in Africa. They are herbs, with an annual life span and some act as winter annuals.
Holosync Holosync is a trademarked product from the Centerpointe Research Institute. It utilizes binaural beats to help a person achieve different meditative states in order to further ones capacity to handle stress, and to help one feel more at peace.
Holstein Holstein () (Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe and Eider. The capital of Holstein is Kiel.
Holstein-Gottorp Holstein-Gottorp or Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp is the historiographical name, as well as contemporaneous shorthand name, for a duchy consisting of areas within Schleswig and Holstein, in present-day Denmark and Germany. Their main seat was the Gottorp castle in Schleswig.
Holstein, Ontario Holstein is a community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Holstein is located south of Durham just off of Grey Road 6 on Concession 2, north of Mount Forest on the corner of Grey Road 106, 109, and Concession 2 and east of Ayton.
Holsteinstadion Located in the port city of Kiel in Northern Germany, Holsteinstadion is the home of Holstein Kiel, a soccer club currently playing in Germany's Regionalliga Nord. The Baltic Hurricanes, an American football squad, also call Holsteinstadion their home.
Holstentor The Holstentor ("Holstein Gate") is a late Brick Gothic city gate, the only still existing one beside the Burgtor and part of the medieval fortifications of LĂĽbeck in Germany. It consists of two round towers at the north and the south side with an arched entranceway between them.
Holster A holster is a specialized article of clothing worn to hold a device, such as a handgun or other defensive weapon, cellular telephone, hand tool, or other small object about the person, most commonly in a location where it can be easily withdrawn for immediate use.
Holston Formation The Holston Formation, alternately known as the Holston Limestone, is a stratigraphic unit of Ordovician age within the Chickamauga Group in the Ridge-and-Valley physiographic province of the southeastern United States. A 120-mile-long outcrop belt of the Holston in East Tennessee is the source of the decorative building stone known as Tennessee marble.
Holston River The Holston River is a major river system of southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee. The three major forks of the Holston (its North, Middle and South Forks) rise in southwestern Virginia and have their confluence near Kingsport, Tennessee.
Holsworthy, New South Wales Holsworthy is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 31km south-west of the Sydney central business district in the City of Liverpool and partly in the Sutherland Shire.
Holt Arena Holt Arena is a college sports stadium located on the campus of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. Completed in 1970, it is the oldest enclosed stadium on a college campus in the United States and the second-oldest overall.
Holt Coffey Holt Coffey (1892-1964) was the sheriff of Platte County, Missouri from 1933 until 1937 and again from 1941 until 1945. Coffee, who along with newly elected Platte City Prosecutor David Clevenger, was responsible for cleaning up much of the small time crime around Platte County.
Holt Collier Holt Collier (1848 - 1936) was a noted African-American bear hunter and sportsman who contributed to popular culture by helping to create the Teddy Bear phenomenon. Although born in 1848 as a slave in Mississippi, he joined the Confederate military during the U.
Holt Heath, Worcestershire Holt Heath, in the parish of Holt, is a village near the west bank of the River Severn in Worcestershire. The nearest towns are all about 9 km away: to the north Stourport-on-Severn, to the east Droitwich Spa and to the south Worcester.
Holt International Children's Services Holt International Children's Services (HICS) pioneered intercountry adoption nearly 50 years ago, and is a recognized leader in child welfare, permanency planning, and support services for at-risk, orphaned and abandoned children.
Holt Renfrew Holt Renfrew is a high end Canadian department store often compared to the United States retailers Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Barneys New York. It was founded in 1837 as a hat shop in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, by Irishman William Samuel Henderson.
Holt Science and Technology Holt Science and Technology is a middle school science program. Its three-book series provides thorough content coverage for life science, earth science, and physical science, and emthasizes reading strategies, math practice and meaningful hands-on activities that make 'learning science fun'.
Holt-Oram syndrome Holt-Oram syndrome is a disorder that affects bones in the arms and hands (the upper limbs) and may also cause heart problems. All people with this disorder have at least one limb abnormality that affects bones in the wrist (carpal bones).
Holt, Rinehart and Winston Holt, Rinehart and Winston, sometimes abbreviated as HRW or referred to as Holt, is an Austin, Texas based publishing company, that specializes in textbooks for use in secondary schools. It is a division of Harcourt Education, which is a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier.
Holton (Leblanc) Holton is a division of Leblanc Incorporated (a division of Conn-Selmer), and is Leblanc's French horn line. Holton was founded by Frank Holton, a first trombonist under John Phillip Sousa, and was later purchased by Leblanc in 1964.
Holton Heath railway station Holton Heath railway station serves the town of Holton Heath in Dorset. It is located adjacent to the former Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF); the station was opened in World War I to serve the RNCF.
Holton-Arms School Holton-Arms is a prestigious independent college-preparatory school for girls in grades 3–12 dedicated to the “education not only of the mind, but of the soul and spirit.” The School’s motto is Inveniam viam aut faciam or “I will find a way or make one.
Holtun Holtún is a Maya site located on the road to Yaxhá from Flores, and 10 minutes walking from the main paved highway, Holtún is a mid size, Classic Maya site Holtún ("Head of stone" or "stone Hole"), occupied from 300 to 890 AD. Account with a group of triadic pattern, the Acropolis with pyramid and ball court.
Holtwood Arboretum The Holtwood Arboretum over 5,000 acres (20 km²), also known as Holtwood Preserve, is a recreation area, arboretum, and wildflower preserve located on New Village Road (off Route 372), Holtwood, Pennsylvania. It is open to the public daily without charge.
Holtzman effect The Holtzman effectIt should be noted that in Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the novel Dune, Frank Herbert defined the Holtzman effect itself as "the negative repelling effect of a shield generator." Interpreting this in conjunction with Herbert's definition of the defensive shield, it is unclear whether the author intended the Holtzman effect to be an original component of his suspensor-nullification effect or a phenomenon created by Holtzman's invention, the shield generator.
Holtzman Inkblot Test The Holtzman Inkblot Test, conceived by Wayne Holtzman, is a personality test similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. The Holtzman Inkblot Test was invented to correct many — if not all — of the controversial issues aroused by the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
Holum Holum is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It was created in 1837 as Holme (the name was changed in 1911) and existed until January 1, 1964, when it was merged with Mandal and Halse og Harkmark to form the enlarged Mandal municipality.
Holwell, Hertfordshire Holwell is a small village two miles north of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England, near the Bedfordshire border. The church is unusual and, although largely rebuilt, retains some Perpendicular features and an interesting brass to Richard Wodehouse.
Holy actions Holy actions are when Christians offer their work, prayers, apostolic undertakings, daily works, hardships of life, relaxations of body and mind, and family and marriage lives to the Lord, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Spirit of Love.
Holy anointing oil The holy anointing oil described in Exodus 30:22-25 was created from 500 shekels (about 6 kg) of myrrh, half as much (about 3 kg) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels (about 3 kg) of fragrant cane (kanabos, variously translated as calamus or cannabis), 500 shekels (about 6kg) of cassia, and a hin (about 4 L) of olive oil.
Holy Alliance The Holy Alliance was a coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, signed by the three powers in Vienna on September 26 1815. Ostensibly it was to instill the Christian values of charity and peace in European political life, but in practice Klemens Wenzel von Metternich made it a bastion against revolution.
Holy Angel's Convent Trivandrum The Holy Angels' Convent Higher Secondary School is one of the oldest educational institutions in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the state Kerala in India. This school for girls was opened in November 10, 1880 by Mother Elias from Ireland.
Holy Ascension Orthodox Church Located in Albion, Michigan, the parish is one of the oldest Orthodox Churches in Michigan. Founded 30 April 1916 by Russian immigrants, the parish's name was originally Русская Православная Церковь Вознесенія Господня (Russian Orthodox Ascension of Christ Church).
Holy Beast Online Holy Beast Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed by Easyfun Entertainment of Taiwan. The main gameplay feature is the ability of player characters to switch back and forth from an animal form into a human form at will.
Holy Body Tattoo The Holy Body Tattoo is an award-winning Canadian contemporary dance troupe based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was formed in 1993 by co-artistic directors and choreographers Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras who had performed together since 1987.
Holy Brook The Holy Brook is a six mile long channel of the River Kennet in the vicinity of the English town of Reading. Whilst of considerable historical significance, the origin and nature of the brook is still unclear; it is probable that some parts of the channel are natural, whilst other parts were created in mediaeval times to supply water to water mills and fish ponds.
Holy Bull Stakes The Holy Bull Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses dedicated to the famous race horse Holy Bull. It is held in February at Gulfstream Park and open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt.
Holy card Holy cards are small, mass-produced, devotional pictures made for the use of the Catholic faithful. They typically depict a religious scene or a saint on a small image that is about the size of a playing card or collectible card.
Holy Corner Holy Corner is a colloquial name for a small area of Edinburgh, Scotland, and (along with Church Hill) is actually part of the area more properly known as Burghmuirhead, itself part of the lands of Greenhill. Holy Corner lies between the areas of Bruntsfield and Morningside.
Holy Corner (Ghent Béguinage) The Belgian city of Ghent has three béguinages: the "Old Saint Elisabeth", known in English as the Holy Corner, the new Saint Elisabeth béguinage in the Ghent suburb of Sint-Amandsberg and Our Lady Ter Hoyen in the Lange Violettenstraat. The Saint Elisabeth béguinage was named after Elisabeth of Hungary also known as Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia.

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