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Homer Laughlin Building Located at 317 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, Homer Laughlin Building is a Los Angeles landmark building best known for it ground floor tenant, the Grand Central Market, the City's largest and oldest open air market.
Homer Litzenberg Homer Laurence Litzenberg (January 8, 1903-June 27, 1963) was a decorated Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, serving in Haiti, World War II, and the Korean War. His final rank was awarded at his retirement for valor in battle.
Homer Mensch Homer Mensch (November 14, 1914 in Sussex, New Jersey - December 9, 2005 in Manhattan, New York) was a prominent classical bassist who was a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Pops, and the NBC Symphony. As well, he held faculty positions at Yale University, at the Manhattan School of Music (in both the college and pre-college divisions), the Juilliard School (also in both divisions), the Mannes College of Music, Rutgers University, Dalcroze School, Queens College, and Catholic University.
Homer Nearing Dr Homer C Nearing Jr (15 April 1915 - May 29 2004) was an American professor and author of mathematically themed short fiction. He is best known for his Professor Cleanth Penn Ransom series published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the early 1950's.
Homer P. Snyder Homer Peter Snyder (December 6, 1863 - December 30, 1937) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, he attended the common schools and was employed in various capacities in knitting mills until 1887.
Homer Rice With his retirement on May 9, 1997, after 17 years as Georgia Tech's Director of Athletics, Homer Rice closed the book on a remarkable career that spanned four decades and countless accomplishments. Whether it was formulating his famed Triple Option Offense in the 1960s (the dominant offensive concept in football of its decade) or his Total Person Concept of the 1980s, Homer Rice has been a respected leader, builder and master motivator.
Homer S. Ferguson Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889 – December 17, 1982) was a United States Senator from Michigan. He was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Harrison City, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools and the University of Pittsburgh.
Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He has become a popular character and an American icon; his signature annoyed grunt "D'oh!
Homer Summa Homer Summa (November 3, 1898 - January 29, 1966) was a right fielder in major league baseball from 1920 to 1930. Most of his career he played with the Cleveland Indians, although he also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Athletics.
Homer Watson Homer Ransford Watson (January 14, 1855 – May 30, 1936) was a Canadian landscape painter. He was "the man who first saw Canada as Canada, rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting," according to J.
Homer's Fort Homer's Fort was a stockade fort erected by settlers five miles upstream on the Cacapon River from Fort Edwards near present-day Hooks Mills in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Historically, Homer's Fort was also referred to as Fort MacKay.
Homeric Hymns The anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey and are couched in the same dialect. They were attributed to Homer himself in Antiquity—from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.
Homeric Question The Homeric Question is the debate over the identity of Homer and the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This debate has roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period, but is essentially a controversy among Homeric scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Homeric scholarship Homeric scholarship is the study of Homeric epic, especially the two large surviving epics the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies, but the subject is one of the very oldest topics in all scholarship or science, and goes back to antiquity.
Homero Manzi Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi (born November 1 1907 in Añatuya, Santiago del Estero – died on May 3 1951 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos.
Homerton Homerton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick and by Victoria Park (Bethnal Green and Bow, parts of Tower Hamlets) to the south.
Homerun Range The Homerun Range () is a northwest-trending mountain range, 45 km (28 mi) long and 3 to 11 km (2 to 7 mi) wide, located east of Everett Range at the heads of the Ebbe and Tucker glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
HomeRF HomeRF is a wireless networking specification (Shared Wireless Access Protocol-SWAP) for home devices to share data. It was developed by the HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of mobile wireless companies that included Siemens, Motorola and more than 100 other companies.
Homes's law In superconductivity, Homes's law states that a superconductor's transition temperature is proportional to the strength of the superconducting state at zero temperature (that is, the superfluid density) multiplied by the above-transition electrical resistivity. The law is named for physicist Christopher Homes and was first presented in the July 29 2004 edition of Nature.
Homescan Homescan, formerly known as ScanTrack, is a service provided by the ACNielsen company where members scan the barcodes on all their purchases with a special barcode reader. The store, price, quantity, and special deals are recorded with the products scanned and the information is transmitted weekly to the company.
Homeshoring According to Macmillan English Dictionary homeshoring is "the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home-based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities" Homeshoring is best thought of as a combination of outsourcing] and [[telecommuting.
Homeschool Cooperatives A Homeschool Co-op (cooperative) is made up of a group of families that homeschool their children. It provides an opportunity for children to learn from other parents who are more specialized in certain areas or subjects.
Homeschool mathematics Many school districts have adopted standards-based mathematics curricula, which were designed to teach mathematics substantially differently than it was taught to parents a generation ago, prompting groups like Mathematically Correct to claim that these new approaches are largely hindrances to mathematics instruction. For example, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space requires buying expensive books, materials, and extensive teacher training, and follows controversial research that traditional computing methods should not be taught to elementary students.
Homeschooling Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the education of children at home rather than in an institution such as a public or private school. Prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws in the 19th century, most education worldwide occurred within the family or community, with only a small proportion of the population attending schools or employing tutors.
Homesourcing Homesourcing is a term that describes the hiring of people who work from their home instead of in an office or other business place. It is an alternative to outsourcing, which involves engaging another company that provides workers to perform a task or project (see also Small office/home office).
Homestead (small African settlement) In the southern African context, a homestead (isiXhosa 'umzi', isiZulu 'umuzi', siSwati 'umuti') is a cluster of several houses (singular indlu; plural isiXhosa and isiZulu 'izindlu', siSwati 'tindlu') characteristic of the Nguni-speaking peoples of Africa. Each homestead will normally be occupied by a single extended family.
Homestead 2 Da 44 (album) Homestead 2 Da 44 is a mixtape album by southen rap group The Color Changin' Click. This particular album was done by the duo formed from the click, Paul Wall & Chamillionaire, while they were still working with Michael 5000 Watts from 1999-2000.
Homestead Act The Homestead Act was a United States federal law that gave one quarter of a section of a township (160 acres, or about 65 hectares) of undeveloped land in the American West to any family head or person who was at least 21 years of age, provided he lived on it for five years and built a house of a minimum of 12 by 14 feet (3.6 x 4.
Homestead Act of 1860 The Homestead Act of 1860 in the United States made land available for 25 cents per acre. This was at a time where notherners had an idea that the government should give 160 acre plots of land to pioneers for free.
Homestead Air Reserve Base Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base (JARB) (formerly Homestead Air Force Base), is a United States Air Force base located in South Miami-Dade County, Florida adjacent to the city of Homestead. It is the home of the 482nd Fighter Wing
Homestead exemption Homestead exemption is a legal regime designed to protect the value of the homes of residents from property taxes, creditors, and circumstances arising from the death of the homeowner spouse. Laws enacting such protections are found in state statutes or constitutional provisions which exist in many states in the United States.
Homestead exemption in Florida Florida's homestead exemption provisions are among the most protective in the United States, and refer to two similar, but unrelated provisions of the Florida Constitution. The creditor protection clause of Article X gives no limit to the value of property that can be protected from creditors.
Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT), assigned the State Road 821 (SR 821) designation by the Florida Department of Transportation, is a southern extension of the tolled Florida's Turnpike, running around the north and west sides of the Miami to end at Florida City (near Homestead). It was built in 1974, after the main line of the Turnpike was completed, and is used by both commuters and travelers to the Florida Keys and Everglades.
Homestead Grays The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and would remain in continuous operation for 38 seasons.
Homestead Grays Bridge The Homestead Grays Bridge, also known as the (Homestead) High Level Bridge, was built in 1936 and spans the Monongahela River between Homestead and Pittsburgh's Greenfield district. It is notable as the first bridge to utilize the Wichert Truss, which uses a quadrilateral shape over each support.
Homestead Harmonizers The Homestead Harmonizers is a chorus created in response to a charter to operate a barbershop chorus in Beatrice, Nebraska issued on December 12, 1988 by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.. The members of the Homestead Harmonizers range in age as young as the early teens to 80 plus years, including men from 23 different communities in southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas.
Homestead High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Homestead High School, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, is a public 4-year high school with a comprehensive intake of over 2,000 students. Its location is classed as "Urban Fringe of a Mid-size City".
Homestead High School (Mequon, Wisconsin) Homestead High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Mequon, Wisconsin, a northern suburb of Milwaukee. The four-year public high school is a part of the Mequon-Thiensville School District, and as such serves a 48-square mile area including the city of Mequon and the village of Thiensville.
Homestead National Monument of America The Homestead National Monument of America commemorates the Homestead Act of 1862. Located west of Beatrice, Nebraska, Daniel Freeman's homestead was recognized by the United States Congress as the first homestead in the nation obtained through the Homestead Act.
Homestead Steel Works Homestead Steel Works, located in Homestead, was a rival of the steel company, Carnegie Steel, founded by Andrew Carnegie (an immigrant of Scotland). Carnegie Steel eventually bought Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a railway 425 miles long, and a line of lake steamships.
Homestead Strike The Homestead Strike was a labor lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, with a battle between the strikers and private security agents erupting on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in U.
Homestead Studio Suites Hotels Originally called Homestead Village, it was started in 1992 by Security Capital in Santa Fe, New Mexico with its first properties located in Dallas and Houston. In 2001, Homestead was purchased by the Blackstone Group.
Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami. It plays host to Ford Championship Weekend, the final races of the season in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch Series, and the Craftsman Truck Series.
Homestead-Wakefield Elementary School Homestead-Wakefield Elementary School is a medium-sized school situated in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. The school is located few hundred feet to the left of Bel Air Middle School, and a few hundred feet further to the left of that is Bel Air High School.
Homesteading the Noosphere "Homesteading the Noosphere" (abbreviated HtN), an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open source software development, follows his influential piece "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Hometime (TV series) Hometime is a PBS home improvement television show produced by Hometime Video Publishing, Chaska, Minnesota, in association with WHYY-TV Philadelphia/Wilmington and broadcast on public television and in syndication. It first aired in 1986.
Hometown Hometown is primarily used as a generic term for the city or town in which someone grew up, or the place of someone's principal residenceis also used as the specific] name of several places in the [[United States.
Hometown Band The Hometown Band was founded in 1975 by Claire Lawrence, a former member of The Collectors and Chilliwack, to back up Canadian folk artist Valdy. The band was composed of Shari Ulrich (lead vocals, flute, fiddle), Geoff Ayre (drums, vocals), Robbie King (organ, piano, keyboard bass), and Doug Edwards (guitar, keyboards, bass).
Hometown High-Q Hometown High-Q is a high school quiz bowl game show that tapes and broadcasts on KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is sponsored by Westfield Insurance (and previously by Giant Eagle) and has been hosted by KDKA news anchor Ken Rice since its inception in 2000.
Hometown Tales Hometown Tales began as a public access television show and website exploring urban legends, folklore, historic oddities and local culture. In its infancy it aired on cable access in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 film based on the best-selling novel The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. The film was directed by Duwayne Dunham who has directed other films such as Little Giants and television shows such as JAG and Twin Peaks.
Homeward Looking Angel Homeward Looking Angel was a #23 album on the Billboard charts. Four singles from it charted in the Top Twenty: "Shake the Sugar Tree" at #3, "Let That Pony Run" at #4, "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" at #11, and "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" at #16.
Homewood Field Homewood Field on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University,in Baltimore, Maryland, was built in 1906 and has a capacity of 8,500 people. It is the home field for the school's football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams.
Homewood North (Pittsburgh) Homewood North is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's east city area. It has ZIP Codes of both 15211 and 15208, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by both the council members for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood South Homewood South is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has ZIP Codes of both 15208 and 15211, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood Suites by Hilton Homewood Suites by Hilton is an American hotel chain with more than 190 hotels open and another 30 under development. The brand, launched in 1989, is an upscale residential-style offering catering primarily to travelers staying five or more consecutive nights.
Homewood West (Pittsburgh) Homewood West is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's east city area. It has ZIP Codes of both 15206 and 15208, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood, Alabama Homewood is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, located on the other side of Red Mountain due south of the city center, but also has one of the highest population densities in Alabama.
Homewood, South Carolina Homewood is a small community in South Carolina just north of Conway in Horry County in the northeastern part of the state. Homewood has under 500 inhabitants, with a mixture of whites, blacks, and a few Hispanics, and is unincorporated, although there is an elementary school in the community.
Homeworld Homeworld is a real-time strategy (RTS) computer game released in 1999 developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is best known for its full three-dimensional movement and engrossing storyline.
Homeworld 2 Homeworld 2 is a real time strategy (RTS) computer game, the sequel to Relic Entertainment's Homeworld from 1999. Taking place 100 years after the original game, it concerns Hiigara's response to a new threat, known as the Vaygr.
Homeworld Universe The Homeworld Universe is the world of the computer game series published by Sierra Entertainment and created by Relic Entertainment in 1999 and of its various fans' works of art and fiction. It is a unique universe and the games it belongs to are so far the only successful 3D space RTS games in the entire gaming industry.
Homeworld: Cataclysm Homeworld: Cataclysm was originally developed in 2000 as an expansion set of the original Homeworld, but was later turned into a stand-alone game. It was produced by Sierra Entertainment, as was the original, but it was developed by Barking Dog Studios instead of Relic Entertainment.
Homeworlds Resistance In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad, Homeworlds Resistance was an undercover resistance movement on Neosapien-occupied Earth and Venus during the war. Because Mars, the third Homeworld, was controlled and populated primarily by Neosapiens even before the war started, there was no resistance organizations there.
Homewrecker (TV series) Homewrecker is a show on MTV hosted by former Jackass star Ryan Dunn. The show is a twist on home renovation reality shows such as Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; instead of the room being renovated, it is wrecked.
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. The broad goals of the Centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level, and encourage the growth of scientific literacy in the country.
Homi Bhabha National Institute The Homi Bhabha National Institute is an Indian deemed university, which brings together ten premier institutions all over India under a single research-driven framework. It is named after the late Indian physicist Homi J.
Homi Sethna Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, was an Indian chemical engineer who had the full technical responsibility for the setting up of the plant at Alwaye, Kerala India, for separation of rare earth from Mohazite sands. He completed the construction of the Thorium plant and the plant for the production of nuclear grade uranium metal at Trombay, India.
Homicide Unit of The Wire The Homicide Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department is responsible for solving all of the murders that take place within Baltimore City. A clearance rate of 50% for the year is aimed for and the Unit is amongst the most demanding in the C.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is a 1991 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon describing a year spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department homicide squad. The book received the 1992 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.
Homie Homie or homey, sometimes homes, homeslice or homedog (homes being used in the singular) or even holmes is slang for friend, a shortened form of the slang word "homeboy". NIGGA IS MY HOMEBOY BIATCH!!!!!!!!!!
Homie (band) Homie is a side project of Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of the band Weezer. Homie is, by many fans, considered to be a one-time effort, although Cuomo has stated the possibility of using the Homie moniker to release music in the future.
Homies Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters in the life of artist David Gonzales. First created in 1998, these plastic figuerines were initially sold via vending machines typically positioned in supermarkets, but quickly became collectibles among young children through teenagers.
Homiletic and Pastoral Review The Homiletic & Pastoral Review is unique among religious journals in the United States in that it was the very first clergy magazine to appear in the United States and has been the leading journal of its kind for over 100 years.
Homing pigeon The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. Because any pigeon generally returns to its own nest and its own mate, it was relatively easy to selectively breed the birds that repeatedly found their way home over long distances.
Hominid A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes"), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. (This classification has been revised several times in the last few decades.
Hominid intelligence The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. There is no universally accepted definition of intelligence, one definition is "the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn" (cf.
Homininae Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and some extinct relatives, as well as the gorillas and the chimpanzees. It comprises all those [such as Australopithecus], that arose after the split from the other [[great apes (of which orangutans are the only surviving group).
Homintern Homintern is an abbreviation of "Homosexual International". The term "Homintern" was used in a number of popular magazine articles during the 1960s to refer to what was believed by many to be an international cabal of influential homosexuals who, it was asserted, controlled the arts and culture.
Hommel (crater) Hommel is a lunar crater located in the southeast section of the Moon, in a region that is deeply impacted with a multitude of impact craters. The most notable craters nearby are Pitiscus to the north; Rosenberger due east, and Nearch to the southeast.
Homo cepranensis Homo cepranensis is a proposed name for a hominin species discovered in 1994 known from only one skull cap. The fossil was discovered by archeologist Italo Biddittu and was nick-named "Ceprano Man" after a nearby town in the province of Frosinone, 89 kilometers Southeast of Rome, Italy.
Homo erectus Homo erectus (upright man) is an extinct species of the genus Homo. Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois (1890s) first described it as Pithecanthropus erectus based on a calotte (skullcap) and a modern-looking femur found from the bank of the Solo River at Trinil, in central Java.
Homo erectus soloensis Homo erectus soloensis (formerly classified as Homo sapiens soloensis) is generally regarded as a subspecies of the extinct hominin, Homo erectus. The only known specimens of this anomalous hominid were retrieved from sites along the Bengawan Solo River, on the Indonesian island of Java.
Homo faber Homo faber (Latin for "Man the Smith" or "Man the Maker"; in reference to the biological name for man, "Homo sapiens" meaning "man the wise") is a concept articulated by Hannah Arendt and Max Frisch. It refers to humans as controlling the environment through tools.
Homo heidelbergensis Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo and the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe. According to the "Recent Out of Africa" theory, similar "Archaic Homo sapiens" found in Africa (ie.
Homo Magi Homo Magi is a term to describe a sub-race of magic-using, Atlantean-descended humans in the DC Universe. According to Doctor Mist in Secret Origins #27, the Homo Magi evolved in a parallel but separate line, alongside Homo Sapiens.
Homo necans Homo necans is a book on Ancient Greek religion and mythology by Walter Burkert. The book's core thesis is that when paleolithic man became a hunter, in spite of the generally omnivore orientation of the great apes, lack of a predator instinct was made up for by turning patterns of intra-species aggression against the prey.
Homo rhodesiensis Homo rhodesiensis is a possible hominin species described from the fossil Rhodesian Man. Other morphologically-comparable remains have been found from the same, or earlier, time period in southern Africa (Hopefield or Saldanha), East Africa (Bodo, Ndutu, Eyasi, Ileret) and North Africa (Salé, Rabat, Dar-es-Soltane, Djbel Irhoud, Sidi Aberrahaman, Tighenif).
Homo sacer Homo sacer (Latin for "the sacred man") is an obscure figure of Roman law: a person who is banned, may be killed by anybody, but may not be sacrificed in a religious ritual. The person is excluded from all civil rights, while his/her life is deemed "holy" in a negative sense.
Homo sapiens idaltu Homo sapiens idaltu (roughly translated as "elderly wise man") is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived almost 160,000 years ago in Pleistocene Africa. Its fossilized remains were discovered in the Middle Awash site of Ethiopia's Afar Triangle in 1997 by Tim White, but first unveiled in 2003.
Homo scientia Homo scientia (Latin for "Man the scientist" or "Man the knowledgeable") is an alternative classification to Homo sapiens. The term began as an original competitor to the more popular biological classification for human used today, but fell out of favor due to political pressure vis-a-vis overt use of the term "science".
Homo Sapiens (song) Homo Sapiens is the first proper single release from The Cooper Temple Clause's third album Make This Your Own released on 22nd January 2007. A promotional blank CD-R and sleeve with artwork were given out to fans at gigs on the band's 2006 UK tour.
Homo Sovieticus Homo Sovieticus (from New Latin) is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created by the governments of the Soviet bloc. The term was coined by well-known Soviet writer and sociologist Aleksandr Zinovyev as the title of his book of the same name.
Homo unius libri According to a literary tradition at least three centuries old,Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) is the earliest writer in English to have noted the assertion. Saint Thomas AquinasOn the other hand, The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Anthony Lejeune, editor, (London 1998) attributes the quote instead to Augustine of Hippo.
Homoaromaticity Homoaromaticity in organic chemistry is found in conjugated cyclic systems that are able to skip a part of the ring as opposed to regular aromaticity. Like ordinary aromatic compounds, homoaromatic compounds are more stable than what would be expected based on conjugation alone.
Homobasidiomycetes The class Homobasidiomycetes is a taxonomic division in the subdivision Hymenomycotina of the division Basidiomycota (in the Kingdom Fungi). Included here are the so-called "true" mushrooms and a common name for this group of some 16,000 described species is the mushroom-forming fungi (53% of the described basidiomycetes).
Homoclinic orbit In mathematics, a homoclinic orbit is a trajectory of a flow of a dynamical system which joins a saddle equilibrium point to itself. More precisely, a homoclinic orbit lies in the intersection of the stable manifold and the unstable manifold of an equilibrium.
Homocon Homocon, an abbreviation of the (often pejorative) term "homoconservative" was coined in reference to GLBT people who adopt politics considered right-wing by traditionally leftist advocates of gay rights such as Queer Nation and the Gay Liberation Front. The rising popularity of Log Cabin Republicans illustrates a radical shift from the days when gay Republicans such as Roy Cohn and J.
Homocysteine Homocysteine is the chemical compound with the formula HSCH2CH2CH(NH2)CO2H. It is a homologue of the naturally-occurring amino acid cysteine, differing in that its side-chain contains an additional methylene (-CH2-) group before the thiol (-SH) group.
Homodiegetic Homodiegetic is a literary term referring to a narrator who has an active role as a character in the narrative; he may or may not be the protagonist. An example is Bardamu in Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, in which Bardamu not only describes the story to the reader but also is the one who has experienced it.
Homer Litzenberg Homer Laurence Litzenberg (January 8, 1903-June 27, 1963) was a decorated Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, serving in Haiti, World War II, and the Korean War. His final rank was awarded at his retirement for valor in battle.
Homer Mensch Homer Mensch (November 14, 1914 in Sussex, New Jersey - December 9, 2005 in Manhattan, New York) was a prominent classical bassist who was a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Pops, and the NBC Symphony. As well, he held faculty positions at Yale University, at the Manhattan School of Music (in both the college and pre-college divisions), the Juilliard School (also in both divisions), the Mannes College of Music, Rutgers University, Dalcroze School, Queens College, and Catholic University.
Homer Nearing Dr Homer C Nearing Jr (15 April 1915 - May 29 2004) was an American professor and author of mathematically themed short fiction. He is best known for his Professor Cleanth Penn Ransom series published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the early 1950's.
Homer P. Snyder Homer Peter Snyder (December 6, 1863 - December 30, 1937) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, he attended the common schools and was employed in various capacities in knitting mills until 1887.
Homer Rice With his retirement on May 9, 1997, after 17 years as Georgia Tech's Director of Athletics, Homer Rice closed the book on a remarkable career that spanned four decades and countless accomplishments. Whether it was formulating his famed Triple Option Offense in the 1960s (the dominant offensive concept in football of its decade) or his Total Person Concept of the 1980s, Homer Rice has been a respected leader, builder and master motivator.
Homer S. Ferguson Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889 – December 17, 1982) was a United States Senator from Michigan. He was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Harrison City, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools and the University of Pittsburgh.
Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He has become a popular character and an American icon; his signature annoyed grunt "D'oh!
Homer Summa Homer Summa (November 3, 1898 - January 29, 1966) was a right fielder in major league baseball from 1920 to 1930. Most of his career he played with the Cleveland Indians, although he also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Athletics.
Homer Watson Homer Ransford Watson (January 14, 1855 – May 30, 1936) was a Canadian landscape painter. He was "the man who first saw Canada as Canada, rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting," according to J.
Homer's Fort Homer's Fort was a stockade fort erected by settlers five miles upstream on the Cacapon River from Fort Edwards near present-day Hooks Mills in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Historically, Homer's Fort was also referred to as Fort MacKay.
Homeric Hymns The anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey and are couched in the same dialect. They were attributed to Homer himself in Antiquity—from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.
Homeric Question The Homeric Question is the debate over the identity of Homer and the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This debate has roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period, but is essentially a controversy among Homeric scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Homeric scholarship Homeric scholarship is the study of Homeric epic, especially the two large surviving epics the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies, but the subject is one of the very oldest topics in all scholarship or science, and goes back to antiquity.
Homero Manzi Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi (born November 1 1907 in Añatuya, Santiago del Estero – died on May 3 1951 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos.
Homerton Homerton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick and by Victoria Park (Bethnal Green and Bow, parts of Tower Hamlets) to the south.
Homerun Range The Homerun Range () is a northwest-trending mountain range, 45 km (28 mi) long and 3 to 11 km (2 to 7 mi) wide, located east of Everett Range at the heads of the Ebbe and Tucker glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
HomeRF HomeRF is a wireless networking specification (Shared Wireless Access Protocol-SWAP) for home devices to share data. It was developed by the HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of mobile wireless companies that included Siemens, Motorola and more than 100 other companies.
Homes's law In superconductivity, Homes's law states that a superconductor's transition temperature is proportional to the strength of the superconducting state at zero temperature (that is, the superfluid density) multiplied by the above-transition electrical resistivity. The law is named for physicist Christopher Homes and was first presented in the July 29 2004 edition of Nature.
Homescan Homescan, formerly known as ScanTrack, is a service provided by the ACNielsen company where members scan the barcodes on all their purchases with a special barcode reader. The store, price, quantity, and special deals are recorded with the products scanned and the information is transmitted weekly to the company.
Homeshoring According to Macmillan English Dictionary homeshoring is "the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home-based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities" Homeshoring is best thought of as a combination of outsourcing] and [[telecommuting.
Homeschool Cooperatives A Homeschool Co-op (cooperative) is made up of a group of families that homeschool their children. It provides an opportunity for children to learn from other parents who are more specialized in certain areas or subjects.
Homeschool mathematics Many school districts have adopted standards-based mathematics curricula, which were designed to teach mathematics substantially differently than it was taught to parents a generation ago, prompting groups like Mathematically Correct to claim that these new approaches are largely hindrances to mathematics instruction. For example, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space requires buying expensive books, materials, and extensive teacher training, and follows controversial research that traditional computing methods should not be taught to elementary students.
Homeschooling Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the education of children at home rather than in an institution such as a public or private school. Prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws in the 19th century, most education worldwide occurred within the family or community, with only a small proportion of the population attending schools or employing tutors.
Homesourcing Homesourcing is a term that describes the hiring of people who work from their home instead of in an office or other business place. It is an alternative to outsourcing, which involves engaging another company that provides workers to perform a task or project (see also Small office/home office).
Homestead (small African settlement) In the southern African context, a homestead (isiXhosa 'umzi', isiZulu 'umuzi', siSwati 'umuti') is a cluster of several houses (singular indlu; plural isiXhosa and isiZulu 'izindlu', siSwati 'tindlu') characteristic of the Nguni-speaking peoples of Africa. Each homestead will normally be occupied by a single extended family.
Homestead 2 Da 44 (album) Homestead 2 Da 44 is a mixtape album by southen rap group The Color Changin' Click. This particular album was done by the duo formed from the click, Paul Wall & Chamillionaire, while they were still working with Michael 5000 Watts from 1999-2000.
Homestead Act The Homestead Act was a United States federal law that gave one quarter of a section of a township (160 acres, or about 65 hectares) of undeveloped land in the American West to any family head or person who was at least 21 years of age, provided he lived on it for five years and built a house of a minimum of 12 by 14 feet (3.6 x 4.
Homestead Act of 1860 The Homestead Act of 1860 in the United States made land available for 25 cents per acre. This was at a time where notherners had an idea that the government should give 160 acre plots of land to pioneers for free.
Homestead Air Reserve Base Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base (JARB) (formerly Homestead Air Force Base), is a United States Air Force base located in South Miami-Dade County, Florida adjacent to the city of Homestead. It is the home of the 482nd Fighter Wing
Homestead exemption Homestead exemption is a legal regime designed to protect the value of the homes of residents from property taxes, creditors, and circumstances arising from the death of the homeowner spouse. Laws enacting such protections are found in state statutes or constitutional provisions which exist in many states in the United States.
Homestead exemption in Florida Florida's homestead exemption provisions are among the most protective in the United States, and refer to two similar, but unrelated provisions of the Florida Constitution. The creditor protection clause of Article X gives no limit to the value of property that can be protected from creditors.
Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT), assigned the State Road 821 (SR 821) designation by the Florida Department of Transportation, is a southern extension of the tolled Florida's Turnpike, running around the north and west sides of the Miami to end at Florida City (near Homestead). It was built in 1974, after the main line of the Turnpike was completed, and is used by both commuters and travelers to the Florida Keys and Everglades.
Homestead Grays The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and would remain in continuous operation for 38 seasons.
Homestead Grays Bridge The Homestead Grays Bridge, also known as the (Homestead) High Level Bridge, was built in 1936 and spans the Monongahela River between Homestead and Pittsburgh's Greenfield district. It is notable as the first bridge to utilize the Wichert Truss, which uses a quadrilateral shape over each support.
Homestead Harmonizers The Homestead Harmonizers is a chorus created in response to a charter to operate a barbershop chorus in Beatrice, Nebraska issued on December 12, 1988 by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.. The members of the Homestead Harmonizers range in age as young as the early teens to 80 plus years, including men from 23 different communities in southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas.
Homestead High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Homestead High School, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, is a public 4-year high school with a comprehensive intake of over 2,000 students. Its location is classed as "Urban Fringe of a Mid-size City".
Homestead High School (Mequon, Wisconsin) Homestead High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Mequon, Wisconsin, a northern suburb of Milwaukee. The four-year public high school is a part of the Mequon-Thiensville School District, and as such serves a 48-square mile area including the city of Mequon and the village of Thiensville.
Homestead National Monument of America The Homestead National Monument of America commemorates the Homestead Act of 1862. Located west of Beatrice, Nebraska, Daniel Freeman's homestead was recognized by the United States Congress as the first homestead in the nation obtained through the Homestead Act.
Homestead Steel Works Homestead Steel Works, located in Homestead, was a rival of the steel company, Carnegie Steel, founded by Andrew Carnegie (an immigrant of Scotland). Carnegie Steel eventually bought Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a railway 425 miles long, and a line of lake steamships.
Homestead Strike The Homestead Strike was a labor lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, with a battle between the strikers and private security agents erupting on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in U.
Homestead Studio Suites Hotels Originally called Homestead Village, it was started in 1992 by Security Capital in Santa Fe, New Mexico with its first properties located in Dallas and Houston. In 2001, Homestead was purchased by the Blackstone Group.
Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami. It plays host to Ford Championship Weekend, the final races of the season in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch Series, and the Craftsman Truck Series.
Homestead-Wakefield Elementary School Homestead-Wakefield Elementary School is a medium-sized school situated in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. The school is located few hundred feet to the left of Bel Air Middle School, and a few hundred feet further to the left of that is Bel Air High School.
Homesteading the Noosphere "Homesteading the Noosphere" (abbreviated HtN), an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open source software development, follows his influential piece "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Hometime (TV series) Hometime is a PBS home improvement television show produced by Hometime Video Publishing, Chaska, Minnesota, in association with WHYY-TV Philadelphia/Wilmington and broadcast on public television and in syndication. It first aired in 1986.
Hometown Hometown is primarily used as a generic term for the city or town in which someone grew up, or the place of someone's principal residenceis also used as the specific] name of several places in the [[United States.
Hometown Band The Hometown Band was founded in 1975 by Claire Lawrence, a former member of The Collectors and Chilliwack, to back up Canadian folk artist Valdy. The band was composed of Shari Ulrich (lead vocals, flute, fiddle), Geoff Ayre (drums, vocals), Robbie King (organ, piano, keyboard bass), and Doug Edwards (guitar, keyboards, bass).
Hometown High-Q Hometown High-Q is a high school quiz bowl game show that tapes and broadcasts on KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is sponsored by Westfield Insurance (and previously by Giant Eagle) and has been hosted by KDKA news anchor Ken Rice since its inception in 2000.
Hometown Tales Hometown Tales began as a public access television show and website exploring urban legends, folklore, historic oddities and local culture. In its infancy it aired on cable access in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 film based on the best-selling novel The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. The film was directed by Duwayne Dunham who has directed other films such as Little Giants and television shows such as JAG and Twin Peaks.
Homeward Looking Angel Homeward Looking Angel was a #23 album on the Billboard charts. Four singles from it charted in the Top Twenty: "Shake the Sugar Tree" at #3, "Let That Pony Run" at #4, "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" at #11, and "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" at #16.
Homewood Field Homewood Field on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University,in Baltimore, Maryland, was built in 1906 and has a capacity of 8,500 people. It is the home field for the school's football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams.
Homewood North (Pittsburgh) Homewood North is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's east city area. It has ZIP Codes of both 15211 and 15208, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by both the council members for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood South Homewood South is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has ZIP Codes of both 15208 and 15211, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood Suites by Hilton Homewood Suites by Hilton is an American hotel chain with more than 190 hotels open and another 30 under development. The brand, launched in 1989, is an upscale residential-style offering catering primarily to travelers staying five or more consecutive nights.
Homewood West (Pittsburgh) Homewood West is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's east city area. It has ZIP Codes of both 15206 and 15208, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
Homewood, Alabama Homewood is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, located on the other side of Red Mountain due south of the city center, but also has one of the highest population densities in Alabama.
Homewood, South Carolina Homewood is a small community in South Carolina just north of Conway in Horry County in the northeastern part of the state. Homewood has under 500 inhabitants, with a mixture of whites, blacks, and a few Hispanics, and is unincorporated, although there is an elementary school in the community.
Homeworld Homeworld is a real-time strategy (RTS) computer game released in 1999 developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is best known for its full three-dimensional movement and engrossing storyline.
Homeworld 2 Homeworld 2 is a real time strategy (RTS) computer game, the sequel to Relic Entertainment's Homeworld from 1999. Taking place 100 years after the original game, it concerns Hiigara's response to a new threat, known as the Vaygr.
Homeworld Universe The Homeworld Universe is the world of the computer game series published by Sierra Entertainment and created by Relic Entertainment in 1999 and of its various fans' works of art and fiction. It is a unique universe and the games it belongs to are so far the only successful 3D space RTS games in the entire gaming industry.
Homeworld: Cataclysm Homeworld: Cataclysm was originally developed in 2000 as an expansion set of the original Homeworld, but was later turned into a stand-alone game. It was produced by Sierra Entertainment, as was the original, but it was developed by Barking Dog Studios instead of Relic Entertainment.
Homeworlds Resistance In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad, Homeworlds Resistance was an undercover resistance movement on Neosapien-occupied Earth and Venus during the war. Because Mars, the third Homeworld, was controlled and populated primarily by Neosapiens even before the war started, there was no resistance organizations there.
Homewrecker (TV series) Homewrecker is a show on MTV hosted by former Jackass star Ryan Dunn. The show is a twist on home renovation reality shows such as Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; instead of the room being renovated, it is wrecked.
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. The broad goals of the Centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level, and encourage the growth of scientific literacy in the country.
Homi Bhabha National Institute The Homi Bhabha National Institute is an Indian deemed university, which brings together ten premier institutions all over India under a single research-driven framework. It is named after the late Indian physicist Homi J.
Homi Sethna Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, was an Indian chemical engineer who had the full technical responsibility for the setting up of the plant at Alwaye, Kerala India, for separation of rare earth from Mohazite sands. He completed the construction of the Thorium plant and the plant for the production of nuclear grade uranium metal at Trombay, India.
Homicide Unit of The Wire The Homicide Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department is responsible for solving all of the murders that take place within Baltimore City. A clearance rate of 50% for the year is aimed for and the Unit is amongst the most demanding in the C.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is a 1991 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon describing a year spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department homicide squad. The book received the 1992 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.
Homie Homie or homey, sometimes homes, homeslice or homedog (homes being used in the singular) or even holmes is slang for friend, a shortened form of the slang word "homeboy". NIGGA IS MY HOMEBOY BIATCH!!!!!!!!!!
Homie (band) Homie is a side project of Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of the band Weezer. Homie is, by many fans, considered to be a one-time effort, although Cuomo has stated the possibility of using the Homie moniker to release music in the future.
Homies Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters in the life of artist David Gonzales. First created in 1998, these plastic figuerines were initially sold via vending machines typically positioned in supermarkets, but quickly became collectibles among young children through teenagers.
Homiletic and Pastoral Review The Homiletic & Pastoral Review is unique among religious journals in the United States in that it was the very first clergy magazine to appear in the United States and has been the leading journal of its kind for over 100 years.
Homing pigeon The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. Because any pigeon generally returns to its own nest and its own mate, it was relatively easy to selectively breed the birds that repeatedly found their way home over long distances.
Hominid A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes"), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. (This classification has been revised several times in the last few decades.
Hominid intelligence The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. There is no universally accepted definition of intelligence, one definition is "the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn" (cf.
Homininae Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and some extinct relatives, as well as the gorillas and the chimpanzees. It comprises all those [such as Australopithecus], that arose after the split from the other [[great apes (of which orangutans are the only surviving group).
Homintern Homintern is an abbreviation of "Homosexual International". The term "Homintern" was used in a number of popular magazine articles during the 1960s to refer to what was believed by many to be an international cabal of influential homosexuals who, it was asserted, controlled the arts and culture.
Hommel (crater) Hommel is a lunar crater located in the southeast section of the Moon, in a region that is deeply impacted with a multitude of impact craters. The most notable craters nearby are Pitiscus to the north; Rosenberger due east, and Nearch to the southeast.
Homo cepranensis Homo cepranensis is a proposed name for a hominin species discovered in 1994 known from only one skull cap. The fossil was discovered by archeologist Italo Biddittu and was nick-named "Ceprano Man" after a nearby town in the province of Frosinone, 89 kilometers Southeast of Rome, Italy.
Homo erectus Homo erectus (upright man) is an extinct species of the genus Homo. Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois (1890s) first described it as Pithecanthropus erectus based on a calotte (skullcap) and a modern-looking femur found from the bank of the Solo River at Trinil, in central Java.
Homo erectus soloensis Homo erectus soloensis (formerly classified as Homo sapiens soloensis) is generally regarded as a subspecies of the extinct hominin, Homo erectus. The only known specimens of this anomalous hominid were retrieved from sites along the Bengawan Solo River, on the Indonesian island of Java.
Homo faber Homo faber (Latin for "Man the Smith" or "Man the Maker"; in reference to the biological name for man, "Homo sapiens" meaning "man the wise") is a concept articulated by Hannah Arendt and Max Frisch. It refers to humans as controlling the environment through tools.
Homo heidelbergensis Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo and the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe. According to the "Recent Out of Africa" theory, similar "Archaic Homo sapiens" found in Africa (ie.
Homo Magi Homo Magi is a term to describe a sub-race of magic-using, Atlantean-descended humans in the DC Universe. According to Doctor Mist in Secret Origins #27, the Homo Magi evolved in a parallel but separate line, alongside Homo Sapiens.
Homo necans Homo necans is a book on Ancient Greek religion and mythology by Walter Burkert. The book's core thesis is that when paleolithic man became a hunter, in spite of the generally omnivore orientation of the great apes, lack of a predator instinct was made up for by turning patterns of intra-species aggression against the prey.
Homo rhodesiensis Homo rhodesiensis is a possible hominin species described from the fossil Rhodesian Man. Other morphologically-comparable remains have been found from the same, or earlier, time period in southern Africa (Hopefield or Saldanha), East Africa (Bodo, Ndutu, Eyasi, Ileret) and North Africa (Salé, Rabat, Dar-es-Soltane, Djbel Irhoud, Sidi Aberrahaman, Tighenif).
Homo sacer Homo sacer (Latin for "the sacred man") is an obscure figure of Roman law: a person who is banned, may be killed by anybody, but may not be sacrificed in a religious ritual. The person is excluded from all civil rights, while his/her life is deemed "holy" in a negative sense.
Homo sapiens idaltu Homo sapiens idaltu (roughly translated as "elderly wise man") is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived almost 160,000 years ago in Pleistocene Africa. Its fossilized remains were discovered in the Middle Awash site of Ethiopia's Afar Triangle in 1997 by Tim White, but first unveiled in 2003.
Homo scientia Homo scientia (Latin for "Man the scientist" or "Man the knowledgeable") is an alternative classification to Homo sapiens. The term began as an original competitor to the more popular biological classification for human used today, but fell out of favor due to political pressure vis-a-vis overt use of the term "science".
Homo Sapiens (song) Homo Sapiens is the first proper single release from The Cooper Temple Clause's third album Make This Your Own released on 22nd January 2007. A promotional blank CD-R and sleeve with artwork were given out to fans at gigs on the band's 2006 UK tour.
Homo Sovieticus Homo Sovieticus (from New Latin) is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created by the governments of the Soviet bloc. The term was coined by well-known Soviet writer and sociologist Aleksandr Zinovyev as the title of his book of the same name.
Homo unius libri According to a literary tradition at least three centuries old,Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) is the earliest writer in English to have noted the assertion. Saint Thomas AquinasOn the other hand, The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Anthony Lejeune, editor, (London 1998) attributes the quote instead to Augustine of Hippo.
Homoaromaticity Homoaromaticity in organic chemistry is found in conjugated cyclic systems that are able to skip a part of the ring as opposed to regular aromaticity. Like ordinary aromatic compounds, homoaromatic compounds are more stable than what would be expected based on conjugation alone.
Homobasidiomycetes The class Homobasidiomycetes is a taxonomic division in the subdivision Hymenomycotina of the division Basidiomycota (in the Kingdom Fungi). Included here are the so-called "true" mushrooms and a common name for this group of some 16,000 described species is the mushroom-forming fungi (53% of the described basidiomycetes).
Homoclinic orbit In mathematics, a homoclinic orbit is a trajectory of a flow of a dynamical system which joins a saddle equilibrium point to itself. More precisely, a homoclinic orbit lies in the intersection of the stable manifold and the unstable manifold of an equilibrium.
Homocon Homocon, an abbreviation of the (often pejorative) term "homoconservative" was coined in reference to GLBT people who adopt politics considered right-wing by traditionally leftist advocates of gay rights such as Queer Nation and the Gay Liberation Front. The rising popularity of Log Cabin Republicans illustrates a radical shift from the days when gay Republicans such as Roy Cohn and J.
Homocysteine Homocysteine is the chemical compound with the formula HSCH2CH2CH(NH2)CO2H. It is a homologue of the naturally-occurring amino acid cysteine, differing in that its side-chain contains an additional methylene (-CH2-) group before the thiol (-SH) group.
Homodiegetic Homodiegetic is a literary term referring to a narrator who has an active role as a character in the narrative; he may or may not be the protagonist. An example is Bardamu in Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, in which Bardamu not only describes the story to the reader but also is the one who has experienced it.
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