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Hong Qigong Hong Qigong (洪七公) is a fictional character in Jinyong's wuxia novels, appearing in both The Legend of the Condor Heroes and its sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes. He was best known for being the leader of the Beggars' Sect (丐帮), and possessing the powerful martial arts technique Xianglong Shi Ba Zhang (18 Dragon-Subduing Palms, 降龙十八掌).
Hong Seok-cheon Hong Seok-cheon (February 3, 1971) is a South Korean television and film actor who caused considerable controversy in his home country when he "came out" as a homosexual in 2002. Seok-cheon is arguably the most prominent Korean celebrity to openly admit to being gay.
Hong Soon-young Hong Soon-young is a retired South Korean diplomat. He has served in several high-level posts, including as presidential aide for state affairs, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Unification, and has been ambassador to Russia (1992-1993), Germany (1994-1998), The People's Republic of China (2000-2001), Malaysia (1990-1992), and Pakistan (1984-1987).
Hong Tianguifu Hong Tianguifu (洪天貴福 in pinyin: hong2 tian1 fu2 gui4) (1848 - 1864), also called Hong Tiangui and in Qing historical record, Hong Futian (洪福瑱 fu2 tian4), was the second and last king of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping. He is popularly referred to as the Junior Lord (幼主).
Hong Tran Hong Thi Tran (born May 5 1966) was a candidate in the Washington Democratic Party primary election for the United States Senate in 2006, challenging incumbent Maria Cantwell. Tran received more than five percent of the Democratic vote, and her differing views from those of Maria Cantwell (on the Iraq War in particular) drew the attention of the news media and local progressives.
Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin wu zu Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin wu zu (also known as Hung Hei-Koon: Shaolin's Five Founders, Legend of the Future Shaolin and by the US video title: Legend of the Red Dragon) is a 1994 kung fu film from Hong Kong by Wushu and international film star Jet Li. It was directed by Jing Wong, and Corey Yuen, and produced by Helen Li, Jet Li, and Wai Sum Shia.
Hong Xiuquan Hóng Xiùquán (洪秀全, Wade-Giles: Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, born Hong Renkun 洪仁坤, Courtesy name Huoxiu 火秀; January 1, 1814-June 1, 1864) was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion, which established the short-lived "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" (天王/Tian Wang).
Hong-Chih Kuo Hong-Chih Kuo (Traditional Chinese: 郭泓志; pinyin: Gūo Hóngzhì) (born July 23, 1981 in Tainan City, Taiwan) is a pitcher who has recently made his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the fourth MLB player from Taiwan (after fellow Dodger Chin-Feng Chen, Chin-hui Tsao, and Chien-Ming Wang). He throws a four seam fastball anywhere between 93-99 MPH with such late life that right-handed batters find him very difficult to hit.
Hongan Kolistajat Hongan Kolistajat is the supporters group of the Finnish Veikkausliiga side FC Honka. The name Hongan Kolistajat is actually a name which toys with the Finnish language because it can mean either a really tall person or honka clatterers (roughly translated).
Hongawa, Kochi Hongawa (本川村; -mura) was a village located in Tosa District, Kochi, Japan. On October 1, 2004 the village merged with the village of Gohoku (from Agawa District) in an expansion of the town of Ino, and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Hongdae An area to the northwest of central Seoul, Hongdae (홍대) takes its name from Hongik Daehakgyo or Hongik University. The area is home to hundreds of bars, restaurants, boutiques and nightclubs and draws revellers from a wide range of backgrounds, with university students and English teachers the main demographics.
Hongdu JL-8 The Hongdu JL-8 (or Nanchang JL-8) is a two-seat training aircraft built in joint-cooperation between Pakistan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The contractor for this plane is the Hongdu Aviation Industry Corporation.
Hongkonger A Hongkonger or Hong Konger is someone who resides or originates from Hong Kong. It is not a legally defined term, thus different people may have different idea on how long one should have stayed in Hong Kong to be able to called himself/herself Hongkonger.
Hongo Yui Yui Hongo (本郷 唯 Hongou Yui) A very intelligent girl and Miaka's best friend in the real world. Yui becomes trapped in the book universe while trying to help Miaka to return to the real world, and is subsequently caught and raped by bandits.
Hongos The Hongos are a duo of electronica artists and music producers Stephane Viole (Formerly of a "Surfers" and Kresimir Krlevcak formed in 1999 in Zagreb, Croatia and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Their music style is mainly Industrial, Experimental, Big Beat and Ambient.
Hongosan Hongosan is a topical herbal treatment that is advertised -- mainly on Spanish-language media in the United States -- as being very effective in treating fungal and epidermal infections.According to its distributors, Hongosan is derived from a plant known in Mexico] that has the scientific name of [[Phytolacca icosandra, which is a type of pokeweed.
Hongqiao District Hongqiao District (in Chinese: 红桥区) is one district in the city of Tianjin, China. The name of it comes from the name of a bridge - Dahongqiao (in Chinese: 大红桥, big red bridge) - on the Ziya River, a tribute of Hai He.
Hongreline The hongreline was a mid-thigh-length surtout or overcoat of the frock style, usually trimmed and/or lined with fur developed and popularized during the mid-17th Century. Brought from Germany, the hongreline was popular in France during the reign of Louis XIII.
Hongren Hongren (Hong Reng, Chinese: 弘忍) (601 - 674) was the 5th Zen (Buddhist) Patriarch. What little is known about him relates mostly to Huineng being initally his disciple and eventually becoming his successor.
Hongshan culture The Hongshan culture (红山文化) was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China. Hongshan sites have been found in an area stretching from Inner Mongolia to Liaoning and Hebei, and dated from about 4700 BC to 2900 BC The culture is named after Hongshanhou (红山後), a site in Hongshan District], [[Chifeng.
Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus (hawng-SHAN-o-SAWR-us; "Red Hill lizard") is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of eastern Asia. Although two skulls are the only fossil material known, comparisons with close relatives suggest it was a small, bipedal herbivore with a bony beak on the end of both upper and lower jaws.
Hongwu Emperor The Hongwu Emperor (September 21, 1328 – June 24, 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founder and first emperor (1368–98) of the Míng Dynasty of China. His era name, Hongwu, means "Vast Military.
Hongzhi Emperor The Hongzhi Emperor (July 30, 1470–June 8, 1505) was emperor of the Ming dynasty in China between 1487 and 1505. Born Zhu Youtang, he was the son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi Silver Age.
Honi HaM'agel Honi HaM'agel (חוני המעגל Khoni, or Choni, HaM'agel, Hebrew for Honi the Circle-drawer) (First century BCE) was a Jewish scholar prior to the age of the Tannaim, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah (the first part of the Talmud) was derived.
Honi Soit Honi Soit is a student newspaper of the University of Sydney, produced by an elected editorial team as part of the activities of the Students' Representative Council (SRC). The name is short for the phrase "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (French: "shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), which is the motto of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (Honigman) is widely recognized as the premier law firm in Michigan. Its offices are located in Detroit, Lansing and Oakland County, Michigan, the three most significant centers of commerce and other business and policy-related activities in the state.
Honiton Honiton is a town in East Devon, which is in the county of Devon, England. It grew along the line of the Roman Road of the Fosse Way - the ancient Roman Road linking Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) to Lincoln (Lindum).
Honiton (UK Parliament constituency) Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640.
Honken Trophy Honken Trophy (sv:Honkens trofé) is awarded annually to the Swedish Elitserien goaltender of the year as decided on by Sweden Hockey Pool and Kamratföreningen Hockeyjournalisterna. It was installed in 2002 and resembles the Vezina Trophy of the NHL.
Honker Honker () is a group known for hacktivism, mainly present in Mainland China. Literally the name means "Red Guest", as compared to the usual Chinese transliteration of hacker (黑客, hēikè, literally Black Guest as in black hat).
Honkers Honkers are friendly monsters from the children's television program, Sesame Street. These creatures have horns instead of ears and their noses are bulbs that can be pressed so that a "honking" sound comes out of the horns.
Honkin' on Bobo Tour Aerosmith embarked on the Honkin' on Bobo Tour to support their new album Honkin' on Bobo, the follow-up 2001's Just Push Play. The tour sent the band to small venues throughout North America as well as Japan.
Honky tonk A honky tonk is a type of bar with musical entertainment common in the Southwestern and Southern United States, also called honkatonks, honkey-tonks, tonks or tunks. The term has also been attached to various styles of 20th-century American music.
Honky Tonk (song) "Honky Tonk" is an instrumental song written by Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott and Berisford "Shep" Shepherd. In 1956, Bill Doggett had a major hit on Billboard's pop and R&B charts when he released his version as a single.
Honky Tonk Angel Her third album, Honky Tonk Angel, was the one that made Patty Loveless a country music star. With no fewer than five tracks from the album charting in the Billboard Top Ten Country Singles, including two at #1, it served notice that she was a superstar in the making.
Honky Tonk Blues Honky Tonk Blues was a hit Country and Western song by Hank Williams about a young farmboy who leaves his father's farm for the enticements of the city, only to be worn down and disillusioned. The song, which was released in 1952, reached #2 on the Country and Western Music chart.
Honkyoku Honkyoku (本曲, "original pieces") are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by mendicant Japanese Zen monks called komusō. Komusō played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century.
Honley High School Honley High School is a secondary school situated on the edge of the village of Honley in the Holme Valley, Yorkshire, England. The catchment area is the neighbouring villages of Brockholes, Honley and Meltham.
Honningsvåg Honningsvåg at 70° 58' N, in Nordkapp municipality, claims to be the northernmost city in Norway and even in the world. Legislation effective from 1997 states that a Norwegian city must have 5,000 inhabitants, but Honningsvåg with its population of 2,575 was declared a city in 1996.
Honolulu (billiards) Honolulu, also known as banks, kisses and combinations and as indirect, is a call shot pocket billiards game in which players must pocket all shots in an indirect fashion to reach a set number of points. According to the Billiard Congress of America, the governing body for billiards in the United States, honolulu presents players with "an unending kaleidoscope of strategic and shot-making challenges.
Honolulu City Council The Honolulu City Council is the legislative branch of the City & County of Honolulu and is considered the second most powerful parliamentary body in the State of Hawaii, following the Hawaii State Legislature. Charged with writing and passing laws for the island of Oahu, the Honolulu City Council meets in chambers at Honolulu Hale year-round.
Honolulu Community College Honolulu Community College is a public, co-educational commuter college in Honolulu, Hawaii situated in the outskirts of downtown Honolulu near Honolulu Harbor. It is one of ten branches of the University of Hawaii system anchored by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Honolulu Fire Department The Honolulu Fire Department, popularly known as the HFD, is the principal firefighting agency of the City & County of Honolulu under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Honolulu. Founded on December 27, 1850 by Kamehameha III, the Honolulu Fire Department serves and protects the entire island of O'ahu, covering over 600 square miles (1,600 km²) of territory, home to more than 880,000 residents and over 4 million annual visitors.
Honolulu Hale Honolulu Hale, located on 530 South King Street in downtown Honolulu in the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the official seat of government of the city and county, site of the chambers of the Mayor of Honolulu and the Honolulu City Council.
Honolulu Harbor Honolulu Harbor, also called Kulolia and Ke Awa O Kou, is the principal seaport of Honolulu and the State of Hawaii in the United States. It is from Honolulu Harbor, located on Mamala Bay, that the City & County of Honolulu was developed and urbanized, in an outward fashion, over the course of the modern history of the island of Oahu.
Honolulu Hurricanes The Honolulu Hurricanes was an Professional Indoor Football League team that competed in the 1998 season based in Honolulu, Hawaii. According to the team's media guide, the ownership partners - registered as Pro Sports Limited Liability Company - are Rev.
Honolulu Police Department The Honolulu Police Department, popularly known as HPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. HPD is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).
Honolulu Sharks The Honolulu Sharks are a future Hawaii Winter Baseball team to be based in Honolulu, Hawaii. They will play in the 2007 season in Hawaii Winter Baseball, which is loosely affiliated with Major League Baseball.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, is the second largest daily newspaper in the state of Hawaii (the largest being the Honolulu Advertiser.) The Honolulu Star-Bulletin is owned by Black Press of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Honolulu Symphony The Honolulu Symphony, also known as the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, is the official symphonic orchestra of the City & County of Honolulu in the State of Hawaii. Founded in 1900 by the legendary Royal Hawaiian Band master Henri Berger, the Honolulu Symphony has the distinction of being the oldest symphony orchestra west of the Rocky Mountains.
Honolulu University Honolulu University of the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, or just Honolulu University, is an unaccredited school originally founded by Warren Walker as Golden State University in California, United States. It has been headquartered in Hawaii since the early nineties and has several offices in Asia.
Honolulu Waldorf School The Honolulu Waldorf School (HWS) is a private Waldorf school located on the island of Oahu in the State of Hawaii. Founded in 1961, it originally consisted of a campus for Pre-K through Eigth Grade located in Niu Valley.
Honor Academy The Honor Academy is a ministry of the Christian organization Teen Mania Ministries located in Garden Valley, Texas. The Academy offers a year-long internship program for young people based upon an Evangelical Christian interpretation of the biblical text of and .
Honor Among Thieves Honor Among Thieves is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Miles O'Brien is tasked by Starfleet Intelligence to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate, an organized crime gang that spans the Alpha Quadrant. His goal is to find the identity of the person in Starfleet that is leaking information about their undercover operatives to the Syndicate, who is eliminating them one by one.
Honor Bound to Defend Freedom Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the motto of the Joint Task Force Guantánamo charged with running the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The invocation of "Freedom" as the rationale for internment has been noted to bear an eerie reminiscence to the Arbeit macht frei motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and to George Orwell's parody of a political slogan, Freedom is Slavery.
Honor code An honor code or honor system is a set of rules or principles governing a community based on a set of rules or ideals that define what constitutes honorable behavior within that community. The use of an honor code depends on the idea that people (at least within the community) can be trusted to act honorably.
Honor cords Honor cords is an item of academic dress consisting of twisted cords with tassels on either end given to members of honor societies or for various academic achievements. Usually, cords come in pairs with a knot in the middle to hold them together.
Honor Elizabeth Wainio Honor Elizabeth Wainio was one of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was one of the passengers who managed to call loved ones.
Honor Fraser Honor Fraser, born in 1973, is an aristocratic Scottish model and actress. She is the granddaughter of the famed British Commando Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and sister of the current Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat.
Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre The Honor Oak Christian Fellowship & Conference Centre, generally known as the Christian Fellowship Centre or Honor Oak, was a Christian conference and training facility located on Honor Oak Road in south-east London. The centre was the ministry base for its founder, the British evangelist and writer, T.
Honor Oak Park railway station Honor Oak Park is a London railway station, serving the suburban area of that name in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is located in Travelcard Zone 3, between Brockley and Forest Hill, and serves trains from Charing Cross/ London Bridge to Croydon and beyond; and the Victoria via Crystal Palace.
Honor society In the USA, an honor society (or 'honour society') is an organization of rank, the induction into which recognizes excellence among one's peers. There are numerous societies recognizing various fields and circumstances; the Order of the Arrow, for example, is the camping honor society of the Boy Scouts of America.
Honor system An honor system or honesty system is a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavors based on trust, honor, and honesty. Something that operates under the rule of the "honor system" is usually something that does not have strictly enforced rules behind its functioning.
Honor the Earth Fund Honor the Earth was created to meet the needs of a growing Native environmental movement. How could we let the public know that many of the key environmental battles being waged in North America actually emanated from Native lands and Peoples?
Honorable Honor Medal of The Many Arms Of Vishnu This is a medal awarded only to those who exceed the required amount of prayer to Vishnu over the period of a month by at least 80%. It represents the amount of prayer necessary to fill each of Vishnu's arms with one hundred pounds of rice and three virgin chickens.
Honorable Miss Handicap The Honorable Miss Handicap is a race for thoroughbred race horses run at Saratoga Race Course each year. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race six furlongs on the dirt and carries a purse of $150,000.
Honorable Oliver Hayes Dean (1844-1928) Judge Dean was born in Pennsylvania and went to law school at the University of Michigan. In 1870 he moved to Kansas City and entered into a partnership with Judge Holmes, which continued until he left to enter the firm of Tichenor, Warner & Dean.
Honorable Order of the Blue Goose, International The Honorable Order of the Blue Goose, International is a fraternal and charitable organization of men and women that work in the insurance industry. The group was founded in 1906 near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Honorary authorship Honorary authorship is a term used in academic publishing for the routine listing of an administrator, such as a laboratory head or department chair, as a co-author of all research papers emanating from a given laboratory or department, regardless of whether that administrator has met the generally acknowledged criteria for authorship. There is a growing tendency to discourage "honorary authorship" and list only authors who have substantially contributed to the paper.
Honorary Aryan Honorary Aryan (German: Ehrenarier) is a term from Nazi Germany; it was a status granted by the Nazi Bureau of Race Research to people who were not considered to be biologically part of the Aryan race as conceived by the Nazis (or enemy nationals who joined Hitler or the Nazis' side), but were granted an "honorary" status of being part of that race, for example because their services were deemed valuable to the German economy."In the Wind", The Nation Vol.
Honorary Canadian citizenship Honorary Canadian citizenship is an honour bestowed by the Parliament of Canada to foreigners of exceptional merit. It is a symbolic honour and does not give the recipient any rights, privileges or duties typically held by a Canadian citizen.
Honorary Citizen of Singapore The title of Honorary Citizen is a national award conferred by the Singapore government starting from 2003 to recognize and acknowledge the contributions of foreigners who have rendered extensive and valuable services to Singapore and its people, or who have made a significant impact in the areas of business, science and technology, information communications, education, health, arts and culture, sports, tourism, community services or security.
Honorary Citizen of the United States A non-United States citizen of exceptional merit may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by the President pursuant to an Act of Congress. As of 2006, six people have had this honor bestowed upon them, and only two of them were so honored during their lifetime:
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society can be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. They are ineligible in the other criteria for election as a Fellow or Foreign Member but have "endered signal service to the cause of science, or whose election would significantly benefit the Society by their great experience in other walks of life".
Honorary Go Titles Professional Go players in Japan are given the title of "Honorary" title holder if they hold a title for a straight five or more years. Below is a list of the honorary title holders and which title they are honored for.
Honorary trust An honorary trust, under the law of trusts, is a device by which a person establishes a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary to enforce the trust. While such a trust would normally be void for lack of a beneficiary, many jurisdictions have carved out two specific exceptions to this rule: trusts for the care of that person's pets; and trusts to provide for the maintenance of cemetery plots.
Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title) (Aubigné-Racan in the Sarthe, February 5, 1589 - Paris 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the Académie française.
Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the Petit bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848).
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (often referred to simply as Mirabeau; March 9, 1749 – April 2, 1791) was a French writer, popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain.
Honoré Champion Honoré Champion (1846-1913) was a French librarian and editor. He founded Éditions Honoré Champion in 1874 and published scientific works geared towards laymen, particularly concerning history and litterature.
Honoré III, Prince of Monaco Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (November 10, 1720 – March 21, 1795) ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost sixty years from 1733 to 1793. He was the son of Jacques François Leonor Grimaldi, Prince de Monaco, Duc de Valentinois and Louise Hippolyte de Monaco, Princesse de Monaco, Duchesse de Valentinois.
Honoré Jacquinot Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887) was a French zoologist. Jacquinot was the younger brother of the naval officer Charles Hector Jacquinot, and sailed with him as a naturalist on La Zelee on Dumont d'Urville's Astrolabe expedition (1837-1840).
Honoré Lechasseur Honoré Lechasseur is one of two main characters in the Time Hunter series published by Telos Publishing Ltd. He is a time sensitive, which means that he possess the ability to see into people's pasts and futures when he is in their vicinity.
Honoré Mercier Honoré Mercier (October 15, 1840 – October 30, 1894) was a lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the Premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887 to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti national or Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ).
Honoré Mercier Bridge The Honoré Mercier Bridge in Quebec connects the Montreal borough of LaSalle on the Island of Montreal with the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. It carries Route 138, originally Route 4.
Honoré Robillard Honoré Robillard (January 12 1835-June 13 1914) was a Liberal-Conservative Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Ottawa City from 1887 to 1896 and a provincial Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Russell from 1883 to 1886. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature by defeating his brother, Alexander, who was the Liberal candidate.
Honoré V, Prince of Monaco Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (May 14, 1778 in Paris, France -October 2, 1841) was Sovereign Prince of Monaco. He was the son of Honoré IV of Monaco and Louise Felicite Victoire d'Aumont, Duchesse de Mazarin et de La Meilleraye.
Honoré-Beaugrand (Montreal Metro) Honoré-Beaugrand is a station, the eastern terminus of the Green Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the district of Tétreaultville in the borough of Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Honorific An honorific is a word or expression that conveys esteem or respect and is used in addressing or referring to a person. "Honorific" may refer broadly to the style of language or particular words used, or, as in this article, to specific words used to convey honor to one perceived as a social superior.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a word used by Costard in act five, scene one of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. It is (in the quotation) the ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours.
Honorius (emperor) Flavius Honorius (September 9, 384–August 15, 423) was Roman Emperor (393- 395) and then Western Roman Emperor from 395 until his death. He was the younger son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Eastern Emperor Arcadius.
Honorius of Thebes Honorius of Thebes, a possibly mythical character from the Middle Ages, is said to have authored The Sworn Book of Honorius, although the first printed manuscript of this work did not appear until 1629. Considerable mystery still exists about the identity of Honorius, both Pope Honorius I and Pope Honorius III have been linked to the character.
Honors and awards of the Order of the Arrow It is important to distinguish between awards, honors, and membership levels in the Order of the Arrow – the honor camping society of the Boy Scouts of America. The Founder's Award, the Red Arrow Award and the Distinguished Service Award are all awards.
Honors Program The Honors Program is the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s flagship undergraduate fellowship. It is a highly selective year-long academic experience that offers fifty of the United States’ most promising undergraduates an opportunity to receive personal intellectual mentoring from elite professors committed to an honest exploration of the achievements of Western civilization.
Honorverse The Honorverse is the semi-official name for the setting of a military science fiction series of stories by David Weber featuring Honor Harrington, the Nelsonesque heroine in a series reminiscent of Forester's Horatio Hornblower book series. The books are popular and new releases regularly make the New York Times best seller list.
Honour Honour (or honor) is the concept of a direct relation between one's virtues (or "values") and their status within society. Accordingly, individuals are assigned worth and stature based on a harmony between their own code of honour and that of the society at large.
Honour killing Honor killing is most often the killing of a female, but in some cases also a male, and sometimes his/her family members, love-interests or other associates,Men murdered six-year-old girl in honour killing arson attack -- UK Telegraph, September 9, 2006Five people including a teenage couple who married against their families' will have been killed by relatives in the latest incident of so-called honour killing in Pakistan -- Sydney Morning Herald, August 24, 2006 for supposed sexual or marital offences, typically by his/her own relatives or relatives of a purported romantic interest, with the justification being that the "offence" has violated the namus of the family (has brought "dishonor" to the family). The United Nations Population Fund estimates that the annual worldwide total of honor killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women.
Honourable Company of Master Mariners The Honourable Company of Master Mariners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1926; it was made a Livery Company by the City of London in 1932, making it the first new Livery Company to be formed in over two centuries.
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (or Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion) was founded in 1751 as a literary society devoted to the preservation of the Welsh language. It was founded by two brothers, Lewis Morris and Richard Morris, natives of Anglesey.
Honourable Ve'ehala Honourable Ve'ehala (died 1986, real name Leilua VÄ«) was a Tongan nobleman best known as a nose-flute player. He remains undoubtedly the most famous Tongan musician, both at home and abroad, and his recordings are still traditionally the first broadcast every day by Radio Tonga.

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