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Hot Shots Golf (series) Hot Shots Golf, known as Everybody's Golf outside North America is a series of golf games published by Sony for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) consoles. The series is well-known for its humorous look on the game of golf (including cartoon-like caricatures) and guest characters from other games, along with modes such as miniature golf and its ability to maintain a realistic engine with precise control in tandem with the unrealistic design.
Hot Shots Golf Fore! Hot Shots Golf Fore! (Minna no Golf 4 in Japan and Everybody's Golf in Europe) is the fourth game in the Hot Shots series, the third game developed by Clap Hanz, and the second one realised for the PlayStation 2.
Hot Springs (band) The Hot Springs are a female-fronted indie-rock band based in Montreal, Canada. Formed in Spring, 2004, the Hot Springs features Giselle Webber on vocals and guitar, Rémy Nadeau-Aubin on guitar , Frédéric Sauvé on bass and Anne Gauthier on drums (previously Karine Lauzon).
Hot Springs Music Festival The Hot Springs Music Festival is a not-for-profit educational music festival held in Hot Springs, Arkansas. During the first two weeks of June, "pre-professional" musicians join professional mentor musicians in performance of concert music.
Hot Springs National Park Established from Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs National Park is a United States National Park in central Arkansas adjacent to the city of Hot Springs. Hot Springs Reservation was initially created by an act of Congress on April 20, 1832, and the area was made a national park on March 4, 1921.
Hot Springs, Arkansas Hot Springs is the tenth most populous city in the state of Arkansas in the United States of America, the county seat of Garland County, Arkansas, and the principal city of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area encompassing all of Garland County. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 37,847.
Hot Springs, Washington Hot Springs, Washington, also known as Green River Hot Springs and began under the name Kendon by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1886, was at one time home to a large sanatorium built around the natural hot springs in the area and, by 1907-1908, a population of 225 with two doctors. It was reported to have been an impressive facility, having nice suites, bowling alleys and pool tables.
Hot Standby Router Protocol Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281. The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP is a standards-based alternative to HSRP defined in IETF standard RFC 3768.
Hot Standby Routing Protocol Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281. The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP is a standards-based alternative to HSRP defined in IETF standard RFC 3768.
Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song) "Hot Stuff" is a hit single released by American disco singer Donna Summer in 1979 from her Bad Girls album through Casablanca Records. Along with "Love to Love You Baby", this is one of her numerous signature songs.
Hot Summer Hot Summer was a Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1988 by Hong Kong record company Cinepoly and followed on the heels of the success of Cheung's Summer Romance the year before. Like Summer Romance, the album also featured a collaboration with Japanese musicians.
Hot talk Hot talk is a radio format involving a form of talk radio geared predominantly to a male demographic between the ages of 18-49. Clear Channel Communications has a select few hot talk stations under the moniker Real Radio, while CBS Radio has a larger chain of hot talkers known as Free FM.
Hot to Trot Hot to Trot is a comedy film released in 1988 by Warner Bros.. It stars Bobcat Goldthwait as an investment broker, Dabney Coleman as the head of the company Bobcat works for and John Candy voices a horse that helps Bobcat's character make smart decisions in investing.
Hot tower The "hot tower hypothesis" was proposed in 1958 by Joanne Malkus Simpson and Herbert Riehl. Prior to 1958, the mechanism driving the global-scale circulation pattern called Hadley cells was poorly understood.
Hot Tuna Hot Tuna is an American band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as an acoustic (and occasionally electric blues) spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. The band's fans often refer to them loudly as "Hot F*****g Tuna.
Hot water reset Hot water reset is an energy-saving automatic control algorithm for hot water boilers that are typically fired with fuel oil or natural gas. A hot water reset control loop measures the outside air temperature; this information is used to estimate demand or heating load as the outdoor temperature varies.
Hot wire barretter The Hot wire barretter was a demodulating detector invented in 1902 by Reginald Fessenden that found limited use in early radio receivers. In effect it was a highly sensitive thermoresistor developed to permit the reception of amplitude modulated signals, something that the coherer (the standard detector of the time) could not do.
Hot Wacks Hot Wacks is an underground magazine that has been in circulation for over 25 years, featuring reviews of bootleg music releases. Reviews include information such as source, quality, track listing and packaging.
Hot Water Beach Hot Water Beach is a beach on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, approximately 12 kilometres south east of Whitianga. Its name comes from an underground hot spring which filters up through the sand between the high and low water tidal reaches.
Hot Water Music Hot Water Music was a post-hardcore band from Gainesville, Florida. The members of the band are Chuck Ragan, singer and guitar, Chris Wollard, singer and guitar, Jason Black, bass guitar, and George Rebelo, drums.
Hot Wax Records Hot Wax Records was a Detroit-based record label created by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland in 1968 when they left Motown. It recorded female vocal groups such as The Honey Cone and The Flaming Ember as well as soul singers like rhythm and blues artist Freda Payne distributed by Buddah Records.
Hot Wheels Hot Wheels is a brand of die cast toy car, introduced by American toymaker Mattel in 1968. It was the primary competitor of Johnny Lightning and Matchbox until 1996, when Mattel acquired rights to the Matchbox brand from Tyco.
Hot Wheels: Hot Hits 4 Hot Wheels: Hot Hits 3 is a New Zealand and Australian compilation album released in 2002. The series was created as a way for young boys to be more into collecting Hot Wheels cars if they associated the cars with songs.
Hot-Dry-Rock Hot-Dry-Rock (HDR) is a type of geothermal power production that utilises the very high temperatures that can be found in rocks just a few kilometres below ground. This is done by pumping high pressure water down a bore hole into the heat zone.
Hot-Streak Hotstreak was Static's first enemy in both the comic book and television show, as well as indirectly responsible for Virgil acquiring super powers. Being a viscous bully, Hotstreak was the leader of one of the gangs that participated in the Big Bang of Dakota.
Hot-tube ignitor A hot-tube ignitor was an early device that fit onto the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the compressed fuel/air mixture by means of a flame heating part of the tube red hot. A hot-tube ignitor consisted of a metal or porcelain tube, closed at one end and attached to the cylinder head at the other, and an adjustable burner that could be moved to position its flame at any point along the length of the tube.
Hot-wire foam cutter A hot-wire foam cutter is used to cut polystyrene foam and similar materials. The device consists of a taut metal wire, often made of nichrome or stainless steel, or a thicker wire preformed into a desired shape, which is heated via electrical resistance to approximately 200° C.
Hotaki The Hotaki dynasty (1709-1738) was founded by Mirwais Khan Hotak, an ethnic Pashtun (Afghan) from the Ghilzai clan, of Kandahar province in modern-day Afghanistan. Mirwais Khan and his followers rose against the Persian rule starting in the city of Kandahar in 1709.
Hotan Hotan (Uyghur: خوتەن/; , formerly: ; also spelled Khotan)The official spelling is "Hotan" according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù 中国地名录 (Beijing, Zhōngguó dìtú chūbǎnshè 中国地图出版社 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 312.
Hotan Prefecture The Hotan Prefecture (Chinese: “和田”, Pinyin: Hétián Dìqū; Uyghur: خوتەن ۋىلايىتى / )The official spelling is "Hotan" according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù 中国地名录 (Beijing, Zhōngguó dìtú chūbǎnshè 中国地图出版社 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 304.
Hotarubi (Basilisk) Hotarubi (japanese: 蛍火, hiragana: ほたるび, rōmaji: Hotarubi) a character featured in the Japanese anime Basilisk Kouga Ninpou Chou (known in English as the Kouga Ninja Scrolls). Hotarubi was chosen by her leader Ogen to be one of ten elite ninja who would represent their clan of Iga Tsubagakure against the chosen ten of the rival Koga Manjidani clan.
Hotarugaike Station Hotarugaike Station (蛍池駅) is an express station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line and also serves the Osaka Monorail, on which it is a major transfer point for and the last stop before Osaka International Airport. Hotarugaike is located in Toyonaka, Osaka.
Hotbox (baseball) Hotbox is also a baseball drill or mini-game that can be played with three or more players and two to four bases. In the drill, one fielder plays near each of the bases and the rest of the players are runners, who begin on any base.
HotBot HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. It was launched using a "new links" strategy of marketing, claiming to update its search database more often than its competitors.
Hotel (band) The band Hotel was a power-pop group formed in Birmingham, AL in 1973 and disbanded in 1982. Although they had a strong regional following and were loaded top to bottom with highly talented musicians, due to changing musical tastes and lackluster promotion, they failed to achieve their deserved stardom.
Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon is a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones and "Anonymous", first shown in January 2006. Produced by independent production company Carnival Films and screened on BBC One on Thursday nights at 9pm, it starred Tamzin Outhwaite and Max Beesley.
Hotel Bauen The Hotel Bauen is a "recuperated business" in Buenos Aires run collectively by its workers, serving both as a hotel and as a free meeting place for Argentine leftist and workers' groups. It is also used as a personal residence by some of the worker-owners.
Hotel Beauséjour The Hotel Beauséjour opened in 1972 by the Canadian National Railway in the railway hub of Moncton, New Brunswick, and gave the city its first first-class hotel. The hotel now operates as Delta Hotel Beauséjour.
Hotel Bessborough The Hotel Bessborough was built by Canadian National Railway from 1928 to 1932 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and is designed in the same Château-style as many of Canada's other railway hotels. It was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway, and currently operates as the Delta Hotel Bessborough via Delta Hotels.
Hotel Bristol Scores - perhaps hundreds - of hotels throughout the world have carried the name "Bristol" since the early 19th century. Such hotels were usually upscale and offered Western style accommodations to world travellers.
Hotel Bristol Warsaw Hotel Bristol (Hotel Le Royal Meridien Bristol) in Warsaw is today managed by the french hotel group Le Meridien. It is listed as a national monument in Poland - and once it was one of Europe's grandest hotels.
Hotel de Bilderberg The Hotel de Bilderberg is a hotel in Oosterbeek in the Netherlands where the Bilderberg Group first met in 1954. The hotel gave its name both to the Group and those who participate in its activities (Bilderbergers).
Hotel del Coronado The Hotel del Coronado is a luxury hotel in the City of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort.
Hotel design Hotel design is the discipline concerned with the creation of an environment in which guests can be welcomed and provided with facilities for rest, relaxation and respite from their travels or workaday cares in return for payment to their host. As such the designer is providing the hotelier with the tools to do his job.
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), was a United States labor union representing workers of the hospitality industry, formed in 1891. In 2004, HERE merged with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) to form UNITE HERE.
Hotel Europe, Vancouver Hotel Europe is a unique building in the Gastown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, built at the intersecting streets of Alexander and Powell in 1908–1909. Also known as the Angelo Calori Building for the hotelier who built the building, the 6 storey building is one of a few flatiron buildings in Canada.
Hotel Excelsior Hotel Excelsior occupied number 112/113, Königgrätzer Straße (today’s Stresemannstrasse ) on Askanischen Platz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It was once one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in Europe but its destruction during World War II resigned it to the German capital’s list of lost historical landmarks.
Hotel Gellért Hotel Gellért is a famous, first class four star hotel in Budapest, Hungary. The hotel was erected on the right bank of the river Danube between 1916 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style with some biomorphic elements, at the foot of Gellért Hill, next to Szabadság Bridge.
Hotel George Washington (Jacksonville, Florida) The Hotel George Washington, on the corner of Adams and Julia Streets in Jacksonville, Florida, was a 15-story luxury hotel which was in operation from 1926 to 1971. In its later years, it was one of only two luxury hotels in downtown.
Hotel Hershey The Hotel Hershey is a historical landmark, four-star hotel located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, offering 232 guest rooms and 23,500 square feet of event space. Hotel Hershey, built in the 1930's as a mansion home for Milton S.
Hotel Charlottetown The Charlottetown Hotel was built by the Canadian National Railway in 1931 in Charlottetown and later abandoned. It was restored in 1999 and now operates as the Rodd Charlottetown, part of the Rodd chain of hotels which were started by David Rodd.
Hotel Chelsea The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians, and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City. The building is located on 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
Hotel Indigo The newest member of the InterContinental Hotels Group family, Hotel Indigo, is promoted as being "the industry’s first branded boutique hotel experience." It is designed to appeal to style savvy, lifestyle focused guests who desire luxury, service and an alternative to traditional hotels while providing businesses amenities they have come to expect.
Hotel Institute Montreux The Hotel Institute Montreux (HIM) was one of the first schools in Switzerland to offer hotel management programmes in English. Boasting ties with over 80 countries in their network, HIM help their students to develop the world famous Swiss hospitality skills as well as the latest of American management practices.
Hotel Leningradskaya Hotel Leningradskaya () is one of Moscow's Seven Sisters, skyscrapers built in the early 1950s in the stalinist gothic style. Stalinist gothic mixes Russian neo-classical with the style of America's skyscrapers of the 1930s.
Hotel Macdonald The Hotel Macdonald is a hotel built in 1915 in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The hotel has successively been owned by Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Hotels, and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
Hotel Mario Hotel Mario is a puzzle game produced and developed by Philips Media resulting from a failed deal with Nintendo to make a CD-ROM enhancement of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game features Mario, and the goal is to go through the seven Koopa Hotels within the Mushroom Kingdom.
Hotel Missoni Kuwait Hotel Missoni Kuwait is a luxury lifestyle hotel due to open in Kuwait's shopping and entertainment district of Salmiya. It will be the first of several properties of a joint venture between the Missoni fashion house and Rezidor SAS Hospitality.
Hotel Moskva (Belgrade) Hotel Moskva (Serbian: Хотел Москва / Hotel Moskva) translated in English to Hotel Moscow in Belgrade is one of the oldest Serbian hotels located in the very heart of the city's downtown core. In addition to being a 4 (****) star hotel with 132 rooms and 6 apartments, Hotel Moskva is recognized as a valuable architectural monument and, as such, is placed under governmental protection.
Hotel Moskva (Moscow) The Hotel Moskva was a major hotel located in central Moscow, Russia, just opposite the Moscow City Hall. The fourteen-story building was designed by Alexey Shchusev in the Stalinist-classical style and opened in 1935.
Hotel Mudlavia Hotel Mudlavia (commonly referred to simply as Mudlavia, and originally named the Indiana Springs Company) was a hotel and spa built on the site of a natural spring near the town of Kramer in Warren County, Indiana. It opened December 25, 1890, and served guests for many years before burning and being rebuilt several times.
Hotel Nacional de Cuba The Hotel Nacional is a historical luxury hotel located on the MalecĂłn in Havana, Cuba. It opened in 1930 at a time where Cuba was a prime travel destination for wealthy Americans; it welcomed Winston Churchill, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner as well as prominent members of the American mafia.
Hotel on Rivington The Hotel on Rivington is a 21-story luxury hotel on Rivington Street between Ludlow and Essex Streets in the Downtown Manhattan. Completed in 2005, the hotel's expensive rates, ultramodern design, upscale bar, and trendy clientele have made it a trademark of gentrification in the Lower East Side.
Hotel Pera Palace Hotel Pera Palace (Turkish: Hotel Pera Palas) is a historical four-star hotel located in the Tepebaşı neighborhood of Beyoğlu (Pera) district in İstanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1892 for the purpose of hosting the passengers of the Orient Express and was named after the place it is located.
Hotel Petersberg Hotel Petersberg has become the Guest House of the Federal Republic of Germany, termed the "Bundesgästehaus" (the official title being Gästehaus der Verfassungsorgane der Bundesrepublik Deutschland). It is located on the Petersberg, a prominent mountain of the Siebengebirge near Bonn, Germany.
Hotel Richmond Once a leading hotel in downtown Richmond, Virginia, the Hotel Richmond overlooks the Thomas Jefferson designed State Capitol in Capitol Square. One of the rare gilded-age hotels built by a woman entrepreneur, the Hotel Richmond is now owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which uses it as its Ninth Street Office Building.
Hotel Room Hotel Room was a three episode 1993 HBO TV-Series produced by David Lynch (who directed two of them). Each drama takes place in the same New York City hotel room (number 603 of the Railroad Hotel) at different times (1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively).
Hotel Roosevelt fire The Hotel Roosevelt fire, on December 29 1963, was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had seen since the Great Fire of 1901, and it contributed to the worst one-day death toll in the city's history. Twenty-two people died, mostly from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 biographical and historical drama film about the Rwandan Genocide, directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George. It is a co-production between Canadian, British, Italian, and South African companies, and the first ever co-production between the rival independent film studios Lions Gate Films and United Artists.
Hotel splendid nice The Hotel Splendid Nice was built in 1883 at a time when Nice was developing rapidly after the arrival of the railroad and an influx of British and Russian tourists who would spend several weeks there on vacations. The building was demolished in 1962 and the present building was erected in 1964 with periodic renovations ever since.
Hotel Trianon The Hotel Trianon is a fictional hotel used as the principal setting of the novel The Comedians, a novel written by Graham Greene in 1966. It is largely based on the real-life Hotel Oloffson, where Greene frequently stayed as a guest in the 1950s.
Hotel Ukrayina Hotel Ukrayina (, ) is a three-star Hotel in central Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Built in the 1961, on a place originally occupied by Kiev's first skyscraper, the Ginzburg House and originally called Moskva (Moscow), it finished the architectural ensemble which formed the post-war reconstruction of central Kiev.
Hotel Union Square Hotel Union Square is a boutique hotel originally known as the Golden West Hotel, built in 1913 for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In the 1950s, the hotel was renamed the Golden State Hotel.
Hotel Vancouver (Demolished) The Hotel Vancouver (Demolished) was an Italian Renaissance style hotel built in 1916 and later demolished in 1949, and was the second hotel of that name. Many famous people had stayed at the hotel such as Winston Churchill, Sarah Bernhardt, Babe Ruth, Ethel Barrymore, Pavlova.
Hotel Vedado The Hotel Vedado is a hotel located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Built in the 1950s, it has been the temporary residence of many notable individuals, including Ramon Castro, Nicolas Guillen, and others.
Hotel Waverly The Hotel Waverley is located on the northwest corner of Spadina Avenue and College Street in Toronto. The white-washed four storey hotel is located in Toronto's Chinatown next to landmarks The Silver Dollar Room and The Scott Mission.
Hotel Workers Rising Hotel Workers Rising is a campaign of UNITE HERE aimed at organizing and mobilizing UNITE HERE members in the hotel industry to win improvements in the workplace, including: higher wages, better benefits and safer workloads.
Hotel X Hotel X is a world music/jazz group founded in 1992 in Richmond, Virginia by Tim Harding and Ron T. Curry as a setting to explore electric bass duets, Hotel X was quickly joined by a host of Richmond, Virginia underground music scene veterans and released six albums on the Los Angeles based SST Records.
Hotel2Tango The Hotel2Tango (sometimes referred to as Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango) is a 24-track analogue recording studio housed in a large, open loft space on the second floor of an old industrial building in the Mile End district of Montreal, Quebec. The majority of recording projects undertaken at the studio are helmed by one of the facility's three engineers: Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar, both members of A Silver Mt.
Hotelling's law Hotelling's law is an observation in economics that in many markets it is rational for producers to make their products as similar as possible. This is also referred to as the principle of minimum differentiation.
Hotelling's rule Hotelling's rule is defining the net price path as a function of time while maximising rent in the time of fully extracting a non-renewable natural resource. The maximum rent is also known as Hotelling rent or scarcity rent and is the maximum rent that could be obtained while emptying the stock resource.
Hotep Hotep is an English rendering of a word from the ancient Egyptian language transcribed as ḥtp. The word has been translated to mean "peace", "satisfied", and "at ease" Reader, Greg.
Hotep Idris Galeta Hotep Idris Galeta (born in 1941) is a South African jazz pianist and educator. His legal name at birth was Cecil Galeta, but according to local custom he was more commonly known as a child and young man as Cecil Barnard, his father's first name being used instead of a last name.
HotFrog HotFrog is the brand associated with number of country based business directories created by Reed Business Information. HotFrog was conceived by Philip Robinson an employee of Reed Business Information Australia in January 2005.
Hoth In the fictional universe of Star Wars, Hoth is the sixth planet of a remote system of the same name. It is a world covered in snow and ice, with numerous moons, and pelted by meteorites from a nearby asteroid belt.
Hotham River The Hotham River is one of the major tributaries of the Murray River in Western Australia. It is about 160km long in total with its upper reaches being the Hotham River North, which begins in the Dutarning Range and joins the Hotham at its crossing of the Great Southern Highway near Popanyinning.
Hotham Valley Railway Hotham Valley Tourist Railway (WA) Inc. has its origins in a small group of enthusiasts who met together in 1974 with the object of preserving steam locomotives and the railway line from Pinjarra to Dwellingup.
Hotch-pot Hotch-pot, or hotch-potch, in English law, is the name given to a rule of equity whereby a person, interested along with others in a common fund, and having already received something in the same interest, is required to surrender what has been so acquired into the common fund, on pain of being excluded from the distribution. The same principle is to be found in the collatio bonorum of Roman law: emancipated children, in order to share the inheritance of their father with the children unemancipated, were required to bring their property into the common fund.
Hotchkiss (automobile) Hotchkiss cars were made between 1903 and 1955 by the French company Hotchkiss et Cie in Saint-Denis, Paris. The badge for the marque showed a pair of crossed cannons, evoking the company's earlier history as an arms manufacturer.
Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company of Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860's by American industrialist Benjamin B.
Hotchpot In property law, hotchpot (sometimes referred as hotchpotch or the hotchpotch rule) refers to the blending of property in order to secure equality of division. It usually arises in cases of divorce or in connection with advances made from the estate of an intestate deceased.
HotJava HotJava is a modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute Java applets. It was the first browser to support Java applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology.
Hotlegs Hotlegs was a short-lived English band best known for its sole hit single "Neanderthal Man" in 1970. The band consisted of Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who in 1972 formed 10cc with Graham Gouldman.
Hotline In telecommunication, a hotline (also called an automatic signaling service or off-hook service) is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook. Perhaps the most famous example is the red telephone which linked the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War.
Hotline Communications Hotline Communications Limited (HCL) was a software company founded in 1997, based in Toronto, Canada, with employees also in the United States and Australia. Hotline Communications' main activity was the publishing and distribution of the multi-application, peer-to-peer communication software suite Hotline Connect, informally called, simply, Hotline.
Hotline Connect Hotline Connect (casually referred to as Hotline) is a file sharing protocol released in 1997 by Adam Hinkley (also known as "Hinks"). The protocol utilizes a server-client model of networking, combining chat, news, and file sharing capabilities into one service.
Hotliner In radio-controlled aircraft, Hotliner is a term used to describe a fast sailplane with an electric motor. The range of what is often described as a hotliner varies from a sailplane with ailerons to 3000 watt competition F5B planes.
Hotlips triplefin The hotlips triplefin, Helcogramma obtusirostre, is a triplefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae, found in the indo-West Pacific oceans, from the Red Sea south to Transkei, South Africa and east to the western Pacific, and the southeast Atlantic, around Ascension Island and St. Helena.
Hotman Hotman (ホットマン) is a Japanese television drama that aired in 2003 on TBS, based on a manga written by Sho Kitagawa in 1997. After a much greater success than the manga, a sequel, Hotman 2, was produced and aired in 2004.
Hotride Hotride was the seventeenth single released by the British electronic music trio The Prodigy on 1 November 2004. It was the third single from the album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned and did not enter the UK charts as the CD was released in EP format with 3 additional 'b-sides' and so did not conform to chart regulations.

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