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Hampstead Garden Suburb Hampstead Garden Suburb is an example of early 20th Century domestic architecture and town planning located in the London Borough of Barnet in North West London. The master plan was prepared by Barry Parker and Sir Raymond Unwin.
Hampstead Ponds Hampstead Ponds are three large freshwater swimming ponds — two designated single sex, and one for mixed bathing — fed by the River Fleet in Hampstead Heath, England. They are situated slightly to the north of the Lido open air swimming pool at the southern tip of the park.
Hampstead School Hampstead School is a large comprehensive school located in the borough of Camden, London, which has approximately 1,300 students ranging from years 7 to 13. The school has a sixth form centre that was recently built on top of the English block and holds approximately 200 further education students, with around 30 of these students taking on prefecting duties.
Hampstead tube station Hampstead tube station is a London Underground station in Hampstead village in north London, The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Golders Green and Belsize Park stations, and on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.
Hampton Bishop Hampton Bishop is a village and civil parish south-east of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England. The village itself is on a wedge between the River Wye and the River Lugg, and is also not far from where the River Frome meets the Lugg.
Hampton Carson Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 - December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new species of the fruit fly Drosophila and his contributions to our understanding of their evolution.
Hampton Catlin Hampton Catlin is an American born programmer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for creating the Haml markup language which was debuted at Railsconf Europe 2006 in London to a positive response .
Hampton Classic Horse Show The Hampton Classic Horse Show (generally referred to as the "Hampton Classic") is a Grand Prix show jumping horse show in Bridgehampton, New York that is one of the biggest show jumping contests in the United States.
Hampton Comes Alive Hampton Comes Alive is a six-disc live album by the legendary jam band Phish, released November 23, 1999. It consists of two full live concerts recorded on November 20-21 1998 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia.
Hampton Court Conference The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting in January 1604, convened at Hampton Court Palace between King James I of England and representatives of the English Puritans. While the meeting was originally scheduled for November 1603, an outbreak of plague meant it was postponed until January.
Hampton Court House Hampton Court House is an independent school for boys and girls aged between three and eighteen. The school is situated in and takes its name from the house overlooking Bushy Park and adjacent to Hampton Court Palace which George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax built in 1756.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is an annual event in July run by the Royal Horticultural Society at Hampton Court Palace. It is probably the second best known horticultural show in England after the Chelsea Flower Show.
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Hampton Falls (formerly the Third Parish and Hampton falls) is a New England town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA (was part of Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, from 1643 to 1679). The town was settled by Europeans in 1638 and became a town in 1726.
Hampton Fancher Hampton Fancher (born July 18, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an actor who transitioned into being a producer and screenwriter in the late 1970s. At 15, he ran away to Spain to become a flamenco dancer, and renamed himself Mario Montejo.
Hampton Ferry The Hampton Ferry is a pedestrian chain ferry, which links the town of Evesham and the village of Hampton across the River Avon in the English county of Worcestershire. The ferry route dates back to the 13th century, when it was established by monks.
Hampton Grease Band The Hampton Grease Band was an American rock band, beginning as a blues-rock group in the late 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia. They performed with several major bands in this period, including Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers.
Hampton Gulls The Hampton Gulls were a professional ice hockey team based in Hampton, Virginia and were a farm team for the Cincinnati Stingers of the WHA. The Gulls were a member of the Southern Hockey League for three seasons from 1974-75 to 1976-77, and the American Hockey League for one season in 1977-78.
Hampton Hill Hampton Hill (known long ago as 'New Hampton') is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, bounded approximately by Fulwell Golf Course to the north, Bushy Park to the east and the Longford River to the south and west. It is served by Fulwell train station, which lies on the Shepperton to Waterloo route.
Hampton House The Hampton House is a Chicago, Illinois residential condominium located in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House, a hotel built by Hyde Park founder Paul Cornell in the 1850s.
Hampton Inn Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn & Suites are the names of a chain of hotels operated by Hilton Hotels Corporation. Hampton Inn & Suites offers suites in addition to the standard rooms found at a Hampton Inn.
Hampton Loade Hampton Loade is a village in Shropshire, England along the Severn Valley. It is situated on the east bank of the River Severn at , and is notable for the unusual current-operated Hampton Loade Ferry, a chain ferry to the hamlet of Hampton on the west bank.
Hampton Loade Ferry Hampton Loade Ferry is a current operated pedestrian chain ferry, sometimes called a reaction ferry, which links the villages of Hampton Loade and Hampton across the River Severn in the English county of Shropshire. The crossing has been in use for around 400 years, and may even have provided a route across the Severn during the Middle Ages.
Hampton Loade railway station Hampton Loade railway station is a station on the Severn Valley Railway heritage line, close to the hamlet of Hampton on the western bank of the River Severn; Hampton Loade itself is on the eastern bank, and may be reached by the Hampton Loade Ferry across the river.
Hampton National Historic Site Hampton National Historic Site, at 535 Hampton Lane in Hampton, Maryland, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th century estate including a Georgian manor house, gardens and grounds, and original stone slave quarters.
Hampton Poyle Hampton Poyle is a village in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire and is about a mile north east of Kidlington. Hampton Poyle has one church, The Church of St Mary the Virgin, which was built in the 13th century, the village also has one pub called "The Bell".
Hampton River (New Hampshire) The Hampton River is a tidal inlet in the towns of Hampton and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the United States. It is surrounded by the largest salt marsh in New Hampshire, covering over 3,800 acres (15 km²).
Hampton Roads Beltway The Hampton Roads Beltway is a loop of Interstate 64 and Interstate 664, which links the communities of the Virginia Peninsula and South Hampton Roads which surround the body of water known as Hampton Roads and comprise much of the region of the same name in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States.
Hampton Roads Conference The Hampton Roads Conference was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the American Civil War. On February 3, 1865, near Fort Monroe in Newport News, Virginia, aboard a ship, the River Queen, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, representing the United States government, met with Vice President Alexander H.
Hampton Roads Transit Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) formed in October 1999 by the merging of PENTRAN (Peninsula Transportation District Commission) in Hampton and TRT (Tidewater Regional Transit also known as the Tidewater Transit District Commission) in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hampton Sides Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the author of Ghost Soldiers, which won the 2002 PEN USA awardPEN USA Awards 2002 web site, accessed August 18, 2006 for nonfiction. He has also served as an editor for Outside magazine.
Hampton Station Hampton Station is a DART light rail station located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas at Hampton Road and Wright Street. It opened on June 14, 1996 and is a station on the Red Line, serving the nearby YWCA and Sunset High School.
Hampton String Quartet The Hampton String Quartet is a string quartet specializing in popular music, playing whimsical chamber music arrangements of Christmas and rock songs in the style of various classical composers, frequently quoting or paraphrasing snippets from their works. (For example, their arrangement of "Earth Angel" is a paraphrase of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Hampton University Hampton University (formerly Hampton Institute) is an American university located in Hampton, Virginia. The campus overlooking the northern edge of the harbor of Hampton Roads was founded on the grounds of a former plantation ["Little Scotland"] shortly after the end of the American Civil War.
Hampton Wick railway station Hampton Wick railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 6. The suburb of Hampton Wick is on the opposite bank of the River Thames from Kingston upon Thames and lies at the eastern end of Hampton Court Park.
Hampton's Legion Hampton's Legion was a American Civil War military unit of the Confederate States of America, organized and partially financed by wealthy South Carolina plantation owner Wade Hampton III. Initially composed of infantry, cavalry, and artillery battalions, elements of Hampton's Legion participated in virtually every major campaign in the Eastern Theater, from the first to the last battle.
Hampton-in-Arden Hampton-in-Arden is a village located within the borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England. The village was previously located within the county of Warwickshire, until the 1974 county boundary changes.
Hampton-Kings Hampton-Kings is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was established in the 1994 electoral redistribution, in 2006 its boundaries were changed as its population has above the allowable reasonable population and its name was changed from Hampton-Belleisle to Hampton-Kings.
Hamra National Park Hamra National Park (in Swedish Hamra nationalpark) is a National Park in Ljusdal Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden. The park, which is a part of Orsa Finnmark, is 28 hectare in area and was founded in 1909.
Hamrin Mountain Hamrin Mountain is a Mountain range that extend from Diyala Province, 60 km east of Baghdad the capital of Iraq and borders on Iran and extends to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 260 km north of Baghdad. The mountain range considered by the Kurds a national geographical border of what they consider their native homeland, Kurdistan.
Hamriyah (Sharjah) Hamriyah is a port in the United Arab Emirates, north of Ajman and south of Umm Al Quwain. Under the rule of the Sharjah since the its invasion in the 1960s, it used to be ruled by a separate ruler belonging to the Shamsi Family.
Hamsa (Hindu mythology) Hamsa, also spelt as Hansha (Anser indicus), is one of the most significant birds with wide references in texts pertaining to Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist, and their respective mythologies. Hamsa is also the conveyance (vahana) of Brahma.
Hamsa bird The Hamsa bird (हंस, also romanized from Sanskrit as hansa, pronounced as "hənsə"; ) is a swan, typically the mute swan (cygnus olor), used in ancient Indian religions as a symbol and a decorative element.
Hamshahri Hamshahri (Persian: همشهری) is a reformist Iranian Persian-language newspaper published by the Municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement, and is priced at 500 Iranian rials.
Hamshenis The Hamshenis (also known as Hemshinlis or Khemshils; Ő€ŐˇŐ´Ő·Ő«Ő¶Ő« in Armenian; HemĹźinli in Turkish; ĐĐĽŃенцы in Russian) are an ethnic group of Armenian origin that inhabit the Black Sea coastal areas of Turkey, Russia, and Georgia (Abkhazia). A handful also live in Armenia and some Hamshenis can also be found in Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan after being deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.
Hamshire, Texas Hamshire is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Texas (USA). Hamshire, commonly referred to by some of its inhabitants as "Hamshire, America", is on State Highway 124 twenty miles southwest of Beaumont.
Hamskerpir and Gardrofa In Norse mythology, Hamskerpir and Gardrofa were a pair of horses who sired Hófvarpnir, the horse ridden by Frigg's handmaiden Gná, according to Gylfaginning. Hamskerpir and Gardrofa are not known from any other source.
Hamstead railway station Hamstead railway station serves the Hamstead and Great Barr areas of the West Midlands, England, located in the city of Birmingham close to its border with Sandwell. It is situated on the Birmingham-Walsall Line.
Hamster racing Hamster racing is a sport in which hamsters are placed in hamster balls fitted to miniature racing vehicles and raced down a straight 9 meter (30 ft) course. The hamster crossing the finish line in the shortest amount of time wins.
Hamster test The hamster test is a method for diagnosing male infertility due to the inability of the sperm to penetrate the ova. Sperm are mixed with hamster eggs that have had the outer membranes removed, and the number of sperm penetrations per egg is measured.
Hamsterley Forest Hamsterley Forest is a commercial forest in County Durham operated by the Forestry Commission. Recreational activities are promoted within the forest and are focussed at the eastern end around the visitors centre.
Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue Hamtaro Rainbow Rescue is a video game release by Nintendo, and based on the manga Hamtaro, written by mangaka (illustrator) Ritsuko Kawai. Though it was never released into America itself, it was released into the United Kingdom, and therefor fully playable in English, and avaliable to Americans by way of eBay or Amazon.
Hamumu Software Hamumu Software (commonly called Hamumu) is an independent American computer game company founded by Mike Hommel (commonly called Jamul). It was created sometime in July 1998, when Jamul quit his job and started working on a sequel to his SPISPOPD game called Dr.
Hamun-i-Helmand Hamun-i-Helmand (also known as Hamun-i-Hirmand or Sistan Lake) is a marshy lake on the border of Afghanistan and Iran fed by the Helmand River. Together with Iran's Hamun-e-Puzak and Hamun-e-Saber, it forms the extended wetlands called Lake Hamoun in Seistan.
Hamunaptra Hamunaptra is a fictional ancient Egyptian city hidden deep in the desert some distance from Thebes and is the primary setting for the story in the horror/action movie The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
Hamurabi Hamurabi was one of the earliest computer games (the name is a shortening of Hammurabi to fit an eight-character limit). It was also known as Kingdomwas originally a FOCAL] program written at [[Digital Equipment Corporation by an unknown authorbut it was popularized when David Ahl] ported it to [[BASIC for Creative Computing From David Ahl's version, it was then ported to many different microcomputer]s.
Hamurana Spring Hamurana Spring is the deepest natural fresh water spring on the North Island of New Zealand. Located to the north east of Lake Rotorua, the spring emerges from a rocky area within a Department of Conservation reserve.
Hamworthy Hamworthy is a parish and inner suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. Hamworthy is situated beside Poole Harbour between two bays, Holes Bay to the east and Lychett Bay to the west, on a peninsula of approximately three square kilometres.
Hamza Hamza () is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop . Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters, and owes its existence to historical orthographical inconsistencies in early Islamic times.
Hamza Yerlikaya Hamza Yerlikaya (born June 6, 1976 in Kadıköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish Graeco-Roman style wrestler. He is a two time (in 1996 and 2000) Olympic champion and the only Turkish wrestler to ever become European champion eight times.
Hamzah Shehatta Hamzah Shehatta (1908-1972), born in Mecca, And raised in Jeddah, is a Pioneer; a leading poet and thinker from Hejaz ( Western modern Saudi Arabia ). He was a leading figure during the Hejazi renaissance in the beginnings of the twentieth century.
HaMifratz Central Bus Station HaMifratz Central Bus Station is the main bus station of the Haifa Bay (Mifratz Haifa) region which is the Eastern part of the Haifa metropolitan area. It opened on January 1, 2002 as part of the plan to realign Haifa's public transportation system whereby two major bus/rail stations were built, one in the Western and one in the Eastern part of the city in order to avoid the need for inter-city buses to travel into the center of the city to Haifa Bat Galim Central Bus Station.
Han (country subdivision) The were the fiefs of feudal lords of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their abolition in 1871, three years after the Meiji Restoration. The number of han varied; typically, there were around 300 han in the Edo period.
Han Dayuan Han Dayuan (Chinese: 韩大ĺ…; Pinyin: Hán DĂ yuán, born October 1960) is the Deputy Dean of Renmin University of China Law School, and Deputy Director of the Constitutional Law Institute of China Law Society.
Han De Han De a certain Wei officer that was called on by Xiahou Mao to serve on the front lines of the Wei army, while Han De was currently against Zhuge Liang in his Northern Campaign. Han De along with his four sons all ended up being slain by Zhao Yun.
Han Dynasty silk comet atlas These drawings of comets dated before 168 BC from the Han Dynasty silk comet atlas, unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui, Changsha, China, are part of a large number of documents, which includes the I Ching and two similar versions of the Tao Te Ching, found during the 1970's and often referred to as the Mawangdui Silk Texts. Each illustration has a caption describing what will happen if the comet as depicted appears so the artifact is basically an atlas of comet forms seen in the past.
Han Fuqu Han Fuqu () (1890 - 24 January 1938) was a member of the Kuomintang, once held the position as the Premier of Shandong. After the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he abandoned his base in Jinan and was executed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Han Guangsheng Han Guangsheng, emerged as a Chinese defector in Canada during July, 2005 to support a number of allegations made by Chen Yonglin. Han claims to have been in charge of Shenyang's public security and labor camps prior to his defection.
Han Hye-jin Han Hye-jin (í•śíśě§„) is a South Korean actress most beloved for her current role as Jumong's first love, a stronghearted girl by the name of Soseono. With her elegant appearance and sweet personality, she is currently extremely popular in Korea, and her popularity is only growing.
Han Hyung-Bae Han Hyung-Bae (born March 21, 1976) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by title holders The Netherlands after penalty strokes.
Han chauvinism Han chauvinism () or Hanism () is a term which is used in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan, referring to people carrying ethnocentric viewpoints that favor the Han Chinese majority ethnic group in China at the expense of the other minority ethnic groups, often under the assumption of cultural or racial superiority. Han chauvinists in the People's Republic of China often invent enemies of Manchus, Mongols and members of the Han nationality that oppose a monolithic view of the nationality.
Han Chinese clothing Han Chinese clothing () refers to the historical clothing of the Han Chinese people, especially before conquest by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in 1644. Today, most Han Chinese wear western-style clothing, and Han Chinese clothing is no longer worn in everyday life.
Han Ji-min Han Ji-min (born November 5 1982) is a South Korean actress. She has starred in the television dramas "All In" and "Dae Jang Geum" (US: Jewel in the Palace, The Great Jang Geum), and had a role in the movie Blue Swallow.
Han Kulker Johannes ("Han") Nicolaas Maria Kulker (born August 15, 1959 in Leidschendam) is a former Dutch middle distance runner who won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart over 1500 metres. The race was won by Steve Cram.
Han Kyung Han Geng (Simplified Chinese: 韩庚, Traditional Chinese: 韓庚, February 9 1984) is a member of the popular Korean boy band Super Junior. Better known as Han Kyung (한경), his Korean stage name, he is the only member of the group who hails from Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.
Han Mac Tu Hà n Mặc TỠ(September 22, 1912-November 11, 1940) was a Vietnamese poet. He was one of the pioneers of modern Vietnamese romantic poetry, established the "disorderly" (loạn) and "crazy" (điên) schools of poetry.
Han Myeong Sook Han Myeong-Sook (born March 24 1944) (IPA: ) is the current Prime Minister of South Korea. She is from the ruling Uri Party and is a graduate of the prestigious Ewha Womans University of Seoul with a degree in French literature.
Han Ong Playwright and novelist Han Ong (1968– ) is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16.
Han shot first In Star Wars fandom, the phrase "Han shot first" refers to the changes made to a scene in Star Wars, involving the characters Han Solo and Greedo in the Mos Eisley Cantina. The bounty hunter Greedo has come at the behest of Jabba the Hutt, to whom Solo owes a large debt for a failed smuggling run.
Han school [Han school (č—©ć ˇ; hankĹŤ) was an educational institution in the Edo period] of [[Japan, established to educate children of samurai families in the Han. It was also known as Hangaku (č—©ĺ¦), Hangako (č—©ĺ¦ć ˇ) or HankĹŤ (藩黌).
Han Soon Chul Han Soon Chul (born December 30, 1984) is an amateur boxer from South Korea who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division winning the silver medal in a decisive match against the Philippines's Joan Tipon. Bantamweight final results
Han Suyin Han Suyin (Chinese: éź©ç´ éźł; pinyin: Hán SĂąyÄ«n) (born September 12 1917), is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Chinese: 周光湖, pinyin: ZhĹŤu GuÄnghĂş). She is a Chinese-born author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician.
Han twins murder conspiracy The Han twins murder conspiracy was a case of attempted murder by Jeen Han (also known as Jeen Young Han or Jeen "Gina" Han) of her identical twin sister, Sunny Han, in November 1996 in Orange County, California, United States.
Han unification Han unification is the process used by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. The Chinese characters are common to Chinese (where they are called hanzi), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja).
Han van Meegeren Han van Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer in the Netherlands province of Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter, art-restorer, and art forger. He is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century, duping buyers out of an estimated $25 to $30 million dollars.
Han Wu Da Di Han Wu Da Di (Great Emperor Wu of Han; Traditional Chinese: 漢ć¦ĺ¤§ĺ¸ť; Simplified Chinese: 汉ć¦ĺ¤§ĺ¸ť; Hanyu Pinyin: HĂ n WÇ” DĂ Dì) is a TV series from mainland China about Han Wu Di (born Liu Che), the sixth and most famous emperor of the Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). The series covers his life, with four actors playing his character from his boyhood to his old age.
Han Xiang One of the Eight Immortals, Philosopher Han Xiang (éź“ćąĺ in pinyin: hán xiÄng zi) or Han Xiang Zi, in Wade-Giles as Han Hsiang Tzu, was born Han Xiang in Tang, and his courtesy name is Qingfu (清夫 qÄ«ng fĹ«). He is the nephew or grandson of Han Yu, a prominent statesman.
Han Xianchu Han Xianchu (éź©ĺ…楚) (1913-1986) was a general of the Chinese Communist armed forces. Han participated in many military campaigns and battles such as Battle of Pingxingguan, Liaoshen Campaign, Pingjin Campaign, Hainan Campaign, and the Korean War.
Han Xiaopeng Han Xiaopeng (Chinese:韩晓鹏), born December 13, 1982 in Peixian, Xuzhou, in Jiangsu Province of China is a freestyle skiier who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and won gold in the men's aerials event. He is the first Chinese man to ever win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
Han Yong-un Manhae (1879–1944) was a 20th century Korean Buddhist reformer and poet. Manhae was his pen name; his birth name was Han Yu-cheon, but he is universally known by the name he was given by his meditation instructor in 1907, Han Yong-un (Korean: 한용운 or ; also written Han Yong-woon)
Han Yu Han Yu (; 768 - 824 CE), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet. The Indiana Companion calls him "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the language (p. 397). He stood for strong central authority in politics and orthodoxy in cultural matters.
Han Zhangluan Han Zhangluan (韓長鸞), formal personal name Han Feng (韓鳳) (but went by the courtesy name of Zhangluan), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Northern Qi. He was initially a guard commander for Gao Wei when Gao Wei was crown prince, and became a close associate of Gao Wei after Gao Wei became emperor.
Han Zhao The Han Zhao (; 304-329) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Chinese Jin Dynasty (265-420). It represented two state titles, the Han state (漢, pinyin Hà n) proclaimed in 304 by Liu Yuan and the Former Zhao state (前趙, pinyin Qiánzhà o) in 319 by Liu Yao.
Han Zheng Han Zheng (Chinese: éź©ćŁ) (born in Cixi, Zhejiang province, April 1954) is the current mayor of Shanghai, and since the dismissal of Party Chief Chen Liangyu in September 2006, has taken over as Acting CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary. As the most senior member of the Shanghai clique who is not a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and member of the emerging fifth generation, whether or not he attains higher office in coming years will be a barometer of whether the Clique retains its national influence.
Han-Han Dae Sajeon Han-Han Dae Sajeon (Korean: í•śí•śëŚ€ě‚¬ě „, 漢韓大čľĺ…¸, meaning The Great Dictionary of Chinese Character to Korean, is a name for many Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters. There are several dictionaries in this name, from different publishers.
Hana (film) Hana (Hana Yori mo Naho - 花ă‚ă‚Šă‚‚ăŞă») is a 2006 Japanese film by director Hirokazu Koreeda. It concerns a young samurai, Sozaemon (Junichi Okada), who has come from Matsumoto to Edo to take his revenge against his father's killer.
Hana and Alice Hana and Alice (2004) is a Japanese film by director Shunji Iwai. The film, Shot on HD digital video by the late director of photography, Noboru Shinoda, who shared a longstanding working relationship with Shunji Iwai, concerns the life of two girls, the titular Hana (Anne Suzuki) and Alice (YĂ» Aoi), and the stress placed on their friendship as they move into high school.
Hana Asakura Hana Asakura (麻倉花 Asakura Hana) is the protagonist of Hiroyuki Takei's manga, Funbari no Uta, which is set in the year 2007. He is the six year old son of Yoh Asakura and Anna Kyoyama who is now traveling with Wooden Sword Ryu.
Hana Beaman Hana Beaman has been boarding down the world's best mountains since kindergarten and counts two World Championships, numerous gold medals, and a Winter X Games silver medal among her many accolades. As a self described "jump-rail-park kind of person" and one of the superstars of shredding, she has established herself as an accomplished all-round snowboarder competing and winning in Big Air, Slopestyle, and Boardercross categories.
Hana Gartner Hana Gartner (born 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a multiple award-winning Canadian television investigative journalist, best known as the host/interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hana Greenfield Hana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Hana is the author of Fragments of Memory published by Gefen Publishing House (1998, c1998, revised edition 2006).
Hampstead Ponds Hampstead Ponds are three large freshwater swimming ponds — two designated single sex, and one for mixed bathing — fed by the River Fleet in Hampstead Heath, England. They are situated slightly to the north of the Lido open air swimming pool at the southern tip of the park.
Hampstead School Hampstead School is a large comprehensive school located in the borough of Camden, London, which has approximately 1,300 students ranging from years 7 to 13. The school has a sixth form centre that was recently built on top of the English block and holds approximately 200 further education students, with around 30 of these students taking on prefecting duties.
Hampstead tube station Hampstead tube station is a London Underground station in Hampstead village in north London, The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Golders Green and Belsize Park stations, and on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.
Hampton Bishop Hampton Bishop is a village and civil parish south-east of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England. The village itself is on a wedge between the River Wye and the River Lugg, and is also not far from where the River Frome meets the Lugg.
Hampton Carson Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 - December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new species of the fruit fly Drosophila and his contributions to our understanding of their evolution.
Hampton Catlin Hampton Catlin is an American born programmer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for creating the Haml markup language which was debuted at Railsconf Europe 2006 in London to a positive response .
Hampton Classic Horse Show The Hampton Classic Horse Show (generally referred to as the "Hampton Classic") is a Grand Prix show jumping horse show in Bridgehampton, New York that is one of the biggest show jumping contests in the United States.
Hampton Comes Alive Hampton Comes Alive is a six-disc live album by the legendary jam band Phish, released November 23, 1999. It consists of two full live concerts recorded on November 20-21 1998 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia.
Hampton Court Conference The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting in January 1604, convened at Hampton Court Palace between King James I of England and representatives of the English Puritans. While the meeting was originally scheduled for November 1603, an outbreak of plague meant it was postponed until January.
Hampton Court House Hampton Court House is an independent school for boys and girls aged between three and eighteen. The school is situated in and takes its name from the house overlooking Bushy Park and adjacent to Hampton Court Palace which George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax built in 1756.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is an annual event in July run by the Royal Horticultural Society at Hampton Court Palace. It is probably the second best known horticultural show in England after the Chelsea Flower Show.
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Hampton Falls (formerly the Third Parish and Hampton falls) is a New England town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA (was part of Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, from 1643 to 1679). The town was settled by Europeans in 1638 and became a town in 1726.
Hampton Fancher Hampton Fancher (born July 18, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an actor who transitioned into being a producer and screenwriter in the late 1970s. At 15, he ran away to Spain to become a flamenco dancer, and renamed himself Mario Montejo.
Hampton Ferry The Hampton Ferry is a pedestrian chain ferry, which links the town of Evesham and the village of Hampton across the River Avon in the English county of Worcestershire. The ferry route dates back to the 13th century, when it was established by monks.
Hampton Grease Band The Hampton Grease Band was an American rock band, beginning as a blues-rock group in the late 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia. They performed with several major bands in this period, including Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers.
Hampton Gulls The Hampton Gulls were a professional ice hockey team based in Hampton, Virginia and were a farm team for the Cincinnati Stingers of the WHA. The Gulls were a member of the Southern Hockey League for three seasons from 1974-75 to 1976-77, and the American Hockey League for one season in 1977-78.
Hampton Hill Hampton Hill (known long ago as 'New Hampton') is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, bounded approximately by Fulwell Golf Course to the north, Bushy Park to the east and the Longford River to the south and west. It is served by Fulwell train station, which lies on the Shepperton to Waterloo route.
Hampton House The Hampton House is a Chicago, Illinois residential condominium located in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House, a hotel built by Hyde Park founder Paul Cornell in the 1850s.
Hampton Inn Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn & Suites are the names of a chain of hotels operated by Hilton Hotels Corporation. Hampton Inn & Suites offers suites in addition to the standard rooms found at a Hampton Inn.
Hampton Loade Hampton Loade is a village in Shropshire, England along the Severn Valley. It is situated on the east bank of the River Severn at , and is notable for the unusual current-operated Hampton Loade Ferry, a chain ferry to the hamlet of Hampton on the west bank.
Hampton Loade Ferry Hampton Loade Ferry is a current operated pedestrian chain ferry, sometimes called a reaction ferry, which links the villages of Hampton Loade and Hampton across the River Severn in the English county of Shropshire. The crossing has been in use for around 400 years, and may even have provided a route across the Severn during the Middle Ages.
Hampton Loade railway station Hampton Loade railway station is a station on the Severn Valley Railway heritage line, close to the hamlet of Hampton on the western bank of the River Severn; Hampton Loade itself is on the eastern bank, and may be reached by the Hampton Loade Ferry across the river.
Hampton National Historic Site Hampton National Historic Site, at 535 Hampton Lane in Hampton, Maryland, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th century estate including a Georgian manor house, gardens and grounds, and original stone slave quarters.
Hampton Poyle Hampton Poyle is a village in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire and is about a mile north east of Kidlington. Hampton Poyle has one church, The Church of St Mary the Virgin, which was built in the 13th century, the village also has one pub called "The Bell".
Hampton River (New Hampshire) The Hampton River is a tidal inlet in the towns of Hampton and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the United States. It is surrounded by the largest salt marsh in New Hampshire, covering over 3,800 acres (15 km²).
Hampton Roads Beltway The Hampton Roads Beltway is a loop of Interstate 64 and Interstate 664, which links the communities of the Virginia Peninsula and South Hampton Roads which surround the body of water known as Hampton Roads and comprise much of the region of the same name in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States.
Hampton Roads Conference The Hampton Roads Conference was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the American Civil War. On February 3, 1865, near Fort Monroe in Newport News, Virginia, aboard a ship, the River Queen, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, representing the United States government, met with Vice President Alexander H.
Hampton Roads Transit Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) formed in October 1999 by the merging of PENTRAN (Peninsula Transportation District Commission) in Hampton and TRT (Tidewater Regional Transit also known as the Tidewater Transit District Commission) in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hampton Sides Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the author of Ghost Soldiers, which won the 2002 PEN USA awardPEN USA Awards 2002 web site, accessed August 18, 2006 for nonfiction. He has also served as an editor for Outside magazine.
Hampton Station Hampton Station is a DART light rail station located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas at Hampton Road and Wright Street. It opened on June 14, 1996 and is a station on the Red Line, serving the nearby YWCA and Sunset High School.
Hampton String Quartet The Hampton String Quartet is a string quartet specializing in popular music, playing whimsical chamber music arrangements of Christmas and rock songs in the style of various classical composers, frequently quoting or paraphrasing snippets from their works. (For example, their arrangement of "Earth Angel" is a paraphrase of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Hampton University Hampton University (formerly Hampton Institute) is an American university located in Hampton, Virginia. The campus overlooking the northern edge of the harbor of Hampton Roads was founded on the grounds of a former plantation ["Little Scotland"] shortly after the end of the American Civil War.
Hampton Wick railway station Hampton Wick railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 6. The suburb of Hampton Wick is on the opposite bank of the River Thames from Kingston upon Thames and lies at the eastern end of Hampton Court Park.
Hampton's Legion Hampton's Legion was a American Civil War military unit of the Confederate States of America, organized and partially financed by wealthy South Carolina plantation owner Wade Hampton III. Initially composed of infantry, cavalry, and artillery battalions, elements of Hampton's Legion participated in virtually every major campaign in the Eastern Theater, from the first to the last battle.
Hampton-in-Arden Hampton-in-Arden is a village located within the borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England. The village was previously located within the county of Warwickshire, until the 1974 county boundary changes.
Hampton-Kings Hampton-Kings is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was established in the 1994 electoral redistribution, in 2006 its boundaries were changed as its population has above the allowable reasonable population and its name was changed from Hampton-Belleisle to Hampton-Kings.
Hamra National Park Hamra National Park (in Swedish Hamra nationalpark) is a National Park in Ljusdal Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden. The park, which is a part of Orsa Finnmark, is 28 hectare in area and was founded in 1909.
Hamrin Mountain Hamrin Mountain is a Mountain range that extend from Diyala Province, 60 km east of Baghdad the capital of Iraq and borders on Iran and extends to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 260 km north of Baghdad. The mountain range considered by the Kurds a national geographical border of what they consider their native homeland, Kurdistan.
Hamriyah (Sharjah) Hamriyah is a port in the United Arab Emirates, north of Ajman and south of Umm Al Quwain. Under the rule of the Sharjah since the its invasion in the 1960s, it used to be ruled by a separate ruler belonging to the Shamsi Family.
Hamsa (Hindu mythology) Hamsa, also spelt as Hansha (Anser indicus), is one of the most significant birds with wide references in texts pertaining to Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist, and their respective mythologies. Hamsa is also the conveyance (vahana) of Brahma.
Hamsa bird The Hamsa bird (हंस, also romanized from Sanskrit as hansa, pronounced as "hənsə"; ) is a swan, typically the mute swan (cygnus olor), used in ancient Indian religions as a symbol and a decorative element.
Hamshahri Hamshahri (Persian: همشهری) is a reformist Iranian Persian-language newspaper published by the Municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement, and is priced at 500 Iranian rials.
Hamshenis The Hamshenis (also known as Hemshinlis or Khemshils; Ő€ŐˇŐ´Ő·Ő«Ő¶Ő« in Armenian; HemĹźinli in Turkish; ĐĐĽŃенцы in Russian) are an ethnic group of Armenian origin that inhabit the Black Sea coastal areas of Turkey, Russia, and Georgia (Abkhazia). A handful also live in Armenia and some Hamshenis can also be found in Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan after being deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.
Hamshire, Texas Hamshire is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Texas (USA). Hamshire, commonly referred to by some of its inhabitants as "Hamshire, America", is on State Highway 124 twenty miles southwest of Beaumont.
Hamskerpir and Gardrofa In Norse mythology, Hamskerpir and Gardrofa were a pair of horses who sired Hófvarpnir, the horse ridden by Frigg's handmaiden Gná, according to Gylfaginning. Hamskerpir and Gardrofa are not known from any other source.
Hamstead railway station Hamstead railway station serves the Hamstead and Great Barr areas of the West Midlands, England, located in the city of Birmingham close to its border with Sandwell. It is situated on the Birmingham-Walsall Line.
Hamster racing Hamster racing is a sport in which hamsters are placed in hamster balls fitted to miniature racing vehicles and raced down a straight 9 meter (30 ft) course. The hamster crossing the finish line in the shortest amount of time wins.
Hamster test The hamster test is a method for diagnosing male infertility due to the inability of the sperm to penetrate the ova. Sperm are mixed with hamster eggs that have had the outer membranes removed, and the number of sperm penetrations per egg is measured.
Hamsterley Forest Hamsterley Forest is a commercial forest in County Durham operated by the Forestry Commission. Recreational activities are promoted within the forest and are focussed at the eastern end around the visitors centre.
Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue Hamtaro Rainbow Rescue is a video game release by Nintendo, and based on the manga Hamtaro, written by mangaka (illustrator) Ritsuko Kawai. Though it was never released into America itself, it was released into the United Kingdom, and therefor fully playable in English, and avaliable to Americans by way of eBay or Amazon.
Hamumu Software Hamumu Software (commonly called Hamumu) is an independent American computer game company founded by Mike Hommel (commonly called Jamul). It was created sometime in July 1998, when Jamul quit his job and started working on a sequel to his SPISPOPD game called Dr.
Hamun-i-Helmand Hamun-i-Helmand (also known as Hamun-i-Hirmand or Sistan Lake) is a marshy lake on the border of Afghanistan and Iran fed by the Helmand River. Together with Iran's Hamun-e-Puzak and Hamun-e-Saber, it forms the extended wetlands called Lake Hamoun in Seistan.
Hamunaptra Hamunaptra is a fictional ancient Egyptian city hidden deep in the desert some distance from Thebes and is the primary setting for the story in the horror/action movie The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
Hamurabi Hamurabi was one of the earliest computer games (the name is a shortening of Hammurabi to fit an eight-character limit). It was also known as Kingdomwas originally a FOCAL] program written at [[Digital Equipment Corporation by an unknown authorbut it was popularized when David Ahl] ported it to [[BASIC for Creative Computing From David Ahl's version, it was then ported to many different microcomputer]s.
Hamurana Spring Hamurana Spring is the deepest natural fresh water spring on the North Island of New Zealand. Located to the north east of Lake Rotorua, the spring emerges from a rocky area within a Department of Conservation reserve.
Hamworthy Hamworthy is a parish and inner suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. Hamworthy is situated beside Poole Harbour between two bays, Holes Bay to the east and Lychett Bay to the west, on a peninsula of approximately three square kilometres.
Hamza Hamza () is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop . Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters, and owes its existence to historical orthographical inconsistencies in early Islamic times.
Hamza Yerlikaya Hamza Yerlikaya (born June 6, 1976 in Kadıköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish Graeco-Roman style wrestler. He is a two time (in 1996 and 2000) Olympic champion and the only Turkish wrestler to ever become European champion eight times.
Hamzah Shehatta Hamzah Shehatta (1908-1972), born in Mecca, And raised in Jeddah, is a Pioneer; a leading poet and thinker from Hejaz ( Western modern Saudi Arabia ). He was a leading figure during the Hejazi renaissance in the beginnings of the twentieth century.
HaMifratz Central Bus Station HaMifratz Central Bus Station is the main bus station of the Haifa Bay (Mifratz Haifa) region which is the Eastern part of the Haifa metropolitan area. It opened on January 1, 2002 as part of the plan to realign Haifa's public transportation system whereby two major bus/rail stations were built, one in the Western and one in the Eastern part of the city in order to avoid the need for inter-city buses to travel into the center of the city to Haifa Bat Galim Central Bus Station.
Han (country subdivision) The were the fiefs of feudal lords of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their abolition in 1871, three years after the Meiji Restoration. The number of han varied; typically, there were around 300 han in the Edo period.
Han Dayuan Han Dayuan (Chinese: 韩大ĺ…; Pinyin: Hán DĂ yuán, born October 1960) is the Deputy Dean of Renmin University of China Law School, and Deputy Director of the Constitutional Law Institute of China Law Society.
Han De Han De a certain Wei officer that was called on by Xiahou Mao to serve on the front lines of the Wei army, while Han De was currently against Zhuge Liang in his Northern Campaign. Han De along with his four sons all ended up being slain by Zhao Yun.
Han Dynasty silk comet atlas These drawings of comets dated before 168 BC from the Han Dynasty silk comet atlas, unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui, Changsha, China, are part of a large number of documents, which includes the I Ching and two similar versions of the Tao Te Ching, found during the 1970's and often referred to as the Mawangdui Silk Texts. Each illustration has a caption describing what will happen if the comet as depicted appears so the artifact is basically an atlas of comet forms seen in the past.
Han Fuqu Han Fuqu () (1890 - 24 January 1938) was a member of the Kuomintang, once held the position as the Premier of Shandong. After the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he abandoned his base in Jinan and was executed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Han Guangsheng Han Guangsheng, emerged as a Chinese defector in Canada during July, 2005 to support a number of allegations made by Chen Yonglin. Han claims to have been in charge of Shenyang's public security and labor camps prior to his defection.
Han Hye-jin Han Hye-jin (í•śíśě§„) is a South Korean actress most beloved for her current role as Jumong's first love, a stronghearted girl by the name of Soseono. With her elegant appearance and sweet personality, she is currently extremely popular in Korea, and her popularity is only growing.
Han Hyung-Bae Han Hyung-Bae (born March 21, 1976) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by title holders The Netherlands after penalty strokes.
Han chauvinism Han chauvinism () or Hanism () is a term which is used in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan, referring to people carrying ethnocentric viewpoints that favor the Han Chinese majority ethnic group in China at the expense of the other minority ethnic groups, often under the assumption of cultural or racial superiority. Han chauvinists in the People's Republic of China often invent enemies of Manchus, Mongols and members of the Han nationality that oppose a monolithic view of the nationality.
Han Chinese clothing Han Chinese clothing () refers to the historical clothing of the Han Chinese people, especially before conquest by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in 1644. Today, most Han Chinese wear western-style clothing, and Han Chinese clothing is no longer worn in everyday life.
Han Ji-min Han Ji-min (born November 5 1982) is a South Korean actress. She has starred in the television dramas "All In" and "Dae Jang Geum" (US: Jewel in the Palace, The Great Jang Geum), and had a role in the movie Blue Swallow.
Han Kulker Johannes ("Han") Nicolaas Maria Kulker (born August 15, 1959 in Leidschendam) is a former Dutch middle distance runner who won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart over 1500 metres. The race was won by Steve Cram.
Han Kyung Han Geng (Simplified Chinese: 韩庚, Traditional Chinese: 韓庚, February 9 1984) is a member of the popular Korean boy band Super Junior. Better known as Han Kyung (한경), his Korean stage name, he is the only member of the group who hails from Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.
Han Mac Tu Hà n Mặc TỠ(September 22, 1912-November 11, 1940) was a Vietnamese poet. He was one of the pioneers of modern Vietnamese romantic poetry, established the "disorderly" (loạn) and "crazy" (điên) schools of poetry.
Han Myeong Sook Han Myeong-Sook (born March 24 1944) (IPA: ) is the current Prime Minister of South Korea. She is from the ruling Uri Party and is a graduate of the prestigious Ewha Womans University of Seoul with a degree in French literature.
Han Ong Playwright and novelist Han Ong (1968– ) is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16.
Han shot first In Star Wars fandom, the phrase "Han shot first" refers to the changes made to a scene in Star Wars, involving the characters Han Solo and Greedo in the Mos Eisley Cantina. The bounty hunter Greedo has come at the behest of Jabba the Hutt, to whom Solo owes a large debt for a failed smuggling run.
Han school [Han school (č—©ć ˇ; hankĹŤ) was an educational institution in the Edo period] of [[Japan, established to educate children of samurai families in the Han. It was also known as Hangaku (č—©ĺ¦), Hangako (č—©ĺ¦ć ˇ) or HankĹŤ (藩黌).
Han Soon Chul Han Soon Chul (born December 30, 1984) is an amateur boxer from South Korea who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division winning the silver medal in a decisive match against the Philippines's Joan Tipon. Bantamweight final results
Han Suyin Han Suyin (Chinese: éź©ç´ éźł; pinyin: Hán SĂąyÄ«n) (born September 12 1917), is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Chinese: 周光湖, pinyin: ZhĹŤu GuÄnghĂş). She is a Chinese-born author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician.
Han twins murder conspiracy The Han twins murder conspiracy was a case of attempted murder by Jeen Han (also known as Jeen Young Han or Jeen "Gina" Han) of her identical twin sister, Sunny Han, in November 1996 in Orange County, California, United States.
Han unification Han unification is the process used by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. The Chinese characters are common to Chinese (where they are called hanzi), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja).
Han van Meegeren Han van Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer in the Netherlands province of Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter, art-restorer, and art forger. He is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century, duping buyers out of an estimated $25 to $30 million dollars.
Han Wu Da Di Han Wu Da Di (Great Emperor Wu of Han; Traditional Chinese: 漢ć¦ĺ¤§ĺ¸ť; Simplified Chinese: 汉ć¦ĺ¤§ĺ¸ť; Hanyu Pinyin: HĂ n WÇ” DĂ Dì) is a TV series from mainland China about Han Wu Di (born Liu Che), the sixth and most famous emperor of the Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). The series covers his life, with four actors playing his character from his boyhood to his old age.
Han Xiang One of the Eight Immortals, Philosopher Han Xiang (éź“ćąĺ in pinyin: hán xiÄng zi) or Han Xiang Zi, in Wade-Giles as Han Hsiang Tzu, was born Han Xiang in Tang, and his courtesy name is Qingfu (清夫 qÄ«ng fĹ«). He is the nephew or grandson of Han Yu, a prominent statesman.
Han Xianchu Han Xianchu (éź©ĺ…楚) (1913-1986) was a general of the Chinese Communist armed forces. Han participated in many military campaigns and battles such as Battle of Pingxingguan, Liaoshen Campaign, Pingjin Campaign, Hainan Campaign, and the Korean War.
Han Xiaopeng Han Xiaopeng (Chinese:韩晓鹏), born December 13, 1982 in Peixian, Xuzhou, in Jiangsu Province of China is a freestyle skiier who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and won gold in the men's aerials event. He is the first Chinese man to ever win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
Han Yong-un Manhae (1879–1944) was a 20th century Korean Buddhist reformer and poet. Manhae was his pen name; his birth name was Han Yu-cheon, but he is universally known by the name he was given by his meditation instructor in 1907, Han Yong-un (Korean: 한용운 or ; also written Han Yong-woon)
Han Yu Han Yu (; 768 - 824 CE), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet. The Indiana Companion calls him "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the language (p. 397). He stood for strong central authority in politics and orthodoxy in cultural matters.
Han Zhangluan Han Zhangluan (韓長鸞), formal personal name Han Feng (韓鳳) (but went by the courtesy name of Zhangluan), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Northern Qi. He was initially a guard commander for Gao Wei when Gao Wei was crown prince, and became a close associate of Gao Wei after Gao Wei became emperor.
Han Zhao The Han Zhao (; 304-329) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Chinese Jin Dynasty (265-420). It represented two state titles, the Han state (漢, pinyin Hà n) proclaimed in 304 by Liu Yuan and the Former Zhao state (前趙, pinyin Qiánzhà o) in 319 by Liu Yao.
Han Zheng Han Zheng (Chinese: éź©ćŁ) (born in Cixi, Zhejiang province, April 1954) is the current mayor of Shanghai, and since the dismissal of Party Chief Chen Liangyu in September 2006, has taken over as Acting CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary. As the most senior member of the Shanghai clique who is not a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and member of the emerging fifth generation, whether or not he attains higher office in coming years will be a barometer of whether the Clique retains its national influence.
Han-Han Dae Sajeon Han-Han Dae Sajeon (Korean: í•śí•śëŚ€ě‚¬ě „, 漢韓大čľĺ…¸, meaning The Great Dictionary of Chinese Character to Korean, is a name for many Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters. There are several dictionaries in this name, from different publishers.
Hana (film) Hana (Hana Yori mo Naho - 花ă‚ă‚Šă‚‚ăŞă») is a 2006 Japanese film by director Hirokazu Koreeda. It concerns a young samurai, Sozaemon (Junichi Okada), who has come from Matsumoto to Edo to take his revenge against his father's killer.
Hana and Alice Hana and Alice (2004) is a Japanese film by director Shunji Iwai. The film, Shot on HD digital video by the late director of photography, Noboru Shinoda, who shared a longstanding working relationship with Shunji Iwai, concerns the life of two girls, the titular Hana (Anne Suzuki) and Alice (YĂ» Aoi), and the stress placed on their friendship as they move into high school.
Hana Asakura Hana Asakura (麻倉花 Asakura Hana) is the protagonist of Hiroyuki Takei's manga, Funbari no Uta, which is set in the year 2007. He is the six year old son of Yoh Asakura and Anna Kyoyama who is now traveling with Wooden Sword Ryu.
Hana Beaman Hana Beaman has been boarding down the world's best mountains since kindergarten and counts two World Championships, numerous gold medals, and a Winter X Games silver medal among her many accolades. As a self described "jump-rail-park kind of person" and one of the superstars of shredding, she has established herself as an accomplished all-round snowboarder competing and winning in Big Air, Slopestyle, and Boardercross categories.
Hana Gartner Hana Gartner (born 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a multiple award-winning Canadian television investigative journalist, best known as the host/interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hana Greenfield Hana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Hana is the author of Fragments of Memory published by Gefen Publishing House (1998, c1998, revised edition 2006).
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