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Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (also known as Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf) is a 1985 horror film directed by Philippe Mora. Based on the novel by Gary Brandner, the film is written by Robert Sarno and Gary Brandner.
Howling III Howling III (also known as Howling III: The Marsupials, and Marsupials The Howling III) is a 1987 Australian horror film directed by Philippe Mora and filmed on locaion in Sydney, Australia. Its the second sequel to the 1981 film The Howling, and is followed by Howling IV: The Original Nightmare.
Howling Laud Hope Alan "Howling Laud" Hope was born in Mytchett, Surrey and has been leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party since 1999. Following the death of Screaming Lord Sutch, Hope was jointly elected with his cat, Cat Mandu, as OMRLP leader in a ballot.
Howling: New Moon Rising Howling: New Moon Rising (also known as Howling VII: Mystery Woman) is a 1995 direct-to-video horror film, starring and directed by Clive Turner. It is the sixth and most recent sequel to the 1981 cult classic The Howling, directly succeeding Howling VI: The Freaks.
Howlong, New South Wales Howlong is a town 28 kilometres west of Albury, and is situated on the Murray River which separates the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. The town is located on the Riverina Highway and has a population of 2,403Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census people.
Howmet Castings Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Howmet Castings is the premier manufacturer of components of the jet aircraft, gas turbine, and other advanced technology industries. Howmet, a division of Alcoa, produces superalloys, aluminum, and titanium, primarily for jet engines, gas turbines, and airframes.
Howrah station Howrah Station is one of the two major train stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India; the other is Sealdah Station, in Kolkata. Howrah is situated on the west bank of the Hooghly River, linked to Kolkata by the nearby Howrah Bridge.
Howstuffismade How Stuff Is Made (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products. It is a free, independent, academic resource published by engineering and design students, who research and produce summative photoessays describing the life cycle of the product, with a view to improvement.
Howth Howth (pronounced to rhyme with both; known as Binn Éadair in Irish) is a generally affluent residential area in the County of Fingal (part of the former County Dublin), Ireland. Originally just a small fishing village, Howth is now a busy suburb of Dublin.
Hoxne Hoard Discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk on 16 November 1992, the Hoxne Hoard was a cache of approximately 15,000 (exact figure varies depending on source) late 4th and early 5th century Roman gold and silver coins and around 200 items of silver tableware and jewellery believed to have been hidden during the political turmoil of the early 5th century AD.
Hoxnian interglacial The Hoxnian interglacial (and is analogous to the Yarmouth interglacial in North America, the Holstein interglacial in northern Europe and the Mindel-Riss interglacial in the Alps) is a name for an interglacial period which occurred between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. It is in the Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period.
Hoxsey Therapy Hoxsey Therapy is a naturopathic regimen believed by its proponents to cure or mitigate cancerous growths. Also known as the Hoxsey Method, it is primarily practiced by the Bio-Medical Center in Tijuana, Mexico.
Hoxton Hoxton (origin Hoc's farm) is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Old Street to the south, City Road to the west, Regents Canal on the north side and Kingsland Road on the east.
Hoxton Effect The ripple effect of urban regeneration initiated by artists influx into Hoxton and Shoreditch for affordable studio space. This cultural movement has now spread Eastwards towards London Fields and Hackney, also known as the Hockney Effect.
Hoxton fin The Hoxton Fin refers to a style of haircut popular with young men in the achingly trendy Hoxton and Shoreditch districts of London during the period 2000 - 2004. The style comprises two partings, one on either side, with the central portion of hair swept up in to a central crest, or "fin"; the back and sides remained cut short.
Hoxton Gang The Hoxton Gang was an independent street gang based in London's Soho district during the interwar years. They were one of several gangs which fought against Charles "Darby" Sabini and the "Italian Mob", specifically over control of gambing clubs or "spielers".
Hoxton railway station Hoxton railway station is a railway station currently under construction in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England. The station is located in the Hoxton district and will form part of the extended East London Line under the control of the London Rail division of Transport for London.
Hoy (Gloria Estefan Single) "Hoy" is a single by Gloria Estefan, with lyrics written by Gianmarco Zignago. It was released in 2003 as the second single of the album Unwrapped and the song was a complete success on the charts, the song topped the charts on US at the Hot Latin Tracks, also have topped on 5 more countries, all Latin-American.
Hoy (newspaper) Hoy is the second largest Spanish language daily newspaper in the United States, the largest being El Diario La Prensa. Hoy is based in Chicago, Illinois and also distributes separate issues for Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York.
Hoy No Circula Hoy No Circula (literally in Spanish: "today it [your car] does not circulate") is the name of an environmental program intended to improve the air quality of Mexico City. A similar coordinated program operates with the neighboring Estado de MĂ©xico.
Hoy por hoy Hoy por hoy is a Spanish radio program, produced by the news department of the Cadena SER. It is the most listened radio program in Spain with an average of about three million listeners a day and is considered the most listened program in the Spanish radio history.
Hoy te Vi Hoy te Vi (1998) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas TelevisiĂłn. Basilio Alvarez and Laura Bottome originally came up with the idea to create this telenovela.
Hoy, West Virginia Hoy is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. It is located southwest of Slanesville and northwest of Hanging Rock at the intersection of Offutt School Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 45/8) and Hoy Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 45/13).
Hoya Hoya is a genus of 200-230 species of tropical climbing plants in the family Apocynaceae, native to southern Asia (India east to southern China and southward), Australia, and Polynesia. Common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya.
Hoyerswerda Hoyerswerda (Upper Sorbian Wojerecy, Lower Sorbian Wórjejce, Czech Hojeřice) is a town in the German Bundesland of Saxony. It is located in Lusatia, a region where many people speak Sorbian in addition to German.
Hoyle Casino Hoyle Casino is a casino simulation game published by Encore Software Inc.. It was previously published by Sierra Entertainment for a variety of different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Sega Dreamcast, and Game Boy Color.
Hoyle's fallacy Hoyle's Fallacy is a common misrepresentation of Darwinian theory, colloquially named, among evolutionary biologists, after the astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle, although it has been current almost since the time of Darwin himself.
Hoyleton, South Australia Hoyleton () is a former railway town in South Australia, west of the Clare Valley, halfway between Leasingham and Halbury. The railway ran from Balaklava to Blyth and further on into the Mid North of the state.
Hoysala administration The Hoysala Empire (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) was a notable South Indian empire that ruled most of the modern day state of Karnataka between the 10th to the 14th centuries. The capital of the empire was initially based at Belur, and later transferred to Halebidu.
Hoysala architecture Hoysala architecture is the distinctive building style that developed between the 11th and the 14th centuries under the rule of the Hoysala Empire in Karnataka, India. The Hoysalas were at their peak in the 13th century and dominated the Southern Deccan region.
Hoysala Empire The Hoysala Empire (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) (pronunciation: in Kannada) was a prominent South Indian empire that ruled most of the modern day state of Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the empire was initially based at Belur but was later moved to Halebidu.
Hoysala literature Hoysala literature during the era of Hoysala Empire (1000-1343) (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) was dominated by the ascent of Kannada and Sanskrit poets. Sanskrit literature was mostly devotional.
Hoysala Vinayaditya Vinayaditya (1047 - 1098 CE) an able king of the Hoysala Empire distinguished himself as an able feudatory of the Kalyani Chalukya during his long reign. He helped bring many small Malnad chiefs like the Kongalvas, Chengalvas, Santharas of Humcha Shimoga and the Kadambas of Bayalnadu (Vainadu) under control.
Hoyt Curtin Hoyt S. Curtin (September 9 1922 – December 3 2000) was a composer and music producer, the main musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 until his retirement in 1986.
Hoyt Wilhelm James Hoyt Wilhelm (July 26, 1922 in Huntersville, North Carolina - August 23, 2002 in Sarasota, Florida) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Wilhelm was best known for his knuckleball, which enabled him to have great longevity – occasionally as a starting pitcher, but mainly as a specialist relief man (in which role he won 124 games, still the record for relief pitchers).
Hoytether The Hoytether is a trademarked name of Tethers Unlimited Incorporated for a novel topology for a space elevator cable, consisting of a lattice of strands, arranged in a circular cross-section with redundancy to handle potential damage from space debris and micrometeoroids.
Hozan ryu Founded by Tsutsumi Hozan (Tsutsumi Yamashiro no kami Hozan) Hozan Ryu (Tsutsumi Hozan Ryu) is a Koryu Sogo Bujutsu, or complete martial tradition. The date of its founding is debatable, most likely it would have been in the late 1300's or early 1400's.
Hozoin-ryu Hōzōin-ryū sōjutsu (寳藏院流槍術, 宝蔵院流槍術), a koryu school of martial arts, was founded by Hōzōin Kakuzenbō In-ei (寳藏院覚禅房胤栄) in the late Muromachi Period (c. 1560), a Buddhist monk of the Kohfukuji Temple (興福寺) in Nara, Japan.
HO FM HO FM is one of 4 commercial radio stations in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It began in 1931, closely followed by 7LA in Launceston as the first commercial radio station in its city, broadcasting under the callsign of 7HO.
HO scale HO scale (H0 scale in continental Europe) is the most popular scale of model railway in most of the world (outside the United Kingdom, where the slightly larger in scale OO scale is most common). The name is derived from the German Halb-null ("half-zero"), because its 1:87 scale is approximately half that of O scale.
HOARD magazine HOARD MAGAZINE is an online art and culture publication that was launched December 2000. It was established in San Francisco, California by film and video artist Vivian GiourousisThe publication features works of various genre]s and mediums such as [[photography, painting, mixed media, film and creative writing.
HOBET The HOBET (Health Occupations Basic Entrance Test) and NET (Nurse's Entrance Test) are entrance exams in the United States used to determine if a person can enter a program to become a health occupation worker.
HOLAP HOLAP (Hybrid Online Analytical Process) is a combination of ROLAP and MOLAP which are other possible implementation of OLAP. HOLAP allows to store part of the data in the MOLAP store and another part of the data in ROLAP store.
HOLMES2 In the United Kingdom, HOLMES 2, the successor to HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System), is an IT system used by the police to assist with the investigation of serious crimes including murder and fraud.
HOMBRE Magazine (magazine) HOMBRE Is an international magazine for Latin men. The magazine includes profiles of prominent Latin men; lifestyle columns on finance, health, fitness, travel, cars, etc; investigative articles; photo layouts of beautiful women and fashion spreads of the latest styles.
HOMer Award The HOMer Awards were founded in 1991 by Jim Schneider, one of the sysops of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Forum on the CompuServe Information Service. The award's name recalls both the ancient Greek epic poet and the CompuServe code-page for this forum, HOM-9.
HOMO/LUMO HOMO and LUMO are acronyms for highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, respectively. The difference of the energies of the HOMO and LUMO, termed the band gap can sometimes serve as a measure of the excitability of the molecule: the smaller the energy, the easier it will be excited.
HOPE Scholarship The HOPE Scholarship, created in 1993 by the state of Georgia legislature, is a university scholarship program that has been adopted by several other states. HOPE (a reverse acronym for "helping outstanding pupils educationally") is funded entirely revenue from the Georgia Lottery and is administered by the Georgia Student Finance Commission.
HOPE-X HOPE was a Japanese experimental spaceplane project designed by a partnership between NASDA and NAL (both now part of JAXA), started in the 1980s. It was positioned for most of its lifetime as one of the main Japanese contributions to the International Space Station, the other being the Japanese Experiment Module.
HORIZONS HORIZONS is Hong Kong's second oldest gay group after Hong Kong Ten Percent Club, and it became the first gay group in Hong Kong's history to gain recognition from the government as a listed charity on October 22, 2001.
HOSxP HOSxP is a hospital information system, including Electronic health record (EHR). Design and develop by health care practitioners with first-hand experiences, the software aimed to ease healthcare workflow of health centers, for small sanitariums to central hospitals.
HOT-B HOT-B was a Japanese developer and publisher of computer and video games, known in the 1980s and 90s for its fishing titles such as the Black Bass series. HOT-B USA has outlasted its Japanese parent, although it currently exists only as a publisher of other companies' games, its latest release being Graffiti Kingdom in 2005.
HOTAS HOTAS, an abbreviation for hands on throttle-and-stick, is a style of aircraft cockpit Human-Machine Interaction "HMI" which allows the pilot to access the cockpit functions and fly the aircraft. This design style is seen on all modern US and European fighter aircraft, and on some Russian aircraft where there is no direct access to the Flight Control System (FCS).
HOWTO article A HOWTO Article, often called just a HOWTO, is an article that explains how to use software. While HOWTOs are in many ways tutorials for a specific task, they are not just tutorials as they tend to be much more in-depth, explaining some level of theory along the way, and in that a reader of a well-written HOWTO is more likely to glean some sort of general knowledge about the software in question.
HP 200Lx The HP 200LX (also known as Project Felix) is a personal digital assistant introduced by Hewlett-Packard in 1994. It was one of very few palmtops ever developed that was, with some minor exceptions, 100% MS-DOS compatible.
HP 300 The HP 300 "Amigo" was a computer produced by Hewlett Packard (HP) in the late 1970s based loosely on the stack-based HP 3000, but with virtual memory for both code and data. It was a commercial failure—massively so considering the huge engineering effort, which included HP-developed and -manufactured silicon on sapphire processor and I/O chips.
HP 3000 The HP 3000 series is a family of minicomputers released by Hewlett-Packard in 1973 after a difficult development project. The first models were withdrawn from the market until speed improvements could be made.
HP 7470 The HP 7470 was a small low-cost desktop pen plotter introduced by Hewlett Packard's San Diego division. It used a revolutionary "grit wheel" design which moved the paper held in place by a wheel with imbedded grit and a pinch roller.
HP 9800 series desktop computers The HP 9800 series was family of programmable calculators (later called desktop computers) which replaced the HP 9100 calculator. The HP 9810 was a keystroke programmable computer with magnetic cards, while the HP 9820 featured HPL, where instead of variables such as A1 and J2, it used numbered registers r1, r2, up to r199999 and so on.
HP BASIC for OpenVMS HP BASIC for OpenVMS is the latest name for a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation and now owned by Hewlett-Packard. It has been implemented on a variety of DEC-derived platforms, including the PDP-11, VAX/VMS, OpenVMS on Alpha and now OpenVMS on IA-64.
HP Compaq TC1100 The HP Compaq TC1100 is a tablet PC and was the follow up to the Compaq TC1000, this version had either an Intel Celeron or an Intel Pentium M chip set and it could go up to a maximum amount of 2 gigabytes of memory, these upgrades from the TC1000 where much welcomed after numerous complaints about the slowness of the TC1000. The TC1100 was the last version from HP in this style of tablet, it was replaced by the HP Compaq TC4200.
HP LaserJet 1012 The HP LaserJet 1012 is a low-end, monochrome laser printer from Hewlett-Packard that retails for US $199.99 and was designed as an inexpensive laser alternative to Inkjet printers for home and small office use.
HP LaserJet 4 The HP LaserJet 4 (abbreviated sometimes to LJ4 or HP4) is a group of monochrome laser printers produced in the early to mid-1990s as part of the LaserJet series by Hewlett Packard (HP). The 4 series has various different models, including the standard LaserJet 4 for business use, the 4L for personal use and the 4P for small businesses.
HP LaserJet 5 The HP LaserJet 5 is a group of monochrome laser printers produced in the mid-1990s as part of the LaserJet series by Hewlett Packard (HP) Twenty Years of Innovation: HP LaserJet and Inkjet Printers 1984–2004 (PDF) (Accessed June 15 2006) . It was the successor to the HP LaserJet 4 series of printers, and in turn was superseded by the HP LaserJet 6 series of printers.
HP Officejet 7110 The HP Officejet 7110 (/7115/7130/7135/7140) is a All-In-One Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier manufactured by Hewlett Packard. First released in early March of 2003 it is now considered an obsolete unit with the release of the Officejet 7200, 7300 and 7400 series of All-In-One printers.
HP Pavilion The HP Pavilion, commonly called The Shark Tank or just The Tank after its primary tenant or less often as San Jose Arena after its former name, is an indoor arena located at 525 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California.
HP PhotoSmart 43x series HP PhotoSmart 43x series is a family of digital camera models produced and manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. While later digital camera technology allows users to store images on memory sticks and like media, this series stores images on a limited size internal memory and relies on Universal Serial Bus to extract images.
HP Sauce HP Sauce is a condiment; a popular brown sauce currently produced in Aston, Birmingham, England, by HP Foods. It has a malt vinegar base blended with fruit and spices and is usually eaten as an adjunct to hot or cold savoury food, or used as an ingredient in soups or stews.
HP Scanjet 5550c The HP Scanjet 5550c is a Hewlett-Packard flatbed scanner with a 30-sheet ADF, and five direct function buttons on the front for scanning, web publishing, writing to CD, e-mailing and printing scanned images. It has drivers for Mac OS X and Windows, which are supplied with it, but not for the open-source SANE system, which runs on Linux, BSD, etc.
HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS) is a production tested distributed parallel scalable filesystem designed to solve I/O bandwidth challenge on large compute clusters used in High Performance Technical Computing applications. It is based out of open source Lustre filesystem.
HP XP The HP Storageworks XP is an enterprise storage disk array sold by Hewlett-Packard. It is similar to the Hitachi Lightning and Sun StorEdge 9900 and targeted towards enabling large scale consolidation, large database, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments.
HP-150 The HP-150, a "compact, powerful and innovative" computer made by Hewlett-Packard in 1983 and based on the Intel 8088, was one of the world's earliest commercialized touch screen computers. The machine was not IBM PC compatible, although it was MS-DOS compatible.
HP-18C The HP-18C was a Hewlett-Packard business calculator which was quickly followed by the very similar but greatly improved HP-19B. The HP-18C was HP's first RPL-based calculator although programming was not allowed to the user.
HP-19C The HP-19C and HP-29C were scientific/engineering pocket calculators made by Hewlett-Packard between 1977 and 1979. They were the most advanced and last models of the "20" family (compare HP-25) and included Continuous Memory (battery-backed CMOS memory) as a standard feature.
HP-21S The HP-21S is a calculator very similar to the HP-20S except that it is lacking in HEX, DEC, BIN and unit conversions and other features to offer advanced statistics features and random number generator. It also has six different programs to load into memory as opposed to the six available on the 20S.
HP-25 The HP-25 was a hand-held programmable scientific/engineering calculator made by Hewlett-Packard between 1975 and 1978. The HP-25 was introduced as a cheaper (US$195 MSRP) alternative to the ground-breaking HP-65.
HP-35 The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator (a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions). Like some of HP's desktop calculators it used reverse Polish notation.
HP-41 The HP-41 series are programmable, expandable, handheld RPN calculators made by Hewlett-Packard from 1979 to 1990. The original model, HP-41C, was the first of its kind to offer alphanumeric display capabilities.
HP-41 extension module HP-41 extension (or expansion) modules allowed the user of a HP-41 programmable calculator to extend the functionality of the machine. The HP-41 had room for up to four expansion modules at the back of calculator.
HP-42S The HP-42S is a programmable RPN Scientific hand held calculator introduced by Hewlett Packard in 1988. It has advanced functions suitable for those involved in mathematics, linear algebra, statistical analysis, computer science and other applications.
HP-48 series The HP-48 is a series of graphing calculators using Reverse Polish notation (RPN) and the RPL programming language, produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1990 until 2003. The series include the HP-48S, HP-48SX, HP-48G, HP-48GX, and HP-48G+, the G models being expanded and improved versions of the S models.
HP-IL The HP-IL (Hewlett-Packard] Interface Loop) was a short-range interconnection bus or network introduced by [[Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s. It enabled several devices such as printers, floppy disk drives, tape readers, etc.
HP-UX HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UniX) is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on System V (initially System III). It runs on their PA-RISC range of processors and Intel's Itanium processor, and was also available for later Apollo/Domain systems.
HPC:Factor HPC:Factor is a Windows CE community website providing support for the Microsoft Windows CE based Handheld PC and Tablet PC. The site and community it has created is the brain child of its founders Chris Tilley, Clinton Fitch, John Rubier, Sean Fernstrum and Jeff Townsley.
HQ Air Command Europe HQ Air Command Europe was created to replace the Third and Sixteenth Numbered Air Forces as headquarters for United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) wings. Third Air Force inactivated and Sixteenth Air Force assumed the new role as the Warfighting Headquarters for USAFE.
HQ-7 The HongQi (red flag/banner) 7 or HQ-7 (FM-80) is a short-range air defense missile, reverse engineered from French Thomson CSF R-440 Sea Crotale SAM. The missile is deployed on both ships and land-based vehicles.
HQ-9 The HQ-9 is China’s new generation medium- to long-range, semi-active radar homing air defence missile. The missile is said to be developed in the 1990s on the basis of the Russian S-300's 5V55-series missiles.
HQ9+ HQ9+ is a joke programming language created by Cliff Biffle that consists of only four commands, each represented by a single character: H, Q, 9, and +. It is not Turing-complete, but it is allows highly efficient programs, as long as they need do nothing except increment their accumulator, print "Hello, world", display their source, or output the lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer.
Hradec Králové Observatory Hvězdárna Hradec Králové (Hradec Králové Observatory) is part astronomical observatory and part planetarium. Also housed in the same building are the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
Hrag Vartanian HRAG VARTANIAN was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is a writer, critic and designer who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Quarterly, Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail and other publications.
Hraničky Hraničky, also known in German as Grenzdorf, Grenzdörfel and Gränzdorf, is a former German settlement located in the Rychlebské Hory (Reichensteiner Gebirges in German) in the north-eastern part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, a territory historically known as Sudetenland.
Hrant Dink Hrant Dink (, Sebnem, "Editor Who Spoke for Turkey's Ethnic Armenians Is Slain", The New York Times], [[January 20, 2007, page A3, accessed same day) (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and column writer.
Hraunfossar The waterfalls Hraunfossar of the river Hvítá (Borgarfjörður) in the west of Iceland seem to come out directly of a lava field, the Hallmundarhraun which was caused by an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. Hence the name, hraun meaning lava in Icelandic.
Hrazany Hrazany is a small village in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, which is situated 9 kilometres north direction near Milevsko in Písek District. It is composed of for parts - Dobrošov, Hrazany, Hrazánky a Klisinec.
HrĂ­mgrĂ­mnir In Norse mythology, HrĂ­mgrĂ­mnir is the name of a giant mentioned by Freyr's servant SkĂ­rnir as he was attempting to court the giant maiden Gerd on his master's behalf. Faced with Gerd's reluctance to marry Freyr, SkĂ­rnir resorts to bribery and threats to force her compliance, and finally begins cursing her with the horrors of the underworld if she will not agree to the union:
Hrísey Hrísey is a small island off the north coast of Iceland, situated approximately 35 kilometres north of Akureyri, in Eyjafjörður. The island is most easily reached by a ferry service that leaves from Árskógssandi, which takes only 15 minutes to reach the island.
Hróa þáttr heimska Hróa þáttr heimska or the Tale of Roi the Fool is an amusing short story from Iceland about a Dane called Hrói the Fool who is helped in a legal dispute by the wise old Swede Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker, and which takes place in the late 10th century. It is preserved in two versions of which one (HróFlat) is found in Flatey Book (GKS 1005 fol 344-348, ca 1387-1395) and the second one (Hró AM 557 4°) in the Arnamagnæan Codex (AM 557 4° 41r-42v, ca 1420-1450) in Copenhagen.
Hródvitnir In Norse mythology, Hródvitnir ("Famous Wolf") is another name for Fenrir, the wolf that was bound by the gods until he breaks free at Ragnarök and kills Odin. The association with Fenrir is found in Lokasenna, when Loki is reminding Týr about his painful encounter with the wolf, to which Týr responds:
HrĂłlfr Kraki HrĂłlfr Kraki, HroĂ°ulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage (6th centuryThe dating has never been a matter of controversy. It is inferred from the internal chronology of the sources themselves and the dating of Hygelac's raid on Frisia to c.
HrĂłmundar saga Gripssonar HrĂłmundar saga Gripssonar or The Saga of Hromund Gripsson is a legendary saga from Iceland. The original version has been lost, but its content has been preserved in the rĂ­mur of HrĂłmundr Gripsson published in Fernir fornĂ­slenzkar rĂ­mnaflokkar (1896).

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