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Hubris Hubris or hybris (Greek ), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self pride or self-confidence, often resulting in fatal retribution. In Ancient Greek hubris referred to actions taken in order to shame the victim, thereby making oneself seem superior.
Hubs and Nodes Hubs and Nodes is a geographic model, explaining how linked regions can cooperate to fulfill elements of an industry's value chain, and collectively gain sufficient mass to drive innovation growth. The model of hubs and nodes builds on Porter's cluster model which served well in the past, but as businesses and regions around the world have adjusted to the realities of globalization, the concept of clusters is becoming outdated.
Huck Botko Huck Botko is an American underground filmmaker most famous for a series of videos in which he documented pranks in which his family members unwittingly ate various tainted foods (such as a pie that had been spit in by homeless people on the streets of New York City).
Huckebein The Huckebein is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. It has appeared as a playable unit in Super Robot Wars 4, Super Robot Wars F, Super Robot Wars F Final, the Super Robot Wars Alpha series and the Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation series.
Huckle buckle beanstalk Huckle Buckle Beanstalk, also called Hide the Object or Hide the Key, is a childhood game which involves the hiding and seeking of an object. It is a variation of a traditional parlour game which can be played with two or more players, one being the hider, or the person who is "it," and the other person or persons being seekers.
Huckleberry Hound Huckleberry Hound is a fictional cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera, and the star of the late 1950s animated series The Huckleberry Hound Show, Hanna-Barbera's second series made for television after The Ruff & Reddy Show. The Huckleberry Hound Show was probably the series that truly made Hanna-Barbera a household name, thanks to Huckleberry (or "Huck" as he was sometimes nicknamed, referencing the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) and the two supporting segments of the show: Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo, and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr.
HuCard A HuCard is a memory card developed by Hudson Soft with the size of a credit card and were used with the NEC PC Engine and SuperGrafx video game consoles. A HuCard contains an integrated circuit (IC) that is placed close to the connectors and protected by a thin plastic shield.
Hud (film) Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a modern-day cowboy who conflicts with his father over the best way to keep their ranch from dying. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell.
Huddart Parker Huddart Parker Limited was an Australian shipping company trading in various forms between 1876 and 1961. It was one of the seven major coastal shippers in Australia at a time when shipping was the principal means of interstate and trans-tasman transport.
Huddersfield Huddersfield is a large town near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire and is located within the historic borders of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electro-acoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner The Huddersfield Examiner is an English local daily evening newspaper covering Huddersfield and its surrounding areas. The first edition was published, as a weekly, on September 6, 1851, as the Huddersfield & Holmfirth Examiner and the newspaper has been published on a daily basis since January 28, 1871.
Huddersfield Giants Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. They play in the Super League in a distinctive strip of a claret shirt with thin gold hoops, claret shorts and claret and gold hooped socks and are known colloquially as "Fartown".
Huddersfield Hawks The Huddersfield Hawks are an American football team who play for the University of Huddersfield. The squad was created in June 2006 when Paul Blair (now Chairman of the Huddersfield Hawks) transferred from a South Yorkshire university to the University of Huddersfield and recognised the lack of an american football team for the university.
Huddersfield Choral Society Huddersfield Choral Society is an internationally famous choir based in the town of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire. It was founded in 1836 and is recognised as one of Britain's leading choirs.
Huddersfield Line The Huddersfield Line is the name given to one of the busiest rail services on the West Yorkshire MetroTrain network in northern England. Local services are operated by Northern Rail with longer distance services operated by First TransPennine Express.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon The Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon, (tower designation 4ZO251B), is an electricity pylon which stands with its feet over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal near Heyrod, Stalybridge, Cheshire at 53°29'37"N, 2°2'25"W. The Stalybridge substation was built while the canal was closed to navigation, and when the canal reopened it had to pass between the pylon's legs.
Huddersfield Singers The Huddersfield Singers is based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England and is a chamber choir of around 40 members. The choir was formed in 1875 as the Huddersfield Glee & Madrigal Society and performs a wide variety of sacred and secular music from all periods of musical history, ranging from the medieval to the present day.
Huddle In sport, a huddle is when a team gathers together, usually in a tight circle, to strategise, motivate, and/or celebrate. It is a popular strategy for keeping opponents insulated from sensitive information, and acts as a form of insulation when the level of noise in the venue is such that normal on-field communication is difficult.
Huddle House Huddle House is a chain of 24-hour diner-style restaurants with over 400 locations in the Southern United States. The chain was started in 1964 in Decatur, Georgia, with the goal of providing a 24-hour eatery.
Huddleston v. United States Huddleston v. United States, , removed a procedural obstacle to admitting evidence of a witness's motive, plan, or knowledge that had been imposed by some courts of appeals after reading Rule 104(a) of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Hudepohl Brewing Company Hudepohl Brewing Company was established in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1885 by founder Ludwig Hudepohl II. Hudepohl was the son of Bavarian immigrants and had worked in the surgical tool business before starting his brewery.
Hudiksvall County Hudiksvall County, or Hudiksvalls län, was a County of Sweden, between 1645 and 1654. Together with Härnösand County it seceded from Norrland County, but acceded to the same constellation under the name Västernorrland County just nine years later.
Hudna Hudna (هدنة) is an Arabic term meaning "truce" or "armistice" as well as "calm" or "quiet", coming from a verbal root meaning "calm". It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire".
Hudood Ordinance The Hudood Ordinance (Urdu: ŘŘŻŮŘŻ Ů…ŘłŮŘŻŰ ) is a law in Pakistan, intended to implement Muslim Shari'a law, which enforces punishments mentioned in the Quran and sunnah for a number of crimes, including extra-marital sex (zinaThe Offence of Zina: English text of the law), the drinking of alcohol, and theft. It was enacted in 1979 as part of then military ruler Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization process.
Hudson and Halls Peter Hudson (1931-1992) and David Halls (1935-1993) were chefs whose cookery show, Hudson and Halls, ran on New Zealand television from 1976 to 1986 and also gained a cult following when the pair moved to produce their show in the United Kingdom in 1986. The duo were noted for bringing a camp humour, together with an element of slapstick, to the usually staid television cookery genre.
Hudson Avenue Line The Hudson Avenue Line was a horse car street railway line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Hudson Avenue near Downtown Brooklyn. It was short-lived, operating only from 1867 to 1871, but its trackage rights over the Brooklyn City Rail Road allowed the Atlantic Avenue Railroad to operate South Ferry-Prospect Park cars for many years.
Hudson Brothers The Hudson Brothers are an American music group from the 1970s, consisting of Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson. Their popular songs included "So You are a Star" (1974) and "Rendezvous" (1975).
Hudson Canyon The Hudson Canyon is a submarine canyon that begins from the shallow outlet of New York Harbor (at the mouth of the Hudson River) and extends out over 400 nautical miles (~450 miles or 750 km) seaward across the continental shelf, finally connecting to the deep ocean basin at a depth of 3 to 4 km below sea level. It begins as a natural channel of several kilometers width, starting as a 20-40 m depression at Hudson Channel southward from Ambrose Light, then carving through a deep notch of about 1 km depth in the shelf break, and running down the continental rise.
Hudson Catholic Regional High School Hudson Catholic Regional High School is a regional college preparatory four-year Catholic high school for young men located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The school was established in 1964 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and currently serves around 550 young men in grades 9 through 12.
Hudson Commodore The Hudson Commodore was an automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1941 and 1952 model year. During its time in production, the Commodore model represented the largest, and most luxurious Hudson models.
Hudson County Burial Grounds The Hudson County Burial Grounds are also known as the Secaucus Potter's Field and Snake Hill Cemetery and it is located in Secaucus, New Jersey. The cemetery was cleared of bodies to make room for the Secaucus Transfer Station between 1992-2003.
Hudson County Community College Hudson County Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Hudson County, New Jersey. The school's urban campus is located in Jersey City, New Jersey, and is accessible via the PATH rapid-transit railroad system.
Hudson Gardens The Hudson Gardens 30 acres (121,000 m²) are non-profit botanical gardens located along the bank of the South Platte River, at 6115 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, Colorado, USA. They are open 365 days a year, with no admission fee from November through April.
Hudson Greater Eight The Hudson Greater Eight was an automobile produced in 1931, 1932 and 1933 and were part of the firm's T-Series of automobiles. The name Greater Eight followed the 1930 models, which Hudson named the Greater Hudson for its engineering and styling advances.
Hudson Heights Hudson Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located within the larger area known as Washington Heights. It is bounded to the north by Fort Tryon Park, to the west by the Hudson River, to the south by 181st Street and to the east by Broadway.
Hudson Highlands State Park Hudson Highlands State Park is a non-contiguous state park in New York in the USA, located on the east shore of the Hudson River. The park runs from Peekskill in Westchester County, through Putnam County, to Beacon in Dutchess county.
Hudson Hornet The Hudson Hornet was an automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1951 and 1954. The Hornet was also built by American Motors Corporation in Kenosha, Wisconsin and marketed under the Hudson brand between 1955 and 1957.
Hudson Hotel Most recently a YWCA, the Hudson Hotel was created by Ian Schrager as a hip, lower-priced hotel near Central Park in New York City. Amazingly, the hotel still houses many residents on unrenovated floors and has a large swimming pool and ballrooms (also unrenovated and not visible to the public) underneath the main building.
Hudson Italia The Hudson Italia was a styling study and limited production compact automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan in cooperation with Carrozzeria Touring of Italy during the 1954 and 1955 model years. Designed by Frank Spring, the Italia was based on the Hudson Jet platform and running gear but had its own unique body and interior.
Hudson Jet The Hudson Jet was a compact automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan during the 1953 and 1954 model years. The Jet was Hudson's response to the popular Nash Rambler, and Hudson, with its limited financial resources, chose to pursue a compact instead of refurbishing its line of full-size cars.
Hudson Line (Metro-North) Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line is a commuter rail line running north from New York City along the east shore of the Hudson River. Metro-North service ends at Poughkeepsie, with Amtrak's Empire Corridor trains continuing north to and beyond Albany.
Hudson Mack Hudson Hamilton Mack is a Canadian journalist, best known for his work as a television news anchor. He is currently the news director and chief anchor at CIVI-TV (A-Channel Vancouver Island) in Victoria, British Columbia.
Hudson Mindell Kitchell Hudson Mindell Kitchell, (1862-1944), was an early 20th Century American artist known primarily for his luminiscent and tonalist landscapes. He was a contemporary, friend and associate of Ralph Blakelock, whose "Moonlight" painting once commanded the highest price ever paid for a living American artist at auction.
Hudson Mountains The Hudson Mountains (74º25´S 099º30´W) is a group of parasitic cones forming nunataks just above the Antarctic ice sheet in west Ellsworth Land. They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island Bay at the eastern extremity of Amundsen Sea, and are bounded on the north by Cosgrove Ice Shelf and on the south by Pine Island Glacier.
Hudson Relays Hudson Relays is an annual tradition at Case Western Reserve University that occurs the last weekend before finals every spring semester. It entails a race between the classes of approximately 26 miles all around campus and the surrounding community.
Hudson River The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Netherlands, who explored it in 1609.
Hudson River bomb plot On July 7, 2006, the FBI announced that they had foiled a plot that was in its "talking phase" by foreign militants to detonate explosives in tunnels connecting New Jersey with Manhattan and drown the New York financial district with a torrent of water. This was unfeasible because the tunnel is embedded in bedrock, and the target is above sea level.
Hudson River Bridge (Albany) This Hudson River Bridge (the original name is unknown) across the Hudson River at Albany, New York was built by the Hudson River Bridge Company (jointly owned 50% by the New York Central Railroad and 25% by the Hudson River Railroad and Boston and Albany Railroad) in the 1860s, opening in 1866. It was later supplemented to the north by the Livingston Avenue Bridge (also built by the Hudson River Bridge Company), allowing trains to bypass downtown, and it has since been removed.
Hudson River Chain The Hudson River Chain may refer to any of several chains used as a blockade across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, intended to prevent British naval vessels from entering the river during the American Revolutionary War.
Hudson River Park Hudson River Park is a waterside park on the Hudson River that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Bicycle and pedestrian paths span the park north to south, opening up the waterfront for recreational use.
Hudson Seaway The Hudson Seaway was made up of mostly the present-day Hudson Bay some 75 million years ago. Along with the Western Interior Seaway, the Hudson Seaway split the western and eastern parts of modern-day North America.
Hudson Soft Hudson Soft is a Japanese publisher and developer, founded on May 18, 1973. Over the years, Hudson has grown from company that created PC-related products, to creating video games, mobile content, to gaming technology.
Hudson Soft HuC6270 HuC6270 is a Video Display Controller (VDC) developed and manufactured by Hudson Soft. The VDC was used in the PC Engine game console produced by NEC Corporation in 1987 and in the SuperGrafx and TurboGrafx 16 also developed by NEC.
Hudson Street (Manhattan) Hudson Street is the name of two north/south streets in Manhattan. The southern, northbound street begins at the intersection of West Broadway and Chambers Street in TriBeCa and runs north into Greenwich Village; there, it intersects with Bleecker Street at Abingdon Square and becomes 8th Avenue.
Hudson Taylor James Hudson Taylor ć´ĺľ·ç”ź (May 21, 1832 – June 3,1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International) who served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and personally baptizing an estimated 50,000 converts. He was known for his commitment to cultural sensitivity, wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was rare among missionaries of that time.
Hudson University Hudson University is a fictional university alluded to in the TV shows Law & Order (see Hudson University (Law & Order)), Tru Calling, Without a Trace and in the DC Comics universe (see Hudson University (comics)).
Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley refers to the canyon of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in New York State, generally from northern Westchester County northward to the cities of Albany and Troy. Historically a cradle of European settlement in the northeastern United States and a strategic battleground in colonial wars, it now consists of suburbs of the metropolitan area of New York City at its southern end, shading into rural territory, including "exurbs," farther north.
Hudson Valley Community College Hudson Valley Community College, a SUNY associated two-year college, is located in Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. The school was founded in 1953 as the Hudson Valley Technical Institute and currently offers programs in fifty areas of study.
Hudson Valley English Hudson Valley English is a special dialect of the english language, found mainly in the Upstate New York regions around the Hudson Valley of the state. The dialect is often very similar to the New York Accent, but it has a few differences.
Hudson View Gardens Hudson View Gardens is a cooperative apartment complex located in the Washington Heights / Hudson Heights section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River. The complex was constructed as a housing cooperative from 1923-25.
Hudson Wasp The Hudson Wasp was an automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1952 and 1954. The Wasp was also built by American Motors Corporation in Kenosha, Wisconsin and marketed under its Hudson brand for model years 1955 and 1956.
Hudson yacht club The Hudson Yacht club is a boating and social club in Hudson Quebec on the shores of Lake of Two Mountains(Lac des Deux Montagnes). Boasting several hundred members and boats, it has multiple sailing programs and hosts the annual Fruit Bowl, Quebec's largest youth regatta, drawing participants from across eastern Canada and the United States.
Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project The Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project is a New York City and Metropolitan Transportation Authority proposal to encourage business development on Manhattan's far West Side along the Hudson River. Originally, the plan was to have the New York Jets build a stadium over the MTA's Caemmerer railyard.
Hudson's Bay point blanket A Hudson's Bay point blanket was a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson Bay Company in western Canada and the United States during the 18th and 19th century. The blankets were typically traded to First Nations/Native American peoples in exchange for beaver pelts.
Hudson's Bay Tokens The Hudson's Bay Company tokens represented the unit of currency used in the fur trade for many decades. The largest - one "Made-Beaver" - was equal in value to the skin on an adult male beaver in prime condition.
Hudson-Athens Lighthouse The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse, sometimes called the Hudson City Light, is a lighthouse located in the Hudson River in the state of New York in the United States. Constructed in 1873, it marks a sandy ridge known as Middle Ground Flats and also acts as a general aid to navigation of the river.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) is a light rail system, owned by New Jersey Transit and operated by the 21st Century Rail Corporation, that connects the communities of Bayonne, Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Union City and North Bergen in New Jersey.
Hudsonville-Standale Tornado of April 1956 The Hudsonville-Standale Tornado was an F5 tornado that devastated the Hudsonville and Standale, Michigan areas on April 3, 1956. It was one of three tornadoes to move across southwest Lower Michigan on that day.
Hudud Hudud ( Arabic ŘŘŻŮŘŻ, also transliterated hadud, hudood; plural for hadd, ŘŘŻ, limit, or restriction) is the word often used in Islamic social and legal literature for the bounds of acceptable behaviour and the punishments for serious crimes.
Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib (ŘŘŻŮŘŻ العالم من المشرق الی المغرب) meaning "The Limits of The World from The East to The West" is a tenth century geography book written by an unknown author.
Hue (wargame) Hue is a board wargame first published in 1973 by Simulations Design Corporation in Conflict #6 and again in 1977 as Battle for Hue, and subsequently published by Mayfair Games in 1982 under the one-word title
Hue and Cry Hue and Cry is a pop group formed in 1983 in Coatbridge, Scotland by brothers Pat Kane (vocals) and Greg Kane (keyboards). They had a number of modest hits in the UK singles chart in the late 1980s, and early 1990s, and have released eleven albums from 1987 to date, selling over two million copies worldwide.
Hueco Mountains The Hueco Mountains are a range of mountains (centered at 31�57' N, 106�01' W) that rise in southern Otero County, New Mexico and extend twenty-seven miles south into Texas, generally along the El Paso-Hudspeth county line just west of the city of El Paso, Texas. The highest point of the range is the Cerro Alto (6,787 feet) in Hudspeth County.
Huehuecoyotl In Aztec mythology, Huehuecoyotl ("old coyote") is the trickster god of music, dance, song. He is depicted in the Codex Borbonicus as a dancing coyote with human hands and feet, accompanied by a human drummer.
Huehueteotl Huehueteotl ("Old god"; agéd god in Nahuatl) is a Mesoamerican deity figuring in the pantheons of pre-Columbian cultures, particularly in Aztec mythology and others of the Central Mexico region. He is also sometimes called Ueueteotl.
Huei tlamahuiçoltica Huei tlamahuiçoltica omonexiti in ilhuicac tlatocaçihuapilli Santa Maria totlaçonantzin Guadalupe in nican huei altepenahuac Mexico itocayocan Tepeyacac (Nahuatl: "By a great miracle appeared the heavenly queen, Saint Mary, our precious mother of Guadalupe, here near the great altepetl of Mexico, at a place called Tepeyacac", generally shortened to Huei tlamahuiçoltica and translated as "The Great Happening") is the title of a 36-page tract written in 1649 by Bachelor Luis Laso de la Vega, the vicar of the chapel at Tepeyac, and published the same year in New Spain (now Mexico). The tract is written almost entirely in Nahuatl and includes the Nican mopohua, one of the two 1640s texts that popularized the legend of the 1531 apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe to St.
Huelmo/Mascardi Cold Reversal The Huelmo/Mascardi Cold Reversal (HMCR) is the name given to a cooling event in South America between 11,400 and 10,200 14C years BP. This cooling began about 550 years before the Younger Dryas cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, and both periods ended at about the same time.
Huelva Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Rio Tinto rivers.
Huematzin HUEMATZIN (way-mat-seen'), Toltec scholar, lived about the end of the 8th century. He was the most celebrated philosopher of Tula, and is generally believed to be the collector of the historical paintings called "Teomaxtly," the divine book, a kind of cyclopaedia of the history, laws, customs, sciences, and arts known to the Toltecs.
Huemul Island Huemul Island ("Isla Huemul") is an island located in the Nahuel Huapi Lake, off the shore of San Carlos de Bariloche, a city in the province of RĂo Negro, Argentina, at . It derives its name from the Mapuche chief GĂĽemul, whose tribe inhabited the area.
Huemul Project The Huemul Project (Spanish: Proyecto Huemul) was a secret project proposed by the German scientist of Austrian origin Ronald Richter to the government of Argentina during the first presidency of Juan Domingo PerĂłn. In 1948, Richter convinced PerĂłn that he could produce nuclear fusion energy before any other country based in a lithium-deuterium nuclear reaction.
Huernia The genus Huernia consists of some 60 species of stem succulents from Eastern and Southern Africa. The flowers are five lobed, usually somewhat more funnel or bell shaped than the closely related genus Stapelia and often striped vividly in contrasting colours or tones, some glossy, others matt and wrinkled depending on the species concerned.
Huerta A huerta is a fertile area, or a field in a fertile area, common in Spain, in which a variety of common vegetables and fruit trees, especially lemons, are cultivated for family consumption and sale. Typically, huertas belonging to different people are in groups around a river or other water source because of the amount of irrigation required.
Hues cosmetics Hues Cosmetics is a Nashville-based brand of lip glosses. With names like Grammy, Video Queen, Neo Soul, and Platinum these glosses give their owner incredible lip shine and a little taste of Music City stardom.
Huesca (province) Huesca (Aragonese: Uesca, Catalan: Osca) is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Aragon. It is bordered by the provinces of Lleida, Zaragoza, and Navarra, and by France (Departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées).
Huessein Huessein is a German-born pornographic actor (porn star) who has appeared in several American gay adult films. Known best for his exotic features and muscular hairy chest, he has performed only in the top role.
Huetamo Huetamo, is located in the southeastern corner of the State of Michoacán, Mexico, a region known as "Tierra Caliente" (meaning hot land). Of indigenous Purepecha Indian origin, the word "Huetamo" means "four chiefs" or "four came".
Huevos divorciados Huevos Divorciados, or "Divorced Eggs," is a Mexican breakfast featuring two fried eggs separated by a column of chilaquiles (although sometimes, refried beans with tortilla chips are substituted). Typically, one egg is covered in salsa roja, while the other is covered in salsa verde, giving them distinctly different and complementary flavors.
Huevos motuleños Huevos motuleños is a breakfast food originated in the town of Motul (Yucatán). The dish is made with eggs on tortillas with black beans and cheese, often with other ingredients such as ham, peas, plantains, and salsa picante.
Huexotzinco Codex The Huexotzinco Codex or Huejotzingo Codex is an eight-sheet document on amatl, a pre-European paper made in Mesoamerica. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in 1521.
Huey Freeman Huey Freeman is the main character and narrator for the animated TV series, The Boondocks, and is also the main character of a comic strip by the same name. Huey is a ten-year-old African American boy with strong leftist ideologies and extreme social, political, and cultural revolutionary aspirations.
Huey Lewis Huey Lewis, (born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III on July 5 1950 in New York City, USA), is a musician and occasional actor. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis & The News, a rock group based in San Francisco, California that was the highest-selling American Band of the 1980s by singles.
Huey Lewis & the News Huey Lewis & the News is a Academy Award nominated US rock band based in San Francisco, California. Their greatest success was in the 1980s, when they were one of the most popular music acts of the decade.
Huey P. Newton Dr. Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989), was co-founder and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a black nationalist/racial equality organization that began in October 1966.
Hueyapan Santo Domingo Hueyapan is a small town in the rural northeastern part of the Mexican state of Morelos, which belongs to the municipality of Tetela del Volcán. It lies at an elevation of ca 2000-2500 metres above sea level on the southern slopes of the active volcano Popocatépetl.
Hueyi Tlatoani Hueyi Tlatoani (Nahuatl "great speaker", also spelt Uei Tlatoani or Huey Tlahtoani; plural Hueyi Tlatoque) was the Nahuatl title used for the emperor of the Mexica (Aztec). They were rulers of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and as such became the heads of the Triple Alliance of TenochtitlÄn, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
Huff (TV series) Huff was a Showtime television series about a successful psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office after rejection from exposing his homosexuality to his parents. After years of helping clients deal with their traumas, Huff now has to deal with his own, and is forced to re-evaluate his career and his entire take on life.
Huff Hills Huff Hills Ski Area is 16 miles south of Mandan, North Dakota, in the United States. The ski area was started by Jim and Jan Beck, and other local business people, on the old Twilight Hills ski location which had closed several years earlier.
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