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Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (born April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium) is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors.
Hugo de Garis Hugo de Garis (born 1947, Sydney, Australia) became an associate professor of computer science at Utah State University. He is one of the more notable researchers in the sub-field of artificial intelligence known as evolvable hardware which involves evolving neural net circuits directly in hardware to build artificial brains.
Hugo de Vries Hugo Marie de Vries (16th February 1848-21st May 1935) was a Dutch botanist, known chiefly for being credited along with Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak for rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, and for later developing his own anti-Darwinian mutation theory of evolution.
Hugo Danner Hugo Danner is the protagonist of the 1930 novel Gladiator, by Philip Gordon Wylie. Granted super-strength and durability through prenatal chemical experimentation, he tries to use his abilities for good, making him an early example of the superhero (DC Comics' Superman is commonly thought to be based partially on Danner).
Hugo Egmont Hørring Hugo Egmont Hørring (17 August 1842 – 13 February 1909) was a Danish politician, a member of the Højre political party. He was Council President of Denmark from 1897 to 1900 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hørring.
Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle Aiun-ken Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle (1898-1990) was one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism. Enomiya-Lassalle was born in Germany and was ordained as a Jesuit priest.
Hugo Falcandus Hugo Falcandus chronicled the reign of William I of Sicily and the minority of his son William II in a highly critical work entitled The History of the Tyrants of Sicily (or Liber de Regno Sicilie). There is some doubt as to whether "Hugo Falcandus" is a real name or a pseudonym.
Hugo Felix Hugo Felix (November 19, 1866 - Aug 24, 1934) is an Austrian-American composer of operettas. He was born in Vienna and produced several famous works such as Husarenblut (1894, Vienna), Rhodope (1900, Berlin) and Mme Sherry (1902, Berlin).
Hugo Gellert Hugo Gellert, born May 3, 1892 in Budapest, Hungary, died December 6, 1985 in Freehold, New Jersey, was an American illustrator and satirist. He sat on the editorial board of The Liberator, monthly arts and letters magazine of the Workers Party of America.
Hugo Gernsback Hugo Gernsback (August 16 1884 – August 19 1967) was a Luxembourg American inventor and magazine publisher who also wrote science fiction and whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, for which he is, along with H.G.
Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, or Hugo de Groot; Delft, 10 April 1583 – Rostock, 28 August 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.
Hugo Häring Hugo Häring (May 11 1882 – May 17 1958) was a German architect and architectural writer best known for his writings on "organic architecture", and as a figure in architectural debates about functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hugo Chapacu Hugo Chapacu (born May 5, 1962 in Posadas Misiones, Argentina) is a former tennis player, who represented Paraguay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the first round by qualifier Andrei Cherkasov from the Soviet Union.
Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez FrĂas (IPA: ) (born July 28, 1954) is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the "Bolivarian Revolution," Chávez promotes his vision of democratic socialism, Latin American integration, and anti-imperialism.
Hugo KÄrlis Grotuss Hugo KÄrlis Grotuss (January 17, 1884 in Jaunpils pagasta "DoÄŤkos" – January 16, 1951 in Dillingen) was a Latvian painter, classified as a Realist. His paintings and drawings include some of the best known and most popular works in Latvian art.
Hugo Koch Hugo Alexander Koch (1869 or 1870 – 1928) was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption — the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine, although this has been shown to be the work of German engineer Arthur Scherbius.
Hugo Lentz Hugo Lentz (July 21, 1859–March 21, 1944), Austrian mechanical engineer, born in South Africa, inventor of many award winning improvements of the steam engine. Won the grand prize at the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris.
Hugo Maradona Hugo Hernán Maradona (born circa May 9, 1969)and also known as El Turco, is an Argentine Association football coach. A former youth international, he previously played for clubs in Argentina, Europe, and Japan.
Hugo Mariutti Hugo Mariutti, born in SĂŁo Paulo/Brazil in 18th of December 1975, is brother of power metal bands Angra's and Shaaman's ex-bassist, LuĂs Mariutti. Played the guitar in Shaaman, with his brother, and now plays in Henceforth and Andre Matos solo project, as well as his brother.
Hugo MĂĽnsterberg Hugo MĂĽnsterberg (June 1 1863 - december 19 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings.
Hugo Meisl Hugo Meisl (November 16, 1881 (Maleschau, Bohemia) - February 17, 1937), brother of the journalist Willy Meisl, was the multi-lingual football coach of the famous Austrian 'Wunderteam' of the early 1930s, as well as a referee.
Hugo Meynell Hugo Meynell (1735 – 1808), generally seen as the father of modern foxhunting, became Master of Fox Hounds for the prestigious Leicestershire hunt, the Quorn in 1753 and continued in that role for another forty-seven years (the hunt is so called after Meynell's home, Quordon Hall in North Leicestershire). Meynell pioneered an extended chase at high speeds through open grassland.
Hugo Miguel Martins Carreira Hugo Carreira fullname Hugo Miguel Martins Carreira (born March 10, 1979 in Barreiro) is Portuguese football player. He started his career at Nacional in Madeira and in the 20032004 season he moved to Amadora were he currently plays.
Hugo Myatt Hugo Myatt is a British actor, best-known for his role as dungeon master Treguard of Dunshelm in the children's game show Knightmare. He has often commented that he did not mind working with children on Knightmare as his first job was as an actor in children's theatre.
Hugo O'Donnell, Duke of Tetuan Don Hugo O'Donnell (born September 29, 1948) is the Duke of Tetuan, a Spanish noble title commemorating the conquest of Tetuan in Morocco, by his ancestor, Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duque de Tetuan and former Prime Minister of Spain, in the mid-19th century. He is known as S.
Hugo Porta Hugo Porta (born 11 September 1951) is a former Argentine rugby union footballer who played fly-half. He played 57 times for Los Pumas, captaining them on 34 occasions, including leading them during their first World Cup in 1987.
Hugo Pratt Hugo Pratt (June 15, 1927, Rimini, Italy – August 20, 1995, Grandvaux, near Lausanne, Switzerland,) was an Italian comic book creator who combined his strong storytelling talent with extensive historical research on Corto Maltese and his other series. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.
Hugo Primozic Hugo Primozic (February 14th 1914 – March 18th 1996) was one of Germany’s Sturmgeschütz (assault gun) aces during World War II and was noted for his quick reactions, clever tactical use of ground and the icy nerve which in tense situations enabled him to hold his fire until his opponent had closed to point-blank range. In a five-month period of fighting he was awarded the two grades of the Iron Cross, the Knight's Cross and the Oak leaves.
Hugo Reid Hugo Reid was a resident of Los Angeles, California in 1852 who wrote a series of newspaper letters that described the culture, language, and modern circumstances of the local Gabrielino Indians and criticized their treatment under the Franciscan mission system.
Hugo Riemann Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (July 18, 1849 - July 10, 1919) was a German musicologist. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Riemann" in material on music theory and musicology, but should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who is more commonly known by that name in other contexts.
Hugo Ross Trophy The Hugo Ross Trophy was named after Winnipeg realtor, Hugo Ross who donated the championship trophy to the Western Canada Rugby Football Union (WCRFU). Hugo Ross, died a year earlier on April, 1912 as he was one of many who drowned in the sinking of the S.
Hugo Savinovich Hugo Savinovich (born February 15, 1959 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian former professional wrestler and currently one half of the WWE Spanish announce team where he is the color commentator and his partner is Carlos Cabrera and occasionally Marcelo Rodriguez. When he works with Rodriguez he is the play-by-play announcer.
Hugo Sánchez Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born July 11, 1958 in Mexico City) is the current coach of the Mexico national football team and a former striker, considered the greatest Mexican footballer in history and one of the most prolific scorers of his era. Sánchez played twelve seasons in the Spanish Primera División, and is the second highest goalscorer in the history of that league.
Hugo Selenski Hugo Selenski is a convicted bank robber charged in 2003 with the murder of two of five people whose bodies were unearthed from his back yard. Most recently, officials said there were as many as 12 bodies buried at his home on Mount Olivet Drive in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.
Hugo Sillén Hugo Sillén (1892 - 1971) was a Swedish Communist politician. In the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden, Sillén led the pro-Comintern fraction that expelled Karl Kilbom and the majority of the party members with support of the Comintern that feared Kilbom would support Bukharin's right opposition against Joseph Stalin.
Hugo Sotil Hugo Sotil Yeren (born May 10 1949 in Ica) is a Peruvian former football midfielder. He competed for the Peru national football team at the 1970 and 1978 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number 20 jersey on both occasions.
Hugo Steiner Hugo Steiner is a Swiss citizen who graduated from the University of Zurich as a physician specialising in endocrinology. He worked for several years as the leader of a research group in experimental endocrinology for Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Hugo Stinnes Hugo Stinnes (February 12, 1870 - April 10, 1924) was a German industrialist and politician born in MĂĽlheim, in the Ruhr Valley, North German Confederation. In 1890 he inherited his father's coal mining and other financial enterprises.
Hugo Swire Hugo George William Swire (born 30 November 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton, and attended the University of St Andrews before going to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell (27 October 1884 – 13 November 1933) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Hugo Weisgall Hugo Weisgall (October 13, 1912 – March 11, 1997) was an American composer, known chiefly for opera and vocal music. He was born in Eibenschitz (now Ivančice), Moravia (then part of Austria-Hungary, later in his childhood Czechoslovakia) and moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Hugo Wieslander Karl Hugo Wieslander (born 11 June 1889 – died 24 May 1976) was a Swedish athlete, who competed in combined events. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1911 with a score of 5516 points.
Hugo Wolf Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique.
Hugo's House of Horrors Hugo's House of Horrors is a computer game released in 1990. Gray Design Associates created a parser-based adventure game reminiscent of the Sierra Entertainment "Quest" games (such as King's Quest and Space Quest).
Hugronaphor Hugronaphor was a minor king (also known as Harmachis, Hyrgonaphor or Haronnophris) who led Upper Egypt in secession from the rule of Ptolemy IV Philopator in 205 BC. No monuments are attested to this king but along with his successor Ankhmakis (also known as Chaonnophris) he held a large part of Egypt until 186 BC.
Huguenot Memorial Bridge Huguenot Memorial Bridge is located in Henrico County and the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It carries State Route 147 across the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the former James River and Kanawha Canal, and the James River in the fall line region above the head of navigation at Richmond.
Huguenot Monument The Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek, South Africa, is dedicated to the cultural influences that French Huguenots have brought to the Cape Colony (and ultimately the whole of South Africa) after their immigration during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Huguenot Street Historic District The Huguenot Street Historic District is located along that street in New Paltz, New York. The seven stone houses and three accompanying structures in the district were built in the late 17th century by Huguenot settlers fleeing religious persecution in France and Belgium.
Huguenot Tunnel The Huguenot Tunnel is a toll tunnel near Cape Town, South Africa. It extends the N1 through the Du Toitskloof mountains that separate Paarl from Worcester, providing a route that is safer, faster (between 15 and 26 minutes) and shorter (by 11 km) than the old Du Toitskloof pass travelling over the mountain.
Hugues Doneau Hugues Doneau (lat.: Hugo Donellus, December 23, 1527, Chalon-sur-Saône – May 4, 1591, Altdorf bei Nürnberg) was a French law professor and one of the leading representatives of French legal humanism (mos Gallicus).
Hugues Duboscq Hugues Duboscq (born August 29, 1981 in Saint LĂ´, Manche) is a breaststroke swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the 100m Breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.
Hugues Lebailly Hugues Lebailly is a French academic and Senior Lecturer in English Cultural Studies at the Sorbonne. He is known for his work on nineteenth-century English literature, particularly his studies of Lewis Carroll which, in combination with the work of Karoline Leach and others, have begun a reassessment of Carroll's life and personality.
Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle Fra Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle was a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller at Malta from 1581 to 1595. He is mainly remembered for the reconstruction of the hunting lodge at Boschetto which was renamed Verdala Palace in his honour.
Huguette hoffmann Huguette Hoffmann is a plastic artist born in Mexico City in 1974. She begins her studies taking a History of the Art diploma in the Instituto Cultural Helenico in 1995, later she enters to the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda” in 1996, obtaining the Plastic Arts degree in 2001; at the same time she takes drawing and painting classes in the plastic artist Ingrid Fugellie’s workshop; she takes the Interactive Digital Design master degree in the Master Training school in Mexico, simultaneously she takes a tecniques and use of meterials workshop with Luis Nishizawa in the Nartional Center for the Arts.
Huh (god) In Egyptian mythology, Huh (also spelled Hu, Hah, or Heh) was the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning endlessness, and is not to be confused with the identically named Hu a god in the Ennead system. As a concept, he was androgynous, his female form being known as Hauhet, which is simply the feminine form of his name.
Huhtamäki Huhtamäki is a Finnish company, headquartered in Espoo, which manufactures and supplies packaging for various uses. Its primary outputs include cartons and containers for foods and other consumer goods, disposable tableware and films and laminates for such uses as adhesives, plasters and labels.
Hucho taimen The Taimen or Hucho trout (Hucho taimen) is a freshwater fish found in the former USSR and Asia, in the Caspian Sea and Arctic drainages of the Amur river. It can grow up to 200 pounds, and has been known to jump out of the water to eat squirrels and ducks.
Huchra's Lens Hurcha's Lens is the lensing galaxy of the Einstein Cross (Quasar 2237+30), it is also called ZW 2237+030. It exhibits the phenomenon of gravitational lensing that was postulated by Albert Einstein as soon as he realised that gravity would be able to bend light and thus could have lens-like effects.
Hui (linguistics) Hui, or Hui-yu (Simplified Chinese: ĺľ˝čŻ; Traditional Chinese: 徽語; Hanyu Pinyin: HuÄ«yÇ”), or Huizhou-hua (Simplified Chinese: 徽州话; Traditional Chinese: 徽州話; Hanyu Pinyin: HuÄ«zhĹŤuhuĂ ), is a subdivision of spoken Chinese. Its exact status is greatly disputed among linguists.
Hui (secret society) Hui (ćś) is a Chinese word, generally meaning 'conference', but which is sometimes used to refer to a secret society. It is often mutually interchangeable with terms like kongsi (公司, pinyin: GĹŤngsÄ«), a term generally used to mean 'corporation', or a Chinese clan (ćśé¤¨, pinyin: HuìgÇ”an), .
Hui Chiu-yin Hui Chiu-yin (許招賢), also known as John Hui, is the director and general manager of New World First Ferry in Hong Kong after his retirement from the post of Chief Superintendent of Marine Regional in Hong Kong Police Force in 1996. He had been the Chief Commission of The Scout Association of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2003.
Hui pan-nationalism Hui pan-nationalism refers to the post-1949 (the foundation of the People's Republic of China) phenomenon of a sense of common nationhood kindled among diverse communities of Chinese-speaking Muslims (typically members of the Hui ethnic-cultural group), due to the dialectics between the Hui nationality designation by the Communist government and the process of modernization of traditional Muslim Chinese groups and individuals. This sense of nationalism among the Hui has largely been agitated by suppression of the Islamic faith in China, as well as efforts to undermine the cultural and social identity of the Hui people by the Chinese government.
Huib Drion Huib Drion (The Hague, 25 April 1917 – Leiden, 20 April 2004) was a Dutch Supreme Court judge and professor of civil law who became famous for proposing a suicide pill, which was later called Drion's pill after him.
Huichol The Huichol are an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico that live in the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco. Due to longtime deliberate isolation and resistance to evangelism they have retained much of their original culture.
Huichol language The Huichol language is an indigenous language of Mexico, belonging to the Uto-aztecan linguistic family. It is spoken by the ethnic group widely known as the Huichol who refer to themselves as Wixarica" , and who inhabit the northern Sierra of the Mexican states of Nayarit, Zacatecas and Jalisco.
Huilliche language Huilliche language is an Araucanian language spoken by about 2,000 (1982) in Chile by the ethnic Huilliche people. It is spoken in an area south of the Mapuche and from the city of Valdivia south to Chiloé Island in the nation's 10th Los Lagos Region, and mountain valleys.
Huincul Formation The Huincul Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in RĂo Negro and NeuquĂ©n provinces of Argentina. It is the second formation in the RĂo Limay Subgroup, the oldest subgroup within the NeuquĂ©n Group.
Huineng Huineng (ć…§č˝ or ć č˝; Pinyin: HuìnĂ©ng, 638–713) was a Chinese Chan (Chinese Zen) monastic who is one of the most important figures in the entire tradition. Huineng is the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Chan Buddhism, as well as the last official patriarch.
Huining Fu Huining Fu was a prefecture in the Shangjing region of Manchuria . It served as the first superior capital of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) between 1122 to 1234 (and was a secondary capital after 1173"A-ch'eng".
Huis Doorn Huis Doorn ("Doorn Manor") is a small manor house that lies outside Doorn, a small town near Utrecht, the Netherlands. The 15th-century house was radically rebuilt in the late 18th century in a conservative taste, then redecorated in the mid-19th century, when the surrounding park was laid out as an English landscape garden.
Huisgenoot Huisgenoot (Afrikaans for House Companion) is a weekly Afrikaans language general interest family magazine. It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine and is followed by sister magazine YOU, its English language version; these two magazines have a combined circulation of almost one million copies a week.
Huisman-Olff-Fresco models [called Huisman-Olff-Fresco models (HOF models) are hierarchical set of 5 models with increasing complexity, designated for fitting unimodal species] response curves on [[ecological gradient. Their authors are J.
Huissier de justice In France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Québec, a huissier de justice (and in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking parts of Belgium gerechtsdeurwaarder) is a member of the legal profession whose responsibility includes formally bearing witness to events or situations (constat d'huissier); signification , a form of service of process; making the decisions of the courts available to the public; and execution of the courts' decisions, such as seizures and evictions. The most common British English translation for huissier de justice is "bailiff" (and sometimes "sheriff officer"); note however that French huissiers de justice are not government employees and do not have police powers.
Huitzila Huitzila is a small town in Mexico, located in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the far south of Zacatecas state, at 21° N, 103° W and at an elevation of some 1900 metres. It is part of the Municipality of Teul de González Ortega.
Huitzilopochtli In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli, also spelled Uitzilopochtli, (IPA: ("Hummingbird of the South", "He of the South", "Hummingbird on the Left (South)", or "Left-Handed Humming Bird" – huitzil is the Nahuatl word for hummingbird), was a god of war and a sun god and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan.
Huiwen of Qin King Qin Huiwen (秦ć 文王) ruled the Chinese state of Qin from 338 BC until 311 BC. He took the title of "king", rather than "duke" as his predecessors and peers of the other Zhou states had.
Huiyuan Huiyuan (334 AD–416 AD, also spelled Hui-Yuan or Hui-YĂĽan), Chinese ć…§é , was a Buddhist teacher who founded a monastery in Jiangxi province and wrote the text A Monk Does Not Bow Down Before A King in 404 BC. He was born in Shansi, China and died in Hupeh.
Huizhou Huizhou () is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Part of the Pearl River Delta, Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south.
Hujiao bing HĂşjiÄo bÇng (Chinese: čˇć¤’餅, literally means "black pepper cake") is a Chinese snack composed of meat marinated with sugar, soy sauce, black pepper, and scallions encased in a large, flaky biscuit-like bread. Unlike the biscuit, the bread of the hĂşjiÄo bÇng is much less oily because the meat filling is already fatty and juicy.
Hujr ibn Adi Hujr ibn Adi () was a supporter of Ali, he and his companions were killed by Muawiya I for refusing to Curse Ali. Hujr asked that his son be killed before he did so that he will be sure that his son stayed on the love of Ali and will not be affected by his death.
Hujum Hujum (in Turkic languages, storming or assault) was a series of policies and actions taken by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, initiated by Joseph Stalin, to try and have women in the Muslim majority areas of the Soviet Union remove their veils.
Hukbalahap The Hukbalahap was the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP), formed in 1942 to fight the Japanese Empire's occupation in the Philippines during World War II. It fought a second war from 1946 to 1954 against the pro-Western leaders of their newly independent country.
Hukou A hĂąkÇ’u () or hĂąjĂ () refers to residency permits (household registration) issued in mainland China (by the People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (by the Republic of China). A household registration record officially identifies a person as a resident of an area and includes identifying information such the name of the person, date of birth, the names of parents, and name of spouse, if married.
Hula (woreda) Hula is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Sidama Zone, Hula is bordered on the south by the Oromia Region, on the southwest by Dara, on the west by Aleta Wendo, on the northwest by Dale, on the north by Shebedino, on the northeast by Arbegona, and on the east by Bensa.
Hula Bowl The Hula Bowl is an independently administered post-season invitational college football game held each year in Hawaii, currently at Aloha Stadium in the HÄlawa district of Honolulu, Hawaii. The longest-running sporting event in Hawaii, it has been considered a premier venue to launch professional careers in the National Football League.
Hulagu Khan Hulagu Khan (also known as Hülegü, and Hulegu) (1217 – 8 February 1265) was a Mongol ruler who conquered much of Southwest Asia. The grandson of Genghis Khan and the brother of Arik Boke, Mongke and Kublai Khan, he became the first khan of the Ilkhanate of Persia.
HulĂĽ Guang HulĂĽ Guang (斛律光) (515-572), courtesy name Mingyue (ćŽćś), was a general of the Chinese dynasty Northern Qi. During the late years of the dynasty -- the reigns of Emperor Wucheng and Gao Wei, traditionally viewed as a period of corruption and debauchery when Northern Qi's once-powerful status was deteriorating -- HulĂĽ was viewed as the key pillar to the state and its army, maintaining the army's strength against rivals Northern Zhou and Chen Dynasty.
Hul’qumi’num language Hul'qumi'num is a language that was spoken in central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada by the First Nations. While its use has declined over the years as the natives have adopted English as their first language, there is an effort to revive their traditional language.
Huld In Scandinavian mythology, Huld was a völva or seiðkona, that is a woman who practiced the seiðr. In the Ynglinga saga is related that she first was hired to kill the Swedish king Vanlade, by his wife DrĂfa.
Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens The Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens (7 acres) are nonprofit botanical gardens specializing in lilacs, located at 115 South Pekin Road, Woodland, Washington. The gardens are open daily; a small admission fee is charged.
Hulda-Hrokkinskinna Hulda-Hrokkinskinna is one of the kings' sagas. Written sometime after 1280 it relates the history of the Norwegian kings from Magnús góði, who acceded to the throne in 1035, to Magnús Erlingsson, who died in 1177.
Huldah Huldah was a prophetess mentioned briefly in II Kings, Chapter 22, and Books of Chronicles 2, Chapter 34. She is approached by Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah to give the Lord`s opinion after a book of the Law is rediscovered.
Huldah Gates The Huldah Gates are the two sets of now-blocked gates in the south wall of the Temple Mount, which is also one of Jerusalem's Old City walls. The western set is a double arched gate (the double gate), and the eastern is a triple arched gate (the triple gate).
Huldra In Scandinavian folklore, the huldra (Norwegian, derived from a root meaning covered or secret) is a seductive forest creature. Other names include the Swedish skogsrĂĄ or skogsfru (meaning "lady (ruler) of the forest") and Tallemaja (pine tree Mary).
HuldreslĂĄt HuldreslĂĄt is a Scandinavian Folk band that was born not in Scandinavia but in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the year 2006. They musicians that devote themselves to the study of the vast musical legacy of Northern Europe.
Huldrych Zwingli Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (January 1, 1484 – October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent from Luther, who was doctor biblicus, Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar.
Hulet Ej Enese Hulet Ej Enese is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Gojjam Zone, Hulet Ej Enese is bordered on the south by Debay Telatgen, on the southwest by Bibugn, on the northwest by the Mirab Gojjam Zone, on the north by the Abay River which separates it from the Debub Gondar Zone, on the east by Goncha Siso Enese, and on the southeast by Enarj Enawga.
Hulett The Hulett automatic ore unloader was invented by George Hulett of Ohio in the late 1800s; he received a patent for his invention in 1898. The first working machine was built the following year at Conneaut Harbor in Conneaut, Ohio.
Hulhumalé Hulhumalé (Dhivehi]: ހުޅުމާލެ) is a [[reclamation|reclaimed island located in Kaafu Atoll, Maldives. The artificial island was reclaimed to establish a new land mass required to meet the existing and future housing, industrial and commercial development demands of the Malé region.
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