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Hussein Mohamed Farrah Hussein Mohamed Farrah (; born August 16, 1962 in Beledweyne, Somalia) is the son of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Also known as Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Hussein AididSomalia's thoughtful 'warlord' BBC or Aidid Junior.
Hussein Onn Tun Hussein bin Dato' Onn (February 12, 1922-May 29, 1990) who is of 3/4 Malay & 1/4 Turkish (of Circassian extraction) ancestry was the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, ruling from 1976 to 1981. He was granted the soubriquet Bapa Perpaduan (Father of Unity).
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence during World War I was a 1915-1916 exchange of letters between the Hejazi (the Hejaz later became part of Saudi Arabia) leader Hussein ibn Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, concerning the future political status of the Arab lands of the Middle East, where the United Kingdom was seeking to bring about an armed revolt against the Ottoman Empire's rule.
Husserliana The Husserliana is the complete works project of the philosopher Edmund Husserl, which was made possible by Herman Van Breda after he saved the manuscripts of Husserl. The Husserliana is published by the Husserl Archives of the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven.
Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian GCB GCH PC (28 July 1775 – 20 August 1842), known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornish family. Educated at Harrow and Exeter College, Oxford, Vivian entered the army in 1793, and less than a year later became a captain in the 28th foot.
Hussite The Hussites comprised a Christian movement following the teachings of the reformer Jan Hus (circa 1369–1415), who was influenced by John Wyclif and became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. This predominantly religious movement was also propelled by social issues and strengthened the Czech national self-awareness.
Hussite Wars The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434. The Hussite Wars were arguably the first European war in which hand-held gunpowder weapons such as muskets made a decisive contribution.
Husson College Husson College is a small college located in Bangor, Maine, USA, aptly named after its founder Chesley Husson, founded in 1898 which specializes in business and nursing. The College was originally named Shaw School of Business and was located on the second floor of a building in downtown Bangor.
Husting A husting, or the hustings, was originally a physical platform from which representatives presented their views or cast votes before a parliamentary or other election body. By metonymy, the term may now may refer to any event, such as debates or speeches, during an election campaign where one or more of the representative candidates are present.
Hustle (dance) The Hustle is a catchall name for several disco dances which were extremely popular in the 1970s. Today it mostly refers to a type of swing dance based on various earlier forms of hustle and similar in style to East Coast Swing, though in the 1970s there was also a line dance called the Hustle.
Hustle (film) Hustle is a TV movie about baseball player Pete Rose created by ESPN that first broadcast on September 25, 2004. The movie follows Rose as he gambled on Major League Baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds, then was caught and banned from baseball for life.
Hustle (professional wrestling) Hustle is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion managed by Nobuhiko Takada and produced by Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE). HUSTLE can be described as an industry experiment to market the sports entertainment style of pro-wrestling in Japan.
Hustle (TV series) Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television originally airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan (who also wrote many of the scripts), Hustle follows a group of London-based con artists as they attempt to dupe money out of their victims ("marks").
Hustler TV Hustler TV is an American premium adult pay-per-view service available through satellite and digital cable. The channel is dedicated to offering explicit adult material; uncut and uncensored from Hustler, one of the most well known brands in Adult entertainment.
Hustler's Ambition "Hustler's Ambition" is the first single (in the US) and second single (in UK and AUS) by 50 Cent from the Get Rich or Die Tryin' soundtrack, released in 2005. 50 Cent has stated that it is one of his personal favorite tracks from the album, but by only reaching #65 on the Billboard charts, it's his least successful single to date apart from "If I Can't, which charted at #76.
Hustling Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling with the hustler, as a form of confidence trick. It is most commonly associated with billiards (pool) but also can be performed with regard to other sports and games.
Huston Park Wilderness The Huston Park Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1984 to preserve the northernmost section of the central Rocky Mountains, an area of high mountain peaks and coniferous forest.
Huston Plan The Huston Plan was a 43 page report and outline of proposed security operations put together by White House aide Tom Charles Huston in 1970. It first came to light during the 1973 Watergate hearings headed by Senator Sam Ervin (N.
Huston Smith Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31, 1919) is among the preeminent religious studies scholars in the United States. His work, The Religions of Man (later revised and retitled The World's Religions), is a classic in the field, sold over two million copies, and is a particularly useful introduction to comparative religion.
Husum (Copenhagen) Husum is a mainly residential district in the municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark. Named after a medieval village which has been all but replaced by 1900s development, it is located to the far northwest in the municipality, near the border to Herlev.
Husum station Husum station is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It serves the area around the former village Husum, and is also the S-train station that is easiest to reach by bus from Mørkhøj in Gladsaxe and parts of northern Rødovre municipality.
Husum, Sweden Situated at the northern entrance to the High Coast, Husum is located about 30 km north of Örnsköldsvik (about 600 km north of Stockholm), on the coast of northern Sweden. A small but thriving town with about 2,000 inhabitants, it has an active sports club in Husums IF(ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, ski jumping, orienteering, etc.
Huta Pieniacka Huta Pieniacka () was a Polish village of about 1,000 inhabitants (as of 1944) in Tarnopol Voivodship, now in Ukraine, about 50 km away from Ternopil, beside the Ukrainian village of Holubytsya () in Brody Raion of Lviv Oblast. Almost all the villagers were brutally murdered on February 28 1944 and the village burnt down.
Hutcliff Wood Hutcliff Wood and Marriott Wood are two areas of ancient woodland in Sheffield. They occupy the steep southeastern side of the Abbeydale valley between Archer Road and Abbey Lane, separated by River Sheaf and the railway line from Millhouses Park; Hutcliffe Wood Road divides the two areas of woodland, Hutcliff wood to the west and Marriott wood to the east.
Huthwaite Huthwaite is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England, located to the southwest of Mansfield, close to the Derbyshire border. It was formerly known as Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, or Dirty Hucknall, but the name was changed officially in 1907.
Hutch (furniture) A hutch is a type of furniture that usually consists of a set of shelves or cabinets placed on top of a lower unit with a counter and either drawers or cabinets. Hutches are often seen in the form of desks or kitchen furniture.
Hutch Award The Hutch Award is a Major League Baseball award given to an active player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire to win. The award was created in 1965 in honor of the late Fred Hutchinson, the courageous and inspirational former major league baseball player and manager, who died of cancer at the age of 45.
Hutch Maiava Hutch Maiava (born October 26 1976 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition. Maiava also previously played for the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2004.
Hutchens device The Hutchens device is a device for protecting race car drivers in the event of an accident by controlling head movement, reducing head and neck injuries due to whiplash. It consists of a series of straps, attached to the helmet and connected across the chest and at the waist, depending on the lap belt for anchoring.
Hutchinson Central Technical High School Hutch-Tech is a high school in the City of Buffalo, New York. The beginning of technical education on the secondary level in the city of Buffalo dates back to September 14, 1900, when Buffalo Technical High School was organized under the name of Mechanics Arts High School.
Hutchinson Family Singers The Hutchinson Family Singers were a 19th-century American family singing group who sang about political causes in four-part harmony. The group formed in the wake of a string of successful tours by Austrian singing groups such as the Tyrolese Minstrels and when American newspapers were demanding the cultivation of native talent.
Hutchinson Novella Hutchinson Novellas was a series of short novels published by the Hutchinson Group in the United Kingdom and Australia in the late 1980s. The books were also published as The Harper Short Novel Series in the United States.
Hutchinson River Parkway The Hutchinson River Parkway, colloquially called "The Hutch" by many New York metropolitan area residents, is a parkway that runs through Westchester County and the Bronx in New York City. At the New York/Connecticut state line, Rye Brook, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, the roadway becomes the Merritt Parkway.
Hutchinson Technology Hutchinson Technology is an acknowledged world leader in precision manufacturing. Specializing in design and manufacture of close-tolerance products that require chemical, mechanical and electronic technologies.
Hutchinson's triad Hutchinson's triad is named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913). It is a common pattern of presentation for congenital syphilis, and consists of these three phenomena: interstitial keratitis, Hutchinson incisors, and eighth nerve deafness.
Hutchinson, Kansas Hutchinson is the largest city and county seat of Reno County, Kansas, 219 miles (353 km) west of Kansas City, Missouri, on the Arkansas River. In 1900, 9,379 people lived in Hutchinson; in 1910, 16,364; in 1920, 23,398; and in 1940, 30,013.
Hutchinson, Pennsylvania Hutchinson is a village located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and is part of Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, Hutchinson had 99 single family homes, and a total population of 322.
Hutchison Whampoa Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL, 和記黃埔有限公司), SEHK: 0013, of Hong Kong, is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. HWL is a leading international corporation committed to innovation and technology with businesses spanning the globe.
Hutiaoxia Town Hutiaoxia Town (), formerly Qiaotou (桥头 Qiáotóu; lit. "Bridgehead"), is a small town located in southwestern China in Yunnan Province, on the Yangtze River in Shangri-La County (formerly Zhongdian County) adjacent to Lijiang City.
Hutschenreuther Hutschenreuther is the name of the family that established the production of a fine china in Northern Bavaria, in 1814. Hutschenreuther was a trend-setter and enabled Germany to gain an excellent reputation in the European china industry.
Hutsuls Hutsuls (, Romanian: HuĹŁuli, singular HuĹŁul, Hutsul dialect: Hutsule, singular Hutsul; alternatively spelled Huculs, Huzuls, Hutzuls, Gutsuls, Guculs, Guzuls, or Gutzuls) are an ethno-cultural group of highlanders who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains, mainly in Ukraine, but also in the northern extremity of Romania (in the areas of Bukovina and MaramureĹź), as well as in Slovakia and Poland.
Hutt (Star Wars) The Hutts are a fictional alien race in the Star Wars universe. They have appeared in The Phantom Menace and Return of the Jedi, as well as the special edition release of A New Hope, although it is only in The Phantom Menace that Hutts other than Jabba the Hutt are portrayed.
Hutt River (South Australia) The Hutt River, in the Clare Valley of South Australia was one of two rivers discovered by William Hill in 1839, who was a friend and contemporary of the explorer Edward John Eyre. He named the river after Sir William Hutt, who was one of the South Australian Colonization Commissioners in London.
Hutt River Province Principality Dollar The Hutt River Province Principality Dollar is divided into 100 Cents. It was first issued in 1974 by the Hutt River Province Principality in the form of a series of banknotes ranging in values from 10 Cents to 2 Dollars.
Hutt Valley, New Zealand The Hutt Valley is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Like the river that flows through it, it takes its name from Sir William Hutt, a director of the New Zealand Company in early colonial New Zealand.
Hutterite German Hutterite German (Hutterisch) is an Upper German dialect of the Austro-Bavarian variety of the German language, which is spoken by Hutterite communities in Canada and the United States. Hutterite is also called Tirolean, but this is an anachronism.
Hutton Cranswick railway station Hutton Cranswick railway station serves the village of Hutton Cranswick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Yorkshire Coast Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Hutton Gibson Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is a writer on religion and holocaust denier most notable for being the father of actor Mel Gibson. He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson and Australian opera star Eva Mylott.
Hutton Grammar School Hutton Grammar School is an all-boys Church of England voluntary aided comprehensive school in North West England located just outside the city of Preston in the village of Hutton. It consists of a main school for pupils aged between 11-16 and a 6th-form school for students aged 16-19.
Hutton Inquiry The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the United Kingdom Labour government to investigate the suicide of Dr David Kelly. On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly "sexed up" the "September Dossier", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
Hutton Magna Hutton Magna is a village in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. It is traditionally located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Hutton Rudby Hutton Rudby is a village situated 4 miles from the market town of Stokesley in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It was originally two separate villages of Hutton and Rudby, who were joined when a bridge was built spanning the River Leven.
Huttons Ambo railway station Huttons Ambo railway station was a minor railway station serving the villages of High Hutton and Low Hutton on the York to Scarborough Line and was opened on 5th July 1845 by the York & North Midland Railway. It closed on 22nd September 1930.
Hutzler's Hutzler's department store was founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1858 by the Hutzler Brothers (Abram Hutzler, David Hutzler, and Charles Hutzler). It continued to expand its downtown store, and in 1952 it opened its first suburban store in Towson, Maryland.
Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station (, Taḥanat HaRakevet Ḥutzot HaMifratz) is an Israel Railways passenger station serving Hutzof HaMifratz Mall (, Streets of the Bay Mall), Israel's largest open-air mall, and the surrounding Haifa-Bay industrial zone just north of Haifa.
Huvishka Huvishka (Kushan: ΟΟΗϷΚΙ, "Ooishki") was a Kushan emperor from the death of Kanishka (assumed on the best evidence available to be in 140 AD) until the succession of Vasudeva I about forty years later. His rule was a period of retrenchment and consolidation for the Empire.
Huvudstabron Huvudstabron (Swedish: "The Huvudsta Bridge") is a bridge in Sweden. Stretching over Bällstaviken it connects the indutrial area Ulvsunda in the municipality Stockholm to the city district Huvudsta in the municipality Solna.
Huw Bennett Huw Bennett (born 11 June, 1983 in Ebbw Vale) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the Ospreys in the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup. He has also played for the Welsh national team, and was a part of their 2003 Rugby World Cup squad.
Huw davies Huw Davies is a British-born author with the "Another Weird Year" books probably his most famous creation. His series of "Another Weird Year" books are now up to their 4th edition (Another Weird Year 2006).
Huw Edwards (journalist) Huw Edwards (born August 1961, Bridgend, Wales) is one of the chief news presenters for BBC News in the United Kingdom, regularly presenting the BBC Ten O'Clock News on BBC One and an hour-long slot from 5pm on BBC News 24.
Huw Lloyd-Langton Huw Lloyd-Langton (born Richard Hugh Lloyd-Langton, 7 February 1951, in Harlesden, North-west London) is an English guitarist, famous as the guitarist for Hawkwind. He also had his own band, the Lloyd Langton Group, and is the session lead guitarist for UK band The Meads of Asphodel.
Huw Phillips {{Huw Phillips - welsh rugby player, born 28th February 1971, predominantly a back row forward who came to prominence as the first junior player to score 40 tries in a regular season in 1987 whilst a member of the Dunvant u-16Ss side. Prior to this at the tender age of 11 he became the first overseas player to be invited to represent the French presidents XV.
Huwala The Huwala (also spelled howala, howila, huwalah) () meaning "those that have changed" are the descendants of Sunni Arabs who originally migrated from the eastern shore of the Persian Gulf to Iran (Persia), and since the eighteenth century have migrated back to the Arabian peninsular and now make up a substantial proportion of the middle class populations of Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Defining themselves as Arabs, the Hawala see this reverse migration over the last three centuries as a return to their original homeland, although some retain extensive cultural links with Persia depending on the level of "Persianization" that happened over the years of their residing in Persia.
Huwwara Checkpoint [Checkpoint () is the major checkpoint on one of the four main exits of Nablus] city, it was established on October 2000 on the main road connecting [[Nablus and Ramallah city and it is named after the village of Huwwara and is located near the Huwwara military post.
Huxley (video game) Huxley (Korean:헉슬리) is a massively multiplayer first-person shooter computer game published by Webzen Games Inc. to be released in 2007 (although an exact date is unknown, the game should be released Q2 or Q3 2007).
Huxley Stakes The Huxley Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 75 yards (2,080 metres) at Chester Racecourse in May.
Huyan The House of Huyan () was a noble house that led the last remnants of Northern Xiongnu at Dzungaria during 2nd-century after the Battle of Ikh Bayan. The noble House of Huyan, is a patrilineal lineage or last name Note that the family name is placed before the given names in much of the Asia, much as the Ashina of Göktürk and Yujiulu of Juan Juan (Rouran).
Huyan Zan Huyan Zan (), born in Taiyuan, Bingzhou, was a Chinese general of the Northern Song Dynasty. Born to the martial Huyan family, he started his military career at a young age as a cavalryman, and was soon promoted to a cavalry officer.
Huygens probe The Huygens probe, supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) and named after the Dutch 17th century astronomer Christiaan Huygens, is an atmospheric entry probe carried to Saturn's moon Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission. The combined Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997.
Huygens Software Huygens software refers to different multiplatform microscope image processing packages from Scientific Volume Imaging, made for restoring 2D and 3D microscopy images or time series and analyzing and visualizing them.
Huygens–Fresnel principle The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named for Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) is a method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation (both in the far field limit and in near field diffraction). It recognizes that each point of an advancing wave front is in fact the center of a fresh disturbance and the source of a new train of waves; and that the advancing wave as a whole may be regarded as the sum of all the secondary waves arising from points in the medium already traversed.
Huynh Cong Ut Huynh Cong Út, also known as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. Perhaps his best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who was photographed as a naked 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a napalm attack near Trang Bang during the Vietnam War.
Huyton railway station Huyton railway station serves the area of Huyton in Liverpool, England. The station acts as an interchange between the Liverpool-Wigan Line and the northern route of the Liverpool-Manchester Line which diverge soon after the station.
Huyton with Roby Urban District Huyton with Roby Urban District was a local government district in Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. Vision of Britain - Huyton with Roby UD unit history It consisted of the civil parish of Huyton with Roby which comprised the settlements of Huyton and Roby.
Huzhou Huzhou () is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying south of the Lake Tai, it borders Jiaxing to the east, Hangzhou to the south, and the provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu to the west and north respectively.
Huzita-Hatori axioms The Huzita-Hatori axioms are a set of rules related to the mathematical principles of paper folding. The axioms 1 to 6 were formulated by Italian-Japanese mathematician Humiaki Huzita in 1992, and describe the operations that can be made when folding a piece of paper, as in origami.
HU-210 HU-210 (CAS# 112830-95-2) is a synthetic cannabinoid that was discovered around 1988 in the group of Dr Raphael Mechoulam at the Hebrew University. HU-210 is 100 to 800 percent more potent than natural THC from cannabis and has an extended duration of action.
HUB International HUB is a shopping mall, food court, and student residence at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton Canada. It was build by the Housing Union at the university of Alberta and was then named the "Housing Union Building".
HUBO HUBO (íś´ëł´ KHR-3) is a bi-pedal humanoid robot developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and released on January 6, 2005 following a year of work. Hubo is short form for "humanoid robot.
HUD (computer gaming) The HUD, short for Head-Up Display or Heads-Up Display, is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player in computer and video games. The HUD can be an important part of a game's user interface.
HUI7 The HUI7 was a group of 7 people who were asked by the Pacific Telemedicine Hui ("hui" is the Hawaian word for unity) to port the Veterans Administration's VistA system from its DSM/VMS platform to an open source platform. The open source platform for this project was the Linux Operating System, and the GT.
Hvalsey Hvalsey (Danish Hvalsø, Greenlandic Qaqortukukooq) is a location near Qaqortoq, Greenland and the site of a number of Greenland's best preserved Norse ruins in what was known by the Norse as the Eastern Settlement, all of which were abandoned around 1400 AD after approximately 450 years of habitation.
Hvannadalshnúkur Hvannadalshnúkur or Hvannadalshnjúkur () is a peak in the north-western rim of the Öræfajökull volcano in Iceland and the highest point of the island. An official measurement completed in August 2005 established its height as 2,109.
Hvar (town) Hvar (Italian Lesina) is a town on the eponymous island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Croatia. The municipality has a population of 4,138 (2001) while the city itself is inhabited by 3,672 people, making it the largest settlement on the island of Hvar.
Hvedholm Castle Hvedholm Castle near Faaborg on the island of Funen in Denmark was built in the 15th century. It was owned in turn by the Hardenberg, Bille and Brahe families until 1919, when the Danish government presented the then owners with an enormous tax demand, forcing them to sell it to the state for approximately 175,000 Danish kroner.
Hversu Noregr byggðist Hversu Noregr byggdist (Old Norse Hversu Noregr byggðist) meaning 'How Norway was inhabited', which survives only in the Flatey Book, is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages. It traces the descedendants of the primeval Finnish ruler Fornjót down to Nór, who is here the eponym and first great king of Norway, and then gives details of the descendants of Nór (and of his brother Gór) in a following section known as the Ættartolur 'Genealogies'.
Hvidebæk Hvidebæk is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in West Zealand County on the west coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 98,26 km², and has a total population of 5,492 (2005).
Hvidovre station Hvidovre station is a station on the TĂĄstrup radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located about 1 km north of the old village of Hvidovre, in the far northwestern corner in Hvidovre municipality.
HVAC HVAC (pronounced either "H-V-A-C" or, occasionally, "H-VAK") is an initialism/acronym that stands for "heating, ventilating, and air conditioning". This is sometimes referred to as climate control and is particularly important in the design of medium to large industrial and office buildings such as sky scrapers and in marine environments where humidity and temperature must all be closely regulated whilst maintaining safe and healthy conditions within.
HVB Bank Biochim HVB Bank Biochim, founded in 1986, is the fourth largest Bulgarian bank as of 2004, with a market share of 7% and assets of about 2 billion leva. The bank is part of the Bank Austria group and is thus owned by HypoVereinsbank, and has 1,500 employees working in 130 branches.
HVDC Gezhouba - Shanghai The HVDC Gezhouba - Shanghai is a high voltage direct current transmission transmission system between Gezhouba and Nan Qiao near Shanghai, China put in service in 1989. The bipolar 1046 km line is rated at 500 kV and a maximum power of 1200 MW.
HVDC Gotland The HVDC Gotland, on the Swedish east coast was the first fully commercial static plant for high voltage direct current transmission in the world. The first HVDC Gotland link (Gotland 1) went into service in 1954.
HVDC Haenam-Cheju The HVDC Haenam Cheju' is a 101 kilometers long HVDC submarine cable connection between Haenam and the island Jeju in South Korea, which went in service in 1996. The connection consists of two monopolar 180kV-lines with a maximum transmission power of 300 megawatts.
HVDC Hellsjön-Grängesberg The HVDC Hellsjön-Grängesberg is a test range from ABB between Hellsjön and Grängesberg to the testing of new components for HVDC. It consists of a 10 kilometer long overhead line, which was originally used as three-phase alternating current line and which is occasionally used for DC transmissions.
HVDC Hokkaido-Honshu The HVDC Hokkaidō-Honshū or Hokkaidō-Honshū HVDC Link , Kitahon HVDC Link (ja: 北海道・本州間電力連系設備, abbrev. 北本電力連系設備) is a 193 kilometers long high voltage direct current transmission line for the interconnection of the power grids of Hokkaidō (Hakodate static inverter station in Nanae) and Honshū (Kamikita static inverter station in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture), Japan.
HVDC Itaipu The HVDC Itaipu is a HVDC transmission line from the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant to the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The project has two bipolar lines, which run from the converter plant at Foz do Iguaçu in Paraná to the static inverter plant São Roque near São Paulo.
HVDC Italy-Corsica-Sardinia The HVDC Italy-Corsica-Sardinia (also called SACOI; Sardinia-Corsica-Italy) is used for the exchange of electric energy between the static inverter plant Suvereto on the Italian mainland, the static inverter plant Lucciana on Corsica and the static inverter plant Codrongianos on Sardinia.
HVDC Italy-Greece The HVDC Italy-Greece is a monopolorar submarine power cable link between Italy and Greece with a maximum transmission rate of 500 megawatts, which went in service in 2001. The HVDC Italy-Greece begins in the static inverter plant Galatina in Italy and is implemented in its first 40 kilometers as underground cables.
HVDC Kingsnorth HVDC Kingsnorth was a high voltage direct current transmission (HVDC) system at Kingsnorth in Kent. It was at one time the only application of the technology of high voltage direct current transmission for the supply of transformer stations in a city.
HVDC Leyte - Luzon The HVDC Leyte - Luzon is a high voltage direct current transmission link in the Philippines between geothermal power plants on the island of Leyte and the southern part of island of Luzon. The HVDC Leyte – Luzon went in service on 10 August 1998.

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