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Harbledown Harbledown is a village to the west of Canterbury, Kent, now contiguous with the city and in effect a suburb. The High Street is a conservation area with many fascinating colloquial buildings either side of a sharp climb towards the city.
Harbor Cay Condominium The Harbor Cay Condominium development project in Cocoa Beach collapsed during construction in 1981. The collapse was due to errors in design and construction and ultimately led to more rigorous enforcement of engineering and construction codes in Florida and elsewhere.
Harbor Creek School District The Harbor Creek School District is the public kindergarten-through-12th grade education system for Harborcreek, Pennsylvania. The school district is one of 501 school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Harbor Freight Tools Harbor Freight Tools is a retail tool and hardware company that started in 1968, primarily selling through its mail order catalog, which still exists today. The Camarillo, California-based company offers more than 7,000 varieties of tools on its web site, mail order catalog, and retail stores.
Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, California The Harbor Gateway is a neighborhood in southern part of the city of Los Angeles, California. As of the 2000 census, the neighborhood had a population of 39,860 Harbor Gateway is a two-mile wide north-south corridor between Western] and Normandie Avenues.
Harbor Heights The Heights, or Harbor Heights is a neighborhood of the Mamaroneck Village informally bordered on the south by the New England Thruway and the north by a reservoir of the Westchester Joint Water Works with Mamaroneck Avenue as the main north-south thoroughfare.
Harbor Island Harbor Island is a man-made island in the mouth of Seattle, Washington's Duwamish Waterway where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Harbor Island was completed in 1909, and at the time was the largest man-made island in the world, at 350 acres (1.
Harbor of Refuge Light The Harbor of Refuge Light (originally Harbor of Refuge West End Light, though its east end counterpart has been long since discontinued) is a lighthouse built on the ocean end of the outer Delaware breakwater at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, just off Cape Henlopen. It was built to function with the Delaware Breakwater East End Light in order to mark the National Harbor of Refuge.
Harbor Springs Railway The Harbor Springs Railway was a narrow gauge railway of 30 in (762 mm) gauge built from Harbor Springs, Michigan on Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. It was nicknamed the Hemlock Central because of the great numbers of hemlock trees growing in the area.
Harbor Subdivision (BNSF) The BNSF Harbor Subdivision is a historic single-track main line of the BNSF Railway which stretches 26 miles/42km between the rail yards of downtown Los Angeles and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across southwestern Los Angeles County. It was the primary link between two of the world's busiest harbors and the transcontinental rail network.
Harbor Transitway The Harbor Transitway is an 11-mile (18 km) high-occupancy vehicle roadway that runs in the median of Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway) in Southern California, United States. The two-way roadway is open to vehicles with two or more occupants, and carries buses operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, City of Los Angeles, Orange County Transportation Authority, City of Gardena and City of Torrance.
Harborfields High School Harborfields High School is a four year secondary school located in Greenlawn, New York. It functions as the high school for Harborfields Central School District which serves the communities of Centerport and Greenlawn and parts of Huntington.
Harborview Medical Center Harborview Medical Center, located on Seattle's First Hill, is the public hospital of King County, Washington and is managed by the University of Washington. It was founded in 1877 as King County Hospital, a six-bed welfare hospital in a two-story south Seattle building.
Harbour Centre Harbour Centre is a notable skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia. Distinctly identifiable with its 360 degree viewing deck, it also serves as a tourist attraction, offering a physically unobstructed view of Vancouver.
Harbour Porpoise The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of 6 species of porpoise, and so one of about eighty cetacean species. The Harbour Porpoise, as its name implies, stays close to coastal areas or river estuaries and as such is the most familiar porpoise to whale watchers.
Harbour Records Harbour Records is an indie record label in Hong Kong. Currently bands and musicians such as False Alarm, 22 Cats, Joytrendysound, My Little Airport, Wilson Tsang, Cafeinn Park, Kim Tak Building and Human Head Horse are under this label.
Harbour Town Golf Links The Harbour Town Golf Links is a golf course that hosts the Verizon Heritage golf tournament on the PGA Tour, usually held in April. The course is located in the Sea Pines Plantation of Hilton Head Island, in Beaufort County of South Carolina.
Harbour View Stadium Harbour View Stadium is a football stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. It was built by Cavel Stewart and Harbour View Football Club in the 1990's, as a part of the clubs efforts to transform into a truly professional organization.
Harbourfront Harbourfront is a waterfront tourist, residential and cultural real estate development on the northern shore of Lake Ontario within the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Canada. Harbourfront extends west from Yonge Street to Bathurst Street along Queen's Quay.
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto The Harbourfront Centre is a key cultural facility on Toronto, Ontario's waterfront, situated at 235 Queen's Quay West. Established as a crown corporation in 1972 by the federal government to create a waterfront park, it became a non-profit organization in 1991.
HarbourFront Bus Interchange The HarbourFront Bus Interchange (Chinese: 港湾巴士转换站) is located at Seah Im Road by the HarbourFront MRT Station. It was formerly known as the World Trade Centre Bus Terminal and is operated by SBS Transit though there are as many SMRT bus services as there are SBS Transit bus services.
HarbourFront Centre, Singapore HarbourFront Centre () is a shopping mall located at Maritime Square, Telok Blangah in the Bukit Merah Planning Area, Singapore. The mall is part of a development known as HarbourFront with neighbouring mall, VivoCity (completed in October 2006) which will be the country's largest shopping mall.
HarbourFront MRT Station The HarbourFront MRT Station (NE1/CC29) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station between the North East Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. It is located in the south of Singapore next to the HarbourFront Centre, previously known as the Singapore World Trade Centre.
Harbourmaster In many countries, a harbourmaster is an official responsible for enforcing the regulations of a particular harbour or port, in order to ensure the safety of navigation, the security of the harbour and the orderly operation of the port facilities.
Harbourmaster's House Dysart The Harbourmaster's House is a B-listed 18th Century building, which sits next to Dysart Harbour near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The building houses Fife's first coastal centre, which was opened by Gordon Brown in September 2006.
Harburg Harburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of LĂĽneburg, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Rotenburg and Stade, by the city of Hamburg and the state of Schleswig-Holstein (district of Lauenburg).
Harburg-Wilhelmsburg Harburg-Wilhelmsburg was a city in the Prussian Province of Hanover briefly in existence from 1927 and 1937, resulting from the merger of the cities of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg. In 1937, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, along with the cities from the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Altona and Wandsbek, is annexed to Hamburg in the Greater Hamburg Act.
Harcesis In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1, a Harcesis is a Human child born of the hosts of two Goa'uld mates when the hosts are still possessed. The Harcesis born thus would possess all the knowledge of the Goa'uld, and is generally considered an abomination for the same reason.
Harcon Tract The Harcon Tract is a small tract of land that was north of the Rio Grande but is now south thereof since the river was diverted. It ceased to be a territory of the United States of America since a treaty with Mexico finalized in the late 1970s.
Harcourt Butler Sir Harcourt Spencer Butler (1 August 1869 — 2 March 1938) was the first governor of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh, India. Educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, University of Oxford, Butler entered the Indian Civil Services soon afterwards, in 1890.
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Established in 1920 as "Government Research Institute, Cownpore", Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur is one of the oldest and best engineering colleges in India. On 25 November 1921, the then Governor of the United Provinces, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler (1869 - 1938), K.
Harcourt Education Harcourt Education, Reed Elsevier's global Education division, is a publisher serving the pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 school, assessment and trade publishing markets in the US and primary and secondary school markets internationally.
Harcourt House Harcourt House Arts Centre is one of only four public galleries, and one of three artist-run centres in Edmonton, Canada. The centre delivers a host of services to both artists and the community, and acts as an essential alternative site for the presentation, distribution and promotion of contemporary art.
Harcourt interpolation The Harcourt interpolation was a minor scandal of Victorian London. The issue of The Times for 23 January 1882 included a report of a speech made at Burton upon Trent by Sir William Harcourt, then Attorney General.
Harcourt Park Harcourt Park is a non-profit cottaging corporation in Ontario, Canada, composed of 6,900 acres (28 km²) of land, 18 lakes, and 600 surveyed properties that are individually leased in favour of private ownership. Established in 1959 by the Sumcot Development Corporation, Harcourt Park was designed to provide its residents with the unique opportunity to experience a cottage lifestyle within an unspoiled, protected environment.
Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent (3 January 1829-1 March 1916), known as Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, from 1869 to 1881, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament.
Harcourt, Victoria Harcourt is a small Central Highlands town with a population of less than 400 people (according to the 1996 Census). It is located approximately 9kms North East of Castlemaine, where the Midland Highway meets the Calder Highway.
Harcus Strachan Harcus Strachan, VC, MC (November 7 1884 - May 1 1982) was a Canadian 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.
Hard and soft g A hard g vs a soft g is a feature that occurs in many languages, including English, in which there are two sounds both represented by the letter "g". A hard g is a velar stop /g/ represented by "g", and a soft g is an affricate or a fricative or something else represented by "g", too.
Hard as Hell The Hard as Hell series of compilation albums were produced and released by English label Music of Life records between 1987 and 1990. They were predominantly a sampler album for the Music of Life catalogue, but were also used as a way to minimise the risk of promoting and selling records by previously unknown artists.
Hard aspect In astrology, a hard aspect is an aspect that stimulates the native to take some action to resolve tension, conflict, or stress in his life. Because they required the native to take action, they are very motivational in nature.
Hard Boiled (comic) Hard Boiled is a comic book written by Frank Miller and drawn by Geof Darrow, and first published in three issues by Dark Horse Comics in 1990. In 1993 Dark Horse compiled and released the series in a 128-page trade paperback (ISBN 1-878574-58-2).
Hard clam The hard clam or quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria is a bivalve mollusc native to the eastern shores of North America, from Nova Scotia to the Yucatán Peninsula. Older sources may give it the systematic name Venus mercenaria.
Hard coding To hard code or hard coding (also, hard-code/hard-coding, hardcode/hardcoding) refers to the software development practice of embedding output or configuration data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, or fixed formatting of the data, instead of obtaining that data from external sources or generating data or formatting in the program itself with the given input.
Hard currency Hard currency, in economics, refers to a currency in which investors have confidence, such as that of a politically stable country with low inflation and consistent monetary and fiscal policies, and one that if anything is tending to appreciate against other currencies on a trade-weighted basis. Examples of hard currencies at this time include the United States dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound sterling and the Swiss franc.
Hard Candy (film) Hard Candy is a 2005 film about Hayley Stark, a 14-year-old girl who meets Jeff, a 32-year-old photographer who might be a sexual predator. The two first get to know each other on the Internet before meeting in person at a local coffee shop, which results in a trip to Jeff's home; however, Jeff soon learns that Hayley is not as innocent as she appears.
Hard Case Crime Hard Case Crime is an American publisher of paperback hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai, also known as the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services, and Max Phillips. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the spirit of the pulps of the 1940s and '50s.
Hard Cases "Hard Cases" is the fourth episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Joy Lusco from a story by David Simon & Joy Lusco and was directed by Elodie Keene.
Hard Core Logo (soundtrack) Hard Core Logo, released in 1998, is the soundtrack album to the Canadian film Hard Core Logo. It should not be confused with A Tribute to Hard Core Logo, a mock tribute album connected to the same film, released in 1996.
Hard Covers Hard Covers (2004) is a collection of hard rock and heavy metal cover-songs released by the Finnish record-label Spinefarm (Ranka) Records. It features several fairly well-known songs mainly from the 1980s performed by bands that have contracts with Spinefarm.
Hard dance Hard dance is a term that refers to a grouping of modern electronic dance music genres including hard trance, hard house, nu-NRG, hard-NRG, hardstyle, freeform hardcore and jumpstyle. Set to tempos of 145+ bpm, hard dance music is fairly fast and commonly accompanied by a strong drumbeat.
Hard disk A hard disk (commonly known as a HDD (hard disk drive) or hard drive and formerly known as a fixed disk) is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. Strictly speaking, "drive" refers to an entire unit containing multiple platters, a read/write head assembly, driver electronics, and motor while "hard disk" (sometimes "platter") refers to the storage medium itself.
Hard disk failure In computing, a hard disk failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic waves, or suffering a sharp impact, which can lead to a head crash.
Hard disk platter A hard disk platter (or disk) is a component of a hard disk drive: it is the circular disk on which the magnetic data are stored. The rigid nature of the platters in a hard drive is what gives them their name (as opposed to the flexible materials which are used to make floppy disks).
Hard disk recorder A hard disk recorder is a type of recording system that utilizes a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video. Hard disk recording systems represent an alternative to more traditional reel-to-reel tape or cassette multitrack systems, and provide editing capabilities unavailable to tape recorders.
Hard Drive (SWAT Kats) Hard Drive is a villain in the animated television series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, a technology thief who uses his "Surge Coat" to manipulate electricity and even transform himself into an electrical current and travel through powerlines. He first appears in Night of the Dark Kat, acting as Dark Kat's henchman and assisting him in framing the SWAT Kats.
Hard Drivin' Hard Drivin is an arcade game that invite players to test drive a high-powered sports car on a stunt course. The game featured the first 3D polygon driving environment via a simulator cabinet that rendered with a non-dedicated PC architecture.
Hard fantasy Hard fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy in which the world (unlike other fantasy settings) closely follows the laws of science. It compares to normal fantasy in a fairly similar way to how hard science fiction compares to normal science fiction.
Hard hat A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as construction sites designed to protect the head from injury such as from falling objects, debris and bad weather. They are typically required personal protective equipment where heavy labor is being performed.
Hard Hat riot The Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street and Broadway on Friday, May 8th, 1970 occurred in New York City when about 1,000 Vietnam anti-war protesters and over two hundred construction workers from the World Trade Center site and other construction sites in the Wall Street area of the city clashed. While it was one event in a tumultuous domestic month during the Vietnam War, the local media used it as a symbol of the extreme conditions to which the domestic situation had expanded.
Hard Headed Woman Hard Headed Woman is an American song written by African American songwriter Claude Demetrius. It was most notably recorded as a rock and roll song by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1958 motion picture King Creole, and was included on the record album of the same name.
Hard inheritance Hard inheritance is the exact opposite of soft inheritance in that it states that characteristics of an organism's offspring (passed on through DNA) will not be affected by the actions that the parental organism performs during its lifetime. For example: a midieval blacksmith who uses only his right arm to forge steel will not birth a son with a stronger right arm than left because the blacksmith's actions do not alter his genetic code.
Hard landscape materials The term hard landscape is used by practitioners of landscape architecture and garden design to describe the construction materials which are used to improve a landscape by design. The corresponding term soft landscape materials is used to describe plant materials.
Hard light Hard Light is a fictional concept, used in science fiction, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and the British comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf. The concept is similar to the "photon resequencing" used in the Star Trek universe to produce solid-seeming holograms.
Hard limit (BDSM) Although limits are things that are not done in a scene in BDSM, play is often used as a way to expand on such limits. A hard limit, on the other hand, is an automatic pre-agreed line never to be crossed, as it would be a breach of acceptability.
Hard Luck Woman "Hard Luck Woman" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss, originally released on their 1976 album Rock and Roll Over. The song was originally written by Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley as a possible track for Rod Stewart, although when Stewart showed no interest in singing it the band decided to keep it themselves.
Hard money lender Hard money lenders are lending companies offering a specialized type of real-estate backed loan. Hard money lenders provide short-term loans (also called a bridge loan) that provide funding based on the value of real estate that has been collateralized for the loan.
Hard money loan A hard money loan is a specific type of financing in which a borrower receives funds based on the value of a specific parcel of real estate. Hard money loans are typically issued at much higher interest rates than conventional commercial or residential property loans and are almost never issued by a commercial bank or other deposit institution.
Hard polytheism Hard polytheism specifies a variety of polytheism which considers the various Gods and Goddesses to be distinct divine beings with separate personalities. Hard polytheists reject the idea that "All Gods are One God", that the Gods are temporal manifestations or aspects of only one of the Gods or that deities merge or change into each other.
Hard radiation Hard radiation is a term used to describe high-energy electromagnetic radiation, typically high energy X-rays or gamma rays. The term refers to the ability of the rays to penetrate a given thickness of material, typically a lead shield.
Hard Rain (film) Hard Rain is a 1998 action movie, produced by Mark Gordon, written by Graham Yost and directed by former cinematographer turned first-time director Mikael Salomon. It stars Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver and Ed Asner.
Hard Rock Cafe Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining restaurants. It was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, and their first Hard Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in London, in a former Rolls Royce car dealerships showroom close to Hyde Park, where in 1979 they began to cover the walls with rock 'n' roll ephemera.
Hard Rock Hallelujah "Hard Rock Hallelujah" is a song by the Finnish heavy metal/hard rock band Lordi, which won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with 292 points, a record in the history of Eurovision. It was also Finland's first placement in the top five.
Hard Rock Laager Hard Rock Laager is a two day rock and metal festival held annually in a field in the small Estonian village of Vana-Vigala. It is the largest alternative music festival in Estonia and draws a crowd of approximately 2000 people each year.
Hard Rock Park Hard Rock Park will be a 140-acre rock 'n' roll theme park located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The park will be located between Highway 501 and the Intracoastal Waterway on the site of the former Waccamaw Factory Shoppes in Fantasy Harbour.
Hard sauce Hard sauce is a cold dessert sauce made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, vanilla or other flavoring. It is typically served with plum pudding, bread pudding, Indian pudding, hasty pudding, and other heavy puddings as well as with fruitcakes and gingerbread.
Hard science Hard science is a term used to describe certain fields of the natural sciences, usually physics, chemistry, and many fields of biology. The hard sciences rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and focus on accuracy and objectivity.
Hard to Explain "Hard to Explain" is the first single from New York garage rockers The Strokes (their only previously released material was The Modern Age EP). It was released first in the UK, reaching #16 on the singles chart.
Hard to Kill Hard to Kill, a 1990 action film, where a detective, Mason Storm (Steven Seagal) is shot into a coma in the same fire-fight that kills his wife Felicia (Bonnie Burroughs) and son Sonny (Geoffrey Bara)... or so he thinks.
Hard to Say I'm Sorry "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a power ballad performed by the American rock group Chicago, written by bandmate Peter Cetera from the album Chicago 16, in 1982. The song hit number-one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 11 of that year.
Hard Tar & Black Bile Hard Tar & Black Bile is a predominantly instrumental album by Pakistani avant-garde rock band Atish Raj. A cult favourite in Pakistan, the album was recorded in 1994 as a concept to "capture the sounds of various types of psychosis.
Hard Time (comics) Hard Time is a comic book series written by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes and originally published by DC Focus, a short-lived imprint of DC Comics. The aim of the imprint was to feature super-powered characters who did not follow the traditional format of classic superhero adventures.
Hard Times (1975 film) Hard Times is a 1975 movie starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a street fighter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression to make his living in illegal boxing matches. It is notable for being Walter Hill's directorial debut.
Hard Times for Haggis Hard Times for Haggis is an episode of the animated series Ren and Stimpy. It was written by Jim Gomez and Chris Reccardi, the background color design was done by Scott Wills, and this cartoon was directed by Chris Reccardi.
Hard water Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (water with a low mineral content is known as soft water). This content usually consists of high levels of metal ions, mainly calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) in the form of carbonates, but may include several other metals as well as bicarbonates and sulfates.
Hard Workin' Man Hard Workin' Man was the second album released by country duo Brooks & Dunn. Like it's predecessor this album had a string of top 5 hits (on the US Hot Country chart) which quickly brought the aspiring new country act into the spotlight.
Hard-core predicate In cryptography, a hard-core predicate of a one-way function f(x) is a predicate b(x) which is easy to compute given x but is hard to compute given f(x). In formal terms, there is no probabilistic polynomial time algorithm that computes b(x) from f(x) with probability significantly greater than one half.
Hard-court specialist A hard-court specialist is a tennis player who excels on hard courts, but does not perform to the same standard on clay courts, grass courts, or other surfaces. The term is most frequently applied to professional players on the ATP or WTA tours rather than to average players.
Hard-paste porcelain Hard-paste porcelain is a hard, dense ceramic that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at very high temperature. It was first made in China around the 9th century.
Hardanger embroidery Hardanger embroidery or "Hardangersom" is a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave cloth, using counted thread and Drawn thread work techniques. It is sometimes called Whitework embroidery.
Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its bus operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large parts of western Norway, predominantly in Hordaland.
Hardangerfjord With a length of 179 km (111 miles), the Hardangerfjord in the county of Hordaland in Norway is the third largest fjord in the world and the second largest in Norway. The surrounding district is called Hardanger.
Hardball 3 Hardball 3 is a multiplatform baseball game (and the only one released to console systems) giving it a retro value similar to King's Quest V. This version is supposed to be a simplified version of the Hardball series found on the personal computers of the time.
Hardball squash Hardball squash is a format of the indoor racquet sport squash which was first developed in North America in the late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century. It is sometimes referred to as being the "American version" of the sport.
Hardbat Hardbat table tennis is the classical table tennis playing style that existed prior to the advent of sponge rubber in the 1950-60s. The main difference between hardbat and modern table tennis lies in the racket used, which greatly affects the dynamics and strategy of the game.
Hardboard Hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard, is a type of fiberboard, which is an engineered wood product. It is similar to particle board and medium-density fiberboard, but is much harder and denser because it is made out of exploded wood fibers that have been highly compressed.
Hardboiled Hardboiled crime fiction refers to a literary style pioneered by Dashiell Hammett in the late 1920s and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s. Hardboiled fiction, most commonly associated with detective stories, is distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex.
Hardboiled & Hard Luck (novel) Hardboiled & Hard Luck (ハードボイルド／ハードラック Alt: Hādoboirudo. English) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto in 1999 and translated into English in 2005 by Michael Emmerich.
Hardcard A hardcard (sometimes written HardCard) is a hard disk drive which combines the hard drive controller with the hard disk drive itself. The resulting device fits into an expansion slot on a personal computer, without using a drive bay.
Hardcore Breaks Hardcore Breaks is a genre of electronic music written in the style of old skool rave music or breakbeat hardcore using modern technology. The music is composed of from looped, edited and processed breakbeat samples, intense bassline sounds, melodic piano lines, staccato synthesizer riffs, and various vocal samples (frequently taken from old house records).

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