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Hardcore dance music Hardcore (sometimes 'ardcore) is a term that has been used to describe a variety of related electronic dance music styles over almost two decades. While the term "hardcore" was first used in a musical genre title with the emergence of hardcore punk in the late 1970s, it was also used in the early 1990s in reference to both hardcore techno, an intensified and harsh form of techno that emerged from Europe, mainly Netherlands, and breakbeat hardcore, which emerged in the UK from acid house and breakbeat.
Hardcore dancing Hardcore dancing (or hXc Dancing) is an activity performed in a mosh pit originally at hardcore music concerts but is now mainly seen at Metal and Moshcore shows. Moshcore being a type of music sometimes wrongly labelled Hardcore
Hardcore emo Hardcore Emo is a style of music that existed primarily in the early-mid 90s. The first hints of the sound began with bands like "What's The Point" and "Iconoclast" on the East Coast, but it is considered to have primary started in 1991 by the San Diego band Heroin.
Hardcore gamer Hardcore gamer is a term used to describe a type of video game player whose leisure time is largely devoted to playing or reading about video games. This type of gamer prefers a game with complexity which takes significant time and practice to learn, in contrast to a casual gamer.
Hardcore hip hop Hardcore hip hop is a form of hip hop music characterized by confrontation and aggression in its subject matter, heavy beats, raw sampling and production, or any combination thereof. The term can refer to similar musical sensibilities that encompass several related genres, including gangsta rap, Mafioso rap, Horrorcore, rapcore, political hip hop, and alternative rap.
Hardcore Homecoming Hardcore Homecoming was a professional wrestling promotion that was booked by Shane Douglas, a former ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Its events were advertised as a reunion of talent from the defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion.
Hardcore insert In the terminology of movie-making, a hardcore insert is an insert, depicting vaginal or anal penetration in a film. The technique was much in use in the 1970s, when adult films were feature films that required women with acting abilities, at least for the lead roles.
Hardcore punk Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. It emerged as the first wave of punk artists disbanded or moved onto different genres and the left behind artists became more underground and 'hardcore.
Hardcore Sports Radio Hardcore Sports Radio is a Canadian sports radio channel, owned and operated by Score Media Inc. The channel broadcasts on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 186, and is available to subscribers of both Canada and the United States.
Hardcore Superstar (album) Self-titled album released in November 2005 by Swedish Glam Metal band Hardcore Superstar on the record label Gain. The album is the first of Hardcore Superstar's career to have any major inpact in their homeland, where it reached #12 in the Swedish album charts.
Hardcore techno Hardcore Techno, often referred to as hardcore (not to be confused with hardcore emo or punk, which is sometimes in the USA and Russia just called 'hardcore'), and known as "hardcore" to people in The Netherlands, is a style of Electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including Rotterdam, New York City and Newcastle, Australia. The style is typified by a fast tempo (160-300 beats per minute and up) and the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples.
Hardcore Underground Hardcore Underground is a 3 CD mixed compilation of UK Hardcore, Hardcore Breaks, and Bouncy Techno produced by Krafty Recordings. This compilation features the DJ talent of DJ's Kurt, Stormtrooper, Fracus, Mozz, Darwin, and Cube::Hard.
Hardcore wrestling Hardcore wrestling (derogatorily referred to as garbage wrestling) is a form of professional wrestling that eschews traditional concepts of match rules in favor of matches that take place in unusual environments, using foreign objects that are not normally permitted. Although hardcore wrestling is a staple among some wrestling promotions, where they are used at the climaxes of feuds, some promotions (such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling and Combat Zone Wrestling) specialized in hardcore wrestling, with many matches performed in this matter.
Hardcore Zen Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality (also called Hardcore Zen) is a book by author and ordained Zen priest Brad Warner, released October 2003 by Wisdom Publications. It is both part autobiography and part introduction to Soto Zen philosophy.
Hardcover A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines.
HardCore Web Content Management Asbru HardCore Web Content Management is a database-driven cross-browser/cross-platform web content management system. The system enables non-technical professionals to create, publish and manage websites with dynamic end-user functionality.
Hardee's Hardee's is an American fast-food restaurant chain, located primarily on the Eastern half of the United States in Midwest, Southeast and East Coast regions. There are several stores located in the Middle East, and Hardee's also operates a few stores in Hong Kong, where the menu bears little resemblence to its U.
Harden (crater) Harden is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the eastern part of the interior floor of the Mendeleev walled-plain. It is located on the far side of the Moon, and can not been seen from the Earth except by spacecraft.
Harden-Eulenburg Affair The Harden-Eulenburg affair, often simply Eulenburg affair, was the controversy surrounding a series of courts-martial and five regular trials regarding accusations of homosexual conduct, and accompanying libel trials, among prominent members of Kaiser Wilhelm II's cabinet and entourage during 1907-1909.
Harden, West Midlands Harden is an area to the north of Walsall and borders with Bloxwich, Blakenall Heath , Coalpool , Goscote and Rushall. The whole area was part of the industrial revolution, with mining and metal processing being the main industries.
Hardened Aircraft Shelter A Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS), or Protective Aircraft Shelter (PAS), is a structure which houses and protects military aircraft from enemy attack. Cost considerations and building practicalities limit their use to fighter size aircraft.
Hardened Debian Hardened Debian or Debian Hardened is a free software project that modifies Debian GNU/Linux with high security and hardening features, hardened kernels, packages and enhanced toolchain, the DHKP kernel patches and other cryptography and security related enhancements.
Hardened steel The term hardened steel is often used for a medium or high carbon steel that has been given the heat treatments of quenching followed by tempering. This is the most common state for finished articles such as tools and machine parts.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a song by French duo Daft Punk first released on March 13, 2001. It is based on a sample of "Cola Bottle Baby" by Edwin Birdsong mp3 (as documented in the Discovery liner notes) and features a chanting robotic talk box vocal.
Harderbahn The Harderbahn is a funicular that runs from Interlaken (altitude 567m above sea level) to a station near the summit of the Harder Kulm (altitude 1322m), Interlaken’s own mountain. From the Harder Kulm station, a 5-minute walk takes you to the Harder Restaurant.
Hardgainer Hardgainer is a classification used in bodybuilding to describe people who find it hard to increase their muscle mass. There is no precise term to describe someone who is the opposite of a hardgainer (that is, someone that finds it easy to add muscle mass).
Hardhead The Hardhead, Aytha australis is the only true diving duck found in Australasia. Hardheads are common in the south-east of Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin, but also in the wetter country near the coasts.
Hardicanute Harthacnut was the son of Canute and his second wife, Emma, the widow of Ethelred II. His father intended Hardicanute to become king of the English in preference to his elder brother Harold Harefoot, but he nearly lost his chance of this when he became preoccupied with affairs in Denmark, of which he was also king.
Hardie Gramatky Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979) was an American painter and an important representative of the California Watercolor school of painting. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists.
Hardin College and Conservatory of Music Hardin College and Conservatory of Music, often simply Hardin College, was a women's college and conservatory located in Mexico, Missouri. The state's first junior college, it was associated with the Missionary Baptist Church of Missouri and operated from 1858 to 1931.
Hardin's Defeat Hardin's Defeat was a battle in the Ohio Country on October 22, 1790, between the United States Army and two tribes of Native Americans. It was part of General Josiah Harmar's campaign in the Northwest Indian War.
Hardiness zone A hardiness zone is a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by temperature hardiness, or ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone. The zones were first developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and have subsequently been adopted elsewhere.
Hardiness Zone Migration Hardiness Zone Migration refers to the geographical shifts observed in argicultural hardiness zones as a result of prolonged climate change or global warming. The shift may be seen in the northerly migration of traditional hardiness zones.
Harding "Pete" Peterson Harding William Peterson (born October 17, 1929 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an American retired catcher and general manager in Major League Baseball. He is the father of New York Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson.
Harding (crater) Harding is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the Sinus Roris, a bay in the northwest part of the Oceanus Procellarum. Because of its location near the northwest limb of the Moon's near side, this crater is viewed at a relatively low angle from the Earth resulting in foreshortening and limiting the amount of detail that can be seen.
Harding Academy (Memphis) Harding Academy (Memphis) is a Christian private school for early childhood through grade 12. The main campus houses an early childhood program and grades 7-12 and is located on Cherry Road in Memphis, Tennessee adjacent to the campus of the Harding University Graduate School of Religion.
Harding Lemay Harding Lemay (born March 16, 1922 in North Bangor, New York) is a well-known teleplay writer and playwright. Born on a Mohawk Indian reservation, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he was a playwright's apprentice.
Harding Memorial The Harding Memorial is the burial location of President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding and is located in Marion, Ohio at the southeast corner of Vernon Heights Boulevard and Delaware Avenue.
Harding University Graduate School of Religion Harding University Graduate School of Religion is located in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. It is an entity related to the private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ known as Harding University.
Hardinge Bridge Hardinge Bridge (Bengali: হার্ডিঞ্জ ব্রিজ) is a steel railway bridge over the Padma located in western Bangladesh. It is named after Lord Hardinge, who was the Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916.
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (3 September 1823 - 11 December 1921) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister, serving as Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. His lasting legacy was the compilation of a complete digest of "Laws of England" (1905-1916), a major reference work published in many volumes and often called simply "Halsbury's".
Hardings coach company Harding's Coach Company is a bus and coach company, located in Redditch, Worcestershire, in the United Kingdom. The company runs twenty-four coaches on a national basis, and regularly run scheduled bus services to the schools of Redditch and surrounding areas.
Hardknott Pass Hardknott Pass carries the minor motor road between Eskdale and the Duddon Valley in the English county of Cumbria in the Lake District National Park. The Hardknott Pass vies with Rosedale Chimney in North Yorkshire for the title of steepest road in England with both achieving a gradient of 1 in 3 (about 33%).
Hardknott Roman Fort Hardknott Roman Fort stands on the western side of the Hardknott Pass in western Cumbria in northern England, built on a rocky spur giving a superb view (originally from a military point perspective, but equally true for the casual visitor nowadays) over the River Esk. The fort has been commonly known in recent times as Hardknott Castle, but identified from the Ravenna Cosmography as the Mediobogdo fort, situated along the road between the forts of Galava (Ambleside) and Glannoventa (Ravenglass).
Hardline In politics, hardline refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being absolutist, or authoritarian. Hardline movements are usually extremist, militant, and uncompromising.
Hardline (band) Hardline is a band created by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, who had previously played in the bands Killerhit and Brunette (which at one point was the top-drawing band in Hollywood, setting the all-time attendance record at Gazzarri's), later played in the band Gravity, and have since returned to Hardline. The band originally also included guitarist Neal Schon, bassist Todd Jensen, and drummer Deen Castronovo, the three of whom have also played together with singer Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company fame.
Hardline (syncretic movement) Hardline was a radical deep ecology movement that had its roots in the straight edge hardcore scene. From an initial founding statement (see [Manifesto|Hardline manifesto]) the movement attempted a break with the straight edge and hardcore scenes.
Hardmead Hardmead is a village in the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the very north of the district, about seven miles west of Bedford, five miles north east of Newport Pagnell.
Hardnoise Hardnoise were one of the founding fathers of the British hip hop scene, and - along with early label-mates Hijack - set the template for the UK hardcore sound. The group only released a handful of singles, before reforming with a changed membership as Son of Noise.
Hardnose shark The hardnose shark, Carcharhinus macloti, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 26° N and 11° S, from the surface to 170 m. Its length is up to about 1.
HardOCP [H]ard|OCP (Hardware Overclockers Comparison Page) is an online magazine that offers news, reviews, and editorials that relate to computer hardware, software, modding, overclocking and cooling, run by KB Networks, Inc. The website was started in 1998 by Kyle Bennett.
Hardpan In soil science, agriculture and gardening, hardpan is a general term for a dense layer of soil, residing usually below the uppermost topsoil layer. There are different types of hardpan, all sharing the general characteristic of being a distinct soil layer that is largely impervious to water.
Hardraw Force Hardraw Force is a waterfall in a wooded ravine just outside the hamlet of Hardraw at the foot of Buttertubs Pass and the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales. The Pennine Way long distance footpath passes close by.
Hardrock Gunter Sidney Louie Gunter Jr. (b 27 February 1925, Birmingham, Alabama), known as Hardrock Gunter, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music at the turn of the 1950s prefigured rock and roll and rockabilly music.
Hardrock, Coco and Joe Hardrock, Coco and Joe is a short stop motion animated cartoon about three of Santa Claus' helpers who ride on Santa's sleigh each Christmas. The short has become an annual "Christmas Classic" on WGN-TV since its introduction in the early 1950s.
Hardscape Hardscape, in the practice of landscaping, refers to the paved areas like streets & sidewalks, large business complexes & housing developments, and other industrial areas where the upper-soil-profile is no longer exposed to the actual surface of the Earth. The term is especially used in heavily urbanized/suburbanized areas with little bare soil.
Hardstep Hardstep is a drum and bass subgenre which emerged in 1994 and is characterized by fast speed beats, steelhard breaks, and thumping bass lines. RAM, Hardleaders, Trouble on Vinyl, Renegade Hardware and Formation are the most important hardstep labels, and some of the most significative hardstep artists are Dieselboy, Evol Intent, Technical Itch, Ram Trilogy, Dylan, Drowsyd(Twisted Noize).
Hardstyle Hardstyle, sometimes referred to as hardbass, is a sub-genre of trance music that is closely related to nu style gabber and hard trance. Its sound is usually characterized by a four to the floor kick beat and an off-beat gabber style bass line, trance like synth stabs and sweeps and miscellaneous samples.
Hardt In Germany names including Hardt are quite common. "Hardt" meant a bank or slope with trees in the Old High German (Althochdeutsch) of the 8th - 11th centuries AD, but is a word not found in modern German.
Hardtack Hardtack or (in British English more usually:) hard tack – also called ship's biscuit, sea biscuit, pilot bread, sea bread or dog biscuit for those who don't like it – is a simple type of cracker or biscuit, made from flour, water, and salt. Cheap and long-lasting, it was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff usually dunked in water, brine, coffee, or some other liquid or cooked into a skillet meal.
Hardtack (game) Hardtack is a set of rules for American Civil War miniature wargaming by Lou Zocchi. It was published as a 30-page pamphlet by Guidon Games in 1971, with an introduction by Gary Gygax and artwork by Don Lowry.
Hardwar Hardwar (sometimes stylized HardW[a]r or given the full name Hardwar: The Future Is Greedy) is a 1998 science fiction simulation computer game developed by The Software Refinery and published by Gremlin Interactive. In the USA, the game was distributed by Interplay under license.
Hardware abstraction layer A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems with different hardware.
Hardware acceleration In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and instructions for complex operations in CPUs.
Hardware architect (In the automation and engineering environments, the hardware engineer or architect encompasses the electronic engineering and electrical engineering fields, with subspecialities in analog, digital, or electromechanical systems.)
Hardware architecture Hardware is an expression used within the engineering disciplines to explicitly distinguish the (electronic computer) hardware from the software which runs in it. But hardware, within the automation and software engineering disciplines, need not simply be a computer of some sort.
Hardware description language In electronics, a hardware description language or HDL is any language from a class of computer languages for formal description of electronic circuits. It can describe the circuit's operation, its design and organization, and tests to verify its operation by means of simulation.
Hardware emulation Hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware (typically a system under design) with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system. The goal is normally debugging of the system being designed.
Hardware hacker A hardware hacker is a hacker who builds, rebuilds, modifies or creates electronic hardware either to make it better, faster, give added features or to make it do something it was never intended to do. This activity is known as hardware hacking.
Hardware in the loop simulation Embedded systems are designed to control complex plants such as land vehicles, satellites, spacecrafts, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), aircraft, weapon systems, marine vehicles, and jet engines. They generally require a high level of complexity within the embedded system to manage the complexity of the plant under control.
Hardware overlay Hardware overlay, also known as video overlay, is a method of rendering an image to a display screen with a dedicated memory buffer inside computer video hardware, to display a fast-moving video image such as a computer game, a DVD, or the signal from a TV card. Hardware overlay is supported by most video cards (since about 1998) and media players.
Hardware Online Arena Hardware: Online Arena is an online multiplayer game that focuses on vehicular destruction using varying means such as missiles, lasers and machine guns. The game was released for PlayStation 2 with the launch of online play for the console and was possibly the first online game for PS2.
Hardware performance counter In computers, hardware performance counters, or hardware counters are a set of special-purpose registers built in modern microprocessors to store the counts of hardware-related activities within computer systems. Advanced users often rely on those counters to conduct low-level Performance analysis or tuning.
Hardware random number generator In computing, a hardware random number generator is an apparatus that generates random numbers from a physical process. Such devices are often based on microscopic phenomena such as thermal noise or the photoelectric effect or other quantum phenomena.
Hardware register In computing, a hardware register is a storage area for hardware I/O (input/output) of different kinds. The hardware register is contained within a certain peripheral unit, and presented to the central processing unit of the computer by means of memory-mapped I/O or port-mapped I/O.
Hardware Verification Language A Hardware Verification Language, or HVL, is a programming language used to verify the designs of electronic circuits written in a hardware description language. HVLs typically include features of a high-level programming language like C++ or Java as well as features for easy bit-level manipulation similar to those found in HDLs.
Hardware Wars Hardware Wars (1977) is a short film spoof of the classic science fiction film Star Wars. The thirteen-minute film, which premiered in theatres only seven months after Star Wars, consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original.
Hardware-dependent Software Hardware-dependent Software (often written HdS), the part of an operating system which varies across microprocessor boards and is comprised notably of device drivers and of boot code which performs hardware initialization. HDS does not comprise code which is only specific to a processor family and can run unchanged on various members of it.
Hardwarehouse Hardwarehouse was a former large hardware chain, with stores all over Australia and New Zealand, and in competition with Bunnings Warehouse. Hardwarehouse developed the hardware warehouse concept in Australia based on comparisons to B&Q (Block and Quayle) in the UK, and to a lesser extent, Home Depot (in the USA).
Hardwell Castle Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is classed as an Iron Age valley fort, although, like nearby Cherbury Camp, it is not clearly in a strategic or easily defended position. It lies halfway down the scarp slope of the White Horse Hills and is tucked away in a curve, invisible from most angles.
Hardwick Hall Hardwick Hall in Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire is one of the most significant Elizabethan country houses in England. In common with its architect Robert Smythson's other works at both Longleat House and Wollaton Hall, Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the Renaissance style of architecture, which came into fashion when it was no longer thought necessary to fortify one's home.
Hardwicke Rawnsley Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (born on September 29, 1851 at Shiplake near Henley-on-Thames, died in 1920 at Grasmere, Cumbria, England) was a clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and one of the co-founders of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
Hardwicke Stakes The Hardwicke Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 4 furlongs (2,414 metres) at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting in June.
Hardwood Classics Hardwood Classics is a television series that airs on NBA TV, and it features many of the greatest classic games recorded on videotape and/or film in National Basketball Association history. The show is produced by NBA Entertainment.
Hardwood Records Hardwood Records is a Canadian independent record label, owned and operated by singer-songwriter Hayden. Originally formed to distribute his own albums, the label also currently releases albums by Cuff the Duke.
Hardworking families The phrase "Hardworking families" or "working families" is an example of a glittering generality in contemporary political discourse. It is used in the politics of the United Kingdom and of the United States, and was heavily used by the political parties in the campaign of the United Kingdom general election, 2005.
Hardy Åström Hardy Åström or Hardy Astrom (born March 29, 1951 in Skellefteå, Sweden) is a retired Swedish professional hockey goaltender who played 3 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers and Colorado Rockies. Colorado Rockies head coach Don Cherry unceremoniously dubbed him "The Swedish Sieve.
Hardy Boyz The Hardys (also known as The Hardy Boyz and Team Xtreme) are a professional wrestling tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that consists of real life brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy. Originally the brothers competed as teenagers in the WWF as jobbers, both in singles and tag team competition.
Hardy Brown Hardy Brown (Born 1924) was an American college and professional football player. A linebacker, he played at the University of Tulsa and for the San Francisco 49ers of the AAFC and NFL, and in 1960 for the Denver Broncos of the American Football League.
Hardy fish Hardy fish is a term which refers to any fish which is easy to maintain in home aquaria due to their ability to adapt to a wide range of water parameters. Such fish are good starter fish and ideal for 'cycling' your aquarium (ie.
Hardy Falconer Parsons Hardy Falconer Parsons (13 June 1897-21 August 1917) was an English 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.
Hardy Jackson Hardy Jackson (at one time mistakenly reported as "Harvey Jackson") was a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi who reportedly lost his wife of 29 years, Tonette Jackson, during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Hardy Myers Hardy Myers (born October 25, 1939 in Electric Mills, Mississippi) is a lawyer and Democrat politician currently serving his third term as attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States. Prior to taking office in 1997, he had served from 1979 to 1983 in the Oregon House of Representatives, the last four of those years as its speaker, and has also been a Metro councilor and chaired the Oregon Criminal Justice Council.
Hardy Nickerson Hardy Otto Nickerson (born September 1, 1965) is a former linebacker who played 16 seasons for four teams from 1987 to 2002 in the National Football League. He attended Verbum Dei High School, a Catholic school located in Watts, CA.
Hardy palms Hardy palms are any of the species of palm (Arecaceae) that are able to withstand colder temperatures and thrive in places not typically considered in the natural range for palms. Several are native to higher elevations in Asia and can tolerate hard freezes with little or no damage.
Hardy Pond Hardy Pond is a 42 acre pond located in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is a popular site for bird sightings, though in recent times the quality of the water has degraded due to roads, fertilizers and other reasons.
Hardy Richardson Hardy Richardson (April 21, 1855 - January 14, 1931) was a second basemen and outfielder mostly, in the Major Leagues for a number of teams throughout the 19th century. The majority of Richardson's career came with the Buffalo Bisons (1879-85).
Hardystonite Hardystonite is a rare purple fluorescent silicate mineral from the famous Franklin, New Jersey, USA zinc deposits. Like many of the famous Franklin fluorescent minerals, it is nondescript white in daylight and is not known in well formed crystals.
Hardyville, Kentucky Hardyville, Kentucky is a small community in Hart County located east of Munfordville on US-31E. It was named in honor of a series of popular stump speeches given at the crossroads during the 1850s by local politician James Greene Hardy, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1855–1856.
Hare Ame Nochi Suki is the first single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume subgroup Morning Musume Sakuragumi. In addition to the title song and its karaoke version, the single also contains a Morning Musume Sakuragumi version of the earlier Morning Musume song "Dekkai Uchuu ni Ai ga Aru", which was originally a b-side on the "The Peace!

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