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Hashim Ibrahim Awad Hashim Ibrahim Awad (1952 - April 26, 2006) was a disabled Iraqi veteran killed by US Marines on the night of April 26, 2006, in an episode known as the Hamdania incident. Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman face charges of war crimes in relation to his death, including murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, larceny, assault and unlawfully entering a dwelling.
Hashim Suboh Datuk Hashim Suboh is a Malaysian politician from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading party of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. He is the Deputy Chief of the party's Kangar division.
Hashim Thaci Hashim Thaci born 24 April 1968 in Buroje in the municipality of Srbica (northwest of the Drenica valley), Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, is the president of the Democratic Party of Kosovo and former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Hashima Island Hashima Island (端島; meaning "Border Island"), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning "Battleship Island") is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility.
Hashish Hashish (from Arabic Ř­Ř´ŮŠŘ´, often shortened to hash and also referred to by countless slang terms) is a preparation of the psychoactive drug cannabis derived from the cannabis plant (traditionally, C. sativa subsp.
HashKeeper HashKeeper is a database application of value primarily to those conducting forensic examinations of computers on a somewhat regular basis. The application uses the MD5 file signature algorithm to establish unique numeric identifiers (hash values) for known files and compares those known hash values against the hash values of files on a seized computer system.
Hashlife Hashlife is an algorithm for computing the long-term fate of a given starting configuration in Conway's Game of Life. The algorithm was invented by Bill Gosper in the early 1980s while he was engaged in research at the Xerox Palo Alto research center.
Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair (or Hashomer Hatsair or HaShomer HaTzair) (Hebrew: "The Young Guard" or "Guardian [that is] Young") is a Socialist-Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia (now in Poland) and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine.
Hashshashin The Hashshashin (also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin or Assassins) was a religious sect of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect. They had a militant basis which was employed in various political or religious purposes.
Hasht-Bihisht The Hasht-Bihisht (lit. Eight Paradises) commonly refers to a Bayani apologetic text which is particularly critical of the Bahá'í Faith - a religion that believed the Bayani messianic figure of He whom God shall make manifest has already appeared in Bahá'u'lláh.
Hashtnagar Geographically one of two parts of Charsadda district in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Charsadda was for long a time known as Ashnagar or the modern Hushtnagar, which means "Eight Towns".
Hasib Hussain Hasib Mir Hussain (September 16, 1986 – July 7, 2005) was one of four terrorists who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
Hasideans The Hasideans (Hasidæans or Assideans) were a Jewish religious party which commenced to play an important role in political life only during the time of the Maccabean wars, although it had existed for quite some time previous. They are mentioned only three times in the books of the Maccabees.
Hasidic Judaism Hasidic Judaism (also Chassidic, etc., from the Hebrew: חסידות chasidus, meaning "piety", from the Hebrew root word חסד chesed meaning "lovingkindness") is a haredi Jewish religious movement.
Hasidic New Wave Hasidic New Wave is an American experimental klezmer music group. Its members, all of whom were improvisational jazz musicians from downtown Manhattan, formed for the purpose of fusing Hasidic musical styles (such as freylekhs and horas) with elements of jazz, funk, and avant-garde rock.
Hasidim Hasidim (Hebrew: חסידים) is the plural of Hasid (חסיד), meaning "pious" or "righteous". The word Hasid was frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods.
Hasil Adkins Hasil Adkins (pronounced "Hassil," not "Haysil") (April 29 1937 - April 26 2005), One-man band, was an Appalachian country, rock and roll, blues musician though frequently considered rockabilly and sometimes primitive jazz.
Hasimara Hasimara is a small but significant town in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal state, India. It is located at 26° 45' 0N latitude and 89° 20' 60E longitude at an altitude of 245 metres above sea level and has a population of about 40,000 (2001 census).
Hasimir Fenring Count Hasimir Fenring is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is featured in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and is also a key character in the Prelude to Dune trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J.
Hasinai The Hasinai confederation (Hasí:nay in Caddo) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans located between the Sabine and Trinity rivers. They were known as the Tejas by Spanish explorers,or even Hasini, being the plural Spanish version of the Caddo word táysha, "friend".
Haskalah Haskalah (Hebrew: השכלה; "enlightenment," "intellect," from sekhel, "common sense"), the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew, and Jewish history. Haskalah in this sense marked the beginning of the wider engagement of European Jews with the secular world, resulting, ultimately, in the first Jewish political movements and the struggle for Jewish emancipation.
Haskell (programming language) Haskell is a standardized purely functional programming language with non-strict semantics, named after the logician Haskell Curry. It is one of the more popular functional languages, and the lazy functional language on which the most research is being performed.
Haskell Free Library and Opera House The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is a neoclassical building that straddles the international border in Rock Island (now part of Stanstead), Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. It opened on June 7, 1904 and was built on the border between Canada and the United States.
Haskell Indian Nations University Haskell Indian Nations University is a four year degree granting university in Lawrence, Kansas which offers free tuition to members of registered Native American tribes in the United States. Typical enrollment is approximately 1000 representing all 50 states and 150 tribes.
Haskell Wexler Haskell Wexler (born February 6, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, and a film producer and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.
Haskell-Baker Wetlands The Haskell-Baker Wetlands span approximately 640 acres on the south side of Lawrence, Kansas. Joint owners Baker University, Haskell Indian Nations University, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and the University of Kansas hold 573, 27, 20, and 20 acres, respectively, of this scenic and ecologically vital habitat.
Haskins Award The Haskins Award is presented annually by the Haskins Commission to honor the most outstanding collegiate golfer in the United States. The award is named in memory of the late Fred Haskins, former golf teaching professional at the Columbus (Georgia) Country Club.
Haskins Laboratories Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary] community of researchers conducting basic [[research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a primary focus on speech, language and reading, and their biological basis.
Haskore Haskore is a set of Haskell modules for creating music as MIDI, CSound, Audio files. Because of the concise programming style of Haskell the composer can still concentrate on composing rather than programming.
Haskovo Haskovo (; ) is the name of a town and administrative centre of the region of the same name in Southern Bulgaria, not far from both the borders with Greece and Turkey. Its population (as of December 2005) is 83,755.
Hasland Hasland is a suburb in the south-east of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Although many local residents refer to it as a village, it expanded greatly during the 20th century and now merges with Chesterfield itself.
Haslar Haslar is the name of the area at the southern tip of Gosport, Hampshire which takes its name from two Anglo-Saxon words: haesel, meaning hazel, and ora, meaning bank. It was a bank of hazel strewn on marshy grounds around the creek to make it passable and habitable in olden times that gave it it's name .
Haslar Marina Haslar Marina is located inside Portsmouth Harbour, on the south coast of England, just to the west of the entrance. It can be easily identified by the bright green lightship "Mary Mouse II" permanently moored to the outside of its breakwater.
Haslen Haslen is a municipality in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland. On 1 July 2006, Haslen grew from incorporating the neighbouring villages of Leuggelbach and Nidfurn, previously independent municipalities in their own right.
Haslet Haslet (pronounced 'Hacelet'is a herbed pork] [[meatloaf, originally from Lincolnshire in England. It is typically made of stale white bread, pork (traditionally the entrails), sage, salt and pepper, and sometimes onion.
Haslev municipality Haslev municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in West Zealand County on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 133 km², and has a total population of 14,781 (2005).
Hasliberg Hasliberg is a municipality on a mountain terrace in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland above the town Meiringen, Oberhasli district. The four villages on this terrace, now called Hasliberg Reuti, Hasliberg Wasserwendi, Hasliberg Goldern and Hasliberg Hohfluh, can be reached by road from the BrĂĽnig-Hasliberg pass and train station.
Haslital The Haslital is a valley in the Bernese Oberland (Oberhasli district), Switzerland, bordering on the cantons of Obwalden, Uri and Wallis. It stretches from Meiringen to the south-east for some 15 km, to Innertkirchen and Guttannen, terminating near the source of the Aare and the Grimselpass.
Hasma Hasma (雪][or [[wiktionary:哈|哈][a Chinese dessert ingredient made from the dried [[fallopian tube]s of the [[hermaphrodite frog Rana temporaria chensinensis, which is also commonly known as the snow frog or forest frog. Hasma is often mistakenly described as toad or frog fat, since it is sometimes referred to as "Toad oil" () in Chinese.
Hasmonean The Hasmonean Kingdom (Hebrew: Hashmonai) (140 BCE–37 BCE) The family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, Ἀσαμωναῖος Asamoneus or Asmoneus (see Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities: [http://www.perseus.
Hasmonean High School Hasmonean High School is a voluntary aided, comprehensive school, for pupils aged 11 to 18 from Orthodox Jewish families, situated in the London Borough of Barnet. The school comprises two sites, one for boys in the area of Hendon and one for girls in the area of Mill Hill.
Hasnoor Hussein Hasnoor Sidang Hussein is a Malaysian politician from the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He became prominent in 2006 for his controversial remarks at the UMNO Annual General Assembly as a delegate from Malacca on the subject of racial issues.
Hason Raja Hason Raja (Bangla: হাসন রাজা) literally Hason the king, was a mystical poet and songwriter in Bengal, now Bangladesh. Born at the end of the 19th century 1854 to a traditional Zamindar or landowner family near Sunamgang, Sylhet, though his anchestral home is in Rampasha, Biswanath, Sylhet.
Hasp Hardware Against Software Piracy (HASP) is a hardware-based licensing and protection system that is easy to use and highly reliable. Based on flash technology, modern HASP systems connect to a USB port, while older ones used the parallel port or the serial port of a computer.
Hasret GĂĽltekin Hasret GĂĽltekin (May 1, 1971 - July 2, 1993) was a Kurdish musician and poet who was murdered, along with 37 other people, in the Sivas Province of Turkey when a radical Islamist mob set fire to the hotel at which he was staying.
Hassagers Kollegium Hassagers Kollegium (originally Hassagers Collegium with 1900 orthography) is a small dormitory located at Frederiksberg Bredegade 13 B 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark(Location:). The name simply means Hassager's dormitory.
Hassall-Henle bodies Hassall-Henle bodies are small transparent growths on the posterior surface of Descemet's membrane at the periphery of the cornea. These bodies contain collagenous matter in which numerous cracks and fissures are filled with extrusions of the corneal epithelium.
Hassan al-Amri Hassan al-Amri (Arabic: حسن العمري) (born 1916) He was born in a Yemeni village called Al-Amaryah -- his surname indicates that, this village is in Al-Hada District. He was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five terms between 1964 and 1971.
Hassan al-Turabi Dr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi (الدكتور حسن عبد الله الترابي in Arabic), commonly called Hassan al-Turabi (sometimes transliterated Hassan al-Tourabi) (حسن الترابي), is a religious and political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the country.
Hassan and Habibah Hassan Saleemi and Habibah Ellahee are married co-hosts of a light social affairs television programme. They are widely known among Muslims as "Hassan and Habibah" and their show is entitled 'The Hassan and Habibah Show'.
Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki Sheik Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (also known as Hassan Al-Turki, or "Al-Turki"–"The Turk"), an Islamist leader in Somalia, is a military leader in the Islamic Courts Union and formerly a leader of Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya. He is from the Ogaden clan, Reer - Abdille subclan.
Hassan Almrei A Syrian, Hassan Almrei (Arabic: حسن المري) arrived in Canada in 1999 claiming refugee-status since his father was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He used a false United Arab Emirates passport which hid his time spent in Afghanistan, and a Canadian visa which he bought on the black market for $5,000.
Hassan Bek Mosque The Hassan Bek Mosque, also known as the Hasan Bey Mosque, is considered to be one of the most well-known mosques located in the city of Jaffa, Israel. It is also known to have a reputation to be a site of much eventful controversy, as demonstrated in recent years.
Hassan Dahir Aweys Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys (), aged 61 in 2006Winter, Joseph, Profile: Somalia's Islamist leader, BBC News, 27 June 2006 , was the head of the 90-member shura council of the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia.SOMALIA: Islamic courts set up consultative council, Integrated Regional Information Networks, 26 June 2006 Aweys is viewed as one of the more radical leaders of the Union, which promotes shari'a and directs militias that took control of the former Somali capital of Mogadishu in June 2006.
Hassan Evan Naseem Hassan Evan Naseem (ހަސަން އީވާން ނަސީމް)o(1984 - September 19, 2003), commonly referred to as Evan Naseem, is the person whose death became a lever for the current, open, political reform activities in the Maldives. He was serving at Maafushi Jail for drug offences, when he was beaten to death, by the NSS personnel of the Security unit.
Hassan Fathy Hassan Fathy (Arabic: حسن فتحى) (1989-1899) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick (or adobe).
Hassan Habibi Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (in Persian: حسن ابراهیم حبیبی) (born 1937?) is an Iranian politician and scholar, presently the Head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature (from October 11, 2004, for four years), and a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution.
Hassan II Mosque The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic مسجد الحسن الثاني) is a mosque located in Casablanca, Morocco. It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and is the second largest in the world (after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca).
Hassan Jones Hassan Ameer Jones (born July 2, 1964 in Clearwater, Florida), was a former American professional football player who was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the 5th round of the 1986 NFL Draft. A 6'0", 195 lbs.
Hassan Mead Born in Somalia, Mead came to the United States in 2000 with his Mom and sister. Mead first lived with his dad in Minneapolis, MN, but choose to move to California to live with his Uncle soon after because he disliked Minnesota's different weather.
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (born c. 1963), also known as Abu Omar, is an Egyptian cleric who was living in asylum in Italy after his Islamic organization was declared illegal by the Egyptian government in the 1980s.
Hassan Nemazee Hassan Nemazee is a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker and a major contributor to the Democratic Party and who is involved with the pro-Iranian lobbying groups American-Iranian Council (AIC), the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and the Iranian-American Bar Association (IABA)During the 2004 US Presidential Elections, Nemazee was a supporter of John Kerry] and a major contributor to his campaign. Nemazee was also national finance chairman of the [[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee until late 2006.
Hassan Pakravan Hassan Pakravan (August 4, 1911 - April 11, 1979) was a well known diplomat and minister in the Pahlavi pre-revolutionary government of Iran. He is not only notable for his political involvement with the Muhammad Reza Shah government and SAVAK, but also his relationship with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Hassan Roshdiyyeh Haji Mirza Hassan Tabrizi (میرزا حسن تبریزی; July 5, 1851–December 10, 1944), famously known as Hassan Roshdiyyeh (حسن رشدیه), was an Iranian Azeri cleric, teacher, politician, and journalist, introducing some methods of modern teaching methods in Iran, specially methods about teaching the alphabet, which are still used to some degree in primary schools of Iran.
Hassan Rowhani Hojatoleslam Hassan Rowhani (حسن روحانی) is an Iranian politician and cleric, and as of July 2005, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. Rowhani's membership in the council is as one of the two representatives of the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Hassan Tower Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan (Arabic: صومعة حسان) is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. Begun in 1195, the tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world along with the mosque, also intended to be the world's largest.
Hassan-i-Sabah Hassan-i Sabbah (Persian: حسن صباح) (circa 1034 - 1124) also known as The Old Man of the Mountain, was an Iranian Ismā'īlī Nizarī missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. The place was called Alamut and was attributed to an ancient king of Daylam.
Hassanain Rajabali Professor Hassanain Rajabali is a leading lecturer on Islam. His eloquent style of speaking and sharp insights in Islamic issues relating to the youth in the West has granted him distinction and great popularity.
Hassanal Bolkiah Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Al-Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Almarhum Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, GCB GCMG (born July 15, 1946) is the 29th Sultan of Brunei, the eldest son of Omar Ali Saifuddin Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, the previous sultan.
Hassanamisco Nipmuck The Hassanamisco Nipmuck, from whom the Hassanamisco Reservation in Grafton, Massachusetts takes its name, are a home to a group of Nipmuck Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts. "Indian Fairs" have been held annually at Hassanamisco Reservation location since 1924.
Hassane The Hassane is a name for the traditionally dominant warrior tribes of the Sahrawi-Moorish areas of present-day Mauritania and Western Sahara. Although lines were blurred by intermarriage and tribal re-affiliation, the Hassane were considered descendants of the Arab Maqil tribe Beni Hassan (hence the name), and held power over Sanhadja Berber-descended zawiya (religious) and znaga (servant) tribes, extracting from these the horma tax in exchange for armed protection.
Hassānīya Hassānīya is an Arabic dialect originally spoken by the Beni Hassān Bedouin tribes, who extended their authority over most of Mauritania and the Western Sahara between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It has almost completely replaced the Berber languages spoken in this region.
Hasse diagram In the mathematical discipline known as order theory, a Hasse diagram (pronounced HAHS uh, named after Helmut Hasse (1898–1979)) is a simple picture of a finite partially ordered set, forming a drawing of the transitive reduction of the partial order. Concretely, one represents each element of S as a vertex on the page and draws a line segment or curve that goes upward from x to y if x < y, and there is no z such that x < z < y.
Hasse Jeppson Hasse Jeppson (born 10 May 1925 in Kungsback) is a former Swedish football striker. He began his career with DjurgĂĄrdens IF, transferring to Charlton Athletic where he played 12 matches in 1951, before moving to Italy to join Atalanta (1951-1952).
Hasse principle In mathematics, Helmut Hasse's local-global principle, also known as the Hasse principle, is the assertion that an equation can be solved over the rational numbers if and only if it can be solved over the real numbers and over the p-adic numbers for every prime p.
Hasse Thomsén Hans ("Hasse") Thomsén (born February 27, 1942 in Gothenburg – died April 26, 2004) is a former heavyweight boxer from Sweden, who won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the semifinals he was defeated by Romania's eventual silver medalist Ion Alexe on points (0:5).
Hasse-Weil zeta function In mathematics, the Hasse-Weil zeta-function attached to an algebraic variety V defined over a number field K is one of the two most important types of L-function. Such L-functions are called 'global', in that they are defined as Euler products in terms of local zeta-functions.
Hasse-Witt matrix In mathematics, the Hasse-Witt matrix H of a non-singular algebraic curve C over a finite field F is the matrix of the Frobenius mapping (p-th power mapping where F has q elements, q a power of the prime number p) with respect to a basis for the differentials of the first kind. It is a g Ă— g matrix where C has genus g.
HasseĂĄtage HasseĂĄtage is the commonly used name for the popular Swedish comedy-duo featuring Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. The term was created by the Swedish press in the 1960s, and was never used by the duo itself.
Hasse–Minkowski theorem In mathematics, the Hasse–Minkowski theorem states that a quadratic form is isotropic globally if and only if it is everywhere isotropic locally; it is the classic local-global principle. Here to be isotropic means to that there is some non-zero vector for which the quadratic form returns zero as a value.
Hasselblad Award The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is an award granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievements". The award - and the foundation - was set up from the estate of Erna and Victor Hasselblad.
Hasselblad Foundation The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation, established in 1979, is a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation. The main aim of the Foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography.
Hasselt's bamboo shark Hasselt's bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium hasseltii, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, between latitudes 23° N and 10° N, and longitude 91° E and 133° E. Its length is up to 60 cm.
Hassiba Ben Bouali Hassiba Ben Bouali (born 18 January 1938, El Asnamen, Algeria; died 18 October 1957, Algiers) was a female hero of the Algerian independence war (1954-62). Her parents installed themselves in Algiers in 1947, where she followed her studies in the Lycée Pasteur (high-school).
Hassisen kone Hassisen kone was a Finnish rock band, founded in 1979 in Joensuu. The original line-up consisted of Ismo Alanko (vocals, guitar), Reijo Heiskanen (guitar), Jussi Kinnunen (bass guitar) and Harri Kinnunen (drums, occasionally clarinet).
Hassium Hassium (IPA: ), also called eka-osmium, is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hs and atomic number 108. It is predicted that hassium will be the densest element yet known, with a density exceeding two and a half times that of lead.
Hassler (vessel) The Hassler was the early steamship used in the service of the United States Coast Survey. In 1871-72 the ship sailed on the Hassler Expedition, the first important scientific expedition sent by the government for marine exploration.
Hassler Whitney Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 – 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician who was one of the founders of singularity theory, PhB, Yale University, 1928; MusB, 1929; ScD (Honorary), 1947; PhD, Harvard University, under G.D.
Hassling-Ketling of Elgin Hassling-Ketling of Elgin was a fictional character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Pan Wołodyjowski, the third volume of his award-winning The Trilogy. A Scotsman, Ketling moved to Poland where he became a Colonel of Artillery in service of the king of Poland John Casimir.
Hasso Hasso, or more formally, hasso no kamae, is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hasso, and waki. It is the ready position with the shinai held in a slight diagonal right by the right shoulder.
Hasso von Manteuffel Hasso-Eccard Freiherr von Manteuffel (January 14, 1897 — September 24, 1978) was a German soldier and liberal politician of the 20th century. He served in both of the world wars, and during World War II he was a distinguished General.
Hastang Hastang is a modern rock band based in Cebu City, Philippines. It is composed of members Tessa Manto (vocals), Raul Luche Jr (guitars), Roy Tutor (guitars), Guile Canencia (bass), and Mark Austin Ladanan (drums).
Hastein Hastein was a notable Viking chieftain who made several raiding voyages. Dudo of Saint-Quentin described him as cruel, harsh, destructive, troublesome, wild, ferocious, lustful, lawless, death-dealing, arrogant, ungodly and much else besides.
Hastelloy Hastelloy is the registered trademark name of Haynes International, Inc. The trademark is applied as the prefix name of a range of over twenty different highly corrosion resistant metal alloys loosely grouped by the metallurgical industry under the material term “superalloys” or “high performance alloys”.
Haster Haster is a somewhat double-centred area in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. The location now well known as Haster is just west of the Bridge of Haster (), which carries the main road linking the burghs of Wick and Thurso (the A882-A9) over Achairn Burn, about four kilometres west of Wick and about eight kilometres east of Watten.
Hastinapura In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Hastinapura (Sanskrit: हस्‍तिनापुर) is the capital and the kingdom of the Kauravas, the descendants of Kuru, which include the Pandavas. The throne of this city is the prize over which the great war of the epic is fought.
Hastingleigh The small civil parish of Hastingleigh lies on top of the North Downs in Kent three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, near the locally renowned beauty spot of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Romney Marsh and the Weald.
Hastings Hastings is a town and local government district in South East England, in the county of East Sussex. It is best known for its connection with the Battle of Hastings 1066, which actually occurred north of the town at Senlac Hill; the battle is commemorated today in the town of Battle.
Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board The Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board has 46 elementary and eight secondary schools, serving over 18,400 students, and employing more than 1,070 teachers and 705 support staff. The school board covers a wide geographical area of 7,221 square kilometres bordered by Maynooth to the north, Deseronto to the east, Prince Edward County to the south and Quinte West to the west.
Hastings (UK Parliament constituency) Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.

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