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Half-truths Half-truths are deceptive statements, that include some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be true but only part of the whole truth, or it may utilize some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade blame or misrepresent the truth.
Half-Value Layer The thickness of any material when 50% of any incident energy has been absorbed is called the Half-Value Layer (HVL) of that material. The value of a material's HVL varies with the photon energy incident on it.
Half-Way Covenant In 1662, the Half-Way Covenant was created by New England Puritans who felt that the people of their colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose. First-generation settlers were beginning to die out, while their children and grandchildren often expressed less religious piety, and more desire for material wealth.
Halfback option play The halfback option play is an unorthodox play in American football. It resembles a normal running play, but the running back has the option to throw a pass to a wide receiver or tight end before crossing the line of scrimmage.
Halfbeak Halfbeaks (family Hemiramphidae) are an important family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world. The family is divided into two subfamilies, the Hemiramphinae and the Zenarchopterinae, each containing about half the known species.
Halfcocked Halfcocked (also known as Halfc*cked or Half-Cocked) is an American heavy metal music band. They started out in 1997 while signed to independent label called Curve Of The Earth Records in Boston, and moved on to sign with Megatronic Records (headed by Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One) in 2001.
Halfdan Halfdan (Old Norse) or Healfdene (Beowulf) or Haldan (Danish Latin sources) (late 5th century, early 6th century) was a legendary Danish king of the Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.
Halfdan Lehmann Halfdan Lehmann (1825-1908) was a Norwegian state secretary 1879-1906, temporary councillor of state to the Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1881, temporary Minister of the Navy in 1884, and the appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1884.
Halfdan the Black Halfdan the Black Gudrødsson (820 – 860CE)(Old Norse: Hálfdan svarti, Norwegian: Halvdan Svarte) was the father of the first King of Norway Harald I and of the House of Yngling. According to the sagas (see external links, below), Halfdan was the son of King Gudröd the Hunter and Åsa, daughter of King Harald of Agder.
Halfdan the Mild Halfdan the Mild (Old Norse: Hálfdan hinn mildi) was the son of king Eystein Halfdansson, of the House of Yngling and he succeeded his father as king, according to Heimskringla. He was king of Romerike and Vestfold.
Halfdan the Old Halfdan the Old (Old Norse Hálfdanr gamli and Hálfdanr inn gamli) was an ancient, legendary king from whom descended many of the most notable lineages of legend. A second Halfdan the Old is the purported great-grandfather of Ragnvald Eysteinsson.
Halfdan the Valiant Haldan the Valiant (Hálfdan snjalli) (7th century) was the legendary father of Ivar Vidfamne according to Hervarar saga, the Ynglinga saga, Njal's Saga and Hversu Noregr byggdist. The genealogical work Hversu Noregr byggdist gives his father as Harald the Old, his grand-father as Valdar and his great-grand-father as Hróarr (i.
Halfeti Halfeti is a small, impoverished district on the banks of the river Euphrates in Şanlıurfa Province in Turkey 120km from the city of Şanlıurfa. Population (2000 census) 33,467 (of which 2,608 were in the town of Halfeti, the majority being in the surrounding villages).
Halflife (musical) Halflife, the Musical is a fable about time and space by Forbes Allan. The script for it was originally posted online, the popularity of this script encouraged the writer to find the financial resources necessary to create a production.
Halfmoon Lake (Barnstead, New Hampshire) Halfmoon Lake is a 253-acre water body located in Belknap County in central New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Barnstead and Alton. The pond is part of the Suncook River watershed, flowing south to the Merrimack River.
Halfmoon Lake (Florida) Halfmoon Lake is the name of a lake in the Ocala National Forest, Florida. Half Moon is a spring fed fresh water lake and part of an area known as Land of Lakes with over 600 lakes and ponds in the Central Florida area.
Halford (band) Halford was formed in 1999 by then ex-lead Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford and is an attempt to return back to his old heavy metal roots after ending two previous projects: the street metal experience known as Fight, and the Industrial Metal experiment known as 2wo. Halford came back screaming with a vengeance; his first album Resurrection managed to make the cut into Martin Popoff's The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time as well as the songs "Silent Screams" & the title-track itself "Resurrection" ranking in the book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time.
Halfords Halfords Group plc () is a leading retailer of car parts, car enhancement, cycles and travel solutions in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is part of the FTSE 250 Index of companies on the London Stock Exchange.
Halfrek Halfrek or Hallie is a recurring fictional character on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She appears as a vengeance demon in seasons 6 and 7, and is implied to have previously appeared as Cecily in season 5.
Halfsies Halfsies were a breakfast cereal manufactured by Quaker Oats from 1983 through 1984. They were the result of the so-called "sugar backlash" in which the amount of sugar in children's breakfast cereals became an issue.
Halftime (Nas song) "Halftime" is the 1992 debut single by rapper Nas, billed on this release alone by his original moniker of "Nasty Nas". Originally recorded for the soundtrack to the film Zebrahead, "Halftime" was produced by Large Professor and features samples from "Schoolboy Crush" by Average White Band, "Hawaiian Sophie" by Jay-Z, "Soul Traveling" by Gary Byrd, and "Dead End" by Japanese Hair.
Halftime Live Halftime Live is a theatrical production created from the executive consultants of the hit 2002 movie "Drumline" . Halftime Live has a very large similarity to theEmmy award and Tony award winning Broadway show "Blast!
Halftime show A halftime show is a performance given between the first and second halves or the 2nd and 3rd quarters of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions (such as baseball or boxing), or for sports that don't stop.
Halfway house A halfway house is a drug rehabilitation or sex offender center, where drug users or sex offenders respectively, or even convicted felons let out on day parole, are allowed to move more freely than in a prison but are still monitored by staff and/or law enforcement. There is often opposition from neighborhoods where halfway houses attempt to locate.
Halfway Islet (Queensland) Halfway Islet is a small island in the Boydong cays Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 100 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
Halfway, Glasgow Halfway is a suburb on the southside of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Once a village in its own right, sitting on the original Renfrewshire-Lanarkshire border, the area takes its name from the fact that it lies equidistant between Glasgow and Paisley at a distance of three miles from each ('Three Mile House' was situated on Paisley Road West, but has long since gone, although 'Two Mile House' built and owned by the various railway companies at the junction of Dumbreck Road survived into the 1980s).
Halga Halga, Helgi, Helghe or Helgo was a legendary Danish king living in the early 6th centuryThe dating has never been a matter of controversy. It is inferred from the internal chronology of the sources themselves and the dating of Hygelac's raid on Frisia to c.
Halchidhoma The Halchidhoma were an Indian tribe living along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona when first contacted by Europeans. In the early nineteenth century, under pressure from their hostile Mohave and Quechan neighbors, they moved to the middle Gila River, merging with the Maricopa.
Halchidhoma traditional narratives Halchidhoma traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Halchidhoma people who formerly lived along the lower Colorado River in southeastern California and western Arizona.
Haliacmon The Haliacmon (Attic HaliákmĹŤn, Ionic AliákmĹŤn, modern Greek Αλιάκμονας Aliákmonas, South Slavic БиŃтрица Bistritsa, Turkish Ä°nce Karasu) is the longest river in Greece, with a total length of 322 km (200 miles). Haliacmon is the traditional English name for the river, but many sources cite the formerly official katharevousa version of the name, Aliákmon.
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Haliburton—Victoria—Brock Haliburton—Victoria—Brock (formerly known as Victoria—Haliburton) was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 2004. It is also a provincial electoral district that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1967.
Halicarnassus Halicarnassus (; modern Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf (Gulf of Cos, Gulf of Gökova). It originally occupied only the small island of Zephyria close to the shore, now occupied by the great castle of St.
Halictidae Halictidae is a cosmopolitan family of the order Hymenoptera consisting of small to midsize bees which are usually dark-colored and often metallic in appearance. Several species are all or partly green and a few are red; a number of them have yellow markings, especially the males, which commonly possess yellow faces, a pattern widespread among the various families of bees.
Halide A halide is a binary compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, or astatide compound. Many salts are halides.
Halide Edip Adıvar Halide Edip Adıvar (1884–1964) was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. Best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of most women in changing their situation, she also served as a soldier in the Turkish military during Turkish War of Independence.
Halifax and District League The Halifax and District League (currently sponsored by Ziggy's Spice House) is a football competition based in England. It has a total of four divisions, of which the highest, the Premier Division, sits at level 14 of the English football league system.
Halifax Armoury The Halifax Armoury is a prominent and historic structure in central Halifax Nova Scotia. The armoury was designed in 1895 by Chief Dominion Architect Thomas Fuller, and was opened the next year and work on the structure was completed in 1899.
Halifax Explosion In 1917, the waterfront areas of the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada and its neighbouring community of Richmond, along with the waterfront area of the cross-harbour town of Dartmouth were devastated when the French Merchant ship Mont-Blanc, chartered by the French government to carry munitions, collided in a narrow section of the harbour with the Norwegian ship Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to carry relief supplies.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald The Chronicle-Herald is a broadsheet published in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The largest newspaper company in Nova Scotia, the Chronicle-Herald is also the highest circulation newspaper in the Atlantic provinces and is currently the largest independently owned newspaper company in Canada.
Halifax Medical Center Halifax Medical Center (HMC) is a 764-bed hospital located in Daytona Beach, Florida. HMC is the largest hospital serving Volusia and Flagler counties and provides the area's only trauma center, pediatric emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit.
Halifax Needham Halfiax Needham is a provincial electoral district in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It has existed since 1967, though its boundaries have changed periodically.
Halifax Piece Hall The Halifax Piece Hall is a building in the town centre of Halifax, England, originally built as a sales centre for woollen handloom weavers. It opened on January 1, 1779, with over 300 separate rooms arranged around a central courtyard.
Halifax Port Authority The Halifax Port Authority (HPA) is a port authority operating as a not-for-profit Crown corporation of the Government of Canada. HPA has responsibility for all federally owned waterfront properties on Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.
Halifax Public Libraries Halifax Public Libraries is the public library system that serves the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was created in 1996 through a merging of the Halifax, Dartmouth Regional, and Halifax County library systems.
Halifax Regional Municipality District 9 District 9 Albro Lake - Harbourview is one of 23 Halifax Regional Council districts of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia . The area covers the former wards of 4 and 5 of the former city of Dartmouth and it includes the provincial electorial riding of Dartmouth North .
Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election, 2004 The 2004 municipal elections of the Halifax Regional Municipality took place on October 16, 2004. Elections have been held every four years since the amalgamation of the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the town of Bedford and Halifax County into the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996.
Halifax Regional School Board The Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB) is the public school board responsible for the approximately 150 elementary, junior high, and high schools located within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Halifax Regional Water Commission The Halifax Regional Water Commission is the water utility of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia that supplies potable water and fire protection water to the urban core communities and in therural area operates small systems .
Halifax River The Halifax River is a section of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway spanning the length of Volusia County, Florida, United States. Some cities it passes through are Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach, and Port Orange.
Halifax RLFC Halifax RLFC is one of the most historic rugby league clubs in the game, formed over a century ago, in 1873 in the Yorkshire town of Halifax. Known as 'Fax', the official club colours are blue and white hoops, hence the former nickname: The Blue Sox.
Halifax Road The Halifax Road or Grand Communication Route was used by the British as an overland communication link between the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Lower Canada (Quebec), and Upper Canada (Ontario) in the winter months when the St. Lawrence River was frozen.
Halifax Rules The earliest rules of ice hockey that appear to have been recorded were the Halifax Rules as published by a Nova Scotia newspaper reporter named James Power, who was known colloquially as 'The Dean of Canadian Sports Reporters.' Power had a deep interest in sport and began his newspaper reporting career as early as 1879, long before the game of Ice Hockey had spread to Quebec City, Ontario or the West.
Halifax urban greenway The Halifax Urban Greenway is a concept for a multi-use recreational trail, called a greenway, in Nova Scotia on the southwestern part of the Halifax Peninsula. It should be noted that this proposed greenway is not a rail trail, but is intended to pass through a narrow greenbelt along the edges of an active rail corridor, several dozen feet in elevation above the railway tracks.
Halifax West High School Halifax West High School is a Canadian public high school located in the Clayton Park neighbourhood in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Encompassing grades 10 through 12, Halifax West High School offers a variety of courses for its enrolment of 1475 students as of September 2005.
Halifax Windjammers The Halifax Windjammers were a franchise in the old World Basketball League that began play in 1991. The team continued operation after the WBL folded in 1992 when they joined the newly formed National Basketball League.
Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission The Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission is a Nova Scotia provincial agency responsible for operating, maintaining, and constructing bridges over Halifax Harbour of Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. They also have authority over any bridges over the Northwest Arm, although no such bridge currently exists.
Halifax, West Yorkshire Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of about 82,000. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward.
Halifax—East Hants Halifax—East Hants was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Colchester—Hants riding.
Halil Berktay Halil Berktay, born 1947 in Turkey, is a Turkish historian who was a Maoist in 1960s and 1970s. One source summarizes the evolution of his ideology as having developed from the Maoist tradition to a Gorbachov-style Marxism, and then as having crossed to the U.
Halil GĂĽr Halil GĂĽr is a Dutch author of Turkish extraction, and is important as one of the first Turkish immigrants to write about the Netherlands. His short stories focus mainly on the problems of migrant experiences, particularly in the context of the Dutch Gastarbeiter program.
Halil Mutlu Halil Mutlu (born Huben Hubenov on July 14, 1973 in Postnik, Bulgaria) is a Turkish World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting. He is one of only four weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games.
Halimah bint Abdullah Haleema as-Sa'diyyah (or Halimah), daughter of Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn Shijnah as-Sa'diyyah of the tribe of Bana Sa'd ibn Hawazin nursed Muhammad until he reached the age of weaning. Thuwaybah, the servant of Abu Lahab, also nursed him while nursing her own son Masrah.
Halimione portulacoides Halimione portulacoides or sea purslane (2n=36) is a small greyish-green shrub widely distributed in temperate Eurasia and parts of Africa. A halophyte, it is found in saltmarshes and coastal dunes, and is usually flooded at high tide.
Halimium Halimium (rockrose or halimium) is a genus of 12 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen subshrubs in the family Cistaceae, closely related to Helianthemum. They are native to Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, with the centre of diversity in the western Mediterranean region.
Halina Birenbaum Halina Birenbaum (born 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator. Born in Warsaw, Birenbaum spent her childhood in a Warsaw ghetto and later on in Nazi concentration camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz (Oświęcim), Ravensbrück and Neustadt-Glewe, from which she was liberated in 1945.
Halina Górecka Halina Górecka née Richter (and after leaving Poland, Halina Herrmann) (born 4 February 1938) is a former Polish and German sprinter and a four-time olympian and an Olympic gold and bronze medal winner and a world record holder in women's 4x100 m relay. She was born in Chorzów, Poland, but now lives in Germany.
Halina Konopacka Halina Konopacka (born November 11, 1900 — died January 29, 1989), famous athlete, first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam). She had took part in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a gold medal in discus throw breaking her own the world record.
Halina Molka Halina Molka (born April 04, 1953 in Kalinki) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3706 votes in 10 PiotrkĂłw Trybunalski district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Halina Olendzka Halina Olendzka (born August 31, 1945 in Święta Katarzyna) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5386 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Halina Rozpondek Halina Rozpondek (born May 25, 1950 in Częstochowa) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9949 votes in 28 Częstochowa district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
Halitherses In Greek mythology, Halithersês was an Ithacan prophet who warned the suitors of Odysseus's wife Penelope after divining the symbols that Zeus sent to "be wise in time, and put a stop to this wickedness before he comes." The suitors do not heed Halithérses' warning.
Halizah Under the system of levirate marriage known as Yibbum described in the Hebrew Bible, Halizah or Chalitzah (Hebrew: חליצה) was the ceremony by which a widow and her husband's brother could avoid the duty to marry after the husband's death.
Halizones The Halizones (Halizonians) are an obscure people that appear in Homer's Iliad as allies of Troy during the Trojan War. Their leaders were Odius and Epistrophus, said by Apollodorus to be sons of a man named Mecisteus.
Haljand Udam Haljand Udam (born 1936; died December 17, 2005) was an Estonian orientalist and translator. He graduated from Tartu University as a geologist, but soon became interested in Eastern culture, including Ancient Iranian literature.
Halki seminary The Halki seminary was, until its closure by the Turkish authorities in 1971, the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church's Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was based on Halki (Turkish: Heybeliada), one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara.
Halkirk, Highland HalkirkOrdnance Survey grid reference for Halkirk Bridge: is a village on the River Thurso in Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. From Halkirk the B874 road runs towards Thurso in the north and towads Georgemas in the east.
Halkyn Halkyn is a village in North Wales near Mold, Flintshire and situated between Pentre Halkyn, Northop and Rhosesmor. The village has a Post Office, a church, a public house and a library, but few other facilities.
Hall & Woodhouse Hall and Woodhouse is a British regional brewery founded in 1777 by Charles Hall in Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK. The company operates over 250 pubs in the south of England, and brews under the name Badger Brewery.
Hall (concept) The meanings attributed to the word hall have varied over the centuries, as social practices have changed. The word derives from the Old Teutonic (hallâ), where it is associated with the idea of covering or concealing.
Hall (lunar crater) Hall is a lunar crater that is located in the southeast part of the Lacus Somniorum, a lunar mare in the northeast part of the Moon. This feature can be found to the west of the prominent Posidonius walled plain.
Hall Basin Hall Basin () is an area of water forming part of the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. These lie to the east and west of the basin; to its north lies Robeson Channel and to its south Kennedy Channel.
Hall Beach, Nunavut Hall Beach (Inuktitut: Sanirajak, Syllabics: á“´á“‚á•‹á”á’) is an Inuit settlement in Nunavut, Canada, established in 1957 during the construction of a Distant Early Warning (DEW) site. Currently the settlement is home to a North Warning System radar facility and the Hall Beach Airport.
Hall Caine Sir Hall Caine (May 14, 1853 - August 31, 1931) was a British novelist and playwright born Thomas Henry Hall Caine at Runcorn, Cheshire, England and educated in Liverpool. He was trained as an architectural draughtsman but became a journalist instead as well as a writer of novels.
Hall effect The Hall effect refers to the potential difference (Hall voltage) on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting or semiconducting material in the form of a 'Hall bar' (or a Van der Pauw element) through which an electric current is flowing, created by a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the Hall element. Edwin Hall discovered this effect in 1879.
Hall effect sensor A Hall effect sensor is a transducer that varies its output voltage in response to changes in magnetic field density. Hall sensors are used for proximity switching, positioning, speed detection, and current sensing applications.
Hall effect thruster A Hall effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field in a plasma discharge with a radial magnetic field. Also known simply as plasma thrusters, HETs use the Hall effect to trap electrons and then use the electrons to ionize propellant, efficiently accelerate the ions to produce thrust, and neutralize the ions in the plume.
Hall for Cornwall The Hall for Cornwall is a major venue in Cornwall having one large main auditorium which places host to west end musicals, opera, ballet, entertainers and music acts. The Hall for Cornwall attracts just close to 180,000 theatre-goers each year.
Hall Hibbard Hall Livingstone Hibbard (July 25, 1903 - June 6, 1996) was an engineer and administrator of the Lockheed Corporation beginning with the company's purchase by a board of investors lead by Robert E. Gross in 1932.
Hall High, Little Rock, Arkansas Located in the central portion of Little Rock, Arkansas, the Hall High neighborhood is a largely residential area to the west of Pulaski Heights, and the south of Tanglewood. Named for the city's Hall High School, the neighborhood is also widely considered as a part of the greater midtown section of Little Rock.
Hall Hunt Hall Hunt is a competitive eater from Gainesville, FL, and a ranked member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Hunt has made his mark as one of the up and coming "young guns" of the sport.
Hall i' th' Wood railway station Hall i' th' Wood railway station (pronounced as "al" "i" "thwud") is the last stop before Bolton on the Northern Rail franchise's "Ribble Valley Line" line into Blackburn and Clitheroe.
Hall Johnson Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 - April 30, 1970) was, along with Harry Burleigh, one of the two American composers who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers.
Hall monitor A hall monitor is a student volunteer who is charged with maintaining order in a school's corridors. They may be either students who are chosen for the position because they are responsible, or that may be chosen on a rota from all available students.
Hall M. Lyons Hall McCord Lyons (December 22, 1923 -- July 22, 1998) was a Shreveport and, later, Lafayette oilman who for a short time was a pioneer in the establishment of a competititve Republican Party in Louisiana. He was the son of the party's 1964 gubernatorial nominee, Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr.
Hall of Fame A hall of fame (sometimes HOF) is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavour to honour individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honourees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia.
Hall of Fame for Great Americans The Hall of Fame for Great Americans — the original "Hall of Fame"The word "fame" was employed with the intention of transmitting the value-laden meaning that is very close to the word "renown" (rather than today's more common meaning of "celebrity" (Rubin, 1997, p.14) — is a "national shrine" on the grounds of the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.
Hall of Great Western Performers The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is sometimes referred to as the "Western Performers Hall of Fame".
Hall of Hewn Stones The Hall of Hewn Stones (in Hebrew, Lishkat ha-Gazith) was the meeting place of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period. The Talmud deduces that it was built into the north wall of the Temple Mount, half inside the sanctuary and half outside, with doors providing access both to the temple and to the outside.
Hall of mirrors effect In computer graphics, the hall of mirrors (HOM) effect is a visual anomaly caused by missing or broken surfaces during 3D rendering. When a surface is not drawn, the area of the screen where it would have rendered retains the contents that it had on the previous frame.
Half-Value Layer The thickness of any material when 50% of any incident energy has been absorbed is called the Half-Value Layer (HVL) of that material. The value of a material's HVL varies with the photon energy incident on it.
Half-Way Covenant In 1662, the Half-Way Covenant was created by New England Puritans who felt that the people of their colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose. First-generation settlers were beginning to die out, while their children and grandchildren often expressed less religious piety, and more desire for material wealth.
Halfback option play The halfback option play is an unorthodox play in American football. It resembles a normal running play, but the running back has the option to throw a pass to a wide receiver or tight end before crossing the line of scrimmage.
Halfbeak Halfbeaks (family Hemiramphidae) are an important family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world. The family is divided into two subfamilies, the Hemiramphinae and the Zenarchopterinae, each containing about half the known species.
Halfcocked Halfcocked (also known as Halfc*cked or Half-Cocked) is an American heavy metal music band. They started out in 1997 while signed to independent label called Curve Of The Earth Records in Boston, and moved on to sign with Megatronic Records (headed by Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One) in 2001.
Halfdan Halfdan (Old Norse) or Healfdene (Beowulf) or Haldan (Danish Latin sources) (late 5th century, early 6th century) was a legendary Danish king of the Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.
Halfdan Lehmann Halfdan Lehmann (1825-1908) was a Norwegian state secretary 1879-1906, temporary councillor of state to the Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1881, temporary Minister of the Navy in 1884, and the appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1884.
Halfdan the Black Halfdan the Black Gudrødsson (820 – 860CE)(Old Norse: Hálfdan svarti, Norwegian: Halvdan Svarte) was the father of the first King of Norway Harald I and of the House of Yngling. According to the sagas (see external links, below), Halfdan was the son of King Gudröd the Hunter and Åsa, daughter of King Harald of Agder.
Halfdan the Mild Halfdan the Mild (Old Norse: Hálfdan hinn mildi) was the son of king Eystein Halfdansson, of the House of Yngling and he succeeded his father as king, according to Heimskringla. He was king of Romerike and Vestfold.
Halfdan the Old Halfdan the Old (Old Norse Hálfdanr gamli and Hálfdanr inn gamli) was an ancient, legendary king from whom descended many of the most notable lineages of legend. A second Halfdan the Old is the purported great-grandfather of Ragnvald Eysteinsson.
Halfdan the Valiant Haldan the Valiant (Hálfdan snjalli) (7th century) was the legendary father of Ivar Vidfamne according to Hervarar saga, the Ynglinga saga, Njal's Saga and Hversu Noregr byggdist. The genealogical work Hversu Noregr byggdist gives his father as Harald the Old, his grand-father as Valdar and his great-grand-father as Hróarr (i.
Halfeti Halfeti is a small, impoverished district on the banks of the river Euphrates in Şanlıurfa Province in Turkey 120km from the city of Şanlıurfa. Population (2000 census) 33,467 (of which 2,608 were in the town of Halfeti, the majority being in the surrounding villages).
Halflife (musical) Halflife, the Musical is a fable about time and space by Forbes Allan. The script for it was originally posted online, the popularity of this script encouraged the writer to find the financial resources necessary to create a production.
Halfmoon Lake (Barnstead, New Hampshire) Halfmoon Lake is a 253-acre water body located in Belknap County in central New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Barnstead and Alton. The pond is part of the Suncook River watershed, flowing south to the Merrimack River.
Halfmoon Lake (Florida) Halfmoon Lake is the name of a lake in the Ocala National Forest, Florida. Half Moon is a spring fed fresh water lake and part of an area known as Land of Lakes with over 600 lakes and ponds in the Central Florida area.
Halford (band) Halford was formed in 1999 by then ex-lead Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford and is an attempt to return back to his old heavy metal roots after ending two previous projects: the street metal experience known as Fight, and the Industrial Metal experiment known as 2wo. Halford came back screaming with a vengeance; his first album Resurrection managed to make the cut into Martin Popoff's The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time as well as the songs "Silent Screams" & the title-track itself "Resurrection" ranking in the book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time.
Halfords Halfords Group plc () is a leading retailer of car parts, car enhancement, cycles and travel solutions in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is part of the FTSE 250 Index of companies on the London Stock Exchange.
Halfrek Halfrek or Hallie is a recurring fictional character on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She appears as a vengeance demon in seasons 6 and 7, and is implied to have previously appeared as Cecily in season 5.
Halfsies Halfsies were a breakfast cereal manufactured by Quaker Oats from 1983 through 1984. They were the result of the so-called "sugar backlash" in which the amount of sugar in children's breakfast cereals became an issue.
Halftime (Nas song) "Halftime" is the 1992 debut single by rapper Nas, billed on this release alone by his original moniker of "Nasty Nas". Originally recorded for the soundtrack to the film Zebrahead, "Halftime" was produced by Large Professor and features samples from "Schoolboy Crush" by Average White Band, "Hawaiian Sophie" by Jay-Z, "Soul Traveling" by Gary Byrd, and "Dead End" by Japanese Hair.
Halftime Live Halftime Live is a theatrical production created from the executive consultants of the hit 2002 movie "Drumline" . Halftime Live has a very large similarity to theEmmy award and Tony award winning Broadway show "Blast!
Halftime show A halftime show is a performance given between the first and second halves or the 2nd and 3rd quarters of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions (such as baseball or boxing), or for sports that don't stop.
Halfway house A halfway house is a drug rehabilitation or sex offender center, where drug users or sex offenders respectively, or even convicted felons let out on day parole, are allowed to move more freely than in a prison but are still monitored by staff and/or law enforcement. There is often opposition from neighborhoods where halfway houses attempt to locate.
Halfway Islet (Queensland) Halfway Islet is a small island in the Boydong cays Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 100 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
Halfway, Glasgow Halfway is a suburb on the southside of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Once a village in its own right, sitting on the original Renfrewshire-Lanarkshire border, the area takes its name from the fact that it lies equidistant between Glasgow and Paisley at a distance of three miles from each ('Three Mile House' was situated on Paisley Road West, but has long since gone, although 'Two Mile House' built and owned by the various railway companies at the junction of Dumbreck Road survived into the 1980s).
Halga Halga, Helgi, Helghe or Helgo was a legendary Danish king living in the early 6th centuryThe dating has never been a matter of controversy. It is inferred from the internal chronology of the sources themselves and the dating of Hygelac's raid on Frisia to c.
Halchidhoma The Halchidhoma were an Indian tribe living along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona when first contacted by Europeans. In the early nineteenth century, under pressure from their hostile Mohave and Quechan neighbors, they moved to the middle Gila River, merging with the Maricopa.
Halchidhoma traditional narratives Halchidhoma traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Halchidhoma people who formerly lived along the lower Colorado River in southeastern California and western Arizona.
Haliacmon The Haliacmon (Attic HaliákmĹŤn, Ionic AliákmĹŤn, modern Greek Αλιάκμονας Aliákmonas, South Slavic БиŃтрица Bistritsa, Turkish Ä°nce Karasu) is the longest river in Greece, with a total length of 322 km (200 miles). Haliacmon is the traditional English name for the river, but many sources cite the formerly official katharevousa version of the name, Aliákmon.
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Haliburton—Victoria—Brock Haliburton—Victoria—Brock (formerly known as Victoria—Haliburton) was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 2004. It is also a provincial electoral district that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1967.
Halicarnassus Halicarnassus (; modern Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf (Gulf of Cos, Gulf of Gökova). It originally occupied only the small island of Zephyria close to the shore, now occupied by the great castle of St.
Halictidae Halictidae is a cosmopolitan family of the order Hymenoptera consisting of small to midsize bees which are usually dark-colored and often metallic in appearance. Several species are all or partly green and a few are red; a number of them have yellow markings, especially the males, which commonly possess yellow faces, a pattern widespread among the various families of bees.
Halide A halide is a binary compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, or astatide compound. Many salts are halides.
Halide Edip Adıvar Halide Edip Adıvar (1884–1964) was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. Best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of most women in changing their situation, she also served as a soldier in the Turkish military during Turkish War of Independence.
Halifax and District League The Halifax and District League (currently sponsored by Ziggy's Spice House) is a football competition based in England. It has a total of four divisions, of which the highest, the Premier Division, sits at level 14 of the English football league system.
Halifax Armoury The Halifax Armoury is a prominent and historic structure in central Halifax Nova Scotia. The armoury was designed in 1895 by Chief Dominion Architect Thomas Fuller, and was opened the next year and work on the structure was completed in 1899.
Halifax Explosion In 1917, the waterfront areas of the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada and its neighbouring community of Richmond, along with the waterfront area of the cross-harbour town of Dartmouth were devastated when the French Merchant ship Mont-Blanc, chartered by the French government to carry munitions, collided in a narrow section of the harbour with the Norwegian ship Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to carry relief supplies.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald The Chronicle-Herald is a broadsheet published in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The largest newspaper company in Nova Scotia, the Chronicle-Herald is also the highest circulation newspaper in the Atlantic provinces and is currently the largest independently owned newspaper company in Canada.
Halifax Medical Center Halifax Medical Center (HMC) is a 764-bed hospital located in Daytona Beach, Florida. HMC is the largest hospital serving Volusia and Flagler counties and provides the area's only trauma center, pediatric emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit.
Halifax Needham Halfiax Needham is a provincial electoral district in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It has existed since 1967, though its boundaries have changed periodically.
Halifax Piece Hall The Halifax Piece Hall is a building in the town centre of Halifax, England, originally built as a sales centre for woollen handloom weavers. It opened on January 1, 1779, with over 300 separate rooms arranged around a central courtyard.
Halifax Port Authority The Halifax Port Authority (HPA) is a port authority operating as a not-for-profit Crown corporation of the Government of Canada. HPA has responsibility for all federally owned waterfront properties on Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.
Halifax Public Libraries Halifax Public Libraries is the public library system that serves the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was created in 1996 through a merging of the Halifax, Dartmouth Regional, and Halifax County library systems.
Halifax Regional Municipality District 9 District 9 Albro Lake - Harbourview is one of 23 Halifax Regional Council districts of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia . The area covers the former wards of 4 and 5 of the former city of Dartmouth and it includes the provincial electorial riding of Dartmouth North .
Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election, 2004 The 2004 municipal elections of the Halifax Regional Municipality took place on October 16, 2004. Elections have been held every four years since the amalgamation of the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the town of Bedford and Halifax County into the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996.
Halifax Regional School Board The Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB) is the public school board responsible for the approximately 150 elementary, junior high, and high schools located within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Halifax Regional Water Commission The Halifax Regional Water Commission is the water utility of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia that supplies potable water and fire protection water to the urban core communities and in therural area operates small systems .
Halifax River The Halifax River is a section of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway spanning the length of Volusia County, Florida, United States. Some cities it passes through are Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach, and Port Orange.
Halifax RLFC Halifax RLFC is one of the most historic rugby league clubs in the game, formed over a century ago, in 1873 in the Yorkshire town of Halifax. Known as 'Fax', the official club colours are blue and white hoops, hence the former nickname: The Blue Sox.
Halifax Road The Halifax Road or Grand Communication Route was used by the British as an overland communication link between the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Lower Canada (Quebec), and Upper Canada (Ontario) in the winter months when the St. Lawrence River was frozen.
Halifax Rules The earliest rules of ice hockey that appear to have been recorded were the Halifax Rules as published by a Nova Scotia newspaper reporter named James Power, who was known colloquially as 'The Dean of Canadian Sports Reporters.' Power had a deep interest in sport and began his newspaper reporting career as early as 1879, long before the game of Ice Hockey had spread to Quebec City, Ontario or the West.
Halifax urban greenway The Halifax Urban Greenway is a concept for a multi-use recreational trail, called a greenway, in Nova Scotia on the southwestern part of the Halifax Peninsula. It should be noted that this proposed greenway is not a rail trail, but is intended to pass through a narrow greenbelt along the edges of an active rail corridor, several dozen feet in elevation above the railway tracks.
Halifax West High School Halifax West High School is a Canadian public high school located in the Clayton Park neighbourhood in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Encompassing grades 10 through 12, Halifax West High School offers a variety of courses for its enrolment of 1475 students as of September 2005.
Halifax Windjammers The Halifax Windjammers were a franchise in the old World Basketball League that began play in 1991. The team continued operation after the WBL folded in 1992 when they joined the newly formed National Basketball League.
Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission The Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission is a Nova Scotia provincial agency responsible for operating, maintaining, and constructing bridges over Halifax Harbour of Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. They also have authority over any bridges over the Northwest Arm, although no such bridge currently exists.
Halifax, West Yorkshire Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of about 82,000. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward.
Halifax—East Hants Halifax—East Hants was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Colchester—Hants riding.
Halil Berktay Halil Berktay, born 1947 in Turkey, is a Turkish historian who was a Maoist in 1960s and 1970s. One source summarizes the evolution of his ideology as having developed from the Maoist tradition to a Gorbachov-style Marxism, and then as having crossed to the U.
Halil GĂĽr Halil GĂĽr is a Dutch author of Turkish extraction, and is important as one of the first Turkish immigrants to write about the Netherlands. His short stories focus mainly on the problems of migrant experiences, particularly in the context of the Dutch Gastarbeiter program.
Halil Mutlu Halil Mutlu (born Huben Hubenov on July 14, 1973 in Postnik, Bulgaria) is a Turkish World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting. He is one of only four weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games.
Halimah bint Abdullah Haleema as-Sa'diyyah (or Halimah), daughter of Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn Shijnah as-Sa'diyyah of the tribe of Bana Sa'd ibn Hawazin nursed Muhammad until he reached the age of weaning. Thuwaybah, the servant of Abu Lahab, also nursed him while nursing her own son Masrah.
Halimione portulacoides Halimione portulacoides or sea purslane (2n=36) is a small greyish-green shrub widely distributed in temperate Eurasia and parts of Africa. A halophyte, it is found in saltmarshes and coastal dunes, and is usually flooded at high tide.
Halimium Halimium (rockrose or halimium) is a genus of 12 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen subshrubs in the family Cistaceae, closely related to Helianthemum. They are native to Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, with the centre of diversity in the western Mediterranean region.
Halina Birenbaum Halina Birenbaum (born 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator. Born in Warsaw, Birenbaum spent her childhood in a Warsaw ghetto and later on in Nazi concentration camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz (Oświęcim), Ravensbrück and Neustadt-Glewe, from which she was liberated in 1945.
Halina Górecka Halina Górecka née Richter (and after leaving Poland, Halina Herrmann) (born 4 February 1938) is a former Polish and German sprinter and a four-time olympian and an Olympic gold and bronze medal winner and a world record holder in women's 4x100 m relay. She was born in Chorzów, Poland, but now lives in Germany.
Halina Konopacka Halina Konopacka (born November 11, 1900 — died January 29, 1989), famous athlete, first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam). She had took part in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a gold medal in discus throw breaking her own the world record.
Halina Molka Halina Molka (born April 04, 1953 in Kalinki) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3706 votes in 10 PiotrkĂłw Trybunalski district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Halina Olendzka Halina Olendzka (born August 31, 1945 in Święta Katarzyna) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5386 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Halina Rozpondek Halina Rozpondek (born May 25, 1950 in Częstochowa) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9949 votes in 28 Częstochowa district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
Halitherses In Greek mythology, Halithersês was an Ithacan prophet who warned the suitors of Odysseus's wife Penelope after divining the symbols that Zeus sent to "be wise in time, and put a stop to this wickedness before he comes." The suitors do not heed Halithérses' warning.
Halizah Under the system of levirate marriage known as Yibbum described in the Hebrew Bible, Halizah or Chalitzah (Hebrew: חליצה) was the ceremony by which a widow and her husband's brother could avoid the duty to marry after the husband's death.
Halizones The Halizones (Halizonians) are an obscure people that appear in Homer's Iliad as allies of Troy during the Trojan War. Their leaders were Odius and Epistrophus, said by Apollodorus to be sons of a man named Mecisteus.
Haljand Udam Haljand Udam (born 1936; died December 17, 2005) was an Estonian orientalist and translator. He graduated from Tartu University as a geologist, but soon became interested in Eastern culture, including Ancient Iranian literature.
Halki seminary The Halki seminary was, until its closure by the Turkish authorities in 1971, the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church's Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was based on Halki (Turkish: Heybeliada), one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara.
Halkirk, Highland HalkirkOrdnance Survey grid reference for Halkirk Bridge: is a village on the River Thurso in Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. From Halkirk the B874 road runs towards Thurso in the north and towads Georgemas in the east.
Halkyn Halkyn is a village in North Wales near Mold, Flintshire and situated between Pentre Halkyn, Northop and Rhosesmor. The village has a Post Office, a church, a public house and a library, but few other facilities.
Hall & Woodhouse Hall and Woodhouse is a British regional brewery founded in 1777 by Charles Hall in Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK. The company operates over 250 pubs in the south of England, and brews under the name Badger Brewery.
Hall (concept) The meanings attributed to the word hall have varied over the centuries, as social practices have changed. The word derives from the Old Teutonic (hallâ), where it is associated with the idea of covering or concealing.
Hall (lunar crater) Hall is a lunar crater that is located in the southeast part of the Lacus Somniorum, a lunar mare in the northeast part of the Moon. This feature can be found to the west of the prominent Posidonius walled plain.
Hall Basin Hall Basin () is an area of water forming part of the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. These lie to the east and west of the basin; to its north lies Robeson Channel and to its south Kennedy Channel.
Hall Beach, Nunavut Hall Beach (Inuktitut: Sanirajak, Syllabics: á“´á“‚á•‹á”á’) is an Inuit settlement in Nunavut, Canada, established in 1957 during the construction of a Distant Early Warning (DEW) site. Currently the settlement is home to a North Warning System radar facility and the Hall Beach Airport.
Hall Caine Sir Hall Caine (May 14, 1853 - August 31, 1931) was a British novelist and playwright born Thomas Henry Hall Caine at Runcorn, Cheshire, England and educated in Liverpool. He was trained as an architectural draughtsman but became a journalist instead as well as a writer of novels.
Hall effect The Hall effect refers to the potential difference (Hall voltage) on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting or semiconducting material in the form of a 'Hall bar' (or a Van der Pauw element) through which an electric current is flowing, created by a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the Hall element. Edwin Hall discovered this effect in 1879.
Hall effect sensor A Hall effect sensor is a transducer that varies its output voltage in response to changes in magnetic field density. Hall sensors are used for proximity switching, positioning, speed detection, and current sensing applications.
Hall effect thruster A Hall effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field in a plasma discharge with a radial magnetic field. Also known simply as plasma thrusters, HETs use the Hall effect to trap electrons and then use the electrons to ionize propellant, efficiently accelerate the ions to produce thrust, and neutralize the ions in the plume.
Hall for Cornwall The Hall for Cornwall is a major venue in Cornwall having one large main auditorium which places host to west end musicals, opera, ballet, entertainers and music acts. The Hall for Cornwall attracts just close to 180,000 theatre-goers each year.
Hall Hibbard Hall Livingstone Hibbard (July 25, 1903 - June 6, 1996) was an engineer and administrator of the Lockheed Corporation beginning with the company's purchase by a board of investors lead by Robert E. Gross in 1932.
Hall High, Little Rock, Arkansas Located in the central portion of Little Rock, Arkansas, the Hall High neighborhood is a largely residential area to the west of Pulaski Heights, and the south of Tanglewood. Named for the city's Hall High School, the neighborhood is also widely considered as a part of the greater midtown section of Little Rock.
Hall Hunt Hall Hunt is a competitive eater from Gainesville, FL, and a ranked member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Hunt has made his mark as one of the up and coming "young guns" of the sport.
Hall i' th' Wood railway station Hall i' th' Wood railway station (pronounced as "al" "i" "thwud") is the last stop before Bolton on the Northern Rail franchise's "Ribble Valley Line" line into Blackburn and Clitheroe.
Hall Johnson Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 - April 30, 1970) was, along with Harry Burleigh, one of the two American composers who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers.
Hall monitor A hall monitor is a student volunteer who is charged with maintaining order in a school's corridors. They may be either students who are chosen for the position because they are responsible, or that may be chosen on a rota from all available students.
Hall M. Lyons Hall McCord Lyons (December 22, 1923 -- July 22, 1998) was a Shreveport and, later, Lafayette oilman who for a short time was a pioneer in the establishment of a competititve Republican Party in Louisiana. He was the son of the party's 1964 gubernatorial nominee, Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr.
Hall of Fame A hall of fame (sometimes HOF) is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavour to honour individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honourees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia.
Hall of Fame for Great Americans The Hall of Fame for Great Americans — the original "Hall of Fame"The word "fame" was employed with the intention of transmitting the value-laden meaning that is very close to the word "renown" (rather than today's more common meaning of "celebrity" (Rubin, 1997, p.14) — is a "national shrine" on the grounds of the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.
Hall of Great Western Performers The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is sometimes referred to as the "Western Performers Hall of Fame".
Hall of Hewn Stones The Hall of Hewn Stones (in Hebrew, Lishkat ha-Gazith) was the meeting place of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period. The Talmud deduces that it was built into the north wall of the Temple Mount, half inside the sanctuary and half outside, with doors providing access both to the temple and to the outside.
Hall of mirrors effect In computer graphics, the hall of mirrors (HOM) effect is a visual anomaly caused by missing or broken surfaces during 3D rendering. When a surface is not drawn, the area of the screen where it would have rendered retains the contents that it had on the previous frame.
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