A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 H Acid ... hackberry H Acid (from the article "dye") ...and the directive effects are pH-dependent. In alkaline media, coupling is directed by the &singlehorzbond;OH ... h and Chi Persei (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...clusters and can be accounted for in detail by calculations of the rate of evolution ... H II region in astronomy, interstellar matter consisting of ionized hydrogen atoms. Such regions occur as hot, ionized ... [6 Related Articles] H zone (from the article "muscle") ...(for the relation of cross bridges to the molecular architecture of thick filaments, see below). In ... H&M (from the article "Fashions") ...Roberto Cavalli lent his decadent, exotic touch to a collection of men's and women's party ... H-II (from the article "launch vehicle") ...agency next developed the H-I, which had a Delta-derived first stage but a Japanese-designed cryogenically ... H-IIA (from the article "launch vehicle") ...rocket engine. The H-II was first launched in 1994; it proved a very expensive vehicle ... H-lines (from the article "Sun") H-Y antigen (from the article "genetics, human") ...into that of the male (a testicle). The gonadal action of the Y chromosome is ... H. Nakano (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...African materials scientist F.R.N. Nabarro in the early 1950s, were quickly adapted by seismologists to ... H1 antagonist (from the article "histamine") ...chemical drugs called antihistamines, which prevent the binding of histamine to these receptors. Conventional antihistamines ... H2 blocking agent (from the article "drug") ...block the effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine on the heart (beta blockers, or beta-adrenergic blocking ... H2S (from the article "air warfare") ...the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and ... H5N1 virus (from the article "Health and Disease") The H5N1 strain of avian influenza (bird flu) had infected poultry throughout much of Southeast ... Ha a Bantu-speaking people belonging to the Interlacustrine Bantu ethnolinguistic family who live in western Tanzania ... Ha Long Bay bay on the northwest coast of the Gulf of Tonkin, near the city of Hong ... [1 Related Articles] Ha Tae Kwon (from the article "Badminton") ...Taufik Hidayat, who won the gold medal with a final-round victory over South Korea's Shon ... Ha'apai Group central island cluster of Tonga, in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,400 miles (2,300 km) ... Ha'aretz (Hebrew: "The Land"), newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel's oldest daily and generally considered the ... Ha'il town, northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is situated between Mount Shammar on the north and Mount ... HA.A (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...It would be particularly important to isolate the Subarian components (related to Hurrian), whose significance ... Haak, Bob (from the article "The Rembrandt Research Project") ...the value of whose judgment rested solely on the authority attributed to them by the ... Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre Norwegian king and one of the most eminent Scandinavian rulers of his time. He fostered ... [1 Related Articles] Haakon II Sigurdsson king of Norway (1157-62), illegitimate son of Sigurd Munn (d. 1155). [1 Related Articles] Haakon III Sverresson king of Norway (1202-04), the illegitimate son of King Sverre Sigurdsson. Haakon IV Haakonsson king of Norway (1217-63) who consolidated the power of the monarchy, patronized the arts, and ... [2 Related Articles] Haakon Sigurdsson Norwegian noble who defeated Harald II Graycloak, becoming the chief ruler (c. 970) of Norway; ... 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[2 Related Articles] haangi (from the article "Maori") ...by the hongi, or pressing together of noses on greeting, and sometimes ... Haanja morainal region of southeastern Estonia. The moraine is steep on the north but slopes more ... Haar measure (from the article "mathematics") Yet another setting for Lebesgue's ideas was to be the theory of Lie groups. The ... Haarde, Geir H. (from the article "Iceland") ...102,928 sq km (39,741 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 310,000 | Capital: ... Haardt Mountains mountain range in Rheinland-Pfalz Land (state), southwestern Germany. They comprise the eastern part of the ... Haarlem gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. It lies along the Spaarne River, 4.5 miles (7 km) from ... [4 Related Articles] Haarlem Lake polder (area 45,700 acres [18,486 hectares]) coextensive with the gemeente (municipality) of Haarlemmermeer in western ... [2 Related Articles] Haarlem school (from the article "Haarlem") ...of Orange and incorporated in the United Netherlands, it entered a period of prosperity that ... Haarlemmermeer gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands, occupying the reclaimed Haarlem Lake, which was drained between 1840 and ... Haas family (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...having only three registers and a rather darker tone than either French or Flemish instruments. ... Haas, Ernst Austrian-born photojournalist who was influential for his innovations in colour photography. [1 Related Articles] Haas, Karl American musicologist and music broadcaster (b. Dec. 6, 1913, Speyer-am-Rhein, Ger.-d. Feb. 6, 2005, Royal ... Haas, Mary R. (from the article "North American Indian languages") ...Algonquian- (Algonkian-) Wakashan, Na-Dene, Penutian, Hokan-Siouan, and Aztec-Tanoan-established on the basis of very general grammatical ... Haas, Peter American business executive (b. 1918, San Francisco, Calif.-d. Dec. 3, 2005, San Francisco), was a ... Haas, Richard (from the article "trompe l'oeil") ...on which are depicted various cards and clippings with such verisimilitude that the viewer becomes ... Haas, Walter A. American business executive credited with saving the foundering Levi Strauss & Co., the major manufacturer ... Haas, Wolf (from the article "Literature") Austrian writer Wolf Haas's formally innovative novel Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren involved the interplay ... Haase, Helga (from the article "Olympic Games") Squaw Valley featured the debut of the biathlon and of speed skating events for female ... Haase, Hugo (from the article "Ledebour, Georg") ...Party member of the Reichstag (national parliament) from 1900, Ledebour initially stood among the left ... Haasse, Hella S. Dutch novelist noted for her innovative historical fiction. [1 Related Articles] Haavelmo, Trygve Norwegian economist who was a pioneer in what became the field of economic forecasting. He ... Haavikko, Paavo Finnish humanist poet, novelist, and dramatist whose work is modernistic, experimental, and linguistically innovative. Haba, Alois Czech composer noted for his experiments with microtonal music. [1 Related Articles] Habad Jewish movement and its doctrine, an offshoot of the religious and social movement known as ... [1 Related Articles] Habakkuk (from the article "biblical literature") The Book of Habakkuk, the eighth book of the Twelve (Minor) Prophets, was written by ... Habakkuk, The Book of the eighth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets. ... [1 Related Articles] Haban member of the community of Anabaptists who moved from Switzerland through Austria to Bohemia and ... Habaner faience ware (from the article "Haban") ...forced groups of Habans to leave Habsburg-ruled Hungary for Transylvania. The community, which was made ... Habash, George militant Palestinian and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 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Habeler, Peter (from the article "Messner, Reinhold") mountain climber and polar trekker who was renowned for his pioneering and difficult ascents of ... Habeneck, Francois-Antoine French violinist, conductor, and composer. Haber, Fritz German physical chemist and winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his successful ... [4 Related Articles] Haber, Ludwig (from the article "Haber, Fritz") ...gas-warfare program, and his second marriage to Charlotta Nathan ended in divorce in 1927. Haber ... Haber, Robert Alan (from the article "Students for a Democratic Society") ...1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a ... Haber-Bosch process method of directly synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen, developed by the German physical chemist ... [9 Related Articles] Haberlandt, Gottlieb Austrian botanist, pioneer in the development of physiological plant anatomy, and the first person to ... Haberlandt, Ludwig (from the article "birth control") ...John Marshall. The first extract of estrogen was produced in 1913, and the pure compound ... Haberler, Gottfried von Austrian-born American economist, writer, and educator whose major field of expertise was international trade. [1 Related Articles] Habermas, Jurgen (from the article "continental philosophy") As noted above, post-structuralists viewed the concepts of truth, knowledge, and reason as little more ... Habib Bank, Ltd. (from the article "Pakistan") ...of Pakistan (1961), the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (1961), and the House Building Finance ... Habib, Mamdouh (from the article "Australia") ...forces from Iraq in the wake of a hostage crisis. Public opinion remained opposed to ... Habib, Philip Charles U.S. diplomat who had a distinguished 30-year career as a U.S. foreign-service officer, notably in ... [1 Related Articles] Habibi, Emile Israeli Arab writer (b. Aug. 29, 1922, Haifa, Palestine [now in Israel]--d. May 2, 1996, ... Habibie, B J An aircraft engineer seemed an unlikely central figure in the closure of outspoken publications, a ... [2 Related Articles] Habibollah Khan ruler of Afghanistan from 1901 to 1919. Maintaining satisfactory relations with British India, he introduced ... [1 Related Articles] Habima (Hebrew: "Stage"), Hebrew theatre company originally organized as Habima ha-'Ivrit (Hebrew: "the Hebrew Stage") in ... habit in psychology, any regularly repeated behaviour that requires little or no thought and is learned ... [1 Related Articles] habit (from the article "Roman Catholicism") Roman Catholicism for centuries has fostered a distinct clerical identity, symbolized by clerical garb, which ... habitant (from the article "Quebec") The rural settlements were created under a variation of the French seigneurial system of landlords ... habitat place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving ... [6 Related Articles] Habitat '67 (from the article "Safdie, Moshe") Canadian-Israeli architect who designed Habitat '67 at the site of Expo 67, a year-long international ... habitat corridor (from the article "conservation") ...risks previously discussed. Yet in total the fragments may actually be of sufficient area to ... Habitat for Humanity (from the article "Performing Arts") ...other noted jazz artists who appeared in New Orleans-oriented concerts and festival programs in the ... habitat loss (from the article "conservation") Although anticipating the effect of introduced species on future extinctions may be impossible, it is ... Habitat Stores (from the article "industrial design") ...Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, IKEA, and the EXPO Design Centers created by Home Depot. ... habitation name (from the article "toponymy") ...information. A place-name is a word or words used to indicate, denote, or identify a ... habitual buying behaviour (from the article "marketing") There are two types of low-involvement purchases. Habitual buying behaviour occurs when involvement is low ... habitual offender person who frequently has been convicted of criminal behaviour and is presumed to be a ... [1 Related Articles] habitual offender law (from the article "child abuse") ...less susceptible to intervention than was once believed, and many jurisdictions have resorted to strict ... habituation the waning of an animal's behavioral response to a stimulus, as a result of a ... [8 Related Articles] haboku (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...the true subject. His long landscape scroll produced for the Mori clan in Yamaguchi is ... haboob strong wind that occurs along the southern edges of the Sahara in The Sudan and ... [3 Related Articles] Habre, Hissene (from the article "Chad") Many in Chad welcomed the African Union's decision in July to request the prosecution of ... Habrobracon (from the article "aging") There are, however, serious objections to the somatic mutation theory. The wasp Habrobracon is an ... Habsburg, House of royal German family, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the 15th to ... [71 Related Articles] Habsburg-Este, House of (from the article "Italy") ...the daughter of Francis I and Napoleon's second wife. At her death the duchy was ... Habsburg-Lorraine, House of (from the article "Italy") ...Bourbon-Parma family, which was also temporarily placed in charge of the duchy of Lucca. The ... Habshi African and Abyssinian slaves in pre-British India. The name derives from the Arabic word Habashi, ... habsiyah (from the article "Islamic arts") ...Sa'd-e Salman (died 1121) composed a number of heartfelt qasidahs during his political imprisonment. They ... Habyarimana, Juvenal Rwandan army officer and politician (b. March 8, 1937?, Gasizi, Gisenyi province, Ruanda-Urundi--d. April 6, ... [4 Related Articles] hacendado (from the article "hacienda") ...of the traditional institutions of rural life. Originating in the colonial period, the hacienda survived ... hacha (from the article "Native American art") ...a ritual object or trophy representing an actual protective device-worn together with the Hacha, Emil (from the article "international relations") ...once. Tiso returned to Bratislava to inform the Slovak Diet that the only alternative to ... Hached, Ferhat (from the article "Morocco") ...troubled situation continued until December 1952, when trade unions in Casablanca organized a protest meeting ... Hachem, Joseph (from the article "Poker Fever") ...Texas Hold'em Championship drew a record 5,619 entrants, which translated into a prize fund of ... Hachette, Louis-Christophe-Francois French publisher who issued a wide range of textbooks, dictionaries, and numerous other publications that ... Hachicha, Neila Charchour (from the article "Tunisia") During the year the government stepped up attacks on female human rights activists. Neila Charchour ... Hachiman one of the most popular Shinto deities of Japan; the patron deity of the Minamoto ... [1 Related Articles] Hachiman Plateau (from the article "Akita") ...ken (prefecture), northwestern Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast. Its area of 4,483 ... Hachinohe city, Aomori ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. It was a castle town ... Hachioji city, Tokyo to (metropolis), Honshu, Japan, on the Chuo Line (railway), west of Tokyo. A ... Hachiro Lagoon (from the article "Akita") ...Ou and Dewa mountain ranges, is crossed by rivers flowing into the Sea of Japan. ... Hacho, Mount (from the article "Gibraltar") Gibraltar is considered one of the two Pillars of Heracles (Hercules), the other being Mount ... hachure (from the article "map") ...or perspective appearance as envisioned by the cartographer. Little effort was made at true depiction ... hacienda in Spanish America, a large landed estate, one of the traditional institutions of rural life. ... [6 Related Articles] Hacilar (from the article "art and architecture, Anatolian") At Hacilar, a Chalcolithic site near Burdur, Turkey, village houses were entered at ground level; ... hackberry any of several trees of the genus Celtis, with about 70 species in the hemp ...

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