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Hoa Binh town, north-central Vietnam. It lies along the Black River (Song Da) about 45 miles (75 ...
Hoa Binh Dam (from the article "Black River") ...Vietnam on a course parallel to the Red River. Near the city of Hoa Binh, ...
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Hoagland's solution (from the article "Hoagland, Dennis Robert") ...conditions that would permit the identification and isolation of individual variables. His water-culture techniques for ...
Hoagland, Dennis Robert American plant physiologist and authority on plant and soil interactions.
Hoagland, Edward American novelist, travel writer, and essayist, noted especially for his writings about nature and wildlife.
Hoar, Ebenezer R. American politician, a leading antislavery Whig in Massachusetts who was briefly attorney general in President ...
Hoar, George Frisbie American politician who was one of the leading organizers of the Republican Party and a ...
hoarding (from the article "military technology") ...fire along the face and foot of the wall, and the towers were made higher ...
hoarding (from the article "Europe, history of") Throughout this period there were vivid and striking manifestations of religious beliefs, ritual behaviour, and ...
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 2nd Baronet British statesman who was a chief architect of the Government of India Act of 1935 ... [2 Related Articles]
Hoare-Laval Plan (from the article "international relations") In December, Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare, the British foreign secretary, contrived a secret plan ...
hoarfrost deposit of ice crystals on objects exposed to the free air, such as grass blades, ... [4 Related Articles]
hoarseness (from the article "speech disorder") The selection of methods in the medical treatment or educational rehabilitation of communication disorders depends ...
hoary bamboo rat (from the article "bamboo rat") ...to the single species of lesser bamboo rat (C. badius ), the three ...
hoary bat migratory North American bat found in wooded areas from Canada to Mexico. It is one ... [3 Related Articles]
hoary fox (from the article "fox") ...kg) and gray; found in sparsely wooded regions of the Indian subcontinent. V. ...
hoary marmot (from the article "marmot") ...in winter, most of them deeply, although some may emerge from their burrows for short ...
hoary plantain (from the article "Plantago") The greater plantain (Plantago major ) provides seed spikes for bird food. Ribwort and hoary plantain ...
hoatzin primitive chicken-sized bird of South American swamps, principally in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins. ... [4 Related Articles]
hob (from the article "machine tool") Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on ...
Hoban, James U.S. architect who was the designer and builder of the White House in Washington, D.C. ... [2 Related Articles]
Hoban, Russell American novelist and children's writer who combined myth, fantasy, humour, and philosophy to explore issues ... [1 Related Articles]
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Hobart Pasa English naval captain and adventurer who commanded the Ottoman squadron in the Russo-Turkish War of ...
Hobart, Garret A 24th vice president of the United States (1897-99) in the Republican administration of President William ...
Hobart, John Henry U.S. educator, publisher, author, and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church whose emphasis upon the ...
Hobart, Percy British army officer and military theorist who developed specialized tanks that were used in the ...
Hobbema, Meindert Dutch painter, one of the most important Baroque landscapists of the Dutch school.
Hobbes, Thomas English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in ... [32 Related Articles]
hobble skirt (from the article "Poiret, Paul") ...of pre-World War I Paris. Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, ...
Hobbs city, Lea county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S., near the Texas state line. Founded by farmer ...
Hobbs, Alfred Charles (from the article "lock") ...one in his London shop and offered a reward of £200 to the first person ...
Hobbs, Bruce Robertson British jockey and trainer (b. Dec. 27, 1920, Long Island, N.Y.-d. Nov. 21, 2005, Newmarket, ...
Hobbs, Sir John Berry English athlete who was the world's greatest cricket batsman of his time.
hobby any of certain birds of prey of the genus Falco (primarily F. subbuteo ) that are ...
hobby (from the article "publishing, history of") Specialized magazines for the layman may fall into the hobby category. Very often a professional ...
Hobby, Oveta Culp American editor and publisher of the Houston Post (1952-53), first director of the U.S. Women's ... [1 Related Articles]
hobby-horse (from the article "bicycle") ...draisienne and patented an improved model in 1818 as the "pedestrian curricle." The following year ...
Hobeika, Elie Lebanese militia leader (b. 1956, Kleiat, Lebanon-d. Jan. 24, 2002, Hazmiyeh, Lebanon), was the ruthless ...
Hobhouse, Emily English reformer and social worker whose humanitarian undertakings in South Africa caused her to be ...
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny English sociologist and philosopher who tried to reconcile liberalism with collectivism in the interest of ... [1 Related Articles]
Hoboken city, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. Adjoining Jersey City and Union City, it lies ...
Hobson, John Atkins (from the article "political philosophy") ...of Capitalism (1917), he had extended the class war into an inevitable conflict between European ...
Hobson, Laura Z American novelist and short-story writer noted for her novel Gentleman's Agreement (1947), a best-selling study ...
Hobson, William (from the article "New Zealand") In 1838 the British government decided upon at least partial annexation. In 1839 it commissioned ...
Hoby, Sir Thomas English diplomat and translator of Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano ("The Book of the ...
Hocart, Arthur Maurice (from the article "rite of passage") ...saw the significance of the ceremonies as being social or cultural, celebrating important events that ...
Hoccleve, Thomas English poet, contemporary and imitator of Chaucer, whose work has little literary merit but much ... [1 Related Articles]
Hoceima, Al- city, northern Morocco. The city, founded by Spaniards in 1926 as Villa Sanjurjo, still has ...
Hoch, Winton (from the article "1948: Other Winners") ...the Sierra Madre Motion Picture Story: Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler for The Search Cinematography, Black-and-White: William ...
hocha (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...rain not fall or a water conduit break without cause, it was believed that such ...
Hochbrucker, Celestin (from the article "pedal harp") ...each string; when turned, a hook shortened the string by a semitone. Besides interrupting the ...
Hoche, Lazare general of the French Revolutionary Wars who drove the Austro-Prussian armies from Alsace in 1793 ... [2 Related Articles]
Hocheifel (from the article "Eifel") ...and the Luxembourg and Belgian frontiers. Continuous with the Ardennes and the Hohes Venn (French: ...
Hochelaga (from the article "Montreal") The site of Montreal was called Hochelaga by the Huron Indians when Jacques Cartier, a ...
Hochelaga Archipelago (from the article "Montreal") ...is the second most populous metropolitan area of Canada. The present city proper occupies about ...
Hochgolling (from the article "Niedere Tauern") ...Austria; lying between the Enns and Mur rivers, it extends 75 miles (120 km) westward ...
Hochhuth, Rolf (from the article "Fact, Theatre of") German dramatic movement that arose during the early 1960s, associated primarily with Rolf Hochhuth, Peter ...
Hochmichele barrow (from the article "Heuneburg") Outside the hill-fort were a number of princely graves, including the Hochmichele barrow, which dates ...
Hochrhein (from the article "Rhine River") ...section the Rhine has been straightened and the banks reinforced to prevent flooding. The Rhine ...
Hochst (from the article "Melchior, Johann Peter") modeller in porcelain, best known of the artists associated with the great German porcelain factory ...
Hochzeitsturm (from the article "Olbrich, Joseph") ...Louis. He designed six of the houses there, as well as a central hall for ...
hocket in medieval polyphonic (multipart) music, the device of alternating between parts, single notes, or groups ... [2 Related Articles]
hocking (from the article "Hocktide play") ...defeated and led away as captives by English women. This was meant to represent the ...
Hocking, William Ernest (from the article "Idealism") ...type, so called because it was founded by one of America's most distinguished philosophers, the ...
Hockney, David English painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer whose works are characterized by economy of ... [3 Related Articles]
Hocktide play a folk play formerly given at Coventry, Eng., on Hock Tuesday (the second Tuesday after ...
Hod (from the article "Balder") ...favourite of the gods. Most legends about him concern his death. Icelandic stories tell how ...
hodegetria (from the article "Madonna") ...and the congregation. The major types of the Madonna in Byzantine art are the nikopoia ...
Hodes, Art American jazz and blues pianist known for the emotional commitment of his playing. He is ... [1 Related Articles]
Hodesh, ha- (from the article "Sabbath") ...Sabbath precedes the festival of Purim. On Para ("red heifer"), Numbers 19:1-22 admonishes the Jews ...
Hodge, Albion (from the article "Dependent States") ...had pleaded guilty in exchange for a lighter jail term. Former BVI budget coordinator Bevis ...
Hodge, Charles conservative American biblical scholar and a leader of the "Princeton School" of Reformed, or Calvinist, ... [1 Related Articles]
Hodge, John R. (from the article "international relations") ...1910, on either side of the 38th parallel. In North Korea indigenous Marxists under Kim ...
Hodgenville city, seat (1843) of Larue county, central Kentucky, U.S. It lies along the Nolin River ...
Hodges, C. Walter (from the article "children's literature") ...the rusty tradition of Marryat and George Alfred Henty. Some of its foremost representatives were ...
Hodges, Courtney Hicks American army officer who led the First Army across western Europe in 1944-45 during World ... [1 Related Articles]
Hodges, Johnny American jazz saxophonist who was a featured soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra. Renowned for the ... [2 Related Articles]
Hodgins, Jack (from the article "Canadian literature") ...confronting women in innovative short stories (Real Mothers [1981]) and novels (Intertidal Life , 1984; Graven ...
Hodgkin disease an uncommon cancer of the lymphatic system (malignant lymphoma) that usually strikes young adults and ... [3 Related Articles]
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot English chemist whose determination of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 brought her the ... [1 Related Articles]
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Hodgkin, Thomas English physician who early described (1832) the malignant disease of lymph tissue that bears his ... [1 Related Articles]
Hodgson, George Canadian swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm and ...
Hodgson, Ralph poet noted for simple and mystical lyrics that express a love of nature and a ...
Hodh Basin (from the article "Mauritania") In the southeast the vast Hodh Basin, with its dunes, sandstone plateaus, and immense regs, ...
Hodler, Ferdinand one of the most important Swiss painters of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Hodler, Marc Swiss lawyer and sports administrator (b. Oct. 26, 1918, Bern, Switz.-d. Oct. 18, 2006, Bern), ...
Hodna, Chott el- shallow saline lake in north-central Algeria. It is separated from the Tell Atlas to the ...
hodonymy (from the article "name") ...is the understanding of the term toponymy, then the uninhabited places (e.g. , fields, small parts ...
Hodson, William Stephen Raikes British cavalry leader in India, whose reputation was clouded by charges of fraud and mistreatment.
Hodur, Francis (from the article "Polish National Catholic Church of America") In 1896-97 members of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Parish in Scranton, Pa., ...
Hodza, Milan (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...Slovak autonomy were counterbalanced by other parties seeking closer contacts with the corresponding Czech groups; ...
hoe one of the oldest tools of agriculture, a digging implement consisting of a blade set ... [1 Related Articles]
Hoe, Richard March American inventor who developed and manufactured the first successful rotary printing press. [2 Related Articles]
Hoe, Robert American printing-press manufacturer who, as head (1823-33) of R. Hoe and Company, bought (1827) and ...
hoecake (from the article "cornbread") There are numerous regional variations of cornbread. The simplest are hoecakes, a mixture of cornmeal, ...
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft former German chemical concern founded in 1863 in the Hochst quarter of Frankfurt am Main. ... [3 Related Articles]
Hoefer, J. C. F. (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...philologist Johann Cristoph Adelung and others and is still of value today. The field of ...
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove Danish statesman who was a powerful minister during the reign of the mentally unstable king ...
Hoek van Holland (from the article "harbours and sea works") ...salt line had reached alarming proportions as a result of the improvement in the navigational ...
Hoel, Halvor peasant agitator who influenced peasant opinion against Norway's early 19th-century political leaders.
Hoel, Sigurd novelist who is considered most representative of the interwar generation of fiction writers in Norway. ...
Hoem, Edvard (from the article "Literature") ...the sacrifices that a person makes in life in pursuit of his or her art. ...
Hoenir (from the article "Vanir") ...satisfaction or equal status. Declaring war instead, the Aesir suffered numerous defeats before granting equality. ...
Hoerni, Jean (from the article "Noyce, Robert") In 1958 Jean Hoerni, another Fairchild Semiconductor founder, engineered a process to place a layer ...
Hoess, Rudolf Franz German soldier and Nazi partisan who served as commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp (1940-45), ... [1 Related Articles]
Hoevell, Wolter Robert, Baron van statesman and member of the Dutch Parliament who was largely responsible for ending the exploitive ...
hof (from the article "Denmark") ...essential works appeared: a code of law and the Jordebog ("Land Book"), ...
hof (from the article "Germanic religion and mythology") The word hof, commonly applied to temples in the literature of Iceland, seems to belong ...
Hofbauer, Saint Clement Mary original name John Hofbauer patron saint of Vienna. [1 Related Articles]
Hofburg (from the article "Vienna") The vast complex of the Imperial Palace, the Hofburg (or Burg), lies along the Ringstrasse. ...
Hofe, Julius von (from the article "fishing") ...and shark. Big-game fishing spread to the Atlantic, and catches of increasing size were made ...
Hofeditz, W. (from the article "radical") ...·CH3 , also exist and play key roles as transient intermediates in many chemical reactions. The ...
Hofer, Andreas Tirolese patriot, military leader, and popular hero who fought Napoleonic France and Bavaria for two ... [1 Related Articles]
Hoff, Jacobus Henricus van 't Dutch physical chemist and first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1901), for work ... [6 Related Articles]
Hoff, Katie (from the article "Swimming") ...of 59.58 sec (set in 2002) when she touched in 59.44 sec, half a stroke ...
Hoff, Ted (from the article "computer") ...turned out to be a most valuable diversion. While specialized chips were effective at their ...
Hoffa, James P. American labour leader elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) in 1998 ... [2 Related Articles]
Hoffa, James R. American labour leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1957 ... [2 Related Articles]
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