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 Hanachka Rezna ... Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site Hanachka Rezna (from the article "Hana Valley") ...royal city and capital of Moravia until 1642. Other towns include Prostejov, an industrial centre ... Hanafi, al- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...multaqa al-zuhur bi rawdah min al-manzum wa al manthur (1524; "Collection of Tangled Flowers in ... Hanafiyah in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, incorporating the legal opinions ... [5 Related Articles] hanafuda (Japanese: "flower cards"), deck of 48 cards divided into 12 suits of four cards. Each ... Hanai, Masaya Japanese businessman who as director (1959-78) and chairman (1978-82) of Toyota Motor Corp. turned the ... Hanaki (from the article "Hana Valley") ...Valova, and Hana rivers and the Morava, its very fertile soils support wheat, barley, corn ... Hanalei village, Kauai county, on the north-central coast of Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Near the head ... hanamichi (Japanese: "flower passage"), in Kabuki theatre, runway that passes from the rear of the theatre ... [2 Related Articles] Hanare Kirishitan (from the article "Kirishitan") ...would not abandon various Buddhist and other non-Christian elements that had crept into Kakure Kirishitan ... Hanau city, Hessen Land (state), central Germany. It is a port on the ... [1 Related Articles] Hanauer, Chip As a boat racer, Chip Hanauer left all the other drivers in his wake. He ... Hanauma Bay (from the article "Koko Head") Attractions on the coast include Hanauma Bay, an eroded crater that is now a popular ... Hancock county, southeastern Maine, U.S. It is located in a mountain-and-valley region bounded to the west ... Hancock city, Houghton county, northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located about halfway up ... Hancock, Herbie American keyboard player, songwriter, and bandleader, a prolific recording artist who achieved success as an ... [3 Related Articles] Hancock, Hunter (from the article "Hunter Hancock") Hunter Hancock is remembered as the first white disc jockey to play rhythm-and-blues records in ... Hancock, John American Revolutionary leader and first signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. [1 Related Articles] Hancock, Joseph (from the article "Sheffield plate") ...cooled, and rolled. The edges of pieces made were rolled over to hide the copper ... Hancock, Joy Bright U.S. military officer, one of the first women to hold a regular commission in the ... Hancock, Keith (from the article "Australian literature") ...and resourcefulness of the Australian soldier, the digger, was in fact derived from the bushman-that ... Hancock, Langley George Australian mining industrialist who unearthed some of the largest iron-ore reserves in the world, making ... Hancock, Sheila (from the article "Literature") Banville's themes of loss, identity, and remembrance recurred in Sheila Hancock's memoir, The Two of ... Hancock, Thomas English inventor and manufacturer who founded the British rubber industry. His chief invention, the "masticator," ... [1 Related Articles] Hancock, Winfield Scott Union general during the American Civil War (1861-65), whose policies during Reconstruction military service in ... [2 Related Articles] Hancza, Lake (from the article "Podlaskie") ...Lowland occupies the south-central part of the province. To the north is a portion of ... hand grasping organ at the end of the forelimb of certain vertebrates that exhibits great mobility ... [8 Related Articles] hand ancient unit of length, now standardized at 4 inches (10.16 cm) and used today primarily ... [1 Related Articles] hand ax (from the article "Acheulean industry") The most characteristic Acheulean tools are termed hand axes and cleavers. Considerable improvement in the ... hand drill (from the article "hand tool") Both the bow and pump drills remained the metal-worker's prime tool for drilling small holes ... Hand G (from the article "Eyck, Jan van") ...Eyck paid an illuminator for preparing a book for the duke; but central to the ... hand lay-up (from the article "plastic") Hand lay-up is a versatile method employed in the construction of large structures such as ... Hand of Fatima (from the article "Algeria, flag of") ...Liberation Front and the National Liberation Army gave support to that flag, finally raised over ... hand puppet (from the article "puppetry") These have a hollow cloth body that fits over the manipulator's hand; his fingers fit ... hand replenished loom (from the article "textile") Hand-replenished, or nonautomatic, looms are used only where particular circumstances-of yarns, fabrics, or use-make automatically ... hand tool any of the implements used by craftsmen in manual operations, such as chopping, chiseling, sawing, ... [2 Related Articles] hand truck (from the article "industrial truck") ...trucks permit mechanized pickup and deposit of the loads, eliminating manual work in lifting as ... Hand, Edward American army officer during the American Revolution. Hand, Learned American jurist whose tough and sometimes profound mind, philosophical skepticism, and faith in the United ... hand-mined tunneling (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") The ancient practice of hand mining is still economical for some conditions (shorter and smaller ... hand-to-hand combat (from the article "tactics") Apart from ambush and raid, which depend on making the best possible use of terrain, ... Handa city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. Handa lies on the Chita Peninsula, facing Chita Bay ... Handa Nkhumbi (from the article "African music") Where, in addition to the second, third, and fourth partials, the fifth partials of each ... Handal, Schafik (from the article "El Salvador") The death of Schafik Handal on Jan. 24, 2006, was a blow to El Salvador's ... Handan city, southern Hebei sheng (province), China. Handan is situated on the higher ... handball any of a family of games played in walled courts or against a single wall, ... [1 Related Articles] handbell small bell-usually of brass or bronze but sometimes of copper, clay, porcelain, glass, wood, or ... [1 Related Articles] handbook (from the article "encyclopaedia") It was not until the 1860s that three of the most useful handbooks that were ... handcuffs device for shackling the hands, used by police on prisoners under arrest. Until modern times, ... handedness (from the article "handedness") a tendency to use one hand rather than the other to perform most activities; it ... Handel, George Frideric German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and ... [22 Related Articles] handgun any firearm small enough to be held in one hand when fired. It usually fires ... [2 Related Articles] handicap in sports and games, method of offsetting the varying abilities or characteristics of competitors in ... [4 Related Articles] handicraft (from the article "Asia") Traditional cottage industries and handicrafts continue to play an important role in the economies of ... Handie-Talkie (from the article "Motorola, Inc.") ...a pair of two-way radio communications products for the police and military. The first was ... Handke, Peter avant-garde Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, one of the most original German-language writers in ... [2 Related Articles] Handl, Jacob German-Austrian composer known for his sacred music. [1 Related Articles] Handler, Daniel Capitalizing on the unsentimental tastes of legions of 10-13-year-old readers, American storyteller Daniel Handler (a.k.a. ... Handler, Milton American lawyer and teacher who helped draft a number of well-known laws, among them the ... Handler, Ruth Mosko American entrepreneur and businesswoman (b. Nov. 4, 1916, Denver, Colo.-d. April 27, 2002, Los Angeles, ... [1 Related Articles] Handley Page 0/400 (from the article "Page, Sir Frederick Handley") British aircraft designer who built the Handley Page 0/400, one of the largest heavy bomber ... Handley Page H.P.42 (from the article "flight, history of") ...drove cars and trucks to create a visible track for pilots to follow; in some ... Handley Page Transport, Ltd. (from the article "Halifax") British heavy bomber used during World War II. The Halifax was designed by Handley Page, ... Handley, Vernon George British conductor championed British composers, both in concert and in the studio; he made more ... Handlin, Oscar American historian and educator noted for his examinations of immigration and other social topics in ... handling (from the article "painting, Western") ...The starting point of Cezanne was, by contrast, vigorous to the point of violence. In ... handoff (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...the course of a call, a central controller automatically reroutes the call from the old ... Hands of the Cause of God (from the article "Baha'i faith") There also exist in the Baha'i faith appointive institutions, such as the Hands of the ... hands, imposition of ritual act in which a priest or other religious functionary places one or both hands ... [4 Related Articles] handsaw (from the article "hand tool") The familiar modern handsaw, with its thin but wide steel blade, cuts on the push ... handsome fungus beetle (from the article "coleopteran") ...beetles) are short, flattened, and have slightly shortened elytra. Coccinellidae (ladybugs, ladybird beetles) are rounded, ... Handsome Lake cult longest-established prophet movement in North America. Its founder was Ganioda'yo (q.v.), a Seneca chief whose ... [1 Related Articles] handwriting (from the article "calligraphy") During the 2nd millennium BCE, various Semitic peoples at the eastern end of the Mediterranean ... Handy, W.C. black American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom ... [3 Related Articles] Haneef, Mohamed (from the article "Australia") ...in Glasgow, Scot., and London thrust Australia into what Howard described as the borderless world ... Hanert Electrical Orchestra (from the article "electronic instrument") ...developed during the 1940s and '50s. Unlike commercial keyboard-controlled organs and related instruments, the score-reading ... Hanert, John (from the article "electronic instrument") ...keyboard-controlled organs and related instruments, the score-reading instruments were large, experimentally oriented devices. One example, ... Hanes, Oivind (from the article "Literature") Oivind Hanes was also nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his melancholic novel ... Hanf, William (from the article "metalogic") ...logics may include functions or relations with infinitely many arguments, infinitely long conjunctions and disjunctions, ... Hanford Engineer Works (from the article "Notable early nuclear reactors") ...a medium-size reactor at Oak Ridge. The large-scale production reactors were built on an isolated ... hang glider (from the article "airplane") Unpowered manned heavier-than-air vehicles must be launched to obtain lift. These include hang gliders, gliders, ... hang gliding sport of flying in lightweight unpowered aircraft which can be carried by the pilot. Takeoff ... Hang-chou Bay (from the article "Chekiang") ...is renowned for its scenic beauty. The name of the province derives from its principal ... Hanga Roa (from the article "Easter Island") ...the Dutch, named it Paaseiland ("Easter Island") in memory of their own day of arrival. ... Hanga, Abdulla Kassim, Sheikh (from the article "Tanzania") ...massacred in riots, and thousands more fled the island. Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, leader of ... hangar (from the article "building construction") ...hinged at each end) and three-hinge (made of two members hinged at each end and ... Hangayn Mountains range in central Mongolia. It extends northwest-southeast for about 500 miles (805 km), parallels the ... [1 Related Articles] Hangenberg Event (from the article "Devonian Period") ...and manticoceratid goniatite groups, many conodont species, most colonial corals, several groups of trilobites, and ... hangi (from the article "New Zealand") ...imaginative and cosmopolitan fare, and the number of restaurants, bistros, and cafes in the major ... hanging execution by strangling or breaking the neck by a suspended noose. The traditional method, still ... [1 Related Articles] hanging buttress (from the article "buttress") Other types of buttresses include pier or tower buttresses, simple masonry piles attached to a ... Hanging Gardens of Babylon gardens considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World and thought to be located ... [5 Related Articles] hanging moss (from the article "beard lichen") ...cough, catarrh, epilepsy, and dropsy. It has been used also as an astringent, a tonic, ... hanging valley (from the article "glacial valley") ...ice is the dominant factor in the deepening process, smaller tributary glaciers erode their troughs ... hanging wall (from the article "glacial landform") ...glacial valleys are occupied by one or several cirques (or corries). A cirque is an ... hangover (from the article "alcoholism") ...conditions associated with alcoholism are those that occur in the postintoxication state-the alcohol-withdrawal syndromes. The ... Hanguana (from the article "Commelinales") Until recently, the closest relatives of the tropical Asian Hanguana, the only genus in Hanguanaceae, ... Hanguanaceae (from the article "Commelinales") Until recently, the closest relatives of the tropical Asian Hanguana, the only genus in Hanguanaceae, ... Hangul alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Choson muntcha in ... [9 Related Articles] Hangzhou city and capital of Zhejiang sheng (province), China. The city is located ... [7 Related Articles] Hani an official nationality of China. The Hani live mainly on the high southwestern plateau of ... [1 Related Articles] Hani language (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...Tibetic (i.e., Tibetan in the widest sense of the word) comprises a number of dialects ... Hani, Martin Thembisile ("CHRIS"), South African political activist (b. June 28, 1942, Cofimvaba, South Africa--d. April 10, 1993, ... hanif in the Qur'an, the sacred scripture of Islam, an Arabic designation for true monotheists (especially ... Hanish Islands archipelago in the southern Red Sea that as of November 1, 1998, was officially recognized ... [1 Related Articles] haniwa unglazed terra-cotta cylinders and hollow sculptures arranged on and around the mounded tombs (kofun) of ... [4 Related Articles] Haniya, Ismail (from the article "Israel") ...Bank population at 1,486,000 and that of the Gaza Strip at 1,177,000 | Principal administrative ... hank in textile manufacture, unit of measure applied to a length of yarn or to a ... Hank Gonzalez, Carlos Mexican politician (b. Aug. 28, 1927, Santiago Tianguistenco, Mex.-d. Aug. 11, 2001, Santiago Tianguistenco), was ... hanka (from the article "Japanese literature") The choka often concluded with one or more hanka ... Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron soldier and politician, first holder of the office of secretary to the British Cabinet. He ... hanko (from the article "education") ...which provided the moral training for upper-class samurai that was essential for maintaining the ideology ... Hanko Peninsula (from the article "Russo-Finnish War") ...help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March ... Hankou large urban area and river port, east-central Hubei sheng (province), central China. ... [4 Related Articles] Hanks, Nancy (from the article "Lincoln, Abraham") ...weaver's apprentice who had migrated from England to Massachusetts in 1637. Though much less prosperous ... Hanks, Nancy American public official whose position as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts allowed ... Hanks, Tom American film actor whose cheerful, everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in ... [4 Related Articles] Hankyu Electric Railway (from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") ...since 1920 there has been a migration from the city to the suburbs, helped along ... Hanlin Academy elite scholarly institution founded in the 8th century AD in China to perform secretarial, archival, ... [4 Related Articles] Hann, Julius von (from the article "Earth sciences") ...metres, took samples of air, and later determined that the rarefied air at that altitude ... Hanna and Barbera American motion-picture animators and partners in Hanna-Barbera Productions, founded in 1957. William Hanna (in full ... Hanna, Arthur Dion (from the article "Bahamas, The") Area: 13,939 sq km (5,382 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 331,000 | Capital: ... Hanna, Mark American industrialist and prototype of the political kingmaker; he successfully promoted the presidential candidacy of ... [2 Related Articles] Hanna, Sir Roland Pembroke American jazz pianist (b. Feb. 10, 1932, Detroit, Mich.-d. Nov. 13, 2002, Harris, N.Y.), fused ... Hanna, William Denby American animator (b. July 14, 1910, Melrose, N.M.-d. March 22, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), in ... [1 Related Articles] Hannah (11th century BC), mother of Samuel, the Jewish judge. Childless as one of the two ... [3 Related Articles] Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site (from the article "Merrimack") The Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site commemorates a clash between settlers and Abenaki Indians in ...

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