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HuffPo (Web site)
American news and commentary Web site, with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. The Huffington Post was founded in May 2005 by political activist Arianna Huffington, former America Online executive Kenneth Lerer, and ...
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HuffPost (Web site)
American news and commentary Web site, with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. The Huffington Post was founded in May 2005 by political activist Arianna Huffington, former America Online executive Kenneth Lerer, and ...
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Hufūf, Al- (Saudi Arabia)
town, eastern Saudi Arabia. It lies in the large Al-Hasa oasis and on the railroad from Riyadh to Al-Dammām. The headquarters of the Ottoman administration from 1871, when the Ottoman Empire seized eastern Arabia, it was recaptured in 1913 by th...
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Hug Doctor (American author and lecturer)
American guru to self-help aficionados who, by means of books, lectures, and recordings, was a tireless advocate of the power of love; he often reinforced his message by physically embracing members of his audiences (b. March 31, 1924, Los Angeles, Calif.--d. June 12, 1998, Lake Tahoe, Nev.)....
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Hügel, Friedrich von, Baron von Hügel (Austrian-British philosopher)
Roman Catholic philosopher and author who was the forerunner of the realist revival in philosophy and the theological study of religious feeling....
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Hugel, Jean Frederic (French vintner)
Sept. 28, 1924Riquewihr, Alsace, FranceJune 9, 2009Ribeauvillé, AlsaceFrench vintner who who revived Alsace’s wine trade after World War II, serving as an ambassador for Alsace wines abroad and as a regu...
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Hugenberg, Alfred (German political leader)
German industrialist and political leader. As the head of a huge newspaper and film empire and a prominent member of the conservative German National Peoples’ Party, he exercised a profound influence on German public opinion during the Weimar Repu...
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Huggins, Charles B. (American surgeon and medical researcher)
Canadian-born American surgeon and urologist whose investigations demonstrated the relationship between hormones and certain types of cancer. For his discoveries Huggins received (with Peyton Rous) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966....
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Huggins, Charles Brenton (American surgeon and medical researcher)
Canadian-born American surgeon and urologist whose investigations demonstrated the relationship between hormones and certain types of cancer. For his discoveries Huggins received (with Peyton Rous) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966....
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Huggins, Peter Jeremy William (British actor)
(PETER JEREMY WILLIAM HUGGINS), British actor who began his career in classical theatre and portrayed dashing young aristocrats, notably Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 film My Fair Lady, but found his signature role as the quintessential Sherlock Holmes onstage and in Granada Television’s 41-part series, 198...
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Huggins, Roy (American writer, producer, and director)
American writer, producer, and director (b. July 18, 1914, Litelle, Wash.—d. April 3, 2002, Santa Monica, Calif.), counted such innovative hit television series as Maverick (1957–62), 77 Sunset Strip (1958–64), The Fugitive (1963–67), and ...
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Huggins, Sir Godfrey (prime minister of Southern Rhodesia)
prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1933–53) and architect of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which he served as its first prime minister (1953–56)....
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Huggins, Sir William (English astronomer)
English astronomer who revolutionized observational astronomy by applying spectroscopic methods to the determination of the chemical constituents of stars and other celestial objects....
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Hugh (Syrian bishop)
...Holy Land (Palestine) from the Muslims. In 1071 Jerusalem had been conquered by the Seljuq Turks. Based on a report about Prester John by Bishop Hugh of Gebal in Syria (modern Jubayl, Lebanon) in 1145 to the papal court at Viterbo, Italy, the story was first recorded by Bishop Otto of Freising, Ger., in his Chronicon (1145). According......
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Hugh Capet (king of France)
king of France from 987 to 996, and the first of a direct line of 14 Capetian kings of that country. The Capetian dynasty derived its name from his nickname (Latin capa, “cape”)....
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Hugh de Payns (French crusader)
...returned home after fulfilling their vows, and Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem suffered attacks from Muslim raiders. Pitying the plight of these Christians, eight or nine French knights led by Hugh de Payns vowed in late 1119 or early 1120 to devote themselves to the pilgrims’ protection and to form a religious community for that......
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Hugh I (lord of Lusignan)
Hugh (Hugues) I, lord of Lusignan, was a vassal of the counts of Poitiers in the 10th century. Early members of the family participated in the Crusades, but it was Hugh VIII’s sons who established the family fortunes....
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Hugh II of Cyprus (king of Jerusalem)
...the Cypriot connection of Antioch was thus maintained. In 1252 Bohemond VI established himself in Antioch, leaving Tripoli to itself, and in February 1258 he procured the recognition of his nephew, Hugh II of Cyprus, as king of Jerusalem. In 1268 he lost Antioch to the Mamlūks. Thus fell the richest and oldest of the Crusader states....
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Hugh III (king of Cyprus)
king of Cyprus and Jerusalem who founded the house of Antioch-Lusignan that ruled Cyprus until 1489....
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Hugh IX the Brown (lord of Lusignan)
Hugh VIII’s eldest son and successor, Hugh IX the Brown (d. 1219), held the countship of La Marche. In 1200 his fiancée, Isabella of Angoulême, was taken for wife by his feudal lord, King John of England. This outrage caused Hugh to turn to the king of France, Philip II Augustus, forming an alliance that culminated in John’s loss of his continental possessions....
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Hugh Le Despenser, earl of Winchester (English noble, the elder [1262-1326])
Hugh Le Despenser (in full Hugh Le Despenser, earl of Winchester; b. 1262—d. Oct. 27, 1326Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.), also known as Hugh the Elder, was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1295. He fought in France and Scotland......
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Hugh Le Despenser the Elder (English noble, the elder [1262-1326])
Hugh Le Despenser (in full Hugh Le Despenser, earl of Winchester; b. 1262—d. Oct. 27, 1326Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.), also known as Hugh the Elder, was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1295. He fought in France and Scotland......
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Hugh Le Despenser the Younger (English noble, the younger [died 1326])
...Thomas, earl of Lancaster, leader of the baronial opposition, procured his dismissal from court and council in February 1315. He then worked to further the interests of his son, Hugh Le Despenser (Hugh the Younger; d. Nov. 24, 1326Hereford, Herefordshire, Eng.), who had been in......
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Hugh of Arles (king of Italy)
...Piacenza. After Berengar’s murder (924), Rudolf ruled both Jurane Burgundy and Italy, residing alternately in the two kingdoms. In 926 Italian nobles, dissatisfied with his reign, made overtures to Hugh of Provence, the actual master of Provence, which was only nominally held by the emperor Louis III (the Blind). Rudolf, recognizing the weakness of his position, returned to Burgundy, and...
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Hugh of Cluny, Saint (French abbot)
French abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Cluny (1049–1109), under whose direction medieval monasticism reached its apogee and Cluny won recognition as the spiritual centre of Western Christianity. He also helped develop the liturgy of the Latin rite....
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Hugh of Lincoln, Little Saint (English martyr)
legendary English child martyr who was supposedly murdered by members of the local Jewish community for ritual purposes. There was little basis in fact for the story, but the cult that grew up around Hugh was a typical expression of the anti-Semitism that flourished in Europe after the year 1000....
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Hugh of Lincoln, Saint (French bishop)
French-born bishop of Lincoln, Eng., who became the first Carthusian monk to be canonized....
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Hugh of Saint-Victor (French theologian)
eminent scholastic theologian who began the tradition of mysticism that made the school of Saint-Victor, Paris, famous throughout the 12th century....
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Hugh of Vermandois (French noble)
The main Crusading force, which departed in August 1096 as Urban directed, consisted of four major contingents. A smaller, fifth force, led by Hugh of Vermandois, brother of King Philip I of France, left before the others but was reduced by shipwreck while crossing the Adriatic from Bari to Dyrrhachium (now Durrës, Albania). Godfrey of Bouillon, leader of the first large army to depart and....
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (poem by Pound)
...before he left two of his most important poetical works, Homage to Sextus Propertius, in the book Quia Pauper Amavi (1919), and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). Propertius is a comment on the British Empire in 1917, by way of Propertius and the.....
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Hugh the Fat (Norman noble)
son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom, and he held land in 20 counties. Hugh was called Le Gros because of his great bulk and Lupus because of his ferocity. He reg...
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Hugh the Great (duke of the Franks)
duke of the Franks, count of Paris, and progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. He was the most powerful man in the kingdom of France (West Francia) during the reign of Louis IV d’Outremer and the early years of King Lothar....
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Hugh the White (duke of the Franks)
duke of the Franks, count of Paris, and progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. He was the most powerful man in the kingdom of France (West Francia) during the reign of Louis IV d’Outremer and the early years of King Lothar....
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Hugh the Wolf (Norman noble)
son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom, and he held land in 20 counties. Hugh was called Le Gros because of his great bulk and Lupus because of his ferocity. He reg...
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Hugh Town (Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom)
village and capital of the Isles of Scilly, historic county of Cornwall, England. Located on a sandy peninsula on the southwestern side of St. Mary’s Island, the village has a harbour and a roadstead where large vessels can lie at anchor. Hugh Town gave shelter to Prince Charles (later Charles II) u...
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Hugh VIII (lord of Lusignan)
Hugh (Hugues) I, lord of Lusignan, was a vassal of the counts of Poitiers in the 10th century. Early members of the family participated in the Crusades, but it was Hugh VIII’s sons who established the family fortunes....
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Hugh X (lord of Lusignan)
John, in an attempt to pacify Hugh, gave his daughter Joan as fiancée to Hugh X (d. 1249), but the marriage never took place. Instead, after John’s death, Hugh X married his widow, Isabella, in 1220. Hugh and Isabella fluctuated in their loyalty to John’s successor (Isabella’s son), Henry III. When Louis IX of France granted Poitou as a countship to his brother Alphonse...
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Hugh XIII (lord of Lusignan)
...were rewarded with lands, riches, and distinctions at the expense of the English barons, who eventually revolted against Henry and forced the exile of the Lusignan brothers from England in 1258. Hugh XIII (d. 1303) pledged La Marche and Angoulême to Philip IV the Fair of France....
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Hughenden Manor (manor, High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom)
...Little Market House and Guildhall and the Red Lion Inn. High Wycombe is associated with Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th-century British statesman who fought several elections there and lived at nearby Hughenden Manor. Pop. (2001) 77,178....
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Hughenden of Hughenden, Benjamin Disraeli, Viscount (prime minister of United Kingdom)
British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80) and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism....
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Hughes Aircraft Company (American corporation)
In the field of aviation he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, Calif., using the profits to finance the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. On Sept. 12, 1935, in an airplane of his own design, he established the world’s landplane speed record of 352.46 miles (567.23......
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Hughes, Barnard (American actor)
American actor (b. July 16, 1915, Bedford Hills, N.Y.—d. July 11, 2006, New York, N.Y.), was a veteran character actor who appeared in more than 400 plays and in dozens of films and television shows. Hughes, who made his Broadway debut in 1935, won a Tony Award for best actor for his performance as the curmudgeonly patriarch in Hugh Leonard’s play Da (1978); he reprised his ro...
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Hughes, Bernard (American actor)
American actor (b. July 16, 1915, Bedford Hills, N.Y.—d. July 11, 2006, New York, N.Y.), was a veteran character actor who appeared in more than 400 plays and in dozens of films and television shows. Hughes, who made his Broadway debut in 1935, won a Tony Award for best actor for his performance as the curmudgeonly patriarch in Hugh Leonard’s play Da (1978); he reprised his ro...
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Hughes, Brendan (Northern Irish militant)
1948Belfast, N.Ire.Feb. 16, 2008BelfastNorthern Irish militant who joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1969, becoming an important street fighter, arms smuggler, and strategist; later, as an IRA leader in the Maze prison, he led protests, including a 53-day hunger strike in 1980. Hugh...
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Hughes, Charles (British circus manager)
Concurrent with these developments, a rival horseman and former Astley employee named Charles Hughes traveled to Russia in 1773 to perform for Catherine the Great in the royal palace of St. Petersburg. He took with him a small company of trick riders and taught horsemanship at the court. Hughes is therefore sometimes credited with having introduced the circus to Russia, but his exhibitions......
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Hughes, Charles Evans (United States jurist and statesman)
jurist and statesman who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–16), U.S. secretary of state (1921–25), and 11th chief justice of the United States (1930–41). As chief justice he led the Supreme Court through the great controve...
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Hughes, David Edward (British inventor)
Anglo-American inventor of the carbon microphone, which was important to the development of telephony. His family emigrated to the United States when he was seven years old. In 1850 he became professor of music at St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Ky. Five years later he took out a U.S. patent for a ...
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Hughes, Edward James (British poet)
English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines....
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Hughes Electronics Corporation (American corporation)
American provider of wireless telecommunication services and formerly a leading manufacturer of satellites. The company was formed in 1985 as GM Hughes Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, and renamed in 1995 as Hughes Electronics Corporation. In 2000 Hughes sold its satell...
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Hughes, Emlyn Walter (British athlete)
British association football (soccer) player (b. Aug. 28, 1947, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, Eng.—d. Nov. 9, 2004, Sheffield, Eng.), was one of England’s finest footballers of the 1970s; during 12 years (1967–79) with Liverpool, the exuberant left-half known as “Crazy Horse” led that club to the Football Association Cup (1974), four league championships (1973, ...
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Hughes, George Patrick (British athlete)
British tennis player, who was the only Englishman to become the singles titleholder at the Italian Open and also was considered one of his generation’s best doubles players (b. Dec. 21, 1902--d. May 8, 1997)....
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Hughes, Glenn (American singer)
American singer (b. July 18, 1950, New York, N.Y.—d. March 4, 2001, New York), performed as a leather-clad biker in the flamboyant disco band the Village People. Hughes had been working as a toll collector before successfully auditioning for the openly gay band in 1977. The Village People went on to record a string of...
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Hughes H-1 (monoplane)
...a world landplane speed record of 352 miles (563 km) per hour in a racer designed to his own specifications and powered by a 1,000-horsepower twin-row radial engine built by Pratt & Whitney. The Hughes H-1 was a low-wing monoplane built with unbraced wings with a “stressed-skin” metal covering that bore stress loads and thereby permitted a reduction in weight of the interna...
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Hughes, Howard (American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer)
American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer much publicized for his aversion to publicity as well as for the uses to which he put his vast wealth....
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Hughes, Howard Robard (American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer)
American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer much publicized for his aversion to publicity as well as for the uses to which he put his vast wealth....
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Hughes, James Mercer Langston (American poet)
black poet and writer who became, through numerous translations, one of the foremost interpreters to the world of the black experience in the United States. Hughes’s parents separated soon after his birth, and young Hughes was raised by his mother and grandmother. After his grandmother’s death, he and his mothe...
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Hughes, John (American film director)
American film director, writer, and producer who in the 1980s established the modern American teen movie as a genre. Hughes successfully portrayed the reality of adolescent life while maintaining a funny and lighthearted tone....
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Hughes, John (American archbishop)
first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, who became one of the foremost American Roman Catholic prelates of his time. Hughes immigrated in 1816 to the United States, studied at Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., and was ordained priest in 1826. After serving several parishes in Philadelphia, where he found...
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Hughes, John (Welsh metallurgist)
After several largely unsuccessful efforts to establish a metallurgical industry on the coalfield, an ironworks was set up in 1872 by a Welshman, John Hughes, at the site of present-day Donetsk. During the 1880s the Donets Basin developed into the principal iron- and steel-producing region of the country; by 1913 it was making 74 percent of all Russian ......
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Hughes, John Ceiriog (Welsh poet)
poet and folk musicologist who wrote outstanding Welsh-language lyrics....
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Hughes, John Wilden, Jr. (American film director)
American film director, writer, and producer who in the 1980s established the modern American teen movie as a genre. Hughes successfully portrayed the reality of adolescent life while maintaining a funny and lighthearted tone....
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Hughes, June Beulah (American scriptwriter)
American scriptwriter, who helped establish the primacy of the script in American silent films....
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Hughes, Langston (American poet)
black poet and writer who became, through numerous translations, one of the foremost interpreters to the world of the black experience in the United States. Hughes’s parents separated soon after his birth, and young Hughes was raised by his mother and grandmother. After his grandmother’s death, he and his mothe...
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Hughes, Mark Reynolds (American businessman)
American entrepreneur (b. Jan. 1, 1956, Lynwood, Calif.—d. May 21, 2000, Malibu, Calif.), was the founder in 1980 and president of the Los Angeles-based company Herbalife International, Inc., which offered weight-loss, nutritional, and personal-care products and had sales in 1999 of more than $950 million. Hughes, who took the company public in 1986 after battling the U.S. ...
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Hughes Medical Institute (philanthropic foundation, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States)
American philanthropic foundation, established in 1953 by the aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes. From its offices in Chevy Chase, Md., the organization subsidizes ...
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Hughes, Mervyn Gregory (Australian cricket player)
Australian cricket player who was one of the most dominant fast bowlers in international cricket during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
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Hughes, Pat (British athlete)
British tennis player, who was the only Englishman to become the singles titleholder at the Italian Open and also was considered one of his generation’s best doubles players (b. Dec. 21, 1902--d. May 8, 1997)....
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Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren (British writer)
British writer whose novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929; filmed 1965; original title The Innocent Voyage) is a minor classic of 20th-century English literature....
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Hughes, Robert (Australian art critic and television personality)
Australian art critic and television personality known for his informed and highly opinionated criticism and his accessible and succinct writing style....
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Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest (Australian art critic and television personality)
Australian art critic and television personality known for his informed and highly opinionated criticism and his accessible and succinct writing style....
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Hughes, Sir Samuel (Canadian politician, educator, and statesman)
Canadian politician, soldier, educator, journalist, and statesman. He was minister of militia and defense (1911–16) and was responsible for moving Canadian troops to Europe at the beginning of World War I (1914–18)....
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Hughes, Ted (British poet)
English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines....
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Hughes, Thomas (British jurist and author)
British jurist, reformer, and novelist best known for Tom Brown’s School Days....
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Hughes, William Morris (prime minister of Australia)
prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923 and a mainstay of national politics for 50 years....
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Hugli (India)
city, central West Bengal state, northeastern India. The city lies just west of the Hugli (Hooghly) River and is a major road and rail connection. Rice milling and rubber-goods manufacture are the chief industries....
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Hugli River (river, India)
river in West Bengal state, northeastern India. An arm of the Ganges (Ganga) River, it provides access to Kolkata (Calcutta) from the Bay of Bengal....
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Hugo (Oklahoma, United States)
city, seat (1907) of Choctaw county, southeastern Oklahoma, U.S. Located on the edge of the Kiamichi Mountains, the city was founded as a station along the Arkansas and Choctaw Railroad and developed as a centre of peanut (groundnut) cultivation and processing. It was named by the wife of railroad surveyor W.H. Darrough in honour of the French novelist Victor Hugo...
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HUGO (international organization)
city, seat (1907) of Choctaw county, southeastern Oklahoma, U.S. Located on the edge of the Kiamichi Mountains, the city was founded as a station along the Arkansas and Choctaw Railroad and developed as a centre of peanut (groundnut) cultivation and processing. It was named by the wife of railroad surveyor W.H. Darrough in honour of the French novelist Victor Hugo...
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Hugo Award (arts award)
any of several annual awards presented by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). The awards are granted for notable achievement in science fiction or science fantasy. Established in 1953, the Hugo Awards were named in honour of Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories, the first magazine exclusively for science fiction....
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Hugo Lake (reservoir, Oklahoma, United States)
...flows southwest, past Pine Valley and Clayton to Antlers, where after a course of 165 miles (266 km) it turns southeast and joins the Red River south of Fort Towson in southeast Choctaw county. The Hugo Reservoir, a flood-control installation, is in the river 7 miles (11 km) east of Hugo. The name Kiamichi comes from that of a nearby Caddo Indian village and is thought to mean “noisy......
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Hugo of Saint-Victor (French theologian)
eminent scholastic theologian who began the tradition of mysticism that made the school of Saint-Victor, Paris, famous throughout the 12th century....
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Hugo Reservoir (reservoir, Oklahoma, United States)
...flows southwest, past Pine Valley and Clayton to Antlers, where after a course of 165 miles (266 km) it turns southeast and joins the Red River south of Fort Towson in southeast Choctaw county. The Hugo Reservoir, a flood-control installation, is in the river 7 miles (11 km) east of Hugo. The name Kiamichi comes from that of a nearby Caddo Indian village and is thought to mean “noisy......
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Hugo, Victor (French writer)
poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862)....
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Hugoton (gas field, United States)
In the United States, Hugoton, discovered in 1927 in Kansas and found to extend through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, is a gas field with an estimated ultimate recovery of 1,986,000,000,000 cubic metres. More than 7,000 wells have been drilled in this extensive field, which produces from a series of Permian limestones and dolomites. The gas accumulations are stratigraphically controlled......
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Huguang (historical province, China)
...Jiang). Until the reign of the great Kangxi emperor (1661–1722) of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), Hubei and its southern neighbour Hunan formed a single province, Huguang. They were then divided and given their present names, based on their location in relation to Dongting Lake: Hubei, meaning, “North of the Lake”; and Hunan, “South of t...
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Huguenot (French Protestant)
any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it appears to have come from the word aignos, derived from the German Eidgenossen (confederates bound together by oath), which used to describe, between 1520 and 1524, the patriots of Geneva hostile to the duke of Savoy. T...
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Huguenot Wars (European history)
Civil wars, however, occurred again in the 1620s under King Louis XIII. Eventually the Huguenots were defeated, and the Peace of Alès was signed on June 28, 1629, whereby the Huguenots were allowed to retain their freedom of conscience but lost all their military advantages. No longer a political entity, the Huguenots became loyal......
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Hugues (king of Cyprus)
king of Cyprus and Jerusalem who founded the house of Antioch-Lusignan that ruled Cyprus until 1489....
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Hugues de Cluny, Saint (French abbot)
French abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Cluny (1049–1109), under whose direction medieval monasticism reached its apogee and Cluny won recognition as the spiritual centre of Western Christianity. He also helped develop the liturgy of the Latin rite....
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Hugues de Semur (French abbot)
French abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Cluny (1049–1109), under whose direction medieval monasticism reached its apogee and Cluny won recognition as the spiritual centre of Western Christianity. He also helped develop the liturgy of the Latin rite....
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Hugues I (lord of Lusignan)
Hugh (Hugues) I, lord of Lusignan, was a vassal of the counts of Poitiers in the 10th century. Early members of the family participated in the Crusades, but it was Hugh VIII’s sons who established the family fortunes....
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Hugues I Capet (king of France)
king of France from 987 to 996, and the first of a direct line of 14 Capetian kings of that country. The Capetian dynasty derived its name from his nickname (Latin capa, “cape”)....
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Hugues le Blanc (duke of the Franks)
duke of the Franks, count of Paris, and progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. He was the most powerful man in the kingdom of France (West Francia) during the reign of Louis IV d’Outremer and the early years of King Lothar....
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Hugues le Grand (duke of the Franks)
duke of the Franks, count of Paris, and progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. He was the most powerful man in the kingdom of France (West Francia) during the reign of Louis IV d’Outremer and the early years of King Lothar....
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Hugues le Gros (Norman noble)
son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom, and he held land in 20 counties. Hugh was called Le Gros because of his great bulk and Lupus because of his ferocity. He reg...
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Hugues Lupus (Norman noble)
son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom, and he held land in 20 counties. Hugh was called Le Gros because of his great bulk and Lupus because of his ferocity. He reg...
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Huguet, Jaime (Spanish painter)
influential Spanish painter, the last important master of Catalan Gothic painting, established in Barcelona in 1448, where many of his best surviving works are to be seen. With the aid of assistants he produced many large, composite altarpieces. His style, reflecting French, Italian, and Flemish influences, is distinguished by a combination of highly individualized heads and a p...
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Huguojun (Chinese military organization)
...Qichao) and by the governor of Yunnan, Tang Jiyao (T’ang Chi-yao). Joined by Li Liejun (Li Lieh-chün) and other revolutionary generals, they established the National Protection Army (Huguojun) and demanded that Yuan cancel his plan. When he would not, the Yunnan army in early January 1916 invaded Sichuan and subsequently Hunan and Guangdong, hoping to bring th...
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Huhehaote (China)
city and (since 1952) provincial capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northern China. The city is a prefecture-level municipality (shi) and the command headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. It is situated in the upper valley of the Dahei River (a westward-flowing tributary of the Huang He [Yellow River], which it ...
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hui (musical instrument)
...fen is one-tenth of a Chinese inch] long). The qin is usually lacquered and is inlaid with 13 dots (hui) of ivory, jade, or mother-of-pearl that indicate pitch positions, primarily on the upper melodic string. The silk strings, which are of graduated thickness, are tuned pentatonically,......
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