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hardwood (timber)
...displacing the traditional wool and cotton. It can be easily maintained, and its soft visual and tactile texture, as well as its sound-absorbing qualities, make it attractive for residential use. Hardwoods—primarily oak, birch, and maple—are also used for floors, both in the traditional narrow planks nailed to plywood decks and as prefabricated parquet elements, which are applied....
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hardwood fibre (fibre)
...into two groups: coniferous trees, usually called softwoods, and deciduous trees, or hardwoods. Softwood cellulose fibres measure from about 2 to 4 millimetres (0.08 to 0.16 inch) in length, and hardwood fibres range from about 0.5 to 1.5 millimetres (0.02 to 0.06 inch). The greater length of softwood fibres contributes strength to paper; the shorter hardwood fibres fill in the sheet and......
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Hardy, Albert (British photojournalist)
("BERT"), British photojournalist who covered the world as chief photographer for Picture Post magazine, 1941-57 (b. May 19, 1913--d. July 3, 1995)....
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Hardy, Alexandre (French dramatist)
playwright, the first Frenchman known to have made his living as a dramatist, who claimed authorship of some 600 plays....
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Hardy, Bert (British photojournalist)
("BERT"), British photojournalist who covered the world as chief photographer for Picture Post magazine, 1941-57 (b. May 19, 1913--d. July 3, 1995)....
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Hardy Cross method (engineering)
By the use of Cross’s technique, known as the moment distribution method, or simply the Hardy Cross method, calculation can be carried to any required degree of accuracy by successive approximations, thus avoiding the immense labour of solving simultaneous equations that contain as ...
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Hardy, Fannie Pearson (American author)
American writer and ornithologist whose extensive personal knowledge of her native Maine informed her authoritative publications on the history, wildlife, cultures, and lore of the region....
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Hardy, Gathorne (British politician)
English Conservative politician who was a strong proponent of British intervention in the Russo-Turkish conflict of 1877–78....
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Hardy, Godfrey Harold (English mathematician)
leading English pure mathematician whose work was mainly in analysis and number theory....
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Hardy, Norvell (American actor)
...Aug. 7, 1957, North Hollywood, Calif.) made more than 100 comedies together, with Laurel playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous Hardy....
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Hardy, Oliver (American actor)
...Aug. 7, 1957, North Hollywood, Calif.) made more than 100 comedies together, with Laurel playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous Hardy....
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hardy rubber tree (plant species)
family of dicotyledonous flowering plants comprising the single species Eucommia ulmoides. It is an elmlike tree of central and eastern China notable as a woody plant of temperate regions with milky latex from which rubber can be produced....
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Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, Baronet (British naval officer)
British naval officer closely associated with Adm. Horatio (afterward Viscount) Nelson, two of whose flagships he commanded during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. A sailor from 1781, he met Nelson in the mid-1790s, while the future hero of Trafalgar was still a captain. After Nelson’s victory over the French in the ...
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Hardy, Thomas (British writer)
English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex, his name for the counties of southwestern England....
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Hardy, Thomas (British shoemaker)
These developments in radical ideology were made more significant by simultaneous developments in radical organization. In January 1792 a small coterie of London artisans led by a shoemaker, Thomas Hardy, formed a society to press for manhood suffrage. It cost only a shilling to join, and the weekly subscription was set at a penny so as to attract as many members as possible. These plebeian......
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Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (genetics)
an algebraic equation that describes the genetic equilibrium within a population. It was discovered independently in 1908 by Wilhelm Weinberg, a German physician, and Godfrey Harold Hardy, a British mathematician....
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Hardy-Weinberg law (genetics)
an algebraic equation that describes the genetic equilibrium within a population. It was discovered independently in 1908 by Wilhelm Weinberg, a German physician, and Godfrey Harold Hardy, a British mathematician....
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Hardyal, Lala (Indian revolutionary)
Indian revolutionary and scholar who was dedicated to the removal of British influence in India....
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Hardyknute (ballad by Wardlaw)
...Lewis Carroll in the 19th century made effective use of the jingling metres, forced rhymes, and unbuttoned style for humorous purposes. Lady Wardlaw’s “Hardyknute” (1719), perhaps the earliest literary attempt at a folk ballad, was dishonestly passed off as a genuine product of tradition. After the publication of Thomas Percy’s ballad......
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Hare (people)
group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indians originally living northwest of what is now Great Bear Lake in far northwestern Canada. Their name for themselves, Kawchottine, means “People of Great Hares”; it was used because Arctic hares were an import...
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hare (mammal)
any of about 30 species of mammals related to rabbits and belonging to the same family (Leporidae). In general, hares have longer ears and longer hind feet than rabbits. While the tail is relatively short, it is longer than that of rabbits. The vernacular names hare and rabbit are frequently misapplied to particular species. Jackrabbi...
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hare and hounds (sport)
A form of cross-country running in the early 19th century was called paper chasing, or hare and hounds—the “hares” started a few minutes before the others and left a trail of paper scraps to be followed by the “hounds.” Cross-country runners came to be known as harriers, after a small hound used to chase......
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Hare, David (British playwright and director)
A form of cross-country running in the early 19th century was called paper chasing, or hare and hounds—the “hares” started a few minutes before the others and left a trail of paper scraps to be followed by the “hounds.” Cross-country runners came to be known as harriers, after a small hound used to chase........
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Hare, David (American artist)
...felicitous concert with others; each form is a secret sanctum, a maximum of being wrested from a minimum of material. Reg Butler’s work (e.g., “Woman Resting” [1951]) and that of David Hare (“Figure in a Window” [1955]) treat the body in terms of skeletal outlines. Butler’s figures partake of nonhuman qualities and embody fantasies of an unsentim...
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Hare Krishna (religious sect)
popular name of a semimonastic Vaishnava Hindu organization founded in the United States in 1965 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada; 1896–1977). This movement is a Western outgrowth of the popular Bengali bhakti (devotional) yoga traditio...
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Hare, Richard Mervyn (British philosopher)
British moral philosopher (b. March 21, 1919, Backwell, Somerset, Eng.—d. Jan. 29, 2002, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, Eng.), attempted to provide a rational understanding of moral beliefs. His moral theory, called prescriptivism, drew on Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy and the linguistic analysis of Hare’s pred...
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Hare, Sir David (British playwright and director)
British playwright and director, noted for his deftly crafted satires examining British society in the post-World War II era....
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Hare, Sir John (British actor)
English actor-manager of London’s Garrick Theatre from 1889 to 1895 and recognized as the greatest character actor of his day, excelling in old men’s parts....
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Hare system (politics)
multimember district proportional representation method of election in which a voter ranks candidates in order of preference. As candidates pass a specified electoral quota, they are elected and their surplus votes apportioned to the remaining candidates, until all the open seats are filled. In this way the results reflect fairly accurately the preferences of ...
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Hare, Thomas (British political reformer)
...systems use multimember constituencies. Systematic methods of applying proportional representation were first developed in the mid-19th century in Denmark by Carl Andrae and in Britain by Thomas Hare and John Stuart Mill. Methods currently in use include the single-transferable-vote method (STV), the party-list system, and the additional-member system....
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hare wallaby (marsupial)
The two species of hare wallabies (Lagorchestes) are small animals that have the movements and some of the habits of hares. Often called pademelons, the three species of scrub wallabies (Thylogale) of New Guinea, the......
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Hare, William (Irish criminal)
Hare immigrated to Scotland from Ireland and wandered through several occupations before becoming keeper of a lodging house in Edinburgh, where Burke, also Irish-born, arrived in 1827. On November 29 an old pensioner died in the house, and Hare, angry that the deceased still owed 4 pounds in rent, devised a plan to steal the corpse from its coffin and sell it to recover the money he was owed.......
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Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act (United States history)
(1933), the first law setting a specific date for Philippine independence from the United States. It was passed by Congress as a result of pressure from two sources: American farmers, who, during the Great Depression, feared competition from Filipino sugar and coconut oils; and Filipino leaders, who were eager to run their ...
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hare-lipped bat (Noctilionidae)
either of two tropical Central and South American bats that are among the few bats that routinely forage low over water. They have full lips and a flat, squarish muzzle very similar to that of a bulldog. Bulldog bats have long, narrow wings and long, pointed ears, their most distinctive feature being their large hind feet. Wide and flat with l...
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harebell (plant)
widespread, slender-stemmed perennial of the family Campanulaceae. The harebell bears nodding blue bell-like flowers. It is native to woods, meadows, and cliffsides of northern Eurasia and North America and of mountains farther south. There are more than 30 named wild varieties of ...
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Haredim (religious movement)
The ultra-Orthodox are often referred to in Hebrew as Haredim, or “those who tremble” in the presence of God (because they are God-fearing). Unlike the Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox continue to reject Zionism—at least in principle—as blasphemous. In practice, the rejection of Zionism has led to the emergence of a wide variety of groups, ranging from the Neturei Karta......
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Hareh, Mount (mountain, Egypt)
granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, Janūb Sīnāʾ (South Sinai) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. Mount Sinai is renowned as the principal site of divine revelation in Jewish history, where God is purported to have appeared to Mos...
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Harel, Isser (Israeli intelligence director)
Israeli spymaster (b. 1912, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—d. Feb. 18, 2003, Petah Tiqwa, Israel), directed the abduction from Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official responsible for carrying out the “final so...
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Harel, Yossi (Israeli Zionist and intelligence officer)
Jan. 4, 1918?Jerusalem, British Palestine [now in Israel]April 26, 2008Tel Aviv, IsraelIsraeli Zionist and intelligence officer who commanded the ship Exodus 1947, which sailed from the port of Sète (near Marseille) in July 1947, carrying more than 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survi...
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harelip (congenital disorder)
relatively common (one out of every 1,000 births) congenital deformity in which the central to medial lip fails to fuse properly during the first month of prenatal life, resulting in a fissure in the lip beneath the nostril. Once colloquially known as harelip, cleft lip may be unilateral or bilateral, it may take the form of anything from a small pit to a complete fissure the height of the lip, an...
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harem
in Muslim countries, the part of a house set apart for the women of the family. The word ḥarīmī is used collectively to refer to the women themselves. Zanāna (from the Persian word zan, “woman”) is the term used for the harem in India, ...
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Harem, The (work by Picasso)
...monochromatic) palette. The tones of the Blue Period were replaced from late 1904 to 1906 in the so-called Rose Period by those of pottery, of flesh, and of the earth itself (The Harem, 1906). Picasso seems to have been working with colour in an attempt to come closer to sculptural form, especially in 1906 (Two Nudes; ......
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Haremhab (king of Egypt)
last king (reigned 1319–1292 bce) of the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt; he continued the restoration of the traditional Amon religion that a previous ruler, Akhenaton, had replaced with the worship of the god Aton....
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Hārer (Ethiopia)
city, eastern Ethiopia, in the Ch’erch’er Mountains, at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,800 metres). Probably founded in the 7th century ad by immigrants from Ḥaḍramawt in southern Arabia, Hārer became the capital of the Muslim state of Adal. Conflict with Christian Ethiopians and the Oromo, however, forced remova...
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Hareri (people)
...supplemented by oilseed pressing and the processing of sansevieria fibre. Basket weaving is a commercially important craft, as is the production of silver jewelry. The population includes the local Hareri (Adere), who speak a Semitic language and have a literature written in Arabic script, as well as the Amhara, Oromo, and Somalis. The Hārer Military Academy is situated in the town. A......
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Hareri language
...Orthodox church; Amharic, one of the principal languages of modern Ethiopia; Tigré, of northwestern Eritrea and Sudan; Tigrinya, or Tigrai, of northern Ethiopia and central Eritrea; Argobba; Hareri; and Gurage. Although some scholars once considered the so-called Ethiopic languages to be a branch within Semitic, these languages are.....
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hare’s-foot fern (fern genus)
...subterranean and nongreen or, more commonly, surface-dwelling and photosynthetic; sperm motile; between 9,000 and 12,000 species; representative genera include Pteridium, Polypodium, Polystichum, Adiantum, and Cyathea.Division Cycadophyta......
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hare’s-tail grass (plant)
(species Lagurus ovatus), annual grass of the family Poaceae, native to shores of the Mediterranean region, naturalized in Australia, and cultivated as an ornamental in North America. The o...
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Harford (county, Maryland, United States)
county, northeastern Maryland, U.S., bounded by Pennsylvania to the north, the Susquehanna River to the east, Chesapeake Bay to the south and southeast, and the Gunpowder River to the southwest. The county is bracketed in the west by portions of Gunpowder Falls State Park and in the east by Susquehanna State Park. The Susquehanna National Wi...
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Hargeisa (Somalia)
city, northwestern Somalia, and the capital of the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent state without international recognition. Hargeysa is located in an enclosed valley of the Galgodon (Ogo) highlands, at an elevation of 4,377 feet (1,334 metres). During the Somalian civil war that began in the 1980s, Hargeysa was severely damaged; much of the...
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Hargeysa (Somalia)
city, northwestern Somalia, and the capital of the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent state without international recognition. Hargeysa is located in an enclosed valley of the Galgodon (Ogo) highlands, at an elevation of 4,377 feet (1,334 metres). During the Somalian civil war that began in the 1980s, Hargeysa was severely damaged; much of the...
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Harghita (county, Romania)
județ (county), north-central Romania, occupying an area of 2,563 square miles (6,639 square km). It is dominated by the Eastern Carpathian mountain ranges of Baraolt, Gurghiu, and the volcanic Harghita. Settlement areas lie in intermontane valleys, including the Ciuc and Gurge depressions. The Olt (southward) and Mureș (northward) rivers drain the county. Miercurea-C...
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Harghita Mountains (mountains, Romania)
...they are built of crystalline rocks and reach a peak in Pietrosu (7,556 feet). To the south, extinct volcanoes in the Călimani and Harghita ranges have, to some extent, kept their original conical shape; the highest peaks of these ranges are 6,890 feet and 5,906 feet, respectively. Fringing the true Eastern Carpathians runs a......
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Hargis, Billy James (American evangelist)
American evangelist (b. Aug. 3, 1925, Texarkana, Texas—d. Nov. 27, 2004, Tulsa, Okla.), founded the Christian Crusade, an international ministry with a special interest in battling communism. He built a powerful media empire, reaching millions through television, radio, books, and pamphlets. In 1970 he founded the American Christian Crusade College in Tulsa. His ministry slowly crumbled, ho...
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Hargitay, Mickey (American athlete)
...was Hercules (1959). Other bodybuilders who were cast in movie roles included Gordon Scott (Tarzan), Reg Park (Hercules), Sean Connery (James Bond), and 1955 Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay, best known as a member of Mae West’s traveling troupe of musclemen and the husband of actress Jayne Mansfield....
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Hargobind (Sikh Gurū)
sixth Sikh Guru, who developed a strong Sikh army and gave the Sikh religion its military character, in accord with the instructions of his father, Guru Arjan (1563–1606), the first Sikh martyr, who had been executed on the order of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr....
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Hargrave box kite
kite designed, built, and flown by the aeronautical pioneer Lawrence Hargrave in the 1890s....
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Hargrave, Lawrence (British aeronautical engineer)
English aviation pioneer and inventor of the box kite....
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Hargraves, James (English inventor)
English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine. At the time he devised the machine, he was a poor, uneducated spinner and weaver living at Standhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire....
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Hargreaves, Alison (British mountaineer)
British mountaineer who died in a blizzard while descending from an apparently successful assault on the Himalayan peak K2 only weeks after she had become the first woman to scale Mt. Everest alone and without bottled oxygen (b. Feb. 17, 1962--d. Aug. 13, 1995)....
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Hargreaves, James (English inventor)
English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine. At the time he devised the machine, he was a poor, uneducated spinner and weaver living at Standhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire....
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Hargreaves, Roger (British cartoonist)
British cartoonist who created whimsical characters best known in the popular “Mr. Men” series of books for children....
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Hargrove, Mike (American baseball player and manager)
...the AL’s leading home-run hitter, in 1959 to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn, who had led the league in batting averages. Under manager Mike Hargrove, the Indians reemerged and won five straight AL Central Division titles (1995–99), advancing to the World Series twice during their run. The success of these teams—whi...
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Harī (river, Central Asia)
river, Central Asia. It rises on the western slopes of the rugged Selseleh-ye Kūh-e Bābā range, an outlier of the Hindu Kush mountains, in central Afghanistan. Flowing west past Chaghcharān and the ancient city of H...
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Hari Krishen (Sikh Gurū)
eighth Sikh Guru, who was installed at five years of age and reigned for only three years. He is said to have possessed vast wisdom and to have amazed visiting Brahmans (Hindu priests) with his great knowledge of the Hindu scripture Bhagavadgita. Many wondrous feats are attributed to him. A raja, Jai Singh, wishing to test the boy...
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Hari Singh (maharaja of Kashmir)
...for the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the rulers of princely states were given the right to opt for either Pakistan or India or—with certain reservations—to remain independent. Hari Singh, the maharaja of Kashmir, initially believed that by delaying his decision he could maintain the independence of Kashmir, but, caught up in a train of events that included a revolution......
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hari-giri (plant)
...its American relative, Panax quinquefolium (see photograph), is used in the United States as a stimulant. Hari-giri, or castor aralia (Acanthopanax ricinifolius), is used in Japan in building and in furniture......
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Hari-hara (Hindu deity)
in Hinduism, a syncretic deity combining the two major gods Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara). Images of Harihara (also known as Shambhu-Vishnu and Shankara-Narayana, variants of the names of the two gods) first appeared in the classical period after sectarian movements, which elevated one god as supreme over the others, had waned sufficiently for efforts at comp...
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Haribhadra (Indian author)
noncanonical author of treatises on the Indian religion Jainism, known for his authoritative works in Sanskrit and Prakrit on Jain doctrine and ethics. Scholars are still uncertain of the extent to which he should be differentiated from a 6th-century Jain author of the same name....
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Harichandra line (Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty)
either of two dynasties of medieval Hindu India. The line of Harichandra ruled in Mandor, Marwar (Jodhpur, Rajasthan), during the 6th to 9th centuries ce, generally with feudatory status. The line of Nagabhata ruled first at Ujjain and later at Kannauj during the 8th to 11th centuries. Other Gurjara lines existed, but they did not take the surname Pratihara....
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haricot bean (vegetable)
widely cultivated, edible-podded legume of the species Phaseolus vulgaris. See bean....
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Haridwar (India)
city, northwestern Uttarakhand state, northern India. Haridwar lies along the Ganges (Ganga) River, at the boundary between the Indo-Gangetic Plain (south) and the Himalayan foothills (north). It is the site of the headworks of the Ganges Canal system. Haridwar is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hi...
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Harihara (Hindu deity)
in Hinduism, a syncretic deity combining the two major gods Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara). Images of Harihara (also known as Shambhu-Vishnu and Shankara-Narayana, variants of the names of the two gods) first appeared in the classical period after sectarian movements, which elevated one god as supreme over the others, had waned sufficiently for efforts at comp...
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Harihara (Indian poet)
...dialects of Middle Kannada, yet they drew on archetypal human images as well as ancient pan-Indian symbology for their intense and searing expressions of bhakti. Inspired by these lyrics, Harihara, in the late 12th century, wrote some 120 ragaḷe (blank verse) biographies of the Śaiva saints, including the......
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Harihara I Saṅgama (Vijayanagar ruler)
The kingdom of Vijayanagar was founded by Harihara and Bukka, two of five brothers (surnamed Sangama) who had served in the administrations of both Kakatiya and Kampili before those kingdoms were conquered by the armies of the Delhi sultanate in the 1320s. When Kampili fell in 1327, the two brothers are believed to have been captured and taken to Delhi, where they converted to Islam. They were......
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Harihara II (Vijayanagar ruler)
...removed his nephews and replaced them with his sons and favourite generals so that centralized authority (and his own line of succession) could be maintained. However, the succession of Bukka’s son Harihara II (reigned 1377–1404) precipitated a repetition of the same action. A rebellion in the Tamil country at the beginning of his reign probably was aided by the disaffected sons a...
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Hariharalaya (ancient city, Cambodia)
...a series of capitals, first at Indrapura, on the lower Mekong River east of Kâmpóng (Kompong) Cham; then, moving northwards, at Hariharalaya, southeast of present-day Siĕmréab (Siem Reap); and then at Mahendraparvata, in the region just north of the......
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Harijan (Hindu social class)
in traditional Indian society, any member of a wide range of low-caste Hindu groups and any person outside the caste system. The use of the term and the social disabilities associated with it were declared illegal in the constitutions adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949 and of Pakistan in 1953. Mahatma Gandhi called untouchables Harijans (...
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Harike Barrage (barrage, India)
In India a number of dams, barrages, and link canals have been built to distribute water from the eastern Indus tributaries to the Punjab and neighbouring states. The Harike Barrage, at the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej, channels water into the Indira Gandhi Canal, which runs for about 400 miles (640 km) to the southwest to irrigate......
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ḥarīm
in Muslim countries, the part of a house set apart for the women of the family. The word ḥarīmī is used collectively to refer to the women themselves. Zanāna (from the Persian word zan, “woman”) is the term used for the harem in India, ...
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Harimandir (temple, Amritsar, India)
the chief gurdwārā, or house of worship, of the Sikhs of India and their most important pilgrimage site; it is located in the city of Amritsar, in Punjab state. The Harimandir was built in 1604 by Gurū Arjun, who symbolically had it placed on a lower level so that even the humblest had to step down to enter it, and with entrances on...
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Häring, Bernhard (German theologian)
German Roman Catholic liberal theologian whose beliefs in pacifism, ecumenism, and freedom of conscience were set forth in some 80 books and 1,000 articles; his 1954 three-volume The Law of Christ was a best-seller in Germany and was translated into more than 12 languages (b. Nov. 10, 1912, Böttingen, Ger.--d. July 3, 1998, Gars am Inn, Ger.)....
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Haring Dam (dam, The Netherlands)
...As part of the Delta Plan for land reclamation and both Rhine and tidal flood protection, a dam with numerous sluices was completed at the Haring’s mouth in 1970. A large lock built as part of the Haring Dam allows the channel to remain open to shipping....
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Haring Estuary (channel, The Netherlands)
freshwater channel, southwestern Netherlands. A distributary of the Hollands Diep, it ultimately (through other streams) has its origin in the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. The Haring flows for about 20 miles (32 km) between the joined islands of Voorne and Putten and the island of Beijerland to the north and the joined islands of Goeree and Overflakkee to the south. It discharges into the North...
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Häring, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich (German writer)
German writer and critic best known for his historical novels about Brandenburg and Prussia....
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Haring, Keith (American artist)
American graphic artist and designer who popularized some of the strategies and impulses of graffiti art....
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Haringey (borough, London, United Kingdom)
inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It is located north of Islington and Hackney and south of Enfield. Haringey was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former boroughs of Hornsey, Tottenham...
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Haringhata (estuary, Bangladesh)
...to empty into the Bay of Bengal. In its upper course it is called the Garai; in its lower course it is known as the Baleswar; and its estuary mouth, which is some 9 miles (14 km) wide, is called the Haringhata. The Madhumati is one of the largest of the Padma distributaries in the southern part of the Gangetic Plain, and it offers the best....
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Harington, James (British philosopher)
English political philosopher whose major work, The Common-wealth of Oceana (1656), was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of constitutional stability and revolution....
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Harington, Sir John (English author)
English Elizabethan courtier, translator, author, and wit who also invented the flush toilet....
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Haringvliet (channel, The Netherlands)
freshwater channel, southwestern Netherlands. A distributary of the Hollands Diep, it ultimately (through other streams) has its origin in the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. The Haring flows for about 20 miles (32 km) between the joined islands of Voorne and Putten and the island of Beijerland to the north and the joined islands of Goeree and Overflakkee to the south. It discharges into the North...
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Hariot, Thomas (English mathematician and astronomer)
mathematician, astronomer, and investigator of the natural world....
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Haripunjaya (ancient kingdom, Thailand)
an ancient Mon kingdom centred in the Mae Nam (river) Ping Valley in northwestern Thailand. It was founded in the mid-7th century by a queen of Lopburi, the capital of the Mon Dvaravati kingdom to the south. Although originally established as a colony of Dvaravati, Haripunjaya maintained its independence ...
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harira (food)
...daily staple. The premier Moroccan food, however, is couscous, a semolina-based pasta served with a meat stew. Kabobs of various types are common, as are salads and soups. Harira, a thick and hearty lamb soup, is served to break the fast at Ramadan and is a national speciality. The national drink is mint tea. Morocco is a wine-producing country, but......
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Ḥarīrī, al- (Islamic scholar)
scholar of Arabic language and literature and government official who is primarily known for the refined style and wit of his collection of tales, the Maqāmāt, published in English as The Assemblies of al-Harîrî (1867, 1898)....
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Hariri, Rafiq al- (prime minister of Lebanon)
Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992–98; 2000–04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political tensions between Lebanon and Syria....
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Hariri, Rafiq Bahaa Edine al- (prime minister of Lebanon)
Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992–98; 2000–04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political tensions between Lebanon and Syria....
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Hariri, Saad al- (Lebanese politician)
Saudi-born Lebanese businessman and politician who was named prime minister of Lebanon in 2009. The son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, Saad entered politics following his father’s assassination in February 2005....
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Ḥarīrī, Tall al- (ancient city, Syria)
ancient Mesopotamian city situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River in what is now Syria. Excavations, initially directed by André Parrot and begun in 1933, uncovered remains extending from about 3100 bc to the 7th century ad....
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Harīrūd (river, Central Asia)
river, Central Asia. It rises on the western slopes of the rugged Selseleh-ye Kūh-e Bābā range, an outlier of the Hindu Kush mountains, in central Afghanistan. Flowing west past Chaghcharān and the ancient city of H...
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