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Handlin, Oscar: American historian and educator noted for his examinations of immigration and other social topics in American history.
handling: (from the article "painting, Western") ...The starting point of Cezanne was, by contrast, vigorous to the point of violence. In 1866 he evolved a style in which paint was applied in thick dabs with a palette knife; this combined a handling (a technical term in ...
handoff: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...the course of a call, a central controller automatically reroutes the call from the old cell to the new cell without a noticeable interruption in the signal reception. This process is known as handoff. The central controller, or mobile telephone ...
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 Cause of God and the continental counselors. The members of the Hands of the Cause of God were appointed by Baha' Ullah and Shoghi Effendi. ...
hands, imposition of: ritual act in which a priest or other religious functionary places one or both hands palms down on the top of another person's head, usually while saying a prayer or blessing. The imposition of hands was first practiced in Judaism ... [4 Related Articles]
handsaw: (from the article "hand tool") The familiar modern handsaw, with its thin but wide steel blade, cuts on the push stroke; this permits downhand sawing on wood laid across the knee or on a stool, and the sawing pressure helps to hold the wood still. ...
handsome fungus beetle: (from the article "coleopteran") ...beetles) are short, flattened, and have slightly shortened elytra. Coccinellidae (ladybugs, ladybird beetles) are rounded, with a smooth, raised upper surface and a flat underside. The Endomychidae (handsome fungus beetles) often have enlarged, rounded elytra. The Erotylidae (pleasing fungus beetles) ...
Handsome Lake cult: longest-established prophet movement in North America. Its founder was Ganioda'yo (q.v.), a Seneca chief whose name meant "Handsome Lake"; his heavenly revelations received in trance in 1799 rapidly transformed both himself and the demoralized Seneca. Their Christian beliefs, which came ... [1 Related Articles]
handwriting: (from the article "calligraphy") During the 2nd millennium BCE, various Semitic peoples at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were experimenting with alphabetic writing. Between 1500 and 1000 BCE, alphabetic signs found in scattered sites showed a correspondence of form and provided material for ...
Handy, W.C.: black American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into the then-fashionable ragtime. Among his best-known works is the classic "St. Louis Blues." [3 Related Articles]
Haneef, Mohamed: (from the article "Australia") ...in Glasgow, Scot., and London thrust Australia into what Howard described as the borderless world of Islamist terror. Six foreign-trained doctors were questioned in the U.K., and an Indian doctor, Mohamed Haneef, was arrested in Australia. Haneef was granted bail ...
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 instruments were large, experimentally oriented devices. One example, the Hanert Electrical Orchestra, built in 1944-45 by John Hanert at the Hammond Instrument Co. in Chicago, ...
Hanert, John: (from the article "electronic instrument") ...keyboard-controlled organs and related instruments, the score-reading instruments were large, experimentally oriented devices. One example, the Hanert Electrical Orchestra, built in 1944-45 by John Hanert at the Hammond Instrument Co. in Chicago, consisted of a roomful of electronic tone-generating equipment ...
Hanes, Oivind: (from the article "Literature") Oivind Hanes was also nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his melancholic novel Pirolene i Benidorm. Anne B. Ragde's best seller Eremittkrepsene, about three grown village brothers, was awarded the Booksellers' Prize. Frode Grytten's well-received Flytande bjorn criticized ...
Hanf, William: (from the article "metalogic") ...logics may include functions or relations with infinitely many arguments, infinitely long conjunctions and disjunctions, or infinite strings of quantifiers. From studies on infinitary logics, William Hanf, an American logician, was able to define certain cardinals, some of which have ...
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 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-km) tract on the Columbia River north of Pasco, Washington-the Hanford Engineer Works.nuclear reactorHistory ...
hang glider: (from the article "airplane") Unpowered manned heavier-than-air vehicles must be launched to obtain lift. These include hang gliders, gliders, and sailplanes.hang glidinghang glidingsport of flying in lightweight unpowered aircraft which can be carried by ...
hang gliding: sport of flying in lightweight unpowered aircraft which can be carried by the pilot. Takeoff is usually achieved by launching into the air from a cliff or hill. Hang gliders were developed by the pioneers of practical flight. In Germany, ...
Hang-chou Bay: (from the article "Chekiang") ...is renowned for its scenic beauty. The name of the province derives from its principal river, the Che ("Crooked") River, formally known as the Ch'ien-t'ang River at the estuary of Hang-chou Bay, and known as Fu-ch'un River inland. Chekiang is ...
Hanga Roa: (from the article "Easter Island") ...the Dutch, named it Paaseiland ("Easter Island") in memory of their own day of arrival. Its mixed population is predominantly of Polynesian descent; almost all live in the village of Hanga Roa on the sheltered west coast. Pop. (2002) 3,304.
Hanga, Abdulla Kassim, Sheikh: (from the article "Tanzania") ...massacred in riots, and thousands more fled the island. Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, leader of the Afro-Shirazi Party, was installed as president of the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba. Sheikh Abdulla Kassim Hanga was appointed prime minister, and Abdul ...
hangar: (from the article "building construction") ...hinged at each end) and three-hinge (made of two members hinged at each end and at the meeting point at the crown) trussed arches were widely used, the largest examples being two great airship hangars for the U.S. Navy in ...
Hangayn Mountains: range in central Mongolia. It extends northwest-southeast for about 500 miles (805 km), parallels the Mongolian Altai Mountains (south), and rises to a height of 12,812 feet (3,905 m) in Otgon Tenger Peak. Most of its northern drainage flows into ... [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 the atrypid and pentamerid brachiopods at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary; and the Hangenberg Event saw the extinction of phacopid trilobites, several groups of goniatites, and the ...
hangi: (from the article "New Zealand") ...imaginative and cosmopolitan fare, and the number of restaurants, bistros, and cafes in the major cities has skyrocketed in recent years. A traditional Maori meal is hangi, a feast of meat, seafood, and vegetables steamed for hours ...
hanging: execution by strangling or breaking the neck by a suspended noose. The traditional method, still in use on the continent of Europe, involves suspending the victim from a gallows or crossbeam until he has died of asphyxiation. Elsewhere, the condemned ... [1 Related Articles]
hanging buttress: (from the article "buttress") Other types of buttresses include pier or tower buttresses, simple masonry piles attached to a wall at regular intervals; hanging buttresses, freestanding piers connected to a wall by corbels; and various types of corner buttresses-diagonal, angle, clasping, and setback-that support ...
Hanging Gardens of Babylon: gardens considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World and thought to be located near the royal palace in Babylon. By the beginning of the 21st century, the site of the Hanging Gardens had not yet been conclusively established; ... [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, and a diuretic. Old-man's-beard (U. barbata) was first described in 300 BC as a hair-growth stimulant. Hanging moss (U. longissima) looks like gray threads about ...
hanging valley: (from the article "glacial valley") ...ice is the dominant factor in the deepening process, smaller tributary glaciers erode their troughs less rapidly than the main glacier does. When the glaciers melt, the tributary troughs are left as hanging valleys high on the walls of the ...
hanging wall: (from the article "glacial landform") ...glacial valleys are occupied by one or several cirques (or corries). A cirque is an amphitheatre-shaped hollow with the open end facing down-valley. The back is formed by an arcuate cliff called the headwall. In an ideal cirque, the headwall ...
hangover: (from the article "alcoholism") ...conditions associated with alcoholism are those that occur in the postintoxication state-the alcohol-withdrawal syndromes. The most common and least debilitating of these syndromes is the hangover-a general malaise typically accompanied by headache and nausea. After a prolonged bout of drunkenness, ...
Hanguana: (from the article "Commelinales") Until recently, the closest relatives of the tropical Asian Hanguana, the only genus in Hanguanaceae, were unclear. Molecular evidence suggests that this family is closest to Commelinaceae, although some contradictory morphological evidence suggests a relationship to the ginger order, Zingiberales.
Hanguanaceae: (from the article "Commelinales") Until recently, the closest relatives of the tropical Asian Hanguana, the only genus in Hanguanaceae, were unclear. Molecular evidence suggests that this family is closest to Commelinaceae, although some contradictory morphological evidence suggests a relationship to the ginger order, Zingiberales.
Hangul: alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Choson muntcha in North Korea, consists of 24 letters, including 14 consonant and 10 vowel symbols. The consonant symbols are formed with curved or angled lines; vowel symbols ... [9 Related Articles]
Hangzhou: city and capital of Zhejiang sheng (province), China. The city is located in the northern part of the province on the north bank of the Qiantang River estuary at the head of Hangzhou Bay. It has water ... [7 Related Articles]
Hani: an official nationality of China. The Hani live mainly on the high southwestern plateau of Yunnan province, China, specifically concentrated in the southwestern corner. There are also several thousands of Hani or related peoples in northern Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam ... [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 and languages spoken in Tibet and the Himalayas. Burmic (Burmese in its widest application) includes Yi (Lolo), Hani, Lahu, Lisu, Kachin (Jingpo), Kuki-Chin, the obsolete ...
Hani, Martin Thembisile: ("CHRIS"), South African political activist (b. June 28, 1942, Cofimvaba, South Africa--d. April 10, 1993, Boksburg, South Africa), was secretary-general (1991-93) of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief of staff (1987-91) of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the ...
hanif: in the Qur'an, the sacred scripture of Islam, an Arabic designation for true monotheists (especially Abraham) who were not Jews, Christians, or worshipers of idols. The word appears to have been borrowed from a Syriac word meaning "heathen" and, by ...
Hanish Islands: archipelago in the southern Red Sea that as of November 1, 1998, was officially recognized as sovereign territory of Yemen. Long under Ottoman sovereignty, the island group's political status was purposely left indeterminate by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), under ... [1 Related Articles]
haniwa: unglazed terra-cotta cylinders and hollow sculptures arranged on and around the mounded tombs (kofun) of the Japanese elite dating from the Tumulus period (c. AD 250-552). The first and most common haniwa were barrel-shaped cylinders (haniwa means "circle of clay") ... [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 centres: Ramallah and Gaza | Head of government: President Mahmoud Abbas, assisted by Prime Ministers Ismail Haniya and, from June 15, Salam Fayad | ...
hank: in textile manufacture, unit of measure applied to a length of yarn or to a loose assemblage of fibres forming a single strand, and varying according to the fibre origin. A hank of cotton or of the spun silk made ...
Hank Gonzalez, Carlos: Mexican politician (b. Aug. 28, 1927, Santiago Tianguistenco, Mex.-d. Aug. 11, 2001, Santiago Tianguistenco), was a highly influential member of Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and held public office almost continuously from 1955 to 1994. During his career he served ...
hanka: (from the article "Japanese literature") The choka often concluded with one or more hanka ("envoys") that resume central points of the preceding poem. The hanka written by the 8th-century poet Yamabe Akahito are so perfectly conceived ...
Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron: soldier and politician, first holder of the office of secretary to the British Cabinet. He also was British secretary at several international conferences, notably at Versailles (1919), Washington (1921), Genoa (1922), London (1924), The Hague (1929-30), and Lausanne (1932).
hanko: (from the article "education") ...which provided the moral training for upper-class samurai that was essential for maintaining the ideology of the feudal regime. Han, or feudal domains, following the same policy, built hanko, or domain schools, in their castle towns for the education of ...
Hanko Peninsula: (from the article "Russo-Finnish War") ...help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March 12, 1940, agreeing to the cession of western Karelia and to the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
Hankou: large urban area and river port, east-central Hubei sheng (province), central China. Located on the left bank of the Han River at its confluence with the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), it is the largest of the three ... [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 than some of his Lincoln forebears, Thomas was a sturdy pioneer. On June 12, 1806, he married Nancy Hanks. The Hanks genealogy is difficult to ...