• Hanga Roa (Easter Island)

    Hanga Roa, village on the west coast of Easter Island, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the home of most of the island population as well as of the Chilean administrative personnel. Its main economic activities are fishing and

  • Hanga, Abdulla Kassim, Sheikh (prime minister of Zanzibar)

    Tanzania: Independence of Tanzania: Sheikh Abdulla Kassim Hanga was appointed prime minister, and Abdul Raḥman Mohammed (“Babu”), leader of the new left-wing Umma (The Masses) Party (formed by defectors from the ZNP), became minister for defense and external affairs. Pending the establishment of a new constitution, the cabinet and all…

  • Hangal, Gandhari (Indian vocalist)

    Gangubai Hangal was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani (North Indian) classical tradition and doyenne of the Kirana gharana (community of performers who share a distinctive musical style). She was especially admired for her performances of songs of the khayal genre over the course of a career

  • Hangal, Gangu Bai (Indian vocalist)

    Gangubai Hangal was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani (North Indian) classical tradition and doyenne of the Kirana gharana (community of performers who share a distinctive musical style). She was especially admired for her performances of songs of the khayal genre over the course of a career

  • Hangal, Gangubai (Indian vocalist)

    Gangubai Hangal was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani (North Indian) classical tradition and doyenne of the Kirana gharana (community of performers who share a distinctive musical style). She was especially admired for her performances of songs of the khayal genre over the course of a career

  • hangar (airport)

    construction: Steel long-span construction: …examples being two great airship hangars for the U.S. Navy in New Jersey—the first built in 1922 with a span of 79 meters (262 feet), the second in 1942 with a span of 100 meters (328 feet). The flat truss was used also, reaching a maximum span of 91 meters…

  • Hangawi (Korean holiday)

    Chuseok, Korean holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month to commemorate the fall harvest and to honor one’s ancestors. Similar to Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the Harvest Moon Festival, as it is also known, is one of the most popular holidays in South Korea and North

  • Hangayn Mountains (mountains, Mongolia)

    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 the Selenge River, which, with

  • Hangayn Nuruu (mountains, Mongolia)

    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 the Selenge River, which, with

  • Hangchow (China)

    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 communications with the interior of Zhejiang to the south, is the southern terminus of

  • Hangenberg Event (paleontology)

    Devonian Period: Extinction events: …the Frasnian-Famennian boundary; and the Hangenberg Event saw the extinction of phacopid trilobites, several groups of goniatites, and the unusual late Devonian coiled cephalopods, the clymeniids, at the end of the Famennian Stage.

  • Hangeul (Korean alphabet)

    Hangul, alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Chosŏn muntcha in North Korea, consists of 24 letters (originally 28), including 14 consonants and 10 vowels. The consonant characters are formed with curved or angled lines. The vowels are composed of vertical or

  • hanging (capital punishment)

    hanging, execution or murder by strangling or breaking the neck by a suspended noose. The traditional method of execution involves suspending victims from a gallows or crossbeam until they have died of asphyxiation. In another common method, persons to be hanged stand on a trapdoor, and, when the

  • hanging buttress (architecture)

    buttress: …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 intersecting walls.

  • hanging chad (voting and elections)

    hanging chad, a chad—the small piece of a paper produced in punching paper tape or cards—that has not completely detached. When paper ballots are used in elections, hanging chads may lead to voting discrepancies. Hanging chads played a major role in the United States presidential election of 2000,

  • hanging dam (ice formation)

    ice in lakes and rivers: Ice buildups: …large accumulations that are called hanging dams. Such deposits may be of great depth and may actually block large portions of the river’s flow. In smaller, shallower streams, similar ice formations may be combinations of shore ice, anchor ice deposits, small hanging-dam-like accumulations, and (over slower-flowing areas) sheet ice.

  • hanging fern family (plant family)

    Davalliaceae, the rabbit’s foot fern family (order Polypodiales), containing a single genus (Davallia) of 65 species. The family is mostly restricted to tropical regions, especially in the Old World. A few species are cultivated as ornamentals in greenhouses, conservatories, and homes, often in

  • hanging garden (agriculture)

    vertical farming: History: …modern version: Babylonians practiced an early form of vertical farming by creating hanging gardens, and Europeans in the 1600s grew produce on “fruit walls” that absorbed heat during the day and released it at night.

  • Hanging Garden, The (film by Fitzgerald [1997])

    Sarah Polley: …directors, such as Thom Fitzgerald’s The Hanging Garden (1997), Clement Virgo’s The Planet of Junior Brown (1997), Don McKellar’s Last Night (1998), and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). She seemed poised for stardom in the United States after her work in Doug Liman’s Go (1999) and Audrey Wells

  • Hanging Gardens of Babylon (ancient garden, Babylon, Mesopotamia)

    Hanging Gardens of Babylon, ancient gardens considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World and thought to have been 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. Nevertheless, many

  • hanging geranium (plant)

    geranium: Ivy, or hanging, geraniums (P. peltatum) are grown as basket plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P.

  • hanging lobster claw (plant)

    heliconia: Major species: The flower bracts of hanging lobster claw, or false bird-of-paradise (H. rostrata), the national flower of Bolivia, are a striking combination of hot pink, yellow, and green. Dwarf Jamaican heliconia (H. stricta) is smaller than most other cultivated species and has several attractive varieties. Pink flamingo (H. chartacea) and…

  • hanging moss (lichen)

    beard lichen: Major species: Hanging moss (U. longissima) looks like gray threads about 1.5 metres (5 feet) long hanging from tree branches in humid mountainous regions. The taxonomy of the Florida beard lichen (U. florida) and the Lapland beard lichen (U. lapponica), as well as that of several other…

  • Hanging of the Sigismund Bell, The (painting by Jan Matejko)

    Jan Matejko: …episodes from Polish history include The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell (1874), The Battle of Grunwald (1878), and Prussian Homage (1882). In total, Matejko painted 320 oil paintings throughout his career. Though his most famous are historical in nature, he also painted portraits, mostly of relatives and friends; many of…

  • hanging parakeet (bird)

    parakeet: …short, blunt tails, as the hanging parrots, or bat parrotlets, Loriculus species, popular cage birds in their native area, India to Malaya and the Philippines.

  • hanging parrot (bird)

    parakeet: …short, blunt tails, as the hanging parrots, or bat parrotlets, Loriculus species, popular cage birds in their native area, India to Malaya and the Philippines.

  • Hanging Tree, The (film by Daves [1959])

    Delmer Daves: Westerns: …year he directed the popular The Hanging Tree, with Cooper well cast as a frontier doctor who falls in love with one of his patients (Maria Schell). It was Daves’s last western, and there was some speculation that health problems prevented him from continuing to film in the genre, which…

  • Hanging Up (film by Keaton [2000])

    Diane Keaton: Later credits: …also directed several films, including Hanging Up (2000). Her memoir, Then Again, was published in 2011. She later wrote a collection of essays, Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty (2014), and also published a series of house-styling guides, including House (2012) and The House That Pinterest Built (2017).

  • hanging valley (geological feature)

    glacial valley: …tributary troughs are left as hanging valleys high on the walls of the main glacial valley. Postglacial streams may form waterfalls from the mouths of the hanging valleys, a well-known example being Yosemite Falls, California.

  • hanging wall (geology)

    glacial landform: Cirques, tarns, U-shaped valleys, arêtes, and horns: …an arcuate cliff called the headwall. In an ideal cirque, the headwall is semicircular in plan view. This situation, however, is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along their perimeter. The bottom of many…

  • Hanging, A (work by Orwell)

    George Orwell: Early life: …“Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging,” classics of expository prose.

  • Hangman, The (film by Curtiz [1959])

    Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …Curtiz directed the conventional western The Hangman and worked with Ladd again on The Man in the Net, about an artist blamed for the disappearance of his unstable wife. At age 74, Curtiz released two films in 1960, an adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with boxer…

  • Hangman, The (German Nazi official)

    Reinhard Heydrich was a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. Heydrich’s father, who

  • Hangmatana (ancient city, Iran)

    Ecbatana, ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadān, Iran. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian kings and one of the residences of the Parthian kings. According to ancient Greek writers, the city was founded in

  • Hangmen (play by McDonagh)

    Martin McDonagh: Film career: Hangmen, a play about the abolition of hanging in Britain in the 1960s, premiered in London in 2015 and won the Laurence Olivier Award for best new play. A Very Very Very Dark Matter, about colonialism and the whitewashing of fairy tales, debuted in London…

  • Hangmen Also Die! (film by Lang [1943])

    Fritz Lang: Films of the 1940s: …Brecht on the independent production Hangmen Also Die! (1943), another World War II-related film, this time an account of the assassination of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.

  • Hangö, battle of (Russian history)

    Peter I: The Northern War (1700–21): …took part in the naval battle of Gangut (Hanko, or Hangö) in 1714, the first major Russian victory at sea.

  • Hangongqiu (play by Ma Zhiyuan)

    Chinese literature: Drama: …which the most celebrated is Hangongqiu (“Sorrow of the Han Court”). It deals with the tragedy of a Han dynasty court lady, Wang Zhojun, who, through the intrigue of a vicious portrait painter, was picked by mistake to be sent away to Central Asia as a chieftain’s consort.

  • hangover (physiological condition)

    alcoholism: Acute diseases: …of these syndromes is the hangover—a general malaise typically accompanied by headache and nausea. After a prolonged bout of drunkenness, however, severe withdrawal phenomena often supervene. These phenomena include tremulousness, loss of appetite, inability to retain food, sweating, restlessness, sleep disturbances, seizures, and abnormal changes in body chemistry (especially electrolyte…

  • Hangover Part II, The (film by Phillips [2011])

    Bradley Cooper: …can remember; sequels followed in 2011 and 2013. Cooper earned notice for work in He’s Just Not That into You (2009) and the ensemble comedy Valentine’s Day (2010). Action roles followed, notably in Limitless (2011), Hit and Run (2012), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012).

  • Hangover Part III, The (film by Phillips [2013])

    Bradley Cooper: …sequels followed in 2011 and 2013. Cooper earned notice for work in He’s Just Not That into You (2009) and the ensemble comedy Valentine’s Day (2010). Action roles followed, notably in Limitless (2011), Hit and Run (2012), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012).

  • Hangover, The (film by Phillips [2009])

    Bradley Cooper: …breakthrough with the highly lucrative The Hangover, which centres on a group of men who search for their lost friend after waking from a bachelor party that none can remember; sequels followed in 2011 and 2013. Cooper earned notice for work in He’s Just Not That into You (2009) and…

  • Hanguana (plant genus)

    Commelinales: …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 (plant family)

    Commelinales: …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.

  • Hanguk (historical nation, Asia)

    Korea, history of the Korean Peninsula from prehistoric times to the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War (1950–53). For later developments, see North Korea: History; and South Korea: History. Archaeological, linguistic, and legendary sources support the view that the Korean Peninsula was settled

  • Hangul (Korean alphabet)

    Hangul, alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Chosŏn muntcha in North Korea, consists of 24 letters (originally 28), including 14 consonants and 10 vowels. The consonant characters are formed with curved or angled lines. The vowels are composed of vertical or

  • Hangup (film by Hathaway [1974])

    Henry Hathaway: Later work: …Gregory Peck (both 1971); and Hangup (1974). He retired thereafter.

  • Hangzhou (China)

    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 communications with the interior of Zhejiang to the south, is the southern terminus of

  • Hangzhou Bay (bay, China)

    Zhejiang: …River at the estuary of Hangzhou Bay but historically called the Zhe Jiang (“Crooked River”). Zhejiang is among the leading Chinese provinces in farm productivity and leads in the production of tea and in fishing. Area 39,300 square miles (101,800 square km). Pop. (2020) 64,567,588.

  • Hangzhou Bay Bridge (bridge, Cixi-Haiyan, China)

    Zhejiang: Transportation: The Hangzhou Bay Bridge between Cixi (south) and Haiyan (north) opened in 2008; it considerably reduces the travel distance between Ningbo and northern Zhejiang and Shanghai. Several cities in the province have airports with service to domestic destinations; those at Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Wenzhou also handle…

  • Hani (people)

    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 and in eastern Myanmar

  • Hani language

    Sino-Tibetan languages: Tibeto-Burman languages: …widest application) includes Yi (Lolo), Hani, Lahu, Lisu, Kachin (Jingpo), Kuki-Chin, the obsolete Xixia (Tangut), and other languages. The Tibetan writing system (which dates from the 7th century) and the Burmese (dating from the 11th century) are derived from the Indo-Aryan (Indic) tradition. The Xixia system (developed in the

  • Hani, Chris (South African political activist)

    Chris Hani was a South African political activist who was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC), the political party and Black nationalist organization that led the fight to eliminate South Africa’s racially discriminatory policy of apartheid, and served as chief of staff

  • Hani, Martin Thembisile (South African political activist)

    Chris Hani was a South African political activist who was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC), the political party and Black nationalist organization that led the fight to eliminate South Africa’s racially discriminatory policy of apartheid, and served as chief of staff

  • hanif (Islām)

    hanif, in the Qurʾān, the sacred scripture of Islām, 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 extension, designating a Hellenized person

  • Ḥanifī school (Islamic law)

    Ḥanafī school, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, incorporating the legal opinions of the ancient Iraqi schools of Kūfah. The Ḥanafī legal school (madhhab) developed from the teachings of the theologian Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (c. 700–767) as spread by his disciples Abū Yūsuf (died

  • Hanigalbat (ancient empire, Mesopotamia, Asia)

    Mitanni, Indo-Iranian empire centred in northern Mesopotamia that flourished from about 1500 to about 1360 bce. At its height the empire extended from Kirkūk (ancient Arrapkha) and the Zagros Mountains in the east through Assyria to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Its heartland was the Khābūr

  • Hanisch, Carol (American feminist)

    the personal is political: …same name by American feminist Carol Hanisch, who argued that many personal experiences (particularly those of women) can be traced to one’s location within a system of power relationships. Hanisch’s essay focused on men’s power and women’s oppression; for example, if a particular woman is being abused by a male…

  • Ḥanīsh Islands (islands, Red Sea)

    Ḥanīsh 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 which Turkey

  • haniwa (Japanese sculpture)

    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. 250–552 ce). The first and most common haniwa were barrel-shaped cylinders used to mark the borders of a burial ground. Later, in

  • Haniya, Ismail (prime minister of Palestinian Authority)

    Ismail Haniyeh was a Palestinian politician and Hamas leader who served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2006–07, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. After interfactional fighting with rival Fatah led to the dissolution of the

  • Haniyeh, Ismail (prime minister of Palestinian Authority)

    Ismail Haniyeh was a Palestinian politician and Hamas leader who served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2006–07, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. After interfactional fighting with rival Fatah led to the dissolution of the

  • Haniyyah, Ismāʿīl (prime minister of Palestinian Authority)

    Ismail Haniyeh was a Palestinian politician and Hamas leader who served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2006–07, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. After interfactional fighting with rival Fatah led to the dissolution of the

  • Hanjung nok (work by Lady Hong)

    Korean literature: Later Chosŏn: 1598–1894: Hanjung nok (1795–1805; “Record of Sorrowful Days”) is an elegant account of the tragic experiences of Lady Hong, princess of Hyegyŏng Palace, and carries on a tradition of palace memoirs written by Korean women. Pak Tu-Se wrote stories in the vernacular that describe contemporary manners.…

  • hank (textile)

    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 from short lengths of waste silk is 840 yards (770 m) long. A hank of linen is

  • hanka (Japanese poetry)

    Japanese literature: The significance of the Man’yōshū: …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 as to make the chōka they follow at times seem unnecessary; the concision and evocativeness of these poems, identical in form with…

  • Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron (British soldier and politician)

    Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey was a 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

  • hankō (Japanese school)

    education: Education in the Tokugawa era: …following the same policy, built hankō, or domain schools, in their castle towns for the education of their own retainers.

  • Hanko Peninsula (peninsula, Finland)

    Russo-Finnish War: …Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.

  • Hanko, battle of (Russian history)

    Peter I: The Northern War (1700–21): …took part in the naval battle of Gangut (Hanko, or Hangö) in 1714, the first major Russian victory at sea.

  • Hankou (China)

    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 former cities (the other two being Hanyang and Wuchang) now constituting the

  • Hankow (China)

    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 former cities (the other two being Hanyang and Wuchang) now constituting the

  • Hanks, Nancy (American public official)

    Nancy Hanks was an American public official whose position as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts allowed her to dramatically increase funding for and programs in the arts. Hanks graduated from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, in 1949 and two years later settled in Washington, D.C.

  • Hanks, Nancy (American pioneer)

    Abraham Lincoln: Life: …June 12, 1806, he married Nancy Hanks. The Hanks genealogy is difficult to trace, but Nancy appears to have been of illegitimate birth. She has been described as “stoop-shouldered, thin-breasted, sad,” and fervently religious. Thomas and Nancy Lincoln had three children: Sarah, Abraham, and Thomas, who died in infancy.

  • Hanks, Thomas C. (American seismologist)

    Richter scale: Moment magnitude scale: …Hiroo Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks, became the most popular measure of earthquake magnitude worldwide during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It was designed to produce a more-accurate measure of the total energy released by an earthquake. The scale abandoned the use of peak wave amplitudes…

  • Hanks, Thomas J. (American actor)

    Tom Hanks is an American actor whose cheerful everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films. In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead characters in dramas. After a nomadic childhood, Hanks majored in drama at California State

  • Hanks, Tom (American actor)

    Tom Hanks is an American actor whose cheerful everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films. In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead characters in dramas. After a nomadic childhood, Hanks majored in drama at California State

  • Hanky Panky (film by Poitier [1982])

    Sidney Poitier: Poitier as a director: Poitier had less success with Hanky Panky (1982), which teamed Wilder and his real-life wife, Gilda Radner, and Fast Forward (1985), a musical about break dancers. Cosby returned for Poitier’s last directorial effort, Ghost Dad (1990), but the film failed to match their earlier successes.

  • Hankyū Electric Railway (railway, Japan)

    Ōsaka-Kōbe metropolitan area: Settlement patterns: The Hankyū Electric Railway was particularly instrumental in developing the city of Toyonaka northwest of Ōsaka. Two of the large postwar housing developments are Senri New Town and Senboku New Town, started in 1961 and 1965, respectively.

  • Hanlin Academy (scholarly institution, China)

    Hanlin Academy, elite scholarly institution founded in the 8th century ad in China to perform secretarial, archival, and literary tasks for the court and to establish the official interpretation of the Confucian Classics, which were the basis of the civil-service examinations necessary for entrance

  • Hanlin Yuan (scholarly institution, China)

    Hanlin Academy, elite scholarly institution founded in the 8th century ad in China to perform secretarial, archival, and literary tasks for the court and to establish the official interpretation of the Confucian Classics, which were the basis of the civil-service examinations necessary for entrance

  • Hanlon Brothers (acrobatic troupe and pantomime producers)

    Hanlon Brothers, acrobatic troupe and theatrical producers in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries who greatly influenced modern popular entertainment. The troupe began as a group of six brothers, all of whom were born in Manchester, England. Five were biological siblings—Thomas (1833–68), George

  • Hanlon’s razor (adage)

    Hanlon’s razor, adage attributed to American writer Robert J. Hanlon that states, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” As a heuristic reasoning tool, the statement is a reminder to give others the benefit of the doubt by considering alternative explanations

  • Hann, Julius von (Austrian meteorologist)

    Earth sciences: Composition of the atmosphere: Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann, working with data from balloon ascents and climbing in the Alps and Himalayas, concluded in 1874 that about 90 percent of all the water vapour in the atmosphere is concentrated below 6,000 metres—from which it follows that high mountains can be barriers…

  • Hanna (film by Wright [2011])

    the Chemical Brothers: …for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed the song “This Is Not a Game” for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014). For No Geography (2019), the duo won another Grammy for best dance/electronic album, and the single “Got to Keep On” took the Grammy for best…

  • Hanna and Barbera (American animators)

    Hanna and Barbera, American motion-picture animators and partners in Hanna-Barbera Productions, founded in 1957. William Hanna (in full William Denby Hanna; b. July 14, 1910, Melrose, New Mexico, U.S.—d. March 22, 2001, Hollywood, California) and Joseph Barbera (in full Joseph Roland Barbera; b.

  • Hanna, Jack (American zoologist and television personality)

    Jack Hanna is an American zoologist who served as director of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo (1978–92) and became a well-known animal expert through his frequent television appearances. Hanna was raised on a farm in Tennessee and showed an early interest in pursuing a career with animals, volunteering to

  • Hanna, Jack Bushnell (American zoologist and television personality)

    Jack Hanna is an American zoologist who served as director of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo (1978–92) and became a well-known animal expert through his frequent television appearances. Hanna was raised on a farm in Tennessee and showed an early interest in pursuing a career with animals, volunteering to

  • Hanna, Kathleen (American musician)

    Riot Grrrl Movement: In the early 1990s Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk rock group Bikini Kill, made it a practice to begin gigs with the command, “Girls to the front!” Hanna’s experience was that women in the punk scene were often pushed aside by male fans and musicians. In her…

  • Hanna, Marcus Alonzo (American industrialist)

    Mark Hanna was an American industrialist and prototype of the political kingmaker; he successfully promoted the presidential candidacy of William McKinley in the election of 1896 and personified the growing influence of big business in American politics. The prosperous owner of a Cleveland coal and

  • Hanna, Mark (American industrialist)

    Mark Hanna was an American industrialist and prototype of the political kingmaker; he successfully promoted the presidential candidacy of William McKinley in the election of 1896 and personified the growing influence of big business in American politics. The prosperous owner of a Cleveland coal and

  • Hanna, Ruth (American public official)

    Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms was an American public official, an activist on behalf of woman suffrage, and a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress. Ruth Hanna was the daughter of industrialist and political kingmaker Mark Hanna, and she often accompanied her father as he attended to business

  • Hanna, William (American animator)

    William Hanna was an American animator who, as part of the team of Hanna and Barbera, created popular cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo. Hanna had dropped out of college and was working as a construction engineer when he lost his job during the Great

  • Hanna, William Denby (American animator)

    William Hanna was an American animator who, as part of the team of Hanna and Barbera, created popular cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo. Hanna had dropped out of college and was working as a construction engineer when he lost his job during the Great

  • Hanna-Barbera Marineland (former oceanarium, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States)

    Marineland of the Pacific, former large, commercially operated oceanarium at Rancho Palos Verdes near Los Angeles. It was opened in 1954 following the overwhelming success of Marineland in Florida. The aquarium had the world’s largest holding tank, with a circumference of 76 metres (250 feet) and a

  • Hannah (United States ship)

    Beverly: …shipping centre, and the schooner Hannah, claimed to be the first ship of the U.S. Navy, was commissioned (September 5, 1775) at Glover’s Wharf in Beverly by George Washington. One of New England’s first successful cotton-weaving mills was built there in 1789. From 1903 until the early 1970s, the city…

  • Hannah (mother of Virgin Mary)

    St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings. St. Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany and Canada and of women in labour. As the grandparents of Jesus, Anne and her husband Joachim are also considered the patron saints of

  • Hannah (Old Testament figure)

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