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Haapi

Haapi, also written Hapi, was an Egyptian commissioner resident in Sumur in Canaan, accused in seven Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC of betraying Egyptian interests to Aziru of Amurru.

Haapsalu-Noarootsi

Haapsalu-Noarootsi, Ramsar Site no. 2022 (Nuckö peninsula), is a 27,450 ha wetland complex on Estonia's northwestern coast near Haapsalu, designated 8 February 2011, with 225 bird species and major Baltic waterbird migration.

Haar measure

Haar measure is a measure on a locally compact group that is invariant under translation, finite on compact sets, and unique up to a positive constant; on R it coincides with Lebesgue measure.

Haar wavelet

The Haar wavelet is the simplest orthonormal wavelet, a step function equal to +1 and −1 on halves of its support, introduced by Alfréd Haar in 1909.

Haar wavelet transform

The Haar wavelet transform decomposes a signal or image into averages and differences at successive dyadic scales, and its coefficients are used for compression, denoising, and edge extraction.

Haardorf

Haardorf is a German village on the Danube, the site of the Kleinkastell Osterhofen-Haardorf, a small Roman fortlet found by aerial survey in the early 1980s and excavated in 1992.

Haaretz (הארץ)

Haaretz (הארץ), Israeli liberal daily founded in Jerusalem in 1918-1919, published from Tel Aviv since 1923, Schocken-family owned, with Hebrew and English editions, left-leaning and critical of Israeli government policy.

Haarlem

Haarlem is a city in North Holland, Netherlands, capital of the province, in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. Known for the 1572–73 siege, Frans Hals and his museum, and Teylers Museum, the country's oldest.

Haarlemmermeer Polder

The Haarlemmermeer Polder (Haarlemmermeerpolder) is an 18,000-hectare reclaimed lake bed between Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Leiden, drained by three steam pumping stations between 1849 and 1852 and now occupied by farms and Schiphol Airport.

Haas Automation

Haas Automation is an American manufacturer of CNC machine tools founded by Gene Haas in 1983, and the largest machine tool builder in the United States.

Haas F1 Team

Haas F1 Team is an American Formula One team founded by Gene Haas, based in Kannapolis, North Carolina, that debuted in 2016 and buys major components from Ferrari.

Haas Factory Team

Haas Factory Team is a NASCAR team owned by Gene Haas that began racing in 2025 in the Cup and O'Reilly Auto Parts Series from Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Haas School of Business

Haas School of Business is UC Berkeley's business school, founded 1898 as the College of Commerce via Cora Jane Flood's gift; second-oldest US business school, first at a public university, renamed for Walter A. Haas Sr. in 1986, with six degree programs and top-ranked MBA offerings.

Haas VF-26

The Haas VF-26 is a Formula 1 racing car built by the American Haas F1 Team, powered by Ferrari with Toyota Gazoo Racing branding, for the 2026 season, driven by Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman.

Haasil (हासिल) (2003 film)

Haasil (हासिल) is a 2003 Hindi crime drama romance and Tigmanshu Dhulia's directorial debut, set against student politics at Allahabad University, starring Jimmy Shergill, Hrishitaa Bhatt, and Irrfan Khan.

Haasil (हासिल) (Indian TV series)

Haasil (हासिल) is a 2017–2018 Hindi romantic thriller series on Sony Entertainment Television, distinct from the 2003 Tigmanshu Dhulia film of the same name: Zayed Khan's TV debut as Ranvir Raichand, with Nikita Dutta and Vatsal Sheth, 82 episodes, cancelled for low ratings.

Haason Reddick

Haason Reddick (born 1994) is an NFL outside linebacker from Camden, NJ, a Temple walk-on drafted 13th overall in 2017; two-time Pro Bowler with 61.5 career sacks, 2022 All-Pro, known for the 2024 Jets holdout and 2025 Buccaneers stint.

Haast's eagle

Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei, formerly Harpagornis moorei; Māori pouākai) was New Zealand's extinct giant eagle, the largest known, weighing up to 15 kg, hunting moa, descended from the little eagle, extinct 500–600 years ago.

Haasttse-baad Tessera

Haasttse-baad Tessera is a 2,600-km-wide region of ancient deformed terrain on Venus, along the northern edge of Aphrodite Terra, where researchers in 2024 proposed a giant impact basin.

Haatem Reda

Haatem M. Reda is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for neuromuscular and autoimmune neurology.

Haathi Mere Saathi (हाथी मेरे साथी)

Haathi Mere Saathi (हाथी मेरे साथी) is a 1971 Hindi drama directed by M.A. Thirumugam, starring Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja; the highest-grossing Indian film of 1971 and Salim-Javed's first screenplay, with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

Haavara Agreement (הסכם העברה)

Haavara Agreement (הסכם העברה), also Transfer Agreement: August 1933 pact between Nazi Germany and Zionist bodies letting Jews emigrate to Palestine with part of their assets via German exports; ~60,000 emigrated 1933–1939.

Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان)

Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان, born 1976, Beirut) is a Lebanese-born American actor, breakout as Tarek in The Visitor (2007), known for Nurse Jackie, Killing Jesus, Breaking Fast, and Eternals.

Habakkuk

Habakkuk (Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק) is a Hebrew prophet, probably of the late 7th century BCE, whose three-chapter book questions divine justice among the twelve Minor Prophets.

Habana del Este (housing development)

Habana del Este is the area of eastern Havana, Cuba, across the bay from the old city, where the revolutionary government concentrated its earliest state housing programs.

Habana Labs

Habana Labs is an Israeli developer of deep learning processors, founded in 2016 in Caesarea, Israel, and acquired by Intel for about $2 billion in 2019.

Habanera (aria)

Habanera, formally "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", is Carmen's Act I entrance aria in Bizet's opera Carmen, a mezzo-soprano showpiece whose melody Bizet borrowed from Yradier's "El Arreglito" and rewrote 13 times for Galli-Marié.

Habanero

Habanero, a cultivar group of Capsicum chinense from the Amazon Basin, is a very hot chili at 100,000–350,000 SHU with fruity aroma, domesticated over 6,000 years, centered in Mexico's Yucatán.

Habba Khatoon

Habba Khatoon (ہبہ خاتون), born Zoon around 1554, was a Kashmiri poet and singer remembered as consort of Yusuf Shah Chak, the last ruler of Kashmir.

Habba Khatun

Habba Khatun (حبہ خاتون), born Zoon, was a 16th-century Kashmiri poet and singer, queen consort of Yusuf Shah Chak, known as the Nightingale of Kashmir.