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Hard Rock International
Hard Rock International, brand of Hard Rock Cafe, hotels, and casinos, founded London 1971 by Morton and Tigrett; owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida since its 2007 acquisition from Rank Group.
Hard Rock Las Vegas
Hard Rock Las Vegas names two rock-music-themed Las Vegas resorts: the original Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, open 1995 to 2020, and a Strip resort under construction.
Hard Rock Stadium
Hard Rock Stadium, formerly Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Land Shark Stadium, and Sun Life Stadium, is the Miami Dolphins' 65,000-seat NFL venue in Miami Gardens, Florida, opened 1987, renovated for over $500 million with a 14-acre canopy, hosting six Super Bowls, the Miami Open, F1 Miami Grand Prix, and seven 2026 World Cup matches.
Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction (hard SF) is a science fiction subgenre, term coined by P. Schuyler Miller in 1957, defined by Allen Steele as fiction using established or carefully extrapolated science as its backbone, opposed to soft SF.
Hard seltzer
Hard seltzer: carbonated alcoholic drink from fermented sugar water, neutral filtered base, fruit flavoring, about 5% ABV and 100 calories. Peaked 2021; White Claw holds ~58% of global market; volumes down 10% 2021-2024.
Hard shoulder running
Hard shoulder running, also called part-time or temporary shoulder use, is a traffic management strategy that opens a road's paved shoulder as a travel lane during peak hours.
Hard Souls
Hard Souls (Suflete tari) is a 1922 modern drama in three acts by the Romanian writer Camil Petrescu, a landmark of modernism whose conflict unfolds inside the characters' consciousness.
Hard sphere model
The hard sphere model is a statistical mechanics model of impenetrable spheres that repel infinitely on contact and otherwise exert no force, serving as a key reference system.
HARD Summer
HARD Summer, also written Hard Summer Music Festival, is an annual electronic music festival in the Los Angeles area, running since 2007 and blending electronic, hip-hop, and crossover acts.
Hard Summer Music Festival 2023
HARD Summer Music Festival 2023, also known as HARD Summer 2023, was the festival's fifteenth edition, held in Los Angeles on August 5 and 6, 2023.
Hard Sun
Hard Sun is a 2018 BBC One and Hulu six-part pre-apocalyptic crime drama by Neil Cross, starring Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn as London detectives who uncover proof Earth ends in five years; also a Sunhouse song and a sunscreen brand.
Hard Target
Hard Target (1993) is John Woo's first Hollywood film, an action thriller for Universal adapting Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme hunting mercenaries who stalk homeless men in New Orleans; it earned $31.5 million in the US.
Hard Target 2
Hard Target 2 (2016) is a direct-to-video action film directed by Roel Reiné, starring Scott Adkins as MMA fighter Wes Baylor, hunted for sport in Myanmar; a sequel in name only to John Woo's 1993 Hard Target.
Hard Times (novel)
Hard Times: For These Times is an 1854 novel by Charles Dickens, first serialized in Household Words, that satirizes utilitarianism and industrial England through the Gradgrind family in Coketown.
Hard to Be a God (2013 film)
Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом) is Aleksei German's 2013 Russian black-and-white sci-fi drama, adapted from the Strugatsky novel, set on medieval planet Arkanar; completed posthumously by his son, it earned 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 93 Metascore.
Hard to Handle (song)
"Hard to Handle" is a soul song written by Otis Redding and recorded in 1967, best known through the Black Crowes' 1990 Top 40 cover.
Hard to Kill
Hard to Kill is a 1990 American action thriller starring Steven Seagal as a comatose detective who takes revenge on the corrupt cops behind a hit.
Hard to Say I'm Sorry
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 Chicago power ballad by Peter Cetera and David Foster from Chicago 16, first single on Full Moon/Warner Bros., two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with a "Get Away" horn outro.
Hard trance
Hard trance is a subgenre of trance music combining melodic breakdowns with harder kick drums, developed in early-1990s Western Europe and peaking in the late 1990s.
Hard Truths
Hard Truths (2024) is a 97-minute British-Spanish comedy-drama by Mike Leigh, reuniting him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Pansy) and Michele Austin (Chantelle); premiered at TIFF 2024, released by Bleecker Street, with Jean-Baptiste sweeping the NY, LA, and National Society of Film Critics best-actress prizes.
Hard turning
Hard turning is a machining process that cuts hardened steel at 45 to 65 HRC with superhard PCBN or ceramic tools, replacing grinding as a finishing step.
Hard water
Hard water, also called water hardness, is water with high dissolved calcium and magnesium, picked up from soil and rock, which makes lathering harder and leaves scale in pipes.
Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), renamed Insight-HXMT after launch, is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite, launched on June 15, 2017 to study black holes, pulsars, and gamma-ray bursts.
Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) is X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy performed with photon energies above 2 keV, reaching buried layers and interfaces several tens of nanometers deep.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) is Haruki Murakami's 1985 novel of two alternating narratives, a near-future Tokyo data-processor thriller and a walled-town dream-reading fantasy, translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum in 1991.
Hard-core point process
A hard-core point process is a spatial stochastic model where no two points lie closer than a fixed minimum distance, modeling repulsive patterns like cells and trees.
Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting is a style of abstract painting with flat, unmodulated color areas and sharp edges, coined by critic Jules Langsner in 1959 for four southern California painters.
Hardanger Bridge
The Hardanger Bridge (Hardangerbrua) is a suspension bridge on Norwegian National Road 13 across the Hardanger Fjord, opened in 2013 with the longest main span in Norway, 1,310 meters.
Hardanger embroidery
Hardanger embroidery (Norwegian: hardangersøm, hardangersaum) is Norwegian cutwork whitework embroidery from the Hardanger district of western Norway, descended from Italian reticella, traditionally white linen on linen, now also colored and spread to the US Midwest and Japan.
Hardaul Lāl
Hardaul Lāl (हरदौल लाला), also called Lala Hardaul, was a Bundela prince of Orchha who died by poisoning in the early 17th century and was deified.