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Hardayal Singh
Hardayal Singh (Hardayal Singh Garchey, 1928-2018), Indian field hockey inside forward, 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist, Sikh Regiment Subedar, national coach 1983-1987, Dhyan Chand Award 2004; distinct from Hardial Singh Kular of Kenya.
Hardball (film)
Hardball is a 2001 American sports drama directed by Brian Robbins, starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and DeWayne Warren, about a man coaching a youth baseball team from Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project.
Hardbass (хардбасс)
Hardbass (хардбасс) is a fast Russian electronic dance genre from 2000s Saint Petersburg, offshoot of pumping house; known for pump-dance flash mobs, Hard Bass School's 2010 viral hit, and far-right flash mobs.
Hardboiled
Hardboiled fiction: American crime-fiction school born in 1920s pulp magazines like Black Mask, featuring tough cynical private eyes such as Hammett's Sam Spade and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, written in terse realist prose and distinguished from classical detective stories by moral ambiguity, urban corruption, and its later fusion into film noir.
Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick, ABC crime drama 1983–1986 by Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh; Brian Keith's retired judge and ex-con Daniel Hugh Kelly reinvestigate cases dismissed on technicalities; 66 episodes, declining ratings, 19% Tomatometer.
Hardcore (1979 film)
Hardcore (1979) is Paul Schrader's drama starring George C. Scott as a Calvinist Michigan businessman posing as a porn producer to find his missing daughter in Los Angeles; released by Columbia February 9, 1979, co-starring Peter Boyle and Season Hubley.
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
Hardcore is a fast, aggressive electronic dance music genre (150-200+ BPM, distorted kicks) born in UK rave culture around 1988, later spawning gabber, happy hardcore, jungle, and a dedicated Dutch festival circuit.
Hardcore Henry
Hardcore Henry is a 2015 first-person action film by Ilya Naishuller, produced by Timur Bekmambetov, shot on GoPro Hero 3 rigs worn by 12 performers, released April 8, 2016 after winning TIFF's Midnight Madness award.
Hardcore Holly
Hardcore Holly, ring name of Bob Holly, American retired pro wrestler, WWE 1994-2009; six-time Hardcore Champion, three-time World Tag Team Champion, neck broken by Brock Lesnar in 2002, author of The Hardcore Truth.
Hardcore Pawn
Hardcore Pawn: American reality TV series on truTV (2010-2015) set at the Gold family's American Jewelry and Loan pawn shop on 8 Mile Road, Detroit, starring Les, Seth, and Ashley Gold; nine seasons, truTV's record series launch with 2.1 million premiere viewers.
Hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography, also called hard porn or XXX content, is sexually explicit media explicitly depicting genitalia and penetrative sex with little plot, distinct from softcore; protected in the US unless obscene under Miller v. California, and increasingly subject to age-verification and content laws.
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk, or hardcore, is the faster, harder, more extreme offshoot of punk rock that formed around 1978–81 in Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and the UK, spawning straightedge, grindcore, powerviolence, post-hardcore, and metalcore.
Hardcore wrestling
Hardcore wrestling, also called extreme wrestling, is a pro wrestling style with relaxed rules and heavy weapon use, popularized by ECW in 1990s Philadelphia and later adopted by WWF and WCW hardcore divisions.
Hardcourt
Hardcourt: rigid tennis court surface of concrete or asphalt with acrylic coatings, the most common court type; hosts the Australian Open and US Open, classified by ITF Court Pace Rating from slow to fast.
Hardcourt bike polo
Hardcourt bike polo: team cycling ball sport born among Seattle bike messengers in the late 1990s, played 3v3 on paved courts with mallets, governed in North America by NAH since 2010, distinct from grass cycle polo.
Hardcover
A hardcover, also called hardback or hardbound, is a book bound with a rigid protective cover of stiff boards wrapped in cloth, paper, or leather, made by case binding.
Hardee's
Hardee's, founded by Wilber Hardee in Greenville, North Carolina on September 3, 1960, is an American fast-food chain of charbroiled burgers and Made From Scratch biscuits, owned by CKE Restaurants (Roark Capital) and sister to Carl's Jr., concentrated in the Midwest and Southeast.
Hardeep Grewal
Hardeep Grewal is a Punjabi singer, lyricist, and actor from Jamalpur in Ludhiana district, Punjab, who left an engineering lecturer job and broke through with his 2015 debut album Thokar.
Hardeep Singh (physician)
Hardeep Singh is a physician and health services researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for measuring diagnostic error and co-developing the SAFER EHR safety guides.
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Hardeep Singh Kohli, Scottish broadcaster, writer and comedian of Punjabi Sikh descent, born 1969; Meet the Magoons creator, Booker Prize 2008 judge, Indian Takeaway author, later facing sexual offence charges he denies.
Hardeep Singh Mundian
Hardeep Singh Mundian is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician who represents Sahnewal in the Punjab Legislative Assembly and serves as a Punjab cabinet minister.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh separatist leader and Surrey, B.C. gurdwara president, shot dead June 18, 2023; India had designated him a Khalistan Tiger Force terrorist, and Canada alleged Indian agents were linked to his killing.
Hardeep Singh Puri (ਹਰਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਪੁਰੀ)
Hardeep Singh Puri, an Indian politician and former diplomat, was India's Permanent Representative to the UN and President of the Security Council before serving as a minister.
Harden M. McConnell
Harden M. McConnell (H. M. McConnell, 1927–2014) was an American biophysical chemist at Stanford whose spin-label technique opened the study of cell membranes and lipid domains.
Hardenability
Hardenability is the depth to which steel hardens when quenched from its austenitizing temperature, distinct from hardness and raised by alloying elements like chromium, molybdenum, and boron.
Hardening (metallurgy)
Hardening in metallurgy is the increase of a metal's resistance to plastic deformation, achieved by obstructing dislocation motion through mechanisms such as work hardening, precipitation hardening, and quenching to martensite.
Hardening law
A hardening law is a rule in plasticity theory specifying how a material's yield surface changes as it plastically deforms, chiefly by isotropic expansion or kinematic translation.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is a 2001 Daft Punk song, track 4 on Discovery, single out 13 October 2001, built on Edwin Birdsong's 'Cola Bottle Baby' and later sampled in Kanye West's 'Stronger'.
Harderoporphyria
Harderoporphyria (HARPO), a rare autosomal recessive erythropoietic variant of hereditary coproporphyria caused by biallelic CPOX mutations such as K404E, presents neonatally with hemolytic anemia, jaundice, and massive fecal harderoporphyrin excretion.
Hardev Singh Kler (ਹਰਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਲੇਰ)
Hardev Singh Kler (ਹਰਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਲੇਰ), also known as Harry Kler, was an Indian Army major general of the Corps of Signals who commanded 95 Mountain Brigade in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, took Jamalpur, and won the Maha Vir Chakra; distinct from the Nirankari Baba and hockey official of the same name.