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Haboob
A haboob (Arabic habūb) is a wall of dust or sand pushed by thunderstorm outflow winds that can cut visibility to zero; the term began in Sudan and now covers similar storms worldwide, especially in Arizona.
Haboro Rose Park
Haboro Rose Park (はぼろバラ園, Haboro Rose Garden), Japan's northernmost rose garden in Haboro, Hokkaido; opened 1998 beside Michi-no-Eki Hotto Haboro; about 300 varieties and 2,000 northern-type roses, free admission, open May to October.
Habr Yunis Sultanate
The Habr Yunis Sultanate was a Somali kingdom ruled by the Habr Yunis clan of the Isaaq, established in 1846 and absorbed into British Somaliland by 1908.
Habsburg Castle
Habsburg Castle, also known as Schloss Habsburg, is a castle above the Aare river in the Swiss canton of Aargau, built around 1020/1030 as the ancestral seat of the House of Habsburg.
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also called the Danube Monarchy or Austria-Hungary after 1867, was the aggregate of Habsburg-ruled lands in Central Europe. Defined facts: estate-based composite rule, Maria Theresa's centralization, 1910 census multiethnicity, dissolution in 1918.
Habsburg Netherlands
The Habsburg Netherlands, also known as the Habsburg Low Countries, were the Low Countries ruled by the House of Habsburg from 1482 until the Dutch Revolt split them in the late 1500s.
Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain, the Monarquía Hispánica or Catholic Monarchy (1516–1700), was the Spanish Habsburgs' composite monarchy of Castile, Aragon, Italy, the Low Countries, and the American viceroyalties, governed by councils and American silver, ending with Charles II and the Bourbon succession.
Habshan
Habshan is an oil and gas field and processing complex in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, operated by ADNOC Gas and the origin of the pipeline to Fujairah.
Habshi dynasty of Bengal
The Habshi dynasty of Bengal (حبشی سلطنت بنگال) was the rule of four Abyssinian sultans, former palace slaves, over the Bengal Sultanate between 1486 and 1493.
Habshi rule in Bengal
Habshi rule in Bengal was the period from 1486 or 1487 to 1493 when Abyssinian palace guards seized the Bengal Sultanate's throne and ruled through four sultans.
Habshi rule of Bengal
The Habshi rule of Bengal was the 1487 to 1494 rule of the Bengal sultanate by Abyssinian palace slaves, ended by a revolt led by wazir Syed Husain.
Habshun ibn Musa al-Baghdadi
Habshun ibn Musa al-Baghdadi (حبشون بن موسى البغدادي), called al-Khallal, was a 10th-century Baghdadi hadith narrator and vinegar-maker, graded trustworthy, whose material reaches al-Daraqutni's Sunan.
Habte Giyorgis Dinagde
Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde (died 1926) was an Ethiopian military commander who served as Minister of War from 1907 and engineered the 1916 coup that placed Haile Selassie's path to the throne.
Habtoorland
Habtoorland (Habtoor Land) was Lebanon's first and largest theme park, a 107,000 sqm Phoenician-themed park at Jamhour, Mount Lebanon, built by Al Habtoor Group. Opened December 2004, closed after the 2006 war, reopened 2007, operational until 2011, abandoned since.
Habuba Kabira
Habuba Kabira (حبوبة الكبيرة) is a walled Late Uruk city of the late 4th millennium BC on the Syrian Euphrates, excavated by German teams from 1969 to 1975.
Habus (Maghrebi waqf)
Habus (الحبس) is the Maghrebi name for the Islamic pious endowment known as waqf elsewhere, inalienable property whose revenues support mosques, schools, and founders' descendants.
Habushu (ハブ酒)
Habushu (ハブ酒), or habu sake, is an Okinawan liqueur of awamori rice spirit with a habu pit viper (Protobothrops flavoviridis) inside; venom is denatured by ethanol, tradition from Chinese snake wine via Ryukyu trade.
HaCaT
HaCaT (CVCL_0038) is a spontaneously immortalized, aneuploid, nontumorigenic human keratinocyte cell line from adult back skin, established 1988 by Boukamp et al.; widely used skin biology and toxicology model with mutant TP53.
Haccourt
Haccourt, a village in Oupeye, Liège province, Belgium, site of a major Gallo-Roman villa excavated 1967-1970 by Guy De Boe, with a 4,385 m² main building, mosaics, baths and a laconicum.
Haceby
Haceby, Lincolnshire: village in Newton and Haceby parish, North Kesteven, with a scheduled Roman villa found in 1818, excavated by RAF Cranwell in 1928-29, and a 1086 Domesday record of four manors under Gilbert of Ghent.
Hache (2019 TV series)
Hache is a Spanish Netflix crime thriller (2019-2021) created by Verónica Fernández, starring Adriana Ugarte as Helena, a prostitute who rises to lead a 1960s Barcelona heroin trafficking gang; canceled after two seasons.
Hacheston
Hacheston, Suffolk: village and parish near Wickham Market with a 30-hectare Romano-British small town at Lower Hacheston, a 1086 Domesday entry of five manors, and 376 residents in 2021.
Hachi hachi
Hachi hachi (八八, "eighty-eight"), aka Yokohama-Bana, is a three-player Japanese hanafuda fishing game; the 48-card pack totals 264 points, so the par score of 88 per player gives the game its name.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), Lasse Hallström drama starring Richard Gere as Professor Parker Wilson, an American remake of Hachikō Monogatari (1987) about the loyal Akita Hachikō; filmed in Rhode Island, released mainly in Japan.
Hachidaishū
Hachidaishū (八代集) is the collective name for the first eight imperial anthologies of Japanese waka poetry, spanning roughly 300 years from the Kokin Wakashū of 905 to the Shinkokin Wakashū of 1205.
Hachijuni Bank
Hachijuni Bank (八十二銀行) was a regional bank headquartered in Nagano City, Japan. Founded in 1931, it merged with The Nagano Bank in 2026 to form Hachijuni Nagano Bank.
Hachikō (ハチ公)
Hachikō (ハチ公), the faithful Akita of Shibuya Station, waited for his dead owner Professor Ueno for about nine years after 1925; famous from a 1932 Asahi article, statue, and Japanese, American, and Chinese films.
Hachim Mastour
Hachim Mastour, born 1998 in Reggio Emilia, Moroccan-Italian attacking midfielder; Milan signed him at 14 for €500,000, he never played a senior Milan match, earned one Morocco cap, and later played in lower divisions.
Hachiman (八幡神)
Hachiman, also known as Hachiman Daibosatsu, is a major Japanese kami identified with the deified Emperor Ōjin and worshipped as patron of the warrior class.
Hachiman anti-defense 1
Hachiman anti-defense 1 (Had1) is a 53-amino-acid protein of Bacillus phage SBSphiJ4 that inhibits the bacterial Hachiman HamAB antiphage defense system; identified by Yirmiya et al. (Nature 2024), with 23 homologs in Bacillus phages and a known homodimer structure (PDB 8TTO).