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Harpagus
Harpagus, also known as Harpagos, was a Median general of the sixth century BC who defected from King Astyages to Cyrus the Great and conquered western Asia Minor.
Harpal Singh Cheema
Harpal Singh Cheema is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party who serves as finance minister in the Government of Punjab, elected from Dirba in 2017.
Harpax
Harpax (Harpax Parkinson, 1811) is an extinct cementing plicatulid bivalve genus from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, known for its spined concave right valve and snow-shoe life habit; the name harpax also labels mantis shrimp, crab, and butterfly species.
Harpe
The harpe is the curved, sickle-like sword of Greek mythology, an adamantine weapon given to Perseus by Hermes to behead Medusa, with roots in Near Eastern sickle-swords.
Harpe brothers
The Harpe brothers, Micajah "Big Harpe" and Wiley "Little Harpe," were American frontier outlaws who murdered at least 20 people across Tennessee and Kentucky in 1797 and 1799.
Harpejji
Harpejji: fretted, tapped electric string instrument invented by Tim Meeks (Maryland, sold from 2007 by Marcodi), combining piano whole-tone string layout with guitar-like techniques; notable players include Stevie Wonder, A.R. Rahman, and Jacob Collier.
Harpelev
Harpelev, a village near Næstved on southern Sjælland, Denmark, is a small Late Roman Iron Age cemetery of four graves excavated 1962–63 and published by Ulla Lund Hansen in 1976, dated C1b (AD 210/220–250/60), whose publication introduced a new Zealand pottery chronology.
Harper (film)
Harper (1966) is a Jack Smight neo-noir mystery starring Paul Newman as Lew Harper, William Goldman's adaptation of Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, with Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, and Julie Harris; released 1966 by Warner Bros.
Harper County, Kansas
Harper County, Kansas: south central Kansas county on the Oklahoma border, county seat Anthony, named for Sgt. Marion Harper. Fraudulently organized in 1873 with a census of fictional Cincinnati-directory residents, legally reorganized in 1878; population 5,485 (2020).
Harper Lee
Harper Lee, born Nelle Harper Lee, was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, best known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which won the Pulitzer Prize and sold over 40 million copies.
Harper Matheson
Harper Matheson is a fictional social worker on the Australian soap Home and Away, played by Jessica Redmayne from August 2023 to 2026; sister of Dana, ex-fiancee of Tane Parata, mother of Archie, who exited after a domestic violence storyline with Beau.
Harper Steele
Harper Steele, formerly credited as Andrew Steele, is an American comedy writer, SNL writer 1995-2008 and head writer 2004-2008, Emmy winner, subject of the 2024 Netflix documentary Will & Harper after coming out as a trans woman in 2022.
Harper Valley PTA
Harper Valley PTA is a 1968 Tom T. Hall country song about widow Stella Johnson confronting a hypocritical PTA; Jeannie C. Riley's recording hit #1 pop and country, won a Grammy and CMA Single of the Year, and spawned a 1978 film and 1981 TV series.
Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar (originally Harper's Bazar) is an American monthly fashion magazine founded November 2, 1867 by Harper & Brothers, edited by Mary Louise Booth, reinvented under Carmel Snow in 1934, and published today by Hearst.
Harper's Island
Harper's Island (Harper's Island) is a 2009 CBS 13-episode slasher whodunit created by Ari Schlossberg, set at a wedding on a Seattle-area island where one character dies each episode until the killer is revealed; moved to Saturdays, it ran its full course July 11, 2009.
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine (Harper's New Monthly Magazine), America's oldest general-interest monthly, founded June 1850 by Harper & Brothers; rescued in 1980 by the Harper's Magazine Foundation; known for Harper's Index and long-form journalism.
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization: American illustrated weekly founded 1857 by Harper and Brothers, New York; Civil War circulation up to 300,000; home of Thomas Nast cartoons; precursor of pictorial news magazines.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins, a Big Five trade publisher owned by News Corp, with about 4,000 employees, roughly $2.1 billion 2024 revenue, Harlequin and HMH acquisitions, and the 2022-23 UAW Local 2110 strike.
Harpers (Forgotten Realms organization)
The Harpers (Those Who Harp) are a decentralized secret society of bards, rangers, and spies in D&D's Forgotten Realms, preserving lore and covertly opposing tyranny, allied with the Lords' Alliance and hostile to the Zhentarim.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: historic town at the Potomac-Shenandoah confluence, site of the 1859 John Brown raid on the U.S. Armory, eight Civil War changes of hands, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
Harpers' Songs
Harpers' Songs, also written Harper's Songs or Songs of the Harpists, are ancient Egyptian funerary texts inscribed on tomb walls beside harpists, attested from the Middle Kingdom onward and most abundant in the New Kingdom.
Harpham Roman Villa and Settlement
Harpham Roman Villa and Settlement: a scheduled Romano-British villa at Harpham, East Yorkshire, on the Yorkshire Wolds, excavated in 1904 and the 1950s and revealed by a 2019 survey as one of northern Britain's largest courtyard complexes within a ladder settlement.
Harpin, HrpN/Z
Harpins (HrpN of Erwinia amylovora, HrpZ of Pseudomonas syringae; InterPro Harpin, HrpN/Z) are glycine-rich, heat-stable type III-secreted bacterial proteins that elicit the plant hypersensitive response, aid effector translocation, and are used as crop biostimulants.
Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx (Adolph/Arthur Marx, 1888-1964), mute member of the Marx Brothers, self-taught harpist who went silent after a critic's review, declined $50,000 to speak, and was heard posthumously in a 1964 concert recording.
Harpo Productions
Harpo Productions is Oprah Winfrey's American multimedia production company, founded in Chicago in 1986 (Oprah spelled backwards). It owned The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1988 to 2011, built Harpo Films and O magazine, co-founded OWN with Discovery in 2008, and operates today from West Hollywood as Harpo Entertainment.
Harpoceras
Harpoceras is an extinct Hildoceratidae ammonite genus of the Early to Middle Jurassic, type species Ammonites falcifer, with compressed keeled shells and falciform ribs, characteristic of the lower Toarcian worldwide.
Harpole Roman villa (United Kingdom)
Harpole Roman villa, Northamptonshire: 2nd-4th century Romano-British villa sites near Harpole west of Northampton, found 1846 with a mosaic, excavated 1966 and at Panattoni Park (2022), including a Scheduled Monument at Road Hill Farm.
Harpoon
A harpoon is a spear-like hunting device whose detachable barbed head stays fastened by a line, used from early Holocene times to hunt large fish and marine mammals.
Harpoon (missile)
Harpoon (RGM-84/UGM-84/AGM-84), US subsonic sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile by McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, in service since 1977; active radar seeker, 224 kg warhead, 92.6–248 km range by variant, exported to 32 countries.
Harpoon of the Hunter
Harpoon of the Hunter, originally Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut, is a novella by the Inuk author Markoosie Patsauq, regarded as the first Inuit novel in Canada, published in English in 1970.