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Hachiman in the Guise of a Buddhist Monk

Hachiman in the Guise of a Buddhist Monk (僧形八幡, sōgyō Hachiman) is the standard iconographic form of the Japanese Shinto deity Hachiman, shown as a monk.

Hachinohe

Hachinohe (八戸市) is a Pacific-coast city in southeastern Aomori Prefecture, Japan, founded 1929, with about 210,000 residents, a major industrial port, New Industrial City status since 1964, and northern Tohoku's first international container route (1994).

Oct 15, 2026

Hachinohe LNG Terminal

Hachinohe LNG Terminal (八戸LNGターミナル) is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Hachinohe Port, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, opened in April 2015 to supply northern Tohoku and eastern Hokkaido.

Hachiōji

Hachioji (八王子市) is a core city in western Tokyo, about 40 km from central Tokyo. Incorporated 1917, population about 579,000 (2020), Tokyo's largest municipality outside the 23 wards, with 21 universities and 186.38 km² area.

Hachiouji-P

Hachiouji-P (八王子P), formerly 8#Prince, is a Japanese Vocaloid producer and DJ known for electro-house songs with Hatsune Miku, debuting with "Electric Love" on Niconico in December 2009.

Hachisuka Masakatsu

Hachisuka Masakatsu, known as Hachisuka Koroku (蜂須賀小六), 1526–1586, was a Sengoku-period warlord from Owari who served Nobunaga and became a senior retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Sep 23, 2026

Haci Bayram-i Veli

Haci Bayram-i Veli (حاجی بایرام ولی) was an Anatolian Sufi and poet who founded the Bayramiyye order in Ankara around 1412 and befriended Sultan Murad II.

Hacienda

Hacienda: large landed estate of Spanish America, from Old Spanish facienda; colonial landholding system based on resident labor and debt peonage, central to Mexican political economy, dismantled by 20th-century land reform.

Hacienda (Las Vegas)

Hacienda (Las Vegas), also Lady Luck, a 1956-1996 Strip hotel-casino at 3950 Las Vegas Blvd South, family and budget oriented, with its own airline; imploded 1996 for Mandalay Bay.

Haçienda Classical (w/ CeCe Rogers, Alison Limerick & Robert Owens)

Haçienda Classical is a live show reinterpreting late-1980s and early-1990s Haçienda dance anthems with the Manchester Camerata orchestra, curated by Graeme Park and debuting in 2016.

Hacienda Luisita

Hacienda Luisita, a 6,453-hectare Tarlac sugar estate bought by the Cojuangcos in 1957, site of the 2004 massacre and the 2011 Supreme Court-ordered land distribution to farmworkers.

Hacienda Nápoles

Hacienda Nápoles, Pablo Escobar's former estate in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia, Colombia, now the Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles theme park since 2007, known for its escaped invasive hippos, safari attractions, Escobar museum, and land redistribution disputes.

Hacienda system in Bolivia

The hacienda system in Bolivia was a regime of large private estates worked by resident indigenous tenants, which dominated until the Agrarian Reform of 1953 abolished it.

Hacienda system in Ecuador

The hacienda system in Ecuador was a regime of large Andean estates in which landowners controlled indigenous labor through the huasipungo, abolished by 1964 agrarian reform.

Hacienda system in Peru

The hacienda system in Peru was a regime of large, privately held estates run by hacendados who controlled land, labor, and rural life from the colonial period until the 1969 agrarian reform ended it.

Haçilar

Haçilar (Hacılar) is a prehistoric settlement mound about 25 km west of Burdur, Turkey, excavated by James Mellaart in 1957–1960; occupation from the eighth millennium BC, with Neolithic levels dated 6200–5700 BC.

Sep 23, 2026

Hacı I Giray

Hacı I Giray was the founder and first khan of the Crimean Khanate, an independent Tatar state he secured by 1449 after defeating the Golden Horde; he died in 1466.

Hacı Ömer Sabancı

Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1906–1966) was a Turkish businessman who built a cotton-trading firm in Adana into one of Turkey's largest family business groups and founded Akbank in 1948.

Hacınebi Tepe

Hacınebi Tepe is a Chalcolithic settlement mound on bluffs above the Euphrates near Birecik, Turkey, occupied from about 4100 BC and a key source on the Uruk Expansion.

Oct 15, 2026

Hack (programming language)

Hack is a gradually typed programming language developed by Facebook for HHVM and released in 2014, designed to let PHP codebases adopt static typing file by file.

Hack and slash

Hack and slash: video game genre of melee-combat-focused play, covering 3D character action games (Devil May Cry, God of War, Bayonetta) and point-and-click action RPGs (Diablo); term from tabletop RPGs.

Hack Simpson

Hack Simpson (Harold Alfred Simpson, 1910-1978), Canadian ice hockey player; won 1932 Olympic gold with the Winnipeg Winnipegs, scored 6 goals in 5 games, and was Canada's opening-ceremony flagbearer at Lake Placid.

Hack-a-Shaq

Hack-a-Shaq: basketball tactic of intentionally fouling a poor free throw shooter, named for Shaquille O'Neal; first used by Don Nelson against Dennis Rodman on December 29, 1997; curbed by NBA away-from-play foul rules in 2016-17.

Hackathon

A hackathon, also known as a hack day, hackfest, or codefest, is a one-to-three-day event where teams collaborate to build a working software or hardware prototype.

Hacked (film)

Hacked is a 2020 Hindi cybercrime thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Hina Khan in her Bollywood debut as Sameera Khanna, whose life is ruined by teenage hacker Vivek (Rohan Shah). Released 7 February 2020; streamed on ZEE5.

Hackenbush

Hackenbush: Conway's 1970s combinatorial game on colored edge graphs, the running example of On Numbers and Games; blue-red stalks spell surreal numbers, green stalks are Nim heaps.

Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack, New Jersey: county seat of Bergen County on the Hackensack River, 4.6 square miles, population 46,030 (2020). Lenape and Dutch origins, Washington's 1776 retreat, chartered 1921, diverse and redeveloping.

Hacker

A hacker is a person with a strong interest in computers who explores and programs them; since the 1980s the word also means someone who breaks into systems.

Hacker culture

Hacker culture, also called hackerdom, is a subculture of playful, technically skilled exploration of computer systems that emerged at MIT in the late 1950s and shaped open source software.