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Hărţăgani

Hărţăgani (Hercegány) is a village in Băița commune, Hunedoara County, Romania, in the Metaliferi Mountains' Golden Quadrilateral, with Roman gold mines on Măgura Băii (RAN 88154.02–06), an Antoninus Pius coin, and Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement traces.

Sep 19, 2026

Hartapu

Hartapu (Ḫartapu) was a ruler of south-central Anatolia who styled himself Great King and son of Mursili, known from monuments at Kızıl Dağ and Karadağ.

Hartbeespoort Dam

Hartbeespoort Dam is an arch-type concrete dam on the Crocodile River in the Magaliesberg, completed in 1923 as the first irrigation scheme of the Union of South Africa.

Hartberg

TSV Hartberg (TSV Egger Glas Hartberg), Austrian Bundesliga football club from Hartberg, Styria, founded 29 April 1946. Promoted to the top flight in 2018, fifth in 2019-20, Europa League participant, plays at the Profertil Arena.

Hartebeest

Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), a large African antelope of the tribe Alcelaphini with sloping back and ringed horns in both sexes; eight subspecies in three clades, up to 70 km/h, Bubal subspecies extinct, IUCN decreasing.

Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory

The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy and space geodesy facility near Johannesburg, South Africa, begun in 1961 as a NASA deep-space tracking station.

Hartford circus fire

The Hartford circus fire killed at least 168 people when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top burned during a matinee in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 6, 1944.

Hartford Convention

The Hartford Convention was a secret meeting of 26 New England Federalist delegates in Hartford, Connecticut, from December 1814 to January 1815, protesting the War of 1812 and proposing constitutional amendments.

Hartford County

Hartford County, Connecticut: one of the four original counties, established 1666, shire town Hartford. County government abolished October 1, 1960; 29 towns; 2020 population 899,498; now a geographic and statistical subdivision.

Hartford Whalers

Hartford Whalers, formerly New England Whalers, WHA (1972) and NHL (1979-1997) hockey team in Hartford, Connecticut; relocated 1997 to become the Carolina Hurricanes; famed Peter Good whale-tail logo and 'Brass Bonanza' goal song.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut: capital city on the Connecticut River, founded 1636 by Thomas Hooker, nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World; about 122,000 residents, high poverty and segregation, mayor-council government under Arunan Arulampalam.

Harthacnut

Harthacnut (Hörða-Knútr Knutsson), also called Hardicanute, c. 1018–1042, son of Cnut the Great and Emma of Normandy; king of Denmark 1035–1042 and last Danish king of England 1040–1042, succeeded by Edward the Confessor.

Sep 23, 2026

Harthama ibn A'yan

Harthama ibn A'yan (هرثمة بن أعين) was an Abbasid commander and governor who died in 815–816 and helped besiege Baghdad in the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun.

Hartini

Hartini (Siti Suhartini, 1924-2002), Indonesian fourth wife of President Sukarno, unofficial First Lady at Bogor Palace; married amid 1950s polygamy protests, mother of Taufan and Bayu, buried at Karet Bivak.

Hartland Covered Bridge

The Hartland Covered Bridge crosses the Saint John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, and is the world's longest covered bridge, opened in 1901 and covered in the 1920s.

Hartland Snyder

Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist who co-authored the 1939 Oppenheimer–Snyder gravitational collapse paper and the 1952 strong-focusing accelerator paper, and proposed quantized space-time in 1947.

Hartlepool

Hartlepool, England, is a coastal town and unitary borough on the North Sea coast of north-east England, founded in the 7th century around a monastery where St Hild was abbess.

Hartlepool nuclear power plant

Hartlepool nuclear power plant is a twin-reactor nuclear power station on the River Tees in North East England, generating with two advanced gas-cooled reactors since 1983.

Hartlepool United F.C.

Hartlepool United F.C., known as Pools, is an English football club founded in 1908, based at Victoria Park (capacity 7,865), in the National League after EFL relegations in 2017 and 2023, owned by Landon Smith since December 2025.

Sep 19, 2026

Hartley Richardson

Hartley Richardson is a Canadian business executive who has served as CEO of James Richardson & Sons since 1993, growing the family firm into Canada's largest grain handler.

Hartley Sawyer

Hartley Sawyer is an American actor who played Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, on The Flash. He was fired in June 2020 over racist, misogynistic tweets from 2011 to 2014.

Hartley Shawcross

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, was a British Labour barrister and politician who served as Attorney General from 1945 to 1951 and was Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial.

Hartley transform

The Hartley transform is an integral transform introduced by Ralph Hartley in 1942 that, unlike the Fourier transform, gives a real-valued output for real signals.

Hartmann Beyer

Hartmann Beyer (1516–1577) was a Lutheran theologian, mathematician, and Reformation preacher of Frankfurt am Main, the first representative of strict Lutheranism in the imperial city.

Hartmann Bjørnson

Hartmann Bjørnson, full name Alfred Hartmann Bjørnson, was a Norwegian gymnast from Stavanger who won Olympic gold in the men's team free system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

Hartmann Grisar

Hartmann Grisar (1845–1932) was a German Jesuit church historian and archaeologist who taught at Innsbruck and wrote a three-volume biography of Martin Luther (1911–12), published in English in six volumes.