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Haryana Power Generation

Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) is the wholly state-owned generation company of Haryana, India, incorporated in 1997 and operating thermal, hydro, and solar plants totaling 2,582.4 MW.

Haryanka dynasty

Haryanka dynasty: ancient Indian ruling house of Magadha (Mahavamsa dates 544-413 BC), founded under Bimbisara and Ajatashatru; ended when minister Shishunaga deposed Nagadasaka, founding the Shishunaga dynasty.

Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo

Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo is an Indonesian businessman who serves as President Director of Impack Pratama, a building-materials maker his father founded in 1981 and Indonesia's largest maker of polymer-based roofs.

Harz

Harz: Germany's northernmost mountain range (~2,000 km², Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia), highest peak Brocken 1,141 m; historic non-ferrous mining, Rammelsberg and Upper Harz Water Management UNESCO sites, Harz National Park.

Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen UNESCO Global Geopark

Harz – Braunschweiger Land – Ostfalen UNESCO Global Geopark: Germany's largest geopark, over 9,650 km² across three federal states; founded 2002, UNESCO title 2015, over 1,000 years of mining history.

Has Fallen

Has Fallen is an American action thriller franchise starring Gerard Butler as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in Olympus Has Fallen (2013), London Has Fallen (2016), Angel Has Fallen (2019), the announced Night Has Fallen, and TV spin-offs.

HAS-BLED

The HAS-BLED score estimates the 1-year risk of major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation on oral anticoagulation, with a score of 3 or higher flagging high risk.

has.to.be

has.to.be was an Austrian electric-vehicle charging software company based in Salzburg, founded in 2013 and acquired by the American company ChargePoint in 2021 for about €250 million.

HAS2

HAS2 (hyaluronan synthase 2), Gene ID 3037, human membrane enzyme synthesizing hyaluronan; cloned 1996 by Watanabe and Yamaguchi; essential isoform for cardiovascular development.

Hasa Plain

Hasa Plain (سهول الأحساء), low eastern Saudi Arabian plain, 130–160 m elevation, home of the Al-Ahsa oasis, 2.5 million palms, 280 artesian springs, and groundwater depletion.

Hasadiah

Hasadiah is a legendary Exilarch of Babylonian Jewry named in the chronicle Seder Olam Zuta between Berechiah and Jesaiah; no Talmudic or documentary source mentions him.

Hasan Abbas Sharbatly

Hasan Abbas Sharbatly (حسن عباس شربتلي) was a Saudi merchant from Jeddah who founded the AlNahla Group, is credited with founding Riyad Bank, and died in 1999.

Hasan Agha

Hasan Agha (حسن آغا) was a Sardinian renegade who governed Ottoman Algiers as deputy of Hayreddin Barbarossa from 1533 or 1535, and led the defense against Charles V in 1541.

Hasan Akhund (محمد حسن آخوند)

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund (محمد حسن آخوند), Taliban acting prime minister of Afghanistan since September 2021, head of the Rehbari Shura, former foreign minister and Kandahar governor (1996–2001), UN-sanctioned as TAi.002.

Hasan al-Askari

Hasan al-Askari (الحسن العسكري), son of Ali al-Hadi, is the eleventh of the Twelve Imams for Twelver Shia Muslims, who died in Samarra in 874.

Hasan al-Attar

Hasan al-Attar (حسن العطار) was an Egyptian Azharite scholar of Maghrebi origin, first editor of Egypt's official gazette in 1828 and shaykh of al-Azhar from 1830 to 1835.

Hasan al-Basri (الحسن البصري)

Hasan al-Basri (الحسن البصري), also known as Hasan of Basra, was a preacher, theologian, and hadith narrator of the Tabi'un, born in Medina and based in Basra until his death in 728.

Hasan al-Kharrat

Hasan al-Kharrat (حسن الخراط, 1861–1925) was a Damascene quarter guard who became one of the heroes of the 1925 Great Syrian Revolt against French rule.

Hasan al-Quwaysni

Hasan al-Quwaysni (حسن القويسني) was a blind Egyptian Shafi'i scholar who served as the 17th Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1834 until his death in 1838.

Hasan al-Utrush

Hasan al-Utrush (الحسن الأطروش), known as al-Nasir al-Kabir, was the third Zaydi ruler of Daylam and Tabaristan from 914 to 917, who defeated the Samanids and converted about 200,000 Daylamites to Islam.

Hasan Ali (حسن علی) (cricketer)

Hasan Ali (حسن علی), born 1994 in Gujranwala, is a Pakistani right-arm medium-fast bowler. Player of the Tournament and Golden Ball winner at the 2017 Champions Trophy; fastest Pakistani to 50 ODI wickets.

Hasan Ali Toptaş

Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) is a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose dreamlike, poetic narratives, blurring dream and reality, made him a leading name in contemporary Turkish literature.

Hasan Amin

Hasan Amin (حسن الأمين) was a Ja'fari Shia scholar and poet of Jabal Amel in southern Lebanon, born in 1882 and a judge in the Ja'fari courts.

Hasan Azizul Huq

Hasan Azizul Huq (1939–2021) was a Bengali writer who settled in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, known for the novel Agunpakhi and winning the Independence Award in 2019.

Hasan Bazari

Hasan Bazari is an American nephrologist and internist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directed its internal medicine residency program from 1994 to 2014 and wrote NEJM Case Records.

Hasan Beg Rumlu

Hasan Beg Rumlu (حسن بیگ روملو) was a Persian historian and qurchi, a cavalry guardsman, who served Shah Tahmasb I and wrote the chronicle Ahsan al-tavarikh.

Hasan bey Aghayev

Hasan bey Aghayev (Həsən bəy Ağayev) was an Azerbaijani physician, journalist, and statesman who served as first deputy chairman of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Hasan bey Zardabi

Hasan bey Zardabi (Həsən bəy Zərdabi, 1842–1907) was an Azerbaijani scientist and publicist who founded Ekinchi, the first newspaper in the Azerbaijani language, in 1875.

Hasan Buzurg

Hasan Buzurg (حسن بزرگ), also known as Shaykh Hasan Jalayir, was a Mongol-era amir of the Jalayir tribe who founded the Jalayirid dynasty at Baghdad after 1340.

Hasan Dehlavi

Hasan Dehlavi (حسن دهلوی) was an Indo-Persian poet of Delhi, born around 1253, known as the "Sa'di of Hindustan" and credited with founding the Indo-Persian ghazal.