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Hashim Thaçi
Hashim Thaçi (born 1968), Kosovar politician and KLA leader, first prime minister and president 2016–2020; convicted 16 September 2026 by Kosovo Specialist Chambers of war crimes (arbitrary detention, torture, murder) and sentenced to 25 years.
Hashima Island (端島)
Hashima (端島, Gunkanjima, Battleship Island) is an abandoned 6.3-hectare undersea coal mining island off Nagasaki, Japan, mined by Mitsubishi 1890-1974, peaking at 5,259 residents, a UNESCO World Heritage site contested over Korean forced labor.
Hashimiyya
The Hashimiyya (الهاشمية) was an 8th- and 9th-century Islamic sect, formed from the Kaysaniyya Shi'i movement, that organized the Abbasid overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate in 750.
Hashimiyyat
Hashimiyyat are long Arabic poems composed by the Umayyad-era poet al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadi in praise of Banu Hashim, the clan of the Prophet Muhammad, especially the descendants of Ali.
Hashimoto Eriko
Hashimoto Eriko (橋本絵莉子), also known as Eriko Hashimoto, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist born in 1983 who fronted the rock band Chatmonchy from 2000 to 2018 before going solo in 2019.
Hashimoto Sanai
Hashimoto Sanai (橋本左内, 1834–1859) was a Japanese retainer, educator, and reformer of Fukui domain who advised Matsudaira Shungaku, rebuilt the Meidokan school, and was executed in the 1859 Ansei Purge.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, autoimmune thyroiditis) is an autoimmune destruction of the thyroid and the most common cause of hypothyroidism, first described by Hakaru Hashimoto in 1912, affecting about 7.5% of adults worldwide and four times more women than men, treated with levothyroxine.
Hashish
Hashish (حشيش) is compressed cannabis resin from female flowering tops, controlled as cannabis resin under the 1961 Single Convention; THC content rose 66% in Europe 2014–2024, distinct from marijuana and hash oil.
Hashiwokakero
Hashiwokakero (橋をかけろ), also called Hashi or Bridges, is a Nikoli logic puzzle from 1990: connect numbered islands with up to two non-crossing bridges each so every island's count is met and all islands form one connected network; NP-complete.
Hashshum
Hashshum, also written Haššum or Hassum, was the capital of a small kingdom northwest of the Euphrates bend in northern Syria, frequently mentioned in the Mari archives.
Hashtag
A hashtag is a word preceded by the # sign used on social media to tag posts by topic so they can be searched and followed.
Hashtag NDA
#NDA (2026) is a Trippie Redd studio album released August 28, 2026 on 1400 Entertainment/10K Projects/Atlantic, two weeks after his album NDA; an 18-track, 51-minute, more intimate companion record with guests Tezzus, K Suave, and Gigi Holland.
Hashtag United F.C.
Hashtag United F.C. ("The Tags") is an English non-league football club founded in 2016 by YouTuber Spencer Owen and Seb Carmichael-Brown, rising from YouTube exhibition matches to the Isthmian Premier before requesting voluntary relegation in 2026.
Hashtsāl
Hashtsāl (Hashtsal, Hastsal) is a census town, village, and locality in Patel Nagar, West Delhi, India, with 176,877 residents in 2011. It is known for the Hashtsal Minar, a 1650 Shah Jahan hunting tower.
Hasib Hussain
Hasib Mir Hussain (1986–2005) was the youngest of the four 7 July 2005 London suicide bombers; the 18-year-old from Holbeck, Leeds detonated the No 30 bus bomb in Tavistock Square, killing 13 others.
Hasib Sabbagh
Hasib Sabbagh (حسيب صباغ) was a Palestinian entrepreneur who co-founded Consolidated Contractors Company, one of the Middle East's largest construction groups, and became a leading Palestinian philanthropist.
Hasid
Hasid (Hebrew: חסיד, plural Chassidim) is a Jewish title for one who practices faithful, loyal devotion, going beyond the letter of the law; since the eighteenth century it means an adherent of a Hasidic rebbe.
Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism, also called Hasidism, is a pietist Jewish movement founded by the Baal Shem Tov in 18th-century Poland, today organized in dynastic courts led by rebbes.
Hasidic tales
Hasidic tales are the narrative literature of Hasidism, an eighteenth-century Jewish pietistic movement in Eastern Europe, first printed in 1815 after decades of oral transmission.
Hasil Adkins
Hasil Adkins (1937-2005), 'The Haze,' was a Boone County, West Virginia one-man band and rockabilly singer whose crude home recordings, rediscovered via Norton Records' Out to Hunch, made him the Godfather of psychobilly.
Hasim Rahman
Hasim Rahman, "The Rock," is an American former professional boxer who won the WBC and IBF heavyweight titles by knocking out Lennox Lewis in 2001.
Haskalah (השכלה)
The Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement in Central and Eastern Europe that sought to redefine Jewish society through secular learning and European culture.
Haskalah novel
The Haskalah novel is prose fiction of the Jewish Enlightenment, a movement from the 1770s to the 1880s; its founding work is Abraham Mapu's 1853 Ahavat Tsiyon.
Haskalah satire
Haskalah satire is the satirical Hebrew and Yiddish literature written by maskilim of the Jewish Enlightenment from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century, aimed chiefly at Hasidism.
Haskell
Haskell is a purely functional, statically typed programming language with lazy evaluation, created by a committee in 1987 to unify similar functional languages, and implemented mainly by the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry (1900–1982) was an American mathematician and logician who founded combinatory logic at Penn State; currying, Curry's paradox, and the Haskell language bear his name.
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
Haskell Free Library and Opera House, Stanstead, Quebec / Derby Line, Vermont: a 1901-1904 Queen Anne Revival library and theatre built directly on the US-Canada border, main entrance in the US, most of the building in Canada, National Historic Site of Canada since 1985.
Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) is a tuition-free, federally operated tribal university in Lawrence, Kansas, founded in 1884 as a boarding school, serving over 900 students from about 140 tribes under the Bureau of Indian Education.
Haskiri Velazquez
Haskiri Velazquez (born 1995) is an American actress from Washington Heights, New York, known for playing Daisy Jiménez in Peacock's Saved by the Bell revival (2020–2021) and Rosa in The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020).
Haskovo
Haskovo (Хасково), city in southern Bulgaria, capital of Haskovo Province; 78,235 residents (2025), Maritsa valley, Thracian and Ottoman history, services-led economy, near Turkish and Greek borders.