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Hastings Rashdall

Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924) was an Anglican priest, Oxford philosopher, and historian who coined "ideal utilitarianism" in The Theory of Good and Evil (1907) and served as Dean of Carlisle from 1917 until his death in 1924.

Hastings, England

Hastings, England: seaside town and borough in East Sussex, about 53 miles from London, population about 91,000 (2021). Original Cinque Port, site linked to the 1066 Battle of Hastings, later a Victorian resort and fishing town.

Hastur

Hastur, also called Hastur the Unspeakable, is a fictional entity created by Ambrose Bierce, used as a place name by Robert W. Chambers in The King in Yellow, barely cited by Lovecraft, and recast as a Cthulhu-rivaling god by August Derleth.

Hasung Lee

Hasung Lee (이하성), nicknamed Culinary Monster, is a Korean fine-dining chef, ex-chef de cuisine of Atomix New York, and runner-up of Culinary Class Wars season 2, losing the 2026 finale to Choi Kang-rok.

Hasunuma Seaside Park Kodomo-no-Hiroba

Hasunuma Seaside Park Kodomo-no-Hiroba (蓮沼海浜公園 こどものひろば) is the children's ride area of a Chiba prefectural park in Sanmu, Japan, featuring Japan's longest 2.1 km miniature train, go-karts, and novelty bicycles, with free entry and paid attractions.

Hasura

Hasura is a developer-tools startup founded in 2017 by Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh, headquartered in San Francisco and Bengaluru, that builds an open-source GraphQL engine and data delivery platform.

Haswell (microarchitecture)

Haswell, or Intel Haswell, is Intel's fourth-generation Core microarchitecture, launched in 2013, the successor to Ivy Bridge and the basis for Core i7, i5, and i3 processors.

Hasya Kavita

Hasya kavita (हास्य कविता) is humorous and satirical verse in Hindi, a genre with medieval roots that developed into a modern performance tradition, with Kaka Hathrasi its best-known figure.

Hasyim Asy'ari

Hasyim Asy'ari (1871–1947) was an Indonesian Muslim scholar who founded Pesantren Tebuireng in Jombang, co-founded Nahdlatul Ulama in 1926, and issued the 1945 Jihad Resolution.

Hat

A hat is headwear with a brim around the crown, distinguishing it from the cap, serving protection from sun and rain while signaling rank, profession, and fashion.

Hát bội

Hát bội (tuồng, hát bộ), Vietnamese classical opera: stylized sung-danced theater on loyalty and history, dating to the Trần dynasty, with Đào Duy Từ and Đào Tấn as patriarchs; a National Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2014, now sustained by small troupes and youth outreach.

Hat monotile

The hat monotile is a 13-sided shape discovered by David Smith in 2023 that tiles the plane with one shape but never periodically, solving the long-standing einstein problem.

Hát nói

Hát nói is a Vietnamese sung-poetry form, the most widespread mode of ca trù, peaking in the 19th century with Nguyễn Công Trứ as its leading author.

Hát quan họ

Hát quan họ is a Vietnamese folk song genre of alternating male and female group singing from Bắc Ninh province, added to UNESCO's heritage list in 2009.

Hát xoan

Hát xoan, also called Xoan singing, is a ritual form of Vietnamese folk singing and dancing from Phú Thọ province, tied to worship of the Hùng Kings.

HAT-P-11

HAT-P-11 is a nearby (38 pc) active K4 dwarf in Cygnus hosting HAT-P-11 b, the first hot Neptune found by transit searches (2010), and HAT-P-11 c, an eccentric Jupiter-like planet (2018); known for water and helium detections and spin-orbit misalignment.

HAT-P-13

HAT-P-13 is a metal-rich G-type star about 698 light-years away with a transiting hot Jupiter (HAT-P-13 b, 2.9-day orbit) and a massive eccentric outer planet (HAT-P-13 c, ~446-day orbit), discovered by HATNet in 2009.

HAT-P-17

HAT-P-17 is an early K dwarf about 92 parsecs away with two giant planets: HAT-P-17 b, a transiting eccentric hot Saturn on a 10.34-day orbit, and HAT-P-17 c, a long-period cold Jupiter known from radial velocities.

HAT-P-2

HAT-P-2 (HD 147506) is an F-type star 127.8 pc away with two gas giants: HAT-P-2 b, a 9-Jupiter-mass eccentric (e=0.52) transiting hot Jupiter found in 2007, and HAT-P-2 c, a 10.7-Jupiter-mass planet on a 23.3-year orbit confirmed in 2023.

HAT-P-44

HAT-P-44 is a metal-rich K-type star about 348 pc away hosting HAT-P-44 b, a transiting inflated hot Jupiter (4.3-day period, 0.352 Jupiter masses), and HAT-P-44 c, an eccentric 4-Jupiter-mass radial-velocity planet in an 872-day orbit; both found by HATNet in 2014.

Hat-trick

Hat-trick: three goals by one player in one game, a term from cricket (H.H. Stephenson, 1858) used in football and hockey; Premier League record is Sergio Agüero's 12.

Hata Aki

Hata Aki, also known as Aki Hata (畑亜貴), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, and composer born in Tokyo in 1966, known for anime themes like Love Live! and Lucky Star.

Hata clan

The Hata clan (秦氏) was a large immigrant kinship group of ancient Japan that settled in the Kyoto basin from the fifth century and served the Yamato court.

Hata no Kawakatsu

Hata no Kawakatsu (秦河勝) was a seventh-century Japanese court noble and chief of the Hata immigrant clan, a close attendant of Shōtoku Taishi who founded Kōryū-ji temple in 603.

Hatakeyama clan

The Hatakeyama clan (畠山氏) was a Japanese warrior house of the Ashikaga line, one of the three kanrei deputy houses of the Muromachi shogunate, taking its name in 1205.

Hatakeyama Shigetada

Hatakeyama Shigetada (畠山重忠, 1164–1205) was a Japanese warrior of Musashi who served the Kamakura shogunate and was killed in 1205 after being framed for rebellion.

Hatakeyama Yoshinari

Hatakeyama Yoshinari (畠山義就) was a mid-fifteenth-century Japanese shugo daimyō of the Hatakeyama house, whose succession feud with Hatakeyama Masanaga triggered the Ōnin War in 1467.

Hatamoto (旗本)

Hatamoto (旗本), "bannermen," were the Tokugawa shogun's high-ranking direct retainers with stipends under 10,000 koku and the right of shogunal audience, distinguishing them from gokenin; they staffed the bakufu and vanished with it in 1867.

Hatari!

Hatari! (1962) is a Howard Hawks adventure comedy, Swahili for "danger," starring John Wayne as a Tanganyika animal catcher supplying zoos, shot on location without stunt doubles, with Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk."

Hatay dispute

Hatay dispute (Sanjak of Alexandretta issue, Hatay Sorunu): Franco-Turkish controversy over the sanjak of French-mandate Syria, 1936–1939. Turkish minority, League of Nations ruling of 1937, short-lived State of Hatay, transfer to Turkey on 23 July 1939.