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Hatef Esfahani
Hatef Esfahani (هاتف اصفهانی) was the pen name of Sayyed Ahmad Hosseini, an influential Persian poet of the 18th century who pioneered the literary return movement.
Haţeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark
Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparcul Țara Hațegului), Romania's first geopark, in Hunedoara County; managed by the University of Bucharest, GGN member since 2005, UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, known for dwarf dinosaur fossils of the former Hațeg Island.
Hatem Ben Arfa
Hatem Ben Arfa (حاتم بن عرفة), born 1987, French attacking midfielder and record Ligue 1 dribbler; 15 France caps, five Ligue 1 titles, famous Nice 2015-16 season and PSG freeze-out; distinct from namesakes by his Tunisia-heritage French international career ending 2022.
HATEOAS
HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) is a REST constraint, proposed by Roy Fielding in 2000, under which responses embed links that guide clients to valid next actions.
Haters Back Off
Haters Back Off is a Netflix comedy series (2016–2017, 2 seasons, 16 episodes) created by Colleen and Chris Ballinger about the untalented YouTube character Miranda Sings, canceled after two seasons.
Hatfield College, Durham
Hatfield College, Durham: a catered residential college of Durham University founded in 1846 as Hatfield Hall by David Melville, second oldest college, on the North Bailey, motto Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis, Master Ann MacLarnon.
Hatfield House
Hatfield House is a Jacobean country house in Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, built between 1607 and 1612 for Robert Cecil, chief minister to King James I.
Hatfield rail crash
Hatfield rail crash: 17 October 2000 derailment of a GNER InterCity 225 near Hatfield, England, at about 115 mph on a rail shattered by rolling contact fatigue (gauge corner cracking); four killed, about 70 injured, leading to mass speed restrictions and Railtrack's collapse.
Hatfield–McCoy feud
The Hatfield–McCoy feud, also known as the Hatfields and McCoys, was a vendetta between two Appalachian families along the Kentucky–West Virginia border, fought largely in the 1880s.
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Hatfield, Hertfordshire: historic market town 29 km north of London, home of Hatfield House (Cecil family, Elizabeth I's accession), de Havilland's aircraft works, a 1948 New Town, and the University of Hertfordshire.
Hatfields & McCoys (miniseries)
Hatfields & McCoys is a three-part 2012 History miniseries starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as the leaders of the feuding Hatfield and McCoy families.
Hatfields Ferry power station
Hatfields Ferry power station was a 1,728 MW coal-fired power station near Masontown in Greene County, Pennsylvania, which operated from 1969 until its 2013 deactivation.
Hatful of Hollow
Hatful of Hollow is a 1984 compilation album by the English rock band the Smiths, released by Rough Trade Records and reaching number 7 on the UK chart.
Hatha yoga
Hatha yoga (haṭhayoga), the medieval Indian physical yoga method originating around 1000 CE among ascetic traditions and first codified by Buddhists; its locus classicus is the 15th-century Haṭhapradīpikā, and it underlies most modern postural yoga.
Hāthazāri
Hathazari (হাটহাজারী) is an upazila of Chattogram District, Bangladesh: 246.32 sq km, 431,748 people (2011), thana 1929, upazila 1983, home to the Sultanate-era Fakir Mosque (1474–1481) and Chittagong University.
Hathi Kund Mound
Hathi Kund (हाथी कुंड) is a small 16th-century religious tank inside Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan, near the Kalika Mata temple road, abandoned and under ASI Jodhpur Circle conservation, distinct from the Bhuila namesake tank and Mathura's Hathi Tila mound.
Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela
The Hathigumpha inscription (हाथीगुम्फा अभिलेख) is a seventeen-line Prakrit record, carved in a cave on Udayagiri hill near Bhubaneswar, Odisha, narrating the life and campaigns of Kharavela, the Jain king of Kalinga, year by year.
Hathili Mound
Hathili Mound, also called the Asokanath Mahadeva mound, is a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-S62) at Hathili village, Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh: a brick-covered mound with ruins of a Shiva temple, notified in 1920 under the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act.
Hathor
Hathor (Egyptian Het-Hor, "House of Horus"): major ancient Egyptian goddess, mother of the pharaoh, linked with cows, music, love and the Eye of Re; chief cult center at Dendera, also worshipped at Serabit el-Khadim in Sinai.
Hathor Mons
Hathor Mons is a 333-km-wide shield volcano in Dione Regio on Venus, centered at 38.7S, 324.7E. Named for the Egyptian sky goddess (IAU, 1979), it shows possible recent volcanism via 1.02-micron emissivity and pyroclastic-style deposits.
Hathway
Hathway (Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited) is an Indian cable broadband and cable TV provider promoted by the Raheja Group and now majority-owned by Reliance's Jio entities, operating one of India's largest multisystem operators through Hathway Digital and associate GTPL Hathway.
Hathyar (हथियार) (2002 film)
Hathyar (हथियार), aka Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality, is a 2002 Hindi action crime film by Mahesh Manjrekar, a sequel to Vaastav, starring Sanjay Dutt as gangster Rohit and his father Raghunath; a box office flop.
Hatiay
Hatiay was a royal scribe and high official of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty under Amenhotep III, buried in Theban tomb TT 226 at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.
Hatice Altug
Hatice Altug is a Turkish physicist and engineer, a full professor at EPFL since 2020 who leads its Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory, known for nanophotonic and plasmonic biosensing and metasurface molecular barcoding.
Hatice Halime Hatun
Hatice Halime Hatun, a Candaroğlu princess of Kastamonu and Sinop, was married to Ottoman sultan Murad II in a peace marriage; her parentage, marriage date, and death year are all disputed.
Hatice Sultan (خدیجه سلطان) (daughter of Selim I)
Hatice Sultan (خدیجه سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and sister of Süleyman the Magnificent, long said to have married Grand Vizier İbrahim Pasha, a claim modern research rejects.
Hatifi
Hatifi (هاتیفی), full name Abd-Allah Hatifi, was a Persian poet of Khargerd near Jam, active under the late Timurids and early Safavids, best known for his verse epic on Timur, the Timur-nama.
HATIK
Hatik, the stage name of Clément Penhoat, is a French rapper, singer, and actor born in 1992 who broke through with the series Validé and the hit single "Angela".
Hatikvah (התקווה)
Hatikvah (התקווה, "The Hope") is Israel's national anthem, with lyrics by Naftali Herz Imber (Tikvatenu, circa 1878) and a melody set by Samuel Cohen in 1888 from the Romanian folk tune Carul cu boi; official anthem of the Zionist movement from 1933 and of Israel by law in 2004.
Hatim (TV series)
Hatim (हातिम) is an Indian Hindi fantasy adventure TV series based on the Persian Hatim Tai legend, aired on Star Plus 26 December 2003 to 12 November 2004 in 47 episodes, starring Rahil Azam as the prince solving seven riddles to defeat the sorcerer Dajjal.