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Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي)

Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي), also Hatem Ta'i, Hatim Tai: pre-Islamic Arab poet and chieftain of the Tayy tribe, proverbial for boundless generosity; father of the Companion 'Adi ibn Hatim, with a diwan of about 52 poems and a Persian romance tradition.

Hatim Ammor

Hatim Ammor (حاتم عمور) is a Moroccan pop singer and songwriter, born in Casablanca in 1981, who rose to fame by winning the Studio 2M talent competition.

Hatley Park National Historic Site

Hatley Park National Historic Site, Colwood, British Columbia: 228.84-hectare Edwardian estate with Hatley Castle (1908-09, Samuel Maclure), built for James Dunsmuir, later Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University.

Hatmaking

Hatmaking, also called hat making or hattery, is the craft of making felt, fabric and straw hats, distinct from millinery. Key facts: UK status Endangered, felt hood making commercially extinct, hat blocks central to shaping.

Hatnub

Hatnub is a district of ancient travertine, or Egyptian alabaster, quarries in the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, worked from the Third Dynasty to the New Kingdom.

Hatnub inscriptions

The Hatnub inscriptions are rock inscriptions and graffiti left by officials and workmen in the travertine quarries of Hatnub, Middle Egypt, spanning the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom.

Hatoful Boyfriend (はーとふる彼氏)

Hatoful Boyfriend (はーとふる彼氏) is Hato Moa's Japanese pigeon-dating visual novel, an April Fools' 2011 Flash parody turned cult game, remade by Mediatonic and Devolver Digital in 2014, with the hidden Bad Boys Love dark true ending.

Hatogaya Shi

Hatogaya Shi (鳩ヶ谷市, Hatogaya-shi) was a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, established March 1, 1967 and absorbed into Kawaguchi City on October 11, 2011; a former Edo post town on the Nikkō Onari Kaidō with about 60,000 residents and 6.22 square kilometers at merger.

Hatoon

Hatoon, full name Hatoon Idrees (هتون إدريس), is a Saudi DJ known for mixing music with an electric oud guitar and for performing at MDL Beast 2019.

Hatra

Hatra (Al-Hadr), ancient fortified caravan city in northern Iraq, 110 km southwest of Mosul; capital of the first Arab Kingdom under Parthian influence, repelled Trajan (116 CE) and Septimius Severus, destroyed by the Sasanians in 240/241 CE, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985, in danger since 2015.

Hatred

Hatred (hate): a hostile emotion and lasting attitude combining detestation, anger, and often a desire to harm, distinct from dislike, anger, contempt, and disgust by higher arousal, personal threat, attack tendencies, and moralized content.

Hatred (video game)

Hatred (2015) is an isometric twin-stick shooter by Polish studio Destructive Creations about an indiscriminate killing spree. ESRB Adults Only 18+; pulled from and reinstated on Steam Greenlight in December 2014; Metacritic 43.

Hatria (Picenum)

Hatria, later Hadria (Greek Adria), ancient Picenum city at modern Atri, Italy; Latin colony from about 289 BC, HAT bronze coinage, loyal Latin colony in the Second Punic War, wine amphorae, family origin of Emperor Hadrian.

HATS-59

HATS-59 is a Sun-like star ~643 pc away with two giant planets: HATS-59 b, a transiting 5.42-day hot Jupiter, and HATS-59 c, a ~12.7-Jupiter-mass cold giant at 2.5 au; first multi-planet system found by HATSouth (Sarkis et al. 2018).

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut, female pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty (ca. 1473–1458 BC), ruled as senior co-ruler with Thutmose III, built the Deir el-Bahri temple, sent the Punt expedition, and was later erased from monuments.

Hatshepsut Patera

Hatshepsut Patera is a 118 km volcanic patera (caldera) on Venus at 28.1N, 64.5E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Egyptian female pharaoh Hatshepsut; studies indicate a flattened oblate magma chamber and hundreds of kilometers of radial dike lineaments.

Hatsukaichi LNG Terminal

The Hatsukaichi LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, opened in 1995 and owned by Hiroshima Gas, whose sole terminal receiving ocean-going LNG carriers.

Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is a Japanese VOCALOID voice synthesizer and virtual singer released in 2007 by Crypton Future Media, built from voice actress Saki Fujita's samples.

Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 (festival)

Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 (初音ミクシンフォニー2025) was the 10th-anniversary edition of a Japanese orchestral concert series performing Vocaloid songs, with five concerts from Sapporo to Kobe in 2025.

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA (music)

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA is a rhythm game series published by SEGA and starring Hatsune Miku, first released on PlayStation Portable on July 2, 2009.

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X (初音ミク -Project DIVA- X) is a 2016 Sega rhythm game for PS Vita and PS4, the series' first PS4 entry, with Live Quest mode, five element areas, Voltage clearing, 30 songs, and about 300 modules.

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 (初音ミク Project mirai 2) is Sega's 2013 Nintendo 3DS rhythm game, Japan-only, with 47 songs, Touch and Button modes, and 100+ costumes; enhanced worldwide as Project Mirai DX (2015).

Hatsune Miku: Starry Party

Hatsune Miku: Starry Party (初音ミク スターリーパーティ) is a Good Smile Company party action game announced July 5, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam, due 2027, up to 6 players, Nendoroid-style Crypton virtual singers.

Hatt-i Humayun of 1856

The Hatt-i Humayun of 1856 (خط همايون ١٨٥٦), also called the Reform Edict or Islahat Fermani, was an Ottoman decree by Sultan Abdulmecid I declaring equality of Muslims and non-Muslims.

Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane

The Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane (Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerifî), also called the Tanzimat Edict, is an Ottoman decree proclaimed at Topkapı Palace in 1839 that inaugurated the Tanzimat reforms.

Hatt-ı Hümayun of 1856

The Hatt-ı Hümayun of 1856, known in Turkish as the Islahat Fermani, was an Ottoman decree by Sultan Abdulmecid I declaring equality of Muslim and non-Muslim subjects.

Háttatal

Háttatal (Old Norse "list of verse-forms") is the final section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, a skaldic poem of 102 stanzas, each in a different meter, with Snorri's prose commentary.

Hatten Yoder

Hatten Yoder (1921–2003) was an American experimental petrologist who spent fifty-five years at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, directing it from 1971 to 1986, and whose basalt-melting experiments established how magmas form in the mantle.

Hatteras Island

Hatteras Island, a roughly 50-mile barrier island in North Carolina's Outer Banks within Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the first US national seashore. Served only by NC Highway 12, it is geologically young, storm-shaped, and eroding.

Hattians

The Hattians were a Bronze Age people of central Anatolia, settled around the Kızılırmak river bend, whose non-Indo-European Hattic language died out by about 1400 BC while its gods and rituals shaped Hittite religion.