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Hattic language

Hattic, also called Hattian or Khattic, is a non-Indo-European language of ancient central Anatolia, preserved only in Hittite cuneiform ritual texts and only partially deciphered.

Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques (Josephine Edwina Jaques, 1922–1980), English comedy actress of the Carry On films, ITMA, Hancock's Half Hour, and the Sykes sitcom with Eric Sykes; married to John Le Mesurier.

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian from Wichita, Kansas, the first African American to win an Oscar, taking Best Supporting Actress on February 29, 1940 for Mammy in Gone with the Wind, later starring on radio's Beulah and winning a landmark housing case.

Hattie Morahan

Hattie Morahan (Harriet Jane Morahan, born 1978) is an English actress, daughter of director Christopher Morahan and actress Anna Carteret. Known for Nora in A Doll's House (Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Best Actress awards), Elinor in BBC's Sense & Sensibility, and Lady Sarah Vere in The Gilded Age.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the Hub City, county seat of Forrest County, founded 1880s by William H. Hardy and named for his wife Hattie; railroad and timber town, 2020 population 48,730, major 1964 Freedom Summer site.

Oct 10, 2026

Hatto

Hatto, also known as Hatto I, was a Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Mainz in 891 and served the East Frankish kings Arnulf, Louis the Child, and Conrad I.

Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary

The Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, April 2015: a gang drilled through a London vault wall over Easter and emptied 73 boxes, stealing valuables valued at £14m to £25m; ringleaders got seven-year sentences.

Hattori Hanzō (服部半蔵)

Hattori Hanzō (服部半蔵), chiefly Hattori Masanari (1542–1596), was a Tokugawa samurai commander, not a ninja, famed for the 1582 Iga-goe escape and for leading the Iga-mono; the ninja legend is largely postwar fiction.

Hattori Ransetsu

Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪, 1654–1707) was a Japanese haikai poet of the early Edo period and leading disciple of Matsuo Bashō who, after Bashō's death, led Edo haikai alongside Takarai Kikaku.

Hattusa

Hattusa (Ḫattuša, Hattuşa), Hittite capital c. 1650–1180 BC at Boğazkale, Çorum, Turkey; UNESCO World Heritage 1986, 8 km walls, 30,000 cuneiform tablets, Yazılıkaya sanctuary, destroyed c. 1190 BC.

Hattusa Green Stone

The Hattusa Green Stone is a polished, roughly cubic green stone block of about 1,000 kg in the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittite Empire.

Hattusili (king of Kummuh)

Hattusili, also known as Hattushili and called Qatazili in Assyrian sources, was a 9th-century BC ruler of Kummuhi, a Syro-Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates who allied with Assyria.

Hattusili I

Hattusili I, also known as Labarna II, was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who reigned c. 1650–1620 BC, moved the capital to Hattusa, and campaigned in northern Syria.

Hattusili III

Hattusili III, also Hattusilis III, was king of the Hittite Empire from about 1267 to 1237 BC, best known for his peace treaty with Ramesses II.

HATU

HATU is a peptide coupling reagent, the 7-aza analog of HBTU, that activates carboxylic acids as OAt active esters for fast amide bond formation with amines.

Hatuey

Hatuey (Hatüey), a Taíno cacique of Arawak origin from Hispaniola (Quisqueya), fled to eastern Cuba in 1511 with about 400 followers, led the first major resistance to the Spanish conquest, and was burned at the stake at Yara after refusing baptism, becoming Cuba's first independence martyr.

Hatun Ayllu

Hatun Ayllu was a royal ayllu of Inca Cusco founded by the emperor Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui to hold his descendants and care for his mummy and estates.

Hatun Xauxa

Hatun Xauxa was the principal Inca provincial administrative center in the northern Mantaro Valley of Peru, south of modern Jauja on the Qhapaq Ñan, where Francisco Pizarro founded Santa Fe de Hatun Xauxa in 1534.

Hatunqolla

Hatunqolla, also written Hatun Colla or Atuncolla, was a town northwest of Lake Titicaca in Puno, Peru, capital of the Colla people and an Inca administrative center.

Oct 20, 2026

Hatvan

Hatvan, town in Heves County, Hungary, on the Zagyva river; namesake of the Bronze Age Hatvan culture, Ottoman sanjak center from 1544, railway junction from 1867, and home of the Grassalkovich palace and Hunting Museum.

Hatzegopteryx

Hatzegopteryx thambema, giant azhdarchid pterosaur from the Maastrichtian of Hațeg Basin, Romania, described 2002 by Buffetaut, Grigorescu, and Csiki; 10–12 m wingspan, robust skull, short stocky neck, proposed apex predator of Hațeg Island.

Hau L. Lee

Hau L. Lee is a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor emeritus known for the bullwhip effect and Triple-A supply chain, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Hauberg Mountains

Hauberg Mountains: mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 75°52'S 69°15'W, rising to about 1,450 m; seen from the air by the Ronne expedition in 1947 and named for John Henry Hauberg of Rock Island, Illinois.

Haudenosaunee oral tradition

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) oral tradition is the body of stories, teachings, laws, and histories transmitted by speech among the Haudenosaunee nations of the northeastern United States and Canada.

Haudenosaunee wampum recitation

Haudenosaunee wampum recitation is the practice of reading aloud, from memory and with a wampum belt in hand, the treaties, laws, and history its bead pattern records.

Haugesund

FK Haugesund, Norwegian football club founded 28 October 1993 from Haugar SK and SK Djerv 1919; Eliteserien 1997–2025, 3rd in 2013, cup runner-up 2007 and 2019, relegated 2025, leading OBOS-ligaen 2026.

Haughey's Fort

Haughey's Fort is a Late Bronze Age hillfort near Armagh, Northern Ireland, occupied from about 1170 to 770 BC and part of the Navan complex of prehistoric monuments.

Oct 15, 2026

Haughton–Mars Project

The Haughton–Mars Project is a NASA-led field research program on Devon Island, Canada, using Haughton Crater as an analog for the Moon and Mars since 1997.