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Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia

Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia (HSPM) is Malaysia's national literary prize for published Malaysian literary works, first awarded in 1971 and administered by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.

Hadiah Sastera Utusan-Public Bank

Hadiah Sastera Utusan-Public Bank (Hadiah Sastera Utusan Melayu-Public Bank) was a Malaysian literary prize for Malay-language writing, first awarded in 1985 with Public Bank as sponsor.

Hadîkatü's-Süedâ

Hadîkatü's-Süedâ (حديقة السعداء, The Garden of the Blessed) is a prose work by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî on the martyrdom of Husayn at Karbala, the most celebrated Turkish maktel.

Hadiqa Kiani

Hadiqa Kiani (حدیقہ کیانی), Pakistani singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist born in Rawalpindi; 1990s pop star behind Boohey Barian and Dupatta, albums Raaz to Wajd and VASL, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz 2006, Sitara-i-Imtiaz 2026, BBC 100 Women 2024, actress in Raqeeb Se.

Hadiqat al-Haqiqa

Hadiqat al-Haqiqa (حدیقة الحقیقة) is a Persian Sufi didactic mathnawi by Sanai of Ghazna, dedicated to Sultan Bahramshah and begun in 1129, with about ten thousand couplets.

Hadiqat al-Su'ada

Hadiqat al-Su'ada (Hədiqətüs-süəda, "Garden of the Blessed") is a prose work on the Karbala tragedy written in Azerbaijani Turkish by the poet Muhammad Fuzuli around 1556.

Hadiqat ath Thawrah

Hadiqat ath Thawrah (حديقة الثورة, Thirteen June Park) is a major public park in Sana'a, Yemen, in the Amanat Alasimah region, with an amusement area, a 165 m irrigation basin, and a Syrian namesake park in Al-Hasakah.

Hadir Mekhimar

Hadir Mekhimar (هدير السيد محمد السيد مخيمر), Egyptian sport shooter born 1997 in Cairo; Youth Olympic gold medalist in 10m air rifle mixed team at Nanjing 2014 with István Péni, and 49th at Rio 2016 Olympics.

Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham

Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham (حديث عيسى بن هشام), also published as What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us, is an 1898 Arabic prose narrative by Muhammad al-Muwaylihi.

Hadith (حديث)

Hadith (حديث), also spelled Hadeeth or Hadis, is a report of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, graded for authenticity through its chain of transmitters.

Hadith studies

Hadith studies, or ʿilm al-ḥadīth, is the Islamic discipline of verifying reports of Muhammad's words and deeds, developed by traditionists from the 9th century by examining chains of transmission and text.

Hadith terminology (مصطلح الحديث)

Hadith terminology (mustalah al-hadith, مصطلح الحديث) is the technical vocabulary of Islamic hadith scholarship for classifying reports by the reliability of their chains of transmission, yielding grades such as sahih, hasan, da'if, and mawdu'.

Haditha Dam (سد حديثة)

Haditha Dam (سد حديثة), also called the Qadisiyah Dam, is an earthfill dam and 660 MW hydroelectric plant on the Euphrates River in western Iraq, completed in the late 1980s.

Haditha massacre

Haditha massacre: killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, Iraq, after an IED killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas; exposed by Time in 2006, but no Marine served prison time.

Hadiya Hashmi

Hadiya Hashmi (ہادیہ ہاشمی) is a Pakistani singer who rose to fame at eight as the featured vocalist on "Bol Hu" with Soch the Band on Nescafé Basement in 2019.

Hadiya Zone

Hadiya Zone (Hadiyya) is an administrative zone in southern Ethiopia, formerly in SNNPR, capital Hosanna. Area 3542.66 sq km, 10 woredas, about 1.5 million people, density 415 per sq km.

Hadja Lahbib

Hadja Lahbib is a Belgian politician who became European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management in 2024, having been Belgium's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022.

Hadjer-Lamis Region

Hadjer-Lamis (حجر لميس) is a province of western Chad, northeast of N'Djamena, whose capital Massakory lies about 148 km from the capital; it reaches Lake Chad's southern shore.

Hadji Murat

Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат) is Leo Tolstoy's last major novella, set in the Caucasus in 1851–1852 and based on a real Avar commander who defected from Imam Shamil to the Russians.

Hadjret En Nouss power plant

Hadjret En Nouss power plant (محطة كهرباء حجرة النص) is a 1,227 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Tipaza, Algeria, the country's first privately owned plant.

Hadley (Martian crater)

Hadley, a 119-km-wide official IAU impact crater on Mars at 19.29°S, 156.90°E, named for meteorologist George Hadley, imaged by ESA's Mars Express HRSC.

Hadley Bay

Hadley Bay (baie Hadley) is an official bay on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada, at 73°N 110°W, named in 1982; it gives its name to a 2013 Geological Survey of Canada tectonic assemblage map.

Hadley cell

The Hadley cell, or Hadley circulation, is an atmospheric circulation in which air rises near the equator and descends near latitude 30° in each hemisphere.

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, founded in 1990 within the UK Met Office, is the United Kingdom's primary source of climate change information and climate models.

Hadley Fraser

Hadley Fraser (Robert Hugh Fraser) is an English stage and screen actor and singer, known for multiple roles in Les Misérables and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera's 2011 anniversary.

Hadley Richardson

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1891-1979), first wife of Ernest Hemingway, married 1921, mother of Bumby, lost his manuscripts in 1922, received The Sun Also Rises royalties, later married Paul Mowrer.

Hadley v Baxendale

Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Ex 341 is the English Court of Exchequer case establishing the remoteness of damage rule in contract: recoverable losses arise naturally from breach or were contemplated due to communicated special circumstances, refined by Victoria Laundry and The Heron II.

Hadong power station

Hadong power station (하동 발전소) is a 4,000 MW coal-fired power station in Hadong County, South Korea, owned by Korea Southern Power and completed in 2009.

Hadoop Distributed File System

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is an open-source, fault-tolerant file system that stores large files as replicated 128 MB blocks across clusters, with metadata on a single NameNode.

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is Tom White's O'Reilly book on Apache Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase, ZooKeeper, Sqoop), published in four editions from June 2009 to April 2015, tracking Hadoop 0.20 through Hadoop 2 and YARN.