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Hawker centre
A hawker centre, also known as a cooked food centre, is a sheltered food centre in Singapore where individual stalls sell affordable cooked food and drinks to the public.
Hawker Fury
The Hawker Fury, flown as the Hawker Hornet prototype, was a British biplane interceptor fighter of the 1930s, the first RAF fighter to exceed 200 mph.
Hawker Hart
The Hawker Hart was a British two-seat biplane light bomber designed by Sydney Camm that entered RAF service in 1930 and was faster than most contemporary fighters.
Hawker Hunter
The Hawker Hunter is a British transonic jet fighter designed by Hawker Aircraft, first flown in 1951, which served as the Royal Air Force's main fighter in the late 1950s.
Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat monoplane fighter designed by Sydney Camm, which with the Spitfire formed the RAF's main fighter force in the Battle of Britain.
Hawker Sea Fury
The Hawker Sea Fury was a British carrier-borne fighter-bomber built by Hawker Aircraft, the Royal Navy's last piston-engine fighter and one of the fastest ever built.
Hawker Sea Hawk
The Hawker Sea Hawk was a British single-seat, carrier-based jet fighter-bomber built around the Rolls-Royce Nene, the Fleet Air Arm's main fighter of the late 1950s.
Hawker Siddeley
Hawker Siddeley was a British industrial group built around aircraft manufacturing, formed in 1935 and nationalised in 1977; it produced the Hurricane, Harrier, and Trident airliners.
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is a British jet attack aircraft and the world's first operational vertical take-off and landing combat aircraft, entering RAF service in 1969.
Hawker Siddeley HS 748
The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a British twin-turboprop regional airliner, designed by Avro as a DC-3 replacement and built from 1960 to 1988, with 381 produced in the UK and India.
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, also known as the BAe Nimrod, was a British maritime patrol aircraft of the Royal Air Force, serving from 1969 to 2011.
Hawker Siddeley P.1127
The Hawker Siddeley P.1127, known in developed form as the Hawker Kestrel, was a British experimental V/STOL strike aircraft first flown in 1960 that led directly to the Harrier.
Hawker Siddeley Trident
The Hawker Siddeley Trident, originally the de Havilland D.H.121, was a British three-engine, medium-range jet airliner with rear-mounted engines and a T-tail, built for BEA and the first airliner to land passengers automatically in scheduled service.
Hawker Tempest
The Hawker Tempest was a British single-seat fighter of the Second World War, developed from the Typhoon by Hawker Aircraft and entering RAF service in 1944.
Hawker Typhoon
The Hawker Typhoon was a British single-seat fighter of the Second World War, conceived as a Hurricane successor but becoming the RAF's principal rocket-armed fighter-bomber from 1943 to 1945.
Hawkes process
The Hawkes process is a self-exciting point process introduced by Alan G. Hawkes in 1971, in which each event temporarily raises the probability of further arrivals.
Hawkesbury Island
Hawkesbury Island is an island on the eastern side of Douglas Channel, south of Kitimat, British Columbia, named by Captain Vancouver after Baron Hawkesbury (Charles Jenkinson); surrounded by Douglas Channel, Devastation Channel, and Verney Passage.
Hawkesbury River
Hawkesbury River (New South Wales): drowned river-valley estuary entering Broken Bay, named by Arthur Phillip in 1789 after Baron Hawkesbury; 21,624 km2 catchment, Sydney's water source, and NSW's highest flood-risk valley.
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Hawkeye (Clint Barton) is a Marvel Comics archer superhero created by Stan Lee and Don Heck, debuting in Tales of Suspense #57 (1964) as a villain before joining the Avengers; also Goliath and Ronin, played by Jeremy Renner in the MCU.
Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)
Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Katherine Elizabeth Bishop, is a Marvel Comics superheroine created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, debuting in Young Avengers #1 (2005); the third and first female Hawkeye, a powerless master archer, later played by Hailee Steinfeld in the 2021 Disney+ series.
Hawkeye (miniseries)
Hawkeye (2021) is a six-episode Marvel Studios miniseries on Disney+, created by Jonathan Igla, starring Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, set at Christmas in post-blip New York; it premiered November 24, 2021 and inspired the Echo spin-off.
HawkEye 360
HawkEye 360 is an American signals intelligence company in Herndon, Virginia, founded in 2015, that geolocates radio frequency emissions using a low Earth orbit satellite constellation.
Hawkgirl
Hawkgirl is a DC Comics winged heroine mantle held by Shiera Sanders Hall (1940), Shayera Thal/Hol (1961), and Kendra Saunders (1999), powered by Nth metal antigravity flight and reincarnation, and played by Isabela Merced in the DCU.
Hawking area theorem
The Hawking area theorem is a 1971 result by Stephen Hawking stating that the total event horizon area of classical black holes never decreases, paralleling the second law of thermodynamics.
Hawking mass
The Hawking mass is a quasilocal mass in general relativity that estimates the gravitational energy enclosed by a closed two-surface, introduced by Stephen Hawking in 1968.
Hawking radiation
Hawking radiation is the thermal emission predicted by Stephen Hawking in 1974 at a black hole's event horizon, making black holes slowly lose mass and evaporate.
Hawking–Page transition
The Hawking–Page transition is a first-order phase transition between thermal radiation and a large black hole in anti-de Sitter space, found by Hawking and Page in 1983.
Hawking's time traveller party
Hawking's time traveler party was a reception Stephen Hawking held at noon on 28 June 2009 at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, with invitations sent only afterward; nobody came.
Hawkinsinuria
Hawkinsinuria (4-HPPD deficiency, OMIM 140350) is a rare autosomal dominant tyrosine metabolism disorder caused by HPD gene variants, causing infantile failure to thrive, metabolic acidosis, sparse hair, and lifelong urinary hawkinsin excretion.
Hawkman
Hawkman (Carter Hall, Katar Hol) is a DC Comics winged superhero debuting in Flash Comics #1 (1940), created by Gardner Fox, flying via gravity-defying Nth metal, a JSA founder, and either a reincarnated Egyptian prince or a Thanagarian officer.