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Hawksbill sea turtle
Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), a Critically Endangered coral-reef sea turtle of tropical oceans, the historic source of tortoiseshell, sponge-eating, ESA-endangered, CITES Appendix I, with key nesting populations in Australia and the Caribbean.
Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English space rock band formed in London in 1969, led by founder Dave Brock. Known for Silver Machine (UK top three, 1972), the live album Space Ritual (1973), science fiction themes, and 37 studio albums including the 2025 UK Rock and Metal number 1 There Is No Space for Us.
Hawlan
Hawlan (Ḫawlān, Arabic خولان) was a tribal territory and group of tribes in the Yemeni highlands, attested in Sabaean inscriptions from the 7th century BCE to the 5th century CE.
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910), American-born London practitioner convicted of murdering his wife Cora (Belle Elmore) at Hilldrop Crescent; first criminal caught by wireless telegraphy; 2011 DNA study disputes the identification of the remains.
Hawlti
Hawlti is an archaeological site about 10 km southeast of Aksum in Ethiopia, known for a field of large square stelae of the Ethio-Sabaean culture.
Haworth
Haworth, West Yorkshire: hill village home of the Brontë family from 1820, site of the Brontë Parsonage Museum (1928), Brontë Society (1893), and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway heritage line.
Hawpa
Hawpa (Sorani for 'accomplice'; Kurmanji PSNK, 'Kurdish National Socialist Organization') is a fringe Kurdish neo-Nazi political movement founded on Nowruz 2020 in northern Iraq, KRG-recognized June 2025, legal status revoked 9 February 2026.
Hawqa Oil and Gas Field
Hawqa Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in central Oman, discovered by Petroleum Development Oman in 1989 and producing since 1997.
Hawtah-Hawtah stabilizer Oil Pipeline
The Hawtah-Hawtah stabilizer Oil Pipeline is a Saudi Aramco crude oil pipeline, opened in 1997, running about 331 km from the Hawtah field to the Hawtah stabilizer.
Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club (Hawks), Melbourne AFL and AFLW club founded 1902, joined VFL 1925; brown and gold, 13 premierships including 2013-2015 three-peat, MCG home venue, Kennedy Community Centre base.
Hawthorne (Mercurian crater)
Hawthorne is an IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury, named in 1979 for American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). Gazetteer lists it at about -51.3 degrees latitude, 115.1-115.3 degrees longitude, with a diameter of 107-120 km.
Hawthorne and His Mosses
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" is Herman Melville's 1850 two-part review of Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, published pseudonymously in the Literary World; it praised Hawthorne's "great power of blackness" and shaped Melville's reputation.
Hawthorne Army Depot
Hawthorne Army Depot is a US Army ammunition storage and demilitarization installation near Hawthorne, Nevada, commissioned by the Navy in 1930 and now the world's largest ammunition storage depot.
Hawthorne effect
Hawthorne effect: change in research participants' behavior from awareness of being studied, named after 1924–1933 Western Electric Hawthorne plant studies; evidence is heterogeneous, effects usually small and short-lived.
Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights, formerly A Day in the Life, is an emo/post-hardcore band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001, known for "Ohio Is for Lovers," two Gold albums, and the 2006 Billboard No. 3 debut If Only You Were Lonely.
Hawthorne, California
Hawthorne, California: South Bay Los Angeles County city, incorporated 1922, founded 1905 and named for Nathaniel Hawthorne; home of Northrop Aircraft since 1939, Jack Northrop Field airport, and SpaceX headquarters.
Hawulti (Matara)
The Hawulti is a roughly 5 m stone stela standing at Matara, near Senafe in Eritrea, bearing the oldest extant Ethiopic inscription, dated to the 3rd century AD.
Hawulti-Melazo
Hawulti-Melazo is an archaeological site about 10 km southeast of Aksum in Tigray, Ethiopia, known for its stelae field, temples, and Old South Arabian inscriptions.
Hawwara
The Hawwara (هوارة) were a major Berber tribal group settled around Tripoli and Barqa, known for their adherence to Ibadi Kharijism and revolts against the Umayyads, Abbasids, and Aghlabids.
Hawza
A hawza ʿilmiyya (حوزة علمية) is the constellation of Shia Islamic seminaries and study circles, above all in Najaf and Qom, that trains Twelver Shia clergy.
Hawza of Najaf
The Hawza of Najaf (حوزه علمیه نجف) is the Shii seminary community of Najaf, Iraq, traditionally founded by Shaykh al-Tusi after fleeing Baghdad in the mid-11th century.
Häxan
Häxan (The Witch; Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent film by Benjamin Christensen on the history of witchcraft, the most expensive Scandinavian silent film, censored widely and recut in 1968 with William S. Burroughs narration.
Hay
Hay: dried grass or legume forage cut, cured to 14-18% moisture, and baled to feed livestock; distinguished from silage and baleage, with harvest, storage, and quality practices and U.S. production around 123.5 million tons in 2025.
Hay (landform)
Hay, the Hay River (Kátł'odehé, "willow grass river"), is a 1,114 km river flowing through Alberta, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories into Great Slave Lake.
Hay and Hell and Booligal
"Hay and Hell and Booligal" is an 1896 comic bush poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, joking that Booligal is worse than Hay or Hell.
Hay Festival
The Hay Festival is a charitable organization founded by Peter Florence that has run an annual literature and arts festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, each late spring since 1988.
Hay River, Northwest Territories
Hay River (Xatlo Dehe) is the NWT's second-largest town, on Great Slave Lake's south shore; population 3,317 (2025), 42% Indigenous, transportation hub of the Mackenzie barge system.
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Tratado Hay-Bunau-Varilla), signed in Washington in 1903 by John Hay and Philippe Bunau-Varilla, granted the US perpetual control of the Panama Canal Zone.
Hay–Herrán Treaty
The Hay–Herrán Treaty was a 1903 agreement giving the United States the right to build a canal across Panama, then a Colombian province; Colombia rejected it.
Hay–Quesada Treaty
The Hay–Quesada Treaty (Tratado Hay–Quesada) was the agreement by which the United States relinquished its claim to the Isle of Pines in favor of Cuba, first signed in 1903.