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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (born 1988) is an Icelandic strongman and actor who won the 2018 World's Strongest Man and holds the 510 kg deadlift world record.
Hag
Hag: Old English hægtesse, a folklore figure of a powerful, often malevolent supernatural old woman (Baba Yaga, Cailleach, yamamba), also the Newfoundland sleep-paralysis Old Hag and D&D monster, distinct from the insult, hagfish, and moss-hag senses.
Hagakure
Hagakure (葉隠, Hagakure Kikigaki, Nabeshima Analects) is an 11-volume bushido book dictated by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and recorded by Tashiro Tsuramoto in Saga domain, 1710–1716, famous for 'the way of the warrior is death' and long kept as a secret domain text.
Hagal Planitia
Hagal Planitia is a 435 km radar-dark plain on Titan's south polar region, IAU-named 27 December 2015 after the Dune jewel planet Hagal; one of ten Titan planitiae named for Dune planets, a possible former sea.
Hagan Bayley
Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford who founded Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2005, whose portable MinION sequencer came from his engineered protein pores.
Haganah (ההגנה)
The Haganah (Hebrew ההגנה, "The Defense") was the main paramilitary organization of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine from 1920 until 1948, when it became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.
Haganai (僕は友達が少ない)
Haganai (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, "I Don't Have Many Friends") is a Japanese light novel series by Yomi Hirasaka, illustrated by Buriki, MF Bunko J, 11 volumes 2009–2015, adapted into a 20-volume manga, two anime seasons (2011, 2013), and a 2014 live-action film.
Hagane (band)
HAGANE (鋼, "steel") is a Tokyo all-female melodic speed metal band formed June 23, 2018 by guitarist Sakura. After a 2023 lineup collapse, it restarted in 2024 with vocalist Nagi and drummer JUNNA, releasing Top of the Tower and debuting internationally in 2026.
Hagar
Hagar, Arabic Hajar (هاجر), is the Egyptian maidservant of Sarai in the Book of Genesis who bears Abram's first son Ishmael; Islamic tradition reveres her as Abraham's wife.
Hägar the Horrible
Hägar the Horrible, also rendered Hagar the Horrible or German Hägar der Schreckliche, is Dik Browne's 1973 King Features gag-a-day comic strip about a family-man Viking, continued by sons Chris and Chance Browne and reaching tens of millions of readers worldwide.
Hagar Yahirr
Hagar Yahirr, also written Hajar Yahirr, is a walled ancient South Arabian settlement in the Wadi Markha, Yemen, proposed as the royal capital of Awsan.
Hagazussa
Hagazussa (Hagazussa: Der Hexenfluch, A Heathen's Curse) is a 2017 German-Austrian folk horror film, Lukas Feigelfeld's debut, about Albrun, a 15th-century Alpine goatherd ostracized as a witch, told in four chapters with minimal dialogue.
Hage Geingob
Hage Gottfried Geingob, Namibian SWAPO politician, third President of Namibia 2015–2024 and its first prime minister 1990–2002; died of cancer 4 February 2024; later linked to Fishrot corruption allegations he denied.
Hagemeister Island
Hagemeister Island is a 24-mile-long, 67,000-acre uninhabited island in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska, about 19-25 miles southwest of Togiak, part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, named for Russian captain Leonti Hagemeister and noted for its walrus haulout.
Hagen (legend)
Hagen of Tronje (Hagen von Tronege) is the Burgundian vassal of the Nibelungenlied who murders Siegfried and sinks the Nibelungen hoard; his Norse counterpart Hogni is Gunnar's brother.
Hagen–Poiseuille equation
The Hagen–Poiseuille equation, also called Poiseuille's law, gives the pressure drop for laminar flow of a Newtonian fluid through a pipe, with flow rate proportional to the pipe radius to the fourth power.
Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hagen (Stadt der FernUniversität) is an independent city of about 190,000 in Arnsberg district, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the southern edge of the Ruhr; a former steel city with the FernUniversität, 42% green space, and the Hagen-Pakt housing program.
Hagenia abyssinica
Hagenia abyssinica (kosso, African redwood), sole species of the monotypic Rosaceae genus Hagenia, is a dioecious Afromontane tree from Eritrea to Zambia whose dried female flowers are a traditional Ethiopian tapeworm remedy; IUCN Least Concern but endangered in Ethiopia.
Hagenow
Hagenow is a town in Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, about 30 km southwest of Schwerin; seat of Amt Hagenow-Land. First recorded 1194, 11,855 residents (2022), known for shoemaking, Roman Iron Age graves, and the Alte Synagoge.
Hager Twins
The Hager Twins, Jim and Jon Hager, were identical twin country singers and comedians, original cast members of Hee Haw from 1969, mentored by Buck Owens, with Capitol hit "Silver Wings".
Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland, the Washington County seat and "Hub City," founded 1762 by Jonathan Hager; a railroad and I-70/I-81 crossroads of about 44,000 people near Antietam battlefield.
Hågerup
Hågerup (Haagerup), village on Funen, Denmark, in Brahetrolleborg parish; site of a rich Late Roman Iron Age man's grave (C1b, excavated 1931, gold intaglio ring, Leuna parallels) and a medieval church and cemetery (AD 1100-1555) excavated 2017-2019.
Hagfish
Hagfishes, also known as slime eels, are eel-like deep-sea jawless vertebrates that scavenge on dead fish and repel predators with slime that clogs their gills.
Haggadah (הגדה)
The Haggadah (הגדה), or Haggadah shel Pesach, is the Jewish liturgical book read at the Passover seder, compiled from Bible, Mishnah, and Midrash excerpts between roughly 100 and 900 CE.
Haggai
Haggai, also known as Aggeus, was a Judean prophet of the post-exilic period who in 520 BCE urged the resumption of rebuilding the Jerusalem temple.
Haggard (band)
Haggard is a German symphonic metal ensemble founded in 1989 in Halle (Saale), led by Asis Nasseri, that merges classical, baroque, medieval, and metal music with a large live orchestra; albums include And Thou Shalt Trust... The Seer (1997) through Tales of Ithiria (2008).
Haggis
Haggis, Scotland's national dish: a pudding of sheep heart, lungs, and liver with oatmeal, suet, onion, and pepper, boiled in a stomach casing, central to Burns Night (25 January), banned in the US since 1971, with a vegetarian version since 1984.
Hagi Rebellion
The Hagi Rebellion (萩の乱) was an armed 1876 rising of former samurai against the Meiji government at Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, led by Maebara Issei and suppressed within about a week.
Hagi ware
Hagi ware (萩焼, Hagi-yaki) is a Japanese stoneware pottery made for over 400 years in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, prized in the tea ceremony for glazes that change color with use.
Hagia Sophia (Ἁγία Σοφία)
Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), also called St. Sophia Basilica, is a Byzantine cathedral in Istanbul built for Emperor Justinian I from 532 to 537, now a mosque.