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Hakuhō earthquake
The Hakuhō earthquake (白鳳地震, also called the Tenmu earthquake) was a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck Japan on 29 November 684, the oldest recorded great earthquake along the Nankai Trough.
Hakuhō sculpture
Hakuhō sculpture (白鳳彫刻) is the Buddhist sculpture of Japan's Hakuhō period, conventionally dated 645–710, marked by fuller, more sensuous figures under Sui and early-Tang Chinese influence.
Hakuhō Shō
Hakuhō Shō (白鵬翔), 69th yokozuna, Mongolian-born sumo grand champion born 1985; record 45 top-division titles and 1,187 career wins; retired 2021, left the Japan Sumo Association in 2025.
Hakuhō-era reforms of Tenmu
The Hakuhō-era reforms of Tenmu (天武朝の改革) were the legal and administrative reforms of Emperor Tenmu after his victory in the Jinshin War of 672, introducing the Tang ritsuryō system to Japan.
Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1768) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen monk of the Edo period, born at Hara in Suruga province and known as the reviver of Japanese Rinzai Zen.
Hakuna matata
Hakuna matata is a Swahili phrase meaning "there are no problems" or "no worries", popularized worldwide by Disney's 1994 The Lion King; rare in everyday Swahili, where hakuna shida is preferred, and trademarked by Disney in the US since 2003.
Hakuna Matata (song)
Hakuna Matata, Elton John and Tim Rice song from Disney's The Lion King (1994), sung by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella; Swahili for no worries; Oscar-nominated and trademarked by Disney.
Hakusan
Hakusan (白山), active stratovolcano on the Ishikawa–Gifu border, Japan, 2,702 m Gozengamine; last erupted 1659, sector collapse 5,400–4,900 years ago, JMA continuously monitored.
Hakusan Tedorigawa UNESCO Global Geopark
Hakusan Tedorigawa UNESCO Global Geopark (白山手取川ジオパーク) covers all of Hakusan City, Ishikawa, Japan; a Japanese Geopark since 2011 and UNESCO Global Geopark since May 2023, featuring Mt. Hakusan, the Tedori River, and Japan's only geopark-biosphere reserve overlap.
Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙)
Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙) is a Japanese experimental pop musician blending jazz, breakcore, and electronica; first Japanese artist on Brainfeeder, known for Mahōgakkō (2024) and Honest Feeling Album (2026).
Hakuto (lunar rover)
Hakuto was a Japanese team in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, run by the startup ispace with Tohoku University, that built the SORATO lunar rover and won a $500,000 milestone prize.
HAL (Holistic Agent Leaderboard)
HAL (Holistic Agent Leaderboard) is a cost-aware, third-party leaderboard for evaluating AI agents, built by Benedikt Stroebl, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan at Princeton University and announced in 2025.
Hal (ハル) (2013 film)
Hal (ハル) is a 2013 Japanese animated romance-science fiction film, WIT Studio's first theatrical work, directed by Ryotaro Makihara, about robot Q01 becoming Robo-Hal to comfort grieving Kurumi in near-future Kyoto.
Hal & Harper
Hal & Harper is a 2025 American comedy-drama series created by and starring Cooper Raiff with Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo, about codependent siblings after their mother's death; it premiered at Sundance 2025 and streamed on MUBI from October 19 to November 30, 2025.
HAL 9000
HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is the fictional AI of Discovery One in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), voiced by Douglas Rain, which kills its crew and became AI's defining fictional reference point.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was an American film director and Oscar-winning editor of 1970s New Hollywood, known for Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home, and Being There, and for his post-1979 career decline and later reassessment.
Hal Blaine
Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky, 1929-2019), American session drummer who named and led the Wrecking Crew, played on an estimated 35,000 sessions including the Be My Baby intro, 40 US No. 1 hits, Rock Hall 2000, 2018 Grammy Lifetime Achievement.
Hal Brown
Hal Brown refers to several athletes: Horace Hallock Brown (1898–1983), 1920 Olympic 3,000 m team gold medalist; Hector Harold "Skinny" Brown (1924–2015), MLB pitcher, 85–92, 3.81 ERA; and a University of Toronto track athlete and coach.
Hal Connolly
Hal Connolly (Harold Vincent Connolly, 1931-2010), American hammer thrower, 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist with 63.19 m, seven-time hammer world record holder, husband of Olga Fikotová; not the umpire Tom Connolly.
Hal David
Hal David (Harold Lane David, 1921-2012), American Brill Building lyricist, longtime partner of composer Burt Bacharach; wrote "Walk On By", "Alfie", Oscar-winning "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"; ASCAP president 1980-86; Gershwin Prize 2012.
HAL Dhruv
The HAL Dhruv, formally the Advanced Light Helicopter, is a twin-engine utility helicopter built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited of India, with 345 produced by 2024.
Hal Drakesmith
Hal Drakesmith, who publishes as Alexander Drakesmith, is Professor of Iron Biology at the University of Oxford, where he studies how the hormone hepcidin regulates iron metabolism and anemia during infection.
Hal E. Broxmeyer
Hal E. Broxmeyer (1944–2021) was an American experimental hematologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who established umbilical cord blood as a source of transplantable stem cells.
Hal Finney (computer scientist)
Hal Finney, born Harold Thomas Finney II, was an American cryptographer and early Cypherpunk who worked on PGP and received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
Hal Haenel
Hal Haenel (Harold H. Haenel), American Star class sailor, three-time Olympian crewing for Mark Reynolds: silver at Seoul 1988, gold at Barcelona 1992, Star world champion 1995, later US Sailing Team leader at Sydney 2000.
Hal Hershfelt
Hal Hershfelt (Katherine Hailey Hershfelt, born 2001) is an American midfielder for Washington Spirit (NWSL) and the USWNT; Clemson product, 2024 NWSL Draft fifth pick, Olympic alternate, first cap October 2024.
HAL HF-24 Marut
The HAL HF-24 Marut was a 1960s Indian fighter-bomber developed by HAL and Kurt Tank. It was the first serial jet fighter created in Asia outside the Soviet Union.
HAL HJT-36 Yashas (यशस)
The HAL HJT-36 Yashas (यशस), formerly named Sitara, is a tandem-seat intermediate jet trainer built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to replace the Indian Air Force's HJT-16 Kiran.
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook (1925–2021), American actor, Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., famed for the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! (1954–2017, 2,300+ performances), Tony and five Emmy winner, Deep Throat in All the President's Men, Oscar nominee for Into the Wild.
Hal Jordan
Hal Jordan is DC Comics' Silver Age Green Lantern, created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Showcase #22 (1959). A test pilot chosen by dying alien Abin Sur, he later became the villain Parallax and is now played by Kyle Chandler in HBO's Lanterns.