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History of wolves in Yellowstone
History of wolves in Yellowstone: gray wolves present since 1872, exterminated by 1926 (136+ killed), reintroduced from Canada in 1995–1996 (31 wolves), now about 108 wolves; trophic cascade effects debated.
History of women in the United States
History of women in the United States: from New Jersey's early property-based voting and the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention through the suffrage campaign, the 19th Amendment (1920), women's expanding education and work, and stalled gender-equality progress since 1970.
History of writing
The history of writing traces how writing was invented independently in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica roughly 5,000 years ago, beginning with cuneiform in Sumer and culminating in the alphabet.
History of writing in Vietnam
History of writing in Vietnam: the succession of chữ Hán (Chinese characters), chữ Nôm (sinographic vernacular script, recognized by the 13th century), and chữ Quốc ngữ (Latin script created by Jesuits from 1615, official since 1945).
History of WWE
History of WWE: the American wrestling promotion, from Capitol Wrestling/WWWF and Vince McMahon's 1982 takeover through WrestleMania, the Attitude Era, the 2001 WCW and ECW buyouts, and the 2023 TKO merger.
History of yellow fever
History of yellow fever: African virus carried to the Americas by the slave trade (first epidemic 1648 Yucatan), causing epidemics such as Philadelphia 1793; transmission proven by Walter Reed in 1900 and controlled by the 17D vaccine (Theiler, 1937).
History of Yemen
History of Yemen: from the ancient incense kingdoms of Saba and Himyar and the Ma'rib dam, through Ottoman and British rule, two separate states, 1990 unification, to the post-2014 Houthi civil war and humanitarian collapse.
History of YouTube
The history of YouTube covers the video-sharing platform founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, former PayPal employees, and sold to Google in 2006.
History of Yuan
History of Yuan (元史) is the official dynastic history of the Yuan dynasty, compiled in the early Ming dynasty under chief editors Song Lian and Wang Yi in 210 juan.
History of Zambia
History of Zambia: pre-colonial polities (Bemba, Lunda, Ngoni, Lozi), British South Africa Company rule, Northern Rhodesia, independence under Kaunda and UNIP on 24 October 1964, one-party state 1973–1991, and the 1991 MMD transition.
History of Zimbabwe
History of Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia: from Great Zimbabwe (fl. 1290-1450), Mutapa, Rozvi, and Ndebele states through BSAC rule from 1890, UDI, and independence on 18 April 1980 to Mugabe's rule, land reform, and hyperinflation.
History of Zionism
History of Zionism: the Jewish national movement from Hovevei Zion and Pinsker's Auto-Emancipation through Herzl's 1897 Basel Congress, the Balfour Declaration, and Israel's 1948 founding, with Aliyah waves, Zionist streams, and membership figures.
History of zoophilia
History of zoophilia, also called bestiality, traces human-animal sexual contact from Hittite and biblical death-penalty laws, through medieval Christian criminalization, to DSM-III (1980) paraphilia classification and modern animal-welfare-based statutes in most US states and Europe.
History painting
History painting: European narrative genre depicting stories from the Bible, classical history, mythology, literature, or real events (istoria). Ranked highest of the academic genres by the French Academy from the 17th century; declined in the 19th.
History play
A history play is a dramatic work claiming to be set in the past, drawn from chronicles and records, most identified with the English theater of the 1590s.
HIStory World Tour
HIStory World Tour: Michael Jackson's third and final solo world tour, 1996–1997, 82 shows in 35 countries promoting the HIStory album; grossed over $165 million, the 1990s' highest-grossing solo tour.
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is Michael Jackson's 1995 double album: 15 greatest hits plus 15 new songs including Scream with Janet Jackson, released after his legal controversies became public.
History's Greatest Mysteries
History's Greatest Mysteries is a HISTORY channel one-hour documentary series, hosted and narrated by Laurence Fishburne, premiering November 2020; 7 seasons, 103 episodes covering D.B. Cooper, the Titanic, Roswell, and John Wilkes Booth.
HIStory4 (HIStory4：近距离爱上你)
HIStory4: Close to You (HIStory4：近距離愛上你) is a 2021 Taiwanese BL romantic comedy-drama, the fourth HIStory series entry, airing 20 episodes on LINE TV from 14 March to 16 May 2021, following a fake-dating workplace couple and a stepbrother couple at a wedding planning company.
Histosols
Histosols, commonly called bogs, moors, peats, or mucks, are soils formed in thick deposits of decaying plant material with no permafrost, one of the twelve USDA soil orders.
HistoSonics
HistoSonics is an American medical device company in Plymouth, Minnesota, founded in 2009, that develops the Edison system, which uses focused ultrasound to destroy liver tumors non-invasively.
Histotripsy
Histotripsy is a noninvasive ablation method that uses focused, high-intensity ultrasound pulses to mechanically fractionate targeted soft tissue without incisions, FDA-authorized for liver tumor destruction in October 2023.
Histrelin
Histrelin acetate (Supprelin LA, Vantas) is a GnRH agonist nonapeptide delivered as a once-yearly subcutaneous hydrogel implant, used for central precocious puberty and advanced prostate cancer.
Histria
Histria (Istros, Ἰστρίη), oldest Greek colony on the western Black Sea coast and oldest town on Romanian territory, a Milesian colony founded mid-7th century BC near the Danube mouths, excavated since 1914.
Histria tumular necropolis
Histria tumular necropolis (necropola tumulară de la Histria): about 1,000 burial mounds northwest of the Greek city of Histria, Dobruja, Romania, used from the 6th century BC, chiefly for cremation, with indigenous and Greek burials.
Histrionic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder, formerly hysterical personality disorder, is a cluster B psychiatric condition marked by persistent attention-seeking, exaggerated emotions, and theatrical, self-dramatized behavior beginning by early adulthood.
Histrionicus
Histrionicus, the harlequin ducks, a monotypic sea duck genus (Anatidae, Mergini) erected by Lesson in 1828; sole species H. histrionicus, the Harlequin Duck, breeding on fast rivers and wintering on rocky coasts.
Hit 'Em Up
Hit 'Em Up: 1996 diss track by 2Pac featuring the Outlawz, B-side of 'How Do U Want It' on Death Row/Interscope, produced by Johnny 'J', targeting The Notorious B.I.G., Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and Chino XL.
Hit (baseball)
Hit (baseball): a batter reaches base on a batted ball in fair territory without an error or fielder's choice; four types (single, double, triple, home run), scored by the official scorer, and the basis of batting average.
Hit & Run (TV series)
Hit & Run is a 2021 Netflix espionage thriller, billed as Netflix's first original Israeli series, created by Fauda's Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff with Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin; nine episodes, cancelled after one season over cost.