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Hoang Hoa Tham
Hoang Hoa Tham (Hoàng Hoa Thám), also known as De Tham, was a Vietnamese resistance leader who fought French colonial rule from Yen The until his assassination in 1913.
Hoang Sa flotilla
The Hoang Sa flotilla (Đội Hoàng Sa) was a maritime service of the Nguyen lords, sent annually from Quang Ngai to the Paracel and Spratly islands.
Hoang Thanh Tung
Hoang Thanh Tung, born in 1966, is a Vietnamese Communist Party politician serving as Minister of Justice since 2026, after chairing the National Assembly's Law Committee from 2019.
Hoàng Văn Thái
Hoàng Văn Thái, born Hoàng Văn Xiêm, was a Vietnamese general who served as the first Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army from 1945.
Hoang Viet Luat Le
Hoang Viet Luat Le, also known as the Gia Long code, is the legal code of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty, promulgated in 1813 under emperor Gia Long.
Hoang Xuan Vinh
Hoang Xuan Vinh (Hoàng Xuân Vinh, born 1974, Hanoi), Vietnamese pistol shooter; won Vietnam's first Olympic gold, 10m air pistol Rio 2016 (202.5), plus 50m pistol silver; only Vietnamese athlete with two Olympic medals.
Hoard
A hoard is an intentional archaeological deposit of valuable objects such as coins or metalwork, interpreted as emergency storage, household reserve, or votive offering, famous examples including the Staffordshire, Galloway, and Wesseling hoards.
Hoare logic
Hoare logic, also known as Floyd–Hoare logic, is a formal system for reasoning about the correctness of imperative programs, introduced by Tony Hoare in 1969.
Hoary marmot
Hoary marmot (Marmota caligata), the whistle pig, a large social alpine ground squirrel from Alaska to Montana. Black-footed (caligata means booted), burrow-dwelling, hibernating, IUCN Least Concern but snowpack-sensitive.
Hoatzin
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also called stinkbird or Canje pheasant, sole species of Opisthocomiformes in Amazon and Orinoco basins; leaf-eating foregut fermenter whose clawed-wing chicks climb and swim.
Hoax
A hoax is a deliberate deception, from the 1874 Central Park Zoo story and Cottingley Fairies to AI-generated fakes; distinct from urban legends, satire, and misinformation by the hoaxer's intent.
Hoba meteorite
The Hoba meteorite is the largest known intact meteorite on Earth, an iron of about 60 metric tons lying where it fell near Grootfontein in northern Namibia.
Hobal Virga
Hobal Virga is a bright, wind-shaped streak on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, named in 2006 for an Arabian rain god and measuring 1,075 km across.
Hobart
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia, founded 1804 on the Derwent River at Sullivan's Cove; Australia's second oldest city. Known for colonial heritage, Antarctic gateway role, and acute housing affordability stress.
Hobart Airport
Hobart Airport, also known as Hobart International Airport, is the main airport serving Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Opened in 1956 at Cambridge, it handled 2.8 million passengers in 2024–25.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hobart and William Smith Colleges is a private liberal arts college in Geneva, New York, formed from Hobart College for men (1822) and William Smith College for women (1908).
Hobart-class destroyer
The Hobart class is a class of three Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy, built in South Australia and led by HMAS Hobart, commissioned in 2017.
Hobart's Funnies
Hobart's Funnies were specialized British armored vehicles of the Second World War, mostly modified Churchill and Sherman tanks developed under Major-General Percy Hobart that supported the Normandy landings.
Hobbit
Hobbits are Tolkien's fictional race of small hole-dwelling people, introduced in The Hobbit (1937) and central to The Lord of the Rings; the name was later borrowed for Homo floresiensis.
Hobbiton Movie Set
Hobbiton Movie Set is a permanent film set near Matamata, New Zealand, built for The Lord of the Rings and now a major tourist attraction.
Hobble skirt
Hobble skirt: a woman's skirt cut so narrow below the knee that the wearer could only take mincing steps. Popularized by Paul Poiret in Paris around 1910–1914; hem under 36 inches, worn with leg tapes, slits, and tunics.
Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, the 2019 Fast & Furious spin-off directed by David Leitch, stars Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw against Idris Elba's enhanced villain Brixton; it grossed over $680 million worldwide.
Hobby
Hobby: a regular leisure-time activity pursued for pleasure rather than pay. Covers serious leisure theory (Stebbins), US participation data (247.1M active, pickleball +311%), well-being effects, income barriers, and digital hobbies.
Hobby horse polo
Hobby horse polo (Steckenpferdpolo) is a polo variant played on foot riding hobby horses, hitting a ball with a mallet into goals. Documented in German club tournaments, scout programs, and steampunk conventions; hobby horsing originates in Finland.
Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby, also known as Hobby Lobby Creative Centers, is an American arts-and-crafts retail chain founded in 1972, with more than 1,000 stores across 48 states.
Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal
The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal was the 2017 civil forfeiture settlement in which the craft-store chain gave up thousands of smuggled Iraqi artifacts and paid $3 million.
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is a 10-meter fixed-elevation optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in west Texas, built for $13.9 million in 1997 and run by UT Austin, Penn State, and German universities.
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is a spectroscopic survey on the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measuring dark energy in the early universe.
Hobby–Rice theorem
The Hobby–Rice theorem is a 1965 result in analysis stating that finitely many measures on an interval can be simultaneously halved using signed pieces, key to L1 approximation.
HobbyKids Adventures
HobbyKids Adventures is a 2019 2D-animated children's series created by Butch Hartman for pocket.watch, adapting the HobbyKidsTV YouTube brothers HobbyPig, HobbyFrog, and HobbyBear against the SlobbyKids; 2 seasons, 27 episodes, later canceled.