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Hober Mallow

Hober Mallow is the Master Trader protagonist of Isaac Asimov's Foundation story "The Merchant Princes" (1944), a Smyrno-born trader who resolves the third Seldon Crisis against Korell by economic embargo, becomes Terminus's first offworld mayor, and is the first of the Merchant Princes.

Oct 15, 2026

Hoberman sphere

A Hoberman sphere is an expandable structure of scissor-like rigid struts invented by American designer Chuck Hoberman, best known as a popular expanding toy introduced in 1995.

Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin: an English folklore household spirit, a mischievous goblin doing chores for food; also a bugbear. From hob (Robin Goodfellow) + goblin, first recorded in the 1520s; Shakespeare's Puck is called Hobgoblin.

Hobgoblin (comics)

Hobgoblin (comics): Marvel Spider-Man supervillain identity debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #238 (1983), created by Roger Stern; borne by Roderick Kingsley, Ned Leeds, Jason Macendale, and Phil Urich, with a famous long-running identity mystery.

Hobie Cat

Hobie Cat is a brand of beach-launched sailing catamarans created by surfer and boatbuilder Hobie Alter, whose Hobie 14 (1967) and Hobie 16 (1970) are sailed worldwide.

Hobnail hemangioma

Hobnail hemangioma, also called targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma (THH), is a rare benign cutaneous vascular tumor first described in 1988, with hobnail endothelial cells, a biphasic dermal growth pattern, and a targetoid clinical appearance.

Hobo

A hobo was an American itinerant worker who traveled by freight train to seasonal jobs in harvests, railroads, lumber camps, and mines, from the 1870s to the 1930s.

Hobo Johnson

Hobo Johnson is the stage name of Frank Lopes Jr. (born 1994), a Sacramento rapper and spoken word artist with the band the Lovemakers, viral via "Peach Scone" in NPR's 2018 Tiny Desk Contest, signed to Reprise, albums including The Fall of Hobo Johnson (2019).

Hobo spider

Hobo spider (Eratigena agrestis, formerly Tegenaria agrestis), a European funnel-web spider (Agelenidae) introduced to the Pacific Northwest; once feared as necrotic, now not considered medically important.

Hobo with a Shotgun

Hobo with a Shotgun: 2011 Canadian exploitation film by Jason Eisener, written by John Davies, starring Rutger Hauer; grew from a $120 SXSW Grindhouse fake-trailer contest winner into a Sundance-premiering feature.

Hoboken, New Jersey

Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, on the Hudson River across from Manhattan; it is the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and one of the nation's densest cities.

Hobøl

Hobøl is a former municipality in Østfold, Norway, merged into Indre Østfold on 1 January 2020 with Askim, Eidsberg, Spydeberg, and Trøgstad; population 5,642 (2019), center Elvestad.

Hobro

Hobro (Hobro IK, Hobro Idræts Klub), Danish football club founded 1913 in Hobro, northern Jutland; promoted to the Superliga for the first time in 2014, 7th in 2014/15, 1st Division champion 2016-17, now in the 1st Division at DS Arena.

Hobson-Jobson

Hobson-Jobson, also titled A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, is Yule and Burnell's 1886 historical dictionary of Asian loanwords in English, revised by Crooke in 1903, source of the 'law of Hobson-Jobson' and a key OED source.

Hobson's choice

Hobson's choice: a take-it-or-leave-it 'choice' with no real alternative, named for Thomas Hobson (c. 1544–1631), the Cambridge liveryman who made renters take the horse nearest the stable door or none; distinct from a false dilemma.

Oct 3, 2026

Hobson's Choice (1954 film)

Hobson's Choice (1954) is David Lean's British comedy, adapted from Harold Brighouse's 1916 play, starring Charles Laughton, Brenda De Banzie, and John Mills; it won the 1954 Golden Bear and the BAFTA for Best British Film. Not the kitchen company or the 1983 TV remake.

Hoby

Hoby, Lolland, Denmark: Early Roman Iron Age chieftain's grave (Lübsow type) found 1920 with Roman silver cups showing Iliad scenes, plus a large contemporary settlement excavated since 2001.

Hoca Abdürrahim Efendi

Hoca Abdürrahim Efendi (died 1656) was an Ottoman scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1647 to 1649 and issued the fetva authorizing Sultan İbrâhim's execution.

Hoca Sâdeddin Efendi

Hoca Sâdeddin Efendi (Sâdeddin Mehmed Efendi) was an Ottoman scholar who tutored Murad III and Mehmed III and served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1598 to 1599.

Hocazâde Esad Efendi

Hocazâde Esad Efendi (خواجه زادہ اسد افندی), born Mehmed Esad in Istanbul in 1570, was an Ottoman scholar who served twice as Shaykh al-Islam, the empire's chief mufti.

Hocazâde Mehmed Efendi

Hocazâde Mehmed Efendi (died 2 July 1615) was an Ottoman scholar and eldest son of the historian and şeyhülislâm Hoca Sâdeddin Efendi, serving twice as şeyhülislâm.

Hocazâde Mesud Efendi

Hocazâde Mesud Efendi was an Ottoman scholar and şeyhülislâm, appointed in March 1656 under troop pressure during the Çınar Vak'ası, dismissed that July and killed in Bursa.

Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave

Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave (Fürstengrab von Eberdingen-Hochdorf): unlooted late Hallstatt Celtic princely burial, c. 540 BC, near Ludwigsburg, Germany; excavated 1978–79 by Jörg Biel; bronze couch, wagon, Greek cauldron.

Hochkönig

Hochkönig, meaning "High King", is a 2,941-meter limestone mountain in the Austrian state of Salzburg, the highest peak of the Berchtesgaden Alps and sixth-most prominent peak in the Alps.

Hochob

Hochob, a Maya archaeological site in Hopelchén, Campeche, Mexico, occupied about 300 to 1000 AD; its Chenes-style Structure II bears an Earth Monster, or Itzamna, stucco facade.

Hochscheid

Hochscheid: Roman pilgrimage sanctuary in the Idarwald, Hunsrück, Germany; Gallo-Roman ambulatory temple over a healing spring, dedicated to Apollo and Sirona, with bathhouse and pilgrim hostel, abandoned after 275/276.

Hochschild homology and cohomology

Hochschild homology and cohomology are pairs of derived-functor invariants of associative algebras, introduced by Gerhard Hochschild in 1945 and now extended to categories, schemes, and spectra.

Oct 15, 2026

Hochschild Mining

Hochschild Mining plc is a London-listed precious metals mining company producing silver and gold in South America, rooted in a trading group founded in 1911.

Hochst verdachtig

Höchst verdächtig! is a 2002 HABA children's board game by Manfred Ludwig in which players tilt a park board to slide detective figures toward a thief.