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Hochstift
A Hochstift was the temporal principality ruled by a prince-bishop in the Holy Roman Empire, holding imperial immediacy, territorial sovereignty, and a Reichstag vote until its secularization in 1803.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a German construction and infrastructure company headquartered in Essen. Founded in 1873, it has been majority-owned by Spain's ACS since 2011 and operates through Turner in the US and CIMIC in Australia.
Hock Lee bus riots
The Hock Lee bus riots were a violent 1955 riot in Singapore, where a strike by Hock Lee bus workers and Chinese students killed four people on 12 May, known as Black Thursday.
Hock Tan
Hock Tan is a Malaysian-born American executive, educated at MIT and Harvard, who has led Broadcom as president and CEO since 2006 through deals including VMware.
Hockaday School
The Hockaday School, founded 1913 by Ela Hockaday in Dallas, Texas, is an independent all-girls college-preparatory day school, PK–12, on an 88-acre North Dallas campus, with 1,133 students and the Four Cornerstones of Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics.
Hockenheimring
Hockenheimring (Hockenheim, Germany): 4.574 km FIA Grade 1 circuit opened 1932, rebuilt by Tilke in 2002; hosted the German Grand Prix 34 times, last in 2019; Emodom-owned since 2024.
Hockey
Hockey: family of stick-and-goal team sports, chiefly field hockey (FIH) and ice hockey (IIHF), plus bandy, floorball, and street variants; origins contested between Canada, England, and French etymology.
Hockey 5s
Hockey5s (Hockey 5s) is the FIH's official five-a-side short format of field hockey, four field players plus a goalkeeper on a board-surrounded 40m x 23.7m court; debuted at Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics, first World Cup in Oman 2024, goals scored from the attacking half.
Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal
Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal: 2018 London, Ontario world junior team allegation, $3.55M lawsuit settled May 2022, National Equity Fund, funding freeze, leadership resignations, 2025 acquittals.
Hockey East
Hockey East (Hockey East Association) is a NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey conference founded July 11, 1983, playing since 1984-85. Twelve men's programs, ten women's programs, ten men's NCAA titles, Lamoriello and Bertagna trophies.
Hockey Hall of Fame
Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto museum and honorary institution (est. 1943, at Brookfield Place since 1993) honoring ice hockey players, builders, and officials; home of the Stanley Cup and the world's largest hockey collection.
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada, often abbreviated HNIC, is a Canadian television program that has broadcast NHL games on Saturday nights since 1952, a national viewing ritual.
Hockey puck
Hockey puck: the vulcanized rubber disc of ice hockey, 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter, 1 in (2.5 cm) thick, 156–170 g, kept frozen for games; modern design dates to the early 1940s; now also built with tracking chips.
Hockey stick graph
The hockey stick graph is a reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature over the past millennium, showing 900 years of gradual decline followed by a sharp twentieth-century rise.
Hocking Hills State Park
Hocking Hills State Park, Hocking County, Ohio: six scenic areas (Old Man's Cave, Ash Cave, Cedar Falls, Cantwell Cliffs, Rock House, Conkle's Hollow) carved from Black Hand Sandstone; 26 trail miles; 1.3–5 million annual visitors.
Hockwold
Hockwold (Hockwold-cum-Wilton), Norfolk: fen-edge parish with Beaker domestic sites, two Romano-Celtic temples (Sawbench Wood, Leyland's Farm), and the 1962 Hockwold treasure of silver cups and priestly diadems in the British Museum.
Hocus Pocus (1993 film)
Hocus Pocus is a 1993 Walt Disney Pictures fantasy comedy directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson witches of Salem; a box office flop that became a Halloween cult classic with two sequels.
Hocus Pocus 2
Hocus Pocus 2 is the 2022 Disney+ Original sequel to the 1993 film Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the resurrected Sanderson sisters. It premiered September 30, 2022, set records on Disney+, and led to Hocus Pocus 3.
Hod (הוד) (Kabbalah)
Hod (הוד) is the eighth sefirah in Kabbalah, meaning splendor and acknowledgment, on the Tree of Life's left axis beneath Gevurah and paired with Netzach.
Hod Hill
Hod Hill, Stourpaine, Dorset: largest Iron Age hillfort in Dorset at 54 acres (22 ha), with a Roman fort of c. 43–51 AD in its NW corner; excavated by Boyd-Dawkins and Richmond; National Trust site.
Hod Lipson
Hod Lipson is a roboticist and the James and Sally Scapa Professor at Columbia University, where he directs the Creative Machines Lab and works on machines that design and reproduce themselves.
Hod Oil and Gas Field
Hod is an oil and gas field in the southern Norwegian North Sea, 13 km south of Valhall, discovered in 1974 and producing from chalk reservoirs.
Hoda Ammar
Hoda Ammar (هدى عمار) is an Egyptian singer, born in 1971, known for the 1990 song 'Ma Kadbish Alayk' and her 2020 comeback single 'Ezay Habeit'.
Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat (هدى بركات), born 1952, is a Lebanese novelist who has lived in Paris since 1989, writing in Arabic about war, exile, and marginalized lives.
Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb (born 1964) is an Egyptian-American TV journalist, Dateline NBC correspondent from 1998, Today fourth-hour host from 2007, and Today co-anchor with Savannah Guthrie 2018 to January 2025.
Hoda Saad
Hoda Saad (هدى سعد, also Houda Saad) is a Moroccan singer-songwriter born in Casablanca in 1981, nicknamed the "ambassador of Moroccan song" for carrying Darija into pan-Arab pop.
Hodag
The Hodag is a fictitious horned, spiked monster of Wisconsin lumberjack folklore, popularized as an 1893-1896 hoax by Rhinelander timber cruiser Eugene Shepard and now the town's official mascot.
Hodegetria
The Hodegetria (Ὁδηγήτρια, "She Who Shows the Way") is a Byzantine icon type in which the Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child and points to him.
Hodeidah (الحديدة)
Hodeidah (Al Hudaydah, الحديدة) is Yemen's fourth largest city and chief Red Sea port, administrative center of Al Hudaydah Governorate, handling about 70% of Yemen's food, fuel, and medicine imports and heavily damaged in the war since 2015.
Hodgdon Powder Company
Hodgdon Powder Company, founded by Bruce Hodgdon in 1947, is a family-owned American distributor and marketer of smokeless powder and black powder substitutes headquartered in Shawnee, Kansas.