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Hof Dylan
Hof Dylan (ホフディラン) is a Japanese two-piece pop group of Watanabe Baby and Komiyama Yūhi, which debuted in 1996 and is known for the anime tie-up single スマイル.
Hof, Bavaria
Hof (Bavaria) is a county-level town in Upper Franconia on the Saale, near the Saxon and Czech borders. About 46,400 residents; medieval charter of 1319, textile heritage, Iron Curtain border town, 1989 refugee gateway.
Hofbauer cell
Hofbauer cells (HBCs) are fetal-origin macrophages residing in human placental chorionic villi, the only significant immune cell population of the healthy placenta. M2-like, pro-angiogenic cells involved in morphogenesis, homeostasis, infection response, and vertical pathogen transmission.
Hofbräuhaus am Platzl
Hofbräuhaus am Platzl (Staatliches Hofbräuhaus am Platzl), Munich's state-owned beer hall at Platzl 9, founded 1589 by Duke Wilhelm V, opened to the public 1828, rebuilt by Max Littmann 1897 and after wartime destruction by 1958.
Hofburg
The Hofburg, also known as Hofburg Palace, is the former Habsburg imperial palace in central Vienna, the monarchy's seat until 1918 and today the president's office.
Hoffa (film)
Hoffa (1992) is a Danny DeVito-directed, David Mamet-written biopic starring Jack Nicholson as Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, told through fictional aide Bobby Ciaro; released by Fox on December 25, 1992, it cost about $50 million, earned Oscar nominations for cinematography and makeup, and flopped at the box office.
Hoffmann Family of Companies
The Hoffmann Family of Companies is a family-owned investment firm founded by David Hoffmann in 2015, headquartered in Naples, Florida, buying majority stakes across eight sectors.
Hoffmann's reflex
Hoffmann's reflex (Hoffmann sign, finger flexor reflex): bedside flick of the middle finger causing thumb and finger flexion, an upper-limb corticospinal tract sign; distinct from Paul Hoffmann's electrically evoked H-reflex.
Hofheim
Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany: district town 18 km from Frankfurt, with Palaeolithic finds, the Michelsberg Kapellenberg hilltop settlement, Roman Erdlager and Steinkastell forts, first mentioned 1254, town charter 1352.
Höflein
Höflein is a Lower Austrian municipality near Carnuntum on the Danube Limes, with a Roman fortlet (50–433 AD) on the Kirchenberg, the villa rustica Aubühel, watchtowers, and winegrowing documented since the 11th century.
Hofmann elimination
Hofmann elimination is an organic reaction in which a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, on heating, gives an alkene, a tertiary amine, and water, favoring the least substituted alkene.
Hofmann rearrangement
The Hofmann rearrangement, also called the Hofmann degradation, converts a primary carboxamide into a primary amine with one fewer carbon, first reported by August Wilhelm Hofmann in 1881.
Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag reaction
The Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag reaction (HLF reaction) is an organic reaction forming pyrrolidines from N-haloamines in strong acid, described by Hofmann in 1883 and expanded by Löffler and Freytag from 1909, an early example of directed C–H functionalization.
Hofmeister series
The Hofmeister series is an empirical ranking of ions by their ability to salt out, or precipitate, proteins from solution, first reported by Franz Hofmeister in 1888.
Hofsjökull (glaciated)
Hofsjökull is Iceland's third largest ice cap (923 km², ~200 km³), covering a dormant volcanic caldera in the central highlands and feeding the rivers Þjórsá, Hvítá, and Blanda; monitored for mass balance since 1988, it has lost about 25% of its volume since 1890.
Hofstadter butterfly
The Hofstadter butterfly is the self-similar fractal energy spectrum of electrons in a two-dimensional crystal lattice under a perpendicular magnetic field, computed by Douglas Hofstadter in 1976.
Hofstadter's butterfly
Hofstadter's butterfly is the fractal energy spectrum of electrons in a two-dimensional crystal lattice in a magnetic field, predicted by Douglas Hofstadter in 1976 and first observed in graphene in 2013.
Hofstadter's butterfly in graphene/hBN moiré superlattices
Hofstadter's butterfly in graphene/hBN moiré superlattices is the fractal electron energy spectrum that appears when graphene aligned on hexagonal boron nitride sits in a strong magnetic field.
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, by Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede (first published 1980), models national culture on six dimensions such as power distance and individualism, scored 0-100, derived originally from IBM employee surveys; widely used in business research but criticized for weak replication and measurement validity.
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private Long Island university in Hempstead, New York, founded 1935 from the Hofstra estate; R2 research institution led by ninth president Susan Poser, with Hofstra 100 strategic plan and law and medical schools.
Hofuf
Hofuf (الهفوف) is a city in the Al-Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, home to Qasr Ibrahim and Suq Al-Qaysariyah and part of the 2018 UNESCO World Heritage oasis.
Hogan
A hogan (Navajo: hooghan, "place home") is the traditional single-room dwelling of the Diné (Navajo) people, with an east-facing entry, sacred in origin and still used for ceremonies.
Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells is a global law firm formed in 2010 by merging Hogan & Hartson and Lovells; FY2025 revenue US$3.285 billion, CEO Miguel Zaldivar; merged with Cadwalader in July 2026 to form Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, also styled HLC, is a global law firm created 1 July 2026 by the merger of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, with 3,200+ lawyers and US$3.6bn revenue, led by CEO Miguel Zaldivar.
Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes, American CBS sitcom (September 17, 1965 to July 4, 1971, 168 episodes), created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy, set in the fictional German POW camp Stalag 13 during World War II, starring Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner.
Höganäs Formation
Höganäs Formation (Höganäsformationen), Rhaetian–Hettangian (Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic) mudstone, sandstone and coal unit in Skåne, southern Sweden; Vallåkra, Bjuv, Helsingborg members; coal mined until 1961; rich Rhaetian floras.
Hogar Seguro fire
The Hogar Seguro fire killed 41 girls on March 8, 2017 at Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, a state-run children's institution in San José Pinula, Guatemala.
Hogarth Press
The Hogarth Press was a British publishing company founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917 as a hand press, known for The Waste Land and Freud's works.
Hōgen Monogatari
Hōgen Monogatari (保元物語) is a Japanese war tale of the Kamakura period, by an unknown author, recounting the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156 around the superhuman archer Minamoto no Tametomo.
Hōgen no shinsei
Hōgen no shinsei (保元新制) was a set of ordinances issued by Emperor Go-Shirakawa after the Hōgen Rebellion, regulating private estates and court life in 1156 and 1157.