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Hōgen Rebellion
The Hōgen Rebellion (保元の乱) was an armed clash fought in the capital in 1156 between Retired Emperor Sutoku and Emperor Go-Shirakawa, whose side won after a few hours of fighting.
Hogenakkal Falls
Hogenakkal Falls (ஒகேனக்கல் நீர்வீழ்ச்சி) is a waterfall and bathing site on the Cauvery river in Tamil Nadu, India, at the river's entry from Karnataka, known for coracle rides.
Hogeweyk
De Hogeweyk, the original dementia village in Weesp, Netherlands, opened 2009: a gated nursing home where ~152 people with severe dementia live in lifestyle-matched shared houses with shops, pub, and theater; antipsychotic use reportedly fell to ~12%.
Hoggle
Hoggle is the cowardly dwarf puppet character in Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986), performed by Shari Weiser and voiced by Brian Henson, built with 18 facial motors, the most complex puppet of its time.
Hoghiz
Hoghiz (La Cetate) is a Roman auxiliary fort site on the left bank of the Olt in Brașov County, Romania, the largest auxiliary fort in eastern Dacia, with Trajanic timber and mid-2nd-century stone phases and Roman baths.
Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet (होगी प्यार की जीत)
Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet (होगी प्यार की जीत), listed as Jayam on some platforms, is a 1999 Hindi masala film directed by P. Vasu, produced by Anil Sharma, starring Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Neha, and Mayuri Kango; a semi-hit with music by Anand-Milind.
Hogmanay
Hogmanay is the Scots word for New Year's Eve, 31 December, and the Scottish New Year celebrations, best known for first-footing and Edinburgh's festival, held since 1993.
Hogna carolinensis
Hogna carolinensis, the Carolina wolf spider or giant wolf spider, is a large North American Lycosidae wolf spider from Canada to Mexico, largest US wolf spider, official state spider of South Carolina since 2000.
Högni (crater on Callisto)
Högni (Hogni) is a 76-km-wide impact crater on Callisto at 11.8°S, 4.8°W, named in 1979 by the IAU after the Norse figure Ottar's ancestor, from lists by Kaare Aksnes.
Hognose
Hognose snakes, genus Heterodon, are North American colubrids with upturned snouts, including the eastern, western, Mexican, and southern hognose, known for bluffing displays and death-feigning defense.
Hogshead
A hogshead is a large cask and a unit of liquid capacity, historically used for wine, beer, and colonial tobacco, its size varying with the contents.
Hogtie
Hogtie (hog-tie, hog-tying): restraint binding an animal's four legs or a person's wrists and ankles together; coined 1887 from hog + tie. Used in livestock handling, restricted by welfare rules, and banned or discouraged in policing due to suffocation risk.
Hogu's Love (호구의 사랑)
Hogu's Love (호구의 사랑), also called Fool's Love, is a 2015 tvN Korean romance comedy based on Yoo Hyun-sook's Daum webtoon, starring Choi Woo-shik and Uee; 16 episodes aired February 9 to March 31, 2015, peak rating 1.4%.
Hoguk Buddhism
Hoguk Buddhism (호국불교), also rendered state-protection Buddhism, is Korean Buddhist faith practiced for the prosperity of the state and royal family, from the Three Kingdoms through Goryeo and the 1592 monk-soldier resistance.
Hogwarts
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the fictional Scottish boarding school of magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, founded in the tenth century by Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin, with four houses, 142 staircases, and the Chamber of Secrets.
Hogwarts Express (Universal Orlando Resort)
The Hogwarts Express is a themed funicular railway at Universal Orlando Resort linking King's Cross Station in Universal Studios Florida and Hogsmeade Station in Islands of Adventure, opened July 8, 2014.
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action role-playing game set in the Harry Potter wizarding world of the 1800s, released by Warner Bros. in February 2023.
Hoh Rainforest
Hoh Rainforest, in Olympic National Park, Washington, is an old-growth temperate rainforest on the Hoh River receiving about 140 inches of rain yearly, known for the Hall of Mosses trail, moss-draped giants, and its 2025 road-washout closure.
Hohberg
Hohberg is a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed from Diersburg, Hofweier, and Niederschopfheim; known for its excavated Roman road station near Niederschopfheim, built about 50 AD on the Basel–Mainz road. Distinct from Hohberg (Oberzent) in Hesse and Am Hohberg in Saxony.
Hohenbuehelia
Hohenbuehelia (Nematoctonus) is a genus of nematode-trapping pleurotoid fungi in Pleurotaceae, sister to Pleurotus, with about 50 accepted species, gelatinous cap flesh, and metuloid cystidia.
Hohenruppersdorf Oil and Gas Field
Hohenruppersdorf Oil and Gas Field is an oil field in the Vienna Basin, Lower Austria, operated by OMV and producing since around 1939 to 1941.
Hohenstaufen
Hohenstaufen (Staufen, Staufer): Swabian dynasty ruling the Holy Roman Empire 1138-1208 and 1214-1254, from Frederick of Büren's 1079 duchy of Swabia to Conradin's 1268 execution; rivals of the Welfs and the papacy.
Hohentwiel
Hohentwiel is an extinct volcano near Singen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, crowned by fortress ruins first mentioned in 915 and destroyed by French troops in 1800.
Hohenwerfen Castle
Hohenwerfen Castle (Burg Hohenwerfen) is a medieval fortress of the Archbishops of Salzburg standing above the town of Werfen, about 40 kilometers south of Salzburg, Austria.
Hohenzollern Castle
Hohenzollern Castle (Burg Hohenzollern) is a neo-Gothic hilltop castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, rebuilt between 1850 and 1867 as the ancestral seat of the House of Hohenzollern.
Hohhot (呼和浩特)
Hohhot (呼和浩特), capital of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, formerly Guihua/Guisui, a second-tier city of 3.5 million known for the Yili and Mengniu dairy headquarters, Ming-era Tumote origins, and winter air-pollution challenges.
Hohhot hydroelectric plant
The Hohhot hydroelectric plant (呼和浩特抽水蓄能电站, 呼蓄电站) is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage station in Inner Mongolia, China, the region's first, built to balance its wind-heavy grid and fully commissioned in 2015.
Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station
The Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power station in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, with a listed capacity of at least 3,920 MW.
Hohhot power station
Hohhot power station (呼和浩特热电厂), also known as Hohhot Fengtai power station, is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant of about 1,100 MW in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
Hohlraum
A hohlraum is a small hollow metal cavity, typically gold-lined, that converts laser energy into x rays to compress fusion fuel; NIF's 192-beam shots achieved ignition in 2022.