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Hokuriku Shinkansen
The Hokuriku Shinkansen (北陸新幹線) is a Japanese high-speed rail line linking Tokyo with the Hokuriku region via Nagano, Toyama, and Kanazawa, extended to Tsuruga in 2024 and planned to reach Osaka.
Hokusai (Mercurian crater)
Hokusai crater, Mercury: large young rayed impact crater at 57.84°N, 343.35°E, IAU diameter 114 km, named for the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai; longest ray system on Mercury and candidate source of the planet's polar water ice.
Hokusai (葛飾北斎)
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, 1760–1849) was a late Edo ukiyo-e master, also known as Shunro, Sori, Taito, Iitsu, and Manji, creator of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and The Great Wave, whose prints shaped European Impressionism.
Hokusai Manga
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画) is a series of fifteen woodblock-printed picture books by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, published between 1814 and 1878 with about 3,900 sketches that later influenced European artists.
Hokushin-ron
Hokushin-ron (北進論, "northern advance doctrine") was pre-1945 Japan's doctrine of expansion toward Korea, Manchuria, and Siberia, championed by the army and abandoned after defeat at Nomonhan in 1939.
Hokuyo Automatic
Hokuyo Automatic (北陽電機株式会社) is a Japanese sensor manufacturer headquartered in Osaka since 1946, known for compact 2D laser rangefinders, safety laser scanners, and photoelectric sensors.
Hola
Hola is a Slavic trick-taking card game of the Sedma group, played by Ukrainian-Canadians in Western Canada with a 52-card deck, wild sevens and twos, and 90 points per hand.
Hola (VPN)
Hola is a free peer-to-peer VPN and proxy service run by Hola VPN Ltd. of Netanya, Israel, founded in 2008, which routes traffic through other users' devices and sells commercial access through Bright Data.
Holacracy
Holacracy is a system of organizational governance in which authority is distributed across nested, self-organizing circles rather than a management pyramid, coined by Brian Robertson in 2010.
Holafly
Holafly is a travel technology company founded in 2017 that sells eSIM data plans to international travelers, best known for unlimited-data plans in more than 200 destinations and over 10 million eSIMs sold.
Holašovice Historic Village
Holašovice Historic Village (Vesnická památková rezervace Holašovice) is a protected traditional village in the Czech Republic's South Bohemian Region, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.
Holaster
Holaster is an extinct Agassiz 1836 genus of heart-shaped holasteroid sea urchins (Holasteridae) from Cretaceous seas; type species H. laevis, distinguished from Cardiaster by lacking a marginal fasciole.
Holasteroida
Holasteroida is an order of irregular deep-sea sea urchins (Echinoidea) established by Durham & Melville, 1957, with 52 extant species, 49 fossil genera since the Cretaceous, and at least four independent deep-sea migrations.
Holbein (Mercurian crater)
Holbein is a 113-km-wide impact crater on Mercury in the Victoria (H-2) quadrangle, named for the painters Hans Holbein and approved by the IAU in 1979.
Holberg Prize
The Holberg Prize is a Norwegian academic prize of NOK 6 million awarded annually for outstanding work in the humanities, social sciences, law, or theology.
Holby City
Holby City: British BBC One medical drama (1999-2022), a Casualty spin-off created by Tony McHale and Mal Young, set in the surgical wards of fictional Holby City Hospital; 1,102 episodes, BAFTA 2008, ended March 2022.
Holcim Group
Holcim Group is a Swiss building materials company headquartered in Zug that produces cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete, with over 50,000 employees in 45 markets.
Holcombe
Holcombe Villa, Uplyme, Devon: Romano-British villa over a late Iron Age settlement, occupied about 70-409 AD, with an octagonal bath house, mosaics, and a salt-estate link; scheduled monument 1002558, distinct from Holcombe in Somerset and Lancashire.
Holcombe E. Grier
Holcombe E. Grier is an American pediatric oncologist and Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, based at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for Ewing sarcoma trials and end-of-life care.
Holcophylloceras
Holcophylloceras (Spath, 1927) is an extinct phylloceratid ammonite genus, type species Phylloceras mediterraneum, ranging from the Toarcian or Bajocian to the Aptian in Tethyan and world-wide faunas.
Holcus
Holcus (velvetgrass) is a small genus of annual and perennial Poaceae grasses, tribe Poeae, subtribe Holcinae, native from Macaronesia and Europe to the Caucasus and South Africa; type species Holcus lanatus, Yorkshire fog, a forage grass and weed.
Holcus lanatus
Holcus lanatus, Yorkshire fog or velvet grass, is a tufted perennial grass native to Europe, Macaronesia, and the Caucasus, naturalized worldwide, a prolific seeder, pasture forage, lawn weed, and invasive in California coastal prairies.
Holcus mollis
Holcus mollis (creeping soft grass) is a rhizomatous perennial Poaceae grass native to Europe and NW Africa, with chromosome races 2n=28, 35, 42, 49, exserted awns, and bearded nodes, distinct from Holcus lanatus.
Hold a Court Now (我们与法庭的距离)
Hold a Court Now (家事法庭, formerly 我们与法庭的距离) is a 2026 Chinese legal drama, 26 episodes on CCTV-1, Tencent Video, and iQiyi, starring Gong Jun and Ren Min as a family-court judge and lawyer; CVB rating 3.052%, Golden Eagle nomination.
Hold On (Wilson Phillips song)
"Hold On" is the 1990 debut single by American pop trio Wilson Phillips, written by Glen Ballard, Chynna Phillips, and Carnie Wilson. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week on June 9, 1990, displaced Madonna's "Vogue," and was Billboard's year-end number one of 1990.
Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark is a 2018 Netflix thriller directed by Jeremy Saulnier, adapted by Macon Blair from William Giraldi's 2014 novel, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, Riley Keough, and James Badge Dale in an Alaskan wolf-hunting mystery.
Hold the Line
"Hold the Line" is a 1978 song by the American rock band Toto, written by keyboardist David Paich, which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Pop 100.
Hold Tight (miniseries)
Hold Tight (Polish: Zachowaj spokój) is a 2022 Polish Netflix crime miniseries adapted from Harlan Coben's 2008 novel, in which a teenager's disappearance shakes a Warsaw suburb.
Hold You Tight (愈快乐愈堕落)
Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落) is Stanley Kwan's 1998 Hong Kong drama, released 14 February 1998, starring Chingmy Yau in dual roles, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, and Lawrence Ko; it won Best Feature Film at the 48th Berlinale and is a key post-handover queer Hong Kong film. Not to be confused with the 1998 action film Cheap Killers (愈墮落愈英雄).
Hold Your Fire
Hold Your Fire is Rush's twelfth studio album, released September 8, 1987, produced with Peter Collins; the synth-era peak featuring Time Stand Still with Aimee Mann, charting at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.