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Holism
Holism, from Greek holos (whole), is the view that wholes exceed the sum of their parts; coined by Jan Smuts in the 1920s, opposed to reductionism, central to biology's emergence and systems biology debates.
Holistic Health
Holistic health is an approach to health care that treats the person as a complete, integrated unit, addressing physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions together.
Höljesbanan
Höljes Rallycross is a rallycross circuit in Höljes, Värmland, Sweden, widely described as the spiritual home of the sport since its first race in 1976.
Holkar dynasty
The Holkar dynasty (होलकर) was a Maratha ruling house of Indore in Malwa, founded by the soldier Malhar Rao Holkar and ruled most famously by Ahilyabai Holkar from 1767 to 1795.
Holkar Stadium
Holkar Stadium (Holkar Cricket Stadium), Indore, Madhya Pradesh; MPCA-owned cricket ground, about 30,000 seats, opened 1990. High-scoring ODI venue; its 2023 India-Australia Test pitch was rated poor, then below average on appeal.
Holkham Bible Picture Book
The Holkham Bible Picture Book is an illuminated English picture book of biblical and apocryphal stories, produced in London around 1327–1335, known for vivid scenes of medieval life and labor.
Holkham Hall
Holkham Hall is an eighteenth-century Palladian mansion on the north Norfolk coast of England, built between 1734 and 1764 for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester.
Holla Corona
Holla Corona is a 180-km-diameter corona, a quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 13°S, 237.7°E, in quadrangle v39; IAU-approved in 2003 and named for a German Earth, nature, and household affairs goddess.
Hollaback Girl
"Hollaback Girl" is a 2005 Gwen Stefani single from Love. Angel. Music. Baby., produced by the Neptunes; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and was the first song to sell one million digital downloads.
Holland
Holland strictly means the Dutch provinces of North and South Holland, two of twelve, but long served abroad as a name for the whole Netherlands. Since 1 January 2020 the Dutch state uses only The Netherlands and an NL tulip logo internationally.
Holland (album)
Holland is the Beach Boys' 19th studio album, released January 8, 1973 on Brother/Reprise. Recorded in a barn in Baambrugge, Netherlands, it added "Sail On Sailor" after label rejection and included the Mount Vernon and Fairway EP.
Holland America Line
Holland America Line, or Holland-Amerika Lijn, is a cruise line founded in Rotterdam in 1873 as a passenger and cargo steamship service to New York, now a Carnival Corporation brand.
Holland Codes
Holland Codes, or RIASEC, is John L. Holland's 1959 typology classifying vocational interests and work environments into Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional types on a hexagon, operationalized by the Self-Directed Search and O*NET Interest Profiler.
Holland Cooper
Holland Cooper is a British country and equestrian luxury fashion brand founded by Jade Holland Cooper in 2008 and based in Cheltenham in the Cotswolds.
Holland House
Holland House, originally Cope Castle, is the Grade I listed Jacobean mansion ruin in Holland Park, Kensington, London, built 1603–05 for Sir Walter Cope, home of the Earls of Holland, and largely destroyed by firebombing in the 1940 Blitz.
Holland Lop
Holland Lop (Dwarf Lop in Europe): smallest lop-eared rabbit breed, developed by Adriann de Cock in Tilburg, Netherlands from French Lop and Netherland Dwarf crosses; Netherlands recognition 1964, ARBA 1979, maximum weight 4 lbs (1.8 kg).
Holland Park
Holland Park is a 22-hectare Grade II registered public park in Kensington, London, laid out around the ruins of Holland House, a Jacobean mansion begun in 1605, known for the Kyoto Garden, peacocks, and summer Opera Holland Park performances.
Holland Park School
Holland Park School, a non-selective comprehensive academy in west London (Airlie Gardens, W8), opened 1958 as one of the first purpose-built comprehensives, nicknamed the "socialist Eton", rebuilt in 2012 by Aedas for £80m, now part of United Learning Trust.
Holland Roden
Holland Roden (born 1986, Dallas) is an American actress, full name Holland Marie Roden, who played Lydia Martin on MTV's Teen Wolf (2011–2017) and Teen Wolf: The Movie, and later starred in Channel Zero, Lore, No Escape, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and Hallmark films.
Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor (born 1943, Philadelphia) is an American actress and playwright, Emmy winner as Judge Kittleson on The Practice, Evelyn Harper on Two and a Half Men, and Tony-nominated writer-star of Ann.
Holland Tunnel
The Holland Tunnel is a twin-tube vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Lower Manhattan, opened in 1927 as the first designed for automotive traffic.
Holland–Dozier–Holland
Holland–Dozier–Holland, the Motown songwriting and production trio of Brian Holland, Eddie Holland, and Lamont Dozier, wrote 25 Top 10 pop hits (12 No. 1s) 1963–67, then ran Hot Wax and Invictus.
Holland, Michigan
Holland, Michigan: west Michigan city on Lake Macatawa, founded 1847 by Dutch Calvinist settlers under Albertus Van Raalte; known for Tulip Time, De Zwaan windmill, heated downtown sidewalks, Hope College; population 35,372 (2025 est.).
Holland's schema theorem
Holland's schema theorem, or fundamental theorem of genetic algorithms, is John Holland's 1975 result giving a lower bound on a schema's expected instances after one generation of a genetic algorithm.
Hollanda Kraliyet Concertgebouw Oda Orkestrası
Hollanda Kraliyet Concertgebouw Oda Orkestrası, also known as Camerata RCO, is a chamber ensemble of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members giving about 50 concerts per season worldwide.
Hollandaise sauce
Hollandaise sauce is a warm French mother sauce, an oil-in-water emulsion of butter, egg yolk, and lemon juice or vinegar, served with eggs Benedict and asparagus; it breaks easily from overheating or cooling and is recovered by adding water.
Hollander beater
The Hollander beater is a papermaking machine that beats rags into pulp in a circulating tub, invented in the Netherlands in the mid-1600s to replace slow stamping mills.
Hollands Maandblad
Hollands Maandblad is a Dutch literary magazine of essays, prose, and poetry, with the subtitle 'magazine for literature and politics', founded by K.L. Poll in 1959 and monthly since 1963.
Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm
Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) is an offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea with 139 Siemens Gamesa turbines and 1,509 MWe capacity, inaugurated in 2023 by King Willem-Alexander.
Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula
Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, also called Kenyon Peninsula (UK), an ice-covered spur of the Antarctic Peninsula projecting over 40 miles northeast between Mobiloil and Casey Inlets; discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth's 1935 flight and named for pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, distinct from the Hollick-Kenyon Plateau in Ellsworth Land.