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Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday, also called Great Saturday or Easter Eve, is the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, kept as a day of silence, prayer, and fasting at Christ's tomb.
Holy See
The Holy See (Sancta Sedes) is the central government of the Catholic Church, the pope and Roman Curia, a sovereign juridical entity distinct from Vatican City State, with 176 diplomatic relations and UN observer status.
Holy See of Cilicia
The Holy See of Cilicia, also called the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, is an Armenian Apostolic catholicosate seated in Antelias, Lebanon, since 1941, led by Catholicos Aram I.
Holy Ship!
Holy Ship! is an electronic dance music festival brand created by Gary Richards of HARD Events, first held as a cruise in January 2012; since 2020 it has run as Holy Ship! Wrecked.
Holy Spider
Holy Spider, 2022 crime thriller by Ali Abbasi (علی عباسی) in Persian, Denmark-Germany-Sweden-France co-production based on the Saeed Hanaei (سعید حنایی) Mashhad murders; Cannes 2022 In Competition, Zar Amir Ebrahimi (زر امیر ابراهیمی) won Best Actress, Denmark's Oscar submission.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, also called the Holy Ghost, is in Christian theology the third person of the Trinity, who proceeds from the Father, a doctrine argued over since the fourth century.
Holy Spirit in Christianity
The Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is the third person of the Trinity in Christian belief, distinct from the Father and the Son yet fully divine.
Holy Spirit Movement
The Holy Spirit Movement was a prophetic rebel movement founded in northern Uganda in 1986 by Alice Auma, a spirit medium who fought Yoweri Museveni's government.
Holy Synod
A Holy Synod is a standing council of bishops that governs an Orthodox church under its primate, a form begun by Peter the Great's state-controlled Russian synod of 1721.
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc (Sloup Nejsvětější Trojice) is a 35-metre Baroque memorial column on Olomouc's Upper Square, built 1716–1754 by Václav Render and Ondřej Zahner, consecrated in 1754 before Maria Theresa, and inscribed by UNESCO in 2000 under criteria (i) and (iv).
Holy water
Holy water, also called lustral water, is water a religion regards as sacred through blessing or consecration, used for purification, protection, and blessing, as in Catholic, Orthodox, Hindu, and Shinto practice.
Holy Wednesday
Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday or Great and Holy Wednesday, is the Wednesday of Holy Week before Easter, recalling Judas's bargain to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
Holy Week
Holy Week, Latin hebdomada sancta, officially "great week", is the week of the Christian liturgical year commemorating the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Holy Week in Spain
Holy Week in Spain (Semana Santa) is the week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, celebrated nationwide through penitential processions organized by lay brotherhoods, or cofradías.
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is Marilyn Manson's fourth studio album, released November 2000 on Nothing/Interscope. A 19-track concept album completing the trilogy with Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals, it responds to Columbine, debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold in six countries.
Holy, Holy
Holy Holy: David Bowie song recorded November 1970 with Blue Mink members (Flowers, Parker, Morgan), released by Mercury 15 January 1971 as his last single for the label; re-recorded glam version with the Spiders from Mars issued 1974 on the 'Diamond Dogs' B-side.
Holybro
Holybro is a Chinese electronics company founded in 2014 and based in Shenzhen, best known for its Pixhawk flight controllers, GPS systems, and telemetry radios.
Holyhead Breakwater
The Holyhead Breakwater is a Victorian stone breakwater about 2.4 km long at Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, built between 1848 and 1873 as a harbor of refuge.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River, laid out as one of the first planned industrial communities in the United States.
Holyrood Palace
Holyrood Palace, formally the Palace of Holyroodhouse, is the official residence in Scotland of the reigning monarch, at the end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile beneath Arthur's Seat.
Holywood, County Down
Holywood, County Down: town on Belfast Lough's southern shore, Northern Ireland. 7th-century church site, 1605 Hamilton planned town, railway from 1848, Benjamin Ferrey Scottish Baronial station, 4,627 residents (2011).
Hom functor
The Hom functor is the category theory construction assigning to each pair of objects the set of morphisms between them, contravariant in the first argument.
Homa Bay
Homa Bay County, Kenya (Dholuo 'Homa Abaye'); devolved county since 2013 on Lake Victoria's southeastern shore, headquarters Homa Bay town, 8 sub-counties, 40 wards, economy based on agriculture and fisheries.
Homa Gas Field
The Homa Gas Field is an onshore natural gas field in Fars province, southern Iran, discovered in 2000, producing sweet gas and condensate since 2006 for the national network.
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's 1938 memoir of fighting with the anti-Stalinist POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, covering the Aragon front, the Barcelona May Days, his neck wound, and his flight after the POUM was outlawed.
Homage to the Square
Homage to the Square is a series of abstract paintings by Josef Albers, created between 1949 and 1976. The works explore color relativity using nested solid squares.
Homai Vyarawalla
Homai Vyarawalla, who published under the pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist; from 1938 to 1970 she photographed the independence era, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah.
Homalodisca vitripennis
Homalodisca vitripennis, the glassy-winged sharpshooter, is a large xylem-feeding leafhopper native to the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico and the primary vector of the bacterium causing Pierce's disease of grapevines.
Homarus
Homarus is a genus of clawed lobsters with two living species, the American lobster (Homarus americanus) and European lobster (H. gammarus), the world's most valuable lobster fisheries, plus six fossil taxa from the Cretaceous onward.
Homarus gammarus
Homarus gammarus, the European lobster (FAO code LBE), is a clawed nephropid lobster from northern Norway to Morocco and the Mediterranean; landings near 5,000 t yearly, far below the American lobster's 150,000 t.