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Home Insurance Building

The Home Insurance Building was a 10-story Chicago office building completed in 1885, designed by William Le Baron Jenney and widely called the first skyscraper for its metal skeleton frame.

Home invasion

Home invasion: forcible or unlawful entry into an occupied residence with intent to rob or harm occupants; distinct from burglary, measured through NCVS household burglary data, and criminalized by statute in Florida, Nevada, and Illinois.

Home Location Register

The Home Location Register (HLR) is the central subscriber database of a GSM or UMTS mobile network, holding subscriber data and enabling call routing and roaming with the VLR.

Home Ministry

The Home Ministry (内務省) was Japan's central government office for internal affairs, established in 1873 and abolished by the Allied Occupation at the end of 1947.

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Home Movie: The Princess Bride is a 2020 Quibi fan-film miniseries, also called the homemade Princess Bride, directed by Jason Reitman: celebrities recreated the 1987 film on their phones in quarantine to raise $1 million for World Central Kitchen.

Home Movies (TV series)

Home Movies is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard and Brendon Small about child filmmaker Brendon Small. It premiered on UPN in 1999, was cancelled after five episodes, and became Adult Swim's first program in 2001, running four seasons to 2004.

Home Node B

A Home Node B (HNB) is the 3GPP term for a 3G femtocell, a home base station connecting mobile handsets to an operator's core network over broadband internet.

Home Nursing

Home nursing is skilled clinical nursing care delivered in a patient's home, distinct from aide-provided personal care; covered under Medicare with homebound criteria, measured by CMS star ratings, and supported by hospital-at-home evidence.

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter is Alexander Gardner's 1863 Gettysburg photograph of a dead Confederate soldier at Devil's Den, staged with a moved corpse and a prop rifle and exposed by Frassanito in 1975.

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, also called Springwood, is the NPS-preserved Hyde Park, NY estate where FDR was born in 1882; designated 1944, opened 1946, with 898 acres and the adjacent first presidential library.

Home Office

The Home Office (Home Office), established 27 March 1782, is the UK government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, counter-terrorism, and policing, supported by 30 agencies and public bodies including Border Force and HM Passport Office, led by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, distinct from the Foreign Office created the same day.

Home on the Range

"Home on the Range" is the Kansas state song and unofficial anthem of the American West, from Brewster Higley's poem "My Western Home" and Dan Kelley's melody, popularized by John Lomax's 1910 Cowboy Songs, FDR, and the 1934 Goodwin lawsuit.

Home on the Range (2004 film)

Home on the Range (2004) is Disney's hand-drawn animated Western musical comedy, also developed as Sweating Bullets, about three cows saving the Patch of Heaven farm by capturing Alameda Slim for a $750 reward; it was Disney's last 2D theatrical feature.

Home Owners' Loan Corporation

The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a New Deal agency created in 1933 that refinanced over one million distressed home mortgages during the Great Depression.

Home Parenteral Nutrition

Home total parenteral nutrition (HPN) delivers complete intravenous nutrition at home via a central catheter for chronic intestinal failure. Pioneered in the late 1960s by Scribner, Shils, and Dudrick; about 32,000 US users annually; survival depends on underlying disease.

Home Park

Home Park is the all-seater stadium of Plymouth Argyle FC in Milehouse, Plymouth, home since 1901, capacity 17,000, an Asset of Community Value, and a conference and events venue.

Home rule

Home rule is a constitutional or legislative grant of autonomy to local governments, contrasting with Dillon's Rule; about four-fifths of U.S. states grant some form, with limits from state preemption.

Home run

Home run (HR): baseball play where the batter hits a fair ball and scores without being put out; also called homer, dinger, tater. Includes over-the-fence and rare inside-the-park versions, affected by park, wind, and temperature.

Home Run Derby

MLB All-Star Home Run Derby, annual power-hitting contest since 1985; swing-based format (20/15/15 swings) replaced the 2015 timer in 2026; Jordan Walker is reigning champion; Griffey Jr. won three titles.

Home Safety Hotline

Home Safety Hotline is a 2024 analog horror game by Night Signal Entertainment (Nick Lives, David Johnsen) where the player is a 1990s call center operator diagnosing supernatural household pests from a database; released Jan 16, 2024, with Seasonal Worker DLC.

Home School (นักเรียนต้องขัง) (Thai TV series)

Home School (นักเรียนต้องขัง, Nak Rian Tong Khang) is a 2023 Thai mystery thriller series by GMMTV, directed by Kanittha Kwunyoo, the first Thai Prime Video original: 18 episodes about 13 students in a remote forest boarding school with prison-like rules.

Home Secretary

Home Secretary (Secretary of State for the Home Department): UK Cabinet minister heading the Home Office, covering policing, immigration, counter-terrorism, and passports; current holder Shabana Mahmood, reappointed 20 July 2026; one of the four great offices of state.

Home Shanti

Home Shanti is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language family comedy-drama web series written and directed by Akanksha Dua, streaming on JioHotstar. Six episodes follow the Joshi family of Dehradun building their dream home before Sarla Joshi's retirement; stars Supriya Pathak and Manoj Pahwa.

Home spirometry

Home spirometry is forced expiratory lung function testing performed by patients at home with portable spirometers, mainly to monitor asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, and lung transplant function.

Home Spot Surf Shop

Home Spot Surf Shop is a family-run surf shop at 21 Avenue Jean Laffitte, Hourtin-Plage, Gironde, France, run since 2007 by surfer-instructor Stéphan "Fanfan" Lusseyran, selling boards, wetsuits, and clothing and renting about fifty surfboards.

Home Sweet Hell

Home Sweet Hell (2015), also released as North of Hell, is an American black comedy thriller directed by Anthony Burns, starring Katherine Heigl as Mona Champagne, who murders her husband's mistress; critically panned, 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, $28,757 gross.

Home Sweet Home (G-Dragon song)

Home Sweet Home (홈 스위트 홈) is a 2024 digital single by G-Dragon featuring BIGBANG members Taeyang and Daesung, released November 22, 2024; the trio's first song since Still Life, later ruled unfit for KBS broadcast and included on Übermensch.

Home Sweet Home Alone

Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) is the sixth Home Alone film, a Disney+ Original directed by Dan Mazer, starring Archie Yates as Max Mercer with Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney as sympathetic intruders; released November 12, 2021 to negative reviews.

Home Sweet Home Rebirth

Home Sweet Home Rebirth (2025) is an action-horror film directed by Steffen Hacker and Alexander Kiesl, adapted from YGGDrazil's Thai survival horror game Home Sweet Home, starring William Moseley, Michele Morrone, and Urassaya Sperbund in a Bangkok-set demon-apocalypse story.

Home Taping Is Killing Music

Home Taping Is Killing Music: 1981 British Phonographic Industry anti-piracy slogan and cassette-skull logo campaign against home cassette copying, later a famous punk parody template.