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Homer at the Bat
"Homer at the Bat" is a 1992 episode of The Simpsons in which Mr. Burns hires nine Major League Baseball stars as ringers for a $1 million softball bet, with Homer delivering the winning run.
Homer Burton Adkins
Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin, the leading authority on catalytic hydrogenation and developer of the copper chromite catalyst.
Homer City Generating Station
The Homer City Generating Station was a 2 GW coal-fired power plant in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1969 to 2023 and was Pennsylvania's largest coal plant.
Homer family
Homer family (Homer1, Homer2, Homer3; Vesl) proteins: postsynaptic density adaptor proteins binding mGluR1/5, IP3 receptors, and Shank via EVH1 domains; long forms multimerize, short Homer1a is an activity-induced dominant negative.
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam, also known as Homer Hadley Hickam Jr., is an American author and retired NASA engineer known for Rocket Boys, the 1998 memoir filmed as October Sky.
Homer Plessy
Homer Adolph Plessy (1863–1925), New Orleans Creole shoemaker and Comité des Citoyens activist, whose 1892 arrest on an East Louisiana Railroad whites-only car produced Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); pardoned posthumously in 2022.
Homer Price
Homer Price is Robert McCloskey's 1943 Viking Press children's book of six humorous stories about boy inventor Homer Price of Centerburg, a Midwestern town; famous for the runaway doughnut-machine episode and the pet-skunk bandit capture, with the 1951 sequel Centerburg Tales.
Homer Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson is the bumbling safety-inspector father of Matt Groening's animated sitcom The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, famed for "D'oh!", and the namesake of the inept sitcom-dad trope.
Homer Smith (renal physiologist)
Homer Smith (1895–1962) was an American renal physiologist at New York University whose inulin and PAH clearance methods made kidney function measurable in patients, winning the 1947 Lasker Award.
Homer Van Meter
Homer Van Meter (1905/1906–1934), Fort Wayne-born bank robber and Dillinger gang lieutenant, also linked to Baby Face Nelson; killed by St. Paul police on August 23, 1934.
Homer, Alaska
Homer, once called Miller Landing, is a city of about 5,500 people in south-central Alaska on Kachemak Bay, known as the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World.
Homer? A Cracker Bro?
Homer? A Cracker Bro? (¿Homer, Un Cracker Bro?) is The Simpsons season 37 finale, episode 805, aired February 15, 2026 on FOX: Homer and Kirk Van Houten's crumbless-cracker business and Kirk's bipolar storyline.
Homer's Enemy
Homer's Enemy, Simpsons season 8 episode 23 (production code 4F19), aired May 4, 1997 on Fox. Written by John Swartzwelder, directed by Jim Reardon; introduces Frank Grimes, a realistic foil destroyed by Homer Simpson's cartoon luck.
Homeric epic
Homeric epic is the ancient Greek epic tradition embodied in the Iliad and the Odyssey, orally composed in dactylic hexameter and setting the standard for Greco-Roman epic.
Homeric Hymn to Apollo
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo (Ὕμνος εἰς Ἀπόλλωνα) is an ancient Greek hexameter poem, among the oldest of the Homeric Hymns, celebrating Apollo's birth on Delos and his oracle at Delphi.
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter is an ancient Greek epic poem, probably composed between 650 and 550 BCE, telling how Demeter won Persephone's return from Hades.
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is an ancient Greek poem narrating the god's birth and first day, when he invents the lyre and steals Apollo's cattle.
Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of 33 ancient Greek poems in hexameter honoring individual deities, attributed in antiquity to Homer and mostly composed in the archaic period.
Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis, born in 1940 in Contepec, Michoacán, is a Mexican poet, novelist, diplomat, and environmental activist who founded the Group of 100 and served as president of PEN International.
Homero Manzi
Homero Manzi, pen name of Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera (1907–1951), was an Argentine tango lyricist, poet, and screenwriter whose songs include "Sur", "Malena", and "Barrio de tango".
Homes Under the Hammer
Homes Under the Hammer is a BBC One daytime property show, running since 2003 and made by Lion Television in Glasgow, following auction-bought homes through renovation, resale, or rental.
Homes.com
Homes.com is an American residential real estate listing portal owned by CoStar Group, operating on a "Your Listing, Your Lead" model that routes buyer inquiries to the listing agent.
Homeschooling
Homeschooling, also called elective home education, is parent-directed education of children at home instead of full-time school. Modern movement began in the 1970s US with John Holt and Raymond Moore; about 3.3% of US students by 2016.
Homeschooling international status and statistics
Homeschooling (elective home education) worldwide: legal in about half of countries including the US, UK, Canada, Australia; banned in Germany, Sweden, China, Cuba; US has about 3.4% of children homeschooled; no international treaty addresses it.
Homesickness
Homesickness is the distress and loss of functioning caused by separation from home and attachment figures such as parents, affecting children, students, soldiers, and refugees.
Homestake experiment
The Homestake experiment, also known as the Davis Experiment, was the first solar neutrino detector, operated by Raymond Davis Jr. in a South Dakota gold mine from the mid-1960s to 1994.
Homestar Runner
Homestar Runner is a Flash-animated American web cartoon by Mike and Matt Chapman (The Brothers Chaps), launched January 2000 at homestarrunner.com, famous for Strong Bad Email, Trogdor, merchandise-only funding, a 2010-2014 hiatus, and its post-Flash Ruffle revival.
Homestead (film)
Homestead (2024) is an Angel Studios post-apocalyptic survival drama directed by Ben Smallbone, based on the Black Autumn books by Jason Ross and Jeff Kirkham, starring Neal McDonough and Bailey Chase, released December 20, 2024, and continuing as a streaming series.
Homestead Acts
Homestead Acts: U.S. land laws, starting with the 1862 Homestead Act signed by Lincoln, granting 160 acres of public land to settlers after five years' residence; 270 million acres distributed before repeal in 1976 (Alaska 1986).
Homestead exemption
Homestead exemption: US legal protection shielding a primary residence (house, outbuildings, adjoining land) from creditors and bankruptcy, and separately reducing property taxes. Federal bankruptcy amount $31,575; state amounts vary from none to unlimited (Texas, Florida).