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Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 642 (temperate coastal rivers, Japan), spans the Ryukyu Islands north through Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu, with about twenty endemic fish species; Lake Biwa (643) and Hokkaido (641) are separate ecoregions.
Honshu (本州)
Honshu (本州) is Japan's largest island, 231,132 km² or 61.15% of the national area, holding about 80% of the population and Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and other major cities.
Honsla Rakh (ਹੋਂਸਲਾ ਰੱਖ)
Honsla Rakh (ਹੋਂਸਲਾ ਰੱਖ), also Honsla Rakh - Stay Calm, is a 2021 Punjabi romantic comedy-drama directed by Amarjit Singh Saron, starring Diljit Dosanjh, Shehnaaz Gill, and Sonam Bajwa, set in Vancouver and a record Punjabi box-office opener.
Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner (Johannes Peter Wagner, 1874-1955), "The Flying Dutchman," was a Hall of Fame shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Louisville Colonels; eight NL batting titles, 3,420 hits, inaugural 1936 Hall class, and the famous T206 card.
Hony Capital
Hony Capital (弘毅投资) is a Beijing-based private equity firm founded in 2003 under Legend Holdings, Lenovo's parent, chaired by founder John Zhao and known for restructuring state-owned enterprises.
Hoobastank
Hoobastank, American rock band formed 1994 in Agoura Hills, California (originally Hoobustank), by Doug Robb and Dan Estrin; post-grunge/alternative rock act whose 2003 ballad "The Reason" hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned 2005 Grammy nominations.
Hood Canal
Hood Canal: fjord-like arm of western Puget Sound, Washington, 68 miles long, named by Vancouver in 1792 for Lord Samuel Hood; known for seasonal low dissolved oxygen, fish kills, and major shellfish harvest areas.
Hood Canal Bridge
The Hood Canal Bridge, officially the William A. Bugge Bridge, is a floating drawbridge carrying State Route 104 across the northern outlet of Hood Canal in Washington State.
Hooded crow
Hooded crow (Corvus cornix, formerly C. corone cornix), a grey-and-black Eurasian corvid of Northern, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Middle East; split from the carrion crow in 2002, interbreeds in a narrow European hybrid zone, clutch 3-6, IUCN Least Concern.
Hooded Horse
Hooded Horse is an American independent video game publisher based in Dallas, Texas, founded in 2019, specializing in strategy, simulation, and role-playing games for PC, including Manor Lords.
Hooded Menace
Hooded Menace is a Finnish death/doom metal band formed in 2007 in Joensuu by guitarist Lasse Pyykkö, named for the eyeless Knights Templar of the horror film Tombs of the Blind Dead.
Hooded pitohui
Hooded pitohui (Pitohui dichrous), a toxic New Guinean songbird, the first poisonous bird documented by science (1992). Carries homobatrachotoxin in skin and feathers, likely from Choresine beetles; genus Pitohui is polyphyletic.
Hooded seal
The hooded seal, or bladder-nosed seal, (Cystophora cristata), is a large earless seal inhabiting the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, characterized by its males' inflatable nasal hood.
Hoodie
Hoodie (also hoody, bunny hug in Saskatchewan): a hooded sweatshirt developed by Champion in the 1920s-1930s for athletes or cold-warehouse workers, later a streetwear, protest, and luxury fashion icon.
Hoodie Allen
Hoodie Allen (Steven Adam Markowitz, born 1988, Plainview, NY) is an American pop-rap artist; Penn Wharton graduate and ex-Google employee whose All American EP (2012) hit Billboard top ten and whose Happy Camper topped the US rap chart.
Hoodlum (film)
Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama directed by Bill Duke, loosely based on 1930s Harlem gangster Bumpy Johnson, played by Laurence Fishburne opposite Tim Roth's Dutch Schultz.
Hoodoo (geology)
A hoodoo, also called an earth pillar or fairy chimney, is a tall, thin rock spire left by erosion. The most famous ones stand in Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Hoodoo (spirituality)
Hoodoo, also called conjure or rootwork, is an African American spiritual and folk-magic tradition created by enslaved people from Central and West African practices blended with Christianity, known for herbal healing, charms, and the Ring Shout.
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1981, blending garage rock, power pop, and punk. Known for "What's My Scene" (Australian No. 3), 42 singles, a 1998–2003 breakup, and 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame induction.
Hoodoo Mountain
Hoodoo Mountain, British Columbia volcano (not the Oregon ski area): flat-topped peralkaline phonolite-trachyte volcano, 1,850 m, ice-covered, last erupted about 7050 BCE, volume 17.3 cubic kilometers.
Hoodwinked!
Hoodwinked! (2005) is an independent American CGI animated comedy retelling Little Red Riding Hood as a Rashomon-style detective story. Directed by Cory Edwards, animated in Manila for about $8 million, it grossed about $110 million worldwide.
Hoof
A hoof is the hard, keratin-covered tip of the foot in hoofed mammals, enclosing the last foot bone and bearing the animal's weight; horses have one hoofed toe, cattle and deer two.
Hoofddorp
Hoofddorp, formerly Kruisdorp, is the largest town in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, founded 1853 on the reclaimed Haarlemmermeer lake bed, renamed 1868, grown past 75,000 residents near Schiphol Airport.
Hooge
Hooge (豪格) was a Qing imperial prince and the first Prince Su of the First Rank, who fought against the Ming, pacified Sichuan, and died in prison in 1650.
Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland
The Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland is a Dutch regional water authority managing flood protection, water levels, and water quality around Leiden and Haarlem, chartered by Count Willem II in 1255.
Hooghly district (হুগলি জেলা)
Hooghly district (হুগলি জেলা), West Bengal, India: district in Burdwan Division, HQ Chinsurah, area 3,149 sq km, four subdivisions (Sadar, Chandannagar, Srirampore, Arambagh), 18 blocks, named after the hogla reed.
Hooghly River (হুগলি নদী)
Hooghly River (হুগলি নদী), also spelled Hugli, a ~260 km Ganges distributary in West Bengal flowing past Kolkata to the Bay of Bengal at the Sundarbans; tidal estuary, home of Kolkata Port, affected by PAH, trace-element, and microplastic pollution.
Hook (film)
Hook is a 1991 American fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan who returns to Neverland to rescue his children from Captain Hook.
Hook (music)
Hook (music): a short, memorable repeated phrase, melody, riff, or lyric designed to catch listeners; core pop-songwriting concept from Tin Pan Alley to streaming. Also the name of a licensed short-form remix social music app.
Hook (wrestler)
Hook (Tyler Cole Senerchia, born 1999) is an American AEW wrestler, son of Taz; three-time FTW Champion, member of The Opps, signature move Red Rum.