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Horatio Balch Hackett
Horatio Balch Hackett (1808–1875) was an American Baptist biblical scholar whose Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles was long judged the best English commentary on Acts.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley (1860–1933) was an English financier, newspaper proprietor, and MP who founded the Financial Times and John Bull, promoted fraudulent schemes, and was jailed for fraud in 1922.
Horatio Caine
Horatio Caine, fictional lieutenant and day shift supervisor of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab in CSI: Miami (2002–2012), played by David Caruso in all 232 episodes; known for sunglasses, one-liners, brother Raymond, wife Marisol, and son Kyle.
Horatio Curtis Wood Jr.
Horatio Curtis Wood Jr. (1841–1920) was an American physician and pharmacologist in Philadelphia, a longtime University of Pennsylvania professor and president of the US Pharmacopeial Convention.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates (1727–1806), British-born Continental Army major general, accepted Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, led the Board of War during the Conway Cabal, and was routed at Camden in 1780.
Horatio Greenough
Horatio Greenough (1805–1852) was an American neoclassical sculptor based mostly in Florence, Italy, known for his colossal seated marble George Washington and for articulating the principle that form follows function.
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is C. S. Forester's fictional Royal Navy officer of the Napoleonic Wars, introduced in 1937 in The Happy Return and followed across eleven novels from midshipman to admiral.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British Royal Navy vice-admiral and duke of Bronte; victor of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, killed aboard HMS Victory on 21 October 1805.
Horatio Sanz
Horatio Sanz (Horacio Sanz, born 1969), Chilean-born, Chicago-raised comedian; Upright Citizens Brigade founding member and first Latino Saturday Night Live cast member, 1998-2006, later The Mandalorian's Mythrol.
Horatio Spafford
Horatio Gates Spafford was a Chicago lawyer who wrote the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" after losing his four daughters in the 1873 shipwreck of the Ville du Havre.
Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland, serving Kelso and Edinburgh congregations, who wrote over 600 hymns and widely sold devotional tracts.
Horatius Cocles
Horatius Cocles, legendary early Roman hero who defended the Tiber bridge against Lars Porsenna's Etruscans, then swam the river in armor; told by Livy 2.10, Dionysius 5.22-25, and Polybius 6.55.
Hořava–Lifshitz gravity
Hořava–Lifshitz gravity, also known as HL gravity, is a candidate quantum theory of gravity proposed by Petr Hořava in 2009, in which spacetime scales anisotropically at short distances.
Horbaef
Horbaef was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khufu and husband of the princess Meresankh II, buried at Giza in mastaba G 7420.
Horchata
Horchata (Spanish, from Latin hordeata) is a family of sweet chilled plant-based drinks from Spain and Latin America: Valencia's tiger nut horchata de chufa, Mexican rice horchata, Salvadoran morro seed versions, and Ecuador's herbal infusion.
Horde tribute (vykhod)
The Horde tribute (vykhod) (Ордынский выход) was the regular tribute paid by Russian lands to the Golden Horde from the mid-13th to the 15th century, assessed on Mongol censuses.
Hordeolum internum
Hordeolum internum (internal hordeolum, internal stye): acute bacterial infection, usually Staphylococcus aureus, of a meibomian gland inside the eyelid; deeper and more diffuse than an external stye, treated with warm compresses, resolving in 1–2 weeks.
Hordern Pavilion
Hordern Pavilion, "The Hordern", heritage 1924 exhibition hall at Moore Park, Sydney, built for the Royal Easter Show and remodelled in 1972 into a roughly 5,500-capacity rock concert venue.
Hordeum
Hordeum (barleys), a genus of Triticeae grasses in Poaceae, includes cultivated barley Hordeum vulgare, the fourth most grown cereal, domesticated about 10,000 years ago from H. spontaneum; recognized by triplet spikelets and x=7 chromosomes.
Hordeum murinum
Hordeum murinum, wall barley or false barley, a weedy annual grass with three subspecies (glaucum, leporinum, murinum) native from Europe to the Himalaya, now a herbicide-resistant crop and pasture weed harming sheep worldwide.
Hordiivka necropolis
Hordiivka necropolis (Гордіївський могильник, Hordeevka): Late Bronze Age kurgan cemetery near Hordiivka, Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine, excavated 1986–1988; 40 tumuli, four phases ca. 1500–1000 BC, elite burials with amber, gold, and Transylvanian metal.
Hordjedef
Hordjedef, also written Djedefhor, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a son of King Khufu, buried at Giza and later famed as a sage credited with a wisdom text.
Hōreki famine
The Hōreki famine was a famine that struck Japan in 1755 and 1756, centered on the Tōhoku region, caused by unseasonable cold and prolonged summer rain.
Hōreki River Improvement Incident
The Hōreki River Improvement Incident was flood-control work on the Kiso, Nagara, and Ibi rivers, ordered by the Edo shogunate in 1753, that cost the Satsuma domain 87 lives.
Horemheb
Horemheb (Djeserkheperure), last pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty (c. 1323–1295 BC), rose from army commander under Tutankhamun to king after Ay; he issued the Great Edict of legal reform, erased the Amarna period, and appointed Ramesses I his successor.
Horemkhauef
Horemkhauef, also known as Horemkhaef, was a priest and field overseer at Hierakonpolis, known from his painted rock-cut tomb and biographical limestone stela found there in 1934–35.
Horezu ceramics
Horezu ceramics are traditional glazed pottery produced by hand in Horezu and the village of Olari, Vâlcea County, Romania, known for its rooster motif and inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2012.
Horhor inscription
The Horhor inscription, also called the Horhor Annals or Annals of Argishti I, is a long Urartian cuneiform rock inscription at Van recording King Argishti I's yearly campaigns.
Hori (High Priest of Osiris)
Hori was High Priest of Osiris at Abydos during the reign of Ramesses II in Dynasty 19, succeeding his father Wenennefer, whose family held the office for generations.
Hori (High Priest of Ptah)
Hori was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis, son of the royal prince Khaemwaset and grandson of Ramesses II, taking office around 1215 BCE and serving into Merneptah's reign.