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Horticultural Hall, Boston

Horticultural Hall, Boston, was a granite exhibition hall at 100–102 Tremont Street built for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1864 and demolished in 1901, replaced by a Back Bay hall.

Horticultural Hall, Melbourne

Horticultural Hall, known as Horti Hall, is a two-storey brick exhibition and assembly hall at 31–33 Victoria Street, Melbourne, built in 1873 and now home to Victorian Opera.

Horticultural Hall, formally the Horticulture Building, is a 1907 Beaux-Arts exhibition pavilion on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto, designed by George W. Gouinlock to replace the burned Crystal Palace.

Horticultural Therapy

Horticultural therapy is the use of plants and gardening activities, guided by a trained therapist, to promote healing and rehabilitation; it became a distinct profession in the mid-twentieth century.

Horticulture

Horticulture, or horticultural science, is the branch of agriculture devoted to intensively grown plants for food, medicine, and visual enjoyment, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals.

Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta

Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta (Hortobágyi Nemzeti Park) is a World Heritage cultural landscape of plains and wetlands on the Great Hungarian Plain in eastern Hungary, inscribed by UNESCO in 1999.

Oct 20, 2026

Hortolândia

Hortolândia is a municipality in the Campinas metropolitan region, São Paulo, Brazil; formerly Jacuba, a district of Campinas then Sumaré, emancipated by the 1991 plebiscite (97.4% in favor) with about 236,600 residents.

Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who! is a 1954 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) picture book, also known by the refrain 'a person's a person, no matter how small', in which Horton the elephant protects the Whos of Whoville on a dust speck; adapted as a 1970 Chuck Jones TV special and a 2008 Blue Sky film.

Horton Hears a Who! (film)

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is a 2008 Blue Sky Studios CG animated film for 20th Century Fox, directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, with Jim Carrey as Horton and Steve Carell as the Mayor, adapted from Seuss's 1954 book.

Oct 26, 2026

Hortonworks

Hortonworks (2011-2019) was a Yahoo spinoff selling a 100% open source Apache Hadoop distribution, the Hortonworks Data Platform; it created YARN and Ambari, IPOed on Nasdaq as HDP in 2014, and merged into Cloudera in January 2019.

Hörtsänä Arboretum

Hörtsänä Arboretum, originally Hörtsänä Flower Park, is a private arboretum in Orivesi, Finland, founded in 1909 by Hugo Hörtsänä, who planted about 500 tree and shrub species.

Hortus Botanicus (The Netherlands)

Hortus Botanicus is the shared Latin name of the Netherlands' oldest botanical gardens: Leiden (1590), Amsterdam (1638), Utrecht (1639), Haren (1642), and Delft, now coordinated through the National Plant Collection as biodiversity guardians.

Horus

Horus (Egyptian Ḥrw, 'the far-away one') is the falcon god of the sky, war, and kingship in ancient Egyptian religion, attested from about 3100 BCE. Distinguished by the royal Horus name in the serekh, his myth as son of Osiris and Isis who defeated Seth, and forms including Haroeris, Harpocrates, and Re-Horakhty.

Horus Bird

Horus Bird is a disputed royal serekh, a poorly detailed bird sign found on stone-vessel fragments at Saqqara and Abydos, linked to the close of the First Dynasty.

Oct 20, 2026

Horus Patera

Horus Patera is a large volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io, near 9.9°S 337.4°W, 144–165 km across, IAU-named in 1979 for the Egyptian falcon-headed solar god, in the Ra Patera quadrangle.

Horus Sa (possible Egyptian king)

Horus Sa is a possible early Egyptian king of the Thinite period, known only from about thirty-nine ink-inscribed stone vessel fragments found beneath Djoser's pyramid at Saqqara.

Oct 3, 2026

Horus, Prince of the Sun

Horus, Prince of the Sun (太陽の王子ホルスの大冒険, Little Norse Prince Valiant) is Toei Animation's 1968, 82-minute feature, Isao Takahata's directorial debut with Miyazaki on scene design, based on Fukazawa Kazuo's Ainu-tradition puppet play, later reevaluated as Toei's masterpiece.

Horvat Qitmit

Horvat Qitmit, also known as Khirbet Qitmit, is an excavated Edomite shrine complex in the northeastern Negev, Israel, dating to the late 7th or early 6th century BC.

Horvat Uza

Horvat Uza, also known as Horvat Uzza or Khirbet Ghazza, is a seventh-century BC Judahite fortress in the eastern Negev, Israel, known for its thirty-five inscriptions.

Horvitz–Thompson estimator

The Horvitz–Thompson estimator is a design-based estimator of a population total, introduced in 1952, that weights each sampled unit by the reciprocal of its inclusion probability.

Horwennefer

Horwennefer, also called Hurgonaphor or Haronnophris, was a native Egyptian rebel pharaoh crowned at Thebes in 205 BC who ruled Upper Egypt against the Ptolemaic kingdom until his capture and execution in 186 BC.

Oct 15, 2026

Hōryū-ji

Hōryū-ji (法隆寺, Temple of the Flourishing Dharma) is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, whose wooden buildings include some of the world's oldest surviving structures.

Hōryū-ji (法隆寺)

Hōryū-ji (法隆寺), also known as Ikaruga-dera, is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, traditionally founded in 607 and home to the world's oldest surviving wooden structures.

Sep 24, 2026

Hōryūji

Hōryūji, also called Ikarugadera, is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, founded in 607 by Empress Suiko and Prince Shōtoku, honoring Emperor Yōmei's vow.

Hosam Arab

Hosam Arab is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later fintech he launched in Dubai in 2019 that became the Middle East's most valuable fintech, after co-founding Namshi.

Hosank (Հոսանք)

Hosank (Հոսանք, "current") is an ultranationalist, Tseghakron political movement founded in Armenia in 2021 by California-born repatriate Hayk Nazaryan; it promotes a 36-point program and is characterized by several outlets as neo-Nazi.