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Hounslow
Hounslow is a town in west London, England, about 12.5 miles west of St Paul's Cathedral and the largest town center in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Houpo Mahuang Decoction
厚朴麻黄汤 (Houpo Mahuang Decoction), a nine-herb classical formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe for cough with floating pulse from cold fluid retention with heat; first-batch ancient classical formula, used mainly for COPD and chronic bronchitis.
Houpo Qiwu Tang
厚朴七物汤 (Houpo Qiwu Tang), Magnolia Bark Seven-Ingredient Decoction, a Zhang Zhongjing formula from the Jin Gui Yao Lue combining Houpo Sanwu Tang with Guizhi Tang minus peony for abdominal fullness with fever.
Houpo Sanwu Tang
厚朴三物汤 (Houpo Sanwu Tang), a classic formula from the Jingui Yaolüe of magnolia bark, rhubarb, and bitter orange, heavy on magnolia bark, for abdominal fullness from qi stagnation; distinguished from Xiao Chengqi Tang and Houpo Dahuang Tang only by proportions.
Hour
The hour is a unit of time equal to 60 minutes, or 3600 seconds, conventionally one twenty-fourth of a day, and a non-SI unit accepted for use with the SI.
Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is a free one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org each December since 2013, reaching over 100 million students in 180 countries.
Hour of the Gun
Hour of the Gun (1967) is John Sturges's Western sequel to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton, dramatizing the Earp vendetta after the 1881 Tombstone shootout.
Hour of the Wolf
Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's 1968 Swedish black-and-white Gothic horror-drama, premiered 19 February 1968 in Stockholm, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, shot at Hovs Hallar, from the shelved 1964 script The Cannibals.
Hour record
Hour record: longest distance cycled in one hour from a standing start in a velodrome. Men's record 56.792 km (Filippo Ganna, 2022); women's 50.455 km (Vittoria Bussi, 2025); UCI standard pursuit-bike rules since 2014.
Hourglass
An hourglass, also called a sand timer or sand clock, is a timekeeping device in which sand falls through a narrow neck between two glass bulbs to mark a fixed interval.
Hourglass (James Taylor album)
Hourglass (1997) is James Taylor's fourteenth studio album, his first in six years, produced by Frank Filipetti on Columbia. It hit #9 on the Billboard 200 and won the 1998 Grammy for Best Pop Album.
Hourglass fermions
Hourglass fermions are quasiparticle excitations whose surface bands form an hourglass shape, protected by nonsymmorphic crystal symmetries and first proposed in 2016 in KHgSb family materials.
Hourglass figure
Hourglass figure: a body shape with nearly equal bust and hips and a markedly narrower waist; a named category in the FFIT nine-type system and the corseted ideal of nineteenth-century fashion, later embedded in 1958 US clothing sizing.
Houri
A houri (Arabic ḥūr al-ʿayn) is a companion of Paradise in Islamic eschatology, described in the Quran as a mate or attendant granted to the blessed in the afterlife.
Hourman
Hourman is a DC Comics superhero created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily, debuting in Adventure Comics #48 (March 1940). Chemist Rex Tyler uses Miraclo for one-hour powers; successors are Rick Tyler and the android Matthew Tyler, all tied to the Justice Society of America.
Hours (2013 film)
Hours (2013) is an American Katrina-set drama-thriller, the directorial debut of Eric Heisserer, starring Paul Walker as a father keeping his premature newborn alive on a hand-cranked ventilator; released December 13, 2013, two weeks after Walker's death.
Hours (David Bowie album)
Hours... (1999) is David Bowie's studio album for Virgin, produced with Reeves Gabrels, partly from his Omikron game soundtrack, and the first major-label album sold as a full internet download.
Hours of Catherine of Cleves
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a richly illuminated Book of Hours made in Utrecht around 1440 for Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders, now at the Morgan Library in New York.
Hours of Étienne Chevalier
The Hours of Étienne Chevalier is a book of hours illuminated by Jean Fouquet for Étienne Chevalier, treasurer of France under Charles VII, between 1452 and 1460.
Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux
The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux is a small illuminated Book of Hours made in Paris by Jean Pucelle around 1324 to 1328 for Jeanne d'Évreux, queen of France.
Hours of service
Hours of service (HOS) are US federal regulations limiting how long commercial motor vehicle drivers may drive and stay on duty, requiring minimum rest periods between shifts.
House
A house, also called a dwelling house, is a building designed as a dwelling for people, typically providing space for sleeping, eating, cooking, and daily domestic life.
House (1986 film)
House is a 1986 American horror comedy directed by Steve Miner, starring William Katt as a novelist whose inherited house is haunted by monsters from another dimension.
House (astrology)
House systems (astrology) are methods for dividing a birth chart into twelve houses: Whole Sign, Equal, Placidus, Koch, Regiomontanus, Campanus, Porphyry. All share the same angles; only cusps differ, and no system is proven correct.
House (Charli XCX song)
"House" is a 10 November 2025 single by Charli xcx featuring Velvet Underground founder John Cale, the first release from her Wuthering Heights soundtrack, written with Finn Keane and Nathan Klein, inspired by Cale's "elegant and brutal" phrase.
House (TV series)
House (House, M.D.), American Fox medical drama 2004–2012 created by David Shore, starring Hugh Laurie as Vicodin-addicted diagnostician Gregory House; 177 episodes, 8 seasons, Sherlock Holmes-inspired case-of-the-week format.
House (ハウス) (1977 film)
House (ハウス, Hausu) is a 1977 Japanese comedy horror film, Nobuhiko Obayashi's Toho feature debut, about seven schoolgirls eaten by a haunted mansion that is their dead aunt's spirit, made from his daughter Chigumi's ideas after Toho requested 'something like Jaws'.
House altar of Akhenaten
The House altar of Akhenaten, or Stela of Akhenaten and his family, is a limestone relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughters under the Aten, made around 1351–1334 BC.
House arrest
House arrest, also called home confinement or home incarceration, is confinement of an offender to their residence instead of jail or prison, usually enforced with electronic monitoring such as ankle tags. It emerged from 1960s prototypes and was first used judicially in Albuquerque in 1983.
House at the End of the Street
House at the End of the Street (2012) is a psychological horror thriller directed by Mark Tonderai, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, and Max Thieriot; shot in 2010, delayed for The Hunger Games, grossing $44 million worldwide.