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Hamadan Province
Hamadan Province (استان همدان), western Iran, capital Hamadan city; mountainous Zagros province of about 19,400–19,500 km² with roughly 1.7 million people, Alvand peak 3,580 m, major agriculture, granite mining, and the Hegmataneh (Ecbatana) archaeological site.
Hamadryas baboon
Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas), a savannah baboon of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and southwest Arabia; the only baboon in Arabia, with one-male-unit multilevel society and Late Pleistocene colonization via the southern route.
Hamae
Hamae (Hamae/Hamae), ancient sanctuary and village of Campania between Capua and Cumae, three Roman miles from Cumae; site of Livy's 215 BC ambush of the Campanian league and never precisely located.
Hamah Sulci
Hamah Sulci: IAU-approved (2006) sulcus, a ~164 km system of subparallel ridges and troughs on Saturn's moon Enceladus at 27.26°N, 306.00°W, named from a One Thousand and One Nights city.
Hamaj Regency
The Hamaj Regency was the period from 1762 to 1821 when regents of the Hamaj people, founded by Muhammad Abu Likaylik, ruled the Funj sultans of Sennar as puppets.
Hamaker constant
The Hamaker constant, A, is a material coefficient setting the strength of the van der Waals interaction between macroscopic bodies, introduced by H. C. Hamaker in 1937.
Hamamatsu
Hamamatsu (浜松市) is a designated city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on the Pacific coast between Tokyo and Osaka. A 2005 merger of 12 municipalities made it Japan's second-largest city by area; it hosts Suzuki, Yamaha, and Kawai.
Hamamatsu Photonics
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (浜松ホトニクス) is a Japanese manufacturer of photomultiplier tubes, opto-semiconductors, imaging equipment, and lasers, founded in 1953 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, with a near-monopoly in photomultiplier tubes used in Nobel Prize neutrino experiments.
Hamamatsu Zoological Gardens
Hamamatsu Zoological Gardens (浜松市動物園, HamaZOO) is Hamamatsu's municipal zoo in Shizuoka, Japan. Opened 1950 in Hamamatsu Castle Park, first in Shizuoka Prefecture; moved 1983 to Kanzanji by Lake Hamana, known for one of Japan's largest primate collections.
Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae, the witch-hazel family, is a Saxifragales family of trees and shrubs with 27 accepted genera and roughly 100-120 species, woody capsules with ballistic seed dispersal, and an East Asian diversity center; Hamamelis yields witch hazel astringent.
Hamamelis
Hamamelis is a genus of five deciduous shrub species, the witch-hazels, native to eastern North America and East Asia. H. virginiana is the source of medicinal witch hazel.
Hamamelis virginiana
Hamamelis virginiana, known as witch hazel or American witch-hazel, is a North American shrub that flowers in autumn and is the source of witch hazel water.
Haman
Haman, also known as Haman the Agagite, is the antagonist of the Book of Esther, chief minister of King Ahasuerus of Persia who plots the Jews' annihilation.
Hamana-gun
Hamana-gun (浜名郡) was a district of Tōtōmi Province in western Shizuoka Prefecture, first recorded in a 740 tax ledger, expanded in 1896, and absorbed by Hamamatsu; its name survives in Hamana Ward, created 2024.
Hamanako Pal Pal
Hamanako Pal Pal (浜名湖パルパル) is a family-oriented resort amusement park on Lake Hamana in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, opened as Pal Pal in 1971 and run by Entetsu Kanko Kaihatsu, known for Mega Coaster and the lake-crossing Kanzanji Ropeway.
Hamantash
Hamantash (Yiddish homentash, Hebrew oznei Haman) is the triangular filled cookie eaten on Purim, named for Haman; likely from German Mohntaschen, poppy pocket, first recorded as food in a 1550 Mantua play.
Hamao Umezawa
Hamao Umezawa (梅澤濱夫, 1914–1986) was a Japanese microbiologist who discovered the antibiotic kanamycin in 1957, effective against streptomycin-resistant tuberculosis, and founded the Institute of Microbial Chemistry in Tokyo.
Hamaoka nuclear power plant
Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station (浜岡原子力発電所) is a nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, owned by Chubu Electric Power, with all reactors idle since the 2011 Fukushima shutdown.
Hamar
Hamar is a city and municipality in Innlandet county, Norway, on Lake Mjøsa; medieval bishopric from 1153, refounded 1849, diocese restored 1864, cathedral 1866, Domkirkeodden ruins, Vikingskipet, about 33,800 residents.
Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai (हमारा दिल आपके पास है)
Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai (हमारा दिल आपके पास है), a 2000 Hindi drama remake of the Telugu hit Pelli Cheskundam, directed by Satish Kaushik, starring Anil Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai, a box office hit.
Hamara Shahar Us Baras
Hamara Shahar Us Baras (हमारा शहर उस बरस) is a 1998 Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree, following educated urban Indians as communal violence engulfs an unnamed north Indian city.
Hamari Adhuri Kahani (हमारी अधूरी कहानी)
Hamari Adhuri Kahani (हमारी अधूरी कहानी, Our Incomplete Story) is a 2015 Hindi romantic drama directed by Mohit Suri, written by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, and Rajkummar Rao; a box-office flop (₹34.43 cr India net) based on Bhatt's parents and stepmother, later adapted into a novel and stage play.
Hamartia (μαρτία)
Hamartia (ἁμαρτία), from Aristotle's Poetics, is the error through which a tragic protagonist falls from good to bad fortune; often mistranslated "tragic flaw", its meaning ranges from ignorance of fact to moral error.
Hamartoma
A hamartoma is a non-cancerous lesion made of an unusual mixture of cells and tissues normally found at the site where it forms, often discovered incidentally on imaging.
Hamas (حماس)
Hamas (حماس), the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Palestinian Islamist militant group founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin from the Muslim Brotherhood. It ruled Gaza from 2007, attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, and is designated a terrorist organization by the US, EU, and others.
Hamas baby beheading hoax
The "40 beheaded babies" claim spread after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, originating in a conflated i24NEWS report and amplified by politicians and media; fact-checkers found it unverified and no evidence of mass baby beheadings was released.
Hamas most wanted playing cards
Hamas most wanted playing cards, also called Gaza's most wanted cards, are unofficial volunteer-made decks of playing cards showing wanted Hamas figures, distributed to IDF soldiers early in the Gaza war, modeled on the 2003 US Iraqi Most Wanted deck.
Hamas temporary committee
Hamas temporary committee: five-person collective leadership council based in Doha, formed after Yahya Sinwar's death in October 2024 (Meshaal, al-Hayya, Jabarin, Darwish, believed Abu Marzouk); replaced when Khalil al-Hayya won the Political Bureau chairmanship in July 2026.
Hamasah
Hamasah (الحماسة, "valor") is a classical Arabic anthology genre of verses arranged by theme, beginning with war and courage, modeled on Abu Tammam's Diwan al-Hamasah of 846.
Hamasah of Abu Tammam
The Hamasah of Abu Tammam (حماسة أبي تمام) is a ninth-century Arabic anthology of heroic and martial verse, compiled by the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam around 835.