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Huamachuco

Huamachuco is a town and highland region in the northern sierra of Peru's La Libertad department, center of a pre-Inca culture whose stone sanctuary, Marcahuamachuco, is the northern highlands' largest archaeological site.

Huamanga School

The Huamanga School (escuela huamanguina) is a Peruvian artistic tradition of Huamanga, today Ayacucho, covering colonial religious painting and sculpture and the art school founded there in 1952.

Huamango

Huamango is an Otomi archaeological site on the Mesa de San Miguel near Acambay, State of Mexico, inhabited about 900-1300 AD, with the Palace, Temple of the Warrior, defensive walls, and free public access.

Huamao Wang

Huamao Wang (王华茂) is a Chinese cell-therapy scientist and executive who co-founded Shanghai CAR-T developer CARsgen Therapeutics in 2014 and serves as its chief operating officer.

Huambo (city)

Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa (1928–1975), is the capital of Huambo Province on Angola's central plateau. Founded in 1912 by Norton de Matos around the Benguela Railway, it was Angola's second city at independence, later a UNITA stronghold, with 836,293 municipality residents in 2024.

Huambo (landform)

Huambo is a monogenetic volcanic field in the Arequipa Region of southern Peru, east of Sabancaya, whose Cerro Keyocc cone last erupted about 2,650 years ago.

Huambo Province

Huambo Province, central Angola, capital Huambo city (former Nova Lisboa). Third most populous province: 2,691,902 people (2024 census), 33,290 km², Ovimbundu/Umbundu, agricultural highland economy on the Benguela Railway.

Huamelulpan

Huamelulpan (Yucunindaba) is a Mixtec archaeological zone in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, one of Mesoamerica's first urban centers, occupied from about 400 BC, with monumental platforms, a ball court, and Zapotec-style early writing.

Huamual Kingdom

Huamual Kingdom, also spelled Hoamoal, was an Islamic kingdom on western Seram in the Maluku Islands, destroyed by the Dutch around 1656 over the clove trade.

Huamuxtitlan

Huamuxtitlan (Huamuxtitlán), Guerrero, Mexico: Postclassic archaeological zone from 1200 CE of Tlapanec, Mixtec and Nahua peoples; subjugated by Nezahualcoyotl, a Triple Alliance bastion; its town-center pyramid was excavated by Guadalupe Martínez Donjuán in 1979–1980.

Huan clan of Qiao

The Huan clan of Qiao (譙國桓氏) was an Eastern Jin military family from Qiao commandery, Anhui, producing Huan Yi, Huan Wen, Huan Chong, and Huan Xuan.

Huan Jie

Huan Jie (桓阶), courtesy name Boxu, was a late Han and Cao Wei official from Changsha who rose to Director of the Imperial Secretariat under Emperor Wen.

Huan Kuan

Huan Kuan (桓宽) was a Western Han scholar from Runan who compiled the Yantielun, the record of the 81 BCE court debate on the salt and iron monopolies.

Huan Liu (computer scientist)

Huan Liu is a Regents Professor of computer science at Arizona State University working in data mining, machine learning, and social media mining, and winner of the ACM SIGKDD 2022 Innovation Award.

Huan Tan

Huan Tan (桓谭), courtesy name Junshan, was a Han dynasty scholar, musician, and philosopher who served Emperor Guangwu, wrote the Xinlun, and died after openly rejecting the chenwei apocrypha.

Huan Wen

Huan Wen (桓温), courtesy name Yuanzi, was an Eastern Jin general and statesman who conquered Cheng Han in Sichuan and led three northern expeditions before deposing Emperor Sima Yi.

Huan Wen's conquest of Cheng Han

Huan Wen's conquest of Cheng Han (桓温灭成汉) was the 346–347 Eastern Jin campaign in which Huan Wen took Chengdu and ended the Cheng Han state.

Huan Wen's deposition of Emperor Fei

Huan Wen's deposition of Emperor Fei (桓温废帝) was the removal of Eastern Jin emperor Sima Yi by the dominant general Huan Wen in 371, on charges of impotence.

Huan Wen's domination of the Jin court

Huan Wen's domination of the Jin court (桓溫專政) was the period from the early 360s when the general Huan Wen controlled the Eastern Jin court and deposed its emperor.

Huan Wen's entry to the capital

Huan Wen's entry to the capital (桓温入朝) was the powerful Eastern Jin general's 373 arrival at Jiankang, recorded as an attempted usurpation that never came.

Huan Wen's Northern Expeditions

Huan Wen's Northern Expeditions (桓温北伐) were three campaigns launched by Eastern Jin general Huan Wen against Former Qin, Yao Xiang, and Former Yan between 354 and 369.

Huan Xuan

Huan Xuan (桓玄) was a Jin dynasty general and statesman, son of the grand general Huan Wen, who seized control of the government and founded the short-lived state of Chu.

Huan Xuan's Chu

Huan Chu (桓楚) was a Qin-dynasty man whom the Records of the Grand Historian names as a proposed general of the Kuaiji rising and later Xiang Yu's envoy to King Huai.

Huan‐Xiang Zhou

Huan-Xiang Zhou is a biophysicist, professor and LAS Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2017, known for work on protein binding kinetics, ion-channel gating, and biomolecular condensates.

Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (华南海鲜批发市场)

Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (华南海鲜批发市场), a 1,500-vendor market in Hankou, Wuhan, closed 1 January 2020 after early COVID-19 cases clustered there; environmental SARS-CoV-2 contamination was confirmed but its source remains undetermined.

Huancarute

Huancarute is a beach and year-round surf spot in the Huanchaco area, Department of La Libertad, Peru, near Trujillo at −8.08215°, −79.12234°, with shore-entry waves of roughly 1.3–1.8 m tracked by forecast models.

Huancas

The Huancas, also spelled Wanka or Wanca, were a pre-Hispanic people of the central Peruvian highlands around Lake Junín and the Mantaro River, flourishing from 600 CE to 1532 CE.

Huandacareo la Nopalera

Huandacareo la Nopalera (La Nopalera) is a Purépecha/Tarascan archaeological zone in Michoacán, Mexico, northwest of Lake Cuitzeo: an early Cuitzeo-basin settlement with Bajío and Teotihuacan influences, later a Tarascan administrative center with tombs, a sunken patio, and a solar-calendar petroglyph.

Huaneng Beifang Xilnhaote-3 power station

Huaneng Beifang Xilnhaote-3 power station, also known as the Huaneng Beifang Shengli power station, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired plant in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, commissioned in 2020.

Huaneng Changxing power station

Huaneng Changxing power station (华能长兴电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Changxing County, Zhejiang, China, operating two 660 MW ultra-supercritical units since December 2014.