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Hundred Regiments Offensive
The Hundred Regiments Offensive (百团大战), fought in Japanese-occupied North China from 1940 to 1941, was a large Eighth Route Army campaign named for its 105 regiments.
Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家)
Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家, baijia zhengming): the Spring and Autumn and Warring States schools, Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Legalist, School of Names, that debated China's first intellectual liberation, ending under Qin-Han unification and Emperor Wu's exclusive promotion of Confucianism.
Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War: Anglo-French conflict, 1337 to 1453, also called the wars of Edward III and Henry V against France. Fought over Aquitaine and the French crown; ended at Castillon, leaving England only Calais.
Hundreds of Beavers
Hundreds of Beavers (2022) is a wordless black-and-white American slapstick comedy directed by Mike Cheslik, starring Ryland Brickson Cole Tews as trapper Jean Kayak fighting costumed beavers; made for $150,000 and self-distributed.
Hundredth monkey effect
The Hundredth monkey effect is a claimed phenomenon where a behavior spreads instantly to related groups after a critical mass adopts it. It was based on Japanese macaques washing sweet potatoes.
Hundredweight
The hundredweight (cwt) is a unit of mass in British imperial and US customary systems, equal to 112 pounds (long) or 100 pounds (short), with 20 hundredweights making a ton.
Hundun (混沌)
Hundun (混沌, also 渾沌/渾敦) is the primordial undifferentiated chaos of Chinese cosmology, personified in Zhuangzi as the faceless Emperor of the Center killed by seven drilled orifices, and distinct from the Shanhaijing god Dijiang and the Zuozhuan ferocious beast.
Hunedoara
Hunedoara is a city in southwestern Transylvania, Romania, first documented in 1265, which grew around ironworking and Corvin Castle, the domain of 15th-century regent Iancu de Hunedoara.
Hunefer (mayor of Thebes)
Hunefer was an ancient Egyptian official who served as mayor of Thebes under Ramesses II in the Nineteenth Dynasty; his granite sarcophagus stands in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Hunefer (scribe)
Hunefer was a royal scribe and estate overseer serving Pharaoh Seti I of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, known almost entirely through his richly illustrated Book of the Dead papyrus.
Huneric
Huneric (Hunneric), son of Gaiseric, was Arian king of the Vandals in North Africa, 477-484, married to Eudocia, and known for the anti-Nicene edict of February 484 modeled on Roman imperial heresy laws.
Hünername
The Hünername, or Hünernâme, is a two-volume illustrated Ottoman history of the sultans, written by Seyyid Lokmân and illustrated by Nakkaş Osman in the 1580s.
Hung (TV series)
Hung is an HBO comedy-drama (2009–2011, also known as Superdotado) created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson, starring Thomas Jane as a Detroit teacher who becomes a gigolo; three seasons, 10 episodes each, four Golden Globe nominations.
Hung Cao
Hung Cao (born 1971), Vietnamese-born retired Navy captain and special operations officer, 2024 Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Virginia (lost to Tim Kaine 45.44%), Acting Secretary of the Navy since April 22, 2026, nominated permanent Secretary September 2026.
Hung Fan
Hung Fan is an American molecular biologist and virologist, emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for research on murine leukemia virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.
Hung Ga (洪家)
Hung Ga (洪家, Hung Kuen, Hung Family Fist) is a Southern Shaolin kung fu style from the 1800s, founded by Hung Hei Guen and made famous by Wong Fei-hung, known for horse stance, bridge hands, tiger-crane forms, and Hong Kong cinema.
Hung jury
Hung jury, or deadlocked jury: a jury unable to reach the required voting margin for a verdict, causing a mistrial. Key facts: retrial allowed despite double jeopardy, US unanimity rule, roughly 2.5% federal hung rate.
Hung parliament
Hung parliament: no single party holds a majority, as in the UK House of Commons (326 of 650 seats) or Australia's House. Leads to coalition, confidence and supply, or minority government; UK examples 1923, 1974, 2010, 2017.
Hung Up
Hung Up is Madonna's 2005 dance-pop single from Confessions on a Dance Floor, produced with Stuart Price and built on a rare ABBA-approved sample of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight); it debuted at UK Number 1 and reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Hung Yen
Hung Yen (Hưng Yên) is a Red River Delta province of Vietnam formed 1 July 2025 by merging Hung Yen and Thai Binh; 2,514.81 km², 3.57 million people, 104 communes and wards, capital region location, Pho Hien heritage.
Hung Yen FC
Hung Yen FC (Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Hưng Yên) is a Vietnamese club founded 2026 from the transferred Trẻ PVF-CAND team, managed by KBC Hưng Yên, playing V.League 2 2026-27 at SVĐ PVF (4,500 seats) under coach Bùi Đoàn Quang Huy.
Hung-i Kamalvand
Hung-i Kamalvand (Hong-e Kamalvand) is a Parthian rock relief near Izeh, Khuzestan, Iran, showing a standing figure facing a horseman, with an Elymaean inscription reading 'Phraates the priest, son of Kamnaskires', dated c. AD 100.
Hung‐wen Liu
Hung-wen Liu (刘鸿文), known as Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, is a Taiwanese-born chemical biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies enzyme mechanisms and antibiotic sugar biosynthesis.
Hungama (हंगामा) (2003 film)
Hungama (हंगामा) is a 2003 Hindi comedy directed by Priyadarshan, a remake of his Malayalam Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, starring Akshaye Khanna, Aftab Shivdasani, Rimi Sen, and Paresh Rawal in a mistaken-identity plot.
Hungama 2 (हंगामा 2)
Hungama 2 (हंगामा 2) is a 2021 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Priyadarshan, a spiritual sequel to Hungama (2003) and remake of Minnaram, released direct-to-digital on Disney+ Hotstar and poorly reviewed.
Hungama TV
Hungama TV is an Indian children's pay TV channel launched by UTV on 26 September 2004 as India's first made-in-India 24-hour kids channel in Hindi, acquired by Walt Disney in July 2006 for USD 30.5 million, now under Disney Broadcasting (India) Limited with sister channel Super Hungama.
Hungaria family
The Hungaria family is an asteroid family centered on the asteroid 434 Hungaria at the inner edge of the main belt, likely the source of aubrite meteorites.
Hungarian Academy of Engineering
The Hungarian Academy of Engineering (Magyar Mérnökakadémia) is an independent, non-profit national engineering academy based in Budapest, founded in 1990 to unite Hungary's leading engineers and advise policymakers.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) is Hungary's national academy of sciences, founded in 1825 when Count István Széchenyi endowed it at the Diet of Hungary.
Hungarian Air Force
Hungarian Air Force (Magyar Légierő), air component of the Hungarian Defence Forces, NATO member since 1999. Operates 18 JAS 39 Gripens at Kecskemét; serves in NATO Baltic Air Policing rotations (2015, 2019, 2022, 2025) after a clandestine interwar start and Warsaw Pact MiG era.