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Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman (حماد بن أبي سليمان) was a Kufan jurist and hadith transmitter who died in 737 and was the principal legal teacher of Abu Hanifa.
Hammad ibn Buluggin
Hammad ibn Buluggin (حماد بن بلكين) was a Sanhaja chieftain of the Zirid dynasty who governed the central Maghreb, broke with the Zirids in 1014, and founded the Hammadid dynasty.
Hammad ibn Zayd
Hammad ibn Zayd (حماد بن زيد) was a Basran hadith scholar and Quranic reader, ranked among the four imams of his era, who died in Basra in 795.
Hammadid dynasty
Hammadid dynasty, a Sanhaja Berber branch of the Zirids, ruled central Maghreb 1007-1152 from the Qal'a of Beni Hammad and then Bejaia, ending under Almohad Abd al-Mu'min.
HammAli & Navai
HammAli & Navai was a Russian-language pop-rap duo formed in Moscow in 2016 by HammAli and Navai, best known for «Птичка», and dissolved in 2025 after a farewell tour.
Hammam (حمّام)
Hammam (حمّام), the public bathhouse of the Islamic world, descended from Roman thermae and central to hygiene and sociability in Middle Eastern and Ottoman cities; distinct from European spa towns in its embedded neighborhood layout.
Hammam Beni Guecha
Hammam Beni Guecha (Hammam des Beni Guecha), a ruined Roman bath or spa near Ferdjioua in Mila Province, Algeria; possibly the Peutinger Map station Fons Camerata; discovered 1923, protected heritage site.
Hammam ibn Munabbih
Hammam ibn Munabbih (همام بن منبه) was a hadith scholar of San'a, Yemen, who compiled the Sahifa Sahiha from Abu Hurayra around 660 to 720 CE.
Hammam ibn Raji Allah al-Asqalani
Hammam ibn Raji Allah al-Asqalani, honorific Jalal al-Din, was a Shafi'i hadith transmitter, jurist, and grammarian of Upper Egypt who lived from 559 to 630 AH.
Hammam ibn Yahya al-'Awadhi
Hammam ibn Yahya al-'Awadhi (همام بن يحيى) was a second-century Basran hadith transmitter relied on by the compilers of the six canonical Sunni collections; he died around 781 CE.
Hammamat (station)
Hammamat (station), also Bir el-Hammamat or Persou, a fortified Roman hydreuma on the Coptos–Myos Hormos road in Egypt's Eastern Desert; square 53.5 m enclosure with spiral-stair well, mid-2nd-century CE Latin foundation inscription.
Hammar Lacus
Hammar Lacus is a lake of liquid methane and ethane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, near Kraken Mare in the northern polar region and about 200 km across.
Hammar Marsh
Hammar Marsh (Hawr al-Hammar), one of the three Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq south of the Euphrates; drained in the 1990s, reflooded after 2003, Ramsar site since 2014.
Hammarby Fotboll
Hammarby Fotboll is the football section of the Stockholm club Hammarby IF, which was founded as a rowing club in 1889. The men's team plays in Allsvenskan and won the championship in 2001.
Hammatoceras
Hammatoceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods in the family Hammatoceratidae, named by Alpheus Hyatt in 1867, whose species lived from the Toarcian into the Bajocian.
Hammer
A hammer is a hand tool with a heavy head fixed transversely to a handle, used for driving nails, beating and breaking material, and shaping metal.
Hammer and sickle
Hammer and sickle (☭, U+262D): crossed-tools emblem of worker-peasant alliance, designed by Yevgeny Kamzolkin in 1918, adopted by Soviet Russia and the USSR flag in 1924; still used by China, Vietnam, Laos, banned in some European states.
Hammer drill
A hammer drill, also called a percussion drill or impact drill, is a power drill that hammers its bit forward while rotating to drill masonry and concrete faster.
Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions, also known as Hammer Films or Hammer Studios, is the British studio founded in London in 1934 by Will Hammer and Enrique Carreras, famous for Technicolor gothic horror like The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula, revived under John Gore in 2023.
Hammer filmography
Hammer filmography: the complete list of films by Hammer Film Productions (Exclusive Films), the British studio founded 5 November 1934, from The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935) through the gothic horror classics to Doctor Jekyll (2023).
Hammer mill
A hammer mill is a machine that grinds grain, wood, and biomass by impact from high-speed swinging hammers, with a screen determining the finished particle size.
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, founded by Armand Hammer in Westwood, Los Angeles, opened in 1990 and has been run with UCLA since 1994; known for free admission, the Made in L.A. biennial, and its 2023 Michael Maltzan expansion.
Hammer throw
Hammer throw, Olympic and World Athletics field event; athletes spin and release a 7.26 kg (men) or 4 kg (women) wire-slung ball; records 86.74 m Sedykh, 82.98 m Włodarczyk.
Hammer toe
Hammer toe (hammertoe): flexion deformity of a lesser toe at the PIP joint, up to 20% of foot and ankle issues; treated first with footwear and orthotics, surgery for rigid cases.
Hammer-headed bat
Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), also called hammer-headed fruit bat or big-lipped bat, Africa's largest bat, a West and Central African pteropodid fruit bat with lek mating, honking males, and suspected Ebola reservoir status.
Hammered dulcimer
Hammered dulcimer, also called hammer dulcimer or hackbrett: a trapezoidal struck box zither (Hornbostel-Sachs 314.122) played with small hammers; relatives include santur, yangqin, and cimbalom; ancestor of the piano.
HammerFall
HammerFall, Swedish heavy/power metal band from Gothenburg formed 1993 by Oscar Dronjak and Jesper Strömblad of Ceremonial Oath; debut Glory to the Brave (1997), 13 albums, (r)Evolution hit #1 in Sweden.
Hammerfest LNG
Hammerfest LNG is a natural gas liquefaction plant on Melkøya island near Hammerfest in northern Norway, operated by Equinor and fed by the Snøhvit field through a 143-kilometer pipeline.
Hammerhead (character)
Hammerhead (Joseph) is a Marvel Comics Spider-Man villain, a Maggia crime boss created by Gerry Conway and John Romita, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #113 (1972) with a steel-reinforced skull and 1920s mobster persona.
Hammerhead ribozyme
Hammerhead ribozyme (HHR), a small self-cleaving catalytic RNA with a conserved core and three helices, first found in plant viroid and satellite RNAs, later across all life kingdoms; full-length forms with a stem I-II tertiary contact are up to 1000-fold more active than minimal constructs.