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Hunting High and Low

Hunting High and Low is the 1985 debut album by Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha, produced by Tony Mansfield, Alan Tarney, and John Ratcliff; it sold over eight million copies and launched Take On Me and The Sun Always Shines on T.V.

Hunting Hitler

Hunting Hitler is a History Channel documentary series (2015–2018, three seasons, 26 episodes) in which investigators including Bob Baer pursue the debunked claim that Adolf Hitler escaped to Argentina; historians found no hard evidence in it.

Hunting Island State Park

Hunting Island State Park is a 5,000-acre barrier-island park near Beaufort, South Carolina, the state's most popular park, with five miles of beach, the 1875 cast-iron Hunting Island Lighthouse, and severe coastal erosion.

Hunting oscillation

Hunting oscillation is the self-excited side-to-side motion of a railway wheelset or bogie, arising from wheel tread conicity and creep forces, growing above a critical speed.

Hunting Season

Hunting Season is an American LGBT comedy-drama web series (2012–2015) by Jon Marcus, based on The Great Cock Hunt blog, starring Ben Baur as blogging Alex; also the title of a 2025 Mel Gibson thriller and other works.

Hunting Season (2025 film)

Hunting Season (2025), also released as Temporada de Sangue and Hunting Season – Blutige Fährte, is an American action thriller directed by RJ Collins, written by Adam Hampton, starring Mel Gibson, Sofia Hublitz, Shelley Hennig, and Jordi Mollà, released December 5, 2025 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Huntingdon

Huntingdon: Cambridgeshire market town, county town of Huntingdonshire, on the River Great Ouse; chartered by King John in 1205, birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, bridging point on Ermine Street.

Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania

Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania: unincorporated Montgomery County suburb around ZIP 19006, spanning Abington and Lower Moreland townships along Pennypack Creek; about 21,000-23,400 residents, median household income $128,295.

Huntingdon, PA Micro Area

Huntingdon, PA Micro Area (CBSA 26500) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, principal city Huntingdon borough; population fell from 45,913 (2010) to about 43,653 (ACS 2024).

Huntingtin

Huntingtin (HTT, IT15) is the chromosome 4 protein whose CAG-repeat expansion causes Huntington's disease; a 348 kDa HEAT-repeat scaffold essential for embryonic development, BDNF transcription, and axonal trafficking.

Huntington Bancshares

Huntington Bancshares is a Columbus, Ohio bank holding company organized in 1966, with about $279 billion in assets and nearly 1,400 branches in 21 states after acquiring Cadence Bank in 2026.

Huntington Beach State Park

Huntington Beach State Park is a 2,500-acre South Carolina state park in Murrells Inlet, south of Myrtle Beach, combining Atlantic beach, salt marsh, and the historic Moorish home Atalaya.

Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach, California (Surf City USA): Orange County coastal city of about 191,000-199,000 residents, famed for surfing, its 1,850-foot pier, a 1920 oil boom, and recent state conflicts over voter ID and housing mandates.

Huntington disease-like 1

Huntington disease-like 1 (HDL1), also called Huntington-like neurodegenerative disorder 1, is a rare autosomal dominant familial prion disease from PRNP octapeptide repeat insertions, mimicking Huntington disease with chorea, dementia, seizures, onset 20-45 years, survival 1-10 years.

Huntington disease-like 2

Huntington disease-like 2 (HDL2) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder mimicking Huntington disease, caused by a JPH3 gene repeat expansion and seen only in people of African ancestry.

Huntington F. Willard

Huntington F. Willard is an American human geneticist known for discovering XIST, the RNA controlling X-chromosome inactivation, and for creating the first human artificial chromosome in 1997.

Huntington Ingalls Industries

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is an American defense company headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, and America's largest shipbuilder, formed in 2011 when Northrop Grumman spun off its shipbuilding business.

Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, part of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, founded in 1919 by Henry E. and Arabella Huntington, is an independent research library of about 12 million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries.

Huntington Potter

Huntington Potter is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado who researches Alzheimer's disease, its link to Down syndrome, and GM-CSF treatment trials.

Huntington Power Plant

The Huntington Power Plant is a coal-fired power plant operated by PacifiCorp in Emery County, Utah, built between 1971 and 1977 with two units totaling 960 MW gross capacity.

Huntington, New York

Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York: founded 1653 by deed from the Matinecock sachem Raseokan; about 204,000 residents, 94 square miles, four incorporated villages, and LIRR commuter rail service.

Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington, West Virginia: C&O Railway terminus founded 1871 by Collis P. Huntington; second-largest WV city (44,815 in 2025), Ohio River tri-state hub, Marshall University, 1937 flood, opioid recovery.

Huntington's disease

Huntington's disease (HD), also called Huntington's chorea, is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene, causing chorea, cognitive decline, and behavioral symptoms, typically starting in middle age with no cure.

Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)

Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) is a DC Comics vigilante created by Joey Cavalieri and Joe Staton, debuting in The Huntress #1 (April 1989) as the third DC Huntress, after Helena Wayne. A Gotham mafia survivor armed with a crossbow, she is a core Birds of Prey member and a former Batgirl and Spyral agent (Matron).

Huntress (Helena Wayne)

Helena Wayne, DC's Huntress (created 1977, DC Super-Stars #17), is the Earth-Two daughter of Batman and Catwoman, a powerless crossbow-wielding legacy heroine distinct from the 1989 Bertinelli Huntress, killed in Crisis and later restored across Earth-2 continuities.

Hunts Point Food Distribution Center

The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center is a 329-acre wholesale food campus in the South Bronx, New York City, handling about 4.5 billion pounds of food annually.

Hunts Point, Bronx

Hunts Point, Bronx: a South Bronx peninsula between the East and Bronx Rivers, named for Thomas Hunt Jr., annexed in 1874, and home to the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center's produce, meat, and fish markets.

Huntsham

Huntsham is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England, with a Domesday record and a Grade II Victorian court, and also a Roman villa site in Herefordshire.

Huntsman Corporation

Huntsman Corporation is an American diversified chemical manufacturer headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, founded by Jon Huntsman in 1970, with about 6,000 employees and 2025 revenues of roughly $6 billion.

Huntsman spider

Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae, formerly Heteropodidae; giant crab spiders) are large, fast, crab-legged ambush spiders, over 1,500 species worldwide, not web-builders, with subsocial species like Delena cancerides and mild venom.