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Huntsman spiders of Australia and Oceania

Huntsman spiders of Australia and Oceania are large, webless hunting spiders (family Sparassidae) with crab-like legs that run sideways, common across Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.

Huntsville Unit

Huntsville Unit (Walls Unit) is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Huntsville, Texas, opened in 1849 as the state's first penitentiary and the site where Texas executions are carried out.

Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama, the state's most populous city (233,627 est. 2025) and seat of Madison County, is "Rocket City USA," home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, and the incoming U.S. Space Command headquarters.

Huntsville, Texas

Huntsville, Texas, is a city of about 46,000 in East Texas and the seat of Walker County, known for Sam Houston's estate, its 1849 prison, and Sam Houston State University.

Huntz Hall

Huntz Hall (Henry Richard Hall, 1919–1999), American comic actor of the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids, and Bowery Boys series; played Dippy and Sach opposite Leo Gorcey in 87 of his 120 films.

Hunxho

Hunxho (born Ibrahim Muhammad Dodo, 1999) is an American rapper and singer from Atlanta's Eastside known for Auto-Tuned melodic trap; his 2020 single "Let's Get It" went viral.

Hunyadi family

The Hunyadi family (Hunyadi-család) was a 15th-century Hungarian noble family of Romanian origin that produced John Hunyadi, governor of Hungary, and his son Matthias Corvinus.

Hunyeon Dogam

Hunyeon Dogam (훈련도감, Training Command) was the central military camp of late Joseon Korea, created in 1593 during the Imjin War to train musketeers on Ming lines.

Hunyo Sipjo (Ten Injunctions)

Hunyo Sipjo (훈요 십조), or Ten Injunctions, is a set of ten testamentary instructions that Goryeo founder Taejo Wang Geon handed to General Park Sulhui around his death in 943.

Hunyuan (model family)

Hunyuan is Tencent's family of foundation models, first launched in September 2023 as a proprietary enterprise model, now spanning language, reasoning, video, image, 3D, translation, and OCR models, many open-sourced since 2024.

Hunyuan3D

Hunyuan3D is a family of open 3D asset generation models from Tencent, first released in November 2024, that turns text or images into textured 3D meshes.

HunyuanImage

HunyuanImage is a family of open-weights text-to-image models published by Tencent. Its third generation, HunyuanImage 3.0, released September 2025, is an 80-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with open weights.

HunyuanVideo

HunyuanVideo is a family of open-weights text-to-video and image-to-video generation models published by Tencent, beginning with a 13-billion-parameter diffusion transformer released in December 2024 and followed by the smaller HunyuanVideo-1.5 in November 2025.

HunyuanWorld

HunyuanWorld is Tencent's open-source 3D world generation model family, first released in July 2025, converting text, images, or video into explorable 3D scenes importable into game engines.

Hunza Valley

Hunza Valley (Urdu: ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan, along the Hunza River in the Karakoram, known for its distinct culture and glacierized basin.

Hunza-Nagar Campaign

The Hunza-Nagar Campaign was an 1891 British Indian military expedition against the states of Hunza and Nagar, led by Colonel Algernon Durand, which stormed the fort at Nilt.

Huo clan faction

The Huo clan faction (霍氏集团) was the political clique of Western Han regent Huo Guang, which dominated the Han court until it was destroyed for treason.

Huo clan's fall

The Huo clan's fall (霍氏族诛) was the 66 BC extermination of regent Huo Guang's family after his son Huo Yu plotted to depose Emperor Xuan of Han and enthrone himself.

Huo Da

Huo Da (霍达) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter of Hui ethnicity, born in Beijing in 1945, known for the Mao Dun Prize-winning novel The Funeral of a Muslim.

Huo Guang

Huo Guang (霍光), courtesy name Zimeng, was a Han-dynasty statesman and regent who held power for some twenty years under Emperors Zhao and Xuan, deposing one emperor and installing another.

Huo Hsing Vallis

Huo Hsing Vallis (火星谷) is a ~319 km ancient river valley on Mars near 30°N, 66°W, named for the Chinese word for Mars, with oxbow bends, inverted polygonal ridges, and Noachian flood deposits.

Huo Jun

Huo Jun (霍峻), courtesy name Zhongmiao, was a late Han military commander who served Liu Bei and defended Jiameng for about a year against over 10,000 besiegers.

Huo Liang

Huo Liang (火亮), born 1989 in Shanghai, Chinese platform diver; Olympic gold in men's synchronized 10m platform with Lin Yue at Beijing 2008, three straight World Championship synchro platform titles 2007–2011.

Huo Qubing

Huo Qubing (霍去病), 140–117 BC, was a Western Han general and nephew of Wei Qing whose cavalry campaigns broke Xiongnu power in the Hexi Corridor.

Huo Qubing's Hexi campaigns (河西之战)

Huo Qubing's Hexi campaigns (河西之战) were two 121 BC Han cavalry raids against the Xiongnu in the Hexi corridor, followed by the surrender of Hun Xiewang.

Huo Shen Patera

Huo Shen Patera, a volcano-tectonic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io near Ra Patera, IAU-approved 1982 and named for the Chinese god of fire; about 62.73 km across with raised north, east, and west rims and a breached south rim.

Huo Tao

Huo Tao (霍韬) was a Ming dynasty official from Nanhai, Guangdong, who served the Jiajing Emperor, rose to Minister of Rites, and took part in the Great Rites Controversy.

Huo Yi

Huo Yi (霍弋), courtesy name Shaoxian, was a Shu Han general who governed Nanzhong, surrendered to Wei only after confirming Emperor Liu Shan's safety, and conquered Jiaozhi for Jin.

Huo Yuanjia

Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲, 1868–1910), Tianjin-born master of Mizongquan, founded Shanghai's Jingwu Athletic Association in 1910; famed for challenge matches against foreign fighters and posthumously mythologized as a Chinese national hero.

Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲)

Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲), Qing-era Chinese martial artist from Tianjin, famed for challenging foreign strongmen in Shanghai and founding the Jingwu Physical Education Association; his legend, fixed by 1923 fiction, has been adapted in over ten screen versions including the 1981 ATV classic.