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Hurshid Pasha
Hurshid Pasha (خورشيد پاشا) was an early nineteenth-century Ottoman grand vizier, remembered chiefly for the campaign that broke Tepedelenli Ali Pasha of Janina in 1822.
Hurst exponent
The Hurst exponent, or Hurst parameter and Hurst coefficient, is a number between 0 and 1 measuring long-range memory in a time series, named for hydrologist Harold Edwin Hurst.
Hurst Lin
Hurst Lin (Lin Xinhe) is a venture capitalist and co-founder and General Partner of DCM's China practice since 2006, known for early investments in Kuaishou, 58.com, and Vipshop.
Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song)
"Hurt" is a song written by Trent Reznor, closing Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Johnny Cash's 2002 cover on American IV, with a Mark Romanek video, won a 2004 Grammy and is often remembered as Cash's own song.
Hurt (Oliver Tree song)
"Hurt" (2018) is a single by American alt-pop artist Oliver Tree, written with Whethan and Michael Keenan on Atlantic Records. Inspired by a scooter crash, it peaked at number 12 on Hot Rock Songs, went RIAA platinum, and appears on Ugly Is Beautiful.
Hürth
Hürth, Germany: town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, near Cologne; formed 1930 from six municipalities, town rights 1978; about 61,700 residents; former lignite mining and briquette industry, now a Cologne commuter and TV production center.
Hurtigruten
Hurtigruten is a Norwegian shipping company founded in 1893 that operates the Coastal Express, sailing year-round between Bergen and Kirkenes and calling at 34 ports on a 12-day round trip.
Hurts 2B Human
Hurts 2B Human, P!nk's eighth studio album (April 26, 2019, RCA), 13 tracks featuring Khalid, Cash Cash, Wrabel, and Chris Stapleton; grew from 2018 Beautiful Trauma tour sessions.
Hurufiyya
The Hurufiyya (حروفیه) was a religious movement founded by Fazlallah Astarabadi in 14th-century Iran, centered on the numerological meaning of the letters of the alphabet.
Hurulu Biosphere Reserve
Hurulu Biosphere Reserve, Sri Lanka's first UNESCO MAB reserve (1977), protects tropical dry evergreen forest in the North Central Province; extended in 2014 to 69,641 ha with elephant, leopard, and junglefowl habitat.
Hurum
Hurum: former municipality in Buskerud, Norway, on the Hurumlandet peninsula between the Oslofjorden and Drammensfjorden; merged with Asker and Røyken into Asker municipality on 1 January 2020; 9,521 inhabitants (2019), center Sætre.
Hurwitz's theorem (composition algebras)
Hurwitz's theorem is Adolf Hurwitz's 1898 classification of real composition algebras: their dimensions are only 1, 2, 4, or 8, namely the reals, complexes, quaternions, and octonions.
Husain Shah Sharqi
Husain Shah Sharqi (حسین شاہ شرقی) was sultan of the Sharqi dynasty of Jaunpur from 1458 to 1505, defeated by the Lodis of Delhi, and a musician credited with developing the khayal.
Husain Shahi dynasty
The Husain Shahi dynasty (হুসেন শাহী রাজবংশ) was the ruling house of the Bengal Sultanate from 1494 to 1538, founded by Ala al-Din Husain Shah and regarded as its golden age.
Husainid dynasty
The Husainid dynasty (الحسينيون) ruled Tunisia as beys under nominal Ottoman suzerainty from 1705 until the last bey was deposed and a republic proclaimed in 1957.
Husam N. Alshareef
Husam N. Alshareef is a Saudi-based materials scientist and electrical engineer, a distinguished professor and dean at KAUST who works on electrolyte chemistry for lithium-metal and sodium batteries.
Husan Longstreet
Husan Longstreet, American college football quarterback from Corona, California; five-star 2025 recruit who signed with USC, debuted with a perfect passing game in 2025, then transferred to LSU in January 2026.
Húsavík
Húsavík, a town on Skjálfandi Bay in northern Iceland, is the country's oldest settlement (c. AD 870) and its whale watching capital, home to the Húsavík Whale Museum, GeoSea geothermal sea baths, and the Húsavík-Flatey Fault Zone.
Husayn al-Marsafi
Husayn al-Marsafi (حسين المرصفي) was a blind Egyptian Azhari scholar and professor of Arabic literature at Dar al-Ulum, Cairo, author of Risalat al-Kalim al-Thaman (1881).
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali, also known as Imam Husayn, was a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and son of Ali and Fatima, killed at Karbala, Iraq, in 680.
Husayn ibn Ghannam
Husayn ibn Ghannam (حسين بن غنام) was a Maliki historian, jurist, and poet of al-Ahsa who settled in Diriyah and died there in January 1811.
Husayn Pasha al-Jalili
Husayn Pasha al-Jalili (حسين باشا الجليلي) was an Ottoman provincial governor of Mosul, first appointed in 1730, best known for leading the successful defense against Nader Shah in 1743.
Husband
Husband: a man joined to another person in marriage, a male spouse. From Old Norse husbondi, "master of a house"; also a verb meaning to conserve. Covers earnings, household labor, and legal changes.
Husband E. Kimmel
Husband E. Kimmel (1882–1968), American admiral, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; relieved, retired as rear admiral, and spent decades contesting the dereliction-of-duty charge.
Husband stitch
The husband stitch, also known as the daddy stitch, is an extra stitch placed during childbirth repair to tighten the vagina, with no medical benefit.
Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives (1992), Woody Allen's TriStar comedy-drama starring Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, and Sydney Pollack, shot in handheld documentary style, released during the Allen-Farrow breakup, Oscar-nominated for Davis and Allen's screenplay.
Husbands in Action
Husbands in Action (남편들) is a 2026 South Korean action-comedy on Netflix, directed by Park Gyu-tae, starring Jin Sun-kyu and Gong Myoung as ex-husband and current husband rescuing their kidnapped wife.
Husbishag Tesserae
Husbishag Tesserae, a Venus tessera terrain in quadrangle V-47 at 28°S 101°E, 1,100 km across, IAU-named 1997 for a Semitic underworld goddess; two elevated outcrops ~1 km above plains with microdunes.
Husein Gradaščević
Husein-beg Gradaščević was a Bosnian pasha and captain of Gradačac, born in 1802, who led the Great Bosnian Uprising of 1831–1832 against Sultan Mahmud II's reforms.
Hüseyin Avni Pasha
Hüseyin Avni Pasha (حسين عوني پاشا), born 1820, was an Ottoman serasker and grand vizier who led the deposition of Sultan Abdulaziz in May 1876 and was assassinated that June.