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Handscroll
A handscroll (手卷), also called changjuan, is a horizontal format of Chinese painting and calligraphy viewed by unrolling it section by section on a table, from right to left.
Handset
A handset combines a telephone receiver and transmitter in one unit, held to the ear and mouth during a call; the word also means a mobile phone itself.
Handshake
Handshake: a greeting in which two people grasp right hands and move them up and down, used to greet, congratulate, or seal agreements. Ancient origins, egalitarian spread in Britain 1700–1850, and measured bacterial transfer versus fist bumps and high fives.
Handshake (computing)
In computing, a handshake is an exchange of messages between two endpoints that establishes the parameters of their interaction, such as the TCP three-way handshake and the TLS handshake.
Handshake event
A handshake event (握手会, akushukai) is a Japanese fan event where ticket-buying fans briefly greet an idol or other celebrity, a format AKB48 popularized nationwide from 2008.
Handsome Devil (film)
Handsome Devil is a 2016 Irish comedy-drama by John Butler about outcast Ned Roche and rugby star Conor Masters at a boarding school, starring Fionn O'Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, and Andrew Scott; it won Best Irish Feature at Dublin 2017.
Handsome Guys
Handsome Guys (핸섬가이즈) is a 2024 South Korean comedy horror film directed by Nam Dong-hyub, a remake of Tucker & Dale vs Evil starring Lee Sung-min and Lee Hee-joon; distinct from the tvN variety show of the same name.
Handsome Siblings (绝代双骄)
Handsome Siblings (绝代双骄, Jue Dai Shuang Jiao) is a 2020 Chinese wuxia TV series adapted from Gu Long's novel, starring Hu Yitian and Chen Zheyuan as twin brothers, aired on CCTV-8 and Netflix in 44 episodes.
Handspring Puppet Company
Handspring Puppet Company: South African puppetry company founded 1981 by Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones; makers of the War Horse horse puppets and Little Amal, with Kentridge collaborations and a Special Tony Award.
Handstand
Handstand: an inverted balance on two hands, central to gymnastics and also practiced in circus, yoga, and calisthenics; balance is controlled mainly through the wrist strategy with fingertip and palm corrections.
HandtherRCT trial
HandtherRCT (NCT01215760) was a University of São Paulo randomized trial of early mirror-therapy sensory re-education versus delayed classic re-education after median or ulnar nerve repair; 20 analyzed patients showed no Rosen Score difference.
Handweavers Guild of America
Handweavers Guild of America (HGA), founded 1969, is a 501(c)(3) fiber arts association with 4,000+ members; publishes Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, runs the biennial Convergence conference, Small Expressions exhibit, and the currently suspended Certificate of Excellence program.
Handweaving revival movements
Handweaving revival movements are organized efforts, beginning in the late nineteenth century, to re-establish hand-weaving as a living practice after mechanized mills absorbed its economic role.
Handwriting
Handwriting is the practice of writing any language in any form, studied in education, cognitive science, and forensic science, and has been practiced for 6,000 years.
Handwriting recognition
Handwriting recognition is a machine learning and computer vision method that converts handwritten text in images or pen recordings into machine-readable text, used for historical documents, forms, and prescriptions.
Handwritten (Shawn Mendes album)
Handwritten is the 2015 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes, which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and includes the single "Stitches".
Handy Manny
Handy Manny (Manny Manitas) is a Disney Channel/Nelvana CGI preschool series premiering September 16, 2006, created by Roger Bollen and Marilyn Sadler, starring Wilmer Valderrama as bilingual handyman Manny Garcia of Sheetrock Hills and his talking tools.
Handy1
Handy 1 is a British robotic eating aid for people with severe physical disabilities, developed by Mike Topping in 1987 and manufactured by Rehab Robotics Ltd.
Handyman
A handyman, also called a handyperson or odd-job man, is a worker who performs small-scale repair, maintenance, and improvement jobs on buildings using several trades' skills.
Handysize
A Handysize is the smallest conventional class of ocean-going dry bulk carrier, roughly 20,000 to 35,000 dwt, geared with its own cranes for small ports.
Haneda Airport
Haneda Airport, formally Tokyo International Airport (東京国際空港), is Japan's busiest airport, opened in 1931, reduced to domestic flights after Narita opened in 1978, and restored as a major international gateway since 2010.
Hanefî Mehmed Efendi
Hanefî Mehmed Efendi was a 17th-century Ottoman scholar from Nakhchivan who served as şeyhülislâm in 1656 and backed the accession of the child sultan Mehmed IV.
Haneji Chōshū
Haneji Chōshū (羽地朝秀) was a Ryukyu Kingdom politician who served as regent from 1666 to 1673 and compiled the Chūzan Seikan, the kingdom's first official history.
Hanekasa Fossae
Hanekasa Fossae, a 700 km fossa (graben) system on Venus at 29.00N, 148.50E in quadrangle v12, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Sanema amazon warrior of Venezuela.
Hanesbrands
Hanesbrands was an American apparel company headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, spun off from Sara Lee in 2006 and known for Hanes, Bali, Playtex, and Maidenform.
Haneul Park
하늘공원 (Haneul Park, Sky Park), an ecological park in Mapo-gu, Seoul, and one of five themed parks of World Cup Park, restored from the Nanjido landfill; known for silver grass and the October Seoul Eulalia Festival.
Hanfeng
Hanfeng (汉丰街道) is the government-seat subdistrict of Kaizhou District, Chongqing, named for Hanfeng County founded in 216 AD; 23.4 km², about 134,000 residents, on Hanfeng Lake, the Three Gorges reservoir's largest inland lake.
Hanfeng power station
Hanfeng power station (邯峰发电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Handan, Hebei, China, with two 660 MW units owned by Huaneng-led Hanfeng Power Generation since 2001.
Hanford Site
The Hanford Site, also known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, is a 586-square-mile Department of Energy reservation in southeastern Washington that produced most of America's weapons plutonium.
Hanford-Corcoran, CA Metro Area
Hanford-Corcoran, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 25260), a single-county California metro covering Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley; about 154,900 residents, agriculture-dominated economy, farmworker location quotient 47.27, mean hourly wage $30.88.