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Hanford, California
Hanford, California: county seat of Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, founded 1877 as a Southern Pacific railroad town, incorporated August 12, 1891, population about 60,000.
Hanfu
Hanfu (汉服) is the modern umbrella term for traditional Han Chinese dress and the revival movement around it. Key facts: term coined in the 21st century, earliest attestation in Han-dynasty Mawangdui slips (168 BCE), revival began 2003, 2025 market over 20 billion yuan, women lead the movement.
Hang 'Em High
Hang 'Em High, 1968 Western directed by Ted Post, Clint Eastwood's first Hollywood Western and first Malpaso production, about Jed Cooper surviving a lynching; loosely based on Homer Croy's He Hanged Them High.
Hang (instrument)
Hang: steel percussion instrument invented in 2000 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer of PANArt in Bern; two nitrided steel shells, central ding note, seven tuned fields. Hang drum and handpan are common but improper or generic names; PANArt's trademarked original ended regular production in 2013.
Hang gliding
Hang gliding, also known as deltaplane, is an air sport in which a pilot foot-launches an unpowered fabric wing and controls flight by shifting body weight against a control bar.
Hang Hau Longyan power station
Hang Hau Longyan power station (神华福能龙岩发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Longyan, Fujian, China, operating two 300 MW circulating fluidized bed units commissioned in 2009 and 2010.
Hang Jebat
Hang Jebat is a figure of the Malay romance tradition, the sworn brother of Hang Tuah who seized the sultan's palace and died in their duel.
Hang Nadim
Hang Nadim is the child hero of the garfish attack episode in the Malay Annals, who saved Singapura by a barricade of banana trunks around 1961 named by film.
Hang On Sloopy
"Hang On Sloopy" (originally "My Girl Sloopy") is a 1964 Bert Berns and Wes Farrell song recorded by The Vibrations and made a 1965 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit by The McCoys with Rick Derringer; it is Ohio's official rock song and an Ohio State marching band tradition since October 1965.
Hang Seng Index (恒生指数)
The Hang Seng Index (恒生指数) is a market-capitalization-weighted stock index of the largest companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, launched in 1969 as Hong Kong's headline market benchmark.
Hang Sơn Đoòng
Hang Sơn Đoòng (Son Doong Cave, "mountain river cave") in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Vietnam, is the world's largest cave passage: about 200 m high, 150 m wide, over 9 km surveyed, 38.5 million m³ volume, found by Hồ Khanh in 1990 and surveyed by British cavers in 2009-2010.
Hang the DJ
Hang the DJ is Black Mirror season 4 episode 4 (2017), a Charlie Brooker romcom-style story of Amy and Frank dating under an algorithmic System with expiration dates, ending in a simulation twist; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Hang Time (TV series)
Hang Time is an American sitcom created by Troy Searer, Robert Tarlow, and Mark Fink, following an Indiana high school boys' basketball team whose roster gains its first female player.
Hang Tuah
Hang Tuah is a Malay warrior and admiral associated with the Malacca Sultanate and celebrated in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah. UNESCO describes the work as a traditional Malay epic and a.
Hangal Mound
Hangal Mound, or Kuntina Dibba (Kunti's hillock), is a conical earthen mound in Hangal, Haveri district, Karnataka, tied to Mahabharata tradition; a 1830 trench by Walter Elliot found only earth, and nearby excavations yielded Satavahana and Badami Chalukya relics.
Hangang Bridge bombing
The Hangang Bridge bombing (한강 인도교 폭파 사건) was the demolition of Seoul's Han River bridges by South Korean engineers on June 28, 1950, early in the Korean War.
Hangar
A hangar, also called an aircraft or airplane hangar, is a large enclosed building for storing, maintaining, and servicing aircraft, built with a clear-span design and no interior columns across its door opening.
Hangar 18 (conspiracy theory)
Hangar 18: conspiracy theory that Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio stored Roswell UFO debris and alien bodies, popularized by Robert Spencer Carr in 1974 and a 1980 film; the Air Force says no Hangar 18 ever existed.
Hangaren
Hangaren is an electronic music nightclub in a former hangar on Refshaleøen, a post-industrial island in Copenhagen harbor, Denmark, opened in 2021 and run by Nus Nus.
Hangari Folk Village
Hangari Folk Village (항아리민속촌) is a small theme park on Waryong-ro 5-gil in Bon-dong, Dalseo-gu, Daegu, South Korea, distinct from the large Korean Folk Village open-air museum in Yongin; a same-named restaurant business was licensed there in 2004.
Hangbe
Hangbe, also Tassi Hangbe, was a woman who ruled the kingdom of Dahomey in the early 18th century and is credited with founding the Dahomey Amazons.
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered: the English statutory penalty for male high traitors from the Treason Act 1352 until the late 18th century, involving dragging on a hurdle, partial hanging, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering; abolished with quartering in 1870.
Hangenberg event
Hangenberg event: end-Devonian mass extinction and oceanic anoxic event at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary (~359 Ma), killing 31% of marine genera, wiping out clymeniid ammonoids and placoderms, marked by black shales and a positive carbon isotope excursion.
Hanger steak
Hanger steak (onglet, butcher's steak) is a single diaphragm-supporting beef muscle, one per animal, with deep mineral beef flavor; cooked rare to medium-rare, rested, and sliced against the grain.
Hanghepiwi Chasma
Hanghepiwi Chasma is a 1,100 km chasma (canyon) on Venus at 48.5°S, 18°E, in quadrangle V-44, named in 1997 from a Dakota name of the moon and night.
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, ABC sitcom 1992–1997 created by Jeff Franklin, starring Mark Curry as an ex-NBA player teaching in Oakland; five seasons, 101 episodes, TGIF block, 6.4 IMDb rating.
Hanging
Hanging is suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck, used historically and currently as a judicial execution method (Iran, Japan, Taiwan) and a common suicide method; death mechanisms include asphyxia, cerebral vessel occlusion, and cardiac inhibition.
Hanging Garden (空中庭園)
Hanging Garden (空中庭園, Kūchū Teien) is a 2005 Japanese family drama by director Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Mitsuyo Kakuta's award-winning novel, starring Kyoko Koizumi as a mother whose no-secrets family rule collapses.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, fabled terraced garden and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, traditionally attributed to Nebuchadnezzar II; unattested at Babylon, possibly actually Sennacherib's garden at Nineveh per Stephanie Dalley.
Hanging mercury drop electrode
The hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) is a working electrode for electroanalysis on which the whole experiment is performed on one drop of mercury hanging from a capillary.