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Hanging Rock energy facility

The Hanging Rock Energy Facility is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Lawrence County, Ohio, near Ironton, and one of the largest gas-fired generators in Ohio.

Hanging Rock, Victoria

Hanging Rock (Ngannelong) is a Late Miocene soda-trachyte volcanic mamelon near Woodend in Victoria's Macedon Ranges, sacred to the Wurundjeri, Djaara, and Taungurung, a heritage-listed reserve, and the setting of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Hanging scroll

The hanging scroll (立轴) is a vertical format of Chinese painting and calligraphy, mounted on backing with silk borders and hung on a wall, rolled up for storage.

Hanging valley

Hanging valley: a glacial tributary valley left above the floor of a deeper U-shaped main valley, its stream entering as a waterfall; classic examples include Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park.

Hangman (2017 film)

Hangman (2017 film), directed by Johnny Martin, is an American crime thriller starring Al Pacino, Karl Urban, and Brittany Snow about detectives chasing a serial killer staging murders around the hangman word game; released December 22, 2017 by Saban Films, it holds a 5% Tomatometer and Metascore 31.

Hangman (game)

Hangman (Galgenmännchen) is a Victorian-era paper-and-pencil word-guessing game: guess letters to reveal a hidden word before six wrong guesses complete a gallows drawing; widely used for vocabulary teaching.

Hangman's knot

The hangman's knot, also called the hangman's noose, is a running noose with multiple coils, historically used for judicial hanging; in forensics, its position on the neck largely determines the mechanism of death.

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die! is Fritz Lang's 1943 United Artists war film, written by John Wexley from a Bertolt Brecht and Lang story, dramatizing the Czech resistance assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Nazi hostage reprisals, with Brian Donlevy and a Hanns Eisler score.

Hangnail

Hangnail: torn dry skin at the edge of a fingernail (not nail), from dryness, biting, or wet work; treated by soaking and clipping, risking paronychia if ripped; from Middle English agnail.

Hangout Music Festival

The Hangout Music Festival, also known as Hangout Fest, was an annual music festival held each May on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, from 2010 to 2024.

Hangout Music Festival 2016

Hangout Music Festival 2016 was the seventh edition of a beach music festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, headlined by The Weeknd, Calvin Harris, and Florence + the Machine.

Hangout with Yoo (놀면 뭐하니?)

Hangout with Yoo (놀면 뭐하니?) is an MBC South Korean Saturday-evening variety show created by Kim Tae-ho and hosted by Yoo Jae-suk since July 2019, known for relay-camera filming and real music projects like SSAK3, Refund Expedition, and MSG Wannabe.

Hangover

A hangover, also called veisalgia, is the set of mental and physical symptoms felt the day after heavy drinking, starting as blood alcohol returns to zero.

Hangshi Zhitou Industrial Investment Fund

Hangshi Zhitou Industrial Investment Fund (杭实智投(杭州)产业投资基金合伙企业) is a Hangzhou-based limited-partnership private equity fund, registered with China's Asset Management Association on 16 April 2025 and backed by Hangzhou Industrial Investment Group.

Hangshun Chip (深圳市航顺芯片技术研发有限公司)

Hangshun Chip (深圳市航顺芯片技术研发有限公司) is a Shenzhen fabless designer of 32-bit microcontrollers and systems-on-chip, founded by Liu Jiping in 2013 and known for low-cost MCU families.

Hangtian Feihong

航天飞鸿 (Feihong) is a Beijing-based Chinese developer of military and civil unmanned aircraft systems, founded in 2018 under CASC, whose FH-series drones range from loitering munitions to 8-tonne platforms.

Hangu, Tianjin

Hangu (汉沽) is a coastal town and former district in eastern Tianjin, China, merged into Binhai New Area in 2009. Known for the Changlu Hangu Salt Field (Lutai salt works, founded 925), 441.5 km², Dwa climate, and the Sino-Singapore Eco-city site.

Hangul (한글)

Hangul (한글), originally Hunminjeongeum, is the phonemic featural alphabet created by King Sejong in 1443 and promulgated in 1446, written in syllable blocks of jamo letters and now encoded in Unicode with 11,172 precomposed syllables.

Hangul consonant and vowel tables

Hangul consonant and vowel tables list the Korean alphabet's jamo: 19 initial consonants, 21 vowels, 16 single and 11 double finals, forming 11,172 syllable blocks. Also covers letter design principles, Unicode encoding, and braille forms.

Hangul novel

A Hangul novel (한글소설), also called ko sosŏl, is fiction written in the Hangul alphabet rather than literary Chinese during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), read mainly by women.

Hangwani Maumela

Hangwani Maumela, also known as Hangwani Morgan Maumela, is a South African businessman.

Hangyu Medical (上海捍宇医疗科技股份有限公司)

Hangyu Medical is a Shanghai medical device company founded in 2016, best known for ValveClamp, a mitral valve repair device approved in China in 2023.

Hangzhou (杭州)

Hangzhou (杭州), capital of Zhejiang province and Southern Song capital as Lin'an, is a Yangtze River Delta city of 12.7 million people, a digital economy and AI hub centered on Alibaba, with 2.3 trillion yuan GDP in 2025.

Hangzhou Andao Pharmaceutical

Hangzhou Andao Pharmaceutical (安道药业), known internationally as Kind Pharmaceuticals, is a Chinese clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2014 in Hangzhou, developing small-molecule drugs for kidney disease, anemia, and cancer.

Hangzhou Banshan power station

Hangzhou Banshan power station (杭州半山发电厂), also called Banshan power plant, is a gas-fired station on the Grand Canal in Kangqiao, northern Hangzhou, China, founded in 1959.

Hangzhou Bay (杭州湾)

Hangzhou Bay (杭州湾) is a funnel-shaped tidal bay on China's east coast, the Qiantang River estuary known for its tidal bore and 36 km bridge.

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge (杭州湾跨海大桥) is a 36 km six-lane cross-sea expressway bridge in eastern China linking Jiaxing and Ningbo, opened in 2008 as the world's longest cross-sea bridge.

Hangzhou Binjiang Real Estate Group

Hangzhou Binjiang Real Estate Group (杭州滨江房产集团股份有限公司) is a Hangzhou-based residential property developer, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2008 and China's highest-ranked private developer, with sales of RMB 101.7 billion in 2025.

Hangzhou Industrial Investment Group

Hangzhou Industrial Investment Group (杭州市实业投资集团有限公司, abbreviated Hangshi Group) is a Hangzhou municipal state-owned investment group founded in 2001, controlled by Hangzhou SASAC, holding stakes in legacy manufacturers and running a RMB 10 billion mother fund.

Hangzhou Jiufeng Waste-to-Energy Plant

The Hangzhou Jiufeng Waste-to-Energy Plant (杭州九峰垃圾焚烧发电项目) is a municipal waste incineration power station in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, China, operated by China Everbright International since 2017.