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Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle (music)
The Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle is a 15,500-capacity indoor arena in Stuttgart's NeckarPark, Germany, opened in 1983 as Europe's first multifunctional arena; a replacement is now planned, with the city exploring an investor model in 2026.
Hannskarl Bandel
Hannskarl Bandel (1925–1993) was a German-American structural engineer known for long-span and tensile structures, including the Gateway Arch with Eero Saarinen and Chicago's Marina City.
Hannu
Hannu, also read Henu or Henenu, was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty whose Wadi Hammamat inscription records dispatching ships to Punt under Mentuhotep III.
Hannu Häkkinen
Hannu Häkkinen, born in 1962, is a Finnish computational nanoscientist and professor at the University of Jyväskylä, known for the superatom theory of ligand-protected gold clusters.
Hannu Manninen
Hannu Manninen (born 1978, Rovaniemi), Finnish Nordic combined skier; four straight overall World Cup titles 2003/04–2006/07, 48 World Cup wins, Olympic team gold 2002, six Olympian, later Finnair pilot.
Hannutti
Ḫannutti was a Hittite officer who served Šuppiluliuma I in the late fourteenth century BC, known from two letters to Idanda of Qatna and campaigns in Syria and Anatolia.
Hanny Al‐Samkari
Hanny Al-Samkari is an American hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led major trials in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and pyruvate kinase deficiency.
Hannya (般若)
Hannya (般若) is the horned female-demon mask of Japanese Noh theater, worn in Aoi no Ue, Dōjōji, Kurozuka, and Momijigari; its name may come from the carver Hannya-bō or Buddhist wisdom (prajna), and it reads as rage and sorrow at once.
Hano (crater on Titan)
Hano is a 100 km diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Titan at 40.3°N, 345.1°W, named in 2011 for a Bella Coola goddess of knowledge and magic; SARTopo shows a 525 m deep floor with a central uplift.
Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội), Vietnam's capital, founded 1010 as Thăng Long, "Rising Dragon"; UNESCO-listed Thang Long Imperial Citadel; over 8 million residents on the Red River; fastest-urbanizing Southeast Asian capital with major flood risk.
Hanoi Botanical Gardens
Hanoi Botanical Gardens, or Bach Thao Park (Vườn Bách Thảo), a French-created 1890 botanical garden behind the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi; now about 10 hectares with rare and red-listed tree species.
Hanoi Hannah
Hanoi Hannah, born Trịnh Thị Ngọ, was the Radio Hanoi announcer whose English-language propaganda broadcasts were aimed at American troops in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1973.
Hanoi Medical University
Hanoi Medical University (Trường Đại học Y Hà Nội), founded 1902 as the Indochina Medical School, is Vietnam's oldest public medical university in Hanoi, offering a six-year Vietnamese-language Doctor of Medicine degree and large postgraduate training.
Hanoi Opera House
The Hanoi Opera House (Nhà hát Lớn Hà Nội) is a French colonial opera house in central Hanoi, built between 1901 and 1911 and modeled on the Opera Garnier in Paris.
Hanoi Rocks
Hanoi Rocks, Finnish glam rock band (1979-1985, reformed 2002) led by Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy; five albums including Back To Mystery City; Razzle's 1984 death ended the original lineup; influenced Guns N' Roses and glam metal.
Hanomag
Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG) was a German engineering company in Hannover founded in 1835, known for steam locomotives, early small cars, tractors, trucks, and construction machinery.
Hanover
Hanover (Hannover), capital of Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Leine River; about 558,000 residents, host of the world's largest trade fair grounds, in personal union with Britain 1714–1837.
Hanover College
Hanover College is a private liberal arts college in Hanover, Indiana, founded in 1827 by Presbyterian minister John Finley Crowe and recognized as the oldest private college in Indiana.
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire: Grafton County college town of about 12,000 on the Connecticut River, home of Dartmouth College (chartered 1761, college 1769). Known for high housing costs, conserved Moose Mountain lands, and Dartmouth-driven economy.
Hanoverian horse
Hanoverian horse (Hannoveraner), German warmblood sport horse from Lower Saxony, bred by the Hannoveraner Verband in Verden since the 1735 Celle state stud; 160–172 cm, selected via mare performance tests for dressage, jumping, eventing, and driving.
Hanqing Jiang
Hanqing Jiang (姜汉卿) is a Chinese-born mechanical engineer, Chair Professor at Westlake University since 2021 after fifteen years at Arizona State University, known for work on lithium dendrites and origami metamaterials.
Hans (Frozen)
Prince Hans Westergaard of the Southern Isles is the hidden villain of Disney's Frozen (2013), voiced by Santino Fontana; the overlooked thirteenth son courts Anna before his usurpation plot and betrayal are revealed.
Hans Ågren
Hans Ågren, born 1950 in Skellefteå, Sweden, is a Swedish theoretical chemist known for X-ray spectroscopy theory, who held the Theoretical Chemistry chair at KTH from 1998 to 2017.
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973) was a Swiss-born American hydraulic engineer, son of physicist Albert Einstein, whose 1950 bed-load function became a standard method for predicting sediment transport in rivers.
Hans Andersag
Hans Andersag, born Johann Josef Andersag in 1902, was a German chemist at Bayer who synthesized the antimalarial chloroquine in 1934, though Bayer shelved it as too toxic.
Hans Andreus
Hans Andreus, pseudonym of Johan Wilhelm van der Zant (1926–1977), was a Dutch poet of the Vijftigers, whose debut collection Muziek voor kijkdieren appeared in 1951.
Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger (1906–1980) was an Austrian pediatrician who headed the therapeutic pedagogy ward of the Vienna University Children's Clinic and described "autistic psychopathy" in 1944, giving Asperger syndrome its name.
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung, also known as Hans Baldung Grien, was a German Renaissance painter and woodcut master. He is known for his expressive style and themes of death and witches.
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer was a German-born artist associated with Surrealism, famous for constructing and photographing life-sized, anatomically reconfigurable female dolls published in Minotaure in 1934.
Hans Belting
Hans Belting (1935–2023) was a German art historian who reoriented his discipline from art toward the image, holding chairs at Heidelberg and Munich and writing Likeness and Presence.