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Hop-A-Jet Flight 823

Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 (Ace Aviation Services) was a Part 135 charter flight in a Bombardier Challenger 604, N823KD, that lost both GE CF34-3B engines to corrosion-related compressor stalls on approach to Naples, Florida, on February 9, 2024, crash-landed on Interstate 75, and killed both pilots.

Hopaebeop

Hopaebeop (호패법, 號牌法) was a Joseon law requiring all males aged 16 and above to carry identity tags, first fully implemented in 1413 under Taejong.

Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy, fictional cowboy created by Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, sanitized on screen by William Boyd in 66 films (1935-1948) and the first TV Western (NBC, June 24, 1949), with horse Topper and a $70 million merchandising peak.

Hopane

Hopane is a stable pentacyclic hydrocarbon with formula C₃₀H₅₂, the geologic degradation product of bacterial hopanoid lipids and a key biomarker used in oil correlation, maturity assessment, and oil spill fingerprinting.

Hopcroft–Karp algorithm

The Hopcroft–Karp algorithm, published by John E. Hopcroft and Richard M. Karp in 1973, finds a maximum matching in a bipartite graph in O(m√n) time.

Hope

Hope in psychology is positive expectation for the future, defined most influentially by Snyder's theory as agency plus pathways thinking toward goals; distinct from optimism, measured by the Adult Hope Scale, and linked to better mental and physical health.

Hope (2026 film)

Hope (호프) is a 2026 South Korean sci-fi action thriller by Na Hong-jin, his first film in a decade. Set near the DMZ in Hope Harbor, it premiered at Cannes 2026, opened in Korea July 15, 2026, and was released by Neon in the US September 9, 2026.

Hope (sloop)

Hope (sloop): 1948 gaff-rigged wooden oyster sloop built by the Chard family on Brush Island, Greenwich, Connecticut; the last sail-powered oyster sloop built on Long Island Sound, later a Norwalk museum vessel, one of three surviving US oyster sloops.

Hope (소원) (2013 film)

Hope (소원) is a 2013 South Korean drama directed by Lee Joon-ik, based on the 2008 Cho Doo-soon case, about a girl's recovery and her family's healing.

Hope & Faith

Hope & Faith is an American ABC sitcom (2003–2006, 73 episodes) created by Joanna Johnson, starring Faith Ford as Hope and Kelly Ripa as Faith, sisters living together after Faith's soap character is killed off.

Hope Abandoned

Hope Abandoned (Vtoraya kniga) is the second volume of memoirs by Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the poet Osip Mandelstam, first published in Paris in 1972.

Hope Against Hope

Hope Against Hope (Russian: Vospominaniya, "memoirs") is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, and his persecution under Stalin, first published in English in 1970.

Hope and Fury

Hope and Fury is the 24th studio album by English singer-songwriter Joe Jackson, released 10 April 2026 on earMUSIC. Nine songs, 34:39, recorded in Berlin and New York with Patrick Dillett, described by Jackson as "Bicoastal LatinJazzFunkRock"; not to be confused with the 2023 Darren Mason album or the 2018 MLK documentary.

Hope and Glory (film)

Hope and Glory (1987) is John Boorman's autobiographical comedy-drama about his London Blitz childhood, seen through young Bill Rowan; Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe winner, followed by Queen and Country (2014).

Hope Bay

Hope Bay is a gold mining and exploration property in the Kitikmeot region of mainland Nunavut, Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle, which approved a construction decision in May 2026.

Hope Cooke

Hope Cooke (born June 24, 1940, San Francisco) is an American writer who married Sikkim's last king, Palden Thondup Namgyal, in 1963 and was Gyalmo (queen consort) until India annexed the kingdom in 1975; she divorced in 1980 and became a New York historian.

HOPE COVID 19 study

HOPE COVID-19 (Health Outcome Predictive Evaluation for COVID-19, NCT04334291) is an international investigator-initiated observational registry of 8,168 hospitalized COVID-19 patients led from Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, studying mortality, prognostic scores, and treatments; HOPE-II is its 55-center successor.

Hope Creek nuclear power plant

Hope Creek nuclear power plant is a single-unit boiling water reactor plant in Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey, operated by PSEG Nuclear and licensed to run until 2046.

Hope Davis

Hope Davis (born 1964, Englewood, New Jersey) is an American actress of indie film, TV, and stage, known for American Splendor, In Treatment, The Special Relationship, Succession, and God of Carnage.

Hope Diamond

The Hope Diamond, or Le Bijou du Roi, is a 45.52-carat deep grayish-blue diamond cut from the stolen French Blue and displayed at the Smithsonian since 1958.

Hope Floats

Hope Floats is a 1998 American romantic drama directed by Forest Whitaker, starring Sandra Bullock as a woman whose husband's affair is exposed on television and who rebuilds her life in her small Texas hometown.

Hope Florida

Hope Florida is Casey DeSantis's 2021 welfare-navigation program using Hope Navigators; its foundation received $10 million from a 2024 Centene Medicaid settlement that a grand jury found was misappropriated into anti-Amendment 3 political spending, with no charges filed.

Hope Florida scandal

Hope Florida scandal: $10 million of a 2024 Centene Medicaid settlement directed to Casey DeSantis's Hope Florida Foundation, then routed via two 501(c)(4) groups to a political committee opposing Florida's marijuana Amendment 3; grand jury found misappropriation, no charges, report later expunged.

Hope for Democracy (Ελπίδα για τη Δημοκρατία)

Hope for Democracy (Ελπίδα για τη Δημοκρατία) is a Greek political movement founded 21 May 2026 by pediatrician Maria Karystianou, an independent citizens' movement focused on justice, anti-corruption, and transparency.

Hope Hicks

Hope Hicks, born 1988, is an American communications executive, Trump's 2016 campaign press secretary, White House communications director 2017 to 2018, senior adviser 2020, and later Devil May Care Media COO.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

"Hope" is the thing with feathers is an 1861 poem by Emily Dickinson that defines hope as a bird that sings without words and asks nothing in return.

Hope Island

Hope Island is the largest of a group of small islands off D'Urville Island at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°03'S 56°50'W, named on Powell's 1822 map, also called Isla Esperanza.

Hope Lange

Hope Lange (Hope Elise Ross Lange), American actress (died 2003), Oscar-nominated for Peyton Place (1957), two-time Emmy winner for The Ghost & Mrs. Muir; birth year disputed, 1931 or 1933.

Hope Logan

Hope Logan is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, daughter of Brooke Logan and Deacon Sharpe, played by Annika Noelle since 2018, creator of Hope for the Future and later Hope by Logan.

Hope Mbhele

Hope Mbhele, born Nosipho Mbhele in 1996, is a South African actress and presenter. She is best known for playing MaBusi in the Mzansi Magic drama Umkhokha.