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Hoppers (film)

Hoppers is a 2026 Disney-Pixar animated comedy directed by Daniel Chong, in which Mabel (Piper Curda) hops her mind into a robotic beaver to save Beaverton Glade; it opened March 6, 2026 to $88 million globally.

Hoppin' John

Hoppin' John, a South Carolina lowcountry pilaf of cowpeas (black-eyed peas), rice, and pork of West African origin; first printed in The Carolina Housewife (1847) and eaten on New Year's Day for good luck.

Hopping control

Hopping control is the robotics problem of making a one-legged robot hop in place, run at a set speed, and keep its balance, established by Marc Raibert.

Hopping robot for lunar exploration

A hopping robot for lunar exploration is a small robot that crosses the Moon's surface by ballistic jumps, reaching terrain that would trap wheeled rovers, such as boulder fields and crater walls.

Hops

Hops, the female cones of Humulus lupulus (Cannabaceae), are the brewing crop that bitters, flavors, and preserves beer via alpha acids and essential oils; cultivated since the 8th-century Hallertau, with over 260 varieties and medicinal uses.

Hopscotch

Hopscotch is a children's game of throwing a marker onto numbered chalked squares and hopping through them; attested 1801, known as rayuela, marelle, campana, xarranca, and 跳房子.

Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)

Hopscotch (Rayuela) is Julio Cortázar's 1963 experimental novel, published by Editorial Sudamericana, with 155 chapters readable in linear or author-prescribed hopscotch order; a Latin American Boom landmark translated by Gregory Rabassa in 1966.

Hopscotch Primary Care

Hopscotch Primary Care, formerly Hometown Medical Holdings, LLC, is a technology-enabled rural primary care company founded in 2021, running 12 clinics in Western North Carolina for Medicare patients.

Hopsin

Hopsin (Marcus Jamal Hopson, born 1985, Panorama City, CA) is an American rapper, producer, and actor. Signed to Ruthless 2007, broke out with "Sag My Pants" 2010, co-founded Funk Volume, released five albums including No Shame (2017).

Hopsworks

Hopsworks (Hopsworks AB, Stockholm) is an open-source MLOps platform and AI Lakehouse, also known as the Hopsworks Feature Store, built on RonDB, HopsFS, and Kafka for feature, training, and inference pipelines.

Hoq Cave

Hoq Cave is a cave on north-east Socotra, Yemen, holding nearly 250 ancient inscriptions left by Indian Ocean sailors and traders between the 1st century BC and 6th century AD.

Hor (overseer of the treasury)

Hor was a high steward, a leading court official, under the 12th Dynasty king Senusret I, known from a limestone stela from Abydos now in the Louvre.

Hor (pharaoh)

Hor, also known as Hor Awibre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty around 1777 BC, known for his shaft tomb at Dahshur and its gilded wooden ka statue.

Hor of Sebennytos

Hor of Sebennytos, also known as Horos, was an Egyptian priest and scribe of the second century BC whose dream records were found at the Serapeum of Memphis.

Hora (dance)

Hora (dance): circle dance of pioneer Palestine and Israel, from Romanian hora (Greek choros). Dancers link arms, step right and jump, accelerating; tied to Hava Nagila and Israeli national identity.

Hora 0 y otros poemas

Hora 0 y otros poemas (La hora cero y otros poemas) is a 1971 poetry collection by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, centered on his poem "Hora 0" about Augusto Sandino.

Hora Zero

Hora Zero was a Peruvian poetry movement founded in Lima in 1970 by Juan Ramírez Ruiz and Jorge Pimentel, rejecting lyric poetry in favor of the "poema integral".

Horace

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE), Roman lyric poet, satirist, and critic of Venusia; author of the Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica; Maecenas's protégé under Augustus.

Horace (video game series)

Horace is a British video game series starring a blue character on the ZX Spectrum, created by William Tang for Beam Software with three games in the early 1980s.

Horace and Pete

Horace and Pete is a 2016 ten-episode web series by Louis C.K., starring C.K., Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, and Alan Alda as owners of a century-old Brooklyn bar, self-financed, sold directly on his website, later on Hulu, and a Peabody winner.

Horace Ashenfelter

Horace "Nip" Ashenfelter (1923–2018), American steeplechaser and FBI agent, won the 1952 Helsinki Olympic 3,000m steeplechase in a world-best 8:45.4, beating Soviet favorite Vladimir Kazantsev; 17 national titles, 1952 Sullivan Award.

Horace Barker

Horace Albert Barker (1907–2000) was an American biochemist and microbiologist who spent his career at UC Berkeley and discovered the coenzyme form of vitamin B12 in 1958–59, winning the National Medal of Science in 1968.

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow (1921–2020) was a British visual neuroscientist who treated vision as information processing, proposed the 1961 efficient coding hypothesis, and was the great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1848–1914) was a British geologist who spent 41 years on the Geological Survey of Great Britain and wrote The History of the Geological Society of London (1907).

Horace Bonser

Horace Robert Bonser (1886-1934), American trap shooter of the Cincinnati Gun Club; won team trap gold at Antwerp 1920 (US team 547, his score 93) and placed fifth in the individual trap with 87.

Horace Bushnell

Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) was an American Congregationalist minister and theologian in Hartford, Connecticut, whose reworking of conversion, the atonement, and the Trinity made him a father of American religious liberalism.

Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta

Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (1772-1851), Corsican-born French marshal and diplomat; Napoleon's ambassador to Constantinople 1806-1807, foreign minister under Louis-Philippe, Marshal of France 1840.

Horace Grant

Horace Grant (born 1965), NBA power forward from Clemson, drafted 10th overall in 1987 by the Bulls; four-time champion (1991-93 Bulls, 2001 Lakers), 17 seasons, 11.2 points and 8.1 rebounds per game.

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (1811–1872), American journalist and reformer, founder and editor of the New York Tribune, Whig congressman, champion of Fourierism and homesteading, and 1872 presidential candidate defeated by Grant.

Horace H. Loh

Horace H. Loh (罗浩) is a pharmacologist and neuroscientist known for research on morphine addiction and opioid receptors, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.