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Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜)
Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜), KMT politician and former National Police Agency director-general, mayor of New Taipei City since 2018 (57.1% win in 2018, 62.4% in 2022); lost Taiwan's January 13, 2024 presidential election to William Lai as the KMT nominee on a 3D strategy of deterrence, dialogue, and de-escalation.
Hou Yuon
Hou Yuon (ហ៊ូ យន់) was a Cambodian Marxist politician who served as a minister in the Khmer Rouge government and was killed by the regime in 1975 or 1976.
Hou Yuzhu
Hou Yuzhu (侯玉珠), Chinese volleyball outside hitter born 1963 in Yongtai, Fujian; Fujian club player and national team member 1983–1988 who won 1984 Olympic gold and 1988 Olympic bronze.
Hou Zhi
Hou Zhi (侯芝, 1764–1829), courtesy name Ruzhi, was a Qing-dynasty woman writer from Jiangning, now Nanjing, who edited, rewrote, and published tanci fiction, including the 1821 printed edition of Zaisheng yuan.
Hou Zhihui
Hou Zhihui (侯志慧), Chinese weightlifter born 1997, two-time Olympic champion in women's 49 kg (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), 2018 world champion, and holder of world records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total.
Houari Benchenet
Houari Benchenet (هواري بن شنات) is an Algerian raï singer from Oran, born in 1961, who records since 1977 and helped lead Oran's electric raï generation with about 400 songs.
Houari Boumediene Airport (هواري بومدين)
Houari Boumediene Airport, also known as Algiers Airport, is the main international airport serving Algiers, Algeria's capital, and its busiest, handling over 56 percent of national air traffic.
Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry
Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, or Methoden der Organischen Chemie, is a multivolume German reference work on preparative organic chemistry published by Georg Thieme Verlag from 1909 to 2003.
Houdini (Eminem song)
Eminem's "Houdini" (May 31, 2024), first single from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), samples Without Me and Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra; his 11th UK number 1 and a Hot 100 number 2.
Houdini (miniseries)
Houdini (2014) is a two-part History channel miniseries, also called the Houdini miniseries, starring Adrien Brody as the escape artist, directed by Uli Edel, written by Nicholas Meyer, aired September 1-2, 2014, with mixed reviews and one Emmy win.
Houdini (software)
Houdini is a 3D animation and visual effects application developed by SideFX of Toronto, known for its node-based procedural workflow and effects simulation for film and games.
Houge-Janssens syndrome
Houge-Janssens syndrome (HJS, Jordan's syndrome for type 1) is a spectrum of rare autosomal dominant PP2A-related neurodevelopmental disorders (types 1-4, genes PPP2R5D, PPP2R1A, PPP2CA, PPP2R5C) marked by developmental delay, hypotonia, seizures, and macrocephaly or microcephaly.
Hough transform
The Hough transform, also known as the Hough algorithm, is a computer vision feature-extraction technique that detects lines and circles by letting edge points vote in parameter space.
Houghton
Houghton, also known as Houghton Festival, is a four-day live and electronic music festival held each August at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England, founded by DJ Craig Richards in 2017.
Houghton family
The Houghton family is an American business dynasty whose glassmaking business became Corning Incorporated, with five generations managing it from 1851 through the mid-2000s and two Houghtons serving in Congress.
Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall is a Palladian country house in Norfolk, England, built between 1722 and 1735 for Sir Robert Walpole, the first de facto British Prime Minister.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), formed 2007 from Houghton Mifflin's $4 billion acquisition of Harcourt, is a K-12 education and learning technology company; its trade list (Lord of the Rings, Curious George) went to HarperCollins in 2021, and Veritas Capital took it private in 2022.
Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring: historic town in the City of Sunderland borough, Tyne and Wear, on the A690. First recorded 1112; coal-mining town (1823–1981); home of the Houghton Feast and Bernard Gilpin's Kepier Grammar School.
Houghton, Michigan
Houghton, Michigan: Upper Peninsula city on the Keweenaw Waterway, home of Michigan Technological University (founded 1885), gateway to the Keweenaw Peninsula, population about 8,560, among America's snowiest cities.
Hougoumont
Hougoumont (Château Goumont), a walled farm at Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, anchored Wellington's right flank at Waterloo on 18 June 1815; French attacks under Jérôme Bonaparte failed, the north gate was famously closed, and the restored site opened in 2015.
Houkago Tea Time
Houkago Tea Time (放課後ティータイム) is the five-member girl band in the anime K-On!, whose Pony Canyon records became the first anime-character release to top an Oricon chart in 2009.
Houki Boshi (music)
"Houki Boshi" (ほうき星) is a 2005 Japanese-language single by South Korean singer Younha, the third Bleach ending theme that peaked at number 15 on the Oricon chart.
Houla massacre
Houla massacre (الحولة): killing of over 100 civilians, including 49 children and 34 women, in Houla near Homs, Syria, on 25 May 2012; UN inquiry found government forces and Shabbiha militia responsible, which Syria denied.
Houma covenant texts
The Houma covenant texts (侯马盟书) are over 5,000 inscribed jade and stone tablets recording oaths sworn by aristocrats of the late Jin state, found at Houma, Shanxi, in 1965.
Houma, Louisiana
Houma, Louisiana: parish seat of Terrebonne Parish and hub of the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux MSA. Founded 1834, named for the Houma people; 2020 census population 33,406, declining since.
Houmuwu ding
The Houmuwu ding (后母戊鼎), formerly the Simuwu ding, is a large rectangular bronze ritual cauldron of the late Shang dynasty, the heaviest known ancient Chinese bronze at 832.84 kg.
Hound
Hound: a type of domestic dog bred to hunt by scent (scent hounds like the Bloodhound and Beagle) or by sight (sighthounds like the Greyhound, up to 40 mph). AKC Hound Group has 33 breeds; FCI Group 6 covers scent hounds.
Hound Dog (song)
"Hound Dog" is a 1952 twelve-bar blues by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, first recorded by Big Mama Thornton (1953 R&B number one) and made a chart-topping rock and roll standard by Elvis Presley in 1956.
Hounddog (film)
Hounddog, a 2007 independent drama by Deborah Kampmeier starring Dakota Fanning as Lewellen, an Elvis-loving girl in 1950s Alabama; notorious for its Sundance rape-scene controversy, re-edited before its 2008 release.
Hounds and jackals
Hounds and jackals, or the game of 58 holes, is an ancient Egyptian peg-racing board game of the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 BC), played with five hound-headed and five jackal-headed pegs, found from Egypt to Iran.