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Hammerskins
Hammerskins, or Hammerskin Nation (HSN), a neo-Nazi racist skinhead group founded in Dallas in 1988, known for its crossed-hammers logo from Pink Floyd's The Wall, white power music events, and violent hate crimes.
Hampstead hoax
The Hampstead hoax, also called the Hampstead satanic ritual abuse case, was a 2014 fabricated allegation that about 175 Hampstead people ran a satanic paedophile ring; children recanted, a 2015 High Court judgment found the claims fabricated, and the conspiracy spread online.
Han Chinese
Han Chinese (汉族, Hanzu) are the PRC's majority minzu, about 91.5% of the population, one of 56 recognized groups, tracing roots to the Huaxia and speaking seven major Sinitic fangyan groups.
Han Taiwanese
Han Taiwanese (臺灣漢人) are the Han Chinese majority of Taiwan, about 95–98% of the population, descended from Fujian and Guangdong migrants (Hoklo, Hakka) from the 17th century and post-1945 mainlanders.
Hand fetishism
Hand fetishism is sexual arousal focused on hands, a nongenital body-part fetish related to glove fetishism. Less common than foot fetishism; classified under fetishism/partialism in DSM and ICD, a disorder only with distress.
Handkerchief code
Handkerchief code, also called hanky code, bandana code, or flagging: a 1970s American gay leather subculture system of colored handkerchiefs in back pockets signaling sexual interests, left pocket for top, right for bottom, with no universal color list.
Handmaiden
Handmaiden (also handmaid): an old-fashioned English word for a female servant, and in formal use a thing that supports something else, as in mathematics the handmaiden of the sciences; also the title of Park Chan-wook's 2016 film adapted from Fingersmith.
Hands Across America
Hands Across America was a May 25, 1986 USA for Africa fundraiser in which about 5 million people held hands along a 4,125-mile route from New York to Los Angeles, raising roughly $15-34 million for US hunger and homelessness relief.
Hangar 18 (conspiracy theory)
Hangar 18: conspiracy theory that Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio stored Roswell UFO debris and alien bodies, popularized by Robert Spencer Carr in 1974 and a 1980 film; the Air Force says no Hangar 18 ever existed.
Hanlon's razor
Hanlon's razor, an adage reading "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," coined by Robert J. Hanlon in 1980's Murphy's Law Book Two, with antecedents in Heinlein, Goethe, and Hume.
Hannah Simpson Grant
Hannah Simpson Grant, also known as Hannah Simpson, was a quiet Methodist and the mother of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and 18th US president.
Hans Eysenck
Hans Eysenck (Hans Jürgen Eysenck, 1916–1997) was a German-born British psychologist known for the PEN model of personality, built around psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism, and for championing behavior therapy.
Haole
Haole is a Hawaiian word meaning foreigner or white person, used in Hawaii and Hawaii Pidgin for non-Polynesians, especially whites; debated as slur or neutral, ruled non-derogatory by Hawaii's Civil Rights Commission in 1995 but treated as a slur in a 2022 federal hate crime case.
Hapa
Hapa is a Native Hawaiian word meaning portion or half, known through hapa haole (half white/foreigner); originally for mixed Native Hawaiians, later adopted by mainland mixed Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, with an ongoing appropriation debate.
Happiness
Happiness, in research terms subjective well-being, spans hedonic pleasure and eudaimonic meaning. Covered: its two traditions, measurement via the Cantril ladder and Gallup World Poll, and income, social, and genetic determinants.
Happy Valley set
The Happy Valley set was a circle of British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and socialites in Kenya's Rift Valley, 1920s-1940s, infamous for drink, drugs, and adultery, ending with Lord Erroll's 1941 murder.
Haptic communication
Haptic communication: conveying information and emotion through touch, directly or via tactile/kinesthetic devices (mediated social touch). Distinguished by CT-afferent affective touch, discriminative mechanoreceptors, VR haptic systems, and the Tactile Internet.
Harassment
Harassment is unwelcome conduct based on protected characteristics or sexual aims that creates hostile, intimidating environments. Covers US Title VII legal standards, the 1975 coining of sexual harassment, ILO Convention 190, underreporting, and prevention evidence.
Haratin
Haratin (Haratine, Black Moors): Arabic-speaking descendants of enslaved Black Africans in Mauritania and the Sahel, the largest ethnolinguistic group there at about 40% of the population, historically enslaved by the Beydane; slavery was abolished in 1981 and criminalized in 2007 but persists in descent-based forms.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh separatist leader and Surrey, B.C. gurdwara president, shot dead June 18, 2023; India had designated him a Khalistan Tiger Force terrorist, and Canada alleged Indian agents were linked to his killing.
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ)
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ) is an Indian politician from Gujarat who rose to prominence leading the 2015 Patidar quota agitation and now serves as a BJP MLA from Viramgam.
Harem (حريم)
Harem (حريم, ḥarīm), from Arabic for something forbidden or sacred: the women of a Muslim household and the secluded quarters reserved for them; also the Ottoman imperial harem, a powerful political and training institution ended by the Turkish Republic.
Harilal Gandhi
Harilal Mohandas Gandhi (June 1888 – 18 June 1948), eldest son of Mahatma and Kasturba Gandhi, satyagraha leader in South Africa, estranged from his father, converted to Islam as Abdulla in 1936, died of tuberculosis in Bombay.
Harold Kushner
Harold S. Kushner (1935–2023), American Conservative rabbi of Temple Israel, Natick, Massachusetts, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981), written after his son Aaron died of progeria; the bestseller advanced a theology of a loving but not all-powerful God.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, was an American abolitionist who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and then made about 13 return trips to rescue others.
Harriman family
Harriman family, American dynasty descended from Leonard of Rowley and John of New Haven; E. H. Harriman built the Union Pacific fortune, Averell Harriman became governor and diplomat, and the name survives in Brown Brothers Harriman and Columbia's Harriman Institute.
Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912–2002), British-born American activist, Communist Party member, and founder of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in 1950; later co-founded the Radical Faeries in 1979.
Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner (1923–1991), American broadcast journalist, CBS and ABC evening news anchor and founding 60 Minutes correspondent; with Barbara Walters formed network TV's first male-female anchor team.
Hartini
Hartini (Siti Suhartini, 1924-2002), Indonesian fourth wife of President Sukarno, unofficial First Lady at Bogor Palace; married amid 1950s polygamy protests, mother of Taufan and Bayu, buried at Karet Bivak.
Hate group
Hate group: an organization whose beliefs or practices attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for immutable characteristics. Designated by private monitors like the SPLC and ADL, not a legal category; the FBI investigates only under force-threat conditions.