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Hôtel de Sens

The Hôtel de Sens, also called the Hôtel des archevêques de Sens, is a late 15th-century mansion in Paris's Marais, built as the residence of the archbishops of Sens.

Hôtel de Soubise

The Hôtel de Soubise is a princely townhouse in the Marais district of Paris, built for the Rohan-Soubise family and home of the French National Archives since 1808.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

The Hôtel de Ville, Paris's city hall, has stood on the place de Grève beside the Seine since 1357; the present neo-Renaissance building dates to 1882.

Hotel del Coronado

Hotel del Coronado, known as "The Del," is a historic beachfront resort in Coronado, California, across San Diego Bay from San Diego, opened in 1888.

Hotel Imperial (Vienna)

The Hotel Imperial is a five-star luxury hotel at Kärntner Ring 16 on Vienna's Ringstrasse, opened in 1873 in a palace built for Duke Philipp von Württemberg.

Hôtel Lambert

The Hôtel Lambert is a 17th-century private mansion at the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, built by Louis Le Vau for Jean-Baptiste Lambert from 1642 to 1644.

Hotel New World collapse

The Hotel New World collapse was the sudden failure of Singapore's six-storey Lian Yak Building in Rochor on 15 March 1986, killing 33 people and prompting major building-safety reforms.

Hotel Pennsylvania

Hotel Pennsylvania, known as Hotel Penn, was a 2,200-room Midtown Manhattan hotel built by the Pennsylvania Railroad, opened in 1919 and demolished in 2023 for a planned office tower.

Hôtel Ritz Paris

The Hôtel Ritz Paris, also called the Ritz Paris, is a luxury hotel on Place Vendôme in Paris, opened in 1898 by Swiss hotelier César Ritz.

Hôtel Salé

The Hôtel Salé is a 17th-century private mansion in the Marais district of Paris, home since 1985 to the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the largest public Picasso collection.

Hotels.com

Hotels.com is an online travel agency specializing in hotel bookings, owned by Expedia Group. It began in 1991 as the Hotel Reservations Network phone service.

Hotpoint

Hotpoint, also known as Hotpoint Ariston, is a home appliance brand dating to a 1903 electric iron, now owned by GE Appliances in the Americas and Beko Europe in the UK.

HotpotQA

HotpotQA is a 2018 question answering dataset of 113k Wikipedia question-answer pairs, built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and Université de Montréal, requiring multi-hop reasoning over multiple supporting documents.

Hotwire (web framework)

Hotwire is a web development approach from 37signals that builds modern web apps with little custom JavaScript by sending rendered HTML rather than JSON over the network.

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.

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.

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 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.

Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is a free one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org each December since 2013, reaching over 100 million students in 180 countries.

Hours of service

Hours of service (HOS) are US federal regulations limiting how long commercial motor vehicle drivers may drive and stay on duty, requiring minimum rest periods between shifts.

House

A house, also called a dwelling house, is a building designed as a dwelling for people, typically providing space for sleeping, eating, cooking, and daily domestic life.

House numbering

House numbering, or street numbering, is the assignment of unique numbers to buildings along a street, which spread in the 1700s and underpins postal delivery and emergency response.

House of Quality

The House of Quality is a product planning matrix and the basic design tool of quality function deployment, translating customer requirements into ranked engineering characteristics and targets.

House on the Rock

The House on the Rock is a tourist attraction in Spring Green, Wisconsin, built by Alex Jordan Jr. on a 60-foot rock pinnacle, opened in 1960.

Houseboat

A houseboat, also called a shantyboat, is a boat or floating structure that provides accommodation on water, used as a residence, vacation craft, or tourist vessel.

Houseparty (app)

Houseparty, also known as Houseparty.com, was a group video chat app launched in 2016 by Life on Air, acquired by Epic Games in 2019 and shut down in 2021.

Houshi power station

Houshi power station, also known as Zhangzhou Houshi power plant (漳州后石电厂), is a 4,200 MW coal-fired power station in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, with seven 600 MW supercritical units built from 1996 with Taiwan funding.

Housing in Japan

Japanese housing encompasses the country's dwelling stock and housing policy, from traditional minka farmhouses to postwar danchi apartment complexes, with 53.6 million occupied units in 2018.

Houska Castle

Houska Castle (Hrad Houska) is a 13th-century Gothic castle in Blatce, Czech Republic, known for a legend that it was built over a gateway to hell.

Houston Gas Pipeline (HPL) System

The Houston Gas Pipeline (HPL) System is a Texas intrastate natural gas pipeline network of about 3,920 miles owned by Energy Transfer, including the Bammel storage reservoir near Houston.