any of various styles of head covering. Men wore hats in the form of caps or hoods in ancient times, but women favoured veils and wimples until the late Middle Ages. Hats have often served ceremonial functions, sometimes symbolizing the ...
(1732), in U.S. colonial history, British law restricting colonial manufacture and export of hats in direct competition with English hatmakers. Part of the mercantile system that subordinated the colonies economically, the Hat Act forbade exportation of hats from the colonies, ...
Vietnamese peasant theatre. It is generally (though not always) played out-of-doors in the forecourt of a village communal house. It is basically satirical in intent. Performances are given by amateur touring groups whose acting is realistic, rather than stylized. The ...
city on the Malay Peninsula, extreme southern Thailand. It has become a modern, rapidly growing commercial city by virtue of its position on the major road south to Malaysia and on the junction of the eastern and western branches of ...
(Aug. 2, 1939; amended July 1940), measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, aimed at eliminating corrupt practices in national elections. It was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico following disclosures that Works Progress Administration officials were using their ...
any member of two unrelated groups of hatchet-shaped fishes-deep-sea forms of the family Sternoptychidae or freshwater fishes of the family Gasteropelecidae.
technique used by draftsmen, engravers, and other artists who use mediums that do not allow blending (e.g., pen and ink) to indicate shading, modeling, and light and shade. It consists of filling in the appropriate areas with a mass of ...
heraldic memorial to a deceased person. The word is a corruption of achievement, the correct term for the full armorial display of shield, helmet, crest, mantling, wreath, and such additaments as mottoes, supporters, coronets, and compartment as are appropriate. This ...
harassment, intimidation, or physical violence that is motivated by a bias against characteristics of the victim considered integral to his social identity, such as his race, ethnicity, or religion. Some relatively broad hate-crime laws also include sexual orientation and mental ...
town, Welwyn Hatfield district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, located on the old Great North Road north of London. Hatfield House, the home of the Cecil family, stands on the site of Bishop John Morton of Ely's palace ...
two American Appalachian mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbours, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and '90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the ...
(Sanskrit: "Union of Force"), a school of Indian philosophy that stresses mastery of the body as a way of attaining spiritual perfection. It is an outgrowth of the Yoga school of Indian philosophy. Hatha Yoga traces its origins to Gorakhnath, ...
in ancient Egyptian religion, goddess of the sky, of women, and of fertility and love. Hathor's worship originated in predynastic times (4th millennium BC). The name Hathor means "estate of Horus" and may not be her original name. Her principal ...
city, west-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies south of Aligarh city, with which it is connected by road and rail. It is a trade centre for agricultural products, and its industry includes cotton and oilseed milling and light ...
island situated in the Meghna estuary of the Gangetic delta, southeastern Bangladesh. A low-lying land mass 23 miles (37 km) long and 4-8 miles (6.5-13 km) wide, it is partially protected by embankments from sea incursions and is continually subject ...
in Arab folklore, a mysterious nocturnal voice that is sometimes prophetic. A hatif is mentioned in the Bible (Ezekiel 21:2 and 7; Amos 7:16) as a prophet's voice, and it seems to have presaged Muhammad's prophetic mission. It is said ...
long, ornamental pin used for decoration and for fastening a woman's hat securely to her hair. In the late Victorian era and the beginning of the 20th century, the hatpin became a popular and important clothing accessory.
ruined city located in the Al-Jazirah region of present-day northern Iraq, 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Baghdad and 68 miles (110 km) southwest of Mosul. A religious and trading centre of the Parthian empire, it flourished during the 1st ...
queen of Egypt (reigned in her own right c. 1472-58 BC) who attained unprecedented power for a queen, adopting the full titles and regalia of a pharaoh.
submarine plain forming the floor of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. It lies east of the North American continental shelf between the southern United States and Bermuda, extending about 900 mi (1,450 km) from north to south, with an average width ...
long, narrow, curved sandbar forming a promontory on Hatteras Island, the southeasternmost point of the Outer Banks, North Carolina, U.S. Treacherous shallows to the southeast in the Atlantic Ocean long have been a danger to navigation. Much of the cape's ...
non-Indo-European language of Anatolia that was spoken before the period of the Hittite New Empire (c. 1400-1190 BC). Passages in the language occur in the Hittite cuneiform texts discovered in the ruins of the Hittite archives at Bogazkoy (the ancient ...
city, seat (1908) of Forrest county, southeastern Mississippi, U.S., on the Leaf and Bouie rivers, 70 miles (113 km) north of Gulfport. The city, in a longleaf-pine forest area, was founded in 1882 by Captain William H. Hardy, lumberman and ...
(July 4, 1187), battle in northern Palestine that marked the defeat and annihilation of the Christian Crusader armies of Guy de Lusignan, king of Jerusalem (reigned 1186-92), by the Muslim forces of Saladin. It paved the way for the Muslim ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany, on the Ruhr River, immediately south of Bochum. Chartered in 1396 and a member of the Hanseatic League, it declined during the Thirty Years' War and expanded again in the 19th century. Its ...
archbishop of Mainz and counsellor to the German king Arnulf of Bavaria, the last East Frankish Carolingian emperor; as regent for Arnulf's son Louis the Child (900-911), he governed the German kingdom for the last member of the East Frankish ...
(count of Gleichen and) a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Though active in every theatre of war, he proved no match for the leading Protestant generals.
the first and most important linguist of modern Greece, noted for his studies of ancient, medieval, and modern Greek and for his initiation of the Historical Lexicon of the Greek Language.
(German: "stacking cup"), beaker, usually of silver, that is part of a set that can be stacked or piled up. Pieces are made so that the base of one fits into the bowl of another. Each beaker has a deep, ...
French geologist and paleontologist known for his contributions to the theory of geosynclines (trenches that accumulate thousands of metres of sediment and later become crumpled and uplifted into mountain chains).
Norwegian Nordic skier who won three gold medals and a bronze at the inaugural Winter Olympics at Chamonix, France, in 1924. His bronze medal was revoked 50 years later.
Norwegian novelist and poet, best known for his trilogy describing the life of a Norwegian immigrant to the United States in the 1820s: Hundevakt (1961; "Midwatch"), Landkjenning (1964; "Land Sighting"), and Ankerfeste (1965; "Anchoring"). The collected work was published as ...
town, Rogaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway. A North Sea port, Haugesund is a shipbuilding and repair centre and has a 928-foot (283-metre) drydock that was the largest in Scandinavia at its completion in 1979. The town also engages in aluminum ...
in full Christian August Heinrich Kurt, Graf Von Haugwitz Prussian minister and diplomat, the principal author of Prussian foreign policy from 1792 to 1806, who was held largely responsible for the catastrophic war against Napoleon (1806) that made Prussia a ...
any of the radical members of the Maori Pai Marire (Maori: "Good and Peaceful") religion, founded in 1862 in Taranaki on North Island, New Zealand. The movement was founded by Te Ua Haumene, a Maori prophet who had been captured ...
