large, powerful monkey of the plains and open-rock areas of the Red Sea coast, both in Africa (Eritrea, The Sudan) and on the opposite coast in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The hamadryas is the smallest baboon species, with a body ...
city, central Syria, on the banks of the Orontes River. It was an important prehistoric settlement, becoming the kingdom of Hamath under the Aramaeans in the 11th century BC. It fell under Assyrian control in the 9th century BC, later ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the west bank of the Tenryu River, northeast of Hamamatsu. Hamakita's cotton industry began in the late 19th century, and the city now has more than 500 cotton factories. Other industrial ...
Finnish Nordic skier who was Finland's foremost female competitor in the sport. She captured three Olympic gold medals and a bronze at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). She won seven Olympic medals between 1984 ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the Pacific coast, midway between Tokyo and Kyoto. A leading industrial centre with strong economic ties to Nagoya, it is noted for pianos, motorcycles, cotton dyeing and weaving, and consumer goods. ...
the witch hazel family of the order Hamamelidales, comprising 23 genera of shrubs and trees native to both tropical and warm temperate regions. It includes mildly popular ornamentals such as witch hazel, winter hazel, and Fothergilla, which are outstanding for ...
subclass of woody or herbaceous plants, the smallest of the six subclasses of the class Magnoliopsida. Among its members are the witch hazel family (Hamamelidaceae), the hemp family (Cannabaceae), the nettle family (Urticaceae), the walnut family (Juglandaceae), the bayberry family ...
order of woody flowering plants, belonging to the class known as dicotyledon (characterized by the presence of two seed leaves). Its three families are composed of 30 genera and 150 species, most of which are medium-sized trees or shrubs. They ...
German Protestant thinker, fideist, and friend of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. His distrust of reason led him to conclude that a childlike faith in God was the only solution to vexing problems of philosophy.
town, seat of Hedmark fylke (county), southeastern Norway. Hamar lies on the eastern shore of Mjosa (the largest lake in the country). It was founded in 1152 by Nicholas Breakspear, papal legate to Scandinavia, who later became the only English ...
benign tumourlike growth made up of normal mature cells in abnormal number or distribution. While malignant tumours contain poorly differentiated cells, hamartomas consist of distinct cell types retaining normal functions. Because their growth is limited, hamartomas are not true tumours ...
militant Palestinian Islamic movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine. Founded in 1987, Hamas opposed the 1993 peace accords between Israel and ...
an Arabic anthology compiled by the poet Abu Tammam in the 9th century. It is so called from the title of its first book, which contains poems descriptive of fortitude in battle, patient endurance of calamity, steadfastness in seeking vengeance, ...
district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It includes part of the Cleveland Hills, whose southern extension is known as the Hambleton Hills, from which the district takes its name. The hills form the west-facing escarpment ...
(foaled 1849), American harness racehorse (Standardbred) that was the ancestor of most present-day harness racers. The thrice inbred great-grandson of Messenger (foundation sire of the breed of Standardbreds), he was the son of Abdallah out of a crippled mare. His ...
annual American race for three-year-old trotters, one of harness racing's most widely known events. The Hambletonian was first held in 1926 at Syracuse, N.Y. It was later moved to Goshen, N.Y., in 1957 to Du Quoin, Ill., and in 1981 ...
art gallery in Hamburg, founded in 1850, with paintings and sculptures of all periods, drawings (notably by German Romantics), prints, coins, and medals. The collection of paintings is strongest in works of the later 19th and the 20th centuries. The ...
ground beef. The term is applied variously to (1) a patty of ground beef, sometimes called hamburg steak, Salisbury steak, or Vienna steak, (2) a sandwich consisting of a patty of beef served within a split bread roll, with various ...
Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer who represented some of the best aspects of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the 'Abbasid caliphate. From his literary production al-Hamdani was known as the "tongue of South Arabia."
Muslim Arab dynasty of northern Iraq (Al-Jazirah) and Syria (905-1004) whose members were renowned as brilliant warriors and as great patrons of Arabic poets and scholars.
urban town (township), New Haven county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies immediately north of the city of New Haven. The area, which was settled in 1664, was named for John Hampden, an English parliamentarian. It was separated from New Haven ...
Turkish statesman and art expert who asserted the right of Constantinople to receive the finds made by various archaeological enterprises in the Ottoman Empire.
laani (province), southwestern Finland. It lies north of Helsinki and includes part of Lake Paijanne, which serves as much of its eastern boundary. The province produces lumber, rye, oats, barley, and potatoes; livestock and dairy cows are also important. It ...
city, capital of Hame laani (province), southwestern Finland. It lies on the shore of Vanaja Lake, northwest of Helsinki. The city's name is derived from the castle of Hame, parts of which date from about 1250. The town, originally chartered ...
city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies along the Weser River, southwest of Hannover. Originating around the Abbey of St. Boniface, which was founded by monks from Fulda at the end of the 8th century, ...
mountains in the Pilbara region, northwestern Western Australia, extending east-southeast for 160 miles (260 km) south of the Fortescue River. Part of an ancient tableland broken by faults and gorges, the range terminates in rocky headlands and coral islets at ...
mountain range, northeastern North Korea. The range forms a watershed that separates the northern frontier area along the Chinese border from the eastern Sea of Japan (East Sea) area. The Hamgyong Mountains lie on the northeastern edge of the Kaema ...
city, east-central North Korea. It was the commercial and local administrative centre of northeastern Korea during the Yi dynasty (1392-1910). It began to develop rapidly as a modern industrial city with the construction in 1928 of a large nitrogenous fertilizer ...
Turkmen dynasty (c. 1300-1423) that ruled in southwestern Anatolia. It was founded by Felekuddin Dundar, whose father, Ilyas, was a frontier ruler under the Seljuqs and who named it after his grandfather; Dundar governed the Hamid principality jointly with his ...
general who assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last years of the First Punic War with Rome (264-241 BC). Until the rise to power of his son Hannibal, Hamilcar was the finest commander and statesman that ...
city, Waikato local government region, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies 80 miles (130 km) above the mouth of the Waikato River. Hamilton originated as a military settlement on the site of a deserted Maori village. Declared a borough ...
city, seat (1803) of Butler county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., on the Great Miami River, 25 mi (40 km) north of Cincinnati. With nearby Middletown it forms a standard metropolitan statistical area. In 1794 a town called Fairfield was laid out ...
city in the fertile western region of Victoria, Australia, on the Grange Burn River. The original village (founded in 1850) grew around an inn on the north bank of the river and was called The Grange. It became an important ...
large burgh (town), South Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Lanarkshire, west-central Scotland, situated near the junction of Avon Water and the River Clyde, just southeast of the metropolitan complex of Glasgow. The area has been settled since prehistoric times. ...
city, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the extreme western end of Lake Ontario, on the southern shore of landlocked Hamilton Harbour (Burlington Bay). The site was visited by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, in 1669. ...
capital of the British colony of Bermuda. It lies on Great Bermuda island in the western Atlantic, along the northern shore of a deepwater harbour. The name also applies to one of the nine parishes on the island. Founded in ...
county, northeastern New York state, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region located in the centre of Adirondack Park (1892), which is one of the largest parks in the United States and the nation's first forest preserve. The area is heavily ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Clinton, New York, U.S. It is a liberal arts college and offers a curriculum in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences. It awards the bachelor's degree. Students can choose to ...
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95), who was the foremost champion of a strong central government for the ...
British American colonial lawyer, judge, and public official who defended John Peter Zenger in a case important as the first victory for freedom of the press in the American colonies (1735).
