Earl Of Cambridge Scottish Royalist whose vacillating, ineffectual leadership did great damage to King Charles I's cause during the English Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
American figure skater, who was a four-time world champion and the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in men's figure skating. He has been credited with imbuing men's figure skating with an air of athleticism. In order to portray figure skating ...
British general, commander in chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey in the Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I.
Irish mathematician who contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra-in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions. His work proved significant for the development of quantum mechanics.
mathematical definition introduced in 1835 by Sir William Rowan Hamilton to express the rate of change in time of the condition of a dynamic physical system-one regarded as a set of moving particles. The Hamiltonian of a system specifies its ...
city, west-central Himachal Pradesh state, northeastern India. It is situated about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Bhakra Dam in the Himalayan-Sutlej Basin and lies on the road from Mandi to Nadaun. The nearest railway station is Jwalamukhi Road.
city, southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Hamirpur lies along the Yamuna River, south of Kanpur. Located at a road junction and near a major rail line, it is an agricultural trade centre. The city contains ruins dating from the ...
tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1599-1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from an unauthorized text, with reference to an earlier play. The First Folio version was taken from a second quarto of 1604 ...
legendary prince of Denmark and central character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The character's problematic nature has lent itself to innumerable interpretations by actors and critics. Though the story itself was centuries old, Hamlet's famous hesitation-his reluctance or unreadiness to avenge ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Lippe and Ahse rivers and the Lippe-Seiten Canal, at the eastern edge of the Ruhr industrial region. Founded in 1226 as the capital of the county ...
American football (soccer) player, who became the first international star of the women's game. Playing forward, she starred on the U.S. national team that won World Cup championships in 1991 and 1999 and Olympic gold medals in 1996 and 2004. ...
(Arabic: "Hammad the Transmitter [or Reciter]") anthologist of Arab antiquities credited with collecting the seven early odes known as Al-Mu'allaqat (The Seven Odes).
fishing port and beach resort, northeastern Tunisia, on Al-Hammamat Gulf. Al-Hammamat (Arabic: "Bathing Places") is located on the southeast coast of Cape Bon Peninsula, on the border of the Sahil region, and between the Roman sites of Siagum and Pupput, ...
Palestinian nationalist who was the London representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was known for his moderate stance and willingness to negotiate with Israel.
large swampy lake in southeastern Iraq, south of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Fed by distributaries of the Euphrates, the lake (70 miles [110 km] long; 750 square miles [1,950 square km] in area) drains via a ...
Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-61) and enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of the UN. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1961.
tool designed for pounding or delivering repeated blows. Varied uses require a multiplicity of designs and weights. Hand hammers consist of a handle and striking head, with the head often made of metal with a hole in the centre to ...
(1918), legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Keating-Owen Act, which had regulated child labour. The act, passed in 1916, had prohibited the interstate shipment of goods produced in factories or mines in ...
town, Finnmark fylke (county), on the barren island of Kvaloya, in Soroy Sound, off the northwestern coast of Norway. Chartered in 1789, it was bombarded and destroyed by two English brigs in 1809. Between 1816 and 1852 Norway, Sweden, and ...
(Scopus umbretta), African wading bird, the sole species of the family Scopidae, within the order Ciconiiformes, which also includes herons, flamingos, and storks. The hammerhead ranges over Africa south of the Sahara and occurs on Madagascar and in southwestern Arabia. ...
any shark of the family Sphyrnidae (class Selachii). Hammerheads are widely distributed in all oceans, in warm and temperate waters. These sharks are named for the unusual shape of their heads, which are broad, flattened, and hammer- or spade-shaped, with ...
inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It lies north of the River Thames and west of Kensington and Chelsea. It was created a borough in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former metropolitan boroughs of ...
U.S. lyricist, musical comedy author, and theatrical producer influential in the development of musical comedy and known especially for his immensely successful collaboration with the composer Richard Rodgers.
city, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It is located in the Calumet industrial complex between Chicago and Gary, on the Grand Calumet River, near Lake Michigan. It was founded in 1869 when George Hammond, a pioneer in the shipping of ...
village, in the town (township) of Urbana, Steuben county, southern New York, U.S. It lies at the south end of Keuka Lake (one of the Finger Lakes), 20 miles (32 km) north-northwest of Corning. In 1829 a local resident, William ...
in Spain, Muslim Berber dynasty, one of the party kingdoms (ta'ifahs) that emerged during the decline of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba early in the 11th century. The Hammudids ruled Malaga (1022-57) and Algeciras (1039-58).
sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st (Amorite) dynasty of Babylon (reigning c. 1792-50 BC), noted for his surviving set of laws, once considered the oldest promulgation of laws in human history. See Hammurabi, Code of.
the most complete and perfect extant collection of Babylonian laws, developed during the reign of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) of the 1st dynasty of Babylon. It consists of his legal decisions that were collected toward the end of his reign and ...
county, southwestern Massachusetts, U.S., bordered by Connecticut to the south. The county's terrain is characterized by mountains in the west and by ridges and valleys in the east, bisected north-south by the Connecticut River. Other watercourses include the Chicopee and ...
English Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to King Charles I over ship money, an episode in the controversies that ultimately led to the English Civil Wars.
