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Hoopoe starling

The hoopoe starling (Fregilupus varius), also known as the Réunion starling or Bourbon crested starling, is a species of starling that lived on the Mascarene is…

Hope (Watts)

Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. Radically different from previous t…

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Lon…

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Horatio Bottomley

Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. …

Horizon Guyot

Horizon Guyot is a presumably Cretaceous tablemount (guyot) in the Mid-Pacific Mountains of the Pacific Ocean. It is an elongated ridge, over 300 kilometres (19…

Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The first instalment in the H…

Horncastle boar's head

The Horncastle boar's head is an early seventh-century Anglo-Saxon ornament depicting a boar that probably was once part of the crest of a helmet. It was discov…

Horned sungem

The horned sungem (Heliactin bilophus) is a species of hummingbird native to much of central Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Suriname. It prefers open habitats …

Horologium (constellation)

Horologium (Latin hōrologium, the pendulum clock, from Greek ὡρολόγιον, lit. 'an instrument for telling the hour') is a constellation of six stars faintly visib…

Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)

Horrible Histories is a British live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series, based on the bestselling book series of the same name by Ter…

Horse Protection Act of 1970

The Horse Protection Act of 1970 (HPA); (codified 15 U.S.C. §§ 1821–1831) is a United States federal law, under which the practice of soring is a crime punishab…

Horses in World War I

The use of horses in World War I (1914–1918) marked a transitional period in the evolution of armed conflict. Cavalry units were initially considered essential …

Horseshoe bat

Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae. In addition to the single living genus, Rhinolophus, which has about 106 species, the extinct genus Palaeon…

Horseshoe Curve (Pennsylvania)

The Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve on Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The curve is rou…

Hot Sugar (song)

"Hot Sugar" is a song by American singer Tamar Braxton from her second studio album, Love and War (2013). Kyle "K2" Stewart II produced the song and co-wrote it…

Hotel Chevalier

Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Pari…

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a 2015 top-down shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place before, …

Hours of Mary of Burgundy

The Hours of Mary of Burgundy (German: Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund) is a book of hours, a form of devotional book for lay-people, completed in Flanders ar…

House (TV series)

House (also known as House, M.D. and Dr. House in some international markets) is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore for Fox. It …

House of Music

House of Music is the fourth and final studio album by American R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, released on November 19, 1996, by Mercury Records. It follows the su…

House with Chimaeras

House with Chimaeras (Ukrainian: Будинок з химерами, romanized: Budynok z khymeramy) or Horodetsky House (named for Władysław Horodecki) is an Art Nouveau build…

Hove War Memorial

Hove War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and located on Grand Avenue in Hove, part of the city of Brighton and Hove, on the…

How a Mosquito Operates

How a Mosquito Operates is a 1912 silent animated short film by the American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The six-minute short depicts a giant mosquito tormenting a…

How Brown Saw the Baseball Game

How Brown Saw the Baseball Game is an American short silent comedy film produced in 1907 and distributed by the Lubin Manufacturing Company. The film follows a …

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