Hard hat A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as construction sites designed to protect the head from injury such as from falling objects, debris and bad weather. They are typically required personal protective equipment where heavy labor is being performed.
	Hard sauce Hard sauce is a cold dessert sauce made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, vanilla or other flavoring. It is typically served with plum pudding, bread pudding, Indian pudding, hasty pudding, and other heavy puddings as well as with fruitcakes and gingerbread.
	Hard Times Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1854. It is significant for being the shortest of his full novels. The book is one of a number of state-of-the-nation novels published around the same time, another being North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures some people were under.
	Hard-Ons The Hard-Ons are a punk rock band from Sydney, Australia that formed in 1982. They have been called Australia's most commercially successful Indie music#Indie meaning .22not major-label.22, with over 250,000 total record sales.
	Hardness In materials science, hardness is the characteristic of a solid material expressing its resistance to permanent deformation. Hardness can be measured on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness or various other scales. There are three principal operational definitions of hardness:
	Hardtop A hardtop is a term for a rigid, rather than canvas, automobile roof. It has been used in several contexts: detachable hardtops, retractable hardtop roofs, and the so-called convertible hardtop body style.
	Hardwood The term hardwood designates wood from broad-leaved or flowering plant trees. Hardwood contrasts with softwood, which comes from conifer trees. On average, hardwood is of higher density and hardness than softwood, but there is considerable variation in actual wood hardness in both groups, with a large amount of overlap; some hardwoods are softer than most softwoods, while Yew is an example of a hard softwood.
	Hare Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus. Very young hares are called leverets. They are very fast moving. The European Brown Hare can run at speeds of up to 70 km/h . Hares live solitarily or in pairs. A common type of hare in arctic North America is the Snowshoe Hare, replaced further south by the Black-tailed Jackrabbit, White-tailed Jackrabbit and other species.
	Hare and Hounds Hare and Hounds is a two-player strategy game, determinacy board game. The game originated in 19th century France, where it is said to have been popular with military officers during the Franco-Prussian War. The game is also known as the French Military Game.
	Hare Krishna The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to as the Maha Mantra, is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra, made well known outside of India by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It is believed by practitioners to bring about a higher state of consciousness when heard, spoken, meditated upon or sung out loud.
	Harebell The Harebell is a short to medium, slender, hairless perennial. The root leaves are roundish and wither early. The leaves on the stem are linear, the upper ones being unstalked. The flowers are blue, 15 millimetre long and on long thin stalks and in loose clusters. The petal lobes are short.
	Harem In the Arab tradition, imitated by other Muslim cultures, the harîm ???? is the part of the household forbidden to male strangers. In Western languages such as English language, this term refers collectively to the women in any polygyny household as well as the "no men allowed" area, or in more modern usage to a number of women followers or admirers of a man.
	Hargeisa Hargeisa is a city in northwestern Somalia; it is also the capital and largest city of the self-declared but unrecognized Republic of Somaliland which was formed in 1991. It was the colonial capital of British Somaliland and State of Somaliland. Hargeisas population is between 300 000 and 1 200 000 citizens.
	Harlan Fiske Stone Harlan Fiske Stone was an United States lawyer and judge who served as the dean of Columbia Law School, United States Attorney General, List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of the Supreme Court of the United States and later Chief Justice of the United States.
	Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with black culture, but also crime and poverty, it is now experiencing something of a social and economic renaissance.
	Harlem River The Harlem River is a tidal strait in New York, New York, United States that flows eight miles between the East River and the Hudson River, separating the borough of Manhattan and the Bronx. Part of the current course of the Harlem River is the Harlem River Ship Canal, which runs somewhat south of the former course of the river, isolating a small portion of Manhattan on the Bronx side of the river.
	Harlequin Harlequin is the most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italy Commedia dell'Arte.
	Harlot Harlot is an archaic term that means a woman prostitution.
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	Harlow Shapley Harlow Shapley was an United States astronomer. He studied under Henry Norris Russell at Princeton University and used the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars to determine distances to globular clusters. He was the first to realize that the Milky Way Galaxy was much larger than previously believed.
	Harmonica A harmonica is a Free reed instrument musical wind instrument , having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze Reed s, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly interrupting an airstream to produce sound.
	Harmonium A note on terminology: In North America, the most common pedal-pumped free reed keyboard instrument is known as the American reed organ, parlor organ, pump organ, cabinet organ, cottage organ, etc. and along with the earlier melodeon, is operated by a suction bellows. In North America, a reed organ with a pressure bellows is referred to as a harmonium.
	Harness racing Harness racing is a form of horse-racing in which the horses race in a specified gait. They usually pull two-wheeled carts called sulky, although races to saddle are still occasionally conducted, especially in Europe.
	Harold Harefoot Harold Harefoot was King of England from 1035 to 1040. He was said to be the son of Canute the Great, King of England, of Denmark, of Norway, some of Sweden, and his handfast wife Aelgifu of Northampton, although there was some skepticism that he was Canute's son. He earned the name "Harefoot" for his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship.
	Harold Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto Order of the British Empire , Fellow of the Royal Society , Doctor of Philosophy is an England chemistry and one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent a large part of his working career at the University of Sussex, and is currently on faculty at Florida State University.
	Harold Lloyd Harold Clayton Lloyd was an United States actor and film maker, most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era.
	Harold Nicolson Sir Harold Nicolson was a British diplomat, author and politician. He was born in Teheran, the younger son of a diplomat father Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1909 he joined the diplomatic service, in which he held various posts, participating in a junior capacity in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
	Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom playwright, poet, actor, director, and political activist, best known for his plays The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, and for his screenplay adaptations of novels by others, such as The Servant and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
	Harold Urey Harold Clayton Urey was a chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution.
	Harp The harp is a stringed instrument which has its strings positioned perpendicular to the Sounding board. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings . Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are referred to as open harps.
	Harp Seal The Harp Seal, is a marine mammal of the family Phocidae that is found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Average lifespan for a harp seal can be up to 35 years.
	Harpoon A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or other large aquatic animals such as whales. A harpoon can also be used as a weapon.
	Harpsichord A harpsichord is any of a family of European musical keyboard musical instruments, including the large instrument nowadays called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet. All these instruments generate sound by plucking a strings rather than striking one, as in a piano or clavichord.
	Harpullia Harpullia is a genus of 37 species of small to medium-sized trees in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. They have a wide distribution ranging from India eastwards into the Pacific Ocean. They are usually found in or on the margins of rainforests. The eight species of Australian Harpullia are known as tulipwoods and were prized for their dark coloured timber.
	Harpy In Greek mythology, the Harpies were mainly winged death-spirits, best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas. The literal meaning of the word seems to be "whirlwinds". The Harpy could also bring life. A Harpy was the mother by the West Wind Zephyros of the horses of Achilles.
	Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, born(June 14, 1811 July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial form from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, the National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey.
	Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman , also known as "Black Moses, "Grandma Moses," or "Moses of Her People," was an African-American abolitionist. An escaped slave, she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook. As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, and fundraiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from slavery and racism.
	Harris Harris is the southern part of the largest island of the Western Isles of Scotland or Outer Hebrides. The northern part of the island is called Lewis. The two names 'Harris' and 'Lewis' however refer to the two parts of the same island despite the use of the terms 'Isle of Lewis' and 'Isle of Harris'.
	Harris Tweed Harris Tweed, is a luxury cloth that has been Weaving by the islanders on the Isles of Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, using local wool. The original name was tweel, the Scots language for 'twill', the cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern.
	Harrods Harrods is an upmarket department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. Apart from the store, the Harrods Group of companies includes Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Casino, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods. The store occupies a 4.5 acre site and has over 1 million square feet of selling space.
	Harry Houdini Harry Houdini was one of the most famous magic , escapologists, and stunt performers of all time, as well as an investigator of spiritualists.
	Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane was a United States poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often archaic in language, and which sought to express something more than the ironic despair that Crane found in Eliot's poetry.
	Hart's-tongue fern Hart's-tongue Fern, is a fern in the family Aspleniaceae, native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It has simple, undivided fronds 10-60 cm long and 3-6 cm broad, with linear sori spaced in a herring-bone pattern along the frond. It grows on neutral and lime-rich substrates, including moist soil and damp crevices in old walls, most commonly in shaded situations but occasionally in full sun; plants in full sun are usually stunted and yellowish in colour, while those in full shade are dark green and luxuriant.
	Hartebeest The Hartebeest is a grassland antelope found in West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. It is the only animal classified in the genus Alcelaphus. The Hartebeest stands almost 1.5 m at the shoulder and weighs anywhere from 120-200 kg. They can reach a length of 70 cm.
	Harvard University "Harvard" redirects here. For other uses of the name Harvard, see Harvard . Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard is the Colonial colleges institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard consistently ranks among the best universities in the world.
	Harvest In agriculture, harvesting is the process of gathering mature agriculture from the fields. Reaping is the harvesting of grain crops. The harvest marks the end of the growing season, or the growing cycle for a particular crop. Harvesting in general usage includes the immediate post-harvest handling, all of the actions taken immediately after physically removing the cropcooling, sorting, cleaning, packingup to the point of further on-farm processing, or shipping to the wholesale or consumer market.
	Harvest mite Harvest mites are mites in the family Trombiculidae that live in berry patches, tall Poaceae and weeds, woodland edges, pine straw, leaves, and bark. These relatives of spiders are nearly microscopic measuring 0.4 millimetre and have a chrome-orange hue.
	Harvest Mouse The Harvest Mouse, Micromys minutus is a small rodent native to Europe and Asia. They are typically found in fields of cereal crops such as wheat and oats as well as long grass and hedgerows. They have reddish-brown fur with white underparts and a naked, prehensile tail.
	Harvey Cushing Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgery and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is considered by many the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century.
	Harvey Wallbanger The Harvey Wallbanger is an alcoholic drink or cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice. This well known tipple was one of many cocktails invented by renowned and two times world champion mixologist Donato 'Duke' Antone. Other notable 'Duke' creations are the Rusty Nail, The Godfather and the Flaming Caesar.
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	Hashish Hashish is a preparation of a psychoactive drug Cannabis derived from the Cannabis indica plant. It is solid, of varying hardness and pliability, softening under heat. Its color can vary from reddish brown to black or it can be greenish or golden colored. It is usually smoked in smoking pipe, and sometimes in spliff mixed with tobacco or Cannabis buds.
	Hastings Hastings is a town and local government Non-metropolitan district in South East England, in the county of East Sussex. It is best known for its connection with the Battle of Hastings 1066, which actually occurred north of the town at Senlac Hill; the battle is commemorated today in the town of Battle, East Sussex.
	Hat A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head a kind of headgear. Hats are differentiated from cap by being more elaborate; hats have a high crown, a brim, or both and are larger than caps. A hat may be either placed on the head or, in the case of some women's hats, secured with hat-pins.
	Hat Hat is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is part of micro-region Hlucínsko. It has around 2,500 inhabitants. External link *
	Hatchback A hatchback car is an automobile design, consisting of a passenger cabin which includes an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a "hatch" tailgate or flip-up window. Most hatchbacks are distinguished from station wagons by not having separate side windows over the load area.
	Hatchery A hatchery is a facility where Eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
	Hatching Hatching and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching. Artists use the technique, varying the length, angle, closeness and other qualities of the lines, most commonly in drawing, linear painting, engraving, and ethnic art.
	Hatha yoga Hatha yoga, IPA chart for English ['h???], is also known as Hatha vidya. It is a particular system of Yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a yogic sage of the 15th century in India, and compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The Hatha Yoga of Swatmarama and his contemporaries differs from the Raja Yoga of Patanjali in that it focuses on shatkarma, the purification of the physical as leading to the purification of the mind and prana, or vital energy.
	Hatiora Hatiora is a genus of epiphyte cactus from Brazil. Hatiora salicornioides is the only commonly cultivated species of this genus.
	Hauberk A hauberk is a shirt of chainmail armour. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. Haubergeon generally refers to a shorter variant with partial sleeves, but the terms are often used interchangeably. Slits to accommodate horseback-riding are often incorporated below the waist.
	Havana Havana is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of more than 2.2 million, is the largest city of both Cuba and the Caribbean. It is located just over 90 miles south-southwest of Key West, Florida. Ciudad de La Habana is also one of the 14 provinces of Cuba. It is located on the northwest coast of Cuba, facing the Straits of Florida, and is surrounded by the province of Havana to the south, east, and west.
	Havel The Havel is a river in Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a tributary of the Elbe river and 325 km in length. Extended by the Oder-Havel Canal it connects the Oder with Berlin and the Elbe. The source of the Havel is located close to the town of Frstenberg on the border between Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
	Hawaii Hawaii became the 50th U.S. states of the United States on August 21, 1959. It is situated in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,300 miles from the Mainland United States, at . During roughly 1778–1898, Hawaii was also known as the Sandwich Islands.
	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, displays the results of 30 million years of volcanism, migration, and evolution—processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture. The park encompasses diverse environments that range from sea level to the summit of the earth's most massive volcano, Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet.
	Hawaiian honeycreeper Hawaiian honeycreepers are small passerine birds endemic to Hawai?i. Some authorities categorize this group as the subfamily Drepanidinae of the finch family Fringillidae, to which they are closely related, but they are usually given full family status as the Drepanididae.
	Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian Islands, once known as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of nineteen islands and atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts trending northwest by southeast in the North Pacific Ocean between latitudes 19 N and 29 N. The archipelago takes its name from the largest island in the group and extends some 1500 miles from the Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.
	Hawala Hawala is an informal value transfer system used primarily in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Its origins are not entirely clear, but it is believed to have been used first in the financing of long-distance trade in the early medieval period on trading routes such as the Silk Road, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
	Hawfinch The Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, is a passenger bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird breeds across Europe and temperate Asia. It is mainly resident in Europe, but many Asian birds bird migration further south in the winter. It is a rare vagrant to the western islands of Alaska.
	Hawk The term hawk refers to bird of prey in any of three senses: * Strictly, to mean any of the species in the bird sub-family Accipitrinae in the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis, and Megatriorchis. The large and widespread Accipiter genus includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others.