Hindi Hindi , an Indo-European languages spoken mainly in North India and Central India India, is the official language of the central government of India . It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indo-Aryan languages family, bounded on the northwest and west by Panjabi language, Sindhi language, Urdu, and Gujarati language; on the south by Marathi language; on the southeast by Oriya language
	Hindu A Hindu , as per modern definition, is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, the religious, philosophical and cultural system that originated in the Indian subcontinent. There are approximately 1 billion Hindus, making Hinduism the Major world religions in the world, of whom approximately 890 million live in India.
	Hindu calendar The Hindu calendar used in ancient Vedic times has undergone many changes in the process of regionalization, and today there are several regional Indian calendars, as well as an Indian national calendar. Mostly, these are inherited from a system first enunciated in Jyotish Vedanga, standardized in the Surya Siddhanta and subsequently reformed by astronomers such as Aryabhata, Varahamihira, and Bhaskara.
	Hindu Kush The Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush, Hindoo Koosh or Hindukush is a mountain range in Afghanistan as well as in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan and Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is the westernmost extension of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram Range, and the Himalaya.
	Hinduism Category:Religion navigational boxes Hinduism is a set of religion traditions that originated mainly in the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism encompasses many religious practices whose details vary widely, as well as many diverse sects and philosophies.
	Hinge A hinge is a mechanics device that connects two solid objects, allowing rotation between them. Hinges may be made of flexible material or of moving components. In biology, many joints function as hinges.
	Hippeastrum Hippeastrum is a genus of about 70-75 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean. Some species are grown for their large showy flowers.
	Hippie Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, refers to a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States, becoming an established Group by 1965, but declining in numbers by the late 1970s. The roots of the hippie movement can be found in Europe, in the naturalist movements of the late 18th century, and the 19th century back-to-nature movement.
	Hippocampus The hippocampus is a part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe . It forms a part of the limbic system and plays a part in memory and spatial navigation. The name derives from its curved shape in coronal sections of the brain, which resembles a seahorse . In Alzheimer's disease, the hippocampus becomes one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage; memory problems and disorientation appear amongst the first symptoms.
	Hippocastanaceae The Hippocastanaceae is a small family, with the most widespread genus Aesculus, which today is taken to include Pavia. However, the American genus Billia and the Chinese genus Handeliodendron should also be members of the family. A feature of the family is the palmate compound leaves.
	Hippocrates Hippocrates of Cos II. or Hippokrates of Kos was an Ancient Greece physician who lived in the Age of Pericles and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. For his lasting contributions to this field, he is often referred to as "List of people known as the father or mother of something".
	Hippodamia Hippodamia, from hippos and damazo, "Tamer of horses", was the name of two women from Greek mythology. 1. Hippodamia was the bride of King Pirithous of the Lapiths. At their wedding, Hippodamia, the other female guests, and the young boys were almost abducted by the centaurs.
	Hippopotamus The Hippopotamus , from the Greek language ?pp?p?ta?? , is a large, herbivore African mammal, one of only two extant, and three or four recently extinction, species in the scientific classification Hippopotamidae.
	Hippos Hippos was a Greco-Roman city in Palestine. It was located on a flat-topped foothill of the Golan Heights 350 meters above and 2 kilometers east of the Sea of Galilee. The city also controlled a small port facility on the lake itself. Hippos was part of the Decapolis, or Ten Cities, a group of cities in Roman Empire Palestine that were culturally tied more to Greece and Rome than to the Middle East.
	Hired Guns Hired Guns is a computer role-playing game produced by DMA Design for the Amiga in 1993 in video gaming. The game is set in the year 2712, in which the player controls four mercenaries selected from a pool of twelve. One of the advancements of the game was that the four characters were on screen simultaneously in their own window.
	Hirohito Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 to 1989. Since his death he has been known as in Japan, the posthumous name given to him by order of the Japanese cabinet dated January 13, 1989. Although he is widely referred to as Hirohito, or Emperor Hirohito outside of Japan, past emperors are only referred to in Japan by their posthumous names.
	Hiroshima The Japanese city of is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands. Geographical location . It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	Hispanic Hispanic is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its Spanish people and Culture of Spain. It follows the same style of use as Anglo, which indicates a derivation of England and the English people. Thus, the Spanish-American War in Spanish is known as Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, the "Spanish-German Treaty" is Tratado Hispano-Alemn, and "Spanish America" is Hispanic America.
	Hispaniola The island of Hispaniola is the second-largest island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east. Christopher Columbus arrived there on December 5, 1492, and on his second voyage in 1493 founded the first Spain colony in the New World on it.
	Histamine Histamine is a biogenic amine chemical involved in local immune system as well as regulating physiological function in the gut and acting as a neurotransmitter. New evidence also indicates that histamine plays a role in chemotaxis of white blood cells.
	Histidine Histidine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids present in proteins. In the Nutrition sense, in humans, histidine is considered an essential amino acid, but mostly only in children. The imidazole side chains and the relatively neutral pK of histidine mean that relatively small shifts in cellular pH will change its charge.
	Histogram In statistics, a histogram is a graphical display of tabulated frequency . A histogram is the graphical version of a table which shows what proportion of cases fall into each of several or many specified categories. The categories are usually specified as nonoverlapping intervals of some variable.
	Histology Histology is the study of biological tissue sectioned as a thin slice, using a microtome. It can be described as microscopic anatomy. Histology is an essential tool of biology. Histopathology, the microscopic study of diseased tissue, is an important tool of anatomical pathology since accurate diagnosis of cancer and other diseases usually requires histopathological examination of samples.
	Histone In biology, histones are the chief proteins of chromatin. They act as spools around which DNA winds and they play a role in gene regulation. Histones are found in the nucleus of eukaryote cell . Bacteria do not have histones, but histones are found in certain Archaea, namely Euryarchaea.
	HIStory HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I is a double-disc album by Michael Jackson released in 1995 by the Epic Records devision of Sony Music. The first disc is a fifteen-track greatest hits, while the second disc contains fifteen new recordings. HIStory was nominated for several 1996 Grammy Awards, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it did not win.
	Hit the Deck Hit the Deck is a musical theater production first staged at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway theatre on April 25, 1927. It has music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo Robins and book by Herbert Fields. It is based on the play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne.
	Hittites The Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire was at its height, encompassing central Anatolia, north-western Syria as far as Ugarit, and upper Mesopotamia.
	HIV Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a retrovirus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , a condition in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Previous names for the virus include Human T-Lymphotropic Virus-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus .
	Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamism political party whose goal is to reestablish the caliphate within the Muslim world. The organization was founded by Sheikh Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, a judge from Jerusalem in 1953. Hizb ut-Tahrir is dedicated to what it sees as the political unity of Muslims, the removal of what it considers to be neo-colonialist Western control of Muslim lands via proxy dictators, and a state based on Islamic law.
	HMG-CoA reductase HMG-CoA reductase is the first enzyme of the HMG-CoA reductase pathway, the metabolic pathway that produces cholesterol and various other biomolecules. Drugs which inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, known collectively as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, are used in to lower serum cholesterol as a means of reducing the risk for heart disease.
	Ho Chi Minh H? Ch Minh listen ) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister and President of North Vietnam. He was originally named Nguy?n Sinh Cung. He was also known as Nguy?n T?t Thnh , Nguy?n i Qu?c , L Th?y and H? Quang , and is popularly called Bc H? in Vietnam.
	Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong River delta. Under the name Prey Nokor , it was the main port of Cambodia, before being conquered by the Vietnamese in the 16th century. Known as Saigon until the end of the Vietnam war, it was the capital of the France colony of Cochinchina, and later of the former state of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975.
	Hoagy Carmichael Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", which has been called the most-recorded American song ever written. Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana.
	Hoary Marmot The hoary marmot is a species of marmot that inhabits the mountains of northwest North America. The largest populations are in Alaska. In the northern part of that state they may live near sea level. Hoary marmots live near the treeline on slopes with grasses and forbs to eat and rocky areas for cover.
	Hoatzin The Hoatzin, also known as the Hoactzin, Stinkbird, or Canje Pheasant, is an odd species of Tropics bird found in the swamps of the Amazon River and Orinoco rivers in South America. It is pheasant-sized but much slimmer long-tailed, long-necked and has a small head.
	Hoax A hoax is an attempt to deception an audience into believing that something false is real. There is often some material object involved which is actually a forgery; however, it is possible to perpetrate a hoax by making only true statements using unfamiliar wording or context . Unlike a fraud or confidence trick , which are made for illicit financial or material gain, a hoax is often perpetrated as a practical joke, to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social change by making people aware of something.
	Hobart Hobart is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony, it is Australia's second oldest and twelfth largest city, with a metropolitan population of 206,000. The city is the financial and administrative heart of Tasmania, and also serves as the home port for both Australian and French Antarctic operations.
	Hobbit In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, a Hobbit is an individual member of one of the races that inhabit the lands of Arda. Hobbits are a subset of the race of Man , sometimes considered a separate race. They first appear in the book The Hobbit, and also play a major role in The Lord of the Rings.
	Hobble A hobble is a device for restricting the ability of a human or an animal to running or to walking by limiting the motion of the legs. Although hobbles are most commonly used on horses, they may also be used on dogs, especially during force-fetch training to limit the movement of a dog's front paws.
	Hobble skirt A hobble skirt is a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride, thus earning its name. Though restrictive skirts first appeared in Western fashion in the 1880s, the term is typically used in reference to a short-lived trend of narrow ankle-length skirts in the early 1910s, made popular by designer Paul Poiret.
	Hobby A hobby is a leisure recreational pursuit.
	Hobnail Hobnail may refer to:
	Hobo Hobo is a term that refers to certain wandering homeless, particularly those who make a habit of freighthopping. They often ask for money. The iconic image of a hobo is that of a downtrodden, shabbily-dressed and perhaps drunken male, one that was solidified in American culture during the Great Depression.
	Hockey Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard round disc called a hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal , using a stick. The dominant version of hockey in a particular region tends to be known simply as hockey, other forms being more fully qualified.
	Hockey puck A puck, when used in ice hockey, is a hard black disk of vulcanization rubber. A standard puck is one inch thick , three inches in diameter and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces . Pucks are often marked with team or league logos on one or both faces. Ice hockey evolved from bandy which was played by field hockey players who wanted to continue to train during the European winters.
	Hoek van Holland Media:Nl-Hoek_van_Holland.ogg is a town in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is situated on the North Sea coast, on the north bank of the Nieuwe Waterweg ship canal. The town is administered by the municipality of Rotterdam as a district of that city.
	Hoffa Hoffa is a 1992 biopic film based on the life and mysterious death of Teamsters Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Jack Nicholson plays Jimmy Hoffa, with Danny DeVito playing Robert "Bobby" Ciaro as well as film director the movie.
	Hog-nosed skunk The hog-nosed skunks are members of the family Mephitidae. They are native to the Americas. Individual species include the Western Hog-nosed Skunk and the Eastern Hog-nosed Skunk.
	Hogchoker Hogchocker is a fish found in North America. It's a species of Sole. References External links
	Hogweed Heracleum is a genus of about 60 species of biennial plant and perennial plant herbs in the carrot family Apiaceae. They are found throughout the temperate northern hemisphere and in high mountains as far south as Ethiopia. Major species include: *Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum A native of the Caucasus Mountains, grows to 4-5m tall, and can cause severe dermatitis if the sap gets on human skin.
	Hohhot Hohhot, occasionally spelled Huhehot or Huhhot, is the capital city of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. The name "Hohhot" is Mongolian for "blue city". The city dates back to the Ming Dynasty, and was chosen as Inner Mongolia's capital in 1947 over Baotou and replacing Zhangjiakou.
	Hoi polloi Hoi polloi, an expression meaning "the many" in both Ancient Greek and Modern Greek, is used in English language to denote "the masses" or "the people", usually in a derogatory sense. For example, "I've secured a private box for the play so we don't have to watch the show with the hoi polloi."
	Hokkaido Hokkaido listen , formerly known as Ezo, is the second largest island and largest prefectures of Japan of Japan. The Tsugaru Strait separates it from Honshu, although it is connected to Honshu by the underwater Seikan Tunnel. The largest city on Hokkaido is the prefectural capital, Sapporo.
	Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai was an Edo period Japanese artist, painter, wood engraver and ukiyo-e maker, born in Edo . Author of the 13-volume sketchbook Hokusai manga and the woodblock printing 36 Views of Mount Fuji , , which includes "In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa." He is still considered one of the outstanding figures of the ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world" , school of printmaking.
	Holcus Holcus is a genus of eight species of Poaceae, native to Europe, Atlantic Ocean islands, Africa and western Asia. Holcus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora. ;Species
	Hold fast A hold fast is an accessory used on a woodworking workbench to fix a workpiece to the top or side of the bench while it is being worked. A hold fast is shaped like a shepherd's hook. In use, the shank fits into a hole in the top or side of the bench and the tip of the hook is pressed against the work.
	Holdfast A holdfast is a rootlike plant structure that anchors a seaweed, or other multicellular organism. Also, a seawater organism that belongs to the phylum porifera Category:Plant morphology
	Holiday The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. Based on the words holy and day, holidays originally represented Religious festival. The word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest . In most of the English-speaking world a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation , the North American equivalent is "vacation".
	Holland Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. Holland is a former county of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland, and later the leading member of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands . The area is today divided between two Provinces of the Netherlands of the Netherlands: North Holland and South Holland that were created in 1840, and make up roughly 13% of the area of the Netherlands.
	Holler "Holler" is a song by the Spice Girls, their first single release after a two year break. The song eschews the pop sound of their earlier work for harder tones and grittier beats. the song was written by Rodney Jerkins, his brother Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels and The Spice Girls themselves.
	Holly Holly is a genus of about 400 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only genus in that family. They are shrubs and trees from 2-25 m tall, with a wide distribution in Asia, Europe, north Africa, and North America and South America.
	Hollyhock The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia. They are biennial or short-lived perennial plants growing to 1-3 m tall, with broad, rounded, palmately lobed leaf and numerous flowers, pink or yellow in the wild species, on the erect central stem.
	Holm Oak The Holm Oak, also called Holly Oak or Evergreen Oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer. It is a medium-size tree to 20-27 m tall with finely square-fissured blackish bark and leathery evergreen leaf.
	Holocentridae The Holocentridae is a family of ray-finned fish also known as squirrel or soldierfish. Fish from this family are found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Oceans. There are 84 species in this family in 8 genera.
	Holofernes Holofernes was an Assyrians Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar dispatched his general Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the west who had withheld their assistance to his reign. Holofernes proceeds to attack Bethulia, a city, which was close to surrender until it was saved by Judith, a beautiful Jewish widow.
	Holography Holography is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an to be recorded in three dimensions. The technique of holography can also be used to optically store, retrieve, and process information. It is common to confuse volumetric displays with holograms, particularly in science fiction works such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf, and Quantum Leap.
	Holstein Holstein is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe and Eider River. The capital of Holstein is Kiel. The city of Hamburg lies directly to the South. Its name came from the Low German equivalent of Anglo Saxon Holt-s?tan = "dwellers in the wood".
	Holster A holster is a specialized article of clothing worn to hold a device, such as a handgun or other defensive weapon, cellular telephone, hand tool, or other small object about the person, most commonly in a location where it can be easily withdrawn for immediate use.
	Holy Grail In Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers. The connection of Joseph of Arimathea with the Grail legend dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain; building upon this theme, later writers recounted how Joseph used the Grail to catch Christ's blood while interring him and that in Britain he founded a
	Holy Land The expression The Holy Land generally refers to the Land of Israel, otherwise known as the Palestine. It concerns the areas that hold significant religious importance to any or all three monotheism Abrahamic traditions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.