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Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Hadji
Hadji may refer to:People:* El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese footballer* El Hadji Guissé, Senegalese judge* Hadji Murad , Caucasian leader* Ismail Hadji Maulvi-Mohammed , Muslim reformer

Hadrian (BBC documentary)
Hadrian is a Bafta Cymru-winning 2008 BBC Television documentary film in which Dan Snow follows the travels of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.-Production:

Hadron
In particle physics, a hadron is a composite particle made of quarks held together by the strong force

Hae
-People:* Hae Buru of Dongbuyeo , Dangun of Bukbuyeo and founder of Dongbuyeo* Jeong Ji-hae, first person to conduct an archaeological excavation in Korea* Hae Jong Kim , Bishop of the United Methodist Church

Haemophilia
Haemophilia is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation, which is used to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken. Haemophilia A is the most common form of the disorder, present in about 1 in 5,000–10,000 male births

Hafiz (name)
Hafiz is a surname. It may refer to:* Abdul Hafiz , British Indian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient* Hisham Hafiz , Saudi Arabian author and newspaper publisher* Mirza Ghulam Hafiz , Bangladeshi politician

Hafnium
Hafnium is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Hafnium was the penultimate stable isotope element to be discovered

Haft
Haft may refer to:* Haft , the handle of a sword* Herbert Haft , American businessman and father of businessman Robert Haft * Robert Haft , American businessman

Hafta
Hafta is the word for week in Hindi, Persian and Turkish languages.Hafta is also slang for the protection money collected periodically by gangsters and corrupt policemen. It is named so because the most common collection period is one week. The practice is highly prevalent in India and a refusal to pay up has its consequences.

Hafting
Hafting is a process by which an artifact, often bone, metal, or stone, is attached to a handle or strap. This makes the artifact more useful by allowing it to be fired , thrown , or leveraged more effectively .Hafting is perhaps best known for its use by prehistoric man, but it is still practiced by enthusiasts today.-The

HAG
HAG is a Swiss maker of model trains. The company was founded by Hugo and Alwin Gahler on 1 April 1944 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.The Gahler brothers originally manufactured model trains in O scale but due to competition, particularly by Marklin H0 scale, began the transition to H0 in 1954 with their final O scale set being manufactured in 1957.Today HAG manufactures die-cast metal

Hag
A hag is a wizened old woman, or a kind of fairy or goddess having the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as Hansel and Gretel. Hags are often seen as malevolent, but may also be one of the chosen forms of shapeshifting deities, such as the Morrígan or Badb, who are seen as neither wholly beneficent nor malevolent

Hag (disambiguation)
A hag is a wizened old woman, or a fairy with the appearance of an old womanHag may also refer to:* Hag , 1971 country album by Merle Haggard* Hag and Troll, demonic super villains in the Marvel Comics Universe

HAG (disambiguation)
HAG could refer to:* HAG; a Swiss manufacturer of model railway equipment.* Hagley railway station, England; National Rail station code HAG.* Heavy artillery gun* Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group; a Vietnamese company

Hagen (Samtgemeinde)
Hagen is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in Hagen im Bremischen.The Samtgemeinde Hagen consists of the following municipalities:# Bramstedt# Driftsethe

Hager
Hager is the surname of several people:*Åke Häger , Swedish gymnast*Alva Hager , American politician*Axel Hager , German beach volleyballer*Britt Hager , former American football linebacker

Hagfish
Hagfish, the clade Myxini , are eel-shaped slime-producing marine animals . They are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column. Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless and are living fossils whose next nearest relatives include all vertebrates

Haggai
Haggai was a Hebrew prophet during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the author of the Book of Haggai. His name means "my holiday"

Haggai (disambiguation)
Haggai is one of the Biblical minor prophets.Haggai or Hagai may also refer to:* Book of Haggai, the book of the Bible attributed to the prophet Haggai* Haggai, Missouri* Beit Hagai, a religious Israeli settlement in the West Bank

Haggard
Haggard means worn out and exhausted because of suffering.Haggard may also refer to:* Haggard * Haggard , a German symphonic metal group* Haggard , a British comedy television series

Haggis
Haggis is a dish containing sheep's 'pluck' , minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally simmered in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours. Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a casing rather than an actual stomach.Haggis is a kind of savoury pudding cooked in a casing of sheep's intestine

Hagiography
Hagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common

Hago
Hago is a village in the Doufelgou Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-eastern Togo.

Hagoromo (play)
is among the most-performed Japanese Noh plays. It is an example of the traditional swan maiden motif.-Sources and history:The earliest recorded version of the legend dates to the eighth century. The play however apparently combines two legends, one concerning the origins of the Suruga Dance and another the descent of an angel onto Udo Beach

Haha (entertainer)
Ha Dong Hoon , better known by his stage name Haha is a German-born South Korean recording artist, actor, presenter and stand-up comedian.-Career:

Hahn
-People:*von Hahn, the name of the German-Baltic-Russian noble family*Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn , German author*Alfred Hahn, architect*Billy Hahn , American basketball coach*Carl Hugo Hahn , German missionary in Namibia

Hai (keelboat)
Hai is one-design, sloop-rigged keelboat designed in Finland. It was designed in 1930 by Finnish sailboat designer Gunnar L. Stenbäck as a cheap, racing and cruising yacht suitable for mass production

Haida
The Haida people are an indigenous people of British Columbia, Canada and British North America, formerly the Russian Territories. They built an empire that scaled the heights of wood and defended vast tracts of forest from harm for The Gods.

Haifa (musician)
Haifa is a female singer from the United Kingdom who has released two songs "Unbreak My Heart" in 2002 and "When I Call Your Name" in 2003. In 2004, she entered for United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, with a song called "Me Without You", and finished last in the TV show called Making Your Mind Up.-Discography:Her two singles were both released on sublabels of

Haiku
' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"

Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is referred to as a hail stone. Hail stones on Earth consist mostly of water ice and measure between and in diameter, with the larger stones coming from severe thunderstorms

Hail (disambiguation)
Hail is a form of frozen precipitation. It may also refer to:* Ha'il, a city in Saudi Arabia* Ha'il Province, in Saudi Arabia* Hail Mary, a traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus

Hail (horse)
Hail is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the New Zealand Derby in 2000.In 7 years of racing, Hail established for himself a reputation of reliability, strength and durability

Hail fellow well met
"Hail fellow well met" is a somewhat archaic English idiom used either as an exaggerated greeting or referring to a person who is sociable and constantly making an effort to win friends. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a 1589 quotation for this phrase as a friendly greeting

Hail Mary (film)
Hail Mary is a 1985 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film is a modern retelling of the story of a virgin birth. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:

Hail Mary pass
A Hail Mary pass or Hail Mary route in American football refers to any very long forward pass made in desperation with only a small chance of success, especially at or near the end of a half.

Hailin
Hailin is a county-level city, part of Mudanjiang prefecture-level city, Heilongjiang province, northeast China. It has an area of 8,816 km², and a population of 440,000

Hain (planet)
Hain is a fictional planet that plays an important background role in the science fiction novels of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. It is described more closely in some later short stories. It is the oldest culture in both the League of Worlds and later the Ekumen and is about 140 Light Years from Terra/Earth

Haina (disambiguation)
Haina may refer to:*Haina, a municipality in the district Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse, Germany*Haina, Gotha, a municipality in the district of Gotha, Thuringia, Germany

Hainaut
Hainaut commonly refers to:* Hainaut , the modern Belgian province, part of the Walloon Region * the County of Hainaut, or Henegouwen in Dutch, the feudal entity created in 1071 on the order of Henry IV; it overlaps part of northern France with the modern Hainaut province of Belgium* Hainaut a part of the former province Flanders and Hainaut* the

Haine
The Haine is a river in southern Belgium and northern France , right tributary of the river Scheldt. The Haine gave its name to the County of Hainaut, and the present province of Hainaut. Its source is in Anderlues, Belgium

Hair
Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Found exclusively in mammals, hair is one of the defining characteristics of the mammalian class.

Hair (song)
"Hair" is the title song to the 1968 musical Hair, as well as the 1979 film version of the musical.The song was a major hit single for The Cowsills in 1969 and their most successful single. Their version spent two weeks at #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100

Hair of the dog
"Hair of the dog" is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover. The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound

Hair of the Dog
-Bonus track information:The remastered editions include both "Guilty" and "Love Hurts" plus the following bonus tracks:* Some editions include also "Holy Roller" and "Holy Roller "

Hair of the Dog (song)
"Hair of the Dog" is the title track of Nazareth's 1975 album Hair of the Dog. It is sometimes called "Son of a Bitch" because of the repeated lyric in the hook . The title is a pun on the refrain

Hairball
A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals that is occasionally vomited up when it becomes too big. Hairballs are primarily a tight elongated cylinder of packed fur, but may include bits of other elements such as swallowed food. Cats are especially prone to hairball formation since they groom themselves by licking their fur, and thereby ingest it

Hairbrush
A hairbrush is a stick brush with rigid or soft bristles used in hair care for smoothing, styling, and detangling human hair, or for grooming an animal's fur.-Human use:

Hairless
Hairless, also known as H, is a well-characterized Drosophila gene. Many mutations to hairless are embryonic lethal; however, there are several viable hairless mutants.

Hairnet
A hairnet, or sometimes simply a net or caul, is a small, often elasticised, fine net worn over long hair to hold it in place. It is often worn by food service workers to prevent hair from contaminating the food

Hairpin
A hair pin or hairpin is a long device used to hold a person's hair in place.Hairpins made of metal, ivory, bronze, carved wood, etc. were used in ancient Assyria and Egypt for securing decorated hairstyles. Such hairpins suggest, as graves show, that many were luxury objects among the Egyptians and later the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans

Hairpins
Hairpins is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Muriel Rossmore* Matt Moore - Rex Rossmore* William Conklin - Hal Gordon* Margaret Livingston - Effie Wainwright* Grace Morse - Mrs. Kent

Hairstyle
A hairstyle, hairdo, or haircut refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics, although practical, cultural, and popular considerations also influence some hairstyles.-History of hairstyles:Throughout history, people have worn their hair in a wide variety of

Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island

Haitian
Haitian may refer to:* A person or thing of, from, or related to the country of Haiti* Haitian Creole language * Haitian cuisine* Haitian , minor character in the 2006 television series Heroes

Haitian (Heroes)
The Haitian is a fictional character on the NBC television series Heroes, portrayed by Haitian actor Jimmy Jean-Louis. He is an associate of Noah Bennet. For the first three seasons of the show, he was only referred to on screen as "the Haitian." Even his associates at Primatech called him this

Hajj
The Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so

Hajj (Muslimgauze album)
Hajj is an album by Muslimgauze. The release was on 12" vinyl only. The album is dedicated to Yasser Arafat and the P.L.O.."Under Black Light" was later released on the CD compilation Chapter of Purity.-Track listing:Side A#"Charnel" - 6.04

Hajji
Hajji or El-Hajj, is an honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca, and is often used to refer to an elder, since it can take time to accumulate the wealth to fund the travel. The title is placed before a person's name

Hajji (disambiguation)
Hajji is a common Arabic title meaning one who has completed the Hajj to Mecca, it is also often used as a given name or surname, it may refer to:-Given name:* Haji Abdulwahab, a Muslim leader

Hak (disambiguation)
Hak or hak may refer to:*Armenian National Congress, the Armenian-language abbreviation of which is HAK*Jim Fullington, ring name "Hak"*Hakka language, ISO 639-3 code for the spoken variation of the Chinese language*Haikou Meilan International Airport

Haka
Haka was the 7th Alii Aimoku of Oahu. During his reign Oahu was divided among the sons of Maweke, the blue blood king of the northern islands of Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. He was descent of Maweke's many children and grandchildren

Hake
The term hake refers to fish in either of:* family Phycidae of the northern oceans* family Merlucciidae of the southern oceans-Hake fish:

Hake (surname)
Hake, or Hakes, is a surname of English and Nordic origin, with Hakes being patronymic from Hake . The origins of Hake are said to derive from the Old Norse word haki, which is cognate with the word 'hook' and given originally to someone in the fishing trade.The surname also derives from the Northern Germanic surname Haack, which is a name from Middle Low

Hakka people
The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China.

Hakuna Matata (song)
"Hakuna Matata" is a song from Disney's 32nd animated feature Timon & Pumbaa. The song is based on Timon and Pumbaa's common catchphrase in the movie, Hakuna matata, which is a Swahili phrase. It is characterized by its simple 4/4 time, upbeat message and catchy lyrics.-Music:The musical score was written by Elton John and the lyrics by Tim Rice

HAL (automobile)
The HAL was a Brass Era car made in Cleveland, Ohio from 1916 to 1918. HAL stands for the initials of the founder—Harry A. Lozier.Harry Lozier stated in June 1915 that "only an accident..

Hala
' was a Satavahana king of Andhra Pradesh. The Matsya Purana mentions him as the 17th ruler of the Satavahana dynasty.The Lilavati describes his marriage with a Ceylonese Princess.

Halal
Halal is a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law