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Hadrons are subatomic particles that are affected by the strong force, the force that binds the nucleus together. Two hadrons--the proton and the neutron--are found in the atomic nucleus. All others are created by high-energy collisions, f...
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(2001 est. pop. 260,000). Haeju, the capital of South Hwanghae Province (Hwanghaenamdo), is a port and industrial city on the west coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), 140 kilometers south of Pyongyang. ...
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The various different kinds of blood cells have a finite life span in the circulation. Red blood cells last for about 120 days, platelets for 10 days and granulocytes can live for less than 24 hours. Monocytes only circulate from one to th...
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Besides inheriting eye color, height, and many other phenotypes from your parents, you can also inherit a disease called hemochromatosis. Hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive (both genes passed on from the parents are recessive) inher...
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Hemophilia A and hemophilia B are genetic disorders in the blood-clotting system, characterized by bleeding into joints and soft tissues, and by excessive bleeding into any site experiencing trauma or undergoing surgery. Hemophilia A and B...
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Haemophilus is a bacterial genus. The bacteria in this genus all share the characteristic of preferring to grow on solid laboratory media that contains blood cells. The blood supplies two factors that Haemophilus species require for growth...
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The 1960s and 1970s were a period of destabilization in German literature. Notions of sociopolitical relevance eroded the position of the traditional genres in favor of activist, experimental forms. Even established writers were driven off...
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Shams al-Din Hafiz (ca. 1320-1390) was a great Persian mystical poet who, as a professor of Koranic exegesis, composed some of the most sensitive and lyrical poetry ever produced in the Middle East. Hafiz was born in Shiraz, the capital of...
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Hafiz Assad (al-'Asad; 1930-2000) took power in Syria in 1970 and became president, a position he retained longer than any other person since Syrian independence in 1946. Hafiz Assad was born on October 6, 1930 into a large, poor peasant f...
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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise....
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Hafiz Khan is a Fijian businessman and politician. He was appointed to the Senate in July 2005. Maiden speech to the Senate, 24 August 2005 (excerpts) "As I have chosen Fiji, having been born and raised here, as my home, indigenous Fijian ...
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Hafnium is a transition metal, one of the elements in the middle of the periodic table. It is found in Group 4 and Row 6 of the table. Hafnium's atomic number is 72, its atomic mass is 178.49, and its chemical symbol is Hf. Hafnium is a b...
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Hafsat Abiola (born 1980 ) is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. Sourced Hafsat Ab...
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Rudolf Hagelstange was acclaimed as a lyric and narrative poet during the first years after World War II and has been widely read as a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist since the 1960s. His poetry is often idealistic, advocating p...
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In "Om lyrikk" (On Poetry), published in the magazine Kvinnen og tiden (The Woman and the Time) in 1953 and collected in her Østenfor kjærlighet, vestenfor drøm: prosa gjennom 30 år (East of Love, West of Dream: P...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . () "Gawd knows yeh've had enough ter be gettin' on with. I've seen yeh, practicin' Quidditch ev'ry hour o' the day an' night -- bu...
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It is estimated that there were a million casualties from the use of poison gases in the First World War. Official figures list 180,983 British soldiers as being gassed, of whom 6,062 died in the trenches, but these figures are often cons...
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Alyson Hagy is a writer of lyrical and emotionally rugged fiction in which psychologically complex characters confront the realities of their lives, often within a rural and decidedly American landscape and culture. Born Alyson Carol Hagy ...
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HAṬHAYOGA is historically the most influential, and today the best known, of the several schools of yoga derived from the classical Yoga of Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra. Haṭhayoga differs from classical Yoga, a...
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Mary Downing Hahn has taken the old dictum of writing what you know and has turned it into a body of work that encompasses some twenty novels for young teens and young adults. Mining her own childhood as well as that of her parents and chi...
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H'AI GAON (939–1038), Babylonian halakhist. H'ai succeeded his father, Sherira', as head of the academy at Pumbedita and occupied the post for forty years, during which time he penned hundreds of responsa, compo...
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HAIDA RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. The Xaada Gwaay or Haida Gwaii, the island of the Haida people, is a land of intense natural beauty, a misty archipelago composed of two large islands, Graham and Moresby, and some 150 small islands on the borde...
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We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children....
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One might term Gordon S. Haight an "archival" biographer of women writers of the nineteenth century. He combined massive erudition with literary grace, indefatigable scholarship with a historian's sense of the outer world of the nineteenth...
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There are few crossroads with the name recognition of the San Francisco intersection of Haight and Ashbury. A seemingly enchanted place, the Haight-Ashbury district begins at the top of a rise that gradually makes its way west to the beach...
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Haiku is a seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form divided into three phrases: five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Although the term "haiku" came into common use only after 1892, when Masaoka Shiki (1867 ...
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice...
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Haile Selassie (1892-1975) was an emperor of Ethiopia whose influence as an African leader far surpassed the confines of his country. Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892, the son of Ras Makonnen, a cousin and confidant of Emperor Meni...
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Hailey Anne Nelson ( born September 14, 1994) American actress Quotes from Big Fish Jenny: It's not a woman, it's a fish. No one ever catches her. Fish looks diff'rent to diff'rent people. My daddy said it looked like the coon dog he had w...
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation....
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The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right....
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Haim G. Ginott (1922–1973) was a clinical psychologist, child therapist, educator, and author of several books on the relationships between children and adults, especially teachers. Unsourced Treat a child as though he already is the per...
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(1996 est. pop. 7.1 million). Hainan, an island province in the South China Sea off the coast of China's Guangdong Province, covers an area of 34,000 square kilometers. Before 1988, when the island obtained provincial status, it was...
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Although China and the United States have been making moves toward diplomacy, some real and unresolved friction continues to exist between the two states. China has emerged from a century and a half of devastation at the hands of the indu...
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While many people may not be familiar with who Helen Haines was, she made numerous contributions during her lifetime to the American Library Association, the library press, library education, and the American intellectual freedom movement....
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John Meade Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of naval officer John Meade Haines and Helen M. Donaldson Haines. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946, he was educated in Washington, D.C., at St. Johns, at the National...
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(2002 pop. 572,000). Located 103 kilometers (64 miles) east of Hanoi on the coast of northern Vietnam, Haiphong, Vietnam's third-largest city (behind Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi), is a major seaport and the main hub of northern Vietn...
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HAIR. Words are related to the things they denote only by the conventions of language, but symbols, unlike words, are inherently appropriate to what they signify. Thus, since most animals are much hairier than human beings, some cultures m...
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Hair, a "tribal-rock musical" (Barnes), captures the attitudes and idealisms of the Hippie movement of the 1960's. Written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music and lyrics by Galt McDermot, Hair illustrates Hippies' repudiation of conv...
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Hair care is the process of improving the appearance of hair by cleansing, condition, coloring, or styling. Modern hair care is blend of science and marketing with hundreds of companies offering thousands of products to solve every possibl...
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SOURCE: Blake, Richard A. “Selective Memory.” America 140, no. 13 (7 April 1979): 286. In the following excerpt, Blake commends Hair's atmosphere of “great good fun,” but cautions against the film's tendency to sanitize historical e...
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Hair removers are products designed to remove unwanted hair from areas on the body. They can work by both chemical and physical means. Formulations that chemically breakdown hair are called depilatories, and contain thioglycolate salts or ...
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Hairspray is a 2007 musical film based on a Broadway musical, set in 1960s Baltimore . It follows the adventures of plump, cute Tracy Turnblad, an aspiring dancer, when she launches a campaign to racially integrate a local TV dance show. B...
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Hairspray is a 2007 made-for-television musical movie directed by Chris Tucker. Cast Jonathan Hallman: Link Larkin Kelsey Spenneberg: Tracy Turnblad Percy Owen: Edna Turnblad Jo'na Griffin: Motormouth Maybelle Sydney Bledau: Velma von Tuss...
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Human beings have styled and adorned their hair since the beginning of recorded history. This styling has different and often contradictory purposes. As an intrinsic, yet malleable part of the body, the hair and its styling can serve as an...
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The Hairy Ape is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill (1922)....
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Haiti was once the first black independent republic in the world and the richest island in the Caribbean. Today Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world. What could have happened...
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" Bonjou se paspò ou. " "Hello" is your passport. " De mèg pa fri ." Two skinny people don't fry. (Two poor people shouldn't marry, for even together they won't have enough to get by) " Dèyè mòn gen mòn. " Beyond mountains, there are...
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Leon Uris's novels "Exodus" and "Trinity" moved me, captivated me, and kept me up late at night. I expected his latest, "The Haj," to have the same effect, and I was very disappointed that it didn't. The story failed to capture my interest ...
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The second president after Indonesia's independence, Suharto (born 1921) was a strong anti-Communist who drew Indonesia closer to the West and presided during a period of economic improvement in the country. Notwithstanding, his tenure was...
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