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Halfcourt, Yashmeen

Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
115; English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist; Wikipedia entry

99; Sir Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation; his illumination "at Brougham Bridge in Ireland in 1845, 99; 132;

Harald the Ruthless (1015-1066)
127; Norwegian Harald Hardraade, or Hardråde king of Norway (1045–66). His harsh suppression of lesser Norwegian chieftains cost him their military support in his unsuccessful struggle to conquer Denmark (1045–62). The son of Sigurd Sow (Syr), a chieftain in eastern Norway, and of Estrid, mother of the Norwegian king Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), Harald fought at the age of 15 against the Danes.

Harriman, Brother
130; works for Scarsdale Vibe

Hawaii
69; South Sea islands tattoo artists;

Haymarket Bomb
25; The Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886, in Chicago is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing anarchist." The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business class and the working class in late 19th century Chicago are generally acknowledged as having precipitated the tragedy and its aftermath; 111; 176; Wikipedia entry

Heavenly City, The
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Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)
98; English electrical engineer who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and was co-discoverer of the rate of energy transfer by an electromagnetic field; Electromagnetic Theory (1893); Wikipedia entry; A good article on Heaviside

Helgustaðir
126; Located in East Iceland, one of the world's best-known sources of Icelandic spar.

Henry, Emile (1872-1894)
87; French anarchist, who on February 12, 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty; Wikipedia entry

Herman
182; bartender at Anarchists' Saloon

Hershel
39; bellman at the Esthonia Hotel

Hertz
121; "extra Hertzian rays";

H.M.S. Megaera
108; frigate;

Holliday, Doc (1851-1887)
25; John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Wikipedia entry

Hollow Earth
115; Chums of Chance's journey into, 115; H. Penhallow's journey, 155;

Hotel Borealis
129; where Vormance Expedition set up headquarters;

Hungarians
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