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  • Hart, Pro (Australian artist)
    Australian artist (b. May 30, 1928, Broken Hill, N.S.W., Australia—d. March 28, 2006, Broken Hill), crafted richly coloured oil and acrylic paintings, notably naive rural landscapes inspired by Australia’s Outback. Hart was a sheep farmer, miner, and self-taught painter and sculptor. He opened his own art gallery in Broken Hill, where he contributed to a wider appreciation of Outback...
  • Hart, Sir Robert, 1st Baronet (British statesman)
    Anglo-Chinese statesman employed by the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) to direct the Chinese customs bureau and thus satisfy Western demands for an equitable Chinese tariff....
  • Hart, Tony (American actor)
    ...in 1861 he was singing with Lotta Crabtree. After developing his skill as a comedian, Harrigan formed a team with Sam Rickey and returned to New York City. In 1872 he formed a new partnership with Tony Hart (original name Anthony Cannon; 1857–91), and Harrigan and Hart remained together until 1885. In 1876 they became comanagers of the Theatre Comique in New York City. After a new......
  • Hart Trophy (sports award)
    Czech ice hockey goaltender known for his unorthodox goaltending style. Hašek was the only goaltender in National Hockey League (NHL) history to win consecutive Hart Trophy awards as most valuable player (1997–98)....
  • Hart, William S. (American actor)
    American stage and silent motion-picture actor, who was the leading hero of the early westerns....
  • Hartack, Bill (American jockey)
    American jockey who was the second, after Eddie Arcaro, ever to win five Kentucky Derbies and the first, in 1956, to win $2 million in a single year, a record he broke the following year by earning $3 million. For three consecutive years—1955, 1956, and 1957—he was the national champion jockey, winning 417, 347, and 341 races respectively. Again in 1960 he was the ...
  • Hartack, William John, Jr. (American jockey)
    American jockey who was the second, after Eddie Arcaro, ever to win five Kentucky Derbies and the first, in 1956, to win $2 million in a single year, a record he broke the following year by earning $3 million. For three consecutive years—1955, 1956, and 1957—he was the national champion jockey, winning 417, 347, and 341 races respectively. Again in 1960 he was the ...
  • hartal (Ceylonese labour strike)
    in Ceylon, general strike, organized in 1953 by Marxist parties to express public dissatisfaction over the rise in the cost of living, especially the cost of rice. (Generically, the word hartal means “strike” in most North Indian languages.) Because of a chronic shortage of rice, the Ceylonese government since World War II had rationed rice and instituted government rice subs...
  • Harte, Bret (American writer)
    American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction....
  • Harte, Francis Brett (American writer)
    American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction....
  • hartebeest (mammal)
    (genus Alcelaphus), either of two swift, slender antelopes, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in herds on open plains and scrublands of sub-Saharan Africa. They often mingle with herds of zebras or of other antelope. Hartebeests stand about 1.2 m (4 feet) at the shoulder. Their backs slope downward from heavy forequarters to narrow hindquarters, and their long faces are accentuated...
  • Harteck, P. (German chemist)
    ...12.32 years; it occurs in natural water with an abundance of 10-18 of that of natural hydrogen. Tritium was discovered in 1934 by the physicists Ernest Rutherford, M.L. Oliphant, and Paul Harteck, who bombarded deuterium (D, the hydrogen isotope of mass number 2) with high-energy deuterons (nuclei of deuterium atoms) according to the equation D + D → H + T. Willard Frank Libby...
  • Hartel, Lis (Danish equestrian)
    That Danish equestrian Lis Hartel was competing at all in the 1952 dressage competition was perhaps more surprising and impressive than the fact that she won the silver medal. She had faced two major obstacles in the years before the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland; one was removed for her and the other she overcame herself....
  • Hartenfels Castle (castle, Torgau, Germany)
    ...at Augsburg (1509–18), which was the first Renaissance building in Germany, or they consisted of bits of Renaissance decoration attached to Gothic structures. An example of the latter is Hartenfels Castle (c. 1532–44) at Torgau by Konrad Krebs, which is completely medieval in design but has occasional fragments of Classical ornament applied to the surface. The rear portion....
  • Hartford (county, Connecticut, United States)
    county, north-central Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the north by Massachusetts and traversed (north-south) by the Connecticut River. Other waterways are the Farmington, Pequabuck, and Quinnipiac rivers and the Barkhamsted and Nepaug reservoirs. The terrain mostly consists of an Appalachian oak forest region featuring broad lowlands broken by traprock ri...
  • Hartford (Connecticut, United States)
    capital of Connecticut and city coextensive with the town (township) of Hartford, Hartford county, U.S., in the north-central part of the state. It is a major industrial and commercial centre and a port at the head of navigation on the Connecticut River, 38 miles (61 km) from Long Island Sound. Dutch traders from New Amsterdam built a fort i...
  • Hartford Art School (university, Connecticut, United States)
    private, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Hartford, Conn., U.S. It consists of the Barney School of Business and Public Administration, the Hartt School (of music), the Hartford Art School, the Ward College of Technology, and colleges of education, nursing, and health professions; engineering; and arts and sciences. The university also operates Hillyer Colleg...
  • Hartford Convention (United States history)
    (Dec. 15, 1814–Jan. 5, 1815), in U.S. history, a secret meeting of Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, at Hartford, Conn., inspired by Federalist opposition to President James Madison’s mercantile policies and the War of 1812. The convention adopted a strong states’ rights position and expressed its grievances in a s...
  • Hartford Courant (American newspaper)
    Daily and weekly newspapers are abundant in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant is the oldest continuously published city newspaper in the country; it began as a weekly paper in 1764 and became a daily in 1837. Yale University Press is a major academic publisher that is recognized throughout the world....
  • Hartford, John (American musician)
    American musician and singer-songwriter (b. Dec. 30, 1937, New York, N.Y.—d. June 4, 2001, Madison, Tenn.), was a virtuoso banjoist, fiddler, and guitarist whose best-known song, “Gentle on My Mind” (1967), earned two Grammy Awards; the song was later recorded by Glen Campbell, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, and others. A passionate performer, Hartford became a popular attraction...
  • Hartford, University of (university, Connecticut, United States)
    private, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Hartford, Conn., U.S. It consists of the Barney School of Business and Public Administration, the Hartt School (of music), the Hartford Art School, the Ward College of Technology, and colleges of education, nursing, and health professions; engineering; and arts and sciences. The university also operates Hillyer Colleg...
  • Hartford wits (American literary group)
    any of a group of Federalist poets centred around Hartford, Conn., who collaborated to produce a considerable body of political satire just after the American Revolution. Employing burlesque verse modelled upon Samuel Butler’s Hudibras and Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, the wits advocated a strong, conservative central government and attacked such proponents of democratic li...
  • Harthacnut (king of Denmark and England)
    king of Denmark from 1028 to 1042 and of England from 1040 to 1042....
  • Hartington, Marquess of (British statesman)
    a leader of the parliamentary movement that sought to exclude the Roman Catholic James, duke of York (afterward James II), from succession to the British throne and that later invited the invasion of William of Orange....
  • Hartington, Marquess of (prime minister of Great Britain)
    prime minister of Great Britain from November 1756 to May 1757, at the start of the Seven Years’ War....
  • Hartlaub, Gustav F. (German art director)
    ...styles of Expressionism and Abstraction) and who reflected what was characterized as the resignation and cynicism of the post-World War I period in Germany. The term was fashioned in 1924 by Gustav F. Hartlaub, director of the Mannheim Kunsthall. In a 1925 exhibition assembled at the Kunsthalle, Hartlaub displayed the works of the members of this group: George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max......
  • Hartleben, Otto Erich (German writer)
    German poet, dramatist, and short-story writer known for his Naturalistic dramas that portray with ironic wit the weaknesses of middle-class society....
  • Hartlepool (England, United Kingdom)
    seaport and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Durham, northeastern England, on the North Sea....
  • Hartley (Zimbabwe)
    town, central Zimbabwe. Named originally for Henry Hartley, who discovered gold in the vicinity, it was founded in 1891 on the Umfuli River but about 1900 was moved 18 miles (29 km) west. A town-management board was constituted in 1942....
  • Hartley, Anne Jane (American dancer and actress)
    American dancer and actress, popular on the 19th-century stage for her character roles....
  • Hartley, David (British physician and philosopher)
    English physician and philosopher credited with the first formulation of the psychological system known as associationism. Attempting to explain how thought processes occur, Hartley’s associationism, with later modifications, has endured as an integral part of modern psychological theory. Hartley was also noted for advocating a physiological psychology divorced from metaphysics....
  • Hartley, David, the Younger (English politician and inventor)
    radical English pamphleteer, member of the House of Commons (1774–80, 1782–84), and inventor, son of the philosopher David Hartley. As British plenipotentiary he signed the Treaty of Paris (September 3, 1783), ending the American Revolution, which he had opposed (see Paris, Peace of)....
  • Hartley, L. P. (British writer and critic)
    English novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose works fuse a subtle observation of manners traditional to the English novel with an interest in the psychological nuance....
  • Hartley, Leslie Poles (British writer and critic)
    English novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose works fuse a subtle observation of manners traditional to the English novel with an interest in the psychological nuance....
  • Hartley, Marsden (American painter)
    U.S. painter who, after extensive travels had brought him into contact with a variety of modern art movements, arrived at a distinctive, personal type of Expressionism, seen best in his bold paintings of the harsh landscape of Maine. After study at the Cleveland School of Art, he went to New York City, where he studied at the Chase School and the National School of Design. He returned to Maine in ...
  • Hartley, R. V. L. (American engineer)
    ...that communication channels had maximum data transmission rates, and he derived a formula for calculating these rates in finite bandwidth noiseless channels. Another pioneer was Nyquist’s colleague R.V.L. Hartley, whose paper “Transmission of Information” (1928) established the first mathematical foundations for information theory....
  • Hartley Seam (geological formation, England, United Kingdom)
    ...burned, and some coal ashes show a remarkable concentration of unusual elements. This was demonstrated by Goldschmidt in 1933, when he found appreciable amounts of germanium in some coal ashes. The Hartley Seam of the Durham Coalfield in England contains so much germanium that the ash has a brilliant yellow colour because of the presence of the oxide (GeO2)....
  • Hartley, Vivian Mary (British actress)
    British actress who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature’s most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois....
  • Hartlib, Samuel (English educator)
    English educational and agricultural reformer and a tireless advocate of universal education....
  • Hartline, Haldan Keffer (American physiologist)
    American physiologist who was a cowinner (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision....
  • Hartling, Poul (Danish politician)
    Danish politician and diplomat (b. Aug. 14, 1914, Copenhagen, Den.—d. April 30, 2000, Copenhagen), was the longtime leader of the Danish Liberal Party, foreign minister (1968–71), and prime minister (1973–75) of Denmark before leaving politics to serve two terms as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1978–85); Hartling accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace on be...
  • Hartman, Geoffrey H. (American literary critic)
    German-born American literary critic and theorist who opposed Anglo-American formalism, brought Continental thought to North American literary criticism, and championed criticism as a creative act. His works treat criticism and literature as mutually interpenetrating discourses and consider the greatest writing as infinitely interpretable....
  • Hartman, Phil (American actor)
    Canadian-born American actor-comedian who, in his eight seasons on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, built up a huge repertoire of impersonations; he also did voices for the TV cartoon series "The Simpsons," appeared in several films, and became a regular on the TV sitcom "NewsRadio"; he was shot by his wife, who then killed herself (b. Sept. 24, 1948, Brantford, Ont.--d. May 28, 1998, Encino, Ca...
  • Hartmann, Carl Sadakichi (American art critic)
    American art critic, novelist, poet, and man of letters....
  • Hartmann, Eduard von (German philosopher)
    German metaphysical philosopher, called “the philosopher of the unconscious,” who sought to reconcile two conflicting schools of thought, rationalism and irrationalism, by emphasizing the central role of the unconscious mind....
  • Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von (German philosopher)
    German metaphysical philosopher, called “the philosopher of the unconscious,” who sought to reconcile two conflicting schools of thought, rationalism and irrationalism, by emphasizing the central role of the unconscious mind....
  • Hartmann, Louis (American inventor)
    ...spotlight was the limelight (q.v.), which gave way to such light sources as the arc, electric discharge, and incandescent lamp. The practical lensed spotlight was developed in 1879 by Louis Hartmann of the United States....
  • Hartmann, Nicolai (German philosopher)
    one of the dominant figures in German philosophy during the first half of the 20th century....
  • Hartmann, Philip Edward (American actor)
    Canadian-born American actor-comedian who, in his eight seasons on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, built up a huge repertoire of impersonations; he also did voices for the TV cartoon series "The Simpsons," appeared in several films, and became a regular on the TV sitcom "NewsRadio"; he was shot by his wife, who then killed herself (b. Sept. 24, 1948, Brantford, Ont.--d. May 28, 1998, Encino, Ca...
  • Hartmann, Sadakichi (American art critic)
    American art critic, novelist, poet, and man of letters....
  • Hartmann von Aue (German poet)
    Middle High German poet, one of the masters of the courtly epic....
  • Hartmann, William K. (American astronomer)
    ...of smaller solid bodies, suggested that the Earth was also probably subject to heavy bombardment soon after its formation. In line with this, a theory proposed by the American astronomers William K. Hartmann and A.G.W. Cameron has become the most popular. According to their theory, the Earth was struck by a Mars-sized object, and the force of the impact vaporized the outer parts of......
  • Hartnup disease
    inborn metabolic disorder involving the amino acid tryptophan. Normally, one of the metabolic pathways of tryptophan leads to the synthesis of nicotinic acid, or niacin, a vitamin of the B group, a deficiency of which causes pellagra. In Hartnup disease, it is believed that the transport system in the kidney tubule that normally reabsorbs tryptophan into the ...
  • Hartog, Dirck (Dutch explorer)
    Dutch explorer who made the first recorded exploration of the western coast of Australia....
  • Hartog, Jan de (Dutch-American author)
    Dutch-American novelist and playwright who wrote adventure stories in both Dutch and English....
  • Hartree, Douglas R. (English physicist)
    ...themselves, as well as weaker magnetic forces arising from the spin and orbital motions of the electrons. Despite these difficulties, approximation methods introduced by the English physicist Douglas R. Hartree and others in the 1920s have achieved considerable success. Such schemes start by assuming that each electron moves independently in an average electric field because of the......
  • Hartree method (physics)
    ...between the nucleus and the electrons and between the electrons themselves, as well as weaker magnetic forces arising from the spin and orbital motions of the electrons. Despite these difficulties, approximation methods introduced by the English physicist Douglas R. Hartree and others in the 1920s have achieved considerable success. Such schemes start by assuming that each electron moves......
  • Hartree-Fock equation (physics)
    ...between the nucleus and the electrons and between the electrons themselves, as well as weaker magnetic forces arising from the spin and orbital motions of the electrons. Despite these difficulties, approximation methods introduced by the English physicist Douglas R. Hartree and others in the 1920s have achieved considerable success. Such schemes start by assuming that each electron moves......
  • Hartree-Fock method (physics)
    ...between the nucleus and the electrons and between the electrons themselves, as well as weaker magnetic forces arising from the spin and orbital motions of the electrons. Despite these difficulties, approximation methods introduced by the English physicist Douglas R. Hartree and others in the 1920s have achieved considerable success. Such schemes start by assuming that each electron moves......
  • Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport (airport, Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
    ...One of his major achievements was the expansion of Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport into a major transportation hub, “ahead of schedule and under budget.” (It was renamed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after his death.) He reformed the police force and worked to maintain calm when the city was terrorized by a string of child murders. After his......
  • Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (airport, Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
    ...One of his major achievements was the expansion of Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport into a major transportation hub, “ahead of schedule and under budget.” (It was renamed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after his death.) He reformed the police force and worked to maintain calm when the city was terrorized by a string of child murders. After his......
  • Hartshorne, Charles (American philosopher and theologian)
    American philosopher, theologian, and educator known as the most influential proponent of a “process philosophy,” which considers God a participant in cosmic evolution....
  • Hartshorne, Hugh (American psychologist)
    ...from psychologists who point out that behavioral consistency across situations and across time is not the rule. For example, in a study of children’s moral development, the American psychologists Hugh Hartshorne and Mark A. May in 1928 placed 10- to 13-year-old children in situations that gave them the opportunity to lie, steal, or cheat; to spend money on themselves or on other children...
  • Hartshorne, Richard (American geographer)
    ...in the United States, who adopted a regional approach; areal variations in human activities, notably land uses, in their environmental settings were described, and homogeneous regions were defined. Richard Hartshorne codified this approach. His monograph, The Nature of Geography (1939; reprinted 1976), was much influenced by the work of German authors—notably......
  • Hartsville (South Carolina, United States)
    city, Darlington county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S., on Prestwood Lake (an impoundment of Black Creek). The area was first settled in 1760 and grew in the 19th century around Thomas Edward Hart’s plantation. Major James L. Coker established a crossroads store (1866) there, built a railroad connection with the Atlantic Coast Line, and eventually founded Coker Colleg...
  • Hartt School of Music (university, Connecticut, United States)
    private, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Hartford, Conn., U.S. It consists of the Barney School of Business and Public Administration, the Hartt School (of music), the Hartford Art School, the Ward College of Technology, and colleges of education, nursing, and health professions; engineering; and arts and sciences. The university also operates Hillyer Colleg...
  • Hartung, Hans (French painter)
    French painter of German origins, one of the leading European exponents of a completely abstract style of painting. He became particularly well known for his carefully composed, almost calligraphic arrangements of black lines on coloured backgrounds....
  • Hartung, Karl (sculptor)
    The segmented torso, popular with Arp, Laurens, and Picasso earlier, continued to be reinterpreted by Alberto Viani, Bernard Heiliger, Karl Hartung, and Raoul Hague. The emphasis of these sculptors was upon more subtle, sensuous joinings that created self-enclosing surfaces. Viani’s work, for example, does not glorify body culture or suggest macrocosmic affinities as does an ideally......
  • Hartwell, Leland H. (American scientist)
    American scientist who, with Sir Paul M. Nurse and R. Timothy Hunt, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle....
  • Hartwell of Peterborough Court in the City of London, William Michael Berry, Baron (British newspaper executive)
    British newspaper magnate (b. May 18, 1911, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales—d. April 2, 2001, London, Eng.), was chairman and editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph for more than 30 years, from when he inherited the newspaper from his father, Viscount Camrose, in 1954 until his retirement in 1987. He built the Daily Telegraph into one of Britain’s most admired quality newspapers ...
  • Hartwick, Rose Alnora (American poet and writer)
    American poet and writer, remembered largely for a single narrative poem that gained national popularity....
  • Hartwig, Eva Brigitta (German-American actress and dancer)
    German-born dancer and actress (b. Jan. 2, 1917, Berlin, Ger.—d. April 9, 2003, Santa Fe, N.M.), was a ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for three years before attracting greater notice in 1936 as the star of the London production of On Your Toes. She went on to star in such other productions as the Hollywood film The Goldwyn Follies and the Broadway musical I ...
  • Harty, Sir Hamilton (Irish musician)
    British conductor and composer, noted for his performances of Hector Berlioz....
  • Harty, Sir Herbert Hamilton (Irish musician)
    British conductor and composer, noted for his performances of Hector Berlioz....
  • Hartz Mountains (mountains, Tasmania, Australia)
    mountains in southern Tasmania, Australia, extending for 30 mi (50 km) north–south. They are heavily glaciated and rise to 4,111 ft (1,253 m) at Hartz Mountain. The lower slopes, clad in rain forest, give way to peaks that are snow-capped almost year-round, the melting snow draining away to form the Picton, Arve, and Esperance rivers. A national park of 25 sq mi (65 sq km) enclosing the ra...
  • Hartzell, Joseph C. (American bishop)
    ...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was the only African American. In 1888 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to open a photography studio, but the venture failed. With the help of Joseph C. Hartzell, a bishop from Cincinnati, Ohio, Tanner secured a teaching position at Clark University in Atlanta. In 1890 Hartzell arranged an exhibition of Tanner’s works in Cincinnati and,......
  • Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio (Spanish writer)
    one of the most successful of the Spanish romantic dramatists, editor of standard editions of Spanish classics, and author of fanciful poetry in a traditional style....
  • Hartzer, Marie-Louise (religious leader)
    In 1881 Chevalier sent missionaries to the South Pacific islands of Micronesia and Melanesia. Then, with Marie-Louise Hartzer, he cofounded the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at Issoudun in the following year. These nuns dedicated themselves to educational, hospital, and missionary work. Their papal approval (1928) occurred after Chevalier’s death. He is considered one of the......
  • Haru (work by Shimazaki Tōson)
    ...affect either his life or his thought. In the early 1890s he began to write poetry and joined the short-lived romantic movement of young poets and writers, which he later described in his novel Haru (1908; “Spring”). The first of his major novels, Hakai (1906; The Broken Commandment), the story of a young outcast schoolteacher’s struggle for self-realiz...
  • “Haru no umi” (work by Miyagi)
    ...with their mass koto and shakuhachi accompaniments, rather negate the entire sound ideal of the original idioms. The 1929 duet for shakuhachi and koto, “Haru no umi” (“Spring Sea”), has proven Baroque-like in its performance practice, for it is often heard played by the violin, with koto or piano accompaniment. Its style equals the French composer......
  • Harūj al-Aswad, al- (plateau, Libya)
    hilly basaltic plateau of central Libya. A startlingly black expanse (area 15,500 sq mi [40,150 sq km]), it rises out of the surrounding sand to 2,600 ft (800 m) and is crowned by a series of volcanoes, Qārat as-Sabʿah, attaining altitudes of 3,900 ft. Ancient lava streams run in all directions between sandy basins with grasses, bushes, and acacia groves appearing after the rains. Th...
  • Harukatsu (Japanese scholar)
    Gahō, Hayashi’s third son (also called Harukatsu), became his father’s successor as chief official scholar; and Dokkōsai, Hayashi’s fourth son (also called Morikatsu), was also employed by the shogunate. During their father’s lifetime they collaborated with him in compiling histories; and after his death they assembled the Hayashi Razan bunshū...
  • Hārūn (biblical figure)
    the traditional founder and head of the Jewish priesthood, who, with his brother Moses, led the Israelites out of Egypt. The figure of Aaron as it is now found in the Pentateuch is built up from several sources of traditions. In the Talmud and Midrash he is seen as the leading personality at the side of Moses. He has appeared in different roles in Christian thought....
  • Hārūn ar-Rashīd (ʿAbbāsid caliph)
    fifth caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (786–809), who ruled Islām at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights Entertainment)....
  • Hārūn ar-Rashīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn al-Manṣūr al (ʿAbbāsid caliph)
    fifth caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (786–809), who ruled Islām at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights Entertainment)....
  • haruspication (divination)
    Divination, through which the cause of divine displeasure was ascertained, was mainly of three kinds: augury (divination by flight of birds), haruspicy (divination by examining the entrails of sacrificial animals), and an enigmatic procedure using tokens with symbolic names, arts said to be practiced respectively by the “bird-watcher,” the seer, and the “old woman.” The...
  • Haruspices (Etruscan diviners)
    ancient Etruscan diviners, “entrail observers” whose art consisted primarily in deducing the will of the gods from the appearance presented by the entrails of the sacrificial animal, especially the liver and gallbladder of sheep. An Etruscan model liver from Piacenza survived in the 21st century. Haruspices also interpreted all portents or unusual phenomena of natu...
  • haruspicy (divination)
    Divination, through which the cause of divine displeasure was ascertained, was mainly of three kinds: augury (divination by flight of birds), haruspicy (divination by examining the entrails of sacrificial animals), and an enigmatic procedure using tokens with symbolic names, arts said to be practiced respectively by the “bird-watcher,” the seer, and the “old woman.” The...
  • Hārūt and Mārūt (Islamic mythology)
    in Islāmic mythology, two angels who unwittingly became masters of evil. A group of angels, after observing the sins being committed on earth, began to ridicule man’s weakness. God declared that they would act no better under the same circumstances and proposed that some angels be sent to earth to see how well they could resist idolatry, murder, fornication, and wine. No sooner did ...
  • Harvard Annex (historical college, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
    American naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  • Harvard classification system (astronomy)
    scheme for assigning stars to types according to their temperatures as estimated from their spectra. The generally accepted system of stellar classification is a combination of two classification schemes: the Harvard system, which is based on the star’s surface temperature, and the MK system, which is based on the star’s luminosity....
  • Harvard College Observatory (observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
    The Harvard College Observatory was founded in 1839 by the Harvard Corporation at a time when few such facilities existed in the United States. Its 38-cm refractor rivaled the largest in the world at its opening in 1847. Under the directorship of Edward Charles Pickering from 1877 to 1919, the observatory became the world’s major producer of stellar spectra and magnitudes, established an......
  • Harvard Crimson, The (American newspaper)
    ...
  • Harvard, John (British minister)
    New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College....
  • Harvard Mark I (computer technology)
    an early protocomputer, built during World War II in the United States. While Vannevar Bush was working on analog computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), across town Harvard University professor Howard Aiken was working with digital devices for calculation. He had begun to realize i...
  • Harvard Oriental Series (work edited by Lanman)
    American scholar of Sanskrit who wrote the widely used Sanskrit Reader (1884) and helped edit the “Harvard Oriental Series,” which offered scholarly English translations of the ancient Hindu Vedic texts....
  • Harvard Psychedelic Drug Research Program
    ...agent found in certain mushrooms. He concluded that psychedelic drugs could be effective in transforming personality and expanding human consciousness. Along with a colleague, he formed the Harvard Psychedelic Drug Research Program and began administering psilocybin to graduate students; he also shared the drug with several prominent artists, writers, and musicians. Leary explored the......
  • Harvard Square (area, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
    ...capital the past seems still alive in three villages: Plimoth Plantation, Old Sturbridge Village, and Shaker Village in Hancock, where the sect established its communal-church concept in the 1780s. Harvard Square in Cambridge is a favourite tourist stop for its potpourri of people and its proximity to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Salem’s House of Seve...
  • Harvard Theological Review (American publication)
    ...(1914) and, perhaps his greatest work, Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, 3 vol. (1927–30). He was a leading figure in the establishment of the Harvard Theological Review in 1908, serving as editor (1908–14, 1921–31)....
  • Harvard University (university, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
    oldest institution of higher learning in the United States (founded 1636) and one of the nation’s most prestigious. It is one of the Ivy League schools. The main university campus lies along the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few miles west of downtown Boston. Harvard’s total ...
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