Hale, Nathan
Nathan (1755-1776), an American patriot. He was a native of Coventry, Connecticut. He was graduated at Yale, shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution. He was a captain in the patriot army. He was sent by General Washington to bring intelligence of the British in New York City. He was captured within the British lines, and, though Washington made every effort to save him, was executed as a spy by order of Sir William Howe. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." His sad fate was remembered later when Andre was in the hands of the Americans. In 1893 a statue was erected to Hale's memory in New York. See Andre
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Half Moon
the ship in which Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. It was a small wooden ship with high poop and stern. It was a sailing ship, helpless in a calm. A reproduction of the Half Moon took part in the Hudson-Fulton pageant at New York in 1909. See Hudson
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Half Open Tailstock
The half open tailstock shown in Fig. 300, is cut away so that the spindles can be laid in, instead of being passed through the holes. This fixture will be found exceedingly convenient when several spindles are to be used for drilling, counterboring and chamfering.
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Half Plate
A half-plate watch, as its name implies, is one in which the top-plate covers half of the pillar or lower plate, and which supports the upper ends of the barrel arbor, center and third pinions.
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Haliartus
An ancient town in Boeotia , south of the lake Copais, destroyed by Xerxes in his invasion of Greece, B. c. 480, but afterwards rebuilt. Under its walls Lysander lost his life (395).
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Haliburton
THOMAS CHAND- LER, a Canadian-American jurist and author; born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in December, 1796. He was called to the bar in 1820 and became a member of the House of Assembly . He was raised to the bench as chief-justice of the Common Pleas in 1829, and in 1842 became judge of the Supreme Court. In 1856 he retired from the bench, and took up his residence in England. In 1858 he received the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Oxford, and in 1859 entered Parliament as Conservative member for Launceston. He is best known as the author of "Sam Slick," the name of a Yankee clockmaker and peddler, whose quaint drollery has given him a fair chance of immortality . The series of newspaper sketches in which this character had first been introduced was published in 1837 as "The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville"; two later series followed in 1838 and 1840, and " The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England"; in 1843. Haliburton's other works include "A Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"; "The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony"; "Yankee Stories, and Traits of American Humor"; "Nature and Human Nature"; and "Wise Saws and Modern Instances." He died in Isleworth , near London, England, Aug. 27, 1865.
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Halicarnassus
A maritime city in Asia Minor, where a mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the world , was erected. It is celebrated as being the birthplace of Herodotus , Dionysius, and Heraclitus .
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Halicz
a town of Poland, in the province of Galicia; on the Dniester, 69 miles S. E. E. of Lemberg. On a hill in the vicinity are the ruins of the once strongly fortified castle of Halicz, built in the 12th century, and the residence of the rulers of what was formerly the grand principality and kingdom of Halicz. From this word the name GALICIA (q. v.) is derived. Be- 1 cause of its strategic position as the key to Lemberg the town was much fought over in the World War (1914-1918). The Russians captured it in August, 1914. The Austrians regained it June 28, 1915. The Russians made an effort that failed to take the town in 1916, but were successful July 1, 1917. These were the last important operations made by the Russians in the World War. On July 22 they abandoned Halicz and began a disorderly retreat.
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Halidon Hill
an eminence about a mile to the N. W. of Berwick, the scene of a disastrous defeat of the Scots by the English, July 19, 1333. Edward III. of England had laid siege to Berwick, the governor of which promised to surrender July 20, if not previously relieved. On July 19, Archibald Douglas, regent of Scotland, led a Scotch army to the relief of the town, and attacked the English at Halidon Hill, but was totally routed with the loss of 10,000 men.
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Halirrhothius
Son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Euryte, attempted to violate Alcippe, daughter of Ares ( Mars ) and Agraulos, but was slain by Ares. Ares was brought to trial by Poseidon for this murder, on the hill at Athens , which was hence called Areopagus, or the Hill of Ares.
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Hallam
HENRY, an English his torian; born in Windsor, England, July 9, 1777. His father was dean of 'Bristol, After studying at Eton he was sent to the University of Oxford, where he distinguished himself by his classical attainments. He afterward settled in London, and entered on his career of literary labor as one of the first contributors to the "Edinburgh Review." His "View of the State of E Europe during the Middle Ages" (1818) was the first great result of his studies and researches. His masterly work on the "Constitutional History of England" was given to the world in 1827. Hallam belonged to the Whig party in politics, but he wrote with an impartiality which is rarely rivaled. In 1833 a very heavy blow fell on him in the death of his eldest son, a young man of high promise, and the chosen friend of Alfred Tennyson, whose love and sorrow are recorded in "In Memoriam." The next great work of Hallam, published in 1837-1839, was his "Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries." After losing his daughter, his wife, and his second son (the last in 1850), the aged and mourning father himself died in Penhurst, Kent, England, Jan. 21, 1859.
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