More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Hoang-Ho
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ho-ang-ho', the most northerly of the great rivers of China. The name signifies Yellow River. Its channel curves in wide loops several hundred miles in diameter, but, on the whole, its course is easterly. It empties into a gulf of the Yellow Sea. The Chinese Wall crosses it twice. In tables of rivers the length of the Hoang-Ho is given at 2,700 miles, and the area of its basin at 540,000 square miles. The lower valley of the Hoang-Ho is an immense delta built up by the river. The soil is alluvial, deep, and of unsurpassed fertility. It is said that this plain, which is about 700 miles long and from 150 to 500 miles in width, maintains a denser population than any other equivalent area of the earth's surface. The river is not particularly desirable for commerce. It is broad and shallow, and is apt to change its course with disastrous results both to commerce and agriculture. It is called China's Sorrow. Its lower course is connected with that of the Yang-tse-Kiang by the Grand Canal of China. See China ; Grand Canal; Yang-Tse-Kiang; Great Wall
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a great river of China, and one of the most prominent features in the geography of that empire. It rises near lat. 34° N., lon. 98° E. Though broad and rapid, it is in many places so shallow as to be unfavorable for navigation. Its length is estimated at about 2,700 miles.
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Hoboken
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ho-bo'ken, a city of New Jersey . It is situated on the Hudson River north of Jersey City and opposite New York . It had a population in 1910 of 70,351. It is the terminus of several railways. There are extensive wharves, coal yards, lumber yards, and other terminal facilities. The term hobo, applied to the genus of tramps, is said to be an abbreviation for Hoboken. It was applied by New Yorkers to the rough characters that were likely to collect in such a suburb. The name Hoboken, itself, is somewhat akin to the Western word pipestone. The Indians obtained stone in that vicinity for their tobacco pipes.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a city in Hudson co., N. J., on the Hudson river opposite New York City, and on the Lackawanna, the West Shore, and Lehigh Valley railroads. It is connected with New York City by ferries and by tubes. It is the terminal for several important European steamship lines. It is the seat of Stevens Institute of Technology, and has considerable manufacturing interests. It has electric lights, and street railways, waterworks, public schools, public library, high schools, several private and preparatory schools, daily and weekly newspapers and National banks. Pop. (1910) 70,324; (1920) 68,166.
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Hockey
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a game of ball played with bats having a curve or hook at the lower end. An ice pond, a green, or a large schoolyard is a suitable place for the game. Any number may play. The ball is placed at the center of the field. Players on each side strive to strike the ball and drive it over the goal line of their opponents. Any one who can reach the ball and find room to swing his stick may strike. The game is a favorite with school boys. It possesses the merit of bringing a large number into active play all the time. The ball--a small block of wood answers quite as well--flies this way and that, and the entire field is in a hurly-burly. Of late the game has been taken up by English clubs and systematized after the manner of cricket and football. It is called also shinny, shinty, and hurly. See Golf ; Polo
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a game of ball known as "shinty" in Scotland, and "hurling" in Ireland. It is played with a club curved at the lower end, by a number of persons divided into two parties or sides; and the object of each side is to drive the ball into that part of the field marked off as their opponents' goal. In England the game is quite popular. In the United States it is played by school boys, who sometimes call the game "shinney."
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Hohenzollern
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ho-en-tsol'lern, the present ruling family of Prussia. The family sprang from a tiny province of that name. The curious may find it on the map of Germany sandwiched in between Wurtemberg and Baden, about fifty miles north of Lake Constance. The old family castle was formerly a fortification of great strength. In 1415 a young member of the family was made elector of Brandenburg, not, at that time, a particularly enviable position on the Baltic. He and his successors created the kingdom of Prussia. Finally the younger branch became the head of the house, and the old home became an outlying province of Prussia. Frederick the Great was a Hohenzollern.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a small territory of Germany, since 1852 Prussia. an administrative division of It consists of a long, narrow, irregular 1 by strip of country, entirely surrounded by and Baden. Area, 441 Württemberg ) 71,611. The square miles. Pop. (1910 princely family of Hohenzollern dates from Thassilo, Count of Zollern, who been died about A. D. 800. There have several lines and branches, the main one being the family of which the ex-Emperor Wilhelm II., now an exile in Holland, is the head.
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Hole
Collier's New Encyclopedia: SAMUEL REYNOLDS, an English clergyman; born Dec. 5, 1819. became canon of Lincoln in 1875, and He in 1887 Dean of Rochester. He did much to promote the influence of the Church of England as the Church of the poor, and advocated the principles of the Free and Open Church Association. As a lecturer he was well known to American audiences. Among his works are: "A Little Tour in Ireland" (1858); "A Book About Roses" (1869); "Nice and Her Neighbors” (1881); "Memories of Dean Hole" (1892). He died Aug. 27, 1904.
The Encyclopedia of Founding: A foundry term for a pit or trench dug in the sand floor, in which to mould a casting by the bedding-in process. Such a hole takes the place of cheeks and nowel parts of the flask. See BEDDING IN; PIT.
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