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Hanging Gardens

. See Babylon

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Hanli

a Kashmir altitude, one of the highest inhabited places on the globe; a noted cloister occupies the spot.

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Hanna

MARCUS ALONZO, an American legislator; born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana co., O., Sept. 24, 1837. He removed with his father's family to Cleveland in 1852; was educated in the common schools of that city and the Western Reserve College, Hudson, O.; was engaged as an employe in the wholesale grocery house of his father, then in coal and iron. The imporfirm of M. A. Hanna & Co. was tant in the lake-carrying business, with interest in lake vessels and their building. He was President of the Union National Bank, Cleveland, and of city railway and mining companies. He was government director of the Union Pacific R. R. in 1882 by appointment of President Cleveland; a delegate to the National Republican Republican Conventions of 1884, 1888 and 1896; elected chairman of the National Republican Committee in 1896; appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican by Governor Bushnell, March 5, 1897, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman, who resigned to accept the position of Secretary of State in President Mc- Kinley's cabinet; took his seat March 5, 1897. His term of service under the appointment expired in January, 1898, and he was elected for a second full term. He died Feb. 15, 1904.

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Hannay

JAMES, a British critic and novelist; born in Dumfries, Scotland, Feb. 17, 1827. A few years of boyhood were spent in the navy, from which he was dismissed at 18 by a courtmartial sentence, afterward quashed as irregular. He early devoted himself to a life of letters. For several years he edited the Edinburgh "Courant," and was afterward British consul at Barcelona. Of his novels the best are "Singleton Fontenoy" (1850) and "Eustace Conyers" (1855). Other works were "Lectures on Satire and Satirists" (1854); "Essays from the Quarterly Review" (1861); "Three Hundred Years of a Norman House" (1866); and "Studies on Thackeray" (1869). He died in Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 3, 1873.

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Hanno

a king or magistrate of Carthage who undertook a celebrated voyage of discovery along the W. coast of Africa between 570 b. c. and 470 b. c. His expedition is said to have consisted of 60 ships; he founded numerous colonies or trading-stations, and proceeded as far S. as a point that has been variously identified with places between Cape Nun and the Bight of Benin. On his return to Carthage he inscribed an account of his voyage on a tablet, and placed it in the temple of Moloch. It seems to have been written in the Punic language; the version of it which remains, entitled the "Periplus of Hanno," is only a Greek translation.

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Hanon-Tramp

The name given by the Germans to a certain kind of nightmare (q.v.). This particular nightmare takes the form of a demon, which suffocates people during sleep. It is believed by the French peasantry that this is "the destruction that wasteth at noon-day," as it is supposed that people are most exposed to its attacks at that time Its method of suffocation is to press on the breast and thus impede the action of the lungs. Hansen, Mr., of Copenhagen: (See Telepathy .)

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Hanover College

a coeducational institution in Hanover, Ind., founded in 1828 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 14; students, 224; president, W. A. Millis, LL. D.

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Hanseatic League

a celebrated confederacy formed in the 13th century between certain commercial towns, with the view at once of restraining the rapacity of kings and nobles, and clearing the Elbe, the German Ocean, and other places from the pirates and robbers by which they were then infested. Becoming powerful, the League concluded treaties with monarchs, raised troops, and made war, as if it had been an independent political power. At the time when the League flourished most, it consisted of 85 confederate towns. It gave a powerful impulse to commerce, and when in 1631 it in large measure fell to pieces, it left behind various free republics which continued for a long period of time.

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Hants

a county of England on the southern coast. It includes the Isle of Wight, and has an area of 1,645 square miles. The surface is irregular and is traversed by the North and South Downs. The chief rivers are the Test, the Anton, the Itchen, and the Avon. It is an important agricultural county. Hops are an important crop and extensive truck farming is carried on. The chief centers of trade are Southampton and Portsmouth. The capital is Winchester. Pop. about 1,000,000.

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Hapgood

NORMAN, an American journalist; born in Chicago, Ill., March 28, 1868. He was graduated at Harvard, the Harvard Law School, and studied literature in Europe. He became dramatic critic for the New York "Commercial Advertiser" and "Bookman," and published "Literary Statesmen" "Abraham Lincoln" (1897); (1899); "Daniel Webster" (1899); "The Stage in America" (1901); "Industry and Progress" (1911). In 1903 he became editor of "Collier's Weekly" and subsequently of "Harper's Weekly." He served as Minister to Denmark in 1919.

ISABELLA FLORENCE, an American translator and writer; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 21, 1851. She published "The Epic. Songs of Russia," "Russian Rambles," "A Survey of Russian Literature" (1902); "Service Book of the Orthodox Catholic Church" (1906), etc. Is well known as a translator of the works of Gogol, Hugo, and other great European writers.

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Happy Valley, The

The, in Dr. Johnson's Rasselas, a peaceful garden where the Prince of Abyssinia lived. It could be reached only through a cave in a rock, and the difficulty of leaving it was as great as that of reaching it. See Rasselas

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Harar

a city of Africa, the country of in the Gallas, about 200 miles W. S. W. of Berberah ; on the slopes of the mountains which surround it, Mount Hakim on the W. rising to 8,400 feet. It is fenced with a low wall and forts, the wall being pierced by five gates. The streets are simply waterchannels crossing the uneven surface; the houses are partly stone edifices, partly huts. In the neighborhood are fine banana groves and coffee gardens. Coffee, hides, cattle, and a dyestuff called wars, are the principal objects of commerce. Harar, which was converted to Islam in 152 1521, was formerly the capital of an independent state. In 1875 it was conquered by the Egyptians, who, however, handed it back to its native emir the same year. Pop. composed of native Harari (nearly one-half), Gallas, Somali and Abyssinians .

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