Hands of Spirits
There are instances in occult history where the hand only of a spirit has become visible to the human eye. During the reign of James I. a vision of this kind came to a certain clerk who was engaged in writing a will which was to disinherit a son. It took the form of a fine white hand, which appeared between the candle and the parchment, casting a shadow on the latter. It came three times, till the clerk, becoming alarmed, threw down his pen and refused to finish the work. In the Book of Daniel it is related: "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king (Belshazzar) saw the part of the hand that wrote." There are also many instances of writing being done without human hands, and a Mr. Wolf, of Ohio, states that he has shaken hands with spirits, as "substantially" as one man shakes hands with another. After a certain vision, it is recorded that Daniel was touched by a hand, which set him upon his knees and upon the palms of his hands.
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Hanford
a city of California, the It is the county-seat of Kings co. Southern Pacific and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroads. It is the center of an mportant agricultural and oilproducing region, ing region, and its industries include fru fruit-canning factories. It has a public library and two sanitariums. Pop. (1910) 4,829; (1920) 5,888.
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Hang-Chow
hang'chow, a Chinese city. It is situated at the head of an estuary, fifty miles from the East China Sea. It is the southern terminus of the great Chinese canal. It lies about 100 miles by water southwest of Shanghai. The city is built in the form of an oblong. It is surrounded by strong walls about eight miles in length. For a Chinese city, the streets are remarkably clean. The business sections are attractive. The manufacturing interests are large. A seventh of the population is said to be employed in reeling and weaving silk. The city is noted for its silks, cotton cloth, tapestry, ivory carvings, lacquered ware, fans, and screens. The population is estimated at 700,000. A considerable part of the population lives in houseboats. Although the head of the estuary is four miles wide at this point, it is crowded with ships and junks of all descriptions. Foreigners of all nations are at liberty to trade.
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Hangchow
capital of the Chinese province of Chêkiang, and since the Japanese treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), a treaty port, at the mouth of the Tsientang in the Bay of Hangchau, 110 miles S. W. of Shanghai. The city, one of the great commercial, religious, and literary centers of China, has clean, well-paved streets and many magnificent temples, is a principal seat of the silk manufacture, of gold and silver work, and is noted for the beauty of its surroundings. From a remote period, many spots in the environs have been the resort of pilgrims; and here several thousands of candidates assemble every year for the public examinations. It was formerly a naval port. The river is subject to a dangerthe ous bore or eager. Previous to Tâiping rebellion, the city had about 2,000,000 inhabitants; but it was then (1861) laid in ruins by the rebels. Pop. about 600,000 of whom about 100,000 are engaged in silk-making. HANGING GARDENS. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were anciently reckoned among the wonders of the world. Their construction is variously ascribed to Queen Semiramis and to Nebuchadnezzar. Diodorus and Strabo have given descriptions of them. They are said to have formed a square, with an area of nearly four acres, and rose in terraces, supported on masonry arches, to a height of 75 feet. They were irrigated from a reservoir built at the top, to which water was lifted from the Euphrates by a screw.
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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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Hannibal (Celebrated Carthaginian)
A celebrated Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar. While a child he took a solemn oath never to be at peace with Rome. His passage of the Alps with an immense army was one of the greatest feats of antiquity. He defeated the Romans in the great battle of Cannae, but was subsequently conquered by Scipio at Zama . He died by poison taken from a ring in which he kept it concealed. This occurred in his seventieth year, about B. C. 182. Harpylae (The Harpies). Winged monsters who had the face of a woman, the body of a vulture, and feet and fingers armed with claws. They were three in number-Aello, Ocypete, and Celeno. They were daughters of Neptune and Terra. 2026 Editor's Note: Hannibal's crossing of the Alps is considered one of the most celebrated achievements of ancient warfare, but modern historians note that the two primary sources provide conflicting information, making his exact route impossible to define with certainty. French historians have coined the phrase 'Hannibalism' for trying to answer a question that is intrinsically impossible to answer. (Ed: BR 2026-06-14)
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