Hauraki
a gulf and a gold-bearing peninsula of New Zealand, opposite Auckland.
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Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Hauran
a large district in Syria, E. of the Sea of Galilee. The name is sometimes restricted to one fertile plain there.
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Haussa
or HOUSSA (hösä), a people of the Sudan, who have been conquered by the Fulbé, and now constitute the larger part of the population in Sokoto, Adamawa, and Gando. Whether they are of pure Negro race, or an immigrant wave of ancient Hamitic stock, now indistinguishable from the Negroes, is not yet fully determined. Their language is allied in its grammatical forms with the Hamitic tongues to the E. and N., while its vocabulary resembles in many points that of the neighboring Negro tribes. At any rate the Haussa language is the common medium of communication in the commercial world of central Sudan. The Haussa themselves are keen traders, and also occupy themselves with agriculture and industrial pursuits (weaving, dyeing, tanning, etc., and the making of baskets, pottery, and iron implements). They have adopted Islam from their conquerors.
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Havelock
SIR HENRY, an English general; born in 1795. In 1856 he commanded a division of the army which invaded Persia. In 1857, upon the breaking out of the Sepoy mutiny, he made a forced march from Allahabad to Cawnpur, but reached the latter city too late to prevent the massacre which occurred there. After defeating the rebels in three different engagements, he continued his march toward Lucknow, then beleaguered by a formidable force of mutineers. After victoriously fighting eight more battles with the enemy, he fought his way through the besieging army around Lucknow, and accomplished the relief of its exhausted garrison. For this service he received general rank, was created a baronet, and decorated with the cross of the Bath. He died in 1857.
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Havelock, Henry
Henry (1795-1857), a major-general in the East India service. He was a native of Durham, England. He entered the eastern service as early as 1823. During the Indian mutiny of 1856-57 he commanded a column including the seventyeighth regiment of Highlanders. He fought a dozen sharp engagements, made forced marches, and was successful in retaking Cawnpur and in relieving Lucknow ere the garrison gave up. Whittier's stirring poem, The Pipes of Lucknow, gives Havelock due praise. Havelock died of dysentery two months and a day after raising the siege of Lucknow. His exploits were received at home with a storm of applause. The British Parliament hastened to heap honor and rewards on him; then, learning of his untimely death, made his eldest son a baronet and settled a pension of $5,000 a year on his widow. A statue in Havelock's memory was erected by public subscription in Trafalgar Square, London. See Lucknow ; Clive
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Haverford College
an educational institution in Haverford, Pa.; founded in 1833, by the Society of Friends, under the name of Haverford School, and was made a college in 1856. It possesses a well-selected library, a chemical laboratory, philosophical apparatus, mineralogical and geological cabinets, an astronomical observatory and a gymnasium. It was the first collegiate institution founded and conducted entirely within the Society of Friends, and since 1849 others besides the sons of Friends have been admitted. In 1919 it reported: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 200; volumes in the library, 80,000; president, William Wistar Comfort, Ph. D.; Litt. D., L.L. D.
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Havergal
FRANCES RIDLEY, an English author; born in Astley, Worcestershire, Dec. 14, 1836. She began to write hymns and letters in verse at the age of 7, but did not publish anything till 1860. She was a frequent contributor to "Good Words." Among over 30 publications, which once enjoyed considerable popularity, may be noticed: "The Four Happy Days" (1873); "Under the Surface" (1874), poems; "Royal Graces and Loyal Gifts" (6 vols. 1879); "Under His Shadow" (1879); and a number of posthumous works by various editors. She died in Swansea, Wales, June 3, 1879.
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Haverhill
a city in Essex co.. Mass.; on the Merrimac river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 33 miles N. of Boston. It is connected by bridges with the towns of Groveland and Bradford on the opposite side of the Merrimac, and has extensive manufactures of boots and shoes, hats, cotton and woolen goods, leather, lumber and brick. It is the trade center of a large farming district, and has gas and electric lights, electric street railways, waterworks, public high school, public library, daily and weekly newspapers, 4 National Banks and many notable public buildings. The city, originally the Indian village of Pentucket, was settled in 1040, incorporated as a town in 1645, and was chartered as a city in 1869. The birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier. Pop. (1910) 44,115; (1920) 53,884.
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Haversack
the bag used by a soldier to carry food. It is large enough to hold several days' rations. It is carried usually at the left side, being suspended from the opposite shoulder by a belt passing diagonally across the body. The knapsack for clothes, which is much larger, is carried on the back like a pack.
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Haverstraw
formerly Warren, a city in Rockland co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river, and on the West Shore, the New Jersey and New York, and the New York, Ontario and Western railroads; 35 miles N. of New York City. It is the largest brick manufacturing city in the world. Other manufactures are brick-making machinery, dynamite, and baskets. The city has several parks, and points of interest, electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, National bank. Pop. (1890) 5,070; (1900) 5,935; (1920) 5,226.
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Hawarden
a small market-town of Flintshire, North Wales. There are some manufactures of tiles, pottery, etc. Lady Hamilton passed her girlhood here. Hawarden Castle, Gladstone's home, dates from 1752.
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Hawkesbury
a river of New South Wales, Australia, rises in the Cullarin Range, and enters the Pacific at Broken Bay. It has a total length of 330 miles. The Hawkesbury is crossed by a steel girder bridge (1886-1889) on the railway between Sydney and Newcastle. It carries a double line of rails, and is one of the largest structures of its kind in the world, having seven spans of from 410 to 416 feet, and a total length between abutments of 2,900 feet.
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