Hatto
Bishop. See Mouse Tower
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hatto, Hauberk, Hauck.
Hauberk
haw'berk, a long coat of mail. It was made of twisted steel links. Though heavy, it was pliable and proof against sword cut or thrust of spear. It had many forms. The skirt of the more complete hauberk fell below the knee. The wrist was extended into a chain mitten that covered the back of the hand. A high collar protected the neck, ears, and lower part of the face. A short-bodied, short-sleeved form was known as a habergeon. Defensive coats of this sort may be seen in the armor room of any old European castle or museum of antiquities. See Armor
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Hauck
MINNIE, an American opera singer; born in New York City Nov. 16, 1852. Her first appearance was in concert in New Orleans when only 13 years old. She afterward studied with Errani in New York and made her operatic début in "La Somnambula" in 1868. She was uniformly successful both in the United States and European countries. She married the Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg and retired in 1896.
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Hauffe, Frederica
Better known as the "Seeress of Provost," a somnambule who came under the observation of 66 66 Haunted Houses Dr. Justinus Kerner, a well-known poet and physician, early in the nineteenth century. A natural trance and convulsive patient, she came to Kerner to be magnetised, but he endeavoured at first to treat her by medicinal means. Finding these unavailing, however, he resorted to magnetism. Henceforward the Seeress passed the greater part of her life in trance, displaying all the usual somnambulic phenomena. (See Magnetism under article Hypnotism .) She saw and conversed with apparitions, developed remarkable clairvoyant faculties, and dealt also in mysticism, describing intricate symbolical circle-systems. She was also the author of a primitive" language, constructed with some ingenuity, which purported to be that tongue, spoken by the patriarchs of old, wherein the words conveyed in some mystic manner the properties of the things they designated. Dr. Kerner and others were sometimes able to see Frau Hauffe's ghostly interlocutors, as dim grey pillars of cloud. Physical phenomena of a poltergeistic character were also of common occurrence in her presence.
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Hauptmann
GERHART (houpt' män), a German dramatist and poet; born in Salzbrunn, Silesia, Nov. 15, 1862. He was a scholar of solid attainments at Jena and Berlin. His taste for practical sociology comes out strongly in his intense and powerful poems and dramas; he settled on a small Silesian farm solely to study peasant life. He traveled widely, visiting the United States in 1894. His first play, "Promethidenlos" (1885) was conventional; but under Ibsen's inspiration he soon broke away from the old lines, producing "Before Sunrise" and "A Family Catastrophe," tragedies of labor. These and subsequent plays gave him world-wide repute. He later turned to comedy, but "The Weavers" and its successors represent his forte. Among his later plays may be mentioned "Mathilde" (1902); "Einhart der Lächler" (1907); "The Apostle," a novel (1902).
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Hauraki
a gulf and a gold-bearing peninsula of New Zealand, opposite Auckland.
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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
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) 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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Havana (Province of Cuba)
a province of Cuba, in the western part of the island, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean Sea, bounded on the west by the province of Pinar del Rio, and on the east by the province of Matanzas. Although the smallest of the provinces of Cuba (area 31.74 square miles), it is the second largest in the point of population, which in 1919 was 697,583. It is also commercially the most important province of the Republic, having many large cigar and cigarette factories, sugar and saw mills, distilleries, tanneries, and foundries. Its surface is low and undulating. Besides valuable cabinet timber from its many forests it produces bananas, corn, pineapples, sugar cane, tobacco, vegetables, and yucca. The capital is Havana (q. v.).
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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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