Hagerstown
a city and countyseat of Washington co., Md., on Antietam creek, and on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Cumberland Valley, the Norfolk and Western, and the Western Maryland railroads; 22 miles N. W. of Frederick. It has extensive manufactures of knit goods, pipe organs, automobiles, silk, machinery, steam engines, lumber, sashes, doors, blinds, etc. It is the trade center of Western Maryland and contains a court house, the male high school, and electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, 3 National banks. Pop. (1910) 16,690; (1920) 28,064.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Haggai
in the Old Testament, the 10th of 12 minor prophets. Of the seer himself nothing is known. His book has always been regarded as canonical. The several dates are all in the second year of Darius the king-i. e., of Darius Hystaspes, B. c. 520. The prophet aims at inducing the people without delay to resume the rebuilding of the temple which had been commenced in 535, the second year of Cyrus, but had been discontinued, owing to Samaritan and other opposition.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Haggard, Henry Rider
Henry Rider (1856-), an English novelist. He was educated for the law, but has devoted his time to literature and agriculture. She, The Witch's Head, Jess, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain, Beatrice, and Montezuma's Daughter, are the best known among his novels. They are highly imaginative romances and full of exciting incidents, but are of no literary merit other than an easy and natural style.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Hagiology
relating to the saints, or holy persons deceased and accepted as saints. This is a sacred branch of religious teaching in the Roman and in the Greek Catholic Churches and is hardly less sacred and solemnly taken in the Anglican and Lutheran Churches.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hague, The
The, an important city of the Netherlands. It lies three miles from the North Sea . It is in line with Delft, Leyden, and Haarlem. It is about sixteen miles from Rotterdam and thirty-three from Amsterdam. It bears much the same relation to the latter city that Versailles does to Paris. Amsterdam is nominally the capital, but the queen resides at the Hague. The foreign ambassadors have their residences here. The States General, the congress of the Netherlands, has its hall of assembly in the Binnenhof, a large, irregular government building. The Hague is a city of palaces and government buildings. A town hall and a royal library containing 300,000 volumes, a municipal museum of pictures and antiquities, and a royal gallery of Dutch paintings, are of interest to visitors and students. The Hague, in size the third city of the Netherlands, in 1905 had a population of 254,504. The prevailing religion is that of the Reformed Church, a form of Presbyterianism. See Amsterdam
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Haifa
a seaport of Syria; at the foot of Mount Carmel. A little distance to the N. W. a settlement of the Württemberg "Society of the Temple" was founded in 1869, who now form a flourishing agricultural colony, chiefly engaged in cultivating the vine and growing fruits. Grain is exported. Gordon Pasha paid visits to Haifa, and here Laurence Oliphant settled in 1882.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Haileybury College
an English public school at Hailey, Hertfordshire, 19 miles north of London. The present school which is frequently known as New Haileybury, is a continuation of Old Haileybury or the East India College.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hainan
an island of China, in the province of Kwang-tung, E. of the Gulf of Tonquin, separated from the mainland of China by a channel of but 10 miles in width; lat, 18° 10' to 20° N., lon. 108° 25′ to 111° E.; area 16,000 square miles. Pop. about 2,000,000. The E. coast is steep and rocky; the N. W. coast is unapproachable because of sand-banks; but the S. coast is indented with several commodious and safe harbors. The interior of the island is mountainous and barren, but the low lands near the sea are fertile and well cultivated. Products, sugar, pearls, coral, wax, gold, and silver. The metropolis of the whole island is Kiangchow. Pop. over 50,000. Though the Chinese have possessed this island since 108 b. c., yet there are in the interior some wild and hitherto unsubdued tribes.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hainault
a frontier province of Belgium , bounded E. by Namur, N. by Brabant, E. and W. by Flanders, and on the S. W. by France ; area, 1,437 square miles. Products, wheat, flax; excellent breeds of horses, horned cattle; and sheep are also reared. Extensive coal fields, iron mines, marble and limestone quarries. Pop. (1918 ) 1,214,093. Manufactures, linen, porcelain, and pens. Principal rivers, Haine (whence the name), Sambre, Meuse , and Scheldt. Chief towns, Mons (the capital, pop. about 27,hief 000), Tournay, Ath, Soignies, Charleroi, and Thuin. Hainault was governed by a regular succession of counts from the time of Regnier I., who began to reign about 860. In 1436 it passed into the hands of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and by the treaties of the Pyrenees, Nov. 7, 1659, and of Nimeguen, Sept. 17, 1678, part was ceded to F forming the province of French Hainault. In 1814 it was allotted to the Low Countries, and in 1830 was incorporated with Belgium. The province was overrun by the Germans and occupied by them in the first months of the World War. At Charleroi and Mons the French and British suffered reverses that forced their retreat to the Marne.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hainburg
a France, walled town of Austria; on the Danube; 27 miles E. S. E. of Vienna, with a royal tobacco factory. It is usually identified with the ancient Carnuntum; and a Roman aqueduct still supplies its market place with water. In the "Nibelungenlied" the castle of Hainburg is called Heimburc, the border fortress of the country of the Huns. It was taken from the H Hungarians in 1042 by the Emperor Henry III., and afterward became a resiperor dence of the Austrian princes. In 1482 it was stormed by Matthew Corvinus, in 1683 by the Turks; and in 1827 it was burned to the ground. Pop. about 15,- 200.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hainichen
a town of Saxony , the center of the German flannel manufacture; 13 miles N. E. of Chemnitz. Besides its staple product, it also manufactures cloth, leather, chenille, and plush. Here Gellert was born in 1715. the skin of an animal, and from a bulb-
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia