Hogshead
in the United States a butt, a cask containing from 100 to 140 gallons. Also a measure of capacity containing 63 wine gallons, or 52½ imperial gallons.
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Each of these 9 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.
Hohenberg
DUCHESS SOPHIE OF, morganatic wife of Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and heir to the throne, born in Stuttgart, and before her marriage known as the Countess Chotek. She was the mother of the Princess Sophie and the Princes Maximilian Charles (born in 1902) and Ernst (born in 1904), who were excluded from the succession on account of the nature of the marriage of which they were the result. The Duchess, while on a visit to Serajevo, in June, 1914, together with her husband, the Archduke, was with him assassinated by a Serbian revolutionary conspirator, the murder serving as the pretext for the opening of hostilities in the World War.
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Hohenstauffen
a German family, founded by Frederick His von Büren, who lived about 1040. son fought valiantly under the Emperor Henry IV. in the battle of Merseburg, in 1080, and received the hand of the Agnes, together with emperor's daughter the dukedom of Suabia, in 1081. Con- Emperor rad, his grandson, was elected of Germany, Feb. 22, 1138. Conrad III. succeeded as emperor by his nephew was , Barbarossa Frederick I., surnamed , 1152-1190; and the imperial throne was occupied by his son and grandson till survivor of the 1254. The sole and last Hohenstauffen race, Conradin, tried to ; but defeated regain the family heritage in the battles of Benevento, Feb. 26, 1266, and of Tagliacozzo, Aug. 23, 1268, beheaded at he was made prisoner and Naples, Oct. 29, 1268.
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Hoisting-block
See HOISTING-MACHINE. Hoisting-machine is a convenient hoisting-block, very handy for use in places remote from the crane. The Weston differential pulley-blocks lift from 1/8 to 10 tons, and with them one man may lift from 1000 to 5000 pounds, according to the kind of block employed. The load is held at any point and cannot run down, thus preventing all danger from accident by that source. See CRANE.
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Hokusai
a celebrated Japanese artist. Born in Tokyo in 1760 he left home at the age of 13 and worked in an engraver's shop for five years when he left to study designing with one of the famous Japanese artists. Losing his powhich sition because of his original work tried was displeasing to his master, he illustrating and_later peddling without he much success. It was 1810 before can be said to have made a success of his art. In that year he opened a school and soon had more pupils than he could accommodate. His greatest work was ," which aphis "Ten Thousand Sketches peared in 1836. His work was popular in the best sense of that word and free from the conventionality that characterin ized his contemporaries. He died 1849.
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Holacanthus
a genus of fishes, in character and distribution similar to the Chætodon. They for the great beauty and are remarkable symmetry of their colors, and for their excellence as articles of food. The body cover bears is compressed, and the gillbest known a strong spine. One of the of the 40 species, called Emperor of Japan by the Dutch, is H. imperator, one East of the most esteemed fishes of the Indies, rivalling the salmon in flavor. long; Its greatest size is about 15 inches its color is deep blue, with numerous pectoral narrow bands of orange, the fins black, the tail bright yellow. In an allied species, beauty it is rivalled by . H. diacanthus, of similar distribution
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Holadin
an extract of the pancreas, used in medicine for the treatment are simof indigestion. Its properties pancreatic juice, and ilar to those of the it acts upon starch, protein and fat in them easily such a manner as to render digestible. It is generally administered in the form of capsules. HEINRICH PAUL HOLBACH, DIETRICH, BARON VON, a French Heidelsheim, in the philosopher; born in Palatinate, in 1723. He inherited great wealth from his father, and entertained in his elegant house Rousseau, Diderot, and and Buffon. He held materialistic atheistic views, which are expounded in "Christianity Unveiled" (1767); "Spirit Clergy" (1767); "Sacerdotal Imof the posture" (1767); "The System of Nature" (1770); "The Social System" (1773). He died in 1789. JOHANN
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Holbein
HANS, or (hol'bin), a German painter; born in the Augsburg about 1495. He learned elements of his art from his father. His talent procured him the friendship of Erasmus, at whose recommendation he went to England, and was employed first by Sir Thomas More, who introduced him to Henry VIII. He rose to the zenith of fortune in that monarch's court, and painted a great number of portraits which are still considered masterpieces of art. His masterpiece is perhaps the "Family of the Burgomaster Meyer," Gallery of Dresden. Holbein designed the celebrated series known as the "Dance of Death," cut in wood and first published at Lyons in 1538. He died of the plague in 1543.
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Holbein, Hans
hol'bin, Hans (1497-1543), a celebrated German painter. He was born in Augsburg and died in London. He is best known by a copy of the Meyer Madonna in the Dresden Gallery. It is an interesting fact that no painter of note ever ventured to paint a madonna as a Hebrew woman or the Christ child as a Hebrew boy. The Italian painters followed Italian types of beauty; the Spaniards, Spanish types; and so on to the end of the list. Holbein is no exception. The madonna of this picture is the golden-haired wife of the wealthy burgomaster of Basle, and the other personages are but the burgomaster's family circle. National pride has insisted that this picture is a rival of the Sistine Madonna , but it is difficult to see merit in the claim. Holbein was educated by his father for whom he was named and who was himself a painter of no mean repute. Hans, the younger, painted many London celebrities, including Lady Jane Seymour and Henry VIII. Much of his work was destroyed in the great London fire of 1666. See Painting
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