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Hadamard, Jacques (1865-1963)
590; French mathematician best known for his proof of the prime number theorem in 1896; Wikipedia entry

Hadley, Dr. Edgar
311; at Miners' Hospital

Halfcourt, Lietenant-Colonel G. Auberon
222; "formerly a squadron commander in the Eighteenth Hussars"; stationed in Kashgar ("spiritual capital of Inner Asia"), 630;

Halfcourt, Yashmeen
221-222; at T.W.I.T., and daughter of G. Auberon Halfcourt; 489; aka "Pinky" 493; discussing Göttingen with Cyprian Latewood, 499; to Göttingen, 503; in Göttingen, 589; parents were Russian, 595; "she is the world" 596; inspiration for Hilbert-Póya Conjecture, 604; "grandiose coat of arms" 677; encounters Cyprian in Vienna, 716; "bedeviled by two or three powers at once" 717-18; letter to her father, 748-750;

Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
115; English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who proposed, in 1692, that the earth was hollow; Wikipedia entry

Hamilton, Maria Bayley
560; Sir Hamilton's wife;

99; Sir Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation; his illumination "at Brougham Bridge in Ireland in 1845, 99; 132; 526; 535; Quaternions discover him, 560-61; Wikipedia entry

Hardy, Godfrey Harold "G. H." (1877-1947)
239, 438; a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H."; Wikipedia entry

Harald the Ruthless (1015-1066)
127; Norwegian Harald Hardraade, or Hardråde king of Norway (1045–66). His harsh suppression of lesser Norwegian chieftains cost him their military support in his unsuccessful struggle to conquer Denmark (1045–62). The son of Sigurd Sow (Syr), a chieftain in eastern Norway, and of Estrid, mother of the Norwegian king Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), Harald fought at the age of 15 against the Danes.

Harriman, Brother
130; works for Scarsdale Vibe

Hatch
646;

Hausknochen
589; 592;

Hawaii
69; South Sea islands tattoo artists; volcano, 411; See also Ukuleles

Haymarket Bomb
25; The Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886, in Chicago is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing anarchist." The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business class and the working class in late 19th century Chicago are generally acknowledged as having precipitated the tragedy and its aftermath; 111; 176; Wikipedia entry

Headingly
236; Should be spelled Headingley, at least in this world. Suburb of Leeds, England. Headingley is home to the Yorkshire cricket team and a venue for international cricket matches since 1899.

Headingly bomb
608; and Lew Basright;

head of Jochanaan
626; from the opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss, the head of John the Baptist; Salome, who demanded of King Herod, who lusted after her, John the Baptist's head on a platter as the price for her allowing him to have her; Salome had desired John the Baptist, but had been rebuffed.

Heavenly City, The
165;

Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)
98; English electrical engineer who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and was co-discoverer of the rate of energy transfer by an electromagnetic field; Electromagnetic Theory (1893); 533; "Walt Whitman of English Physics" 535; Wikipedia entry; A good article on Heaviside

Heden, Sven
436;

Hegel
538;

Heinrich
597; Gunther von Quassel's "intimate"

Held, Anna
334;

Helgustaðir
126; Located in East Iceland, one of the world's best-known sources of Icelandic spar. web page about the site, with photos

Henry, Emile (1872-1894)
87; French anarchist, who on February 12, 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty; Wikipedia entry

Herbert, Victory
512;

Herman
182; bartender at Anarchists' Saloon

Hershel
39; bellman at the Esthonia Hotel

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894)
121; "extra Hertzian rays"; German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. In 1888, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to produce UHF radio waves; 318; 330; 438; Wikipedia entry

Hierarchy
417; Chums of Chance's invisible superiors

High Albedo
493; A property of a surface that describes its ability to reflect and reject heat. High albedo surfaces have both a light color (high solar reflectance) and a high emmittance (can reject heat back to the environment).

high-grading
196; In mining, high grading is the theft and concealement of valuable ore by miners for personal profit. Common during the United States gold rush, high graders would usually conceal gold ore in a pocket or lunch pail, or internally within the body, and later attempt to fence it on the black market; 486;

Hilbert, Dr. David (1862-1943)
324; German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas, in invariant theory, the axiomatization of geometry, and with the notion of Hilbert space, one of the foundations of functional analysis. Among the students of Hilbert, there were Hermann Weyl, the champion of chess Emanuel Lasker, Ernst Zermelo, and Carl Gustav Hempel. John von Neumann was his assistant. At the University of Göttingen, Hilbert was surrounded by a social circle of some of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century, such as Emmy Noether and Alonzo Church; "Spectral Theory" 499; 600; 625; 633; Wikipedia entry

Hill, Joe (1879-1915)
216; born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström, Joe Hill was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he became the subject of a folksong; 463; Wikipedia entry

Hindoo Shuffle
357; magic trick

Hinton, C. Howard
591;

Hip Sing
340; rival tong of On Leong, New York City

History
223; 373; 559;

H.M.S. Megaera
108; frigate; Megaera (Greek: Μεγαιρα, "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek Mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and causes people to commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.

hole card
684; In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold ‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.

Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
287; name given to a gang in the American Wild West, which took its name from the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts. The Gang was not simply one large organized gang of outlaws, but rather was made up of several separate gangs, all operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass, using it as their base of operations. The gangs formed a coalition, each planning and carrying out its own robberies with very little interaction with the other gangs. At times, members of one gang would ride along with other gangs, but usually each gang operated separately, meeting up only when they were each at the hideout at the same time; Wikipedia entry

Holliday, Doc (1851-1887)
25; John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; "rejoinder to Frank McLaury at the O.K. Corral" 647-48; Wikipedia entry

Hollow Earth
115; Chums of Chance's journey into, 115; H. Penhallow's journey, 155; 274; 327; hoosegow in Guanojuana, 380; 391; "hidden cave of rainwater" 393; Wikipedia entry

Holmes, Sherlock
689;

Hotel Borealis
129; where Vormance Expedition set up headquarters;

Hotel Noctambulo
462; where insomnia prevails, in Fickle Creek

Hotel Neue Mutzenbacher
702, aka "The Mutzi" in Vienna "near the Imperial Stables"

Houdini, Harry
355;

Hour of the Rat
675; according to the time keeping in pre-modern Japan, the Hour of the Rat was from 11pm till 1am.

Hsiang-Chiao
260; Deuce Kindred's "on-again-off-again romance with"

Huerta, General
376; "brutal heart, bloody mind"; "goes after Yaquis or Mayas" 389;Wikipedia entry

Humfried
588; at Göttingen; 592; 597; muttering in strange language, 622;

Hungarians
46;

Hypatia (AD 370(?)-415)
717; Hypatia of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, teacher, and head of the Platonist school at Alexandria about AD 400. Hypatia wrote commentaries on the astronomical canon of Ptolemy and did work on conic sections . Her works are lost, but are referred to in the Suda lexicon. She was the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria (he was also the last head of the Museum at Alexandria); Wikipedia entry

hypodermic syringe
23; DISCUSSION

Hypopsammotic Survival Apparatus
425; invented by Roswell Bounce, "providing a practical way to submerge oneself beneath the sands and still be able to breath, walk around, and so forth"