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Houston, Sam. 1793-1863. Texas Commander in revolt vs Mexico 1835-6. President, Texas Republic 1836~44.
Howard, Charles. 1536-1624. English. Commanded expedition vs Spanish Armada.
Hoxha, Enver. 1908-85. Albanian Marxist-Leninist dicatator 1944-.
Hsiung-nu. 5C BC-5C AD. Asian empire. Great Wall completed to keep them out 214-204BC.
Hu Yaobang. 1915-89. Liberal Chinese Communist Party chairman. Death led to Tiananmen demonstrations.
Hua Kuo-feng. c1920-. Chinese Premier 1976-80, Chairman 1976-81.
Huang Hsing. 1874-1916. Led Chinese uprising 1911, with Sun Yat-sen.
Huang Ti. Legendary founder of Taoism.
Hubbard, L Ron. 1911-86. Science Fiction writer. Founded Scientology. Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.
Hudaybiyah, Pact of al-. 628. Muhammad and followers allowed into Mecca for pilgrimage. Hijrah.
Hudson River. 1825-75. US Romantic landscape painting school.
Hudson’s Bay Company. 1670-. England. Explored Canada. Sought NW passage. Trading posts. Fur trade. Monopoly 1821-58. Seven Oaks Massacre.
Hugh Capet. c941-996. First of the Capetian dynasty of French kings 987-. Son of Hugh the Great.
Hugo, Victor. 1802-85. French Romantic poet/writer. Notre Dame 1831. Les Misérables 1862. Exiled 1852-70.
Huguenots. 1510-18C. Persecuted French Calvinist Protestants. 300,000 expelled 1685. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Wars of Religion. Edict of Nantes. Henry of Navarre. Declaration of Rights of Man, 1789.
Huitzilopochtli. Aztec war and sun god.
Human Rights. Agreed natural rights for all mankind. Stoics. Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789. Bill of Rights 1791. Buisson. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Amnesty International.
Humanae Vitae. 1968. Pope Paul VI Encyclical against artificial birth control.
Humane Society. 1774 England.
Humanism. 14C-. Philosophy. Mankind at the center of consciousness. Mankind can live ethically without recourse to the supernatural. Belief in personal worth of individual. Rational, creative. Petrarch.
Humboldt, Alexander von. 1769-1859. German naturalist, ecologist.
Hume, David. 1711-76. Scottish empiricist philosopher and historian: On Human Nature 1739. Free-will. Behaviour results from innate character. God cannot be proved by reason, but we must believe in Him.
Humperdinck, Engelbert. 1854-1921. German composer. Hansel and Gretel 1893.