Hoover, Herbert. 1874-1964. US President 1929-33. Hoover Dam. St. Lawrence Seaway. Opposed direct federal aid to unemployed during Depression.

Hope Hawkins, Anthony. 1863-1933. English author. Prisoner of Zenda 1894.

Hopper, Edward. 1882-1967. US realist painter. Nighthawks 1942.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris (Town Hall). Designed by Il Bocardo, 1533.

Houphouët-Boigny, Félix. 1905-93. West African leader. President of Ivory Coast 1960-.

Howard, Catherine. 1521-42. 5th wife of Henry VIII. Beheaded.

Howard, Charles. 1536-1624. English. Commanded expedition vs Spanish Armada.

Howard, John. 1726-90. English prison reformer.

Howe, Elias. 1819-67. US inventor: sewing machine 1845. Thimmonier.

Howe, Julia. 1819-1910. US suffragette author: Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Howells, Herbert. 1892-1983. British church music composer.

Hsiung-nu. 5C BC-5C AD. Asian empire. Great Wall completed to keep them out 214-204BC.

Huang Hsing. 1874-1916. Led Chinese uprising 1911, with Sun Yat-sen.

Hubbard, L Ron. 1911-86. Science Fiction writer. Founded Scientology. Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.

Hubble, Edwin. 1889-1953. English discoverer of galaxies 1922-24.

Hubertusburg Treaty. 1763. Prussia/Austria end 7 Years War. Prussia established as power.

Hudaybiyah, Pact of al-. 628. Muhammad and followers allowed into Mecca for pilgrimage. Hijrah.

Hudson’s Bay Company. 1670-. England. Explored Canada. Sought NW passage. Trading posts. Fur trade. Monopoly 1821-58. Seven Oaks Massacre.

Hughes, Howard. 1905-76. US millionaire recluse. Movies, aviation.

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.

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.

Humble Petition. 1657. English Constitution of Protectorate. Cromwell as Lord Protector.

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.

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