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Hauer, Josef Matthias

(Encyclopedia)Hauer, Josef Matthias yōˈzĕf mätēäs houˈər [key], 1883–1959, Austrian music theorist and composer. Primarily self-taught, Hauer devised a method of atonal composition that used the 12 tones ...

Hallström, Per

(Encyclopedia)Hallström, Per pâr hälˈström [key], 1866–1960, Swedish short-story writer, dramatist, and poet. Before devoting himself to writing, Hallström worked in London and Chicago as a chemist. He is a...

Hamhung

(Encyclopedia)Hamhung hämˈho͝ongˈ [key], Jap. Kanko, city, capital of South Hamgyong prov., E central N...

Heart, river, United States

(Encyclopedia)Heart, river, 180 mi (290 km) long, rising in the low prairie country near the Little Missouri River, SW N.Dak., and flowing E to the Missouri at Mandan, N.Dak. The Heart Butte and Dickinson dams, irr...

Hialeah

(Encyclopedia)Hialeah hīəlēˈə [key], city (2020 pop. 223,109), Dade co., SE Fla., NW of Miami; inc. 19...

Holston

(Encyclopedia)Holston, river, c.120 mi (190 km) long, formed by the uniting of its northern and southern forks, NE Tenn., and flowing SW through the Great Appalachian Valley, joining the French Broad River at Knoxv...

Hainisch, Michael

(Encyclopedia)Hainisch, Michael mĭˈkhäĕl hīˈnĭsh [key], 1858–1940, president of Austria (1920–28). He was a leading agriculturist and a noted writer. Politically acceptable to all major parties, he was e...

Foote, Arthur William

(Encyclopedia)Foote, Arthur William, 1853–1937, American organist, teacher, and composer, b. Salem, Mass.; pupil of J. K. Paine at Harvard. He was organist (1878–1910) at the First Unitarian Church in Boston, w...

Forest Park

(Encyclopedia)Forest Park. 1 City (2020 pop. 19,932), Clayton co., NW Ga., a suburb of Atlanta; inc. 1908. It is a major warehouse and distribution center adjacent ...

Folketing

(Encyclopedia)Folketing fôlˈkətĭng [key], national parliament of Denmark. Formerly the lower house of the bicameral Rigsdag, it became the sole parliamentary body in 1953. It shares legislative power with the m...