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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Born: June 2, 1840 Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England Died: January 11, 1928 Dorchester, England English author, novelist, poet, an...

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Mariska Hargitay

Actress Born Mariska Magdolina Hargitay, January 23, 1964, in Los Angeles, CA; daughter of Mickey Hargitay (a bodybuilder) and Jayne Mansfield (an actress); married Peter He...

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Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper (born 1959), an often-underestimated Canadian politician, became his country's first conservative prime minister in 13 years when he led his party to victory in Janu...

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Stephen J. Harper

Prime minister of Canada Born Stephen Joseph Harper, April 30, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; son of Joseph and Margaret (Johnston) Harper; married Laureen Teskey, Decem...

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E. Lynn Harris

Author Born Everette Lynn Harris, in 1955, in Flint, MI; son of James Jeter and Etta W. Harris (a factory worker). Education: Graduated from the Univ...

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Richard Harris

Born Richard St. John Harris, October 1, 1930, in Limerick, Ireland; died of Hodgkin's disease, October 25, 2002, in London, England. Actor. To a generation of filmgoers, Anglo–Irish star ...

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Carey Hart

Motocross athlete and business owner Born July 17, 1975, in Las Vegas, NV; son of Tom Hart (a construction company owner); married Pink (aka Alecia Moore; a singer), January 7, ...

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Reed Hastings

President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Chair of Netflix Born Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., c. 1961; married; children: two. Education: Earned undergradu...

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Teri Hatcher

Actress Born December 8, 1964, in Sunnyvale, CA; daughter of Owen (an electrical engineer) and Esther (a computer programmer) Hatcher; married Marcus Leithold (a fitness tra...

Center for Countering Digital Hate

Center for Countering Digital Hate

Politics and Administration

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), formerly Brixton Endeavors, is a British-American not-for-profit NGO company with offices in London and Washington, D.C. with the stated purpose of stopp

HateAid

HateAid

Other

HateAid is a nonprofit limited liability company based in Berlin that provides advice and support to those affected by online hate speech and hate comments. The organisation is independent and non-par

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Lene Vestergaard Hau

Physicist Born November 13, 1959, in Vejle, Denmark. Education: Received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Aarhus, and Ph.D., 1991. ...

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Laura S. Haviland

American antislavery activist Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898) is not as well known as the great writers and orators of the Abolitionist movement, those whose ideas rallied the Nor...

Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk

May 12, 1968 • San Diego, California Skateboarder, businessman According to Newsweek magazine, Tony Hawk is the...

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Born: January 8, 1942 Oxford, England English scientist, physicist, and mathematician British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking has made fund...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Born: July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts Died: May 19, 1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire American writer The work of Americ...

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Dennis Haysbert

Actor Born Dennis Dexter Haysbert, June 2, 1954, in San Mateo, CA; son of Charles (a security guard and sheriff's deputy) and Gladys (a homemaker and housecleaner) Haysbert;...

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Bruce Hayse

Conservationist Born c. 1949, in Burns, OR; son of Joe (stepfather, a civil engineer) and Laura; married to Jan; children: two daughters. Education: ...

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Eliza Haywood

Pioneering English novelist Eliza Haywood (c. 1693–1756) was also a successful playwright and journalist. Though little is known about her early life, and her works were usually pu...

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Advertising and media

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is a peer-reviewed public health journal that covers all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It is publi

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