Hippias. Greek Tyrant 527-510BC. Exiled.

Hippocrates. 460-370BC. Greek physician. Separated medicine from superstition. Established medical schools. “Diseases due to natural causes”.

Hippolyte. Amazon queen with gold girdle.

Hippolytus, St. c170-235. Italian martyr. First Antipope, 217-.

Hiram. 989-936BC. King of Tyre 969-. Helped build Soloman’s Temple of Jerusalem 950BC.

Hirohito. 1901-89. Emperor of Japan, 1926-. Renounced his own divinity. WWII.

Hiroshima. Japanese city destroyed 1945 by first A-bomb. 75000 killed.

Hispania. Roman for Spain and Portugal.

Hiss, Alger. 1904-96. Alleged communist spy in US State Department. Jailed for perjury 1950-4.

Historia Regum Britanniae. c1135. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s history of Britain from legendary founding. Popularized legends of King Arthur.

Hitchcock, Alfred. 1899-1980. English/US horror film maker. 39 Steps 1935. Psycho 1960.

Hitler, Adolf. 1889-1945. Austrian/German Nazi Chancellor 1933-, dictator 1934-. Expansionist policies led to WWII. Mein Kampf 1925.

Hittites. c2300-1170BC. Asia Minor Empire c1400-. Discovered iron smelting. Hieroglyphics.

Ho Chi Minh. 1890-1969. North Vietnamese Communist President 1945-.

Ho Hsien-ku. Only female of Eight Immortals of Taoism.

Hoban, James. 1762-1831. US architect. White House 1792.

Hobbes, Thomas. 1588-1679. English Materialist Determinist philosopher. Nominalist. Royalist. Good is that which brings pleasure; evil, pain. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Elements of Law 1640. Leviathan 1651.

Hobson, John. 1858-1940. British pre-Keynesian economist. Imperialism 1902.

Hobson, Tobias. Cambridge innkeeper who offered no choice of hired horse. -“Hobson’s choice”.

Hochelaga. -c1600. Iroquois village at site of Montreal. Discovered 1535 by Cartier.

Hodler, Ferdinand. 1853-1918. Swiss Symbolist artist. The Night 1890.

Hofer, Andreas. 1767-1810. Austrian. Led peasant rebellions vs French and Bavarians 1809-10.

Hoffmann, August. 1798-1874. German poet. Deutschland über alles 1841.

Hofmann. Synthetic rubber, 1909.

Hofmann, Hans. 1880-1966. German/US improvising painter. Influenced Abstract Expressionism.

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