HN - Horace, Nebraska
An unincorporated community in Greeley County, named for Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor and politician of the mid-19th century who encouraged western settlement with the motto “Go West, young man” (although one biographer believes it was much a comment on the squalor, corruption and crowding of New York City as it was a call to action).
HN = Hockey Night
Hockey Night in Canada may be the oldest continuously broadcast program in the world. It originated in 1931, on CNR Radio, the predecessor to the CBC which was operated by Canadian National Railways, sponsored by General Motors of Canada. It is still on CBC television, which is historically the broadcast on Saturday night of the game of either the Toronto or Montreal team, which always scheduled home games on Saturday nights. Originally, the Montreal Maroons was one of the teams covered.
HO- center Hakeem Olajuwon, a former soccer player from Nigeria, led the Houston Rockets to two consecutive NBA titles while Michael Jordan was on hiatus playing minor league baseball.
HP = Hell’s Pass
Hell’s Pass Hospital serves the fictional community of South Park, Colorado.
HQ = Harley Quinn. My daughter’s favorite comic-book character. Writer/director Kevin Smith named his daughter after her.
HR = Human Resources
A modern economic paradigm that regards human beings as if they were timber or coal, as resources to be exploited.
HS - In 1999, Howard Stern urged his listeners to elect Henry Nasiff (aka “Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf”) as People’s Most Beautiful Person.
Hank won by a landslide, but People refused to put Hank on the cover, giving him only an interview on their web page.
HT = Hat Trick. In sports, the achievement of a positive feat three times in a game.
HU - Howard Unruh, a spree killer who killed 13 people on September 6, 1949.
HV - Hervé Villechaize
The French actor/painter, best known from Fantasy Island, suffered from proportionate dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, despite his surgeon father’s attempts to cure the disease in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a “midget” rather than a “dwarf.” He committed suicide in 1993.
HW - Hank Williams (and Jr., and III)
Hank Williams was one of the most influential country singers and songwriters. Per Wikipedia: “Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one (three posthumously).” His son and grandson continued in the music business.
(Further xylophone posts are probably unwarranted, but may be necessary.)
HX = noted Uzbek poet Halima Xudoyberdiyeva. She was awarded the title of the People’s Poet of Uzbekistan.
HY = Haute-Yutz
The French commune of Yutz, near the Luxembourg border, was formed in 1971 by the merger of Basse-Yutz and Haute-Yutz.
HZ = Hot Zone
What happens when ebola shows up in Reston, Virginia? *The Hot Zone * by Richard Preston tells the frightening true story.
IA - Iowa
Both Iowa and Ohio, the states with the shortest (4 letter)s names are pronounced with three syllables. The only one syllable state, Maine, has five letters.
IB - Imperial Beach, California, which is in the southwestern corner of the U.S., and so is at the southern end of the west coast of the U.S., and at the western end of the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
IC = Intergenerational Continuity
That which is lost when two successive generations in society no longer can relate to each other, and don’t even speak a mutually intelligible language, meanings lost in euphemisms and political correctness. Accumulated wisdom by previous generations can no longer be passed on to the next one, which has to reinvent all the wheels.
ID - Isadora Duncan, famed dancer, died of a broken neck, when her long flowing scarf became caught in an automobile’s wheel.
IE = Id Est (i.e.), Latin phrase meaning “that is”, used to clarify meaning.
I. F.–Isidor Feinstein Stone was a politically radical American investigative journalist and writer, is best remembered for the newsletter, I. F. Stone’s Weekly (1953–71), which was ranked in 16th place among “The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century” by New York University’s journalism department in 1999, and in second place among print journalism publications
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