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Hölderlin shared a student room with Hegel and spent 35 years in a carpenter's towerAt the Tübingen seminary, Friedrich Hölderlin studied alongside Hegel and Schelling and may have handed Hegel the ancient idea of the unity of opposites. He went on to become one …
Holding companies make nothing, yet control the firms that doSome of the most powerful companies produce no goods and offer no services. They simply own enough shares in other businesses to steer them. This arrangement, the holding company,…
Hole: The band that turned raw, abrasive punk into a global commercial phenomenonFormed in 1989 by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, Hole became one of history's most successful female-fronted rock bands. Despite persistent myths about their songwriting and a …
Holkar capital that kept winning India’s cleanest-city crownIndore is Madhya Pradesh’s largest city and a financial–industrial hub for a metro region of roughly 5.6 million people across nearly ten thousand square kilometres. Founded as a …
Hollis sneakers and sparse beats made hip-hop platinumThree friends from Queens—Darryl McDaniels, Jason Mizell, and Joseph Simmons—launched Run-DMC in 1983. They became the first rap crew to go gold, then platinum, then multi-platinu…
Hollister Co. sells a California dream that was actually manufactured in OhioHollister Co. markets a sun-drenched Southern California lifestyle, complete with fictional backstories of a founder named John Hollister, Sr. In reality, the brand was launched i…
Holly Williams proves that country royalty can forge an entirely independent musical pathBorn into a legendary musical dynasty, Holly Williams chose to define her career through personal songwriting rather than relying on her famous lineage. Beyond her critically accl…
Hollywood filmed Lena Horne's songs so they could be cut out in the SouthMGM signed Lena Horne in 1942 but would not give her lead roles. Her numbers were shot as self-contained scenes, so theatres in cities that refused to show Black performers could …
Hollywood first failed to recognize Bette Davis at the stationWhen twenty-two-year-old Bette Davis arrived in Hollywood in 1930, a studio greeter left because nobody looked like an actress. Universal nearly fired her until Karl Freund praise…
Hollywood fled west to escape Edison's patent policeAmerica's movie capital did not begin in California. Early studios clustered in Fort Lee, New Jersey, until inventors' patents made filming near New York risky. Mild winters, vari…
Hollywood fought television with a French lens nobody had wantedIn 1926 Henri Chrétien patented a lens that squeezed a wide scene onto ordinary film and stretched it out again in the projector. Studios shrugged. A quarter of a century later, w…
Hollywood gets space death wrong: the reality is much stranger than fictionMovies frequently depict dramatic ways to perish in the vacuum of space. This video examines common cinematic tropes of space-related fatalities, contrasting them with the actual,…
Hollywood hokum: How a real Marine squadron became a television sensationBaa Baa Black Sheep dramatized the exploits of the legendary VMF-214 squadron, but the real pilots considered the series a collection of inaccuracies. While it pioneered innovativ…
Hollywood once filmed a secret, superior version of Dracula at night on the same sets.In 1930, Universal Studios filmed a Spanish-language version of Dracula simultaneously with the famous English original. While the main production shot by day, a separate crew wor…
Hollywood once viewed China as a goldmine, but the market is becoming a rival.For two decades, American studios tailored their films to satisfy Chinese censors and audiences, hoping to secure a reliable revenue stream. However, the landscape has shifted dra…
Hollywood reimagined a British prisoner of war escape by adding fictional American heroesThe 1963 film The Great Escape is a cinematic classic, yet it significantly altered history for commercial appeal. While based on a true World War II event, the movie introduced A…
Hollywood spent a decade trying to film A Chorus Line, then critics shruggedRichard Attenborough's 1985 screen version of the Broadway hit about auditioning dancers came after years of rights sales, refusals and studio infighting. Producers put in twenty-…- Hollywood was once a dry, independent town that banned alcohol and movie theaters.Before it became the global capital of cinema, Hollywood was a modest municipality that prohibited liquor sales and rejected movie houses. Today, the district faces a new identity…
Hollywood's 2019 Godzilla sequel honoured the man inside the original rubber suitGodzilla: King of the Monsters pitted Legendary's giant lizard against the three-headed King Ghidorah, Mothra and Rodan. It was dedicated to Haruo Nakajima, who wore the monster c…
Hollywood's Big Five ruled until antitrust broke theater chainsFrom talkies around 1927 until a 1948 Supreme Court case, a handful of studios owned production, distribution, and theatres. MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., Fox, and RKO formed the …
Hollywood's Love Goddess started life as Margarita Cansino, a Spanish dancer's daughterRita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino, granddaughter of the man who popularised the bolero. Studios dyed her hair, renamed her twice and cast her as every kind of exotic…
Hollywood's mightiest mogul started out pushing a junk cart in New BrunswickLouis B. Mayer left school at twelve to collect scrap metal for his struggling immigrant father. Within decades he was running MGM, the most prestigious studio in Hollywood, helpi…
Hollywood’s top child star later became a U.S. diplomatShirley Temple Black (23 April 1928 – 10 February 2014) was America’s number-one box-office draw from 1934 to 1938. A special Juvenile Oscar in 1935 crowned Bright Eyes-era fame; …
Holocaust survivors in his grandmother's kitchen taught young Spielberg to countIn Cincinnati, Steven Spielberg's grandmother taught English to Holocaust survivors, and one of them taught the boy his numbers using the tattoo on his forearm, turning a six into…
Holyrood Palace is a royal residence built on the ruins of a medieval abbey.At the foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile sits a palace that has served as Scotland's royal seat for centuries. From the tragic history of Mary, Queen of Scots, to its current role as…
Home Depot's first two stores moved into old discount hypermarkets near AtlantaHome Depot opened its first two shops on June 22, 1979, in metro Atlanta, inside spaces leased from J. C. Penney that had been Treasure Island hypermarkets. The founders' bet was …
Home electrification is a powerful, manageable shift that does not need to be difficult.This video explores the practical reality of home electrification. It addresses common questions about energy management and provides resources for those looking to navigate incen…
Home improvement wisdom: managing bees, hidden rooms, and difficult contractor relationshipsThis episode covers practical solutions for bee relocation, a tour of a 1939 Hollywood Hills home featuring a secret speakeasy, and expert advice on why contractors often decline …
Home insurance is not a guarantee of wealth, but a contract of indemnityHome insurance is a complex financial instrument designed to restore your property to its pre-loss state, not to profit from disaster. While often mandated by mortgage lenders, th…
Home maintenance and craft: from rain barrels to kitchen disposal safetyThis episode of Ask This Old House explores practical home projects and culinary basics. The team demonstrates how to install a rain barrel, explains the differences between ale a…
Home Maintenance Essentials: From Structural Steel Repairs to Reliable Emergency Power SolutionsThis episode covers practical home improvement strategies, including evaluating structural rust on steel beams, upgrading existing cabinetry with soft-close hardware, and repairin…
Home Maintenance Essentials: Managing Invasive Greenery, Chimney Safety, and Modern Bathroom UpgradesThis episode of Ask This Old House addresses common homeowner dilemmas, from clearing invasive backyard plants to upgrading bathroom technology and ensuring chimney safety. It pro…
Home maintenance secrets for removing stubborn stains and protecting your valuable toolsThis video offers practical home care advice, from removing marble stains with baking soda to protecting tools with charcoal. It also explores how paint colors influence mood and …
Home math activities are associated with higher math achievement in childrenResearchers who conducted a meta-analysis of 64 quantitative studies found that a child's home math environment is positively associated with their mathematical achievement. This …
Home Park: The resilient football stadium that survived the Blitz and hosted European giantsHome Park in Plymouth has evolved from a simple cinder track into a professional football ground. Despite enduring heavy damage during the Second World War and facing multiple fin…- Home showers stayed rare until the nineteen-seventiesA shower rinses a standing body under adjustable spray with a floor drain. Waterfalls and jug pours came first; Greek aqueducts fed communal rooms, then plumbing collapsed with Ro…
Homebrewing returns to the channel in 2024 with a new regular production schedule.After a hiatus, homebrewing content is coming back to the channel. The team plans to release one brewing video every four to six weeks on the main channel, supplemented by expande…
Homeopathic remedies are often diluted until no original molecule remainsHomeopathy rests on two ideas from 1796: that like cures like, and that diluting a substance makes it stronger. Many remedies are thinned so far that not one molecule of the start…
Homes began in caves long before mudbrick courtyardsA home is a lasting or semi-lasting shelter for people—and sometimes pets—where sleep, cooking, and hygiene happen. Forms range from apartments and yurts to virtual spaces. Eviden…
Homeschooling was the normal way to learn until compulsory school laws arrivedFor most of history children learned at home or as apprentices, and classroom schooling only became the norm in the developed world in the early 19th century. In the 1980s homesch…
Homo erectus walked the Earth for nearly two million yearsUpright man was the first human species with a body and stride like ours, the first to leave Africa for Asia and Europe, and the first to handle fire. It persisted for close to tw…
Homological algebra mines chain complexes for hidden invariantsString modules or spaces into a sequence of maps whose consecutive composites vanish. The failure of exactness—cycles taken modulo boundaries—is homology. That bookkeeping, born f…
Homology turns shapes into sequences of abelian groupsHomology began in algebraic topology as a way to turn a shape's holes into algebra. At its core is a chain complex, a string of abelian groups linked by maps whose back-to-back co…- Homomorphisms: how the exponential function turns addition into multiplicationFeed the sum of two numbers into the exponential function and you get the product of their separate results. That tidy trade, addition on one side and multiplication on the other,…
Homotopy asks if one map can melt into anotherTwo continuous maps between spaces are homotopic if one can be smoothly morphed into the other, and the morph itself is called a homotopy. The word joins Greek homós, same, and tó…
Hon'ami Kōetsu: The Renaissance polymath who redefined Japanese aesthetics from a sword-polisher's workshop.Born into a family of sword connoisseurs, Hon'ami Kōetsu became a legendary figure in 17th-century Japan. A master of calligraphy, pottery, and lacquer, he bridged the gap between…
Honda began by strapping surplus radio-generator engines to bicyclesIn 1946 Soichiro Honda and a dozen men worked in a tiny shack, bolting 500 war-surplus engines, originally built to power radio generators, onto ordinary bicycles. When the supply…
Honda scrapped a V10 supercar, then returned with a hybridBy 2008 Honda had a V10-powered successor to its NSX lapping the Nürburgring, with orders to beat Nissan's GT-R. Then the financial crisis hit, profits sank 81 percent, and the ca…
Honda: From a Hot-Water Bottle to HybridsHow a mechanic's bicycle engines in post-war Hamamatsu grew into the world's leading motorcycle maker, a carmaker that answered America's clean-air rules, and a company now steeri…
Honda's first motorcycles ran partly on turpentineJapan was so short of petrol after the Second World War that Honda's earliest motorcycles, built from 1946, burned a blend of gasoline and turpentine. The same pine-derived solven…- Honda's S2000 was built by engineers who ignored the marketing teamFor its fiftieth birthday in 1999, Honda released a two-seat roadster whose chief engineer admitted marketing staff had barely been consulted. Listen to everyone, Shigeru Uehara a…
Honduras's largest rainforest reserve is a World Heritage site struggling against illegal human activity.Spanning over 5,000 square kilometers, the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve protects vital Central American tropical forests and endangered wildlife. Despite its status as a UNESCO W…
Honey bees support human health and ecosystems through diverse rolesResearchers who reviewed the multifaceted impact of honey bees found that these insects serve as vital links between human and ecosystem health. Beyond their well-known role in po…
Honeybees give directions by dancing, using the sun as a compass.A forager bee that finds good flowers returns to the hive and runs a figure of eight on the vertical comb. The angle of her waggling run from straight up matches the angle between…
Honeydew, cantaloupe and snake melon are all one species, tamed four separate timesA smooth pale honeydew, a netted cantaloupe and a long, cucumber-flavoured snake melon look like three different crops. They all belong to Cucumis melo, a single species that peop…
Honeypot ants turn some of their workers into living food jarsIn honeypot ant colonies, certain workers are fed until their abdomens balloon to the size of grapes. Too swollen to move, they hang from the ceilings of underground chambers as a…
Honeywell grew from a coal-furnace gadget into a computer makerIn 1885 a Swiss-born inventor named Albert Butz patented a device he called the damper-flapper, which opened and closed a coal furnace's air supply automatically so homes stayed w…
Hong Kong Disneyland: How a Reclaimed Shipyard Became a Global Cultural Balancing ActBuilt on reclaimed land at Penny's Bay, Hong Kong Disneyland represents a complex joint venture between the local government and The Walt Disney Company. From navigating local sup…
Hong Kong is a mountainous landscape where the sea is both boundary and foundationHong Kong is a dense, subtropical territory defined by its dramatic topography and constant expansion. While its rugged mountains and islands dominate the geography, the city has …
Hong Kong moved its airport to an island to escape a runway in the cityOld Kai Tak airport sat in crowded Kowloon, its lone runway poking into the bay, with jet noise above 105 decibels disturbing an estimated 340,000 people. Its replacement was buil…