Ibn Saud Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz (1880-1953). King of Saudi Arabia. A member of an exiled ruling family, he began a conquest of central Arabia in 1902. That year …
Hypatia Hypatia (c. 370-415 AD). Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician. The daughter of the philosopher Them, she lectured in Alexandria where she gained a reputation for learning, wisdom, and eloquence …
Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963). British novelist and essayist. Almost blind from an eye disease, he made his reputation with such witty satirical novels as Antic Hay (1923). Point …
Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein, (1937- ). Iraqi dictator. Born into a landless peasant family, Saddam became involved with the radical Ba’ath party as a young man. In 1959 he …
David Hume David Hume, (1711-76). Scottish philosopher. Having studied law and commerce, he went to France at 23 to write his Treatise of Human Nature (1739), an unusually witty …
Victor Hugo Victor Hugo, (1802-85). French Romantic poet, novelist, and dramatist, the son of a Napoleonic general. His earliest publications were poems but he made his name with the …
Ted Hughes Ted Hughes, (1930— ). British poet and writer. Hughes was born in Yorkshire and educated at Ox-ford University. There he met the poet Sylvia Plath, whom he …
Henry Hudson Henry Hudson, (d. 1611). English explorer and navigator. On his first two voyages, in 1607 and 1608, Hudson reached Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. In 1609 he attempted …
