HARDA 



HARDICANUTE 



Harda. Subdivision and 

 ot the Central Provinces, India, in 



hurg, Kuno Moltke. and Wilhelm 

 von Hohenhau, which led to their 



the district of Hoshangabad It disappearance from the imperial 



stands on the high road to Bom- 

 bay and is a station on the Great 



circle. He was several times pro 

 secuted for Ifse-maje-ste. and his 



Hardanger Fiord. Deep, rami- 

 fied inlet on the W. coast of Nor- 

 way It opens S. of Bergen, and 



Indian Peninsula Rly., 12 m. from paper was repeatedly suppressed 

 Handia. It is a prosperous town during the Great War. He helped 

 with a good water supply, and a to found a free theatre in Berlin 

 trade in cereals and oil seeds. Area in 1889, and was the author of 

 of subdivision, 1,125 sq. m. Pop., several books, of which two, Word 

 subdivision, 129,915: town, 8,340. Portraits, 1911, and Monarchs and 



Men. 1912, appeared in English. 



Hardenberg, FRIEDRICH LUD 

 wro VON (1772-1801) German 

 poet and romance 

 writer, better 

 known by his pseu- 

 donym of Nova- 

 Is (</..). 



Hardenberg, 

 KARL AUGUST, 

 PRINCE VON ( 1 750- 

 1822) German 

 statesman. Born in 

 Hanover May 31, 

 1750 he was'edu 

 cated at Leipzig 

 and Gottingen, 

 afterwards enter- 



Haruanger Fioru. Lanuiug-piace ai riiuftoru, at taa in public ser 



head of the Hardanger Fiord vice of Hanover. 



He was made a 



extends in a N.E. direction about count, but left the service because of 



70 m. to Vik and Ulvik, which are his wife's intimacy with the prince 



about 115 m. from the open sea of Wales, afterwards George IV, the 



beyond the islands at its mouth. Hardenbergs being then in England. 



A branch, known as the Sorfiord, In 1782 he entered the service of 



runs S. to Odde, passing the vast the duke of Brunswick, and in 1792 



Folgetond snowfield. Among the was made administrator of Ans bach 



many cataracts on the Bardanger and Baireuth 



Fiord are the Skjeggedalsfos and Hardenberg was soon busy for 



the Voringfos. Prussia. On the outbreak of war 



Harde court. Vi.lage of France, against France he had been sent 

 in the dept. of Somme. It is 2 m. out on diplomatic work. He helped 

 S.W. of Combles, and was promin- to arrange the peace of Basel (1795), 

 ent in the Great War. It was after which he held an important 

 stormed by the Allies on July 8, post in Berlin. In 1804 he was 

 1916, and this operation com- made foreign secretary by Freder- 

 pleted the first phase of the French ick William III, but in 1805 

 operations north of the Somme. Napoleon insisted upon his retire- 

 Recaptured by the Germans in ment. He returned to his post in 

 March, 1918 it was finally taken 1807, but again the dictator had 

 by the Allies on Aug 28, 1918. him dismissed. In 1810 he 



became chancellor, and as such 



FELIX had a great deal to do with the re- 



6'ee Somme. Battles of the 

 Harden, MAXIMILIAN 

 KRNST (b. 1861). German journal 

 and politician 



AJ - 



^rajfjfl I ' 111(l won the 



* support of Bis- 

 marck and 



Maximilian Harden, 

 German journalist 



organization ot Prussia. He sup- 

 ported heartily the policy of 

 making war on France in 1812, and 

 his real name had a share in arranging the settle- 

 was Witkow- ment ol 1814-15, being Prussia's 

 he be- chief representative at the congress 

 of Vienna. He was also a member 

 of all the congresses that took 

 writer under P'ace between 1812 and 1822, but 

 the pseudonym was merely a puppet in the hands 

 Apostata * Metternich. He died at Genoa, 

 ' No. 26 1822. 



Harderwyk. Town and port 

 of Holland. Situated in the pro- 

 vince of Gelderland, about *6 m. 



Born at Berlin 

 Oct. 20. 1861, 



ski ; 



oame known 



as a satirical 



C a p r i v i. In 



Oct., 1892, he founded the weekly due E. ol Amsterdam, it has a small 



naper Die Zukunft (The Future), harbour on the Z aider Zee, and is 



n which, in 1907, he 'launched a on the rly. between Amersfoort 



campaign against Philip zu Eulen- and Zwolle. The port is now used 



only for coasta.1 traffic, but the 

 town is a useful agiionltimil centre. 

 There is a depot for recruits tor the- 

 Dutch East Indian service. Har- 

 derwyk University, founder) 1648 

 and well known in the ISth century, 

 was closed in 1811. Pop. 8,000 



Hard Fern (Blechnum pimni). 

 Fern of the natural order Poly- 



Sodiaceae. It is a native of Europe 

 .E. Asia, the Canaries, and N W. 

 America. The rootstock is creep- 

 ing and scaly : fronds are leathery, 

 polished, long and narrow, and 

 deeply cut in from the margins to 

 or nearly to, the midrib. Fertile 

 fronds have the divisions narrower 

 and more distant ; the barren 

 fronds are broader, evergreen, more 

 or less prostrate. The fertile fronds 

 are twice the length of the 

 others, erect, the under side of 

 each lobe margined with the line ot 

 brown spore-cases. 6'ee Fern. 



Hardhead, MATFEI.LON OK 

 GREATER KNAPWEED (Centavrea 

 scabiosa). Perennial herb of the 



natural order 



Compositae. It 

 is a native ol 

 Europe and W 7 

 Asia. Thelona 

 leaves are 

 deeply cut into 

 boldly toothed 

 segments. The 

 grooved flower 

 ing stem is 2 ft 

 or 3 ft. long 

 covered w i t h 

 soft hairs 

 branched near 

 the top, each 

 branch ending 

 inalarge bright 

 purple (occasionally white) flower- 

 head. The lower part of the head is 

 almost spherical, invested with 

 large rough scales with brown tips. 



Hardi Canute OR HARTHACNUT 

 (c. 1018-42). King of Denmark 

 and England. The son of King 

 Canute and his Norman wife. 

 Emma, the widow of Ethelred the 

 Unready, he passed most of hi* 

 time in Denmark, where he acted 

 as his father's deputy. In 103f> 

 Canute died and he became king ol 

 Denmark, while Earl Godwin 

 wished him to be king of England 

 also. A contest between him and 

 his half-brother Harold resulted in 

 division of the kingdom between 

 them, Hardicanute taking the 

 southern, or English, part. 



Hardicanute however, stayed 

 in Denmark seeking among othei 

 things the throne of Norway, and 

 in 1039 his discontented English 

 subjects placed themselves undei 

 Harold. When Harold died, he was 

 chosen king. He then came to 

 England, but his short reign was 

 marked by brutalities, notably the 



Hardhead, leaves 

 and flower-heads 



