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Hh 



H, the eighth letter in the English alphabet, the 

 so-called aspirate, or breathing, letter. In the 

 Phoenician, from which, like practically all the 

 English letters, it was derived, its name meant 

 look! or see! and naturally the object chosen to 

 represent it was that through which one looks a 



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window. When the Greeks took over this letter they gave it a new value, making it 

 represent a vowel sound, and the English H is thus more closely related to the original 

 Phoenician than to the intermediate Greek. 



H has but one value in English, though in some words it is emphasized more than in 

 others. In bush, for instance, it is more distinctly sounded than in history, while in some 

 words, as honor, it is silent. Very frequently it is joined with other consonants to form 

 digraphs, which represent sounds that no single letter stands for. Thus th, sh and ch are 

 really necessary combinations. In other instances, however, the digraph represents a 

 sound which is as well indicated by some single letter. Rheumatism could be pronounced 

 as well without the h, while trough, dough, trophy and laugh might be more simply spelled. 

 In fact, h is one of the letters over which the advocates of simplified spelling have been 

 most concerned; they think it should be eliminated from many words. 



HAAKON, haw'kohn, VII (1872- ), king 

 of Norway, assumed the crown upon the invi- 

 tation of the Storthing in 1905, after the sepa- 

 ration of Norway from Sweden. He was Prince 

 Karl, the second son of Frederick VIII of Den- 

 mark. After at- 

 tending the Dan- 

 ish Naval Acad- 

 emy, he served as 

 an officer in the 

 navy for a time. 

 His love for and 

 knowledge of the 

 sea have made 

 him very popular 

 among the people 



of his adopted HAAKON vn 



nation, who are Brother-in-law of King 

 descendants of Georgre v of En s la ^- 

 the old Vikings. In 1896 he married Princess 

 Maud, the youngest daughter of Edward VII 

 of England, and they have one son, the young 

 Prince Olaf , bora in 1903. The Norwegian peo- 

 ple highly approved the choice of the Storthing 



in its selection of their king, and he was 

 crowned in the historic cathedral at Trondhjem. 



When Haakon VII came to the throne he 

 adopted the name which was borne by six 

 Norwegian kings in the Middle Ages. Their 

 reigns are of little importance, except that of 

 Haakon IV, who is remembered because he 

 added Greenland and Iceland to his realm. 



HAARLEM, hahr'lem, the clean and well- 

 built capital of the Dutch province of North 

 Holland, situated in very picturesque surround- 

 ings eleven miles west of Amsterdam. Inter- 

 sected by canals and containing quaint, inter- 

 esting houses, it is one of the most attractive 

 cities of the nation. In the principal church, 

 known as Saint Bavo's Kerk, is an organ built 

 in 1735 which is one of the largest of its kind 

 in the world, while in front of the church is a 

 statue of Coster, for whom is claimed the in- 

 vention of printing; he was born in the city. 

 The town hall, remodeled in 1620, a former 

 palace of the counts of Holland, contains a 

 collection of paintings by Dutch artists, in- 

 cluding eight large canvases of Frans Hals. 



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