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Halma
Halma Hal"ma, n.
A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons
with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from
different corners and striving to place each his own set of
men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by
moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.
Halma
Halma Hal"ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to leap.] (Greek
Antiq.)
The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most
important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
Meaning of Halma from wikipedia
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Halma (from the Gr**** word ἅλμα
meaning "jump") is a
strategy board game
invented in 1883 or 1884 by
George Howard Monks, an
American thoracic surgeon...
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Halma plc is a
British global group of
safety equipment companies that
makes products for
hazard detection and life
protection based in Amersham, England...
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invented in
Germany in 1892
under the name "Stern-
Halma" as a
variation of the
older American game
Halma. The
Stern (German for star)
refers to the board's...
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parodied Capote,
deliberately copying his pose in the
Halma photograph.
Random House featured the
Halma photograph in its "This is
Truman Capote" ads, and...
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Halma is a city in
Kittson County, Minnesota,
United States. The po****tion was 58 at the 2020 census. A post
office called Halma began operation in 1904...
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Halma may
refer to:
Halma, a
board game
invented by
George Howard Monks, an
American thoracic surgeon at
Harvard Medical School Nicholas Halma (1755-1828)...
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Nicholas Halma (31
December 1755, Sedan,
Ardennes – 4 June 1828, Paris) was a
French mathematician and translator. He was
educated at the
College of Plessis...
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Leona halma, or Evans' recluse, is a
butterfly in the
family Hesperiidae. It is
found in Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, the
Central African Republic...
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Halma (1892–1909) was an
American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1895
Kentucky Derby. He is best
known for
being the
first Kentucky Derby winner to...
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Stenoma halmas is a moth of the
family Depressariidae. It is
found in Peru. The
wingspan is
about 25 mm. The
forewings are
light fuscous irrorated grey...
