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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 Gr****: ἅλμα, romanized:
hálma,
meaning “leap") is a
strategy board game
invented in 1883 or 1884 by
George Howard Monks, an
American thoracic...
- in
Germany in 1892
under the name "Stern-
Halma" as a
variation of the
older American game
Halma. Like all
Halma games,
there is a
similarity to checkers...
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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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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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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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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)...
- The
South Halmahera–West New
Guinea (SHWNG)
languages are a
branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages,
found in the
islands and
along the s****s of the...
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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...
- and
produced by
Gustavo Alatriste. It is
loosely based on the 1895
novel Halma by
Benito Pérez Galdós. The film was the co-winner of the
Palme d'Or at...
