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Hounds
A hound is a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing the animal being hunted. Hound may also refer to: * Dog, any dog of the subfamily Caninae Arts and entertainment * ''Hounds'' (TV series), a 2012 television comedy series set around greyhound racing in Auckland, New Zealand * "The Hound", a short story by H. P. Lovecraft * The Hound (singer) (born 1986), American singer, songwriter, and record producer Fictional characters * Hounds (comics), the name given to several groups of mutant characters from Marvel Comics * Sandor Clegane, nicknamed The Hound, a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones'' Ships * Danish ship ''Trost'', also known as ''Hunden'' ("Hound") * HMS ''Hound'', a name given to fifteen ships of the Royal Navy Other uses * Hound (heraldry), used as a charge in classical heraldry * ''Hound'', a virtual assistant app developed by SoundHound * De Havilland Houn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hounds (comics)
Hounds are the name given to several fictional groups of mutant characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hounds first appeared in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #141 (1981). They are mutants from a dystopian alternate future, brainwashed to hunt and capture other mutants for imprisonment in government internment camps. History Days of Future Past The Hounds were first introduced in ''Uncanny X-Men'', from the "Days of Future Past" dystopian timeline, as part of the backstory of Rachel Summers. These brainwashed mutant hunters were created and commanded by the cyborg Ahab, who used them to hunt down and imprison mutants in concentration camps. Summers was forced to become one of these Hounds while still an adolescent, which scarred and haunted her for years afterward. Eventually she broke her conditioning and rebelled. As a result, she was sent to the camps herself as punishment. Shadow King's Hounds Shadow King is later seen to use mind-controlled humans ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hounds (TV Series)
''Hounds'' is a New Zealand television comedy series, written, produced and directed by The Down Low Concept. Set in Auckland, New Zealand it centres on a self-centred lawyer, Will Carrington (Toby Sharpe), and the unusual family unit he is thrust into following the death of his father David, (Roy Billing). Will inherits half a stately house, half a racing greyhound with its live in trainer, Marty (Mick Innes), and guardianship of his estranged half-sister Lily (Susana Tang). The series follows Will's transition from a soulless city slicker as he deals with his new family that he has never met, and the low rent surroundings of the Greyhound community. Backed with a strong supporting cast of comic actors, including Will's best friend, the arrogant and self-serving Lance ( Josh Thomson) and shallow ditsy girlfriend Amber (Catherine Waller), Hounds also featured well known comics Guy Williams and Rhys Mathewson in minor roles, and veteran New Zealand actors Derek Payne, Steven U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hound
A hound is a type of hunting dog used by hunters to track or chase prey. Description Hounds can be contrasted with gun dogs that assist hunters by identifying prey and/or recovering shot quarry. The hound breeds were the first hunting dogs. They have either a powerful sense of smell, great speed, or both. There are three types of hound, with several breeds type: * Sighthounds (also called ''gazehounds'') follow prey predominantly by speed, keeping it in sight. These dogs are fast and assist hunters in catching game: fox, hare, deer, and elk. * Scenthounds follow prey or others (like missing people) by tracking its scent. These dogs have endurance, but are not fast runners. * The remaining breeds of hound follow their prey using both sight and scent. They are difficult to classify, as they are neither strictly sighthounds nor strictly scenthounds. List of hound breeds * Afghan Hound * Africanis * Alpine Dachsbracke * American Foxhound * American Leopard Hound * Anda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hound
"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of ''Weird Tales''. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the '' Necronomicon.'' Plot The story opens with the unnamed narrator preparing to commit suicide. Lamenting his fate, he reflects upon the events which led him to this moment. The narrator and his friend, St. John, are a pair of loners who both have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects collected from the various graves they have robbed, the two men organize a private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls, and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also includes statues, frightful paintings, and a locked portfolio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hound (singer)
John Robert Constantine (born September 3, 1986), known professionally as The Hound is a Los Angeles based singer, songwriter, and record producer. Early life Constantine was born in Los Angeles and was raised by his mother in the suburb of Santa Clarita. He studied voice and guitar at a young age and attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, one of the top 5 art high schools in the U.S. studying voice, composition, and opera. While many of his peers went on to conservatory, Constantine went to Musicians Institute for Music Business, Audio Engineering and Production. Career Orchid and Hound After college, Constantine moved to San Francisco with his boyfriend Lawrence Alarcon. After their relationship ended, they formed the band Orchid and Hound in 2009, releasing two studio albums and an E.P., and played at South by Southwest in 2012 with One Little Indian Records. ''SF Weekly'' described their music as "bouncy piano melodies over somber lyrics that focus mainly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandor Clegane
Sandor Clegane, nicknamed the Hound, is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''. Introduced in 1996's ''A Game of Thrones'', Sandor is the estranged younger brother of Ser Gregor Clegane from the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Sandor serves as King Joffrey Baratheon's personal bodyguard. He subsequently appeared in Martin's ''A Clash of Kings'' (1998), ''A Storm of Swords'' (2000), and ''A Feast for Crows'' (2005). Like his brother, Sandor is regarded as one of the fiercest and strongest fighters in the Seven Kingdoms. His face is marked by gruesome facial burns he received as a child when his brother shoved his face into a brazier; ever since, he has retained a crippling fear of fire, as well as a fierce hatred for his brother. While initially appearing brutal and fatalistic, he later proves to be far more honorable, sympathetic, and compassi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Ship Trost
Two ships named ''Trost'' served with the Dano-Norwegian navy between 1602 and 1653. *Trost or Hunden Trost (1602) was a little ship with a crew of 48 men and 16 cannon. She was decommissioned in 1621. *Trost (1625) was a pinnace with a crew of 68 and 20 (or 16?) cannon which served from 1625 to 1653.Record card foTrost(1625)/ref> The name is German rather than Danish; the vessel is sometimes referenced in translation as the ''Comfort'' or the ''Consolation''. The name, however, probably refers to one of the Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg's lapdogs and the vessel is also referenced as ''Hunden'' ("Dog") and ''Skjodehunden'' ("Lapdog"). ''Trost'' (1602) ''Trost'' served as John Cunningham's flagship during the 1605 Hans Køning expedition to Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hound
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name ''Hound'': * was a 36-gun ship captured in 1652, a hulk in 1656 and broken up in 1660. * was an 18-gun ship captured in 1656 and expended as a fire ship in 1666. * was a 4-gun sloop built in 1673 and sold in 1686. * was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692. * was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1700 and broken up in 1714. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1745. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1773. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776. She was in French hands between 1780 and 1782, when she was renamed ''Levrette''. She was recaptured and broken up in 1784. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. In 1794 the French frigates and ''Galatee'' captured her in the Atlantic. She became the French Navy corvette ''Levrette'' (or ''Levrette No.2''), and was last listed in 1796. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1800 off Shetland, together with all her crew of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hound (heraldry)
The hound is a charge in classical heraldry. In English heraldry, the commonly used variant are the '' talbot'', also blazoned as ''sleuth-hound'', e.g. in the arms of Wolseley of Staffordshire, the ''greyhound'' and ''bloodhound''. Rarely seen variants are the ratch-hound, the mastiff (''alant'' or ''aland''), the foxhound, the spaniel and the terrier. The "sea-dog" is a curious charge resembling the talbot but with scales, webbed feet and a broad tail, used in the arms of Stourton barony, presumably originally depicting a beaver Beavers (genus ''Castor'') are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are the second-large ... (as used in the Coat of arms of Oxford). Similar charges include the ''wolf'' and the ''fox''. German heraldry distinguishes three variants of dogs: '' Windhund'' (greyhound), '' Bracke'' and '' RÃ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoundHound
SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN) is a voice artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2005. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. SoundHound provides a voice AI platform that enables businesses to offer customized conversational experiences to consumers. SoundHound's technologies are used in a variety of voice-enabled products and services, primarily in automotive, TV, IoT, restaurant, customer service, healthcare, finance, and retail industries. The company holds more than 250 technology patents and supports voice AI in 25 languages. SoundHound offers a range of AI-driven products, including Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, Dynamic Drive Thru, Voice Commerce Ecosystem, and SoundHound Chat AI, a voice assistant incorporating generative AI technology. History The company was co-founded in 2005 by Keyvan Mohajer, an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur who specializes in voice AI. In 2009, the company's music discovery app ''Midomi'' was rebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Havilland Hound
The de Havilland DH.65 Hound was a 1920s British two-seat day bomber built by de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome. History The Hound was designed as a two-seat general purpose biplane, a private venture to meet Air Ministry Specification 12/26. The prototype ''G-EBNJ'' first flew on 17 November 1926. It was of all-wooden construction, powered by a Napier Lion engine. In 1927, the nose and rudder were modified, it was fitted with a geared engine and received the modified designation DH.65A. It was delivered to the Royal Air Force in January 1928 receiving serial number ''J9127'' for evaluation. While it showed superior performance to the other competitors for the specification, it was rejected because of its wooden construction and the order was placed with the Hawker Hart. Despite its rejection by the RAF, on 26 April 1928 the aircraft set a world record for carrying a load of 2,205 lb (1,000 kg) over 62 mi (100 km) at 160 mph (257 km/h) piloted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
