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Portrait of a Lady, a small oil-on-oak panel executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden
Halkett boat, either of two types of lightweight inflatable boat designed by Lieutenant Peter Halkett during the 1840s
Ashford v Thornton, an 1818 English legal case in the Court of King's Bench that upheld the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle
Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano located around 35 km (22 mi) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaiʻi
Mycena haematopus, a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family, of the order Agaricales
Sargon of Akkad, an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC
Sydney Newman, a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.