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    Huka-huka is a Brazilian folk wrestling style of the indigenous people of Xingu, in the state of Mato Grosso. It is performed as a ritual fight during...
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    Huka alba Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Huka lobata Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Huka minima Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Huka...
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    Huka Falls is a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River, which drains Lake Taupō in New Zealand. A few hundred metres upstream from Huka Falls, the Waikato...
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    Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is situated in the northern group...
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    activity performed by the Xingu women in the Yamurikuma festival is the huka-huka wrestling matches. Shamans are responsible for the communication between...
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  • Mohamed Huka Adan was a Kenyan politician and a member of the 11th parliament of Kenya elected from Mandera South Constituency on the ticket of United...
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  • Huka Halu is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It was part of Bure. It is part of the Illubabor Zone. The 2007 national census reported...
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  • Lake Huka is a former lake whose waters, on its sudden explosive destruction, were a component in the creation of the largest phreatomagmatic eruption...
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  • Jiu-Jitsu World War II combatives Brazil Brazilian jiu-jitsu Capoeira Huka-huka Creole Knife Fight - (in port. "Esgrima Crioula") Luta Livre Vale Tudo...
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  • Hexathele huka is a species of Mygalomorph spider endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1968 by Ray Forster from female specimens collected...
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  • Motutapu is a small island north of Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands. The name "Motutapu" means "Sacred island" in several Polynesian languages. "Motutapu"....
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    The Huka Prawn Park is an aquaculture venture and tourist attraction located 10 minutes north of Taupō. It was started in 1987, and is currently New Zealand's...
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  • Huka minima is a species of Agelenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from a female...
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    Ua Huka Airport is an airport on Ua Huka in French Polynesia (IATA: UAH, ICAO: NTMU). The airport is 2.2 km southwest of the village of Hane. The airport...
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  • Huka Entertainment is a music festival producer and promoter based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Starting with Hangout Music Festival, the company's festivals...
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    Huka alba is a species of Agelenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from female specimens...
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  • Huka minuta is a species of Agelenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from male and...
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  • Huka lobata is a species of Agelenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from female specimens...
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    island of Nuku Hiva: Motu Iti, also called Hatu Iti; Ua Pou; Motu Oa; and Ua Huka). The other is the southern group, consisting of Fatu Uku, Tahuata, Moho...
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  • The Te Huka Geothermal Power Station, also known as Tauhara One, is a 23 MW binary cycle geothermal power station situated near Taupō, New Zealand. The...
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  • Huka pallida is a species of Agelenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from male and...
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    the Taupō Volcano had been mainly under Lake Huka, a larger lake than the present Lake Taupō.: 6  Lake Huka was destroyed in the eruption, and other features...
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  • The Ua Huka rail (Gallirallus gracilitibia) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family. It was described in 2007 from subfossil...
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  • (Nuku Hiva, Ua Pou, and Ua Huka), and South Marquesan in the southern islands (Hiva Oa, Tahuata, and Fatu Hiva). In Ua Huka, which was almost entirely...
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  • divided between Esportivo (Sports) and Vale Tudo (Anything goes) styles Huka-huka, a form of indigenous folk wrestling practiced by the Yawalapiti people...
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    Korio Fagatua Galhofa Gatta Gusthi Glima Gorës Gouren Gushtingiri Hokoko Huka-huka Iranian wrestling Jobbarer Boli Khela Karakucak Kene Khuresh Khmer traditional...
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    lake. It then drains Taupō at the lake's northeastern edge, creates the Huka Falls, and flows northwest through the Waikato Plains. It empties into the...
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  • The Iphis monarch (Pomarea iphis), or Ua Huka flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural...
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  • [1] Marquesas Islands : Fatu Hiva Hiva Oa Nuku Hiva (chef-lieu) Tahuata Ua Huka Ua Pou Windward Islands (Society Islands) : Arue Faa‘a Hitia’a O Te Ra Mahina...
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    and Nuku Hiva by 2008. Nowadays, the rare bird only remains on Ua Huka. On Ua Huka, the population is estimated to be at about 1,000-2,499 individual...
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