Hull

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Kingston upon Hull (Usually abbreviated to Hull), a city in England named after the River Hull.

A hull is:

  • Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable
  • Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
  • The main body of an armored tank
  • in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates

In mathematics:

  • the affine hull in affine geometry
  • the convex hull in geometry
  • Carathéodory's theorem for convex hulls
  • the holomorphically convex hull in complex analysis
  • the injective hull of a module
  • the Skolem hull of mathematical logic

Other places:

  • Hull, Québec, a former city in Québec, Canada (now part of the city of Gatineau)
  • Orona, an island in Kiribati was formerly called Hull Island.
  • Hull, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
  • Hull, Walker County, Alabama, USA
  • Hull, Florida, USA
  • Hull, Georgia, USA
  • Hull, Illinois, USA
  • Hull, Iowa, USA
  • Hull, Massachusetts, USA
  • Hull, Minnesota, USA
  • Hull, North Dakota, USA
  • Hull, Ohio, USA
  • Hull, Texas, USA
  • Hull, West Virginia, USA
  • Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA
  • Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin, USA

There are several people named Hull:

  • Hull, Blair, an American businessman and politician,
  • Hull, Bobby, a former Canadian ice hockey player
  • Hull, Brett, a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
  • Hull, Cordell, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
  • Hull, Isaac, Early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
  • Hull, John, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
  • Hull, Merlin, Congressman
  • Hull, William, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812.

There is also:

  • Hull House, Settlement house in Chicago, Illinois
  • River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named
  • Hull City A.F.C., an English football (soccer) team
  • Hull RLFC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the West of the City
  • Hull Kingston Rovers, rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the East of the City
  • The University of Hull, a university in England
  • USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships