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Henderson: city, seat (1881) of Vance county, northern North Carolina, U.S., about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Raleigh. The area was settled by Germans, Scots, and Scotch-Irish in the early ...
Henderson: city, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S., midway between Las Vegas and Boulder City. It was established in 1942 in the desert below Clark Mountain to provide housing for the employees ...
Henderson: city, seat of Henderson county, northwestern Kentucky, U.S., on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River, 7 miles (11 km) south of Evansville, Indiana. The town site, around Red Banks (settled ...
Henderson, Alexander: Scottish Presbyterian clergyman primarily responsible for the preservation of the presbyterian form of church government in Scotland, who was influential in the defeat of the English king Charles I during ...
Henderson, Arthur: one of the chief organizers of the British Labour Party. He was Britain's secretary of state for foreign affairs from June 1929 to August 1931 and won the Nobel Prize ...
Henderson, Fletcher: U.S. pianist and a pioneer of large jazz orchestras.
Henderson, Lawrence Joseph: U.S. biochemist, who discovered the chemical means by which acid-base equilibria are maintained in nature.
Henderson, Rickey: professional baseball player who in 1991 set a record for the most stolen bases in major league baseball and in 2001 set a record for the most career runs scored.
Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick: British ambassador in Berlin (1937-39) who was closely associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. Some observers believed that he was more influential in implementing ...
Henderson, Thomas: Scottish astronomer who, as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope (1831-33), was the first to measure the parallax of a star (Alpha Centauri). He withheld the announcement of ...
Hendricks, Thomas A: long-time Democratic Party politician and 21st vice president of the United States (March 4-November 25, 1885) in the administration of President Grover Cleveland.
Hendrix, Jimi: American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own ...
henequen: (Agave fourcroydes), plant of the family agave (Agavaceae) and its fibre, third in importance among the leaf fibre (q.v.) group. Varieties of A. fourcroydes include ixtli, longifolia, minima, and rigida. ...
Heng-yang: city in south-central Hunan sheng (province), China. Heng-yang is situated on the west bank of the Hsiang River some 110 miles (180 km) south of Ch'ang-sha, just south of the ...
Hengelo: gemeente (commune), Overijssel provincie, eastern Netherlands, on the Twente Canal. Formerly a small agricultural village, it shared in the rapid industrial growth of the Twente district. It has textile, metallurgical, ...
Hengist and Horsa: (respectively d. c. 488; d. 455?), brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight ...
Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm: German theologian who defended Lutheran orthodoxy against the rationalism pervading the Protestant churches and particularly the theological faculties of his day.
Henie, Sonja: Norwegian-born American world champion figure skater and Olympic gold medalist who went on to achieve success as a professional ice skater and as a motion picture actress.
Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jacob: German pathologist, one of history's outstanding anatomists, whose influence on the development of histology is comparable to the effect on gross anatomy of the work of the Renaissance master Andreas ...
Henlein, Konrad: Sudeten-German politician who agitated for German annexation of the Czechoslovak Sudeten area and in World War II held administrative posts in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Henley Royal Regatta: annual four-day series of rowing races held the first week in July on the River Thames, at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Eng. The regatta was established in 1839; and in 1851 Prince ...
Henley, Beth: American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of which, Crimes of the Heart (1982; filmed 1986), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Henley, William Ernest: British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s.
Henley-on-Thames: town ("parish"), South Oxfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, England, on the left bank of the River Thames. It lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where ...
Henne am Rhyn, Otto: journalist and historian whose comprehensive universal cultural history was a major contribution to the development of the German Kulturgeschichte (History of Civilization) school.
Hennebique, Francois: French engineer who devised the technique of construction with reinforced concrete.
Hennepin, Louis: Franciscan missionary who, with the celebrated explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, penetrated the Great Lakes in 1679 to the region of Illinois and wrote the first published ...
Henner, Jean-Jacques: French painter, best known for his sensuous pictures of nymphs and naiads in vague landscape settings and of idealized, almost symbolist, heads of young women and girls. He also painted ...
Hennig, Willi: German zoologist recognized as the leading proponent of the cladistic school of phylogenetic systematics.
henogamy: the custom by which one, and only one, member of a family is permitted to marry. The classic example is that of the patrilineal Nambudiri Brahmans of Malabar in Tamil ...
Henreid, Paul: Austrian-born actor whose elegant sophistication and middle-European accent made him ideal for romantic leading roles in such motion pictures as Casablanca (1942) and Now, Voyager (1942).
Henri Pittier National Park: park in the Cordillera de la Costa, Aragua state, Venezuela, occupying an area of 350 sq mi (900 sq km) between Lago (lake) de Valencia and the Caribbean. It was ...
Henri, Robert: urban realist painter, a leader of The Eight and the Ashcan School and one of the most influential teachers of art in the United States at the beginning of the ...
Henrician Articles: (1573) statement of the rights and privileges of the Polish gentry (szlachta) that all elected kings of Poland, beginning with Henry of Valois (elected May 11, 1573), were obliged to ...
Henrietta Anne Of England: English princess and duchesse d'Orleans, a notable figure at the court of her brother-in-law King Louis XIV of France.
Henrietta Maria: French wife of King Charles I of England and mother of Kings Charles II and James II. By openly practicing Roman Catholicism at court, she alienated many of Charles's subjects, ...
Henriquez Urena, Pedro: critic, philologian, educator, and essayist, one of the most influential critic-scholars in 20th-century Latin America. Henriquez Urena was also one of its best prose writers.
henry: unit of either self-inductance or mutual inductance, abbreviated h (or hy), and named for the American physicist Joseph Henry. One henry is the value of self-inductance in a closed circuit ...
Henry: German king (from 1220), son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II.
Henry: king of Portugal and Roman Catholic ecclesiastic whose brief reign (1578-80) was dominated by the problem of succession. His failure to decisively designate a successor left the Portuguese throne at ...
Henry Draper Catalogue: listing of the positions, magnitudes, and spectral types of stars in all parts of the sky; with it began the present alphabetical system (see Harvard classification system) of classifying stars ...
Henry I: king of Castile from 1214 to 1217.
Henry I: king of Navarre (1270-74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded his eldest brother, ...
Henry I: German king and founder of the Saxon dynasty (918-1024) who strengthened the East Frankish, or German, army, encouraged the growth of towns, brought Lotharingia (Lorraine) back under German control (925), ...
Henry I: youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror's sons, who as king of England (1100-35) strengthened the crown's executive powers and, like his father, also ruled Normandy (from 1106).
Henry I: king of France from 1026 to 1060 whose reign was marked by struggles against rebellious vassals.
Henry II: duke of Normandy (from 1150), count of Anjou (from 1151), duke of Aquitaine (from 1152), and king of England (from 1154), who greatly expanded his Anglo-French domains and strengthened the ...
Henry II: king of France from 1547 to 1559, a competent administrator who was also a vigorous suppressor of Protestants within his kingdom.
Henry II: duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, one of the leading Roman Catholic princes attempting to stem the Reformation in Germany.
Henry II: duke of Bavaria (as Henry IV, 995-1005), German king (from 1002), and Holy Roman emperor (1014-24), last of the Saxon dynasty of emperors. He was canonized by Pope Eugenius III, ...
Henry II: also called (until 1369) Enrique, Conde (count) De Trastamara, byname Henry Of Trastamara, or Henry The Fratricide, or The Bastard, Spanish Enrique De Trastamara, or Enrique El Fratricida, or El ...
Henry II: king of Navarre from 1516 who for the rest of his life attempted by force and negotiation to regain territories of his kingdom that had been lost by his parents, ...
Henry II Jasomirgott: the first duke of Austria, a member of the House of Babenberg who increased the dynasty's power in Austria by obtaining the Privilegium Minus (a grant of special privileges and ...
Henry III: duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI, 1027-41), duke of Swabia (as Henry I, 1038-45), German king (from 1039), and Holy Roman emperor (1046-56), member of the Salian dynasty. He was ...
Henry III: king of Castile from 1390 to 1406. Though unable to take the field because of illness, he jealously preserved royal power through the royal council, the Audiencia (supreme court), and ...
Henry III: duke of Saxony (1142-80) and of Bavaria (as Henry XII, 1156-80), a strong supporter of the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of ...
Henry III: king of England from 1216 to 1272. In the 24 years (1234-58) during which he had effective control of the government, he displayed such indifference to tradition that the barons ...
Henry III: king of France from 1574, under whose reign the prolonged crisis of the Wars of Religion was made worse by dynastic rivalries arising because the male line of the Valois ...
Henry IV: duke of Bavaria (as Henry VIII, 1055-61), German king (from 1054), and Holy Roman emperor (1084-1105/06), who engaged in a long struggle with Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII) on the question ...
Henry IV: king of England from 1399 to 1413, the first of three 15th-century monarchs from the house of Lancaster. He gained the crown by usurpation and successfully consolidated his power in ...
Henry IV: king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572-89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589-1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism ...
Henry IV: king of Castile from 1454 to 1474, whose reign, though at first promising, became chaotic.
Henry IV style: French art and architecture during the reign of King Henry IV of France (1589-1610). Henry's chief contribution as patron of the arts was in the field of architecture. Although he ...
Henry IV, Part 1: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596-97 and published from a reliable authorial draft in a 1598 quarto edition. Henry IV, Part 1 ...
Henry IV, Part 2: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1597-98 and published in a corrupt text based in part on memorial reconstruction in a quarto edition in 1600; a ...
Henry Mountains: segment of the Colorado Plateau, extending for 40 miles (64 km) in a northwest-southeast direction across Garfield county, southern Utah, U.S. Mount Ellen, which ascends to 11,615 feet (3,540 metres), ...
Henry Of Blois: bishop of Winchester (from 1129) and papal legate in England (1139-43), who was largely instrumental in having his brother Stephen recognized as king of England (1135).
Henry of Ghent: Scholastic philosopher and theologian, one of the most illustrious teachers of his time, who was a great adversary of St. Thomas Aquinas and whose controversial writings influenced his contemporaries and ...
Henry of Hainault: second and most able of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, who reigned from 1206 to 1216 and consolidated the power of the new empire.
Henry Raspe: landgrave of Thuringia (1227-47) and German anti-king (1246-47) who was used by Pope Innocent IV in an attempt to oust the Hohenstaufen dynasty from Germany.
Henry the Navigator: Portuguese prince noted for his patronage of voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa. Under his auspices, the sailing vessel known as the ...
Henry The Young King: second son of King Henry II of England by Eleanor of Aquitaine; he was regarded, after the death of his elder brother, William, in 1156, as his father's successor in ...
Henry V: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1599 and published in 1600 in a corrupt quarto edition; the text in the First Folio of 1623, printed ...
Henry V: king of England (1413-22) of the House of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt (1415, in the Hundred Years' War with France), he made ...
Henry V: German king (from 1099) and Holy Roman emperor (1111-25), last of the Salian dynasty. He restored virtual peace in the empire and was generally successful in wars with Flanders, Bohemia, ...
Henry VI: king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of ...