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Henry VI: German king and Holy Roman emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty who increased his power and that of his dynasty by his acquisition of the kingdom of Sicily through his marriage ...
Henry VI, Part 1: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1589-92 and published in the First Folio of 1623. Henry VI, Part 1 is the first ...
Henry VI, Part 2: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590-92. It was first published in a corrupt quarto in 1594. The version published in the First Folio of ...
Henry VI, Part 3: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1590-93. Like Henry IV, Part 2, it was first published in a corrupt quarto, this time in ...
Henry VII: king of England (1485-1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty.
Henry VII: count of Luxembourg (as Henry IV), German king (from 1308), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1312) who strengthened the position of his family by obtaining the throne of Bohemia for ...
Henry VIII: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1613 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The primary source of ...
Henry VIII: king of England (1509-47), who presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation. His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future ...
Henry X: margrave of Tuscany, duke of Saxony (as Henry II), and duke of Bavaria, a member of the Welf dynasty, whose policies helped to launch the feud between the Welf and ...
Henry's law: statement that the weight of a gas dissolved by a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas upon the liquid. The law, which was first formulated in 1803 ...
Henry, Alice: Australian journalist who promoted trade unionism, women's suffrage, and social reform in Australia and the United States.
Henry, Cape: promontory at the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay, on the Atlantic coast in the northeast corner of the city of Virginia Beach, southeastern Virginia, U.S. Cape Henry Memorial, a stone ...
Henry, Joseph: one of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin. He aided Samuel F.B. Morse in the development of the telegraph and discovered several important principles of electricity, including self-induction, ...
Henry, O.: American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace-in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim ...
Henry, Patrick: brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, perhaps best known for his words "give me liberty or give me death," which he delivered in 1775. He was ...
Henry, William: English physician and chemist who in 1803 proposed what is now called Henry's law, which states that the amount of a gas absorbed by a liquid is in proportion to ...
Henrys Fork: river, southeastern Idaho, U.S., that rises in Henrys Lake in Caribou-Targhee National Forest, near the Montana line, and flows south and southwestward, past St. Anthony to join the Snake River ...
Henryson, Robert: Scottish poet, the finest of early fabulists in Britain. He is described on some early title pages as schoolmaster of Dunfermline-probably at the Benedictine abbey school-and he appears among the ...
Henschel, Sir George: singer, conductor, and composer, one of the leading English musicians of his day.
Henselt, Adolf von: German pianist and composer, considered to be one of the greatest virtuosos of his time.
Hensen, Victor: physiologist who first used the name plankton to describe the organisms that live suspended in the sea (and in bodies of freshwater) and are important because practically all animal life ...
Henshaw, James Ene: Nigerian playwright of Efik affiliation whose simple and popular plays treating various aspects of African culture and tradition have been widely read and acted in Nigeria. His style has been ...
Henslow, John Stevens: British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularized botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of teaching the subject.
Henslowe, Philip: most important English theatre proprietor and manager of the Elizabethan Age.
Henson, Jim: American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets of television and motion pictures. He coined the term Muppets as a meld of "marionettes" and "puppets"; his characters and those of his assistants ...
Henson, Matthew Alexander: American black explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on most of his expeditions, including that to the North Pole in 1909.
Henzada: town, southwestern Myanmar (Burma). Henzada is situated along the Irrawaddy River opposite Tharrawaw, with which it is linked by ferry, at a point considered to be the head of the ...
Henze, Hans Werner: German composer whose operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works are marked by an individual and advanced style wrought within traditional forms.
heparin: anticoagulant drug that is used to prevent blood clots from forming during and after surgery and to treat various heart, lung, and circulatory disorders in which there is an increased ...
hepatic vein: any of a group of veins that transports blood from the liver to the inferior vena cava, which carries the blood to the right atrium of the heart. In its ...
hepatica: any of about 10 species of small herbaceous plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) that grow in shady wooded areas of the North Temperate Zone.
hepatitis: inflammation of the liver that results from a variety of causes, both infectious and noninfectious. Infectious agents that cause hepatitis include viruses and parasites; noninfectious substances include certain drugs and ...
Hepburn, Audrey: slender, stylish motion picture actress known for her radiant beauty, her ability to project an air of sophistication tempered by a charming innocence, and her tireless efforts to aid needy ...
Hepburn, Katharine: indomitable American stage and film actress, known as a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity. She introduced into her roles a strength of character previously considered to be undesirable ...
Hephaestus: in Greek religion, the god of fire. Originally a deity of Asia Minor and the adjoining islands (in particular Lemnos), he had an important place of worship at the Lycian ...
Hephthalite: member of a people important in the history of India and Persia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. According to Chinese chronicles they were originally a tribe living to ...
Hepplewhite, George: English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose name is associated with a graceful style of Neoclassicism, a movement he helped to formulate in the decorative arts.
heptachlor: insecticide closely related to chlordane (q.v.).
heptathlon: women's athletics competition in which contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events on two days. The heptathlon replaced the women's pentathlon in the Olympic Games after 1981. The heptathlon ...
heptatonic scale: musical scale made up of seven different tones. The major and minor scales of Western art music are the most commonly known heptatonic scales, but different forms of seven-tone scales ...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara: sculptor whose works were among the earliest abstract sculptures produced in England. Her lyrical forms and feeling for material made her one of the most influential sculptors of the mid-20th ...
Hera: in Greek religion, a daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, sister-wife of Zeus, and queen of the Olympian gods. The Romans identified her with their own Juno (q.v.). Hera ...
Heracleides Ponticus: Greek philosopher and astronomer who first suggested the rotation of the Earth, an idea that did not dominate astronomy until 1,800 years later. A pupil of Plato, who left the ...
Heracleitus: Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe. Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently ...
Heracleon: leader of the Italian school of Gnosticism, a dualistic doctrine of rival deities conceiving of salvation as an elitist enlightenment by secret knowledge, with fulfillment in the soul's eventual release ...
Heracles: most famous Greco-Roman legendary hero. Behind his very complicated mythology there was probably a real man, perhaps a chieftain-vassal of the kingdom of Argos. Traditionally, however, Heracles was the son ...
Heraclius: Eastern Roman emperor (610-641) who reorganized and strengthened the imperial administration and the imperial armies but who, nevertheless, lost Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Byzantine Mesopotamia to the Arab Muslims.
Heraclonas: Byzantine emperor for a brief period in 641 who was accused, probably falsely, of complicity in the death of his half brother, Constantine III.
Heraeum: in ancient Greece, a temple or sanctuary dedicated to Hera, queen of the Olympian gods. The most important of these was the Argive Heraeum, five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of ...
herald: originally, an officer in medieval Europe charged with carrying messages to and from the commanders of opposing armies; in modern times, a professional authority on armorial history and genealogy. In ...
heraldic memorial: commemorative work of art decorated with the armorial bearings of the deceased. Memorials, whether in the form of stained-glass windows, effigies, monumental brasses, or tablets on church walls and in ...
heraldry: the science and the art that deal with the use, display, and regulation of hereditary symbols employed to distinguish individuals, armies, institutions, and corporations. These symbols, which originated as identification ...
Herat: velayat (province) in western Afghanistan, 23,668 sq mi (61,301 sq km) in area, with its capital at Herat city. It is bounded by Iran (west), by Turkmenistan and the Afghan ...
Herat: capital of Herat velayat (province) in western Afghanistan, lying on the Harirud (river), directly south of the Selseleh-ye Safid Kuh (Paropamisus Range), at an altitude of 3,026 ft (922 m). ...
Herat carpet: handwoven floor covering thought to have been woven in Herat, the Timurid capital in the 15th century, an important city in the 17th century, and now a provincial capital in ...
Herat school: 15th-century style of miniature painting that flourished in Herat, western Afghanistan, under the patronage of the Timurids. Shah Rokh, the son of the Islamic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), founded the school, ...
Herault de Sechelles, Marie-Jean: nobleman and magistrate who became a member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled Revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793-94).
herbal: ancient manual facilitating the identification of plants for medicinal purposes. Hundreds of medicinal plants were known in India before the Christian era, and the Chinese have a compilation, still authoritative, ...
Herbart, Johann Friedrich: German philosopher and educator, who led the renewed 19th-century interest in Realism and is considered among the founders of modern scientific pedagogy.
Herbartianism: pedagogical system of German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841). Herbart's educational ideas, which applied particularly to the instruction of adolescents, had a profound influence on late 19th-century teaching practices, especially ...
Herbert River: river in northeastern Queensland, Australia. The river rises in the Eastern Highlands, flows for 150 miles (240 km) southeast across the Atherton Plateau past Ingham, and enters the Coral Sea ...
Herbert, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron: Baron Herbert Of Castle IslandEnglish courtier, soldier, diplomat, historian, metaphysical poet, and philosopher ("the father of English Deism"), also remembered for his revealing Autobiography.
Herbert, Frank: American science-fiction writer noted as the author of the best-selling Dune series of futuristic novels, a group of highly complex works that explore such themes as ecology, human evolution, the ...
Herbert, George: English religious poet, a major metaphysical poet, notable for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words.
Herbert, Sir A P: English novelist, playwright, poet, and politician, author of more than 50 books, famous for his witty championing of minority causes. More importantly, as an independent member of Parliament for Oxford ...
Herbert, Victor: Irish-born American composer of operettas and light music.
Herbert, Xavier: Australian novelist and short-story writer best known for his eloquent novel Capricornia (1938), a comic chronicle about life in the Northern Territory of Australia and the inhumane treatment suffered by ...
Herbert, Zbigniew: one of the leading Polish poets of the post-World War II generation.
herbicide: an agent, usually chemical, for killing or inhibiting the growth of unwanted plants-i.e., weeds. (See weed.) In the past, sea salt, by-products of chemical industries, and various oils were used ...
herbivore: animal adapted to subsist solely on plant tissues. The herbivores range from insects (such as aphids) to large mammals (such as elephants), but the term is most often applied to ...
Herblock: American editorial cartoonist who won Pulitzer Prizes in 1942, 1954, and 1979.
Herculaneum: ancient city of 4,000-5,000 inhabitants in Campania, Italy. It lay 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Naples, at the western base of Mount Vesuvius, and was destroyed-together with Pompeii, Torre ...
Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo, Alexandre: historian, novelist, and poet, one of the writers who is credited with introducing Romanticism to Portugal. As a historian he was a leader of liberal opinion, enjoying a national prestige ...
Hercules, Tower of: probably the only ancient Roman lighthouse still in use, located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) outside the city of La Coruna (Corunna), Spain, on a peninsula in Corunna Bay. A Phoenician ...
Hercynian orogenic belt: series of mountain ranges that developed during the Devonian Period (which occurred about 408 to 360 million years ago) and the subsequent Carboniferous Period (which ended about 286 million years ...
hercynite: the mineral iron aluminum oxide, a member of the spinel (q.v.) series.