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herdbook: official record of individuals and pedigrees of a recognized breed of livestock, especially cattle or swine. When development of purebred livestock for use in breeding began in Britain in the ...
Herder, Johann Gottfried von: German critic, theologian, and philosopher, who was the leading figure of the Sturm und Drang literary movement and an innovator in the philosophy of history and culture. His influence, augmented ...
Here de Corny, Emmanuel: French court architect to Stanislaw Leszczynski, duke of Lorraine, best known for laying out the town centre of Nancy, a principal example of urban design in the 18th century.
Heredia: city, central Costa Rica, on the central plateau 3,729 feet (1,137 m) above sea level, just northwest of San Jose, the national capital, via the Pan-American Highway. Probably founded in ...
Heredia, Jose Maria de: Cuban-born French poet, brilliant master of the sonnet.
hereditary spherocytosis: form of congenital hemolytic anemia characterized by enlarged spleen, spherical (rather than disk-shaped) red blood cells of variable size and increased fragility of cell membrane, and a chronic, mild hemolytic ...
heredity: sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, progeny are not exact duplicates of their parents but ...
Hereford: city, unitary authority and historic county of Herefordshire, England, on the River Wye.
Hereford: popular breed of beef cattle, the product of generations of breeding work on the part of landed proprietors and tenant farmers in the county of Herefordshire (now in Hereford and ...
Herefordshire: unitary authority and historic county that covers a roughly circular area in the Welsh borderland of England. The historic county includes three small areas outside the unitary authority. One, just ...
Hereke carpet: floor covering handwoven in imperial workshops founded late in the 19th century at Hereke, Turkey, about 40 miles (64 km) east of Istanbul. Large carpets and prayer rugs with pile ...
Herelle, Felix d': French-Canadian microbiologist generally known as the discoverer of the bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria. (The earlier identification of the bacteriophage by the British microbiologist F.W. Twort in about 1915 ...
Herero: a group of closely related Bantu-speaking peoples of southwestern Africa. The Herero proper and a segment known as the Mbanderu inhabit parts of central Namibia and Botswana; other related groups, ...
Hereroland: geographic region of eastern Namibia, encompassing part of the western Kalahari (desert) and bordering Botswana on the east.
heresy: a theological doctrine or system rejected as false by ecclesiastical authority.
Hereward, The Wake: Anglo-Saxon rebel against William the Conqueror and the hero of many Norman and English legends. He is associated with a region in present-day Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire.
Herford: city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It is situated where the Aa River joins the Werre, north of the Teutoburger Wald (mountains). It originated around a Benedictine nunnery founded ...
Hergesheimer, Joseph: American author whose novels are typically concerned with the decadent and sophisticated milieu of the very wealthy.
Heribert Of Antimiano: archbishop of Milan who for two years led his city in defying the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II. During the Risorgimento, the period of Italian unification in the 19th century, ...
Herihor: Egyptian army officer and usurping high priest of Amon, who founded a dynasty of priest-kings that ruled southern Egypt when the country became disunited in the last years of the ...
Hering, Ewald: German physiologist and psychologist whose chief work concerned the physiology of colour perception. He taught at the University of Leipzig (1895), following professorships at the Josephs-Akademie, Vienna (1865-70), and at ...
heriot: in European feudal society, the right of the lord to seize his tenant's best beast or other chattel on the tenant's death. The right grew out of the custom under ...
Herisau: capital, Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden demi-canton, northeastern Switzerland. It lies along on the Glatt River, just southwest of Sankt Gallen. Its Church of St. Laurence was mentioned in the 10th century, although ...
Heriz carpet: floor covering handmade in any of a group of villages near the town of Heris, lying east of Tabriz in northwest Iran. Heriz carpets-primarily room-sized, stout, serviceable, and attractive-have found ...
Herkimer: village, seat (1791) of Herkimer county, central New York, U.S., on the north bank of the Mohawk River, 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Utica. The site, settled about 1725 ...
Herkimer: county, central New York state, U.S. The northern arm of the county lies in the Adirondack Mountains, while the southern section consists of a hilly upland. The principal streams are ...
Herkimer, Nicholas: American general during the American Revolution who led American militiamen in the Battle of Oriskany (August 6, 1777).
herm: in Greek religion, sacred object of stone connected with the cult of Hermes, the fertility god. According to some scholars, Hermes' name may be derived from the word herma (Greek: ...
Herman De Valenciennes: French poet known for a scriptural poem that was very popular in his time. Born at Valenciennes, he became a priest and wrote the Histoire de la Bible (after 1189), ...
Herman Miller, Inc.: American furniture company known for innovations in design and in organizational management.
Herman, Woody: American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, vocalist, and bandleader who was best known as the front man for a succession of bands he dubbed "Herds."
hermandad: (Spanish: "brotherhood"), in medieval Castile, any of a number of unions of municipalities organized for specific ends-normally for police purposes or for defense against the aggressions of magnates. They emerged ...
Hermann I: landgrave of Thuringia and count palatine of Saxony who helped defeat the Hohenstaufen emperor Henry VI's attempt to transform the German kingdom from an elective into a hereditary monarchy.
Hermann Von Reichenau: German chronicler, poet, composer, astronomer, and mathematician. A contemporary of the Holy Roman emperor Henry III, Hermann von Reichenau is historiographically important as a primary source for some events of ...
Hermann Von Salza: German grand master (Hochmeister), from 1210 to 1239, of the organization of German crusaders called the Teutonic Order.
Hermann, Eduard: German linguist who specialized in comparative studies of Indo-European languages and whose exhaustive linguistic exegesis of passages from Homer is a model of its kind: Sprachwissenschaftlicher Kommentar zu ausgewahlten Stucken ...
Hermans, Willem Frederik: Dutch satirical novelist who vehemently attacked the ills and hypocrisies of society.
hermaphroditism: the condition of having both male and female reproductive organs. Hermaphroditic plants (most flowering plants) are called monoecious, or bisexual. Hermaphroditic animals, mostly invertebrates such as worms, bryozoans (moss animals), ...
Hermaphroditus: in Greek mythology, a being partly male, partly female. The idea of such a being originated in the East; in the Greek area it appeared in Cyprus, and, although it ...
Hermenegild, Saint: Visigothic prince, son of Leovigild of Spain.
hermeneutics: the study of the general principles of biblical interpretation. For both Jews and Christians throughout their histories, the primary purpose of hermeneutics, and of the exegetical methods employed in interpretation, ...
Hermes: Greek god, son of Zeus and Maia; often identified with the Roman Mercury (q.v.) and with Casmilus or Cadmilus, one of the Cabeiri (q.v.). His name is probably derived from ...
Hermes, Georg: German Roman Catholic theologian, originator of the theological system called Hermesianism, which attempted to demonstrate the rational necessity of Christianity. His theology was deeply influenced by the philosophical works of ...
Hermetic writings: works of revelation on occult, theological, and philosophical subjects ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth (Greek Hermes Trismegistos [Hermes the Thrice-Greatest]), who was believed to be the inventor of writing ...
Hermeticism: modernist poetic movement originating in Italy in the early 20th century, whose works were characterized by unorthodox structure, illogical sequences, and highly subjective language. Although it influenced a wide circle ...
hermit: any of several hummingbird species of the genus Phaethornis. See hummingbird.
hermit: one who retires from society, primarily for religious reasons, and lives in solitude. In Christianity the word (from Greek eremites, "living in the desert") is used interchangeably with anchorite, although ...
hermit crab: any crab of the families Paguridae and Coenobitidae (order Decapoda of the subclass Crustacea). The crabs use empty snail shells (e.g., whelk or periwinkle) or other hollow objects as a ...
Hermitage: art museum in St. Petersburg founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great as a court museum. It adjoined the Winter Palace and served as a private gallery for the art ...
Hermite, Charles: French mathematician whose work in the theory of functions includes the application of elliptic functions to provide the first solution to the general equation of the fifth degree, the quintic ...
Hermocrates: leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse, Sicily; he played an important role in saving the city from conquest by the Athenians between 415 and 413 BC.
Hermon, Mount: snowcapped ridge on the Lebanon-Syria border west of Damascus. It rises to 9,232 feet (2,814 m) and is the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It ...
Hermonthis: ancient town in Upper Egypt, near Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. It was the seat of a sun cult and was a crowning place of kings. The ...
Hermopolis: chief port of the island of Syros (part of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea) and capital of Cyclades nomos (department), Greece. The seat of both ...
Hermopolis Magna: ancient town of Upper Egypt, located on the Nile River south of Al-Minya in Al-Minya muhafazah (governorate). It was known as Khmunu ("City of the Eight") and ...
Hermosillo: city, capital of Sonora state, northwestern Mexico. Situated on the coastal plain, at an elevation of 778 ft (237 m) above sea level, near the confluence of the Sonora and ...
Hernandez Colon, Rafael: Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, who served as governor of Puerto Rico (1973-77; 1985-93).
Hernandez, Felisberto: one of the most original Latin American short-story writers. Hernandez is known for his bizarre tales of quietly deranged individuals who inject their obsessions into everyday life.
Hernandez, Gregorio: Spanish sculptor whose works are among the finest examples of polychromed wood sculpture created during the Baroque period. His images are characterized by their emotional intensity, spiritual expressiveness, and sense ...
Hernandez, Jose: Argentine poet, best known for his depiction of the gauchos.
Hernandez, Miguel: Spanish poet and dramatist who combined traditional lyric forms with 20th-century subjectivity.
Hernandez, Orlando: Cuban baseball pitcher who amassed a won-lost record of 129-47, the best winning percentage in the history of the Cuban League. After defecting from Cuba in 1997, he pitched in ...
Herne: city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies at the junction of the Rhine-Herne and the Dortmund-Ems canals, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Dortmund, ...
Herne Bay: town, Canterbury City district, on the north coast of the administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It grew rapidly after the railway linked it with London in 1833. ...
Herne The Hunter: phantom hunter who haunts Windsor Great Park, impersonated by Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Though Herne may have been an actual keeper of the forest, he is ...
Herne, James A.: U.S. playwright who helped bridge the gap between 19th-century melodrama and the 20th-century drama of ideas.
hernia: protrusion of an organ or tissue from its normal cavity. The protrusion may extend outside the body or between cavities within the body, as when loops of intestine escape from ...
herniated disk: intervertebral disk the rubbery centre or nucleus of which has slipped out from between the vertebrae so that it presses against the spinal cord. This displacement causes pain in the ...
Hernici: ancient people of Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake (modern Fucino) and the Trerus (modern Sacco) River, bounded by the Volsci on the south and by ...
Herning: city, Ringkobing amtskommune (county), west central Jutland, Denmark. Large-scale reclamation of surrounding heaths stimulated its growth from a rural village in the 1870s to a commercial city. A road and ...
hero: in literature, broadly, the main character in a literary work; the term is also used in a specialized sense for any figure celebrated in the ancient legends of a people ...
Hero and Leander: two lovers celebrated in Greek legend. Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen at a festival by Leander of Abydos; they fell in love, and he swam the ...
Herod: Roman-appointed king of Judaea (37-4 BC), who built many fortresses, aqueducts, theatres, and other public buildings and generally raised the prosperity of his land but who was the centre of ...
Herod Agrippa I: king of Judaea (41-44), a clever diplomat who through his friendship with the Roman imperial family obtained the kingdom of his grandfather, Herod I the Great. He displayed great acumen ...
Herod Agrippa II: king of Chalcis in southern Lebanon from AD 50 and tetrarch of Batanaea and Trachonitis in south Syria from AD 53, who unsuccessfully mediated with the rebels in the Jewish ...
Herod Antipas: son of Herod I the Great who became tetrarch of Galilee and ruled throughout Jesus of Nazareth's ministry.