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higher education: any of various types of education given in postsecondary institutions of learning and usually affording, at the end of a course of study, a named degree, diploma, or certificate of ...
Highland: council area in northern Scotland, forming the northernmost extension of the Scottish mainland between the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the North Sea in the east. It extends from ...
highland fling: national dance of Scotland. A vigorous dance requiring delicate balance and precision, it was probably originally a victory dance for a solo male dancer, performed after battle. It is performed ...
Highland Games: originally, athletic meetings carried out in the Scottish Highlands. The name now denotes similar athletic competitions in any part of the world, usually conducted under the auspices of a local ...
Highland Park: city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on Lake Michigan, it is a suburb of Chicago, located some 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown. Potawatomi Indians were recent inhabitants ...
Highland Park: city, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., surrounded by Detroit. Settled in the early 1800s, it was first called Nabors and then Whitewood. It was incorporated as a village in 1889, ...
Highlands: major physiographic and cultural division of Scotland, lying northwest of a line drawn from Dumbarton, near the head of the Firth of Clyde on the western coast, to Stonehaven, on ...
Highmore, Joseph: English portrait painter who was stylistically associated with the English Rococo.
Highsmith, Patricia: American novelist and short-story writer who is best known for psychological thrillers, in which she delved into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil.
Hightower, Rosella: American ballerina and ballet teacher.
highway: major road, usually in rural areas, but more recently a rural or urban road where points of entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled. See road.
Higuchi Ichiyo: poet and novelist, the most important Japanese woman writer of her period, whose characteristic works dealt with the licensed pleasure quarters of Tokyo.
Higuey: city in the wide coastal lowland of the southeastern Dominican Republic. Founded in 1502 by Juan Ponce de Leon, Higuey has long been a pilgrimage centre known for its elaborate ...
Hiiumaa: island of the Muhu archipelago, Estonia. It lies in the Baltic Sea, northwest of the Gulf of Riga. Hiiumaa is the northernmost of the three larger islands forming the archipelago. ...
hijacking: the illegal seizure of a land vehicle, aircraft, or other conveyance while it is in transit.
hijiri: (Japanese: "holy man"), in Japanese religion, a man of great personal magnetism and spiritual power, as distinct from a leader of an institutionalized religion. Historically, hijiri has been used to ...
Hijrah: the Prophet Muhammad's migration (AD 622) from Mecca to Medina in order to escape persecution; the date represents the starting point of the Muslim era. Muhammad himself dated his correspondence, ...
Hijuelos, Oscar: American novelist whose writing chronicles the pre-Castro Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, particularly in New York City.
hiking: walking as a recreational activity and sport. Especially among those with sedentary occupations, hiking is a natural exercise that promotes physical fitness, is economical and convenient, and requires no special ...
Hikmet, Nazim: poet who was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th-century Turkish literature.
Hikone: city, Shiga ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa. The city grew around the castle built by the Ii family in 1603. Hikone is now a ...
Hilaria: in botany, genus of perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, consisting of about seven species native primarily to warm, dry areas of southern North America. They are known variously as ...
Hilaria: in Roman religion, day of merriment and rejoicing in the Cybele-Attis cult and in the Isis-Osiris cult, March 25 and November 3, respectively. It was one of several days in ...
Hilarion Of Kiev: the first native metropolitan of Kiev, who reigned from 1051 to 1054, and the first known Kievan Rus writer and orator.
Hilarion, Saint: monk and mystic who founded Christian monasticism in Palestine modeled after the Egyptian tradition.
Hilarius: medieval poet and wandering scholar, a pupil of Peter Abelard and associated with Angers, Anjou.
Hilary of Arles, Saint: Gallo-Roman bishop of Arles who is often regarded as providing the occasion for extending papal authority in Gaul.
Hilary of Poitiers, Saint: Gallo-Roman doctor of the church who as bishop of Poitiers was a champion of orthodoxy against Arianism (q.v.) and was the first Latin writer to introduce Greek doctrine to Western ...
Hilary, Saint: pope from 461 to 468.
Hilberseimer, Ludwig: German-born U.S. city planner who founded in 1928 the Department of City Planning at the Bauhaus, Dessau.
Hilbert space: in mathematics, an example of an infinite-dimensional space that had a major impact in analysis and topology. The German mathematician David Hilbert first described this space in his work on ...
Hilbert, David: German mathematician who reduced geometry to a series of axioms and contributed substantially to the establishment of the formalistic foundations of mathematics. His work in 1909 on integral equations led ...
Hilda of Whitby, Saint: founder of Streaneshalch (now Whitby) Abbey and one of the foremost abbesses of Anglo-Saxon England. With Bishops SS. Colman of Lindisfarne and Cedd of the East Saxons, she led the ...
Hildebrand, Adolf von: German artist and one of the first sculptors of the 19th century to insist upon the aesthetic autonomy of sculpture from painting, a doctrine he most effectively promulgated in Das ...
Hildebrand, Joel H.: U.S. educator and chemist whose monograph Solubility (1924; later editions, Solubility of Non-Electrolytes) was the classic reference for almost a half century.
Hildebrandslied: Old High German alliterative heroic ballad on the fatalistic theme of a duel of honour between a father and a son. The fragmentary ballad, dating from c. 800, is the ...
Hildebrandt, Johann Lucas von: Austrian Baroque architect and military engineer whose work strongly influenced the architecture of central and southeastern Europe in the 18th century. The types of buildings he developed for parish churches, ...
Hildegard, Saint: German abbess, visionary mystic, and composer.
Hilden: city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany, situated on the Itter, an east-bank tributary of the Rhine, just southeast of Dusseldorf. The city grew out of an estate of the ...
Hildesheim: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies southeast of Hannover on the Innerste River in the foothills of the Harz Mountains. Originally it was a ...
Hilferding, Rudolf: Austrian-born German politician who was a leading representative of the Viennese development of Marxism and who served as finance minister in 1923 and 1928 in two German Social Democratic Party ...
Hiligaynon: fourth largest ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines, living on Panay, western Negros, southern Mindoro, Tablas, Romblon, Sibuyan, Guimaras, and northwestern Masbate. Numbering about 6,540,000 in the late 20th century, they ...
hill climb: short distance race for automobiles or motorcycles up mountain roads, with the finish at least 350 metres (383 yards) above the start in automobile events. In most cases the required ...
Hill, A P: Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War who was particularly active in the fighting around Washington, D.C. His force, called the "Light Division," was considered one of the best in ...
Hill, A.V.: British physiologist and biophysicist who received (with Otto Meyerhof) the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the production of heat in muscles. His research helped establish ...
Hill, Aaron: English poet, dramatist, and essayist whose adaptations of Voltaire's plays Zaire (The Tragedy of Zara, 1736) and Merope (1749) enjoyed considerable success.
Hill, David Octavius; and Adamson, Robert: Scottish photographers who collaborated to produce some of the greatest photographic portraits of the 19th century.
Hill, George Washington: American businessman whose marketing efforts introduced women to cigarettes.
Hill, George William: U.S. mathematical astronomer considered by many of his peers to be the greatest master of celestial mechanics of his time. After receiving a B.A. from Rutgers College (1859), Hill joined ...
Hill, Graham: British automobile racing driver who won the Grand Prix world championship in 1962 and 1968 and the Indianapolis 500 in 1966.
Hill, James Jerome: U.S. financier and railroad builder of the American Northwest.
Hill, Joe: Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American ...
Hill, John: English writer and botanist who compiled the first book on British flora to be based on the Linnaean nomenclature.
Hill, Matthew Davenport: British lawyer and penologist, many of whose suggested reforms in the treatment of criminals were enacted into law in England.
Hill, Octavia: leader of the British open-space movement, which resulted in the foundation (1895) of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. She was also a housing reformer ...
Hill, Patty Smith: U.S. educator who introduced the progressive philosophy to kindergarten teaching, stressing the importance of the creativity and natural instincts of children and reforming the more structured programs of Friedrich Froebel.
Hill, Phil: first U.S. automobile race driver to win the world driving championship (1961).
Hill, Rowland: English popular preacher and founder of the Surrey Chapel.
Hill, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount, Baron Hill Of Almaraz And Of Hawkestone, Baron Hill Of Almaraz And Of Hardwicke: British general and one of the Duke of Wellington's chief lieutenants in the Peninsular (Spanish) campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
Hill, Sir Rowland: British administrator and educator, originator of the penny postage system, principally known for his development of the modern postal service, which was subsequently adopted throughout the world.
Hillary, Sir Edmund: New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]), the highest ...
Hillegom: gemeente (commune), Zuid-Holland provincie, western Netherlands, on the Ringvaart, a canal around the Haarlemmermeer polder. With Lisse it is one of the two great commercial centres of Holland's bulb-growing district ...
Hillel: Jewish sage, foremost master of biblical commentary and interpreter of Jewish tradition in his time. He was the revered head of the school known by his name, the House of ...
Hillel ben Samuel: physician, Talmudic scholar, and philosopher who defended the ideas of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides during the "years of controversy" (1289-90), when Maimonides' work was challenged and attacked; Hillel ben ...
Hiller, Dame Wendy: English stage and film actress known for her direct and unsentimental portrayals of intelligent and spirited women.
Hiller, Ferdinand: German conductor and composer whose memoirs, Aus dem Tonleben unserer Zeit (1867-76; "From the Musical Life of Our Time"), contain revealing sidelights on many famous contemporaries.
Hiller, Johann Adam: German composer and conductor, regarded as the creator of the German Singspiel, a musical genre combining spoken dialogue and popular song.
Hillerod: city, seat of Frederiksborg amtskommune (county commune), northeastern Sjaelland (Zealand), Denmark. It developed around Frederiksborg Castle, which was built (1602-20) by Christian IV in Dutch Renaissance style on the site ...
Hillery, Patrick J: Irish politician and sixth president of Ireland, from 1976. He was the youngest person ever to attain that position.
Hilli, al-: in full Jamal Ad-din Hasan Ibn Yusuf Ibn 'ali Ibn Muthahhar Al-hilli theologian and expounder of Shi'i doctrines one of the two main systems of Islam, the other being the ...
Hilliard, Nicholas: the first great native-born English painter of the Renaissance. His lyrical portraits raised the art of painting miniature portraiture (limning in Elizabethan England) to its highest point of development and ...
Hillingdon: outer borough of London, forming part of its western perimeter. Hillingdon belongs to the historic county of Middlesex. Hillingdon was created a borough in 1965 by the amalgamation of the ...
Hillis, Danny: American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation.
Hillman, Sidney: U.S. labour leader, from 1914 president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and in 1935-38 one of the founders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was noted ...
Hillquit, Morris: American Socialist leader, chief theoretician of the Socialist Party during the first third of the 20th century.
Hills, Carla Anderson: American lawyer and public official who served in both domestic and international capacities in the administrations of two U.S. presidents.