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Hillsboro: town, Pocahontas county, eastern West Virginia, U.S., near the Greenbrier River and nestled in the Allegheny Mountains, 25 miles (40 km) north-northeast of Lewisburg. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park commemorates ...
Hillsboro: city, seat (1850) of Washington county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., adjacent to the Tualatin River. Settled in 1841, it was laid out by David Hill in 1842, called Columbia, and later ...
Hillsborough: county, southern New Hampshire, U.S., bordered to the south by Massachusetts. It is a hilly upland region drained by the Merrimack, Piscataquog, and other rivers and dotted with numerous small ...
Hillsborough: town (township), Hillsborough county, southwestern New Hampshire, U.S., on the Contoocook River, west-southwest of Concord. The town includes the communities of Hillsborough, Hillsborough Center, Hillsborough Lower Village, and Hillsborough Upper ...
Hillsborough: town, seat of Orange county, north-central North Carolina, U.S., on the Eno River about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Durham. Laid out in 1754 on the site of a ...
Hilo: city, seat of Hawaii county, northeastern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It lies along Hilo Bay and is the island's business centre. Polynesians settled the area about AD 1100, establishing agricultural ...
Hilton Head Island: town and island, one of the Sea Islands along the Atlantic coast just south of Port Royal Sound, in Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. The island, approximately 12 miles ...
Hilton, Conrad: American businessman and founder of one of the world's largest hotel organizations.
Hilton, James: English novelist whose popular works include Lost Horizon (1933), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934), and Random Harvest (1941), all of which were made into highly successful motion pictures.
Hilton, Walter: devotional writer, one of the greatest English mystics of the 14th century.
Hilversum: gemeente (commune), Noord-Holland provincie, west-central Netherlands. The centre of the Gooiland district of lakes and woods, it was a village dependent on agriculture and weaving until the railway arrived in ...
Himachal Pradesh: state of India. It is located in the extreme northern part of the subcontinent and occupies a region of scenic splendour in the western Himalayas. It has towering snow-clad mountains ...
Himalayan: breed of domestic cat with the colouring of the Siamese and the build and coat of the longhair, or Persian. The Himalayan is produced by matings between Siamese and longhairs ...
Himalayas: great mountain system of Asia forming a barrier between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south. The Himalayas include the ...
Himeji: city, southwestern Hyogo ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It is situated west of Kobe, near the Inland Sea. It developed as a castle town around the white, ...
Himera: ancient city on the northern Himeras (modern Grande) River, on the northern coast of Sicily. It was founded in about 649 BC by Syracusan exiles and Chalcidian inhabitants of Zancle ...
Himes, Chester: African-American writer whose novels reflect his encounters with racism. As an expatriate in Paris, he published a series of black detective novels.
Himiko: first known ruler of Japan and the supposed originator of the Grand Shrine of Ise, still considered the most important Shinto sanctuary in Japan.
Himilco: Carthaginian navigator known to have sailed from Carthage through the Strait of Gibraltar and northward along the Spanish and French Atlantic coasts.
Himilco: Carthaginian general who twice made conquests of the Greeks in Sicily that brought him to the gates of Syracuse and twice had his momentum broken by plague among his soldiers.
Himmerland: region of Jutland between Hobro and Alborg, forming the northernmost non-insular part of Denmark. It is nearly surrounded by water. At Ars, the main town of the interior, the Vesthimmerlands ...
Himmler, Heinrich: German National Socialist (Nazi) politician, police administrator, and military commander who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.
Hims: city, central Syria. The city is situated near the Orontes River at the eastern end of Syria's only natural gateway from the Mediterranean coast to the interior. It occupies the ...
Himyar: originally, an important tribe in the ancient Sabaean kingdom of southwestern Arabia; later, the powerful rulers of much of southern Arabia from about 115 BC to about AD 525.
Hinayana: (Sanskrit: "Lesser Vehicle"), the more orthodox, conservative schools of Buddhism; the name Hinayana was applied to these schools by the followers of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in ancient India. The ...
Hinchinbrook Island: island off the northeastern coast of Queensland, Australia. It is situated opposite the port of Cardwell and 60 miles (95 km) northeast of Townsville. About 22 miles (35 km) long ...
Hinckley and Bosworth: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Leicestershire, England. It comprises the town of Hinckley, an important centre of the hosiery industry since framework knitting was introduced there in 1640, ...
Hincks, Sir Francis: journalist and statesman, joint premier of the united province of Canada in 1851-54.
Hincmar Of Reims: archbishop, canon lawyer, and theologian, the most influential political counselor and churchman of the Carolingian era (9th century).
hind: any of certain species of fishes in the sea bass family, Serranidae (order Perciformes). All species referred to as hinds are in the genus Epinephelus, which also includes many groupers. ...
Hind Mazdoor Sabha: third largest trade-union federation in India after the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Indian National Trade Union Congress. The HMS was formed by the Socialists in 1948 but has ...
Hindemith, Paul: one of the principal German composers of the first half of the 20th century and a leading musical theorist. He sought to revitalize tonality, the system underlying Western music for ...
Hindenburg: German dirigible, the largest rigid airship ever constructed, and the victim of a spectacular disaster. The Hindenburg was a 245-metre- (804-foot-) long airship of conventional zeppelin design ...
Hindenburg Line: defensive barrier improvised by the German Army on the Western Front in World War I. Faced with substantial numerical inferiority and a dwindling firepower advantage, the new German commanders, Field ...
Hindenburg, Paul von: German field marshal during World War I and second president of the Weimar Republic (1925-34). His presidential terms were wracked by political instability, economic depression, and the rise to power ...
Hindi language: official language of the Republic of India, a central Indo-Aryan language claimed as a mother tongue by some 180,000,000 speakers in India. There are also significant numbers of Hindi speakers ...
Hindi literature: the writings of the western Braj Bhasa and Khari Boli and of the eastern Awadhi and Bundeli dialects of the Indian subcontinent and also the writings of parts of Rajasthan ...
Hindu calendar: dating system used in India from about 1000 BC and still used to establish dates of the Hindu religious year. It is based on a year of 12 lunar months; ...
Hindu Kush: great mountain system of Central Asia. Broadly defined, it is some 500 miles (800 km) long and as wide as 150 miles (240 km).
Hindu, The: English-language daily newspaper published in Chennai (Madras), generally regarded as one of India's most influential dailies.
Hinduism: the beliefs, practices, and socioreligious institutions of the Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the land of the Indus River). Introduced in about 1830 by British writers, the term properly denotes ...
Hindustan: (Persian: "Land of the Hindus"), historically, northern India, in contrast to the Deccan, or southern India. This area can be defined more particularly as the basin of the five Punjab ...
Hindustani language: lingua franca of modern India before partition (1947). Based on Khari Boli, a dialect originating in the area around Delhi, Meerut, and Saharanpur, it was spread throughout India by the ...
Hindustani music: the music of northern India and Pakistan that developed as a distinct type from the late 12th or early 13th century, when the Islamic conquest of the northern parts of ...
Hine, Lewis Wickes: American photographer who used his art to bring social ills to public attention.
Hines, Earl: American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who was one of the strongest influences in the first 30 years of jazz history. He improvised lines with his right hand that were ...
Hines, Gregory: American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer who was a major figure in the revitalization of tap dancing in the late 20th century.
Hingham: town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Hingham Harbor (an inlet of Massachusetts Bay), about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Boston. Settled in 1633, it was ...
Hinn Island: island, in the Norwegian Sea, northern Norway. Forming part of the Vesteralen group and with an area of 849 square miles (2,198 square km), it is Norway's second largest island ...
Hino: city, eastern Tokyo to (metropolis), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is located on the Tama River on the railway linking Tachikawa and Hachioji. Hino was a post town ...
Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman: British chemist who worked on reaction rates and reaction mechanisms, particularly that of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form water, one of the most fundamental combining reactions in ...
Hinsley, Arthur: English Roman Catholic cardinal and fifth archbishop of Westminster who was an outspoken opponent of the fascist powers during World War II.
hinterland: tributary region, either rural or urban or both, that is closely linked economically with a nearby town or city.
Hinton: city, seat (1871) of Summers county, southeastern West Virginia, U.S., on the New River, near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Laid out in 1831, it became a railway maintenance ...
Hinton, Christopher Hinton, Baron: engineer who was a leading figure in the development of the nuclear energy industry in Britain; he supervised the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale nuclear power station ...
Hinton, Milt: African American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz.
hip: in anatomy, the joint between the thighbone (femur) and the pelvis; also the area adjacent to this joint. The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint (q.v.); the round head of ...
hip roof: roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure, having no vertical ends. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. The ...
hip-hop: cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most ...
Hipparchus: Greek astronomer and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of astronomy as a mathematical science and to the foundations of trigonometry. Although he is commonly ranked among the ...
Hippel, Theodor Gottlieb von: German writer of the late Enlightenment and a disciple of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Although he was a minor writer of his time, his works have enjoyed an unusually long-lasting ...
Hippias: tyrant of Athens from 528/527 to 510 BC. He was a patron of poets and craftsmen, and under his rule Athens prospered. After the assassination of his brother Hipparchus (514), ...
Hippias Of Elis: Sophist philosopher who contributed significantly to mathematics by discovering the quadratrix, a special curve he may have used to trisect an angle.
hippie: member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it ...
Hippo: either of two ancient ports on the coast of North Africa.
Hippocrateaceae: family of woody vines, shrubs, and trees, belonging to the order Celastrales, comprising 21 genera common in the tropics. They have simple leaves and small, greenish flowers. The genus Hippocratea ...
Hippocrates: Greek physician of antiquity who is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. His name has long been associated with the so-called Hippocratic Oath-certainly not written by him-which in modified ...
Hippocrates of Chios: Greek geometer who compiled the first known work on the elements of geometry nearly a century before Euclid. Although the work is no longer extant, Euclid may have used it ...
Hippocratic oath: ethical code attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, adopted as a guide to conduct by the medical profession throughout the ages and still used in the graduation ceremonies of ...
hippodrome: ancient Greek stadium designed for horse racing and especially chariot racing. Its Roman counterpart was called a circus and is best represented by the Circus Maximus (q.v.). The typical hippodrome ...
hippogriff: a legendary animal that has the foreparts of a winged griffin and the body and hindquarters of a horse. The creature was invented by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando furioso ...
Hippolytus: minor divinity in Greek religion. At Athens he was associated with Aphrodite, the goddess of love; at Troezen, girls just before marrying dedicated to him a lock of their hair. ...
Hippolytus of Rome, Saint: Christian martyr who was also the first antipope (217/218-235).
Hippolytus, Canons of Saint: a collection of 38 canons (church regulations) preserved in an Arabic translation. The original text was Greek and written in Egypt; the Arabic version may rest on a Coptic translation.
hippopotamus: amphibious African ungulate mammal, the second largest land animal (after the elephant).
Hirado: city, Nagasaki ken (prefecture), Japan. It lies on Hirado Island, off the northwest coast of Kyushu. Although the city is composed of two islands, the town of Hirado on the ...