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- 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
- 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 (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 process
- (from the article "photoengraving") The Henderson process, sometimes referred to as "direct transfer," or "inverse halftone," gravure, has won some acceptance in the printing of packaging materials. Retouched continuous-tone positives are used in preparation ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Henderson, Cam
- (from the article "basketball") ...coaches such as Henry Iba of Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State University) or Long Island University's Clair Bee taught strictly a man-to-man defense, the zone defense, developed by Cam ...
- Henderson, Fletcher
- American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz. [6 Related Articles]
- Henderson, Jocko
- (from the article "Jocko Henderson") For seven years beginning in the mid-1950s, Douglas ("Jocko") Henderson commuted daily between Philadelphia, where he broadcast on WDAS, and New York City, where his two-hour late-evening Rocket Ship Show ...
- Henderson, Joseph A.
- American jazz tenor saxophonist (b. April 24, 1937, Lima, Ohio-d. June 30, 2001, San Francisco, Calif.), was among the handful of important saxophonists from the heyday of hard bop who ...
- Henderson, Lawrence Joseph
- U.S. biochemist, who discovered the chemical means by which acid-base equilibria are maintained in nature.
- Henderson, Lydia
- (from the article "Oceanic literature") The first published novel from Oceania was Makutu (1960) by Thomas Davis, a Cook Islander, and Lydia Henderson, his New Zealand-born wife. Like their earlier autobiography, Doctor to the Islands ...
- Henderson, Richard
- (from the article "Nashville") ...culture; Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Shawnee later moved into the region. French fur traders established a post known as French Lick on the site in 1717. A force behind the area's ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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, Skitch
- British-born American pianist, conductor, and bandleader (b. Jan. 27, 1918, Birmingham, Eng.-d. Nov. 1, 2005, New Milford, Conn.), worked on radio with Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby, who ...
- 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 ...
- Henderson, Zelma
- American civil rights figure was the last surviving plaintiff in the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially ...
- Henderson-Hasselbach equation
- (from the article "Henderson, Lawrence Joseph") ...processes, are known as physiological buffers. The chemical expression developed by Henderson, and modified by the Danish biochemist Karl Hasselbach, to describe these systems, now known as the Henderson-Hasselbach equation, ...
- Hendon Aerodrome
- (from the article "Royal Air Force Museum") ...and aerial warfare, with a special emphasis on the history of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The museum was opened in 1972 in a building formed from two aircraft hangars ...
- Hendricks, Barbara
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Soprano Barbara Hendricks, who left the EMI label in 2004, founded the label Arte Verum in 2006 and in 2007 released a new album, Endless Pleasure, as a CD and ...
- 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.
- Hendricks, William L.
- (from the article "1961: Other Winners") ...Side StorySong: "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's; music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny MercerHonorary Award: Fred L. Metzler and Jerome RobbinsHonorary Award: William L. Hendricks for A Force ...
- Hendrik, Bowdoin
- (from the article "Puerto Rico") ...the British soldier George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland, captured the city but was soon forced to abandon it after his troops fell victim to disease (probably dysentery). In 1625 ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hendry, Stephen
- Throughout the 1990s, Stephen Hendry ruled snooker as few had ever done before. In 1996, with an 18-12 victory over Peter Ebdon, Hendry claimed his sixth world championship, a feat ...
- 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. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Heng River
- (from the article "Yunnan") ...parts of the plateau drains into the Nan-p'an River, which is a headstream of the Hsi River of Kwangsi and Kwangtung. In the north and northeast of the plateau P'u-tu ...
- Heng-ch'un Pan-tao
- (from the article "P'ing-tung") ...Botanical Forest Park at Heng-ch'un covers an area of 100 acres (40 hectares) and has one of the largest experimental forests in Southeast Asia. A 126-square-mile (326-square-kilometre) area in the ...
- Henge
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") A 5,000-6,000-year-old settlement associated with the Henge people was found at a quarry site near Milfield, Eng. A number of buildings were found-including three from the early Neolithic (about 4000 ...
- Hengelo
- gemeente (municipality), 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, and electrical ...
- Henghua language
- (from the article "Fukien") ...in southern Fukien (thus, it is also known as the Min-nan, or south Fukien, dialect). The Hokchia, or Hakka, dialect of Fukien is spoken in the upper Han Valley of ...
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
- Hengyang
- city, south-central Hunan sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the west bank of the Xiang River, just south of the confluence of the Xiang with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hengyang Basin
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...might have originated there before spreading to other parts of Laurasia (the land mass that became Asia, Europe, and North America). Deposits dated to 55 million years ago (Early Eocene) ...
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- Henin, Justine
- Belgian tennis player, whose strong serve and powerful one-handed backhand elevated her to the top of the women's game in the mid-2000s. [9 Related Articles]
- Henin-Beaumont
- town, Pas-de-Calais departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, lying between Lens and Douai. Chartered in 1229, it was made a county in 1579 by Philip II of ...
- Henkin constant
- (from the article "mathematics, foundations of") ...In the same spirit, an amplified version of Godel's completeness theorem would say that every topos may be viewed as a continuously variable local topos, provided sufficiently many variables (Henkin ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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. [4 Related Articles]
- Henlein, Peter
- (from the article "watch") The first watches appeared shortly after 1500, early examples being made by Peter Henlein, a locksmith in Nurnberg, Ger. The escapement used in the early watches was the same as ...
- Henley on the Todd
- (from the article "Alice Springs") ...is of prime importance; during the mild winter months (May to September) thousands flock to the town, which has become an exploration base for the Centre. They may also attend ...
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- 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, Don
- (from the article "Eagles, the") American band that cultivated country rock as the reigning style and sensibility of white youth in the United States during the 1970s. The original members were Don Henley (b. July ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- henna
- (from the article "Myrtales") Lawsonia inermis, of the family Lythraceae and native to northeastern Africa, is the henna of commerce, yielding an orange-red dye that has been used for centuries in the Middle East ...
- Hennah, Dan
- (from the article "2003: Other Winners") ...The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingCinematography: Russell Boyd for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldArt Direction: Grant Major (art direction) ...
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
- Hennell, Charles
- (from the article "Eliot, George") There she became acquainted with a prosperous ribbon manufacturer, Charles Bray, a self-taught freethinker who campaigned for radical causes. His brother-in-law, Charles Hennell, was the author of
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Hennesy, Dale
- (from the article "1966: Other Winners") ...of Virginia Woolf?Cinematography, Color: Ted Moore for A Man for All SeasonsArt Direction, Black-and-White: Richard Sylbert for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Art Direction, Color: Dale Hennesy and Jack Martin Smith ...
- Hennig, Willi
- German zoologist recognized as the leading proponent of the cladistic school of phylogenetic systematics. [1 Related Articles]
- hennin
- (from the article "dress") Both men and women wore a steeple hat of felt or the more expensive beaver. Men also wore the montero cap, which had a flap that could be turned down, ...
- Henning, Douglas James
- Canadian magician (b. May 3, 1947, Winnipeg, Man.-d. Feb. 7, 2000, Los Angeles, Calif.), helped revive interest in magic with his traveling act and a series of Broadway shows and ...
- Henning, Georg Friedrich
- (from the article "RDX") powerful explosive, discovered by Georg Friedrich Henning of Germany and patented in 1898 but not used until World War II, when most of the warring powers introduced it. Relatively safe ...
- Henning, John
- (from the article "Hill and Adamson") ...and gesture and thereby to emphasize the sitter's personality. The portraits of George Meikle Kemp (before 1845), architect of the Sir Walter Scott Monument in Edinburgh, and of the sculptor ...
- Henning, Walter Bruno
- (from the article "Chronological systems of Noldeke, Henning, and Taqizadeh") ...materials dealing with the life of Mani, a religious leader whose activities fall in the early Sasanian period, led to a reassessment of Noldeke's calculations by another German, Walter Bruno ...
- Hennings, Emmy
- (from the article "theatre") Dada began as an oppositional movement in Zurich in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire. In neutral Switzerland a group of artists that included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, and ...
- Hennique, Leon
- (from the article "French literature") ...publication, in 1880, of Les Soirees de Medan, a volume of short stories by Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Henry Ceard, Leon Hennique, and Paul ...
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- (from the article "childhood disease and disorder") Henoch-Schonlein purpura (anaphylactoid purpura) is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children. It is characterized by a purpuric rash, painful swollen joints, and abdominal pain with vomiting. In a minority ...
- Henodus
- (from the article "sauropterygian") ...to those of nothosaurs but more compact. Placodus was a typical form, having broad, flat tooth plates for crushing the mollusks on which it fed. Many placodonts evolved dermal armour, ...
- 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 ...
- Henon, Michel
- (from the article "celestial mechanics") The French astronomer Michel Henon and the American astronomer Carl Heiles discovered that when a system exhibiting periodic motion, such as a pendulum, is perturbed by an external force that ...
- henotheism
- (from the article "polytheism") ...various beliefs connected with the gods, historians of religions have used certain categories to identify different attitudes toward the gods. Thus, in the latter part of the 19th century, the ...
- 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
- (from the article "Luxembourg") Area: 2,586 sq km (999 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 467,000 | Capital: Luxembourg | Chief of state: Grand Duke Henri | Head of government: Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker ...
- Henri Pittier National Park
- park in the Cordillera de la Costa, Aragua estado (state), Venezuela, occupying an area of 350 sq mi (900 sq km) between Lago (lake) de Valencia and the Caribbean. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Henri, Adrian Maurice
- British poet and artist (b. April 10, 1932, Birkenhead, Cheshire [now Merseyside], Eng.-d. Dec. 20, 2000, Liverpool, Eng.), was one of the three "Merseybeat" poets who gained renown when their ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Henrichenburg
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...Similar hydraulic lift locks were constructed at Kirkfield and Peterborough in Ontario, Can.; the latter, completed in 1904, has a lift of nearly 65 feet. Float lifts were constructed in ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Henrion, Denis
- (from the article "number game") The rising tide of interest was exploited by French mathematicians Claude Mydorge, whose Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques was published in 1630, and Denis Henrion, whose Les Recreations mathematiques ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Henry
- (from the article "Otto I") ...half-brother Thankmar. Thankmar was defeated and killed, the Franconian Eberhard submitted to the King, and Eberhard of Bavaria was deposed and outlawed. In 939, however, Otto's younger brother Henry revolted; ...
- Henry
- (from the article "Afonso I") Alfonso VI, emperor of Leon, had granted the county of Portugal to Afonso's father, Henry of Burgundy, who successfully defended it against the Muslims (1095-1112). Henry married Alfonso VI's illegitimate ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Henry (VII)
- German king (from 1220), son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II.
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Henry I
- (from the article "'s-Hertogenbosch") Chartered in 1185 by Henry I, duke of Brabant, who had a hunting lodge nearby (hence the name, meaning "the duke's wood"), it was an important medieval wool centre and ...
- Henry I
- king of France from 1026 to 1060 whose reign was marked by struggles against rebellious vassals. [4 Related Articles]
- Henry I
- (from the article "Hessen") ...the landgraviate of Thuringia. In 1247 Henry Raspe, the last landgrave of Thuringia, died, and his niece, Sophia, the wife of Henry II of Brabant, acquired Hessen. She gave the ...
- 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, ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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), ... [5 Related Articles]
- 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). [17 Related Articles]
- Henry I
- king of Castile from 1214 to 1217.
- Henry I the Liberal
- (from the article "France") ...IV (the Great; Theobald II of Champagne, 1125-52), who was a formidable rival of Kings Louis VI and Louis VII. The main lands were divided under his sons Theobald V ...
- Henry II
- (from the article "Otto III") ...Holy Roman emperor Otto II and Empress Theophano, Otto III was elected German king in June 983 and crowned at Aachen in December, shortly after his father's death. But the ...
- Henry II
- (from the article "Crusades") ...empire and with papal approval, bought the rights of the nearest claimant and sent his representative. Finally, after Charles's death in 1285, the barons once again chose a native ruler, ...
- Henry II
- king of France from 1547 to 1559, a competent administrator who was also a vigorous suppressor of Protestants within his kingdom. [12 Related Articles]
- 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
- (from the article "Batu") ...of the western part of the Mongol empire and was given responsibility for the invasion of Europe. By 1240 he had conquered all of Russia. In the campaign in central ...
- 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, ... [8 Related Articles]
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