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Himerius (Greek rhetorician)
Greek rhetorician, influential teacher and practitioner of the florid style popular in the 4th century....
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Himerus (Parthian governor)
...127 bc, when the Parthians were fighting nomadic invaders in the eastern part of their territory. His rule there must have been short, however, for the Parthian governor of Babylon and the north, Himerus, was back in Seleucia and Babylon by 126. Himerus could not have been a rebel, since he struck coins in the name of the Parthian rulers ...
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Himes, Chester (American writer)
African-American writer whose novels reflect his encounters with racism. As an expatriate in Paris, he published a series of black detective novels....
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Himes, Chester Bomar (American writer)
African-American writer whose novels reflect his encounters with racism. As an expatriate in Paris, he published a series of black detective novels....
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Himiko (Japanese ruler)
first known ruler of Japan and the supposed originator of the Grand Shrine of Ise, still considered the most important Shintō sanctuary in Japan....
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Himilco (Carthaginian explorer)
like Hanno, a Carthaginian explorer of the 5th century bc, mentioned first by Pliny the Elder (1st century ad). Hanno explored the coast of Africa, while Himilco sailed north from Gades (present-day Cadiz, Spain) for four months. Historians differ on whether he reached Brittany or discovered the ...
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Himilco (Carthaginian general)
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....
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Himmel rühmen des ewigen Ehren, Die (work by Gellert)
...Oden und Lieder (1757; “Spiritual Odes and Songs”), poems and hymns that combined religious feeling with the rationalism of the Enlightenment. The most famous of these, “Die Himmel rühmen des ewigen Ehren” (“The Heavens Praise the Eternal Glories”) and “Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur” (“The Glory of God in Nature...
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Himmelfahrt (work by Bahr)
...and in 1918 he was for a short time director of the Vienna Burgtheater. During World War I, under the influence of Catholicism, his novel Himmelfahrt (1916; “The Ascension”) represented the staunchly Catholic school of thought in his country. His later critical works, which show his interest in the social effect of......
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Himmerland (region, Denmark)
region of Jutland between Hobro and Ålborg, forming the northernmost non-insular part of Denmark. It is nearly surrounded by water. At Års, the main town of the interior, the Vesthimmerlands Museum displays prehistoric and folk artifacts. Himmerland is a predominantly rural region of villages and farms. Although much of the former wetland has been drained, the leac...
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Himmler, Heinrich (German Nazi leader)
German National Socialist (Nazi) politician, police administrator, and military commander who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich....
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himoragi (Japanese Shintō tradition)
in Japanese Shintō tradition, sacred areas or ritual precincts marked off by rocks, tree branches, and hemp ropes. This kind of special cordoned-off natural space serves as a temporary sanctuary for kami spirits and is the predecessor for all forms of Shintō shrines....
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Ḥimṣ (Syria)
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 site of ancient Emesa, which contained a great temple to the sun god...
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Himself (painting by Henri)
During an extremely active life as an artist, Henri exercised considerable influence as a portrait painter. A painting such as Himself (1913) reveals his facile brushwork, lively palette, and ability to catch fleeting gestures and expressions. He also wielded influence as a teacher. From 1915 to 1928 Henri taught at the Art Students League in New York. During this......
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Ḥimyar (people)
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....
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Ḥimyarite (people)
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....
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hin (unit of measurement)
...contained about 37 litres (nearly 10 U.S. gallons); if so, the log equaled slightly more than 0.5 litre (0.14 U.S. gallon), and the hin slightly more than 6 litres (1.6 U.S. gallons). The Hebrew system was notable for the close relationship between dry and liquid volumetric measures; the liquid ......
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Hina (caste)
...the Govi caste, which was stratified into chiefs, titled men, and peasants. Chiefs were important supporters of royal absolutism and helped administer the government. Nonagricultural people, the Hina, were considered of lower rank and were divided into occupational groups. These caste groups were endogamous; each lived in its own section, along particular streets. Castes were stratified in......
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Hinart, Louis (Flemish weaver)
any product of the tapestry factory established in 1664 in Beauvais, Fr., by two Flemish weavers, Louis Hinart and Philippe Behagle. Although it was under the patronage of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister to Louis XIV, and was subsidized by the state, the Beauvais works was......
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Hinault, Bernard (French cyclist)
Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist, rode with LeMond on both the Renault team and later the La Vie Claire team and was instrumental in teaching LeMond the strategy and mental toughness necessary to win at the sport’s highest levels. In 1983 LeMond entered his first Tour de France, finishing third, and a few months later won his first world championship. At the 1984 Tour de France...
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Hināwī (tribal confederation, Oman)
...made among the religious leaders and the heads of the major groups, particularly the leaders of the two major tribal confederations that came to be known as the Ghāfirīs and the Hināwīs....
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Hīnayāna (Buddhism)
the more orthodox, conservative schools of Buddhism; the name Hīnayāna was applied to these schools by the followers of the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition in ancient India. The name reflected the Mahāyānists’ evaluation of their own tradition as a superior method, surpassing the others in universality and compassion; but the name was...
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Hinchinbrook Island (island, Queensland, Australia)
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 and 152 square miles (394 square km) in area, it is separated from the mainland by Hinchinbrook Channel. The thickly wooded, mountainous island, now a national park...
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Hinchliffe, Robert (British manufacturer)
...were used in ancient Rome and in China, Japan, and Korea. In Europe their domestic use dates from the 16th century, but not until 1761, when Robert Hinchliffe of Sheffield, Eng., first used cast steel in their manufacture, did large-scale production begin. In the 19th century much......
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Hinckley and Bosworth (district, England, United Kingdom)
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, as well as the towns of Market Bosworth and Earl Shilton, which is a centre of both the hosiery and footwear ...
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Hinckley, Gordon B. (American religious leader)
15th president (1995–2008) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church. Hinckley helped to expand the church from some 9 million to nearly 13 million members worldwide and led it from the margins to the mainstream of American society....
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Hinckley, John W., Jr. (American assassin)
...administration from unveiling a so-called “October surprise”—the release of the hostages in October 1980, before election day. Then, on March 30, 1981, a deranged drifter named John W. Hinckley, Jr., fired six shots from a .22-calibre revolver at Reagan as he left a Washington, D.C., hotel. One of the bullets entered Reagan’s chest, puncturing a lung and lodging one ...
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Hincks, Sir Francis (Canadian journalist and politician)
journalist and politician. He served as joint premier of the united province of Canada in 1851–54....
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Hincmar of Reims (French theologian)
archbishop, canon lawyer, and theologian, the most influential political counselor and churchman of the Carolingian era (9th century)....
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Hind (Soviet helicopter)
...designed specifically for attack. At the end of the 1960s the Soviet Union’s Mil Mi-12 became the world’s largest helicopter, with a maximum takeoff weight of 105 tons, and in 1978 the smaller Mil Mi-24 set a helicopter speed record of 368.4 km (228.9 miles) per hour....
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hind (fish)
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. They are found in the Atlantic Ocean an...
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Hind and the Panther, The (poem by Dryden)
...and Chanticleer the Cock, the basis later of “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. John Dryden used the beast epic as the framework of the poem The Hind and the Panther (1687), and Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) derived many episodes from beast tales carried...
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Hind, Henry Youle (Canadian educator, geologist, and explorer)
English-born Canadian educator, geologist, and explorer whose expedition to the Northwest Territories in 1858 encouraged the settlement of those regions and their eventual union with Canada....
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Hind Hord (ballad)
Perhaps a dozen or so ballads derive from medieval romances. As in “Hind Horn” and “Thomas Rymer,” only the climactic scene is excerpted for the ballad. In general, ballads from romances have not worn well in tradition because of their unpalatable fabulous elements, which the modern folk apparently regard as childish. Thus “Sir Lionel” becomes in America.....
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Hind, John Russell (English astronomer)
...by as much as 5 magnitudes in a few days, declining again to normal brightness in two or three weeks. U Geminorum was the first of the class to be discovered, in 1855, by the English astronomer John Russell Hind. U Geminorum stars are binary stars with periods of less than a day and are made up of a red main-sequence star and a white dwarf star that is surrounded by a disk of material......
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Hind Mazdoor Sabha (trade-union federation)
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 little real connection with the Socialist Party. It is one of the least political and most pragmatic trade-union federations in India. The H...
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Hindawi (Urdu dialect)
Earlier varieties of Urdu, variously known as Gujari, Hindawi, and Dakhani, show more affinity with eastern Punjabi and Haryani than with Khari Boli, which provides the grammatical structure of standard modern Urdu. The reasons for putting together the literary products of these dialects, forming a continuous tradition with those in Urdu, are as follows: first, they share a common milieu,......
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hindbrain (anatomy)
region of the developing vertebrate brain that is composed of the medulla oblongata and the pons. The hindbrain is one of the three major developmental divisions of the brain; the other two are the midbrain and forebrain....
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Hinde, Robert (British zoologist)
...in the behaviouristic context referred to above, these often failed to coincide with one another, implying that there must be more than a single unitary force at work. In the 1960s British zoologist Robert Hinde drew on many examples to support the view that the causal basis of behaviour is dispersed among numerous variables affecting sensory, central, and motor pathways. Since then motivationa...
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Hindemith, Paul (German composer)
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 traditional harmonic system that was being challenged by many other composers—and also pioneered in the writing of Gebrauchsmusik, or “utility music,” compositions for everyday occasions. He regarded t...
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Hindenburg (Poland)
city, Śląskie województwo (province), southern Poland. It is situated in the Upper Silesian industrial district....
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Hindenburg (German airship)
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 that was launched at Friedrichshafen, Ger., in March 1936. It had a maximum speed of 135 km (84 miles) per hour and a cruising speed o...
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“Hindenburg” disaster (aviation history)
Explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg, the largest rigid airship ever constructed. Launched in 1936 in Germany, it started the first commercial air service across the North Atlantic and made 10 successful round trips. On May 6, 1937, as it was landing in Lakehurst, N.J., U.S., its hydrogen gas burst into flames, destroying the airship and killing 36 of the 97 persons aboa...
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Hindenburg Line (German defense system)
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 Marshal Paul von H...
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Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von (German president)
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 of ...
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Hindenburg, Paul von (German president)
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 of ...
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hindgut (anatomy)
Other herbivores make efficient use of leafy foods through hindgut fermentation. In animal species generally, the main breakdown of foods by enzymes and absorption into the bloodstream occurs in the small intestine. The main function of the large intestine is then to absorb most of the water remaining so as to conserve losses when the......
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Hindi language
member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the preferred official language of India, although much national business is also done in English and the other languages recog...
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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 in the west and of Bihar in the east that, strictly speaking, are not Hindi at all. Hindi literature also conventionally includes those works of Muslim writers (such as Jayasi) in the Persia...
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Hindiyyah Barrage (dam, Iraq)
...and Al-Hindiyyah—a distance of about 140 miles (225 km)—are the mouths of all the main controlled-irrigation canals, as well as most of the pumping installations. Near Al-Hindiyyah the river splits into two branches, Al-Ḥillah and Al-Hindiyyah, each of which, over the centuries, alternately has carried the main flow of the river. A barrage (a low dam for......
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Hindley, Myra (British serial killer)
British serial killer (b. July 23, 1942, Manchester, Eng.—d. Nov. 15, 2002, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Eng.), was convicted in 1966 of the torture and murder of two children and of having been the accessory in the murder of a third. The “Moors Murderers,” as Hindley and Ian Brady came to be called because the victims’ bodies were found buried on the Pennine Moors, were ...
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Hindman School (school, Hindman, Kentucky, United States)
A fund-raising tour of eastern cities enabled them to open the Hindman School in August 1902. The school offered academic subjects in addition to crafts and domestic and industrial skills. The efforts of another coworker made medical treatment available for the endemic trachoma that had left many mountain people blind. In 1913 Pettit established the Pine Mountain Settlement School near Dillon,......
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Hindorff, Richard (German agronomist)
...out the sultan’s rights. Germany was eager to exploit the resources of its new dependency, but lack of communications at first restricted development to the coastal area. The German agronomist Richard Hindorff’s introduction of sisal from Florida in 1892 marked the beginning of the territory’s most valuable industry, which was encouraged by the development of a railway from...
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hindquarter (beef carcass)
...weighing 315 kilograms (63 percent yield of live weight). Beef carcasses are split into two sides on the slaughter floor. After chilling, each side is divided into quarters, the forequarter and hindquarter, between the 12th and 13th ribs. The major wholesale cuts fabricated from the forequarter are the chuck, brisket, foreshank, rib, and shortplate. The hindquarter produces the short loin,......
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Hinds, Justin (Jamaican singer)
Jamaican reggae singer (b. May 7, 1942, Steer Town, Jam.—d. March 17, 2005, Steer Town), enjoyed a four-decade-long career that began in the 1960s when his group the Dominoes recorded the reggae classic “Carry Go Bring Come.” Hinds’s unique vocal style reflected his rural roots and sustained him as a solo act through the ska, rocksteady, and roots reggae periods. He sco...
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Hind’s variable nebula (astronomy)
any of a class of very young stars having a mass of the same order as that of the Sun. So called after a prototype identified in a bright region of gas and dust known as the Hind’s variable nebula, the T Tauri stars are characterized by erratic changes in brightness. They represent an early stage in stellar evolution, having only recent...
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hindsaddle (animal anatomy)
Live sheep averaging 45 kilograms yield 22-kilogram carcasses (50 percent yield of live weight). Lamb carcasses are divided into two halves, the foresaddle and hindsaddle, on the fabrication floor. The foresaddle produces the major wholesale cuts of the neck, shoulder, rib, breast, and foreshank. The hindsaddle produces the major wholesale cuts of the loin, sirloin, leg, and hindshank. Figure......
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hindtoe (anatomy)
...is often but erroneously considered to be a poor relation of the hand. Although the toes in modern humans are normally incapable of useful independent movement, the flexor muscles of the big toe (hallux) are developed to provide the final push off in the walking cycle. Muscles of all three compartments of the modern human lower leg contribute to making the foot a stable platform, which......
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Hindu (people)
...to arithmetical computations, because the digits—the numbers less than 20 or 60—were not represented by single symbols. The complete development of this idea must be attributed to the Hindus, who also were the first to use zero in the modern way. As was mentioned earlier, some symbol is required in positional number systems to mark the place of a power of the base not actually......
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Hindu (religion)
...to arithmetical computations, because the digits—the numbers less than 20 or 60—were not represented by single symbols. The complete development of this idea must be attributed to the Hindus, who also were the first to use zero in the modern way. As was mentioned earlier, some symbol is required in positional number systems to mark the place of a power of the base not actually.......
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Hindu calendar (religion)
dating system used in India from about 1000 bce and still used to establish dates of the Hindu religious year. It is based on a year of 12 lunar months; i.e., 12 full cycles of phases of the Moon. The discrepancy between the lunar year of about 354 days and the solar ...
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Hindu College (university, Kolkata, India)
...thought that better things could be achieved through the so-called English education. In 1817 these semirationalists, led by Rām Mohan Roy, the celebrated Indian reformer, founded the Hindu College in Calcutta, the alumni of which established a large number of English schools all over Bengal. The demand for English education in Bengal thus preceded by 20 years any government......
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Hindu fundamentalism (religious and political movement)
What is usually called “Hindu fundamentalism” in India has been influenced more by nationalism than by religion, in part because Hinduism does not have a specific sacred text to which conformity can be demanded. Moreover, conformity to a religious code has never been of particular importance to Hindu groups such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For the members of such groups,......
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Hindu Group Publications (Indian company)
...in the national capital. At the beginning of the 21st century, its daily circulation exceeded 900,000. The newspaper’s parent company, Hindu Group Publications, also publishes The Hindu Business Line, a daily business paper, and popular magazines such as Frontline and ......
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Hindu Kush (mountains, Asia)
Mountain system, south-central Asia....
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Hindu law
...above concerning the relationship between dietary laws and customs and the existence of social stratification, traditional privilege, and social, familial, and moral lines that cannot be crossed. Hinduism provides the best example, although the same principles also obtain in the religions of Jainism and Sikhism....
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Hindu philosophy
...above concerning the relationship between dietary laws and customs and the existence of social stratification, traditional privilege, and social, familial, and moral lines that cannot be crossed. Hinduism provides the best example, although the same principles also obtain in the religions of Jainism and Sikhism.......
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Hindu Raj (mountains, Pakistan)
A wider definition of the Hindu Kush would include a fourth region known as Hindu Raj in Pakistan. This region is formed by a long, winding chain of mountains—with some lofty peaks, such as Mounts Darkot (22,447 feet [6,842 metres]) and Buni Zom (21,499 feet [6,553 metres])—which strikes southward from the Lupsuk Peak (18,861 feet [5,749 metres]) in the......
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Hindu Renaissance (Indian history)
Literature languished during much of the period of British rule, but it experienced a new awakening with the so-called Hindu Renaissance, centred in Bengal and beginning in the mid-19th century. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee established the novel, previously unknown in India, as a literary genre. Chatterjee wrote in Bengali, and most of his......
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Hindu, The (Indian newspaper)
English-language daily newspaper published in Chennai (Madras), generally regarded as one of India’s most influential dailies....
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Hindu-Arabic number system (mathematics)
in mathematics, positional numeral system employing 10 as the base and requiring 10 different numerals, the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. It also requires a dot (decimal point) to represent decimal fractions. In this scheme, the numerals used in denoting a number take different plac...
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Hindu-Arabic numerals
Set of 10 symbols—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0—that represent numbers in the decimal number system. They originated in India in the 6th or 7th century and were introduced to Europe through Arab mathematicians around the 12th century (see al-Khwarizmi). They represented a profound break...
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Hinduism (religion)
Oldest of the world’s major religions....
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Hindūshāh, Muḥammad Qāsim (Indian writer)
one of Muslim India’s most famous writers....
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Hindustan (historical region, India)
low-lying alluvial region in northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. The Rohilkhand is part of the Upper Ganges (Ganga) Plain and has an area of about 10,000 square miles (25,000 square km). It is bounded by the frontiers of China and Nepal to the north and the Ganges River to the south and the west. The region is referred to as th...
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Hindustan (historical area, India)
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 rivers and the upper Indo-Gangetic Plain. As a mostly fertile and well-populated corridor situated between walls of mountain, desert, and sea, Hindustan has been regarded as the principal seat...
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Hindustan-Tibet Road (road, Asia)
...from Kathmandu through Hetaunda and Birganj to Birauni connects Nepal to Bihar state and the rest of India. To the northwest in Pakistan, the Karakoram Highway links that country with China. The Hindustan-Tibet road, which passes through Himachal Pradesh, has been considerably improved; this 300-mile- (480-km-) highway runs through Shimla, once the summer capital of India, and crosses the......
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Hindustani language
lingua franca of India. Hindustani began to develop during the 13th century ce in and around the Indian cities of Delhi and Meerut in response to the increasing linguistic diversity that resulted from Muslim hegemony. In the 19th century its use was widely promoted by the British, who initiated an effort at standardization. Hin...
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Hindustani music
one of the two principal types of South Asian classical music, found mainly in the northern three-fourths of the subcontinent, where Indo-Aryan languages are spoken. (The other principal type, Carnatic music, is found in the Dravidian-speaking region of southern India.) The two systems d...
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Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast (Indian nationalists)
...North America, to end British rule in their homeland of India. The movement originated with an organization of immigrants in California called the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, many of the Ghadrites returned to India and for several......
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Hindusthan (historical area, India)
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 rivers and the upper Indo-Gangetic Plain. As a mostly fertile and well-populated corridor situated between walls of mountain, desert, and sea, Hindustan has been regarded as the principal seat...
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Hindutva (Indian ideology)
The BJP advocated Hindutva, an ideology that sought to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu values, and it was highly critical of the secular policies and practices of the Indian National Congress. The BJP began to have electoral success in 1989, when it capitalized on anti-Muslim feeling by calling for the erection of a Hindu temple in......
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Hine, Lewis W. (American photographer)
American photographer who used his art to bring social ills to public attention....
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Hine, Lewis Wickes (American photographer)
American photographer who used his art to bring social ills to public attention....
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Hinegba (African deity)
The traditional beliefs of the Igbira centre on Hinegba, the supreme god, who is benevolent, resides in the sky, and controls the universe. Hinegba is approached through intermediary spirits, who are connected with such natural objects as trees. Igbira ancestors are also viewed as agents of Hinegba. Since the early 20th century many Igbira have been converted to Islam and Christianity....
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Hines, Earl (American musician)
American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer whose unique playing style made him one of the most influential musicians in jazz history....
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Hines, Earl Kenneth (American musician)
American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer whose unique playing style made him one of the most influential musicians in jazz history....
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Hines, Gregory (American dancer, actor, and choreographer)
American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer who was a major figure in the revitalization of tap dancing in the late 20th century....
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Hines, Gregory Oliver (American dancer, actor, and choreographer)
American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer who was a major figure in the revitalization of tap dancing in the late 20th century....
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Hines, Hines, and Dad (American dance act)
...New York, and two years later he made his Broadway debut in The Girl in Pink Tights (1954). The act’s name was later changed to the Hines Brothers, and in 1963 it became Hines, Hines and Dad when their father joined them as a drummer. The trio made numerous television appearances and performed throughout the United States and Europe. Mounting tensions with his...
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Hines, Jerome (American singer)
American opera singer (b. Nov. 8, 1921, Hollywood, Calif.—d. Feb. 4, 2003, New York, N.Y), was a respected bass who sang for 41 years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He made his professional debut in the role of Monterone in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the San Francisco Opera House in 1941 and first...
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Hines, The Right Rev. John Elbridge (American bishop)
American religious leader who, as the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1965 to 1974, pursued a socially progressive and activist agenda, supporting such issues as the ordination of women as priests and bishops and the withdrawal of investments from South Africa in protest against apartheid (b. Oct. 3, 1910--d. J...
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hinge (metalwork)
...of time, the need for protective barriers ended, there was greater freedom of work and a definite trend toward ornamentation. Throughout England, medieval church doors are found with massive iron hinges, the bands worked in rich ornamental designs of scrollwork, varying from the plain hinge band, with crescent, to the most elaborate filling of the door. Examples exist at Skipwith and......
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hinge joint (anatomy)
The hinge, or ginglymus, joint is a modified sellar joint with each mating surface ovoid on its right and left sides. This modification reduces movement to a backward-forward swing like that allowed by the hinge of a box or a door. The swing of the joint, however, differs from that of a hinge in that it is accompanied by a slight spin (rotation) of the moving bone around its long axis. This......
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Hingham (Massachusetts, United States)
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 incorporated in 1635 and named for Hingham, England. During the 19th century it was a bustling industrial town (iron tools, nails, and textiles), and its ...
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Hingis, Martina (Swiss tennis player)
Martina Hingis dominated women’s tennis in 1997, winning three of the four major tournaments and replacing Steffi Graf as the world’s top-ranked player. The latest teen sensation in women’s tennis, Hingis was named after the legendary Martina Navratilo...
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Hingle, Martin Patterson (American actor)
July 19, 1924Miami, Fla.Jan. 3, 2009Carolina Beach, N.C.American actor who was a durable character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, theatrical productions, and telev...
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Hingle, Pat (American actor)
July 19, 1924Miami, Fla.Jan. 3, 2009Carolina Beach, N.C.American actor who was a durable character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, theatrical productions, and telev...
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Hingston, Richard W. G. (British naturalist)
...botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker made a pioneering study of the plant life of the Sikkim Himalayas. He was followed by numerous others, including (in the early 20th century) the British naturalist Richard W.G. Hingston, who wrote valuable accounts of the natural history of animals living at high elevations in the Himalayas....
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Hinkle, Phillip (American inventor)
...ends of the track in a continuous loop in order to return riders to their starting position. Although the Alcoke coaster challenged the attendance records of Thompson’s Switchback Railway, it was Phillip Hinkle’s 1885 technological advancement that gave the industry a lift. The Hinkle coaster’s route was elliptical and featured a powered hoist that pulled cars to the top of...
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