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HFV (biochemistry)
Some cases of hepatitis transmitted through contaminated food or water are attributed to the hepatitis F virus (HFV), which was first reported in 1994. Another virus isolated in 1996, the hepatitis G virus (HGV), is believed to be responsible for a large number of sexually transmitted and bloodborne cases of hepatitis. HGV causes acute and chronic forms of the disease and often infects persons......
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Hg (chemical element)
chemical element, liquid metal of Group 12 (IIb, or zinc group) of the periodic table....
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HGH
peptide hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It stimulates growth of bone and essentially all tissues of the body by stimulating protein synthesis and breaking down fat to p...
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HGI (geology)
...in a laboratory mill of standard design. The percent by weight of the coal that passes through a 200-mesh sieve (a screen with openings of 74 micrometres, or 0.003 inch) is used to calculate the Hardgrove grindability index (HGI). The index is used as a guideline for sizing the grinding equipment in a coal-preparation plant....
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HGP (scientific project)
an international collaboration that successfully determined, stored, and rendered publicly available the sequences of almost all the genetic content of the chromosomes of the human organism, otherwise known as the human genome....
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HGV (biochemistry)
Some cases of hepatitis transmitted through contaminated food or water are attributed to the hepatitis F virus (HFV), which was first reported in 1994. Another virus isolated in 1996, the hepatitis G virus (HGV), is believed to be responsible for a large number of sexually transmitted and bloodborne cases of hepatitis. HGV causes acute and chronic forms of the disease and often infects persons......
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HH object (astronomy)
...near regions of galactic nebulosity, either bright or dark, and only in obscured regions showing the presence of dust. Besides T Tauri stars, they include related variables, nonvariable stars, and Herbig-Haro objects—small nebulosities 10,000 astronomical units in diameter, each containing several starlike condensations in......
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HHMI (philanthropic foundation, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States)
American philanthropic foundation, established in 1953 by the aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes. From its offices in Chevy Chase, Md., the organization subsidizes ...
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HHS (United States government)
executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for carrying out government programs and policies relating to human health, welfare, and income security. Established in 1980 when responsibility for education was removed from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, it consists of several agencies including the Administration for Children and Families, the Administration on A...
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Hi dhe shpuzë (work by Frashëri)
...of Monastir (in what is now Bitola, Maced.), which adopted the modern Albanian alphabet based on Latin letters. The congress was presided over by Mid’hat Frashëri, who subsequently wrote Hi dhe shpuzë (1915; “Ashes and Embers”), a book of short stories and reflections of a didactic nature....
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Hi Records (American record company)
In the early 1970s Memphis’s chain of racially mixed musics made by integrated musicians—from the output of Sun Records to that of Stax/Volt and Chips Moman’s American Sound Studios—was broken, largely as a consequence of urban blight and the coalition-splintering shock of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the aftermath Willie Mitchell created a new soul s...
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HI region (astronomy)
interstellar matter in which hydrogen is mostly neutral, rather than ionized or molecular. Most of the matter between the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as in other spiral galaxies, occurs in the form of relatively cold neutral hydrogen gas. Neutral hydrogen clouds are easily detectable at radio ...
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hi-fi system
Most loudspeakers are of the electromagnetic, or dynamic, variety, in which a voice coil moves in the gap of a permanent magnet when a time-varying current flows through the coil. The magnet is generally in the shape of a “W” or a ring. The diaphragm, or cone, of such a loudspeaker moves with the coil, converting the electric......
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Hi-no-kami (Japanese deity)
in the Shintō religion of Japan, a god of fire. His mother, the female creator Izanami, was fatally burned giving birth to him; and his father, Izanagi, cut him into pieces, creating several new gods....
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Hialeah (Florida, United States)
city, Miami-Dade county, southeastern Florida, U.S. It lies on the Miami Canal, just northwest of Miami. The area was originally inhabited by Tequesta and later by Seminole Indians. Settled in 1921 by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright, the name is probably derived from a Seminole term me...
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Hialeah Park (race track, Hialeah, Florida, United States)
Hialeah serves mainly as a residential suburb of Miami, and its population is predominantly Hispanic. Florida National College (1982) is in the city. The Hialeah Park horse-racing track (opened 1925) became famous for its elaborate landscaping and flamingos. Everglades National Park is about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the city. Inc. 1925. Pop. (1990) 188,004; (2000) 226,419....
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hiatal hernia (pathology)
Hialeah serves mainly as a residential suburb of Miami, and its population is predominantly Hispanic. Florida National College (1982) is in the city. The Hialeah Park horse-racing track (opened 1925) became famous for its elaborate landscaping and flamingos. Everglades National Park is about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the city. Inc. 1925. Pop. (1990) 188,004; (2000) 226,419.......
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hiatus (prosody)
in prosody, a break in sound between two vowels that occur together without an intervening consonant, both vowels being clearly enunciated. The two vowels may be either within one word, as in the words Vienna and naive, or the final and initial vowels of two successive words, as in the phrases “see it” and “go in.” Hiatus is the opposite of ...
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Hiawatha (legendary Mohawk chief)
(Ojibwa: “He Makes Rivers”), a legendary chief (c. 1450) of the Onondaga tribe of North American Indians, to whom Indian tradition attributes the formation of what became known as the Iroquois Confederacy. In his miraculous character, Hiawatha was the incarnation of human progress and civilization. He t...
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Hiba arborvitae (plant)
(Thujopsis dolabrata), ornamental and timber evergreen tree or shrub of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to Japan. It is closely related to the arborvitae but has larger leaves, marked on the underside with depressed white bands. The trees are often 35 metres (115 feet) tall....
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Hibbard, Hall (American engineer)
...calling for a high-altitude interceptor with heavy armament and a high rate of climb. No American engine then available produced sufficient power to satisfy the requirement, and designers Hall Hibbard and Kelly Johnson designed the P-38 around a pair of liquid-cooled in-line Allison engines, turbo-supercharged for high-altitude performance. For the airframe they adopted a unique......
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Hibbat Zion (Zionist organization)
Pinsker’s authorship was soon discovered, and a newly formed Zionist group, Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (“Love of Zion”), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa. Although Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (later Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon [“Lovers of......
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Hibbat Ziyyon (Zionist organization)
Pinsker’s authorship was soon discovered, and a newly formed Zionist group, Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (“Love of Zion”), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa. Although Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (later Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon [“Lovers of......
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Hibbert, Eleanor Alice (British author)
(VICTORIA HOLT; JEAN PLAIDY), British novelist (b. 1906/1910?, London, England--d. Jan. 18, 1993, at sea between Athens, Greece, and Port Said, Egypt), published more than 200 popular romance novels under half a dozen pseudonyms. Although some critics dismissed her work as escapist trash, others recognized the deft storytelling, well-researched historic detail, and strong female characters that br...
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Hibbert, Frederick (Jamaican singer)
highly popular Jamaican vocal ensemble of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great reggae groups. The members were Toots Hibbert (original name Frederick Hibbert; b. 1946Maypen, Jamaica), Nathaniel (“Jerry”) Matthias (or......
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Hibbert Journal (British magazine)
Many of the British reviews founded in the 19th century have continued to flourish. Among additions of the scholarly type were the Hibbert Journal (1902–70), a nonsectarian quarterly for the discussion of religion, philosophy, sociology, and the arts; the Times Literary Supplement (founded 1902), important for the completeness of its coverage of all aspects of books and......
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Hibbert, Oscar (Jamaican singer)
Jamaican reggae singer (b. Aug. 25, 1958, Kingston, Jam.—d. April 11, 2005, London, Eng.), was celebrated for his distinctively gruff voice, which imbued his recordings with a feeling of anguish. He recorded his first hit, “Reaction,” in 1973 as a member of the group Time Unlimited. Delgado’s solo career began in 1975. He scored hits with roots reggae songs “Titi...
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Hibbert, Toots (Jamaican singer)
highly popular Jamaican vocal ensemble of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great reggae groups. The members were Toots Hibbert (original name Frederick Hibbert; b. 1946Maypen, Jamaica), Nathaniel (“Jerry”) Matthias (or......
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Hibbertia (plant genus)
Larger genera in the order include Hibbertia (115 species), which grows from Madagascar to Fiji (more than 100 species grow in Australia), Dillenia (60 species), growing from Madagascar to Australia, Tetracera (40 species), growing through much of Indo-Malesia (see Malesian subkingdom), and Doliocarpus (40 species) and Davilla (20 species), both restricted...
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Hibbertia scandens (plant)
...flowers and lemon-flavoured fruits used in jellies and curries. Fruits of other species of the genus have similar uses. Several species of Hibbertia are grown as ornamentals, especially H. scandens, a woody vine with yellow ill-smelling flowers, which is grown mainly in warm areas or in greenhouses....
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Hibbing (Minnesota, United States)
city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Mesabi Range, in a forest and lake region, about 70 miles (115 km) northwest of Duluth. Settled in 1892 when iron ore was discovered, it was laid out the following year and named for its founder, Frank Hibbing, a timber cruiser. When rich deposits of hematite iron ore were d...
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Hibbler, Albert (American singer)
American singer (b. Aug. 16, 1915, Tyro, Miss.—d. April 24, 2001, Chicago, Ill.), rose to fame with the Duke Ellington band (1943–51), singing some of composer Ellington’s most enduring songs—“I’m Just a Lucky So and So,” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” and “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me”—in a low...
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“Hibbur ha-Meshihah ve-ha-Tishboret” (work by Abraham bar Hiyya)
...language) and a book on mathematics, Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret (“Treatise on Measurement and Calculation”), which, in its Latin translation, Liber Embadorum (1145), became a principal textbook in western European schools. Other notable works by Abraham include the philosophical treatise Hegyon ha-Nefesh ha-Aẓuva...
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hibernaculum (hibernation den)
...is compensated for by the absence of danger, and where the surrounding extremes of low temperature and low humidity remain within tolerable limits. Such places are few and far between, and good hibernacula (dens used for hibernation) are recognized over generations and are utilized year after year, with snakes of several different species often sharing a den. It is likely that snakes, like......
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hibernation (zoology)
a state of greatly reduced metabolic activity and lowered body temperature adopted by certain mammals as an adaptation to adverse winter conditions. A brief treatment of hibernation follows. For full treatment, see dormancy....
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Hibernicus, Oceanus (sea, Atlantic Ocean)
arm of the North Atlantic Ocean that separates Ireland from Great Britain. The Irish Sea is bounded by Scotland on the north, England on the east, Wales on the south, and Ireland on the west. The sea is connected with the Atlantic by the North Channel between ...
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Hiberno-Saxon style (art)
in Western visual arts, the decorative vocabulary that resulted from the interaction of the Irish, or Hibernians, and the Anglo-Saxons of southern England during the 7th century....
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Hiberus River (river, Spain)
river, the longest in Spain. The Ebro rises in springs at Fontibre near Reinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains, in the Cantabria province of northern Spain. It flows for 565 miles (910 km) in a southeasterly course to its delta on the Mediterranean coast in Tarragona province, midway between Barcelona and Vale...
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Hibis (oasis, Egypt)
oasis in the Libyan (Western) Desert, part of Al-Wādī al-Jadīd (“New Valley”) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in south-central Egypt. It is situated about 110 miles (180 km) west-southwest of Najʿ Ḥammādī, to which it is linked by railroad. The name Wāḥāt al-Khārijah m...
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hibiscus (plant)
any of about 350 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees constituting the genus Hibiscus, in the family Malvaceae, and native to warm temperate and tropical regions. Several are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flowers....
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Hibiscus (plant)
any of about 350 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees constituting the genus Hibiscus, in the family Malvaceae, and native to warm temperate and tropical regions. Several are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flowers....
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Hibiscus abelmoschus (plant)
(species Hibiscus moschatus, H. abelmoschus, or Abelmoschus moschatus), annual or biennial plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to India. It grows 0.6–1.8 metres (2–6 feet) tall and bears large yellow flowers with red centres. The plant is cultivated for its seeds, w...
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Hibiscus cannabinus (plant)
(species Hibiscus cannabinus), fast-growing plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. It is used mainly as a jute substitute. The plant grows wild in Africa, where the fibre is sometimes know...
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Hibiscus esculentus (plant)
(Hibiscus, or Abelmoschus, esculentus), herbaceous, hairy, annual plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae). It is native to the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere and is widely cultivated or naturalized in the tropics and subtropics of the W...
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hibiscus family (plant family)
the hibiscus, or mallow, family, in the order Malvales, containing 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. Economically, the most important member of the family is cotton (Gossypium). S...
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Hibiscus moschatus (plant)
(species Hibiscus moschatus, H. abelmoschus, or Abelmoschus moschatus), annual or biennial plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to India. It grows 0.6–1.8 metres (2–6 feet) tall and bears large yellow flowers with red centres. The plant is cultivated for its seeds, w...
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hibiscus order (plant order)
medium-sized order, known as the Hibiscus or mallow order, mostly of woody plants, consisting of 10 families, 338 genera, and about 6,000 species. The plants grow in various habitats throughout much of the world, and a number of members are important commercially....
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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (plant)
The tropical Chinese hibiscus, or China rose (H. rosa-sinensis), which may reach a height of 4.5 metres (15 feet), rarely exceeds 2 metres (6.5 feet) in cultivation. It is grown for its large, somewhat bell-shaped blossoms. Cultivated varieties have red, white, yellow, or orange flowers. The ......
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Hibiscus sabdariffa (plant)
(Hibiscus sabdariffa), plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. Roselle is probably native to West Africa and includes H. sabdariffa variety ...
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Hibiscus syriacus (Hibiscus syriacus)
(Hibiscus syriacus, or Althaea syriaca), shrub or small tree, in the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to eastern Asia but widely planted as an ornamental for its showy flowers. It can attain a height of 3 metres (10 feet) and generally assumes a low-branching pyramidal growth habit. The mallowlik...
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hibonite (mineral)
...graphite, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, olivine, corundum, spinel, chromite, and hibonite....
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Ḥibr, al- (Companion of Muḥammad)
a Companion of the prophet Muḥammad, one of the greatest scholars of early Islām, and the first exegete of the Qurʾān....
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Hicaz Demiryolu (railway, Middle East)
railroad between Damascus, Syria, and Medina (now in Saudi Arabia), one of the principal railroads of the Ottoman Turkish Empire....
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hiccough (physiology)
spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (the muscular partition separating the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) which causes a sudden intake of breath that is involuntarily cut off by closure of the glottis (the opening between the ...
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hiccup (physiology)
spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (the muscular partition separating the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) which causes a sudden intake of breath that is involuntarily cut off by closure of the glottis (the opening between the ...
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hichiriki (musical instrument)
Japanese short, double-reed wind instrument, similar to the oboe. The present Japanese form is about 18 cm (7 inches) long and has seven finger holes on the front of the instrument and two thumb holes on the back. It is made of internally lacquered bamboo and wrapped with bands of cherry or wisteria bark b...
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Hick, John (British philosopher)
...“duck-rabbit” that can be seen either as a duck’s head facing one way or a rabbit’s head facing another way. The enlarged concept of experiencing-as (developed by the British philosopher John Hick) refers to the way in which an object, event, or situation is experienced as having a particular character or meaning such that to experience it in this manner involves bei...
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Hickenlooper, Lucy Mary Olga Agnes (American musician)
American pianist who also found a successful and varied career as a music educator....
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Hickey, James Cardinal (American cardinal)
American Roman Catholic prelate (b. Oct. 11, 1920, Midland, Mich.—d. Oct. 24, 2004, Washington, D.C.), held to conservative theological policies while serving (1980–2000) as archbishop of Washington, D.C. During his tenure Hickey also took activist roles in support of gun control and nuclear disarmament and in opposition to right-wing military groups in Central America. He was respec...
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Hickey, Margarita (Spanish author)
...tragedies, and costumbrista comedies. While some women wrote for small private audiences (convents and literary salons), others wrote for the public stage: Margarita Hickey and María Rosa Gálvez were both quite successful, with the former producing translations of Jean Racine and......
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Hicklin v. Regina (law case)
In the United States Cockburn is probably best known for his landmark definition of obscenity (Regina v. Hicklin, 1868), in which he stated the test of obscenity as, “whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such influences, and into whose hands a......
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Hickman, Clarence N. (American scientist)
Beginning in mid-1940, Clarence N. Hickman, who had worked with Robert Goddard during World War I, supervised the development of a refined design of the hand-launched rocket. The new rocket, about 20 inches (50 centimetres) long, 2.36 inches in diameter, and weighing 3.5 pounds, was fired from a steel tube that became popularly known as the......
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Hickok, James Butler (American frontiersman)
American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman, who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a marksman gave rise to legends and tales about his life....
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Hickok, Wild Bill (American frontiersman)
American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman, who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a marksman gave rise to legends and tales about his life....
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Hickory (North Carolina, United States)
city, Catawba county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Catawba River (there dammed to form Lake Hickory) just east of the Appalachian foothills and about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Charlotte. A store was established on the site in 1846 at the junct...
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hickory (plant)
any of about 18 species of deciduous timber and nut-producing trees that constitute the genus Carya of the walnut family (Juglandaceae). About 15 species of hickory are native to eastern North America, and 3 to eastern Asia. Fossil remains identifiable as belonging to the genus are found in western North America, Gre...
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hickory nut (plant)
...both of which lack petals, are borne in different clusters on the same tree, the male in hanging catkins and the female in terminal spikes of 2 to 10 flowers. The fruit is an egg-shaped nut enclosed in a fleshy husk that splits into four woody valves as it matures....
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hickory shad (fish)
...last dorsal fin rays. The Atlantic species (D. cepedianum), also called hickory shad and fall herring, ranges through the southern United States. Others are found in the Indo-Pacific and Australian waters. None is of......
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Hickory Tavern (North Carolina, United States)
city, Catawba county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Catawba River (there dammed to form Lake Hickory) just east of the Appalachian foothills and about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Charlotte. A store was established on the site in 1846 at the junct...
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Hickox, Richard (British conductor)
British conductor who was noted for his promotion of English composers, his success as a choral conductor, and his prodigious output of more than 300 classical recordings. Hickox studied organ and composing at the Royal Academy of Music (1966–67) and organ at Queen’s College, Cambridge (1967–70). In 1971, soon after making his conducting debut, he founded the Richard Hickox Or...
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Hicks Beach, Sir Michael Edward, 9th Baronet (British statesman)
British Conservative statesman who was chancellor of the Exchequer (1885–86, 1895–1902)....
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Hicks, David Nightingale (British interior decorator)
British interior decorator known for his use of bold, vibrant colours, for his mixture of antique and contemporary furnishings and modern art, and for the large number of aristocrats on his list of clients (b. March 25, 1929, Coggeshall, Essex, Eng.--d. March 29, 1998, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire, Eng.)....
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Hicks, Edward (American painter)
American primitive, or folk, painter known for his naive depictions of the farms and landscape of Pennsylvania and New York, and especially for his many versions (about 25 extant, perhaps 100 painted) of “The Peaceable Kingdom.” The latter work depicts Hicks’s belief, as a Quaker, that Pennsylvania was the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy (11:6–9) of justice and ...
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Hicks, Elias (American minister)
early advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States and a liberal Quaker preacher whose followers became known as Hicksites, one of two factions created by the schism of 1827–28 in American Quakerism....
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Hicks, Granville (American critic)
critic, novelist, and teacher who was one of the foremost practitioners of Marxist criticism in American literature....
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Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour (British dramatist)
...halls and in both straight and musical plays from the 1890s to the 1920s. After making her debut in 1888, she formed a team with her husband, the actor-manager and dramatist Sir (Edward) Seymour Hicks (1871–1949). She was leading lady at several London theatres. Appearing in her husband’s plays, she toured the United States wi...
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Hicks, Sir John R. (British economist)
English economist who made pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and, in 1972, shared (with Kenneth J. Arrow) the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1964....
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Hicks, Sir John Richard (British economist)
English economist who made pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and, in 1972, shared (with Kenneth J. Arrow) the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1964....
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Hicks, William (British general)
...in the city of Medina who helped the Prophet Muḥammad) had annihilated three Egyptian armies sent against them; the last, a force of 8,000 men with a huge camel train, commanded by General William Hicks, was butchered almost to a man. El Obeid, the present-day al-Ubayyiḍ, provincial capital of Kordofan, and Bāra, a chief town of that province, fell after being besieged by.....
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Hicksite (religious group)
...After this separation Hicks’s followers called themselves the Liberal branch of the Society of Friends, but orthodox Quakers labeled them Hicksites. The Hicksites remained isolated from other Quakers until the 20th century, when mutual cooperation began to prevail....
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Hickson, Joan (British actress)
British actress who, after a distinguished career in more than 80 motion pictures and dozens of plays, gained international celebrity in her late 70s, playing what her admirers considered the definitive Miss Marple in a series of BBC television programs (1984-92) based on the Agatha Christie detective novels. Hickson also won the 1979 Tony award for best performance by a featured actress in a play...
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Hicksville (New York, United States)
British actress who, after a distinguished career in more than 80 motion pictures and dozens of plays, gained international celebrity in her late 70s, playing what her admirers considered the definitive Miss Marple in a series of BBC television programs (1984-92) based on the Agatha Christie detective novels. Hickson also won the 1979 Tony award for best performance by a featured actress in a play...
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ḥidāʾ, al- (Arabic song form)
...sajʿ, or rhyming prose). This form of poem served several functions, as is evident in, for example, camel drivers’ songs, known as al-ḥidāʾ. The urjūzah (a poem composed in rajaz) was also utilized for verbal......
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Hida Range (mountain range, Japan)
mountain group in the Chūbu chihō (region) of central Honshu, Japan. The range stretches from north to south along the borders of Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, and Gifu ken (prefectures). With the Kiso and Akaishi ranges, it constitutes the Central Mountain Knot of Japan. The Hida Range was first referred to as the Japanes...
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Hida-Sammyaku (mountain range, Japan)
mountain group in the Chūbu chihō (region) of central Honshu, Japan. The range stretches from north to south along the borders of Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, and Gifu ken (prefectures). With the Kiso and Akaishi ranges, it constitutes the Central Mountain Knot of Japan. The Hida Range was first referred to as the Japanes...
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Hidaka Range (mountain range, Japan)
mountain range, southernmost portion of the Shiribeshi Mountain system, on Hokkaido, Japan, projecting into the Pacific Ocean at Cape Erimo. The mountains are west of the Tokachi Plain. The seaward margin of the range is skirted by marine terraces that reach their maximu...
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Hidaka-Sammyaku (mountain range, Japan)
mountain range, southernmost portion of the Shiribeshi Mountain system, on Hokkaido, Japan, projecting into the Pacific Ocean at Cape Erimo. The mountains are west of the Tokachi Plain. The seaward margin of the range is skirted by marine terraces that reach their maximu...
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Hidalga, Lorenzo de la (Spanish architect)
In Mexico Lorenzo de la Hidalga, who graduated from the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, continued the Neoclassical tradition with his Santa Anna Theatre of 1844 (with 3,000 seats), his remodeling of the Plaza Mayor (1843), his Penitentiary of Leon (1850s), and his Plaza de Toros (1850s), all in Mexico City. These Neoclassical buildings were situated within the colonial grid, and the city......
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hidalgo (Spanish nobility)
in Spain, a hereditary noble or, in the later Middle Ages and the modern era, a knight or member of the gentry....
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Hidalgo (county, New Mexico, United States)
county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S.; it is bordered by Arizona on the west and Mexico on the south and east. The county’s northwestern area, featuring alkali flats and crossed by the Gila River, lies in the ...
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Hidalgo (asteroid)
...is considered by some to be a defunct comet—one that has lost its volatile materials and no longer displays the classic cometary features of a nebulous coma and a tail. Another asteroid, (944) Hidalgo, is also thought by some to be a defunct comet because of its unusual orbit. This object, discovered in 1920, travels sunward as near as 2.02 AU, which is at the inner edge of the main......
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Hidalgo (state, Mexico)
estado (state), east-central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north, Veracruz to the north and northeast, Puebla to the east, Tlaxcala and México to the south, and Querétaro to th...
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Hidalgo del Parral (Mexico)
city, south-central Chihuahua estado (state), north-central Mexico. The city, renamed in honour of the patriot Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, lies on the Parral River 5,449 feet (1,661 m) above sea level and south of Chihuahua, the state capital. An...
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Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel (Mexican leader)
Catholic priest who is called the father of Mexican independence....
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Hidatsa (people)
North American Indians of the Plains who once lived in semipermanent villages on the upper Missouri River between the Heart and the Little Missouri rivers in what is now North Dakota. The Hidatsa l...
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“Hidāyah ilā-farāʾ id al-qulūb, Al-” (work by Bahya)
...translation into Hebrew by Judah ben Joseph ibn Tibbon, Ḥovot ha-levavot, it became a widely read classic of Jewish philosophic and devotional literature. An English translation, Duties of the Heart (1925–47; reprinted 1962), was completed by Moses Hyamson....
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Hidayat, Sadiq (Iranian author)
Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century....
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Hidayatpur (India)
city, southeastern Haryana state, northwestern India, situated between Delhi (northeast) and Rewari (southwest), to which it is connected by road and rail. Gurgaon was traditionally an agricultural trade centre; its present-day industries are power-loom weaving and the manufacture of farm implements. In the surrounding reg...
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Ḥidd, Al- (Bahrain)
...before Bahraini independence (1971), the air-field served as a Royal Air Force base, the country then being a British-protected state. Al-Ḥadd, another sizable town on the island, is on a spit at its southeast tip. South of Al-Ḥadd on a man-made island at the end of a 7-mile-long causeway is a shipbuilding yard and......
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Hiddekel (river, Middle East)
...of civilization. The total length of the Euphrates (Sumerian: Buranun; Akkadian: Purattu; biblical: Perath; Arabic: Al-Furāt; Turkish: Fırat) is about 1,740 miles (2,800 km). The Tigris (Sumerian: Idigna; Akkadian: Idiklat; biblical: Hiddekel; Arabic: Dijlah; Turkish: Dicle) is about 1,180 miles (1,900 km) in length....
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