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Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke (British noble)
British general and one of the Duke of Wellington’s chief lieutenants in the Peninsular (Spanish) campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars....
hill shading (cartography)
...Hill shading requires considerable artistry, as well as the ability to visualize shapes and interpret contours. For a satisfactory result, background contours are a necessary guide to the artist. Hypsographic tinting is relatively easy, particularly since photomechanical etching and other steps can be used to provide negatives for the respective elevation layers. Difficulty in the......
Hill, Sir Rowland (English administrator and educator)
British administrator and educator, originator of the penny postage system, principally known for his development of the modern postal service, which was subsequently adopted throughout the world....
Hill Songs (works by Grainger)
...for Country Gardens and for the orchestral work Molly on the Shore. Other orchestral works are Shepherd’s Hey and Mock Morris. In his chamber works, notably the two Hill Songs for 23 and 24 solo instruments, he experimented with novel rhythmic and structural forms....
hill station (settlement)
A special type of urban place to which British rule gave rise were the hill stations, such as Shimla (Simla) and Darjiling (Darjeeling). These were erected at elevations high enough to provide cool retreats for the dependents of Europeans stationed in India and, in the summer months, to serve as seasonal capitals of the central or provincial governments. Hotels, guest houses, boarding schools,......
Hill Street Blues (American television series)
American television law enforcement drama that aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network for seven seasons (1981–87). The show received great critical acclaim, winning four consecutive Emmy Awards for outstanding dramatic series, ...
Hill, Teddy (American musician)
...in 1917 when, on New Year’s Eve, he played the drums in his elder brother’s band. He went to New York City in 1930 and played in the trumpet sections of bands led by Cecil Scott, Elmer Snowden, and Teddy Hill. His style was influenced by that of saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. By the time he was playing with Hill at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City’s Harlem, in 1935, Eldrid...
Hill, The (film by Lumet [1965])
American film drama, released in 1965, that was an acclaimed work of Neorealism from director Sidney Lumet....
Hill, The (American newspaper)
American congressional newspaper founded in Washington, D.C., in 1994. Originally a weekly paper, The Hill began publishing on each day of the congressional workweek in 2003. It is a subsidiary of the publicly owned company News Communications, Inc....
Hill-Norton of South Nutfield, Baron (British naval officer)
British naval officer (b. Feb. 8, 1915, Germiston, S.Af.—d. May 16, 2004, Studland, Dorset, Eng.), rose through the military ranks to become chief of defense staff (Britain’s most senior serving officer) with the title admiral of the fleet in April 1971. Hill-Norton joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at age 13. By 1962 he had received his rear admiral’s flag as assistant chief o...
Hill-Norton, Peter John (British naval officer)
British naval officer (b. Feb. 8, 1915, Germiston, S.Af.—d. May 16, 2004, Studland, Dorset, Eng.), rose through the military ranks to become chief of defense staff (Britain’s most senior serving officer) with the title admiral of the fleet in April 1971. Hill-Norton joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at age 13. By 1962 he had received his rear admiral’s flag as assistant chief o...
Hill-Stead Museum (museum, Farmington, Connecticut)
British naval officer (b. Feb. 8, 1915, Germiston, S.Af.—d. May 16, 2004, Studland, Dorset, Eng.), rose through the military ranks to become chief of defense staff (Britain’s most senior serving officer) with the title admiral of the fleet in April 1971. Hill-Norton joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at age 13. By 1962 he had received his rear admiral’s flag as assistant chief o...
hill-stream loach (fish)
...to about 8 cm (3.3 inches). Inhabits mountain streams in Asia. 2 genera, 6 species.Family Balitoridae (hill-stream loaches)Ventral sucking disk formed by paired fins. Freshwater, Eurasia. About 59 genera, 590 species.Family Cobitidae......
Hillaby, Mount (mountain, Barbados)
Mount Hillaby, the highest point in Barbados, rises to 1,102 feet (336 metres) in the north-central part of the island. To the west the land drops down to the sea in a series of terraces. East from Mount Hillaby, the land declines sharply to the rugged upland of the Scotland District. Southward, the highlands descend steeply to the broad St. Georges Valley; between the valley and the sea the......
Ḥillah, Al- (Iraq)
town, central Iraq. It lies on the Al-Ḥillah Stream, the eastern branch of the Euphrates River, and on a road and a rail line running northward to Baghdad. The town was founded in the 10th century as Al-Jamiayn (“Two Mosques”) on the east bank of the Euphrates; in the 12th century a ...
Hillary, Sir Edmund (New Zealand explorer)
New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]; see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Everest), the highest mou...
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival (New Zealand explorer)
New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]; see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Everest), the highest mou...
Hillary Step (geological formation, Mount Everest, Asia)
...to the left was the Southwest Face, both sheer drop-offs. The final obstacle, about halfway between the South Summit and the summit of Everest, was a steep spur of rock and ice—now called the Hillary Step. Though it is only about 55 feet (17 metres) high, the formation is difficult to climb because of its extreme pitch and because a mistake would be deadly. Climbers now use fixed ropes t...
Hillary: The Movie (film)
The case arose in 2008 when Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit corporation, released the documentary Hillary: The Movie, which was highly critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Citizens United wished to distribute the film through video-on-demand services to cable television......
hillbilly music
style of 20th-century American popular music that originated among whites in rural areas of the South and West. The term “country and western music” (later shortened to “country music”) was adopted by the ...
Hillbilly Shakespeare, the (American musician)
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who in the 1950s arguably became country music’s first superstar. An immensely talented songwriter and an impassioned vocalist, he also experienced great crossover success in the popular music market. His iconic status was amplified by his death at age 29 a...
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (film by Yarbrough)
...his chances of receiving choice movie roles, and he spent most of the rest of his film career spoofing his own image and appearing mostly in low-budget horror and fantasy films. His final film, Hillbillys in a Haunted House, was released in 1967....
Hillebrandia (plant genus)
...The seeds of Begoniaceae have a small lid surrounded by specialized cells. Begonia rex can produce plantlets directly from the leaf, which is very unusual in flowering plants. How Hillebrandia came to be restricted to Hawaii is unknown; the genus appears to have originated well before Begonia, more than 50 million years ago, but the Hawaiian Islands are volcanic and......
Hillegass, Clifton Keith (American publisher)
American publisher (b. April 18, 1918, Rising City, Neb.—d. May 5, 2001, Lincoln, Neb.), created Cliffs Notes, a widely popular series of literary study guides. Hillegass worked as a manager at the Nebraska Book Co. before publishing the first Cliffs Notes, a summary of Hamlet, in 1958. He eventually published more than 220 titles and sold more than 50 million Cliffs Notes worldwide....
Hillegom (Netherlands)
gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands, on the Ringvaart, a canal around the Haarlemmermeer polder. With Lisse it is one of the two main commercial centres of Holland’s bulb-growing district. The annual Bulb Parade held on a Saturday in late April passes through Hillegom. There is also some market gardening, cattle raising,...
Hillel (Jewish scholar)
Jewish sage, foremost master of biblical commentary and interpreter of Jewish tradition in his time. He was the revered head of the school known by his name, the House of Hillel, and his carefully applied exegetical discipline came to be called the Seven Rules of Hillel....
Hillel ben Samuel (Jewish physician and scholar)
physician, Talmudic scholar, and philosopher who defended the ideas of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides during the “years of controversy” (1289–90), when Maimonides’ work was challenged and attacked; Hillel ben Samuel denounced in turn the adherents of the 12th-century Spanish Arab philosopher Averroës, assertin...
Hillel, House of (Jewish school)
...the Mishna (the authoritative collection of Oral Law), Pirqe Avot (“Chapters of the Fathers”), Hillel is quoted more than any other Talmudic sage. As head of a school known as the House of Hillel, he succeeded in winning wide acceptance for his approach, which liberated texts and law from slavishly literal and strict interpretation; indeed, without him an uncompromising......
Hillel II (Jewish patriarch)
...the Passover was always celebrated in (Julian) March, the month of the spring equinox, without regard to the Palestinian rules and rulings. To preserve the unity of Israel, the patriarch Hillel II, in 358/359, published the “secret” of calendar making, which essentially consisted of the use of the Babylonian 19-year cycle with some modifications required by the Jewish......
Hilleman, Maurice Ralph (American microbiologist)
American microbiologist (b. Aug. 30, 1919, Miles City, Mont.—d. April 11, 2005, Philadelphia, Pa.), developed some 40 vaccines, including those for chicken pox, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, meningitis, mumps, and rubella. His work was credited with having saved tens of millions of lives by making possible the virtual elimination from many countries of once-common deadly childhood dise...
Hiller, Arthur (Canadian director)
Studio: MGMDirector: Arthur Hiller Producer: Martin Ransohoff Writer: Paddy Chayefsky Music: Johnny Mandel Running time: 115 minutes...
Hiller, Dame Wendy (British actress)
English stage and film actress known for her direct and unsentimental portrayals of intelligent and spirited women....
Hiller, Ferdinand (German conductor and composer)
German conductor and composer whose memoirs, Aus dem Tonleben unserer Zeit (1867–76; “From the Musical Life of Our Time”), contain revealing sidelights on many famous contemporaries....
Hiller, Johann Adam (German composer)
German composer and conductor, regarded as the creator of the German singspiel, a musical genre combining spoken dialogue and popular song....
Hiller, Lejaren (American composer)
U.S. composer (b. Feb. 23, 1924, New York City--d. Jan. 26, 1994, Buffalo, N.Y.), was a pioneer in computer music. From childhood Hiller was interested in both science and music, and he pursued a dual career for much of his life. He graduated from Princeton University...
Hiller, Stanley, Jr. (American helicopter designer)
American helicopter designer (b. Nov. 15, 1924, San Francisco, Calif.—d. April 20, 2006, Atherton, Calif.), was a teenager when he founded his own company, Hiller Industries, which made a handsome profit from the manufacture of the Comet, a miniature model racing car that he designed; the firm was transformed into a million-dollar business when the 16-year-old college student was contracted...
Hillerman, Anthony Grove (American novelist)
May 27, 1925Sacred Heart, Okla.Oct. 26, 2008Albuquerque, N.M.American novelist who produced taut mysteries that brought to light rich American Indian customs and culture and featured Navajo tribal officers as protagonists; Lieut. Joe Leaphorn (introduced in The Blessing Way [1970], H...
Hillerman, Tony (American novelist)
May 27, 1925Sacred Heart, Okla.Oct. 26, 2008Albuquerque, N.M.American novelist who produced taut mysteries that brought to light rich American Indian customs and culture and featured Navajo tribal officers as protagonists; Lieut. Joe Leaphorn (introduced in The Blessing Way [1970], H...
Hillerød (Denmark)
city, northeastern Sjælland (Zealand), Denmark. It developed around Frederiksborg Castle, which was built (1602–20) by Christian IV in Dutch Renaissance style on the site of an earlier castle. Danish kings were crowned there from 1660 to 1840, and it was a favourite royal residence until gutt...
Hillery, Patrick J. (president of Ireland)
Irish politician who served as the sixth president of Ireland (1976–90). He was the youngest person ever to attain that position....
Hillery, Patrick John (president of Ireland)
Irish politician who served as the sixth president of Ireland (1976–90). He was the youngest person ever to attain that position....
Ḥillī, al- (Muslim theologian)
theologian and expounder of doctrines of the Shīʿī, one of the two main systems of Islam, the other being the Sunnī, which is the larger....
Hilliard, Harriet (American actress)
(PEGGY LOU SNYDER) U.S. singer and actress (b. July 18, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa--d. Oct. 2, 1994, Laguna Beach, Calif.), became an American icon of motherhood as the radio and television matriarch who starred with her real-life family--husband Ozzie and...
Hilliard, Laurence (English painter)
Hilliard’s son Laurence (c. 1582–1640) also practiced miniature painting, but a much more eminent pupil of Hilliard’s was the French-born miniaturist Isaac Oliver....
Hilliard, Nicholas (English painter)
the first great native-born English painter of the Renaissance. His lyrical portraits raised the art of painting miniature portraiture (called limning in Elizabethan England) to its highest point of development and did much to formulate the concept of portraiture there during the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
Hillier, James (American physicist)
Aug. 22, 1915 Brantford, Ont.Jan. 15, 2007 Princeton, N.J.Canadian-born American physicist who was a co-developer (with Albert Prebus) of the first practical commercial electron microscope, which was vital in aiding ...
Hillier, Richard J. (Canadian military officer)
Canadian army officer who served as the chief of the defense staff (CDS), the top-ranking officer in the Canadian military, from 2005 to 2008....
Hillier, Rick (Canadian military officer)
Canadian army officer who served as the chief of the defense staff (CDS), the top-ranking officer in the Canadian military, from 2005 to 2008....
Hillingdon (borough, London, United Kingdom)
outer borough of London, forming part of its western perimeter. Hillingdon belongs to the historic county of Middlesex. Hillingdon was created a borough in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former borough of Uxbridge with the urban districts of Hayes and Harlington, Ruislip-Northwood, and ...
Hillis, Danny (American businessman)
American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation....
Hillis, Margaret (American chorus and orchestra conductor)
American chorus and orchestra conductor (b. 1921, Kokomo, Ind.--d. Feb. 4, 1998, Evanston, Ill.), founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Chorus and for 37 years served as its director. Under her leadership the chorus made almost 600 appearances with the orchestra, participated in the recording of 45 works, and won nine...
Hillis, William Daniel, Jr. (American businessman)
American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation....
Hillkowitz, Morris (American socialist)
American Socialist leader, chief theoretician of the Socialist Party during the first third of the 20th century....
Hillman, Chris (American musician)
...Crosby (original name David Van Cortland; b. Aug. 14, 1941Los Angeles, Calif.), Chris Hillman (b. Dec. 4, 1942Los Angeles), Michael Clarke...
Hillman College (college, Clinton, Mississippi, United States)
...that ownership passed to the Mississippi Baptist Convention. The Baptist church disallowed women at Mississippi College but, in 1853, founded the nearby Central Female Institute, which was renamed Hillman College in 1891. In 1942 Mississippi College subsumed Hillman College and again became coeducational. Graduate-level courses were offered from 1950, and the Graduate School was formed in......
Hillman Company (British company)
...This design handicapped the sale of British cars abroad and kept production from growing. It was not until 1934 that Morris Motors finally felt justified in installing a moving assembly line; the Hillman Company had preceded Morris in this by a year or two....
Hillman, Harry (American athlete)
...the campus of Washington University, featured Ray Ewry, who repeated his Paris performance by winning gold medals in all three standing-jump events. American athletes Archie Hahn, Jim Lightbody, and Harry Hillman each won three gold medals as well. Thomas Kiely of Ireland, who paid his own fare to the Games rather than compete under the British flag, won the gold medal in an early version of th...
Hillman, Sidney (American labour leader)
U.S. labour leader, from 1914 president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and in 1935–38 one of the founders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was noted for his aggressive organization of industrial workers and for his extension of union functions to include social services and political action....
Hillquit, Morris (American socialist)
American Socialist leader, chief theoretician of the Socialist Party during the first third of the 20th century....
Hills, Carla Anderson (American lawyer)
American lawyer and public official who served in both domestic and international capacities in the administrations of two U.S. presidents....
Hills Have Eyes, The (film by Craven [1977])
...debut was the horror film The Last House on the Left (1972), which was considered so gory that it was banned in Britain until 2002. His next film, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), produced with a modest budget, did well at the box office and developed a cult following. Swamp Thing (1982), based on the DC Comics......
Hills, Lee (American journalist)
American journalist and newspaper editor (b. May 28, 1906, near Granville, N.D.—d. Feb. 3, 2000, Miami Beach, Fla.), guided the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press to prominence and was a leading proponent of ...
Hills like White Elephants (short story by Hemingway)
short story by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1927 in the periodical transition and later that year in the collection Men Without Women. The themes of this sparsely written vignette about an American couple waiting for a train in Spain are almost entirely implicit. The story is largely devoid...
Hills of Varna, The (work by Trease)
...the changed values of the age,” was the pioneering Geoffrey Trease. He also produced excellent work in other juvenile fields. Typical of his highest energies is the exciting Hills of Varna (1948), a story of the Italian Renaissance in which Erasmus and the great printer Aldus Manutius figure prominently. Henry Treece, whose gifts were directed to depicting violent......
hills-of-snow (plant)
Hills-of-snow, or wild hydrangea (H. arborescens), a shrub slightly more than 1 metre (4 feet) tall, has rounded clusters of white flowers. The French hydrangea, or hortensia (H. macrophylla), is widely cultivated in many varieties for its large globular flower clusters in colours of rose, lavender, blue, and, rarely, white. These cultivated varieties are the florist’s hydrang...
Hillsboro (West Virginia, United States)
town, Pocahontas county, eastern West Virginia, U.S., near the Greenbrier River and nestled in the Allegheny Mountains, 25 miles (40 km) north-northeast of Lewisburg. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park commemorates a battle fought there (November 6, 1863) during the American Civil War. Union forces led by General Willia...
Hillsboro (New Hampshire, United States)
town (township), Hillsborough county, southwestern New Hampshire, U.S., on the Contoocook River, west-southwest of Concord. The town includes the communities of Hillsborough, Hillsborough Center, Hillsborough Lower Village, and Hillsborough Upper Village. Granted in 1748 and named for John Hill, one of the...
Hillsboro (Oregon, United States)
city, seat (1850) of Washington county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., adjacent to the Tualatin River. Settled in 1841, it was laid out by David Hill in 1842, called Columbia, and later renamed (by court order) for its founder. The city developed as a proc...
Hillsboro Peak (mountain, New Mexico, United States)
county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S. Sierra county is in the Mexican Highland section of the Basin and Range Province. Its irregular western border is the Black Range, including Hillsboro and Reeds peaks, both rising to more than 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). The Rio Grande, including large impoundments at Caballo and Elephant Butte reservoirs, flows southward through the centre of the county.......
Hillsborough (county, New Hampshire, United States)
county, southern New Hampshire, U.S., bordered to the south by Massachusetts. It is a hilly upland region drained by the Merrimack, Piscataquog, and other rivers and dotted with numerous small lakes, including Franklin Pierce Lake and Powder Mill Pond. Public lands include Clough, Greenfield, Miller, and Silver Lake ...
Hillsborough (California, United States)
county, southern New Hampshire, U.S., bordered to the south by Massachusetts. It is a hilly upland region drained by the Merrimack, Piscataquog, and other rivers and dotted with numerous small lakes, including Franklin Pierce Lake and Powder Mill Pond. Public lands include Clough, Greenfield, Miller, and Silver Lake ...
Hillsborough (North Carolina, United States)
town, seat of Orange county, north-central North Carolina, U.S., on the Eno River about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Durham. Laid out in 1754 on the site of a Native American village (Acconeech or Occaneechi), it was initially called Orange, then Corbinton (for Francis Corbin, a colonial official), and in 1759 it was incorporated as Childsburgh (for Thomas Ch...
Hillsborough (New Hampshire, United States)
town (township), Hillsborough county, southwestern New Hampshire, U.S., on the Contoocook River, west-southwest of Concord. The town includes the communities of Hillsborough, Hillsborough Center, Hillsborough Lower Village, and Hillsborough Upper Village. Granted in 1748 and named for John Hill, one of the...
Hillsdale College (college, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States)
private, nonsectarian liberal-arts institution of higher learning in Hillsdale, south-central Michigan, U.S. Hillsdale students are required to take a core curriculum of courses in humanities and natural and social sciences (including Western and American heritage), and they must attend at least two seminars in the school’s Center for Constructive Alternatives, which prov...
Hillside Strangler (American criminal)
American crime figure (b. Oct. 5, 1934, Rochester, N.Y.—d. Sept. 22, 2002, Sacramento, Calif.), was convicted in 1983 of the murder of nine women in Los Angeles during a four-month period from 1977 to 1978. He disposed of their naked bodies on area hillsides and thereby earned the nickname the “Hillside Strangler.” After his cousin, Kenneth Bianchi, pleaded guilty to five of t...
Hillside Terrace Apartment (housing and commercial complex, Toyko, Japan)
...“megastructures” proposed by Tange and some of the other Metabolists, Maki proposed large structures that could retain a sense of human scale. The best example of Maki’s style is the Hillside Terrace Apartment development in Tokyo, constructed in multiple stages between 1967 and 1992. This housing and commercial complex is made of classic Modernist materials such as concret...
hillslope (geology)
...is located, and there may be a series of beach ridges or berms created by the waves of a previous major storm. This terrace surface is inclined seaward. The next element is a steeper, frontal beach slope or face, and beneath it a low-tide terrace may be developed. If the tides are high enough (more than 2 m [6.6 feet]), the frontal slope may be more than 1 km (0.6 mile) in width in regions with...
Hillsmen (Athenian military faction)
During a war with the city of Megara about 565, Peisistratus gained military fame by taking the Megarian harbour. He organized his own faction, named the Hillsmen, a group that included noble families from his own district, the eastern part of Attica, and also a very considerable part of the growing population of the city of Athens. At one point Peisistratus slashed himself and the mules of his......
Hillstrom, Joe (American radical)
Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American labour movement....
Hillyer College (university, Connecticut, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Hartford, Conn., U.S. It consists of the Barney School of Business and Public Administration, the Hartt School (of music), the Hartford Art School, the Ward College of Technology, and colleges of education, nursing, and health professions; engin...
Hilmand River (river, Central Asia)
river in southwestern Afghanistan and eastern Iran, about 715 miles (1,150 km) long. Rising in the Bābā Range in east-central Afghanistan, it flows southwestward across more than half the length of Afghanistan before flowing northward for a short distance through Iranian territory and emptying into the Helmand (Sīstān) swamps on the Afghan-Iranian border. It receives se...
Hilo (Hawaii, United States)
city, seat of Hawaii county, northeastern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It lies along Hilo Bay and is the island’s business centre. Polynesians settled the area about 1100 ce, establishing agricultural and fishing communities. Christian missionaries arrived c. 1822 and were followed by whaling and trade ships that did business in Hilo...
Hilpert, Heinz (German actor and director)
...experienced another revival under the direction of Max Reinhardt from 1905 and again during the 1920s with Bertolt Brecht. The society was disbanded after World War I but was revived in 1934 by Heinz Hilpert, who was acting there and who had succeeded Reinhardt in 1937. Hilpert, who also directed the Deutsches Theater at Göttingen, maintained the integrity of the society throughout the.....
Hilsa (fish genus)
The Indus is moderately rich in fish. The best-known variety is called hilsa and is the most important edible fish found in the river. Tatta, Kotri, and Sukkur, all in Sindh, are important fishing centres. Between the Swat and Hazara areas the river is noted for trout fishing. Fish farming has become important in the reservoirs of dams and barrages. Near the mouth of the Indus—for about......
hilt-and-point dance (folk dance)
...men, with swords or swordlike objects, displaying themes such as human and animal sacrifice for fertility, battle mime, and defense against evil spirits. There are several types. In linked-sword, or hilt-and-point, dances, each performer holds the hilt of his own sword and the point of that of the dancer behind him, the group forming intricate, usually circular, patterns. Combat dances for one....
Hilton, Conrad (American businessman)
American businessman and founder of one of the world’s largest hotel organizations....
Hilton, Conrad Nicholson (American businessman)
American businessman and founder of one of the world’s largest hotel organizations....
Hilton, Harold H. (British golfer)
American businessman and founder of one of the world’s largest hotel organizations.......
Hilton Head Island (South Carolina, United States)
...was subsequently developed as a resort and residential community, with golf courses, marinas, tennis courts, riding stables, and 12 miles of beach. In 1983 the island was incorporated as the town of Hilton Head Island. Pop. (2000) 33,862; (2010) 37,099....
Hilton Head Island (island, South Carolina, United States)
town and island, one of the Sea Islands along the Atlantic coast just south of Port Royal Sound, in Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. The island, approximately 12 miles (19 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide at its widest point, lies on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and is the largest coastal island between...
Hilton Hotels Corporation (American corporation)
...of the 1930s hurt but did not destroy the Hilton chain, and by 1939 he was building, leasing, or buying (and sometimes selling) hotels in California, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere. In 1946 the Hilton Hotels Corporation was formed, followed in 1948 by the Hilton International Company, as he expanded his operations to other countries. In 1954 he bought the Statler Hotel chain.......
Hilton, James (English novelist)
English novelist whose popular works include Lost Horizon (1933), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934), and Random Harvest (1941), all of which were made into highly successful motion pictures....
Hilton, John (English composer)
...publications of his also contained catches: Deuteromelia (1609), which included “Three Blind Mice,” and Melismata (1611). Perhaps the most famous of such publications was John Hilton’s Catch That Catch Can (1652)....
Hilton, Paris (American hotel heiress)
...publications of his also contained catches: Deuteromelia (1609), which included “Three Blind Mice,” and Melismata (1611). Perhaps the most famous of such publications was John Hilton’s Catch That Catch Can (1652).......
Hilton, Ronnie (British singer)
British singer (b. Jan. 26, 1926, Hull, Yorkshire, Eng.—d. Feb. 20, 2001, Hailsham, East Sussex, Eng.), was one of Britain’s most popular romantic crooners in the 1950s; he made hundreds of recordings and had more than 20 hits, most notably “No Other Love,” which became his signature tune. He brie...
Hilton, Walter (English mystic and author)
devotional writer, one of the greatest English mystics of the 14th century....
Hilton’s law (anatomy)
The sources of nerve fibres to a joint conform well to Hilton’s law—the nerves to the muscles acting on a joint give branches to that joint as well as to the skin over the area of action of these muscles. Thus, the knee joint is supplied by branches from the femoral, sciatic, and obturator nerves, which among them supply the various muscles moving the joint. Some of these nerves go t...
Hiltu ja Ragnar (work by Sillanpaa)
...Hurskas kurjuus (1919; Meek Heritage), describing how a humble cottager becomes involved with the Red Guards without clearly realizing the ideological implications. The novelette Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) is the tragic love story of a city boy and a country servant-girl. After several collections of short stories in the late 1920s, Sillanpää published his......
hilum (anatomy)
...and gives up carbon dioxide, the oxygenated blood in veins is collected first into venules and then into progressively larger veins; it finally flows through four pulmonary veins, two from the hilum of each lung. (The hilum is the point of entry on each lung for the bronchus, blood vessels, and nerves.) These veins then pass to the left atrium, where their contents are poured into the......
hilum (seed)
The hilum of a liberated seed is a small scar marking its former place of attachment. The short ridge (raphe) that sometimes leads away from the hilum is formed by the fusion of seed stalk and testa. In many seeds, the micropyle of the ovule also persists as a small opening in the seed coat. The embryo, variously located in the seed, may be very small (as in buttercups) or may fill the seed......