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¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre! ("Until victory, always") is Che Guevara's slogan from his 1965 farewell letter to Fidel Castro; an official Cuban revolutionary motto, iconic poster subject, and internationally recognized phrase of anti-capitalist struggle, still controversial in US politics.

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.hack

.hack is a Japanese cross-media franchise (2002, CyberConnect2/Bandai Namco) built around the fictional MMORPG The World: four PS2 RPGs, the G.U. trilogy, Link, Fragment, anime, and the 2026 revival .hack//Z.E.R.O.

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.hack (video game series)

.hack (dot hack) is CyberConnect2's action RPG series set in a fictional MMORPG, "The World"; spans IMOQ quadrilogy, .hack//G.U. trilogy, .hack//Link, and the Last Recode remaster.

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‘Heracome’

‘Heracome’ is a toponym on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a station on the road to Samosata in the Syria/Palestine/Arabia section (BAtlas 67 G2, Pleiades 658479), distinct from Hieracome in Lydia.

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"Hear Me Now" (Alok)

"Hear Me Now" is a 2016 single by Brazilian DJ Alok with Bruno Martini featuring Zeeba, the first Brazilian track to surpass 100 million Spotify streams.

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"Heroes" (David Bowie song)

"Heroes" (with quotation marks) is a 1977 David Bowie single co-written with Brian Eno, recorded at Hansa Tonstudio by the Berlin Wall, famous for Visconti's gated three-microphone vocal and Fripp's feedback guitar; UK no. 24 originally, no. 12 in 2016.

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(H)Atria

(H)Atria: name forms Atria, Hatria, Adria, Hadria for the ancient Po delta port, modern Adria, Veneto, principal Adriatic harbor of the 6th-5th centuries BC; distinct from the Picene colony Hadria, modern Atri.

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*Hercules Curinus

Sanctuary of Hercules Curinus (Ercole Curino), an ancient Italic terraced sanctuary near Sulmona, Abruzzo, on Monte Morrone. Paelignian national cult of Hercules, 4th c. BC to 2nd c. AD, misidentified until 1957 as Ovid's villa; linked to Celestine V's abbey.

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× Heucherella

× Heucherella (foamy bells) is an intergeneric hybrid perennial genus, Heuchera × Tiarella in Saxifragaceae, named by Wehrhahn in 1930; sterile garden hybrids grown for colorful evergreen foliage and pink or white foamy flower sprays in shade.

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H

H (h), eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, from Semitic heth via Greek eta and Etruscan to Latin. Pronounced in English and Germanic, silent in French; also a digraph marker, IPA and physics symbol.

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H Allen Franklin Combined Cycle power station

H Allen Franklin Combined Cycle power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant in Smiths, Alabama, owned by Southern Power, online since 2002 with about 1,996 MW across nine generators.

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H Capital

H Capital is a venture capital manager whose Cayman Islands funds are controlled by Xiaohong Chen, a US citizen, with public holdings consolidated into Ke Holdings (BEKE).

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H Company

H Company is a Paris-based artificial intelligence company founded in late 2023 by four former Google DeepMind researchers, building agentic AI that acts on software interfaces to complete multi-step tasks.

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H I G Advantage Buyout

H I G Advantage Buyout is a pair of private equity funds sponsored by Miami's H.I.G. Capital, making control buyout investments in higher-quality US middle-market companies.

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H I G Growth Buyouts & Equity

H I G Growth Buyouts & Equity is the growth-equity and growth-buyout fund program of H.I.G. Capital, a Miami private equity firm founded in 1993.

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H I G Middle Market Lbo

H.I.G. Middle Market LBO is the leveraged buyout fund series of H.I.G. Capital, targeting control equity investments in U.S. middle-market companies with enterprise values of $50 million to $1 billion.

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H I G Small-Cap & Growth Buyout

H I G Small-Cap & Growth Buyout is a fund strategy of H.I.G. Capital making control equity investments in undermanaged or high-growth North American companies.

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H I G Strategic Partners

H I G Strategic Partners is the secondaries and fund-of-funds arm of H.I.G. Capital, a Miami private equity firm founded in 1993 by Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer.

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H I G Whitehorse Principal Lending

H.I.G. WhiteHorse Principal Lending is the direct-lending fund program of H.I.G. WhiteHorse, the credit arm of H.I.G. Capital, which closed a $1.1 billion fund in 2020.

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H II region

An H II region is a cloud of ionized hydrogen in interstellar space, ionized by ultraviolet light from hot young massive stars, marked by strong Hα emission.

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H Is for Hawk (film)

H Is for Hawk (2025) is Philippa Lowthorpe's drama adapting Helen Macdonald's memoir, starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson; premiered at Telluride 2025, released 23 January 2026, BAFTA-nominated.

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H L Culbreath Bayside power station

The H L Culbreath Bayside power station is Tampa Electric's largest plant, a natural gas-fired station on Hillsborough Bay in Tampa, Florida, created by repowering the coal-fired Gannon Station in 2003 and 2004.

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H Mart

H Mart (H마트), Han Ah Reum, is the largest Korean-owned Asian supermarket chain in the US and Canada, founded 1982 in Woodside, Queens by Il Yeon Kwon, HQ Lyndhurst NJ, 97-plus stores with food halls and Super H Mart formats.

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H minus

H minus (h−) is the minus mating type of fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, defined by the mat1-M allele on chromosome II; it secretes M-factor pheromone, is stable in strain 972, and mates only with h plus cells.

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H plus

h+ (h plus, P or plus mating type) is the plus heterothallic mating type of fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, an allele state of mat1; strain 975 h+ expresses mat2-P genes, secretes P-factor, and mates only with h− cells.

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H syndrome

H syndrome (SLC29A3 spectrum disorder, histiocytosis-lymphadenopathy plus syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis caused by SLC29A3 mutations, marked by hyperpigmented hypertrichotic indurated thigh plaques, hearing loss, short stature, and diabetes.

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H ZETTRIO

H ZETTRIO is a Japanese piano jazz trio formed in 2012 around pianist H ZETT M, known for a Guinness-certified monthly single streak since 2019.

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H_art the Band

H_art the Band is a Kenyan Afro soul band from Nairobi formed in 2013, whose "Afro-Poetry" fusion of acoustics and spoken word broke through with "Uliza Kiatu" in 2014.

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H-1B visa

H-1B visa: U.S. specialty-occupation work visa created by the Immigration Act of 1990; 65,000 annual cap plus 20,000 U.S. advanced-degree slots, six-year maximum stay, lottery selection, $215 registration, and 2025 $100,000 payment requirement.

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H-bridge inverter

An H-bridge inverter, also called a full-bridge inverter, converts DC to AC with four switches in an H shape, and is the building block of solar inverters and motor drives.