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Hebei Construction & Investment Group

Hebei Construction & Investment Group, known abroad as HECIG, is a Chinese state-owned investment holding company wholly owned by Hebei province's SASAC and the province's largest state-owned capital investment company.

Hebei Construction Investment Energy Investment

Hebei Construction Investment Energy Investment (Jiantou Energy) is a Chinese state-owned power company investing in and operating coal-fired generation and district heating in Hebei Province.

Hebei Gas pipeline Network

The Hebei Gas Pipeline Network (河北输气管网) is a system of long-distance natural gas pipelines in Hebei Province, China, supplied by the Russia–China East Pipeline and LNG terminals.

Hebei Longshan power station

Hebei Longshan power station (河北龙山发电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Shexian County, Handan, Hebei, and the first 600 MW-class subcritical air-cooled plant in the province.

Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University is a provincial public medical university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, tracing its origin to an 1894 school founded by Li Hongzhang, the first government-run Western medicine school in modern China.

Hebei Pacification Commission

The Hebei Pacification Commission (河北安撫使司) was the Northern Song dynasty's military-administrative command office for the Hebei circuits facing Liao, covering four routes and headed by civil pacification commissioners.

Hebei Spirit oil spill

The Hebei Spirit oil spill (허베이스피릿호 기름유출 사고) was South Korea's largest marine oil spill, releasing 10,900 tonnes of crude oil off Taean in December 2007.

Hebei Yipin Pharmaceutical (一品制药)

Hebei Yipin Pharmaceutical (一品制药) is a Chinese generic pharmaceutical company founded in 2013 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, producing APIs and formulations, including antihypertensives, anesthetics, and compound α-ketoacid; it withdrew a ChiNext IPO in 2024.

Hebei-Nanjing Connecting Gas Pipeline

The Hebei-Nanjing Connecting Gas Pipeline (冀宁联络线) is an 886 km natural gas pipeline built by PetroChina that links the West-East Gas Pipeline with Shaan-Beijing Line 2, entering service in 2005.

Hebel Haus

Hebel Haus (ヘーベルハウス) is a Japanese brand of factory-built homes sold by Asahi Kasei Homes since 1972, combining steel frames with Hebel concrete panels and marketed around 60-year durability and free inspections.

Hebeloma

Hebeloma, brown-spored ectomycorrhizal agaric genus (Hymenogastraceae/Cortinariaceae), notoriously hard to identify; 120+ species, ~9,000-collection database, hebeloma.org AI identifier.

Hebenu

Hebenu was an ancient Egyptian town at Kom el-Ahmar, capital of the 16th Upper Egyptian nome, the Oryx nome, whose elite cemeteries lay at Zawyet el-Maiyitin and Beni Hasan.

Hebephilia

Hebephilia is sexual interest in pubescent children (about ages 11-14), between pedophilia and ephebophilia. Proposed for DSM-5 as pedohebephilia but rejected; absent from DSM-5 and ICD-11.

Heber Cinco Ley

Heber Cinco Ley is a Mexican petroleum reservoir engineer known for pressure transient analysis of fractured reservoirs, who led the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo from 2007 to 2010.

Heber Doust Curtis

Heber Doust Curtis (1872–1942) was an American astronomer who spent eighteen years at the Lick Observatory and argued in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate that spiral nebulae are separate galaxies.

Heber MacMahon

Heber MacMahon, also known as Ever MacMahon, was a Roman Catholic bishop of Clogher in Ireland who commanded the Ulster army and was executed in 1650.

Heberbiovac HB

Heberbiovac HB: Cuban recombinant hepatitis B vaccine by CIGB, HBsAg in Pichia pastoris, licensed 1990, WHO prequalified 2001, used in over 30 countries.

Hebert Conceicao

Hebert Conceicao (Hebert Conceição, Hebert Wilian Carvalho da Conceição Sousa), Brazilian boxer born 1998 in Salvador, Bahia; Tokyo 2020 Olympic middleweight gold by knockout of Oleksandr Khyzhniak; undefeated professional, WBO Latino super middleweight champion.

Hebes Chasma

Hebes Chasma is a fully enclosed, 8-km-deep canyon basin (126 by 314 km) north of Valles Marineris on Mars, centered near 1.09°S, 76.2°W, holding the layered sulfate mound Hebes Mensa and formed largely by subsurface collapse.

Hebes Mensa

Hebes Mensa: large interior layered deposit mesa, 120 by 43 km, rising over 7.5 km in Hebes Chasma, an isolated closed basin north of Valles Marineris, Mars; sulfate-rich, origin debated (pyroclastic, groundwater, diapiric uplift).

Hebi (city)

Hebi (鹤壁) is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan, China, founded 26 March 1957 as a coal-mining city. It covers 2,182 km², administers 3 districts and 2 counties, had 1.559 million residents in 2024, and posted 2025 GDP of 114.4 billion yuan, Henan's fastest growth.

Hebi (pastime)

Hebi (へびいちご, "wild strawberry"), also shown as Snake Place, is a Nikoli pencil logic puzzle: place 1-to-5 snake sequences in a grid, keep snakes from touching or seeing each other, and satisfy arrow clues in black cells.

Hebi Heqi power station

Hebi Heqi power station is a coal-fired power station of at least 1,320 MW in Qi County, Hebi, Henan, China, whose two 660 MW ultra-supercritical units entered service in 2015.

Hebi power station

Hebi power station (鹤壁电厂) is a complex of coal-fired power stations in Hebi, a mining city in northern Henan Province, China, built in phases from 1988 to 2015.

Hebraization of surnames (עברות)

Hebraization of surnames (עברות, Ivrut): the adoption of Hebrew family names by Jews, especially immigrants to Israel, via translation, phonetic similarity, or shortening; encouraged by Zionist leaders, mandated in the IDF until 1997, now voluntary.

Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet (alef-bet, א alef-bet ivri) is a 22-letter right-to-left abjad used for Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino; vowels are optional nikkud points from Tiberian Masoretes, and it descends from Phoenician via Aramaic square script.

Hebrew alphabetic acrostic

A Hebrew alphabetic acrostic is a poem whose lines begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, from aleph to tav, used in the Bible and liturgy.

Hebrew ballad

A Hebrew ballad (בַּלָּדָה) is a narrative poem in Hebrew that adopts the conventions of the European ballad, first introduced by Abba Constantin Shapiro in 1885.

Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh or Jewish Scriptures, is the Jewish Bible, whose text is reconstructed by comparing the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient versions.

Hebrew calendar (הלוח העברי)

The Hebrew calendar, also called the Jewish calendar, is the lunisolar calendar of Jewish religious life, with 12 or 13 months and years of 353 to 385 days.