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Heian court culture
Heian court culture was the style of social life, ceremony, and art practiced by the aristocracy of Japan's imperial court at Heian-kyō, modern Kyoto, from 794 to 1185.
Heian period (平安時代)
The Heian period (平安時代, 794–1185) was the era of Japanese history centered on Kyoto, marked by Fujiwara regency, the rise of the samurai, and a flowering of court culture including kana script and The Tale of Genji.
Heian-kyō
Heian-kyō (平安京), meaning "Capital of Peace and Tranquility," was the capital of Japan founded by Emperor Kanmu in 794 and occupied until the move to Tokyo in 1869.
Heichi Changzhi
Heichi Changzhi (黑齒常之, 630–689) was a general from Baekje who served the Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou, winning frontier victories against the Tibetans and Turks before dying in prison on a false treason charge.
HEICO Corporation
HEICO Corporation, founded in Miami in 1957, is a Florida aerospace company known as the largest independent maker of FAA-approved jet engine and aircraft replacement parts.
Heida Reed
Heida Reed (Heiða Rún Sigurðardóttir), Icelandic actress born 1988 in Reykjavik; known for Elizabeth in Poldark, Special Agent Jamie Kellett in FBI: International, and Stella Blómkvist; trained at Drama Centre London.
Heide circle
The Heide circle was a group of avant-garde Australian artists, including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, gathered around the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed.
Heide Elke Gaugel
Heide-Elke Gaugel, later Heidi-Elke Hudak, is a retired West German sprinter who won bronze in the 4 × 400 meters relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Heide Park
Heide Park Resort, Soltau, Lower Saxony: amusement park opened 19 August 1978 by Hans-Jürgen Tiemann, now Merlin Entertainments-owned, 850,000 m², home of the wooden coaster Colossos.
Heideggerian terminology
Heideggerian terminology: the German vocabulary Martin Heidegger created or reinterpreted, chiefly in Sein und Zeit (1927) and the later writings; key terms include Dasein, being-in-the-world, das Man, Befindlichkeit, the ontological difference, and Bestand, plus their contested English translations.
Heidekringen
Heidekringen (Kleinkastell Heidekringen) is a small Roman fort site near Taunusstein, Hesse, Germany, on the Wiesbaden-Zugmantel road 5 km south of the Upper Germanic Limes; a 72 x 65 m earth-and-timber camp with uniformly Hadrianic finds.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, a city of about 160,000 in Baden-Württemberg on the Neckar river, home of Germany's oldest university (1386), roughly 39,000 students, major research institutes, and about 13.9 million annual visitors.
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) is a learned society and research institution in Heidelberg, Germany, founded in 1909 and funded largely by the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberger Schloss) is a famous red sandstone ruin on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany, built as the residence of the counts palatine and prince electors of the Palatinate.
Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
The Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center is a particle therapy facility at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, opened in 2009 as Europe's first hospital-based combined proton and heavy-ion center.
Heidelberg Materials
Heidelberg Materials is a German building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg. Founded in 1873, it employs 49,000 people in almost 50 countries, with €21.5 billion revenue in 2025.
Heidelberg Romanticism
Heidelberg Romanticism (Heidelberger Romantik), also called High Romanticism, was the second phase of German Romanticism centered on Heidelberg from 1804 to 1808, known for the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Heidelberg Thingstätte
Heidelberg Thingstätte: Nazi-era open-air amphitheatre on the Heiligenberg above Heidelberg, built 1934–1935 by the Reich Labour Service to designs by Hermann Alker, opened by Goebbels on 22 June 1935, seating about 20,000, now an unfenced cultural monument.
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University (Ruperto Carola, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität), founded 1386, is Germany's oldest university, a University of Excellence since 2007, ranked top-three in Germany in ARWU, QS, and THE, with clusters in physics, materials, immunology, and plant science.
Heidelberg University Hospital
Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, UKHD) is the university hospital of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany, one of Europe's largest medical centers with over 50 specialist departments.
Heidenhain
Heidenhain is a German manufacturer of measurement, control, and drive technology in Traunreut, founded in Berlin in 1889 and known for its linear encoders and TNC numerical controls for machine tools.
Heidenröslein
Heidenröslein is a folk-style poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1771 in Strasbourg, about a boy who plucks a wild rose despite her warning; Schubert famously set it to music in 1815.
Heidi
Heidi (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre, 1880; Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat, 1881) is Johanna Spyri's two-volume Swiss children's novel about an orphan girl in the Alps, translated into about 70 languages with over 50 million copies sold.
Heidi (2015 film)
Heidi is a 2015 Swiss-German children's film directed by Alain Gsponer from Johanna Spyri's novels, starring Anuk Steffen as Heidi and Bruno Ganz as her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
Heidi Alexander
Heidi Alexander is a British Labour politician who has been Secretary of State for Transport since November 2024 and MP for Swindon South since 2024.
Heidi Allen
Heidi Suzanne Allen, British former MP for South Cambridgeshire (2015-2019), Conservative tax-credit rebel who defected to the Independent Group, led Change UK, joined the Liberal Democrats, then stood down in 2019.
Heidi Astrup
Heidi Holme Astrup, born 1972 in Viborg, is a Danish former handball playmaker: Olympic gold 1996, EHF EURO gold 1994 and 1996, and with Viborg HK nine Danish titles and the 2006 Champions League.
Heidi B. Hammel
Heidi B. Hammel is an American planetary astronomer known for her studies of Uranus and Neptune and for leading the Hubble team observing Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's 1994 impacts on Jupiter.
Heidi Balderree
Heidi Balderree is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah Senate representing District 22 in Utah County, and a former educator who taught Japanese and Spanish.
Heidi Biebl
Heidi Biebl (Heidi Biebl-Schmid-Prelevic), West German alpine skier; 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic downhill gold medalist at age 19, first German Olympic downhill champion; fourth twice at Innsbruck 1964; retired 1966 after DSV dispute; died 2022.