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Heifer International
Heifer International, founded 1944 by Dan West as Heifers for Relief, is a Little Rock, Arkansas 501(c)(3) charity providing livestock and training to smallholder farmers, known for its Passing on the Gift model.
Height
Height is the vertical distance above a chosen reference surface, such as the geoid or an ellipsoid, with orthometric, ellipsoidal, and geoid heights related by h = H + N.
Height discrimination
Height discrimination (heightism) is prejudice or unequal treatment based on stature, affecting wages, employment, healthcare, and dating. Key facts: Feldman coined the term in the 1970s; measured wage premiums of about 6% per 10 cm in China; partial legal protection in New York City since 2023.
Height function
A height function in Diophantine geometry measures the arithmetic complexity of rational points on a projective variety, and underlies finiteness results such as the Mordell–Weil theorem.
Height in sports
Height in sports, also called height and sports, is the stature of athletes that sports select for and measure; basketball favors tall players, weightlifting rewards modest stature.
Heightmap
A heightmap, also called a digital elevation model or height field, is a two-dimensional grid storing one elevation value per location, commonly used for terrain in games and GIS.
Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States
The heights of US presidents and major presidential candidates: Lincoln tallest at 1.93 m, Madison shortest at 1.63 m; taller candidates win 58% of elections, near chance.
Heihachi Mishima
Heihachi Mishima (三島 平八) is the Mishima Zaibatsu founder and "King of Iron Fist" antagonist of Bandai Namco's Tekken fighting game series, father and enemy of Kazuya, seemingly killed in Tekken 7 and resurrected as Tekken 8's third DLC character in October 2024.
Heihe (district)
Heihe (黑河) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Heilongjiang, China, on the Amur River across from Blagoveshchensk, Russia, and among China's first cities opened to border trade.
Heiji Monogatari
Heiji Monogatari (平治物語) is a Japanese war tale depicting the 1159 Heiji Rebellion, written in mixed Japanese-Chinese prose and preceding the Tale of the Heike.
Heiji Monogatari Emaki
The Heiji Monogatari Emaki (平治物語絵巻, Illustrated Scrolls of the Tale of Heiji) are Kamakura-period Japanese handscrolls depicting the Heiji Rebellion of 1159, famed for dynamic battle scenes.
Heiji Rebellion
The Heiji Rebellion (平治の乱) was a short armed rising in Kyoto in late 1159, in which Fujiwara no Nobuyori and Minamoto no Yoshitomo seized power while Taira no Kiyomori was away.
Heijō-kyō
Heijō-kyō (平城京) was the capital of the Japanese state from 710 to 784, built on the model of Chang'an and giving its name to the Nara period.
Heike biwa
Heike biwa (平家琵琶) is a Japanese four-stringed plucked lute used by blind biwa hōshi to recite The Tale of the Heike; its vocal art, heikyoku (平曲), influenced noh and jōruri.
Heike Drechsler
Heike Drechsler (née Daute), born 1964 in Gera, German long jumper, two-time Olympic champion (1992, 2000), two-time world champion (1983, 1993), 7.48 m personal best, indoor world record 7.37 m.
Heike Friedrich
Heike Friedrich (born 1970, Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz) is a German former swimmer for East Germany; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 200 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay, silver in the 400 m, four-time 1986 world champion, 200 m world record holder 1986-1994, later implicated in the GDR doping investigation.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926) was a Dutch physicist who liquefied helium in 1908 and discovered superconductivity in 1911, winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Heike Kemmer
Heike Kemmer (born 1962, East Berlin) is a German dressage rider, double Olympic team gold medallist 2004 and 2008 and 2008 individual bronze medallist with Bonaparte 67, also world and European team champion.
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch (born 1971, Düsseldorf) is a German actress, singer, and author, formerly a VIVA music-channel presenter. Known for Männerpension, Love Actually, Hilde, Margarete Steiff, Tatort, and Where's Wanda?; Bambi and Golden Camera winner.
Heike Monogatari Emaki
Heike Monogatari Emaki (平家物語絵巻) is the Japanese illustrated handscroll tradition depicting The Tale of the Heike, the war chronicle of the rise and fall of the Taira clan at the end of the Heian era.
Heike nōkyō
Heike nōkyō (平家納経) is a set of 33 lavishly decorated sutra scrolls offered to Itsukushima Shrine by Taira no Kiyomori in 1164, a National Treasure.
Heike Redetzky Henkel
Heike Redetzky Henkel (née Redetzky, born 1964, Kiel), German high jumper; 1992 Olympic, 1991 World, 1990 European champion; indoor world record 2.07 m 1992-2006; NADA founding board member.
Heike Singer
Heike Singer (Heike Klein), born 1964 in Rodewisch, East German sprint canoeist; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in K-4 500 m with Schmidt, Nothnagel, Portwich; three world titles 1985 and 1989.
Heikegani (平家蟹)
Heikegani (平家蟹), Heikeopsis japonica, are small Japanese crabs whose face-like carapace grooves spawned a legend that they hold the souls of Taira warriors drowned at Dan-no-ura in 1185; scientists attribute the faces to pareidolia, not artificial selection.
Heikki Joensuu
Heikki Joensuu (born 1956) is a Finnish oncologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Helsinki from 1994 to 2019, known for the FinHer breast cancer trial and adjuvant imatinib trials in GIST.
Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen (born 1981, Suomussalmi, Finland) is a Finnish racing driver, 2008 Hungarian GP winner for McLaren and F1's 100th different race winner; later 2016 SUPER GT champion and 2021-2022 All Japan Rally Champion.
Heikki Peltola
Heikki Peltola is a Finnish pediatric infectious-diseases researcher at the University of Helsinki, known for Hib vaccine trials in about 90,000 infants and Finland's two-dose MMR program.
Heikki Savolainen
Heikki Savolainen (1907–1997), Finnish artistic gymnast and physician, won nine Olympic medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze) across five Games 1928–1952, tied for 1948 pommel horse gold, and recited the 1952 Olympic Oath.
Heikki V. Huikuri
Heikki V. Huikuri, born 1952, is a Finnish cardiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Oulu known for research on heart-rate variability and sudden cardiac death.
Heiko Braak
Heiko Braak (born 1937) is a German neuroanatomist, professor at the University of Ulm, whose Braak stages of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are used worldwide.