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Heimskringla

Heimskringla, also called Snorri's kings' sagas, is a thirteenth-century Old Norse collection of sixteen sagas on the kings of Norway from legendary times to 1177, attributed to Snorri Sturluson; its title comes from the opening words kringla heimsins.

Heimstetten

Heimstetten, a district of Kirchheim bei München east of Munich, incorporated 1978; type site of the early Roman Imperial Heimstetten Group inhumation graves published by Erwin Keller in 1984.

Heimwehr

The Heimwehr (Home Guard) was Austria's right-wing, anti-Marxist paramilitary militia network, active from about 1918 to 1936; it grew after the 1927 Vienna riots, rejected democracy in the 1930 Korneuburg Oath, numbered about 200,000 by 1930, fought the Schutzbund in the February 1934 civil war, and was then absorbed into Dollfuss's Corporate State.

Hein G. Gooszen

Hein G. Gooszen, born 1948 in Zeist, is a Dutch gastrointestinal surgeon who led the PANTER and PROPATRIA pancreatitis trials and was professor of surgery at Utrecht.

Hein J.J. Wellens

Hein J.J. Wellens (Hein J. Wellens) was a Dutch cardiologist, born 1935 and died 2020, who was a founder of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and built Maastricht's arrhythmia service into an internationally recognized center.

Hein te Riele

Hein te Riele is a Dutch molecular biologist and group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for work on DNA mismatch repair and cancer.

Heine (Mercurian crater)

Heine is a 75-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at about 32.6°N, 124.1°W, approved by the IAU in 1979 and named for the German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), following Mercury's artist-and-writer crater naming theme.

Heine H. Hansen

Heine H. Hansen (1938–2011) was a Danish medical oncologist in Copenhagen who devoted his career to lung cancer and helped found the IASLC and ESMO.

Heineken

Heineken, also known as Heineken Lager Beer, is a Dutch brewing company founded in Amsterdam in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken, best known for its flagship pale lager.

Heineken brands

Heineken brands are the beers and ciders of Heineken N.V., the Amsterdam brewer founded in 1864, whose 340-plus portfolio includes Heineken, Amstel, Tiger, Birra Moretti, Desperados, Sol, Tecate, Dos Equis, Cruzcampo, and Heineken 0.0.

Sep 19, 2026

Heineken Jammin' Festival

The Heineken Jammin' Festival was a major Italian rock festival held from 1998 to 2012, opening at Imola with Vasco Rossi and drawing up to 175,000 spectators.

Heineken N.V.

Heineken N.V., also Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij, is a Dutch brewer founded in Amsterdam in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken; the world's second-largest beer producer, family-controlled via Heineken Holding N.V., with 340+ brands and EverGreen 2030 strategy.

Heiner Müller

Heiner Müller (1929–1995), German dramatist, poet, and theater director from Eppendorf, Saxony; Brecht's foremost successor and critic, author of Die Hamletmaschine, Quartett, and FATZER, key figure of postdramatic theater.

Heiner syndrome

Heiner syndrome, or cow's milk-induced pulmonary hypersensitivity, is a rare non-IgE milk allergy of infants causing pulmonary hemosiderosis, anemia, and failure to thrive, resolving on a milk-free diet.

Heiner Wedemeyer

Heiner Wedemeyer, born 1967 and recorded as Hans-Heinrich Wedemeyer, is a German hepatologist and director of gastroenterology at Hannover Medical School known for hepatitis D research and bulevirtide's development.

Heiner Westphal

Heiner Westphal is a molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who led the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Oct 20, 2026

Heini Hemmi

Heini Hemmi (born 1949, Churwalden) is a Swiss alpine skier, 1976 Innsbruck Olympic giant slalom champion ahead of Ernst Good and Ingemar Stenmark, 1977 giant slalom World Cup winner, retired 1979.

Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze

Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze, ski flying hill in the Stillachtal near Oberstdorf, Bavaria; HS 235, K-point 200 m, hill record 242.5 m by Domen Prevc (2022); built 1950, one of four FIS-certified ski flying hills.

Heinkel He 111

The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin-engined medium bomber that served as the Luftwaffe's standard bomber from the late 1930s through World War II, with over 7,000 built.

Heinkel He 112

The Heinkel He 112, also designated A7He1 in Japan, was a German single-seat fighter of the mid-1930s that lost to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 in the Luftwaffe's first monoplane fighter competition.

Heinkel He 178

The Heinkel He 178 was a German experimental aircraft that on 27 August 1939 made the world's first turbojet-powered flight, flown by Erich Warsitz at Rostock.

Heinkel He 277

The Heinkel He 277 was a projected four-engine heavy bomber for the German Luftwaffe in World War II, derived from the He 177 and canceled in 1944.

Heinkel He 343

The Heinkel He 343, also known as the Strabo 16, was a four-engine jet bomber projected for the German Luftwaffe in 1944 and canceled before any prototype flew.

Heinlein (Martian crater)

Heinlein crater, Mars crater, Gazetteer feature 2415: an IAU-approved 88 km impact crater at 64.54 degrees south, 116.20 degrees east in Mars' southern hemisphere.

Sep 19, 2026

Heino

Heino, real name Heinz Georg Kramm, is a German Schlager singer born in 1938 in Düsseldorf, known for his deep baritone, dark sunglasses, and hits like "Blau blüht der Enzian".

Heino Falcke

Heino Falcke, born 1966 in Cologne, is a German radio astronomer at Radboud University who coined "black hole shadow" and led the 2019 first black hole image.

Heinrich Adolf Gottron

Heinrich Adolf Gottron (1890–1974) was a German dermatologist who described Gottron's papules and sign, the pathognomonic skin lesions of dermatomyositis, and held chairs at Breslau and Tübingen.

Heinrich Albert Johne

Heinrich Albert Johne (1839–1910) was a German veterinary anatomist and professor at the Dresden veterinary school who first described Johne's disease, or paratuberculosis, in cattle in 1895.

Heinrich Barkhausen

Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was a German physicist and electrical engineer who discovered the Barkhausen effect in 1919 and held the world's first professorship in communications engineering, at Dresden from 1911.