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Heirs Holdings
Heirs Holdings is a family-owned African investment holding company founded in 2010 by Tony O. Elumelu, taking long-term stakes in power, energy, financial services, and healthcare across 24 countries.
Heirs of August von Finck junior
The heirs of August von Finck junior are his widow Francine and their four children, who inherited an estimated 8.3 billion euros when the banker died in 2021.
Heirs of the Night
Heirs of the Night (Nattens arvinger) is a 2019–2020 Dutch-German-Norwegian young-adult vampire fantasy series, 26 episodes, based on Ulrike Schweikert's Die Erben der Nacht, about five vampire clans' heirs and Alisa's choice between eternal vampire life and humanity.
Heirs to the Land
Heirs to the Land (Los herederos de la tierra) is a 2022 Netflix Spanish historical drama, 8 episodes, adapted from Ildefonso Falcones's 2016 sequel to Cathedral of the Sea, following Hugo Llor in 14th-century Barcelona, directed by Jordi Frades.
Heisa Island
Heisa Island is a small inhabited Nile island at the First Cataract in Aswan, Egypt, between Philae Temple and the Aswan Dam, home to about 2,000 Nubian residents.
Heiseb Patera
Heiseb Patera is a volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io, 62.48 km across at 29.79°N, 244.85°W, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for a Bushman fire devil, with no known volcanic activity.
Heisei (era)
Heisei (平成) was the era name of Japan from January 8, 1989 to April 30, 2019, corresponding to the reign of Emperor Akihito, the 125th emperor.
Heisei bungaku
Heisei bungaku (平成文学, "Heisei literature") is the body of Japanese literature written during the Heisei era, 1989 to 2019, when Murakami Haruki became one of the world's most popular authors.
Heisei retro (平成レトロ)
Heisei retro (平成レトロ) is a Japanese consumer and cultural trend in which 1990s and early-2000s Heisei-era fashion, goods, and media, like Tamagotchi, purikura, and gyaru style, are re-consumed chiefly by Generation Z.
Heisenberg (lyricist)
Heisenberg is the anonymous pen name of a Tamil film lyricist credited on Anirudh Ravichander soundtracks from Vikram (2022) onward, writing English songs such as Bloody Sweet and I Am The Danger; only Lokesh Kanagaraj claims to have met the person.
Heisenberg algebra
The Heisenberg algebra is a nilpotent Lie algebra, formally the Heisenberg Lie algebra, whose brackets encode the canonical commutation relations of quantum mechanics; Hermann Weyl identified it in the 1920s.
Heisenberg cut
The Heisenberg cut is the dividing line, in the Copenhagen description of a quantum experiment, between the object treated quantum mechanically and the apparatus treated classically.
Heisenberg group
The Heisenberg group is a nilpotent Lie group of real upper triangular 3 × 3 matrices with ones on the diagonal, named for its role in quantum mechanics.
Heisenberg limit
The Heisenberg limit is the fundamental bound on precision in quantum metrology, stating uncertainty can scale no better than 1/N in the number of quantum resources.
Heisenberg model
The Heisenberg model is a lattice model of magnetism in which localized quantum spins on atomic sites interact through exchange, introduced by Werner Heisenberg in 1928 to explain ferromagnetism.
Heisenberg picture
The Heisenberg picture is a formulation of quantum mechanics, developed by Werner Heisenberg in 1925, in which states stay fixed and operators evolve in time.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, derived by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics stating that position and momentum cannot both be determined with arbitrary precision at the same time.
Heisenberg's microscope
Heisenberg's microscope, also called the gamma-ray microscope, is a thought experiment from Heisenberg's 1927 uncertainty principle paper, where gamma rays measuring an electron's position give it an uncontrollable recoil.
Heisenbug
A heisenbug is a software bug that disappears or manifests differently when someone attempts to debug it, a term coined around 1983 in a pun on Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Heisler locomotive
The Heisler locomotive was an American geared steam locomotive, patented by Charles L. Heisler in 1892 and built from 1894 to 1941 for logging and mining railroads.
Heisman Trophy
Heisman Trophy (Heisman Memorial Trophy Award), annual award since 1935 for the most outstanding college football player; 3-2-1 balloting by 931 voters; 2025 winner Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza, the 91st recipient.
Heist (2001 film)
Heist (2001 film), also released in Italy as Il colpo, is a David Mamet crime thriller starring Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Rockwell about a jewel thief forced into one last job; released November 9, 2001 by Warner Bros.
Heist (2015 film)
Heist (The Bus 657 Heist) is a 2015 American action crime thriller directed by Scott Mann, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Robert De Niro, and Dave Bautista; a failed casino robbery leads to a bus hijacking. Released November 13, 2015; 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Heist film
Heist film, also called caper film: a crime-film subgenre about planning and executing a spectacular theft by a specialist crew. Defined by Rififi (1955); grew from film noir, peaked in 1960s capers and 2000s remakes.
Heisuke Hironaka (広中平祐)
Heisuke Hironaka (広中平祐) was a Japanese mathematician, born in 1931, who solved resolution of singularities in algebraic geometry and received the Fields Medal in 1970, the second Japanese mathematician to win it.
Heit el-Ghurab
Heit el-Ghurab, the Lost City of the Pyramid Builders, is a 4th Dynasty settlement at Giza that housed workers building the pyramids of Menkaure and Khafre.
Heiti Talvik
Heiti Talvik was an Estonian poet, known as the intellectual leader of the Arbujad literary group. He published Palavik (1934) and Kohtupäev (1937) before being arrested by the Soviets in 1945.
Heiyi Asset
Heiyi Asset (黑翼资产), also called Black Wing Asset Management, is a Shanghai quantitative hedge fund founded in 2014, managing over RMB 40 billion by end-2025.
Heize
Heize (헤이즈, Jang Da-hye, born 1991, Daegu) is a South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper who debuted in 2014, rose via Unpretty Rapstar 2, and scored digital hits like Star and You, Clouds, Rain; she left P Nation in 2026.
Heizenmon no Ran
Heizenmon no Ran (平禅門の乱, the Heizenmon Incident) was a 1293 coup in Kamakura in which the ninth regent, Hōjō Sadatoki, attacked and destroyed the powerful steward Taira no Yoritsuna.