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Hejaz (الحجاز)
The Hejaz (الحجاز) is a region in western Arabia along the Red Sea coast, containing Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest cities, visited yearly by millions of Muslim pilgrims.
Hejaz Mountains
The Hejaz Mountains, also spelled Hijaz, are a mountain range in the western highlands of Saudi Arabia, rising to a highest peak of 2,393 m at Mount Wirqan.
Hejaz Railway
The Hejaz Railway (سكة حديد الحجاز) was an Ottoman railway from Damascus to Medina, opened in 1908 to speed pilgrims and troops to Arabia; Ottoman rule ended in 1919.
Hejaz Vilayet
The Hejaz Vilayet (ولاية الحجاز) was an Ottoman province in western Arabia, comprising the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the port of Jeddah, converted from an eyalet in 1868.
Hejin power station
Hejin power station (河津电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Hejin, southwestern Shanxi, China, whose first two 350 MW units were financed with Japanese official development assistance.
Hejira (album)
Hejira is Joni Mitchell's eighth studio album (Asylum, November 21, 1976), a nine-song jazz-tinged travel diary from her 1975–76 road trips, featuring Jaco Pastorius's fretless bass; it peaked at number 13 on the US chart and later became one of her most acclaimed records.
HEK293
HEK 293 (HEK293, 293 cells) is a human cell line created in 1977 by transforming embryonic kidney cells with sheared adenovirus type 5 DNA; widely used for recombinant proteins, AAV and lentiviral vectors, and approved biologics.
Hekanefer
Hekanefer, also written Heqanefer, was a Nubian prince who governed the district of Miam, modern Aniba, in Lower Nubia during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, serving from Amenhotep III to Tutankhamun.
Hekaya
Hekaya is a narrative genre of Kiswahili oral literature (fasihi simulizi), a traditional story whose characters are, as a rule, human beings rather than animals.
Hekenuhedjet
Hekenuhedjet, also spelled Heknuhedjet, was a queen consort of pharaoh Khafre of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, known from reliefs in her son Sekhemkare's tomb at Giza.
Hekimoğlu (TV series)
Hekimoğlu is the Turkish adaptation of House M.D., aired on Kanal D from 17 December 2019 to 25 May 2021 in 51 episodes across two seasons, starring Timuçin Esen as diagnostician Ateş Hekimoğlu.
Hekinan power station
Hekinan power station (碧南火力発電所, Hekinan Thermal Power Station) is a 4,100 MW coal-fired plant in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by JERA and the largest in Japan.
Hekla
Hekla is an active stratovolcano in southern Iceland, standing 1,490 m high and among the country's most active, erupting 23 times in historical time, most recently in 2000.
Hekla 3 eruption
The Hekla 3 eruption was a major prehistoric Plinian eruption of Iceland's Hekla volcano, dated to about 2879 BP, and among the largest explosive Holocene eruptions in Iceland.
Hekla Cavus
Hekla Cavus is an oblong ~98 km depression in Cthulhu Macula on Pluto, near the equator west of Sputnik Planitia. IAU-named in 2018 for the Icelandic volcano Hekla, it is interpreted as a possible cryovolcanic collapse pit with about 5,617 cubic kilometers of removed ice.
Hekuran Murati
Hekuran Murati is a Kosovo politician of the Lëvizja Vetëvendosje movement who serves as Minister of Finance and has sat in the Kosovo Assembly as a deputy.
Hel (location)
Hel (Old Norse Hel, often called Helheim) is the Norse realm of the dead, ruled by the goddess of the same name, reached by the Hel-road over the river Gjöll; the compound Helheimr is largely modern, and Hel is a grey abode of the dead, not a Christian-style hell.
Hel (mythological being)
Hel is the Old Norse underworld of the dead and the goddess ruling it, daughter of Loki and Angrboða, appointed by Odin in Niflheim to receive those dead of sickness or age; etymon of English hell.
HeLa
HeLa is the first immortal human cell line, established in 1951 by George Gey at Johns Hopkins from Henrietta Lacks' cervical cancer cells; used in over 110,000 publications, central to polio and HPV vaccines, and governed by the 2013 NIH-Lacks Family Agreement.
Hela (character)
Hela: Marvel Comics Asgardian goddess of death (also Queen of Hel), based on Norse Hel; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey Into Mystery #102 (1964); ruler of Hel and Niffleheim, foe of Thor, MCU villain played by Cate Blanchett.
Hela Havula
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල) is a Sinhala literary and language-reform organization founded by Munidasa Cumaratunga in Sri Lanka in 1941 to purify the language of Sanskrit borrowings.
HeLa S3
HeLa S3 (ATCC CCL-2.2, Cellosaurus CVCL_0058) is a 1955 single-cell clone of the HeLa cervical cancer line, cloned by Puck, Marcus, and Cieciura; it carries HPV-18 and can be adapted to suspension culture.
Helch
Helch (c. 1991–2026) was the pseudonym of an anonymous British graffiti writer whose roller-lettered HELCH tag covered London viaducts and motorway bridges from 2018; he showed at BSMT Space and died aged 34.
HELCOM
HELCOM (Helsinki Commission, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission) is the intergovernmental body governing Baltic Sea marine environmental protection under the 1974/1992 Helsinki Convention, with ten Contracting Parties, the Baltic Sea Action Plan, and six-year HOLAS assessments.
Held group
The Held group (He) is a sporadic finite simple group discovered by Dieter Held in 1969 while studying groups related to the Mathieu group M24.
Hélder A. Santos
Hélder A. Santos is a Portuguese physical chemist and biomedical engineer who heads biomedical engineering at University Medical Center Groningen and researches biodegradable nanoparticle drug delivery.
Helder Maiato
Hélder Maiato, born 1976 in Matosinhos, Portugal, is a Portuguese cell biologist who studies chromosome segregation and leads the Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Laboratory at i3S, Porto.
Hélder Postiga
Hélder Postiga (Hélder Manuel Marques Postiga), Portuguese forward born 1982 in Vila do Conde; 71 caps, 27 goals for Portugal, Euro 2004/2008/2012 and World Cups 2006/2014; won UEFA Cup and three league titles with FC Porto across an 11-club career.
Hélder Proença
Hélder Proença was a Guinea-Bissauan poet and PAIGC politician, born in 1956 in Bolama, who wrote in Portuguese and Creole before his assassination in June 2009.
Hélder Sousa Silva
Hélder Sousa Silva, born in 1965, is a Portuguese Social Democratic Party politician, mayor of Mafra from 2013 to 2024, and a Member of the European Parliament since 2024.