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Helter Skelter (song)
Helter Skelter, Beatles song by Paul McCartney (Lennon–McCartney), White Album, 22 November 1968; loud, dirty proto-metal track named for a British fairground slide, later linked to the Charles Manson case.
Helter Skelter I
Helter Skelter I is a 2007 mixed-media collage by American artist Mark Bradford, built from posters and paper salvaged from South Los Angeles streets, sanded to expose a turbulent abstract surface.
Helü of Wu
Helü of Wu (吴王阖闾), personal name Guang, was king of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn period, taking the throne by assassination and defeating rival Chu before dying of a wound fighting Yue.
Helvellyn
Helvellyn is a 950 m mountain in England's Lake District and its third highest peak, best known for the arêtes Striding Edge and Swirral Edge above Red Tarn.
Helvetia
Helvetia is the Latin name for Switzerland, from the Gaulish Helvetii tribe, and the female national personification of the country; it underlies Confoederatio Helvetica and the proposed original name of the 1957 Helvetica typeface.
Helvetia Holding
Helvetia Holding AG, renamed Helvetia Baloise Holding Ltd after merging with Baloise in December 2025, is a Swiss insurance holding company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Helvetic Republic
Helvetic Republic (Helvetische Republik, République helvétique): centralist Swiss sister republic of France, 12 April 1798 to 10 March 1803, with 18 cantons, capitals Aarau, Lucerne and Bern; ended by Napoleon's Act of Mediation.
Helvetica
Helvetica, originally Neue Haas Grotesk, is the 1957 Swiss neo-grotesque sans serif by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas Type Foundry, renamed Helvetica in 1960, famous for neutrality, corporate identity use, and versions Neue Helvetica (1983) and Helvetica Now (2019).
Helvetii
The Helvetii were a Celtic people of the Swiss Plateau between Jura, Rhine, and lakes Geneva and Constance. Their failed 58 BCE migration into Gaul, defeated by Julius Caesar at the Saône and Bibracte, opened the Gallic Wars; later a Roman civitas with capital Aventicum.
Helvia Ricina
Helvia Ricina (Ricina), Roman town in Picenum at Villa Potenza near Macerata, Italy; municipality in the 1st century BC, colony Helvia Ricina Pertinax in 205 AD under Septimius Severus; known for its ~72 m Roman theater and amphitheater.
Helwan
Helwan, also rendered al-Hilwan, is the largest Early Dynastic necropolis in Egypt, with more than 10,000 private tombs serving the population of Memphis, in use around 3000–2700 B.C.E.
Hem
Hem: the folded, sewn edge of cloth on garments such as skirts and trousers; also called hemming. Covers hand slip-stitch and catch-stitch hems, machine blind and topstitched hems, timing, durability, and history.
Hem Barua
Hem Barua (হেম বৰুৱা; 1915–1977) was an Assamese poet, essayist, and politician who served three Lok Sabha terms, led the Praja Socialist Party, and pioneered modern Assamese poetry.
Hema (actress)
Hema (born Krishna Veni, 1967, Razole, Andhra Pradesh; also Hema Syed) is a Telugu film actress and comedian with 250+ films, winner of the 2009 Nandi Award for Best Comedian Actress for Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam, distinct from Hema Malini.
HEMA (store)
HEMA is a Dutch variety department-store chain founded in Amsterdam in 1926, known for its fixed-price origins and own-brand everyday products such as the tompouce pastry.
Hema Chaudhary
Hema Chaudhary, also known as Durga Prabha, is an Indian actress known for her character roles in Kannada cinema and her work in four South Indian languages.
Hema Committee report
Hema Committee report: 2019 Kerala government panel report on women's issues in Malayalam cinema, chaired by Justice K Hema; withheld five years, released redacted August 19, 2024, finding rampant sexual harassment and a controlling male power group.
Hema Fresh
Hema Fresh (盒马鲜生, Freshippo) is a Shanghai-based fresh-grocery chain founded by Hou Yi inside Alibaba in 2015, fusing supermarkets with 30-minute delivery in its "new retail" model.
Hema Malini (हेमा मालिनी)
Hema Malini (हेमा मालिनी), the "Dream Girl" of Hindi cinema, is an Indian actress, Bharatanatyam dancer, producer, and BJP politician born 1948, known for Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay, and representing Mathura in the Lok Sabha.
Hema Saraswati
Hema Saraswati (হেম সৰস্বতী) was a court poet of King Durlabhnarayana of Kamata and one of the earliest Assamese poets; his Prahlada Charitra is the first Assamese poem.
Hemab
Hemab, also known as Hemab Therapeutics, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Copenhagen and Cambridge, Massachusetts, developing antibody therapies for rare bleeding disorders like Glanzmann thrombasthenia.
Hemab Therapeutics
Hemab Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Copenhagen and Cambridge, Massachusetts, developing prophylactic antibodies for rare bleeding disorders such as Glanzmann thrombasthenia and von Willebrand disease.
Hemachandra
Hemachandra (हेमचन्द्र, also Hemacandra, 1088 to 1172) was a Svetambara Jain scholar-monk of twelfth-century Gujarat who wrote major works on grammar, lexicography, and Jain history, and whose counsel made non-violence royal policy under King Kumarapala.
HEMACORD
Hemacord (HPC, Cord Blood) is the first FDA-licensed cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cell therapy (BLA 125397, New York Blood Center, approved November 10, 2011) for unrelated donor transplantation for hematopoietic and immunologic reconstitution.
Hemadpanti style
Hemadpanti style (हेमाडपंती) is the mortarless temple architecture of Maharashtra under the Yadava dynasty, named for Hemadri, the 13th-century Yadava minister, though many such temples predate him.
Hemadri
Hemadri (हेमाद्रि), also known as Hemadpant, was a minister of the Yadava kings of Devagiri in the thirteenth century, known for the Caturvargacintamani and the Ayurvedarasayana commentary.
Hemadsorption Inhibition Tests
Hemadsorption inhibition tests are virological assays in which erythrocytes bind virus-infected cell monolayers and specific antiserum blocks that binding, identifying hemadsorbing viruses such as influenza, parainfluenza, and mumps, or quantifying myxovirus antibodies.
Hemagarbha pottali rasa
Hemagarbha pottali rasa (हेमगर्भपोट्टली), also Hemgarbha Pottali, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pottali of purified mercury, sulphur, gold and copper bhasmas with aloe juice; a 125 mg emergency-care formulation for Rajayakshma and Sannipataj conditions.
Hemagglutination
Hemagglutination is the clumping of red blood cells by antibodies, lectins, or viral proteins such as influenza hemagglutinin binding sialic acid; it underlies blood typing and the hemagglutination inhibition assay used for influenza serology.
Hemagglutination assay
The hemagglutination assay is a laboratory test that detects viruses such as influenza by watching red blood cells clump; its inhibition form measures antibodies instead.