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Henschel & Son
Henschel & Son (Henschel & Sohn) was a German engineering company founded in Kassel in 1810 that became Germany's leading steam locomotive builder and later made trucks and buses.
Henschel Hs 129
The Henschel Hs 129 was a German twin-engine, single-seat anti-tank aircraft of the Second World War, nicknamed the flying can-opener, serving mainly on the Eastern Front from 1942.
Henschel Hs 293
The Henschel Hs 293 was a German rocket-boosted, radio-controlled glide bomb of World War II, generally the first operational anti-ship guided missile, developed by Henschel under Herbert Wagner.
Hensel's lemma
Hensel's lemma, or Hensel lifting, is a number theory theorem stating that a simple root of a polynomial modulo a prime p lifts uniquely to a p-adic root.
Henselian ring
A henselian ring, also called a Hensel local ring, is a local ring in which simple roots of polynomials over the residue field lift to roots in the ring.
Hensin Tsao
Hensin Tsao is a dermatologist and melanoma genetics researcher who directs the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School.
HENSOLDT
HENSOLDT AG is a German defense and security electronics company headquartered in Taufkirchen near Munich, known for radars, electronic warfare systems, and the Eurofighter's ECRS Mk1 radar.
HENSY
HENSY (Гэнси) is the stage name of Alexander Kogan, a Russian pop and rap singer from Tatarstan whose 2020 single «Поболело и прошло» topped the VKontakte chart.
Hentai
Hentai (変態, "pervert") is the English umbrella term for sexually explicit Japanese anime, manga, games, and doujinshi; in Japan the genre is called ero-manga or seijin-muke. Covers etymology, history from shunga to the 1980s lolicon boom, and regulation.
Hentaigana (変体仮名)
Hentaigana (変体仮名) are historical variant forms of hiragana excluded from the 48-character standard set fixed by Japan's Ministry of Education in 1900; used in names until 1947 and now on shop signs and in calligraphy, 286 are encoded in Unicode 10.0.
Henti
Ḫenti was a queen of the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BC, the wife of King Šuppiluliuma I, who probably held the office of Tawananna, or Great Queen.
Henua Ataha
Henua Ataha, also known as Terre Déserte, is an arid region on the west coast of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, meaning desert land.
Henuka
Henuka was an official at the Egyptian royal court of the First Dynasty, documented under kings Semerkhet and Qa'a around 2920 BC and known from year labels.
Henut Taui
Henut Taui, a priestess of Egypt's 21st Dynasty around 1000 BC, is known for her Munich mummy, which a 1992 study found contained cocaine, hashish, and nicotine.
Henut-wedjebu
Henut-wedjebu was an Egyptian noblewoman of the 18th Dynasty, living around 1350 BCE in Thebes, a temple singer of Amun known from her gilded coffin, mummy, and inscribed shabti.
Henutempet
Henutempet was an Egyptian royal woman of the mid-18th Dynasty, known from funerary cones at Dra Abu el-Naga and proposed to be a Mitanni princess married to Thutmose IV.
Henutmehyt
Henutmehyt was a wealthy Egyptian chantress of Amun of the Nineteenth Dynasty, buried at Thebes about 1200 BC; her gilded burial equipment is split between the British Museum and Reading Museum.
Henutmire
Henutmire was an Egyptian queen of the 19th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses II, buried in tomb QV 75 in the Valley of the Queens.
Henutsen
Henutsen, also spelled Henut-sen, was a queen of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a wife of King Khufu and owner of the queens' pyramid G I-c at Giza.
Henuttakhebit
Henuttakhebit, also read Henuttakheb, was a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush in the early 6th century BC, attested on a stele of King Aspelta.
Henuttaneb
Henuttaneb, the Egyptian princess and "lady of every land," was the daughter of pharaoh Amenhotep III. She is known from monuments dating to the 14th century BC.
Henuttawy (daughter of Ramesses II)
Henuttawy was a princess of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, a daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari, known from the Abu Simbel processions and tomb QV 73.
Henuttawy (God's Wife of Amun)
Henuttawy was a 21st Dynasty priestess at Thebes who served as Divine Adoratrice of Amun and is listed as a God's Wife, probably a daughter of Pinedjem II.
Henuttawy C
Henuttawy C was a priestess of Amun in Egypt's 21st Dynasty, daughter of High Priest Menkheperre and probable sister-wife of Smendes II, known from her mummy board.
Henutwati
Henutwati, or Ta-Henutwati, was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty, thought to be the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses V around 1150 BC.
Henway
Henway is a split-pot home-game poker variant for 2 to 5 players: each is dealt ten cards, splits them into two five-card hands, turns cards up over four betting rounds, and the highest and lowest hands split the pot.
Henwen Fluctus
Henwen Fluctus, a 485-km-diameter lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 20.5°S, 179.9°E, IAU-named 1994 for a British Celtic sow-goddess; ~219,000 km² of flows up to 750 km long near Dali Chasma.
Heo Bong
Heo Bong (허봉, 1551–1588) was a mid-Joseon civil official and writer, a vanguard of the Dongin faction best known for impeaching the respected statesman Yi I.
Heo Gyun
Heo Gyun (허균, 1569–1618) was a Joseon civil official, writer, and reform thinker credited with the novel Hong Gildong jeon, executed for alleged treason in 1618.
Heo Heon
Heo Heon (허헌; 許憲, 1884 or 1885 – 1951) was a Korean lawyer and independence activist who defended the March 1st Movement leaders and later served in North Korea.