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Herbjørg Wassmo
Herbjørg Wassmo, born 1942 in Vesterålen, Norway, is a novelist and poet who won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1987 for Hudløs himmel, part of her Tora trilogy.
Herc Rentals
Herc Rentals is an equipment rental company headquartered in Bonita Springs, Florida, founded in 1965 as Hertz Equipment Rental and made independent in a 2016 spin-off.
HERC2
HERC2 (HECT and RLD domain containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 2), chromosome 15 gene encoding an E3 ubiquitin ligase; its enhancer SNP rs12913832 regulates OCA2 and is the main determinant of European blue versus brown eye color.
Hercai
Hercai is a Turkish romantic revenge drama aired on atv from 15 March 2019 to 25 April 2021, 3 seasons and 69 episodes, starring Akın Akınözü and Ebru Şahin as Miran Aslanbey and Reyyan Şadoğlu, filmed in Midyat and exported worldwide.
Hercte (Ekte)
Hercte, also written Heircte, is a mountain near Panormus, modern Palermo, in western Sicily, which Hamilcar Barca seized and held from 247 to 244 BC as his base against the Romans in the First Punic War.
Herculaneum
Herculaneum (Ercolano), Roman town buried by Vesuvius' 24 August AD 79 eruption under pyroclastic flows, better preserved than Pompeii; ~4.5 ha open, ~300 shoreline skeletons, Villa of the Papyri with ~1,800 carbonized scrolls, UNESCO site since 1997.
Herculaneum papyri
Herculaneum papyri: carbonized Greek and Latin scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri, buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and excavated 1752-1754; mostly Epicurean works of Philodemus, now being read unopened via the Vesuvius Challenge.
Hercule (TV series)
Hercule is a 2027 six-part BBC and BritBox crime drama starring Edward Bluemel as a young Hercule Poirot in interwar London, adapted by Benji Walters from three early Agatha Christie stories, filmed in Liverpool, and produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited.
Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's fictional Belgian private detective, debuted in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and died in Curtain (1975); 33 novels, 50+ short stories, 'little grey cells', Hastings, Suchet and Branagh adaptations.
Hercule Poirot (film series)
The Hercule Poirot film series is a trilogy of murder-mystery films directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh for 20th Century Studios, released from 2017 to 2023.
Hercules
Hercules (Greek Heracles, Ἡρακλῆς), son of Zeus and Alcmene, the foremost Greek demigod famous for the Twelve Labors imposed by Eurystheus; distinguished from other heroes by Hera-driven madness, descent claims by Spartan and Macedonian dynasties, and the Roman Ara Maxima cult.
Hercules (1997 film)
Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy film from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, loosely based on the Greek hero Heracles.
Hercules (1998 TV series)
Hercules (Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series) is a 65-episode American animated series (1998-1999), a spin-off of Disney's 1997 Hercules film, following teenage Hercules in training under Philoctetes with friends Icarus and Cassandra, aired in syndication and ABC's One Saturday Morning.
Hercules (2014 film)
Hercules is a 2014 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson as Hercules, a mercenary leading warriors against a tyrannical warlord in Thrace.
Hercules (gangster)
Hercules (Rosario de Marçal, also Marcal/Marshal) is an Indonesian preman gangster and political broker from East Timor who ran Jakarta's Tanah Abang protection rackets in the 1990s and later founded GRIB Jaya, closely tied to President Prabowo Subianto.
Hercules (Marvel Comics)
Hercules (Hercules Panhellenios), Marvel Comics Olympian superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey into Mystery Annual #1 (1965); Avengers member, Prince of Power, star of Incredible Hercules.
Hercules (wrestler)
Hercules (wrestler), ring name of Raymond Constantine Fernandez Jr. (1956–2004), American WWF heel of the late 1980s known for his steel chain, the Ultimate Warrior feud, Power and Glory, and the IWGP tag title with Scott Norton.
Hercules and Antaeus (Pollaiuolo)
Hercules and Antaeus is a pair of works by Antonio del Pollaiuolo from about 1475: a small panel in the Uffizi and a bronze statuette in the Bargello, both in Florence.
Hercules beetle
Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules), a giant rhinoceros beetle of Central and South American rainforests; males bear plier-like head and thoracic horns, and its elytra shift yellow to black with humidity.
Hércules CF
Hércules CF (Hércules Club de Fútbol), Alicante-based Spanish football club founded 1922, 20 La Liga seasons, José Rico Pérez stadium, 1982 World Cup venue, now in Primera Federación, rival of Elche CF.
Hercules Dwarf Galaxy
Hercules is an ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellite of the Milky Way, about 132 kpc away in the constellation Hercules, discovered in 2007 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, and debated as tidally disrupted.
Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens ("The Mad Hercules") is a Latin tragedy by Seneca, adapting Euripides' Heracles, in which Juno drives Hercules mad and he kills his wife and children.
Hercules in New York
Hercules in New York (1970), aka Hercules Goes Bananas, is Arnold Schwarzenegger's feature debut, billed as Arnold Strong, a low-budget fantasy comedy directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman with a dubbed voice and 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Hercules Mulligan
Hercules Mulligan (1740–1825), Irish-born New York tailor and George Washington's confidential spy in British-occupied Manhattan; not a Culper Ring member; credited with foiling two plots to capture Washington, with courier Cato.
Hercules Oetaeus
Hercules Oetaeus is a Latin tragedy transmitted among Seneca's plays that dramatizes Hercules' death on Mount Oeta and his apotheosis; its Senecan authorship is disputed.
Hercules X-1
Hercules X-1 (Her X-1) is an eclipsing X-ray binary pulsar in the constellation Hercules, discovered by the Uhuru satellite in 1971, accreting matter from the star HZ Herculis.
Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, or Great GRB Wall, is a proposed clustering of gamma-ray bursts, reported in 2014 and possibly the largest structure in the universe.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) is a syndicated fantasy action series starring Kevin Sorbo as a mortal Hercules, with Michael Hurst as Iolaus; 116 episodes, five 1994 TV movies, and spin-offs Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.
Herd behavior
Herd behavior in economics is the pattern in which individuals do what others are doing rather than act on their own private information, as in informational cascades.
Herd immunity
Herd immunity, also called community or indirect protection, occurs when enough of a population is immune, by vaccination or infection, that transmission chains break. Threshold is 1 − 1/R0; measles needs about 95% coverage, polio about 80%.