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Hershey's Kisses
Hershey's Kisses are bite-sized teardrop milk chocolates first made in 1907 in Derry, Pennsylvania, hand-wrapped until 1921, trademarked in 2000, and produced at over 80 million pieces per day.
Hersheypark
Hersheypark (Hershey, Pennsylvania) is a 121-acre theme park opened in 1906 by Milton Hershey, owned by Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, with 15 coasters including Candymonium and Wildcat's Revenge, The Boardwalk water park, ZooAmerica, and about 3.32 million guests in 2023.
Herstory
Herstory is a 1970s feminist neologism meaning history seen from a female or feminist point of view, formed from her + story, later evolving into gender history.
Herta (Honkai: Star Rail)
Herta (黑塔) is a free 4-star Ice Erudition character in Honkai: Star Rail, Genius Society #83 and master of Herta Space Station, appearing as a puppet. Her Talent triggers AoE follow-up attacks when enemies fall below 50% HP, making her a Pure Fiction staple; a 5-star version, The Herta, arrived in version 3.0.
Herta Müller
Herta Müller, born 1953 in the Banat, Romania, is a German-Romanian novelist who emigrated to West Germany in 1987 and won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for works on deportation and surveillance under dictatorship.
Herta Ware
Herta Ware (Herta Ware Schwartz, 1917-2005), American character actress and activist, wife of blacklisted actor Will Geer, co-founder of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, best known as Rosie Lefkowitz in Cocoon (1985).
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire: county in the East of England north of London, population about 1.24 million (2025), ten districts, 124 parish councils; two-tier government set to become four unitary councils in 2028, now paused for review.
Hertha BSC
Hertha BSC (Hertha Berliner Sport-Club), founded 25 July 1892 in Berlin, is a football club playing in the 2. Bundesliga at the 74,475-seat Olympiastadion; German champions 1930 and 1931, founding Bundesliga member 1963, most recently relegated 2023.
Hertha Nunatak
Hertha Nunatak, also Herthainsel (German), is a 225 m nunatak in the Seal Nunataks group, Oscar II Coast, Antarctica, discovered by Captain Larsen on 11 December 1893 and named after the Norwegian sealing ship Hertha.
Hertha Wambacher
Hertha Wambacher (1903–1950) was an Austrian physicist at the Vienna Radium Institute who, as Marietta Blau's collaborator, co-discovered cosmic-ray disintegration stars in 1937 and shared the 1937 Lieben Prize.
Hertsa Raion
Hertsa Raion (Ukrainian: Герцаївський район) was a district in southern Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, on the Romanian border; the only raion with a Romanian majority, it was abolished in 2020.
Hertugen af Orléans Land
Hertugen af Orléans Land (Duke of Orleans Land, Nunat Aqqi) is a mainland region of NE Greenland in King Frederik VIII Land, west of Jøkelbugt, named in 1905 by the Duke of Orléans aboard the Belgica after his Terre de France name was vetoed.
Hertz
The hertz (Hz) is the SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second, named for the German physicist Heinrich Hertz and adopted into the SI in 1960.
Hertz Global Holdings
Hertz Global Holdings is an American holding company that rents vehicles worldwide through the Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty brands, with about 11,000 locations in 160 countries.
Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves
Heinrich Hertz's experiments of 1887–1888 at Karlsruhe first generated and detected electromagnetic waves with a spark-gap oscillator, confirming Maxwell's theory that light itself is an electromagnetic wave.
Hertzel Gerstein
Hertzel Gerstein is a Canadian endocrinologist at McMaster University who led large diabetes trials, including REWIND, and was elected a Royal Society of Canada Fellow in 2023.
Hertzian contact
Hertzian contact is the frictionless, non-adhesive contact between curved elastic solids touching at a point or line, as in bearings, gear teeth, and railway wheels.
Hertzog Prize
The Hertzog Prize (Hertzogprys) is the most prestigious literary award in Afrikaans literature, given by the South African Academy for Science and Arts since 1914.
Hertzsprung (crater)
Hertzsprung is a large, ancient impact basin on the far side of the Moon, about 570 km across, named for Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1970.
Hertzsprung gap
The Hertzsprung gap is a sparsely populated region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram between the main sequence and the giant branch, where intermediate-mass stars cross so quickly during the short subgiant phase that few are caught there.
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, or HR diagram, plots stellar luminosity against surface temperature, named for Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell, who used it to study stellar evolution.
Herugolf
Herugolf (ヘルゴルフ, Hell's Golf) is a Nikoli grid logic puzzle, originally Pro Golfer Maru, first published in Puzzle Communication Nikoli 142 (March 2013); numbered balls are hit to holes with strokes shrinking by one cell each shot, and solving is NP-complete.
Herui Gene (和瑞基因)
Herui Gene (和瑞基因) is a Chinese cancer early-screening company founded in 2017. By 2021, it had served hundreds of thousands of cancer patients across over 700 hospitals.
Heruli
The Heruli, or Herulians, were a Germanic people of the migration period, first recorded in the third century as raiders in the Balkans and the Aegean.
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Heruy Wolde Selassie was an Ethiopian scholar and foreign minister who served Menilek II and Haile Selassie, wrote some 28 books, and died in exile in 1938.
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Heidreks saga, Saga of King Heidrek the Wise) is a thirteenth-century Icelandic fornaldarsaga unified by the cursed sword Tyrfingr, surviving in H, R, and U redactions with over a hundred embedded verses.
Hervé Avet‐Loiseau
Hervé Avet-Loiseau is a French hematologist-oncologist known for the genetics and genomics of multiple myeloma, who led the Myeloma Genomics unit at the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse.
Hervé Dombret
Hervé Dombret is a French hematologist at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris specializing in adult acute leukemia; he led the ALFA and GRAALL groups and the ALFA-0701 gemtuzumab trial.
Hervé Leclerc
Hervé Leclerc (1963–2017) was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in French Formula 3 in the 1980s, and the father of Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc.
Hervé Morin
Hervé Morin, born in 1961, is a French politician, leader of Les Centristes and president of the Regional Council of Normandy, who served as Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2010.