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Hi'iaka Montes
Hi'iaka Montes is a mountain complex on Jupiter's moon Io, named for the Hawaiian goddess Hiʻiaka, sister of Pele. IAU-approved in 2000, it spans about 500 km, rises 11.1 km, and pairs with Hi'iaka Patera in a pull-apart volcano-tectonic system.
Hi'iaka Patera
Hi'iaka Patera is a 142-km-wide irregular volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 3.55°S, 79.48°W, named in 1997 for Pele's Hawaiian sister; a tectonic pull-apart basin with an active hot spot and dark lava flows.
Hi5
Hi5: social networking site founded 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi, also known as hi5.com. Third-largest social network by unique visitors in 2008, strong in Latin America, Romania, Turkey; acquired by Tagged 2011, MeetMe 2017.
HIAG
HIAG (Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS) was a West German lobby and revisionist veterans' organization of former Waffen-SS members, founded locally from 1948 and nationally in 1951, peaking near 20,000 members, securing 1961 pension rights, and dissolved at federal level in 1992.
Hialeah, Florida
Hialeah, Florida: Miami-Dade County city incorporated 1925, founded by James Bright and Glenn Curtiss, named for "high prairie"; sixth largest Florida city, 95 percent Hispanic, home to historic Hialeah Park Racetrack.
Hiam Abbass (هيام عباس)
Hiam Abbass (هيام عباس), born 1960 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian actress and director of Lemon Tree, Paradise Now, and Blade Runner 2049, and of Marcia Roy in Succession and Maysa in Ramy; distinct from any namesake actor.
Hian Goh
Hian Goh is a Singapore-based venture capitalist who co-founded Openspace Ventures in 2014, best known for leading the firm's first institutional investment in Gojek and for co-founding the Asian Food Channel, sold to Scripps in 2013.
Hiarbas
Hiarbas was a king of the Numidians who contested the throne with Hiempsal II and was defeated and killed by Pompey in Africa in 81 BC.
Hiatal hernia
Hiatal hernia (hiatus hernia): the stomach's top bulges through the diaphragm's esophageal hiatus. Very common with age (70% over 70); type 1 sliding form is 95% of cases; treated with PPIs or laparoscopic fundoplication.
Hiatal hernia repair
Hiatal hernia repair is surgery that pulls a stomach herniated through the diaphragm back into the abdomen, narrows the hiatus, and usually adds a fundoplication to restore the antireflux barrier.
Hiatus Kaiyote
Hiatus Kaiyote: Melbourne future soul quartet (Nai Palm, Paul Bender, Simon Mavin, Perrin Moss) formed 2011; three Grammy nominations; albums Tawk Tomahawk, Choose Your Weapon, Mood Valiant, Love Heart Cheat Code; sampled by Beyoncé, Drake, Kendrick Lamar.
Hiawatha
Hiawatha (Hayo'wetha, Aionwahta), Haudenosaunee co-founder with the Peacemaker of the Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace and bringer of wampum; distinct from Longfellow's 1855 poem hero based on the Ojibwe Manabozho.
Hiawatha Belt
The Hiawatha Belt is a wampum belt of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy recording the union of five nations under the Great Law of Peace; its design is the confederacy's flag.
Hib vaccine
Hib vaccine, or Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine, protects infants against Hib meningitis. Conjugate vaccines licensed since 1987 cut US Hib infection by over 99%; given at 2, 4, 6, and 12–15 months.
Hiba Abouk
Hiba Abouk (Hiba Aboukhris Benslimane), Spanish actress born 1986 in Madrid to Tunisian parents; known for Fátima in El Príncipe (2014–2016), RESAD-trained, speaks five languages, ex-wife of Achraf Hakimi.
Hiba Allah al-Lalika'i
Hiba Allah al-Lalika'i (هبة الله اللالكائي) was a Sunni hadith scholar and Shafi'i jurist of Baghdad who died in 1027, known for his major anthology of early Sunni creed.
Hiba Nawab
Hiba Nawab (born 1996, Bareilly) is an Indian Hindi-television actress, known as Elaichi in Jijaji Chhat Per Hain, Sayuri in Woh Toh Hai Albelaa, and the title lead of Jhanak (2023–2025).
Hiba Tawji
Hiba Tawaji (هبة طوجي) is a Lebanese coloratura soprano and pop singer born in Beirut in 1987, known for her four-octave range, her work with Oussama Rahbani, and her 2015 run on The Voice France.
Hibakusha (被爆者)
Hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, are the Japanese term for those exposed to the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are known for their global anti-nuclear activism.
Hibana (火花)
Hibana (火花, Hibana: Spark) is a 2016 Japanese Netflix original drama, the first of its kind, adapting Naoki Matayoshi's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about comedians Tokunaga and Kamiya in ten episodes streamed in 190 countries.
Hibana World Tour
Hibana World Tour is a 2025 world tour by Japanese singer Ado. It ran from April 26 to August 24 across 33 cities, starting in Saitama and ending in Honolulu.
Hibari Misora
Hibari Misora (美空ひばり), born Katō Kazue in 1937, was a Japanese singer and actress known as the Queen of Enka, recording over 1,500 songs before her death in 1989.
Hibat Allah ibn Sahl al-Bastami
Hibat Allah ibn Sahl al-Bastami was a hadith transmitter and jurist of Nishapur, born in 443 AH and died in 1139, who uniquely transmitted Malik's Muwatta' and taught Ibn Asakir and al-Sam'ani.
Hibatullah Akhundzada
Hibatullah Akhundzada, also known as Haibatullah Akhunzada, is the third supreme leader of the Taliban and de facto head of Afghanistan's Islamic Emirate, governing from Kandahar since 2016.
Hibera
Hibera, called Ibera in Latin, was an Iberian city of the Ilercavones in the lower Ebro valley of Spain, probably on the Suda hill at modern Tortosa.
Hibernate (framework)
Hibernate ORM is an object/relational mapping library for Java, created by Gavin King in 2001, which maps Java classes to database tables and inspired the Java Persistence API.
Hibernation
Hibernation, or prolonged torpor, is a seasonal state of suppressed metabolism and body temperature in mammals and one bird, with bouts of days to weeks, interbout arousals, metabolic rates as low as 2% of basal, and distinct bear winter sleep.
Hibernatus
Hibernatus is a 1969 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro starring Louis de Funès and Claude Gensac, adapted from Jean Bernard-Luc's play about a man found frozen for 65 years.
Hibernia
Hibernia, also Iverna, Juverna, Ierne, is the classical Latin name for Ireland, first recorded by Julius Caesar, mapped by Ptolemy, and for centuries equivalent to Scotia before that name transferred to Scotland.
Hibernia Oil and Gas Field
Hibernia is an offshore oil field in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, discovered in 1979 and producing since November 1997 from a gravity base platform.