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Hibernian F.C.

Hibernian F.C. (Hibs), Edinburgh football club founded 6 August 1875 by the city's Irish community; plays at Easter Road, Leith. Four league titles, three Scottish Cups, first British club in the European Cup, 2016 cup win after 114 years.

Hiberno-English

Hiberno-English, also called Irish English, is the English spoken in Ireland, formed from English dialect inputs and Irish transfer since the 1169 arrival and seventeenth-century plantations, with habitual do be grammar.

Hibes Montes

Hibes Montes is an IAU-approved group of mountains (mons, montes) on Mars near 3.7°N, 171.3°E, about 137-140 km across, approved in 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature and studied as possible composite volcanoes.

Hibi Eden

Hibi Eden (born 1983) is an Indian National Congress politician who represents Ernakulam, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after two terms in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.

HIBIC-NSCLC study

HIBIC-NSCLC (NCT06518018) is a retrospective propensity score-matched study at Neijiang Second People's Hospital testing HDR brachytherapy plus immune checkpoint inhibitors and docetaxel as second-line treatment for advanced NSCLC, reporting improved OS and PFS.

Hibiki LNG Terminal

Hibiki LNG Terminal (ひびきLNG基地) is an LNG import terminal in Kitakyushu, Japan, opened in 2014 and owned by Saibu Gas Holdings and Kyushu Electric Power, supplying city gas to Fukuoka.

Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of about 200–438 species in Malvaceae, tribe Hibisceae, native to tropics and subtropics, known for showy flowers, ornamental and fiber uses, and roselle (H. sabdariffa) tea; molecular studies show the genus is polyphyletic.

Hibiscus 'Kopper King'

Hibiscus 'Kopper King' (Hibiscus moscheutos 'Kopper King') is a Fleming-brothers hardy hibiscus cultivar, PP 10,793, with copper-red foliage and 10-12 inch white-pink red-eyed flowers, hardy to zone 4.

Hibiscus Petroleum

Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad is Malaysia's first listed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2011.

Hibiscus syriacus

Hibiscus syriacus, rose of Sharon or shrub althea, is a deciduous Malvaceae shrub native to southern China and Taiwan, the national flower of South Korea, hardy to USDA zone 5, with white-to-purple summer flowers and many cultivars.

Hibiscus tea

Hibiscus tea, aka karkade, agua de Jamaica, bissap, sobolo, or sorrel, is a caffeine-free tart red tisane from dried Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces, brewed hot or cold across Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Hibiscus Town (芙蓉镇)

Hibiscus Town (芙蓉镇) is Xie Jin's 1986 Shanghai Film Studio drama adapted from Gu Hua's Mao Dun Prize novel, starring Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen; it swept the 1987 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards, won at Karlovy Vary, and earned 120 million yuan.

Hibiya Incendiary Incident

The Hibiya Incendiary Incident (日比谷焼打事件) was a riot that erupted in Tokyo on 5 September 1905, the day the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War was signed.

Hibiya Park

Hibiya Park (日比谷公園) is a 16-hectare metropolitan park in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened in 1903 as Japan's first Western-style modern park, built on the model of German parks.

Hibo Kannon

Hibo Kannon (悲母観音, Merciful Mother Kannon) is an 1888 painting by Kanō Hōgai showing Kannon pouring water onto an infant, widely seen as a starting point of modern nihonga.

HiBob

HiBob is a privately held human resources technology company founded in Tel Aviv in 2015, whose product Bob combines core HR, talent management, and payroll in one platform.

Hibria

Hibria is a Brazilian power/speed metal band formed in 1996 in Porto Alegre, known for fast, technical songwriting and an unusually strong following in Japan.

Hiccup

Hiccup (singultus, hiccough): involuntary diaphragm spasm with sudden vocal cord closure producing the "hic" sound. Usually self-limiting; hiccups over 48 hours may indicate GERD, stroke, or tumors; chlorpromazine is the only FDA-approved drug.

Hịch

Hịch (檄) is a Vietnamese literary genre of exhortatory proclamations by rulers and generals to rally people against the enemy, epitomized by Trần Hưng Đạo's late-13th-century Hịch tướng sĩ.

Hich tuong si

Hịch tướng sĩ is a proclamation by Vietnamese commander Tran Hung Dao, written around 1284 to rally officers against the second Mongol invasion of Dai Viet.

Hicham El Guerrouj (هشام الكروج)

Hicham El Guerrouj (هشام الكروج), Moroccan middle-distance runner born 1974, held the 1500m (3:26.00) and mile (3:43.13) world records and won 1500m/5000m double gold at Athens 2004.

Hichem M'Saad

Hichem M'Saad, born 1965, is a US and Tunisian semiconductor executive who has served as CEO of Dutch equipment maker ASM International since May 2024.

HiChIP

HiChIP is a chromatin conformation method that combines ChIP with proximity ligation to map genome-wide interactions for a chosen protein, introduced by Mumbach and colleagues in 2016.

Hichkas

Hichkas (هیچکس), the stage name of Soroush Lashkari, is an Iranian rapper born in Tehran in 1985, widely regarded as the pioneer of Persian rap.

Hichki (हिचकी)

Hichki (हिचकी) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra, starring Rani Mukerji as a teacher with Tourette syndrome facing defiant students.

Hiciv

Hiciv is a literary genre of texts that criticize people, institutions, or societies in a mocking style, called taşlama in folk literature and yergi in contemporary Turkish literature.

Hick (film)

Hick is a 2011 American road drama directed by Derick Martini, adapted from Andrea Portes's novel, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as runaway teen Luli; premiered at TIFF 2011, released May 2012, Metascore 28.

Hick's law

Hick's law, or the Hick–Hyman law, states that choice reaction time rises linearly with the logarithm of the number of alternatives (RT = a + b log2 n). Established by W. E. Hick (1952) and Ray Hyman (1953) from information theory, with roots in Merkel's 1885 experiments; a foundational but debated principle of interface design.

Hickman line

Hickman line, also called Hickman catheter, a tunneled silicone central venous catheter with a Dacron cuff, invented by Robert Hickman in 1979 by enlarging the Broviac catheter for bone marrow transplantation; used for chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and blood sampling.

Hickok45

Hickok45 is an American YouTube web series launched in 2007, hosted by Greg Kinman, a retired English teacher, with his son John, running to more than 3,200 episodes of gun demonstrations.