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Highway Prayers

Highway Prayers, Billy Strings' 2024 Reprise double album of 20 bluegrass tracks produced with Jon Brion; first bluegrass No. 1 on Top Album Sales since 2002 and 2026 Grammy Best Bluegrass Album winner.

Highway revolts in the United States

Highway revolts, or freeway revolts, were US citizen protests from the late 1950s through the 1970s against urban Interstate freeways, beginning in San Francisco and spreading to Boston, Washington, D.C., and other cities, canceling or reshaping projects that displaced over one million people.

Highway Safety Manual

The Highway Safety Manual is an AASHTO guidance document, first published in 2010, offering quantitative methods for estimating and managing the safety performance of highways and streets.

Highway Thru Hell

Highway Thru Hell is a Canadian docuseries (2012–, Discovery Canada/USA Network) following Jamie Davis Motor Truck and other heavy recovery firms clearing wrecks on British Columbia's Coquihalla Highway, narrated by Dave Pettitt, produced by Great Pacific Media, with 14 seasons and spin-off Heavy Rescue: 401.

Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven, NBC drama series 1984–1989 created by Michael Landon, who starred as probationary angel Jonathan Smith with Victor French as ex-cop Mark Gordon; 111 episodes, Henry Mancini theme, later Touched by an Angel comparison.

Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell, AC/DC's sixth studio album released 27 July 1979, produced by Mutt Lange, the band's US breakthrough and final album with singer Bon Scott, recorded at London's Roundhouse Studios.

Highway to Hell (1991 film)

Highway to Hell (1991) is an Ate de Jong comedy-horror film, also called Autopista al infierno, written by Brian Helgeland, in which Chad Lowe's character rescues his eloping fiancée (Kristy Swanson) from the Hellcop; a 1989 shoot released March 13, 1992, grossing $26,055.

Highway to Hell (song)

Highway to Hell (song): 1979 AC/DC title track by Bon Scott, Angus and Malcolm Young, produced by Mutt Lange; named for the Canning Highway and the band's 1978 tour; Bon Scott's last album.

Highway Traffic Act (Ontario)

The Highway Traffic Act (HTA) is the principal Ontario statute governing motor vehicles and roadways, covering licensing, equipment, rules of the road, and penalties like demerit points and suspensions.

Highway Trust Fund

The Highway Trust Fund is a US Treasury account, created in 1956, funded by federal motor fuel taxes and spent on federal-aid highways and public transportation.

Highwayman

A highwayman was a mounted robber who held up travelers on public roads, peaking in 18th-century Britain; the word dates to 1617, the crime declined with better roads and policing, and the last mounted robbery came in 1831.

Highwayman (song)

Highwayman is a 1977 Jimmy Webb song about a soul reincarnated as a highwayman, sailor, Hoover Dam worker, and starship captain, recorded by Glen Campbell and made a 1985 Billboard country number one and Grammy winner by the Highwaymen.

Highways Act 1980

The Highways Act 1980 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament that consolidated the Highways Acts 1959 to 1971 and remains the principal statute governing highways in England and Wales.

Higinio Martínez

Higinio Martínez Miranda is a Mexican Morena politician, a senator for the State of Mexico since 2018 who has presided over the Senate's Board of Directors since September 2026.

Higinio Martinez Miranda

Higinio Martinez Miranda is a Mexican politician of Morena, a senator for the State of Mexico elected President of the Senate on September 1, 2026, with 116 votes.

Higinio Morínigo

Higinio Morínigo was a Paraguayan general who served as president of Paraguay from 1940 to 1948, leading an authoritarian regime until his overthrow in a 1948 coup.

Higo Kokujin Ikki

The Higo Kokujin Ikki, or Higo Ikki, was a 1587 uprising by local lords of Higo Province in Kyushu against their new ruler Sassa Narimasa.

Higold Group

Higold Group (悍高集团) is a Chinese manufacturer of home hardware and outdoor furniture, founded by Ou Jinfeng in 2004 in Foshan, Guangdong, and listed in Shenzhen in 2025.

Higuchi Ichiyō

Higuchi Ichiyō (樋口一葉, 1872–1896) was a Japanese Meiji-era novelist and tanka poet known for Takekurabe, Nigorie, and Jūsan'ya, and regarded as Japan's first professional woman writer.

Higuchi Kaede

Higuchi Kaede (樋口楓) is a Japanese VTuber with the agency Nijisanji who debuted in 2018 and built a parallel singing career, making her major label debut on Lantis in 2020.

Higurashi When They Cry (ひぐらしのなく頃に)

Higurashi When They Cry (ひぐらしのなく頃に) is Ryukishi07 and 07th Expansion's 2002 murder-mystery horror sound novel set in Hinamizawa, adapted into anime by Studio DEEN (2006) and Passione (GOU/SOTSU 2020-21), with a new Studio DEEN anime announced in 2026.

Hiʻiaka (moon)

Hiʻiaka is the outer and larger of Haumea's two known moons, discovered in 2005 and named for the Hawaiian goddess of Hawaii island and hula dancers.

Hiipe Princess

H//PE Princess (하입 프린세스, HIIPE Princess) is a seven-member Korean-Japanese hip-hop girl group formed on Mnet's Unpretty Rapstar: HIP POP Princess, under Chapter-I (CJ ENM and Hakuhodo). They debuted May 27, 2026 with the EP 17.7, named for the members' average age.

Hiiraan

Hiiraan (هيران), also spelled Hiran, is a river-agricultural region of central Somalia with its capital at Beledweyne on the Wabi Shabelle River, prone to flooding.

Hiiumaa

Hiiumaa (Dagö) is Estonia's second-largest island, 989 km², in the West Estonian archipelago; about 9,400 residents, formed by a 455-million-year-old meteorite impact, first recorded 1228 as Dageida.

Hiiumaa Islets and Käina Bay

Hiiumaa Islets and Käina Bay (Hiiumaa laiud ja Käina laht), Estonian Ramsar site 908 designated 1997: 17,700 ha of shallow sea, islets, and a 0.5-m-deep bird-rich lagoon on Hiiumaa's southeast coast.

Hija'

Hija' (الهِجَاء) is a principal genre of classical Arabic poetry, defined as the opposite of praise, in which the poet attacks an enemy with blame and mockery.

Hijab (حجاب)

Hijab (حجاب), Arabic for cover or barrier, is the modest dress and head covering of Muslim women, grounded in Quran 24:31 and 33:59, defined by juristic conditions, and today shaped by fashion, state regulation in Iran and France, and varying observance.

Hijab Butch Blues

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir is Lamya H's 2023 Dial Press debut memoir in essays, weaving Quranic stories (Maryam, Musa, Nuh) with a queer Muslim immigrant's coming of age; Stonewall Book Award winner.

Hijab in Iran

Compulsory hijab in Iran: mandatory veiling since the 1979 revolution, reversed Reza Shah's 1936 unveiling, enforced by morality police, contested by 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests after Mahsa Amini's death.