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Hijack (TV series)
Hijack is a 2023 British real-time thriller series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith for Apple TV+, starring Idris Elba as a business negotiator aboard a hijacked Dubai-to-London flight.
Hijack 1971
Hijack 1971 (하이재킹) is a 2024 South Korean action thriller, Kim Sung-han's directorial debut, starring Ha Jung-woo and Yeo Jin-goo, based on the January 1971 Korean Air F-27 hijack attempt from Sokcho to Seoul.
Hijacked journal
A hijacked journal is a fraudulent website that solicits manuscripts and fees under the name, ISSN, and identity of a real journal, without its publisher's authorization.
Hijackers in the September 11 attacks
The 19 al Qaeda-trained hijackers of September 11, 2001: 15 Saudis, 2 Emiratis, 1 Egyptian, 1 Lebanese; four pilots including Atta, Al-Shehhi, Jarrah, Hanjour; muscle hijackers, US entry from January 2000, four flights, nearly 3,000 dead.
Hijacking of the Galaxy Leader
Hijacking of the Galaxy Leader: Houthi helicopter raid of 19 November 2023 that seized the Bahamas-flagged car carrier (IMO 9237307), British-owned and Japanese-operated, near Hodeida, Yemen, taking its 25 crew hostage until their release via Oman on 22 January 2025, opening the Red Sea shipping crisis.
Hijam Anganghal Singh
Hijam Anganghal Singh (হিজাম অনঙ্গো সিংহ, 1892–1943) was a Manipuri poet whose epic Khamba Thoibi Sheireng is regarded as the magnum opus of Manipuri literature.
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三)
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三), 1835–1869, vice-commander of the Shinsengumi, the "Demon Vice-Commander" of Bakumatsu Kyoto; led the corps in the Boshin War, became vice-minister of the army in the Hakodate government, and died 11 May 1869 at the Battle of Hakodate.
Hijo de hombre
Hijo de hombre is a 1960 novel by the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, his first published work, which won an international prize from Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires.
Hijos de la ira
Hijos de la ira is a 1944 poetry collection by the Spanish poet Dámaso Alonso, considered his masterwork and the founding book of postwar uprooted poetry.
Hijra
The Hijra (الهجرة النبوية) was the migration of Muhammad and his companions from Mecca to Yathrib, later Medina, in 622, becoming the epoch of the Islamic calendar.
Hijra (South Asia)
Hijra: centuries-old South Asian third-gender community (khwaja sira, kinnar) with guru-chela social structure; legally recognized in Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, yet facing marked discrimination, ritual and begging livelihoods, and elevated HIV and syphilis burden.
Hijra of Muhammad
The Hijra of Muhammad (الهجرة) was the 622 CE migration of Muhammad and Abu Bakr from Mecca to Yathrib, later called Medina, to escape Quraysh hostility.
Hijra to Gudu
The Hijra to Gudu was the February 1804 migration of Uthman dan Fodio's Muslim community from Degel in Gobir to Gudu, where he was proclaimed Amir al-Mu'minin.
Hijri year (التقويم الهجري)
The Hijri year (التقويم الهجري), also called Anno Hegirae, is the year of the Islamic lunar calendar, counted from the Hijra of 622 CE and designated AH.
Hikari (train)
Hikari (ひかり, "light") is a limited-stop Shinkansen service on the Tokaido and Sanyo lines, slower than Nozomi and fully covered by the Japan Rail Pass.
Hikari Denwa
Hikari Denwa (ひかり電話) is the fiber-optic IP telephone service provided by NTT East and NTT West over FLET'S optical lines, launched in 2005 and now Japan's standard landline.
Hikari Ōe (大江光)
Hikari Ōe (大江光) is a Japanese composer and the eldest son of novelist Kenzaburō Ōe. He is known for his savant abilities and his 1996 film score A Quiet Life.
Hikari Senga (千賀 光莉)
Hikari Senga (千賀 光莉, born 1999) is a Japanese voice actress from Fukushima with FIRST WIND production, known as Cure Answer/Anna Akechi in Meitantei Precure!, Kuroe Akaishi in Otome Kaiju Caramelise, and Epiphaneia in Umamusume.
Hikari Tsushin
Hikari Tsushin (株式会社光通信) is a Tokyo-based holding company founded by Yasumitsu Shigeta in 1988, selling telecommunications, electricity and gas, water, insurance, and finance through about 1,000 sales agents.
Hikaru Midorikawa (緑川 光)
Hikaru Midorikawa (緑川 光, born 1968, Tochigi) is a Japanese voice actor with Aoni Production who debuted in 1988's Kiteretsu Daihyakka. Known for Heero Yuy in Gundam Wing, Rukawa Kaede in SLAM DUNK, Kaiba Seto, Gridman, and Marth.
Hikaru Nakamura (中村光)
Hikaru Nakamura (中村光) is an American chess grandmaster, born in Japan in 1987, who is a five-time United States champion, 2022 Fischer Random world champion, and prominent streamer.
Hikaru no Go (ヒカルの碁)
Hikaru no Go (ヒカルの碁) is a 1998–2003 Weekly Shonen Jump manga by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata about Hikaru Shindo, host to the Heian go master Fujiwara no Sai's ghost, rivaling Akira Toya; 23 volumes, 75-episode anime, 2000 go boom.
Hikaru no Go (棋魂)
Hikaru no Go (棋魂, Qi Hun) is a 2020 Chinese drama adapted from the Japanese manga, starring Hu Xianxu and streaming on iQIYI in 36 episodes.
Hikaru Shida (志田 光)
Hikaru Shida (志田 光), born 1988 in Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress. AEW star since 2019, three-time AEW Women's World Champion, former Ice Ribbon and OZ Academy titleholder.
Hikaru Sulu
Hikaru Sulu, fictional Starfleet helmsman of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series, played by George Takei and later John Cho; later Captain of the Excelsior; first named Hikaru on screen in 1991; revealed gay in Star Trek Beyond (2016).
Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル)
Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル), also known as Utada, is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 1998 with "Automatic/time will tell" at 15; her album First Love (1999) is still Japan's best-selling album, and she returned from a 2010 hiatus with Fantôme (2016).
Hikaya
Hikaya (Arabic حكاية; Turkish hikâye; Malay hikayat) means tale or story, naming a classical Arabic prose genre and narrative traditions in Turkish, Malay, and Tatar literature.
Hikayat
Hikayat is a genre of traditional Malay and Acehnese narrative literature, long prose tales and epics composed anonymously in classical Malay and transmitted by recitation as much as by reading.
Hikayat Abdullah
Hikayat Abdullah (حکایت عبدالله) is an autobiographical account in Malay by Munsyi Abdullah, a Malacca-born scribe and printer, published in Singapore in 1849 and regarded as the first Malay autobiography.
Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi
Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi (حكاية أبي القاسم البغدادي) is an Arabic prose work, probably from the 11th century, attributed to al-Azdi, about a Baghdadi who crashes a banquet in Isfahan.