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Hiki Yoshikazu
Hiki Yoshikazu (比企能員), also known as Hiki Tōshirō, was a warrior and field commander for shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo whose 1203 murder led to the Hiki clan's destruction.
Hiki Yoshikazu incident
The Hiki Yoshikazu incident (比企能員の変), also called the Hiki rebellion, was a 1203 purge in which Hōjō Tokimasa had Hiki Yoshikazu killed, deposing shogun Yoriie and beginning Hōjō rule.
Hikikomori (ひきこもり)
Hikikomori (ひきこもり), pathological social withdrawal, is at least six months of home isolation with impairment, coined by Saitō Tamaki in 1998; Japan estimates about 1.15 million affected, and pooled global prevalence is 8.0%.
Hiking
Hiking: recreational walking on trails or natural paths, from day walks to long-distance treks. Also called rambling or bushwalking. Key facts: 28% higher energy cost than flat walking, 183.2 million US outdoor participants in 2025, Ten Essentials safety system.
Hikitsukeshū
Hikitsukeshū (引付衆) were members of the Hikitsuke, the Kamakura shogunate's litigation board founded in 1249 to make trials fairer and more efficient; they drafted judgment proposals for the Hyōjō council and served until the bakufu's fall.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
Hikma Pharmaceuticals is a multinational pharmaceutical company founded in Amman, Jordan, in 1978 by Samih Darwazah, making generic, specialty, and branded medicines across North America, Europe, and MENA.
Hikma poetry
Hikma poetry, also called wisdom poetry (شعر الحكمة), is a classical Arabic genre distilling counsel and moral instruction into verse, later led by Abu al-Atahiyah and al-Ma'arri.
Hikmat al-Hijri
Hikmat al-Hijri (حكمت الهجري), born in Venezuela in 1965, is a Syrian Druze spiritual leader and Sheikh of Reason since 2012, based in Qanawat, Suwayda.
Hikmet
Hikmet is a short didactic Sufi poem in a Turkic vernacular, named for the twelfth-century Central Asian saint Khoja Ahmad Yasawi, whose Divan-i Hikmat helped Islamize the Turkic steppe.
Hikone Castle (彦根城)
Hikone Castle (彦根城), an early Edo-period castle in Hikone, Shiga, built 1604–1622 for the Ii clan; its original keep is one of five National Treasure keeps and Japan's 2026 World Heritage candidate.
Hikrobot
Hikrobot (海康机器人), formally Hangzhou Hikrobot Co., Ltd., is a Chinese manufacturer of machine vision products and mobile robots, and a subsidiary of Hikvision headquartered in Hangzhou, serving factory automation and warehouse logistics in over 70 countries.
Hikuleo (wrestler)
Hikuleo (ヒクレオ), real name Tautuiaki Taula Koloamatangi, born 1991, Tongan-American NJPW Bullet Club heavyweight; won Strong Openweight and Tag Team titles 2023; now WWE's Talla Tonga.
Hikuleo Fluctus
Hikuleo Fluctus is a 600 km lava flow terrain (fluctus) on Venus at 52.5°N, 208°E, named for the Tongan underworld goddess and IAU-approved in 1997.
Hikurangi Plateau
Hikurangi Plateau: Cretaceous oceanic large igneous province east of New Zealand, fragment of the proposed Ontong Java Nui super-plateau with Ontong Java and Manihiki; rifted ~120 Ma, collided with Gondwana ~105 Ma, now subducting beneath the North Island.
Hikurangi subduction margin
The Hikurangi subduction margin is the plate boundary off New Zealand's East Coast where the Pacific plate subducts beneath the Australian plate, a major earthquake and tsunami hazard source.
Hikvision
Hikvision (海康威视), Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese AIoT and video-surveillance manufacturer founded in 2001, Shenzhen-listed (002415), CETC-linked, world's largest security camera maker with growing robotics, smart home, and auto electronics businesses.
Hila Karah
Hila Karah is an Israeli life-sciences investor with over 20 years of experience and board seats at two NASDAQ-listed companies, Managing Partner of HealthTech at Pitango Venture Capital since 2022.
Hila Zigman
Hila Zigman is an Israeli venture capital investor and General Partner at Cyberstarts, a cybersecurity firm, appointed in November 2023 after a career at Noname Security, later acquired by Akamai.
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), Franco-English writer, historian, and Catholic polemicist; Liberal MP for Salford 1906-1910, author of about 150 books including The Servile State, and half of the 'Chesterbelloc' with G. K. Chesterton.
Hilaire de Chardonnet
Hilaire de Chardonnet (Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet) was a French engineer who invented artificial silk and built the world's first man-made fiber factory at Besançon.
Hilaixinchuang
Hilaixinchuang (海莱新创, Jiangsu Hailai Xinchuang Medical Technology) is a Chinese medical-device startup founded in 2016 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, developing tumor treating fields (TTF) cancer therapy.
Ḫilakku
Ḫilakku was an Iron Age Neo-Hittite land of mountainous western Cilicia, distinct from the plain of Que, first recorded in 858 BC and repeatedly resisting Assyria; its name became Greek Cilicia.
Hilal A. Lashuel
Hilal A. Lashuel, also known as Hilal Lashuel, is a neuroscientist who studies protein misfolding in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and is Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar.
Hilal al-Sabi
Hilal al-Sabi (هلال الصابئ) was a Baghdadi chancery official, historian, and man of letters, 970 to 1056, who headed the Abbasid caliphal chancery under Baha al-Dawla and wrote a continuation of al-Tabari's history.
Hilal Haffar
Hilal Haffar (هلال الحفار) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Baghdad, born in 933 and died in 1023, styled the truthful shaykh and great hadith authority of Baghdad.
Hilal ibn Badr
Hilal ibn Badr (هلال بن بدر) was a ruler of the Hasanwayhid dynasty who deposed his father Badr ibn Hasanwayh in 1009 and was killed near Hamadan in 1015.
Hilar mossy cell
Hilar mossy cell: glutamatergic principal neuron of the dentate gyrus hilus, marked by thorny excrescences, axons reaching up to 35,000 granule cells; key in pattern separation, vulnerable in epilepsy.
Hilare
Hilare, the first French autonomous mobile robot, was designed in 1977 at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse for navigation research, anchoring one of mobile robotics' longest running projects.
Hilaria
Hilaria (curly-mesquite, hilaria grass) is a genus of about ten New World grasses in Poaceae, Chloridoideae, subtribe Hilariinae, native from western and central USA to Guatemala, described by Kunth in 1816.
Hilaria Baldwin
Hilaria Baldwin, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas in Boston, is an American yoga instructor who co-founded Yoga Vida in New York, married Alec Baldwin in 2012, wrote The Living Clearly Method, and was exposed in 2020 for a fabricated Spanish identity.