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Hilltop Park

Hilltop Park, officially American League Park, was the all-wood 1903-1912 Manhattan ballpark of the New York Highlanders, the Yankees' first home, leased from the New York Institute for the Blind and demolished in 1914.

Hilly Kristal

Hilly Kristal (Hillel Kristal, 1931-2007), American club owner and musician, founder of CBGB at 315 Bowery, New York, opened December 1973 as a country-bluegrass-blues bar that became the birthplace of American punk via his original-music-only booking policy.

Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Swedish painter and spiritualist; De Fem séance group member; creator of The Paintings for the Temple (1906–1915); made abstract paintings by 1906, before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich, and was rediscovered by the 1986 LACMA and 2018 Guggenheim exhibitions.

Hilmar Bading

Hilmar Bading is a neuroscientist who has been Chair of Neurobiology at Heidelberg University since 2001, known for discovering nuclear calcium as the central mediator of activity-dependent gene expression.

Hilmar Wendt

Hilmar Wendt (1913–2002) was a German mathematician who co-named the Hantzsche–Wendt manifold and held a chair of practical mathematics at the University of Bonn from 1948 to 1981.

Hilmi Volkan Demir

Hilmi Volkan Demir, also published as H. V. Demir, is a Turkish electrical engineer at Bilkent University who directs UNAM, Turkey's National Nanotechnology Research Center, and works in nanophotonics.

Hilmi Yavuz

Hilmi Yavuz (born 14 April 1936) is a Turkish poet, essayist, and lecturer whose modern verse brings classical Ottoman Divan poetry and Sufi thought into Turkish.

Hilo International Airport

Hilo International Airport, known as General Lyman Field until 1989, is a state-owned airport about two miles east of Hilo, Hawaii, serving Hawaiian and Southwest Airlines flights.

Hilo, Hawaii

Hilo is the largest city and county seat of Hawaii County on the northeastern coast of Hawaiʻi Island, with about 45,000 residents, heavy trade-wind rainfall, the state's worst tsunami history, UH Hilo, and a post-sugar economy of agriculture, tourism, and astronomy.

Hilong Group

Hilong Group (海隆石油工业集团), listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as 01623.HK, is a Shanghai-based Chinese group manufacturing drill pipe and providing drilling, coating, and offshore engineering services.

Hilt

A hilt is the complete handle assembly of a sword, dagger, or similar edged weapon, made up of the guard, the grip, and the pommel, each threaded onto the blade's integral tang.

HILT trial (NCT07287046)

HILT trial (NCT07287046) is a Mahidol University single-blind randomized trial comparing high-intensity laser therapy with focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy for plantar fasciitis, enrolling an estimated 28 adults with VAS pain outcomes at 12 weeks.

Hilti

Hilti is a family-owned Liechtenstein company, founded in 1941 in Schaan by engineer Martin Hilti, that develops, manufactures, and sells tools, fastening systems, and construction software worldwide.

Hilton family

The Hilton family: American dynasty of hotelier Conrad N. Hilton (1887–1979), founder of Hilton Hotels and the Hilton Foundation; son Barron sold the hotel business to Blackstone in 2007; Paris Hilton is a great-granddaughter.

Hilton Hawaiian Village

Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, at 2005 Kalia Road in Waikiki, Honolulu, is Hawaii's largest resort: five towers on 22 beachfront acres, 18 restaurants, five pools, Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon, roots in the 1928 Niumalu Hotel and 1955 Kaiser development.

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: a large Sea Islands barrier island in Beaufort County, named for Captain William Hilton in 1663, site of Mitchelville, the first self-governing freedmen's village, and transformed by Charles Fraser's Sea Pines resort development after the 1956 bridge.

Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Hilton Hotels & Resorts, the flagship full-service hotel brand of Hilton Worldwide, traces its start to Conrad Hilton's first hotel, opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1925.

Hilton Inlet

Hilton Inlet, also Hilton Bay or Ensenada Hilton, is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Darlington and Cape Knowles, discovered by USAS in 1940 and named for surveyor Donald C. Hilton.

Hilton Valentine

Hilton Valentine (Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine) was the English founding guitarist of the Animals, creator of the arpeggiated A-minor intro to "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964), a UK and US No. 1, and later a skiffle musician as Skiffledog.

Hilton Worldwide

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919, is an American hospitality company operating 9,403 properties and 1,384,842 rooms in 144 countries.

HILUTS trial

HILUTS trial (NCT03633994), a phase 2 randomized quadruple-masked trial at The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, testing intraoperative heparin bladder instillation (40,000 U) versus saline to reduce lower urinary tract symptoms after benign hysterectomy; no results posted.

Hilversum

Hilversum, a North Holland municipality of about 94,600 residents, is the Dutch media city, home of the Media Park's roughly 100 media companies; it merges with Wijdemeren into one municipality on 1 January 2027.

Hilye

The Hilye (حليه; Arabic: الحلية) is a calligraphic panel describing the Prophet Muhammad's appearance and character rather than depicting him, developed most fully in Ottoman calligraphy and hung in homes.

Him (2025 film)

Him (2025 film) is an American sports horror film produced by Monkeypaw Productions. It stars Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers, and follows a quarterback training with his idol.

HIM (Finnish band)

HIM (His Infernal Majesty), Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki founded 1991 by Ville Valo; pioneered self-styled 'love metal'; hits 'Join Me in Death' and Dark Light, first Finnish RIAA gold album; disbanded 2017.

Him & Her

Him & Her (also known as Young, Unemployed, and Lazy) is a BBC Three single-camera sitcom, 2010–2013, 25 episodes, written by Stefan Golaszewski, starring Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani as lazy couple Steve and Becky, and a BAFTA winner.

Ḥimā Cultural Area

Ḥimā Cultural Area (منطقة حمى الثقافية), also called Bir Hima or Hima Najran, is a UNESCO World Heritage rock art site in Najran Province, southwest Saudi Arabia, inscribed in 2021 under criterion (iii), with 7,000 years of petroglyphs, multi-script inscriptions, and 3,000-year-old wells on an ancient caravan route.

Hima Das

Hima Das (born 2000), the Dhing Express, is an Indian sprinter from Assam; 2018 World U20 400m champion (51.46 s), Indian 400m national record holder at 50.79 s, and 2018 Asian Games relay gold medallist.

Hima Paleo-Arabic inscriptions

The Hima Paleo-Arabic inscriptions are pre-Islamic rock texts carved in Arabic script on the Hima massif near Najran, Saudi Arabia, including the earliest fully Arabic letter shapes, from the late fifth century CE.

Hima people

Hima (Bahima; singular Muhima): cattle-keeping pastoralist class of southwestern Uganda and the Great Lakes, historically dominant over the farming Iru in Ankole, Bunyoro, and Toro; 300,000–400,000 people; related to the Tutsi.