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Hima-Ten!

Hima-Ten! (ひまてん!, Himaten!) is Genki Ono's romantic comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024-2026, 96 chapters in 11 volumes, about house-cleaner Tenichi Iemori and cosmetics-brand president Himari Yoshino.

Himachal Pradesh (हिमाचल प्रदेश)

Himachal Pradesh (हिमाचल प्रदेश) is a Himalayan state of northern India, capital Shimla, formed 15 April 1948 from 30 princely states and granted full statehood 25 January 1971 as India's 18th state; 12 districts, 55,673 sq km, glacier-fed rivers, hydropower, and apple horticulture.

Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium

The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, also called the HPCA or Dharamshala Cricket Stadium, is a cricket ground in Dharamshala, India, set at 1,457 meters against the Himalayas.

Himadri B. Pakrasi

Himadri B. Pakrasi, also published as H. B. Pakrasi, is a biologist who studies cyanobacterial photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the Freiberg Professor of Biology.

Himadri Singh

Himadri Singh, born 1988, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

Himala

Himala (Miracle) is a 1982 Filipino drama by Ishmael Bernal, written by Ricky Lee, starring Nora Aunor as healer Elsa; it won nine 1982 MMFF awards and was named CNN's Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time in 2008.

Himalaya

Himalaya (Marchands d'Empire) is a 2004 Tilsit board game by Régis Bonnessée, nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2005. Three to four players secretly program six yak-caravan actions per round, collect five goods, and win via religious, political, and economic influence.

Himalaya Capital

Himalaya Capital, also known as Himalaya Capital Management, is a Seattle investment firm founded by Li Lu in 1997 following Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett's value principles.

Himalaya Wellness Company

Himalaya Wellness Company, formerly Himalaya Drug Company, is an Indian herbal healthcare multinational founded in 1930 by M. Manal in Dehradun, based in Bengaluru, known for Liv.52, Cystone, and Serpina, selling about 500 products in over 100 countries.

Himalayan brown bear

Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus, Dren-Mo), an ancient brown bear subspecies of the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and western Himalayas at 3,000–5,500 m; roughly 600 remain, critically endangered in Pakistan, Schedule I in India.

Himalayan cat

Himalayan cat, or colorpoint Persian: longhaired cat with Persian body and Siamese colorpoint pattern and blue eyes. GCCF recognition 1955, CFA 1957; CFA merged it into Persian as a division in 1984, TICA keeps it a breed.

Himalayan Department

Himalayan Department (ჰიმალაის განყოფილება) is the Himalayan Phytogeographic department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 1.8 ha of Himalayan conifers, magnolias, and palms introduced from Darjeeling, not a government department.

Himalayan salt

Himalayan salt, also sold as Himalayan pink salt or pink rock salt, is a rock salt mined mainly at the Khewra Salt Mine in Punjab, Pakistan, with its pink color from iron oxides.

Himalayas

The Himalayas is a mountain range in Asia, stretching 2,900 km along the border between India and Tibet. It is known for its high peaks and massive glaciers.

Himalia

Himalia, Jupiter VI, is the fifth largest moon of Jupiter, discovered by Charles Perrine in 1904; a dark, irregular body about 85 km in radius.

Himani Shivpuri (हिमानी भट्ट शिवपुरी)

Himani Shivpuri (Himani Bhatt Shivpuri, हिमानी भट्ट शिवपुरी), born 1960 in Dehradun, is an Indian character actress of Hindi films and television, an NSD-trained theatre actor, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winner, and Katori Amma in Happu Ki Ultan Paltan.

Himanshu Sharma (हिमांशु शर्मा)

Himanshu Sharma (हिमांशु शर्मा), born 1980 in Lucknow, is an Indian screenwriter and producer in Hindi cinema, writer of Tanu Weds Manu (2011, 2015) and Raanjhanaa (2013), and a double National Film Award winner for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

Himanta Biswa Sarma (হিমন্ত বিশ্ব শৰ্মা)

Himanta Biswa Sarma (হিমন্ত বিশ্ব শৰ্মা), born 1969, is the 15th Chief Minister of Assam (BJP, since 10 May 2021), a former Congress leader, six-time MLA from Jalukbari, and BJP's key strategist in northeast India.

Himari Suzuki

Himari Suzuki (鈴木日毬, born 2004) is a Japanese ice hockey defenseman for Kawasemi Daishin Ladies who won gold with Japan in girls' ice hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics; distinct from a same-named 800m runner born 2010.

Himatsuri

Himatsuri (火まつり, Fire Festival) is a 1985 Japanese drama directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi from Kenji Nakagami's first screenplay, about a Kumano lumberjack who kills his family after a storm; shown at Cannes 1985.

Himawari-8

Himawari-8 is a Japanese geostationary meteorological satellite launched in 2014 and operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, observing East Asia and the western Pacific with a 16-band imager.

Himawari-9

Himawari-9 (ひまわり9号) is a Japanese geostationary weather satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, launched in 2016 and Japan's primary observation satellite since December 2022.

Himba people

The Himba, or Ovahimba, are a semi-nomadic pastoral people of the Herero family living in northwestern Namibia and southern Angola, known for red ochre and cattle herding.

Himbo

Himbo is slang for an attractive but unintelligent or vacuous man, a blend of "him" and "bimbo" first recorded in 1988 and often used affectionately.

Hime cut (姫カット)

Hime cut (姫カット, princess cut) is a Japanese hairstyle with blunt fringe, disconnected cheek-length sidelocks, and long back hair; rooted in Heian-era binsogi practice, named in the 1970s via Megumi Asaoka, revived by K-pop and the 2025 Grammys.

Himegoto (ひめごと)

Himegoto (ひめゴト), also known as Secret Princess, is a Japanese four-panel comedy manga by Norio Tsukudani serialized 2011–2015 in four Ichijinsha magazines, collected in six volumes, about a boy cross-dressing to repay debt; anime adaptation by Asahi Production aired in 2014.

Himeji

Himeji (姫路) is a castle town in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, home to Himeji Castle, Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage site (1993). Population about 515,000; incorporated 1889; expanded by mergers in 1946 and 2006.

Himeji Castle (姫路城)

Himeji Castle (姫路城), also known as Himeji-jo or the White Heron Castle for its white plastered walls, is a large early 17th-century Japanese castle in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, considered Japan's finest surviving castle.

Himeji Central Park

Himeji Central Park (姫路セントラルパーク, "Hime-sen") is a safari park and amusement park in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, with about 1,000 animals of 150 species, drive-through and walking safaris, white lions and tigers, roughly 35 rides, a summer pool, and a winter ice rink.

Himeji Daiichi power station

Himeji Daiichi power station (姫路第一発電所) is a natural-gas-fired thermal power station in Himeji, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric; it began running in 1955 as Japan's first domestically produced thermal plant.