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Hippopus hippopus
Hippopus hippopus, horse's hoof or bear paw clam, a Central Indo-Pacific giant clam (Linnaeus 1758); IUCN Vulnerable A2acd (2024), 40% decline over ~45 years, CITES Appendix II, proposed ESA threatened.
Hippos
Hippos (Sussita, Antiochia Hippos), ancient Decapolis city on a hill 2 km east of the Sea of Galilee, Israel; founded Hellenistic period, destroyed by 749 CE earthquake, excavated since 2000 by University of Haifa.
Hipposideridae
Hipposideridae, the Old World leaf-nosed bats, is a family of about 90 insectivorous bat species in seven genera across the Paleotropics, sister to Rhinolophidae, with nostril-emitted constant-frequency echolocation and a noseleaf.
Hipposideros
Hipposideros (roundleaf bats) is the largest genus of Old World leaf-nosed bats, family Hipposideridae, established by Gray in 1831; about 76 species across Africa, Asia, Australia, and Pacific islands, with extensive cryptic diversity and Eocene African origins.
Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy is a rehabilitation therapy in which a licensed therapist uses a walking horse's rhythmic movement to improve balance and motor function, mainly in cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis.
Hippotragus
Hippotragus (Sundevall, 1845) is an African bovid antelope genus holding the roan antelope, sable antelopes including Roosevelt's sable and the critically endangered giant sable, and the extinct bluebuck; selective grazers tied to water.
Hippuric acid
Hippuric acid, also called N-benzoylglycine, is an N-acylglycine formed when benzoic acid is conjugated with glycine and excreted in urine as a normal dietary metabolite and the principal urinary metabolite of toluene.
Hippurites
Hippurites (Lamarck, 1801) is an extinct genus of hippuritid rudist bivalves from Cretaceous Tethyan carbonate platforms, with a conical attached right valve and lid-like left valve, extinct at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.
Hippuritidae
Hippuritidae is an extinct family of rudist bivalves, marine molluscs with one valve cemented to the sea floor, that dominated tropical Late Cretaceous seas of the Tethys and Caribbean.
Hips Don't Lie
"Hips Don't Lie" is a 2005 Shakira song featuring Wyclef Jean on Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, reworking Jean's "Dance Like This" with a Jerry Rivera "Amores Como El Nuestro" brass sample; it was Shakira's first and only US Hot 100 number one.
Hipster (1940s subculture)
The hipster of the 1940s was a member of the jazz counterculture built around bebop, defined by distinctive slang, dress, and a stance apart from mainstream white America.
Hipster (contemporary subculture)
Contemporary hipster: pejorative label for young urban middle-class consumers of vintage clothing, indie music, and craft goods; rooted in 1940s jazz culture and Mailer's 1957 'White Negro', revived in 1990s Williamsburg, later tied to gentrification and mainstream commercial co-optation.
Hira Mani
Hira Mani (حرا مانی), born Hira Salman in 1989, is a Pakistani television actress, singer, presenter and former VJ married to actor Mani. She debuted as a host, then acted from 2015 in Preet Na Kariyo Koi, Sun Yaara, Do Bol and Dayan.
Hiraab Imamate
The Hiraab Imamate (Saldanadda Hiraab) was a Somali kingdom that ruled central Somalia from the late 17th century until it was absorbed into Italian Somaliland in 1889.
Hirabai Lobi
Hirabai Ibrahim Lobi (हीराबाई इब्राहीम लोबी), Siddi social worker of Jambur, Gujarat; founded Mahila Vikas Foundation 2004 and Balwadi kindergartens; Padma Shri 2023 for Social Work (Tribal); died 24 January 2025.
Hirado ware
Hirado ware, also known as Mikawachi ware (三川内焼), is Japanese porcelain made at the Hirado domain kilns in Nagasaki Prefecture, famous for its thin pure-white body and delicate underglaze blue.
Hiraeth (θ/)
Hiraeth is a Welsh noun for deep longing, grief, or homesickness for a lost or perhaps never-existing home, related to saudade and hüzün; etymologically hir (long) plus -aeth (pain), with Cornish cognate hireth.
Hiraga Gennai
Hiraga Gennai (平賀源内, 1728–1780) was a mid-Edo-period Japanese polymath from Sanuki Province who worked as a pharmacologist, inventor of Japan's first electrostatic generator, Western-style painter, and popular comic writer.
Hiragana (ひらがな)
Hiragana (ひらがな, 平仮名) is Japan's cursive moraic syllabary of 46 basic characters, derived from cursive man'yōgana kanji in the 9th century; oldest dated example 867, used for particles, endings, and furigana.
Hiraizumi
Hiraizumi is a town in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, whose 11th- and 12th-century temples and gardens, built by the Ōshū Fujiwara as a Buddhist Pure Land, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
Hiraizumi (平泉) is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iwate, Japan, inscribed 2011 under criteria (ii) and (vi): five sites including Chūson-ji, Mōtsū-ji, and Mount Kinkeisan representing the Buddhist Pure Land.
Hirak Rajar Deshe
Hirak Rajar Deshe (হীরক রাজার দেশে, Kingdom of Diamonds) is Satyajit Ray's 1980 Bengali musical fantasy, second in the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series, a rhymed-verse satire of a diamond-hoarding tyrant defeated by Goopy, Bagha, and teacher Udayan Pandit.
Hirakata
Hirakata (枚方市) is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, between Osaka and Kyoto, incorporated 1947, area 65.12 km², population about 390,000; a commuter town with five universities, Hirakata Park, and Keihan station redevelopment.
Hirakata Park
Hirakata Park (ひらかたパーク, Hirapā) is Japan's oldest continuously operating amusement park, in Hirakata, Osaka, tracing to a 1912 chrysanthemum-doll exhibition and 1910 Kori Amusement Park predecessor, with about 40 rides including the 80-meter Sky Walker Ferris wheel.
Hirakawa zoo
Hirakawa Zoological Park (平川動物公園) is a municipal zoo in Kagoshima City, Japan, opened 14 October 1972, successor to Kamoike Zoo; 31.4 ha, 125 species, 827 animals, known for koalas and Japan's first walk-through koala house.
Hirakud Dam
Hirakud Dam is a dam across the Mahanadi river near Sambalpur, Odisha, India, commissioned in 1957 as one of independent India's earliest multi-purpose river valley projects.
Hirakud Dam (ହୀରାକୁଦ ବନ୍ଧ)
Hirakud Dam (ହୀରାକୁଦ ବନ୍ଧ), a composite earth, masonry, and concrete dam on the Mahanadi near Sambalpur, Odisha, inaugurated by Nehru in 1957; 25.8 km long with dykes, 743 km² reservoir, 307.5 MW power, irrigation, and delta flood control.
Hirakud Reservoir
Hirakud Reservoir is the lake behind the Hirakud Dam on the Mahanadi River at Sambalpur, Odisha, India; commissioned in 1957, it covers 743 km² and became a Ramsar site in 2021.
Hiralal Sen
Hiralal Sen (হীরালাল সেন, 1866–1917) was a Bengali photographer and filmmaker, counted among India's first filmmakers; he ran the Royal Bioscope company in Calcutta from 1898.
Hiram Abiff
Hiram Abiff, or Hiram Abif, is Freemasonry's legendary murdered chief architect of Solomon's Temple, central to the Third Degree ritual; based on the biblical bronze-worker Hiram of 1 Kings 7, first published in Prichard's Masonry Dissected (1730), with no historical basis for the murder legend.