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Hiram Bingham (train)
The Hiram Bingham is a luxury tourist train operated by PeruRail between Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru, named for the American explorer who publicized the Inca citadel in 1911.
Hiram Bingham I
Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869) was an American Congregational missionary who led the first ABCFM company to Hawaii, arriving in 1820, and helped create the written Hawaiian alphabet.
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956), Yale historian and US senator, led the Yale Peruvian Expeditions of 1911–1915 that brought Machu Picchu to world attention; his removal of thousands of artifacts sparked a Peru–Yale repatriation dispute resolved by a 2010 accord.
Hiram Bingham IV
Hiram Bingham IV was an American diplomat who, as US vice consul in Marseilles in 1940–1941, defied policy to help thousands of refugees escape Nazi Europe.
Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Estadio Hiram Bithorn), opened 1962 in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the island's largest ballpark, named for the first Puerto Rican MLB player, host to the Expos, four World Baseball Classics, and 49 MLB games.
Hiram College
Hiram College, a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio, founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute and re-chartered in 1867; alma mater of President James A. Garfield, nonsectarian and coeducational from the start, with the 12-week-plus-3-week Hiram Plan calendar.
Hiram I
Hiram I, also spelled Hirom and called Huram in the Hebrew Bible, was king of Tyre for 34 years, c. 969–936 BC, allied with David and Solomon.
Hiram II (king of Tyre)
Hiram II (Hirom II) was king of Tyre from about 739 to 731/730 BC, an Assyrian vassal who paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser III and plotted with Rezin of Damascus.
Hiram III
Hiram III, also known as Hirom III, was a king of Tyre in the sixth century BC who reigned twenty years as a vassal under Babylonian overlordship.
Hiram Lodge
Hiram Lodge, originally introduced as Burton Lodge, is the wealthy father of Veronica Lodge in Archie Comics, first appearing in Pep Comics #31 (September 1942); later the villainous father in Riverdale, played by Mark Consuelos.
Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840 to 1916) was an American-born British engineer who invented the Maxim gun, the first fully automatic machine gun, patented in 1884.
Hiram Mier
Hiram Mier (Hiram Ricardo Mier Alanís, born 1989, Monterrey) is a Mexican retired centre-back, Olympic gold medalist at London 2012, formerly of Monterrey, Querétaro, and Chivas.
Hiram Powers
Hiram Powers (1805–1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor based in Florence, Italy, from 1837, known for The Greek Slave and portrait busts of Andrew Jackson and other prominent Americans.
Hiram Sibley
Hiram Sibley (1807–1888) was an American entrepreneur who founded Western Union, completed the transcontinental telegraph in 1861, and later ran a seed business in Rochester.
Hiram Walker
Hiram Walker (1816–1899) was an American-born businessman and philanthropist who founded the Hiram Walker & Sons distillery in Walkerville, Ontario, and created the Canadian Club whisky brand.
Hiram's Tomb
Hiram's Tomb (Arabic: Qabr Hiram) is a monumental limestone cenotaph near Hannaouiye, six kilometers southeast of Tyre, Lebanon, traditionally attributed to King Hiram though built in the Persian age.
Hirano Kuniomi
Hirano Kuniomi (平野国臣), commonly known as Jirō, was a Fukuoka domain samurai and loyalist activist of the late Edo period who led the failed Ikuno uprising of 1863 and died in Kyoto's Rokkaku prison in 1864.
Hiranuma Kiichiro
Hiranuma Kiichiro (平沼騏一郎) was a Japanese judicial bureaucrat and statesman, prime minister of Japan in 1939, later convicted as a class-A war criminal and imprisoned for life.
Hiranyadama
Hiranyadama (ហិរណ្យទម) was a Brahman from Janapada whom the Sdok Kok Thom inscription credits with performing the Devaraja ritual for King Jayavarman II in the early 9th century.
Hiranyagarbha ceremony
The Hiranyagarbha ceremony (हिरण्यगर्भ, "golden womb") was a royal rite of ritual rebirth in which a ruler emerged from a golden vessel with a pure or divine body.
Hiranyagarbha pottali rasa
Hiranyagarbha pottali rasa (हिरण्यगर्भ पोट्टली रस), a gold-containing variant of Hemagarbha Pottali in Ayurvedic Rasashastra: mercury, sulfur, and swarna bhasma processed into a compact pottali pill used in minute doses for fever, cough, and critical care.
Hiranyakashipu (हिरण्यकशिपु)
Hiranyakashipu (हिरण्यकशिपु), also Hiranyakashyap, is the Daitya asura king of the Puranas, son of Kashyapa and Diti, father of Prahlada, who won a conditional boon from Brahma, banned Vishnu worship, and was killed by Vishnu's Narasimha avatar at twilight on a threshold.
Hirata Atsutane
Hirata Atsutane (平田篤胤, 1776–1843) was a late Edo period scholar of National Learning, counted among the four great kokugaku scholars, whose teachings fed the movements leading to the Meiji Restoration.
Hirata Corporation
Hirata Corporation (平田機工) is a Japanese industrial automation company headquartered in Kumamoto, founded in 1951, that builds production systems, industrial robots, and semiconductor equipment for automotive and electronics industries.
Hirata school
The Hirata school (平田学派) was a Japanese National Learning movement founded by Hirata Atsutane, whose Edo academy, the Ibukinoya, spread nationwide and shaped the sonnō jōi movement until the early Meiji period.
Hiratsuka
Hiratsuka (平塚市) is a coastal city in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Sagami Bay about 60 km from Tokyo; a former Tokaido post town (Hiratsuka-juku, 1601), incorporated 1932, population about 257,000, known for its July Tanabata Festival and Shonan Bellmare.
Hiratsuka Raichō
Hiratsuka Raichō (平塚らいてう) was a Japanese critic and feminist who founded the women's literary magazine Seitō in 1911 and led Japan's first campaigns for women's political rights.
Hiratsuka Un'ichi
Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一, 1895–1997) was a leading Japanese sosaku hanga woodblock printmaker who designed, carved, and printed his own works, taught in Tokyo, and spent 33 years working in Washington, D.C.
Hiravijaya Suri
Hiravijaya Suri (हीरविजय सूरि, 1527–1596) was a Shvetambara Jain acharya and head of the Tapa Gaccha who won the favor of Emperor Akbar at the Mughal court.
Hiraya Water Corporation
Hiraya Water Corporation, formerly PrimeWater Infrastructure Corporation, is a Philippine water and wastewater provider serving over 1.7 million households through joint ventures with about 75 water districts.