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Hölger Thiele
Holger Thiele (born 1969) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig and is known for the cardiogenic shock trials ECLS-SHOCK, TOMAHAWK, and CULPRIT-SHOCK.
Holger Werfel Scheuermann
Holger Werfel Scheuermann (1877–1960) was a Danish surgeon and radiologist in Copenhagen who in 1920 described the rigid adolescent spinal deformity known as Scheuermann's disease, using X-rays to distinguish it from postural hunch-back.
Holger Willenbring
Holger Willenbring is a German-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Surgery at UCSF, where he directs the Liver Center and works on liver regeneration and stem-cell-based liver therapy.
Holguín
Holguín, Cuba's "City of Parks," capital of Holguín province in eastern Cuba; founded 1545 as Hato de San Isidoro de Holguín; about 345,000 residents, gateway to Guardalavaca beaches and Humboldt National Park.
Holi (होली)
Holi (होली), also called Phagwah or the Festival of Colours, is a Hindu spring festival of bonfires and colored powders, celebrated in February or March.
Holidate
Holidate is a 2020 Netflix romantic comedy directed by John Whitesell, written by Tiffany Paulsen, starring Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey as platonic holiday dates who fall in love; 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Holiday
Holiday: a day set aside by religion, custom, or law for rest or celebration, from the secularized "holy day." Covers religious, national, and cultural holidays, world public-holiday counts, and Labor Day's 1894 US origins.
Holiday (Green Day song)
Holiday (Green Day song): 2004 protest single from American Idiot, written by Billie Joe Armstrong against the Bush administration and Iraq War; UK No. 11, US Hot 100 No. 19.
Holiday (Madonna song)
"Holiday" (1983) is Madonna's first Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at No. 16, and her first No. 1 disco single; written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens-Crowder of Pure Energy, produced by Jellybean Benitez in one week for her debut album.
Holiday Baking Championship
Holiday Baking Championship is a Food Network holiday baking competition that premiered November 9, 2014, hosted since season 4 by Jesse Palmer, judged by Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller among others, with a $25,000 prize in recent seasons.
Holiday camp
Holiday camp: British enclosed seaside resort with chalets, meals, and organized entertainment on one site. Pioneered by Cunningham's 1894 Isle of Man camp and Billy Butlin's Skegness camp (1936); chains included Butlin's, Warner, and Pontin.
Holiday in Cambodia
"Holiday in Cambodia" is a 1980 Dead Kennedys punk song, their second single and a track on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, satirizing privileged American college students against the Khmer Rouge genocide; later central to the Levi's licensing lawsuit.
Holiday in the Wild
Holiday in the Wild (2019) is a Netflix romantic drama directed by Ernie Barbarash, starring Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe, filmed at a real Zambian elephant orphanage with puppets and animatronics, inspired by Davis's elephant conservation work.
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is an American hotel brand founded in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee by Kemmons Wilson and Wallace Johnson, now IHG's upper midscale family and leisure brand.
Holiday Inn (film)
Holiday Inn (1942) is a Paramount musical directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Marjorie Reynolds, with 14 Irving Berlin songs. It introduced "White Christmas" (1943 Oscar winner) and contains a criticized blackface "Abraham" Lincoln's Birthday number.
Holiday Road
Holiday Road: 1983 single written and recorded by Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) as the theme of National Lampoon's Vacation; peaked at No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, later covered by Kesha and Zac Brown Band.
Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story
Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story is a 2024 Hallmark Channel Christmas movie made with the Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, and Skydance Sports, starring Hunter King and Tyler Hynes; it premiered November 30, 2024, drew 2.88 million viewers, and was the most-watched cable movie of 2024.
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, also called Santa Claus Land (1946), is a family-owned theme park and water park in Santa Claus, Indiana, known for The Voyage wooden coaster, three record water coasters, and free drinks, parking, and sunscreen.
Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is a 2014 Hindi action thriller by A.R. Murugadoss, starring Akshay Kumar as Captain Virat Bakshi hunting a Mumbai sleeper cell; a remake of Thuppakki (2012), released 6 June 2014, a box office hit.
Holidays (2016 film)
Holidays (2016) is an American horror anthology film with eight segments, one per holiday from Valentine's Day to New Year's Eve, directed by nine filmmakers including Kevin Smith; premiered at Tribeca, released April 22, 2016 by Vertical Entertainment.
Holidu
Holidu is a Munich-based vacation rental technology company founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers, operating a metasearch platform for holiday homes and the Bookiply host software business.
Holiest sites in Islam
The holiest sites in Islam are the three mosques named in a hadith restricting devotional travel: the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, and al-Aqsa in Jerusalem.
Holiguards Saga — The Portal of Force
Holiguards Saga — The Portal of Force (Холигардс) is a 2026 independent supernatural action thriller directed by and starring Kevin Spacey, written by Sergey Torchilin and Lado Okhotnikov, first of a planned Statiguards vs. Holiguards franchise, shot in Mexico and Dubai on a $10 million budget.
Holika (होलिका)
Holika (होलिका), Hindu mythological demoness, sister of Hiranyakashipu and aunt of Prahlada; burned in a bonfire after her fire-protection boon failed, commemorated in Holika Dahan on Phalguna Purnima eve of Holi.
Holika Dahan (होलिका दहन)
Holika Dahan (होलिका दहन), also called Hutashani, is the Hindu bonfire ritual on the Phalguna full moon evening, the night before Holi, commemorating the demoness Holika's burning and Prahlada's survival.
Holin (phage lysis protein)
Holins are small phage-encoded membrane proteins that accumulate harmlessly in the host membrane until a genetically set moment, then permeabilize it, triggering lysis and timing progeny phage release.
Holiness code
The Holiness code, or Code of Holiness, is the scholarly name for the laws in Leviticus 17–26, marked by the call to be holy because God is holy.
Holiness movement
The Holiness movement, also called the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, is a family of Protestant churches arising in 19th-century American Methodism, teaching entire sanctification or Christian perfection.
Holiness Pentecostalism
Holiness Pentecostalism is the wing of Pentecostal Christianity keeping the Wesleyan teaching of three works of grace, with speaking in tongues as evidence of Spirit baptism.
Holinshed's Chronicles
Holinshed's Chronicles (The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1577 and 1587 editions), a massive collaborative Tudor history under Raphael Holinshed's name; principal source for Shakespeare's history plays, Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline.