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Homeland Union
Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Tėvynės sąjunga, TS-LKD), Lithuania's centre-right conservative party founded in May 1993 from the Sąjūdis movement; led governments in 1996-2000 and 2020-2024 under Šimonytė, member of the European People's Party.
Homelander
Homelander is the Superman-analogue supervillain leading the Seven in The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson (first appearance The Boys #3, 2006). Comic Homelander (John Gillman) dies via the Black Noir clone in #65; the TV version, played by Antony Starr from 2019, is a Trumpism satire who dies in the 2026 finale.
Homeless Jesus
Homeless Jesus, also called Jesus the Homeless, is Timothy Schmalz's life-size bronze of Christ sleeping on a bench under a blanket, identified only by crucifixion wounds on his feet; first installed in Toronto in 2013, blessed by Pope Francis, with over 100 copies worldwide.
Homeless People
Homeless People (Ludzie bezdomni) is an 1899 social novel by the Polish writer Stefan Żeromski, a leading work of Young Poland whose hero, Dr Tomasz Judym, renounces love for his social mission.
Homeless shelter
Homeless shelter: temporary facility for people who are homeless; also called emergency shelter. Distinguished by no lease requirement under 24 CFR 576.2; part of the Continuum of Care alongside transitional and permanent housing.
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story is a 2003 Lifetime TV movie directed by Peter Levin, starring Thora Birch as Liz Murray, a homeless Bronx teen who won a New York Times scholarship to Harvard; Emmy-nominated, aired April 7, 2003.
Homeless World Cup
Homeless World Cup: annual street football tournament founded by Mel Young and Harald Schmied, first held Graz 2003 with 18 teams; 40 men's and 24 women's teams, 75 member countries, life-change and attitude-change mission.
Homelessness
Homelessness: lacking a stable, adequate home, from rough sleeping to couch surfing; over 300 million affected worldwide (UN-Habitat). Key approaches include Housing First, pioneered by Sam Tsemberis in 1992, and Finland's national strategy that cut homelessness from 16,000 to about 4,000.
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: the nine-county region's unhoused population, among the largest in the United States. Third-largest PIT count in 2017 (28,200), 35,118 by 2020, only 33 percent sheltered, concentrated in Alameda, San Francisco, and Santa Clara counties.
Homelessness in the United States
Homelessness in the United States: people lacking a fixed, adequate nighttime residence under 42 U.S.C. 11302. Key facts: McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, HUD Point-in-Time counts (745,652 in 2025), rent-driven causes, Housing First versus Treatment First policy debate.
Homelite
Homelite is an American brand of outdoor power equipment, including chainsaws, string trimmers, and blowers, now owned by Techtronic Industries and based in Anderson, South Carolina.
Homemaker Services
Homemaker services are non-medical assistance at home, such as meal preparation and bathing, delivered by trained aides to help ill, disabled, or recovering people manage daily living.
Homemaking
Homemaking is the unpaid production of services within a household, such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and childcare, treated in family economics as measurable household production outside GDP.
Homen Borgohain
Homen Borgohain (হোমেন বৰগোহাঞি, 1932–2021) was an Assamese novelist, poet, critic, and journalist who won the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Pita Putra.
Homeobox
Homeobox: a 180-nucleotide DNA sequence encoding the 60-amino-acid homeodomain, a helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif in developmental transcription factors such as Hox genes, first discovered in Drosophila in 1983.
Homeobox expressed in ES cells 1
Homeobox expressed in ES cells 1 (HESX1), formally HESX homeobox 1, is a human gene on chromosome 3 encoding a transcriptional repressor essential for forebrain and pituitary development.
Homeobox protein
Homeobox protein: transcription factor encoded by a homeobox gene, containing a ~60-amino-acid homeodomain DNA-binding domain. Includes Hox proteins patterning animal body axes; discovered 1984 in Drosophila; distinct from homeobox genes generally.
Homeobox protein orthopedia
Homeobox protein orthopedia (OTP, orthopedia homeobox) is a homeodomain transcription factor on human chromosome 5q14.1, essential for neuroendocrine hypothalamus development, linked to obesity via MC4R, and used as a lung carcinoid marker.
Homeodomain
Homeodomain: a conserved 60-amino-acid helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain encoded by the ~180-bp homeobox, discovered in Drosophila in 1984; found in transcription factors across eukaryotes, central to development and disease.
Homeodomain-only protein
Homeodomain-only protein, also called HOPX or HOP, is an atypical human homeodomain protein that cannot bind DNA, instead regulating transcription through partners such as serum response factor.
Homeomorphism
A homeomorphism, also called a topological equivalence, is a continuous bijection between topological spaces whose inverse is continuous; homeomorphic spaces are identical from topology's standpoint.
Homeopathic dilutions
Homeopathic dilutions (potentizations): serial 1:10 (X/D) or 1:100 (C) dilutions with succussion or trituration, introduced by Hahnemann; 12C is the Avogadro limit, 30C equals a 10^60 dilution, and no FDA-approved homeopathic product exists.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy: alternative medical system founded by Samuel Hahnemann in Germany around 1800, based on "like cures like" and extreme dilution; reviews find no reliable evidence of effectiveness and no FDA-approved homeopathic products exist.
Homeostasis
Homeostasis is the maintenance of dynamic equilibrium of internal conditions such as temperature, glucose, and blood pressure, via negative feedback loops around set points; defined by Walter Cannon in 1929, critiqued and extended by allostasis.
Homeostatic chondrocyte
Homeostatic chondrocyte (HomC, CL:0020020), a single-cell-RNA-seq-defined chondrocyte state enriched in homeostasis and circadian clock pathways; markers DDIT3, ATF3, GDF15; depleted in osteoarthritic cartilage.
Homeostatic model assessment
Homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) is a mathematical method that estimates insulin resistance and beta-cell function from a single fasting blood sample, widely used in diabetes research since 1985.
Homeowner association
Homeowner association (HOA), a mandatory-membership private organization governing common areas and enforcing CC&Rs in US planned communities and condominiums; about 309,000 associations, fees averaging $243 monthly in 2023.
HomePod
HomePod, also known as Apple HomePod, is a line of smart speakers by Apple combining Siri voice control with room-adapting audio. The original model launched in 2018, followed by the HomePod mini in 2020.
Homer (Mercurian crater)
Homer is a large, IAU-named impact basin (crater) on Mercury, about 314 km across near the equator; a very degraded peak-ring basin filled by volcanism, with the bright-rayed crater Dominici on its peak ring.
Homer (Ὅμηρος)
Homer (Ὅμηρος) is the name tradition gives the poet of the Iliad and Odyssey. Nothing biographical is known; the Homeric Question debates whether one poet composed the epics, probably written down in the mid-eighth century BC.