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Heresy
Heresy is the obstinate denial or doubt, by a baptized member, of a truth a religious community defines as requiring belief, punished in Catholic law by excommunication.
Heresy in Christianity
Heresy in Christianity, also called Christian heresies, is the obstinate denial by a baptized person of a truth of faith, condemned from Nicaea onward and once punished by burning.
Heretic (2024 film)
Heretic (2024) is an A24 psychological horror-thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, starring Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed, who traps two Latter-day Saint missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East). Released November 8, 2024; grossed about $60 million on a $10 million budget; 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Heretic (video game)
Heretic (1994) is a dark fantasy first-person shooter by Raven Software, published by id Software, on a modified DOOM engine, starring the Sidhe elf Corvus; known as the first Doom clone, it pioneered inventories and vertical aiming, and got the Heretic + Hexen remaster in 2025.
Heretic II
Heretic II: 1998 dark fantasy third-person action game by Raven Software, published by Activision, on a modified Quake II engine; sequel to Heretic starring Corvus; never released digitally.
Heretica
Heretica was a Danish literary and cultural journal published from 1948 to 1953 by Wivels Forlag, the central forum for postwar Danish literature and culture.
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History (Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin) is the final work of Czech phenomenological philosopher Jan Patočka, a set of six essays published in 1975.
Heretics of Dune
Heretics of Dune, the fifth Dune novel, is Frank Herbert's 1984 science fiction book set 1,500 years after God Emperor of Dune, following the Bene Gesserit, Sheeana, a Duncan Idaho ghola, and the Honored Matres, ending with Rakis's destruction.
Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake (fl. 1070-1071), Anglo-Saxon landholder of Lincolnshire who led the last major English resistance to the Norman Conquest from the Isle of Ely; escaped the 1071 siege; fame rests on the twelfth-century Gesta Herewardi and Kingsley's 1866 novel.
Herfindahl–Hirschman index
The Herfindahl–Hirschman index (HHI) measures market concentration by summing squared market shares, running from near 0 to 10,000 under monopoly, and is used by regulators to screen mergers.
HERG
HERG (hERG, KCNH2, Kv11.1) is the cardiac potassium channel carrying I_Kr; its block causes QTc prolongation and Torsade de Pointes, making the hERG assay central to drug cardiac safety testing, with about 5X assay variability across laboratories.
Hergé
Hergé (Georges Remi, 1907–1983), Belgian cartoonist, pen name from reversed initials R.G., creator of The Adventures of Tintin (debut 1929), pioneer of the ligne claire style, 23 albums, 150 million copies sold.
Hergen Spits
Hergen Spits, publishing as H. Spits, is a Dutch immunologist who co-proposed the three-group nomenclature for innate lymphoid cells and was professor of experimental immunology at Amsterdam UMC until 2019.
Heri Dono
Heri Dono (born 1960, Jakarta) is an Indonesian contemporary artist based in Yogyakarta whose paintings, installations, and performances blend Javanese wayang kulit with cartoons for political satire.
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt is an Austrian plant scientist known for MAP kinase signaling in plant stress responses, and a professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia since 2014.
Heribert Rosweyde
Heribert Rosweyde (1569–1629) was a Dutch Jesuit hagiographer born in Utrecht who died in Antwerp, whose 1607 Fasti Sanctorum prospectus led, through Jean Bolland, to the Acta Sanctorum.
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert is a German cardiologist who has been Professor of Cardiology at the Technical University of Munich and Director of Cardiology at the German Heart Centre Munich since 2012.
Heribert Watzke
Heribert Watzke is a chemist and food scientist who led food materials research at Nestlé and became known for his 2010 TED talk "The brain in your gut".
Heriberto Frías
Heriberto Frías (Heriberto Frías Alcocer) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, and soldier whose eyewitness novel Tomochic made him a leading opposition writer under Porfirio Díaz.
Heriberto Hernández
Heriberto Hernández (Heriberto Jose Hernández), Dominican outfielder born 1999 in Bonao; Miami Marlins left fielder, MLB debut May 30, 2025; 25 home runs in 2026, 25th in the National League.
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias El Lazca, El Verdugo, or Z-3, born 1975, was leader of Los Zetas and Gulf Cartel security chief; he built the cartel's independence and was killed by Mexican marines in Progreso, Coahuila, on 7 October 2012, his body later stolen from a funeral home.
Heriberto Seda
Heriberto Seda, the New York Zodiac or Zodiac II, killed three and wounded six in 1990-1993 shootings, sent Zodiac-signed letters, was caught in 1996 via his confession handwriting, and remains imprisoned.
Heribre
Heribre, also written Heribra, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King List, compiled under Ramesses II.
HERIC inverter
The HERIC inverter is a transformerless single-phase photovoltaic inverter topology combining an H-bridge with an AC-side bypass leg that suppresses ground leakage current while keeping efficiency high.
Hericium
Hericium, the toothed or lion's mane fungi (Pers., 1794; Hericiaceae, Russulales), a genus of white-rot wood-decomposing mushrooms with spiny fruit bodies; about 17 species including H. erinaceus, edible and medicinally studied.
Hericium erinaceus
Hericium erinaceus, the lion's mane or yamabushitake mushroom, is an edible basidiomycete fungus whose erinacines and hericenones stimulate NGF and BDNF; clinical evidence for cognitive benefit remains limited.
Herihor
Herihor was High Priest of Amun at Karnak at the end of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, who accumulated the offices of vizier, viceroy of Nubia, and army commander before depicting himself as king.
Heriot
Heriot is a British heavy metal band from Swindon, England, whose blend of sludge, hardcore, and metalcore made them a leading act of the early-2020s British metal scene.
Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University, also known as Heriot Watt, is a Scottish university founded in 1821 in Edinburgh. It is known for being the world's first mechanics institute.
Heritability
Heritability: the proportion of trait variation in a population attributable to genetic factors, estimated by twin (ACE) and genomic methods (GREML, LDSC); narrow-sense h² covers additive effects, is population-specific, and does not imply immutability.