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Hill of Youth

Hill of Youth (青春の丘, Seishun no Oka) is a Ghibli Park area in Aichi, Japan, recreating Whisper of the Heart's World Emporium and Rotary, The Cat Returns' Cat Bureau, and the Elevator Tower; opened November 2022.

Hill sphere

The Hill sphere, also called the Roche sphere, is the region around a celestial body within which its gravity dominates the orbits of satellites against a more massive body.

Hill station

Hill station: high-elevation colonial retreat town, first at Penang (1786) and in British India and the Dutch East Indies in the early 1800s; sanatoria, summer capitals like Simla, now Asian tourist towns facing subsidence and carrying-capacity limits.

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is an NBC ensemble police drama (1981–1987) created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll for MTM Enterprises. Set in an unnamed city precinct, it pioneered handheld realism, overlapping dialogue, and serialized ensemble storytelling despite low ratings, winning consecutive Outstanding Drama Series Emmys.

Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto

Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto is a 1995 Supreme Court of Canada decision that upheld a jury's libel award to Ontario Crown attorney S. Casey Hill.

Hill Valley (Back to the Future)

Hill Valley is the fictional northern California town that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series.

Hill Women

Hill Women is a 1935 oil painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, part of a pair with Hill Men, depicting rural Indian women from the hill country.

Hill's lunar equations

Hill's lunar equations are the equations of motion introduced by George William Hill in his 1878 paper on the lunar theory, describing the Moon's motion around the Earth under solar perturbation.

Hill's spherical vortex

Hill's spherical vortex is an exact inviscid-fluid solution in which a sphere of vorticity translates steadily through otherwise irrotational fluid, found by M. J. M. Hill in 1894.

Hilla Limann

Hilla Limann (1934–1998) was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician who won the 1979 election as president of the Third Republic, deposed by Jerry Rawlings's coup in 1981.

Hillah

Hillah (Al-Hilla, الحلة), capital of Babil Governorate in central Iraq on the Shatt al-Hillah branch of the Euphrates; founded 495 AH/1101-1102 AD by the Mazyadid Sadaqah, a Shia scholarly center beside Babylon's ruins, 470,917 people in 2024.

Hillary Ball

Hillary Ball is a British-based venture capital investor who is a Partner (Growth) at Atomico, promoted in 2023, sitting on the boards of Perk, Wellhub, and Framer and investing from Series B upwards.

Hillary Cassel

Hillary Cassel is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 101, a former Broward prosecutor and attorney seeking another term in the 2026 election.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat; First Lady 1993–2001, New York senator 2001–2009, 67th secretary of state 2009–2013, and first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. party in 2016.

Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign: announced April 12, 2015; won the Democratic nomination over Bernie Sanders as the first woman major-party nominee, then lost the Electoral College to Donald Trump while winning the popular vote.

Hillary Clinton email controversy

Hillary Clinton email controversy: her exclusive use of a private Chappaqua server as secretary of state (2009-2013), the 2015 disclosure, FBI investigation, 2016 no-charge decisions, Weiner laptop reopening, and oversight findings.

Hillary Herzig

Hillary Herzig is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New Jersey's 6th District, facing incumbent Frank Pallone in 2026.

Hillary Hickland

Hillary Hickland is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 55 in Bell County, sworn into office in 2025 as a first-term representative.

Hillary Lindsey

Hillary Lindsey, born 1976 in Washington, Georgia, is a Nashville songwriter with 27 No. 1 country hits, three Grammys, and ACM Songwriter of the Year wins 2019-2021; Love Junkies co-writer of "Girl Crush."

Hillary Montes

Hillary Montes is a 388-km-wide mountain range on Pluto bordering Sputnik Planitia, named for mountaineer Edmund Hillary and approved by the IAU on August 8, 2017 after New Horizons imaged it in 2015.

Hillary Schieve

Hillary Schieve is an American politician who has served as mayor of Reno, Nevada, since first being elected in 2014 and reelected in 2018 and 2022.

Hillary Scholten

Hillary J. Scholten, born in 1982, is an American Democratic politician and former attorney and Justice Department immigration lawyer serving as U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd district since 2023.

Hillary Scott

Hillary Scott (b. 1986, Nashville) is an American country singer, lead vocalist of Lady A, 9-time Grammy winner, creator of the family album Love Remains and solo song Mama's Lullaby; distinct from Hilary Scott (one L) and other namesakes.

Hillary Step

Hillary Step: near-vertical ~12 m rock face at about 8,790 m on Everest's Southeast Ridge between South Summit and summit; first climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953; the route's only technical crux, altered by the 2015 earthquake.

Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is a 2016 Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley political documentary attacking Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party; it grossed $13.1 million but scored 4% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Razzie for Worst Picture.

Hillat el-Arab

Hillat el-Arab, also known as Hillat al-Arab, is a village on the Nile near Jebel Barkal, Sudan, built over rock-cut elite tombs used from about 1200 to 650 BC.

Hillbilly

Hillbilly: American slang for a poor rural white person of Appalachia or the Ozarks, first defined in print in 1900; also a 1920s-1940s music-industry genre label for what became country music, used as both slur and badge of pride.

Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is J.D. Vance's 2016 Harper memoir of growing up in Middletown, Ohio, with Appalachian roots; a #1 bestseller, 2020 Ron Howard film, and springboard to his vice presidency.

Hillbilly Elegy (film)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020) is Ron Howard's Netflix drama adapted from J.D. Vance's memoir, starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso; panned by critics (24% on Rotten Tomatoes) yet Oscar-nominated and a 2024 streaming hit.

Hillbilly Jim

Hillbilly Jim (James Morris, born 1952, Scottsville, Kentucky) is a 6'7" American wrestler, WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018, billed from Mudlick, Kentucky, famed for his overalls gimmick, Hulk Hogan alliance, and SiriusXM's Moonshine Matinee.