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Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent United States architect of the 19th Century whose work left a significant impact on both Boston and Chicago.


Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an England sea explorer and navigator in the early seventeenth century. His date and place of birth are unknown, but September 12, 1570 is often given and he is sometimes said to have been born in London. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he had been set adrift by mutinous crewmen.


Henry James
Henry James, Order of Merit, son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States-born author and literary criticism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger is a Germany-born United States of America diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize and statesman. He served as United States National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration, continuing in the latter position after Gerald Ford became President in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.


Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens was an United States merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the American Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, the third President of the Second Continental Congress , the Vice-President of South Carolina, and a diplomat.


Henry Lee
Henry Lee III, called "Light Horse Harry," was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was the Governor of Virginia and a U.S. Congressman, as well as the father of American Civil War general Robert E. Lee.


Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce was an influential United States publisher. Luce was born in Penglai City, China, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. and educated in various boarding schools in China and England. At 10, he was sent to a British boarding school at Chefoo on the China coast and at 14, he traveled to Europe alone.


Henry Martyn Robert
Henry Martyn Robert was the author of Robert's Rules of Order, which became the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure and remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States. Robert was born in Robertville, South Carolina and raised in Ohio, where his father moved the family because of his strong opposition to slavery.


Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an United States writer and, to a lesser extent, painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also an imaginative construct.


Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore Order of Merit Companion of Honour, was a United Kingdom artist and Sculpture. The son of a mining engineer, born in the Yorkshire town of Castleford, Moore became well known for his large-scale abstract art cast bronze and carved marble sculptures.


Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan was a privateer of Wales birth, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers and roughnecks.


Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell , a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composersindeed, he has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.


Henry Villard
Henry Villard, was an United States journalist and financier of Germany origin. He was born in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. His baptismal name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard. His parents moved to Zweibrcken in 1839, and in 1856 his father, Gustav Leonhard Hilgard, became a justice of the Supreme Court of Bavaria, at Munich.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an United Statesn poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride and Evangeline. He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.


Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist Church clergyman and social reformer, and famous speaker who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of famous evangelist Lyman Beecher. All his life he remained close to one of his older sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.


Heparin
Heparin is a highly sulfated glycosaminoglycan widely used as an injectable anticoagulant. It is also used to form an inner anticoagulant surface on various experimental and medical devices such as test tubes and renal dialysis machines. Pharmaceutical grade heparin is commonly derived from mucosal tissues of slaughterhouse meat animals such as porcine intestine or bovine lung.


Hepatic vein
In human anatomy, the hepatic veins are the blood vessels that drain de-oxygenated blood from the liver and blood cleaned by the liver into the inferior vena cava. They arise from the substance of the liver, more specifically the central vein of the liver lobule.


Hepatica
Hepatica is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. A native of central and northern Europe, Asia and northeastern North America, Hepatica is sometimes called liverleaf or "liverwort". It should not be confused with true liverwort, which are confusingly called "Hepaticae" on occasion.


Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is an enterovirus transmitted by the orofecal route, such as contaminated food. It causes an acute form of hepatitis, does not have a chronic stage, and will not cause any permanent damage to the liver. The patient's immune system makes antibodies against Hepatitis A that confer immunity against future infection.


Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a disease of the liver caused by the Hepatitis B virus, a member of the Hepadnaviridae and one of several unrelated viral species which cause Hepatitis#Viral. It was originally known as "serum hepatitis" and has caused current epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa.


Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is a Blood-borne disease, infectious, virus disease that is caused by a hepatotropic virus called Hepatitis C virus. The infection can cause hepatitis that is often asymptomatic, but ensuing chronic hepatitis can result later in cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.


Hephaestus
Hephaestus is the Greek mythology whose approximate Roman equivalent is Vulcan ; he is the god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculpture, metals and metallurgy, and fire. He was worshipped in all the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, especially Athens, Greece.


Heptagon
In geometry, a heptagon is a polygon with seven sides and seven angles. In a regular polygon heptagon, in which all sides and all angles are equal, the sides meet at an angle of 5p/7 radians, approximately 128.571 degrees. Its Schlfli symbol is . The area of a regular heptagon of side length a is given by


Heptane
Heptane is an alkane with the chemical formula H3C(CH2)5CH3. Heptane has nine isomers: * Heptane * 2-Methylhexane * 3-Methylhexane * 2,2-Dimethylpentane * 2,3-Dimethylpentane * 2,4-Dimethylpentane * 3,3-Dimethylpentane


Heracles
In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles was a hero, the son of Zeus and Hera, stepson of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus . He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of Heraklids and a champion of the Twelve Olympians against chthonic monsters.


Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus , known as "The Obscure" , was a Pre-Socratic philosophy Greek philosopher from Ephesus in Asia Minor. The details of Heraclitus' life are almost completely unknown. "Reliable information is limited to the fact that he was a native of Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor north of Miletus, and that his father's name was Bloson." Heraclitus is the first person in the history of the western world to have put forward a robust philosophical system.


Herald
A herald, or more correctly a herald of arms, is an Officer of Arms, ranking between pursuivant and king of arms. The title is often applied erroneously to all officers of arms. Heralds were originally messenger sent by Monarch or nobleman to convey messages or proclamation.


Heraldry
Heraldry is the practice of designing, displaying, describing and recording coat of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousting, whose faces were hidden by iron, and later steel, helmets.


Herat
Herat is a city in western Afghanistan, in the valley of the Hari Rud river in the province also known as Herat province, and was traditionally known for wine. The population of the city is 249,000 . The inhabitants are mainly Tajiks . It is an ancient city with many historic buildings, although these have suffered damage in various military conflicts during the last few decades.


Herb
Herbs are plants grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. The green, leafy part of the plant is typically used. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. A medicinal herb may be a shrub or other woody plant, whereas a culinary herb is a non-woody plant.


Herb garden
A herb garden is a garden specifically designed and used for the cultivation of cooking and/or medicinal herbs. Herb gardens developed from the general gardens of the ancient classical worlds, used for growing vegetables, flowers, fruits and medicines. During the medieval period monks and nuns acquired specialist medical knowledge and grew the necessary herbs in specialist gardens.


Herb Robert
Herb Robert is a common species of cranesbill in Europe, Asia and North Africa. It can grow at altitudes of up to 1500 metres. It grows as an annual plant or biennial plant, producing small pink flowers from April until the autumn. The Leaf are fern-like, and the stems often reddish; the leaves too turn red at the end of the flowering season.


Herbarium
*Virtual Herbarium *Plant collecting External links ** category: plant taxonomy Category:Herbariums de:Herbarium es:Herbario id:Herbarium ms:Herbarium nl:Herbarium sv:Herbarium tr:Herbaryum


Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover , the 31st President of the United States , was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administration. He exemplified the Efficiency Movement component of the Progressive Era, arguing there were technical solutions to all social and economic problems—a position that was challenged by the Great Depression that began while he was President.


Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a prominent German people-Hyphenated American philosophy and sociology of Jewish descent, and a member of the Frankfurt School.


Herbert McLean Evans
Herbert McLean Evans was a United States of America anatomist and embryologist. He was born in Modesto, California. In 1908, he obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, eventually becoming its associate professor of anatomy. Evans moved back to California in 1915 and was made professor of anatomy at the University of California, in Berkeley, California, and held that position until his death.


Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English Philosopher and prominent Classical Liberalism political theorist. Although he wrote mostly about political theory and emphasized "positive beneficence" in his works, he is widely described as the father of Social Darwinism, a term that Spencer never used.


Herbicide
A herbicide is a pesticide used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill specific targets while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often based on plant hormones. Herbicides used to clear waste ground are nonselective and kill all plant material with which they come into contact.


Herbivore
Herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, about 1% of flowering plants and some protists can be considered herbivores. Many people restrict the term herbivore to animals. Fungi, bacteria and protists that feed on living plants are usually termed phytopathology.


Herculaneum
Herculaneum was an ancient Roman Empire town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano, in the Italy region of Campania. It is most famous for having been destroyed, along with Pompeii, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius beginning on August 24, AD 79, which buried them in superheated pyroclastic material that has solidified into volcanic tuff.


Hercules
Hercules is the Latin name used in Roman mythology for a hero corresponding to the Greek mythology hero Heracles , the Roman name being a Metathesis of the Greek name. He was son of Jupiter , the Roman counterpart to the Greek God Zeus and the mortal Alcmene.


Herd
A herd is a large group of animals. The term is usually applied to mammals, particularly ungulates. Other terms are used for similar phenomena in other types of animal. For example, a large group of birds is usually called a flock and a large group of Carnivora is usually called a pack.


Here
Here is "this place;" the place where a Subject is, or places itself.


Here and There
Here and There is a live album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1976. The title refers to the two concerts represented on the album: "Here" is a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London; "There" is a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.


Hereford
Hereford is a City status in the United Kingdom in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. It is the county town of Herefordshire. In 2001 Hereford had a population of 50,154. The name "Hereford" comes from the Anglo Saxon "here" referring to army or formation of soldiers, and the "ford" coming from an earlier Roman term, also used in Saxon periods, referring to an area of river that soldiers could cross in close formation.


Herm
n>Herm Herm is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public. Auto-free zone from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark.


Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith was an United States statistics who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.


Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an United States novelist, essayist and poet. During his lifetime, his early novels were popular, but his popularity declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his masterpiece, Moby-Dick , was "rediscovered" in the 20th century.


Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was a Germany-born poet, novelist, and painter who became a Swiss citizen. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game .


Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician who developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Hermann Minkowski was born in Aleksotas to a family of Ethnic German, Poland, and Jewish descent.


Hermann Snellen
Hermann Snellen was a Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity. External links commons


Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a Germany physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911 Britannica, "his life from first to last was one of devotion to science, and he must be accounted, on intellectual grounds, as one of the foremost men of the 19th century".


Hermaphrodite
In zoology and botany, a hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs during its life. In many species, hermaphroditism is a common part of the life-cycle. Generally, hermaphroditism occurs in the invertebrates, although it occurs in a fair number of fish, and to a lesser degree in other vertebrates.


Hermaphrodite brig
A hermaphrodite brig, or brig-schooner, is a type of two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast. As such it has a mix of the two main types of sail plan, hence the term hermaphrodite. English usage is to refer to this type of vessel as a brigantine.


Hermaphroditus
In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes, born a remarkably handsome boy but was transformed into a hermaphrodite by union with the nymph Salmacis.


Hermes
Hermes , in Greek mythology, is the Twelve Olympians of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, and of the cunning of thieves and liars.


Hermčs
Herm?s International, S.A., or simply Herm?s (Help:IPA: French language , American English , typical British English ), is a France Fashion design house specializing in leather, ready-to-wear, lifestyle accessories, and perfumery luxury goods.


Hermissenda crassicornis
The Hermissenda crassicornis is a nudibranch of the aeolid family. Its distrbution is from Kodiak Island, Alaska to Punta Eugenia, Mexico, and have additionally been observed in Bahia de los Angeles, Gulf of California and in Japan. It's colors can vary from place to place, but it is always easily recognizable by the orange stripe along the back.


Hermit
A hermit is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in solitude and/or isolation from society. Originally the term was applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament. Often – both in religious and secular literature – the term is used loosely for anyone living a solitary life-style – including the Misanthropy – and in religious contexts is sometimes assumed to be interchangeable wi


Hermit crab
Hermit crabs are Decapoda crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea , not closely related to true crabs. Most hermit crabs salvage empty seashells to shelter and protect their soft abdomens, from which they derive the name "hermit". There are about five hundred known species of hermit crabs in the world, most of which are aquatic, living at a range of depths from shallow coral reefs and shorelines to deep bottoms, although some species are terrestrial animal.


Hermit Thrush
The Hermit Thrush is a medium-sized North American Thrush. This species is 15–17 cm in length, and has the white-dark-white underwing patterm characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Adults are mainly brown on the upperparts, with reddish tails. The underparts are white with dark spots on the breast and grey or brownish flanks.


Hermosillo
Hermosillo is the capital of the States of Mexico of Sonora, Mexico. It is centrally located within the state at and is within several hundred miles of several other major Mexican cities, such as Tijuana and Mexicali, and United States cities such as Phoenix, Arizona and Tucson, Arizona.


Hernán Cortés
Hernn Corts, Marqus del Valle de Oaxaca was the conquistador who Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Corts was part of the generation that Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medelln , Extremadura, in Castile , to a family of lesser nobility, Corts as a young man chose to win a livelihood in the New World.


Hernia
A hernia is a wiktionary:protrusion of a Biological_tissue, structure, or part of an organ through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained. The hernia has 3 parts: the orifice through which it herniates, the hernial sac, and its contents.


Hero of Alexandria
Hero of Alexandria was a Roman Greece engineer and geometer in Alexandria, Hellenistic Egypt. His most famous invention was the first documented steam engine, the aeolipile. He is said to have been a follower of the atomism. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius.


Herod the Great
Hordos , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great, was a Roman client-monarch of Iudaea Province . The details of his biography can best be gleaned from the works of the 1st century AD Jewish historiographer Josephus. To the majority of non-specialist Christians, Herod is best known from the Gospel according to Matthew.


Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Dorian Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "father of history". He is almost exclusively known for writing Histories , a collection of 'inquiries' about the places and peoples he encountered during his wide-ranging travels around the Mediterranean littoral and into Mesopotamia.


Heroin
Heroin, diamorphine or diacetylmorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid. It is the 3,6-acetate derivative of morphine and is synthesised from it by acetylation. The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt, diacetylmorphine hydrochloride.


Heron
The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons. Within the family, all members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, andincluding the Zigzag Heron or Zigzag Bitternare a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae.


Herpes simplex
The ways in which herpes infections manifest themselves vary tremendously among individuals. Although the HSV-1 virus is traditionally associated with the orofacial infection, with the growing popularity of oral sex more cases of genital infection with HSV 1 are now being seen. The following are general descriptions of the courses outbreaks may take in the oral and genital regions.


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