| Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October, 1900 – 23 May, 1945) was a German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsführer-SS he oversaw all police and security forces, including the Gestapo.As overseer of concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literallyJews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply 'in the way', which included homosexuals, those with physical and mental disabilities and members of the Confessing Church. Heinrich_Himmler
|
| H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), H._G._Wells
|
| Hafnium Hafnium () is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent, transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Hafnium was the second-to-last element of those with stable isotopes to be discovered. It was found by Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy in 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and named it Hafnia after the Latin name for "Copenhagen". Hafnium
|
| Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (12 January 1893 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many offices, he was Hitler's designated successor and commander of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). Hermann_Göring
|
| Marrubium vulgare Marrubium_vulgare
|
| Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859–4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. Henri_Bergson
|
| Hacker (computing) In computing, a hacker is a person in one of several distinct (but not completely disjoint) communities and subcultures People committed to circumvention of computer security. This primarily concerns unauthorized remote computer break-ins via a communication networks such as the Internet (Black hats), but also includes those who debug or fix security problems (White hats), and the morally ambiguous Grey hats. Hacker_(computing)
|
| History of Hungary See also History of Europe, History of present-day nations and states, Pannonian basin before Hungary. Hungary is a state in central Europe, its history under this name dating to the early Middle Ages, when the region previously known as Pannonia was colonized by the Magyar nomad people from what is now central-northern Russia. For history of the area before this period, see Pannonian basin before Hungary. History_of_Hungary
|
| Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( in Danish), also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes". Hans_Christian_Andersen
|
| HyperCard HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written by Dan Winkler, a powerful and easy-to-learn programming language for manipulating data and the user interface. HyperCard
|
| Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse () (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann_Hesse
|
| London Heathrow Airport London_Heathrow_Airport
|
| Hacker/Archive1 Talk:Hacker/Archive1
|
| Holden GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was originally independent, but since 1931 has been a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and, on behalf of GM, holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea. Holden
|
| Heat engine A heat engine is a physical or theoretical device that converts thermal energy to mechanical output. The mechanical output is called work, and the thermal energy input is called heat. Heat engines typically run on a specific thermodynamic cycle. Heat engines can be open to the atmospheric air or sealed and closed off to the outside (Open or closed cycle).In engineering and thermodynamics, a heat engine performs the conversion of heat energy to mechanical work by exploiting the temperature gradient between a hot "source" and a cold "sink". Heat_engine
|
| Hound of Heaven Hound of Heaven is a 182 line religious poem written by English poet Francis Thompson. The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation. It was included in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917). It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before that. Hound_of_Heaven
|
| History of the Internet Before the widespread internetworking that led to the Internet, most communication networks were limited by their nature to only allow communications between the stations on the local network and the prevalent computer networking method was based on the central mainframe computer model. History_of_the_Internet
|
| Hesiod Hesiod (Greek:Hesiodos) was a Greek oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars (see West, T. W. Allen) agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE. Since at least Herodotus's time (Histories, 2.53) Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often paired. Hesiod
|
| Halle Berry Halle Berry (; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Halle_Berry
|
| Houston Houston () is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2seat of Harris and the economic center of the metropolitan area—the metropolitan in the U.S. Houston
|
| History of Israel The State of Israel (, Medinat Yisrael) was established on May 14, 1948 after nearly two thousand years of Jewish dispersal, and after 55 years of efforts to create a Jewish homeland (Zionism). The 60 years since Israeli independence have been marked by conflict with neighbouring Arab states and the Palestinian-Arabs. History_of_Israel
|
| Hastings Hastings
|
| Heavy metal music This article is about the music genre. For other uses, see Heavy metal and Metal (disambiguation).Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. Heavy_metal_music
|
| Hezbollah Hezbollah
|
| Hani Hanjour A pilot who had lived intermittently in the United States for ten years, Hani Saleh Hanjour, () (August 13 1972 September 11 2001) was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 in the September 11 attacks. The FBI believes that he piloted the plane and crashed it into The Pentagon. Hanjour is largely considered to have been among the most conservative and religiously observant of the hijackers. Hani_Hanjour
|
| Hannibal Hamlin Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Abraham Lincoln from 1861-1865. He was the first Vice President from the Republican Party. in 1860, Hamlin served in the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, and, briefly, as Governor of Maine. Hannibal_Hamlin
|
| Hot or Not Hot or Not is a rating site that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. The site also offers a match making engine called 'Meet Me' and an extended profile feature called 'HOTLISTS'. Hot_or_Not
|
| Heroin Heroin, or diacetylmorphine (INN), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine). The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin freebase may also appear as a white powder. Heroin
|
| Homeschooling Talk:Homeschooling
|
| Humayun Humayun
|
| History of Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone and that aims to provide free encyclopedic information to its readers. The pioneering concept and technology of Wiki comes from Ward Cunningham, the concept of a free online encyclopedia from Richard Stallman. History_of_Wikipedia
|
| Habeas corpus Habeas corpus () (Latin:writ, through which a person can seek relief from the unlawful detention of him or herself, or of another person. It protects the individual from harming him or herself, or from being harmed by the judicial system. Of English origin, the writ of habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action. Habeas_corpus
|
| Henry the Navigator This article is about the Portuguese prince. For the Dutch prince sometimes known as "Henry the Navigator", see Prince Henry of the Netherlands.The Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu (; Porto, March 4, 1394 November 13, 1460 in Sagres) was an infante (prince) of the Portuguese House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations. He is known in English as Prince Henry the Navigator (). Henry_the_Navigator
|
| History of Algeria The fertile coastal plain of North Africa, especially west of Tunisia, is often called the Maghreb (or Maghrib). North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East. Thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas. History_of_Algeria
|
| History of Africa Talk:History_of_Africa
|
| Hentai Hentai
|
| Henry VIII of England Henry_VIII_of_England
|
| Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (Hindi:Punjabi:pronounced ) is a state in the Punjab region in north-west India. Himachal Pradesh is spread over 21,629 sq (56,019 km²), and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on north, Punjab on west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on south, Uttarakhand on south-east and by Tibet on the east. The literal meaning of Himachal Pradesh is Region of snowy mountains. Himachal_Pradesh
|
| Handheld game console A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable device with a built-in screen, games controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are run on machines of small size allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place. Unlike video game consoles, the controls, screen and speakers are all part of a single unit.In 1977, Mattel introduced the first handheld electronic game with the release of Auto Race,. Handheld_game_console
|
| Holocene extinction event Talk:Holocene_extinction_event
|
| Elagabalus Elagabalus
|
| Homeopathy Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine that treats patients with heavily diluted preparations that are thought to cause effects similar to the symptoms presented, first expounded by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking ("succussing") after each step under the assumption that this increases the effect of the treatment; this process is referred to as "potentization". Homeopathy
|
| Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian poet and playwright of realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre. Alongside Olav Duun and Knut Hamsun, Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians, and one of the most important playwrights of all time. Henrik_Ibsen
|
| Homeopathy Talk:Homeopathy
|
| Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton () (2006 population 504,559; UA population 647,634; CMA population 692,911) is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. Hamilton,_Ontario
|
| Hoover Dam Hoover Dam, originally known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 35th-largest hydroelectric generating station. Hoover_Dam
|
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
|
| Horned God Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in the neopagan religion of Wicca. He is often given various names and epithets, and represents the male part of the religion's duotheistic theological system, the other part being the female Triple Goddess.The term 'Horned God' itself predates Wicca, and is a 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins, who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonised into the form of Horned_God
|
| Hank Aaron Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama), is a retired American baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned from 1954 through 1976. Aaron is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Hank_Aaron
|
| Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is also known for his use of psychedelics, alcohol, firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. Hunter_S._Thompson
|