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Heliotrope (instrument) The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Heliozoa Heliozoa, or sun animalcules, are roughly spherical amoeboids with many stiff, microtubule-supported projections called axopods radiating outward from the cell surface. These give them the characteristic sun-like appearance for which they are named, and are variously used for capturing food, sensation, movement, and attachment.
HeliOS HeliOS was a Unix-like operating system built by some of the team who had worked on AmigaOS and TRIPOS. Like these two it was designed around a light-weight message-passing kernel, but it actually copied the messages from process to process rather than passing a pointer.
Helipad The word helipad (also heli-pad) is a grammatical contraction meaning helicopter landing pad, a landing area for helicopters. Though helicopters can usually land anywhere flat, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard surface away from obstacles where a helicopter can land.
Helis Nunatak Helis Nunatak (Nunatak Helis 'nu-na-tak 'he-lis) is a crown-shaped rocky peak of elevation 340 m in Vidin Heights, Livingston Island. The peak is named after the ancient Thracian capital town of Helis whose remains are located at Sveshtari, Northeastern Bulgaria.
Heliservices Heliservices (Hong Kong) Limited is a Hong Kong-based helicopter operator operating local and cross-border passenger charters and lifting and construction works. It also provides a flying limousine service between the Hong Kong International Airport and the rooftop helipad of the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, aerial power line insulator washing for Hong Kong's two power companies and an aerial banner-towing service for advertisers.
Helispot A Helispot is a location on the incident where it is safe for copters to land and take off. The Helispot managers are onsite to coordinate the landings and take offs as well as loading and unloading of equipment and personnel as needed.
Helitrans Helitrans is a Norwegian helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and aircraft maintenance company based at Trondheim Airport, Værnes established in 1990. The airline also has bases in Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvold, Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy and Sandefjord Airport, Torp in Norway in addition to Gävle-Sandviken Airport in Sweden.
Helium (band) Helium were an American indie rock trio formed in the summer of 1992 by former Autoclave member Mary Timony (electric guitar and vocals) with Shawn King Devlin (drums) and Brian Dunton (electric bass guitar). Their first release was a 7" single entitled The American Jean (1993), which was followed by the 7" Hole in the Ground.
Helium dating Helium Dating (or He dating) is the method of age determination that depends on the production of helium during the decay of the radioactive isotopes uranium-235 (U-235), uranium-238 (U-238), and thorium-232 (Th-232). Because of this decay, the helium content of any mineral or rock capable of retaining helium will increase during the lifetime of that mineral or rock, and the ratio of helium to its radioactive progenitors then becomes a constant.
Helium release valve A helium release valve, or helium escape valve, as it is also called, is a feature found on some diving watches. It provides functionality for professional divers operating at great depths for prolonged periods of time.
Helix A helix (pl: helices), from the Greek word Îλικας/Îλιξ, is a twisted shape like a spring, screw or a spiral (correctly termed helical) staircase. Helices are important in biology, as DNA is helical and many proteins have helical substructures, known as alpha helices.
Helix (band) Helix is a heavy metal band that formed in 1974 for a Battle of the Bands contest in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and is best known for their 1984 single "Rock You". The original lineup consisted of singer Brian Vollmer, guitarists Brent Doerner and Paul Hackman, bassist Keith Zurbrigg and drummer Brian Doerner.
Helix (comics) Helix was a short-lived, science fiction and science fantasy imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998. (In early promotional materials prior to the release of the first title, the imprint was called "Matrix" instead of Helix.
Helix (database) Helix is a pioneering database management system for the Apple Macintosh platform. Helix uses a graphical "programming language" to add logic to its applications, allowing non-programmers to construct sophisticated applications.
Helix (Marvel Comics) Helix (Rafael Carago) is a fictional character, a mutate superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Tom DeFalco and Todd DeZago in Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Saga Alpha (part of the Clone Saga).
Helix (project) Helix is an open multi-format digital media framework. The code is released in binary and source code form (except for the extensions listed below) under various licenses, notably the commercial RealNetworks Community Source License and the open source RealNetworks Public Source License.
Helix piercing The helix piercing is a perforation of the helix or upper ear (cartilage) for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry. The piercing itself is usually made with a small gauge hollow piercing needle, and typical jewelry would be a small diameter captive bead ring or stud.
Helix-coil transition model Helix-coil transition models are formalized techniques in statistical mechanics developed to describe conformations of linear polymers in solution. The models are usually but not exclusively applied to polypeptides as a measure of the relative fraction of the molecule in an alpha helix conformation versus turn or random coil.
Helix-turn-helix In proteins, the helix-turn-helix (HTH) is a major structural motif capable of binding DNA. It is composed of two α helices joined by a short strand of amino acids and is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression.
Heljan Heljan are a model railway company who have recently diversified into modelling the British scene, and since 2002 have released several OO gauge diesel locomotives, and recently released several O gauge models.
Helkama Helkama Oy is a Finnish company and umbrella brand, operating several subsidiaries that focus on bicycles (Helkama Velox), cables for ships and communications (Helkama Bica), househould appliances and refregirators (Helkama Forste), accessories and imports for Ĺ koda Auto automobiles (Helkama-Auto), and automobile maintenance and import (Uuttera Oy). Despite this broad variety of activities, Helkama is mostly known as a bicycle brand.
Hell (crater) Hell is a lunar crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon's near side, within the western half of the enormous Deslandres basin. To the southeast, also within the Deslandres basin, is the larger Lexell crater.
Hell bank note Hell bank notes () are a special form of joss paper, an afterlife monetary paper offering used in traditional Chinese ancestor veneration, that can be printed in the style of western or Chinese paper bank notes.
Hell Below Hell Below (1933) was a MGM film set in the Adriatic during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats, starring Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans and Jimmy Durante. USS S-31 played USS AL-14, and action sequences including the sinking of an actual WW I destroyer, the USS Moody, to simulate the destruction of a German destroyer.
Hell Cape Studios The Hell Cape Studios is a little studio of crazy art that works nowadays with traditional and digital art, texts, comics and designer of custom,logos or web pages. In the future it intends, with the right equipments, to work with video, animation and musical productions, since that today they have no recurses for it...
Hell Comes to Your House Hell Comes to Your House is an influential American deathrock and punk compilation originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998, it is notable for releasing the first ever Christian Death song "Dogs".
Hell Creek Formation The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous rocks in North America. It is a series of freshwater clays, mudstones, and sandstones deposited during the latest part of the Cretaceous period by fluvial activity in fluctuating river channels and deltas and very occasional peaty swamp deposits along the low-lying eastern continental margin fronting the late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.
Hell Divers Hell Divers is a 1931 movie starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers on board the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Beery is the old-timer looking to trip up the young Gable, both on and off duty; the story is conventional, but the acting is superb.
Hell Drivers (film) Hell Drivers is a 1957 film starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, William Hartnell, Sid James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum and, in a small role, Sean Connery.
Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City in the United States. It separates Astoria, Queens from Randall's Island / Ward's Island (formerly two separate islands that are now joined by landfill).
Hell Gate Bridge The Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge) is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands (which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan) in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.
Hell hound (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the hell hound is an outsider from the Elemental Plane of fire, and the lower planes. It resembles a mangy, skinny, somewhat demonic hyena-like creature with red eyes and draconic ears.
Hell house A hell house, also commonly known as a judgement house or Doom House, is a haunted house-style attraction typically run by North American fundamentalist Christian churches or parachurch groups. These attractions are meant to depict the divine judgments that await unrepentant sinners and the torments of the damned in Hell.
Hell in a Cell Hell in a Cell (sometimes referred to as Hell in the Cell) is a type of professional wrestling match seen in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in which the ring and ringside area are surrounded by a roofed steel cell which stands 16 feet off the ground.
Hell in Christian beliefs The term Hell, in a Christian context, refers to a place or state of existence after death in which the individual suffers the consequences of unrepented immoral actions in life. The nature of hell and its punishment is a subject of debate between various denominations.
Hell in Paradise "Hell in Paradise" is a song by Yoko Ono from the 1985 album "Starpeace". The lyrics are about mankind's perceived idea of hell, despite living in the paradise that Ono considers to be planet Earth.
Hell Is For Heroes (band) Hell Is For Heroes are an English post-hardcore band, formed in Camden, London, in September 2000. Initial partnership of Will McGonagle and Joe Birch, previously in Symposium was joined by James Findlay, Tom O'Donoghue and later Justin Schlosberg.
Hell Island (novella) Hell Island is a horror/adventure novella written in conjunction with the Australian Books Alive promotion, by young thriller writer Matthew Reilly. The fourth book in the Shane Schofield series, it is a sequel to the 2003 book Scarecrow, and contains the series' original characters, Captain Shane M.
Hell of Excrement Hell of Excrement, (屎糞所, shifunsho, "place of excrement"), one of the sixteen lesser hells depicted in the Japanese Hell Scroll (地獄草紙, jigokuzōji), probably commissioned by Emperor Goshirakawa in the 12th century and originally stored in Rengeô-in Temple. in Japan]
Hell of the Flaming Cock Hell of the Flaming Cock (鶏地獄, torijigoku, "hell of the cock") is one of the sixteen lesser hells depicted in the Japanese Hell Scroll. The scroll depicts a flying cock (rooster), breathing fire.
Hell on Earth (band) Hell on Earth is a controversial heavy metal and industrial rock band whose songs include "Toilet Licking Maggot" and "Raped by the Virgin Mary". On stage, they have had sex with skinned calves and had fans drink a blended concoction of dead rats.
Hell on Wheels The phrase "Hell on Wheels" was originally used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the American transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. The followers were called "hangers-on" according to Samuel Bowles.
Hell on Wheels (2004 film) Höllentour (literally meaning "Hell Route," with the US release titled Hell on Wheels) is a film released in 2005. It is a record of the 100th Tour de France in 2003 from the perspective of the Germany's Team Telekom.
Hell on Wheels (2007 film) Hell on Wheels is a documentary film about a group of tattooed rock and roll chicks who struggle to resurrect the sport of roller derby. The women find themselves locked in a workers-versus-management clash and a rift forms in the ranks, ripping the league in two.
Hell or high water clause A hell or high water clause is a clause in a contract, usually a lease, which provides that the payments must continue irrespective of any difficulties which the paying party may encounter (usually in relation to the operation of the leased asset). The clause usually forms part of a parent company guarantee.
Hell Paso Hell Paso is the first EP by At the Drive-In, released in 1994 on Western Breed Records. It easily is the most sought-after At The Drive-In piece of vinyl, and in the early 2000s was seen to be sold for nearly $100 on eBay - though it is now generally less expensive.
Hell station Hell Station is a railway station located at Hell in Stjørdal, Norway, where the three important railways of Dovrebanen, Nordlandsbanen and Meråkerbanen meet. The station was first constructed in 1881, though the present station building was opened in 1902.
Hell Scroll Hell Scroll (地獄草紙, jigokuzōji) is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kisekyō ("Sutra of the World Arising"). Six of the paintings are accompanied by text, which all begin with the phrase "There is yet another hell", following a description of what the sinners depicted did to end up in this particular hell.
Hell Ship The term Hell Ship refers to any of the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to transport Allied prisoners of war out of the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore during World War II. The POWs would be taken to Japan, Taiwan, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor.
Hell visit Hell visit (Chinese 觀č˝é™°) is a sorcery in Chinese traditional Taoism belief, which is still very popular in 21st century in eastern Asia. A Taoist will help the client to liberate their soul and visit the hell.
Hell Yeah Former Pantera/Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott has confirmed that his new band with members of Mudvayne and Nothingface has been officially dubbed Hell Yeah. The group has been writing and recording material in Dallas, Texas for what will eventually become its debut album, tentatively due in March 2007.
Hell Yes (EP) Hell Yes, or Ghettochip Malfunction, or GameBoy Variations, is a remix EP of several songs from Beck's 2005 album, Guero. The prominent feature of the EP is the persistent use of sound effects and tones generated from 8-bit or 16-bit video game systems, giving the songs a somewhat 'retro'/'chiptune' feel.
Hell's Belles Hell's Belles is a fictional super villain team in the Marvel Comics Universe, comprised of female mutant terrorists. They were formed by Cyber to commit acts of extortion, and worked for a notorious drug cartel.
Hell's Gate National Park Hell's Gate National Park lies south of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, north west of Nairobi. It is known for its wildlife and for its scenery, including the Fischer's Tower and Central Tower columns and Hell's Gate Gorge.
Hell's Hinges Hell's Hinges is a 1916 western film which tells the story of a minister who comes to a gunfighter-plagued town, who falls from grace as his sister rehabilitates "Blaze" Tracey, Hart's character, the most dangerous man in town. It stars William S.
Hell's Kitchen (Winnipeg) "Hell's Kitchen" is a neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada consisting mainly of the boundaries of Furby, Young, and Langside streets, a rough neighborhood in Winnipeg's core downtown area. Local residents named it after the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City.
Hell'z Movie Hell'z Movie is a bootleg album by Bizzy Bone often claimed to be the sequel to Bizzy's original solo offering, Heaven'z Movie. It contains many released and unreleased tracks which Bizzy either created himself or was featured on.
Hell-Bent for Election Hell-Bent For Election was a 1944 two-reel (thirteen minute) animated cartoon short subject. The short was one of the first major films from United Productions of America (then known as "Industrial Film and Poster Service"), which would go on to become the most influential animation studio of the 1950s.
Hell-Rider __NOTOC__Hell-Rider is a short-lived, black-and-white comics magazine published by Skywald Publications, a 1970s company best known for its horror-comics magazines Nightmare, Psycho, and Scream. Like them and the similar publications of Warren Publishing, these were mature-audience magazines not covered by comic books' Comics Code Authority.
Hell, Grand Cayman Hell, Grand Cayman is a group of short, black, limestone formations in the northwest Grand Cayman town of West Bay. It is roughly the size of half a soccer field, and people are not allowed in amongst the limestone formations; two viewing platforms exist for tourists.
Hell, Norway Hell is a small village in Stjørdal, Norway with a population of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name: people like to take the train there to get photographed in front of the station sign.
Helladic period Helladic is a modern term of archaeological origin to identify a sequence of periods characterizing the culture of mainland ancient Greece during the Bronze Age. The term is commonly used in archaeology and art history.
Hellanicus of Lesbos Hellanicus of Lesbos (in Ancient Greek ) (born in Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos in 490 BC) was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during the latter half of the 5th century BC. He is reputed to have lived to the age of 85.
Hellanodikai The Hellanodikai (literally meaning Judges of the Greeks) were the judges of the Ancient Olympic Games, and the success of the games are attributed to their efforts. It was their sacred duty to maintain the standards and legacy of the games, as well as uphold the rules.
Hellas On Line Hellas On Line [HOL], was one of the first Greek BBSs to offer commercial access to the internet, thus becoming an Internet Service Provider. It currently offers internet access over PSTN/ISDN lines, as well as more advanced broadband access over OTE's ADSL network.
Hell´s Bells (Christian documentary on Rock and Roll) Hell's Bells (tagline: The Dangers of Rock and Roll) was an attempt to examine the relationship of contemporary rock music to sex, violence, suicide, drug use, rebellion, the occult, and other activities considered immoral by fundamentalist Christians. It was released in 1989, and the music potrayed is music produced prior to the nineties.
Hellbastard Hellbastard was a Crust punk band formed in 1986 in the United Kingdom. The story goes that they met each other at a Subhumans gig, and that they decided to form a band that should be a combination of the politics of Crass and the music of Slayer.
Hellbender The Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) is a large aquatic salamander native to North America whose habitat includes large, swiftly flowing streams with rocky bottoms. Common names include the "snot otter" and "devil dog.
Hellbound (album) Hellbound is psychobilly band, Nekromantix', debut album, released in 1989. Just after founding member, Kim Nekroman, completed his eight year stint with the Royal Danish Navy, the band played for a large festival in Hamburg, Germany and landed their first record deal of which this album was the result.
Hellboy - Blood and Iron Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the Hellboy animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It is scheduled to be screened on television in 2007 and then released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Hellboy (animated series) Hellboy Animated is an upcoming straight to DVD animation project which will feature two animated films with the signature of Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro: Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron. A third film is being planned but hasn't been greenlit yet.
Hellboy (film) Hellboy (also known as Super Sapiens in some countries) is a film based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy. Released worldwide in 2004, Hellboy made $59,035,104 at the domestic box office ($99,318,987 worldwide), and has a running time of 2 hours and 1 minute.
Hellboy (game) Hellboy: Asylum Seeker is the name of a PlayStation game released in 2003 by Dreamcatcher Interactive. It is a port of the PC game titled Hellboy: Dogs of the Night (or sometimes just Hellboy, depending on where it was released), developed by Cryo Studios North America, a subsidiary of Cryo Interactive of France, and released in late 2000/early 2001.
Hellcat Records Hellcat Records is a vanity record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of which is generally responsible for signing the bands.
Helldorado *Helldorado is a nickname for the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona in the violent silver-mining days of the early 1880's. The reference is to a newspaper letter of the period from a miner complaining that many miners had come to Tombstone hoping to find Eldorado, but had instead found Helldorado.
Helle Crafts Helle Crafts (July 4, 1947 - November 19, 1986) was a flight attendant who is famous for her brutal death at the hands of her husband, Richard Crafts. Her murder is sometimes called the "Woodchipper Murder" because of the method in which Richard Crafts disposed of her body.
Hellebore Helleborus is a genus of approximately 20 species (ongoing fieldwork may see this figure change) of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae.
Helleborus foetidus Helleborus foetidus, known variously as Stinking hellebore, Dungwort, or Bear's foot, is a member of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to western Europe, from England south to Portugal, and east to Germany and Italy.
Hellecasters The Hellecasters are an American guitar group. Composed of Nashville session players Will Ray, John Jorgensen (Desert Rose, Elton John's backup band), and Jerry Donahue (Fairport Convention), they all play modified versions of the Fender Telecaster as their main instruments.
Hellen Huisman Hellen Huisman (born 26 March, 1937 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a voice actor who does voiceover work on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Hellen originated the Dutch voice of Prairie Dawn, and has done the voice-over of other girls on the show from 1976 to the 2000s.
Helleneologism A helleneologism is a term that refers to a modernly coined word, or neologism, which particularly uses Greek words and syllables, often to make its origins appear more ancient and established than they really are. The word itself derives from the Greek roots ελλήν + νεο + λογος, which respectively mean Greek + new + idea.
Hellenic Aerospace Industry The Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI or EAB from its Greek initials 'Elliniki Aeroporiki Biomihania') is the most important Greek aerospace company. It was founded by the Greek state in 1975 to undertake all aircraft-related construction activity, so that the historic KEA factory would concentrate on maintenance work.
Hellenic Air Force The Hellenic Air Force or HAF (Greek Πολεμική ΑεĎοποĎία) is the air force of Greece. It's mission is to guard and protect the Greek airspace, provide air assistance and support for the Hellenic Army and the Hellenic Navy and provide humanitarian aid when requested and needed in Greece and around the world.
Hellenic Alternative Charts The Hellenic Alternative Charts are one of Greece's first serious attempts to evaluate the likable tastes in modern alternative music, especially in the so called "black scene", focusing on Electrogoth, Industrial, Electronic body music, Industrial techno, Power noise and Cyberpunk music.
Hellenic calendar The Hellenic calendar—or more properly, the Hellenic calendars, for there was no uniform calendar imposed upon all of Classical Greece—began soon after the June solstice, at the time when the star Sirius rose just after the moment of dawn, its heliacal rising. The star was invisible at that moment, in the brilliance of the sun's light, so it took an astronomer's reckoning to establish the moment of the new year.
Hellenic Conservatory The Hellenic Conservatory (Greek: Ελληνικό Ωδείο) was founded in Athens in 1919 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris. Kalomoiris was the conservatoire's director until 1926, when he left to found the National Conservatoire.
Hellenic Federation Of Historic Vehicles Clubs E.O.O.E. The Hellenic Federation Of Historic Vehicles Clubs (FHVE) is the only nationwide non-profit, non-governmental association for private historic motoring in Greece. Since 1997 it has continued the work started by its three founder organizations, the Historic & Classic Car Club of Greece (SISPA), the Historic Car Club of Northern Greece (SIAVE) and the Triumph Sports Car Club of Greece (TSCG).
Hellenic Football Federation The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) (Greek: Ελληνική ΠοδοĎφαιĎική ΟμοĎπονδία - (EPO)) is the governing body of football in Greece. It contributes in the organisation of Super League Greece and organizes the Greek football Cup and the Greece national football team.
Hellenic Journal The Hellenic Journal is a monthly news magazine aimed at the Greek-American community of the western United States. Based in Brisbane, California, it focuses primarily on cultural news events across the west coast.
Hellenic National Intelligence Service The Hellenic National Intelligence Service (NIS or EYP) (Greek: Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion, Εθνική ΥπηĎεĎία ΠληĎοφοĎιών, ΕΥΠ) is the national intelligence service of Greece. Its headquarters are located in Athens.
Hellenic polytheism Hellenic Polytheism serves as a descriptive term for a wide variety of polytheistic religious movements that are ideologically related by their reverence for the ancient Greek pantheon and/or their adoption of Hellenic religious practices.
Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament (Greek: Βουλή των Ελλήνων; transliterated Vouli (also Boule) ton Ellinon; literally 'Will (of the Council) of the Greeks,' from the ancient Greek verb βούλομαι (voulome) meaning to will (after deliberating); latin: volo) is the parliament of Greece, located in Syntagma Square in Athens. It is a unicameral legislature with 300 elected members.
Hellenic Quest Hellenic Quest refers to an urban legend that circulated around Greek websites and was widely reproduced without prior verification by any source. According to the "Hellenic Quest" story, CNN has reported that Apple Computer is supposedly developing a software product for teaching the Ancient Greek language to foreigners and scientists, in the light of the upcoming development of supercomputers that will use Ancient Greek as their programming interface, due to this language's superior logical structure.
Hellenic Shipyards Co. Hellenic Shipyards is a large Shipyard in Skaramangas near Athens, Greece. Its origins are connected with a shipyard created in order to build battleships in 1939; development ceased due to the War, when huge damages were inflicted on the facilities.
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Hellenica Oxyrhynchia is the name given to a history of late 5th and early 4th centuries BC in ancient Greece, of which papyrus fragments were unearthed at Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. One of the two major fragments, the so-called "London papyrus," found in 1906, deals with battles in the late Peloponnesian War, particularly the Battle of Notium.
Hellenistic armies The Hellenistics armies is the term applied to the armies of the successor kingdoms which emerged after the death of the Alexander the Great. After his death, Alexander's huje empire was torn between his succesors, the Diadochi.
Hellenistic art The art of the Hellenistic period has long been the victim of the relative disdain attached to the period. Cessavit deinde ars ("then art disappeared") remarks Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (XXXIV, 52), after having described the sculpture of the classical period.
Hellenistic astrology Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was developed and practiced in Hellenistic Egypt and the Mediterranean, whose texts were written in Greek (or sometimes Latin), sometime around the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE. See David Pingree - From Astral Omens to Astrology from Babylon to Bikaner, Roma: Istituto Italiano per L'Africa e L'Oriente, 1997.
Hellenistic civilization The term Hellenistic (derived from Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of Greek culture over the non-Greek peoples that were conquered by Alexander the Great. According to Droysen, the Hellenistic civilization was a fusion of Greek and Near Eastern cultures.
Heliozoa Heliozoa, or sun animalcules, are roughly spherical amoeboids with many stiff, microtubule-supported projections called axopods radiating outward from the cell surface. These give them the characteristic sun-like appearance for which they are named, and are variously used for capturing food, sensation, movement, and attachment.
HeliOS HeliOS was a Unix-like operating system built by some of the team who had worked on AmigaOS and TRIPOS. Like these two it was designed around a light-weight message-passing kernel, but it actually copied the messages from process to process rather than passing a pointer.
Helipad The word helipad (also heli-pad) is a grammatical contraction meaning helicopter landing pad, a landing area for helicopters. Though helicopters can usually land anywhere flat, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard surface away from obstacles where a helicopter can land.
Helis Nunatak Helis Nunatak (Nunatak Helis 'nu-na-tak 'he-lis) is a crown-shaped rocky peak of elevation 340 m in Vidin Heights, Livingston Island. The peak is named after the ancient Thracian capital town of Helis whose remains are located at Sveshtari, Northeastern Bulgaria.
Heliservices Heliservices (Hong Kong) Limited is a Hong Kong-based helicopter operator operating local and cross-border passenger charters and lifting and construction works. It also provides a flying limousine service between the Hong Kong International Airport and the rooftop helipad of the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, aerial power line insulator washing for Hong Kong's two power companies and an aerial banner-towing service for advertisers.
Helispot A Helispot is a location on the incident where it is safe for copters to land and take off. The Helispot managers are onsite to coordinate the landings and take offs as well as loading and unloading of equipment and personnel as needed.
Helitrans Helitrans is a Norwegian helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and aircraft maintenance company based at Trondheim Airport, Værnes established in 1990. The airline also has bases in Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvold, Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy and Sandefjord Airport, Torp in Norway in addition to Gävle-Sandviken Airport in Sweden.
Helium (band) Helium were an American indie rock trio formed in the summer of 1992 by former Autoclave member Mary Timony (electric guitar and vocals) with Shawn King Devlin (drums) and Brian Dunton (electric bass guitar). Their first release was a 7" single entitled The American Jean (1993), which was followed by the 7" Hole in the Ground.
Helium dating Helium Dating (or He dating) is the method of age determination that depends on the production of helium during the decay of the radioactive isotopes uranium-235 (U-235), uranium-238 (U-238), and thorium-232 (Th-232). Because of this decay, the helium content of any mineral or rock capable of retaining helium will increase during the lifetime of that mineral or rock, and the ratio of helium to its radioactive progenitors then becomes a constant.
Helium release valve A helium release valve, or helium escape valve, as it is also called, is a feature found on some diving watches. It provides functionality for professional divers operating at great depths for prolonged periods of time.
Helix A helix (pl: helices), from the Greek word Îλικας/Îλιξ, is a twisted shape like a spring, screw or a spiral (correctly termed helical) staircase. Helices are important in biology, as DNA is helical and many proteins have helical substructures, known as alpha helices.
Helix (band) Helix is a heavy metal band that formed in 1974 for a Battle of the Bands contest in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and is best known for their 1984 single "Rock You". The original lineup consisted of singer Brian Vollmer, guitarists Brent Doerner and Paul Hackman, bassist Keith Zurbrigg and drummer Brian Doerner.
Helix (comics) Helix was a short-lived, science fiction and science fantasy imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998. (In early promotional materials prior to the release of the first title, the imprint was called "Matrix" instead of Helix.
Helix (database) Helix is a pioneering database management system for the Apple Macintosh platform. Helix uses a graphical "programming language" to add logic to its applications, allowing non-programmers to construct sophisticated applications.
Helix (Marvel Comics) Helix (Rafael Carago) is a fictional character, a mutate superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Tom DeFalco and Todd DeZago in Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Saga Alpha (part of the Clone Saga).
Helix (project) Helix is an open multi-format digital media framework. The code is released in binary and source code form (except for the extensions listed below) under various licenses, notably the commercial RealNetworks Community Source License and the open source RealNetworks Public Source License.
Helix piercing The helix piercing is a perforation of the helix or upper ear (cartilage) for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry. The piercing itself is usually made with a small gauge hollow piercing needle, and typical jewelry would be a small diameter captive bead ring or stud.
Helix-coil transition model Helix-coil transition models are formalized techniques in statistical mechanics developed to describe conformations of linear polymers in solution. The models are usually but not exclusively applied to polypeptides as a measure of the relative fraction of the molecule in an alpha helix conformation versus turn or random coil.
Helix-turn-helix In proteins, the helix-turn-helix (HTH) is a major structural motif capable of binding DNA. It is composed of two α helices joined by a short strand of amino acids and is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression.
Heljan Heljan are a model railway company who have recently diversified into modelling the British scene, and since 2002 have released several OO gauge diesel locomotives, and recently released several O gauge models.
Helkama Helkama Oy is a Finnish company and umbrella brand, operating several subsidiaries that focus on bicycles (Helkama Velox), cables for ships and communications (Helkama Bica), househould appliances and refregirators (Helkama Forste), accessories and imports for Ĺ koda Auto automobiles (Helkama-Auto), and automobile maintenance and import (Uuttera Oy). Despite this broad variety of activities, Helkama is mostly known as a bicycle brand.
Hell (crater) Hell is a lunar crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon's near side, within the western half of the enormous Deslandres basin. To the southeast, also within the Deslandres basin, is the larger Lexell crater.
Hell bank note Hell bank notes () are a special form of joss paper, an afterlife monetary paper offering used in traditional Chinese ancestor veneration, that can be printed in the style of western or Chinese paper bank notes.
Hell Below Hell Below (1933) was a MGM film set in the Adriatic during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats, starring Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans and Jimmy Durante. USS S-31 played USS AL-14, and action sequences including the sinking of an actual WW I destroyer, the USS Moody, to simulate the destruction of a German destroyer.
Hell Cape Studios The Hell Cape Studios is a little studio of crazy art that works nowadays with traditional and digital art, texts, comics and designer of custom,logos or web pages. In the future it intends, with the right equipments, to work with video, animation and musical productions, since that today they have no recurses for it...
Hell Comes to Your House Hell Comes to Your House is an influential American deathrock and punk compilation originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998, it is notable for releasing the first ever Christian Death song "Dogs".
Hell Creek Formation The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous rocks in North America. It is a series of freshwater clays, mudstones, and sandstones deposited during the latest part of the Cretaceous period by fluvial activity in fluctuating river channels and deltas and very occasional peaty swamp deposits along the low-lying eastern continental margin fronting the late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.
Hell Divers Hell Divers is a 1931 movie starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers on board the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Beery is the old-timer looking to trip up the young Gable, both on and off duty; the story is conventional, but the acting is superb.
Hell Drivers (film) Hell Drivers is a 1957 film starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, William Hartnell, Sid James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum and, in a small role, Sean Connery.
Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City in the United States. It separates Astoria, Queens from Randall's Island / Ward's Island (formerly two separate islands that are now joined by landfill).
Hell Gate Bridge The Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge) is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands (which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan) in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.
Hell hound (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the hell hound is an outsider from the Elemental Plane of fire, and the lower planes. It resembles a mangy, skinny, somewhat demonic hyena-like creature with red eyes and draconic ears.
Hell house A hell house, also commonly known as a judgement house or Doom House, is a haunted house-style attraction typically run by North American fundamentalist Christian churches or parachurch groups. These attractions are meant to depict the divine judgments that await unrepentant sinners and the torments of the damned in Hell.
Hell in a Cell Hell in a Cell (sometimes referred to as Hell in the Cell) is a type of professional wrestling match seen in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in which the ring and ringside area are surrounded by a roofed steel cell which stands 16 feet off the ground.
Hell in Christian beliefs The term Hell, in a Christian context, refers to a place or state of existence after death in which the individual suffers the consequences of unrepented immoral actions in life. The nature of hell and its punishment is a subject of debate between various denominations.
Hell in Paradise "Hell in Paradise" is a song by Yoko Ono from the 1985 album "Starpeace". The lyrics are about mankind's perceived idea of hell, despite living in the paradise that Ono considers to be planet Earth.
Hell Is For Heroes (band) Hell Is For Heroes are an English post-hardcore band, formed in Camden, London, in September 2000. Initial partnership of Will McGonagle and Joe Birch, previously in Symposium was joined by James Findlay, Tom O'Donoghue and later Justin Schlosberg.
Hell Island (novella) Hell Island is a horror/adventure novella written in conjunction with the Australian Books Alive promotion, by young thriller writer Matthew Reilly. The fourth book in the Shane Schofield series, it is a sequel to the 2003 book Scarecrow, and contains the series' original characters, Captain Shane M.
Hell of Excrement Hell of Excrement, (屎糞所, shifunsho, "place of excrement"), one of the sixteen lesser hells depicted in the Japanese Hell Scroll (地獄草紙, jigokuzōji), probably commissioned by Emperor Goshirakawa in the 12th century and originally stored in Rengeô-in Temple. in Japan]
Hell of the Flaming Cock Hell of the Flaming Cock (鶏地獄, torijigoku, "hell of the cock") is one of the sixteen lesser hells depicted in the Japanese Hell Scroll. The scroll depicts a flying cock (rooster), breathing fire.
Hell on Earth (band) Hell on Earth is a controversial heavy metal and industrial rock band whose songs include "Toilet Licking Maggot" and "Raped by the Virgin Mary". On stage, they have had sex with skinned calves and had fans drink a blended concoction of dead rats.
Hell on Wheels The phrase "Hell on Wheels" was originally used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the American transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. The followers were called "hangers-on" according to Samuel Bowles.
Hell on Wheels (2004 film) Höllentour (literally meaning "Hell Route," with the US release titled Hell on Wheels) is a film released in 2005. It is a record of the 100th Tour de France in 2003 from the perspective of the Germany's Team Telekom.
Hell on Wheels (2007 film) Hell on Wheels is a documentary film about a group of tattooed rock and roll chicks who struggle to resurrect the sport of roller derby. The women find themselves locked in a workers-versus-management clash and a rift forms in the ranks, ripping the league in two.
Hell or high water clause A hell or high water clause is a clause in a contract, usually a lease, which provides that the payments must continue irrespective of any difficulties which the paying party may encounter (usually in relation to the operation of the leased asset). The clause usually forms part of a parent company guarantee.
Hell Paso Hell Paso is the first EP by At the Drive-In, released in 1994 on Western Breed Records. It easily is the most sought-after At The Drive-In piece of vinyl, and in the early 2000s was seen to be sold for nearly $100 on eBay - though it is now generally less expensive.
Hell station Hell Station is a railway station located at Hell in Stjørdal, Norway, where the three important railways of Dovrebanen, Nordlandsbanen and Meråkerbanen meet. The station was first constructed in 1881, though the present station building was opened in 1902.
Hell Scroll Hell Scroll (地獄草紙, jigokuzōji) is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kisekyō ("Sutra of the World Arising"). Six of the paintings are accompanied by text, which all begin with the phrase "There is yet another hell", following a description of what the sinners depicted did to end up in this particular hell.
Hell Ship The term Hell Ship refers to any of the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to transport Allied prisoners of war out of the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore during World War II. The POWs would be taken to Japan, Taiwan, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor.
Hell visit Hell visit (Chinese 觀č˝é™°) is a sorcery in Chinese traditional Taoism belief, which is still very popular in 21st century in eastern Asia. A Taoist will help the client to liberate their soul and visit the hell.
Hell Yeah Former Pantera/Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott has confirmed that his new band with members of Mudvayne and Nothingface has been officially dubbed Hell Yeah. The group has been writing and recording material in Dallas, Texas for what will eventually become its debut album, tentatively due in March 2007.
Hell Yes (EP) Hell Yes, or Ghettochip Malfunction, or GameBoy Variations, is a remix EP of several songs from Beck's 2005 album, Guero. The prominent feature of the EP is the persistent use of sound effects and tones generated from 8-bit or 16-bit video game systems, giving the songs a somewhat 'retro'/'chiptune' feel.
Hell's Belles Hell's Belles is a fictional super villain team in the Marvel Comics Universe, comprised of female mutant terrorists. They were formed by Cyber to commit acts of extortion, and worked for a notorious drug cartel.
Hell's Gate National Park Hell's Gate National Park lies south of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, north west of Nairobi. It is known for its wildlife and for its scenery, including the Fischer's Tower and Central Tower columns and Hell's Gate Gorge.
Hell's Hinges Hell's Hinges is a 1916 western film which tells the story of a minister who comes to a gunfighter-plagued town, who falls from grace as his sister rehabilitates "Blaze" Tracey, Hart's character, the most dangerous man in town. It stars William S.
Hell's Kitchen (Winnipeg) "Hell's Kitchen" is a neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada consisting mainly of the boundaries of Furby, Young, and Langside streets, a rough neighborhood in Winnipeg's core downtown area. Local residents named it after the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City.
Hell'z Movie Hell'z Movie is a bootleg album by Bizzy Bone often claimed to be the sequel to Bizzy's original solo offering, Heaven'z Movie. It contains many released and unreleased tracks which Bizzy either created himself or was featured on.
Hell-Bent for Election Hell-Bent For Election was a 1944 two-reel (thirteen minute) animated cartoon short subject. The short was one of the first major films from United Productions of America (then known as "Industrial Film and Poster Service"), which would go on to become the most influential animation studio of the 1950s.
Hell-Rider __NOTOC__Hell-Rider is a short-lived, black-and-white comics magazine published by Skywald Publications, a 1970s company best known for its horror-comics magazines Nightmare, Psycho, and Scream. Like them and the similar publications of Warren Publishing, these were mature-audience magazines not covered by comic books' Comics Code Authority.
Hell, Grand Cayman Hell, Grand Cayman is a group of short, black, limestone formations in the northwest Grand Cayman town of West Bay. It is roughly the size of half a soccer field, and people are not allowed in amongst the limestone formations; two viewing platforms exist for tourists.
Hell, Norway Hell is a small village in Stjørdal, Norway with a population of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name: people like to take the train there to get photographed in front of the station sign.
Helladic period Helladic is a modern term of archaeological origin to identify a sequence of periods characterizing the culture of mainland ancient Greece during the Bronze Age. The term is commonly used in archaeology and art history.
Hellanicus of Lesbos Hellanicus of Lesbos (in Ancient Greek ) (born in Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos in 490 BC) was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during the latter half of the 5th century BC. He is reputed to have lived to the age of 85.
Hellanodikai The Hellanodikai (literally meaning Judges of the Greeks) were the judges of the Ancient Olympic Games, and the success of the games are attributed to their efforts. It was their sacred duty to maintain the standards and legacy of the games, as well as uphold the rules.
Hellas On Line Hellas On Line [HOL], was one of the first Greek BBSs to offer commercial access to the internet, thus becoming an Internet Service Provider. It currently offers internet access over PSTN/ISDN lines, as well as more advanced broadband access over OTE's ADSL network.
Hell´s Bells (Christian documentary on Rock and Roll) Hell's Bells (tagline: The Dangers of Rock and Roll) was an attempt to examine the relationship of contemporary rock music to sex, violence, suicide, drug use, rebellion, the occult, and other activities considered immoral by fundamentalist Christians. It was released in 1989, and the music potrayed is music produced prior to the nineties.
Hellbastard Hellbastard was a Crust punk band formed in 1986 in the United Kingdom. The story goes that they met each other at a Subhumans gig, and that they decided to form a band that should be a combination of the politics of Crass and the music of Slayer.
Hellbender The Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) is a large aquatic salamander native to North America whose habitat includes large, swiftly flowing streams with rocky bottoms. Common names include the "snot otter" and "devil dog.
Hellbound (album) Hellbound is psychobilly band, Nekromantix', debut album, released in 1989. Just after founding member, Kim Nekroman, completed his eight year stint with the Royal Danish Navy, the band played for a large festival in Hamburg, Germany and landed their first record deal of which this album was the result.
Hellboy - Blood and Iron Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the Hellboy animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It is scheduled to be screened on television in 2007 and then released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Hellboy (animated series) Hellboy Animated is an upcoming straight to DVD animation project which will feature two animated films with the signature of Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro: Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron. A third film is being planned but hasn't been greenlit yet.
Hellboy (film) Hellboy (also known as Super Sapiens in some countries) is a film based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy. Released worldwide in 2004, Hellboy made $59,035,104 at the domestic box office ($99,318,987 worldwide), and has a running time of 2 hours and 1 minute.
Hellboy (game) Hellboy: Asylum Seeker is the name of a PlayStation game released in 2003 by Dreamcatcher Interactive. It is a port of the PC game titled Hellboy: Dogs of the Night (or sometimes just Hellboy, depending on where it was released), developed by Cryo Studios North America, a subsidiary of Cryo Interactive of France, and released in late 2000/early 2001.
Hellcat Records Hellcat Records is a vanity record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of which is generally responsible for signing the bands.
Helldorado *Helldorado is a nickname for the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona in the violent silver-mining days of the early 1880's. The reference is to a newspaper letter of the period from a miner complaining that many miners had come to Tombstone hoping to find Eldorado, but had instead found Helldorado.
Helle Crafts Helle Crafts (July 4, 1947 - November 19, 1986) was a flight attendant who is famous for her brutal death at the hands of her husband, Richard Crafts. Her murder is sometimes called the "Woodchipper Murder" because of the method in which Richard Crafts disposed of her body.
Hellebore Helleborus is a genus of approximately 20 species (ongoing fieldwork may see this figure change) of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae.
Helleborus foetidus Helleborus foetidus, known variously as Stinking hellebore, Dungwort, or Bear's foot, is a member of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to western Europe, from England south to Portugal, and east to Germany and Italy.
Hellecasters The Hellecasters are an American guitar group. Composed of Nashville session players Will Ray, John Jorgensen (Desert Rose, Elton John's backup band), and Jerry Donahue (Fairport Convention), they all play modified versions of the Fender Telecaster as their main instruments.
Hellen Huisman Hellen Huisman (born 26 March, 1937 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a voice actor who does voiceover work on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Hellen originated the Dutch voice of Prairie Dawn, and has done the voice-over of other girls on the show from 1976 to the 2000s.
Helleneologism A helleneologism is a term that refers to a modernly coined word, or neologism, which particularly uses Greek words and syllables, often to make its origins appear more ancient and established than they really are. The word itself derives from the Greek roots ελλήν + νεο + λογος, which respectively mean Greek + new + idea.
Hellenic Aerospace Industry The Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI or EAB from its Greek initials 'Elliniki Aeroporiki Biomihania') is the most important Greek aerospace company. It was founded by the Greek state in 1975 to undertake all aircraft-related construction activity, so that the historic KEA factory would concentrate on maintenance work.
Hellenic Air Force The Hellenic Air Force or HAF (Greek Πολεμική ΑεĎοποĎία) is the air force of Greece. It's mission is to guard and protect the Greek airspace, provide air assistance and support for the Hellenic Army and the Hellenic Navy and provide humanitarian aid when requested and needed in Greece and around the world.
Hellenic Alternative Charts The Hellenic Alternative Charts are one of Greece's first serious attempts to evaluate the likable tastes in modern alternative music, especially in the so called "black scene", focusing on Electrogoth, Industrial, Electronic body music, Industrial techno, Power noise and Cyberpunk music.
Hellenic calendar The Hellenic calendar—or more properly, the Hellenic calendars, for there was no uniform calendar imposed upon all of Classical Greece—began soon after the June solstice, at the time when the star Sirius rose just after the moment of dawn, its heliacal rising. The star was invisible at that moment, in the brilliance of the sun's light, so it took an astronomer's reckoning to establish the moment of the new year.
Hellenic Conservatory The Hellenic Conservatory (Greek: Ελληνικό Ωδείο) was founded in Athens in 1919 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris. Kalomoiris was the conservatoire's director until 1926, when he left to found the National Conservatoire.
Hellenic Federation Of Historic Vehicles Clubs E.O.O.E. The Hellenic Federation Of Historic Vehicles Clubs (FHVE) is the only nationwide non-profit, non-governmental association for private historic motoring in Greece. Since 1997 it has continued the work started by its three founder organizations, the Historic & Classic Car Club of Greece (SISPA), the Historic Car Club of Northern Greece (SIAVE) and the Triumph Sports Car Club of Greece (TSCG).
Hellenic Football Federation The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) (Greek: Ελληνική ΠοδοĎφαιĎική ΟμοĎπονδία - (EPO)) is the governing body of football in Greece. It contributes in the organisation of Super League Greece and organizes the Greek football Cup and the Greece national football team.
Hellenic Journal The Hellenic Journal is a monthly news magazine aimed at the Greek-American community of the western United States. Based in Brisbane, California, it focuses primarily on cultural news events across the west coast.
Hellenic National Intelligence Service The Hellenic National Intelligence Service (NIS or EYP) (Greek: Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion, Εθνική ΥπηĎεĎία ΠληĎοφοĎιών, ΕΥΠ) is the national intelligence service of Greece. Its headquarters are located in Athens.
Hellenic polytheism Hellenic Polytheism serves as a descriptive term for a wide variety of polytheistic religious movements that are ideologically related by their reverence for the ancient Greek pantheon and/or their adoption of Hellenic religious practices.
Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament (Greek: Βουλή των Ελλήνων; transliterated Vouli (also Boule) ton Ellinon; literally 'Will (of the Council) of the Greeks,' from the ancient Greek verb βούλομαι (voulome) meaning to will (after deliberating); latin: volo) is the parliament of Greece, located in Syntagma Square in Athens. It is a unicameral legislature with 300 elected members.
Hellenic Quest Hellenic Quest refers to an urban legend that circulated around Greek websites and was widely reproduced without prior verification by any source. According to the "Hellenic Quest" story, CNN has reported that Apple Computer is supposedly developing a software product for teaching the Ancient Greek language to foreigners and scientists, in the light of the upcoming development of supercomputers that will use Ancient Greek as their programming interface, due to this language's superior logical structure.
Hellenic Shipyards Co. Hellenic Shipyards is a large Shipyard in Skaramangas near Athens, Greece. Its origins are connected with a shipyard created in order to build battleships in 1939; development ceased due to the War, when huge damages were inflicted on the facilities.
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Hellenica Oxyrhynchia is the name given to a history of late 5th and early 4th centuries BC in ancient Greece, of which papyrus fragments were unearthed at Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. One of the two major fragments, the so-called "London papyrus," found in 1906, deals with battles in the late Peloponnesian War, particularly the Battle of Notium.
Hellenistic armies The Hellenistics armies is the term applied to the armies of the successor kingdoms which emerged after the death of the Alexander the Great. After his death, Alexander's huje empire was torn between his succesors, the Diadochi.
Hellenistic art The art of the Hellenistic period has long been the victim of the relative disdain attached to the period. Cessavit deinde ars ("then art disappeared") remarks Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (XXXIV, 52), after having described the sculpture of the classical period.
Hellenistic astrology Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was developed and practiced in Hellenistic Egypt and the Mediterranean, whose texts were written in Greek (or sometimes Latin), sometime around the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE. See David Pingree - From Astral Omens to Astrology from Babylon to Bikaner, Roma: Istituto Italiano per L'Africa e L'Oriente, 1997.
Hellenistic civilization The term Hellenistic (derived from Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of Greek culture over the non-Greek peoples that were conquered by Alexander the Great. According to Droysen, the Hellenistic civilization was a fusion of Greek and Near Eastern cultures.
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