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Highlands of Iceland The Highlands of Iceland cover most of the interior of Iceland. They are situated above 400-500 metres and are mostly uninhabitable, because the water coming down as rain or snow does not remain this high in the ground.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado Highlands Ranch is an unincorporated community and a Census Designated Place (CDP) located in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The estimated population was 88,273 in 2007, making Highlands Ranch one of the most populous unincorporated communities in the United States.
Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act The Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act is a New Jersey law aimed at protecting the development of the Highlands region of northwest New Jersey under the supervision of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The Highland region covers 859,000 acres, nearly one-ninth of the state, and is home to 880,000 residents.
Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council The New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council (or Highlands Council for short) was created by the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act in 2004 for the purpose of preserving the quality and quantity of the water resources of the New Jersey Highlands region. It is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Highlands, North Carolina Highlands is an incorporated town located on a plateau in the southern Appalachian mountains, within the Nantahala National Forest, in Macon County, North Carolina (a small annexed portion also being in neighboring Jackson County). As of the 2000 census, the town had a year-round population of 909, but the population swells to 10,000-15,000 during the season from spring to fall.
Highlife Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920's and spread to other West African countries. It is characterized by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band.
Highlight headroom Highlight Headroom is a subject that has always been important to photographers, and is becoming more so with the proliferation of digital photography today. This entry comes from the viewpoint of a semi-professional photographer, with regards to how Highlight Headroom impacts photography and why it's important, rather than from the more scientific angle discussed under Sensitometry.
Highlights from Porgy and Bess Highlights from Porgy and Bess, the 1935 album of George Gershwin's opera, was recorded just days after Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway on October 10 1935. While the opera was performed by an all-African American singing cast, the 1935 album featured mostly white opera singers attempting singing the Gullah-influenced words and music.
Highline High School Highline High School is a high school in Burien, Washington, United States. Located just yards away from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Highline High School, the charter high school of the Highline School District, opened its doors in 1924 and served the cities of Burien, Des Moines, and an area south of Seattle now known as White Center.
Highline Times Highline Times is a weekly newspaper serving the community of Burien, Washington, south of Seattle. It is part of Robinson Newspapers, which includes the Federal Way News, Des Moines News, White Center News, West Seattle Herald, and Ballard News-Tribune.
Highly confident letter The "Highly Confident Letter" is a sales tool created by investment bankers at Drexel Burnham Lambert, dominated by Michael Milken, in the 1980's. Its objective was to enable corporate raiders to launch leveraged buyout (LBO) offers without the debt component of their financing package fully in place.
Highly Elliptical Orbit Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) is an elliptic orbit characterized by a relatively low-altitude perigee and an extremely high-altitude apogee. These extremely elongated orbits can have the advantage of long dwell times at a point in the sky during the approach to and descent from apogee.
Highly Gifted Magnet The Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) is one of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Gifted and Talented programs, restricted to students who meet the criterion of 99.9% on an intellectual assessment that meets the eligibility requirements of the district which is an IQ of 145 or above.
Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) was a NASA-program to develop technologies for future fighter aircraft. Among the technologies explored were close-coupled canards, fully digital flight control (including propulsion), composite materials (graphite and fiberglass), winglet etc.
Highly Skilled Migrant Programme The UK Home Office operates the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) to allow highly skilled individuals to seek entry to work in the UK without having a prior offer of employment, or to take up self-employment opportunities.
Highmark Place Highmark Place or as it is historically known as Fifth Avenue Place is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline. The tower is named for the Highmark Corporation.
Highmarking Highmarking or High-Marking is a popular activity performed by snowmobilers in mountainous terrain, where the snowmobile operator tries to ride as far up a steep mountain slope as possible, then turn around and come back down the hill without getting stuck, rolling the snowmobile or losing power.
HighMAT HighMAT is a media format jointly developed by Matsushita and Microsoft for personal CD authoring with music and photo content. Currently, burning photos and music content onto CD generally involves organizing the photos/music into directories.
Highness Highness, often used with a personal possessive pronoun (His/Her/Your Highness, the first two abbreviated HH) is an attribute referring to the rank of the dynasty (such as Royal Highness, Imperial Highness) in an address. It is literally the quality of being lofty or high, a term and style used, as are so many abstractions, as a style of dignity and honor, to signify exalted rank or station.
Highpoint Shopping Centre Highpoint Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, Victoria, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The centre has over 400 stores including a four-level Myer department store, Target, Big W, Harris Scarfe, Borders, Safeway supermarket, Best and Less, Rebel Sports, Toys R Us, EB Games, Games Workshop, JB Hi-Fi, Borders Books and a 14 screen Hoyts cinema.
Highsider The highsider or highside is a type of motorcycle accident usually occurring in a curve which may be caused by a locked wheel due to excessive braking or more commonly by applying too much throttle when exiting a corner causing the rear tire to lose traction.
Highstreet Highstreet are a kitsch young band from the Outer Hebrides originally composed of Paul Murray, Murdo Caise, Calum Murdo and Columbo. They formed in 1996 and had a minor hit with the single Tell Me Baby which reached no.
Highton, Victoria Highton is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The suburb will be bypassed by traffic from Melbourne coming from the Princes Freeway by the creation of the Geelong Bypass, due for completion in 2009.
Hightower Bald Hightower Bald, with an elevation of 4,568 feet is the fourth-highest peak in Georgia. It is located in Towns County, Georgia at the North Carolina state line and is within the boundaries of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness of the Chattahoochee National Forest.
Hightstown High School Hightstown High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from three communities in Mercer County and Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the East Windsor Regional School District. Students come from East Windsor Township and Hightstown Borough, both in Mercer County.
Highty-Tighties The Virginia Tech Regimental Band, also known as the Highty Tighties, VPI Cadet Band, or Band Company, is a military marching band and unit in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Highveld The Highveld is a high plateau area of South Africa which includes the largest metropolitan area in the country, Johannesburg. The area of the Highveld is the size of Belgium, starting east of the Johannesburg center and stretching to the Swaziland border, encompassing rural and urban areas of around 30 thousand square kilometers.
Highveld Lions cricket team The Highveld Lions is the name used by the combined Gauteng and North West first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues are the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg and Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom.
Highwater Books Highwater Books was a small but influential independent comic book publisher based in Somerville, MA, noted for its arty editorial direction and production values under publisher Tom Devlin. Highwater began in 1997 and folded in November 2004 due to financial pressure.
Highway "Brotherhood and Unity" Highway "Brotherhood and Unity" (Serbian: "Братство и јединство", Croatian/Bosnian: "Bratstvo i jedinstvo", Slovenian: "Bratstvo in enotnost", Macedonian: "Братство и единство") stretched across former Yugoslavia, from the Austrian border in the northwest, near Triglav, via Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje to Gevgelija on the Greek border in the southeast.
Highway (America album) Highway: 30 Years Of America is the third principal major label compilation album by American folk rock duo America, released by Rhino Records in 2000 (see 2000 in music). The collection represented the first boxed set release of America's material.
Highway 101 (album) Their eponymous début album, Highway 101, saw the group shoot straight to the tops of the country music charts with two singles hitting the #1 spot on the Billboard Country charts, another rising to #2, and a fourth song at #4. The album itself was a #7 Country album.
Highway 101, Volume 2 On the group's second album, Highway 101² (Yes, there was a little superscript "2" as the only distinction from the title of their début. Although many refer to this as Volume 2, those particular words are nowhere on the album), there certainly wasn't any comedown from the heights reached by their first album.
Highway 108 (Ontario) Highway 108 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Algoma District, the highway extends for approximately 30 kilometres from an intersection with Highway 17 at Serpent River to the urban core of Elliot Lake.
Highway 129 (Ontario) Highway 129 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Algoma and Sudbury districts, the highway extends for 181 kilometres from a junction with Highway 17 at Thessalon to a junction with Highway 101 just south of Chapleau.
Highway 138 (Ontario) Highway 138 is a provincial highway in eastern Ontario which extends in a north-south direction from Highway 417 east of Casselman to the former Highway 2 in Cornwall, connecting with Highway 401 as Brookdale Avenue.
Highway 155 (PE) Thompson Road, sometimes Palmer Road South, labeled Highway 155, is a 2-lane collector highway in western Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is between the larger communities of Tignish and Miminegash.
Highway 20 (Israel) Highway 20, usually referred to as the Ayalon Highway (, "Netivey Ayalon") is a major intracity freeway in Israel's Tel Aviv metropolitan area. The road goes through the center of the Tel Aviv area from north to south (with a planned east-west branch as well) and connects all of the major highways leading to the city - such as Highway 4 from Ashdod and the South, Highway 2 from Haifa and the North, Highway 5 from the East, and Highway 1 from Jerusalem and the Southeast.
Highway 2A (Ontario) Highway 2A is a short controlled-access freeway in Toronto, Ontario that extends from its junction with Kingston Road (formerly part of Highway 2) at the Highland Creek to its junction with Highway 401 (exit 390). It was downloaded to the City of Toronto in 1997 and now forms part of the city's municipal expressway system.
Highway 35 (Ontario) Highway 35 is a provincial highway in Ontario Canada, running from Highway 401 in Clarington to Highway 60 near Dwight (and Algonquin Provincial Park) in the Township of Lake of Bays in Muskoka. It also connects with Lindsay and the Haliburtons, and the southern section is linked with Highway 115.
Highway 37 (Ontario) The King's Highway 37 is a north-south highway in the east-central part of the province of Ontario, Canada. Its northern terminus is at Highway 7 in the municipality of Tweed, and its southern terminus was formerly at Highway 62 in Belleville; however, in 1998 the terminus was changed to Highway 401, still in Belleville.
Highway 4 (Israel) Highway 4 (, Kvish 4) is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip. Until the 1990s and the retreat of Israel Defense Forces from most of the Gaza Strip due to the Oslo Accords, Highway 4 continued all the way until to Rafah and the Egyptian border.
Highway 400 (Ontario) The King's Highway 400, more commonly known as Highway 400 or the 400, is a key north-south 400-Series Highway linking Toronto to Central and Northern Ontario. As well, the route is the main route to cottages in Muskoka.
Highway 402 (Ontario) Highway 402 is a 400-Series Highway in southwestern Ontario, Canada that runs 103 km (64 miles) from the Blue Water Bridge in Point Edward (a village surrounded by Sarnia) to Highway 401 in London. It is one of two vital links for trade between Ontario and the midwestern United States and is generally not as congested as other Canada-United States routes.
Highway 404 (Ontario) The King's Highway 404 or simply Highway 404 is an Ontario 400-Series Highway that runs from the junction of Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto to its northern terminus at Green Lane/Herald Road in Newmarket. The highway mainly serves as a commuter road for those working in Toronto but living in the northern suburbs of the city.
Highway 405 (Ontario) Highway 405 is a short 400-series highway in Ontario, Canada that connects the Queen Elizabeth Way to the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge in the village of Queenston. This route provides a connection to Interstate 190 outside of Niagara Falls, New York.
Highway 407 (Ontario) Highway 407, officially called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR), is a tollway located in southern Ontario Canada's Greater Toronto Area. It begins at the junction of the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 in Burlington, and travels 108 km east to its present terminus at Highway 7 and Brock Road (Durham Regional Road 1) in Pickering.
Highway 407 Transitway (TTC) Highway 407 Transitway is a proposed station of the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to be built on its western branch, the Spadina line. If built, it would be located on Jane Street and Highway 407 ETR, and may open in approximately 2013 or 2014 when the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is estimated to be finished building the extension of the line to Steeles West.
Highway 409 (Ontario) Highway 409 is an Ontario provincial 400-Series expressway that runs from the 401 in Toronto to Toronto Pearson International Airport, west of Highway 427, in Mississauga. Highway 409 is a short freeway used mainly as a bypass for traffic approaching the airport from Highway 401 (westbound) or approaching Highway 427 (northbound), since both are not accessible from 401 (westbound) at the mega-interchange with 427.
Highway 416 (Ontario) Highway 416, named the Veterans Memorial Highway, is a 400-Series Highway in eastern Ontario that provides connection between Highway 417 in Ottawa and Highway 401 near Prescott. It also acts as an important trade corridor from Interstate 81 between New York and eastern Ontario via 60 km of Highway 401.
Highway 417 (Ontario) Highway 417 is a 400-Series Highway in Ontario. It is the backbone of the transportation system in the Ottawa region, where it is known as the Queensway (from the Ottawa Road 174 interchange to at least Highway 7).
Highway 427 (Ontario) Highway 427 is a 400-Series Highway in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, that runs from immediately south of the Queen Elizabeth Way/Gardiner Expressway interchange (its exact southern terminus is on the Brown's Line at Coules Court, just south of Evans Avenue) in Toronto to Highway 7 in Vaughan. It is 21.
Highway 5 (Israel) Highway 5, or the Trans-Samaria Highway (Hebrew: כביש חוצה שומרון, Kvish Chotze Shomron), is one of Israel's main motorways connecting the Mediterranean coast immediately north of Tel Aviv with Ariel and other Israeli settlements in Samaria (northern West Bank).
Highway 5 (Ontario) Highway 5 was for the most part, decommissioned in 1997 by the Ontario Provincial Government. The current Highway 5 runs from Highway 6 at Clappison's Corners, north of Hamilton, Ontario westerly to Highway 8 at Peter's Corners, a total of 12.
Highway 502 (Ontario) Highway 502 is a provincial secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 502 has no notable towns or communities along its 151 kilometer length, and serves as a connection from Ontario provincial highway 11 to Ontario provincial highway 17 at Dryden.
Highway 522 (Ontario) Highway 522 is a provincial secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 522 serves as the only link from Ontario provincial highway 69 to Ontario provincial highway 11 south of Ontario provincial highway 17 and north of Ontario provincial highway 124.
Highway 537 (Ontario) Highway 537 is a secondary highway located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. Its northern terminus is at Highway 17 in the community of Wahnapitae, and its current southern terminus is at Highway 69, south of Wanup.
Highway 538 (Ontario) Highway 538 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It follows an older alignment of Highway 17/Trans-Canada Highway east of Blind River, Ontario, running between the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and the shoreline of the North Channel of Lake Huron, while the present Highway 17 runs north of the railway tracks.
Highway 55 (Ontario) Highway 55 was a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, connecting the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) with the community of Niagara-on-the-Lake via Niagara Stone Road. It was turned over to Regional Municipality of Niagara on April 1, 1997, and is now mostly Niagara Regional Road 55.
Highway 599 (Ontario) Ontario Provincial Highway 599 is a long and isolated road in the Kenora District of Northern Ontario, starting at the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) near Ignace. It travels through the dense forests and hills of Kenora District and ends in Pickle Lake.
Highway 6 (Israel) Highway 6 (), widely known as the Trans-Israel Highway or Cross-Israel Highway (חוצה ישראל), is a major electronic toll highway in Israel. The highway was officially dedicated as the Yitzhak Rabin Highway, though this name is not generally used.
Highway 6 (Ontario) Ontario provincial highway 6 is one of the King's Highways in the province of Ontario, Canada. It covers some 480 km (300 miles), from Port Dover on Lake Erie, through Hamilton, Guelph, Owen Sound and Tobermory.
Highway 60 (Israel) Route 60 () is a north-south intercity road in Israel and Palestinian Authority territory that stretches from Beersheba to Nazareth. After heading north from Beersheba, most of the road runs through the West Bank, passing through Hebron, Bethlehem, and entering full Israeli control in Jerusalem, then returning to the West Bank at Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin.
Highway 61 (Ontario) Highway 61 is an Ontario provincial highway, extending for 58 km (36 miles) from a junction with Highways 11 and 17 in Thunder Bay, Ontario to Minnesota State Highway 61 at the Ontario-Minnesota border near Pigeon River.
Highway 652 (Ontario) Highway 652 is a long and extremely desolete secondary highway in far northeastern Ontario. It is one of the most isolated highways in North America, stretching over 150 km (95 miles) from Cochrane into boreal forest to an abandoned mine at Detour Lake.
Highway 655 (Ontario) Highway 655 is a secondary highway in the Cochrane District in Northern Ontario. Heavily used by trucks, the highway is one of the widest, best-maintained secondary highways in the north, and has the distinction of being Ontario's only 500- or 600-series highway that features a 90 km/h, rather than an 80 km/h, speed limit.
Highway 71 (Ontario) Highway 71 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway, 157 kilometres long, extends from a junction with Highway 17 just east of Kenora to a junction with Highway 11 approximately midway between Barwick and Emo.
Highway 88 (Ontario) Highway 88 was an Ontario King's Highway located in the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury, which connected the village of Bond Head with the town of Bradford. It was established as a King's Highway in 1938 and decommissioned in 1998.
Highway 90 (Israel) Route 90 is the longest road in Israel and stretches from Metula and the northern border with Lebanon, along the western side of the Sea of Galilee, through the Jordan River Valley, along the western bank of the Dead Sea (making it the world's lowest road), through the Arabah valley, and until Eilat and the southern border with Egypt on the Red Sea.
Highway advisory radio Highway advisory radio (HAR), sometimes also called travelers' information stations (TIS), are licensed low-power AM radio stations set up by local transport departments to provide bulletins to motorists and other travelers regarding traffic and other delays. These are often near highways and airports, and occasionally other tourism attractions such as national parks.
Highway Authority A Highway Authority is a name given to an organisation in the United Kingdom that is responsible for the maintenance of the country's roads. The current role of a Highway Authority is defined in the Highways Act 1980 and it is held by a large number of different groups.
Highway Emergency Response Operators The Highway Emergency Response Operators program is a freeway service patrol operated in metro Atlanta, USA by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). It is a part of GDOT's Office of Traffic Operations.
Highway Encounter Highway Encounter is a computer game released on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 by Vortex Software in 1985. It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android 2, TLL, Cyclone and Revolution.
Highway hypnosis Highway hypnosis is a mental state in which the person can drive an automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected manner, with no recollection of having consciously done so. In this state the driver's conscious mind is apparently fully focused elsewhere, with seemingly direct processing of the masses of information needed to drive safely.
Highway Hi-Fi Highway Hi-Fi was a system of proprietary gramophone records and players designed for use in automobiles. Designed and developed by Peter Goldmark, who also developed the LP microgroove, the system appeared in Chrysler automobiles from 1956 to 1959 (1956-1958 model years).
Highway patrol A highway patrol is either a police agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways, such as the California Highway Patrol, or a detail within an existing local or regional police agency that is primarily concerned with such duties, such as the HWP units of Australian state police forces, or the New York City Police Department Highway Patrol.
Highway Patrol (TV series) Highway Patrol, after Sea Hunt, was probably the most popular and influential of the dramatic series offered to stations in the 1950s by syndicator Ziv TV. It starred Broderick Crawford and was famous for its location shooting, in the still very studio-bound early years of television (it was produced from 1955-1959), and like most Ziv series, had its repeats syndicated for many years afterward.
Highway Police (Colombia) The Highway Police (or PolicĂ­a de Carreteras in Spanish) is the main body enforcing road regulations in Colombia to control land transportation and traffic, prevention of accidentality and crimes, similar to a highway patrol but with a nationwide area of operations.
Highway Post Office Due to the continual withdrawal of so many Railway Post Office (RPO) trains, the Post Office Department decided to experiment with the distribution of mail on large buses, equipped somewhat like RPO cars. On February 10, 1941, experimental service started on the Washington, DC & Harrisonburg, Virginia HPO.
Highway shield A highway shield is a sign used for denoting the route number of a highway. Used extensively in the United States and around the world, highway shields usually come in the form of a symbolic shape with the route number enclosed.
Highway system of SĂŁo Paulo The highway system of SĂŁo Paulo is the largest statewide road transportation system in Brazil, with 34,650 km. It consists of a hugely interconnected network of municipal (11,600 km), state (22,000 km) and federal (1,050 km) roads.
Highwayman Highwayman was a term used particularly in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries to describe robbers who targeted people travelling by stagecoach and other modes of transport along public highways. They would use or threaten violence in order to seize money and other valuables from their victims.
Highways and Honky Tonks Highways & Honky Tonks is the fourth album by Heather Myles, and the first with her new record company Rounder Records. There is a cover of the old Charley Pride song "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," and Merle Haggard drops in for a guest appearance on the duet "No One Is Gonna Love You Better.
Highways Agency The Highways Agency is an executive agency, part of the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom. The agency has responsibility for maintaining and improving the 7754 km (4818 miles) of motorways and trunk roads (main long-distance roads) in England.
Highways in Finland Highways in Finland (valtatiet in Finnish, riksvägar in Swedish) are all paved and have at least two lanes, further, they receive better upkeep than main & regional roads. Historically they were labeled as causeways.
Highways in Victoria The Highways in Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia due to its historical, population and economic reasons. Unlike Australia's other mainland states, there is no expanse of undeveloped land in Victoria, and, apart from the Victorian Alps, settlements and towns are found all over the state.
Highways of Peru The primary highways of Peru are assigned using a numeric designation and sometimes a name. Spur and loop routes are designated with the parent highway's number and a letter (excluding N or more than one occurrence of S).
Highworth Highworth is a small market town in the unitary authority of Swindon in Wiltshire, England, located about six miles north-east of Swindon town centre. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,240.
HighWire Press HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 ALPSP Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing", HighWire partners with influential scholarly societies, university presses and publishers to create a collection of the finest, fully searchable research and clinical literature online.
Higiro Prosper Higiro Prosper (born 28 January 1961) is a Rwandan politician and member of the Liberal Party as it's official chairperson. Since 10 October 2004, Prosper has been a Senator and Vice-President of the Senate representing the Kirehe District in the East Province.
Higman's embedding theorem In group theory, Higman's embedding theorem states that every finitely generated recursively presented group R can be embedded as a subgroup of some finitely presented group G. This is a result of Graham Higman from the 1960s.
Higman–Sims graph In mathematics, the Higman–Sims graph is the unique strongly regular graph with 100 vertices and valency 22, where no neighboring pair of vertices share a common neighbor and each non-neighboring pair of vertices share six common neighbors. It was constructed by Donald G.
Higman–Sims group In mathematics, the Higman–Sims group is a finite sporadic simple group of order 44,352,000. It can be characterized as the simple subgroup of index two in the group of automorphisms of the Higman–Sims graph.
Higos Urco pampa Higos Urco pampa is a historical place in Chachapoyas, Peru where the battle of the same name was fought on 6 June 1821, before José de San Martín proclaimed Peruvian independence. Also there is a beautiful small square raised in its commemoration.
Higuchi Ichiyo Higuchi Ichiyō (樋口 一葉 Higuchi Ichiyō, May 2, 1872 - November 23, 1896) is the pen name of Japanese author Higuchi Natsu (樋口奈津 Higuchi Natsu), also known as Higuchi Natsuko (樋口夏子 Higuchi Natsuko).
Higurashi Daybreak is a Japanese dojin third person shooter developed by Twilight Frontier, first released on August 13 2006 and is based on the popular visual novel Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. The game is Twilight Frontier's first attempt in making a 3D game. 07th Expansion, the creators of the original franchise, assisted in making the game — most notably, Ryukishi07, the writer of the original game, provided the script for Higurashi Daybreak. Also, this game uses the same voice cast as the drama CD of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
Hicham Mesbahi Hicham Mesbahi (born December 4, 1980 in Casablanca) is a boxer from Morocco, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Poland's Andrzej Rzany.
Hicham Zerouali Hicham Zerouali (17 January, 1977 - 4 December, 2004) was a Moroccan footballer who was with Aberdeen Football Club for two seasons between 2000 and 2002. The striker was very much a fan favourite while with Aberdeen and scored 13 times for the club.
Hijack (band) Hijack were a hip hop group from Brixton in London, featuring Kamanchi Sly, DJ Supreme, DJ Undercover, Ulysses, Agent Fritz and Agent Clueso. Their first single, "Style Wars" (Music of Life, 1988 caught the attention of the British hip hop community and laid much of the ground work for what was to come from the scene over the next few years.
Hijacking Catastrophe Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire is a documentary narrated by Julian Bond and directed by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally. It examines the possibility that neoconservatives used the September 11, 2001 attacks to usher in a new doctrine of expanding American power through military force under the guise of a "war on terror".

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