• hierarchy control (control system)

    control system: Modern control practices.: Hierarchy control attempts to apply computers to all the plant-control situations simultaneously. As such, it requires the most advanced computers and most sophisticated automatic-control devices to integrate the plant operation at every level from top-management decision to the movement of a valve.

  • hierarchy of sets (mathematics)

    set theory: Schema for transfinite induction and ordinal arithmetic: Thus, an intuitive hierarchy of sets in which these entities appear should be a model of ZFC. It is possible to construct such a hierarchy explicitly from the empty set by iterating the operations of forming power sets and unions in the following way.

  • hieratic numeral (mathematics)

    numerals and numeral systems: Ciphered numeral systems: …to have been the Egyptian hieratic (literally “priestly”) numerals, so called because the priests were presumably the ones who had the time and learning required to develop this shorthand outgrowth of the earlier hieroglyphic numerals. An Egyptian arithmetical work on papyrus, employing hieratic numerals, was found in Egypt about 1855;…

  • hieratic script (writing system)

    hieratic script, ancient Egyptian cursive writing, used from the 1st dynasty (c. 2925–c. 2775 bce) until about 200 bce. Derived from the earlier, pictorial hieroglyphic writing used in carved or painted inscriptions, hieratic script was generally written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus; its

  • hieratic style (art)

    Central Asian arts: Sculpture and painting: While this Nepalese hieratic, or sacerdotal, style was at its peak, a narrative style developed in manuscript illuminations such as the Hitopadeśa (1594; Kāthmāndu) and horizontal scroll paintings such as the Rathayātrā Scroll (1617; Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya). Its planar intricacies reveal a new and vital aspect…

  • Hiereiai tes Heras en Argei (work by Hellanicus of Lesbos)

    Hellanicus of Lesbos: …are attributed to him, including Hiereiai tes Heras en Argei (“Priestesses of Hera at Argos”).

  • Hiero (work by Xenophon)

    Xenophon: Other writings: In Hiero the location is Syracuse (on the east coast of Sicily), perhaps in allusion to contemporary Syracusan tyrants. The 5th-century tyrant Hiero bewails the unpleasantness of his situation, prompting the praise-poet Simonides to suggest that things could improve if Hiero were to adopt some recognizably…

  • Hiero I (tyrant of Syracuse)

    Hieron I was the brother of the tyrant Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, from 478 to 467/466 bce. Hieron became ruler of Syracuse upon the death of Gelon. During his reign he took advantage of the defeat of Carthaginian power in Sicily (in 480) to greatly increase the power of Syracuse. His

  • Hiero II (tyrant and king of Syracuse)

    Hieron II was a tyrant and then king of Syracuse, Sicily, from about 270 to 216/215 bce, who struggled against the Mamertini and eventually allied his city with Rome. On the departure of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, from Sicily in 276, the Syracusans appointed Hieron commander of the troops, and he

  • Hierocles Of Alexandria (Egyptian philosopher)

    Hierocles Of Alexandria was a Neoplatonist philosopher who, after studying under the Greek philosopher Plutarch of Athens and visiting Constantinople, spent the rest of his life in Alexandria, where he won a reputation as a teacher of philosophy. His commentary on the Chrysa epe (“Golden Words”; 71

  • hierogamy (Celtic religion)

    Celtic religion: The impact of Christianity: …and persistent concept of the hierogamy (sacred marriage) of the king with the goddess of sovereignty: the sexual union, or banais ríghi (“wedding of kingship”), that constituted the core of the royal inauguration seems to have been purged from the ritual at an early date through ecclesiastical influence, but it…

  • hieroglyph (writing character)

    hieroglyph, a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments. Hieroglyphic symbols may represent the objects that they depict but usually stand for particular sounds or groups of sounds. Hieroglyph, meaning “sacred carving,” is a Greek

  • Hieroglyphic Stairway (archaeological structure, Maya city, Honduras)

    Copán: The Hieroglyphic Stairway, which leads to one of the temples, is beautifully carved with some 1,260 hieroglyphic symbols on the risers of its 63 remaining steps. There is evidence that astronomers in Copán calculated the most accurate solar calendar produced by the Maya up to that…

  • hieroglyphic writing

    hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds. The name hieroglyphic (from the Greek word for “sacred carving”) is first encountered in the

  • Hieroglyphica (work by Horapollon)

    hieroglyphic writing: Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing: …antiquity has been preserved: the Hieroglyphica of Horapollon, a Greek Egyptian who probably lived in the 5th century ce. Horapollon made use of a good source, but he himself certainly could not read hieroglyphic writing and began with the false hypothesis of the Greek tradition—namely, that hieroglyphs were symbols and…

  • hieroglyphics

    hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds. The name hieroglyphic (from the Greek word for “sacred carving”) is first encountered in the

  • Hieroi Logoi (Pythagorean writings)

    Pythagoreanism: Major concerns and teachings: …on, formed them partly into Hieroi Logoi (“Sacred Discourses”), of which different versions were current from the 4th century on, and interpreted them according to their convictions.

  • hieromnemon (Greek official)

    amphictyony: …kinds of deputies (pylagorai and hieromnēmones) to a council (pylaia) that met twice a year and administered the temporal affairs of the shrines and their properties, supervised the treasury, and conducted the Pythian Games. In the 4th century bc the league rebuilt the Delphic temple. Although primarily religious, the league…

  • Hieron I (tyrant of Syracuse)

    Hieron I was the brother of the tyrant Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, from 478 to 467/466 bce. Hieron became ruler of Syracuse upon the death of Gelon. During his reign he took advantage of the defeat of Carthaginian power in Sicily (in 480) to greatly increase the power of Syracuse. His

  • Hieron II (tyrant and king of Syracuse)

    Hieron II was a tyrant and then king of Syracuse, Sicily, from about 270 to 216/215 bce, who struggled against the Mamertini and eventually allied his city with Rome. On the departure of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, from Sicily in 276, the Syracusans appointed Hieron commander of the troops, and he

  • Hieronimo (work by Kyd)

    Thomas Kyd: …English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, after its protagonist), initiated the revenge tragedy of his day. Kyd anticipated the structure of many later plays, including the development of middle and final climaxes. In addition, he revealed an instinctive sense of tragic situation, while…

  • Hieronymus de Brescia (Italian painter)

    Il Romanino was an Italian painter, leading artist of the Brescia school during the Renaissance. Romanino is believed to have spent his early years in Brescia, Trento, and Cremona. The masterpiece of his early career, his Madonna and Child with Saints (1513), reflects the influence of Venetian art

  • Hieronymus Fracastorius (Italian physician)

    Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, astronomer, and geologist, who proposed a scientific germ theory of disease more than 300 years before its empirical formulation by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. At the University of Padua Fracastoro was a colleague of the astronomer Copernicus.

  • Hieronymus of Cardia (Greek historian)

    Antigonus II Gonatas: …his court were the historian Hieronymus of Cardia, who recorded the war with Pyrrhus, and the poet Aratus, a native of Cilicia, author of the much read didactic poem on astronomy, Phaenomena.

  • Hieronymus, Count Colloredo (Austrian prince and archbishop)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Italian tours of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: …and then for his successor Hieronymus, Count Colloredo; Schrattenbach, a tolerant employer generous in allowing leave, died at the end of 1771.

  • Hieronymus, Eusebius (Christian scholar)

    St. Jerome ; feast day September 30) was a biblical translator and monastic leader, traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and about 389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His

  • hierophant (Greek priest)

    hierophant, (“displayer of holy things”), in ancient Greece, chief of the Eleusinian cult, the best-known of the mystery religions of ancient Greece. His principal job was to chant demonstrations of sacred symbols during the celebration of the mysteries. At the opening of the ceremonies, he

  • hierophantes (Greek priest)

    hierophant, (“displayer of holy things”), in ancient Greece, chief of the Eleusinian cult, the best-known of the mystery religions of ancient Greece. His principal job was to chant demonstrations of sacred symbols during the celebration of the mysteries. At the opening of the ceremonies, he

  • hierophany (religion)

    miracle: Revelation and signification: …thus often to reveal a divine reality or numinous dimension. The occurrence may be an event concerned with natural needs or situations, such as illness, hunger, or distress, or a specifically religious event that effects some form of salvation or revelation, such as the theophany on Mount Sinai in which…

  • hieros gamos (religion)

    hieros gamos, (Greek: “sacred marriage”), sexual relations of fertility deities in myths and rituals, characteristic of societies based on cereal agriculture, especially in the Middle East. At least once a year, divine persons (e.g., humans representing the deities) engage in sexual intercourse,

  • Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Ferro, island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is the westernmost and smallest of the Canary Islands. Ferro, the most westerly place known to ancient European geographers, was

  • Hiers, Paula Ann (American chef)

    Paula Deen is an American chef who popularized the cuisine of the American South through restaurants, cookbooks, and television programs. Aside from her culinary creations, her appeal lay largely in her rags-to-riches story, her distinctive Southern accent, and her warm and welcoming public

  • Hierta, Hans (Swedish politician)

    Hans Järta was a Swedish political activist, administrator, and publicist who was a leader of the 1809 coup d’état that overthrew Gustav IV, king of Sweden. He was the main author of Sweden’s constitution (1809). In the 1790s Hans Hierta began his career as a publicist and a left-wing member of the

  • Hierta, Lars Johan (Swedish politician and journalist)

    Lars Johan Hierta was a journalist and politician who became a leading agitator for Swedish political and social reform. Hierta’s work as a clerk for the noble estate of the Riksdag (estates assembly) in the 1820s acquainted him with the operation of the increasingly conservative Swedish regime and

  • Hiesey, Elaine (American scholar)

    Elaine Pagels is an American educator and scholar of the origins of Christianity. Elaine Hiesey studied at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in history (1964) and an M.A. in classics (1965). While studying for a doctoral degree at Harvard University, she married the physicist Heinz Pagels.

  • HIF (biology)

    hypoxia: …of a molecule known as hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). Under normal oxygen conditions, a protein called von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) undergoes chemical modification enabling it to bind to HIF, thereby marking HIF for degradation. However, when oxygen levels are low, VHL is not modified and therefore cannot attach to HIF; as a…

  • Higashi-Murayama (Japan)

    Higashimurayama, city, northern Tokyo to (metropolis), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated just east of Lake Sayama and is bordered to the north by southern Saitama prefecture. The town of Kumegawa, now the city centre, was a post station in the 8th century and an important local centre

  • Higashi-Ōsaka (Japan)

    Higashiōsaka, city, eastern Ōsaka fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It lies to the east of Ōsaka, largely on a low plain, though it rises up sharply along its eastern boundary in the Ikoma Mountains. The city constitutes a major component of the Ōsaka-Kōbe metropolitan area.

  • Higashikuni Naruhiko (prime minister of Japan)

    Higashikuni Naruhiko was a Japanese imperial prince and army commander who was Japan’s first prime minister after the country’s surrender in World War II (August 17–October 6, 1945). He was the only member of the imperial family ever to head a cabinet. The son of an imperial prince, Higashikuni

  • Higashimurayama (Japan)

    Higashimurayama, city, northern Tokyo to (metropolis), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated just east of Lake Sayama and is bordered to the north by southern Saitama prefecture. The town of Kumegawa, now the city centre, was a post station in the 8th century and an important local centre

  • Higashiōsaka (Japan)

    Higashiōsaka, city, eastern Ōsaka fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It lies to the east of Ōsaka, largely on a low plain, though it rises up sharply along its eastern boundary in the Ikoma Mountains. The city constitutes a major component of the Ōsaka-Kōbe metropolitan area.

  • Higashiyama period (cultural era)

    Ashikaga Yoshimasa: Today the Higashiyama period, as this cultural era became known, is considered one of the greatest in Japanese art history.

  • Higden, Ranulf (British historian)

    Ranulf Higden was an English monk and chronicler remembered for his Polychronicon, a compilation of much of the knowledge of his age. After taking monastic vows in 1299, Higden entered the Abbey of St. Werburgh, a Benedictine community in Chester. His Polychronicon was a universal history from the

  • Higgins boat (naval craft)

    landing craft: …the basic design for the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), often simply called the Higgins boat. The LCVP could carry 36 combat-equipped infantrymen or 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of cargo from ship to shore. During World War II the United States produced 23,398 of the craft. The British version of…

  • Higgins, Alexander Pearce (British lawyer)

    Alexander Pearce Higgins was an English international lawyer and expert in maritime law. Called to the bar in 1908, Higgins later taught international law at the London School of Economics and at the Royal Naval War and Staff colleges and became Whewell professor of international law at Cambridge

  • Higgins, Andrew (American businessman)

    landing craft: …(11-metre) Eureka boat, manufactured by Andrew Higgins, a New Orleans boatbuilder, proved superior to all others. Still, while this boat met or exceeded the Navy’s criteria, it did not have a bow ramp. In 1941 a Marine Corps officer showed Higgins a picture of a Japanese landing craft with a…

  • Higgins, Billy (American drummer)

    Billy Higgins was an American drummer who helped create the free jazz idiom while he was a member of Ornette Coleman’s classic 1950s groups and later became the busiest drummer in jazz; he played on dozens of Blue Note albums and accompanied top jazz artists from Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, and

  • Higgins, Dick (American artist)

    Fluxus: …the world, including the Americans Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles, the Frenchman Ben Vautrier, the Korean artist Nam June Paik, and the German artist Wolf Vostell.

  • Higgins, Henry (fictional character)

    Henry Higgins, fictional character, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet that he can teach Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle how to speak proper English, in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (performed 1913). The story was filmed in 1938, starring Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, and was

  • Higgins, Jarad Anthony (American rapper)

    Juice WRLD was an American rapper known for his freestyling ability and introspective lyrics. He first gained popularity on the music streaming platform SoundCloud but rapidly entered the pop mainstream to great success, garnering billions of streams in a career of only two years. Higgins was born

  • Higgins, John C. (American screenwriter)

    Anthony Mann: The 1940s: film noirs: …Mann’s first film with screenwriter John C. Higgins, who wrote five of Mann’s noirs. T-Men (1947) was more ambitious, with Dennis O’Keefe and Alfred Ryder as treasury agents going undercover to nail a counterfeiting gang. With that movie, Mann began a six-film collaboration with cinematographer John Alton, whose use of…

  • Higgins, Margaret Louisa (American social reformer)

    Margaret Sanger was the founder of the birth control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control. Sanger was the sixth of 11 children. She attended Claverack College and then took nurse’s training in New York at the

  • Higgins, Mary Theresa Eleanor (American author)

    Mary Higgins Clark was an American mystery and suspense writer who for more than four decades was a fixture on best-seller lists. Higgins began writing poetry at the age of six. She kept diaries throughout her life and credited her entries as the inspiration for some of her story ideas. Challenges

  • Higgins, Michael D. (president of Ireland)

    Michael D. Higgins is an Irish politician, human rights activist, university lecturer, and poet who served as president of Ireland from 2011 to 2025. At age five Higgins was separated from his parents, whose struggle to make ends meet was partly the product of his father’s ill health. He was raised

  • Higgins, Michael Daniel (president of Ireland)

    Michael D. Higgins is an Irish politician, human rights activist, university lecturer, and poet who served as president of Ireland from 2011 to 2025. At age five Higgins was separated from his parents, whose struggle to make ends meet was partly the product of his father’s ill health. He was raised

  • Higgins, Robert (American baseball player)

    baseball: Segregation: …Fowler, pitcher George Stovey, pitcher Robert Higgins, and Frank Grant, a second baseman who was probably the best Black player of the 19th century, were on rosters of clubs in the International League, one rung below the majors. At least 15 other Black players were in lesser professional leagues. Although…

  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (American social reformer and clergyman)

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American reformer who was dedicated to the abolition movement before the American Civil War. Ordained after graduating from Harvard Divinity School (1847), Higginson became pastor of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he preached a

  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow (American social reformer and clergyman)

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American reformer who was dedicated to the abolition movement before the American Civil War. Ordained after graduating from Harvard Divinity School (1847), Higginson became pastor of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he preached a

  • higgledy-piggledy (literature)

    double dactyls, a light-verse form consisting of eight lines of two dactyls each, arranged in two stanzas. The first line of the poem must be a jingle, often “Higgledy-piggledy,” “Jiggery-pokery,” or “Pocketa-pocketa”; the second line must be a name; and the last lines of each stanza are truncated

  • Higgs boson (physics)

    Higgs boson, particle that is the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them. The field and the particle—named after Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, one of the

  • Higgs field (physics)

    electroweak theory: …otherwise unseen field, called the Higgs field, that pervades all space.

  • Higgs mechanism (physics)

    Higgs boson: The Higgs mechanism has a key role in the electroweak theory, which unifies interactions via the weak force and the electromagnetic force. It explains why the carriers of the weak force, the W particles and the Z particles, are heavy while the carrier of the electromagnetic…

  • Higgs particle (physics)

    Higgs boson, particle that is the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them. The field and the particle—named after Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, one of the

  • Higgs, Peter (British physicist)

    Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its interactions with them. He shared the prize

  • Higgs, Peter Ware (British physicist)

    Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its interactions with them. He shared the prize

  • high (meteorology)

    anticyclone, any large wind system that rotates about a centre of high atmospheric pressure clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern. Its flow is the reverse of that of a cyclone

  • High (album by Urban)

    Keith Urban: Marriage to Nicole Kidman and later albums: In 2024 he released High, which included the top 40 hit “Messed Up as Me.”

  • High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (astronomy)

    Michel Mayor: …the principal investigator of the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) project, which used a spectrometer at La Silla to observe radial velocity changes of 30 cm per second. HARPS began observations in 2003 and has found more than 100 extrasolar planet candidates, including several “super-Earths,” rocky planets that…

  • High Adventure (work by Hillary)

    Edmund Hillary: The 1953 Everest expedition: …Hillary described his exploits in High Adventure (1955). He made other expeditions to the Everest region during the early 1960s but never again tried to climb to the top.

  • High Alemannic (German language)

    Germany: Languages of Germany: …in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace, and High Alemannic is the dialect of German-speaking Switzerland. The Bavarian dialect, with its many local variations, is spoken in the areas south of the Danube River and east of the Lech River and throughout all of Austria, except in the state of Vorarlberg, which is…

  • High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (United States space project)

    Venus: Spacecraft exploration: …studied a mission concept called High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC), designed to lead to a program for the long-term exploration of Venus. The mission would use crewed airships to explore Venus’s atmosphere at an altitude of 50 km, where the pressure and temperature are like those of Earth.

  • high alumina cement

    cement: High-alumina cement: High-alumina cement is a rapid-hardening cement made by fusing at 1,500 to 1,600 °C (2,730 to 2,910 °F) a mixture of bauxite and limestone in a reverberatory or electric furnace or in a rotary kiln. It also can be made by sintering at…

  • high aluminum cement

    cement: High-alumina cement: High-alumina cement is a rapid-hardening cement made by fusing at 1,500 to 1,600 °C (2,730 to 2,910 °F) a mixture of bauxite and limestone in a reverberatory or electric furnace or in a rotary kiln. It also can be made by sintering at…

  • High and Low Prices (work by Tooke)

    Thomas Tooke: His works High and Low Prices (1823) and Considerations on the State of the Currency (1826) traced the causes of low prices to underlying cyclic conditions. He continued work along these lines in his monumental History of Prices, 6 vol. (1838–57), in the last two volumes of…

  • High and the Mighty, The (film by Wellman [1954])

    William Wellman: Films of the 1950s: …for Wellman’s next big hit, The High and the Mighty (1954). That prototypical airplane disaster movie featured a cast that included Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, and Jan Sterling. Academy Award nominations went to Sterling and Trevor (both for best supporting actress) as well as to Wellman (best director).

  • High Andes (region, South America)

    Altiplano, region of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia. The Altiplano originates northwest of Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and extends about 600 miles (965 km) southeast to the southwestern corner of Bolivia. It is a series of intermontane basins lying at about 12,000 feet (3,650 metres)

  • High Annamese language

    Viet-Muong languages: Central Vietnamese, centred in Hue, and Southern Vietnamese, centred in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), differ from the Northern norm in having fewer tones and in modifying certain consonants. All three use the same writing system, which is called Quoc-ngu. The dialects spoken in the…

  • High Anxiety (film by Brooks [1977])

    Mel Brooks: Films of the 1970s: High Anxiety (1977) was a more centred parody, with the films of Alfred Hitchcock as its target. Brooks again starred, this time as a psychiatrist whose life is put in jeopardy when he goes to work at the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous…

  • High Arctic (region, Arctic)

    polar ecosystem: …into the Low Arctic and High Arctic, according to various environmental and biological characteristics. Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic.

  • High Art (novel by Fonseca)

    Rubem Fonseca: …mystery A grande arte (1983; High Art), in which he gets involved in a perilous investigation of a prostitute’s murder. Fonseca also wrote the screenplay of the book for a feature film released in North America in 1991 bearing the title Exposure. His detective novel Bufo & Spallanzani (1985) was…

  • High as Hope (album by Florence + the Machine)

    Florence Welch: …later their success continued with High As Hope, which included the hit single “Hunger.” Also in 2018 Welch published the book Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry.

  • High Asia (region, Asia)

    Asia: Central Asia and South Siberia: Alpine Asia—sometimes known as High Asia—includes the Pamirs and the eastern Hindu Kush, the Kunlun Mountains, the Tien Shan, the Gissar and Alay ranges, the Plateau of Tibet, the Karakoram Range, and the Himalayas. The Pamirs and the eastern Hindu Kush are

  • High Atlas (mountains, Morocco)

    High Atlas, mountain range in central Morocco. It extends northeastward for 460 miles (740 km), from the Atlantic Coast to the Algerian border. Many peaks exceed an elevation of 12,000 feet (3,660 meters), including Mount Ayachi (12,260 feet [3,737 meters]), Mount M’Goun (13,356 feet [4,071

  • High Authority (European politics)

    European Coal and Steel Community: The central institution, the High Authority, fixed prices and set production limits or quotas and was authorized to impose fines on business firms that infringed treaty rules.

  • high bar (gymnastics)

    horizontal bar, gymnastics apparatus introduced in the early 19th century by the German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, usually considered the “father of gymnastics.” It is a polished steel bar 2.8 cm (1.1 inches) in diameter, 2.4 meters (7.8 feet) long, and raised about 2.8 meters (9.1 feet) from the

  • High Barbaree (film by Conway [1947])

    Jack Conway: The 1940s: High Barbaree paired Van Johnson and June Allyson in a standard wartime romance, but The Hucksters (both 1947) was a satirical drama in which Gable starred as a no-nonsense advertising executive, with Deborah Kerr as his object of desire and Sydney Greenstreet as a loathsome…

  • high blood pressure (pathology)

    hypertension, condition that arises when the blood pressure is abnormally high. Hypertension occurs when the body’s smaller blood vessels (the arterioles) narrow, causing the blood to exert excessive pressure against the vessel walls and forcing the heart to work harder to maintain the pressure.

  • High Church (Anglican Communion)

    Anglicanism: Comprehensiveness in doctrine and practice: …of thought and practice, including High Church, Anglo-Catholic, Low Church or Evangelical, and others. The various churches of the Anglican Communion, though autonomous, are bound together by a common heritage and common doctrinal and liturgical concerns, and there has always been a considerable amount of interchange of ecclesiastical personnel.

  • High Church Party (British history)

    Charles I: Conflict with Parliament: …to be known as the High Church Party, which stressed the value of the prayer book and the maintenance of ritual. Thus antagonism soon arose between the new king and the Commons, and Parliament refused to vote him the right to levy tonnage and poundage (customs duties) except on conditions…

  • High Classical period (Greek art)

    Western architecture: High Classical (c. 450–400 bce): …of Greek architecture of the high Classical period were the buildings constructed under Pericles for the Athenian Acropolis. The Acropolis architecture, which is in several ways a clear display of civic pride, also exhibits considerable subtlety of design in its use of the Doric and Ionic orders. The ensemble of…

  • High Commission Territory (African history)

    Lesotho: …British protectorate, one of three British High Commission Territories (the others being Bechuanaland [now Botswana] and Swaziland [now Eswatini]).

  • High Commission, Court of (English ecclesiastical court)

    Court of High Commission, English ecclesiastical court instituted by the crown in the 16th century as a means to enforce the laws of the Reformation settlement and exercise control over the church. In its time it became a controversial instrument of repression, used against those who refused to

  • high commissioner (diplomat)

    Canada: Commonwealth relations: …Kingdom and Canada, officers called high commissioners played much the same role after 1928, although the office was to some degree political and not just diplomatic.)

  • High Commissioner for Refugees (international organization)

    Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), organization established as the successor to the International Refugee Organization (IRO; 1946–52) by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1951 to provide legal and political protection for refugees until they could acquire

  • high constable (British official)

    constable: A chief or high constable in every local area (hundred or franchise) was responsible for suppressing riots and violent crimes and for arming the militia to enable him to do so. Under him were petty constables in each tithing, or village. The high and petty, or parish, constables…

  • High Cost of Loving, The (film by Ferrer [1958])

    Gena Rowlands: …role was in the comedy The High Cost of Loving (1958). She had a bit part in Cassavetes’s Shadows (1959; a film that she later suppressed) before appearing in the western Lonely Are the Brave (1962). Although she worked with various directors over the next two decades, most of her…

  • High Council (French political body)

    France: The development of central government: …council in Richelieu’s days, a High Council (Conseil d’en Haut) consisting of only three or four members and excluding the king’s own relatives. Members of this council were known as ministers, but they held no formal right to the title and ceased to be a minister if the king chose…

  • High Council of the Judiciary (French government)

    France: The judiciary: The High Council of the Judiciary is made up of 20 members originally appointed by the head of state from among the judiciary. Since 1993, however, its members have been elected, following reforms designed to free the judiciary from political control. The Council makes proposals and…

  • High Court (Hong Kong legal body)

    Hong Kong: Constitutional framework: This is followed by the High Court (headed by a chief judge) and by district, magistrate, and special courts. The chief executive appoints all judges, although judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the chief judge of the High Court also must be confirmed by the Legislative Council and…

  • High Court (Malawi legal body)

    Malawi: Justice: …Supreme Court of Appeal, a High Court, and subordinate courts. The Supreme Court of Appeal, made up of a chief justice and a minimum of three justices of appeal, is the highest court in the land and hears appeals from the High Court. The High Court has judicial authority over…