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Herod
- noun - king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
Heron
- noun - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
- grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
Herse
- - A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
Hertz
- noun - German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
- German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
Jerez
- noun - a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry