Helen of Troy. Greek wife of Menelaus. Eloped with Paris to Troy causing Trojan War.

Helicon. Greek mountain dedicated to the Muses and Apollo.

Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.

Heliopolis. 1800. Egyptian battle. Kléber defeats Mameluks. Original site of Cleopatra’s Needles.

Hellen. Mythical ancestral king of Greeks.

Hellenic Art. 1500-300BC. Prehistoric, Archaic, and Classical periods in Greece.

Hellenic League. 338~322BC. Philip of Macedonia. All Greek city-states except Sparta.

Hellenistic Art. c330-50BC. Cosmopolitan culturally diverse period of Alexander’s empire. Sensual, emotional sculpture. Dying Gaul. Laocoön.

Helmholtz, Hermann. 1821-94. German physicist. Conservation of Energy.

Helmont, Jan van. 1580-1644. Flemish discoverer of CO2.

Helnaes Stone. c800. Oldest Danish runic stone.

Heloïse. c1098-1164. Niece of Fulbert, loved by Abelard.

Helots. Spartan slave class. Rebelled 464BC.

Helsinki Accords. 1975. Human rights, freedom, co-operation. Reduced East-West tensions.

Helsinki Group. 1976. Soviet dissidents who monitor human rights aspect of Helsinki Accord. Orlov. Shscharansky.

Helvetic Confessions. 1636,62. Swiss Reform church doctrines. 2nd widely adopted.

Helvetii. Celtic tribe defeated by Caesar 58BC.

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. 1715-71. French Materialist philosopher. All actions based on self-interest. De l’ésprit 1758.

Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.

Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.

Hengist and Horsa. 5C. Legendary Jute brothers, founded Kent. Fought Britons.

Henrican Articles. 1573. Limited authority of Polish kings.

Henry, Joseph. 1797-1878. US discoverer of electromagnetic induction. Electric motor, 1829.

Henry, Patrick. 1736-99. US revolutionary. “Give me liberty or give me death” 1775. Bill of Rights.

Henry I. c1008-60. French king 1031-.

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