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Hera (other)
Hera is a Greek goddess. Hera or HERA may also refer to: People * Hera, full name Hera Hjartardóttir, an Icelandic/New Zealand singer-songwriter * Hera Björk (born 1972), Icelandic singer Characters * Hera (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character * Hera, the superhero codename of Pepper Potts * Hera Syndulla, a ''Star Wars'' character featured in ''Star Wars Rebels'' Biology * ''Hera'' S.Y.Wong, S.L.Low & P.C.Boyce, a genus of Araceae Astronomy * Hera (space mission) * 103 Hera, an asteroid * 1 Ceres, briefly bore the name Hera * Elara (moon), a moon of Jupiter informally known as Hera from 1955 to 1975 * Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (usually called HERA) a radio telescope in South Africa Places * Heraeum (city of Hera), ancient Greek city * Hieria, derives from Heraion akron (Greek: Ἡραῖον ἄκρον, "Cape of Hera"), ancient Greek city Other * ''Hera'' (barquentine), a ship that sank in 1914 * ''Hera'' (painting), painting by Fabritius c. 1643 * HER ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera
In ancient Greek religion, Hera (; grc-gre, Ἥρα, Hḗrā; grc, Ἥρη, Hḗrē, label=none in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. One of her defining characteristics in myth is her jealous and vengeful nature in dealing with any who offend her, especially Zeus' numerous adulterous lovers and illegitimate offspring. Her iconography usually presents her as a dignified, matronly figure, upright or enthroned, crowned with a ''polos'' or diadem, sometimes veiled as a married woman. She is the patron goddess of lawful marriage. She presides over weddings, blesses and legalises marital unions, and protects women from harm during childbirth. Her sacred animals include the cow, cuckoo and the peacock. She is sometimes shown holding a pomegranate, as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera (barquentine)
The Hera was a 4 mast 280 ft long steel barque, that foundered in rough weather on 30 January 1914. The wreck is now a popular site with scuba divers, at a maximum depth of around 18m it is suitable for levels from Open Water and up. It was launched in 1886 in Geestemünde Bremerhaven (, , Low German: ''Bremerhoben'') is a city at the seaport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms a semi-enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Riv .... References {{Reflist Barquentines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera Gallery
Hera Gallery is a small, non-profit artist cooperative in Wakefield, Rhode Island USA. Created within the context of the feminist art movement, Hera Gallery was a pioneer in the genesis of artist-run spaces. Its founding objective in 1974 was to provide a venue for women artists, under-represented at the time in commercial galleries. As the cultural climate changed in the 1980s, the gallery broadened its scope to include visual artists of both genders. Concurrently, Hera curated more topical exhibitions with a broadened spectrum of social awareness and activism. To this day, the gallery provides contemporary artists with the opportunity to address cultural, social, and political issues and to maintain creative control. History Hera Gallery was created in 1974, the year that the alternative gallery movement burst beyond major cities and into locations as remote as a village in rural southern Rhode Island. It was conceived from a consciousness-raising group consisting mostly of artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera Group
Hera S.p.A (Holding Energia Risorse Ambiente, ''Energy Resource Environment Holdings'') is a multiutility company based in Bologna, Italy. Hera operates in the distribution of gas, water, energy, and waste disposal in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Ravenna, Rimini, Pesaro and Urbino, and in some municipalities of Florence and Ancona. In October 2012, Hera approved the merger with AcegasAps Group, which operates in the cities of Padua and Trieste. On 1 July 2014 AMGA, which operates in Udine merged with Hera Group. In 2014, Hera was the number one Italian domestic operator in terms of the amount of waste treated (over 6.4 million tons), in second place for the integrated water cycle (294 million m³), the third larger player in gas distribution (2.6 billion cm) and fourth in the Italian Electricity business in terms of electricity sold (9.1 TWh). Corporate history Hera was established in 2002 through the first merger of public utilities in the Emilia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matepe
The matepe is a type of lamellophone played in North-Eastern Zimbabwe. It is primarily played by the Sena Tonga and the Kore-Kore peoples which are subgroups of the Shona people. It is one of the five main types of mbira played in Zimbabwe. The matepe is an umbrella term for many mbira-style instruments such as ''hera, matepe, and madhebhe.'' The matepe, according to Sekuru Chigamba, has soundboards that are made of wood from ''mutiti'' '' (Erythrina abyssinica'') or ''mupepe'' (''Commiphora marlothii'') trees. The matepe has a different playing style than other mbira in that it uses both thumbs and both index fingers. The keys are also thinner and longer compared to the mbira. Four or five independent melodies are played simultaneously in traditional matepe music. The traditional music is used for spirit possession ceremonies, known in Zimbabwe as a bira ceremony. The music is constituted by interlocking musical parts, creating rhythmic lines of great polyrhythmic intricacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housing And Economic Recovery Act Of 2008
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 () (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis. It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value. It was intended to restore confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by strengthening regulations and injecting capital into the two large U.S. suppliers of mortgage funding. States are authorized to refinance subprime loans using mortgage revenue bonds. Enactment of the Act led to the government conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Legislative history The Act was passed by the United States Congress on July 24, 2008 and signed by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2008. Subsequent amendments Some provisions of the law were modified by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higher Education And Research Act 2017
The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29) was enacted into law in the United Kingdom by the Houses of Parliament on 27 April 2017. It is intended to create a new regulatory framework for higher education, increase competition and student choice, ensure students receive value for money, and strengthen the research sector. The Act is a replacement for the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 and is intended to accommodate subsequent changes in the higher education sector. Viscount Younger, the sponsor of the Bill in the House of Lords, called it "the most important legislation for the sector in 25 years", a claim supported by Universities UK, who said that it is "the first major regulatory reform" to higher education in that period. The Act is split into four parts: Part 1 establishes the Office for Students and gives it responsibilities for regulating the Higher Education sector; Part 2 amends prior legislation on student financial support and student complaints procedu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIDA (mission)
The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) missions are a proposed pair of space probes which will study and demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon. The mission is intended to test and validate impact models of whether a spacecraft could successfully deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The original plan called for a European spacecraft, the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), to operate in synergy with a large NASA impactor called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and observe the immediate effects of the impact. ''AIM'' was cancelled in 2016 when Germany was unable to fund its portion, and after some backlash within European Space Agency (ESA), ''AIM'' was replaced in 2018 with a smaller spacecraft called '' Hera'' that will launch five years after ''DART'' to orbit and study the crater on the asteroid. Hera will also deploy two European CubeSats in deep space for close-up asteroid surveying: Juven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera, Iran
Hera ( fa, هرا, also Romanized as Herā’ and Herā) is a village in Mehran Rural District, in the Central District (Bandar Lengeh County), Central District of Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 290, in 73 families. References Populated places in Bandar Lengeh County {{BandarLengeh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera (rocket)
Hera is a target missile for development testing of missile defense systems such as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Patriot PAC-3. History In 1992, the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command awarded the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) Targets contract to Coleman Aerospace with Space Vector and Aerotherm as sub-contractors. Coleman developed Hera using the second and third stages of the Minuteman II and the guidance section of the Pershing II. The Rocket Systems Launch Program at Detachment 12, USAF Space and Missile Systems Center, provided technical program management services involved with removing the liquid injection thrust vector control system from the retired MMII second stages in favor of a flex-seal system enabling robust flight control from launch to burn out. First launch was on April 24, 1995, at White Sands Missile Range. Because of its range, Russia claims Hera qualifies as an IRBM and hence violates Item 1, Article 6 of the INF Treaty. Hera i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HERA (particle Accelerator)
HERA (german: Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage, en, Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. It began operating in 1992. At HERA, electrons or positrons were collided with protons at a center of mass energy of 318 GeV. It was the only lepton- proton collider in the world while operating. Also, it was on the energy frontier in certain regions of the kinematic range. HERA was closed down on 30 June 2007. The HERA tunnel is located under the DESY site and the nearby Volkspark around 15 to 30 m underground and has a circumference of 6.3 km. Leptons and protons were stored in two independent storage rings on top of each other inside this tunnel. There are four interaction regions, which were used by the experiments '' H1'', ''ZEUS'', ''HERMES'' and '' HERA-B''. All these experiments were particle detectors. Leptons (electrons or positrons) were pre-accelerated to 450 MeV in the linear accelerator ''LINAC-II''. From there they were inje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera (painting)
''Hera'' or ''Hera Hiding During the Battle Between the Gods and the Giants'' is a c.1643 oil on canvas painting by Carel Fabritius, produced during his apprenticeship in Rembrandt's studio or shortly afterwards. It is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Title Its present title was given in a 2004 catalogue of the Museum's collections due to the peacocks (Hera's birds), with the longer version referring to her being sent to Oceanus's and Tethys (mythology), Tethys' home by her mother Rhea (mythology), Rhea during the Titanomachy, though it is unclear if that interpretation is correct, as it would not explain why she is interrupted at combing her hair and why she does not appear to be near the ocean. In 1883 it was thought to be Narcissus (mythology), Narcissus, though this would not explain the peacocks, the running quadruped and why the figure looks up from the water rather than gazes at their reflection. Bibliography * Duparc, F.J., 2004, Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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