Het

Het or HET can refer to:

Hall Effect Thruster, an electric propulsion device for space applications

Heavy Equipment Transporter, a military vehicle

Historical Enquiries Team, set up to review unsolved murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles

Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory

Holocaust Educational Trust, a UK charity

Hoofdklasse Eerste Klasse Tweede Klasse a Dutch covenant founded in 1946 dedicated to the interest of the top amateur football leagues in the Netherlands.

HighEnd Teen, a Indonesian magazine.

IATA airport code for Hohhot Baita International Airport

Ticker symbol on the NYSE for Harrah's Entertainment

A heterosexual person (American English slang)

The Het people, an indigenous people, living in the Pampas area of Argentina, or their language

Heth, the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets

Short for Heterozygote

Short for Hexaethyl tetraphosphate

Heth

Ḥet or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt , Hebrew Ḥēt ח, Aramaic Ḥēth , Syriac Ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic Ḥā' ح.

Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾ خ represents /x/.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta Η, Etruscan , Latin H and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds.

Origins

The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for "courtyard",

(possibly named ḥasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to ḫayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for "thread",

. In Arabic "thread" is خيط xajtˤ or xeːtˤ

The corresponding South Arabian letters are ḥ and ḫ, corresponding to Ge'ez Ḥauṭ ሐ and Ḫarm ኀ.

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Wesley

Wesley, a shortened version of "Wesleydale", is a name with an Anglo-Norman etymology. The "wes" portion of the name refers to the Western cardinal direction, while the word "lea" refers to a field, pasture, or other clearing in a forest. Thus, the name's origin refers to a "western lea," or a field to the west.

The name was predominantly used as a surname until John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church, inspired some parents to name their sons after him while also retaining the parents' own surname.

Surname

The Wesley family, founders of Methodism and noted musicians, including:

Samuel Wesley (poet) (1662–1735), minister and Stuart poet
John Wesley (1703–1791), son of the above, the Founder of the Methodist denomination of Protestant Christianity
Charles Wesley (1707–1788), younger brother of the above, Methodist leader and prolific hymn writer
Charles Wesley junior (1757–1834), son of the above, organist, composer
Samuel Wesley (1766–1837), younger brother of the above, organist, composer
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876), son of the above, organist, composer
Susanna Wesley (1669–1742), wife of Samuel Wesley (poet)

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Wesley (film)

Wesley is a 2009 biopic about John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodist movement. The movie is based largely on the Wesley brothers' own journals, including John's private journal which was kept in a shorthand-like code that was not translated until the 1980s by Dr. Richard Heitzenrater at Duke Divinity School.

The movie covers the critical period of John Wesley's life as he struggles with his own doubts and insecurities, leading up to his life-changing Aldersgate experience and the early development of the Methodist movement.

The movie was filmed in a number of authentic 18th century locations in and around Winston-Salem,NC., including St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Unusual for a lower-budget independent film, the movie features an original orchestral score recorded by a full orchestra. The score, composed by Bruce Kiesling, uses snippets of Wesley hymns and portions composed to echo authentic 18th century style. Kiesling, who has composed scores for a number of other films, is currently conductor of the Tulare County Orchestra in California.

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