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9422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E4 | European route E4 | European route E4 passes from north to south through Sweden from the border with Finland, with a total length of . The Finnish part lies entirely within Tornio in northern Finland, and is only long. The Swedish part traverses most of Sweden except the extreme north and the west coast region, and is commonly considered... |
9424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson | Ericsson | (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in information and communications technology for telecommunications service providers and... |
9425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology | Ethology | Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a term also describes the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually referring to measured responses to stimuli or... |
9426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20radiation | Electromagnetic radiation | In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) consists of waves of the electromagnetic (EM) field, propagating through space, carrying electromagnetic radiant energy. It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, (visible) light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. All of these waves form part of the electromagnetic sp... |
9428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admirat... |
9429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20and%20Innocent | Young and Innocent | Young and Innocent, released in the US as The Girl Was Young, is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. Based on the 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, the film is about a young man on the run from a murder charge who enlists the... |
9432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Time%20in%20Between | The Time in Between | The Time in Between is a novel by Canadian author David Bergen. It deals with a man, who mysteriously returns to Vietnam, where he had been a soldier earlier in his life, followed by his children, who also go to Vietnam to search for him. The novel was the recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the McNally Robins... |
9433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain%20in%20Flames | Spain in Flames | Spain in Flames is a 1937 compilation film made by Helen van Dongen during the Spanish Civil War. Hal Erickson has written that the film "... is remarkable in its willingness to offer both sides of the conflict -- though its sympathies are firmly with the Loyalists." The film consists of two parts. The first, "The Figh... |
9441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Downward%20Spiral | The Downward Spiral | The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records and Interscope Records in the United States and by Island Records in Europe. It is a concept album detailing the destruction of a man from the beginning of his "downward spiral"... |
9447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20Lover | Egyptian Lover | Gregory Broussard (born August 31, 1963), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was a part of the L.A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s.
History
The Egyptian Lover was born in Los Angeles, California, and started out there as a DJ with Uncle... |
9450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20telegraph | Electrical telegraph | An electrical telegraph was a point-to-point text messaging system, used from the 1840s until the late 20th century when it was slowly replaced by other telecommunication systems. At the sending station switches connected a source of current to the telegraph wires. At the receiving station the current activated electro... |
9451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event | Event | Event may refer to:
Gatherings of people
Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion
Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest
Event management, the organization of events
Festival, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community
Hap... |
9454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishing%20shot | Establishing shot | An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes, the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects. It is generally a long or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene ta... |
9455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan%20language | Etruscan language | Etruscan () was the language of the Etruscan civilization, in Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria (modern Tuscany, western Umbria, northern Latium, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Lombardy and Campania). Etruscan influenced Latin but was eventually completely superseded by it. The Etruscans left around 13,000 inscriptions ... |
9457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election | Election | An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes... |
9459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniskillen | Enniskillen | Enniskillen ( , from , 'Ceithlenn's island') is the largest town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the middle of the county, between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 13,823 at the 2011 Census. Enniskillen Castle was built in the 15th century as a stronghold of the Maguir... |
9461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Raymond%20%28disambiguation%29 | Eric Raymond (disambiguation) | Eric S. Raymond (born 1957) is an American computer programmer and author.
Eric Raymond may also refer to:
Eric Scott Raymond (born 1956), American flight instructor and glider pilot
Eric Raymond (Jem), a fictional character in the 1980s cartoon television show Jem |
9467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20word%20in%20English | Longest word in English | The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared.
Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots or formed by coinage and construction. Additionally, comparisons are complicated because place ... |
9469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20S.%20Raymond | Eric S. Raymond | Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, curr... |
9471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalization%20%28psychology%29 | Externalization (psychology) | In Freudian psychology, externalization (or externalisation) is an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual projects their own internal characteristics onto the outside world, particularly onto other people. For example, a patient who is overly argumentative might instead perceive others as argumentative an... |
9472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro | Euro | The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 of the member states of the European Union. This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 343 million citizens . The euro, which is divided into 100 cents, is the second-largest and second-most traded curre... |
9474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Central%20Bank | European Central Bank | The European Central Bank (ECB) is the prime component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's most important central banks.
The ECB Governing Council makes monetary policy for the Eurozone and the European U... |
9476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron | Electron | The electron is a subatomic particle (denoted by the symbol or ) whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge. Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family, and are generally thought to be elementary particles because they have no known components or substructure. The electron ha... |
9477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium | Europium | Europium is a chemical element with the symbol Eu and atomic number 63. Europium is the most reactive lanthanide by far, having to be stored under an inert fluid to protect it from atmospheric oxygen or moisture. Europium is also the softest lanthanide, as it can be dented with a fingernail and easily cut with a knife.... |
9478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbium | Erbium | Erbium is a chemical element with the symbol Er and atomic number 68. A silvery-white solid metal when artificially isolated, natural erbium is always found in chemical combination with other elements. It is a lanthanide, a rare-earth element, originally found in the gadolinite mine in Ytterby, Sweden, which is the sou... |
9479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsteinium | Einsteinium | Einsteinium is a synthetic element with the symbol Es and atomic number 99. Einsteinium is a member of the actinide series and it is the seventh transuranium element. It was named in honor of Albert Einstein.
Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952. Its most... |
9480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Stoiber | Edmund Stoiber | Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician who served as the 16th Minister President of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election, but in o... |
9481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt | Erfurt | Erfurt ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city in the state of Thuringia, central Germany. It is located in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, within the wide valley of the Gera river. It is located south-west of Leipzig, south-west of Berlin, north of Munich and north-east of Frankfurt. Together with a s... |
9482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya | Enya | Enya Patricia Brennan ( ; born 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician, known for pioneering modern Celtic and New-age music. Regarded as the "Queen of New Age", Enya is the best-selling Irish solo artist in history, and second-best-selling overall behind U2. Born into a musical family and raised in th... |
9483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Berlin | East Berlin | East Berlin was the de facto capital city of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by ... |
9486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20international%20environmental%20agreements | List of international environmental agreements | This is a list of international environmental agreements.
Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement. Several hundred in... |
9487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon | Epsilon | Epsilon (, ; ; uppercase , lowercase or lunate ; ) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it also has the value five. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He . Letters that arose from epsilon include the Roman E, Ë and... |
9488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta | Eta | Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; ē̂ta or ita ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally denoting the consonant , its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel , raised to in hellenistic Greek, a process known as iotacism.
In the ancient Attic number system (Herodiani... |
9491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo | Eskimo | Eskimo ( ) or Eskimos is a term used to refer to two closely related Indigenous peoples: The Inuit (including the Alaskan Iñupiat, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the Canadian Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, which inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally exc... |
9496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism | Epiphenomenalism | Epiphenomenalism is a position on the mind–body problem which holds that physical and biochemical events within the human body (sense organs, neural impulses, and muscle contractions, for example) are causal with respect to mental events (thought, consciousness, and cognition). According to this view, subjective mental... |
9498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperantujo | Esperantujo | Esperantujo () or Esperantio () is the Esperanto community; the community of speakers of the Esperanto language and their culture, as well as the places and institutions where the language is used. The term is used "as if it were a country."
Although it does not occupy its own area of Earth's surface, it can be said t... |
9499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3. Ethernet has since been refined to support higher bit rates, ... |
9502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20explorations | List of explorations | Some of the most important explorations of State Societies, in chronological order:
See also
Age of Discovery
Exploration of Australia
List of lost expeditions
List of Russian explorers
Exploration of the High Alps
Portugal in the period of discoveries
Chronology of European exploration of Asia
Explorations
Ex... |
9505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Canetti | Elias Canetti | Elias Canetti (; ; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna.
Canetti moved to England in 1938 after the Ansc... |
9506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Jenner | Edward Jenner | Edward Jenner, (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first ever vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('smallpox of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to... |
9508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia%20Britannica | Encyclopædia Britannica | The (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia") is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia which is now published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia. It was formerly published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and other publishers (for previous editions). It was written by about 100 full-time editors and more ... |
9509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometrium | Endometrium | The endometrium is the inner epithelial layer, along with its mucous membrane, of the mammalian uterus. It has a basal layer and a functional layer; the functional layer thickens and then is shed during menstruation in humans and some other mammals, including apes, Old World monkeys, some species of bat, the elephant ... |
9510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20music | Electronic music | Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound genera... |
9514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard%20Grieg | Edvard Grieg | Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music o... |
9515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation%20Proclamation | Emancipation Proclamation | The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved... |
9516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Rommel | Erwin Rommel | Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German general during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox (, ), he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.... |
9518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Husserl | Edmund Husserl | Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl ( , , ; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was a German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality. In his mature work, he sought to deve... |
9531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20engineering | Electrical engineering | Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after commercialization of the electric teleg... |
9532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism | Electromagnetism | Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles. The electromagnetic force is carried by electromagnetic fields composed of electric fields and magnetic fields, and it is responsible for electroma... |
9534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism | Euphemism | A euphemism () is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others use bland, inoffensive terms for concepts that the user wishes to downplay. Euphemisms may be used to mask profanity or refer to taboo top... |
9536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Spenser | Edmund Spenser | Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse and is often considered one of the greatest poets in ... |
9540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity%20generation | Electricity generation | Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery (transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storage (using, for example, the pumped-storage method).
Electricity is not freel... |
9541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20of%20experiments | Design of experiments | The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. The term is generally associated with experiments in which the design introduces conditions that directly... |
9545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical%20research | Empirical research | Empirical research is research using empirical evidence. It is also a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values some research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of one's direct observations or experiences) can be analyzed quantitatively or q... |
9546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20statistics | Engineering statistics | Engineering statistics combines engineering and statistics using scientific methods for analyzing data. Engineering statistics involves data concerning manufacturing processes such as: component dimensions, tolerances, type of material, and fabrication process control. There are many methods used in engineering analysi... |
9549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Allan%20Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe (; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of A... |
9550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity | Electricity | Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations. Various common phenomena are related to electricity, inc... |
9553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles | Empedocles | Empedocles (; ; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the eleme... |
9555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericaceae | Ericaceae | The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it the 14th most species-rich family of flowering plants. The many well known and... |
9559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20network | Electrical network | An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical components (e.g., batteries, resistors, inductors, capacitors, switches, transistors) or a model of such an interconnection, consisting of electrical elements (e.g., voltage sources, current sources, resistances, inductances, capacitances). An electrical circu... |
9561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20%28disambiguation%29 | Euler (disambiguation) | Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist.
Euler may also refer to:
Science and technology
Euler (programming language), a computer programming language
Euler (software), a numerical software package
EulerOS, a Linux operating system based distribution
Euler Portal to Mathematics Publicat... |
9566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20set | Empty set | In mathematics, the empty set is the unique set having no elements; its size or cardinality (count of elements in a set) is zero. Some axiomatic set theories ensure that the empty set exists by including an axiom of empty set, while in other theories, its existence can be deduced. Many possible properties of sets are v... |
9567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoism | Egoism | Egoism is the philosophy concerned with the role of the self, or , as the motivation and goal of one's own action. Different theories on egoism encompass a range of disparate ideas and can generally be categorized into descriptive or normative forms. That is, they may be interested in either describing that people do a... |
9569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism | Endomorphism | In mathematics, an endomorphism is a morphism from a mathematical object to itself. An endomorphism that is also an isomorphism is an automorphism. For example, an endomorphism of a vector space is a linear map , and an endomorphism of a group is a group homomorphism . In general, we can talk about endomorphisms in ... |
9574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Hoffer | Eric Hoffer | Eric Hoffer (July 15, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laym... |
9577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Coal%20and%20Steel%20Community | European Coal and Steel Community | The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organisation created after World War II to regulate the coal and steel industries. It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The ECSC was an international organ... |
9578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Economic%20Community | European Economic Community | The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization that aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states. It was created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957. Upon the formation of the European Union in 1993, the EEC was incorporated into the EU and renamed the European Community (EC). In 2009,... |
16660639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Monarchy of Papua New Guinea | The monarchy of Papua New Guinea is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of Papua New Guinea. The current monarch, since 16 September 1975, is Queen Elizabeth II. Although the person of the sovereign is equally shared with 14 other independent countries within the Comm... |
9579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTA%20%28disambiguation%29 | EFTA (disambiguation) | EFTA is the European Free Trade Association, a trade organisation and free trade area.
EFTA may also refer to:
European Fair Trade Association, an association of eleven fair trade importers
European Federation of Taiwanese Associations
See also
Free trade areas in Europe |
9580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Free%20Trade%20Association | European Free Trade Association | The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European Single Market and... |
9581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Parliament | European Parliament | The European Parliament (EP) is one of three legislative branches of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, commonly on the proposal of the European Commissio... |
9582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Council | European Council | The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union. It is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, the President of the European Council, and the President of the European Commission. The High Repres... |
9587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia | Euthanasia | Euthanasia (from 'good death': εὖ, eu 'well, good' + θάνατος, thanatos 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to relieve pain and suffering.
Different countries have different euthanasia laws. The British House of Lords select committee on medical ethics defines euthanasia as "a deliberate intervention... |
9588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20life | Extraterrestrial life | Extraterrestrial life, sometimes colloquially referred to as alien life, is hypothetical life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. Such life might range from simple prokaryotes (or comparable life forms) to intelligent beings and even sapient beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations t... |
9589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Strategic%20Programme%20on%20Research%20in%20Information%20Technology%20%28ESPRIT%29 | European Strategic Programme on Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT) | European Strategic Programme on Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT) was a series of integrated programmes of information technology research and development projects and industrial technology transfer measures. It was a European Union initiative managed by the Directorate General for Industry (DG III) of the Eu... |
9591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20E.%20Cummings | E. E. Cummings | Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often written in all lowercase as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most importa... |
9592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20River | East River | The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North American mainland, and also divid... |
9593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism | Existentialism | Existentialism
( ) is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on the experience of thinking, feeling, and acting. In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point has been called "the existential angst", a sense of dread, disorientation, confusion, or a... |
9596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis | Ellipsis | The ellipsis , also known informally as dot dot dot, is a series of dots that indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning. The word (plural ellipses) originates from the , meaning 'leave out'.
Opinions differ as to how to render ellipses in... |
9597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola%20Gay | Enola Gay | The Enola Gay () is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Li... |
9598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt | Electronvolt | In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV, also written electron-volt and electron volt) is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating from rest through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum. When used as a unit of energy, the numerical value of 1 eV in joules (sym... |
9601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemistry | Electrochemistry | Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with either electrical potential as an outcome of a particular chemical change, or vice versa. These reactions involve electro... |
9602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh | Edinburgh | Edinburgh (; ; ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland's second-most populous city and the seventh-most pop... |
9603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Rutherford | Ernest Rutherford | Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Apart from his work in his homeland, he sp... |
9604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds%20interpretation | Many-worlds interpretation | The many-worlds interpretation (MWI) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts that the universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wave function collapse. This implies that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements are physically realized in some "world" or universe. In contrast t... |
9611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce | E-commerce | E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data inter... |
9613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20formula | Euler's formula | Euler's formula, named after Leonhard Euler, is a mathematical formula in complex analysis that establishes the fundamental relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function. Euler's formula states that for any real number :
where is the base of the natural logarithm, is the imagi... |
9615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20Manet | Édouard Manet | Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the ... |
9616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily%20stable%20strategy | Evolutionarily stable strategy | An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific environment, that is to say it cannot be displaced by an alternative strategy (or set of strategies) which may be novel or initially rare. Introduced by John Maynard ... |
9617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element | Element | Element or elements may refer to:
Science
Chemical element, a pure substance of one type of atom
Heating element, a device that generates heat by electrical resistance
Orbital elements, parameters required to identify a specific orbit of one body around another
DNA element, a functional region of DNA, including ge... |
9619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile | Extremophile | An extremophile (from Latin meaning "extreme" and Greek () meaning "love") is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e. environment that make survival challenging such as due to extreme temperature, radiation, salinity, or pH level.
These organisms are ecologically domi... |
9620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20reform | Education reform | Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. The meaning and education methods have changed through debates over what content or experiences result in an educated individual or an educated society. Historically, the motivations for reform have not reflected the current needs of society. ... |
9621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellensburg%2C%20Washington | Ellensburg, Washington | Ellensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kittitas County, Washington, United States. It is located just east of the Cascade Range near the junction of Interstate 90 and Interstate 82. The population was an estimated 21,111 as of 2019.
The city is located along the Yakima River in the Kittitas Valley, an agricult... |
9623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%2C%20Oregon | Eugene, Oregon | Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It is at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.
As of the 2010 census, Eugene had a population of 156,185; it is the county seat of Lane County and... |
9627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Barrett%20Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her... |
9628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlil | Enlil | Enlil, later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the city... |
9630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology | Ecology | Ecology (from , "house" and , "study of") is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystems, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeograph... |
9631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20country%20dance%20terms | Glossary of country dance terms | An alphabetic list of modern country dance terminology:
Active couple - for longways sets, the active couple is the couple nearest the head of the set within each minor set. There are always exactly as many active couples as minor sets. If the dance is "duple minor," this works out to every other couple, while in a ... |
9632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem | Ecosystem | An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated into plant tissue. By feeding on ... |
9633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28mathematical%20constant%29 | E (mathematical constant) | The number , also known as Euler's number, is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828 which can be characterized in many ways. It is the base of the natural logarithms. It is the limit of as approaches infinity, an expression that arises in the study of compound interest. It can also be calculated as t... |
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