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9637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Maclaurin%20formula | Euler–Maclaurin formula | In mathematics, the Euler–Maclaurin formula is a formula for the difference between an integral and a closely related sum. It can be used to approximate integrals by finite sums, or conversely to evaluate finite sums and infinite series using integrals and the machinery of calculus. For example, many asymptotic expans... |
9638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides%20paradox | Epimenides paradox | The Epimenides paradox reveals a problem with self-reference in logic. It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos (alive circa 600 BC) who is credited with the original statement. A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter:
A paradox of self... |
9640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine | Engine | An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy.
Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power generation), heat energy (e.g. geothermal), chemical energy, electric potential ... |
9643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20and%20monetary%20union | Economic and monetary union | An economic and monetary union (EMU) is a type of trade bloc that features a combination of a common market, customs union, and monetary union. Established via a trade pact, an EMU constitutes the sixth of seven stages in the process of economic integration. An EMU agreement usually combines a customs union with a comm... |
9644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Environment%20Agency | European Environment Agency | The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment.
Definition
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment.
Its goal is to help those invol... |
9645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EV | EV | Ev or EV may refer to:
Businesses
Electro-Voice, a United States manufacturer of amplifiers, microphones, other audio equipment and speakers
Expressjet Airlines (IATA designator)
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (IATA designator)
In economics
Embedded value, the present value of future profits for a life insurance com... |
9646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang%20%28programming%20language%29 | Erlang (programming language) | Erlang ( ) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or Open Telecom Platform (OTP), which consists of the Erlang runtime system, several ready-to-use components (OTP) mainly written in Erlang, and ... |
9647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria%20%28programming%20language%29 | Euphoria (programming language) | Euphoria is a programming language created by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Initially developed (though not publicly released) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for MS-DOS as proprietary software. In 2006, with the release of version 3, Euphoria became open-sourc... |
9649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy | Energy | In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to a body or physical system to perform work on the body, or to heat it. Energy is a conserved quantity; the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The unit of measurement in the In... |
9653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected%20value | Expected value | In probability theory, the expected value (also called expectation, mathematical expectation, mean, average, or first moment) is a generalization of the weighted average. Informally, the expected value is the arithmetic mean of a large number of independently selected outcomes of a random variable.
The expected value... |
9656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20light | Electric light | An electric light is a device that produces visible light from electric power. It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities. In technical usage, a replaceable component that produce... |
9657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Rice%20Burroughs | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.
Most well-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he is also known for writing the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the C... |
9658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%20Viollet-le-Duc | Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of S... |
9659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis | Endocarditis | Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valves. Other structures that may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendineae, the mural endocardium, or the surfaces of intracardiac devices. Endocarditis is characterized by lesio... |
9660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20sum%20of%20powers%20conjecture | Euler's sum of powers conjecture | Euler's conjecture is a disproved conjecture in mathematics related to Fermat's Last Theorem. It was proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769. It states that for all integers and greater than 1, if the sum of many th powers of positive integers is itself a th power, then is greater than or equal to :
⇒
The conjectur... |
9662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Exodus | Book of Exodus | The Book of Exodus (from ; Šəmōṯ, "Names") is the second book of the Bible. It narrates the story of the Exodus, in which the Israelites leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, the god who has chosen them as his people. The Israelites then journey with the prophet Moses to Mount Sinai, where Ya... |
9663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics | Electronics | The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification and rectification, which distinguishes it from classical electrical engineering,... |
9664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon | Erewhon | Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.
The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butl... |
9665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopia%20%28medicine%29 | Ectopia (medicine) | An ectopia () is a displacement or malposition of an organ or other body part, which is then referred to as ectopic (). Most ectopias are congenital, but some may happen later in life.
Examples
Ectopic ACTH syndrome, also known as small-cell carcinoma.
Ectopic calcification, a pathologic deposition of calcium salts in... |
9667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entorhinal%20cortex | Entorhinal cortex | The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an area of the brain's allocortex, located in the medial temporal lobe, whose functions include being a widespread network hub for memory, navigation, and the perception of time. The EC is the main interface between the hippocampus and neocortex. The EC-hippocampus system plays an importa... |
9668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Haeckel | Ernst Haeckel | Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and connected many te... |
9670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionism | Evolutionism | Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis... |
9672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem | Entscheidungsproblem | In mathematics and computer science, the (, German for "decision problem") is a challenge posed by David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann in 1928. The problem asks for an algorithm that considers, as input, a statement and answers "Yes" or "No" according to whether the statement is universally valid, i.e., valid in every... |
9674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einhard | Einhard | Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; ; 775 – March 14, 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."
Public l... |
9675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester | Ester | An ester is a chemical compound derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one –OH hydroxyl group is replaced by an –O– alkyl (alkoxy) group, as in the substitution reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. Glycerides are fatty acid esters of glycerol; they are important in biology, being one of ... |
9677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiont | Endosymbiont | An endosymbiont or endobiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism most often, though not always, in a mutualistic relationship.
(The term endosymbiosis is from the Greek: ἔνδον endon "within", σύν syn "together" and βίωσις biosis "living".) Examples are nitrogen-fixing bacteria (calle... |
9678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20function | Exponential function | The exponential function is a mathematical function denoted by or (where the argument is written as an exponent). It can be defined in several equivalent ways. Its ubiquitous occurrence in pure and applied mathematics led mathematician Walter Rudin to opine that the exponential function is "the most important functi... |
9679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Eugene%20of%20Savoy | Prince Eugene of Savoy | Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano or Carignamo, (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) better known as Prince Eugene, was a field marshal in the army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was one of the most successful military commanders of his time, and... |
9683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%20Leutze | Emanuel Leutze | Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Biography
Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, Germany, and was brought to the United States... |
9684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus%20Alberus | Erasmus Alberus | Erasmus Alberus (c. 15005 May 1553) was a German humanist, Lutheran reformer, and poet.
Life
He was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken (now part of Friedberg, Hesse) about the year 1500. Although his father Tilemann Alber was a schoolmaster, his early education was neglected.
Ultimately in 1518, he found his way to... |
9685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley%20parser | Earley parser | In computer science, the Earley parser is an algorithm for parsing strings that belong to a given context-free language, though (depending on the variant) it may suffer problems with certain nullable grammars. The algorithm, named after its inventor, Jay Earley, is a chart parser that uses dynamic programming; it is ma... |
9686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian%20cuisine | Ethiopian cuisine | Ethiopian cuisine (; ) characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes. This is usually in the form of wat, a thick stew, served on top of injera (), a large sourdough flatbread, which is about in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians eat most of the time with their right ... |
9688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle%20of%20James | Epistle of James | The Epistle of James, the Letter of James, or simply James (), is a General epistle and one of the 21 epistles (didactic letters) in the New Testament.
The author identifies himself as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad" (James 1:1). The epistle... |
9689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle%20of%20Jude | Epistle of Jude | The Epistle of Jude, often shortened to Jude, is the penultimate book of the New Testament as well as the Christian Bible. It is traditionally attributed to Jude the Apostle, brother of James the Just, and thus possibly brother of Jesus as well.
Jude is a short epistle written in Koine Greek. It condemns in fierce te... |
9692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius%20Amort | Eusebius Amort | Eusebius Amort (November 15, 1692February 5, 1775) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.
Life
Amort was born at Bibermuhle, near Tolz, in Upper Bavaria. He studied at Munich, and at an early age joined the Canons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology and philosophy.
The... |
9693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopus%20vagans | Episcopus vagans | In Christianity, an episcopus vagans (plural episcopi vagantes; Latin for 'wandering bishops' or 'stray bishops') is a person consecrated, in a "clandestine or irregular way", as a bishop outside the structures and canon law of the established churches; a person regularly consecrated but later excommunicated, and not i... |
9695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Garrett%20Anderson | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elect... |
9696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion | Erosion | In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is distinct from weathering which involves no movement. Removal of ro... |
9697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20space | Euclidean space | Euclidean space is the fundamental space of classical geometry. Originally, it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are Euclidean spaces of any nonnegative integer dimension, including the three-dimensional space and the Euclidean plane (dimension two). It was introduce... |
9700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Austin%20Abbey | Edwin Austin Abbey | Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852August 1, 1911) was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Ed... |
9703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20psychology | Evolutionary psychology | Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations – that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection in ... |
9705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20Europe | Languages of Europe | Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family.
Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language; within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic with more than 200 million speakers each, betwee... |
9706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eindhoven%20University%20of%20Technology | Eindhoven University of Technology | The Eindhoven University of Technology (), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020-21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc and MSc programs and around 1350 students were enrolled in its PhD and PDEng programs. In 2021, the TU/e employed arou... |
9707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity | Electronegativity | Electronegativity, symbolized as χ, is the tendency for an atom of a given chemical element to attract shared electrons (or electron density) when forming a chemical bond. An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance at which its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus. T... |
9708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Charter%20for%20Regional%20or%20Minority%20Languages | European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages | The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. However, the charter does not provide any criterion or definition for an idiom to be a ... |
9709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Civil%20War | English Civil War | The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first (1642–1646) and seco... |
9710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20algebra | Elementary algebra | Elementary algebra encompasses some of the basic concepts of algebra, one of the main branches of mathematics. It is typically taught to secondary school students and builds on their understanding of arithmetic. Whereas arithmetic deals with specified numbers, algebra introduces quantities without fixed values, known a... |
9712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERP | ERP | ERP or Erp may refer to:
Medicine
Effective refractory period, in a cardiac cycle
Estrogen receptor positive, a cancer pathology test result
Event-related potential, a measured brain response
Exposure and response prevention, a treatment method in behavioral therapy
People
Erp (Pict), father of Drest I of the Pi... |
9713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Thayer | Ernest Thayer | Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native ... |
9714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20English-language%20poets | List of English-language poets | This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, ... |
9717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur | Excalibur | Excalibur () is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. It was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone (the proof of Arthur's lineage) are in some versions said to be differ... |
9719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-bar%20blues | Eight-bar blues | In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form" being "common to folk, rock, and jazz forms of the blues". It is often notated in or time with eight bars to the verse.
Overview
Early examples of eight-bar blues standards includ... |
9720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna%20%28disambiguation%29 | Echidna (disambiguation) | Echidnas are Australian egg-laying mammals also known as spiny anteaters.
Echidna may also refer to:
Echidna (mythology), monster in Greek mythology and namesake of the mammal
(42355) Typhon I Echidna, the natural satellite of the asteroid 42355 Typhon
ECHIDNA, high-resolution neutron powder diffractometer at Austral... |
9723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Waring | Edward Waring | Edward Waring (15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, holding the chair until his death. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem witho... |
9724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%20Phillpotts | Eden Phillpotts | Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.
Life
Eden Phillpotts was a great-nephew of He... |
9725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Ecuador–United States relations | Ecuador and the United States maintained close ties based on mutual interests in maintaining democratic institutions; combating cannabis and cocaine; building trade, investment, and financial ties; cooperating in fostering Ecuador's economic development; and participating in inter-American organizations. Ties are furth... |
9727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-ball | Eight-ball | Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a pool billiards played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls: a and fifteen . The object balls include seven solid-colored balls numbered 1 throu... |
9728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned%20value%20management | Earned value management | Earned value management (EVM), earned value project management, or earned value performance management (EVPM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner.
Overview
Earned value management is a project management technique for measuring project performance an... |
9730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20microscope | Electron microscope | An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a higher resolving power than light microscopes and can reveal the structure of ... |
9731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20extinct%20bird%20species%20since%201500 | List of extinct bird species since 1500 | Around 129 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, and the rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. Other areas, such as Guam, have also been hit hard; Guam has lost over 60% of its native bird taxa in... |
9732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Whitney | Eli Whitney | Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Although Whitney himself believed that his invention would reduce the need for enslaved labor an... |
9734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20American%20Prisoner | The American Prisoner | The American Prisoner is a British novel written by Eden Phillpotts and published in 1904 and adapted into a film by the same name in 1929. The story concerns an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American War of Independence and held at the prison at Princetown on Dartmoor.
... |
9735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20field | Electromagnetic field | An electromagnetic field (also EM field or EMF) is a classical (i.e. non-quantum) field produced by accelerating electric charges. It is the field described by classical electrodynamics and is the classical counterpart to the quantized electromagnetic field tensor in quantum electrodynamics. The electromagnetic field p... |
9736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire%20State%20Building | Empire State Building | The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of and stands a total o... |
9737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics | Eugenics | Eugenics ( ; ) is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior. In recent years, the term has seen a revival in bioethical discussions on the usage of new technolo... |
9738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email | Email | Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic (digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant only physical mail (hence e- + mail). Email later became a ubiquitous (very widely ... |
9739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon | Emoticon | An emoticon (, , rarely pronounced , ), short for "emotion icon", also known simply as an emote, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, or as a time-saving method.
The first ASCII emoticons ... |
9740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20%28disambiguation%29 | Epoch (disambiguation) | An epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.
Epoch or EPOCH may also refer to:
Time-related
Any historical era
Epoch (astronomy), a moment in time used as a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body
Epoch (computing), a moment from which system time is usually meas... |
9742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20number | Erdős number | The Erdős number () describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers. The same principle has been applied in other fields where a particular individual has collaborated with a large and broad number of peers.
Overview
Paul Erd... |
9750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20voucher | School voucher | A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents. Funding is usually for a particular year, term, or semester. In some countries, states, or local jurisdictions, the voucher can be used to cover o... |
9751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20B.%20White | E. B. White | Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web came in first in th... |
9752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelist%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Evangelist (Latter Day Saints) | In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry. In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch. However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood. Other denominations, suc... |
9755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegiac%20couplet | Elegiac couplet | The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic couplet, each pair of lines usually makes sens... |
9758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era | Era | An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sans... |
11325103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aircraft%20shootdowns | List of aircraft shootdowns | This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II. An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (see anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to co... |
9760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology | Eschatology | Eschatology (), from Greek eschatos, last, concerns expectations of the end of the present age, or of history, or of the world itself. The end of the world or end times
is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the... |
9762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical%20council | Ecumenical council | An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other matters in which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) and which secures the approbation ... |
9763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet | Exoplanet | An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, initially detected in 1988, was confirmed in 2003.
There are many methods of d... |
9764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Goldman | Emma Goldman | Emma Goldman (, 1869May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), to a Jewish family, Goldman emigrated to th... |
9765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equuleus | Equuleus | Equuleus ( ) is a constellation of stars that are visible in the night sky. Its name is Latin for "little horse", a foal. Located on the northern celestial hemisphere, it was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is the second smal... |
9766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanus | Eridanus | Eridanus can refer to:
Rivers
Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely
The Po River, according to Roman word usage
Eridanos (Athens), a former river near Athens, now subterranean
Eridanos (geology), a former l... |
9767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist | Eucharist | The Eucharist (; ) also known as Holy Communion and the Lord's Supper, among other names, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others. According to the New Testament, the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper (; ; ; ); giving his disciples brea... |
9770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse | Eclipse | An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three celestial objects is known as a syzygy. Apart from syzygy, the term eclipse is a... |
9771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20%28text%20editor%29 | Ed (text editor) | (pronounced as distinct letters, ) is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed, in August 1969. It remains part of the POSIX and Open Group standards for Unix-based operating systems, alongside the more sophisticated full-scree... |
9772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin | Edlin | Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current Microsoft operating systems.
His... |
9773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC | EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC; ) is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems. It descended from the code used with punched cards and the corresponding six-bit binary-coded decimal code used with most of IBM's computer peripherals o... |
9775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasmic%20reticulum | Endoplasmic reticulum | The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is, in essence, the transportation system of the eukaryotic cell, and has many other important functions such as protein folding. It is a type of organelle made up of two subunits – rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER). The endoplasmic reticulum is fou... |
9776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Enemy (disambiguation) | An enemy or foe is an individual or group that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening.
Enemy or The Enemy may refer to:
Enemy combatant
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
The Enemy, an alias of Morgoth, a fictional character in Tolkien's legendarium
Films
The Enemy (1916 film), directed by P... |
9778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Order%209066 | Executive Order 9066 | Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the secretary of war to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of nearly all... |
9779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard%20Munch | Edvard Munch | Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the iconic images of world art.
His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Studying at the Royal School o... |
9781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Industry%20Standard%20Architecture | Extended Industry Standard Architecture | The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers. It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors (the Gang of Nine) as an alternative to IBM's proprietary Micro Channel ... |
9789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthdawn | Earthdawn | Earthdawn is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993. In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the Second Edition. It was licensed to RedBrick in 2003, who released the Classic Edition in 2005 and the game's Third Edition in 2009 (the latter through Mongoose Publishing's Fla... |
9790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20data%20interchange | Electronic data interchange | Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders and invoices. Technical standards for EDI exist to facilitate parties transacting such instruments without having to make special arrangements.
E... |
9792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular%20activity | Extravehicular activity | Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere. Normally, the term applies to what has been termed a spacewalk outside a craft that is orbiting Earth (such as the International Space Station). However EVA also applies to lunar surface ex... |
9799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin%20Brockovich | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich (born Pattee; June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk, consumer advocate, and environmental activist, who, despite her lack of education in the law, was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in a town in California with the he... |
9804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20charge | Electric charge | Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. Electric charge can be positive or negative (commonly carried by protons and electrons respectively). Like charges repel each other and unlike charges attract each other. An object with an ab... |
9806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Island | Ellis Island | Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there under federal law. Today, it is part of the Statue of Liberty National ... |
9808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides | Euripides | Euripides (; Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or ni... |
9810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Bront%C3%AB | Emily Brontë | Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell ... |
9813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20event | Extinction event | An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of spe... |
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