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10191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo | Edo | Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a jōkamachi (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the de facto capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo grew to become one of the largest cities in the world under t... |
10192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive | Explosive | An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An explosive charge is a measured quantity of explosive material, which may either ... |
10193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter%20the%20Dragon | Enter the Dragon | Enter the Dragon () is a 1973 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse and starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly. It was Lee's final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at age 32. An American and Hong Kong co-production, it premiered in Los Angeles on 19 August 1973, one month after Lee... |
10201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exothermic%20process | Exothermic process | In thermodynamics, the term exothermic process (exo- : "outside") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning ... |
10204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu%20Yale | Elihu Yale | Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. He served as President of the British East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras. He is best remembered as the primary benefactor of Yale College (now Yale University), which was named in his honor... |
10207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Baudot | Émile Baudot | Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (; 11 September 1845 – 28 March 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over ... |
10211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20security | Economic security | Economic security or financial security is the condition of having stable income or other resources to support a standard of living now and in the foreseeable future. It includes:
probable continued solvency
predictability of the future cash flow of a person or other economic entity, such as a country
employment sec... |
10213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Data%20rates%20for%20GSM%20Evolution | Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution | Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), IMT Single Carrier (IMT-SC), or Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM. EDGE is considered a pre-3G radio techn... |
10216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth | Eth | Eth (, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.
It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh, and later d.
It is o... |
10217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth%2C%20Nord | Eth, Nord | Eth () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It is about east-southeast of Valenciennes. Residents are called Ethois (feminine plural Ethoises).
Heraldry
See also
Communes of the Nord department
References
INSEE commune file
More information about Eth
Eth ( French page ) with pictures
Commune... |
10221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates | Euphrates | The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (the "Land Between the Rivers"). Originating in Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, wh... |
10223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20language | Estonian language | Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia.
Classification
Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the... |
10224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime | E-Prime | E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, sometimes denoted É or E′) refers to a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be, including all conjugations, contractions and archaic forms.
Some scholars advocate using E-Prime as a device to clarify thinking and strengthen writing. A... |
10225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20curve | Elliptic curve | In mathematics, an elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point O. An elliptic curve is defined over a field K and describes points in K2, the Cartesian product of K with itself. If the field's characteristic is different from 2 and 3, then the curve can be d... |
10229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidae | Equidae | Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, donkeys, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. All extant species are in the genus Equus, which originated in North America. Equidae belongs to the order Perissodactyla... |
10231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20economists | List of economists | This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. For a history of economics, see the article History of economic thought. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M... |
10235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA | ELIZA | ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, Eliza simulated conversation by using a "pattern matching" and substitution... |
10236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA%20effect | ELIZA effect | The ELIZA effect, in computer science, is the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors; that is, anthropomorphisation.
Overview
In its specific form, the ELIZA effect refers only to "the susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted into strings o... |
10237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation%20by%20squaring | Exponentiation by squaring | In mathematics and computer programming, exponentiating by squaring is a general method for fast computation of large positive integer powers of a number, or more generally of an element of a semigroup, like a polynomial or a square matrix. Some variants are commonly referred to as square-and-multiply algorithms or bin... |
10238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon | Exon | An exon is any part of a gene that will form a part of the final mature RNA produced by that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing. The term exon refers to both the DNA sequence within a gene and to the corresponding sequence in RNA transcripts. In RNA splicing, introns are removed and exons are covalent... |
10239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon | Exxon | Exxon Corporation, formerly known as the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey until 1973, was an American oil company and descendant of Standard Oil which merged with Mobil to form ExxonMobil in 1999. Once one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry, Exxon was one of the largest companies in the... |
10243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon%20Valdez%20oil%20spill | Exxon Valdez oil spill | The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m. and spilled (or 37,000 tonnes) of crude oil over th... |
10244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20de%20Pomiane | Édouard de Pomiane | Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski (20 April 1875 in Paris – 26 January 1964 in Paris), was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.
His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863 after the January Uprising, changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane, and became French citizens.
De... |
10245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20VI | Edward VI | Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was gov... |
10248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapyramidal | Extrapyramidal | Extrapyramidal can refer to:
Extrapyramidal system
Extrapyramidal symptoms |
10251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC | EDSAC | The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. EDSAC was the second electr... |
10252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20H.%20Shepard | E. H. Shepard | Ernest Howard Shepard OBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Career
Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London. Having shown so... |
10253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteriaceae | Enterobacteriaceae | Enterobacteriaceae is a large family of Gram-negative bacteria. It was first proposed by Rahn in 1936, and now includes over 30 genera and more than 100 species. Its classification above the level of family is still a subject of debate, but one classification places it in the order Enterobacterales of the class Gammapr... |
10256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentricity | Eccentricity | Eccentricity or eccentric may refer to:
Eccentricity (behavior), odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being "normal"
Mathematics, science and technology
Mathematics
Off-center, in geometry
Eccentricity (graph theory) of a vertex in a graph
Eccentricity (mathematics), a parameter associated with ev... |
10257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essendon%20Football%20Club | Essendon Football Club | The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club which has its training and administration base in the northern Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game’s premier competition. The club was formed by the... |
10258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid%20Blyton | Enid Blyton | Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into 90 languages. As of June 2018, Blyton held 4th place for the most... |
10259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipalaeolithic%20Near%20East | Epipalaeolithic Near East | The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near East. It is the period after the Upper Palaeolithic and before the Neolithic, between approximately 20,000 and 10,000 years Before Present (BP). The people of the Epipalaeolithic ... |
10263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20%28government%29 | Executive (government) | The executive (short for executive branch or executive power) is the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state.
In political systems based on the principle of separation of powers, authority is distributed among several branches (executive, legislative, judicial)—an att... |
10264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Fermi | Enrico Fermi | Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel i... |
10267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente | Entente | Entente, meaning a diplomatic "understanding", may refer to a number of agreements:
History
Entente (alliance), a type of treaty or military alliance where the signatories promise to consult each other or to cooperate with each other in case of a crisis or military action
Entente Cordiale (1904) between France and ... |
10268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor%20war | Editor war | The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community.
The Emacs versus vi debate was one of the original "holy wars" conducted on Usenet groups, with many flame wa... |
10270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization%20of%20the%20Eastern%20Orthodox%20Church | Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church | The Eastern Orthodox Church is a communion comprising the fourteen or sixteen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Each constituent church is self-governing; its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a p... |
10271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDT | EDT | EDT may refer to:
Science and technology
1,2-Ethanedithiol, compound commonly used for cleavage during peptide synthesis
EDT (Digital), text editor for PDP-11 and VAX/VMS computer systems
EDT (Univac), text editor for UNIVAC Series 90 and Fujitsu BS2000 computer systems
EDT Hub, electronic document transmission s... |
10272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20guitar | Electric guitar | An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic (see below) guitar - exists). It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibratio... |
10273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo%20drawing | Embryo drawing | Embryo drawing is the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization. In animals, the zygote divides repeatedly to form a ball of cells, which then forms a set of tissue layer... |
10274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy | Enthalpy | Enthalpy , a property of a thermodynamic system, is the sum of the system's internal energy and the product of its pressure and volume. It is a state function used in many measurements in chemical, biological, and physical systems at a constant pressure, which is conveniently provided by the large ambient atmosphere. T... |
10275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdo%C4%9Fan%20Atalay | Erdoğan Atalay | Erdoğan Atalay (born 22 September 1966 in Hanover, West Germany) is a Turkish-German actor. He is best known for his role as police detective Semir Gerkhan in Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei.
Early life and career
Atalay was born on September 22, 1966, to a Turkish father and German mother. He was a member of... |
10277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio%20Morricone | Ennio Morricone | Ennio Morricone, OMRI (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and grea... |
1357405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZZM | WZZM | WZZM, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States and serving the northern portion of the Grand Rapids–Kalamazoo–Battle Creek television market. The station is owned by McLean, Virginia-based Tegna Inc. WZZM's studios are located on 3 Mil... |
10278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20explosives%20used%20during%20World%20War%20II | List of explosives used during World War II | Almost all the common explosives listed here were mixtures of several common components:
Ammonium picrate
TNT (Trinitrotoluene)
PETN (Pentaerythritol tetranitrate)
RDX
Powdered aluminium.
This is only a partial list; there were many others. Many of these compositions are now obsolete and only encountered in... |
10283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang%20%28unit%29 | Erlang (unit) | The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. A single cord circuit has the capacity to be used for 60 minutes in one hour. Full utilization of that capacity,... |
10285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eligible%20receiver | Eligible receiver | In gridiron football, not all players on offense are entitled to receive a forward pass: only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses into the neutral zone. If the pass is received by a non-eligible receiver,... |
10286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver%20Hoxha | Enver Hoxha | Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death in 1985. He was also a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-c... |
10287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito | Hirohito | Emperor , commonly known by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was succeeded by his fifth child and eldest son, Akihito. By 1979, Hirohito was the only monarch in the world with the title... |
10289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsworth | Emsworth | Emsworth is a small town in Hampshire on the south coast of England, near the border of West Sussex. It lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large and shallow inlet from the English Channel and is equidistant between Portsmouth and Chichester.
Emsworth has a population of approximately 10,000. The ... |
10290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulsion | Emulsion | An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation. Emulsions are part of a more general class of two-phase systems of matter called colloids. Although the terms colloid and emulsion are sometimes used interchangeably, emulsion... |
10292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Mountbatten%2C%201st%20Earl%20Mountbatten%20of%20Burma | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), born and known until 1917 as Prince Louis of Battenberg, then named until 1946 Lord Louis Mountbatten, and then named until 1947 as The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, was a member of the British royal family... |
10293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge%20Gerry | Elbridge Gerry | Elbridge Gerry (; July 17, 1744 (OS July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from 1813 until his death in 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him. He w... |
10294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption | Encryption | In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Ideally, only authorized parties can decipher a ciphertext back to plaintext and access the original information. En... |
10296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR%20paradox | EPR paradox | The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox (EPR paradox) is a thought experiment proposed by physicists Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR), with which they argued that the description of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics was incomplete. In a 1935 paper titled "Can Quantum-Mechanical Descriptio... |
10301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation | Encapsulation | Encapsulation may refer to:
Chemistry
Molecular encapsulation, in chemistry, the confinement of an individual molecule within a larger molecule
Micro-encapsulation, in material science, the coating of microscopic particles with another material
Biology
Cell encapsulation, technology made to overcome the existing... |
10302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue | Ethnologue | Ethnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It was first issued in 1951, and is now published annually by SIL International, a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non... |
10303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation | Evaporation | Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance. When the molecules of the liquid collide, they transfer energy to each other based on how they collide with each other. When a molecule... |
10304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esbat | Esbat | An esbat is a coven meeting at a time other than one of the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of contemporary Paganism. Janet and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic training and all."
Etymology
The term esbat is derived from Old French s'esba... |
10307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal%20temperament | Equal temperament | An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system, which approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into equal steps. This means the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same, which gives an equal perceived step size as pitch is perceived roughly as the l... |
10310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Gibbon | Edward Gibbon | Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its ... |
10312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Pakistan | East Pakistan | East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal. Its land borders were with India and Burma, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal. East Pakistanis were popularly known as "Pakistani Bengalis"; to distinguish this region from India's stat... |
10313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20O.%20Wilson | E. O. Wilson | Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. His specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he was called the world's leading expert, and he was nicknamed Ant Man.
Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiver... |
10315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Howard%20Armstrong | Edwin Howard Armstrong | Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Eng... |
10322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest | EverQuest | EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows PCs. It was released by Sony Online Entertainment in March 1999 in North America, and by Ubisoft in Europe in April 2000. A dedicated version for macOS was rele... |
10326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20evolution | Human evolution | Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism and language, as well as interbreeding with ot... |
10328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evliya%20%C3%87elebi | Evliya Çelebi | Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyâhatnâme ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi is an honorific... |
10331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Egyptian%20religion | Ancient Egyptian religion | Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals that formed an integral part of ancient Egyptian culture. It centered on the Egyptians' interactions with many deities believed to be present in, and in control of the world. Rituals such as prayer and offerings were provided to the gods... |
10332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational%20psychology | Educational psychology | Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation,... |
10333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS | EFTPOS | Electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS; ) is an electronic payment system involving electronic funds transfers based on the use of payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, at payment terminals located at points of sale. EFTPOS technology was developed during the 1980s. In Australia and New Zealand, it ... |
10334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle%20to%20the%20Laodiceans | Epistle to the Laodiceans | The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a letter of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction to the congregation in Colossae to send their letter to the believing community in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter "from Laodicea" (, ek Laodikeas).
This letter is generally... |
10335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination%20camp | Extermination camp | Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The victims of death camps were primarily murdered by gassing, either in permanent i... |
10336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:
Business and economics
Brands and enterprises
Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company
Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company
Enterprise Products, a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company
Enterprise Records, a rec... |
10338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication | Excommunication | Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to end or at least regulate the communion of a member of a congregation with other members of the religious institution who are in normal communion with each other. The purpose of the institutional act is to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a rel... |
10339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20cell | Electrochemical cell | An electrochemical cell is a device capable of either generating electrical energy from chemical reactions or using electrical energy to cause chemical reactions. The electrochemical cells which generate an electric current are called voltaic or galvanic cells and those that generate chemical reactions, via electrolysi... |
10340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysis | Ecdysis | Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. The remnants of the old, empty exoskeleton are called exuviae.
After moulting, an arthr... |
10343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebor%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Ebor, New South Wales | Ebor is a village on Waterfall Way on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales, Australia. It is situated about east of Armidale and about a third of the way between Armidale and the coast. Dorrigo to the east is away with the Coffs Coast away along Waterfall Way. In the , Ebor's zone had a population of 166.
His... |
10344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20history%20of%20Afghanistan | Ancient history of Afghanistan | Archaeological exploration of the pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan began in Afghanistan in earnest after World War II and proceeded until the late 1970s when the nation was invaded by the Soviet Union. Archaeologists and historians suggest that humans were living in Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago, and that farm... |
10346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20redshift | Gravitational redshift | In physics and general relativity, gravitational redshift (known as Einstein shift in older literature) is the phenomenon that electromagnetic waves or photons travelling out of a gravitational well (seem to) lose energy. This loss of energy corresponds to a decrease in the wave frequency and increase in the wavelength... |
10350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter%20Rising | Easter Rising | The Easter Rising (), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World W... |
10353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschrichtiidae | Eschrichtiidae | Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as three described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius and Eschrichtioides from the Miocene and Pliocene of Italy respectively, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene... |
10354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20I | Edmund I | Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great. When Edward died in 924 he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edmund's half-brother Æthelstan,... |
10356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothermic%20process | Endothermic process | In thermochemistry, an endothermic process is any process with an increase in the enthalpy H (or internal energy U) of the system. In such a process, a closed system usually absorbs thermal energy from its surroundings, which is heat transfer into the system. It may be a chemical process, such as dissolving ammonium ni... |
10357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle%20Page | Earle Page | Doctor Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, (8 August 188020 December 1961) was an Australian surgeon and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, holding office for 19 days after the death of Joseph Lyons in 1939. He was the leader of the Country Party from 1921 to 1939, and was the most influentia... |
10358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrem%20the%20Syrian | Ephrem the Syrian | Ephrem the Syrian (, ; ; ; ), also known as Saint Ephrem, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis, was a prominent Christian theologian and writer, who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity. He was born in Nisibis, served as a deacon and later lived in Edessa.
Ephrem is venerated as... |
10359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Enhanced%20Chip%20Set | Amiga Enhanced Chip Set | The Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) is the second generation of the Amiga computer's chipset, offering minor improvements over the original chipset (OCS) design. ECS was introduced in 1990 with the launch of the Amiga 3000. Amigas produced from 1990 onwards featured a mix of OCS and ECS chips, such as later versions of the Ami... |
10361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Space%20Operations%20Centre | European Space Operations Centre | The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) serves as the main mission control centre for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is located in Darmstadt, Germany. ESOC's primary function is the operation of unmanned spacecraft on behalf of ESA and the launch and early orbit phases (LEOP) of ESA and third-party missions. T... |
10363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Space%20Agency | European Space Agency | The European Space Agency (ESA; , ASE; ) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,200 in 2018 and an annual budget of about €7.2 billion in 2022.
ESA's space flight programme inc... |
10365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embouchure | Embouchure | Embouchure () or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. This includes shaping the lips to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument or the mouthpiece of a brass instrument. The word is of French origin and is related to the root , 'mouth'. Proper embouchure allows ... |
10368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%206 | Elephant 6 | The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Notable bands associated with the collective include the Apples in Stereo, Beulah, Circulatory System, Elf Power, the Minders, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and the Olivia Tremor Control. Although bands in Elephant 6 exp... |
10369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolocation | Echolocation | Echolocation is the use of "sound" as a form of navigation
Navigation using sound
Acoustic location, the general use of sound to locate objects.
Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate.
Human echolocation, the use of sound by peopl... |
10370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism | Evangelicalism | Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus' atonement. Evang... |
10371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonium | Euphonium | The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3 or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" ( eu means "well" or "good" and phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound"). The euphonium is a valved in... |
10372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entire%20function | Entire function | In complex analysis, an entire function, also called an integral function, is a complex-valued function that is holomorphic on the whole complex plane. Typical examples of entire functions are polynomials and the exponential function, and any finite sums, products and compositions of these, such as the trigonometric fu... |
10374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay | Essay | An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal. Formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose,... |
10375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20detection%20and%20correction | Error detection and correction | In information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunication, error detection and correction or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels. Many communication channels are subject to channel noise, and thus err... |
10376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20domain | Euclidean domain | In mathematics, more specifically in ring theory, a Euclidean domain (also called a Euclidean ring) is an integral domain that can be endowed with a Euclidean function which allows a suitable generalization of the Euclidean division of the integers. This generalized Euclidean algorithm can be put to many of the same u... |
10377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20algorithm | Euclidean algorithm | In mathematics, the Euclidean algorithm, or Euclid's algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers (numbers), the largest number that divides them both without a remainder. It is named after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, who first described it in his Element... |
10378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Centre%20for%20Medium-Range%20Weather%20Forecasts | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by most of the nations of Europe. It is based at three sites: Shinfield Park, Reading, United Kingdom; Bologna, Italy; and Bonn, Germany. It operates one of the largest supercomputer complexes in Eu... |
10380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Broadcasting%20Union | European Broadcasting Union | The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of public service media organisations, established on 12 February 1950. The organisation is made up of 112 member organisations in 55 countries, and 31 associate members from a further 20 countries. It is best known for producing the Eurovision Song Contest. I... |
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