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e: (from the article "Hermite, Charles") In 1873 Hermite published the first proof that e is a transcendental number; i.e., it is not the root of any algebraic equation with rational coefficients.
E horizon: (from the article "soil") ...whereas the layer immediately below an A horizon that has been extensively leached (that is, slowly washed of certain contents by the action of percolating water) is given the separate ...
E region: ionospheric region that extends from an altitude of 90 kilometres (60 miles) to about 160 kilometres (100 miles). As in the D region (70-90 kilometres), the ionization is primarily molecular-i.e., ... [3 Related Articles]
E ring: (from the article "Enceladus") ...old, suggesting that parts of the surface melted and refroze in the recent geologic past and that Enceladus may have multiple active areas. Enceladus's current activity is responsible for Saturn's ...
E Street Band: (from the article "Springsteen, Bruce") By then, however, he was best known for his stage shows, three- and four-hour extravaganzas with his E Street Band that blended rock, folk, and soul with dramatic intensity and ...
E*Trade Financial Corp.: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") There was a consolidation in the online brokerage business as online trading continued a two-year decline. Ameritrade bought TD Waterhouse for an estimated $3 billion. E*Trade Financial Corp. paid $700 ...
e-book: (from the article "Redefining the Library in the Digital Age") Project Gutenberg, which began in 1971, was one of the earliest digital libraries. By early 2007 the project offered at no charge more than 22,000 public-domain e-books-mostly literary, historical, and ...
E-class asteroid: (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...are very rare. Their surface material has been identified as being most consistent with a pyroxene- and olivine-rich composition analogous to the pyroxene-olivine achondrite meteorites. The E-class asteroids have the ...
e-commerce: maintaining business relationships and selling information, services, and commodities by means of computer telecommunications networks. [16 Related Articles]
E-kur: (from the article "Nippur") ...BC the city probably reached the extent of the present ruins and was fortified. Later, Ur-Nammu (reigned 2112-2095 BC), first king of the 3rd dynasty of Ur, laid out Enlil's ...
e-mail: messages transmitted and received by digital computers through a network. An e-mail system allows computer users on a network to send text, graphics, and sometimes sounds and animated images to ... [10 Related Articles]
E-meter: (from the article "Scientology") ...them, Hubbard developed auditing, a one-on-one counseling process in which a counselor, or auditor, facilitates individuals' handling of their engrams. A key aspect of this process is use of an ...
E-rate program: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") A federal audit of the controversial E-rate program that funded Internet connections for American schools and libraries found that the $2.25-billion-a-year effort was plagued by fraud and abuse. Investigators blamed ...
e-voting: (from the article "electronic voting") Because of security and access concerns, most large-scale electronic voting is currently held in designated precincts using special-purpose machines. This type of voting mechanism is referred to as e-voting. There ...
E1 reaction: (from the article "elimination reaction") ...as dehydration; when both leaving atoms are hydrogen atoms, the reaction is known as dehydrogenation. Elimination reactions are also classified as E1 or E2, depending on the reaction kinetics. In ...
E1A handset: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...Patterned after the wall-mounted telephone, they usually consisted of a separate receiver and transmitter. In 1927, however, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) introduced the E1A handset, which employed ...
E2 reaction: (from the article "elimination reaction") ...molecule, usually from an alcohol, is known as dehydration; when both leaving atoms are hydrogen atoms, the reaction is known as dehydrogenation. Elimination reactions are also classified as E1 or ...
E85: (from the article "automobile") ...mandated that by 2003 all new cars sold in the country had to be FlexFuel vehicles (FFVs)-vehicles certified to run on gasoline containing up to 85 percent ethanol (ethyl alcohol), ...
Ea: Mesopotamian god of water and a member of the triad of deities completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Enlil. From a local deity worshiped in the city of Eridu, Ea ... [14 Related Articles]
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh: (from the article "Experimental Aircraft Association") The organization's annual convention is held each summer in Oshkosh. In 1998 the name of the event officially changed from the EAA Fly-In Convention to the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Regarded ...
Eadbald: king of Kent, who succeeded his father Aethelberht in 616. He had not been influenced by the teaching of the Christian missionaries, and his first step on his accession was ...
Eadred: king of the English from 946 to 955, who brought Northumbria permanently under English rule. Eadred was the son of the West Saxon king Edward the Elder (ruled 899-924) and ... [2 Related Articles]
Eadric: (from the article "Hlothere") Hlothere appears to have shared power with his nephew Eadric (Egbert's son); laws still extant seem to have been issued in their joint names. A quarrel between them caused Eadric ...
Eadric Streona: ealdorman of the Mercians, who, though a man of ignoble birth, was advanced to the revived office of ealdorman by the English king Ethelred II, whose daughter Eadgyth Eadric married.
Eads Bridge: (from the article "Eads, James B.") From his knowledge of the river and of the fabrication of iron and steel, he secured, against opposition, some of it unscrupulous, a contract for a steel triple-arch bridge over ...
Eads, James B.: American engineer best known for his triple-arch steel bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo. (1874). Another project provided a year-round navigation channel for New Orleans by means ... [2 Related Articles]
Eadwig: king of the English from 955 to 957 and ruler of Wessex and Kent from 957 to 959. The eldest son of King Edmund I (ruled 939-946) and the nephew ... [2 Related Articles]
Eagan, Eddie: American boxer and bobsledder who was the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. [1 Related Articles]
Eagels, Jeanne: American actress who, through force of will and personality rather than training, forged a successful career onstage and in motion pictures.
eagle: any of many large, heavy-beaked, big-footed birds of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae (order Falconiformes). In general, an eagle is any bird of prey more powerful than a buteo. ... [3 Related Articles]
Eagle Day: (from the article "World War II") ...would only be possible, given Britain's large navy, if Germany could establish control of the air in the battle zone. To this end, the Luftwaffe chief, Goring, on August 2 ...
eagle lectern: (from the article "metalwork") ...of St. Barthelemy in Liege). The Dinant workshops, which formed the main centre for bronze casting in the Meuse district in the Middle Ages, specialized in what are known as ...
Eagle Nebula: (from the article "star cluster") ...extremely young open clusters. Of these, the one associated with the Orion Nebula, which is some 4 million years old, is the closest at a distance of 1,400 light-years. A ...
eagle owl: (Bubo bubo), bird of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes), characterized by its large size (often 70 centimetres [about 2.3 feet] long), two tufts of feathers on the head (ear tufts), ...
Eagle Pass: city, seat (1856) of Maverick county, southwestern Texas, U.S., on the Rio Grande, bridged to Piedras Negras, Mexico, 130 miles (210 km) southwest of San Antonio. It evolved as a ...
eagle ray: any of about two dozen species of exclusively marine rays constituting the family Myliobatidae (order Rajiformes), occurring in the major oceans. They have the enlarged, winglike pectoral fins characteristic of ... [3 Related Articles]
eagle rock: (from the article "jazz dance") ...that gave rise to social forms of jazz dance developed from rural slave dances. In both early dances and 20th-century jazz dances, there is a noticeable continuity of dance elements ...
Eagle's Nest Art Colony: (from the article "Oregon") ...with some manufacturing (chiefly farm machinery and road-building equipment). Printing and tourism also contribute to the local economy. Lowden State Park (immediately north) is the site of Eagle's Nest Colony, ...
Eagle, Mount: (from the article "Virgin Islands of the United States") ...alluvium, they rise off the continental shelf to maximum heights of 1,556 feet (474 m) at Crown Mountain on St. Thomas, 1,277 feet (389 m) at Bordeaux Mountain on St. ...
Eaglehawk Neck: (from the article "Forestier Peninsula") ...Bay (west). To the north the promontory is connected to the mainland by a short isthmus, and to the south it is linked to the Tasman Peninsula by the 14-mile-wide ...
Eagles' Nests Trail: (from the article "Slaskie") ...and Ustron. The limestone outcroppings of the Krakow-Czestochowa upland, with cliff-top ruins of medieval castles, are part of a much-traveled tourist route known as the Eagles' Nests Trail. The Paulite ...
Eagles, the: American band that cultivated country rock as the reigning style and sensibility of white youth in the United States during the 1970s. The original members were Don Henley (b. July ... [3 Related Articles]
Eagleton, Terry: (from the article "Literature") In the nonfiction realm, books attempting to understand terrorism continued to proliferate. An original approach was taken by leading critic Terry Eagleton. Billed as "a metaphysics of terror with a ...
Eagleton, Thomas Francis: American politician agreed to run as Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's running mate in the 1972 election, but he was asked to step down by McGovern 18 days after ...
Eagling, Wayne: (from the article "Performing Arts") ...performances of the production of The Sleeping Beauty that he had originally made for ABT. English National Ballet artistic director Matz Skoog resigned in the spring and was replaced by ...
Eakins, Thomas: painter who carried the tradition of 19th-century American Realism to perhaps its highest achievement. He painted mainly portraits of his friends and scenes of outdoor sports, such as swimming and ... [6 Related Articles]
ealderman: (from the article "fyrd") ...arrangement existing in Anglo-Saxon England from approximately AD 605. Local in character, it imposed military service upon every able-bodied free male. It was probably the duty of the ealderman, or ...
Ealdred: also spelled Aldred Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York from 1061, played an important part in secular politics at the time of the Norman conquest and legitimized the rule of William the ...
Eales, John: Australian rugby union football player considered by many to be the greatest rugby player ever. Eales, who stood 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 metres) tall, was considered the archetype of ...
Ealing: outer borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex, midway between central London and the western periphery. The borough was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the ...
Ealing Studios: English motion-picture studio, internationally remembered for a series of witty comedies that reflected the social conditions of post-World War II Britain. Founded in 1929 by two of England's best known ...
EAM-ELAS: communist-sponsored resistance organization (formed September 1941) and its military wing (formed December 1942), which operated in occupied Greece during World War II. Fighting against the Germans and the Italians as ... [4 Related Articles]
Eames, Charles: (from the article "Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray") Charles Eames, who was also an architect, was for several years head of the experimental design department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. During that time (1939-41) he ...
Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray: American designers best known for the beauty, comfort, elegance, and delicacy of their mass-producible furniture. They also wrote books, made motion pictures, and designed exhibitions, fabrics, and industrial and consumer ...
Eames, Emma: American lyric soprano, admired for her beauty and for the technical control and dramatic expressiveness of her voice.
Eames, Ray: (from the article "Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray") ...was a formfitting shell chair that won first place in the Organic Design Competition conducted in 1940-41 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In 1940 he met ...
Eamont: (from the article "Eden, River") ...short, swift right-bank tributaries from the great escarpment of the Pennines and longer left-bank tributaries from the Lake District and its flanking limestone hills. Its main tributary, the Eamont, entering ...
Eanes, Antonio Ramalho: (from the article "Portugal") ...Centre Party (conservative), and the Communist Party (founded 1921) made the strongest showings, and the Socialist leader, Mario Soares, formed a minority government. In June, General Antonio Ramalho Eanes, who ...
Eanes, Gil: (from the article "Henry the Navigator") ...Henry's captains to venture farther down the Atlantic coast in search of other opportunities. Tradition has claimed that the most important achievement was the rounding of Cape Bojador in 1434 ...
Eanna: (from the article "Erech") The temenos (sacred enclosure) of Eanna, another ziggurat, bore witness to the attention of many powerful kings, including Ur-Nammu (reigned 2112-2095 BC), first king of the 3rd dynasty of Ur. ...
Eannatum: (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") Kish must have played a major role almost from the beginning. After 2500, southern Babylonian rulers, such as Mesannepada of Ur and Eannatum of Lagash, frequently called themselves king of ...
ear disease: any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human ear and hearing. [1 Related Articles]
ear fungus: (from the article "Basidiomycota") The ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), also called Jew's ear fungus, is a brown, gelatinous edible fungus found on dead tree trunks in moist weather in the autumn. One of 10 ...
ear mite: (from the article "Some common diseases of domestic cats") ...ears-the basset hound is an extreme example (see photograph)-are prone to diseases of the ear canal. Moisture becomes trapped in the ear, producing yeast infections. Such parasites as ear mites ...
ear shell: any of various marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) that constitute the genus Haliotis and family Haliotidae. The characteristic planispiral shell has a broad, oblique aperture, which gives ... [2 Related Articles]
ear squeeze: effects of a difference in pressure between the internal ear spaces and the external ear canal. These effects may include severe pain, inflammation, bleeding, and rupture of the eardrum membrane. ... [1 Related Articles]
ear, human: organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes noises by transduction (or the conversion of sound waves into electrochemical impulses) and maintains the sense of balance (equilibrium). [12 Related Articles]
eared seal: (from the article "carnivore") ...and related species), Mephitidae (skunks and stink badgers), Herpestidae (mongooses), Viverridae (civets, genets, and related species), and Hyaenidae (hyenas). There are three aquatic families: Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), ...
Earhart, Amelia: American aviator, one of the world's most celebrated, who was the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean. [1 Related Articles]
Earl of Leicester's Men: earliest organized Elizabethan acting company. Formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester's household, the troupe performed at court the following year. A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, the ...
Earle, Alice Morse: American writer and antiquarian whose work centred on the manners, customs, and handicrafts of various periods of American history.
Earle, George: (from the article "Hobart") city, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S., adjacent to Gary. George Earle laid out the site in 1849, having built a dam across the Deep River to provide waterpower for his ...
Earle, John: Anglican clergyman, best known as author of Micro-cosmographie. Or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters (1628; enlarged 1629 and 1630).
Earle, Steve: American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who bridged the genres of rock and country music.
earless monitor: (from the article "monitor") The earless monitor (L. borneensis), a rare and little-known lizard native to Borneo, is the only species in the subfamily Lanthanotinae. It too is elongate with a ...
earless seal: (from the article "carnivore") ...(skunks and stink badgers), Herpestidae (mongooses), Viverridae (civets, genets, and related species), and Hyaenidae (hyenas). There are three aquatic families: Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), Phocidae (true, or earless, ...
earless water rat: (from the article "water rat") Water rats of the genus Hydromys live in the mountains and coastal lowlands of Australia, New Guinea, and some nearby islands. The earless water rat (Crossomys moncktoni) inhabits mountains of ...
Earlham College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Ind., U.S. It is affiliated with the Society of Friends (Quakers). A four-year liberal arts college, it offers bachelor's degree programs in ...
Earlier German History, Society for: (from the article "Stein, Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum") ...energy did not desert him. German historical science, in fact, owes to Stein's efforts its most important enterprise of publishing. The Gesellschaft fur altere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Society for Earlier German ...
Earlier Le dynasty: (from the article "Later Le Dynasty") (1428-1788), the greatest and longest lasting dynasty of traditional Vietnam. Its predecessor, the Earlier Le, was founded by Le Hoan and lasted from 980 to 1009.
Earliest Jomon: (from the article "arts, East Asian") The period called Earliest, or Initial, Jomon (c. 7500-5000 BC) produced bullet-shaped pots used for cooking or boiling food. The tapered bases of the pots were designed to stabilize the ...
early abortion: (from the article "pregnancy") ...abortion as the expulsion or extraction of all (complete) or any part (incomplete) of the placenta or membranes, with or without an abortus, before the 20th week (before 134 days) ...
Early American furniture: furniture made in the last half of the 17th century by American colonists. The earliest known American-made furniture dates from the mid-17th century, when life in the colonies was becoming ... [1 Related Articles]
Early Anyathian complex: (from the article "Stone Age") Pebble tools, including choppers and chopping tools, are found in the Pleistocene terrace deposits of the Irrawaddy Valley of upper Myanmar. This complex is known as the Anyathian. The Early ...
Early Archaic Chinese language: (from the article "Chinese languages") Oracular Chinese is known only from rather brief oracle inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells. Archaic Chinese falls into Early, Middle (c. 800-c. 400 BC), and Late Archaic. Early Archaic ...
Early Bangkok period: (from the article "Thailand") The Thon Buri and Early Bangkok periods
Early Bronze Age: (from the article "Anatolia") The period following the Chalcolithic in Anatolia is generally referred to as the Bronze Age. In its earlier phases the predominant metal was in fact pure copper, but the older ...
Early Carboniferous Epoch: (from the article "Kanimblan orogeny") a mountain-building event in eastern Australia toward the end of Early Carboniferous time (about 325,000,000 years ago). Uplift and deformation occurred in a wide belt extending from Tasmania to Cape ...
Early Chagatai language: (from the article "Turkic languages") The "Middle Turkic" period, which began in the 13th century, embraces several regional written languages: Khwarezmian Turkic, Volga Bolgarian, Old Kipchak, Old Ottoman, and Early Chagatai. Khwarezmian, used in the ...
Early Christian art: architecture, painting, and sculpture from the beginnings of Christianity until about the early 6th century, particularly the art of Italy and the western Mediterranean. (Early Christian art in the eastern ... [9 Related Articles]
early church: (from the article "Christianity") Christianity began as a movement within Judaism at a period when the Jews had long been dominated culturally and politically by foreign powers and had found in their religion (rather ...
Early Classic sub-period: (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Early Classic period (AD 100-600)rise of Maya civilizationMexicoClassic Period...art, and the Initial Series calendrical system all were evident in the ...
Early Classical period: (from the article "Western architecture") The only significant architectural work of the early Classical period was at Olympia, where a great Temple of Zeus was built in about 460. This temple was the first statement ...
Early Cretaceous Epoch: (from the article "ocean") ...like the East Pacific Rise (see below). Further, a correlation has been found between global spreading rates and the transgression and regression of ocean waters onto the continents. During the Early ...
Early Devonian Epoch: (from the article "Devonian Period") In the Antarctic both marine and continental Devonian strata occur, the latter rich in fossil fishes of European genera. The marine Lower Devonian shows some affinity with the Bokkeveld in ...
Early Dynastic period: (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The Early Dynastic period (c. 2925-c. 2575 BC)
Early Dynastic Period: (from the article "art and architecture, Mesopotamian") Beyond this general characteristic of Sumerian sculpture, two successive styles have been distinguished in the middle and late subdivisions of the Early Dynastic period. One very notable group of figures, ...
early Eocene Epoch: (from the article "gundi") ...from Africa and parts of Asia. Gundis have no close relatives among current rodents, and they form a small relict cluster of an impressive evolutionary diversification that began in the ...
early fallout: (from the article "nuclear weapon") ...If the explosion is on or near the surface, the soil, water, and other materials in the vicinity will be sucked upward by the rising cloud, causing early (local) and ...
Early Formative period: (from the article "Mesoamerican civilization") ...to corn, crops included beans, squashes, chili peppers, and cotton. As agricultural productivity improved, the rudiments of civilization emerged during the period designated by archaeologists as the Early Formative (1500-900 ...
Early Germanic script: (from the article "runic alphabet") There are at least three main varieties of runic script: Early, or Common, Germanic (Teutonic), used in northern Europe before about 800 AD; Anglo-Saxon, or Anglian, used in Britain from ...