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East Cleveland: city, suburb of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., just southeast of Lake Erie. The site was settled in 1801 by farmers, and East Cleveland township was organized in 1805. ...
East Dereham: town, Breckland district, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England, 16 miles (26 km) west-northwest of Norwich. The site of a 7th-century Christian convent, it was destroyed by invading Danes. ...
East Detroit: city, Macomb county, Michigan, U.S., 10 miles (16 km) north-northeast of Detroit. It is primarily a residential suburb of Detroit but does have such commerce as truck and poultry farming, ...
East Devon: district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, in the southeastern part of the county and bordering Lyme Bay of the English Channel to the south. East Devon is ...
East Dorset: district, administrative county of Dorset, southern England, in the northeastern corner of the county directly north of the English Channel resorts of Bournemouth and Poole. Most of the district is ...
East Dunbartonshire: council area, west-central Scotland. East Dunbartonshire's largest towns, Bearsden and Milngavie in the southwest and Kirkintilloch in the southeast, lie within the historic county of Dunbartonshire. The council area also ...
East End: traditional area of London, lying east of Shoreditch High Street, Houndsditch, Aldgate High Street, and Tower Bridge Approach. It extends eastward to the River Lea and lies mainly in the ...
East Falkland: one of the two major islands of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is 90 miles (140 km) long and 55 miles (88 km) wide and rises ...
East Flanders: province, northwestern Belgium, extending southward from the Netherlands border. Drained by the Leie, Schelde (Escaut or Scheldt), and Dender (Dendre) rivers, it is divided into six administrative ...
East Friesland: cultural region bordering the North Sea and encompassing the coastal marshlands and East Frisian Islands (Ostfriesische Inseln) of northwestern Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. The region has close cultural ...
East Germanic languages: group of long extinct Germanic languages once spoken by Germanic tribes located between the middle Oder and the Vistula.
East Germany: European state (1945-90) that now constitutes the eastern portion of the Federal Republic of Germany. See Germany.
East Greenland Current: cold flow of water originating in the Arctic Ocean and flowing southward and southwestward along the east coast of Greenland. See Greenland Current.
East Greenland orogen: a linear orogenic (mountain) belt that developed from late Precambrian time to the middle of the Paleozoic Era (roughly 650 million to 350 million years ago) along a portion of ...
East Greenwich: town (township), Kent county, central Rhode Island, U.S., on Greenwich Bay, south of Providence city. It was settled and incorporated as a town in 1677, following King Philip's (Indian) War. ...
East Grinstead: town ("parish"), Mid Sussex district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, lying south of London in the wooded countryside of the Weald within easy commuting range ...
East Hampshire: district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, southern England. The district, a rural area of chalk uplands, is where the most westerly extensions of the North Downs, Weald, and South ...
East Hampton: town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the southern shore of Long Island, 100 miles (161 km) east of New York City, and includes East Hampton ...
East Hartford: urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S., across the Connecticut River from Hartford. The area, called Podunk by the Indians, was first settled in 1639 by John Crow. Organized ...
East Haven: urban town (township), New Haven county, southern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound just east of New Haven and separated from Branford (east) by Lake Saltonstall (about 3 miles [5 ...
East Hertfordshire: district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, at the northern edge of the Greater London Green Belt.
East India Company: English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by royal charter on Dec. 31, 1600. Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the ...
East Indiaman: large sailing vessel of the type built from the 16th to the 19th century for the trade between Europe and southern Asia. The first were Portuguese and Dutch; English Indiamen ...
East Indies: the islands that extend in a wide belt along both sides of the Equator for more than 3,800 miles (6,100 km) between the Asian mainland to the north and west ...
East Kilbride: burgh (town), South Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was Scotland's first post-World War II planned new town, built around the old pastoral village of East Kilbride ...
East Lansing: residential and university city, Ingham county, south-central Michigan, U.S., on the Red Cedar River. The site was a remote area east of Lansing when Michigan State University, a pioneer land-grant ...
East Lindsey: district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, along the North Sea in the eastern part of the county. East Lindsey's most significant physiographic component is the chalk upland ...
East Liverpool: city, Columbiana county, eastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River (there bridged to Newell and Chester, W.Va.), at a point where Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia meet. Founded ...
East London: port city, Eastern province, South Africa. It lies at the mouth of the Buffalo River along the Indian Ocean.
East Lothian: council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the southern coast of the Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh. Much of East Lothian is an undulating coastal lowland, ...
East Malaysia: wing of the 13-state federation of Malaysia; it consists of the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo and is separated from mainland ...
East Moline: city, Rock Island county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, some 160 miles (260 km) west of Chicago. With Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport and ...
East Northamptonshire: district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, south-central England, in the northeastern part of the county. The district is rural and agricultural in character except in the extreme south. It ...
East Orange: city, Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Newark on the northwest. Originally settled in 1678 by 30 families from Newark, it was set off from Orange township and established ...
East Pacific Rise: submarine linear mountain range on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean, roughly paralleling the west coast of South America.
East Point: city, Fulton county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., a southwestern suburb of Atlanta. Established as the eastern terminus for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad (completed 1853), it was an important defense ...
East Providence: city, Providence county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S., on the eastern side of the Seekonk and Providence rivers, opposite Providence city. The site was long occupied by Wampanoag Indians before Roger ...
East Prussia: former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig ...
East Rajasthan Uplands: highlands in southeastern Rajasthan state, northwestern India, with an area of about 23,200 square miles (60,000 square km), east of the Aravali (Aravalli) Range. The uplands range in height from ...
East Renfrewshire: council area, west-central Scotland, just southwest of the city of Glasgow. It forms a part of the historic county of Renfrewshire and covers an area of upland farming country in ...
East Riding of Yorkshire: unitary authority and geographic county, historic county of Yorkshire, eastern England. It extends from the Yorkshire Wolds in the north to the River Humber in the south and from the ...
East River: navigable tidal strait linking Upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound, New York City, U.S. It separates Manhattan Island from Brooklyn and Queens. About 16 miles (26 km) long ...
East Saint Louis: city, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River opposite St. Louis, Missouri. About 1797 a ferry station was established on the site by Captain James ...
East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917: (July 2), bloody outbreak of violence in East St. Louis, Ill., stemming specifically from the employment of black workers in a factory holding government contracts. It was the worst of ...
East Scotia Basin: submarine trough of the eastern Scotia Sea, a part of the South Atlantic Ocean southeast of Argentina. Its midpoint lies about 1,300 miles (2,000 km) east of Tierra del Fuego; ...
East Sea: (Pacific Ocean): see Japan, Sea of.
East Siberian Sea: part of the Arctic Ocean between the New Siberian Islands (west) and Wrangel Island (east). To the west it is connected to the Laptev Sea by the Dmitrya Lapteva, Eterikan, ...
East Staffordshire: borough (district), administrative county of Staffordshire, central England. Nearly all of East Staffordshire lies within the historic county of Staffordshire, except for a small area around Rocester east of the ...
East Sussex: administrative and geographic county of southeastern England, bordering the English Channel. The administrative county is divided into the following districts: Eastbourne and Hastings (both boroughs), and Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. ...
East Tennessee State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S. It is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. The university includes the colleges of ...
East Timor: country occupying the eastern half of the island of Timor, the small nearby islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno surrounding the town of Pante Makasar ...
East York: former borough (1967-98), southwestern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the cities of North York, Toronto, Scarborough, York, and Etobicoke to become the City of Toronto. A planned industrial ...
East, Catherine: American feminist and public official, a major formative influence on the women's movement of the mid-20th century.
East, Edward Murray: American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist, and chemist, whose experiments, along with those of others, led to the development of hybrid corn (maize). He was particularly interested in determining and controlling ...
East, Michael: English composer, especially known for his madrigals. (He was once thought to be a son of the music printer Thomas East, but late research suggests that they were, at most, ...
East, Thomas: prominent English music publisher whose collection of psalms (1592) was among the first part-music printed in score rather than as individual parts in separate books.
Eastbourne: district and borough, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast. It lies at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs, which ...
Eastchester: town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S., between Yonkers to the west and New Rochelle to the east. Its first settlers issued their own code of laws called the ...
Easter: principal festival of the Christian church that celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from ...
Easter cactus: (Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri), popular spring-flowering cactus of the family Castaceae, with flattened stems, grown for its bright-red blossoms that appear about Easter time in the Northern Hemisphere. The related R. rosea ...
Easter Fracture Zone: submarine fracture zone in the Earth's surface, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The fracture zone is incompletely mapped but may be as long as 3,700 miles (5,900 km), extending east-southeastward ...
Easter Island: Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world. It is famous for its giant stone statues. The island stands in isolation 1,200 miles ...
Easter Rising: (1916), republican insurrection in Ireland against British government there, which began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin. The insurrection was planned by Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, and several ...
eastern Africa: part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and ...
eastern Africa, history of: history of the area from ancient times through the 20th century.
Eastern Air Lines, Inc.: former American airline that served the northeastern and southeastern United States.
Eastern Cape: province, south-central South Africa. It is bordered by Western Cape province to the west, Northern Cape province to the northwest, Free State province and Lesotho to the north, KwaZulu-Natal province ...
Eastern Chin: a phase of the Chin dynasty, ruling China from AD 317 to 420 and forming one of the Six Dynasties. See Chin dynasty; Six Dynasties.
Eastern Desert: large desert in eastern Egypt. Originating just southeast of the Nile River delta, it extends southeastward into northeastern Sudan and from the Nile River valley eastward to the Gulf of ...
Eastern Illinois University: public, coeducational university in Charleston, east-central Illinois, U.S. It was founded in 1895 as Eastern Illinois State Normal School and became a state teacher's college in 1921. Renamed Eastern Illinois ...
Eastern Indian bronze: any of a style of metal sculptures produced from the 9th century onward in the area of modern Bihar and West Bengal in India, extending into Bangladesh. They are sometimes ...
Eastern Indian painting: school of painting that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in the area of what are modern Bihar and Bengal. Its alternative name, Pala, derives from the name of ...
Eastern Jebel languages: group of related languages whose speech communities are associated with a range of hills in eastern Sudan (jebel is an Arabic word meaning "hill"). The Eastern Jebel ...
Eastern Kentucky University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Kentucky, U.S. The university offers an undergraduate curriculum in the arts, sciences, business, education, allied health professions, and law enforcement; it also ...
Eastern Michigan University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ypsilanti, Mich., U.S. It consists of the colleges of Education, Arts and Sciences, Health and Human Services, Technology, and Business. In addition to ...
Eastern Orthodoxy: one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity. It is characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches. Its adherents live ...