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Evans, Bill: American jazz pianist whose lush harmonies and lyrical improvisation so influenced other jazz pianists of the 1960s and '70s that it became the single most influential style since that of ...
Evans, Caradoc: Anglo-Welsh author whose bitter criticism of the Welsh religious and educational systems and the miserliness and narrowness of the Welsh people provoked a strong reaction within Wales.
Evans, Chick: American amateur golfer known for his longevity in competition and for his Evans Scholars Foundation, which offers college scholarships to caddies. Evans himself began his golf career as a caddie ...
Evans, Dame Edith: one of the finest actresses of the English-speaking stage during the 20th century.
Evans, Frederick H.: English photographer whose studies of cathedrals in England and France are considered among the world's finest architectural photographs.
Evans, George Henry: American pro-labour social reformer and newspaper editor who sought to enhance the position of workers by agitating for free homesteads.
Evans, George William: English surveyor and explorer notable for his discoveries in the interior of New South Wales, Australia.
Evans, Gil: Canadian-born composer and arranger who was one of the finest orchestrators in jazz.
Evans, Janet: American swimmer, known for her exceptional speed, who won four Olympic gold medals.
Evans, John: governor of Colorado Territory, 1862-65, founder of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), physician, and railroad promoter.
Evans, Lee: American runner who won two gold medals at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. His victory in the 400-metre event there set a world record that lasted for two ...
Evans, Mari: African-American author of poetry, children's literature, and plays.
Evans, Maurice: British-born stage actor who became one of the best-known Shakespearean actors in the United States in the 1930s and '40s. (See .)
Evans, Oliver: American inventor who pioneered the high-pressure steam engine (U.S. patent, 1790) and created the first continuous production line (1784).
Evans, Sir Arthur: British archaeologist who excavated the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete and uncovered evidence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization, which he named Minoan; his work was ...
Evans, Sir Geraint: Welsh opera singer, one of Britain's leading operatic baritones, who was known for his interpretations of such roles as the title characters in Falstaff and
Evans, Sir John: British antiquarian, numismatist, and a founder of prehistoric archaeology.
Evans, Walker: American photographer whose influence on the evolution of ambitious photography during the second half of the 20th century was perhaps greater than that of any other figure. He rejected the ...
Evans-Pritchard, Sir Edward: one of England's foremost social anthropologists, especially known for his investigations of African cultures.
Evanston: city, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies on Lake Michigan, 13 miles (21 km) north of downtown Chicago. Illinois and later Potawatomi Indians were early inhabitants of the area. ...
Evanston: city, seat (1870) of Uinta county, southwest Wyoming, U.S., on the Bear River. Founded in 1869 by the Union Pacific Railroad, it was named for railroad surveyor James A. Evans. ...
Evansville: city, seat (1818) of Vanderburgh county, southwestern Indiana, U.S., port on the Ohio River (there bridged to Henderson, Ky.), 171 miles (275 km) southwest of Indianapolis. Founded by Hugh McGary, ...
Evansville, University of: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Evansville, Ind., U.S. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university consists of the colleges of arts and sciences, education and ...
evaporator: industrial apparatus for converting liquid into vapour. The single-effect evaporator consists of a container or surface and a heating unit; the multiple-effect evaporator uses the vapour produced in one unit ...
evaporite: any of a variety of individual minerals found in the sedimentary deposit of soluble salts that results from the evaporation of water.
Evaristus, Saint: pope from c. 97 to c. 107 during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan. He was the fifth pope and the immediate successor of St. Clement I. Though he ...
Evarts, William Maxwell: U.S. lawyer and statesman who took part successfully in the three greatest public cases of his generation. He served as counsel for Pres. Andrew Johnson in the impeachment trial before ...
Evatt, Herbert Vere: Australian statesman, judge, and writer on law who was a key member of the Labor administrations from 1941 to 1949 and became leader of the party (1951-60). He espoused controversial ...
Eveleth: city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies in the Mesabi Range, about 60 miles (95 km) northwest of Duluth. Following the discovery of iron ore in 1892 by ...
Evelyn, John: English country gentleman, author of some 30 books on the fine arts, forestry, and religious topics. His Diary, kept all his life, is considered an invaluable source of information on ...
Even: northern Siberian people (12,000 according to the 1979 Soviet census) closely related to the Evenk (q.v.) in origin, language, and culture. They inhabit the territory to the north and northeast ...
evening grosbeak: North American grosbeak species. See grosbeak.
evening primrose: any of various species of herbaceous plants of the genus Oenothera, of the family Onagraceae, noted for their showy flowers. The name is especially applied to O. biennis (see ), ...
Evenk: the most numerous and widely scattered of the many small nationalities of northern Siberia (Asian Russia).
Evenk: autonomous okrug (district), Krasnoyarsk kray (region) in north-central Russia, on the Central Siberian Plateau. In the northwestern part of the okrug, the Putoran Mountains rise to 5,581 feet (1,701 m) ...
Evenk language: one of the largest members of the Manchu-Tungus language family (a subfamily of the Altaic languages). The language, which has more than 20 dialects, is spoken in China, Mongolia, and ...
event: notion that became of singular importance in the philosophical speculation about relativity physics. The best-known analyses are those of the 20th-century English philosopher Bertrand Russell, for whom event replaced the ...
Everdingen, Allaert van: Dutch painter and engraver known for his landscapes recalling the scenery of Scandinavia.
Everest, Mount: mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, at 27°59' N, 86°56' E. ...
Everest, Sir George: British geodesist who completed the trigonometric survey of India, on which depended the accurate mapping of the subcontinent.
Everett: city, seat (1894) of Snohomish county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on Puget Sound, at the mouth of the Snohomish River, across from Whidbey Island (west), 28 miles (45 km) north of ...
Everett: city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is adjacent to the cities of Chelsea, Medford, and Malden and lies across the Mystic River from Boston. Settled in 1630, it was ...
Everett, Edward: American statesman and orator who is mainly remembered for delivering the speech immediately preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) at the ceremony dedicating the Gettysburg National Cemetery ...
Everglades: subtropical saw-grass marsh region, a "river of grass" up to 50 miles (80 km) wide but generally less than 1 foot (0.3 metre) deep, covering more than 4,300 square miles ...
evergreen: any plant that retains its leaves through the winter and into the following summer or through several years. Many tropical species of broad-leaved flowering plants are evergreen, but in cold-temperate ...
everlasting: any of several plants that retain their form and colour when dried and are used in dry bouquets and flower arrangements. Popular everlastings include several species of the family Asteraceae, ...
Everlasting League: (Aug. 1, 1291), the inaugural confederation from which, through a long series of accessions, Switzerland grew to statehood. The league was concluded by the representatives of three districts, Uri, Schwyz, ...
Everleigh, Ada; and Everleigh, Minna: American madams whose luxurious and notorious Chicago brothel indulged wealthy and influential patrons from that city and around the world.
Everly Brothers, the: immensely popular American rock-and-roll duo, consisting of Don Everly (b. Feb. 1, 1937, Brownie, Ky., U.S., ) and Phil Everly (b. Jan. 19, 1939, Brownie, ), whose style of harmonizing ...
Evers, Medgar: American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the Civil Rights Movement.
Evers-Williams, Myrlie: African American activist and the wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, whose racially motivated murder in 1963 made him a national icon. In 1995-98 Evers-Williams was the first woman ...
Evershed, John: English astronomer who, in 1909, discovered the horizontal motion of gases outward from the centres of sunspots, a phenomenon sometimes called the Evershed effect.
Everson, William: American Roman Catholic poet whose works record a personal search for religious vision in a violent, corrupt world.
Evert, Chris: outstanding American tennis player who dominated the sport in the mid- and late 1970s and remained a major competitor into the late 1980s.
Everyman: an English morality play of the 15th century, probably a version of a Dutch play, Elckerlyc. It achieves a beautiful, simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and ...
Evesham: town ("parish") located in Wychavon district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, England, on the right bank of the River Avon. Evesham is an agricultural centre situated in the middle ...
evidence: in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter ...
evil eye: glance believed to have the ability to cause injury or death to those on whom it falls; children and animals are thought to be particularly susceptible. Belief in the evil ...
evil, problem of: a theological problem that arises for any philosophical or religious view that affirms the following three propositions: (1) God is almighty, (2) God is perfectly good, and (3) evil exists. ...
Evinrude, Ole: Norwegian-American inventor of the first commercially successful outboard marine internal-combustion engine.
Evliya Celebi: one of the most celebrated Ottoman travelers, who journeyed for more than 40 years throughout the territories of the Ottoman Empire and adjacent lands.
Evoluon: science and technology museum in Eindhoven, Neth., opened in 1966 to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of Philips Industries. The building is a striking mushroom-shaped structure. Its exhibitions ...
evolution: theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are ...
Evora, Cesaria: Cape Verdean singer and Grammy Award-winning recording artist known for her rich, haunting voice.
Evreux: town, capital of Eure departement, Haute-Normandie region, northwestern France. It lies west-northwest of Paris, in a pleasant valley on branches of the Iton River, which is a tributary of the ...
Evros: nomos (department), northeastern Greece, forming the frontier between Greece and Turkey and bordering Bulgaria to the northwest; it fronts the Aegean Sea to the south. Samothrace island (Thracian: Samos) offshore ...
Evrotas River: nonnavigable river rising in the Taiyetos Mountains in the southern Peloponnese, Greece. The principal stream of Laconia, it flows south-southeast through the agricultural Laconian plain between the Taiyetos and Parnon ...
Evry: new town (French ville nouvelle), departement of Essonne, in north-central France. Evry is approximately 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Paris and is one of several new towns developed outside ...
Ewald, Johannes: one of Denmark's greatest lyric poets and the first to use themes from early Scandinavian myths and sagas.
Ewald, Paul Peter: German physicist and crystallographer whose theory of X-ray interference by crystals was the first detailed, rigorous theoretical explanation of the diffraction effects first observed in 1912 by his fellow physicist ...
Ewart, Gavin: British poet noted for his light verse, which frequently deals with sexual themes. He wrote children's poems and poetry on serious subjects as well.
Ewart, William: English politician who succeeded in partially abolishing capital punishment.
Ewe: peoples living in southeastern Ghana, southern Benin, and the southern half of Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Ewe ...
Ewell, Barney: American athlete, one of the world's leading sprinters of the 1940s. Although he was believed to be past his prime when the Olympic Games were resumed after World War II, ...
Ewing tumour of bone: common malignant tumour of bone that occurs mainly in Caucasian males under the age of 20. This form of bone cancer appears most commonly in the shafts of long bones ...
Ewing, A C: British philosopher and educator and an advocate of a Neo-Realist school of thought; he is noted for his proposals toward a general theory of personal and normative ethics (as against ...