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- American economist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his development of methods for analyzing time series data with time-varying volatility. He shared the award with Clive ...
- Englefield, Sir Francis
- English Roman Catholic who was a personal friend and influential adviser to Queen Mary I and a vigorous opponent in exile of Queen Elizabeth I.
- Engler, Adolf
- German botanist famous for his system of plant classification and for his expertise as a plant geographer.
- Englewood
- city, Arapahoe county, north-central Colorado, U.S., on the South Platte River, immediately south of Denver. In 1858 a gold placer deposit, one of the first in Colorado, was discovered nearby. ...
- Englewood
- city, Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies across the Hudson River from the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1647 as part of Hackensack, it was detached for ...
- Englisc
- (from the article "Angle") ...of a Germanic people, which, together with the Jutes, Saxons, and probably the Frisians, invaded England in the 5th century AD. The Angles gave their name to England, as well ...
- Englische Komodianten
- any of the troupes of English actors who toured the German-speaking states during the late 16th and the 17th centuries, exerting an important influence on the embryonic German drama and ... [3 Related Articles]
- English Baptist Missionary Society
- (from the article "Carey, William") founder of the English Baptist Missionary Society (1792), lifelong missionary to India, and educator whose mission at Serampur set the pattern for modern missionary work. He has been called the ...
- English Bazar
- city, north-central West Bengal state, northeastern India, just west of the Mahananda River. The city was chosen as the site of the British East India Company's silk factories (trading stations) ...
- English billiards
- (from the article "English billiards") game that is a type of billiards (q.v.).ILLUSTRATIONtable planPlan of English billiards tableEncyclopaedia
- English bond
- (from the article "English bond") form of bonding courses of stones or bricks in walling. See bond.bondsbondAmong the more common types of bond are the ...
- English Channel
- narrow arm of the Atlantic Ocean separating the southern coast of England from the northern coast of France and tapering eastward to its junction with the North Sea at the ... [6 Related Articles]
- English Civil Wars
- (1642-51), fighting that took place in the British Isles between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II) and opposing groups in each of ... [28 Related Articles]
- English Classics
- in horse racing, five of the oldest and most important English horse races. They are the Derby, the Oaks, the One Thousand Guineas, the Saint Leger, and the Two Thousand ...
- English cocker spaniel
- (from the article "Selected breeds of sporting dogs") ...a soft, flat or wavy coat. The tail is usually docked. The coat may be either solid coloured or variegated; colours include black and black with tan, reddish brown, buff, ...
- English Decorated style
- (from the article "Gothic art") The second phase of Gothic architecture began with a subdivision of the style known as Rayonnant (AD 1200-80) on the Continent and as the Decorated Gothic (AD 1300-75) style in ...
- English elm
- (from the article "elm") Introduced species planted as ornamentals include Chinese elm (U. parvifolia), a small-leaved species with interesting mottled bark; English elm (U. procera), with a compact crown and deeply fissured bark; Wych ...
- English finish
- (from the article "papermaking") ...inexpensive general utility paper. It is principally used for books, catalogs, circulars, and other matter using line etchings. Machine finish book may be used for halftones up to a 100-line ...
- English flageolet
- (from the article "flageolet") ...the flauto piccolo) the role now held by the modern piccolo. With keywork added it became the popular quadrille flageolet of the mid-19th century, made famous by the virtuoso Collinet. ...
- English furnace
- (from the article "industrial glass") ...to cool slowly in yet a third compartment located above or to the side. Many of the early designs failed to recognize the need for air drafts. During the late ...
- English garden
- type of garden that developed in 18th-century England, originating as a revolt against the architectural garden, which relied on rectilinear patterns, sculpture, and the unnatural shaping of trees. The revolutionary ... [5 Related Articles]
- English gooseberry
- (from the article "gooseberry") ...The tart fruit is eaten ripe and often made into jellies, preserves, pies, and other desserts or wine. Hundreds of varieties are grown in northern Europe, many interplanted in fruit ...
- English holly
- (from the article "holly") ...plants, including the popular Christmas hollies. They have alternate, simple leaves and single or clustered, small, usually greenish flowers (male and female being usually on separate plants). English holly (I. ...
- English horn
- orchestral woodwind instrument, a large oboe pitched a fifth below the ordinary oboe, with a bulbous bell and, at the top end, a bent metal crook on which the double ... [3 Related Articles]
- English iris
- (from the article "Iris") ...of Spain. They have narrow standards, somewhat broader falls, and spiky, linear foliage. Spanish iris (I. xiphium), violet with yellow or yellow-spotted falls, grows in damp, sandy places. English iris ...
- English ivy
- (from the article "Maximum ages for some seed plants") any plant of the genus Hedera, with about five species of evergreen woody vines (rarely shrubs), in the ginseng family (Araliaceae). The name ivy especially denotes the commonly grown English ...
- English language
- West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to Frisian, German, and Netherlandic languages. English originated in England and is now widely spoken on six continents. ... [33 Related Articles]
- English lavender
- (from the article "Lamiaceae") Best known for its sharp fragrance is rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), a Mediterranean species. Also Mediterranean is lavender (Lavandula officinalis), with fragrant blue to lavender flowers in leafless spikes (see lavender).species ...
- English law
- (from the article "common law") ...what Blackstone called "the custom of the realm from time immemorial" and practical reason to everyday disputes with the aid of but few formal enactments. Until the late 19th century, ...
- English literature
- the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written ... [32 Related Articles]
- English longbow
- (from the article "military technology") The longbow evolved during the 12th century in response to the demands of siege and guerrilla operations in the Welsh Marches, a topographically close and economically marginal area that was ...
- English manner
- (from the article "Dunstable, John") ...who wrote in his Champion des dames (c. 1440) that the leading composers of the day, Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois, owed their superiority to what they learned from Dunstable's ...
- English midland hawthorn
- (from the article "hawthorn") ...of sturdy twigs, hard wood, and many thorns makes it a formidable barrier to cattle and hogs. It is seldom used for this purpose in North America, however. Two haws ...
- English National Ballet
- British dance troupe. Organized in 1950 by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin with a corps de ballet drawn chiefly from the Cone-Ripman School in London and at Tring, Hertford, the ... [3 Related Articles]
- English oak
- (Quercus robur), ornamental and timber tree of the beech family (Fagaceae) that is native to Eurasia but also cultivated in North America and Australia. The tree has a short, stout ... [2 Related Articles]
- English Premier League
- (from the article "Football") The English Premier League claimed the top spot as a spectator attraction, with attendance of 12.88 million people during 2004-05, in front of the German Bundesliga with 11.57 million and ...
- English Public Record Act
- (from the article "archives") The English Public Record Act of 1838 brought all separate collections together and placed them under the Master of the Rolls. England, therefore, is the outstanding example of centralization, whereas ...
- English River
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...such as the Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland, the Minnesota River valley and the Beartooth Mountains of the United States, the Peninsular gneisses and Sargur supracrustals of southern India, the ...
- English saddle
- (from the article "saddle") ...saddle has a high horn on the pommel, in front of the rider, which is useful for securing a lariat, and a large cantle, in back of the rider, to ...
- English school
- dominant school of painting in England throughout the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th. Its establishment marked the rise of a national tradition ...
- English setter
- breed of sporting dog that has served as a gun dog in England for more than 400 years and has been bred in its present form since about 1825. It ...
- English Settled Land Acts
- (from the article "property law") The tendency toward absolutism in matters of property is also remarkable in Anglo-American law on both sides of the Atlantic. The English Settled Land Acts (1882, 1890, 1925) gave considerably ...
- English sonnet
- (from the article "sonnet") ...Laura-established and perfected the Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet, which remains one of the two principal sonnet forms, as well as the one most widely used. The other major form is ...
- English springer spaniel
- (from the article "Selected breeds of sporting dogs") either of two ancient breeds of sporting dogs used to flush game from cover and to retrieve it. The English springer spaniel is a medium-sized, compact dog standing 19 to ...
- English toy spaniel
- breed of dog known in Britain since Tudor times but that apparently originated in ancient Japan or China. It was favoured by Mary, Queen of Scots, King Charles II (after ...
- English truffle
- (from the article "truffle") The English truffle, T. aestivum, is found principally in beech woods. It is bluish black, rounded, and covered with coarse polygonal warts; the gleba is white when immature, then yellowish, ...
- English water ton
- (from the article "ton") ...cubic feet; an older measure of a ship's displacement was based on the volume of a long ton of seawater, or 35 cubic feet. Variant tons of capacity have existed ...
- English yew
- (all three are lumber trade names), an ornamental evergreen tree or shrub of the yew family (Taxaceae), widely distributed throughout Europe and Asia as far east as the Himalayas. Some ... [1 Related Articles]
- English, Sir David
- British journalist whose editorship of London's Daily Mail from 1971 to 1992 transformed it into a successful and influential tabloid that was must reading for the country's middle class; in ...
- English, William
- (from the article "Engelbart, Douglas") ...display, and hypermedia (the linking of texts, images, video, and sound files within a single document)-for inputting, manipulating, and displaying data. Together with a colleague at SRI, William English, he ...
- Englishtown
- (from the article "Kilkenny") ...about 30 miles (50 km) north of Waterford. The ancient capital of the kingdom of Ossory, Kilkenny in Norman times had two townships: Irishtown, which had its charter from the ...
- englyn
- a group of strict Welsh poetic metres. The most popular form is the englyn unodl union ("direct monorhyme englyn"), which is a combination of a cywydd, a type of rhyming ...
- Engomi
- (from the article "Cyprus") ...that Mycenaean artists accompanied the merchants. There is evidence of Greek immigration from the Peloponnese after 1200 BC, with the collapse of Mycenaean civilization. West of Famagusta was Engomi, the ...
- engram
- (from the article "Scientology") ...operates analytically to make survival-oriented judgments. However, when the mind is not fully functioning, a part of it, the reactive mind, takes over. It stores images of experiences, called engrams, ...
- engram
- (from the article "hallucination") ...states that life experiences influence the brain in such a way as to leave, in the brain, enduring physical changes that have variously been called neural traces, templates, or engrams. ...
- engraved glass
- glassware decorated with finely carved, three-dimensional patterns or pictures. The most common engraving technique involves incising a design into glass with a rapidly spinning copper wheel fed with abrasives. Other ... [3 Related Articles]
- engraving
- technique of making prints from metal plates into which a design has been incised with a cutting tool called a burin. Modern examples are almost invariably made from copperplates; hence, ... [19 Related Articles]
- Engstrom, Molly
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...world, scored one of those goals, her tournament-leading eighth. She finished with 14 points in the tournament, a record for a Canadian woman, and was named the MVP as well ...
- Enhanced 911 system
- (from the article "police") ...on every person who has contact with the police. Information in the CAD database generally includes call volume, time of day, types of calls, response time, and the disposition of ...
- Enhanced Cooperation Program
- (from the article "Papua New Guinea") On June 29 Papua New Guinea and Australia formalized an Enhanced Cooperation Program worth $A 800 million (about U.S.$550 million) over five years. Some 300 Australian experts would work with ...
- enhancement mode field-effect transistor
- (from the article "integrated circuit") There are two basic types of field-effect transistors. The type described previously is a depletion mode FET, since a region is depleted of its natural charge. The field effect can ...
- enharmonic
- in the system of equal temperament tuning used on keyboard instruments, two tones that sound the same but are notated (spelled) differently. Pitches such as F♯ and G♭ are said ... [4 Related Articles]
- Enhbayar, Nambaryn
- Nambaryn Enhbayar, the chairman since 1997 of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), was appointed Mongolia's new prime minister on July 26, 2000, following the landslide election victory of the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Enhbold, Miyeegombyn
- (from the article "Mongolia") Area: 1,564,116 sq km (603,909 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 2,609,000 | Capital: Ulaanbaatar | Chief of state: President Nambaryn Enhbayar | Head of government: Prime Ministers Miyeegombyn ...
- Enheduanna
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") Sargon appointed one of his daughters priestess of the moon god in Ur. She took the name of Enheduanna and was succeeded in the same office by Enmenanna, a daughter ...
- Enhla
- (from the article "Ndebele") The short-lived Matabele state became stratified into a superior class (Zansi), composed of peoples of Nguni origin; an intermediate class (Enhla), comprising people of Sotho origin; and a lower class ...
- enhypostasia
- (from the article "Theodore Ascidas") ...the council in 553, Theodore withdrew his opposition to the Three Chapters and apologized to the Pope. At the council he and Leontius of Byzantium submitted a conciliatory definition, the ...
- Eni
- an Italian energy company operating primarily in petroleum, natural gas, and petrochemicals. Established in 1953, it was by the late 1990s one of Europe's largest oil companies in terms of ... [3 Related Articles]
- ENIAC
- the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States. In the United States, government funding during the war went to a project led ... [7 Related Articles]
- Enid
- city, seat (1907) of Garfield county, north-central Oklahoma, U.S. Located at a watering place on the Chisholm Trail and reached by the Rock Island Railroad in 1889, it was founded ...
- Enigma
- device used by the German military command to encode strategic messages before and during World War II. The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of ... [6 Related Articles]
- Eninnu
- (from the article "Lagash") Lagash was endowed with many temples, including the Eninnu, "House of the Fifty," a seat of the high god Enlil. Architecturally the most remarkable structure was a weir and regulator, ...
- enjambment
- in prosody, the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse. T.S. Eliot used enjambment in the opening lines of his poem The ... [2 Related Articles]
- Enke, Karin
- German figure skater turned speed skater who won eight Olympic medals, including three gold. Enke's switch from figure skating to speed skating was relatively easy, and she proved to be ...
- enkephalin
- (from the article "drug") ...the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, of two potent naturally occurring analgesic pentapeptides (peptides containing five linked amino acids) in extracts of pig brain. They called these compounds enkephalins, and ...
- Enkhuizen
- gemeente (municipality), northwestern Netherlands, on the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel). Chartered in 1355, the town gained importance during the 16th and 17th centuries as a fishing and shipping centre for herring, ...
- Enkidu
- (from the article "India") ...seals suggest influence from or at least traits held in common with Mesopotamia; among these are the Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian epic) motif of a man grappling with a pair of tigers ...
- Enku
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Chinese sculpture imported by Obaku Zen monks at Manpuku Temple to the south of Kyoto. Another expressive and thoroughly individualistic sculptor of the Edo period was the itinerant monk Enku ...
- enlarger
- in photography, device for producing a photographic print or negative larger than the original negative or transparency. The enlarger consists of a projection system, or head assembly, mounted on a ... [3 Related Articles]
- enlarging
- (from the article "photography, technology of") A positive picture is obtained by repeating this process. The usual procedure is enlargement: the negative is projected onto a sensitive paper carrying a silver halide emulsion similar to that ...
- Enlightenment
- a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent and that ... [80 Related Articles]
- enlightenment
- (from the article "ethics") ...somehow built into the universe itself. Hence, truth and right are linked; to penetrate through illusion and understand the ultimate truth of human existence is to understand what is right. ...
- Enlil
- Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki). Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the ... [16 Related Articles]
- Enlil-nirari
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...to a Babylonian, he intervened there energetically when Kassite nobles murdered his grandson. Future generations came to consider him rightfully as the real founder of the Assyrian empire. His son ...
- Enmebaragesi
- king of Kish, in northern Babylonia, and the first historical personality of Mesopotamia. [1 Related Articles]
- Enmerkar
- ancient Sumerian hero and king of Uruk (Erech), a city-state in southern Mesopotamia, who is thought to have lived at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd ...
- Enna
- city, capital of Enna provincia (province), central Sicily, Italy, on a plateau dominating the valley of the Dittaino, northeast of Caltanissetta. A city of the Siculi, an ...
- ennanga
- (from the article "African music") ...and a resonator with a string holder but lack a supporting pillar to complete the triangle. In most cases some form of buzzing device is incorporated. Examples are the
- ennead
- (from the article "Egyptian religion") The number of deities was large and was not fixed. New ones appeared, and some ceased to be worshipped. Deities were grouped in various ways. The most ancient known grouping ...
- Ennedi
- plateau region, northeastern Chad, central Africa, centred around the town of Fada. The terrain is primarily arid desert, with sandstone peaks rising to 4,756 ft (1,450 m). Wild game is ...
- Ennedi Plateau
- (from the article "Chad") ...mountains that rim the basin include the volcanic Tibesti Massif to the north (of which the highest point is Mount Koussi, with an altitude of 11,204 feet [3,415 metres]), the ...
- Ennin
- Buddhist priest of the early Heian period, founder of the Sammon branch of the Tendai sect, who brought from China a system of vocal-music notation still used in Japan.
- Ennis
- county town (seat) of County Clare, Ireland, on the River Fergus. Incorporated in 1612, it is now controlled by an urban district council. A Franciscan abbey, founded about 1242, is ...
- Enniskillen
- town and seat, Fermanagh district (established 1973), formerly in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Situated on Cethlin's Island, it was a strategic crossing point of Lough Erne and an ancient stronghold ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ennius, Quintus
- epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, rightly called the founder of Roman literature. His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of ... [7 Related Articles]
- Ennodius, Magnus Felix
- Latin poet, prose writer, rhetorician, and bishop, some of whose prose works are valuable sources for historians of his period.
- Enns
- town, northeast-central Austria, on the Enns River near its junction with the Danube, southeast of Linz. Its suburb of Lorch (incorporated into Enns in 1938) is on the site of ...
- Ennugi
- (from the article "Mesopotamian religion") ...netherworld and leave him free for the world above. Thus three additional deities, all underworld figures, were engendered: Meslamtaea (He Who Issues from Meslam), Ninazu (Water Sprinkler [?]), and Ennugi ...
- Eno, Brian
- British producer, composer, keyboardist, and singer who helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most popular bands of the 1980s and '90s and who created the genre ... [4 Related Articles]
- Eno, Will
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...nudity-heavy drama about college buddies who become involved with a prostitute in Amsterdam, which earned kudos at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company; and Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno's existential ...
- Enoch Wood and Sons
- (from the article "Wood Family") In 1818 Enoch Wood continued alone, under the style Enoch Wood & Sons. The firm made all the wares that were current in Staffordshire at the time, including black basaltes, ...
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