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Eastern Question: diplomatic problem posed in the 19th and early 20th centuries by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, centring on the contest for control of former Ottoman territories. Any internal change ...
eastern red cedar: (Juniperus virginiana), an evergreen ornamental and timber tree of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to poor or limestone soils of eastern North America. An eastern red cedar is 12 to ...
Eastern Rift Valley: major branch of the East African Rift System (q.v.).
Eastern rite church: any of a group of Eastern Christian churches that trace their origins to various ancient national or ethnic Christian bodies in the East but have established union (hence Eastern rite ...
Eastern Schelde: channel extending about 30 miles (50 km) northwestward through the Delta Islands in southwestern Netherlands to the North Sea. A former estuary of the Schelde River (as well as of ...
Eastern Seaboard: region of the eastern United States, fronting the Atlantic Ocean and extending from Maine in the north to Florida in the south. Not merely a geographic term, the Eastern Seaboard ...
Eastern Sudanic languages: a group of languages representing the most diverse of the major divisions within the Nilo-Saharan language family. These languages are spoken from southern Egypt in the north to Tanzania in ...
Eastern Townships: region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, between the St. Lawrence lowlands and the U.S.-Canadian border and centred on Sherbrooke. It extends from Granby in the southwest to Lac-Megantic in the southeast ...
Eastern Woodlands Indian: member of any of the aboriginal North American peoples living in the area from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean and centring on the Great Lakes.
Eastham: town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It extends across the northern arm of Cape Cod and includes the village of North Eastham. In December 1620 a shore party of ...
Eastlake, Charles Locke: English museologist and writer on art who gave his name to a 19th-century furniture style.
Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock: English Neoclassical painter who helped develop England's national collection of paintings.
Eastleigh: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies north and east of Southampton, centred on the town of Eastleigh. The borough grew rapidly in the ...
Eastmain River: river in Nord-du-Quebec region, western Quebec province, Canada, rising in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, flowing nearly due west, and discharging into James Bay. Its course of about 500 ...
Eastman Kodak Company: major American manufacturer of film, cameras, photographic supplies, and other imaging products and processing services. Headquarters are in Rochester, N.Y.
Eastman, Crystal: American lawyer, suffragist, and writer, a leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism.
Eastman, George: American entrepreneur and inventor whose introduction of the first Kodak camera helped to promote amateur photography on a large scale.
Eastman, Mary Henderson: 19th-century American writer whose work on Native Americans, though coloured by her time and circumstance, was drawn from personal experience of her subjects.
Eastman, Max: American poet, editor, and prominent radical before and after World War I.
Easton: city, seat (1752) of Northampton county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers (bridged to Phillipsburg, New Jersey) and is part of the ...
Easton: town, seat of Talbot county, eastern Maryland, U.S. It is situated in the tidewater region along the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, near the head of Tred Avon River (estuary). ...
Eastport: easternmost city of the United States, in Washington county, eastern Maine. It is situated on Moose Island, along Passamaquoddy Bay (bridged to the mainland) of the Atlantic Ocean, 126 miles ...
Eastwood, Clint: American motion-picture actor who emerged as one of the most popular Hollywood stars in the 1970s and went on to become a prolific and respected director-producer.
Eaton, Amos: American botanist, geologist, and lawyer who aroused widespread interest in science through his public lectures and inspired many students as a teacher and writer of textbooks.
Eaton, Cyrus S.: U.S.-Canadian industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Republic Steel Corporation (1930).
Eaton, John, Jr.: American educator, second U.S. commissioner of education (1870-86), and first U.S. superintendent of schools for public schools in Puerto Rico.
Eaton, Margaret: woman whose marriage in 1829 to a prominent Democratic politician caused the famous "cabinet crisis" of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (in which Jackson dismissed his entire cabinet) and led eventually ...
Eaton, Theophilus: merchant who was cofounder and colonial governor of New Haven colony.
Eaton, William: U.S. Army officer and adventurer who in 1804 led an expedition across the Libyan Desert during the so-called Tripolitan War.
Eau Claire: city, Eau Claire and Chippewa counties, seat (1857) of Eau Claire county, west-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Eau Claire ("Clear Water," so named by 18th-century ...
Ebadi, Shirin: Iranian lawyer, writer, and teacher, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003 for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, especially those of women and children in ...
Eban, Abba: foreign minister of Israel (1966-74) whose exceptional oratorical gifts in the service of Israel won him the widespread admiration of diplomats and increased support for his country from American Jewry.
ebb tide: seaward flow in estuaries or tidal rivers during a tidal phase of lowering water level. The reverse flow, occurring during rising tides, is called the flood tide. See tide.
Ebbinghaus, Hermann: German psychologist who pioneered in the development of experimental methods for the measurement of rote learning and memory.
Ebbo Of Reims: archbishop whose pioneering missions to the North helped prepare the ground for the Christianization of Denmark and who exercised significant influence on contemporary arts.
Ebbw Vale: industrial town, Blaenau Gwent county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales. It first developed as a coal-mining centre. Iron was processed there beginning in the late 18th century, ...
Ebenales: ebony order of flowering plants, belonging to the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons; characterized by two seed leaves). It comprises five families, as many as 145 genera, and about 1,700 species of ...
Ebensee: town, Oberosterreich Bundesland (federal state), north-central Austria, where the Traun River enters Lake Traun in the Salzkammergut region, south of Gmunden. First cited in 1450, the town has saltworks dating ...
Eberbach, Heinrich: German tank force commander in World War II.
Eberhard: duke of Franconia from 918.
Eberhard I: count, later 1st duke of Wurttemberg (from 1495), administrative and ecclesiastic reformer who laid the foundations for Wurttemberg's role in German history.
Eberhard, Johann August: German philosopher and lexicographer who defended the views of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz against those of Immanuel Kant and compiled a dictionary of the German language that remained in use for ...
Eberhart, Richard: American poet and teacher who was noted for his lyric verse and for his mentorship of aspiring poets.
Ebers papyrus: Egyptian compilation of medical texts dated about 1550 BC, one of the oldest known medical works. The scroll contains 700 magical formulas and folk remedies meant to cure afflictions ranging ...
Eberswalde: city, Brandenburg Land (state), northeastern Germany. It lies in the Thorn-Eberswalder glacial valley, approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Berlin. Occupation of the area from the ...
Ebert, Friedrich: leader of the Social Democratic movement in Germany and a moderate socialist, who was a leader in bringing about the constitution of the Weimar Republic, which attempted to unite Germany ...
Ebetsu: city, Hokkaido, Japan, on the lower Ishikari River. It originated as a colonial farm village settled by 10 families from the island of Honshu in the early Meiji period (1868-1912). ...
Ebionite: member of an early ascetic sect of Jews who followed Jesus of Nazareth. The Ebionites were one of several such sects that originated in and around Palestine in the first ...
Ebisu: in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin ("Seven Gods of Luck"), the patron of fishermen and tradesmen. He is depicted as a fat, bearded, smiling fisherman often carrying a rod ...
Ebla: ancient city 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Aleppo in northwestern Syria. During the height of its power (c. 2600-2240 BC), Ebla dominated northern Syria, Lebanon, and parts of northern ...
Eblaite language: archaic Semitic language, probably the most ancient to survive in substantial form, dating from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. As a Northern Central Semitic language, Eblaite is ...
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, Baroness von: nee Dubsky Austrian novelist who portrayed life among both the poor and the aristocratic.
Ebola: virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever; outbreaks in primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees as well as humans have ...
Eboli: town, Salerno provincia, Campania regione, southern Italy, east of the city of Salerno. The higher and older section of the town dominates the Sele Plain. Historical monuments include a castle ...
Ebolowa: town, southwestern Cameroon. It lies 70 miles (112 km) south-southwest of Yaounde, at the intersection of roads to Kribi (west), Yaounde (northeast), and Gabon (south). It is a centre of ...
Ebonics: dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans. Many scholars hold that Ebonics, like several English creoles, developed from contacts between nonstandard varieties of colonial English ...
Ebony: monthly magazine geared to a middle-class African American readership. It was the first black-oriented magazine in the United States to attain national circulation.
ebony: wood of several species of trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), widely distributed in the tropics. The best is very heavy, almost black, and derived from heartwood only. Because ...
Eboue, Felix: black colonial administrator who reached the highest level of the French colonial administrative system and played a crucial role in the adherence of French Equatorial Africa to Charles de Gaulle's ...
Ebro River: river, the longest in Spain. The Ebro rises in springs at Fontibre near Reinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains, in Cantabria provincia of northern Spain. It flows for 565 miles (910 ...
Ebroin: mayor of the palace in the Frankish kingdom of Neustria for some 20-odd years, from 656.
ebullism: formation of bubbles in the bodily fluids because of an extreme reduction in the surrounding pressure. Aircraft pilots are susceptible to ebullism when they venture into the upper atmosphere; the ...
Eburon glacial stage: division of Pleistocene time in northern Europe (the Pleistocene epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Eburon glacial stage preceded the Waal interglacial stage ...
Eca de Queiros, Jose Maria de: novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist and is certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist.
Ecbatana: ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadan (q.v.), Iran. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian ...
Eccard, Johannes: German composer known for his setting of the year's cycle of Lutheran chorales.
Ecce Homo: (Latin: "Behold the Man"), theme prevalent in western Christian art of the 15th to 17th century, so called after the words of Pontius Pilate to the Jews who demanded the ...
eccentric-and-rod mechanism: arrangement of mechanical parts used to obtain a reciprocating straight-line motion from a rotating shaft; it serves the same purpose as a slider-crank mechanism and is particularly useful when the ...
Eccles, Sir John Carew: Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are ...
Eccles, William Henry: British physicist who pioneered in the development of radio communication.
Ecclesia: ("gathering of those summoned"), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. Its roots lay in the Homeric agora, the meeting of the people. The Athenian Ecclesia, for which ...
Ecclesiastes: (Preacher), an Old Testament book of wisdom literature that belongs to the third section of the biblical canon, known as the Ketuvim (Writings). In the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes stands between ...
ecclesiastical court: tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen. Although such courts are found today among the Jews ...
ecclesiastical heraldry: the conventions affecting the use of the arms associated with the church's administrative and collegiate bodies and the portrayal of the arms of clerics. Abbeys, priories, and dioceses have their ...
Ecclesiasticus: deuterocanonical biblical work (accepted in the Roman Catholic canon but noncanonical for Jews and Protestants), an outstanding example of the wisdom genre of religious literature that was popular in the ...
ecclesiolae in ecclesia: (Latin: "little churches within the church"), the revival in 1727 of the Hussite Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren, within the framework of the established Lutheran church of Saxony.