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East Timor, flag of: national flag consisting of a red field with a black triangle at the hoist overlapping a yellow triangle and bearing a white, five-pointed star. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 1 ...
East Uighur-Chagatai group: (from the article "Turkic languages") ...branch comprises two groups. The western group (SE^w) consists of Uzbek (spoken in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Xinjiang, Karakalpakstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan). An eastern group (SE^e) comprises Uighur and Eastern Turki ...
East Village: (from the article "Greenwich Village") ...writers, artists, students, bohemians, and intellectuals. By the 1980s high-rise apartments had turned much of it into a fashionable neighbourhood, and many of its former residents had moved to the ...
East Wind Drift: (from the article "Antarctica") ...of the annual buildup and retreat of its secondary ice-fronted coastline. Pushed by winds and currents, the ice pack is in continual motion. This movement is westward in the coastal ...
East York: former borough (1967-98), southeastern 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.
East-West League: (from the article "Negro league") ...deepened and left most fans with empty pockets. Two of its solvent franchises, Chicago and Indianapolis, joined the Negro Southern League for 1932. That year another black circuit, called the ...
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 ... [18 Related Articles]
Easter cactus: Hatiora gaertneri (formerly Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri), popular spring-flowering cactus of the family Cactaceae, with flattened stems, grown for its bright-red blossoms that appear about Easter time in the Northern Hemisphere. The ...
Easter egg: (from the article "Faberge, Peter Carl") Faberge's workshop soon became famous for exquisite and ingenious masterpieces: flowers, figure groups, bibelots, animals, and, above all, the celebrated imperial Easter eggs, which became the delight of Russian and ...
Easter Fracture Zone: submarine fracture zone in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, defined by one of the major transform faults traversing the northern part of the East Pacific Rise. The Easter Fracture Zone is ...
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 ... [10 Related Articles]
Easter lily: (from the article "lily") ...or clustered flowers. The flowers consist of six petallike segments, which may form the shape of a trumpet, with a more or less elongated tube, as in the Madonna lily ...
Easter lily cactus: (from the article "sea-urchin cactus") ...of the genus Echinopsis, family Cactaceae, with 50-100 species native to South America at medium elevations in desert shrublands or grasslands. Several species, but most especially the Easter lily cactus ...
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 ... [8 Related Articles]
easterly wave: (from the article "tropical cyclone") ...of the region. Tropical cyclones originate from loosely organized, large-scale circulation systems such as those associated with the strong, low-level easterly jet over Africa. This jet generates easterly waves-regions of ...
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 ... [17 Related Articles]
eastern Africa, history of: history of the area from ancient times through the 20th century. [5 Related Articles]
Eastern Air Lines, Inc.: former American airline that served the northeastern and southeastern United States.
Eastern Aleut language: (from the article "Eskimo-Aleut languages") The Aleut language survives in two mutually intelligible dialects: Eastern Aleut, spoken mostly by middle-aged and older people living in eight villages from the Alaska Peninsula westward through Umnak Island, ...
Eastern Alps: (from the article "Alps") The Eastern Alps, consisting in part of the Ratische range in Switzerland, the Dolomite Alps in Italy, the Bavarian Alps of southern Germany and western Austria, the Tauern Mountains in ...
Eastern Archaic culture: (from the article "Native American") The Eastern Archaic (c. 8000-1500 BC) included much of the Eastern Subarctic, the Northeast, and the Southeast culture areas; because of this very wide distribution, Eastern Archaic cultures show more ...
eastern avahi: (from the article "avahi") The eastern avahi (Avahi laniger), which lives in rainforests, is grayish brown to reddish, is about 28 cm (11 inches) long and 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) in ...
eastern black-crested gibbon: (from the article "The Environment") A survey in September of the world's rarest ape, the eastern black-crested gibbon, Nomascus nasutus, counted 37 individuals in the Ngo Khe-Phong Nam forest in Cao Bang province, Vietnam, near ...
eastern bluebird: (from the article "conservation") On either side of North America's Great Plains are 35 pairs of sister taxa including western and eastern bluebirds (Sialia mexicana and S. sialis), ...
eastern brown snake: (from the article "brown snake") ...mice, and ground-dwelling birds. They are alert, fast-moving, highly venomous snakes that are quite dangerous to humans. Brown snakes are found over most of Australia. The best-known species is the ...
Eastern Bulgarian language: (from the article "Slavic languages") Bulgarian is spoken by more than nine million people in Bulgaria and adjacent areas of other Balkan countries and Ukraine. There are two major groups of Bulgarian dialects: Eastern Bulgarian, ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Eastern Caribbean States, Organisation of: (from the article "Antigua and Barbuda") ...Finally, on November 1, 1981, Antigua and Barbuda achieved independence, with Vere Bird as the first prime minister. The state obtained United Nations and Commonwealth membership and joined the Organization ...
Eastern Carpathian Mountains: (from the article "Romania") ...part of Bulgaria. The geographic region of Moldavia, comprising only part of the former principality of Moldavia (the remainder of which constitutes the country of Moldova), stretches from the Eastern ...
eastern chimpanzee: (from the article "chimpanzee") ...known as the common chimpanzee in continental Europe; the West African, or masked, chimpanzee (P. t. verus; see photograph), known as the common chimpanzee in Great Britain; and the East ...
eastern chipmunk: (from the article "chipmunk") The eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus), common to the deciduous forests of eastern North America, is the largest. Weighing 70-142 grams (2.5-5 ounces), it has a body 14-19 cm long and ...
Eastern Christian church: (from the article "Christianity") Separated from the West, the Orthodox churches of the East have developed their own way for half of Christian history. Each national church is autonomous. The "ecumenical patriarch" of Constantinople ...
Eastern Christian Independent church: (from the article "canon law") The churches of Eastern Christianity that separated from the patriarchal see of Constantinople over a period of several centuries, but primarily during the 5th and 6th centuries, developed bodies of ...
Eastern Colored League: (from the article "Negro league") ...and the late 1940s, when black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league baseball. The principal Negro leagues were the Negro National League (1920-31, 1933-48), the ...
Eastern Conference: (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...a better competitive balance than it had shown in several years, however, owing to the ascent of Calgary and San Jose to the Western Conference finals and the resounding success ...
eastern coral snake: (from the article "coral snake") Sixty-five species of American coral snakes (genus Micrurus) range from the southern United States to Argentina. Only two species live in the United States. The eastern coral ...
eastern cottonwood: (from the article "cottonwood") ...fast-growing trees of North America, members of the genus Populus, in the family Salicaceae, with triangular, toothed leaves and cottony seeds. The dangling leaves clatter in the wind. Eastern cottonwood ...
eastern curlew: (from the article "curlew") The eastern curlew (N. madagascariensis), the largest bird in the family, 60 cm (24 inches) long, and the slender-billed curlew (N. tenuirostris) are both Old World birds.
Eastern Depot: (from the article "Yongle") ...as supervisors of special projects such as the requisitioning of construction supplies, and as regional overseers of military garrisons. In 1420 he established a special eunuch agency called the Eastern ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
eastern diamondback rattlesnake: (from the article "rattlesnake") ...rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) of the eastern United States, the prairie rattlesnake (C. viridis) of the western United States, and the eastern and western diamondbacks ...
Eastern Duars: (from the article "Duars") region of northeastern India, at the foot of the west Assam Himalayas. Its 3,400-square-mile (8,800-square-kilometre) area is divided by the Sankosh River into the Western and Eastern Duars. Both were ...
Eastern Europe: (from the article "Health and Disease") ...Organization (WHO) painted a detailed picture of the epidemic. The number of people who had been infected with HIV was growing in every region of the world. The most dramatic ...
Eastern fox squirrel: (from the article "squirrel") ...such as the red-tailed squirrel (S. granatensis) of the American tropics and the African pygmy squirrel, are active from ground to canopy. In the United States, the ...
Eastern Front: (from the article "World War I") On the Eastern Front, greater distances and quite considerable differences between the equipment and quality of the opposing armies ensured a fluidity of the front that was lacking in the ...
Eastern Front: (from the article "World War II") For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men. Among these were 19 panzer divisions, and in total the ...
Eastern Ghats: (from the article "Precambrian time") ...several thousand kilometres long, that are frequently though not exclusively of Proterozoic age include the Limpopo, Mozambique, and Damaran belts in Africa, the Labrador Trough in Canada, and the Eastern ...
Eastern glass lizard: (from the article "glass lizard") any lizard of the genus Ophisaurus in the family Anguidae, so named because the tail is easily broken off. The Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis, occurs in southeastern North America ...
Eastern Gobi: (from the article "Gobi") The Eastern Gobi is of similar character to the western regions, with altitudes varying from 2,300 to 5,000 feet, but it receives somewhat more precipitation-up to eight inches per year-though ...
eastern gray kangaroo: (from the article "kangaroo") The eastern gray kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) is found mostly in the open forests of eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is replaced by the western gray kangaroo (M. fuliginosus) along the ...
Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain: (from the article "Tennessee") ...Rim. About 60 miles (100 km) wide and running roughly north to south across the state, the basin floor is a slightly rolling terrain punctuated by small hills known as ...
eastern hemlock: (from the article "hemlock") ...short, blunt leaves that grow from woody cushionlike structures on the twigs. The small cones hang from the branch tips and retain their scales when they fall. Each scale bears ...
Eastern Highlands: (from the article "Ethiopian Plateau") highlands covering much of Ethiopia and central Eritrea. They consist of the rugged Western Highlands and the more limited Eastern Highlands. The two sections are separated by the vast Eastern ...
Eastern honeybee: (from the article "honeybee") ...in trees. A. dorsata, the giant honeybee, occurs in India, Indonesia, and central China and sometimes builds combs nearly three metres (more than nine feet) in diameter. A. indica, the ...
eastern hop-hornbeam: (from the article "hop-hornbeam") ...bearing a small, flat nut. The European hop-hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia) and the Japanese hop-hornbeam (O. japonica) may reach 21 m (70 feet); the other species are much smaller. The eastern, ...
Eastern Ibibio: (from the article "Ibibio") ...the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Ibibio comprise the following major divisions: Efik, Northern (Enyong), Southern (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and Eastern (the Ibibio proper).
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 Island: (from the article "Midway Islands") ...miles (2,100 km) northwest of Honolulu. The islands, near the western end of the Hawaiian archipelago, comprise a coral atoll with a circumference of 15 miles (24 km), enclosing two ...
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 jerboa marsupial mouse: (from the article "marsupial mouse") Reminiscent of jerboas-long-tailed and big-eared with stiltlike hind legs-are the two species of Antechinomys, also of the Australian outback. The two species of brush-tailed marsupial mice, or tuans (Phascogale), are ...
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 kingbird: (from the article "animal communication") ...about the probability that some act will occur. In fact, information about the probability of a specific act is apparently encoded in all displays, but not always in the way ...
Eastern Little Poland: (from the article "Ukraine") ...its regional autonomy, the government in the early 1920s proceeded to dismantle the institutions of local self-government inherited from Habsburg times. Ukrainian Galicia, officially termed "Eastern Little Poland," was administered ...
Eastern Longmyndian: (from the article "Longmyndian") ...consists of the Wentnor Series, purple sandstones, conglomerates, and some greenish siltstones and shales; thicknesses of about 4,800 metres (15,700 feet) of Wentnor rocks have been measured. The Eastern Longmyndian ...
eastern lowland gorilla: (from the article "gorilla") ...recognize a single species, Gorilla gorilla, with three races: the western lowland gorilla (G. gorilla gorilla) of the lowland rainforests from Cameroon to the Congo River, the eastern lowland gorilla ...
Eastern Lowlands: (from the article "Ethiopia") Although Ethiopia's complex relief defies easy classification, five topographic features are discernible. These are the Western Highlands, Western Lowlands, Eastern Highlands, Eastern Lowlands, and Rift Valley. The Western Highlands are ...
eastern lubber grasshopper: (from the article "short-horned grasshopper") ...is divided into three subfamilies. The spur-throated grasshoppers, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae, include some of the most destructive species. In North America the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) is 5-7 cm long ...
Eastern Madurese: (from the article "Madurese language") an Austronesian language of the Indonesian subfamily, spoken on Madura Island, some smaller offshore islands, and the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Dialects include Eastern, or Sumenep, and Western, including ...
Eastern Mayan languages: (from the article "Maya languages") The family may be subdivided into the Huastec, Yucatec, Western Maya, and Eastern Maya groups. The most important Eastern Maya languages are Quiche and Cakchiquel; but there are also Mam, ...
eastern meadowlark: (from the article "meadowlark") ...to 28 cm (8 to 11 inches) long. The two species in North America look alike: streaked brown above, with yellow breast crossed by a black V and a short ...
Eastern mesophytic forest: (from the article "North America") Extending from the mid-Atlantic states to northern Florida, the Eastern mesophytic forest is a mixture of hardwoods and softwoods. On the clays of river bottoms and the sands of the ...
Eastern Michigan University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ypsilanti, Mich., U.S. It consists of the colleges of arts and sciences, business, education, health and human services, and technology. In addition to ...
Eastern Mnong language: (from the article "Mnong language") Speakers of different varieties of Mnong in Vietnam, numbering approximately 70,000, are divided into three groups: Central Mnong, including Bu Dang, Biat, Bu Nar, Bu Dih, and Preh; Eastern Mnong, ...
Eastern Mongolian languages: (from the article "Mongolian languages") The split between Eastern Mongolian (Khalkha, Buryat, and the dialects of Inner Mongolia) and Western Mongolian (Oyrat and Kalmyk) occurred at a later stage than that between the peripheral, archaizing ...
eastern mudminnow: (from the article "mudminnow") The seven or so species are of the genera Umbra, Novumbra, and Dallia. In North America the eastern mudminnow (U. pygmaea) is sometimes called rockfish, and the central mudminnow (U. ...
eastern narrow-mouthed toad: (from the article "narrow-mouthed toad") The eastern narrow-mouthed toad, Gastrophryne carolinensis, is a small, terrestrial microhylid of the United States. It is gray, reddish, or brown with darker stripes, spots, or blotches. The Mexican narrow-mouthed ...
eastern native cat: (from the article "native cat") Native cats have bushy tails and white-spotted upperparts. The eastern native cat (D. viverrinus, or D. quoll), surviving chiefly in the forests and open country of Tasmania, is 55 to ...
Eastern Neo-Assyrian language: (from the article "Aramaic language") East Aramaic includes Syriac, Mandaean, Eastern Neo-Assyrian, and the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. One of the most important of these is Syriac, which was the language of an extensive ...
Eastern Niantic: (from the article "Niantic") Algonquian-speaking woodland Indians of southern New England. The Eastern Niantic lived on the western coast of what is now Rhode Island and on the neighbouring coast of Connecticut. The Western ...
Eastern Oder River: (from the article "Oder River") ...the Baltic, the Oder splits into two main branches; the left canalized branch, called the Western Oder, passes through Szczecin and enters the Szczecin Lagoon directly, while the right branch, ...
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 ... [126 Related Articles]
eastern Pacific round stingray: (from the article "chondrichthian") The disk of the eastern Pacific round stingray (Urolophus halleri) increases in width on the average from 75 millimetres (three inches) at birth to 150 millimetres (six inches) when mature, ...
Eastern Pahari languages: (from the article "Pahari languages") group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas (pahari is Hindi for "of the mountains"). Three divisions are distinguished: Eastern Pahari, represented by Nepali of Nepal; ...
eastern phoebe: (from the article "phoebe") any of three species of New World birds of the family Tyrannidae (order Passeriformes). In North America the best-known species is the Eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), 18 cm (7.5 inches) ...
eastern pipistrelle: (from the article "pipistrelle") ...fliers, they appear before most other bats in the evening and sometimes even fly about during the day. Representatives include P. pipistrellus of Eurasia and the eastern ...
Eastern Pomerania: (from the article "Pomerania") Eastern Pomerania was held by the Teutonic Knights from 1308 to 1454, when it was reconquered by Poland. In 1772 it was annexed by Prussia and made into the province ...
Eastern Pyrenees: (from the article "Pyrenees") ...of their relief and from the climatic conditions (especially on the south) that derive from the geographic situation of the chain, the Pyrenees have been divided into three natural regions: ...
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 ... [4 Related Articles]
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 can grow to ... [3 Related Articles]
eastern redbud: (from the article "redbud") The eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis), up to 12 metres (40 feet) tall, is the hardiest species. It is cultivated for its rosy-purple spring flowers and interesting branch patterns; a white-flowered ...
Eastern Region: (from the article "Paraguay") ...of its primary western tributary, the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River, which runs from north to south, divides Paraguay into two distinct geographic regions-the Region Oriental (Eastern Region) and the ...
Eastern Republic of Uruguay, Bank of: (from the article "Uruguay") ...other foreign currencies. The Central Bank of Uruguay (1967) issues currency (the Uruguayan peso), regulates foreign exchange, and oversees the country's private banks. Other state banks include the Bank of ...
Eastern Rift Valley: (from the article "Eastern Rift Valley") major branch of the East African Rift System (q.v.).BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2006geologyEarth Sciences