A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 e ... Early Triassic Epoch e (from the article "Hermite, Charles") In 1873 Hermite published the first proof that e is a transcendental number; i.e., it ... E horizon (from the article "soil") ...whereas the layer immediately below an A horizon that has been extensively leached (that is, ... E region ionospheric region that extends from an altitude of 90 kilometres (60 miles) to about 160 ... [3 Related Articles] E ring (from the article "Enceladus") ...old, suggesting that parts of the surface melted and refroze in the recent geologic past ... E Street Band (from the article "Springsteen, Bruce") By then, however, he was best known for his stage shows, three- and four-hour extravaganzas ... E*Trade Financial Corp. (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") There was a consolidation in the online brokerage business as online trading continued a two-year ... e-book (from the article "Redefining the Library in the Digital Age") Project Gutenberg, which began in 1971, was one of the earliest digital libraries. By early ... E-class asteroid (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...are very rare. Their surface material has been identified as being most consistent with a ... e-commerce maintaining business relationships and selling information, services, and commodities by means of computer telecommunications networks. [16 Related Articles] E-kur (from the article "Nippur") ...BC the city probably reached the extent of the present ruins and was fortified. Later, ... e-mail messages transmitted and received by digital computers through a network. An e-mail system allows computer ... [10 Related Articles] E-meter (from the article "Scientology") ...them, Hubbard developed auditing, a one-on-one counseling process in which a counselor, or auditor, facilitates ... E-rate program (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") A federal audit of the controversial E-rate program that funded Internet connections for American schools ... e-voting (from the article "electronic voting") Because of security and access concerns, most large-scale electronic voting is currently held in designated ... E1 reaction (from the article "elimination reaction") ...as dehydration; when both leaving atoms are hydrogen atoms, the reaction is known as dehydrogenation. ... E1A handset (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...Patterned after the wall-mounted telephone, they usually consisted of a separate receiver and transmitter. In ... E2 reaction (from the article "elimination reaction") ...molecule, usually from an alcohol, is known as dehydration; when both leaving atoms are hydrogen ... E85 (from the article "automobile") ...mandated that by 2003 all new cars sold in the country had to be FlexFuel ... Ea Mesopotamian god of water and a member of the triad of deities completed by Anu ... [14 Related Articles] EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (from the article "Experimental Aircraft Association") The organization's annual convention is held each summer in Oshkosh. In 1998 the name of ... Eadbald king of Kent, who succeeded his father Aethelberht in 616. He had not been influenced ... Eadred king of the English from 946 to 955, who brought Northumbria permanently under English rule. ... [2 Related Articles] Eadric (from the article "Hlothere") Hlothere appears to have shared power with his nephew Eadric (Egbert's son); laws still extant ... Eadric Streona ealdorman of the Mercians, who, though a man of ignoble birth, was advanced to the ... Eads Bridge (from the article "Eads, James B.") From his knowledge of the river and of the fabrication of iron and steel, he ... Eads, James B. American engineer best known for his triple-arch steel bridge over the Mississippi River at St. ... [2 Related Articles] Eadwig king of the English from 955 to 957 and ruler of Wessex and Kent from ... [2 Related Articles] Eagan, Eddie American boxer and bobsledder who was the only athlete to win gold medals at both ... [1 Related Articles] Eagels, Jeanne American actress who, through force of will and personality rather than training, forged a successful ... eagle any of many large, heavy-beaked, big-footed birds of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae (order ... [3 Related Articles] Eagle Day (from the article "World War II") ...would only be possible, given Britain's large navy, if Germany could establish control of the ... eagle lectern (from the article "metalwork") ...of St. Barthelemy in Liege). The Dinant workshops, which formed the main centre for bronze ... Eagle Nebula (from the article "star cluster") ...extremely young open clusters. Of these, the one associated with the Orion Nebula, which is ... eagle owl (Bubo bubo), bird of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes), characterized by its large size (often ... Eagle Pass city, seat (1856) of Maverick county, southwestern Texas, U.S., on the Rio Grande, bridged to ... eagle ray any of about two dozen species of exclusively marine rays constituting the family Myliobatidae (order ... [3 Related Articles] eagle rock (from the article "jazz dance") ...that gave rise to social forms of jazz dance developed from rural slave dances. In ... Eagle's Nest Art Colony (from the article "Oregon") ...with some manufacturing (chiefly farm machinery and road-building equipment). Printing and tourism also contribute to ... Eagle, Mount (from the article "Virgin Islands of the United States") ...alluvium, they rise off the continental shelf to maximum heights of 1,556 feet (474 m) ... Eaglehawk Neck (from the article "Forestier Peninsula") ...Bay (west). To the north the promontory is connected to the mainland by a short ... Eagles' Nests Trail (from the article "Slaskie") ...and Ustron. The limestone outcroppings of the Krakow-Czestochowa upland, with cliff-top ruins of medieval castles, ... Eagles, the American band that cultivated country rock as the reigning style and sensibility of white youth ... [3 Related Articles] Eagleton, Terry (from the article "Literature") In the nonfiction realm, books attempting to understand terrorism continued to proliferate. An original approach ... Eagleton, Thomas Francis American politician agreed to run as Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's running mate in ... Eagling, Wayne (from the article "Performing Arts") ...performances of the production of The Sleeping Beauty that he had originally made for ABT. ... Eakins, Thomas painter who carried the tradition of 19th-century American Realism to perhaps its highest achievement. He ... [6 Related Articles] ealderman (from the article "fyrd") ...arrangement existing in Anglo-Saxon England from approximately AD 605. Local in character, it imposed military ... Ealdred also spelled Aldred Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York from 1061, played an important part in secular ... Eales, John Australian rugby union football player considered by many to be the greatest rugby player ever. ... Ealing outer borough of London, part of the historic county of Middlesex, midway between central London ... Ealing Studios English motion-picture studio, internationally remembered for a series of witty comedies that reflected the social ... EAM-ELAS communist-sponsored resistance organization (formed September 1941) and its military wing (formed December 1942), which operated ... [4 Related Articles] Eames, Charles (from the article "Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray") Charles Eames, who was also an architect, was for several years head of the experimental ... Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray American designers best known for the beauty, comfort, elegance, and delicacy of their mass-producible furniture. ... Eames, Emma American lyric soprano, admired for her beauty and for the technical control and dramatic expressiveness ... Eames, Ray (from the article "Eames, Charles; and Eames, Ray") ...was a formfitting shell chair that won first place in the Organic Design Competition conducted ... Eamont (from the article "Eden, River") ...short, swift right-bank tributaries from the great escarpment of the Pennines and longer left-bank tributaries ... Eanes, Antonio Ramalho (from the article "Portugal") ...Centre Party (conservative), and the Communist Party (founded 1921) made the strongest showings, and the ... Eanes, Gil (from the article "Henry the Navigator") ...Henry's captains to venture farther down the Atlantic coast in search of other opportunities. Tradition ... Eanna (from the article "Erech") The temenos (sacred enclosure) of Eanna, another ziggurat, bore witness to the attention of many ... Eannatum (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") Kish must have played a major role almost from the beginning. After 2500, southern Babylonian ... ear disease any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human ear and hearing. [1 Related Articles] ear fungus (from the article "Basidiomycota") The ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), also called Jew's ear fungus, is a brown, gelatinous edible ... ear mite (from the article "Some common diseases of domestic cats") ...ears-the basset hound is an extreme example (see photograph)-are prone to diseases of the ear ... ear shell any of various marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) that constitute the genus ... [2 Related Articles] ear squeeze effects of a difference in pressure between the internal ear spaces and the external ear ... [1 Related Articles] ear, human organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes noises by transduction (or the conversion ... [12 Related Articles] eared seal (from the article "carnivore") ...and related species), Mephitidae (skunks and stink badgers), Herpestidae (mongooses), Viverridae (civets, genets, and related ... Earhart, Amelia American aviator, one of the world's most celebrated, who was the first woman to fly ... [1 Related Articles] Earl of Leicester's Men earliest organized Elizabethan acting company. Formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester's ... Earle, Alice Morse American writer and antiquarian whose work centred on the manners, customs, and handicrafts of various ... Earle, George (from the article "Hobart") city, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S., adjacent to Gary. George Earle laid out the site ... Earle, John Anglican clergyman, best known as author of Micro-cosmographie. Or, A Peece of the World Discovered; ... Earle, Steve American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who bridged the genres of rock and country music. earless monitor (from the article "monitor") The earless monitor (L. borneensis), a rare and little-known lizard native to ... earless seal (from the article "carnivore") ...(skunks and stink badgers), Herpestidae (mongooses), Viverridae (civets, genets, and related species), and Hyaenidae (hyenas). ... earless water rat (from the article "water rat") Water rats of the genus Hydromys live in the mountains and coastal lowlands of Australia, ... Earlham College private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Ind., U.S. It is affiliated with the ... Earlier German History, Society for (from the article "Stein, Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum") ...energy did not desert him. German historical science, in fact, owes to Stein's efforts its ... Earlier Le dynasty (from the article "Later Le Dynasty") (1428-1788), the greatest and longest lasting dynasty of traditional Vietnam. Its predecessor, the Earlier Le, ... Earliest Jomon (from the article "arts, East Asian") The period called Earliest, or Initial, Jomon (c. 7500-5000 BC) produced bullet-shaped pots used for ... early abortion (from the article "pregnancy") ...abortion as the expulsion or extraction of all (complete) or any part (incomplete) of the ... Early American furniture furniture made in the last half of the 17th century by American colonists. The earliest ... [1 Related Articles] Early Anyathian complex (from the article "Stone Age") Pebble tools, including choppers and chopping tools, are found in the Pleistocene terrace deposits of ... Early Archaic Chinese language (from the article "Chinese languages") Oracular Chinese is known only from rather brief oracle inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells. ... Early Bangkok period (from the article "Thailand") The Thon Buri and Early Bangkok periods Early Bronze Age (from the article "Anatolia") The period following the Chalcolithic in Anatolia is generally referred to as the Bronze Age. ... Early Carboniferous Epoch (from the article "Kanimblan orogeny") a mountain-building event in eastern Australia toward the end of Early Carboniferous time (about 325,000,000 ... Early Chagatai language (from the article "Turkic languages") The "Middle Turkic" period, which began in the 13th century, embraces several regional written languages: ... Early Christian art architecture, painting, and sculpture from the beginnings of Christianity until about the early 6th century, ... [9 Related Articles] early church (from the article "Christianity") Christianity began as a movement within Judaism at a period when the Jews had long ... Early Classic sub-period (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Early Classic period (AD 100-600)rise of Maya civilization Early Classical period (from the article "Western architecture") The only significant architectural work of the early Classical period was at Olympia, where a ... Early Cretaceous Epoch (from the article "ocean") ...like the East Pacific Rise (see below). Further, a correlation has been found between global spreading ... Early Devonian Epoch (from the article "Devonian Period") In the Antarctic both marine and continental Devonian strata occur, the latter rich in fossil ... Early Dynastic period (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The Early Dynastic period (c. 2925-c. 2575 BC) Early Dynastic Period (from the article "art and architecture, Mesopotamian") Beyond this general characteristic of Sumerian sculpture, two successive styles have been distinguished in the ... early Eocene Epoch (from the article "gundi") ...from Africa and parts of Asia. Gundis have no close relatives among current rodents, and ... early fallout (from the article "nuclear weapon") ...If the explosion is on or near the surface, the soil, water, and other materials ... Early Formative period (from the article "Mesoamerican civilization") ...to corn, crops included beans, squashes, chili peppers, and cotton. As agricultural productivity improved, the ... Early Germanic script (from the article "runic alphabet") There are at least three main varieties of runic script: Early, or Common, Germanic (Teutonic), ... Early Gothic art (from the article "Gothic art") This first phase lasted from the Gothic style's inception in 1120-50 to about 1200. The ... Early Harappan culture (from the article "India") ...more-detailed cultural profiles for those periods, scholars have come to emphasize the subsistence bases of ... Early Horizon (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Early Horizon emerged after the appearance and rapid spread of the Chavin art style, ... Early Hunting period (from the article "Mexico") ...central Mexico remains speculative. The assertions of some archaeologists and linguists that early humans resided ... Early Intermediate period (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Early Horizon was succeeded by what has been termed the Early Intermediate Period. The ... Early Iron Age (from the article "France") ...Danube about 1200 BC. Its expansion westward and southward, through diffusion and migration, was stimulated ... Early Jomon (from the article "arts, East Asian") Early Jomon (5000-3500 BC) sites suggest a pattern of increased stabilization of communities, the formation ... Early Ly dynasty (from the article "Later Ly dynasty") ...known later as Dai Viet, was established by Ly Thai To in the Red River ... early Medieval Warm Period (from the article "Holocene Epoch") Approximately AD 1000-1250 the worldwide warm-up that culminated in the 10th century and has been ... Early Middle English language (from the article "Middle English language") The history of Middle English is often divided into three periods: (1) Early Middle English, ... early Miocene Epoch (from the article "hutia") ...order Rodentia. Their closest living relatives are the nutria and American spiny rats. The oldest ... Early Modern English language (from the article "English language") The death of Chaucer at the close of the century (1400) marked the beginning of ... Early Modern Japanese language (from the article "Japanese language") ...however, to divide the 1,200-year history into four or five periods; Old Japanese (up to ... Early Nazca pottery (from the article "Nazca") ...in black and filled in with various shades of red, orange, blue-gray, or purple. The ... Early Netherlandish art sculpture, painting, architecture, and other visual arts created in the several domains that in the ... [1 Related Articles] Early Palace Period (from the article "Aegean civilizations") Crete does not seem to have been affected by the movements of people into the ... Early Permian Epoch (from the article "Permian Period") ...occurring in the region that would become North America, and the continuance of the Hercynian ... early Pliocene Epoch (from the article "grasshopper mouse") ...Onychomys species are related to grasshopper mice represented by four-million to five-million-year-old fossils that extend ... Early Proterozoic Era (from the article "Precambrian time") ...the evidence is provided by glacial deposits in sediments of the Pongola Rift in southern ... early purple orchid (from the article "Orchis") The root of the early purple orchid (O. mascula) and several other species contain a ... Early Renaissance (from the article "Western architecture") The Renaissance began in Italy, where there was always a residue of Classical feeling in ... Early Sefardic (from the article "calligraphy") ...from the first 500 years of the Common Era. Most of the development in the ... Early Shang (from the article "China") ...century BC.) One must, however, distinguish Shang as an archaeological term from Shang as a ... Early Silurian Epoch (from the article "Silurian Period") ...stratotype was fixed at a horizon in Dob's Linn near Moff in the Southern Uplands ... Early Triassic Epoch (from the article "Triassic Period") ...that were to take place throughout the Mesozoic Era, particularly in the distribution of continents, ...

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