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E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881–23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. He is often regarded as one of the architects of appeasement prior to World War II.
E. F. Schumacher Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker with a professional background as a statistician and economist in Britain. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.
E. H. Coombe Ephraim Henry Coombe (August 261858-April 51917) was the member for BarossaThe electorate of the Barossa no longer exists; and would be similar to the current (in 2006) Electoral district of Schubert in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1901- 1912. He resigned from the Liberal and Democratic Union and joined the United Labor Party.
E. H. Shepard Ernest Howard Shepard (December 10 1879 – March 24 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A.
E. H. W. Meyerstein Edward Harry William Meyerstein (August 11 1889 – September 12 1952) was an English writer and scholar, now remembered mostly for his Life Of Thomas Chatterton. He wrote poetry and short stories, and the posthumously-published novel Bollond.
E. Haldeman-Julius E. Haldeman-Julius, né Emanuel Julius, born in Philadelphia, son of a Russian Jew bookbinder who had immigrated to America pg 264 of Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers: a history of American secularism, 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7776-6, ISBN 0-8050-7776-6.
E. Harold Cluett Ernest Harold Cluett (July 13, 1874 - February 4, 1954) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Troy, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Albany Academy in 1892 and from Williams College (in Williamstown, Massachusetts) in 1896; he also studied at Oxford University in England.
E. Hoffmann Price Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price (July 3 1898, Fowler, California – June 18 1988, Redwood City, California) was a writer of popular fiction for the pulp magazine marketplace. Today he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with H.
E. Irving Couse Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) was an artist and founding member of the Taos artists colony in Taos, New Mexico. Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where he first started drawing the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby.
E. J. Bellocq John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873-1949) was a professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district.
E. J. Feihl Edward Joseph Feihl (born 1970) is a Filipino basketball player of Filipino and German descent. He currently plays for the Welcoat Dragons in the Philippine Basketball Association, Asia's first professional basketball league, in his 11th season there.
E. J. G. Pitman Edwin James George Pitman (1897-1993) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, and visiting lecturer and professor at several universities in the United States, England and Australia.
E. J. H. Corner Edred John Henry Corner (12 January 1906 - 14 September 1996) was a botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1926 - 1946) and Professor of Tropical Botany at the University of Cambridge (1949-1973).
E. K. Nayanar Erambala Krishnan Nayanar (December 9, 1919 - May 19, 2004) was an Indian political leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).He held the post of Chief MInister of Kerala three times 1980-81, 1987-91 and 1996-2001.
E. L. Doctorow Edgar Laurence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of The Book of Daniel in 1971 that he obtained acclaim.
E. L. Grant Watson Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson (14 June 1885 – 21 May 1970) was a writer, anthropologist and biologist whose writings combine the scrutiny of a scientist with the insight of the poet. He wrote six "Australian" novels and three scientific-philosophical works which accuse Darwinism of inadequacy.
E. L. Konigsburg Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (bornFebruary 10, 1930) is an American author of children's books, and two time winner of the Newbery Medal for children's literature. She is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and been runner-up in the same year, with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
E. Lee Spence Edward Lee Spence, pioneer in underwater archaeology and an expert on shipwrecks and sunken treasure, Spence, an American, born in Germany in 1947, is also a published editor and author of non-fiction reference books; a magazine editor (Diving World, Atlantic Coastal Diver, Treasure, Treasure Diver, and Treasure Quest), and magazine publisher (ShipWrecks, Wreck Diver); and a published photographer. Spence was twelve when he found his first five shipwrecks.
E. M. S. Namboodiripad Elankulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, (Malayalam: ഏലങ്കുളം മനക്കല്‍ ശങ്കരന്‍ നമ്പൂതിരിപ്പാട്) (June 13, 1909 – March 19, 1998), popularly knows as EMS, was an Indian communist leader and the first Chief Minister of Kerala. Namboodiripad was one of the architects of unified Kerala.
E. M. W. Tillyard Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard (1889 –1962) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture, as background to Elizabethan Literature, particularly Shakespeare, and for his works on John Milton.
E. M. Washington Earl Marshawn Washington (1962) is an entrepreneur, engraver, and counterfeiter. He has manufactured or arranged for the manufacture of a large number of woodblock prints which he has most frequently represented as the work of a great-grandfather, whose name he gave as “Earl Mack Washington” and whom Earl Marshawn Washington reported as having lived from 1862 to 1952.
E. Merton Coulter Ellis Merton Coulter (1890–1981) was a American historian and founding member of the Southern Historical Association. He was a professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and the author of several books.
E. O. James The Reverend Professor Edwin Oliver James (1888 – 1972) was an anthropologist in the field of comparative religion. He was Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College London and Fellow of King's College London.
E. O. Wilson Edward Osborne Wilson (b. June 10, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama USA) is a distinguished biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity) and theorist (consilience, biophilia), a naturalist (conservationism), and a prominent man of letters.
E. P. Sanders Ed Parish Sanders (born 1937) is a leading New Testament scholar, and is one of the principal proponents of the New Perspective on Paul. He has been Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University, North Carolina, since 1990.
E. P. Thompson Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 - August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late-18th and early-19th centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class (1963)his marxist and socialist background is apparant, but he also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist as well as publishing one novel and a collection of poetry.
E. Paul du Pont Eleuthere Paul du Pont -1950 was an American industrialist, and the son of Francis Gurney du Pont. He founded Du Pont Motors, a manufacturer of automobiles and marine engines, and later bought and became President of Indian Motorcycles.
E. Pendleton Herring E. Pendleton Herring (October 1903-2004) was a political scientist who served as Director of the Bureau of the Budget, as Secretary of graduate education at Harvard University, and in numerous other academic and public roles.
E. Phillips Oppenheim Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946), self-styled "prince of storytellers," was an English novelist, a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. He composed during his lifetime more than a hundred novels, mostly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, as well as romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life.
E. Roy Weintraub Roy Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been as an economist. In recent years his research and teaching activities have focused upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the twentieth century.
E. S. Gosney Ezra Seymour Gosney (November 6, 1855 – September 14, 1942) was an American philanthropist and eugenicist. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and citizenship," primarily through the advocacy of compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
E. Stewart Williams E. Stewart Williams, FAIA (1909 – September 10 2005) was a prolific Palm Springs, California-based architect whose distinctive modernist style buildings significantly shaped the Coachella Valley's architectural landscape.
E. T. Whittaker Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October1873 - 24 March1956) was an English mathematician, who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical analysis, but also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of applied mathematics and the history of physics.
E. Temple Thurston Ernest Temple Thurston (September 23, 1879 - March 19, 1933) was an Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Cork, Ireland and in 1901 married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, (1875-1911).
E. V. alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (born 10 April, 1932) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Kopargaon constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
E. V. Gordon Eric Valentine Gordon (1896 – 1938) was a philologist who studied at Oxford University (1920) and taught at Leeds University (1922-1931) and Manchester University (1932-1938). He compiled many Germanic texts in their original language into book format.
E. V. Knox Edmund George Valpy Knox (May 10, 1881 – January 2, 1971), was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932-1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years.
E. V. Lucas Edward Verrall Lucas (June 11/12 1868 – June 26 1938) was a versatile and popular English writer of nearly 100 books. His style has great facility, and is generally found insipid by contemporary readers; some of his cricket writing has lasted.
E. W. Bastard Edward William Bastard (born Wilton, Somerset, 28 February 1862; died Taunton, Somerset, 2 April 1901) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University and Somerset. Bastard batted left-handed, but is notable as a fine slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
E. W. Hobson Ernest William Hobson FRS (27 October 1856 - 19 April 1933) was an English mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. He was Sadleirian Professor at the University of Cambridge from 1910 to 1931.
E. W. Pugin Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875) was the eldest son of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, a famous architect & designer of Gothic architecture. After his father AWN Pugin's death in 1852 Edward Pugin took under his wing his father's successful Architecture & Design practice.
E.L. Ahrons Ernest Leopold Ahrons (February 12 1866-March 30 1925) was a British engineer and author. He is most noted for his magnum opus, The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925, published posthumously in book form, and for a series originally published in The Railway Magazine "Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century".
E.tv e.tv is the fifth terrestrial television channel in South Africa, following three channels operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3) and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net, operated by Multichoice.
E.U. Essien-Udom Professor Essien Udosen Essien-Udom was born in Ikot Osong, Eastern Provinces, Nigeria (now Akwa Ibom State), on 25 October 1928, the first son of Timothy and Adiaha Essien. He was educated in the local primary school and Holy Family College, Abak, Eastern Nigeria; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1951-55); and the University of Chicago (1955-61).
E/i e/i was the second magazine founded, published and edited by electronic music journalist Darren Bergstein, following the 1980's to 1990's run of i/e magazine. Closer in style to The Wire and Signal to Noise than other magazines, it focused on chronicling the history of electronic music.
E/I E/I, which stands for "educational and informative," refers to a type of children's television programming shown in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission requires that every broadcast station in the U.
E1 Asset Management E1 Asset Management is a full service brokerage firm located in the heart of the financial world in New York and is a member firm of the NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) and the SIPC, Inc. (Securities Investor Protection Corporation).
E1 Series Shinkansen The E1 Series Shinkansen trainsets, introduced in 1994, were the first double-deck trains built for Japan's Shinkansen dedicated high-speed rail lines. They are generally, along with their fellow double-deck class the E4 Series Shinkansen, known by the marketing name "MAX" (Multi-Amenity eXpress).
E1cB elimination reaction The E1cB elimination reaction is a special type of elimination reaction in organic chemistry. This reaction mechanism explains the formation of alkenes from (mostly) alkyl halides through a carbanion intermediate given specified reaction conditions and specified substrates.
E2 (nightclub) The E2 was a popular nightclub in Chicago until on the night of Monday, February 17, 2003, a stampede occured in which 21 people were killed and more than 50 injured. The proximate cause of the stampede was reported to be the use of pepper spray to break up a fight.
E2 Series Shinkansen The E2 Series Shinkansen are new trains built between 1997 and 2005 for Japan's JĹŤetsu, TĹŤhoku and Nagano Shinkansen high-speed dedicated rail lines. They are formed in 8- or 10-car sets, and the 10-car sets can be coupled to E3 Series Shinkansen Komachi sets using couplers hidden behind sliding nose doors.
E20 Norr (song) E20 Norr is a single released on July 3 2003 by the Swedish punk-rock band Millencolin comprising of the title track "E20 Norr", which is the second track ("Battery Check" from Home from Home) sung in Swedish. It also includes the track "Bowmore".
E231 series The E231 series is currently the standard EMU used for commuter and outer-suburban services operated by JR East and manufactured by Tokyu Car Corporation, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and also at JR East's factory at Niitsu, Niigata Prefecture.
E233 series The E233 series is a commuter EMU announced by East Japan Railway Company on 4 October 2005. The new stock will replace the aging 201 series trains on the Chūō Line and the 209 series stock on the Keihin-Tōhoku and Neigishi lines.
E257 series The E257 series is a DC electric multiple unit operated by JR East, built jointly by Hitachi, Kinki Sharyo and Tokyu Car Corp in two batches. It was designed to replace the aging 183 & 189 series rolling stock, and the most produced stock for Special Express services followed by the 683 series.
E2fsprogs e2fsprogs (sometimes called the e2fs programs) is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2 and ext3 file systems. Since those file systems are often the default for Linux distributions, it is commonly considered to be essential software.
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen The E3 Prijs Vlaanderen is a single day semi classic cycling race which takes place in the Flanders area of Belgium. The race starts and finishes in the town of Harelbeke and is contested over a distance of approximately 210 kilometres.
E3 Series Shinkansen The E3 Series Shinkansen are new Japanese Shinkansen high-speed trains built for the opening of the new Akita Shinkansen 'mini-Shinkansen' line, converted from a regular 1,067 mm (3'6") narrow-gauge line between Morioka and Akita. The line joins with the Tohoku Shinkansen.
E4 (TV) E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. The "E" stands for entertainment, and the channel is mainly aimed at the lucrative 18 - 35 age group.
E4 Series Shinkansen The E4 Series Shinkansen were the second series of completely bi-level Shinkansen high-speed trainsets to be built in Japan (the other being the E1 Series; the 100 series also featured two bi-level cars per trainset in some configurations). They operate on the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen.
E4A The E4A was an anti-terrorist department that was in 'E' Department of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Primarily the surveillance operators who conducted that specialized work for action by RUC Special Branch (E4C).
E4M Encryption for the Masses (E4M) is open-source, free disk encryption software for Windows NT/9x/Me. E4M is no longer maintained; its author (Paul Le Roux) having joined Shaun Hollingworth (the author of the ScramDisk) to produce E4M's commercial successor, DriveCrypt.
E4X ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is a programming language extension that adds native XML support to ECMAScript (ActionScript, DMDScript, E4X, JavaScript, JScript). It does this by providing access to the XML document in a form that mimics XML syntax.
E531 series The E531 series is an electric multiple unit used by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan. It was introduced by JR East on July 9 2005 to replace the aging 403 and 415 series EMUs running on the Joban Line from Ueno station in Tokyo.
E6B The E6B Flight Computer, also known as the "whiz wheel", is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. They are mostly used in flight training, but many professional and even airline pilots will still carry and use their E6Bs.
E8 manifold In mathematics, the E8 manifold is the unique compact, simply connected topological 4-manifold with intersection form the E8 lattice, discovered by Michael Freedman in 1982. Rokhlin's theorem shows that it has no smooth structure (as does Donaldson's theorem), and in fact, combined with the work of Andrew Casson on the Casson invariant, this shows that the E8 manifold is not even triangulable as a simplicial complex.
E85 E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture that typically contains a mixture of up to 85% denatured fuel ethanol and gasoline or other hydrocarbon by volume. On an undenatured basis, the ethanol component ranges from 70% to 83%.
E85 in standard engines The use of pure E85 in standard gasoline car engines will void the manufacturer's warranty, may disrupt oxygenation control in fuel-injected cars, and may result in power loss. It may also interfere with proper operation of the catalytic converter.
E9 European Coastal Path The E9 European Coastal Path, or Sentier Européen du Littoral, is a very long distance coastal footpath, which runs for 5000 km (3125 miles) from Cabo de São Vicente in Portugal to Narva-Jõesuu in Estonia.
E9 tuning E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings. In particular, it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two-neck table steel guitar or pedal steel guitar, most often combined with C6 tuning for the near neck, and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings.
E=mc² In physics, E = mc2 is the equation that expresses an equivalence between energy (E) and mass (m), in direct proportion to the square of the speed of light in a vacuum (c2). Several definitions of mass in special relativity may be validly used with this equation.
Eabametoong First Nation Eabametoong, also known as Fort Hope, is an Ojibwe reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Kenora District. Located on the shore of Eabamet Lake in the Albany River system, the community is located approximately 240 kilometres north of Beardmore and is accessible only by airplane or water, or by winter/ice roads, which connect the community to the Northern Ontario Resource Trail.
Eadberht of Lindisfarne Eadberht of Lindisfarne (died May 6, 698) also known as Saint Eadberht was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 688 until 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.
Eadestown GAA Eadestown is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Kildare, based in the smallest parish in the diocese of Dublin, winners of the Kildare county senior football championships in 1970. Kill and Eadestown combine for juvenile purposes under the name,s 'Cill Éide.
Eadfrith of Lindisfarne Eadfrith of Lindisfarne (died 721) also known as Saint Eadfrith was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 698 until 721. He is most notable as the scribe who copied and illuminated the Lindisfarne Gospels, although they were not completed and bound until after his death.
Eadgils Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus, Adhel was a semi-legendary king of Sweden, who is estimated to have lived during the 6th centuryThe dating has never been a matter of controversy. It is inferred from the internal chronology of the sources themselves and the dating of Hygelac's raid on Frisia to c.
Eadie-Hofstee diagram In biochemistry, an Eadie-Hofstee diagram (also Woolf-Eadie-Augustinsson-Hofstee or Eadie-Augustinsson plot) is a graphical representation of enzyme kinetics in which reaction velocity is plotted as a function of the velocity vs. substrate concentration ratio:
Eadric the Wild Eadric the Wild was a leader of English resistance to the Norman Conquest. He campaigned in the regions of ShrewsburyIn 1069, the town was besieged by Edric Sylvaticus, and Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Wales; but was relieved by King William, who advanced from York, and defeated the assailants with great slaughter.
Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) was an English-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated celluloid film strip still used today.
Eadwig Ætheling Eadwig Æþeling (sometimes also known as Eadwy) was one of the eight sons of the early English king Æþelræd II (more commonly known as Ethelred the Unready). After the death of his elder brother Edmund Ironside he was the main claimant to the English throne.
Eadwine of Sussex The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was compiled. According to the abbey’s records, in which he was called princeps Australium Saxonum, Eadwinus nomine, he bequeathed estates to them in his will, although the document itself has not survived.
Eager Beaver Baseball Association Eager Beaver Baseball Association, Inc. (EBBA) is a baseball league for youths in London, Ontario, Canada, that was first organized in 1955 by former Major League Baseball player Frank Colman, London sportsman Gordon Berryhill and Al Marshall.
Eager Seas (album) Eager Seas is the final album to be released by pop rock band Watashi Wa. "Eager Seas" was going to be released as Seth Robert's side project's debut album, and was originally set to be called "People Like People.
Eagle Eagles are large birds of prey which inhabit mainly the Old World, with only two species (the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle) found in North America north of Mexico, a few in Middle and South America, two (the White-bellied Sea Eagle and Wedge-tailed Eagle) in Australia, and the Philippine Eagle in the Philippine Archipelago. They are members of the bird order Falconiformes (or Accipitriformes, according to alternative classification schemes), family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other.
Eagle (comic) The Eagle was a British weekly comic, which ran in two main incarnations over the period of 1950 to 1994 (with accompanying annuals). It is strongly associated with its flagship character, Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, (created and illustrated by Frank Hampson in the earlier photographic format), doing battle against the Mekon and other interplanetary foes.
Eagle (heraldry) The eagle is used in heraldry both as a charge (something drawn on the shield) or as a supporter (something holding the shield up). Parts of the eagle’s body such as its head, wings or leg are also used as a crest or charge.
Eagle (program) EAGLE (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) is an ECAD program produced by Cadsoft in Germany (American marketing division: Cadsoft USA). It is very commonly used by private electronics enthusiasts, because there is a very usable free demo version for nonprofit use and is available in English and German.
Eagle (United States coin) The eagle was a base-unit of denomination issued only for gold coinage by the United States Mint. The eagle was the largest of the four main decimal base-units of denomination used for circulating coinage in the United States prior to 1933, the year when gold was withdrawn from circulation.
Eagle (VIVA) Eagle is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on November 20, 2005, at the intersection of Eagle Street and Yonge Street in Newmarket, Ontario.
Eagle Airways Eagle Airways is a regional airline based in Hamilton, New Zealand with ten crew bases from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands to Blenheim in the Marlborough region. It is wholly owned by Air New Zealand and operates regional services under the Air New Zealand Link brand.
Eagle bone whistle The Eagle Bone Whistle, a sacred religious musical instrument used by Native Americans, is made from the long wing bones of both the American Bald Eagle, and the American Golden Eagle for Native American religious ceremonies. Eagle bone whistles are considered extremely powerful spiritual objects by American Indians.
Eagle Berns Eagle Berns ( - September 19, 2004) worked for over thirty-five years in the computer software industry at Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, and Software Publishing Corporation (SPC). During his tenure at those companies he established a reputation for forming strong R&D teams, and focusing their energies on producing high quality software products in a timely fashion.
Eagle Bus The "Eagle Bus" is a coach with a long and interesting history. During its production of over four decades, some 8,000 Eagle coaches were built in four different countries on two continents, and they had been the trademark of Continental Trailways for over three decades.
Eagle class patrol craft The Eagle class patrol craft were a set of steel ships smaller than destroyers but having a greater operational radius than the wooden-hulled, 110-foot submarine chasers developed in 1917. The submarine chasers' range of about 900 miles at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h) restricted their operations to off-shore antisubmarine work and denied them an open-ocean escort capability.
Eagle Centre The Eagle Centre is a large indoor shopping centre in centre of Derby, UK jointly owned by Westfield and Hermes, with Derby City Council directly owning the indoor market. It currently consists of 51,559 m² (554,981 ft²) of retail space and attracts 19,000,000 shoppers a year
Eagle Claw The traditional Chinese martial art known as Eagle Claw (Ying Jow Pai 鷹爪派) is one of the oldest and most complex of the surviving Northern Shaolin kung fu systems. Along with the long strikes and kicks that typify Northern systems, the Eagle Claw system is distinguished by its powerful gripping techniques and intricate system of locks, takedowns, and pressure point strikes, which represent one of the oldest forms of the Chinese grappling known as Chin Na.
Eagle Computer Eagle Computer of Los Gatos, California was an early microcomputer manufacturing company. Spun off from Audio-Visual Laboratories (AVL), it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day.
Eagle Creek (Burnaby) Eagle Creek is one of the most important creeks in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It begins on Burnaby Mountain where it is fed by a large watershed, runs through Montecito and the nearby Squint Lake, and eventually flows into Burnaby Lake.
Eagle Creek, Oregon Eagle Creek, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is located seven miles southwest of Sandy, seven miles north of Estacada, and five miles southwest of Carver, at the junction of Oregon State Routes 224 and 211, along the Clackamas River.
Eagle Diamond The Eagle Diamond was discovered in Eagle, Wisconsin in 1876 by a man named Charles Woods while he was digging a well. The land in which he was digging was not his own, it belonged to Thomas Deveraux, and Charles and his wife Clarissa were renters.

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