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Erastes In ancient Greece the erastes (, "lover") was an adult male aristocrat involved in a pederastic relationship with an adolescent boy called the eromenos. Erastes was in particular an Athenian term for this role.
Erastes Fulmen Erastes Fulmen is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Lorcan Cranitch. He is depicted as a ruthless businessman, who over the course of the first season becomes one of the leading figures in the Roman underworld.
Erastus Corning Erastus Corning (December 14 1794 – April 9 1872), American businessman and politician, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Corning moved to Troy, New York at the age of 13 to clerk in the hardware store of an uncle; six years later he moved to Albany, New York, where he joined the mercantile business under James Spencer.
Erastus Corning 2nd Erastus Corning 2nd (October 7, 1909 - May 28, 1983) was a mayor of Albany, New York. He served for more than 40 years between 1942 and 1983, when Albany County was controlled by one of the last two classic urban political machines in the U.
Erastus Corning Tower The Erastus Corning Tower, also known as the Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd Tower or simply the Corning Tower, is a skyscraper located in downtown Albany, New York. Completed in 1973 and sided with Vermont Pearl marble and glass, the state office building is part of the Empire State Plaza.
Erasure code In computer science, an erasure code transforms a message of n blocks into a message with > n blocks such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of those blocks. The fraction of the blocks required is called the rate, denoted r.
Erasure poetry Erasure poetry is a form of Found poetry created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas.
Erathipa In Aboriginal mythology, Erathipa is a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman; contained within Erathipa are the souls of dead children which can inhabit the bodies of fertile young women. This was known only by the supreme ones of the ancient aborigines, also known as the Chockolia.
Eratosthenes Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient mediterranean region in many fields.
Eratosthenian The Eratosthenian period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3,200 million years ago to 1,100 million years ago. It is named after the crater Eratosthenes, whose formation marks the beginning of this period.
Erawan Shrine The Erawan Shrine (, San Phra Phrom) is a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, Thailand that houses a statue of four-faced Brahma. A popular tourist attraction, it often features performances by resident Thai dance troupes, who are hired by worshippers in return for seeing their prayers at the shrine answered.
Eraye Eraye skincare, is a London, England based cult skincare brand favoured by celebrities and socialites in Europe. Its high prices, limited availability, philosophies and penchant for using a combination of the latest skin care ingredients, and natural plant and mineral ingredients have made it a favourite among the wealthy in Europe.
Erazem Lorbek Erazem Lorbek (born February 21, 1984 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian basketball player who currently plays forward for Unicaja Malaga in the Spanish ACB. He won the 2004 Euroleague Rising Star award, and was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2005 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers.
Erb's Covered Bridge Erb's Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Hammer Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, it's official designation is the Hammer Creek #1 Bridge.
Erb's point Erb's point is an anatomical site above the clavicle in angle formed by the clavicle and the sternocleidomastoid muscle, adjacent to the C6 vertebra. (The sternocleidomastoid muscles are muscles in the neck that act to flex and rotate the head.
Erb-Duchenne palsy Erb-Duchenne palsy is a traction injury of the superior trunk of the brachial plexus (C5,C6) which results in a limp shoulder (paralysis of abductors), internally rotated shoulder (paralysis of lateral rotaters), and pronated forearm (paralysis of biceps). May also have flexed wrist if there is C7 involvement.
Erbherr Erbherr, German for Hereditary Lord, is not only a generic description for feudal Lords whose Lordships (regardless of the title attached) had officially been made hereditary (form the start of later), but is also conferred as a formal title, of low rank (e.g.
Erbium Erbium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Er and atomic number 68. A rare silvery metallic lanthanide rare earth element, erbium is associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden.
Erbium(III) oxide Erbium(III) oxide, a pink solid, is a compound of erbium sometimes used as a colouring for glasses and a dopant for optical fibres and optical amplifiers. It was partially isolated by Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843, and first obtained in pure form in 1905 by Georges Urbain and Charles James.
Erbo Graf von Kageneck Erbo Graf von Kageneck (April 2, 1918 - January 12, 1942) was born in Bonn, one of four sons of Generalmajor Karl Graf von Kageneck and Freiin Maria von Schorlemer, daughter of Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer, an Imperial Secretary of Agriculture.
Erc of Dalriada Erc was king of Irish Dál Riata until 474. The Annals of the Four Masters imply Erc was the same person as Muirdeach son of Eogan son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King of Ireland at the end of the 5th century.
Erckmann-Chatrian Erckmann-Chatrian is the joint name given to French authors Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890) all of whose works were jointly written. They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories.
Ercol Ercol is the name of a range of British furniture made by Ercol Ltd. The firm dates back to 1920, when it was established in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire county, as Furniture Industries by Lucian Ercolani (1888–1976).
Ercole Bottrigari Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612) was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna.
Erdgeist Erdgeist is the Spirit of the Earth whom Johann Wolfgang von Goethe describes in Faust, Part 1, widely considered to be one of the greatest works in the history of German literature. Goethe depicts Erdgeist as a timeless being who endlessly weaves at the Time-Loom—both in life and in death.
Erdinç Saçan Erdinç Saçan (born in 's-Hertogenbosch, 12 May 1979) is an internet entrepreneur, website administrator, columnist and politician of Turkish descent for the PvdA. After studying management and data processing at the Fontys college, he established his eponymous company Saçan Consultancy.
Erdington railway station Erdington railway station is a railway station serving the Erdington area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of the UK. It is situated on the Redditch-Birmingham New Street-Lichfield "Cross-City" line.
Erditse Erditse was a fertility goddess of ancient Iberia, revered by the ancient Basques and related peoples. Little is known about her, but altars from northwestern Spain have been unearthed bearing inscriptions dedicated to her.
Erdős number The Erdős number, honouring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers, is a way of describing the "collaborative distance", in regard to mathematical papers, between an author and Erdős. Erdős is pronounced as .
Erdős-Gyárfás conjecture In graph theory, the unproven Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture, made in 1995 by the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős and his collaborator András Gyárfás, states that any graph with minimum degree 3 contains a simple cycle whose length is a power of 2. Erdős offered a prize of $100 for proving the conjecture, or $50 for a counterexample.
Erdős-Turán conjecture The Erdős-Turán conjecture is an unproven proposition in additive number theory. The conjecture states that if the sum of the reciprocals of the members of a set A of positive integers diverges, then A contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
Erdős–Bacon number An individual's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from actor Kevin Bacon. These numbers, the primary measures of the small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment, respectively, are generally allowed to be more flexible for Erdős–Bacon number calculation, as few published academics have also been professional actors.
Erdős–Graham conjecture The Erdős–Graham conjecture in combinatorial number theory states that, if {2,3,...} are partitioned into finitely many subsets, then one of the subsets can be used to form an Egyptian fraction representation of unity.
Erdős–Szekeres theorem In mathematics, the Erdős–Szekeres theorem is a finitary result, which makes precise one of the corollaries of Ramsey's theorem. While Ramsey's theorem makes it easy to prove that any sequence of distinct real numbers contains either a monotonically increasing infinite subsequence, or a monotonically decreasing infinite subsequence, the result proved by Paul Erdős and George Szekeres goes further.
Erdős–Woods number Consider a sequence of consecutive positive integers [a, a+1, dots a+k]. The length k is an Erdős-Woods number if there exists such a sequence in which each of the elements has a common factor with one of the endpoints, i.
ErdoÄźan Atalay ErdoÄźan Atalay (born on September 22 1966 in Hanover, Germany) is a Turkish-German actor. After making his first appearance as a minor actor in "Aladdin and the miracle lamp" at the National Theatre of Hanover, he took part in several television series such as Music Groschenweise, Employment for Lohbeck, Double Employment and The Guard.
Erdor Erdor, aka Les Chroniques d'Erdor, is a french oneiric fantasy role-playing game written by E. Bouchard and published in 2003 by La Boite Ă  Polpette (BAP), an independent not-for-profit editor from Strasbourg, France.
Erdrick Erdrick, a legendary hero from the Dragon Quest series, of whom legends speak dropped from the heavens and freed Alefgard from the darkness, is also known by the names Loto and Roto. This hero was first mentioned in the English localization, Dragon Warrior, and Erdrick’s legend was completed by Dragon Warrior III, first released in 1991.
Erdvilas Erdvilas (Erdywił, Ердивил, Erdiwił, Erdwil) was one of the 21 early dukes of Lithuania who signed a treaty with Halych-Volhynia in 1219. He and Vykintas are the two dukes of Samogitia mentioned in the treaty.
EreÄźli TED Koleji Kdz. Eregli TED College (also known as Karadeniz EreÄźli TED Koleji or EreÄźli TED Koleji) is a combined school including a primary division and a high school division located in Karadeniz EreÄźli near the Black Sea in Turkey.
Erebti Erebti is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Erebti River, a stream that flows east from the Ethiopian highlands into the Afar Depression, part of which lies in the eastern part of this woreda.
Erebus In Greek mythology Erebus (Έρεβος Erebos, "Deep blackness/darkness or shadow " from Ancient Greek Έρεβος) was the son of a primordial God, Chaos, the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. He was the offspring of Chaos alone.
Erebus and Terror Gulf Erebus and Terror Gulf () is a gulf on the southeast side of the tip of Antarctic Peninsula, bordered on the northeast by the Joinville Island group and on the southwest by the James Ross Island group. Named for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror exploring these waters in 1842-43.
Erebus: The Aftermath Erebus: The Aftermath was a 1988 New Zealand television miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979. The miniseries, a docudrama, was produced by Television New Zealand, and was broadcast in New Zealand and Australia.
Erec Sir Erec, the son of King Lac, is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He features in numerous Arthurian tales (notably the Post-Vulgate Cycle), but he is most famous as the protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes' first romance, Erec and Enide.
Erec and Enide Erec and Enide (French: Érec et Énide) is Chrétien de Troyes's first romance, completed around 1170. Consisting of 7000 lines written in Old French, the poem is the earliest known Arthurian romance in any language besides the Welsh Culhwch and Olwen, which likely predates its surviving manuscripts.
Erectheus In Greek mythology, Erectheus was an early king of Athens. Early writers often identified him with either Erichthonius, who later became known as his grandfather, or with the god Poseidon, whose attributes he often shares, and whose rites on the Acropolis were similar to his.
Erector Set Erector Set is the trade name of a toy construction set that was wildly popular in the United States during much of the 20th century. Like Meccano, it consists of collections of small metal beams with regular holes for nuts, bolts, screws, and mechanical parts such as pulleys, gears, and small electric motors.
Erecura Erecura (also found as Herecura, Aerecura, EracuraNicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl. Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie.
Erehwon Erehwon is the common mis-spelling of Erewhon, Samuel Butler's satire on Victorian society. It is the direct reversal of the word 'Nowhere' and is often used to denote an unspecified generic place in much the same way that 'John Doe' is used to name an unspecified person.
Erekosë Many of Michael Moorcock's heroes are aspects of one all-encompassing hero, the Eternal Champion. Erekosë is the title character, so to speak, as the fantasy novel The Eternal Champion and its sequels feature him.
Erenagh The medieval Irish office of Erenagh was responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the termon lands that generated parish income. Thus he had a prebendary role.
Erenfried I Erenfried I of Maasgau, count of Bliesgau, Keldachgau and Bonngau and count of Charmois (fl 866/904). He married Adelgunde of Burgundy (born 860, died 902), a daughter of Konrad II "Le Jeune" Margrave of Burgundy, Count of Auxerre, and Judith de Frioul.
Erenik The Erenik (Albanian: Erenik; Serbian Cyrillic: Ереник) is a river in Kosovo (a Serbian province under UN administration). Located in the western part of Kosovo (the Metohija region), it's a 51 km-long right tributary to the White Drin river.
Erer (woreda) Erer is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Shinile Zone, available maps disagree on its exact location: according to the OCHA map for the Somali Region (copyright 2005), Erer is bordered on the south by the Oromia Region, on the southwest by Afdem, on the west by the Afar Region, on the north by Djibouti, on the northeast by Ayesha, on the east by Shinile and the southeast by the territory of Dire Dawa;Map of Somali Region at UN-OCHA (PDF file) however, the map of the Oromia Region published by Disaster Prevention and Disaster Agency (copyright 2006) shows that the western part is separated into its own woreda called Afdem, and the woreda the OCHA map identifies as Afdem should be named Mieso.
Eres "Eres" (English: You are) is the first single off Shakira's Peligro that became her best known in Colombia. The song itself was not a hit, but it had a much better market than any song off Magia, the singer's debut album.
Eres TĂş (Mocedades song) "Eres TĂş" (English: That's you) is a popular Spanish language song written in 1973 by Juan Carlos CalderĂłn and performed by the Spanish Basque band Mocedades. This song also has an English version entitled "Touch the Wind" with lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
Eresburg Eresburg Also referred to as Eresburg Castle, is know today as the community of Obermarsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. This is the hill which overlooks the modern city of Marsberg on the Diemel, a tributary of the Weser, near Paderborn.
Eretria Eretria (Greek Ερέτρια; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a city of Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea (modern Evvoia or Evia), facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf. There is a modern Greek town of the same name on the ancient site.
Eretrian School of Philosophy The Eretrian School of Philosophy was a minor school of Greek Philosophy, the continuation of the Elian school, founded by Phaedo of Elis, which was transferred to Eretria by Menedemus. It was of small importance, and in the absence of certain knowledge must be supposed to have adhered to the doctrines of Socrates.
Erewash Valley The Erewash Valley is the valley of the River Erewash on the border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire as far as the River Trent. It runs along the boundary of the southern end of the Derbyshire hills and the more rolling Nottinghamshire country.
Ereyanga Ereyanga (1098 - 1102 CE) was the son of Hoysala Vinayaditya and distinguished himself as a Chalukya feudatory during their campaigns against Dhara of Malwa. Though his rule as a monarch of Hoysala Empire was short, he served his father brilliantly as the Yuvaraja.
Erftstadt Erftstadt is a town merged in 1969 of the former town of Lechenich and several surrounding municipalities. It is located about 20 km south-west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Land of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany.
Erfurt Program The Erfurt Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891. Formulated under the political guidance of August Bebel and the ideological tutelage of Karl Kautsky, it superseded the earlier Gotha Program.
Erfurt Union Erfurt Union (German Erfurter Union) was a short-lived union of German states under a federation, proposed by Prussia, for which the Erfurt Union Parliament (German Erfurter Unionsparlament), lasting from March 20 to April 29, 1850, was opened. The Union never came into effect, and was dealt the fatal blow in the Punctation of OlmĂĽtz (November 29, 1850; also called: Treaty of OlmĂĽtz) under Austrian pressure.
ErfurtWiki ErfurtWiki is a wiki written in PHP that is released into the public domain. It is designed to be easy to integrate into existing websites and has a very powerful plugin system which handles almost all of its functional features.
Erg (landform) An erg (also sand sea or dune sea) is a large, relatively flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little to no vegetation cover. The term takes its name from the Arabic word erg (), meaning "dune field".
Erga omnes Erga omnes (Latin: in relation to everyone) is frequently used in legal terminology describing obligations or rights toward all. For instance a property right is an erga omnes right, and therefore enforceable against anybody infringing that right.
Ergastula An ergastula was a Roman building used to hold in chains dangerous slaves, or to punish other slaves. The ergastula was usually subsurface, built as a deep, roofed pit - large enough to allow the slaves to work within it and containing narrow spaces in which they slept.
Ergi Ergi (noun) and argr (adjective) are two Old Norse terms of insult, denoting effeminacy or other unmanly behavior. Argr (also ragr) is "unmanly" and ergi is "unmanliness"; the terms have cognates in other Germanic languages such as earh, earg, arag, arug, and so on.
Ergilio Hato Ergilio Hato (1926-2003), also known as 'Pantera Negra' (black panther), was a legendary goalkeeper from Curaçao, the Netherlands Antilles. Although his was well-known in the Caribbean and beyond, he refused to become a professional football-player.
Ergo (newspaper) Ergo was a student-run newspaper, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but distributed and staffed by people from other colleges in the Boston area as well, primarily Harvard University and Boston University. It was started in 1969 as a conservative-libertarian alternative to the often socialist student activism that was prevalent at the time.
Ergo Entertainment Formed in 2000 by Donny Epstein, Yeeshai Gross and Elie Landau, Ergo Entertainment is a New York-based producing partnership focused on independent film and theatre. Ergo is a full-service company, offering experience in script development, financing, production and distribution, with particular emphasis placed on discovering and nurturing new talent, as well as forming strategic alliances with individuals and companies that will assist Ergo in realizing its goal to become a recognized leader in the film and theatre industries.
Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan from 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukou Murase, with screenplay by Dai Sato et al.
Ergodic hypothesis In physics and thermodynamics, the ergodic hypothesis says that, over long periods of time, the time spent in some region of the phase space of microstates with the same energy is proportional to the volume of this region, i.e.
Ergodic literature Ergodic literature is literature that requires a "non-trivial effort" to traverse the text. This effort must be extranoematic, that is, it must consist of more than simply reading by moving one's eyes along lines of text, turning pages and mentally interpreting what one reads.
Ergodic theory In mathematics, a measure-preserving transformation T on a probability space is said to be ergodic if the only measurable sets invariant under T have measure 0 or 1. An older term for this property was metrically transitive.
Ergogenic aid Ergogenic aids are any external influences which can positively affect physical or mental performance. These include mechanical aids, pharmacological aids, physiological Aids, nutritional aids, and psychological aids.
Ergoline Ergoline is a chemical compound whose structural skeleton is contained in a diverse range of alkaloids and a few psychedelic drugs (ololiuhqui, LSD). Substances derived from ergoline are used clinically for the purpose of vasoconstriction (5-HT 1 Agonists - Ergotamine) and in the treatment of migraine (used with caffeine) and Parkinson's disease, some are implicated in the disease ergotism.
Ergonomically Designed Facilities The Embassy Theatre, refurbished by Peter Jackson in time for the release of his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and the premiere of the Oscar winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film), is perhaps best known as the site of the 'EDF' (ergonomically designed facilites): Toilet seats that curve naturally with the contours of the human buttocks.
Ergonomics Ergonomics (or human factors) is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use. (definition adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in 2007).
Ergosterol Ergosterol (ergosta-5,7,22-trien-3β-ol), a sterol, is the biological precursor to Vitamin D2. It is turned into viosterol by ultraviolet light, and is then converted into ergocalciferol, which is a form of Vitamin D.
Ergot Ergot is the common name of a fungus in the genus Claviceps that is parasitic on certain grains and grasses. The form the fungus takes to over-winter is called a sclerotium, and this small structure is what is usually referred to as 'ergot', although referring to the members of the Claviceps genus as 'ergot' is also correct.
Ergotism Ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, classically due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot poisoning and St Anthony's fire.
Erhard Eppler Erhard Eppler (b. 9 December 1926 in Ulm) is a German politician (of the SPD and founder of the GTZIn 16 October 1968, he replaced Hans-JĂĽrgen Wischnewski] as Minister of Economic Cooperation until 1974; he was Minister of Economic Cooperation (16 May 1974 - 15 December) during [[Helmut Schmidt's first term as Federal Chancellor and was replaced in the second.
Erhard Raus Generaloberst Erhard Raus (January 8, 1889, in Wolframitz - 1956 in Bad Gastein) was a Panzer General on the Eastern Front during the Second World War before being dismissed by Hitler in March of 1945. Where he later became a prisoner of war.
Erhard Reuwich Erhard Reuwich was a Netherlandish artist, as a designer of woodcuts, and a printer, who came from Utrecht but then worked in Mainz. His dates and places of birth and death are unknown, but he was active in the 1480s.
Erhard's wall lizard The Erhard's wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii) lives in the Balkan peninsula and the Aegean islands. On the mainland it ranges from Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and southern Bulgaria to the northeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece.
Erhu The erhu ({{zh-cp|c=[sometimes known in the West as the "Chinese violin" or Chinese two string fiddle, is a two-stringed bowed] [[musical instrument, used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. It belongs to the huqin (Chinese: 胡琴; pinyin: húqín) family of bowed string Chinese instruments, together with the zhonghu (中胡), gaohu (高胡), banhu (板胡), jinghu (京胡), sihu (四胡), and numerous others.
Erhua Érhuà (儿化) refers to the r-coloring or addition of the "ér"(儿) sound (transcribed in IPA as ) to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. It is most common in the speech of Northeastern China, in particular Beijing.
Erchempert Erchempert (also Herempert, , ) was a monk of Monte Cassino in the final quarter of the ninth century. He chronicled a history of Lombard Benevento, giving especially vivid account of the violence surrounding his monastic retreat in his own day.
Erchinoald Erchinoald (also Erkinoald and, in French, Erchenout) succeeded Aega as the mayor of the palace of Neustria in 641 and succeeded Flaochad in Burgundy in 642 and remained such until his death in 658. According to Fredegar, he was a relative (consanguineus) of Dagobert I's mother.
Eri Ito is a Japanese vocalist. Her voice has been heard in 'Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu' of Panzer Dragoon Saga, 'Anu Orta Veniya' of Panzer Dragoon Orta, and several tracks in Tsubasa Chronicle Future Soundscape I - IV as a collaboration with Yuki Kajiura.
Eri Yamanoi Eri Yamanoi (born September 12, 1978) is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in fourth place in the 4x200m freestyle relay, alongside Aiko Miyake, Naoko Imoto, and Suzu Chiba.
Eriadu Conference The Eriadu Conference was an event in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe, crucial to the plot of the later Phantom Menace; this historic meeting of major manufacturers and trade guilds was meant to establish the guidelines by which the Trade Federation would be managed, shortly before the Battle of Naboo. During the conference, the Neimoidian delegation arranged for the assassination of all the Kuati delegates from Kuat Drive Yards, allowing the Neimoidians to take control of the Trade Federation.
Eric "Big Daddy" Nord Eric Nord (1919 - 1989), also known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, was born Harry Helmuth Pastor in Krefeld, Germany to Dorothea, an American, and Carl Theodore Pastor< a German. As a child, he often accompanied his father on business trips to the United States.
Eric "Red Mouth" Gebhardt Eric "Red Mouth" Gebhardt is a singer/songwriter from Florence, Alabama, who plays a unique blend of southern music that encompasses delta blues, broken-hearted honky tonk, Stonesy rock 'n' roll, and gospel music.
Eric "Ty" Hodges Eric "Ty" Hodges (born May 26, 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American television and film actor. He appeared in a recurring role as Larry Beale on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, and in The Even Stevens Movie.
Eric "Winkle" Brown Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, FRAeS, RN is a former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history. He is also the Fleet Air Arm’s most decorated pilot.
Eric (name) The name Erik is of Scandinavian origin. It is derived from the name Eirikr, meaning "honored ruler" or "complete ruler" from the words aiza, "honor", or ei "ever" and rik,"ruler.

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