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Espionage Espionage (spying) is a practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. What differentiates espionage from other forms of intelligence work is that espionage involves obtaining the information by accessing the place where the information is stored or accessing the people who know the information and will divulge it through some kind of subterfuge.
Espionage Act of 1917 The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. It was punishable by a maximum $USD 10,000 fine (today's equivalent of $169,517.
Espiritismo Espiritismo (Spanish for "Spiritualism") is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life.Helping Elderly Hispanics Manage Health Problems, The University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita.
Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964 and recent tournaments have featured teams from around forty countries.
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of prime waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. It contains a 1,600 seat concert hall and a 2,000 seat theatre for the performing arts.
Esplanade Bridge The Esplanade Bridge is a road bridge that spans across the Marina Bay near the mouth of Singapore River in Singapore, with the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay on its northern abutment and the Merlion on the southern. The eight-lane dual carriageway along the bridge, Esplanade Drive, links the Nicoll Highway on its northern end with Collyer Quay on its southern end.
Esplanade Busport, Perth Transperth Esplanade Busport, previously known as Perth City Busport, is located on the southern edge of the Perth CBD in Western Australia, next to the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre and the construction site for the Esplanade railway station.
Esplanade Hotel The Esplanade Hotel is an iconic public house in St Kilda, a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is situated at 11 Upper Esplanade, overlooking Port Phillip on a rise opposite the St Kilda Pier, making it a significant landmark of St Kilda.
Esplanade MRT Station Esplanade MRT station, tentatively (CC3) is a proposed underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle MRT Line in Singapore. It is located next to the War Memorial Park and Suntec City Convention Centre and will link the underground shopping mall and link CityLink Mall and the proposed underground extension cum link from Raffles City.
Esplendor Geometrico Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados.
Espoon keskus Espoon keskus (Esbo centrum in Swedish, meaning "the centre of Espoo") is the central district of Espoo, the second biggest city of Finland and the administrative centre with the city hall of Espoo. The areas of Kiltakallio, Kirkkojärvi, Saarniraivio, Suna, Suvela and Tuomarila belong to Espoon keskus.
Espoon Suunta Espoon Suunta (EsSu) is an orienteering club from Espoo, Finland with a strong interest in advancing the elite orienteering as well as youth orienteering and adult fitness orienteering in the western Helsinki capital area.
Esporte Clube Novo Hamburgo Esporte Clube Novo Hamburgo, or Novo Hamburgo as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Novo Hamburgo in Rio Grande do Sul, founded on May 1, 1911. As of 2006, they play in the Campeonato Brasileiro third division.
Espostoopsis dybowskii Espostoopsis dybowskii is a species of cacti and the sole species of its genus (Espostoopsis). Its specific name is formed from Greek (opsis meaning "view"), referring to its resemblance with the genus Espostoa, with which it is often confused.
Espresso Espresso (Italian)More formally also caffè espresso, in Italian. is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot, but not boiling, water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder.
Espresso3D Espresso3D (E3D) is a middle layer 3D library written in the Java programming language that sits between OpenGL and 3D applications. This middle layer is sometimes called a game engine, 3D application engine, or, although not truly descriptive of Espresso3D because it provides more features, a scene graph.
Esprit d'Escalier Debut release from gothic rock band The Way Of All Flesh. The album is entirely self funded, with the majority of the instruments being recorded in the lead guitarists bedroom before being finally mixed in a proper studio.
Esprit Holdings Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery, and housewares, under the ESPRIT label. The company is headquartered and managed from Ratingen, Germany, while the Financial- and IR-Office remains in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Esprit Omnimedia Esprit Omnimedia is a privately owned, self-funded parachurch organization focused on Christian unity, but has heavy involvement in funding of orphanages and disaster recovery efforts in the South American Ring of Poverty and South Asia. It was founded in 1991 as the D'Esprit Foundation, but changed its name in 2001 (according to the Wayback Machine at http://www.
Espy Sans Espy Sans is a bitmap font created by Apple Computer for the Newton PDA project, and later adapted for use in the Apple Guide help system and some versions of the iPod, particularly the iPod mini. Before the release of the Charcoal font used for MacOS 8 and 9, it was a popular replacement system font for reskinnings of MacOS 7.
Esquilache Riots The Esquilache Riots (MotĂn de Esquilache) occurred in March 1766 during the rule of Charles III of Spain. Caused mostly by the growing discontent in Madrid about the rising costs of bread and other staples, they were sparked off by a series of measures regarding Spaniards' apparel that had been enacted by Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache, a Neapolitan minister whom Charles favored.
Esquipulas Peace Agreement The Esquipulas Peace Agreement was an initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts that had plagued Central America for many years, and in some cases (notably Guatemala) for decades. It built upon work laid by the Contadora Group from 1983 to 1985.
Esquire Bedell An Esquire Bedell is a junior ceremonial officer of a university, usually with official duties relating to the conduct of ceremonies for the conferment of degrees. The word is closely related to the archaic Bedel and modern English Beadle.
Esquivalience Esquivalience, according to the August 29, 2005 New Yorker article "Ink: Not a Word" by Henry Alford, is a fictitious entry in the New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD), which was designed and included to protect copyright of the publication. The word was invented by Christine Lindberg, one of the editors of the NOAD.
Esquivando Charcos Esquivando Charcos is the first musical work of La Renga. Up to 1991 it was a version only available in cassette that lamentably, it wasn't found in music shops, although the live versions of these songs also were can to be listened in the album Bailando En Una Pata.
Esraj The esraj (also called israj or dilruba) is a string instrument found in two forms throughout the north, central, and east regions of India. It is a young instrument by Indian terms, being only about 200 years old.
Esrange Esrange, the European Space and Sounding Rocket Range, is a rocket range and research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden at . It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things.
Esrom Esrom, or Danish Port Salut cheese is a Trappist-style pale yellow semi-soft cow's milk cheese with a pungent aroma and a full, sweet flavor. It is a porous cheese, with many small holes throughout, and is slightly elastic and buttery in texture.
Essabil Essabil (Arabic: السبيل, "The Way"), also known as the Democratic and Social Itinerary (Itinéraire Démocratique et Social, IDS) is a minor Algerian political party founded by Abdesslem Ali-Rachedi in January 2002.
Essad Pasha Essad Pasha (born Essad Toptani, 1863 – June 13, 1920) was a leader of the opposition forces that overthrew Prince William of Wied in Albania and served as prime minister of that country for one month, shortly after William left.
Essam Abd El Fatah Essam Abd El Fatah (Arabic: عصام عبد الŮتاŘ) (born December 30, 1965) is an Egyptian football (soccer) referee. Abd El Fatah has been a referee since 2001; his first international game was between Morocco and Sierra Leone in 2003.
Essau Kanyenda Essau Boxer Kanyenda (born September 27, 1982 in Lilongwe) is a football striker from Malawi, an important player for the Malawi national team. He started his career in Dwasco FC, and has since played for Jomo Cosmos and FC Rostov before joining Lokomotiv Moscow in 2005.
Essay mill An essay mill, sometimes also called a paper mill, is the colloquial term for a type of ghostwriting service which specializes in the sale of essays, term papers, and other forms of homework assignments to university and college students. Students who purchase essays and term papers purchased from essay mills and then submit them as their own work are committing academic fraud.
Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle et sur la conduite de l'archet (Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow) is a seminal work of cello technique, by the French cellist and pedagogue Jean-Louis Duport, dating from 1806. The French text of 175 pages discusses in detail a wide range of aspects of cello technique, and is followed by 21 Etudes for two cellos, of various difficulty levels.
Essays (Montaigne) Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number.
Essays and Reviews Essays and Reviews, published in 1860, is a collection of seven essays on religion, covering topics including the biblical research of the German critics, the evidences of Christianity, religious thought in England, and the cosmology of Genesis.
Essays in London and Elsewhere Essays in London and Elsewhere is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1893. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding several years on a wide range of writers including James Russell Lowell, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Browning and Henrik Ibsen.
Essays in Radical Empiricism Essays in Radical Empiricism (ERE) by William James is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from ten out of a collection of twelve reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University Library and the Harvard Department of Philosophy for supplemental use by his students.
Essays of George Orwell George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, the influential English author and critic) published two volumes of his essays during his life, Inside the Whale and Other Essays in 1940, and Critical Essays in 1946. Since his death, many collections of essays have appeared, most comprehensively the four volume Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism edited by his last wife, Sonia Orwell, which was published in 1968, and the last eleven volumes of the twenty volume The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davidson, which appeared in 1998.
Essbase Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS) that provides a multidimensional database platform upon which to build analytic applications, ie. those that are optimized for multiple serial queries, processed in realtime by users.
Esse quam videri Esse quam videri (Latin "To be, rather than to seem") is a state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. It is found in Cicero's essay "On Friendship" ("[de Amicitia|De amicitia]", chapter 98).
Esselen The Esselen were the Native American inhabitants of what is now known as Big Sur on the Central Coast of California. Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that their territory extended much further north, into the San Francisco Bay Area, until they were displaced by the entrance of Ohlone speakers some 2,500-4,500 years ago.
Essembly Essembly is a non-partisan political social networking website that allows its users to connect with one another based on political opinions, participate in unmoderated discussion, and organize for political action. It was founded in 2005 by Joe Green, a Harvard graduate and college roomate of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the collegiate social-networking site Facebook.
Essen Essen is a city in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 584,295 (as of December 31, 2005) makes it the 7th- or 8th-largest city in Germany.
Essen Feather The Essen Feather (German: Essener Feder) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the Spiel game fair in Essen, Germany. The award is given to games with well-written rules, as it was felt that too many good games were spoilt by incomprehensible rules.
Essence In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and that it has necessary, in contrast with accident, properties that the object or substance has contingently and without which the substance could have existed. The notion of essence has acquired many slightly but importantly different shades of meaning throughout the history of philosophy; most of them derive from its use by Aristotle and its evolution within the scholastic tradition.
Essendon Football Club Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, commonly known as Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, but plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome and the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Essendon Keilor College Essendon Keilor College was founded in 1992 from the amalgamation of Queens Park Secondary College (formerly Essendon Technical School), Essendon High School, Niddrie High School and Keilor Heights Secondary College. Essendon Keilor College (current enrolment approx 1800) is a multi-campus college providing state education primarily to students from the North and West of Melbourne.
Essent Essent NV, based in Arnhem, Netherlands, is a non-listed, limited liability energy company. It is one of the largest players on the energy market in its chief market the Netherlands, and also operates in Germany and Belgium.
Essential amino acid An essential amino acid or indispensible amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized de novo by the organism (usually referring to humans), and therefore must be supplied in the diet. Nutritional essentiality is characteristic of the species, not the nutrient.
Essential Air Service Essential Air Service (EAS) is a United States Government program that was enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States that prior to deregulation were served by certificated airlines maintained commercial service. It was designed to maintain a minimal level of scheduled air service to these communities which otherwise would not be profitable.
Essential communication Essential communication is part of Spoken Language communication through which humans communicate and express their advice, suggestions, offers, invitations, requests, permission, complain, apologies, thanks, directions, opinions, agreement, disagreement, etc. at different situations and occasions.
Essential complexity Essential complexity refers to a situation where all reasonable solutions to a problem must be complicated (and possibly confusing) because the "simple" solutions would not adequately solve the problem. It stands in contrast to accidental complexity, which arises purely from mismatches in the particular choice of tools and methods applied in the solution.
Essential dignity In astrology, essential dignity is the strength of a planet or point's zodiac position, weighed by only that position by sign and degree, or its essence. In other words, essential dignity seeks to view the strengths of a planet or point as though it were isolated from other factors in the sky of the natal chart.
Essential Information Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit organization involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. Essential Information provides provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and public policy makers.
Essential matrix In computer vision, the essential matrix is a 3 times 3 matrix mathbf{E} which relates corresponding points in stereo images. More specifically, if mathbf{tilde y}_{1} and mathbf{tilde y}_{2} are homogeneous normalized image coordinates in image 1 and 2, respectively, then
Essential medicines Essential medicines, as defined by the World Health Organization are "those drugs that satisfy the health care needs of the majority of the population; they should therefore be available at all times in adequate amounts and in appropriate dosage forms, at a price the community can afford."
Essential Marvel Comics The Essential Marvel line of comic book reprints are a collection of black-and-white paperbacks containing about 20-30 issues of silver or bronze age Marvel comic book reprints each. They contain between 500 and 650 pages, and phonebook-style paper is used.
Essential Mix The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and features all styles of dance music. The show has been hosted since its conception in 1993 by DJ Pete Tong who was also the first performer, broadcast on 30 October 1993.
Essential nutrient An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that cannot be synthesized by the body. Categories of essential nutrient include vitamins, dietary minerals, essential fatty acids and essential amino acids.
Essential property First identified by Aristotle by who made the distinction between essential and accidental properties of an object. An essential property of an object is one that, if lost, would mean the object to cease being that type of object.
Essential service In telecommunication, an essential service (critical service) is a network-provided service feature in which a priority dial tone is furnished. Essential service is typically provided to fewer than 10 % of network usersm, and recommended for use in conjunction with NS/EP telecommunications services.
Essential supremum and essential infimum The concepts of essential supremum and essential infimum are related to the notions of supremum and infimum, but the former are more relevant in measure theory, where one often deals with statements which are not valid everywhere, that is for all elements in a set, but rather almost everywhere, that is, except on a set of measure zero.
Essential Selection The Essential Selection was a radio show on Friday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm on BBC Radio One, hosted by Pete Tong. It started in early 1991 and showcased the latest electronic dance music, with an emphasis on house.
Essential Services Commission (Victoria) The Essential Services Commission ("ESC") is the independent economic regulator established by the State Government of Victoria, Australia to regulate prescribed essential utility services supplied by the electricity, gas, water, ports, grain handling and rail freight industries and aspects of the insurance industry. ESC commenced operations on 1st January 2002, subsuming the Office of the Regulator-General Victoria.
Essentialism In philosophy, essentialism is the view, that, for any specific kind of entity it is at least theoretically possible to specify a finite list of characteristics —all of which any entity must have to belong to the group defined. This view is contrasted with non-essentialism which states that for any given entity there are no specified traits which that entity must have in order to be defined as that entity.
Essentially contested concept In a paper delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 12 March 1956,Published immediately as Gallie (1956a); a later, slightly altered version appears in Galllie (1964). Walter Bryce Gallie (1912-1998) introduced the term essentially contested concept to facilitate an understanding of the different applications or interpretations of the sorts of abstract, qualitative, and evaluative notionsThey are "evaluative" in the sense that they deliver some sort of "value-judgement".
Essentially unique In mathematics, the term essentially unique is used to indicate that while some object is not the only one that satisfies certain properties, all such objects are "the same" in some sense appropriate to the circumstances. This notion of "sameness" is often formalized using an equivalence relation.
Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence" is a document produced in 1995 as a "Terms of Reference" by the Policy Subcommittee of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) of the United States Strategic Command (current USSTRATCOM, former CINCSTRAT), a branch of the Department of Defense. The document, drafted under former Commander-in-Chief of CINCSTRAT Admiral Chiles, is to be used as a baseline for future policies and strategies in "expanding the Deterrence of the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3) is a region of Guyana, split in two by the Essequibo River. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Demerara-Mahaica to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the regions of Cuyuni-Mazaruni and Pomeroon-Supenaam to the west.
Essequibo River The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north for 1,000 kilometres through forest and savanna into the Atlantic Ocean.
Essex Essex is a county in the East of England. The county town is Chelmsford and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches 482 ft (147 metres).
Essex (automobile) The Essex was a brand of automobile produced by the Essex Motors Company from 1918 -1922 and Hudson Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1922 and 1932. During its production run, the Essex was considered a small car and affordably priced.
Essex (CDP), Massachusetts Essex CDP is a census-designated place (CDP) located within the town of Essex in Essex County, Massachusetts. The CDP report is used to provide separate population, area, and demographic statistics for the central settlement or village within the town.
Essex (electoral district) Essex (formerly known as Essex—Windsor) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882 and since 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Essex (UK Parliament constituency) Essex was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1660 until 1832. It elected two MPs to the House of Commons and was divided into two single member constituencies (Essex North and Essex South) in the Great Reform Act.
Essex Blades The Essex Blades are a member of the British Collegiate American Football League (BCAFL)'s Southern Conference-Eastern Division. The Blades have shown steady improvement since entering the BCAFL in 2001-02, earning the first playoff appearance in team history in the 2004-05 season, while, also becoming BCAFL Team of the Year.
Essex Bridge, Staffordshire Essex Bridge is a packhorse bridge over the River Trent near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. Lying on the River Trent one hundred yards downstream of the junction with the River Sow, it is thought to have been built in the 16th century by the then Earl of Essex.
Essex class aircraft carrier The United States Navy's Essex-class aircraft carriers constituted the Twentieth Century's largest class of heavy warships, with 24 ships built. Although thirty-two were originally ordered, six were cancelled before construction, and two were cancelled after construction had begun.
Essex county cricket teams Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being played.
Essex County Cricket Club Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles.
Essex County Cricket Club in 2005 Essex County Cricket Club played their cricket during the 2005 season in Division Two of the County Championship and Division One of the Sunday League. They started the season 8-1 to win the Second Division Title, and were second in the Championship table at 9 May, but five matches without a win following that sent them down to fifth place at the Twenty20 break in June.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory FRS (fire and rescue service) for the county of Essex in the south-east of England. Between January 1 and December 31 2005 the service attended a total of 24,291 emergency calls, mostly made up of fires and road traffic collisions.
Essex District High School Essex District High School is a public secondary school in Essex, in the centre of Essex County. The school prides itself on academic excellence and course variety, as well as many opportunities for students to get involved.
Essex in Ireland In 1599 the Earl of Essex fought a campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years War. Earlier in the year Queen Elizabeth I of England had been troubled by the need to appoint a military commander in that country, at a time when her court was dominated by two factions - one led by Essex, the other by her principal secretary, Sir Robert Cecil.
Essex man Essex man is a political term and stereotype popular in the United Kingdom. The term came to prominence during the 1990s to explain, in part, the electoral successes of Margaret Thatcher in the previous decade.
Essex Memorial Arena The Essex Memorial Arena is based in Essex, Ontario, The facility was built in 1960, has been home to the Essex 73's of the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League for the past 34 years, has been many Championships in that span. The Facility is also home to Essex Minor Hockey.
Essex Society for Family History The Essex Society for Family History (abbreviated to ESFH) is a Family History Society, that covers the county of Essex in the United Kingdom. It includes the former parts of the county, Southend on Sea and Thurrock, which are now unitary districts.
Essex Street Market The Essex Street Market is an indoor retail market that was one of a number of such facilities built in the 1930s under the administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at 120 Essex Street at the corner of Delancey Street. The markets were constructed to reduce pushcart congestion on the narrow streets of the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Essex Terminal Railway Essex Terminal Railway is a Canadian shortline railroad, travelling from the Town of Amherstburg, Ontario, through La Salle, to the City of Windsor, Ontario in Essex County, Ontario, a distance of 21 miles (32 km), with connections to CPRail and CN Railway. The railway is owned by Essex Morterm Holdings.
Essex West (electoral district) Essex West was a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Essex North riding.
Essiac Essiac or Essiac Tea is a blend of herbs used to make a tea that is believed by some and questioned by others to have cancer-treating properties. It was discovered by a Canadian nurse, Rene Caisse, who named it after her name spelled backwards.
Essie Coffey Essie Coffey (1940 - 1998), OAM , was born at Essiena Goodgabah in southern Queensland. She was a Muruwari woman and the co-founder of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and served on a number of government bodies and Aboriginal community organisations.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams Essie Mae Washington-Williams (born October 12, 1925) is the oldest daughter of the United States Senator Strom Thurmond. She was born illegitimately to Thurmond (then 22) and an African-American household servant of the Thurmond family named Carrie Butler, who was fifteen at the start of the affair and sixteen when she delivered.
Essingebron Essingebron (Swedish: "The Essinge Bridge") are two parallel bridges in central Stockholm, Sweden, inaugurated August 21st, 1966, and September 3rd, 1967. Forming a section of the Essingeleden motorway they connect the two islands Stora Essingen and Lilla Essingen and are the most heavily trafficked bridges in Sweden.
Essingeleden Essingeleden is a motorway that goes from Solna to Stockholm, Sweden, crossing the westmost parts of central Stockholm, by going over Kungsholmen, Lilla Essingen and Stora Essingen. It has three bridges - Fredhällsbron (270 m), Essingebron (470 m), and Gröndalsbron (460 m) - and one tunnel Fredhällstunneln (210 m), which is one of the most trafficked tunnels in Europe.
Esslingen (district) Esslingen is a district (Kreis) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rems-Murr, Göppingen, Reutlingen, Böblingen and the district-free city Stuttgart.
Esslingen University of Applied Sciences The Esslingen University of Applied Sciences or Hochschule Esslingen (formerly 2006: Hochschule fĂĽr Technik (FHTE) und Hochschule fĂĽr Sozialwesen (HfS)) is a University of applied sciences in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.
EssNet EssNet AB is a Stockholm based provider of solutions to Lotteries, including Lottry terminals, central software and knowledge. The company has inherited a long tradition within paper handling since it was born from the old and traditional Esselte company.
Esso Australia Esso Australia is an Australian affiliate of ExxonMobil, the US based oil giant. Esso operates a number of oil and gas platfroms in Bass Strait, south east of Melbourne, Australia, as well as a gas processing facility at Longford.
Espionage Act of 1917 The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. It was punishable by a maximum $USD 10,000 fine (today's equivalent of $169,517.
Espiritismo Espiritismo (Spanish for "Spiritualism") is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life.Helping Elderly Hispanics Manage Health Problems, The University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita.
Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964 and recent tournaments have featured teams from around forty countries.
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of prime waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. It contains a 1,600 seat concert hall and a 2,000 seat theatre for the performing arts.
Esplanade Bridge The Esplanade Bridge is a road bridge that spans across the Marina Bay near the mouth of Singapore River in Singapore, with the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay on its northern abutment and the Merlion on the southern. The eight-lane dual carriageway along the bridge, Esplanade Drive, links the Nicoll Highway on its northern end with Collyer Quay on its southern end.
Esplanade Busport, Perth Transperth Esplanade Busport, previously known as Perth City Busport, is located on the southern edge of the Perth CBD in Western Australia, next to the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre and the construction site for the Esplanade railway station.
Esplanade Hotel The Esplanade Hotel is an iconic public house in St Kilda, a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is situated at 11 Upper Esplanade, overlooking Port Phillip on a rise opposite the St Kilda Pier, making it a significant landmark of St Kilda.
Esplanade MRT Station Esplanade MRT station, tentatively (CC3) is a proposed underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle MRT Line in Singapore. It is located next to the War Memorial Park and Suntec City Convention Centre and will link the underground shopping mall and link CityLink Mall and the proposed underground extension cum link from Raffles City.
Esplendor Geometrico Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados.
Espoon keskus Espoon keskus (Esbo centrum in Swedish, meaning "the centre of Espoo") is the central district of Espoo, the second biggest city of Finland and the administrative centre with the city hall of Espoo. The areas of Kiltakallio, Kirkkojärvi, Saarniraivio, Suna, Suvela and Tuomarila belong to Espoon keskus.
Espoon Suunta Espoon Suunta (EsSu) is an orienteering club from Espoo, Finland with a strong interest in advancing the elite orienteering as well as youth orienteering and adult fitness orienteering in the western Helsinki capital area.
Esporte Clube Novo Hamburgo Esporte Clube Novo Hamburgo, or Novo Hamburgo as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Novo Hamburgo in Rio Grande do Sul, founded on May 1, 1911. As of 2006, they play in the Campeonato Brasileiro third division.
Espostoopsis dybowskii Espostoopsis dybowskii is a species of cacti and the sole species of its genus (Espostoopsis). Its specific name is formed from Greek (opsis meaning "view"), referring to its resemblance with the genus Espostoa, with which it is often confused.
Espresso Espresso (Italian)More formally also caffè espresso, in Italian. is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot, but not boiling, water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder.
Espresso3D Espresso3D (E3D) is a middle layer 3D library written in the Java programming language that sits between OpenGL and 3D applications. This middle layer is sometimes called a game engine, 3D application engine, or, although not truly descriptive of Espresso3D because it provides more features, a scene graph.
Esprit d'Escalier Debut release from gothic rock band The Way Of All Flesh. The album is entirely self funded, with the majority of the instruments being recorded in the lead guitarists bedroom before being finally mixed in a proper studio.
Esprit Holdings Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery, and housewares, under the ESPRIT label. The company is headquartered and managed from Ratingen, Germany, while the Financial- and IR-Office remains in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Esprit Omnimedia Esprit Omnimedia is a privately owned, self-funded parachurch organization focused on Christian unity, but has heavy involvement in funding of orphanages and disaster recovery efforts in the South American Ring of Poverty and South Asia. It was founded in 1991 as the D'Esprit Foundation, but changed its name in 2001 (according to the Wayback Machine at http://www.
Espy Sans Espy Sans is a bitmap font created by Apple Computer for the Newton PDA project, and later adapted for use in the Apple Guide help system and some versions of the iPod, particularly the iPod mini. Before the release of the Charcoal font used for MacOS 8 and 9, it was a popular replacement system font for reskinnings of MacOS 7.
Esquilache Riots The Esquilache Riots (MotĂn de Esquilache) occurred in March 1766 during the rule of Charles III of Spain. Caused mostly by the growing discontent in Madrid about the rising costs of bread and other staples, they were sparked off by a series of measures regarding Spaniards' apparel that had been enacted by Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache, a Neapolitan minister whom Charles favored.
Esquipulas Peace Agreement The Esquipulas Peace Agreement was an initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts that had plagued Central America for many years, and in some cases (notably Guatemala) for decades. It built upon work laid by the Contadora Group from 1983 to 1985.
Esquire Bedell An Esquire Bedell is a junior ceremonial officer of a university, usually with official duties relating to the conduct of ceremonies for the conferment of degrees. The word is closely related to the archaic Bedel and modern English Beadle.
Esquivalience Esquivalience, according to the August 29, 2005 New Yorker article "Ink: Not a Word" by Henry Alford, is a fictitious entry in the New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD), which was designed and included to protect copyright of the publication. The word was invented by Christine Lindberg, one of the editors of the NOAD.
Esquivando Charcos Esquivando Charcos is the first musical work of La Renga. Up to 1991 it was a version only available in cassette that lamentably, it wasn't found in music shops, although the live versions of these songs also were can to be listened in the album Bailando En Una Pata.
Esraj The esraj (also called israj or dilruba) is a string instrument found in two forms throughout the north, central, and east regions of India. It is a young instrument by Indian terms, being only about 200 years old.
Esrange Esrange, the European Space and Sounding Rocket Range, is a rocket range and research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden at . It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things.
Esrom Esrom, or Danish Port Salut cheese is a Trappist-style pale yellow semi-soft cow's milk cheese with a pungent aroma and a full, sweet flavor. It is a porous cheese, with many small holes throughout, and is slightly elastic and buttery in texture.
Essabil Essabil (Arabic: السبيل, "The Way"), also known as the Democratic and Social Itinerary (Itinéraire Démocratique et Social, IDS) is a minor Algerian political party founded by Abdesslem Ali-Rachedi in January 2002.
Essad Pasha Essad Pasha (born Essad Toptani, 1863 – June 13, 1920) was a leader of the opposition forces that overthrew Prince William of Wied in Albania and served as prime minister of that country for one month, shortly after William left.
Essam Abd El Fatah Essam Abd El Fatah (Arabic: عصام عبد الŮتاŘ) (born December 30, 1965) is an Egyptian football (soccer) referee. Abd El Fatah has been a referee since 2001; his first international game was between Morocco and Sierra Leone in 2003.
Essau Kanyenda Essau Boxer Kanyenda (born September 27, 1982 in Lilongwe) is a football striker from Malawi, an important player for the Malawi national team. He started his career in Dwasco FC, and has since played for Jomo Cosmos and FC Rostov before joining Lokomotiv Moscow in 2005.
Essay mill An essay mill, sometimes also called a paper mill, is the colloquial term for a type of ghostwriting service which specializes in the sale of essays, term papers, and other forms of homework assignments to university and college students. Students who purchase essays and term papers purchased from essay mills and then submit them as their own work are committing academic fraud.
Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle et sur la conduite de l'archet (Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow) is a seminal work of cello technique, by the French cellist and pedagogue Jean-Louis Duport, dating from 1806. The French text of 175 pages discusses in detail a wide range of aspects of cello technique, and is followed by 21 Etudes for two cellos, of various difficulty levels.
Essays (Montaigne) Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number.
Essays and Reviews Essays and Reviews, published in 1860, is a collection of seven essays on religion, covering topics including the biblical research of the German critics, the evidences of Christianity, religious thought in England, and the cosmology of Genesis.
Essays in London and Elsewhere Essays in London and Elsewhere is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1893. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding several years on a wide range of writers including James Russell Lowell, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Browning and Henrik Ibsen.
Essays in Radical Empiricism Essays in Radical Empiricism (ERE) by William James is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from ten out of a collection of twelve reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University Library and the Harvard Department of Philosophy for supplemental use by his students.
Essays of George Orwell George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, the influential English author and critic) published two volumes of his essays during his life, Inside the Whale and Other Essays in 1940, and Critical Essays in 1946. Since his death, many collections of essays have appeared, most comprehensively the four volume Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism edited by his last wife, Sonia Orwell, which was published in 1968, and the last eleven volumes of the twenty volume The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davidson, which appeared in 1998.
Essbase Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS) that provides a multidimensional database platform upon which to build analytic applications, ie. those that are optimized for multiple serial queries, processed in realtime by users.
Esse quam videri Esse quam videri (Latin "To be, rather than to seem") is a state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. It is found in Cicero's essay "On Friendship" ("[de Amicitia|De amicitia]", chapter 98).
Esselen The Esselen were the Native American inhabitants of what is now known as Big Sur on the Central Coast of California. Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that their territory extended much further north, into the San Francisco Bay Area, until they were displaced by the entrance of Ohlone speakers some 2,500-4,500 years ago.
Essembly Essembly is a non-partisan political social networking website that allows its users to connect with one another based on political opinions, participate in unmoderated discussion, and organize for political action. It was founded in 2005 by Joe Green, a Harvard graduate and college roomate of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the collegiate social-networking site Facebook.
Essen Essen is a city in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 584,295 (as of December 31, 2005) makes it the 7th- or 8th-largest city in Germany.
Essen Feather The Essen Feather (German: Essener Feder) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the Spiel game fair in Essen, Germany. The award is given to games with well-written rules, as it was felt that too many good games were spoilt by incomprehensible rules.
Essence In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and that it has necessary, in contrast with accident, properties that the object or substance has contingently and without which the substance could have existed. The notion of essence has acquired many slightly but importantly different shades of meaning throughout the history of philosophy; most of them derive from its use by Aristotle and its evolution within the scholastic tradition.
Essendon Football Club Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, commonly known as Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, but plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome and the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Essendon Keilor College Essendon Keilor College was founded in 1992 from the amalgamation of Queens Park Secondary College (formerly Essendon Technical School), Essendon High School, Niddrie High School and Keilor Heights Secondary College. Essendon Keilor College (current enrolment approx 1800) is a multi-campus college providing state education primarily to students from the North and West of Melbourne.
Essent Essent NV, based in Arnhem, Netherlands, is a non-listed, limited liability energy company. It is one of the largest players on the energy market in its chief market the Netherlands, and also operates in Germany and Belgium.
Essential amino acid An essential amino acid or indispensible amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized de novo by the organism (usually referring to humans), and therefore must be supplied in the diet. Nutritional essentiality is characteristic of the species, not the nutrient.
Essential Air Service Essential Air Service (EAS) is a United States Government program that was enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States that prior to deregulation were served by certificated airlines maintained commercial service. It was designed to maintain a minimal level of scheduled air service to these communities which otherwise would not be profitable.
Essential communication Essential communication is part of Spoken Language communication through which humans communicate and express their advice, suggestions, offers, invitations, requests, permission, complain, apologies, thanks, directions, opinions, agreement, disagreement, etc. at different situations and occasions.
Essential complexity Essential complexity refers to a situation where all reasonable solutions to a problem must be complicated (and possibly confusing) because the "simple" solutions would not adequately solve the problem. It stands in contrast to accidental complexity, which arises purely from mismatches in the particular choice of tools and methods applied in the solution.
Essential dignity In astrology, essential dignity is the strength of a planet or point's zodiac position, weighed by only that position by sign and degree, or its essence. In other words, essential dignity seeks to view the strengths of a planet or point as though it were isolated from other factors in the sky of the natal chart.
Essential Information Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit organization involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. Essential Information provides provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and public policy makers.
Essential matrix In computer vision, the essential matrix is a 3 times 3 matrix mathbf{E} which relates corresponding points in stereo images. More specifically, if mathbf{tilde y}_{1} and mathbf{tilde y}_{2} are homogeneous normalized image coordinates in image 1 and 2, respectively, then
Essential medicines Essential medicines, as defined by the World Health Organization are "those drugs that satisfy the health care needs of the majority of the population; they should therefore be available at all times in adequate amounts and in appropriate dosage forms, at a price the community can afford."
Essential Marvel Comics The Essential Marvel line of comic book reprints are a collection of black-and-white paperbacks containing about 20-30 issues of silver or bronze age Marvel comic book reprints each. They contain between 500 and 650 pages, and phonebook-style paper is used.
Essential Mix The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and features all styles of dance music. The show has been hosted since its conception in 1993 by DJ Pete Tong who was also the first performer, broadcast on 30 October 1993.
Essential nutrient An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that cannot be synthesized by the body. Categories of essential nutrient include vitamins, dietary minerals, essential fatty acids and essential amino acids.
Essential property First identified by Aristotle by who made the distinction between essential and accidental properties of an object. An essential property of an object is one that, if lost, would mean the object to cease being that type of object.
Essential service In telecommunication, an essential service (critical service) is a network-provided service feature in which a priority dial tone is furnished. Essential service is typically provided to fewer than 10 % of network usersm, and recommended for use in conjunction with NS/EP telecommunications services.
Essential supremum and essential infimum The concepts of essential supremum and essential infimum are related to the notions of supremum and infimum, but the former are more relevant in measure theory, where one often deals with statements which are not valid everywhere, that is for all elements in a set, but rather almost everywhere, that is, except on a set of measure zero.
Essential Selection The Essential Selection was a radio show on Friday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm on BBC Radio One, hosted by Pete Tong. It started in early 1991 and showcased the latest electronic dance music, with an emphasis on house.
Essential Services Commission (Victoria) The Essential Services Commission ("ESC") is the independent economic regulator established by the State Government of Victoria, Australia to regulate prescribed essential utility services supplied by the electricity, gas, water, ports, grain handling and rail freight industries and aspects of the insurance industry. ESC commenced operations on 1st January 2002, subsuming the Office of the Regulator-General Victoria.
Essentialism In philosophy, essentialism is the view, that, for any specific kind of entity it is at least theoretically possible to specify a finite list of characteristics —all of which any entity must have to belong to the group defined. This view is contrasted with non-essentialism which states that for any given entity there are no specified traits which that entity must have in order to be defined as that entity.
Essentially contested concept In a paper delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 12 March 1956,Published immediately as Gallie (1956a); a later, slightly altered version appears in Galllie (1964). Walter Bryce Gallie (1912-1998) introduced the term essentially contested concept to facilitate an understanding of the different applications or interpretations of the sorts of abstract, qualitative, and evaluative notionsThey are "evaluative" in the sense that they deliver some sort of "value-judgement".
Essentially unique In mathematics, the term essentially unique is used to indicate that while some object is not the only one that satisfies certain properties, all such objects are "the same" in some sense appropriate to the circumstances. This notion of "sameness" is often formalized using an equivalence relation.
Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence" is a document produced in 1995 as a "Terms of Reference" by the Policy Subcommittee of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) of the United States Strategic Command (current USSTRATCOM, former CINCSTRAT), a branch of the Department of Defense. The document, drafted under former Commander-in-Chief of CINCSTRAT Admiral Chiles, is to be used as a baseline for future policies and strategies in "expanding the Deterrence of the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3) is a region of Guyana, split in two by the Essequibo River. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Demerara-Mahaica to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the regions of Cuyuni-Mazaruni and Pomeroon-Supenaam to the west.
Essequibo River The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north for 1,000 kilometres through forest and savanna into the Atlantic Ocean.
Essex Essex is a county in the East of England. The county town is Chelmsford and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches 482 ft (147 metres).
Essex (automobile) The Essex was a brand of automobile produced by the Essex Motors Company from 1918 -1922 and Hudson Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1922 and 1932. During its production run, the Essex was considered a small car and affordably priced.
Essex (CDP), Massachusetts Essex CDP is a census-designated place (CDP) located within the town of Essex in Essex County, Massachusetts. The CDP report is used to provide separate population, area, and demographic statistics for the central settlement or village within the town.
Essex (electoral district) Essex (formerly known as Essex—Windsor) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882 and since 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Essex (UK Parliament constituency) Essex was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1660 until 1832. It elected two MPs to the House of Commons and was divided into two single member constituencies (Essex North and Essex South) in the Great Reform Act.
Essex Blades The Essex Blades are a member of the British Collegiate American Football League (BCAFL)'s Southern Conference-Eastern Division. The Blades have shown steady improvement since entering the BCAFL in 2001-02, earning the first playoff appearance in team history in the 2004-05 season, while, also becoming BCAFL Team of the Year.
Essex Bridge, Staffordshire Essex Bridge is a packhorse bridge over the River Trent near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. Lying on the River Trent one hundred yards downstream of the junction with the River Sow, it is thought to have been built in the 16th century by the then Earl of Essex.
Essex class aircraft carrier The United States Navy's Essex-class aircraft carriers constituted the Twentieth Century's largest class of heavy warships, with 24 ships built. Although thirty-two were originally ordered, six were cancelled before construction, and two were cancelled after construction had begun.
Essex county cricket teams Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being played.
Essex County Cricket Club Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles.
Essex County Cricket Club in 2005 Essex County Cricket Club played their cricket during the 2005 season in Division Two of the County Championship and Division One of the Sunday League. They started the season 8-1 to win the Second Division Title, and were second in the Championship table at 9 May, but five matches without a win following that sent them down to fifth place at the Twenty20 break in June.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory FRS (fire and rescue service) for the county of Essex in the south-east of England. Between January 1 and December 31 2005 the service attended a total of 24,291 emergency calls, mostly made up of fires and road traffic collisions.
Essex District High School Essex District High School is a public secondary school in Essex, in the centre of Essex County. The school prides itself on academic excellence and course variety, as well as many opportunities for students to get involved.
Essex in Ireland In 1599 the Earl of Essex fought a campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years War. Earlier in the year Queen Elizabeth I of England had been troubled by the need to appoint a military commander in that country, at a time when her court was dominated by two factions - one led by Essex, the other by her principal secretary, Sir Robert Cecil.
Essex man Essex man is a political term and stereotype popular in the United Kingdom. The term came to prominence during the 1990s to explain, in part, the electoral successes of Margaret Thatcher in the previous decade.
Essex Memorial Arena The Essex Memorial Arena is based in Essex, Ontario, The facility was built in 1960, has been home to the Essex 73's of the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League for the past 34 years, has been many Championships in that span. The Facility is also home to Essex Minor Hockey.
Essex Society for Family History The Essex Society for Family History (abbreviated to ESFH) is a Family History Society, that covers the county of Essex in the United Kingdom. It includes the former parts of the county, Southend on Sea and Thurrock, which are now unitary districts.
Essex Street Market The Essex Street Market is an indoor retail market that was one of a number of such facilities built in the 1930s under the administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at 120 Essex Street at the corner of Delancey Street. The markets were constructed to reduce pushcart congestion on the narrow streets of the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Essex Terminal Railway Essex Terminal Railway is a Canadian shortline railroad, travelling from the Town of Amherstburg, Ontario, through La Salle, to the City of Windsor, Ontario in Essex County, Ontario, a distance of 21 miles (32 km), with connections to CPRail and CN Railway. The railway is owned by Essex Morterm Holdings.
Essex West (electoral district) Essex West was a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Essex North riding.
Essiac Essiac or Essiac Tea is a blend of herbs used to make a tea that is believed by some and questioned by others to have cancer-treating properties. It was discovered by a Canadian nurse, Rene Caisse, who named it after her name spelled backwards.
Essie Coffey Essie Coffey (1940 - 1998), OAM , was born at Essiena Goodgabah in southern Queensland. She was a Muruwari woman and the co-founder of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and served on a number of government bodies and Aboriginal community organisations.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams Essie Mae Washington-Williams (born October 12, 1925) is the oldest daughter of the United States Senator Strom Thurmond. She was born illegitimately to Thurmond (then 22) and an African-American household servant of the Thurmond family named Carrie Butler, who was fifteen at the start of the affair and sixteen when she delivered.
Essingebron Essingebron (Swedish: "The Essinge Bridge") are two parallel bridges in central Stockholm, Sweden, inaugurated August 21st, 1966, and September 3rd, 1967. Forming a section of the Essingeleden motorway they connect the two islands Stora Essingen and Lilla Essingen and are the most heavily trafficked bridges in Sweden.
Essingeleden Essingeleden is a motorway that goes from Solna to Stockholm, Sweden, crossing the westmost parts of central Stockholm, by going over Kungsholmen, Lilla Essingen and Stora Essingen. It has three bridges - Fredhällsbron (270 m), Essingebron (470 m), and Gröndalsbron (460 m) - and one tunnel Fredhällstunneln (210 m), which is one of the most trafficked tunnels in Europe.
Esslingen (district) Esslingen is a district (Kreis) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rems-Murr, Göppingen, Reutlingen, Böblingen and the district-free city Stuttgart.
Esslingen University of Applied Sciences The Esslingen University of Applied Sciences or Hochschule Esslingen (formerly 2006: Hochschule fĂĽr Technik (FHTE) und Hochschule fĂĽr Sozialwesen (HfS)) is a University of applied sciences in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.
EssNet EssNet AB is a Stockholm based provider of solutions to Lotteries, including Lottry terminals, central software and knowledge. The company has inherited a long tradition within paper handling since it was born from the old and traditional Esselte company.
Esso Australia Esso Australia is an Australian affiliate of ExxonMobil, the US based oil giant. Esso operates a number of oil and gas platfroms in Bass Strait, south east of Melbourne, Australia, as well as a gas processing facility at Longford.
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