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East Yi West Xia East Yi West Xia (Yi Xia Dong Xi Shuo, 夷夏東西說) is the obsolete theory about the origin of prehistory culture in current China which says that the culture of Shang dynasty was established by two ethnic groups; Western part of Shang dynasty was developed by Xia ethnic group, and the eastern part of Shang dyansty was developed by Yi ethnic group.
East York Civic Centre The East York Civic Centre was the city hall of the former city of East York, Ontario, Canada, now part of Toronto as the result of municipal amalgamation. The two storey civic buildings are located on Coxwell Avenue was completed in 1990, and are currently occupied by a number of municipal departments and services.
East Yorkshire (district) The Borough of East Yorkshire was a local government district in England from April 1, 1974 to April 1, 1996, in the administrative county of Humberside. It covered part of the eastern area in the historic county of Yorkshire, but not the entire East Riding.
East Yorkshire Motor Services East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) operates a fleet of approximately 350 buses and coaches throughout Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, the North Yorkshire coast and North York Moors. The company also operates buses and coaches in Manchester under the Finglands brand and in Kidderminster with Whittle Bus & Coach.
East Zenati languages The East Zenati languages, according to the Ethnologue, is a subgroup of the Zenati languages which includes 3 languages and dialects spoken in Tunisia and Libya. Others regard these three as Eastern Berber languages.
East Zone cricket team The East Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents eastern India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of five first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Assam, Bengal, Jharkand, Orissa and Tripura.
East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists The East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It covers the area of the nations of Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
East-West East-West is a 1966 album by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Its title track is a long improvisational instrumental piece inspired by blues, jazz fusion and raga that was considered groundbreaking at the time of release.
East-West Corridor The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell.
East-West Group The East-West Group is a Bombay-based business house run by the Wahid family with specific interests in aviation and the travel industry. The East-West Group ran and operated East-West Airlines, India's first private airline that started operations in 1993.
East-West Railway, Venezuela The East-West Railway, Venezuela connects the eastern areas with the west of Venezuela, giving better transportation for both cargo and passengers. It also helps to unite the country, strengthening links between cities the railway passes through, by connecting the East, West, Central West and Central South forming an interconnecting matrix of transport links.
East-West Shrine Game The East-West Shrine Game is an annual post-season college football all-star game played each January since 1926. The game is sponsored by the fraternal group Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the net proceeds are earmarked to some of the Shrine's charitable works, most notably the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
East-West Schism The East-West Schism was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches.
East, West East, West (ISBN 0-394-28150-0) is an anthology of short stories written by Salman Rushdie in 1994. The book is divided into three main sections, entitled "East", "West", and "East, West", each section containing stories whose topics center around their respective geographical areas (in the "East, West" section both worlds are influenced by each other).
Eastampton Township School District The Eastampton Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Eastampton Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Eastasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Eastasia is one of the three superstates in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Its borders are not as clearly defined as the other two superstates but it is known that they at least comprise most of modern day China, Japan, and Korea as well as fluctuating areas of Manchuria, Mongolia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East.
Eastbank Esplanade The Eastbank Esplanade (officially Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade) is a pedestrian and bicycle path along the east shore of the Willamette River in the Kerns, Buckman, and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. It was conceived as an urban renewal project to rebuild the Interstate 5 bicycle bypass washed out by the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996.
Eastbourne Eastbourne is a medium-sized town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with a population, according to the 2001 Census, of around 90,000. Created almost from scratch during the 19th Century, it soon became a prime seaside resort, but has since suffered from the general trend away from taking holidays within the UK.
Eastbourne Buses Eastbourne Buses is an independent bus operator running within the Borough of Eastbourne and into the surrounding area, including Pevensey, Hailsham, Tunbridge Wells, Uckfield and East Grinstead. Eastbourne Buses is a limited company, an 80% share of which is owned by Eastbourne Borough Council, making it one of the few remaining bus companies under local authority control in the UK today.
Eastbrook railway station Eastbrook railway station is a railway station serving the Eastbrook area of Dinas Powys near Cardiff, South Wales. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line from Cardiff to Bridgend via Barry, Rhoose and Llantwit Major, which also has a branch line serving Barry Island.
Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational Institute Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities.
Easter bonnet An Easter Bonnet is a type of hat that people used to wear for easter services in church. Until recently, it was popular within infant school, to ask a child to design an easter-themed hat at this time of year, with the aim of getting their parents to wear it at the easter service.
Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny is a fictional giving rabbit which is said to leave gifts, usually Easter baskets for children at Easter (or at springtime). It originates in Western European cultures, where it is a hare rather than a rabbit.
Easter Crisis of 1920 The Easter Crisis of 1920 was a constitutional crisis and a significant event in the evolution of constitutional monarchy in Denmark. It began with the dismissal of the elected government by the reigning monarch, King Christian X, a reserve power which was granted to him by the Danish constitution.
Easter Drama Easter Drama is a religious and theatrical phenomenon in Roman Catholic tradition, largely limited to the Middle Ages. These performances evolved from celebrations of the liturgy to incorporate later dramatic and secular elements, and came to be performed in local languages.
Easter egg Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime. The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute eggs made from chocolate, or plastic eggs filled with candy such as jellybeans.
Easter egg (media) A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations.
Easter Epic The Easter Epic is the nickname given to an National Hockey League Stanley Cup Playoff game between the New York Islanders and Washington Capitals, played April 18-19, 1987 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. It is so named because the game started on Saturday evening but did not finish until the early hours of Easter Sunday.
Easter Lily (badge) The Easter Lily is an artificial paper badge worn around Easter by Irish republicans chiefly as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Depending on the political affiliations of the bearer, it can also commemorate members of the pre-Treaty Irish Republican Army, the post-Treaty Irish Republican Army, and either the Provisional IRA or the Official IRA.
Easter Posey Easter Posey (April 4, 1920 – April 21, 1942) was the first American woman killed in the line of duty during World War II. She died in an accidental explosion on an incendiary bomb manufacturing line at Huntsville Arsenal.
Easter Proclamation The Easter Proclamation, officially referred to as the Proclamation of the Republic, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April, 1916. In it the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, styling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Easter Road Easter Road is the home ground of Scottish football club Hibernian. Located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, the stadium has a capacity of 17,500, making it the seventh largest stadium in Scotland and the largest stadium used primarily for football in Edinburgh.
Easter Saturday Easter Saturday is the Saturday after the Christian festival of Easter, also called Saturday in Easter week. It is sometimes confused with Holy Saturday or Easter Even (Low Saturday), which is the day before Easter Sunday.
Easter Seals (Canada) In Canada, Easter Seals is a group of charitable organizations which provide opportunities for children with physical disabilities. Founded in 1922 by a group of ten Rotary Clubs, it sought to emulate the success of the American Easter Seals program.
Easter Sepulchre An Easter Sepulchre is, in church architecture, an arched recess generally in the north wall of the chancel, in which from Good Friday to Easter day were deposited the crucifix and sacred elements in commemoration of Christ's entombment and resurrection. It was generally only a wooden erection, which was placed in a recess or on a tomb.
Easter term Easter term is the name of the summer term at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wales, Lampeter, University of Durham, and formerly University of Newcastle upon Tyne (before 2004 in the United Kingdom]. It runs from April to June.
Easter Triduum Easter Triduum, or Holy Triduum, or (or Paschal Triduum) is a term used by some Christian churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, to denote, collectively, the three days from the evening of Holy Thursday (or Maundy Thursday) to the evening of Easter Sunday. The Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (or, where this is not celebrated, Vespers of Holy Thursday) and ends after Vespers at sunset on Easter Day.
Easter Vigil The Easter Vigil, also called the Great Vigil of Easter, is a service held in many Christian churches as the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Historically, it is during this service that people (especially adults) are baptized and that adult catechumens and candidates are received into full communion with the Church.
Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence The Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence was a tornado outbreak sequence during the days leading up to Easter and continued into the first week after Easter. It was the third major outbreak of April 2006, which had been an unusually busy month for tornado activity.
Easterhouse railway station Easterhouse railway station serves the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 9 km (5Âľ miles) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line and is managed by First ScotRail.
Eastern & Orient Express The Eastern & Oriental Express carries passengers in luxury between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The train travels through dense rainforests and towering mountains past golden temples, rubber plantations and remote towns and villages.
Eastern Agricultural Complex The term Eastern Agricultural Complex refers to the group of plants that originally formed the basis of agriculture in the eastern regions of North America north of Mexico. These plants included squash (Cucurbita pepo) as well as the lesser-known little barley (Hordeum pusillum), goosefoot or lambsquarter (Chenopodium berlandieri), erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum), maygrass (Phalaris caroliniana) sumpweed or marshelder (Iva annua), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus).
Eastern Aid (Osthilfe) Osthilfe (Eastern Aid) was a policy of the Government of the Weimar Republic to give financial support from Government funds to bankrupt estates in East Prussia.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Schirer, pp180-181
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727-225 with registration number N8845E, was operating New Orleans-Moisant-New York Kennedy on the afternoon of June 24, 1975. The aircraft was carrying 124 persons aboard (116 passengers and 8 crew members).
Eastern Alabama Railway The Eastern Alabama Railway is one of several short line railroad companies owned by the RailAmerica. On November 26 1990, the line was sold by CSX to the "Eastern Alabama Railway", a subsidiary of Kyle Railways.
Eastern Algonquian languages The Eastern Algonquian languages are a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family; prior to European contact, the family consisted of around 17 languages, which stretched from Newfoundland south into North Carolina. Eastern Algonquian languages descend from a putative proto-language, Proto-Eastern Algonquian.
Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of the SplĂĽgen Pass in eastern Switzerland. North of the SplĂĽgen Pass, the Posterior Rhine forms the border, and south of the pass, the Liro river and Lake Como form the boundary line.
Eastern Approaches Eastern Approaches (1949) is an autobiographical account of Fitzroy MacLean's life from his days as a junior diplomat in the Foreign Office to his travels in the Soviet Union and Central Asia to his exploits in the British Army and SAS after being elected an MP.
Eastern Arabic numerals The Eastern Arabic numerals (also called Arabic-Indic numerals, Arabic Eastern Numerals) are the symbols (glyphs) used to represent the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India, and also in the no longer used Ottoman Turkish script (). A variant of the Eastern Arabic numerals is used in Persian and Urdu languages.
Eastern Area railway, Victoria Eastern Area was a railway branch line, it was built in the 1910s to service the State Coal mines located around the Wonthaggi area. This section of line operated until the 1950s, the short section of line was closed at a time when Victorian Railways was closing a number of other small branch lines and Stations around Victoria.
Eastern Armenian language Eastern Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European language), spoken in the Caucasus Mountains (particularly in the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh) and in the Armenian community in Iran. It was developed in the early 19th century and is based on the dialect of the Ararat district (of Russian-Armenia).
Eastern Arrernte Eastern Arrernte refers to Arrernte people, Indigenous Australians, who traditionally live in the Arrente lands East of Alice Springs, including Wallace Rock Hole. It also refers to a dialect of the Arrernte language that is spoken in this area.
Eastern Association The Eastern Association was a Parliamentarian or Roundhead army during the English Civil War. It was formed from a number of pro-Parliamentary militias in the east of England in 1642, including a troop of cavalry led by Oliver Cromwell.
Eastern Australian salmon The eastern Australian salmon, Arripis trutta, is one of four species within the Arripis genus, found in cooler waters around the south eastern coast of Australia, and New Zealand. It is not related to the herring family (Clupeidae).
Eastern bloc During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
Eastern brown snake The Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis) - sometimes referred to as the Common Brown Snake is the world's second most venomous land snake, native to Australia and may also be found on the peninsulas of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are a federally recognized Native American band in the United States of America. The history of the Eastern Band is very much synonymous with that of the Qualla Boundary, although the Band owns lands extending up to 100 miles beyond the Boundary.
Eastern Beach, Gibraltar Eastern Beach is the largest beach in Gibraltar, stretching for several hundred metres along the east side of the isthmus joining the Rock to Spain, close to the runway of Gibraltar Airport. The surrounding urban area is both residential and industrial.
Eastern Beach, Victoria Eastern Beach, Geelong, Victoria is Geelong's main recreational beach area, located on Corio Bay. Linking the city centre to Eastern Gardens and the Geelong Botanic Gardens, the beach includes a fine Art Deco lido area with a circular enclosed sea swimming pool and boardwalk.
Eastern Bearded Dragon The Eastern Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata) is a lizard found in wooded parts of eastern Australia, except for the regions of Cape York. It is a large species of variable colour distinguished from its relative, the Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps), by its less robust body and the row of spines along the lateral edge of the body, which continues over the forearm (Cogger, 1992).
Eastern Black Rhinoceros The Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) also known as the East African Black Rhinoceros is a subspecies of the Black Rhino. It's numbers are very low due to poaching for its horn and they are listed as critically endangered.
Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP The Eastern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is considered by many to be the strongest military faction of the guerrilla group. It is divided into groups of 50-400 combatants which help patrol and control different areas of Colombia's Eastern and Central-Eastern territory.
Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard The Eastern Blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) is a variety of large skink which is common throughout Australia, often found in bushland and suburban areas where conditions are suitable. They are known as blue-tongues because their tongue ranges from bright to dark blue, and they have a habit of displaying it prominently and hissing loudly when disturbed.
Eastern Book Company Eastern Book Company, based in Lucknow, is India's leading publisher of law books. Established in the 1940s by two brothers, CL Malik and PL Malik, it has now grown into all areas of the legal publishing business.
Eastern carpenter bee The common Eastern carpenter bee, (Xylocopa virginica), is the carpenter bee most often encountered in the eastern United States. It is often mistaken for a large bumblebee species, as they are similar in size and coloring.
Eastern Camden County Regional High School District The Eastern Camden County Regional High School District is a limited-purpose, public regional school district for students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey. The schools serve a combined population of approximately 37,000 in the communities of Berlin Borough (392 students from a 2000 Census population of 6,149), Gibbsboro (141 students; population of 2,435) and Voorhees Township (1,659 students; population of 28,126).
Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was a hockey league founded in 1905 and only played the 1905-06 season. They were formed out of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and adding the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Silver Seven from the Federal Amateur Hockey League.
Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff The Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff or Lanzarote Island Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus canariensis exsul) was a subspecies of the Canary Islands Chiffchaff endemic to the island of Lanzarote - and possibly also Fuerteventura - in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ECSE) is a regional Stock exchange, established by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) to serve the eight member territories of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is the first regional securities market in the Western
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a Superior Court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat). It has unlimited jurisdiction in each member State.
Eastern Carolina Council of Governments The Eastern Carolina Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region P) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in New Bern, North Carolina, it serves Onslow, Duplin, Wayne, Greene, Lenoir, Jones, Craven, Carteret, and Pamlico counties.
Eastern Carolina League The Eastern Carolina League was a minor league baseball affiliation which operated in the Eastern part of North Carolina. The league had two distinct periods of operation: 1908-1910 and a revival of the league in 1928-1929.
Eastern Catalan Eastern Catalan is a set of Catalan language dialects spoken in l'Alguer, Balearic Islands, Eastern Catalonia and Northern Catalonia. With respect to Western varieties, the most noticeable characteristic is that unstressed [a], [e] and [] are changed to schwa ([É™]).
Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference comprising schools that compete in 35 men's and women's sports. It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina.
Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association Established in 1991, the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference whose members are East Coast schools. The ECHA is part of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, which was created for club and smaller division college hockey teams to participate in.
Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association (ECRHA) The Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association (ECRHA) is a member organization of the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association. Its member institutions are located in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States.
Eastern Colored League The Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Clubs, more commonly known as the Eastern Colored League, was one of the several Negro Leagues, which operated during the time organized baseball was segregated. The ECL was founded in 1923 when the Philadelphia-area Hilldale Club and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, both associate members of the midwest-based Negro National League (NNL), broke with the NNL and allied with the white promoter Nat Strong to form an east coast league.
Eastern Columbia Building The Eastern Columbia Building is a thirteen-story building located at 849 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of downtown Los Angeles, and is considered by many to be the most beautiful of Los Angeles' historic buildings (one architecture critic called it "Architectural Visine in a district full of eyesores"), as well as its finest surviving example of Art Deco following the 1969 destruction of Richfield Tower.
Eastern Connecticut State University Eastern Connecticut State University is a public, coeducational liberal arts university located in Willimantic, Connecticut. Founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest campus in the Connecticut State University system and third oldest public university in the state.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) was established in 1955 as one of the first cooperative groups launched to perform multi-center cancer clinical trials. A cooperative group is a large network of researchers, physicians, and health care professionals at public and private institutions across the country who are members of the group.
Eastern Cottonwood The Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) is a large cottonwood (poplar) tree native to North America, growing throughout the eastern United States and the southernmost part of eastern Canada. It is in fact one of the largest North American hardwood trees.
Eastern Cougar The Eastern Cougar (also known as the "Eastern Panther") is a label used for at least one type of puma. Officially, the Eastern Cougar is the subspecies Puma concolor couguar, but the label is often used for other pumas from east of the Mississippi River, such as the Florida Panther.
Eastern Counties Football League The Eastern Counties Football League is an English football league at Levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It contains teams from Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and is a feeder to the regional divisions of either the Isthmian League or the Southern League, depending on geographical considerations.
Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division The Eastern Counties League Premier Division is the highest division in the Eastern Counties League (also known under a sponsorship contract as the Ridgeons League). The league is an English football league at Level 9 of the English football league system.
Eastern Counties Railway The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) began operating on June 20 1839 with a train service from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, and working to a gauge of five feet. The line was extended the following year to a new terminus at Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate); and the line was subsequently extended to the 51 miles between London and Colchester.
Eastern Cross Eastern Cross FMC (Foreign Military Contractor) is a US based private military contractor established during the Persian Gulf War, stationed at Germany. Its main task during the 90's are to conduct special operations and reconnaissance for the US that are not possible under political pressure, it's rather a small company that are operated by a group of two man.
Eastern Daily Press The Eastern Daily Press, commonly referred to as the EDP, is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, and northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK. Originally a broadsheet, it changed to compact (tabloid) format in the mid-1990s.
Eastern District (LCMS) The Eastern District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers: most of upstate New York; Pennsylvania, with the exception of York and Lancaster Counties; and Garrett County at the western corner of the Maryland panhandle. The rest of New York, including New York City, is in the Atlantic District; York and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania and the remainder of Maryland are in the Southeastern District.
Eastern District Army The was a division of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of Tokyo, Yokohama, and the surrounding area. It played an especially significant role in combating the August 15, 1945 scheme of Maj.
Eastern equine encephalitis virus Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEE), commonly called sleeping sickness or "Triple E", is a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. EEEV was first recognised in Massachusetts, USA in 1831 when 75 horses died of encephalitic illness.
Eastern Electricity Eastern Electricity was an electricity supply and distribution utility serving eastern England, including East Anglia and part of Greater London. It had its origins in the Eastern Electricity Board (EEB) formed in 1948 as part of the nationalisation of the electricity industry by the Electricity Act 1947.
Eastern European Summer Time Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries.
Eastern fence lizard The Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus) is a medium sized species of lizard found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps from southwestern Canada in the province of British Columbia, across the Great Plains to the eastern United States, south to northern Mexico. They are sometimes referred to as the Prairie Lizard or Gray Lizard.
Eastern freshwater cod Eastern freshwater cod, Maccullochella ikei, also known as eastern cod, are a large and striking predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family. They are closely related to the Murray cod of the Murray-Darling river system.
Eastern Fleet The British Eastern Fleet (also known as the East Indies Fleet and the Far East Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy during World War II and post war until 1971. It was formed by order of the Admiralty on 8th December 1941The British Empire and the Second World War, Ashley Jackson, p289 , from the ships of the China Station and the Far East Station, with its Headquarters in Singapore.
Eastern Florida Railroading SCL, ACL, SAL, CSX, and FEC sounds more like a spilled bowl of alphabet soup than the past and present railroads of Eastern Florida. Look past the acronyms and you'll see a colorful history and strong presence along the eastern seaboard of the Sunshine State.
Eastern Francia Eastern Francia was the land of Louis the German after the Treaty of Verdun of 843, which divided the Carolingian Empire of the Franks into an East, West, and Middle. It is the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire and modern Germany.
Eastern Freeway The Eastern Freeway is one of Melbourne's major freeways, connecting Alexandra Parade and Hoddle St in the inner suburbs, with Springvale Road in Melbourne's east. It is mostly three lanes in each direction, including an inbound "transit lane" reserved for vehicles with two or more occupants during peak hour.
Eastern Front (computer game) Eastern Front (1941) is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created in 1981. Recreating the actual invasion of Russia by German forces in the East during World War II, Eastern Front covers the historical area of operations during the 1941-1942 period.
Eastern Georgia (country) Eastern Georgia commonly refers to the eastern part of the nation of Georgia, which in historic times included the kingdom of Iberia in the Caucasus. The present-day term refers to the territory of Georgia which lies to the east and south of the Likhi and Meskheti Ranges, but excludes the region of Ajaria.
East York Civic Centre The East York Civic Centre was the city hall of the former city of East York, Ontario, Canada, now part of Toronto as the result of municipal amalgamation. The two storey civic buildings are located on Coxwell Avenue was completed in 1990, and are currently occupied by a number of municipal departments and services.
East Yorkshire (district) The Borough of East Yorkshire was a local government district in England from April 1, 1974 to April 1, 1996, in the administrative county of Humberside. It covered part of the eastern area in the historic county of Yorkshire, but not the entire East Riding.
East Yorkshire Motor Services East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) operates a fleet of approximately 350 buses and coaches throughout Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, the North Yorkshire coast and North York Moors. The company also operates buses and coaches in Manchester under the Finglands brand and in Kidderminster with Whittle Bus & Coach.
East Zenati languages The East Zenati languages, according to the Ethnologue, is a subgroup of the Zenati languages which includes 3 languages and dialects spoken in Tunisia and Libya. Others regard these three as Eastern Berber languages.
East Zone cricket team The East Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents eastern India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of five first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Assam, Bengal, Jharkand, Orissa and Tripura.
East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists The East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It covers the area of the nations of Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
East-West East-West is a 1966 album by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Its title track is a long improvisational instrumental piece inspired by blues, jazz fusion and raga that was considered groundbreaking at the time of release.
East-West Corridor The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell.
East-West Group The East-West Group is a Bombay-based business house run by the Wahid family with specific interests in aviation and the travel industry. The East-West Group ran and operated East-West Airlines, India's first private airline that started operations in 1993.
East-West Railway, Venezuela The East-West Railway, Venezuela connects the eastern areas with the west of Venezuela, giving better transportation for both cargo and passengers. It also helps to unite the country, strengthening links between cities the railway passes through, by connecting the East, West, Central West and Central South forming an interconnecting matrix of transport links.
East-West Shrine Game The East-West Shrine Game is an annual post-season college football all-star game played each January since 1926. The game is sponsored by the fraternal group Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the net proceeds are earmarked to some of the Shrine's charitable works, most notably the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
East-West Schism The East-West Schism was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches.
East, West East, West (ISBN 0-394-28150-0) is an anthology of short stories written by Salman Rushdie in 1994. The book is divided into three main sections, entitled "East", "West", and "East, West", each section containing stories whose topics center around their respective geographical areas (in the "East, West" section both worlds are influenced by each other).
Eastampton Township School District The Eastampton Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Eastampton Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Eastasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Eastasia is one of the three superstates in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Its borders are not as clearly defined as the other two superstates but it is known that they at least comprise most of modern day China, Japan, and Korea as well as fluctuating areas of Manchuria, Mongolia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East.
Eastbank Esplanade The Eastbank Esplanade (officially Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade) is a pedestrian and bicycle path along the east shore of the Willamette River in the Kerns, Buckman, and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. It was conceived as an urban renewal project to rebuild the Interstate 5 bicycle bypass washed out by the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996.
Eastbourne Eastbourne is a medium-sized town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with a population, according to the 2001 Census, of around 90,000. Created almost from scratch during the 19th Century, it soon became a prime seaside resort, but has since suffered from the general trend away from taking holidays within the UK.
Eastbourne Buses Eastbourne Buses is an independent bus operator running within the Borough of Eastbourne and into the surrounding area, including Pevensey, Hailsham, Tunbridge Wells, Uckfield and East Grinstead. Eastbourne Buses is a limited company, an 80% share of which is owned by Eastbourne Borough Council, making it one of the few remaining bus companies under local authority control in the UK today.
Eastbrook railway station Eastbrook railway station is a railway station serving the Eastbrook area of Dinas Powys near Cardiff, South Wales. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line from Cardiff to Bridgend via Barry, Rhoose and Llantwit Major, which also has a branch line serving Barry Island.
Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational Institute Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities.
Easter bonnet An Easter Bonnet is a type of hat that people used to wear for easter services in church. Until recently, it was popular within infant school, to ask a child to design an easter-themed hat at this time of year, with the aim of getting their parents to wear it at the easter service.
Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny is a fictional giving rabbit which is said to leave gifts, usually Easter baskets for children at Easter (or at springtime). It originates in Western European cultures, where it is a hare rather than a rabbit.
Easter Crisis of 1920 The Easter Crisis of 1920 was a constitutional crisis and a significant event in the evolution of constitutional monarchy in Denmark. It began with the dismissal of the elected government by the reigning monarch, King Christian X, a reserve power which was granted to him by the Danish constitution.
Easter Drama Easter Drama is a religious and theatrical phenomenon in Roman Catholic tradition, largely limited to the Middle Ages. These performances evolved from celebrations of the liturgy to incorporate later dramatic and secular elements, and came to be performed in local languages.
Easter egg Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime. The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute eggs made from chocolate, or plastic eggs filled with candy such as jellybeans.
Easter egg (media) A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations.
Easter Epic The Easter Epic is the nickname given to an National Hockey League Stanley Cup Playoff game between the New York Islanders and Washington Capitals, played April 18-19, 1987 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. It is so named because the game started on Saturday evening but did not finish until the early hours of Easter Sunday.
Easter Lily (badge) The Easter Lily is an artificial paper badge worn around Easter by Irish republicans chiefly as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Depending on the political affiliations of the bearer, it can also commemorate members of the pre-Treaty Irish Republican Army, the post-Treaty Irish Republican Army, and either the Provisional IRA or the Official IRA.
Easter Posey Easter Posey (April 4, 1920 – April 21, 1942) was the first American woman killed in the line of duty during World War II. She died in an accidental explosion on an incendiary bomb manufacturing line at Huntsville Arsenal.
Easter Proclamation The Easter Proclamation, officially referred to as the Proclamation of the Republic, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April, 1916. In it the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, styling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Easter Road Easter Road is the home ground of Scottish football club Hibernian. Located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, the stadium has a capacity of 17,500, making it the seventh largest stadium in Scotland and the largest stadium used primarily for football in Edinburgh.
Easter Saturday Easter Saturday is the Saturday after the Christian festival of Easter, also called Saturday in Easter week. It is sometimes confused with Holy Saturday or Easter Even (Low Saturday), which is the day before Easter Sunday.
Easter Seals (Canada) In Canada, Easter Seals is a group of charitable organizations which provide opportunities for children with physical disabilities. Founded in 1922 by a group of ten Rotary Clubs, it sought to emulate the success of the American Easter Seals program.
Easter Sepulchre An Easter Sepulchre is, in church architecture, an arched recess generally in the north wall of the chancel, in which from Good Friday to Easter day were deposited the crucifix and sacred elements in commemoration of Christ's entombment and resurrection. It was generally only a wooden erection, which was placed in a recess or on a tomb.
Easter term Easter term is the name of the summer term at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wales, Lampeter, University of Durham, and formerly University of Newcastle upon Tyne (before 2004 in the United Kingdom]. It runs from April to June.
Easter Triduum Easter Triduum, or Holy Triduum, or (or Paschal Triduum) is a term used by some Christian churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, to denote, collectively, the three days from the evening of Holy Thursday (or Maundy Thursday) to the evening of Easter Sunday. The Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (or, where this is not celebrated, Vespers of Holy Thursday) and ends after Vespers at sunset on Easter Day.
Easter Vigil The Easter Vigil, also called the Great Vigil of Easter, is a service held in many Christian churches as the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Historically, it is during this service that people (especially adults) are baptized and that adult catechumens and candidates are received into full communion with the Church.
Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence The Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence was a tornado outbreak sequence during the days leading up to Easter and continued into the first week after Easter. It was the third major outbreak of April 2006, which had been an unusually busy month for tornado activity.
Easterhouse railway station Easterhouse railway station serves the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 9 km (5Âľ miles) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line and is managed by First ScotRail.
Eastern & Orient Express The Eastern & Oriental Express carries passengers in luxury between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The train travels through dense rainforests and towering mountains past golden temples, rubber plantations and remote towns and villages.
Eastern Agricultural Complex The term Eastern Agricultural Complex refers to the group of plants that originally formed the basis of agriculture in the eastern regions of North America north of Mexico. These plants included squash (Cucurbita pepo) as well as the lesser-known little barley (Hordeum pusillum), goosefoot or lambsquarter (Chenopodium berlandieri), erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum), maygrass (Phalaris caroliniana) sumpweed or marshelder (Iva annua), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus).
Eastern Aid (Osthilfe) Osthilfe (Eastern Aid) was a policy of the Government of the Weimar Republic to give financial support from Government funds to bankrupt estates in East Prussia.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Schirer, pp180-181
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727-225 with registration number N8845E, was operating New Orleans-Moisant-New York Kennedy on the afternoon of June 24, 1975. The aircraft was carrying 124 persons aboard (116 passengers and 8 crew members).
Eastern Alabama Railway The Eastern Alabama Railway is one of several short line railroad companies owned by the RailAmerica. On November 26 1990, the line was sold by CSX to the "Eastern Alabama Railway", a subsidiary of Kyle Railways.
Eastern Algonquian languages The Eastern Algonquian languages are a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family; prior to European contact, the family consisted of around 17 languages, which stretched from Newfoundland south into North Carolina. Eastern Algonquian languages descend from a putative proto-language, Proto-Eastern Algonquian.
Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of the SplĂĽgen Pass in eastern Switzerland. North of the SplĂĽgen Pass, the Posterior Rhine forms the border, and south of the pass, the Liro river and Lake Como form the boundary line.
Eastern Approaches Eastern Approaches (1949) is an autobiographical account of Fitzroy MacLean's life from his days as a junior diplomat in the Foreign Office to his travels in the Soviet Union and Central Asia to his exploits in the British Army and SAS after being elected an MP.
Eastern Arabic numerals The Eastern Arabic numerals (also called Arabic-Indic numerals, Arabic Eastern Numerals) are the symbols (glyphs) used to represent the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India, and also in the no longer used Ottoman Turkish script (). A variant of the Eastern Arabic numerals is used in Persian and Urdu languages.
Eastern Area railway, Victoria Eastern Area was a railway branch line, it was built in the 1910s to service the State Coal mines located around the Wonthaggi area. This section of line operated until the 1950s, the short section of line was closed at a time when Victorian Railways was closing a number of other small branch lines and Stations around Victoria.
Eastern Armenian language Eastern Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European language), spoken in the Caucasus Mountains (particularly in the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh) and in the Armenian community in Iran. It was developed in the early 19th century and is based on the dialect of the Ararat district (of Russian-Armenia).
Eastern Arrernte Eastern Arrernte refers to Arrernte people, Indigenous Australians, who traditionally live in the Arrente lands East of Alice Springs, including Wallace Rock Hole. It also refers to a dialect of the Arrernte language that is spoken in this area.
Eastern Association The Eastern Association was a Parliamentarian or Roundhead army during the English Civil War. It was formed from a number of pro-Parliamentary militias in the east of England in 1642, including a troop of cavalry led by Oliver Cromwell.
Eastern Australian salmon The eastern Australian salmon, Arripis trutta, is one of four species within the Arripis genus, found in cooler waters around the south eastern coast of Australia, and New Zealand. It is not related to the herring family (Clupeidae).
Eastern bloc During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
Eastern brown snake The Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis) - sometimes referred to as the Common Brown Snake is the world's second most venomous land snake, native to Australia and may also be found on the peninsulas of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are a federally recognized Native American band in the United States of America. The history of the Eastern Band is very much synonymous with that of the Qualla Boundary, although the Band owns lands extending up to 100 miles beyond the Boundary.
Eastern Beach, Gibraltar Eastern Beach is the largest beach in Gibraltar, stretching for several hundred metres along the east side of the isthmus joining the Rock to Spain, close to the runway of Gibraltar Airport. The surrounding urban area is both residential and industrial.
Eastern Beach, Victoria Eastern Beach, Geelong, Victoria is Geelong's main recreational beach area, located on Corio Bay. Linking the city centre to Eastern Gardens and the Geelong Botanic Gardens, the beach includes a fine Art Deco lido area with a circular enclosed sea swimming pool and boardwalk.
Eastern Bearded Dragon The Eastern Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata) is a lizard found in wooded parts of eastern Australia, except for the regions of Cape York. It is a large species of variable colour distinguished from its relative, the Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps), by its less robust body and the row of spines along the lateral edge of the body, which continues over the forearm (Cogger, 1992).
Eastern Black Rhinoceros The Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) also known as the East African Black Rhinoceros is a subspecies of the Black Rhino. It's numbers are very low due to poaching for its horn and they are listed as critically endangered.
Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP The Eastern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is considered by many to be the strongest military faction of the guerrilla group. It is divided into groups of 50-400 combatants which help patrol and control different areas of Colombia's Eastern and Central-Eastern territory.
Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard The Eastern Blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) is a variety of large skink which is common throughout Australia, often found in bushland and suburban areas where conditions are suitable. They are known as blue-tongues because their tongue ranges from bright to dark blue, and they have a habit of displaying it prominently and hissing loudly when disturbed.
Eastern Book Company Eastern Book Company, based in Lucknow, is India's leading publisher of law books. Established in the 1940s by two brothers, CL Malik and PL Malik, it has now grown into all areas of the legal publishing business.
Eastern carpenter bee The common Eastern carpenter bee, (Xylocopa virginica), is the carpenter bee most often encountered in the eastern United States. It is often mistaken for a large bumblebee species, as they are similar in size and coloring.
Eastern Camden County Regional High School District The Eastern Camden County Regional High School District is a limited-purpose, public regional school district for students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey. The schools serve a combined population of approximately 37,000 in the communities of Berlin Borough (392 students from a 2000 Census population of 6,149), Gibbsboro (141 students; population of 2,435) and Voorhees Township (1,659 students; population of 28,126).
Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was a hockey league founded in 1905 and only played the 1905-06 season. They were formed out of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and adding the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Silver Seven from the Federal Amateur Hockey League.
Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff The Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff or Lanzarote Island Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus canariensis exsul) was a subspecies of the Canary Islands Chiffchaff endemic to the island of Lanzarote - and possibly also Fuerteventura - in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ECSE) is a regional Stock exchange, established by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) to serve the eight member territories of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is the first regional securities market in the Western
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a Superior Court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat). It has unlimited jurisdiction in each member State.
Eastern Carolina Council of Governments The Eastern Carolina Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region P) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in New Bern, North Carolina, it serves Onslow, Duplin, Wayne, Greene, Lenoir, Jones, Craven, Carteret, and Pamlico counties.
Eastern Carolina League The Eastern Carolina League was a minor league baseball affiliation which operated in the Eastern part of North Carolina. The league had two distinct periods of operation: 1908-1910 and a revival of the league in 1928-1929.
Eastern Catalan Eastern Catalan is a set of Catalan language dialects spoken in l'Alguer, Balearic Islands, Eastern Catalonia and Northern Catalonia. With respect to Western varieties, the most noticeable characteristic is that unstressed [a], [e] and [] are changed to schwa ([É™]).
Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference comprising schools that compete in 35 men's and women's sports. It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina.
Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association Established in 1991, the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference whose members are East Coast schools. The ECHA is part of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, which was created for club and smaller division college hockey teams to participate in.
Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association (ECRHA) The Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association (ECRHA) is a member organization of the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association. Its member institutions are located in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States.
Eastern Colored League The Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Clubs, more commonly known as the Eastern Colored League, was one of the several Negro Leagues, which operated during the time organized baseball was segregated. The ECL was founded in 1923 when the Philadelphia-area Hilldale Club and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, both associate members of the midwest-based Negro National League (NNL), broke with the NNL and allied with the white promoter Nat Strong to form an east coast league.
Eastern Columbia Building The Eastern Columbia Building is a thirteen-story building located at 849 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of downtown Los Angeles, and is considered by many to be the most beautiful of Los Angeles' historic buildings (one architecture critic called it "Architectural Visine in a district full of eyesores"), as well as its finest surviving example of Art Deco following the 1969 destruction of Richfield Tower.
Eastern Connecticut State University Eastern Connecticut State University is a public, coeducational liberal arts university located in Willimantic, Connecticut. Founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest campus in the Connecticut State University system and third oldest public university in the state.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) was established in 1955 as one of the first cooperative groups launched to perform multi-center cancer clinical trials. A cooperative group is a large network of researchers, physicians, and health care professionals at public and private institutions across the country who are members of the group.
Eastern Cottonwood The Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) is a large cottonwood (poplar) tree native to North America, growing throughout the eastern United States and the southernmost part of eastern Canada. It is in fact one of the largest North American hardwood trees.
Eastern Cougar The Eastern Cougar (also known as the "Eastern Panther") is a label used for at least one type of puma. Officially, the Eastern Cougar is the subspecies Puma concolor couguar, but the label is often used for other pumas from east of the Mississippi River, such as the Florida Panther.
Eastern Counties Football League The Eastern Counties Football League is an English football league at Levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It contains teams from Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and is a feeder to the regional divisions of either the Isthmian League or the Southern League, depending on geographical considerations.
Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division The Eastern Counties League Premier Division is the highest division in the Eastern Counties League (also known under a sponsorship contract as the Ridgeons League). The league is an English football league at Level 9 of the English football league system.
Eastern Counties Railway The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) began operating on June 20 1839 with a train service from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, and working to a gauge of five feet. The line was extended the following year to a new terminus at Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate); and the line was subsequently extended to the 51 miles between London and Colchester.
Eastern Cross Eastern Cross FMC (Foreign Military Contractor) is a US based private military contractor established during the Persian Gulf War, stationed at Germany. Its main task during the 90's are to conduct special operations and reconnaissance for the US that are not possible under political pressure, it's rather a small company that are operated by a group of two man.
Eastern Daily Press The Eastern Daily Press, commonly referred to as the EDP, is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, and northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK. Originally a broadsheet, it changed to compact (tabloid) format in the mid-1990s.
Eastern District (LCMS) The Eastern District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers: most of upstate New York; Pennsylvania, with the exception of York and Lancaster Counties; and Garrett County at the western corner of the Maryland panhandle. The rest of New York, including New York City, is in the Atlantic District; York and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania and the remainder of Maryland are in the Southeastern District.
Eastern District Army The was a division of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of Tokyo, Yokohama, and the surrounding area. It played an especially significant role in combating the August 15, 1945 scheme of Maj.
Eastern equine encephalitis virus Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEE), commonly called sleeping sickness or "Triple E", is a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. EEEV was first recognised in Massachusetts, USA in 1831 when 75 horses died of encephalitic illness.
Eastern Electricity Eastern Electricity was an electricity supply and distribution utility serving eastern England, including East Anglia and part of Greater London. It had its origins in the Eastern Electricity Board (EEB) formed in 1948 as part of the nationalisation of the electricity industry by the Electricity Act 1947.
Eastern European Summer Time Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries.
Eastern fence lizard The Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus) is a medium sized species of lizard found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps from southwestern Canada in the province of British Columbia, across the Great Plains to the eastern United States, south to northern Mexico. They are sometimes referred to as the Prairie Lizard or Gray Lizard.
Eastern freshwater cod Eastern freshwater cod, Maccullochella ikei, also known as eastern cod, are a large and striking predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family. They are closely related to the Murray cod of the Murray-Darling river system.
Eastern Fleet The British Eastern Fleet (also known as the East Indies Fleet and the Far East Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy during World War II and post war until 1971. It was formed by order of the Admiralty on 8th December 1941The British Empire and the Second World War, Ashley Jackson, p289 , from the ships of the China Station and the Far East Station, with its Headquarters in Singapore.
Eastern Florida Railroading SCL, ACL, SAL, CSX, and FEC sounds more like a spilled bowl of alphabet soup than the past and present railroads of Eastern Florida. Look past the acronyms and you'll see a colorful history and strong presence along the eastern seaboard of the Sunshine State.
Eastern Francia Eastern Francia was the land of Louis the German after the Treaty of Verdun of 843, which divided the Carolingian Empire of the Franks into an East, West, and Middle. It is the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire and modern Germany.
Eastern Freeway The Eastern Freeway is one of Melbourne's major freeways, connecting Alexandra Parade and Hoddle St in the inner suburbs, with Springvale Road in Melbourne's east. It is mostly three lanes in each direction, including an inbound "transit lane" reserved for vehicles with two or more occupants during peak hour.
Eastern Front (computer game) Eastern Front (1941) is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created in 1981. Recreating the actual invasion of Russia by German forces in the East during World War II, Eastern Front covers the historical area of operations during the 1941-1942 period.
Eastern Georgia (country) Eastern Georgia commonly refers to the eastern part of the nation of Georgia, which in historic times included the kingdom of Iberia in the Caucasus. The present-day term refers to the territory of Georgia which lies to the east and south of the Likhi and Meskheti Ranges, but excludes the region of Ajaria.
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