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Etgar Keret Etgar Keret (born 1967) is an Israeli writer of short stories, as well as Graphic Novels and occasional writing for television and film. His writing style is lean, utilizing everyday language, slang, and dialect.
Eth Eth (Ð, ð), also spelt edh or eð, is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic, and in Faroese alphabet in which it is called the letter edd, and in the ortography for Scandinavian Älvdalsmål. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d.
Ethan Allen Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 – February 12, 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants. He fought against the settlement of Vermont by the Province of New York, and then for its independence in the American Revolutionary War.
Ethan Berkowitz Ethan Berkowitz is the Democratic Party Minority Leader in the Alaska House of Representatives, representing District 26 (Anchorage). Berkowitz was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, running with gubenatorial candidate Tony Knowles in the 2006 state general election.
Ethan Crane Ethan Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane, referred to as Little Ethan, is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Passions. Little Ethan has been played by Sarah and Thomas Buhl from June 21, 2002 until August 22, 2002, Colby and Grayson Button from September 2, 2002 until July 25, 2003, Nicholas Graziano from November 2003 until December 2003, and Colton Shires since January 27, 2004.
Ethan Iverson Ethan Iverson is a pianist and composer best known for his work in The Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King. However, he is a prominent figure in both classical and jazz circles, having been the musical director of the Mark Morris Dance Group, a contributor to Down Beat magazine, and a student of both Fred Hersch and Sophia Rosoff.
Ethan James Ethan James is a fictional character featured in the American television program Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, the tenth series produced as part of the Power Rangers franchise. The character, portrayed by Kevin Duhaney, is the Blue Dino Ranger.
Ethan James (producer) Ethan James (born Ralph Burns Kellogg (1946-June 22, 2003)) was a musician, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his work on the Minutemen's seminal album Double Nickels on the Dime. He also produced and engineered albums for such acts as Black Flag, The Bangles, Rain Parade, Dos, and many others.
Ethan Johns Ethan Johns is a music producer who has worked with such artists such as Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Ray LaMontagne, Rufus Wainwright as well as Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt and others. Johns is the son of legendary producer, Glyn Johns (Rolling Stones, Eagles).
Ethan Kage Ethan Kage is a Falcon-exclusive gay pornographic actor (porn star). Kage is known most for his short, steamy relationship with gay porn star Matthew Rush, and starring in best-selling Falcon movies such as Cross Country, Up All Night and From Top to Bottom.
Ethan Nadelmann Ethan Nadelmann (b. March 13, 1957 in New York City) is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting drug policy reform and alternatives to the war on drugs.
Ethan Phillips Ethan Phillips (born February 8, 1955 in Garden City, Long Island, New York) is an American actor, playwright and author. He is best known for television roles such as Star Trek: Voyager's Neelix and Benson's Pete Downey.
Ethan Van Sciver Ethan Van Sciver is a comic book artist and penciller, currently doing covers and interior art for the DC Comics title Superman/Batman. Ethan lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, Sharis, and their son, Hunter.
Ethan Wayne Ethan Wayne (born February 22, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, most famous for his role as Storm Logan on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which he played on-and-off from 1987 through 2003. His modest film career reached its peak in 1985 when he appeared in three movies: Scream, Man Hunt (movie), and Operation Nam also known as Cobra Mission.
Ethan Wiley Ethan Wiley is a screenwriter and director who has contributed his talents to several horror films, including House, House II: The Second Story, and Children of the Corn 5 (Miramax/Dimension). Most recently, Wiley directed Blackwater Valley Exorcism (Lionsgate).
Ethan Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman was among the founders of Tripod; later he became the founder of GeekcorpsBiography, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (url accessed 22 April 2006). He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Ethane methyl sulfonate Ethyl methyl sulfonate (CH3SO3CH2CH3) and ethyl ethane sulfonate (CH3CH2SO3CH2CH3) are ethylating of the purine ring and ends with the hydrolysis of the purine deoxyribose bond. It is assumed that, when DNA replication and repair take place, the repair enzyme is free to insert any of the four possible bases into the new strand as a complement to the gap created when these alkylating agents remove a purine.
Ethanol Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless, slightly toxic chemical compound with a distinctive perfume-like odor, and is the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. In common usage, it is often referred to simply as alcohol.
Ethanol fermentation Ethanol fermentation is a form of anaerobic respiration used primarily by yeasts when oxygen is not present in sufficient quantity for normal cellular respiration, the cellular energy-producing system, to continue.
Ethanol fuel energy balance Ethanol is one of many proposed replacements for petroleum-derived liquid fuels for transportation purposes. As a liquid fuel, like gasoline and diesel, it has a high energy density, it is easily and safely handled, transported, and distributed, without the need for expensive, heavy, and fragile cryogenic and/or high pressure systems which are needed for gaseous fuels.
Ethanol fuel in Australia In Australia, ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane and various other agricultural sources, as a source of fuel. The Northern Territory, Western Australia and primarily Queensland have the tropical climates required for the productive culture of sugarcane.
Ethanol fuel in Brazil In Brazil, ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane which is a more efficient source of fermentable carbohydrates than corn as well as much easier to grow and process. Brazil has the tropical climate that is required for the productive culture of sugarcane.
Ethanolamine Ethanolamine, also called 2-aminoethanol or monoethanolamine (often abbreviated as MEA), is an organic chemical compound which is both a primary amine (due to an amino group in its molecule) and a primary alcohol (due to a hydroxyl group). Like other amines, monoethanolamine acts as a weak base.
Ethekwini eThekwini is the name of the Metropolitan Municipality created in 2000 that includes the city of Durban, South Africa and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Ethel (XM) Ethel is the modern rock/alternative channel on XM Satellite Radio. It is the daughter channel of Fred (ch 44), which covers alternative music from its birth through the early 1990s; and the sister channel of Lucy (ch 54), which plays only the most popular alternative hits from the 80s through today.
Ethel Bedford-Fenwick Ethel (Mrs. Bedford) Fenwick (January 26th 1856- March 1947) was born Ethel Gordon Manson in the Morayshire town of Elgin in Scotland, and was the first name registered on the first list of nurses in the world.
Ethel Lilian Voynich Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole (May 11, 1864, County Cork, Ireland - July 27, 1960, New York City) was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole.
Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens The Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens (3 acres) are botanical gardens located at the Ethel M Chocolate Factory, 2 Cactus Garden Drive, Henderson, Nevada. The gardens, and the factory itself, are open to the public for free.
Ethel M Chocolate Factory The Ethel M Chocolate Factory is located in Henderson, Nevada and is the location in which all of the Ethel M brand gourmet chocolates are manufactured. The company distributes their products mainly via phone and internet sales, although they also operate several retail outlets located in and around Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ethel Roosevelt Derby Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (August 13, 1891 - December 10, 1977) was the youngest daughter and fourth child of the President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Known as The Queen of Oyster Bay and The First Lady of Oyster Bay by its Long Island residents, Ethel was instrumental in preserving both the legacy of her father as well as the family home, "Sagamore Hill" for future generations, especially after the death of her mother Edith in 1948.
Ethel Shutta Ethel Shutta (pronounced "shoo-tay") (1 December 1896 – 5 February 1976) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Benny's radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee!, and her Broadway comeback in Follies at the age of 74.
Ethel T. Wead Mick Ethel Theresa Wead Mick (born March 9, 1881 - died February 21, 1957) is the founder of the Masonic girls' organization The International Order of Job's Daughters (now known as Job's Daughters International) and served as its first Supreme Guardian.
Ethel Thomson Larcombe Ethel Larcombe (June 8 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England - August 11 1965 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England) was a former British female tennis player. She is best remembered for winning the ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships.
Ethelbald of Wessex King Ethelbald of Wessex or Æþelbald (Means roughly 'Noble Bold') was the eldest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex and was born in about 831 or 834. He became King of Wessex in 856 after forcing his father to abdicate.
Ethelbert Blatter Ethelbert Blatter, SJ (15 December 1877—26 May 1934) was a Swiss Jesuit priest and pioneering botanist in India. Author of five books and over sixty papers on the flora of the Indian subcontinent, he was Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier College, Bombay and Vice-President of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Ethelbert of Wessex King Ethelbert or Æþelberht of Wessex (Means Magnificent Noble) was a son of Ethelwulf of Wessex and was born in around 835 AD. He succeeded his brother, Ethelbald of Wessex, as King of Wessex in 860, but died without issue in about 865.
Ethelmary Oakland Ethelmary Oakland (30 July 1909–2 December 1999) was a silent film child star. She was featured in such Thanhouser Film Corporation's films as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels; and Always in the Way with Mary Miles Minter and Charlotte Shelby.
Ethelred of Scotland Ethelred was the son of King Máel Coluim III and his wife Margaret, the third oldest of the latter and the probable sixth oldest of the former. He took his name, almost certainly, from Margaret's great-grandfather King Æþelræd Unræd, or Ethelred the Unready.
Ethelton, South Australia Ethelton is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 13km from the CBD, on the LeFevre Peninsula, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Semaphore, Semaphore South and Glanville.
Ethelwin Ethelwin was the last Anglo-Saxon bishop of Durham (1056-1071), the last who was not also a secular ruler, and the only English bishop at the time of the Norman Conquest who did not remain loyal to William the Conqueror.
Ethenzamide Ethenzamide is a common analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug that is used for the relief of fever, headaches, and other minor aches and pains. It is a major ingredient in numerous cold and flu medications and many prescription analgesics.
Ether Ether is the general name for a class of chemical compounds which contain an ether group — an oxygen atom connected to two (substituted) alkyl groups. A typical example is the solvent and anesthetic diethyl ether, commonly referred to simply as "ether", (ethoxyethane, CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3).
Ether Dome The Ether Dome was the operating room of the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. It was the first place that ether was demonstrated to the public on 16 October 1846 by William Thomas Green Morton , a Boston dentist, as an anesthetic for surgical procedures.
Ether Ore Ether Ore is the latest solo album from one of the Chapman Stick frontrunners, Greg Howard. Containing tracks recorded live over a period of several months, it manages to bring Greg's strong sense of improvisation across, into the ears of the listener.
EtherCAT EtherCAT is an open high performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs.
Ethereal (alien) The Ethereals are a fictional race of alien beings in the PC game X-COM: UFO Defense. As the masterminds behind the alien invasion, they are among the most powerful creatures in the game, and appear as hooded brown-robed humanoids, similar to monks.
Ethereal (demo) Ethereal is a demo, released by the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil in 1996. Ethereal was the first name of the band, as well; but seeing as there was a name clash with a Greek band called Ethereal, the band changed their name.
Ethereal filcher In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the ethereal filcher is a bizarre aberration. Its appearance is of a creature with a central body, a face with four eyes and a big mouth in the front of it, a bauble-like limb coming from the top of the central body sporting another face with two eyes and a round mouth, a single leg ending in 4 toes, and four arms with scraggy hands.
Ethereal Home Theatre Ethereal Home Theatre, a division of Metra Electronics is a company that specializes in audio/video cables for home theatre implementations, but also makes other audio/video products such as speakers, power conditioners, and accessories. The company is based in Holly Hill, FL.
Ethereal marauder In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the ethereal marauder is a magical beast similar to ethereal filchers and phase spiders. It has a muscular, velociraptor-like body that is a bluish-violet in color, with darker markings along the spine.
Ethereal Tomb Ethereal Tomb is the third and final full-length studio album from Florida death metal band, Nocturnus. It was released in 2000 on Season of Mist Records – after an absence of nearly seven years since the band's last material, the Nocturnus EP was released.
Ethergaunt In the Dungeons & Dragons game, ethergaunts are ancient aberrations that once inhabited the Material Plane, but nearly ten millenia ago abandoned it for the Ethereal Plane. They view the current inhabitants of the Material Plane as vermin infesting their ancient homeworld, and seek to exterminate them.
EtherChannel EtherChannel technology is a trunking technology that allows grouping several Ethernet links and is capable of load balancing traffic across those links. Traffic is distributed across the links, providing higher performance and redundant parallel paths.
Etheria Etheria is a Filipino fantasy television series that was produced by GMA Network. The full title of the series is Etheria: Ang Ikalimang Kaharian ng Encantadia (Etheria: The Fifth Kingdom of Encantadia), referring to Encantadia, its highly successful predecessor series.
Etheric body The etheric body, ether-body, æther body, or vital body is one of the subtle bodies in esoteric philosophies, in some religious teachings and in New Age thought. It is understood as a sort of life force body or aura that constitutes the "blueprint" of the physical body, and which sustains the physical body.
Etheric Networks Etheric Networks is based in Mountain View, California and provides high speed Internet access to the greater Bay Area. It was a founding member of the first non governmental ISM and UNII band frequency coordination group (BANC), and often appears in the top 10 fastest ISPs in the world based on user speed tests on user
Etheric plane The etheric plane or etheric region is one of the planes of existence, or more specifically a subplane or planes, in esoteric philosophies, in some religious teachings and in New Age thought. In neo-Theosophical and Christian Rosicrucian cosmology the etheric plane constitutes the fourth[higher] subplane of the physical plane, the lower three being the states of solid, liquid, and gaseous matter (see below).
Etherlords Etherlords is a fantasy 4X strategy and card-dueling game for the PC, released November 12 2001 by Nival. Prior to worldwide release it was released in Russia (November 9 2001) as Demiurges (Russian: Демиурги).
Ethernet extender An Ethernet Extender (also network extender) is any device used to extend an Ethernet segment beyond its normal distance limitation (100 m for most common forms of Ethernet). These devices employ a variety of transmission technologies and physical media (copper wire, fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable).
Ethernet hub An Ethernet hub or concentrator is a device for connecting multiple twisted pair or fiber optic Ethernet devices together, making them act as a single segment. Hubs work at the physical layer (layer 1) of the OSI model.
Ethernet in the First Mile Ethernet in the First Mile, also known as IEEE 802.3ah and EFM, is a point-to-multipoint technology designed to allow standard Ethernet frames to unidirectionally travel from subscriber networks directly to end user equipment.
Ethernet II framing Ethernet v2 framing, also known as DIX Ethernet (named after the major participants in the framing of the protocol: Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, Xerox) differs from the original framing used in IEEE 802.3 by its interpretation of the 2-octet field following the destination and source addresses.
Ethernet over SDH Ethernet Over SDH (EoS) or Ethernet over SONET refers to a set of protocols which allow Ethernet traffic to be carried over synchronous digital hierarchy networks in an efficient and flexible way. The same functions are available using SONET (a predominantly North American standard).
Ethernet over usb The ability to connect Ethernet devices via USB ports is known as Ethernet over USB. This article intends to describe how these devices are connected and how the ethernet frames are encapulated over the USB protocol.
Ethernet physical layer The Ethernet physical layer evolved over a considerable time span and encompasses quite a few physical media interfaces and several magnitudes of speed. The speed ranges from 3 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s in speed while the physical medium ranges from bulky coaxial cable to twisted pair to optical fiber.
Ethias Arena The Ethias Arena is the largest multipurpose arena in Hasselt, Belgium used for music concerts, sports (tennis, indoor cycling, jumping, etc) and other large events. The arena opened in 2004 and holds up to 21,600 people.
Ethic of reciprocity The ethic of reciprocity or "The Golden Rule" is a fundamental moral principle found in virtually all major religions and cultures, which simply means "treat others as you would like to be treated."
Ethical banking An ethical bank, also known as social, alternative or sustainable bank, is a bank concerned about the social use of its investments and loans. Although there are differences among the main ethical banks, they share a common set of principles, the most prominent being the transparency and the social or environmental aim of the projects they finance.
Ethical code In the context of a code adopted by a profession or by a governmental or quasi-governmental organ to regulate that profession, an ethical code may be styled as a code of professional responsibility, which may dispense with difficult issues of what behavior is "ethical".
Ethical Consumer Ethical Consumer is a UK magazine that also publishes a lot of its key information for free on its corresponding website It is in its own words "an alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names".
Ethical Culture The Ethical Culture Movement is a non-sectarian, ethico-religious and educational movement. Individual chapter organizations are generically referred to as Ethical Societies, though their names may include "Ethical Society," "Ethical Culture Society," "Society for Ethical Culture," or other variations on the theme of "Ethical.
Ethical egoism Ethical egoism is belief that one ought to do what is in one's own self-interest, although a distinction should be made between what is really in one's self-interest and what is only apparently so (see psychological egoism). What is in one's self-interest may incidentally be detrimental to others, beneficial to others, or neutral in its effect.
Ethical challenges to autism treatment Ethical challenges to autism treatment have been made by people who feel that autism therapies intended to be helpful are actually harmful to autistic people. Some of the people who have made these ethical challenges are autistic people who have been given these treatments (although they do have neurotypical allies who are parents of autistic children).
Ethical living Ethical living is the philosophy of making decisions for daily life which take into account ethics and moral values, particularly with regard to sustainability and environmentalism. At present it is largely a personal choice, and not an organized social movement.
Ethical marketing Ethical marketing is an honest and factual representation of a product, delivered in a framework of cultural and social values for the consumer. It promotes qualitative benefits to its customers, which other similar companies, products or services fail to recognise.
Ethical naturalism Ethical Naturalism, sometimes also called Moral Naturalism or definism, is a theory in meta-ethics that holds that ethical terms can be defined; the meaning of ethical sentences can be given in totally non-ethical terms. So to the question, "Can the meaning of ethical sentences be restated in other words that do not use normative concepts like 'good' and 'right'?
Ethical persuasion Ethical persuasion is a human being's internal ability to treat others with respect, understanding, caring, and fairness in order to understand themselves and others. There are three phases of ethical persuasion and they are:
Ethical relationship An ethical relationship, in most theories of ethics that employ the term, is a basic and trustworthy relationship that one has to another human being, that cannot necessarily be characterized in terms of any abstraction other than trust and common protection of each other's body. Honesty is very often a major focus.
Ethical solipsism Ethical solipsism is relative to Ethical egotism however the difference is in that while the ethical egotist thinks that others should abide by the social order while it is in his/her best interest to do what best suits him/her as an individual, the Ethical Solipsist is of the belief that no other moral judgment exists or matters outside of his own individual moral judgment.
Ethical Software License The Ethical Software License is a copyleft license for software. The difference between ethical software and free software consists of this: if you (an individual or a legal entity exercising rights under an ethical license) distribute the source code for a valuable consideration, you must donate at least 1% of the sales from the products that include the source code to a beneficent corporation.
Ethical trade Ethical trade means different things to different people. In particular, some people refer to “ethical trade” as an umbrella term for all types of business practices that promote more socially and/or environmentally responsible trade.
Ethical will An Ethical will (Hebrew "Zevaoth") is a species of ethical tract which was historically peculiar to Jewish moralists. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ethicist An ethicist is one whose judgement on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by some community, and (importantly) is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement. Following the advice of ethicists is one means of acquiring knowledge (see argument from authority).
Ethics Ethics (from the Ancient Greek "ethikos", meaning "arising from habit"; also Morality), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of value, or morals and morality. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right, wrong, good, evil, and responsibility.
Ethics and evolutionary psychology A major concern of evolutionary psychology is the basis of psychological traits and behaviours related to ethics (morality). Evolutionary Psychology in general attempts to explain major features of psychology in terms of species-wide evolved (via natural selection) predispositions.
Ethics and the Christian RIght There have been questions regarding the ethical blurring among the American Christian right regarding the pacifist and moral teachings of Jesus Christ and the strong support of the American Christian right of the Iraq war and of Israel.A large number of centrist Christian organizations such as United for Peace have strongly come out against the Iraq war .
Ethics Commission In the United States, an Ethics Commission is a commission established by State law to discourage dishonest practices by their public employees and elected officials. Almost all American states have such a commission.
Ethics Commissioner (Canada) The Office of the Ethics Commissioner of Canada is a Canadian government agency of Industry Canada. It was created as a result of Bill C-4, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Ethics Commissioner and Senate Ethics Officer) and other Acts in consequence, which came into effect on March 31, 2004.
Ethics Committee The Ethics Committee, according to Directive 2001/20/EC, is an independent body in a Member State of the European Union, consisting of healthcare professionals and non-medical members, whose responsibility it is to protect the rights, safety and well being of human subjects involved in a clinical trial and to provide public assurance of that protection, by, among other things, expressing an opinion on the clinical trial protocol, the suitability of the investigators involved in the trial and the adequacy of facilities, and on the methods and documents to be used to inform trial subjects and obtain their informed consent.
Ethics in Government Act The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is a United States federal law passed in the wake of the Watergate Scandal that sets financial disclosure requirements for public officials and restrictions on former government employees' lobbying activities.
Ethics in religion Ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behaviour. All religions have a moral component, and religious approaches to the problem of ethics historically dominated ethics over secular approaches.
Ethics in the Bible Ethics is the branch of philosophy which examines the question of what actions are morally right or wrong--and why. The Bible contains numerous prescriptions for how the recipients of its message (whether we understand this to be the ancient Israelites, Jews today, or humanity in general) ought to live.
Ethics of care The ethics of care movement is a movement in twentieth century normative ethical theory that is largely inspired by the work of psychologist Carol Gilligan. The easiest way for many people to understand care ethics is by contrasting the theory to more well-known ethical views.
Ethics of eating meat While many people have no ethical objections to eating meat, others object to the act of killing and eating an animal and/or the agricultural practices surrounding the production of meat. Reasons for objecting to the practice of killing may include a belief in animal rights, environmental ethics, or an aversion to inflicting pain or harm on other living creatures.
Ethics of justice Ethics of justice, also know as morality of justice, is the term used by Carol Gilligan in In a Different Voice to describe the ethics and moral reasoning common to men and preferred by Kohlberg's stages of moral development. The ethics of justice deals with moral choices through a measure of rights of the people involved and chooses the solution that seems to damage the least number of people.
Ethicspoint EthicsPoint was founded in 1999 by individuals with backgrounds in fraud investigation and forensic accounting. The company was established to shift the operational methodology of hotline/helpline providers toward a then revolutionary solution that embraced both traditional telephony reporting and secure web intake.
Ethidium bromide Ethidium bromide is an intercalating agent commonly used as a nucleic acid stain in molecular biology laboratories for techniques such as agarose gel electrophoresis. When exposed to ultraviolet light, it will fluoresce with a red-orange color, intensifying almost 20-fold after binding to DNA.
Ethiopia at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ethiopia competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, sending a single skiier. Robel Teklemariam intended to compete in both cross-country skiing and in alpine skiing, but elected to only enter cross-country events.
Ethiopia Scout Association The Ethiopia Scout Association is the national Scouting association of Ethiopia. The Scout movement was first introduced in Ethiopia circa 1933, however the association was forced to terminate its activities due to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-1936.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked on November 23, 1996 en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum. The plane crashed in the Indian Ocean near Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123 of the 175 passengers and crew on board.

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