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Eastern Goldfields The Eastern Goldfields is figurative area used in speech to describe a region of Western Australia. The name is derived in two parts from, Eastern in relation to its location from Perth and Goldfields as the name suggests comes from the mining of Gold in the region.
Eastern Goldfields Railway The Eastern Goldfields Railway (EGR) was built in the 1880s to connect Perth, Western Australia with the rich goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The narrow gauge Eastern Railway line already connected Perth with Northam, and the EGR extended this line through semi-desert to the goldfields.
Eastern Gray Squirrel The Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is a tree squirrel that is native to the eastern to midwestern United States and the eastern provinces of Canada. The species name carolinensis refers to the Carolinas, where they were first recorded by zoologists, and are still extremely common.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo Southern and eastern Australia support a population of several million Eastern Grey Kangaroos. The scientific name, Macropus giganteus is misleading, as while a big Eastern Grey male weighs around 66 kg and stands almost 2 m tall, the Red Kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is bigger still.
Eastern Group of Painters The Eastern Group of Painters was a Canadian artists collective founded in 1938 in Montréal, Québec. The group included Montréal artists whose common interest was painting and an art for art's sake aesthetic, not the espousal of a nationalist theory as was the case with the Group of Seven or the Canadian Group of Painters.
Eastern Guinean forests The Eastern Guinean forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of West Africa. The ecoregion includes the lowland forests extending from the Gulf of Guinea a few hundred kilometers inland, from western CĂ´te d'Ivoire to the western shore of Lake Volta in Ghana.
Eastern Harbour Crossing The Eastern Harbour Crossing (), abbreviated as "EHC" (東隧) is a tunnel in Hong Kong. It is a combined road and MTR rail link under Victoria Harbour between Quarry Bay in Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon.
Eastern Hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere, is a term that can be used in a geopolitical sense as a synonym for 'Old World', intended to avoid the perceived Eurocentrism of that phrase. In this sense it usually means Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, in parallel to Western Hemisphere as a designation for the Americas.
Eastern Hemlock Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also known as Canadian Hemlock, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America. It ranges from northeastern Minnesota eastward through southern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.
Eastern High School (Kentucky) Founded in 1950, Louisville Eastern High School is located off Shelbyville Road in Middletown, Kentucky, Eastern High School offers a blend of tradition and excellence. With an enrollment of over 1,750 students, this school has been the pilot for education partnerships with companies such as IBM, Dell and Microsoft.
Eastern High School (New Jersey) Eastern High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school for students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Eastern Camden County Regional High School District. The school serves students from Berlin Borough, Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township.
Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests The Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of east-central India. The ecoregion covers an area of 341,100 square kilometers (131,700 square miles), extending across portions of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa states.
Eastern Hill Fire Station Eastern Hill Fire Station is the central fire station of Melbourne, Australia, located in on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, one of the highest points in the city of Melbourne. The building has been recognised as historically significant by the Heritage Council of Victoria and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Eastern Christianity Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in Greece, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. It is contrasted with the Western traditions of Christianity which descend through, or alongside of, the Roman Catholic Church.
Eastern Idaho Eastern Idaho is a generic term used to describe areas of Idaho which lie east of the Magic Valley region. It is generally understood to include: Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou, Clark, Franklin, Fremont, Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, Power and Teton Counties.
Eastern Idaho Railroad The Eastern Idaho Railroad started running on November 21, 1993, as a collection of two disconnected clusters of former Union Pacific branches. EIRR is owned by Watco, Inc (WAMX), of Pittsburg, Kansas, a short line operater.
Eastern Illinois University Men's Rugby Eastern Illinois Men's Rugby, located in Charleston Illinois, has existed as an official institution since around the mid to late 70's. According to Alumnus Kevin "The Ox" Hunt, the club was founded in 1976 by four students from Kankakee, Illinois: Check Squires, Doug Moyer, Tom Raguse, and Jay Makin.
Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne The Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne (EISM or EIS) are a group of twenty independent secondary schools in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The schools compete against one another in sporting competitions.
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League The Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (EIGL) is a NCAA Division 1 college athletic conference and part of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. This part of the conference only sponsors men’s gymnastics.
Eastern Jebel languages The Eastern Jebel languages are a small subfamily belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subgroup of Nilo-Saharan. They are spoken in the hills of An Nil al Azraq province in eastern Sudan (the name "Jebel" is simply Arabic for "mountain".
Eastern Kentucky Railway The Eastern Kentucky Railway was a railroad in northeastern Kentucky, USA. It served mainly mine traffic, running north from Webbville through Grayson to Riverton (now part of Greenup) on the Ohio River and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Eastern Lane Eastern Lane were an English indie band from Berwick-upon-Tweed, comprising members Derek Meins (Vocals/Guitar), Andrew Lawton (Guitar), Stuart Newlands (Bass) and Danny Ferguson (Drums). Their name was taken from a street in their hometown, the road sign for which was one of many apparently stolen by the band.
Eastern Lombard Eastern Lombard (or Orobic) is a group of dialects spoken in the eastern side of Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua and in the area around Crema. These dialects are generally mutually intelligible for speakers of neighbouring areas but this is not always true for distant peripheric areas.
Eastern Lombard grammar The Eastern Lombard Grammar reflects the main features of Romance languages: the word order of Eastern Lombard is usually SVO, nouns are inflected in number, adjectives agree in number and gender with the nouns, verbs are declined in tense, aspect and mood and agree with the subject in number and person. The case system is present only for the weak form of the pronoun.
Eastern Marching Band Association The Eastern Marching Band Association or EMBA is a local circuit for marching band competitions, based in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Although there used to be many bands in it, most left in 2001 to form the Musical Arts Conference.
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving most suburbs of Boston. Many of its former routes are now run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Eastern Mediterranean Event The Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy aerial explosion over the Mediterranean Sea, around 34ÂşN 21ÂşE (between Libya, Greece and Crete) on June 6th, 2002. This explosion, similar to a small atomic bomb, has been related to an asteroid undetected while approaching the Earth.
Eastern Mennonite Seminary Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) is the graduate theological division of Eastern Mennonite University(EMU) which is an accredited Christian liberal arts university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. EMU was initially established as Eastern Mennonite College in 1917.
Eastern Mennonite University Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is an accredited four-year Christian liberal arts university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. EMU is known internationally for its Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, as well as its undergraduate program that requires cross-cultural study.
Eastern Metropolitan Region, Victoria Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions in Victoria's Legislative Council (also referred to as the Upper House) in the state of Victoria, Australia. The region was created by the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Eastern Microwave, Incorporated Eastern Microwave, Incorporated was a satellite distributor of cable television stations. Among the stations they distributed were WOR-TV/WWOR-TV in New York City (local feed from 1979 to 1989, Special national feed from 1990 to 1996) and WSBK-TV in Boston.
Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI, USA 48197) is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents, who are appointed by the Governor of Michigan for eight-year terms.
Eastern Military Academy Eastern Military Academy is a defunct academy founded in 1944 in Connecticut by Roland R. Robinson, a former mathematics teacher at Peekskill Military Academy (also defunct), and his brother-in-law, Carleton Witham.
Eastern Moldova The name eastern Moldova (usually with either a lowercase "e") refers—usually in a historical context—to the eastern territory of the old Principality of Moldova, roughly equal in territory to the present-day Republic of Moldova, minus Transnistria. This territory was annexed in 1812 by the Russian Empire together with Ottoman Bessarabia, a region that had at that time been part of the Ottoman Empire for 328 years.
Eastern nannygai The eastern nannygai, redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, Centroberyx affinis, is an alfonsino of the genus Centroberyx, found around eastern and southern Australia and northern New Zealand, at depths up to 400 metres. Their length is between 30 and 40 centimetres.
Eastern National Eastern National (also known as EN) is a non-profit organization based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania that partners with the National Park Service in the United States. It was created by charter in 1948 to "provide quality educational products and services to the visitors to America's national parks and other public trusts.
Eastern Nazarene College Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a small liberal arts college south of Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the higher education system of the Church of the Nazarene, ENC is the college for the Eastern Region of the Church of the Nazarene.
Eastern New Mexico University Eastern New Mexico University, (abbreviated ENMU), frequently called Eastern, is a state university in Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA. It is the most recently-founded state university in New Mexico (legislated in 1927, opened in 1934).
Eastern Nilotic languages The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the far south of Sudan. They are spoken across a large area in East Africa, ranging from Equatoria to the highlands of Tanzania.
Eastern oyster The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), also known as the American oyster, Atlantic oyster, or the Virginia oyster, is a species of oyster that is native to the Eastern Seaboard of North America. It is also farmed in the Puget Sound of Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica.
Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Eastern Oklahoma Catholic is a biweekly newspaper (except in January and July) published by the Diocese of Tulsa. A subscription rate of $24 a year is requested for those persons who are interested in receiving the publication.
Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League The Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league operating in eastern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by the Ottawa District Hockey Association and Hockey Canada.
Eastern Oregon Eastern Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to mean the area of the state of Oregon east of the Cascade Range, save the region around The Dalles and sometimes Klamath County. The area around Bend is often considered to be Central Oregon rather than Eastern Oregon, but those in the Willamette Valley would tend to disagree as they tend to view anything past the Cascade Range as Eastern Oregon, similar to the way Australians lump everything west of the Great Dividing Range into the Outback.
Eastern Orthodox Christian theology The theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church is particular to that Christian communion. It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the Son of God, a balancing of cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by Holy Tradition, a concrete ecclesiology, a robust theology of the person, and a therapeutic soteriology.
Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church is a Christian body that views itself as the historical continuation of the original Christian community established by Jesus and the Twelve Apostles, preserving the traditions of the early church unchanged, accepting the canonicity of the first seven ecumenical councils held between the 4th and the 8th centuries, and maintaining the unbroken link between its clergy and the Apostles by means of Apostolic Succession.
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Associated with each date are passages of Holy Scripture, Saints and events for commemoration, and many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
Eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy refers very broadly to the various philosophies of China, Japan, Korea, India, Iran (Persia), but not the Middle East, the philosophy of which fused with Western philosophy after the fall of the Roman empire.
Eastern prickly pear Eastern Prickly Pear (Opuntia humifusa), also known as Indian fig, is the only native cactus found in the northeastern part of North America and is found through New Jersey, New York and the New England states, and even in parts of Eastern Canada.
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center The Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center was formerly the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center responsible for forecasting Pacific hurricanes in the eastern north Pacific east of 140°W. It was part of the Weather Bureau Forecast Office San Francisco and was based in Redwood City.
Eastern Paradise Whydah The Eastern Paradise Whydah, Vidua paradisaea is a small brown sparrow-like bird of Eastern Africa, from east Sudan to south Angola. During the breeding season the male has golden brown breast and yellow white abdomen with broad, elongated black tail feathers up to 36cm long.
Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (all times except late nights).
Eastern Parotia The Eastern Parotia, Parotia helenae also known as Helena's Parotia is a medium-sized, up to 27cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male has an iridescent golden green breast shield, elongated black plumes, three erectile spatule head wires behind each blue iris eye and golden brown nasal tuft feathers.
Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union The Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union (EPRU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and parts of New Jersey. EPRU is part of the Mid Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU), which is one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAU's) that comprise USA Rugby.
Eastern Pipistrelle The Eastern Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus) is a species of bat that is widely distributed throughout the eastern parts of North America, ranging west until Kansas and Texas, from eastern Mexico up north until southern Ontario.
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid The eastern prairie fringed orchid, Platanthera leucophaea, is a rare orchid native to North America. It is listed as a threatened species in the United States, the IUCN does not recognise it as being at risk.
Eastern Province (Kenya) The Eastern Province of Kenya is one of seven regions of the country. Its northern boundary is with Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lie to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, run along its western border.
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Eastern Province or Eastern Principality (Arabic الشرقية Ash Sharqiyah) is the largest province of Saudi Arabia, located in the east of the country on the coasts of the Persian Gulf, and has borders with Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. It has an area of 710,000 km² and a population of 3,360,157 (2004 census).
Eastern Question The "Eastern Question," in European history, encompasses the diplomatic and political problems posed by the decay of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The expression does not apply to any one particular problem, but instead includes a variety of issues raised during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including instability in the European territories ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
Eastern Quoll The Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are now considered extinct on the mainland, but remain widespread and even locally common in Tasmania.
Eastern religion Eastern religion refers to religions that are mostly either Indian or Chinese in origin: The Dharma faiths of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism; and the Chinese religious philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism. This grouping also includes other religions, most notably Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan.
Eastern Reef Egret The Eastern Reef Egret, Egretta sacra, is a type of egret (a subclass of herons). They are found in many areas of Asia including the oceanic region of India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia, and in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
Eastern Region Ministry Course The Eastern Region Ministry Course, based in Cambridge, is a non-residential theological training course which offers initial ministerial training on behalf of the Church of England, the Methodist Church in Britain, the United Reformed Church, and occasionally other churches in England. Currently more the 80% of the students are ordinands sent by the Church of England.
Eastern Riflebird The Eastern Riflebird, Ptiloris intercedens also known as Growling Riflebird is a medium-sized passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a velvet black and green bird of paradise with black flank plumes, black curved bill, yellow mouth, blackish feet and dark brown iris.
Eastern Rite Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous particular Churches in full communion with the Pope in Rome. Distinct from the Western or Latin Church, these Churches worship according to Eastern Christian liturgical rites.
Eastern Romance substratum The Eastern Romance languages developed from the Proto-Romanian language, which in turn developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in a region of the Balkans which has not yet been exactly determined, but is generally agreed to have been a region north of the JireÄŤek Line.
Eastern Rumelia Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia (; Ottoman Turkish: Rumeli-i Şarki; Modern Turkish: Şarki Rumeli, Greek Ανατολική Ρωμυλία Anatoliki Romylia) was an autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1885 (nominally to 1908). Its capital was Plovdiv (Пловдив in Bulgarian Cyrillic, Philippoupolis Φιλιππούπολις in Greek, Filibe in Turkish).
Eastern Scottish Eastern Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from the Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd (SMT) and operated until 1999 when it became First Edinburgh.
Eastern Settlement The Eastern Settlement (EystribygĂ° in old Norse, EystribyggĂ° in modern Icelandic) was the larger of the two areas of Greenland settled in approximately 984 AD by Norse farmers from Iceland (the other settlement being the Western Settlement). At its peak the settlement contained approximately 4000 inhabitants.
Eastern Shore (Alabama) Eastern Shore is a colloquial term referring to the geographic eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay in southwest Alabama. It extends from just north of Interstate 10 to the southeastern end of the bay near Weeks Bay.
Eastern Shore Baseball League The Eastern Shore Baseball League was a Class D minor league baseball league that operated on the Delmarva Peninsula for parts of three different decades. The league's first season was in 1922 and the last was in 1949, although the years were not consecutive, and featured teams from Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
Eastern Shore of Maryland The Eastern Shore of Maryland is composed of the state's nine counties east of the Chesapeake Bay. The counties are Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County.
Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline The Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (ESPO pipeline) is a 4130 km long pipeline system to export Russian crude oil to the Asia-Pacific markets (Japan, China, Korea). The pipeline will laid by the route of Taishet-Kazachinskoe-Skovorodino-Perevoznaya–(Nakhodka).
Eastern Sierra Academy Eastern Sierra Academy (ESA) is an extremely small (22 students and four teachers), technology-based, college-preparatory public high school serving the town of Bridgeport, California. In Newsweek magazine's Challenge index ranking of America's 27,000 public high schools, ESA was ranked 19th in the nation and 1st in California based on its 2004 performance.
Eastern Skunk Cabbage Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), commonly known as simply "Skunk Cabbage", is a low growing, foul smelling plant that prefers wetlands. It can be found naturally in eastern North America, from Nova Scotia and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south to North Carolina and Tennessee; and also in northeastern Asia, in eastern Siberia, northeastern China and Japan.
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem (Serbian: SAO IstoÄŤna Slavonija, Baranja i Zapadni Srem / СĐĐž ĐŃточна СлавониŃĐ°, Барања и Западни Срем) or Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem was an Serbian autonomous region (oblast) in Croatia. It was one of the two SAO's that formed the Republic of Serbian Krajina in 1991.
Eastern Sounds Eastern Sounds is an album by jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1961. The album features Lateef's continued exploration of Indian music, which were incorporated into his distinct brand of soulful hard bop with a quartet featuring Barry Harris on piano.
Eastern Spinebill The Eastern Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, is found in south-eastern Australia in forest and woodland areas. It is around fifteen centimetres long, and has a distinctive black, white and chestnut plumage, a red eye, and a long downcurved bill.
Eastern Standard Tribe Eastern Standard Tribe is a 2004 novel by Cory Doctorow, who also wrote Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Like Doctorow's first two novels, the entire text was released under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website, allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without the publisher's permission.
Eastern State Penitentiary The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former state prison in the United States. It is located on Fairmount Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 blocks north of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Eastern States Agency The Eastern States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, and was composed of a number of princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, and Tripura.
Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, Sydney The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line (popularly known as the Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line) is a commuter railway line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, that has become part of Sydney's CityRail rail network. Along with the South Coast Line, an intercity line that uses the Illawara Line tracks out of Sydney, the line was originally constructed in the 1880s to Wollongong to take advantage of agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra area.
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) The Eastern Suburbs is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Eastern Suburbs can refer to the suburbs within the local government areas of Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and part of the City of Sydney.
Eastern Suburbs 1908 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their first New South Wales Rugby League season in 1908. They won 9 of their 11 games and finished runners up, being defeated by the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the Grand Final.
Eastern Suburbs 1909 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their second New South Wales Rugby League season in 1909. They won 5 of their 11 games and were eliminated in the Minor Semi-Final by Balmain Tigers.
Eastern Suburbs 1912 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their fifth New South Wales Rugby League season in 1912. They won their second premiership back to back finishing 1st at the end of the season to claim both the minor and major premiership due to the rule stipulations for that year.
Eastern Suburbs 1913 Season Eastern Suburbs competed in their sixth New South Wales Rugby League season in 1913. They took out the 1913 premiership, and with it the RAS shield after becoming the first team to win a treble of premierships.
Eastern Suburbs ferry services, Sydney Eastern Suburbs ferry services connect wharves in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs with Circular Quay by commuter ferry. The services are provided by Sydney Ferries Corporation, an agency of the Government of New South Wales.
Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, more commonly known as Easts, was established in 1961 with the purpose of raising revenue to support and promote the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club and rugby league within the eastern districts of Sydney.
Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club is an Australian football (soccer) club from East Brisbane, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club was formed in 1922, and currently play in the Brisbane Premier League.
Eastern Sumatran Rhinoceros The Eastern Sumatran Rhinoceros also known as the Asian Two-Horned Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni) is a critically endangered subspecies of Sumatran Rhino. Once was widespread throughout Borneo its numbers have shrank to around 50 rhinos due to poaching and habitat loss and now is only living in Sabah.
Eastern Swing An early evolution of Foxtrot which used the conversation position (now known as promenade) and breakaway position (taken from Charleston (dance) and now known as open position). This dance along with Shag were taken from early Fox Trot forms and done to Swing Music.
Eastern Toll Road (California) The Eastern Toll Road (also called The Eastern Transportation Corridor) is a tollway in Orange County, California. It comprises of the entire length of California State Highway 261, the northern part of California State Highway 133, and the northern half of California State Highway 241.
Eastern Towhee The Eastern Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, is a large sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the Spotted Towhee were considered a single species, the Rufous-sided Towhee.
Eastern Townships The Eastern Townships is a tourist region in south central Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. The administrative entity is officially called Estrie, and its boundaries are different from the tourist region referred to as the Eastern Townships.
Eastern Trans-Fly languages The Eastern Trans-Fly languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that inherits much of the Trans Fly-Bulaka River branch of Stephen WĂĽrm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. Wurm himself concluded that some of the Trans Fly-Bulaka River languages were not Trans-New Guinea at all but rather heavily influenced by Trans-New Guinea languages.
Eastern Transport Corridor The Eastern Transport Corridor in Auckland, New Zealand, is a transport reserve along a strip of land and water some of which is occupied by housing, commerce, industry and local roads. It runs adjacent to the North Island Main Trunk Railway freight and passenger railway line, but is earmarked for major transport intensification to improve links from central Auckland to the north-eastern half of Manukau city - suburbs such as Pakuranga and Howick.
Eastern Trombone Workshop The Eastern Trombone Workshop (ETW) is a trombone convention that runs annually at Fort Myer, Virginia since 1993. Hosted by the United States Army Brass Band, the workshop offers numerous concerts, several national solo competitions, and opportunities to buy and sell trombones, trombone accessories, sheet music, CDs, and other items.
Eastern Union Railway The Eastern Union Railway opened for public passenger traffic on 15 June 1846, from an end-on junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Colchester, to a terminus at Ipswich. One of the main protagonists was John Chevallier Cobbold and the engineer was Peter Bruff.
Eastern United States The Eastern United States, the American East, or simply the East is traditionally defined as the states east of the Mississippi River. The first two tiers of states west of the Mississippi have traditionally been considered part of the West, but can be included in the East today; usually in regional models that exclude a Central region.
Eastern UP Eastern UP has often been called the "mother soil" of Indian Mafia. Azamgarh, in eastern Uttar Pradesh has seen the likes of Dawood Ibrahim and Abu Salem spending their formative years learning the ropes and then going on to manage one of the largest mafia empires Mumbai has seen.
Eastern Goldfields Railway The Eastern Goldfields Railway (EGR) was built in the 1880s to connect Perth, Western Australia with the rich goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The narrow gauge Eastern Railway line already connected Perth with Northam, and the EGR extended this line through semi-desert to the goldfields.
Eastern Gray Squirrel The Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is a tree squirrel that is native to the eastern to midwestern United States and the eastern provinces of Canada. The species name carolinensis refers to the Carolinas, where they were first recorded by zoologists, and are still extremely common.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo Southern and eastern Australia support a population of several million Eastern Grey Kangaroos. The scientific name, Macropus giganteus is misleading, as while a big Eastern Grey male weighs around 66 kg and stands almost 2 m tall, the Red Kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is bigger still.
Eastern Group of Painters The Eastern Group of Painters was a Canadian artists collective founded in 1938 in Montréal, Québec. The group included Montréal artists whose common interest was painting and an art for art's sake aesthetic, not the espousal of a nationalist theory as was the case with the Group of Seven or the Canadian Group of Painters.
Eastern Guinean forests The Eastern Guinean forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of West Africa. The ecoregion includes the lowland forests extending from the Gulf of Guinea a few hundred kilometers inland, from western CĂ´te d'Ivoire to the western shore of Lake Volta in Ghana.
Eastern Harbour Crossing The Eastern Harbour Crossing (), abbreviated as "EHC" (東隧) is a tunnel in Hong Kong. It is a combined road and MTR rail link under Victoria Harbour between Quarry Bay in Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon.
Eastern Hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere, is a term that can be used in a geopolitical sense as a synonym for 'Old World', intended to avoid the perceived Eurocentrism of that phrase. In this sense it usually means Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, in parallel to Western Hemisphere as a designation for the Americas.
Eastern Hemlock Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also known as Canadian Hemlock, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America. It ranges from northeastern Minnesota eastward through southern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.
Eastern High School (Kentucky) Founded in 1950, Louisville Eastern High School is located off Shelbyville Road in Middletown, Kentucky, Eastern High School offers a blend of tradition and excellence. With an enrollment of over 1,750 students, this school has been the pilot for education partnerships with companies such as IBM, Dell and Microsoft.
Eastern High School (New Jersey) Eastern High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school for students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Eastern Camden County Regional High School District. The school serves students from Berlin Borough, Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township.
Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests The Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of east-central India. The ecoregion covers an area of 341,100 square kilometers (131,700 square miles), extending across portions of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa states.
Eastern Hill Fire Station Eastern Hill Fire Station is the central fire station of Melbourne, Australia, located in on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, one of the highest points in the city of Melbourne. The building has been recognised as historically significant by the Heritage Council of Victoria and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Eastern Christianity Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in Greece, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. It is contrasted with the Western traditions of Christianity which descend through, or alongside of, the Roman Catholic Church.
Eastern Idaho Eastern Idaho is a generic term used to describe areas of Idaho which lie east of the Magic Valley region. It is generally understood to include: Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou, Clark, Franklin, Fremont, Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, Power and Teton Counties.
Eastern Idaho Railroad The Eastern Idaho Railroad started running on November 21, 1993, as a collection of two disconnected clusters of former Union Pacific branches. EIRR is owned by Watco, Inc (WAMX), of Pittsburg, Kansas, a short line operater.
Eastern Illinois University Men's Rugby Eastern Illinois Men's Rugby, located in Charleston Illinois, has existed as an official institution since around the mid to late 70's. According to Alumnus Kevin "The Ox" Hunt, the club was founded in 1976 by four students from Kankakee, Illinois: Check Squires, Doug Moyer, Tom Raguse, and Jay Makin.
Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne The Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne (EISM or EIS) are a group of twenty independent secondary schools in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The schools compete against one another in sporting competitions.
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League The Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (EIGL) is a NCAA Division 1 college athletic conference and part of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. This part of the conference only sponsors men’s gymnastics.
Eastern Jebel languages The Eastern Jebel languages are a small subfamily belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subgroup of Nilo-Saharan. They are spoken in the hills of An Nil al Azraq province in eastern Sudan (the name "Jebel" is simply Arabic for "mountain".
Eastern Kentucky Railway The Eastern Kentucky Railway was a railroad in northeastern Kentucky, USA. It served mainly mine traffic, running north from Webbville through Grayson to Riverton (now part of Greenup) on the Ohio River and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Eastern Lane Eastern Lane were an English indie band from Berwick-upon-Tweed, comprising members Derek Meins (Vocals/Guitar), Andrew Lawton (Guitar), Stuart Newlands (Bass) and Danny Ferguson (Drums). Their name was taken from a street in their hometown, the road sign for which was one of many apparently stolen by the band.
Eastern Lombard Eastern Lombard (or Orobic) is a group of dialects spoken in the eastern side of Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua and in the area around Crema. These dialects are generally mutually intelligible for speakers of neighbouring areas but this is not always true for distant peripheric areas.
Eastern Lombard grammar The Eastern Lombard Grammar reflects the main features of Romance languages: the word order of Eastern Lombard is usually SVO, nouns are inflected in number, adjectives agree in number and gender with the nouns, verbs are declined in tense, aspect and mood and agree with the subject in number and person. The case system is present only for the weak form of the pronoun.
Eastern Marching Band Association The Eastern Marching Band Association or EMBA is a local circuit for marching band competitions, based in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Although there used to be many bands in it, most left in 2001 to form the Musical Arts Conference.
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving most suburbs of Boston. Many of its former routes are now run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Eastern Mediterranean Event The Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy aerial explosion over the Mediterranean Sea, around 34ÂşN 21ÂşE (between Libya, Greece and Crete) on June 6th, 2002. This explosion, similar to a small atomic bomb, has been related to an asteroid undetected while approaching the Earth.
Eastern Mennonite Seminary Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) is the graduate theological division of Eastern Mennonite University(EMU) which is an accredited Christian liberal arts university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. EMU was initially established as Eastern Mennonite College in 1917.
Eastern Mennonite University Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is an accredited four-year Christian liberal arts university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. EMU is known internationally for its Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, as well as its undergraduate program that requires cross-cultural study.
Eastern Metropolitan Region, Victoria Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions in Victoria's Legislative Council (also referred to as the Upper House) in the state of Victoria, Australia. The region was created by the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Eastern Microwave, Incorporated Eastern Microwave, Incorporated was a satellite distributor of cable television stations. Among the stations they distributed were WOR-TV/WWOR-TV in New York City (local feed from 1979 to 1989, Special national feed from 1990 to 1996) and WSBK-TV in Boston.
Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI, USA 48197) is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents, who are appointed by the Governor of Michigan for eight-year terms.
Eastern Military Academy Eastern Military Academy is a defunct academy founded in 1944 in Connecticut by Roland R. Robinson, a former mathematics teacher at Peekskill Military Academy (also defunct), and his brother-in-law, Carleton Witham.
Eastern Moldova The name eastern Moldova (usually with either a lowercase "e") refers—usually in a historical context—to the eastern territory of the old Principality of Moldova, roughly equal in territory to the present-day Republic of Moldova, minus Transnistria. This territory was annexed in 1812 by the Russian Empire together with Ottoman Bessarabia, a region that had at that time been part of the Ottoman Empire for 328 years.
Eastern nannygai The eastern nannygai, redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, Centroberyx affinis, is an alfonsino of the genus Centroberyx, found around eastern and southern Australia and northern New Zealand, at depths up to 400 metres. Their length is between 30 and 40 centimetres.
Eastern National Eastern National (also known as EN) is a non-profit organization based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania that partners with the National Park Service in the United States. It was created by charter in 1948 to "provide quality educational products and services to the visitors to America's national parks and other public trusts.
Eastern Nazarene College Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a small liberal arts college south of Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the higher education system of the Church of the Nazarene, ENC is the college for the Eastern Region of the Church of the Nazarene.
Eastern New Mexico University Eastern New Mexico University, (abbreviated ENMU), frequently called Eastern, is a state university in Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA. It is the most recently-founded state university in New Mexico (legislated in 1927, opened in 1934).
Eastern Nilotic languages The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the far south of Sudan. They are spoken across a large area in East Africa, ranging from Equatoria to the highlands of Tanzania.
Eastern oyster The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), also known as the American oyster, Atlantic oyster, or the Virginia oyster, is a species of oyster that is native to the Eastern Seaboard of North America. It is also farmed in the Puget Sound of Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica.
Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Eastern Oklahoma Catholic is a biweekly newspaper (except in January and July) published by the Diocese of Tulsa. A subscription rate of $24 a year is requested for those persons who are interested in receiving the publication.
Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League The Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league operating in eastern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by the Ottawa District Hockey Association and Hockey Canada.
Eastern Oregon Eastern Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to mean the area of the state of Oregon east of the Cascade Range, save the region around The Dalles and sometimes Klamath County. The area around Bend is often considered to be Central Oregon rather than Eastern Oregon, but those in the Willamette Valley would tend to disagree as they tend to view anything past the Cascade Range as Eastern Oregon, similar to the way Australians lump everything west of the Great Dividing Range into the Outback.
Eastern Orthodox Christian theology The theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church is particular to that Christian communion. It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the Son of God, a balancing of cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by Holy Tradition, a concrete ecclesiology, a robust theology of the person, and a therapeutic soteriology.
Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church is a Christian body that views itself as the historical continuation of the original Christian community established by Jesus and the Twelve Apostles, preserving the traditions of the early church unchanged, accepting the canonicity of the first seven ecumenical councils held between the 4th and the 8th centuries, and maintaining the unbroken link between its clergy and the Apostles by means of Apostolic Succession.
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Associated with each date are passages of Holy Scripture, Saints and events for commemoration, and many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
Eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy refers very broadly to the various philosophies of China, Japan, Korea, India, Iran (Persia), but not the Middle East, the philosophy of which fused with Western philosophy after the fall of the Roman empire.
Eastern prickly pear Eastern Prickly Pear (Opuntia humifusa), also known as Indian fig, is the only native cactus found in the northeastern part of North America and is found through New Jersey, New York and the New England states, and even in parts of Eastern Canada.
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center The Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center was formerly the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center responsible for forecasting Pacific hurricanes in the eastern north Pacific east of 140°W. It was part of the Weather Bureau Forecast Office San Francisco and was based in Redwood City.
Eastern Paradise Whydah The Eastern Paradise Whydah, Vidua paradisaea is a small brown sparrow-like bird of Eastern Africa, from east Sudan to south Angola. During the breeding season the male has golden brown breast and yellow white abdomen with broad, elongated black tail feathers up to 36cm long.
Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (all times except late nights).
Eastern Parotia The Eastern Parotia, Parotia helenae also known as Helena's Parotia is a medium-sized, up to 27cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male has an iridescent golden green breast shield, elongated black plumes, three erectile spatule head wires behind each blue iris eye and golden brown nasal tuft feathers.
Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union The Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union (EPRU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and parts of New Jersey. EPRU is part of the Mid Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU), which is one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAU's) that comprise USA Rugby.
Eastern Pipistrelle The Eastern Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus) is a species of bat that is widely distributed throughout the eastern parts of North America, ranging west until Kansas and Texas, from eastern Mexico up north until southern Ontario.
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid The eastern prairie fringed orchid, Platanthera leucophaea, is a rare orchid native to North America. It is listed as a threatened species in the United States, the IUCN does not recognise it as being at risk.
Eastern Province (Kenya) The Eastern Province of Kenya is one of seven regions of the country. Its northern boundary is with Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lie to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, run along its western border.
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Eastern Province or Eastern Principality (Arabic الشرقية Ash Sharqiyah) is the largest province of Saudi Arabia, located in the east of the country on the coasts of the Persian Gulf, and has borders with Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. It has an area of 710,000 km² and a population of 3,360,157 (2004 census).
Eastern Question The "Eastern Question," in European history, encompasses the diplomatic and political problems posed by the decay of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The expression does not apply to any one particular problem, but instead includes a variety of issues raised during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including instability in the European territories ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
Eastern Quoll The Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are now considered extinct on the mainland, but remain widespread and even locally common in Tasmania.
Eastern religion Eastern religion refers to religions that are mostly either Indian or Chinese in origin: The Dharma faiths of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism; and the Chinese religious philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism. This grouping also includes other religions, most notably Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan.
Eastern Reef Egret The Eastern Reef Egret, Egretta sacra, is a type of egret (a subclass of herons). They are found in many areas of Asia including the oceanic region of India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia, and in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
Eastern Region Ministry Course The Eastern Region Ministry Course, based in Cambridge, is a non-residential theological training course which offers initial ministerial training on behalf of the Church of England, the Methodist Church in Britain, the United Reformed Church, and occasionally other churches in England. Currently more the 80% of the students are ordinands sent by the Church of England.
Eastern Riflebird The Eastern Riflebird, Ptiloris intercedens also known as Growling Riflebird is a medium-sized passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a velvet black and green bird of paradise with black flank plumes, black curved bill, yellow mouth, blackish feet and dark brown iris.
Eastern Rite Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous particular Churches in full communion with the Pope in Rome. Distinct from the Western or Latin Church, these Churches worship according to Eastern Christian liturgical rites.
Eastern Romance substratum The Eastern Romance languages developed from the Proto-Romanian language, which in turn developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in a region of the Balkans which has not yet been exactly determined, but is generally agreed to have been a region north of the JireÄŤek Line.
Eastern Rumelia Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia (; Ottoman Turkish: Rumeli-i Şarki; Modern Turkish: Şarki Rumeli, Greek Ανατολική Ρωμυλία Anatoliki Romylia) was an autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1885 (nominally to 1908). Its capital was Plovdiv (Пловдив in Bulgarian Cyrillic, Philippoupolis Φιλιππούπολις in Greek, Filibe in Turkish).
Eastern Scottish Eastern Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from the Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd (SMT) and operated until 1999 when it became First Edinburgh.
Eastern Settlement The Eastern Settlement (EystribygĂ° in old Norse, EystribyggĂ° in modern Icelandic) was the larger of the two areas of Greenland settled in approximately 984 AD by Norse farmers from Iceland (the other settlement being the Western Settlement). At its peak the settlement contained approximately 4000 inhabitants.
Eastern Shore (Alabama) Eastern Shore is a colloquial term referring to the geographic eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay in southwest Alabama. It extends from just north of Interstate 10 to the southeastern end of the bay near Weeks Bay.
Eastern Shore Baseball League The Eastern Shore Baseball League was a Class D minor league baseball league that operated on the Delmarva Peninsula for parts of three different decades. The league's first season was in 1922 and the last was in 1949, although the years were not consecutive, and featured teams from Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
Eastern Shore of Maryland The Eastern Shore of Maryland is composed of the state's nine counties east of the Chesapeake Bay. The counties are Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County.
Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline The Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (ESPO pipeline) is a 4130 km long pipeline system to export Russian crude oil to the Asia-Pacific markets (Japan, China, Korea). The pipeline will laid by the route of Taishet-Kazachinskoe-Skovorodino-Perevoznaya–(Nakhodka).
Eastern Sierra Academy Eastern Sierra Academy (ESA) is an extremely small (22 students and four teachers), technology-based, college-preparatory public high school serving the town of Bridgeport, California. In Newsweek magazine's Challenge index ranking of America's 27,000 public high schools, ESA was ranked 19th in the nation and 1st in California based on its 2004 performance.
Eastern Skunk Cabbage Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), commonly known as simply "Skunk Cabbage", is a low growing, foul smelling plant that prefers wetlands. It can be found naturally in eastern North America, from Nova Scotia and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south to North Carolina and Tennessee; and also in northeastern Asia, in eastern Siberia, northeastern China and Japan.
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem (Serbian: SAO IstoÄŤna Slavonija, Baranja i Zapadni Srem / СĐĐž ĐŃточна СлавониŃĐ°, Барања и Западни Срем) or Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem was an Serbian autonomous region (oblast) in Croatia. It was one of the two SAO's that formed the Republic of Serbian Krajina in 1991.
Eastern Sounds Eastern Sounds is an album by jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1961. The album features Lateef's continued exploration of Indian music, which were incorporated into his distinct brand of soulful hard bop with a quartet featuring Barry Harris on piano.
Eastern Spinebill The Eastern Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, is found in south-eastern Australia in forest and woodland areas. It is around fifteen centimetres long, and has a distinctive black, white and chestnut plumage, a red eye, and a long downcurved bill.
Eastern Standard Tribe Eastern Standard Tribe is a 2004 novel by Cory Doctorow, who also wrote Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Like Doctorow's first two novels, the entire text was released under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website, allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without the publisher's permission.
Eastern State Penitentiary The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former state prison in the United States. It is located on Fairmount Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 blocks north of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Eastern States Agency The Eastern States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, and was composed of a number of princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, and Tripura.
Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, Sydney The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line (popularly known as the Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line) is a commuter railway line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, that has become part of Sydney's CityRail rail network. Along with the South Coast Line, an intercity line that uses the Illawara Line tracks out of Sydney, the line was originally constructed in the 1880s to Wollongong to take advantage of agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra area.
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) The Eastern Suburbs is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Eastern Suburbs can refer to the suburbs within the local government areas of Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and part of the City of Sydney.
Eastern Suburbs 1908 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their first New South Wales Rugby League season in 1908. They won 9 of their 11 games and finished runners up, being defeated by the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the Grand Final.
Eastern Suburbs 1909 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their second New South Wales Rugby League season in 1909. They won 5 of their 11 games and were eliminated in the Minor Semi-Final by Balmain Tigers.
Eastern Suburbs 1912 Season Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in their fifth New South Wales Rugby League season in 1912. They won their second premiership back to back finishing 1st at the end of the season to claim both the minor and major premiership due to the rule stipulations for that year.
Eastern Suburbs 1913 Season Eastern Suburbs competed in their sixth New South Wales Rugby League season in 1913. They took out the 1913 premiership, and with it the RAS shield after becoming the first team to win a treble of premierships.
Eastern Suburbs ferry services, Sydney Eastern Suburbs ferry services connect wharves in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs with Circular Quay by commuter ferry. The services are provided by Sydney Ferries Corporation, an agency of the Government of New South Wales.
Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, more commonly known as Easts, was established in 1961 with the purpose of raising revenue to support and promote the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club and rugby league within the eastern districts of Sydney.
Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club is an Australian football (soccer) club from East Brisbane, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club was formed in 1922, and currently play in the Brisbane Premier League.
Eastern Sumatran Rhinoceros The Eastern Sumatran Rhinoceros also known as the Asian Two-Horned Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni) is a critically endangered subspecies of Sumatran Rhino. Once was widespread throughout Borneo its numbers have shrank to around 50 rhinos due to poaching and habitat loss and now is only living in Sabah.
Eastern Swing An early evolution of Foxtrot which used the conversation position (now known as promenade) and breakaway position (taken from Charleston (dance) and now known as open position). This dance along with Shag were taken from early Fox Trot forms and done to Swing Music.
Eastern Toll Road (California) The Eastern Toll Road (also called The Eastern Transportation Corridor) is a tollway in Orange County, California. It comprises of the entire length of California State Highway 261, the northern part of California State Highway 133, and the northern half of California State Highway 241.
Eastern Towhee The Eastern Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, is a large sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the Spotted Towhee were considered a single species, the Rufous-sided Towhee.
Eastern Townships The Eastern Townships is a tourist region in south central Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. The administrative entity is officially called Estrie, and its boundaries are different from the tourist region referred to as the Eastern Townships.
Eastern Trans-Fly languages The Eastern Trans-Fly languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that inherits much of the Trans Fly-Bulaka River branch of Stephen WĂĽrm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. Wurm himself concluded that some of the Trans Fly-Bulaka River languages were not Trans-New Guinea at all but rather heavily influenced by Trans-New Guinea languages.
Eastern Transport Corridor The Eastern Transport Corridor in Auckland, New Zealand, is a transport reserve along a strip of land and water some of which is occupied by housing, commerce, industry and local roads. It runs adjacent to the North Island Main Trunk Railway freight and passenger railway line, but is earmarked for major transport intensification to improve links from central Auckland to the north-eastern half of Manukau city - suburbs such as Pakuranga and Howick.
Eastern Trombone Workshop The Eastern Trombone Workshop (ETW) is a trombone convention that runs annually at Fort Myer, Virginia since 1993. Hosted by the United States Army Brass Band, the workshop offers numerous concerts, several national solo competitions, and opportunities to buy and sell trombones, trombone accessories, sheet music, CDs, and other items.
Eastern Union Railway The Eastern Union Railway opened for public passenger traffic on 15 June 1846, from an end-on junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Colchester, to a terminus at Ipswich. One of the main protagonists was John Chevallier Cobbold and the engineer was Peter Bruff.
Eastern United States The Eastern United States, the American East, or simply the East is traditionally defined as the states east of the Mississippi River. The first two tiers of states west of the Mississippi have traditionally been considered part of the West, but can be included in the East today; usually in regional models that exclude a Central region.
Eastern UP Eastern UP has often been called the "mother soil" of Indian Mafia. Azamgarh, in eastern Uttar Pradesh has seen the likes of Dawood Ibrahim and Abu Salem spending their formative years learning the ropes and then going on to manage one of the largest mafia empires Mumbai has seen.
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