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Edgar Jacob Edgar Jacob (1844-1920) was born at the Rectory, Crawley, Hampshire on 16 November 1844. He was the fifth son of Philip Jacob, Rector of Crawley, Archdeacon of Winchester and Rural Dean, and Anna Sophia, eldest daughter of the Honble and Rev Gerard Thomas Noel, Vicar of Romney and Canon of Winchester.
Edgar James Banks Edgar James Banks (1866 - May 5 1945) was an antiquities enthusiast and entrepreneurial roving archaeologist in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire, who has been held up as an original for the fictional composite figure of Indiana Jones. Starting from his position as American consul in Baghdad in 1898, Banks bought hundreds of cuneiform tablets on the market in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire and re-sold them in small batches to museums, libraries, universities, and theological seminaries, several in Utah and the American Southwest and across the United States.
Edgar Jepson Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R.
Edgar Johnson Allen Edgar Johnson Allen FRS (6 April 1866 - 7 December 1942) was a British marine biologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1936.
Edgar Johnston Edgar Charles Johnston (30 April 1896 – 22 May 1988) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of World War I. He shot down 20 German aircraft between his entry into the war in 1917 and the war's end in 1918, making him the 5th highest-scoring Australian pilot of the war.
Edgar Julius Jung Edgar Julius Jung (March 6, 1894 – July 1, 1934) was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Jung was a German lawyer and leader of the Conservative Revolutionary movement, which stood not only in opposition to the Weimar Republic, whose parliamentarian system he considered decadent and foreign-imposed, but also to the mass movement of Nazism.
Edgar Laprade Edgar Louis Laprade (born October 10, 1919 in Mine Centre, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. He also spent time with the Port Arthur Bearcats of the Thunder Bay Senior Hockey League.
Edgar Lee Hewett Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett (1865 - 1946) was an archaeologist/anthropologist active in work on the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States, and most famous for his role in bringing about the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement.
Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems.
Edgar Leopold Layard Edgar Leopold Layard (1824–January 1, 1900) was a British naturalist mainly interested in ornithology , born in Italy. He was the sixth son of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service with his wife Marianne, the daughter of Nathaniel Austin of Ramsgate, Kent and hence he was the brother of the archaeologist and politician Sir Austen Henry Layard.
Edgar MarĂn Edgar MarĂn, a former Costa Rican striker, is often considered one of the best soccer players to ever come out of Costa Rica. He played his entire career with Deportivo Saprissa, and holds the record by becoming the Costa Rican soccer player to have won the most national championships ever, with a total of 12.
Edgar Martinez Edgar Martinez (born January 2, 1963 in New York City) is a longtime Major League Baseball player who retired at the end of the 2004 season. He spent his entire major-league career with the Seattle Mariners, in the American League West division.
Edgar Martinez Award The Edgar Martinez Award is presented annually to the most outstanding designated hitter in the American League. Originally known as the Outstanding Designated Hitter Award, it was later renamed for the Seattle Mariners' Edgar Martinez following his retirement in 2004.
Edgar McCloughry Edgar James Kingston McCloughry DSO, DFC and Bar (10 September 1896–1972) was an Australian World War I fighter pilot and flying ace. He shot down 21 aircraft and military balloons during the war, making him the 6th highest-scoring Australian ace.
Edgar Nixon Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987) was an American civil rights leader and union organizer, and played an important role in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Nixon was the head of the Montgomery branch of the Pullman Porters union and president of the local NAACP, as well as the Montgomery Welfare League and the Montgomery Voters League at various times.
Edgar Ponce Edgar Ponce (December 27, 1977 – May 5, 2005) was a Mexican actor and dancer. Ponce was a member of the male dance troupe Sólo Para Mujeres (For Women Only) and appeared in a number of soap operas (telenovelas) which were popular in both Mexico and the United States.
Edgar Ray Killen Edgar Ray (Preacher) Killen (born 17 January 1925) is an American former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964. He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime.
Edgar RenterĂa Edgar Enrique RenterĂa [ren-ter-EE-ah] (born August 7, 1975 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball who plays for the Atlanta Braves (as of 2006). He is also the first Colombian to play in the World Series.
Edgar Rubin Edgar John Rubin (September 6 1886 - May 3 1951) was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. He once worked as a research associate for MĂĽller.
Edgar S. Brightman Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884 – 1953) was a philosopher and Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and liberal theology, and promulgated the philosophy known as Boston personalism.
Edgar Sengier Edgar Sengier (1879,Courtrai, Belgium—July 26, 1963) was the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project.
Edgar Schein Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture.
Edgar Silva Edgar Silva (born Edgar Arturo Silva Loáiciga on October, 1967 in Liberia, Guanacaste) is a Costa Rican journalist who works for Teletica, the largest TV station in Costa Rica. His major roll in the channel since November 1998 has been co-hosting daily-morning show "Buen DĂa" with Adriana Durán, as well as hosting the New Year's-coming show "El Chinamo" for the last couple of years, himself playing a role in the success of the show.
Edgar Snyder Edgar Snyder, (born September 6, 1941) is a Pittsburgh-area personal injury attorney. Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Polish and Russian immigrants, Snyder was pressured at an early age to pursue a professional career.
Edgar Stoebel The French artist Edgar Stoëbel (1909-2001), real name René Teboul Yechoua, was born in Frendah, near Oran in Algeria on 21 December 1909, and died in Paris in December 2001. Stoëbel was the name he painted under.
Edgar Street Edgar Street is a football stadium in Hereford, England and is the home of Hereford United who currently play in League Two. The stadium is located on the A49 road in the middle of Hereford and parking facilities are available in the Merton Meadow carpark behind the Meadow End.
Edgar Sulite Edgar Sulite (September 25, 1957 - April 10, 1997) was a teacher of Filipino martial arts. He was the creator of Lameco Eskrima and trained such notables as: Dan Inosanto, Ron Balicki, Larry Hartsell, Fred Degerberg and Diana Lee Inosanto.
Edgar Tafel Edgar Tafel (1912-) is an American architect and who began his career as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin (studio). Today, Tafel is considered the "unofficial guardian of the Frank Lloyd Wright School.
Edgar Tekere Edgar Zivanai Tekere (born 1937) is a Zimbabwean politician. He was a leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served briefly in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their estrangement.
Edgar Thomas Inkson Edgar Thomas Inkson (VC, DSO) (5 April 1872 - 19 February 1947) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgar Thomas Towner Edgar Thomas Towner (VC, MC, Croix de Guerre (France))(19 April 1890-18 August 1972) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgar van Tuyll Edgar van Tuyll is the chief quantitative strategist of Pictet, the largest specialist private bank in Switzerland. He has been extensively quoted by the media for his prediction of the 2000 Dot-com bubble crash and of the bull market beginning in March 2003.
Edgar Valter Edgar Valter (21 September 1929 Tallinn - 4 March 2006 Tartu) was an Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950-2005). His most famous creation is the Pokuraamat (the book of pokus).
Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author.
Edgar Whitehead Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead OBE (February 8, 1905–September 23, 1971) was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness; as an ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962.
Edgar Wilson Edgar Wilson (born February 25, 1861 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania – died January 3, 1915 in Boise, Idaho) was a United States Representative from Idaho. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Wilson served as a Republican in the House from 1895 to 1897 and as a Silver Republican from 1899 to 1901, representing the state at-large.
Edgar Wind Edgar Wind (14 May1900 Berlin, Germany-12 September 1971 London, England) was an interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the Warburg school of art historians as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University.
Edgar Winter Edgar Winter (born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. He is a keyboard player, vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock.
Edgar Wood Edgar Wood (1860-1935) architect, practised from Manchester about the turn of the century and gained a considerable reputation both in Britain and abroad, notably in Germany. British design was then of European significance.
Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier (October 5 1887 – August 26 1956) was an Ontario lawyer, judge and political figure. He represented City of Ottawa in the Canadian House of Commons from 1921 to 1935 and Ottawa East from 1935 to 1936 as a Liberal member.
Edgar, Dunn & Company Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) is a global management consulting company, focusing on the financial services industry. The company was founded in 1978, and currently has offices in San Francisco, London, Atlanta, New York City, Sydney and Frankfurt.
Edgardo Bauza Edgardo Bauza (born January 26 1958, Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe Province) is a former football (soccer) defender from Argentina. He played most of his career for Rosario Central, but he also had short spells with Independiente in Argentina, Atlético Junior in Colombia and CD Veracruz in Mexico.
Edgardo Mortara Edgardo Mortara (August 27, 1851–March 11, 1940), a Jewish-born Italian Catholic priest, became the centre of an international controversy when, as a six-year-old boy, he was seized from his Jewish parents by the Papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Catholic. The Mortara case was the catalyst for far-reaching political changes, and its repercussions are still being felt within the Catholic Church and in relations between the Church and Jewish organizations.
Edgars GauraÄŤs Edgars GauraÄŤs (born March 10 1988 in Rezekne) is a football striker from Latvia, who is currently playing for Italian Ascoli Calcio 1898. Until summer of 2006 he was playing for FK DiĹľvanagi RÄ“zekne, but after training in Italy with such a teams as AC Milan, Sampdoria and Lazio, he signed with Ascoli.
Edgars MasaÄĽskis Edgars MasaÄĽskis (born 31 March 1980) is a Latvian ice hockey goaltender, who plays for the Russian team Neftyanik Almetievsk in the Russian Vysshaya Liga, the second tier of Russian ice hockey. Masalskis has five national games at World Championships and Olympic qualifiers, and has played for a number of clubs, with five seasons in Metalurgs Liepaja his longest stint at any club.
Edgbaston Cricket Ground Edgbaston Cricket Ground (sometimes called Edgbaston Stadium) is a cricket venue in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and is also used for Test matches and one day internationals.
Edge and Christian Edge and Christian (E&C) is a former tag team of on-screen brothers made of real life best friends Adam Joseph Copeland (Edge) and William Jason Reso (Christian), who wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation. They were a highly successful tag team, winning the WWF World Tag Team Championship on seven occasions and were part of one of the most competitive tag team scenes in WWE history.
Edge Appalachia Edge of Appalachia Preserve is a series of ten adjacent nature preserves located along the Appalachian Escarpment in Adams County, Ohio. Four of the ten preserves, Lynx Prairie, Buzzardroost Rock, Red Rock and The Wilderness, are National Natural Landmarks.
Edge city Edge city is an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community. The term was popularized in a 1991 book of that title by American writer Joel Garreau, who invented it while working as a reporter for the Washington Post.
Edge coloring In graph theory, as with its vertex counterpart, an edge coloring of a graph, when mentioned without any qualification, is always assumed to be a proper coloring of the edges, meaning no two adjacent edges are assigned the same color. Here, "adjacent" means sharing a common vertex.
Edge contraction In graph theory, an edge contraction is an operation which removes an edge from a graph while simultaneously merging together the two vertices it used to connect. All other edges incident to either of the two vertices become incident to the single merged vertex.
Edge detection The goal of edge detection is to mark the points in a digital image at which the luminous intensity changes sharply. Sharp changes in image properties usually reflect important events and changes in properties of the world.
Edge device Edge devices are routers, switches, routing switches, integrated access devices (IADs), multiplexers, and a variety of metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) access devices that provide entry points into enterprise or service provider core networks. On an enterprise network, edge devices may connect Ethernet and token ring local area networks (LANs) to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone, where the ATM network provides a bridge between the edge networks.
Edge effect An edge effect is the effect of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments on an ecosystem. This term is commonly used in conjunction with the boundary between natural habitats, especially forests, and disturbed or developed land.
Edge enhancement Edge enhancement is a digital image processing filter that improves the apparent sharpness of an image or video. The creation of bright and dark highlights on either side of any line leaves the line looking more contrasted from a distance.
Edge Foundation The Edge Foundation is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its motto is 'to seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have themselves ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
Edge Hill Light Railway The Edge Hill Light Railway, one of Colonel Stephens railways, was in Warwickshire, England. It was designed to carry iron ore from Edge Hill Quarries to Burton Dassett where a junction was made with the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway.
Edge Hill, Warwickshire Edge Hill is an escarpment and hamlet in the county of Warwickshire, England (national grid reference SP3747). It is best known as having been a prominent feature of the site of the first battle of the English Civil War.
Edge loops Edge Loops are a 3-D modeling concept that allows relatively little geometry to convey relatively large amounts of spatial information in a given mesh object. This determines the “flow” of geometry over a surface, and usually has an influence over the placement of surface detail and direction of the object’s contours.
Edge of Darkness Edge of Darkness is a British television drama serial, produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six 55-minute episodes on BBC Two in late 1985. A mixture of political thriller and murder-mystery, it was extremely popular, won several awards and is still remembered by many as one of the best British television drama productions of the 1980s.
Edge of chaos The phrase edge of chaos was coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1990. The phrase originally refers to an area in the range of a variable, λ (lambda), which was varied while examining the behavior of a cellular automaton (CA).
Edge of Reality Edge of Reality is a video game developer founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas that has developed games for the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox games consoles. It also has games in development for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games consoles.
Edge of Seventeen (song) "Edge of Seventeen" is one of Stevie Nicks' most popular songs from her highly successful debut album, Bella Donna. Released as a single in early 1982, it made the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 (#11), and the Top 5 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, peaking at number four.
Edge of the World Edge of the World is a album created by Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton, The Who bassist John Entwistle, and renowned drummer Cozy Powell. In honor of both John and Cozy's deaths, he released an album of tracks that were not released on Baptizm Of Fire Quote Glenn Tipton, "I'm sure everyone will know, and this album is a tribute to their unique styles and skills and a small part of the immense legacy they have left behind which will continue to inspire people all over the world for many years to come.
Edge of Victory: Conquest Edge of Victory: Conquest (also released as Edge of Victory I: Conquest) is the first novel in a two-part story by Greg Keyes. Published and released in 2001, it is the eighth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy.
Edge of Victory: Rebirth Edge of Victory: Rebirth (also released as Edge of Victory II: Rebirth) is the second novel in a two-part story by Greg Keyes. Published and released in 2001, it is the ninth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy.
Edge pull An edge pull is a skill in figure skating that allows the skater to gain speed while skating on one foot by rocking between inside and outside edges. The momentum across the ice derives from a rising and falling knee action on each lobe which creates pressure against the edge, accompanied by a distinctive "ripping" sound.
Edge space In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the edge space and vertex space of an undirected graph are vector spaces defined in terms of the edge and vertex sets, respectively. These vector spaces make it possible to use techniques of linear algebra in studying the graph.
Edge School Edge School is a unique learning community located in Calgary Alberta Canada, a place for young people to pursue academic excellence while striving to reach their full athletic potential.The School accommodates the training requirements of a wide range of sports and disciplines, and offers high performance training in dance, golf, hockey, soccer and basketball.
Edge Wireless Edge Wireless LLC is a Mobile phone provider founded in 1999, serving southern Oregon, northern California, southeastern Idaho and Jackson, Wyoming. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon, although they provide no coverage or services in that city.
Edge-graceful labeling In graph theory, an edge-graceful graph labeling is a type of graph labeling. This is a labeling for simple graphs, namely ones in which no two distinct edges connect the same two distinct vertices, no edge connects a vertex to itself, and the graph is connected.
Edge-Localized Mode An Edge-Localized Mode ("ELM") is a disruptive event occuring in the edge region of a tokamak plasma due to the quasi-periodic relaxation of a transport barrier previously formed during an L --> H transition.
Edge-notched card Edge-notched cards, or McBee cards, were a manual data storage and manipulation technology invented in 1896 and used for specialized data storage and cataloging applications through much of the 20th century. While there were many variants, a popular version consisted of 5 inch by 8 inch paperboard cards with holes punched at regular intervals along all four edges, a short distance in from the edges.
Edge-of-the-wedge theorem In mathematics, the edge-of-the-wedge theorem implies that holomorphic functions on two "wedges" with an "edge" in common are analytic continuations of each other provided they both give the same continuous function on the edge. It is used in quantum field theory to construct the analytic continuation of Wightman functions.
Edge-Sweets Company The Edge-Sweets Company was founded in 1887 as the Frank Edge Company, to produce saw blades for the furniture industry. In 1950, the emphasis at Edge switched to saws for the newly developed polyurethane foams, and with the acquisition of the North American Urethanes (NAU) Machinery Division in 1975, it included dispensers for foams and elastomer in its stock.
Edge-uniform In geometry, a form is edge-uniform if its symmetries act transitively on its edges. Informally, this means that there is only one type of edge to the object: given two edges, there is a translation, rotation and/or reflection that will move one edge to the other, while leaving the region occupied by the object unchanged.
Edgeøya Edgeøya, occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is an uninhabited Norwegian island in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the South East Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer.
Edgecliff, New South Wales Edgecliff is a small suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4km east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.
Edgecote Edgecote is the site of the Battle of Edgecote Moor, a battle fought on July 26, 1469 during the Wars of the Roses, is marked on many maps and lies about a mile east of where Edgecote Hall now stands. Edgecote village no longer exists.
Edgecumbe, New Zealand Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatane and eight kilometres south of the Bay's coast. Edgecumbe acts as the main service town for the agricultural region surrounding the plains of the Rangitaiki River, which flows through the town.
Edgefest Edgefest, a yearly outdoor rock concert festival that primarily promotes Canadian rock music, began in 1987 as a thank-you gesture to the listeners of Toronto radio station 102.1 the Edge and as a birthday party to commemorate both the station's 10th birthday, and the coinciding Canada Day.
Edgefield Hussars The Edgefield Hussars comprised a military company raised in the state of South Carolina. It served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, being redesignated as Company A, Cavalry Battalion, Hampton Legion.
Edgehill College Edgehill College is a co-educational independent school situated in Bideford, Devon. Founded in 1884 by the Bible Christian movement, Edgehill is one of a number of independent schools owned by the Methodist Church of Great Britain and is sister-school to nearby Shebbear College.
Edgeley Edgeley is a mainly residential, chav infested blue collar neighbourhood within the town of Stockport. Edgeley comprises the small Sykes reservoir backed onto a park and bowling green, a recently refurbished main street, and largely close-packed terraced housing.
Edgemont High School Edgemont High School is a high school in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. In 2006, it was named 56th best high school in the country by Newsweek magazine, the 26th best high school in the country by the Washington Post, and has been consistently ranked as the number one school in Westchester county.
Edgemont Village Edgemont Village is a small commercial area in the District of North Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada. It is centred around the intersection of Edgemont Boulevard and Highland Boulevard in the north-western part of the District.
Edgeplay In BDSM, edgeplay is a subjective term for types of sexual play that are "over the edge" of the traditional safe, sane and consensual creed. These forms of BDSM activity are regarded by many as inadvisable and dangerous, and it is nearly universally held that they should not be attempted without proper training, supervision, safety precautions, etc.
Edger An edger, also known as a lawn edger or stick edger, is a lawn-care tool used to cleanly separate a lawn from a walkway or other paved surface, such as a concrete sidewalk or asphalt path. Edgers may be manual or automated, typically employing a small two-stroke gasoline motor or an electric motor.
Edger Christopher Cookson Edger Christopher Cookson (VC, DSO) (December 13, 1883- September 28, 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgerton's Law Edgerton's Law is a theory about Proto-Indo-European phonology, specifically the syllabification of Proto-Indo-European semivowels (y w r l m n) propounded in 1934 by the eminent Sanskritist Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963). In essence it is a considerable elaboration of Sievers' Law.
Edges of the Lord Edges of the Lord (2000) is a movie set in Poland during the 1940s that depicts a Jewish boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is hidden from Nazis by posing as the Catholic nephew of a local farmer, with the aid of a local priest, played by (Willem Dafoe). While it was critically acclaimed, the film was denied a theatrical release in America.
Edgewater Park School District The Edgewater Park School District is a community public school district that serves students in grades from prekindergarten through eighth grade from Edgewater Park, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Edgewater Presbyterian Church Edgewater Presbyterian Church is a Christian church congregation of the Edgewater neighborhood community in far north Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Founded in 1896, it once served a large Scottish and Welsh immigrant community.
Edgewater, Chicago Edgewater is a north Chicago, Illinois, community seven miles north of downtown bordering the neighborhoods of Rogers Park to the north, Uptown to the south, Lincoln Square to the west and south and West Ridge to the west and north. As one of Chicago’s 77 community areas, Edgewater has officially defined boundaries: Foster on the south, Devon on the north, Ravenswood on the west, and Lake Michigan on the east.
Edgewood (Atlanta) Edgewood is a residential neighborhood located approximately 4 miles East of the Atlanta, GA geographical center. The neighborhood is highlighted by the Edgewood Retail district located in the Northwest corner of the neighborhood.
Edgewood Arsenal experiments The Edgewood Arsenal experiments (also known as Project 112) are said to be related to or part of CIA mind control programs after World War II, like MKULTRA. Some critics have alleged employing Nazi scientist war criminals to work on the project (see Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990, by Linda Hunt, St.
Edgewood Botanic Garden The Edgewood Botanic Garden is a small botanical garden of less than 1 acre (4,000 m²) located at 436 Edgewood Avenue, on the southeastern side of Mount Tamalpais near the intersection of Edgewood with Cypress Avenue, in Mill Valley, California, USA. It is dedicated to the native plants of the region but is not actively maintained.
Edgewood College Edgewood College is a small Catholic liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison. Overlooking the shores of Lake Wingra, it occupies 55 acres (223,000 m²) of Madison's near-west side.
Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill Edgewood Plantation is located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located on State Route 5, a scenic byway which runs between the independent cities of Richmond and Williamsburg.
Edgewood State Hospital Edgewood State Hospital was a tubercular/psychiatric hospital complex that formerly stood in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island, New York, USA. It was one of four state mental asylums built on Long Island (the others being Kings Park, Central Islip, and Pilgrim), and was the last one of the four to be built.
Edgar James Banks Edgar James Banks (1866 - May 5 1945) was an antiquities enthusiast and entrepreneurial roving archaeologist in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire, who has been held up as an original for the fictional composite figure of Indiana Jones. Starting from his position as American consul in Baghdad in 1898, Banks bought hundreds of cuneiform tablets on the market in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire and re-sold them in small batches to museums, libraries, universities, and theological seminaries, several in Utah and the American Southwest and across the United States.
Edgar Jepson Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R.
Edgar Johnson Allen Edgar Johnson Allen FRS (6 April 1866 - 7 December 1942) was a British marine biologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1936.
Edgar Johnston Edgar Charles Johnston (30 April 1896 – 22 May 1988) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of World War I. He shot down 20 German aircraft between his entry into the war in 1917 and the war's end in 1918, making him the 5th highest-scoring Australian pilot of the war.
Edgar Julius Jung Edgar Julius Jung (March 6, 1894 – July 1, 1934) was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Jung was a German lawyer and leader of the Conservative Revolutionary movement, which stood not only in opposition to the Weimar Republic, whose parliamentarian system he considered decadent and foreign-imposed, but also to the mass movement of Nazism.
Edgar Laprade Edgar Louis Laprade (born October 10, 1919 in Mine Centre, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. He also spent time with the Port Arthur Bearcats of the Thunder Bay Senior Hockey League.
Edgar Lee Hewett Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett (1865 - 1946) was an archaeologist/anthropologist active in work on the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States, and most famous for his role in bringing about the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement.
Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems.
Edgar Leopold Layard Edgar Leopold Layard (1824–January 1, 1900) was a British naturalist mainly interested in ornithology , born in Italy. He was the sixth son of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service with his wife Marianne, the daughter of Nathaniel Austin of Ramsgate, Kent and hence he was the brother of the archaeologist and politician Sir Austen Henry Layard.
Edgar MarĂn Edgar MarĂn, a former Costa Rican striker, is often considered one of the best soccer players to ever come out of Costa Rica. He played his entire career with Deportivo Saprissa, and holds the record by becoming the Costa Rican soccer player to have won the most national championships ever, with a total of 12.
Edgar Martinez Edgar Martinez (born January 2, 1963 in New York City) is a longtime Major League Baseball player who retired at the end of the 2004 season. He spent his entire major-league career with the Seattle Mariners, in the American League West division.
Edgar Martinez Award The Edgar Martinez Award is presented annually to the most outstanding designated hitter in the American League. Originally known as the Outstanding Designated Hitter Award, it was later renamed for the Seattle Mariners' Edgar Martinez following his retirement in 2004.
Edgar McCloughry Edgar James Kingston McCloughry DSO, DFC and Bar (10 September 1896–1972) was an Australian World War I fighter pilot and flying ace. He shot down 21 aircraft and military balloons during the war, making him the 6th highest-scoring Australian ace.
Edgar Nixon Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987) was an American civil rights leader and union organizer, and played an important role in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Nixon was the head of the Montgomery branch of the Pullman Porters union and president of the local NAACP, as well as the Montgomery Welfare League and the Montgomery Voters League at various times.
Edgar Ponce Edgar Ponce (December 27, 1977 – May 5, 2005) was a Mexican actor and dancer. Ponce was a member of the male dance troupe Sólo Para Mujeres (For Women Only) and appeared in a number of soap operas (telenovelas) which were popular in both Mexico and the United States.
Edgar Ray Killen Edgar Ray (Preacher) Killen (born 17 January 1925) is an American former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964. He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime.
Edgar RenterĂa Edgar Enrique RenterĂa [ren-ter-EE-ah] (born August 7, 1975 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball who plays for the Atlanta Braves (as of 2006). He is also the first Colombian to play in the World Series.
Edgar Rubin Edgar John Rubin (September 6 1886 - May 3 1951) was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. He once worked as a research associate for MĂĽller.
Edgar S. Brightman Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884 – 1953) was a philosopher and Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and liberal theology, and promulgated the philosophy known as Boston personalism.
Edgar Sengier Edgar Sengier (1879,Courtrai, Belgium—July 26, 1963) was the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project.
Edgar Schein Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture.
Edgar Silva Edgar Silva (born Edgar Arturo Silva Loáiciga on October, 1967 in Liberia, Guanacaste) is a Costa Rican journalist who works for Teletica, the largest TV station in Costa Rica. His major roll in the channel since November 1998 has been co-hosting daily-morning show "Buen DĂa" with Adriana Durán, as well as hosting the New Year's-coming show "El Chinamo" for the last couple of years, himself playing a role in the success of the show.
Edgar Snyder Edgar Snyder, (born September 6, 1941) is a Pittsburgh-area personal injury attorney. Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Polish and Russian immigrants, Snyder was pressured at an early age to pursue a professional career.
Edgar Stoebel The French artist Edgar Stoëbel (1909-2001), real name René Teboul Yechoua, was born in Frendah, near Oran in Algeria on 21 December 1909, and died in Paris in December 2001. Stoëbel was the name he painted under.
Edgar Street Edgar Street is a football stadium in Hereford, England and is the home of Hereford United who currently play in League Two. The stadium is located on the A49 road in the middle of Hereford and parking facilities are available in the Merton Meadow carpark behind the Meadow End.
Edgar Sulite Edgar Sulite (September 25, 1957 - April 10, 1997) was a teacher of Filipino martial arts. He was the creator of Lameco Eskrima and trained such notables as: Dan Inosanto, Ron Balicki, Larry Hartsell, Fred Degerberg and Diana Lee Inosanto.
Edgar Tafel Edgar Tafel (1912-) is an American architect and who began his career as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin (studio). Today, Tafel is considered the "unofficial guardian of the Frank Lloyd Wright School.
Edgar Tekere Edgar Zivanai Tekere (born 1937) is a Zimbabwean politician. He was a leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served briefly in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their estrangement.
Edgar Thomas Inkson Edgar Thomas Inkson (VC, DSO) (5 April 1872 - 19 February 1947) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgar Thomas Towner Edgar Thomas Towner (VC, MC, Croix de Guerre (France))(19 April 1890-18 August 1972) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgar van Tuyll Edgar van Tuyll is the chief quantitative strategist of Pictet, the largest specialist private bank in Switzerland. He has been extensively quoted by the media for his prediction of the 2000 Dot-com bubble crash and of the bull market beginning in March 2003.
Edgar Valter Edgar Valter (21 September 1929 Tallinn - 4 March 2006 Tartu) was an Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950-2005). His most famous creation is the Pokuraamat (the book of pokus).
Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author.
Edgar Whitehead Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead OBE (February 8, 1905–September 23, 1971) was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness; as an ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962.
Edgar Wilson Edgar Wilson (born February 25, 1861 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania – died January 3, 1915 in Boise, Idaho) was a United States Representative from Idaho. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Wilson served as a Republican in the House from 1895 to 1897 and as a Silver Republican from 1899 to 1901, representing the state at-large.
Edgar Wind Edgar Wind (14 May1900 Berlin, Germany-12 September 1971 London, England) was an interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the Warburg school of art historians as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University.
Edgar Winter Edgar Winter (born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. He is a keyboard player, vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock.
Edgar Wood Edgar Wood (1860-1935) architect, practised from Manchester about the turn of the century and gained a considerable reputation both in Britain and abroad, notably in Germany. British design was then of European significance.
Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier (October 5 1887 – August 26 1956) was an Ontario lawyer, judge and political figure. He represented City of Ottawa in the Canadian House of Commons from 1921 to 1935 and Ottawa East from 1935 to 1936 as a Liberal member.
Edgar, Dunn & Company Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) is a global management consulting company, focusing on the financial services industry. The company was founded in 1978, and currently has offices in San Francisco, London, Atlanta, New York City, Sydney and Frankfurt.
Edgardo Bauza Edgardo Bauza (born January 26 1958, Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe Province) is a former football (soccer) defender from Argentina. He played most of his career for Rosario Central, but he also had short spells with Independiente in Argentina, Atlético Junior in Colombia and CD Veracruz in Mexico.
Edgardo Mortara Edgardo Mortara (August 27, 1851–March 11, 1940), a Jewish-born Italian Catholic priest, became the centre of an international controversy when, as a six-year-old boy, he was seized from his Jewish parents by the Papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Catholic. The Mortara case was the catalyst for far-reaching political changes, and its repercussions are still being felt within the Catholic Church and in relations between the Church and Jewish organizations.
Edgars GauraÄŤs Edgars GauraÄŤs (born March 10 1988 in Rezekne) is a football striker from Latvia, who is currently playing for Italian Ascoli Calcio 1898. Until summer of 2006 he was playing for FK DiĹľvanagi RÄ“zekne, but after training in Italy with such a teams as AC Milan, Sampdoria and Lazio, he signed with Ascoli.
Edgars MasaÄĽskis Edgars MasaÄĽskis (born 31 March 1980) is a Latvian ice hockey goaltender, who plays for the Russian team Neftyanik Almetievsk in the Russian Vysshaya Liga, the second tier of Russian ice hockey. Masalskis has five national games at World Championships and Olympic qualifiers, and has played for a number of clubs, with five seasons in Metalurgs Liepaja his longest stint at any club.
Edgbaston Cricket Ground Edgbaston Cricket Ground (sometimes called Edgbaston Stadium) is a cricket venue in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and is also used for Test matches and one day internationals.
Edge and Christian Edge and Christian (E&C) is a former tag team of on-screen brothers made of real life best friends Adam Joseph Copeland (Edge) and William Jason Reso (Christian), who wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation. They were a highly successful tag team, winning the WWF World Tag Team Championship on seven occasions and were part of one of the most competitive tag team scenes in WWE history.
Edge Appalachia Edge of Appalachia Preserve is a series of ten adjacent nature preserves located along the Appalachian Escarpment in Adams County, Ohio. Four of the ten preserves, Lynx Prairie, Buzzardroost Rock, Red Rock and The Wilderness, are National Natural Landmarks.
Edge city Edge city is an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community. The term was popularized in a 1991 book of that title by American writer Joel Garreau, who invented it while working as a reporter for the Washington Post.
Edge coloring In graph theory, as with its vertex counterpart, an edge coloring of a graph, when mentioned without any qualification, is always assumed to be a proper coloring of the edges, meaning no two adjacent edges are assigned the same color. Here, "adjacent" means sharing a common vertex.
Edge contraction In graph theory, an edge contraction is an operation which removes an edge from a graph while simultaneously merging together the two vertices it used to connect. All other edges incident to either of the two vertices become incident to the single merged vertex.
Edge detection The goal of edge detection is to mark the points in a digital image at which the luminous intensity changes sharply. Sharp changes in image properties usually reflect important events and changes in properties of the world.
Edge device Edge devices are routers, switches, routing switches, integrated access devices (IADs), multiplexers, and a variety of metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) access devices that provide entry points into enterprise or service provider core networks. On an enterprise network, edge devices may connect Ethernet and token ring local area networks (LANs) to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone, where the ATM network provides a bridge between the edge networks.
Edge effect An edge effect is the effect of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments on an ecosystem. This term is commonly used in conjunction with the boundary between natural habitats, especially forests, and disturbed or developed land.
Edge enhancement Edge enhancement is a digital image processing filter that improves the apparent sharpness of an image or video. The creation of bright and dark highlights on either side of any line leaves the line looking more contrasted from a distance.
Edge Foundation The Edge Foundation is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its motto is 'to seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have themselves ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
Edge Hill Light Railway The Edge Hill Light Railway, one of Colonel Stephens railways, was in Warwickshire, England. It was designed to carry iron ore from Edge Hill Quarries to Burton Dassett where a junction was made with the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway.
Edge Hill, Warwickshire Edge Hill is an escarpment and hamlet in the county of Warwickshire, England (national grid reference SP3747). It is best known as having been a prominent feature of the site of the first battle of the English Civil War.
Edge loops Edge Loops are a 3-D modeling concept that allows relatively little geometry to convey relatively large amounts of spatial information in a given mesh object. This determines the “flow” of geometry over a surface, and usually has an influence over the placement of surface detail and direction of the object’s contours.
Edge of Darkness Edge of Darkness is a British television drama serial, produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six 55-minute episodes on BBC Two in late 1985. A mixture of political thriller and murder-mystery, it was extremely popular, won several awards and is still remembered by many as one of the best British television drama productions of the 1980s.
Edge of chaos The phrase edge of chaos was coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1990. The phrase originally refers to an area in the range of a variable, λ (lambda), which was varied while examining the behavior of a cellular automaton (CA).
Edge of Reality Edge of Reality is a video game developer founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas that has developed games for the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox games consoles. It also has games in development for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games consoles.
Edge of Seventeen (song) "Edge of Seventeen" is one of Stevie Nicks' most popular songs from her highly successful debut album, Bella Donna. Released as a single in early 1982, it made the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 (#11), and the Top 5 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, peaking at number four.
Edge of the World Edge of the World is a album created by Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton, The Who bassist John Entwistle, and renowned drummer Cozy Powell. In honor of both John and Cozy's deaths, he released an album of tracks that were not released on Baptizm Of Fire Quote Glenn Tipton, "I'm sure everyone will know, and this album is a tribute to their unique styles and skills and a small part of the immense legacy they have left behind which will continue to inspire people all over the world for many years to come.
Edge of Victory: Conquest Edge of Victory: Conquest (also released as Edge of Victory I: Conquest) is the first novel in a two-part story by Greg Keyes. Published and released in 2001, it is the eighth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy.
Edge of Victory: Rebirth Edge of Victory: Rebirth (also released as Edge of Victory II: Rebirth) is the second novel in a two-part story by Greg Keyes. Published and released in 2001, it is the ninth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy.
Edge pull An edge pull is a skill in figure skating that allows the skater to gain speed while skating on one foot by rocking between inside and outside edges. The momentum across the ice derives from a rising and falling knee action on each lobe which creates pressure against the edge, accompanied by a distinctive "ripping" sound.
Edge space In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the edge space and vertex space of an undirected graph are vector spaces defined in terms of the edge and vertex sets, respectively. These vector spaces make it possible to use techniques of linear algebra in studying the graph.
Edge School Edge School is a unique learning community located in Calgary Alberta Canada, a place for young people to pursue academic excellence while striving to reach their full athletic potential.The School accommodates the training requirements of a wide range of sports and disciplines, and offers high performance training in dance, golf, hockey, soccer and basketball.
Edge Wireless Edge Wireless LLC is a Mobile phone provider founded in 1999, serving southern Oregon, northern California, southeastern Idaho and Jackson, Wyoming. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon, although they provide no coverage or services in that city.
Edge-graceful labeling In graph theory, an edge-graceful graph labeling is a type of graph labeling. This is a labeling for simple graphs, namely ones in which no two distinct edges connect the same two distinct vertices, no edge connects a vertex to itself, and the graph is connected.
Edge-Localized Mode An Edge-Localized Mode ("ELM") is a disruptive event occuring in the edge region of a tokamak plasma due to the quasi-periodic relaxation of a transport barrier previously formed during an L --> H transition.
Edge-notched card Edge-notched cards, or McBee cards, were a manual data storage and manipulation technology invented in 1896 and used for specialized data storage and cataloging applications through much of the 20th century. While there were many variants, a popular version consisted of 5 inch by 8 inch paperboard cards with holes punched at regular intervals along all four edges, a short distance in from the edges.
Edge-of-the-wedge theorem In mathematics, the edge-of-the-wedge theorem implies that holomorphic functions on two "wedges" with an "edge" in common are analytic continuations of each other provided they both give the same continuous function on the edge. It is used in quantum field theory to construct the analytic continuation of Wightman functions.
Edge-Sweets Company The Edge-Sweets Company was founded in 1887 as the Frank Edge Company, to produce saw blades for the furniture industry. In 1950, the emphasis at Edge switched to saws for the newly developed polyurethane foams, and with the acquisition of the North American Urethanes (NAU) Machinery Division in 1975, it included dispensers for foams and elastomer in its stock.
Edge-uniform In geometry, a form is edge-uniform if its symmetries act transitively on its edges. Informally, this means that there is only one type of edge to the object: given two edges, there is a translation, rotation and/or reflection that will move one edge to the other, while leaving the region occupied by the object unchanged.
Edgeøya Edgeøya, occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is an uninhabited Norwegian island in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the South East Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer.
Edgecliff, New South Wales Edgecliff is a small suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4km east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.
Edgecote Edgecote is the site of the Battle of Edgecote Moor, a battle fought on July 26, 1469 during the Wars of the Roses, is marked on many maps and lies about a mile east of where Edgecote Hall now stands. Edgecote village no longer exists.
Edgecumbe, New Zealand Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatane and eight kilometres south of the Bay's coast. Edgecumbe acts as the main service town for the agricultural region surrounding the plains of the Rangitaiki River, which flows through the town.
Edgefest Edgefest, a yearly outdoor rock concert festival that primarily promotes Canadian rock music, began in 1987 as a thank-you gesture to the listeners of Toronto radio station 102.1 the Edge and as a birthday party to commemorate both the station's 10th birthday, and the coinciding Canada Day.
Edgefield Hussars The Edgefield Hussars comprised a military company raised in the state of South Carolina. It served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, being redesignated as Company A, Cavalry Battalion, Hampton Legion.
Edgehill College Edgehill College is a co-educational independent school situated in Bideford, Devon. Founded in 1884 by the Bible Christian movement, Edgehill is one of a number of independent schools owned by the Methodist Church of Great Britain and is sister-school to nearby Shebbear College.
Edgeley Edgeley is a mainly residential, chav infested blue collar neighbourhood within the town of Stockport. Edgeley comprises the small Sykes reservoir backed onto a park and bowling green, a recently refurbished main street, and largely close-packed terraced housing.
Edgemont High School Edgemont High School is a high school in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. In 2006, it was named 56th best high school in the country by Newsweek magazine, the 26th best high school in the country by the Washington Post, and has been consistently ranked as the number one school in Westchester county.
Edgemont Village Edgemont Village is a small commercial area in the District of North Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada. It is centred around the intersection of Edgemont Boulevard and Highland Boulevard in the north-western part of the District.
Edgeplay In BDSM, edgeplay is a subjective term for types of sexual play that are "over the edge" of the traditional safe, sane and consensual creed. These forms of BDSM activity are regarded by many as inadvisable and dangerous, and it is nearly universally held that they should not be attempted without proper training, supervision, safety precautions, etc.
Edger An edger, also known as a lawn edger or stick edger, is a lawn-care tool used to cleanly separate a lawn from a walkway or other paved surface, such as a concrete sidewalk or asphalt path. Edgers may be manual or automated, typically employing a small two-stroke gasoline motor or an electric motor.
Edger Christopher Cookson Edger Christopher Cookson (VC, DSO) (December 13, 1883- September 28, 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edgerton's Law Edgerton's Law is a theory about Proto-Indo-European phonology, specifically the syllabification of Proto-Indo-European semivowels (y w r l m n) propounded in 1934 by the eminent Sanskritist Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963). In essence it is a considerable elaboration of Sievers' Law.
Edges of the Lord Edges of the Lord (2000) is a movie set in Poland during the 1940s that depicts a Jewish boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is hidden from Nazis by posing as the Catholic nephew of a local farmer, with the aid of a local priest, played by (Willem Dafoe). While it was critically acclaimed, the film was denied a theatrical release in America.
Edgewater Park School District The Edgewater Park School District is a community public school district that serves students in grades from prekindergarten through eighth grade from Edgewater Park, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Edgewater Presbyterian Church Edgewater Presbyterian Church is a Christian church congregation of the Edgewater neighborhood community in far north Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Founded in 1896, it once served a large Scottish and Welsh immigrant community.
Edgewater, Chicago Edgewater is a north Chicago, Illinois, community seven miles north of downtown bordering the neighborhoods of Rogers Park to the north, Uptown to the south, Lincoln Square to the west and south and West Ridge to the west and north. As one of Chicago’s 77 community areas, Edgewater has officially defined boundaries: Foster on the south, Devon on the north, Ravenswood on the west, and Lake Michigan on the east.
Edgewood (Atlanta) Edgewood is a residential neighborhood located approximately 4 miles East of the Atlanta, GA geographical center. The neighborhood is highlighted by the Edgewood Retail district located in the Northwest corner of the neighborhood.
Edgewood Arsenal experiments The Edgewood Arsenal experiments (also known as Project 112) are said to be related to or part of CIA mind control programs after World War II, like MKULTRA. Some critics have alleged employing Nazi scientist war criminals to work on the project (see Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990, by Linda Hunt, St.
Edgewood Botanic Garden The Edgewood Botanic Garden is a small botanical garden of less than 1 acre (4,000 m²) located at 436 Edgewood Avenue, on the southeastern side of Mount Tamalpais near the intersection of Edgewood with Cypress Avenue, in Mill Valley, California, USA. It is dedicated to the native plants of the region but is not actively maintained.
Edgewood College Edgewood College is a small Catholic liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison. Overlooking the shores of Lake Wingra, it occupies 55 acres (223,000 m²) of Madison's near-west side.
Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill Edgewood Plantation is located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located on State Route 5, a scenic byway which runs between the independent cities of Richmond and Williamsburg.
Edgewood State Hospital Edgewood State Hospital was a tubercular/psychiatric hospital complex that formerly stood in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island, New York, USA. It was one of four state mental asylums built on Long Island (the others being Kings Park, Central Islip, and Pilgrim), and was the last one of the four to be built.
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