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Eggs over Easy Eggs over Easy is one of the earliest and premiere pub rock groups of the 1970s. They began recording in 1970 (see 1970 in music) with producer Chas Chandler (of the Jimi Hendrix Experience), but various label problems ended the sessions and they began playing around England, especially at Tally Ho in Kentish Town.
Eggs per gram Eggs per gram (EPG) is a laboratory test that determines the number of eggs per gram of feces in patients suspected of having a parasitological infection, such as schistosomiasis. EPG is the primary diagnostic method for schistosomiasis, as opposed to a blood test.
Eggshell skull The eggshell skull rule (or thin-skull rule) is a legal doctrine used in both tort law and criminal law that holds an individual liable for all consequences resulting from their activities leading to an injury to another person, even if the victim suffers unusual damages due to a pre-existing vulnerability or medical condition. The term implies that if a person had a skull as delicate as the shell of an egg, and a tortfeasor or assailant who did not know of that condition were to hit that person on the head, causing the skull unexpectedly to break, the responsible party would be held liable for all damages resulting from the wrongful contact, even though they were not foreseeable.
Eggstone Eggstone is a Swedish pop music band, formed in 1986. The three members - Per Sunding (vocals, bass), Patrik Bartosch (guitar) and Maurits Carlsson (drums) - were raised in the small coastal town of Lomma, outside Malmö.
Eggthér In Norse mythology, Eggthér is a guard or watchman among the giants, as Heimdall is for the gods, described in Völuspá as sitting on a hill and joyfully playing his harp during the onset of Ragnarök while the red rooster Fjalar begins to crow, heralding the final conflict.
Egidius Slanghen Egidius Slanghen (August 23, 1820 - October 12, 1882) was the mayor of Hoensbroek (now part of Heerlen) from March 11, 1855 till his death and a historian. Before being mayor of Hoensbroek, he was, thanks to mediation by the count Jean Bapriste d’Ansembourg of Amstenrade, land agent for the frueles of Aldenhoor in Haelen (1845 – 1853), while in this function his interest for history grow.
Egil (Hymiskvida) In Norse mythology, Egil is the name of a farmer in the poem Hymiskvida who looked after Thor's goats while the god was visiting the giant Hymir. Egil is possibly the father of Thor's servants Þjálfi and Röskva due to certain similarities found in Snorri's Gylfaginning.
Egil Krogh Egil Krogh, Jr. (born 3 August 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is a lawyer who came to prominence as a Nixon Administration official who went to prison for his role in the what would be known as the Watergate scandals.
Egil Olsen Egil Roger Olsen (born April 22, 1942) nicknamed "Drillo", is the most successful manager in the history of the Norwegian national football team. He coached the team from 1990 to 1998, guiding them to World Cup final tournaments in 1994 and 1998, Norway peaking as number two on the FIFA ranking.
Egil Tynæs Egil Tynæs born August 12 1941 was a Norwegian doctor. On June 2, 2004 in Badghis, Afghanistan Tynæs and four others (Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah, Belgian Helene de Beir, and Dutchman Willem Kwint) were killed in an ambush whilst working for the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
Egilona Egilona was the wife of the last Visigothic King Roderic in the early years of the 8th Century during the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. When he died in the Battle of Guadalete she was captured by the Moorish leader Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa.
Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana, or The Story of Egil One-Hand and Asmund Berserkers-Slayer, is a legendary saga, which takes place in Russia (Rússía), a country located between Gardariki and Hunaland, the land of the Huns. There are also adventures in Halogaland and Jotunheim, the realm of giants (Jotuns).
Eglantine (song) "Eglantine" is a song written by Robert and Richard Sherman for the 1971, Walt Disney musical film production Bedknobs and Broomsticks. "Professor Emelius Browne" (played by David Tomlinson) sings the song in an attempt to convince his student witch, "Ms.
Eglin Steel Eglin Steel (ES-1) is a high-strength, high-performance, low-alloy, low-cost steel, developed for new generation of bunker buster type bombs, eg. the Massive Ordnance Penetrator and the improved version of the GBU-28 bomb known as EGBU-28.
Eglinton East Eglinton East is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, more specifically Scarborough. The neighbourhood is bound by the West Highland Creek to the North, Bellamy Rd to the West, the CNR rail line and Eglinton to the South and Midland Ave to the West.
Eglinton, Western Australia Eglinton (; post code: 6034) is a presently unpopulated suburb in the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located approximately 44 km north of Perth's central business district (CBD) on the Indian Ocean. For the most part, the suburb is covered in native banksia woodland, scrubland and heath typical of the Swan Coastal Plain.
Eglinton—Lawrence Eglinton—Lawrence is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Eglise de JĂ©sus-Christ The Eglise de JĂ©sus-Christ is an independant Christian church that was established by Pastor Banyanga and a fellow co-worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since 2002, the church had a membership of 1800 with 11 churches which are mostly situated in remote and inaccessible mountain villages near the city of Goma.
Eglise du Christ au Congo The Church of Christ in Congo or CCC (in French, Eglise du Christ au Congo or ECC), is a union of 62 Protestant denominations, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it is often simply referred to as The Protestant Church, as it federates the vast majority of the protestants in that country.
Eglwysbach Eglwysbach is a village in the county borough of Conwy, North Wales. The village plays host to an annual agricultural and horticultural show in August, which includes displays of cattle, sheep, heavy and light horses, a horticulture marquee, fairground rides and trades stands.
Eglwyseg Eglwyseg is the name of a valley, river and mountain to the north east of Llangollen in Denbighshire, North Wales, UK. The area is best known for the prominent limestone escarpment, Creigiau Eglwyseg or Eglwyseg Rocks, which runs north–south for around 4.
Egma (band) Egma was a dutch eurodance act, produced by Ege Van Kruysdjik and Marcel Theunissen, primarily active between 1991-95. They're most known for the track Never Gonna Lose Your Love, which managed to stay in the number #1 spot in France for a impressive 10 weeks.
Egmond family The Egmond or Egmont family is named after Dutch town of Egmond and played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages. Eventually the family died out in the 17th century except for the van Dijck van't Velde branch also known as Paats van Dijck.
Egmont (Beethoven) Egmont, opus 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music for the 1787 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the same name. It consists of an overture and nine separate subsequent pieces for soprano and full orchestra.
Egmont Group The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units is an informal international gathering of financial intelligence units (FIUs). The Group was formed in 1995, and took its name from the palace in Brussels where the meeting took place.
Egmont Islands The Egmont Islands ("Six Iles") are one of the six coral [atoll|atolls] that make up the Chagos Archipelago. The atoll lies less than 10 km South the coral reef of the Southern rim of the Great Chagos Bank.
Egmont pact The Egmont pact (Dutch: Egmontpact, French: Pacte d'Egmont, German: Egmont-Pakt) of 1977 is an agreement on the reform of Belgium into a federal state and on the relations between the linguistic communities in the country. The pact was not carried out due to the demission of the government, but important elements of the pact were used in later Belgian state reforms.
Egnatius Lucilianus Egnatius Lucilianus was a governor of Britannia Inferior, a province of Roman Britain some time between AD 238 and 244. Little else is known of him although he seems to have been involved in the rebuilding and expansion of the fort at Durham along with his predecessor, Maecilius Fuscus.
Ego (single) Ego is a single released by the ska-punk band [spunge] on June 19 2000, off of the band's second album, Room For Abuse. The record label was Sucka-Punch Records, who by now were a real third-party record label (as opposed to a fake one made up by the band, which the Kicking Pigeons EP was released on).
Ego (spirituality) In spirituality, and especially nondual, mystical and eastern meditative traditions, the human being is often conceived as being in the illusion of individual existence, and separateness from other aspects of creation. This "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence is that part which believes it is the human being, and believes it must fight for itself in the world, is ultimately unaware and unconscious of its own true nature.
Ego Death Ego death is an experience sometimes undergone by psychonauts. It can be brought on by the ingestion of psychedelics such as Ketamine, Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), Salvia Divinorum, Magic Mushrooms, Mescaline, or LSD, though some religious practices claim to do the same.
Ego Likeness Ego Likeness are a Darkwave Gothic Rock band from Baltimore, created in 1999 by artist Steven Archer, a Washington DC native, and writer Donna Lynch. Taking their name from Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune, the band began as an experimental/ dark trip hop project.
Ego trip (magazine) ego trip was the name of a hip-hop magazine started in New York City in 1994. It lasted four years and 13 issues and distinguished itself based on its irreverence and defiant attitude, eventually adopting the tagline, "the arrogant voice of musical truth.
Ego Trip (Dexter's Laboratory) Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip is a one-hour animated television special spawned from the Cartoon Network animated television series Dexter's Laboratory, produced by Hanna-Barbera (now Cartoon Network Studios) for Cartoon Network, and aired in 1999.
Ego Trippin' (Part Two) "Ego Trippin' (Part Two)" is the second single from De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate, released in 1994. The song (and its music video) were a scathing parody on gangsta rap, and caught the attention of rappers such as Ice Cube, and Tupac Shakur, who unfortunately took exception to the video's images of a rapper splashing around in a pool, rather similar to Shakur's own video for his song "I Get Around".
Ego-Futurism Ego-Futurism was a Russian literary movement developed within the Russian Futurism of the 1910s by Igor Severyanin and some of his admirers. The movement was born in 1911, when Severyanin published a small brochure entitled "Prolog (Ego-Futurism)".
Ego-state therapy Ego-state therapy is a psychodynamic approach to treat various behavioural and cognitive problems within a person. It uses techniques that are common in group and family therapy to resolve conflicts that constitute a "family of self" within a single individual.
Egocentric predicament Egocentric predicament, a term coined by Ralph Barton Perry, is the problem of not being able to view reality outside of our own perceptions. All worldly knowledge takes the form of mental representations that our mind examines in different ways.
Egolessness In psychology, egolessness is an emotional state where one feels no ego (or self); of having no distinct being apart from the world around oneself. From the view of Western psychoanalysis and therapy, the state of "oneness" can be either positive or negative depending on the patient, and in the context in which these feelings occur in each patient
Egon (fictional country) Egon is the name of a fictional country in Lionel Davidson's children's novel Under Plum Lake. Located somewhere deep beneath Earth's oceans, Egon is unknown and inaccessible to surface-dwelling humans unless an Egonian chooses to take a human being down to Egon for purposes of study or amusement.
Egon Brecher Egon Brecher (June 18, 1880 - August 12, 1946) was a Czechoslovakian stage actor and director who toured Austria and Germany acting on the stage, and also served as the chief director of the Stadts Theatre in Vienna, before entering the motion picture industry.
Egon Bretscher Born near Zurich, Switzerland in 1901 and educated at the ETH there, Bretscher gained a PhD degree in organic chemistry at Edinburgh in 1926. He returned to Zurich as privat docent to Peter Debye, later moving in 1936 to work in Rutherford’s laboratory at the Cavendish in Cambridge as a Rockefeller Scholar.
Egon Franke Egon Franke (April 11, 1913 - April 26, 1995) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was Federal Minister for Intra-German Relations from 1969 to 1982 and Vice-Chancellor of Germany in 1982.
Egon Pearson Egon Sharpe Pearson (Hampstead, 11 August 1895 – London, 12 June 1980) was the only son of Karl Pearson, and like his father, a leading British statistician. He succeeded his father as professor of statistics at University College London and as editor of the journal Biometrika.
Egon Schiele Egon Schiele (June 12 1890 – October 31 1918) (pronounced shee-lay) was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Due to the highly-charged nature of his drawings and paintings and his premature death, Schiele has come to epitomise the popular image of the tortured artist.
Egon Wellesz Egon Joseph Wellesz (October 21 1885 – November 9 1974) Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music. Left Austria for England in the wake of the Anschluss — more specifically, as noted in a review of the recent recording of songs and orchestral works on the Capriccio label — probably quoting their program notes — was in the Netherlands at the time by good fortune.
Egophony Egophony is an increased resonance of voice sounds, often caused by compressed or consolidated lung tissue due to a pleural effusion, tumor, or congestion. It results in a high-pitched nasal or bleating quality in the affected person's voice.
Egos and Icons Egos and Icons is the title of an hour-long TV program that airs on Canadian music television station, MuchMusic. Each broadcast focuses on a specific individual music artist or a music group and features their interviews, live performances, video clips and information.
Egosurfing Egosurfing, also called egogoogling, autogoogling or self-googling, is the practice of searching for one's own given name, surname, full name, pseudonym, or screen name on a popular search engine, to see what results appear. It has become increasingly popular with the rise of popular search engines such as Google, as well as free blogging and web-hosting services.
Egotheism Egotheism is the deification of man's own conceptions of God, or the belief that man's conception of God is all that men can ever know of God. This position presupposes the impossibility of divine revelation and thus is a denial of the validity of faith and most theistic traditions, except for deism.
Egotism Egotism is a character trait which describes a person who acts to gain values in an amount greater than that of the values he/she gives to others. This is usually accomplished by exploiting the altruism, irrationality, or ignorance of others — or by using coercive force and/or fraud.
Egotrippi Egotrippi is a Finnish pop group, founded in the early 1990s. Among their hits are "Älä koskaan ikinä", which is featured on the soundtrack of the Finnish movie Nousukausi (2003) and "Matkustaja", which reached #11 on the Finnish Top 20 and featured on the soundtrack of the movie Kukkia ja sidontaa (2004).
Egoz Reconnaissance Unit The Egoz Reconnaissance Unit (Hebrew: יחידת אגוז, Yechidat Egoz) is an Israel Defense Forces infantry unit that specializes in guerilla and anti-guerilla warfare. The Egoz Battalion is part of the Northern Command's Golani Brigade.
Egregore Egregore (also "Egregor") is an occult concept representing a "thought form" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme.
Egremont (UK Parliament constituency) Egremont is a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Egremont in Cumberland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Egress Egress (Latin egressus — "going out"), in astronomy, is the end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one. The term is often used to denote the transit of a satellite of Jupiter over the disk of the planet.
Egret An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. Many egrets are members of the genera Egretta or Ardea which contain other species named as herons rather than egrets.
Egretta Egretta is a genus of medium-sized herons, mostly breeding in warmer climates. Representatives of this family are found in most of the world, and the Little Egret, as well as being widespread throughout much of the Old World, has now started to colonise the Americas.
Egri Bikavér Egri Bikavér (Bull's Blood from Eger) is one of the most reputed and traditional Hungarian wines besides the Tokaji wines. It comes from the Eger wine region in northern Hungary and could be described as a Hungarian Bordeaux.
Egrisi Egrisi (or Kolkheti) known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as Lazica and Persians as Lazistan was a kingdom in the western part of Georgia, which flourished between the 6th century BC and the 7th century AD. It covered the territory of the former kingdom Kolkha (Colchis) and the territory of modern Abkhazia.
Egton Bridge Egton Bridge is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire. It lies on the River Esk, between the villages of Glaisdale and Grosmont, about six miles south-west of Whitby, and on the route of the Esk Valley Walk.
Egton Medical Information Systems Egton Medical Information Systems, known as EMIS, is a software company that develops and supplies computer systems used by over half of all General Practices in the United Kingdom, and also internationally, to electronically store patient notes. Like other competitor systems, data includes all details of a patients medical history, acute and repeat medication record and results of blood and radiology investigations electronically posted back to a surgery from a hospital.
Egunkaria Egunkaria ("The daily") was, for thirteen years, the only fully Basque language newspaper in circulation, until it was closed down on 20th February, 2003 by the Spanish authorities, due to allegations of an illegal association with ETA, the armed Basque separatist group.
Egushawa Egushawa (c.1726 – March 1796), also spelled Egouch-e-ouay, Agushaway, Agashawa, Negushwa, and many other variants, was a war chief and principal political chief of the Ottawa tribe of North American Indians.
Egusi Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants. Authorities disagree whether the word is used more properly for the seeds of the colocynth, those of a particular large-seeded variety of the watermelon, or generically for those of any cucurbitaceous plant.
Egutu Oliseh Egutu Oliseh, born 18 November, 1980, is an Nigerian professional footballer who formely played for QPR. His stay at QPR was unremarkable, and was deemed to be surplus to requirements by the new manager John Gregory in January 2007, after only a six-month stay at the club.
Egvad Municipality Egvad is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkøbing County near the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 377 km², and has a total population of 9,396 (2005).
Egypt (Chi Rho album) Egypt is technically Chi Rho's 2nd recording, the 1st not being included under discography because it was never sold. As it was their first recording that sold (and due to the recording date) this album is a cassette tape.
Egypt (TV serial) Egypt is the title of a BBC television drama serial about various archaeological discoveries taking place in that country's history, with the occasional 'flashback' scene involving actors portraying the ancient Egyptians themselves. The hour-long show originally aired on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC2 in 2005.
Egypt at the 1956 Summer Olympics Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia because of the British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis. However, the equestrian events for the 1956 Games were held in Stockholm, Sweden five months earlier (because of Australian quarantine regulations), and three Egyptian riders competed.
Egypt at the Pan Arab Games Egypt has participated in the Pan Arab Games seven times, with great success. Egypt did not participate in the 2nd, 5th & 6th editions of The Pan Arab Games in Beirut 1957, Damascus 1976 & Casablanca 1985.
Egypt in the Western imagination Egypt in the Western imagination has loomed large from the very first written texts in the Greek and Hebrew traditions. Egypt was already immemorially ancient to outsiders, and the idea of Egypt as a figment of the Western imagination has continued to be at least as influential in the history of ideas as the actual historical Egypt itself.
Egypt Province, Ottoman Empire Although Egypt was an Ottoman province from the time of the Mamaluke wars, in its later years the Albanian born Mohammed Ali (Mehmet in Turkish) became king, fighting a war with the Ottomans over his desire for hereditary rule to be established there. During which he conquered Syria and Palestine until he was subdued by the Europeans and forced back to Egypt.
Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors The reign of Muhammad Ali and his successors over Egypt was a period of rapid reform and modernization that led to Egypt becoming one of the most developed states outside of Europe. It also led to massive government expenditures, that ended up bankrupting Egypt and eventually led to it falling under control of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Egypt Youth Party The Egypt Youth Party is a small democratic secular political party in Egypt. With a membership of only 75 members, the party is working to enable the Egyptian youth to play their hoped-for role in the political life.
Egypt-Libya Campaign The Egypt-Libya Campaign is the name used by the United States military for the US contribution to the Allied North African Campaign during World War II. From 1942, US forces assisted the British Commonwealth in fighting Axis forces in the Western Desert Campaign.
EgyptAir EgyptAir (Arabic: مصر للطيران, Misr Lel-Tairan) is the Cairo-based national airline of Egypt. Wholly owned by the Egyptian government, it operates scheduled services to over 50 destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, the USA, and formerly to Australia, as well as domestic services.
EgyptAir Flight 648 EgyptAir Flight 648 was a Boeing 737 airliner hijacked in 1985 by Palestinian terrorists. The subsequent raid on the aircraft by Egyptian troops led to dozens of deaths, making the hijacking of Flight 648 one of the deadliest such incidents in history.
Egyptian Air Defense Command The Egyptian Air Defense Command or ADF (Quwwat Il Difaa Al Jawwi in Arabic) is Egypt's military command responsible for air defense. Egypt patterned its Air Defense Force (ADF) after the Soviet Anti-Air Defenses, which integrated all its air defense capabilities – antiaircraft guns, rocket and missile units, interceptor planes, and radar and warning installations.
Egyptian American Egyptian Americans are Americans of Egyptian ancestry, first-generation Egyptian immigrants, or descendants of Egyptians who immigrated to the United States. A large community of Egyptian Americans is located in northeastern Virginia and the Washington DC metropolitan area.
Egyptian Army The Egyptian Army is the largest service within the Egyptian military establishment. It is estimated to number around 340,000, plus around 375,000 reservists for a total of 655-715,000International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2006, p.
Egyptian biliteral signs Biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are symbols which represent a specific sequence of two consonants in the language. In the written Egyptian language, three types of hieroglyphs existed: those that represented one consonant (called uniliteral), those that represented two consonants (called biliteral) and those that represented three consonants (called triliteral).
Egyptian Building The Egyptian Building is a historic landmark building in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1845. It is the first permanent home of the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College (later renamed the Medical College of Virginia) and now is a part of Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
Egyptian calendar The ancient civil Egyptian calendar, known as the Annus Vagus or "Wandering Year", had a year that was 365 days long, consisting of 12 months of 30 days each, plus 5 extra days at the end of the year. The months were divided into 3 "weeks" of ten days each.
Egyptian Expeditionary Force The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was formed in March 1916 to command the growing British and Commonwealth military forces in Egypt during World War I. It was originally commanded by Sir Archibald Murray, later by Edmund Allenby.
Egyptian faience Egyptian faience is an extension of the term faience. Faience describes Islamic and European tin-glazed earthenware, and has been extended to describe the ceramic faience of pre-Dynastic and Pharaonic Egypt, Crete and sites in the Indus Valley civilization.
Egyptian fraction An Egyptian fraction is the sum of distinct unit fractions, such as tfrac{1}{2}+tfrac{1}{3}+tfrac{1}{16}. That is, each fraction in the series has a numerator equal to 1 and a denominator that is a positive integer, and all the denominators differ from each other.
Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides The Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides (EFSGG, ) is the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Egypt. Scouting was founded in 1914 and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, while nominally independent from Britain.
Egyptian Feminist Union The Egyptian Feminist Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa al-Misri) was the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt. It was founded at a meeting on 16 March, 1923 called at her home by the activist Huda Sha'rawi, who served as its first president until her death in 1947.
Egyptian Football Association The Egyptian Football Association (Arabic: اتحاد الكرة المصرية) is the governing body of football (soccer) in Egypt. The leading Egyptian clubs are as follows, with the total number of national championships (champion league & cup championships) following the name of the club.
Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian hieroglyphs (Sometimes called Hieroglyphics) was a writing system used by the Ancient Egyptians, that contained a combination of logographic, alphabetic, and ideographic elements. There are also cartouches that were also used by the Egyptians.
Egyptian hip hop Egyptian hip hop is a new, raw, audacious and exciting form of music coming from the North African country incorporating issues of the region and abroad. Prevalent hip hop comes from artists such as MTM, Poetic Justice (see article below), Ha-el-kHa (هاء الخاء) and an upcoming soulful American-born Shareef.
Egyptian Hall The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London was originally commissioned by William Bullock as a museum to house his collection (which included curiosities brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook). It was one of the first buildings in England to be influenced by the Egyptian style, inspired by the growth of awareness in Europe of the various temples on the Nile, the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Egyptian chronology The creation of a reliable Chronology of Ancient Egypt is a task fraught with problems. While the overwhelming majority of Egyptologists agree on the outline and many of the details of a common chronology, disagreements either individually or in groups have resulted in a variety of dates offered for rulers and events.
Egyptian identification card controversy The Egyptian identification card controversy refers to a ruling of the Supreme Administrative Council of Egypt on December 16, 2006 against the Bahá'ís stating that the government may not recognize the Bahá'í Faith in official identification cards. The ruling leaves Bahá'ís unable to obtain the necessary government documents to have rights in their country (see Persecution of Bahá'ís); they cannot obtain ID cards, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, passports; they also cannot be employed, educated, treated in hospitals or vote among other things.
Egyptian Invasion of Mani The Ottoman-Egyptian Invasion of Mani was a campaign during the Greek War of Independence with three battles. The Maniots fought against a combined Egyptian and Ottoman army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt.
Egyptian Islamic Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), also called the Islamic Jihad and the Jihad Group, is an Egyptian Islamist group active since the late 1970s with origins in the Muslim Brotherhood. It suffered setbacks as a result of numerous arrests of operatives worldwide, most recently in Lebanon and Yemen.
Egyptian language Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew).
Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll EGYPTIAN MATHEMATICAL LEATHER ROLL (EMLR) Henry Rhind purchased the 10" x 17" leather roll in 1858. It was sent to the British Museum in 1864, along with the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus but the former was not chemically softened and unrolled until 1927 (Scott, Hall 1927).
Egyptian Media Production City The 6th of October city-based Media Production city ( MPC) is the biggest ever built information and media complex, which, together with the Egyptian media satellites "Nilesat 101", "Nilesat 102", will allow Egypt to step into the new world of the 21st century. Thereby, Egypt will be well-qualified and well-equipped to maintain its pioneering role in the field of satellite television and to provide television and film production facilities that can support the information breakthrough.

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