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Egyptian Military Industry Egypt is the most important manufacturer of weapons and military components among the Arab countries. State-owned enterprises, under control of the Armament Authority headed by a major general, were the main domestic producers of Egypt's defense systems.
Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. It has 136,000 items on display, with many more hundreds of thousands in its basement storerooms.
Egyptian National Library and Archives The Egyptian National Library and Archives (Arabic:Dar el-Kotob) in Cairo is the largest library in Egypt. The second largest are the libraries of Al-Azhar University, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (New Library of Alexandria), Cairo.
Egyptian Nightjar The Egyptian Nightjar, Caprimulgus aegyptius, is a medium-small nightjar which occurs in south west Asia and north Africa, and winters in tropical Africa. It is a late migrant, seldom appearing before the end of April or beginning of May.
Egyptian Olympic Committee The Egyptian Olympic Committee (, abbreviated as EOC) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Egypt and a part of the International Olympic Committee. It was formed in 1910 (with the symbolic participation of Egypt in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games.
Egyptian parliamentary election, 2005 The Egyptian parliamentary elections of 2005 was the scheduled three-stage elections for determining its lower house membership. The elections formed the Eighth Assembly since the adoption of the 1971 Constitution.
Egyptian presidential election, 2005 The Egyptian presidential election of 2005, held on September 7, 2005, was the first allegedly contested presidential election in Egypt's history. Hosni Mubarak, the incumbent President of Egypt, won a fifth consecutive six-year term in office, with official results showing he won 88.
Egyptian Plover The Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus (Vieillot, 1816). Formerly placed in its own monotypic family Pluvianidae, it is now regarded as the sole member of the subfamily Pluvianinae, part of the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Egyptian Protectorates Law 102 of 1983 empowered the Prime Minister to designate certain areas to be declared as protectorates. A Prime Minister's decree defines the limits of each protected area and sets the basic principles for its management and for the preservation of its resources.
Egyptian Ratscrew Egyptian Ratscrew, commonly abbreviated as ERS and also known as Egyptian Rap Group, Rat Slap, Egyptian Ratfink, Egyptian Ratslap, Egyptian Rhapsody, Egyptian Rattrap, Egyptian Road Kill, Slap(s), Bloodystump, Egyptian Rat Race, Egyptian Rugrat, Egyptian War, Gypsy Wrap, Sandwich, Arabian Slap, Egyptian Monkey Slap, Screw the Egyptian Rat, Egyptian Rat Slap, Egyptian Rat Camel Slap and Strip Jack Naked (in Australia) is a card game of the accumulation family, reminiscent of Slapjack and Beggar-My-Neighbour, but more complex. The game is played with a standard 52-card deck (or with multiple standard decks shuffled together with large numbers of players).
Egyptian Revival architecture Egyptian Revival is (primarily) an architectural style that references the visual motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt. It has never been enormously popular, unlike Greek Revival or Victorian was, but it has left its mark.
Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council The Revolutionary Command Council was the body established to supervise Egypt after the 1952 Revolution. It initially selected Ali Maher Pasha as Prime Minister, but forced him to resign after conflict over land reform.
Egyptian soul In Egyptian mythology, the human soul is made up of seven parts: the Ren, Sekhem, the Akh, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Sekhu. During life, the soul, including those of animals, and of gods, was thought to inhabit a body (named the Ha (ḥˁ), meaning flesh).
Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority The Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority is an Egyptian judicial institution that resembles, in respect of competencies, the Attorney General in common law disciplines and particularly the United States Solicitor General.
Egyptian Super Cup The Egyptian Super Cup is an Egyptian association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of the Egyptian Premier League and the winners of the Egyptian Cup. If a team wins The Double (both the Premier League and the Cup), then the Double winner plays the Premier League runner-up.
Egyptian triliteral signs Triliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are symbols which represent a specific sequence of three 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 billteral) and those that represented three consonants (triliteral).
Egyptian Theatre Egyptian-style theaters are based on the traditional and historic design elements of Ancient Egypt. These theaters were part of the wave of Egyptian revival architecture that occurred after the 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb by Howard Carter.
Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois) The Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois is an Egyptian Revival theatre that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theatre was built in 1928 and 1929 as part of a much larger wave of national fascination with Ancient Egypt throughout the United States, thanks, in large part, to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922.
Egyptian uniliteral signs The Egyptian hieroglyphic script contained 24 uniliterals (symbols that stood for single consonants, much like English letters) which today we associate with the 26 glyphs listed below. (Note that the glyph associated with w/u also has a hieratic abbreviation.
Egyptian Vulture The Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a small Old World vulture, the only member of the genus Neophron. Egyptian Vultures are scavengers, mainly feeding off carrion, but they also prey on small mammals and eggs.
Egyptians (Balkans) Balkan Egyptians or simply Egyptians (Albanian: Egjiptian, Serbian: Египћани/Egipćani or Ђупци/Đupci, Macedonian: Ѓупци (trans:Gjupci) are an Albanian-speaking ethnic minority of Serbia (mainly Kosovo) and the Republic of Macedonia. They should not to be confused with the Egyptians of Egypt, to whom they may or may not be related.
Egyptology Egyptology is the study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist.
Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris is a fiction book created and published in the UK by Templar Publishing and published by Candlewick Press in America in 2004. The book is supposedly a journal of Emily Sands, an Egyptologist who, with a team, is trying to find the tomb of Osiris.
Egyptomania Egyptomania is a concept that describes the Western fascination with ancient Egyptian culture and history. Although this fascination goes back to a time immediately following the pharaonic period, "Egyptomania" specifically refers to the renewed interest in Egypt during the nineteenth century as a result of Napoleon's "Egyptian Campaign" (1798-1801) and, in particular, as a result of the extensive scientific study of Ancient Egyptian remains and culture inspired by this campaign.
EgyptSat 1 EgyptSat-1 is Egypt's first Earth remote sounding Satellite. This satellite has been jointly built by Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences together with the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Ukraine and will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket in January of 2007.
EG&G EG&G is a defense contractor and provider of management and technical services. The company was involved in contracting services to the United States government during World War II, and conducted weapons research and development after the war.
EGABTR EGABTR, sometimes pronounced "Eggbeater", was a Trojan horse program that achieved some level of notoriety in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Allegedly a graphics utility that would improve the quality of an EGA display, it actually was malware that deleted the file allocation tables on the hard drive.
EGADE EGADE (Escuela de Graduados en Administracion y Direccion de Empresas) is the Graduate School of Business at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, or "Monterrey Tech"), a university system with 33 campuses in 26 cities in Mexico.
EGEA EGEA is an acronym for the European Geography Association, which is a European network of geography students and young geographers, with the goal of exchanging geographical knowledge. To achieve this, EGEA organises congresses, student exchanges, sponsors scientific commissions, hosts foreign students and publishes information in its newsletter.
EGG, the Arts Show EGG, the arts show was an American nonfiction television program that aired on PBS from 2000 to 2003. EGG documented both the famous and the unusual aspects and projects of classical and modern arts; its narrator was Elaine Stritch.
EGM96 EGM96 is a geopotential model of the Earth consisting of spherical harmonic coefficients complete to degree and order 360. It is a composite solution, consisting of: (1) a combination solution to degree and order 70; (2) a block diagonal solution from degree 71 to 359; and (3) the quadrature solution at degree 360.
EGovernment in Estonia The legal foundations for realization of eGovernment in Estonia were laid down in 1996-2001, when the Estonian Parliament adopted Personal Data Protection Act (1996), Databases Act (1997), Digital Signatures Act (2000) and Public Information Act (2000). In 1998 Government of Estonia adopted the Principles of the Estonian Information Society as well as Information Policy Action Plan - country's first Informaiton Society strategy documents (source: IDABC technical infrastructure laid for the development of eGovernment] in previous years (data exchange layer X-Road, ID card, public key infrastructure) serves as a good basis for the elaboration of new services.
EGranary Digital Library The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of Internet resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of copying web sites (with permission) and delivering them to partner institutions in developing countries, this digital library delivers fast access to educational materials including video, audio, books, journals, and web sites.
EGS (program) The EGS (Electron Gamma Shower) computer code system is a general purpose package for the Monte Carlo simulation of the coupled transport of electrons and photons in an arbitrary geometry for particles with energies from a few keV up to several TeV. It is developed at SLAC.
EGTA (chemical) EGTA is the chemical compound ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid, a chelating agent that is related to the better known EDTA, but with a much higher affinity for calcium than for magnesium ions. It is useful for making buffer solutions that resemble the environment inside living cells, where calcium ions are usually at least a thousandfold less concentrated than magnesium.
Ehden Ehden (اٍهدن in Arabic) is a mountainous town situated in the heart of the northern mountains of Lebanon and on the southwestern slopes of Makmal mountain and Kornet el Sawda, the highest peak of Lebanon. Its occupants are primarily the people of Zgharta as it is part of the Zgharta District.
Ehee Ehee (Nepal Bhasa:ईही) (Bel bibaha) is a ceremony in Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are 'married' to the bel fruit tree, ensuring that the girl becomes and remains fertile. It is believed that if the girl's husband dies later in her life, she is not considered a widow because she already has a husband that is believed to be still alive.
Ehime Mandarin Pirates The are a semi-professional baseball team in the Shikoku Island League of Japan. Established in 2005, the Mandarin Pirates mainly play their home games at Botchan Stadium in Matsuyama, the capital city of Ehime Prefecture.
Ehlonna In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and in the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Ehlonna is the goddess of Forests, Woodlands, Flora, Fauna, and Fertility. Ehlonna is known to the elves as "Ehlenestra.
Ehm Welk Ehm Welk, short form of Emil Welk, pseudonyme Thomas Trimm, (* August 29 1884 in Biesenbrow, now district of Angermünde, † Dezember 19 1966 in Bad Doberan), was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of “Volkshochschulen” (adult education centres). He became know for his work Die Heiden von Kummerow.
Ehndorf transmitter Ehndorf transmitter is a mediumwave broadcasting facility of Deutsche Telekom for transmitting the programme of Deutschlandfunk at Ehndorf, a village west of NeumĂĽnster in Schleswig-Holstein. It went in service in November 1967 and works on a frequency of 1269 kHz ( until 1978 1268 kHz) with a power of 300 kW ( from 1967 to 1995 600 kW).
Ehra-Lessien The Ehra-Lessien (sometimes simply 'Ehra') test track facility is located near Wolfsburg, Germany in the district Gifhorn, and is owned by Volkswagen Audi Group (VAG). It is located near to the headquarters of VAG.
Ehram Ehram (إحرام iḥrām, from the root of H-R-M) is, in Islam, a sacred state which a Muslim must enter in order to perform the major pilgrimage (Hajj) or the minor pilgrimage (Umrah). A pilgrim must enter into this state before crossing the pilgrimage boundary, known as Miqat, by performing the cleansing rituals and wearing the prescribed attire.
Ehren McGhehey Ehren McGhehey (born November 29, 1976 in McMinnville, Oregon) has appeared in the Jackass TV shows and movies. He sometimes plays a character known as Danger Ehren who wears a helmet, gloves, coveralls, and goggles and performs "death-defying" stunts including extreme pogo and extreme scooter.
Ehren Watada Ehren Watada (born 1978) is a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, a member of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team, who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for the Iraq War, saying that he believed the war to be illegal and that it would make him party to war crimes. The first commissioned officer in the U.
Ehrenfest theorem The Ehrenfest theorem, named after Paul Ehrenfest, relates the time derivative of the expectation value for a quantum mechanical operator to the commutator of that operator with the Hamiltonian of the system. It is
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (or Tschirnhausen) (April 10, 1651–October 11, 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician and philosopher. He is the inventor of the European porcelain, an invention that for a long time had been assigned to Johann Friedrich Böttger.
Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe The Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe) was a Luftwaffe award established on February 27, 1940 by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the Reich Minister of Aviation and Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe. It was officially known as the Ehrenpokal "für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg", or Honor Goblet "For Special Achievement in the Air War".
Ehresmann connection In differential geometry, an Ehresmann connection is a version of the connection concept which applies to arbitrary fibre bundles. In particular, it may be nonlinear, since a general fibre bundle lacks a suitable notion of linearity.
Ehrgeiz Original Soundtrack Ehrgeiz Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album of video game music from the fighting game Ehrgeiz, produced by DreamFactory as an arcade game and for the PlayStation. The album contains the musical tracks from the game, performed by Takayuki Nakamura.
Ehrhart polynomial In mathematics, integral polytopes have associated Ehrhart polynomials which encode relations between the volume of a polytope, number of integer points the polytope contains, and other related geometric quantities. The theory of Ehrhart polynomials can be seen as a higher dimensional generalization of Pick's theorem in the Euclidean plane.
Ehrharta Ehrharta is a genus of about 35 species of grass mostly native to Africa, with a few species native to the Mascarene Islands and Indonesia. The genus is also found in Yeman, China, Europe and North America and there are several invasive species including Ehrharta longiflora, Ehrharta calycina and Ehrharta erecta.
Ehrich & Graetz The Ehrich & Graetz metalwork’s was a factory established in 1866 in Berlin by Albert Graetz (1831-1901) and the tradesman Emil Ehrich (?-1887) under the name "Lampen-Fabrik Ehrich & Graetz OHG" (E&G).
Ehrlich (crater) Ehrlich is a small lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the Moon's far side, relative to the Earth. It lies within a rugged region that has been extensively bombarded by impacts of comparable size.
Ehrlichiosis (canine) Ehrlichiosis (IPA pronunciation: ) (also known as canine rickettsiosis, canine hemorrhagic fever, canine typhus, tracker dog disease, and tropical canine pancytopenia) is a tick-borne disease of dogs usually caused by the organism Ehrlichia canis, or less commonly Ehrlichia chaffeensis and E. equii.
Ehsan Masood Ehsan Masood is a journalist based in London, writing mainly about science, international development and the Muslim world. He is a project director of the Gateway Trust, a consultant to the Science and Development Network and was formerly the director of communications for LEAD International.
Ehud Ehud ben‑Gera (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בֶּן‑גֵּרָא, Standard Ehud ben‑Gera Tiberian ; from the Hebrew root א‑ה‑ד, "liking, sympathy, support"), in the Biblical Book of Judges (3:12-4:1) was the Judge who fought against the Moabites, which were ruled by King Eglon. Ehud had made a short double edged sword about a foot and a half long useful for a stabbing thrust.
Ehud Banai The music of Ehud Banai is considered by many to be the pure definition of "Israeli sound". Born in 1953 in Jerusalem to a family of many talents (among his uncles and cousins there are musicians and actors), Banai's success didn't come easy.
Ehud Barak Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק) (born Ehud Brog on February 12, 1942, in Mishmar HaSharon kibbutz,BARAK, Ehoud, European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation. Retrieved January 7, 2006.
Ehud Tenenbaum Ehud Tenenbaum (Hebrew: אהוד טננבאום), known as The Analyzer, is an Israeli hackerfrom the city Hod HaSharon who became known after hacking into several computer systems based in the United States, including military ones.
Ehud Vaks Ehud Vaks (born June 27, 1979) is an Israeli judo athlete ([In the 2004 Summer Olympics], competing in the 66 kg weight class, Vaks was scheduled to fight [[Iran|Iranian competitor Arash Miresmaeili in the first round. Miresmaeili was disqualified from the competition because he was above the allowable weight limit for his class.
Ehud Yaari Ehud Yaari (אֶהוּד יָעָרִי)is a well-known Israeli commentator and expert on Middle Eastern issues. He has interviewed most of the recent and past Arab & Israeli leaders (Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and his son Abdullah, President Mubarak of Egypt, almost all Israeli prime ministers since Menahem Begin, Bashar al-Assad, Muammar al-Gaddafi and more).
Ehwaz Ehwaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark e rune , meaning "horse" (cognate to Latin equus, Sanskrit aśva and Old Irish ech). In the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, it is continued as eh (properly eoh, but spelled without the diphthong to avoid confusion with ēoh "yew").
Ehyophsta Ehyophsta (Cheyenne for "Yellow-Haired Woman") was a Cheyenne woman who fought in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, and also fought the Shoshone that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another. She fought the Shoshone again in 1869.
EH Budd Edward Hayward (EH) Budd (born 23 February 1786 at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire; died 29 March 1875 at Wroughton, Wiltshire was a noted English cricketer. He was a prominent right-handed batsman and an occasional medium pace lob bowler.
EH4 EH4 is a postal district for north-west Edinburgh, and is considered to belong to the most exclusive addresses, which includes Blackhall, one of Scotland's most expensive suburbs and it also includes Cramond, another suburb which is almost in the same league. House prices in Blackhall are considerably above the national average for a standard, suburban family home.
EHAA EHAA (Every Hand An Adventure) is a bidding system in contract bridge. It is characterized especially by extremely undisciplined two-bids in all four suits, and a mini notrump, usually of 10–12 high card points.
EHealth eHealth (also written e-health) is a relatively recent term for health care practice which is supported by electronic processes and communication, some people would argue the term is interchangeable with health care informatics. However, the term e-health encompasses a whole range of services that are at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology:
EHNA EHNA (erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine) is a phosphodiesterase inhibitor that selectively inhibits phosphodiesterase type-2 (PDE2).Podzuweit T, Nennstiel P and Muller A (1995)Isozyme selective inhibition of cGMP-stimulated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases by erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl) adenine.
EHRcom The CEN Electronic Healthcare Record Communications or EHRcom standard concerns an information architecture for representing an Electronic Health Record (EHR), in order to support the interoperability of systems and components that need to interact with EHR services.
EHUX EHUX is a GNU/Linux distribution, created as an inititiative of the University of the Basque Country, to fulfill the need students and teachers may have for a free software operating system. It is based on Ubuntu, and is primarily aimed at the University community, although any person might benefit from its use freely.
Echelle Grating An Echelle Grating is a type of Diffraction grating which is characterised by a relatively low number of grooves per millimetre and utility in high diffraction orders. Echelle gratings are, like other types of diffraction grating, used in spectrometers and similar instruments, such as HARPS, and numerous other astronomical instruments.
Echelon formation An echelon formation is a military formation in which members are arranged diagonally. Each member is stationed behind and to the right (a 'right echelon'), or behind and to the left ('left echelon'), of the member ahead.
Echelon Mall Echelon Mall, located in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, is the third-largest shopping mall in South Jersey, behind Deptford Mall and Cherry Hill Mall. It was developed in 1970 as the center of a residential and commercial center in Voorhees.
Echelon Place It was announced on January 4, 2006 by Boyd Gaming Corporation that Echelon Place will be the long anticipated replacement of the Stardust Resort & Casino at a cost of $4 billion with construction beginning in 2007 and the Grand Opening in 2010. The $4 billion price tag would make Echelon Place the second-most expensive hospitality industry development ever.
Echidna Echidnas, , sometimes also referred to as "spiny anteaters", are the only surviving monotremes apart from the Platypus. The four surviving species, native to New Guinea and Australia, all belong to the Tachyglossidae family.
Echidna (mythology) In the most ancient layers of Greek mythology Echidna (ekhis, meaning "she viper") was called the "Mother of All Monsters". Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus or Typhon every major monster in the Greek myths,
Echigo Province Echigo (越後国; -no kuni) was an old province in north-central Japan, on the Sea of Japan side, northernmost part of the Hokurikudō (北陸道）circuit. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kozuke, Shinano, and Etchu provinces.
Echinades The Echinades (Greek: per Herodotus, Thucydides, and Strabo), also transliterated Ehinades – or, per Homer, Echinae (), informally the Oxeiae (Sharp Islands), and during the Venician occupation, the Kurtzolári – are a group of numerous islands off the coast of Acarnania, Greece, several of which have become united to the mainland by alluvial deposits. Herodotus says that half of the islands had been already united to the mainland in his time (ii.
Echinarachnius parma The Common Sand Dollar (Echinarachnius parma) is a species of sand dollar native to the Northern Hemisphere. It is circumpolar, and can be found on the North American east coast from New Jersey north, as well as in Alaska, British Columbia, Siberia and Japan.
Echinocactus Echinocactus is a genus of large and beautiful barrel-shaped cacti, usually with large spines and small flowers. The generic name derives from the Ancient Greek εχινος echino- "spiny" and cactus and describes these plants well.
Echinocactus grusonii Echinocactus grusonii is a well known species of cactus native to central Mexico from San Luis Potosi to Hidalgo. Described by Heinrich Hildmann in 1891, it is popularly known as the Golden Barrel Cactus, Golden Ball or, amusingly, Mother-in-Law's Cushion.
Echinocereus Echinocereus is a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized cylindrical cacti, comprising about 50 species from the southern United States and Mexico. They are commonly known as hedgehog cacti, though the term also applies for Pediocactus.
Echinocereus engelmannii The Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) is commonly found in desert areas of the southwestern United States and the adjacent areas of Mexico, including the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Baja California and Sonora. It usually grows in clusters, sometimes up to 20 and more stems.
Echinococcus granulosus Echinococcus granulosus, also called the Hydatid worm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that parasitizes the small intestine of canids as an adult, but which has important intermediate hosts such as livestock and humans, where it causes hydatid disease. The adult tapeworm is about 5 mm long and has three proglottids ("segments") when intact.
Echinoderm Echinoderms (Phylum Echinodermata, from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine animals found at all depths. This phylum appeared in the early Cambrian Period and contains about 7,000 living species and 13,000 extinct ones.
Echinops Echinops is a genus of about 120 species of thistles in the daisy family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They are native to Europe east to central Asia and south to the mountains of tropical Africa.
Echinopsis spachiana Echinopsis spachiana, previously known as Trichocereus spachianus is a type of cactus native to South America. Commonly cultivated as a pot- or rockery plant around the world, it has a lime green body with 1-2cm long golden spines and has a columnar habit.
Echinothrix calamaris The Double spined urchin (Echinothrix calamaris) is a urchin, with a test (shell) diameter of about 5 cm. It has two sets of spines, shorter closed spines which are dark in colour and can deliver a nasty sting, and longer open ended spines that are often striped.
Echium candicans Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) is a large biennial or more commonly perennial members of the Echium genus. It is endemic to the island of Madeira but is widely distributed throughout the world as an ornamental and garden plant.
Echiura The Echiura, or spoon worms, are a small group of marine animals. They are often considered to be a group of annelids, although they lack the segmented structure found in other members of that group, and so may also be treated as a separate phylum.
Echmiadzin Echmiadzin or Ejmiatsin (Armenian: Ô·Ő»Ő´Ő«ŐˇŐ®Ő«Ő¶) is the holiest town in Armenia and the headquarters of the katholikos, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is located in the Armavir province, about 20 km west from Yerevan.
Echmiadzin Gospel The Echmiadzin Gospel (Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS2374) is a 10th century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery of Bgheno-Noravank in Syunik. It is the most well known manuscript in the collection of Matenadaran.
Echo (framework) Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications, for Swing programmers. The Echo framework is basically an API that provides ready-made components for developing Web applications.
Echo (phenomenon) In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo (plural echoes) is a reflection of sound, arriving at the listener some time after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or in a room, by the walls.
Echo and Narcissus Echo and Narcissus was a poem written by the Roman poet Ovid as part of his monumental work Metamorphoses. It combines two ancient legends: Echo, the wood-nymph, and Narcissus, a hunter who falls in love with his own reflection.
Echo Base Echo Base is a Rebel Alliance base in the Star Wars universe, established after the Alliance evacuation of Yavin IV. The base, which was featured in the opening sequence of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, is composed of a series of tunnels and caverns cut from the icy mountain side of the planet Hoth.
Echo Bay Mines Limited The Echo Bay Mines Limited company was organized in 1964 to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, which became known as the Echo Bay Mine. The company leased the old Port Radium settlement from Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited and used the old camp and mill to recover silver and copper values.
Echo Beach Echo Beach is a single which was released by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1980 from the album Metro Music. It won the Juno Award for Single of the Year and is considered a classic in the field of New Wave music.
Echo Boom Echo Boom is an expansive term for children born between 1982 and 1995, when for the first time since 1964, the number of live births reached over four million. It wouldn’t be until 1985 that the live birth number would even match that of 1965 at 3.

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