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Elgin—Middlesex—London Elgin—Middlesex—London is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Elgon languages The Elgon languages are languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. According to the Ethnologue, there are two main Elgon languages: Kupsabiny (spoken by about 120 000 people) and Sabaot (spoken by about 134 000 people).
Elhadi Adam Elhadi Adam Elhadi', or Al-Hadi Adam Al-Hadi (1927-30 November2006) Arabic الهادي آدم الهادي, was a Sudanese writer and song writer born in El-Helalelih village, Al Jazirah State in central Sudan on the bank of the Blue Nile. He is buried in El-Helalelih.
Elhanan son of Jair The biblical Elhanan son of Jair (variant forms “Jaare-Oregim” in 2 Samuel 21:19, “Jesse” in 1 Samuel 17:12) is believed by conservative Bible scholars to be an earlier name of David, who later became the second King of Israel. (See also Elhanan son of Dodo.
Elharar Elharar [or El-harar] is a Jewish surname classically found among Jews emanating from Morocco. Elharar means 'The Free' referring to the fact that Jews with this appelation were of families that were freed from paying taxes to the King and government.
Elhovo Elhovo (Елхово, from елха, elha, meaning "alder" + the placename suffix "-ovo") is a Bulgarian town in Yambol Province, on the left bank of the Tundzha between the Strandzha and Sakar mountains.
Elhovo Gap Elhovo Gap (Elhovska Sedlovina 'el-hov-ska se-dlo-vi-'na) is a 420m high saddle extending 1 km in WSW-ENE direction from Gleaner Heights to Leslie Hill, Livingston Island which forms part of the overland route between Bowles Ridge and Vidin Heights. The saddle is named after the Bulgarian town of Elhovo, in association with the Christmas tree (‘elha’ in Bulgarian) brought by the Tangra 2004/05 Survey team (Lyubomir Ivanov and Doychin Vasilev) to their bivouac at Leslie Hill occupied 24 December - 28 December 2004.
Elchanan Tannenbaum Elhanan Tannenbaum, (אלחנן טננבוים, born 12 August 1946) is an Israeli businessman and formerly a colonel in the Israel Defense Force. Tannenbaum's kidnapping was announced on 16 October 2000 by the Lebanese militant group Hizbullah after being lured out of Israel under the false pretenses of a drug deal.
Elcho Castle Elcho Castle is located a short distance above the south bank of the River Tay approximately four miles south-east of Perth. It consists of a Z-plan tower house, with fragments of a surrounding wall with corner towers.
Elchonon Wasserman Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman (1875-1941) (Hebrew: אלחנן וסרמן) was a prominent Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in pre-World War II Europe. He was one of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a Torah scholar of note, and well known for being a strong opponent of all forms of Zionism.
Eli (town) Eli (; ) is a large Israeli settlement that is home to both religious Orthodox and secular residents. The town is located in the municipal jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in the central West Bank (southern Samaria), north of Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Eli Attie Eli Attie is a writer and political operative. He served as chief speechwriter for then-Vice President Al Gore from 1997 until Gore's concession of the 2000 election, and before that worked for President Bill Clinton and House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.
Eli “Weevil” Navarro Eli "Weevil" Navarro is a fictional character on The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN. Portrayed by Francis Capra, Weevil was the head of the local PCH biker gang and ally of teenage detective Veronica.
Eli Bauer Elias (Eli) Bauer (1928-1998) was born in the Bronx, NY to Max and Goldie Bauer. It was his passion for art that took him out of the Bronx and into New York City, where he attended the School of Industrial Arts.
Eli Cohen Eli Cohen (Hebrew: אלי כהן) (December 26, 1924 – May 18, 1965) was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times. Born in Egypt, Cohen contributed to pro-Israeli activities in Egypt during the 1950s, but the most important part of his career began when he was recruited into Israeli military intelligence in 1960.
Eli Eban Eli Eban was born in New York and received his early musical training in Israel, studying the clarinet with Richard Lesser and Yona Ettlinger. After serving in the Israeli Army, he was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, where he studied with Anthony Gigliotti.
Eli Eshed Eli Eshed is an Israeli researcher of popular culture who has spent considerable time and effort analyzing the Israeli pulp magazines and paperbacks of the 1950s and 1960s, especially the pirated Tarzan brochures which were highly popular among Israeli youths at the time, published anonymously and without any authorization from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Eli Fucile Eli Fucile, the son of Pixar animator Tony Fucile, played the voice of the human form of baby superhero Jack-Jack Parr in the movie The Incredibles, the short film Jack-Jack Attack, and the Disney on Ice play Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.
Eli Geva Eli Geva (Hebrew language: אלי גבע) was an Israeli brigade commander, who during the Siege of Beirut (in the early stage of the 1982 Lebanon War), refused to lead his forces into the city for moral reasons which he termed "the excess killing of civilians." The Israeli Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, attempted to negotiate with Geva, but he insisted and was consequently dismissed from the IDF.
Eli Gold Eli Gold (born 1953) is a sportscaster, best known as the radio voice (since 1988) of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team and as host (since 1982) of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network. Gold also performs radio play-by-play for the Nashville Predators hockey team, anchors NBC Sports' Arena Football League coverage and provides radio play-by-play for the National Football League.
Eli H. Janney Eli H. Janney, also known as Eli Hamilton Janney or simply Eli Janney (November 12, 1831 – June 16, 1912), was the inventor of the modern knuckle coupler that replaced link and pin couplers on North American railroads.
Eli Langer Eli Langer (born Montreal, Canada 1967) is a Canadian visual artist, In 1993, Langer rose to prominence in the Toronto art world with a solo exhibition at the Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto. The exhibition consisted of 5 paintings and 35 drawings addressing various issues of childhood sexuality,to quote the media release prior to the opening of the exhibition:
Eli M. Saulsbury Eli May Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was a lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.
Eli Manning Elisha Nelson "Eli" Manning (born January 3, 1981) is the starting quarterback for the New York Giants NFL franchise. He is the son of former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and Olivia Williams Manning, and is the younger brother of current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and former receiver Cooper Manning, whose football career was cut short by spinal stenosis.
Eli Roth Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer. He established himself as a brand name director after his first film Cabin Fever, with name-above-the-title billing on all of his films since.
Eli Squinch Eli Squinch is an evil miser who sometimes teams up with Black Pete in the Mickey Mouse comics. He first appeared in "Bobo the Elephant" as an abusive elephant owner which Mickey later forced Squinch to sell him.
Eli Terry Eli Terry Sr (April 13, 1772 – February 24, 1852) was an influential clockmaker in Connecticut, and the first inventor to receive a United States patent for a clock mechanism. He introduced mass production to the art of clockmaking, and made clocks affordable for the average American citizen.
Eli Thayer Eli Thayer (1819-1899) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861. Thayer was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, graduated from Brown University in 1845, and in 1848 founded Oread Institute, a school for young women at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Eli Tomorast Eli Tomorast is the fictional wizard that serves as the primary antagonist in Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, a module for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.
Eli Vance Doctor Eli Vance is a fictional character from the computer games Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004) by Valve Software. Vance, a brilliant physicist and researcher, is an African-American man apparently in his late fifties or early sixties with short grey hair, a beard and moustache.
Eli Whitney Inventor and manufacturing pioneer Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765, the eldest child of Eli Whitney, a prosperous famer, and Elizabeth Fay of Westborough. He early demonstrated his mechanical genius and entrepreneurial acumen, operating a profitable nail manufacturing operation in his father's workshop during the American Revolution.
Eli Whitney Museum The Eli Whitney Museum is a building erected as a musket factory by Eli Whitney on a site he purchased on September 17, 1798. It is now a museum, located at 915 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut, and open to the public most afternoons.
Eli Wilkie Eli Wilkie is a DJ and record producer from Boston, MA who has been spinning for the past eight years around the nation, shaking up dance floors with his own blend of funky driving house music. His DJ career began at Boston's underground Hibernia nightclub, in which he DJ'ed alongside the likes of Steve Porter, Luis Diaz, Paul Rogers, Chris Reavey, Fernando Bairos and Podje (Ireland).
Eli Woods English comedian, possibly best known for his work with Jimmy James and Roy Castle. Woods has also appeared in a number of television comedies, as well as playing small parts in a variety films including A Private Function.
Eli Yablonovitch Eli Yablonovitch along with Sajeev John, was one of the two physicists who invented the field of photonic crystals in 1987. In addition to pioneering photonic crystals, he was the first to recognize that a strained quantum well laser has a significantly reduced threshold current compared to its unstrained counterpart.
Eli Zabitz Eli Zabitz is a fictional character, played by David Johansen, on the HBO prison series Oz. Zabitz appears in Season 4 and was apprently hired by the Aryan Brotherhood to tell Tobias Beecher that Chris Keller was involved in his son's death in order to drive a wedge between Keller and Beecher.
Elia Levita Elia Levita (13th February 1469–28th January 1549), (Hebrew: אליהו בן אשר בחור) also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Eliahu Bakhur ("Eliahu the Bachelor") was a Renaissance-period Hebrew grammarian, poet and one of the first writers in the Yiddish language. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh (written in 1507–1508), the most popular chivalric romance written in Yiddish, which, according to Sol Liptzin, is "generally regarded as the most outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish".
Elia Suleiman Elia Suleiman (, born July 28, 1960 in Nazareth) is a Palestinian-Israeli film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention (Arabic: Yad Ilahiyya), a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in the Palestinian territories which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Eliab Harvey Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, GCB,KCB (5 December 1758 - 20 February 1830) was an eccentric and hot-tempered officer of the Royal Navy during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars who was as distinguished by his excellent fighting record as for his gambling and duelling. He also spent three spells as a Member of Parliament.
Eliades Ochoa ElĂ­ades Ochoa is a Cuban guitarist and singer born in Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago on June 22 1946. He began playing the guitar when he was six and in 1978 he joined Cuarteto Patria, a band that has played since 1940.
Eliahu Sacharoff Eliahu Sacharoff was a member of the Haganah who on 8 October, 1943 was sentence by a military court in the British Mandate of Palestine to seven years' imprisonment after being found guilty of possessing more ammunition than his firearm license allowed.
Eliakim Sherrill Eliakim Sherrill (February 16, 1813 – July 4, 1863) was an antebellum United States Congressman from the state of New York and a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg defending against Pickett's Charge.
Elias Elias is the latinised version of the Greek name Ηλια(ς), pronounced e-lee-a(s) in Greek and English e-lie-us. (Elias or Ηλιας in Greek is the formal usage of the name, with Elia/Ηλια used in informal usage.
Elias "Coach" Korcoulis Elias Korcoulis, known to his friends as Lou and to thousands others as Coach (1940 - March 4, 2006) was the cross-country and track coach for Hollis/Brookline High School in Hollis, New Hampshire from 1962 until his death. Coach was an alumus of Manchester High School Central, having lived in Manchester all his life.
Elias Ashmole Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617–18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary, was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and an early speculative Freemason. He supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.
Elias Blix Elias Blix (1836-1902) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1884-1885, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1885-1886, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs again 1886-1888.
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) Elias Boudinot (1800–1839) was a Cherokee Indian who started and edited the tribe's first newspaper. He was born in Georgia as Gallegina Watie (also known as "Buck" Watie or Buck Oowatie), edited the Cherokee Phoenix in the New Echota, and died in Oklahoma.
Elias coding Elias coding is a type of coding scheme used in digital communications where the probability mass function of the source is not known a priori. There are different types of Elias coding, some of which are listed below:
Elias Earle Elias Earle (June 19, 1762 - May 19, 1823) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Frederick County, Virginia, he attended private school and moved to Greenville County, South Carolina in September 1787.
Elias Fund The Elias Fund is a nonprofit organization providing hope and opportunity to Zimbabwean youth through community development and education while empowering the American youth culture to embrace their global role and make it an active one.
Elias Hicks Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 - February 27, 1830) was an itinerant Quaker preacher from Long Island, New York. He promoted doctrines that embroiled him in controversy that led to the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends.
Elias Hrawi Elias Hrawi (Arabic: الياس الهراوي) (September 4, 1926–July 7, 2006) was a former President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998. A native of the Beqaa valley, Hrawi was the first President to come from outside of the Maronite heartland of Mount Lebanon.
Elias Chacour Abuna Elias Chaccour (born 1939) is a Palestinian born, Israeli archbishop, currently the Archbishop of Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, an Eastern Byzantine Rite Church in communion with Rome (Abuna, Arabic for 'Our Father', is the affectionate and respectful term given by Arab Christians to their priests). He is also a noted author and peace activist keen to promote reconciliation.
Elias James Corey Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis.
Elias Khoury (writer) Elias Khoury () (born in Beirut in 1948) is a Lebanese novelist, playwright and critic. He has published ten novels, which have been translated into several foreign languages, as well as several works of literary criticism.
Elias Lönnrot Elias Lönnrot (April 9, 1802 - March 19, 1884) was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.
Elias Levy Elias Levy (also known as Aleph One), was the moderator of the full disclosure vulnerability mailing list Bugtraq from May 14 1996, until he stepped down on October 15 2001. He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security company SecurityFocus, which was acquired by Symantec on August 6 2002.
Elias M. Ammons Elias Milton Ammons (July 28, 1860 – May 20, 1925) Originally a Republican, Ammons was the elected Democratic governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1915. Born in 1860 in Franklin, North Carolina, he is perhaps best remembered for ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Ludlow Massacre.
Elias omega coding Elias omega coding is a universal code encoding the positive integers. Like Elias gamma coding and Elias delta coding, it works by prefixing the integer with a representation of its order of magnitude in a universal code.
Elias Peter Hoayek Elias Peter Hoayek (also, Hoyek, Hwayek, Hawayek) (); was born in Helta, Lebanon. He was Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Christian community in the Middle East from 1898 to 1931 when he died.
Elias Seixas Elias Seixas de Mattos was a truck driver from Rio de Janeiro in 1980, when he had suffered an unexplainable experience. His story, along with the ones from his two friends, has earned an important page in the history of Brazilian Ufology because of the quantity of details he displayed to describe the situations.
Elias Sosa Elias Sosa Martinez (born June 10, 1950 in La Vega, Dominican Republic), is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent on March 4, 1968.
Elias W. Leavenworth Elias Warner Leavenworth (December 20, 1803 - November 25, 1887) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Canaan, New York, he moved with his parents to Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1806.
Elias Wakan Elias Wakan (born 1945) is a constructivist sculptor working since 1996 on Gabriola Island, in British Columbia, Canada. His sculptures are reminiscent of the work of Naum Gabo and others in the Russian Constructivist movement.
Elias Wessén Elias Wessén (1889-1981) was a prominent Swedish linguist and a professor of North Germanic languages at Stockholm University (1928-1956). In 1947, he was honoured with one of the 18 seats at the Swedish Academy (which for instance awards the Nobel Prize in Literature).
Elias-Clark Elias-Clark Group "is one of the world's leading independent publishers. A family-owned organisation, Elias-Clark was founded to promote the human experience through innovation, storytelling and edification.
Elián González Elián González (born December 6, 1993) was at the center of a heated custody and immigration battle in 2000 involving the Cuban and United States governments, his father, his Miami and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban American community of Miami. The climactic stage of this prolonged battle was the April 22, 2000 seizure of Elián by federal agents, which drew the ire and criticism of some in the Cuban American community and prompted a Senate inquiry.
Elibe Elibe is the fictional continent in which the game Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals and its prequel, Fire Emblem take place. Elibe is split into six nations of diverse ruling styles: Lycia, Bern, Etruria, Sacae, Missur, and Ilia.
Elicura Chihuailaf Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán (1952 in Quechurehue) is a Mapuche Chilean poet and author whose works are written both in Mapudungun and in Spanish, and have been translated into many other languages as well. He has also translated the works of other poets, such as Pablo Neruda, into Mapudungun.
Elidar (woreda) Elidar is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 1, Elidar is bordered on the south by the Awash River which separates it from Asayita, on the west by Dubti, on the northwest by the Administrative Zone 2, on the northeast by Eritrea, and on the east by Djibouti.
Elie Hobeika Elie Hobeika (1956–24 Jan, 2002) (Arabic:إيلي حبيقة) was a Phalangist and Lebanese Forces militia commander during the Lebanese Civil War. He was a pro-Syrian politician and government minister in the post-war period.
Elie Seckbach - The Embedded NBA Correspondent Elie Seckbach has been covering the NBA since 1997, using his unique questioning style to create entertaining reports that explore more than basketball. His ability to get interesting quotes from athletes prompted Andy Gray of CNN/SI to call him "the most entertaining NBA reporter out there.
Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania (Institutul Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România "Elie Wiesel" in Romanian) is a public institution established by the Romanian government on August 7, 2005Romanian government approves setting up of Holocaust institute, Romanian Information Center in Brussels, August 7, 2005, and officially opened on October 9 of the same year, which is Romania's National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust.
Eliel Saarinen Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.
Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi Eliezer (Lazer) ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–December 13, 1585) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן אליהו אשכנזי) was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar. Though of a German family (according to some, the relative of Joseph Colon; see Mortara, Indice Alfabetico, s.
Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi was a Rabbinical scholar born in Poland about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in Tunis. He published at Metz in 1845, under the title Dibre Ḥakamim (The Words of the Wise), a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts:
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן־יְהוּדָה) (January 7, 1858 – December 16, 1922), was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language.
Eliezer Halfin Eliezer Halfin (June 18, 1948 – September 6, 1972) was a wrestler for the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Along with 10 other athletes and coaches he was taken hostage by Palestinian Black September terrorists.
Eliezer Kahana Eliezer ben Reuven Kahana was a Jewish preacher and homiletic exegete in Karlin, present-day Belarus, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. His works include: Siah Sefunim (Zolkiev, 1751-52), a commentary on the Five Scrolls, each of them having its special subtitle; and Ṭa'ame Torah (ib.
Eliezer Silver Rabbi Eliezer Silver (15 February 1882 - 1968) was the President of the Agudath HaRabbonim of America and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He helped save many thousands of Jews in the Second World War and held several Rabbinical positions in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio.
Eliezer Waldenberg Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (December 10 1915 -November 21 2006) known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise Tzitz Eliezer that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including medical halacha, as well as more common halachic issues from Shabbat to kashrut. He was born in Jerusalem in 1915 and died there on November 21, 2006.
Eliezer Zusia Portugal Grand Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal (October 17, 1898–August 18, 1982), the first Skulener Rebbe, was revered by his followers in Russia, Romania and the United States for his personal warmth and his care for hundreds of Jewish youth and war orphans. He established the Skulener dynasty in America in the 1960s.
Eligible receiver In American Football and Canadian Football, not all players on offence are entitled to receive a forward pass. Only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, or be more than five yards past the line of scrimmage on a forward passing play.
Eligiusz Niewiadomski Eligiusz Niewiadomski (December 1, 1869 in Warsaw - January 31, 1923) was a Polish modernist painter and art critic, who belonged to the right-wing National Democratic Party in renascent Poland in the early 20th century. He is famous for his assassination of Poland's first President, Gabriel Narutowicz, in 1922.
Eligmodontia The genus Eligmodontia consists of five species of South American desert mice restricted to Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Species of Eligmodontia occur in arid and semiarid habitats and in both high and low elevation areas.
Elihu B. Washburne Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 23, 1887) Born in Livermore, Maine he was one of seven brothers that played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party. He later served as United States Secretary of State in 1869.
Elihu Burritt Elihu Burritt (1810–1879) was an American philanthropist, linguist, and social activist born in the town of New Britain, Connecticut in 1810. He was active in many causes, namely opposing slavery, working for temperance, and trying to achieve world peace.
Elihu Emory Jackson Elihu Emory Jackson (November 3, 1837–December 27, 1907), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 41st Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1888 to 1892. He was born in 1837 in Delmar, Maryland and died in 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Elihu Palmer Elihu Palmer (7 August 1764 - 7 April 1806) was an ex-Baptist minister who made an effort to organize Deism by forming the "Deistical Society of New York." Palmer wrote the "Principles of Nature" (1801) as follows:
Elihu Phinney Elihu Phinney (1756–1813) was the first printer in Cooperstown, New York. In the early 1790s he lived Canaan in Columbia County, New York, where he published the Columbian Mercury, and Canaan Repository of Rural Knowledge.
Elihu Root Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man," who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.
Elihu Spencer Elihu Spencer (February 12, 1721 – December 27, 1784) was a Yankee clergyman who served as a chaplain during the French and Indian War. During the American Revolution, he was invited to North Carolina by that colony's provincial congress to convince loyalist congregations to join the patriot cause.
Elii Geba Elii Geba is a professional session singer, music producer and vocalist, best known for her collaboration with Les Hemstock and Paul Van Dyk, "Babylon". She hails from Transylvania, where she is a Contessa.
Elijah ("Eli") Thomson Elijah Thomson is an American musician and recording engineer from California. Known as an electric bassist, he was a member of Christian singer Crystal Lewis's band in the late 1990's and early 2000's along with Jyro Xhan, Shawn Tubbs, and Frank Lenz.
Elijah (oratorio) Elijah is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament.
Elijah Alfandari Elijah Alfandari (Hebrew: אליהו אלפנדארק) was a writer on matrimonial law, and rabbi at Constantinople in the latter half of the 18th and in the beginning of the 19th century. He published two works on matrimonial law, Seder Eliyahu Rabbah we-Zuṭṭa (The Great and Small Order of Elijah), Constantinople, 1719, and Miktab me-Eliyahu (A Letter from Elijah), Constantinople, 1723.
Elijah Blue Allman Elijah Blue Allman also known as Phillips Exeter Blue I, (born July 10, 1976), son of Cher and Gregg Allman and half brother of Chastity Bono, Delilah Island Allman and Devon Allman . He is the singer and guitarist for the rock band Deadsy which consists of Alec Pure on drums, Dr.
Elijah Craig Elijah Craig (1738 – May 18, 1808) was a Baptist preacher from Kentucky, who is remembered chiefly for being credited with the invention of bourbon whiskey. He is also the founder of Georgetown College, in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Elijah Interfaith Institute The Elijah Interfaith Institute (formerly the Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions) is an international think tank devoted to discussing contemporary religious and theological issues, operating as a UNESCO academic network. Its major project is the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, which represents over 40 leaders representing Buddhism, Christianity, Religions of India, Islam, and Judaism.
Elijah Lagat Elijah Lagat (born June 19, 1966) was the winner of the 104th running of the Boston Marathon held in 2000. He won in the closest finish in the race's history when he edged out Gezahgne Abera of Ethiopia and fellow Kenyan and previous year's champion, Moses Tanui.

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