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Elyakim Rubinstein Elyakim Rubinstein (born 1947) was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan.
Elyan the White Sir Elyan the White or Helyan le Blanc is the son of Sir Bors and a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. His mother is King Brandegoris' daughter Claire, who tricked Bors into sleeping with her using a magic ring; this is sometimes said to be the only time Bors broke his vow of chastity.
Elyasaf Kowner Elyasaf Kowner (אליסף קובנר) (born July 13 1970, Haifa, Israel) is a Filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist working in Video art, Photography, Graffiti and Installation. Received the Sandberg award for ‘After My Death’ Project (1999), America Israel Cultural Foundation award (2001) and won the First Portrait prize (2002).
Elyesa Bazna Elyesa Bazna (1904 in Kosovo - December 21 1970 in Munich) was a spy who offered secret documents to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. He hated the British whom he held responsible for the death of his father but, principally motivated by monetary gain (he had always wanted to be an opera singer), sold information to the Germans through their ambassador in Ankara, Turkey, Franz von Papen.
Elymais Elymais were a people who were subject to Parthian control from 200 BC to 200 AD, and was the name of the region they inhabited (roughly corresponding to the region named Susiana). It was reportedly these people were great archers and natives of Susa, which lies to the east of Elymais territory.
Elyne Mitchell Elyne Mitchell, OAM (born Sibyl Elyne Chauvel on 30 December 1913 Melbourne, Victoria - died 4 March 2002 Corryong, Victoria) was an Australian author noted for the Silver Brumby series of children's novels. Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the Australian Alps around Mount Kosciuszko in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, the books recount the life of the pale palomino brumby stallion Thowra from his birth in The Silver Brumby (first published 1958) to Silver Brumby Whirlwind.
Elynour Rummynge "The Tunning of Elinour Rumming" is a long raucous poem which presents what many would consider disgusting images of rural drinking and drunkenness. For all its gritty description, Skelton has modeled the poem on Church liturgy of that time.
Elyon Elyon: The name or epithet or word ‘Elyōn (Masoretic pronunciation of Hebrew עליון), is traditionally rendered in Samaritan Hebrew as illiyyon, and means something like 'higher, upper'. It derives from the Hebrew root ‘lh, Semitic root ‘ly 'go up, ascend'.
Elyor Ganiyev Elyor Majidovich G‘aniyev, whose name is also transliterted as Elyar Ganiyev and Elyer Ganiev (born 1962), has served as the Minister of Foreign Economic Affairs, Investments and Trade in the Government of Uzbekistan since July 2006. He served as Foreign Minister and Deputy head of the cabinet from 4 February, 2005 to July 2006.
Elyse Luray Elyse Luray is a member of the PBS series' History Detectives team. After more than 10 years as an expert appraiser and consultant for Christie's Auction House, she joined the cast of the highly successful show.
Elyse Sewell Elyse Sewell (born June 10, 1982) is an American fashion model based in Hong Kong. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico, majoring in Biology and Spanish.
Elysia chlorotica Elysia chlorotica is a littoral sea slug that lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts of the marine alga Vaucheria litorea C. Agardh, which provide their host with the products of photosynthesis.
Elysia subornata Elysia subornata is a species of sea slug found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It has been proposed that Elysia subornata could be used as a control agent against an invasive strain of the alga Caulerpa taxifolia in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
Elysian Fields (band) Elysian Fields is a New York enigmatic Dream Pop band founded in 1995 by co-composers Jennifer Charles (vocals) and Oren Bloedow (guitar). Their music has been sometimes described as "noir rock", due to it's sultry, dark and mysterious inflections, be it sonically or lyrically.
Elysian Fields Avenue Elysian Fields Avenue is a long, straight, wide street in New Orleans named after Paris' Champs-Élysées avenue. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately 8 kilometers (5 mi).
Elysian Fields High School A public high school in Harrison County, Texas, Elysian Fields High School is located in the rural town of Elysian Fields, Texas. It is the town's only high school, serving grades nine through twelve, with a student body of approximately 350.
Elysian Charter School Elysian Charter School (also known as ECS), is a public charter school located in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was founded in 1997 by a group of Hoboken residents including parents and educators(the Mile Square Families).
Elysium In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: ) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.
Elysium (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Elysium, or more fully, the Blessed Fields of Elysium, is a strongly good-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings.
Elysium (musician) Elysium is Kristian Thinning Andersen, a producer of Ethnic Tribal Goa trance / Progressive Tribal House and Trance music from Denmark. Elysium has been around since 1994, releasing a variated amount of music on labels such as Nova Zembla, TIP, Dragonfly, BNE, Iboga, Chill Tribe and Avatar Records.
Elysium for the Brave Elysium For The Brave is singer/songwriter Azam Ali's second album, following her successful debut Portals of Grace, which explored the links between Medieval European music (both secular and religious), and Arabic music.
Elzabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy (1834-1913) was a British essayist and poet, who also wrote under the pseudonyms E, Ellis, Ellis Ethelmer, and `Ignota'. Orphaned as a child and deprived of an adequate education, she became an ardent feminist and vigorous campaigner.
Elzéar of Sabran Saint Elzéar of Sabran, Baron of Ansouis, Count of Ariano, was born in the castle of Saint-Jean de Robians, in Provence, souther France, in 1285; died at Paris on 27 September, 1323. After a thorough training in piety and the sciences under his uncle William of Sabran, Abbot of St.
Elzbieta Sikora Elzbieta Sikora, Polish composer, was born on October 20, 1943, in Lvov. Resident of France since 1981, she has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as film scores.
Elzhi Jason Powers (better known as eLZhi) is a rapper and a member of the Detroit group Slum Village, which also consists of rapper T3. Elzhi made his first appearance on the late J Dilla's Welcome 2 Detroit album, on the cut "Come Get It".
Elzo Coelho Elzo Aloísio Coelho (born 22 January 1961), better know as Elzo was a Brazilian football player who played for the Brazil National Team and SL Benfica. He played at the World Cup finals in 1986, still at Atlético Mineiro.
Elzy Lay Elzy Lay (November 25, 1868-November 10, 1934) was an outlaw of the Old West best known as being a member of the Wild Bunch gang, operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming. Despite history depicting the Sundance Kid as outlaw Butch Cassidy's best friend, it was actually Lay who was closest to Cassidy, and Lay assisted Cassidy in leading the Wild Bunch gang.
EL/M-2075 The IAI EL/M-2075 Phalcon is an Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) radar system in use by a number of countries to give intelligence to maintain air superiority and conduct surveillance. It was developed with a partnership between Israeli Aircraft Industries and Elta Electronics Industries, of Israel.
EL84 The EL84 (European designation - known as the 6BQ5 in the USA) is a vacuum tube of the power pentode type. It has a 9 pin miniature base and is found mainly in the final output stages of amplification circuits.
ELBO ELBO (standing for "Elliniki Biomihania Ohimaton", or Hellenic Vehicle Industry), is a Greek vehicle manufacturer. Although it certainly is neither the oldest, nor the most "Greek" in its original technology (it was founded in 1972 after an agreement with Steyr-Daimler-Puch of Austria), it is one that managed to survive the evolutions that basically wiped out the Greek motor industry in the 1980s and 1990s, as it was the only state-owned company in its field.
ELCA Youth Gathering The ELCA Youth Gathering is a national convention held every three years in a different American city attended by high-school-age youth of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The gathering is usually held in early to mid-July.
ELearning Credits eLearning Credits (or eLCs) are a government initiative in the UK which puts money aside for schools for ICT and multimedia resources, such as computers, projectors and interactive whiteboards. All government-funded schools from nursery to secondary are eligible for eLearning Credits.
ELearningware Bruce Forrester believes that the term “courseware” when applied to eLearning and been defined too narrowly. In the past 4 years of his research in educational technology at OISE/UT, the main conclusion reached was that the power of eLearning came from the interaction of students through a progressive discourse.
ELF Cup The ELF Cup (Equality, Liberty, Fraternity) is an international football tournament organised by the KTFF, a member of the NF-Board. Among the participants are fellow NF-Board teams, and - in the inaugural 2006 tournament - FIFA member teams from the Asian Football Confederation.
ELF II The Netronics ELF II was an early microcomputer trainer kit introduced about 1977 featuring an RCA 1802 microprocessor, 256 bytes of RAM, 0 bytes of ROM, DMA based bit mapped graphics, hex keypad for user interaction and DMA based program loading, a two digit hexadecimal LED display, an LED on the special processor Q line, and 5 expansion slots.
ELFA Swedish company ELFA, which distributes electronics components, instruments, tools, and books to business and private customers, was founded in 1945 by Arne Lydmar and Nils "Nisse" Jensen. As of 2006 it had 450 employees, and a turnaround of roughly SEK 845 million.
ELIZA ELIZA is a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied a Rogerian therapist, largely by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient. Thus, for example, the response to "My head hurts" might be "Why do you say your head hurts?
ELIZA effect The ELIZA effect, in computer science, is the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors, despite conscious knowledge to the contrary. It is the result of a subtle cognitive dissonance between the user's awareness of programming limitations and their behavior towards the output of the program.
ELKS ELKS (the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) is a Unix-like operating system kernel that can run on Intel 8086-compatible microprocessors. ELKS, formerly known as Linux-8086, is a small subset of Linux and can run on machines with limited processor and memory resources, including machines with 16-bit microprocessors that aren't supported by Linux.
ELLEgirl ELLEgirl was the largest older-teen fashion and beauty magazine brand in the world with 12 editions and supplements worldwide. Launched in August 2001, it was the younger sibling to ELLE Magazine, and similarly focused on beauty, health, entertainment and looked at daring fashion - its slogan: "Dare to be different".
ELM Denmark ELM Denmark was an environmental and sustainable development committee formed in August 1991 by a group of Danish corporationsCallenbach, Ernest, et al. "Innovative EcoManagement Practices and Programs Worldwide: Denmark," Page 53..
ELML The eLesson Markup Language (eLML) is an open source XML] framework for creating eLessons using XML. It is a "spin-off" from the GITTA project a Swiss [[GIS] eLearning project, and was launched in spring 2004.
ELMO The ELMO is a mock International Mathematical Olympiad held at the Mathematical Olympiad Program every summer, organized and run by the students. Its acronym is fixed from year to year, but each summer produces a new idea of what it stands for.
ELSO The European Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO) was created in 2000 to bring together life scientist from different fields. Its main goal is to organise scientific meetings similar to the meetings organized yearly by the American Society for Cell Biology.
ELT Mesens ELT Mesens (Edouard Léon Théodore) (1903-1971) was a Belgian artist and writer associated with the Surrealist movement. He was the editor of the London Bulletin (1938-1940) - which was the most important of the English-language Surrealist periodicals - and co-organiser of the London International Surrealist Exhibition.
ELWa In Wales, United Kingdom, ELWa - Education and Learning Wales was an Assembly Sponsored Public Body (ASPB) established by the Learning and Skills Act 2000. Its remit covered further education, government sponsored training, adult community learning and school sixth forms.
Eşfahān Province Eşfahān province (Persian: استان اصفهان (Ostan-e Esfahan); also transliterated as Isfahan, Esfahan, Espahan, Sepahan or Isphahan) is one of the 28 provinces of Iran. It is located in the center of the country.
Em (typography) An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the pt size of the current font. This unit is not defined in terms of any specific typeface, and thus is the same for all fonts at a given point size.
Em Sinfonia Em Sinfonia was founded by guitarist Brian Griffin (musician), a musician known for his work with death metal band Broken Hope. Em Sinfonia's style was said to be "doomdeath" with Griffin providing classic death metal vocals, accompanied by crisp female vocals.
Em:t Records Em:t Records (Emit Records) is a British record label, based in Nottingham, which specializes in ambient electronic music. They were active from 1994 to 1998, and after a period of bankruptcy, re-established themselves in 2003 under new ownership and management.
Emaciation Emaciation (, or ) occurs when an animal loses substantial fat tissue, making that animal look extremely skinny. The cause of emaciation is always starvation, which is a lack of nutrients (regardless of what the cause is).
Emack & Bolio's Emack & Bolio's is a chain of ice cream stores based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The chain was founded by Robert Rook, a lawyer and self-declared hippie who has worked closely with the homeless, Vietnam war protesters, civil and gay rights advocates, and numerous rock bands such as Aerosmith, U2, Boston, The Cars, and James Brown.
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used by the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors (which will be collectively referred to as Emacs in this article.) It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C.
Emad Abdalla Hassan Emad Abdalla Hassan (born June 26 1979) is a Yemeni citizen, who was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan, and transported to extrajudicial detention in the United States Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.list of prisoners (.
Emad Salem Emad A. Salem is an ex-Egyptian army officer turned FBI informant, who was a key witness in the trial of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, convicted in the World Trade Center Bombing of February 26, 1993.
Email encryption E-mail encryption systems protect the contents of an e-mail message while in transit and ensure that only the intended recipient or recipients can open and view the e-mail message. It may also include the verification of the sender’s bonafides.
Email hub The term Mail Hub is used to denote an MTA or system of MTAs used to route email but not act as a mail server (having no end-user email store) since there is no MUA access. Examples could include dedicated anti-SPAM appliances, anti-virus engines running on dedicated hardware, email gateways and so forth.
Email Money Transfer Interac Email Money Transfer (EMT) is a funds transfer service between personal accounts at participating Canadian financial institutions. The provider of this service is CertaPay, a division of Acxsys Corporation.
Email open rate The email open rate is a measure primarily used by marketers as an indication of how many people "view" or "open" the commercial electronic mail they send out. One of the earliest metrics applied in email marketing, its continued use is controversial due to conflicting views on its usefulness.
Email sender accreditation Sender accreditation is a third-party process of verifying email senders and requiring them to adhere to certain accreditee usage guidelines in exchange for being listed in a trusted listing that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) reference to allow certain emails to bypass email filters.
Email server The term "Email Server" is used to denote a Mail transfer agent (MTA) or system of MTAs used to route email and act as a mail server, by storing email and supporting client access (MUA) using Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or other protocols.
EmailCash EmailCash is an Australian website run by PermissionCorp, with branches for residents of Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand (SmileCity) and United Kingdom (Rewards Central). It aims to reward members with a system of points for such activities as purchasing items online and completing surveys.
Emain Macha Emain Macha, (Old Irish , Emuin Macha, Modern Irish Eamhain Mhacha , Emania) known in English as Navan Fort, is an ancient monument in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Although called a "fort", it is considered more likely to have been a ritual or ceremonial site.
Emakimono , often simply called emaki (絵巻), is a horizontal, illustrated narrative form created during the 11th to 16th centuries in Japan. Unique to Japan, emakimono combines both text and pictures, and is drawn, painted, or stamped on a hand scroll.
Emam Sahib Emam Sahib (Other transliterations: Emām Şāḩeb,Imam Sahib,Imām Sāhib), (36° 39' 42N, 66° 30' 43E), is a town in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan. Baba Hatim Ziyarat is located on the outside of Emam Sahib.
Eman Ghoneim Dr. Eman Ghoneim (Arabic: إيمان غنيم) is an experienced Egyptian geomorphologist with a primary focus on the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and the use of Hydrologic modeling in Flash flood hazard and Groundwater exploration in arid environments.
Emanager eManager is a compliance software for business processes and procedures published by X-Genics. eManager acts as a modular platform for procedures which are downloaded on a trial basis and further usage charged on a "Metered Unit" or Pay-as you-go basis.
Emanationism Emanationism is Platonic monism, and a component in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious or philosophical systems that argue that a sentient, self-aware Supreme Being is an impossibility, that the totality of both the empirical and ontological cosmos is the result of The One whose nature and attribute are will(ing) which is objectively dirrected and results in lower and lower spiritual modalities of being, and lastly matter (the physical universe) which is the resultant of this efflux of the Absolute.
Emancipation of Labour Emancipation of Labour group (Освобождение труда) was the first Russian Marxist group. Founded by Georgi Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich, Pavel Axelrod and Leo Deutsch in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1883.
Emancipation of minors Emancipation of minors is a legal mechanism through which a person below the age of majority gains certain civil rights, generally identical to those of adults. An emancipated minor is free of any authority from his or her parent or other legal guardian.
Emancipation of the dissonance The emancipation of the dissonance was a concept or goal put forth by Arnold Schoenberg and others, including his pupil Anton Webern, composer of atonal music and the inventor of the twelve tone technique. It may be described as a metanarrative to justify atonality.
Emancipation Oak Emancipation Oak is a historic tree located on the campus of Hampton University in what is now the City of Hampton, Virginia. (Elizabeth City County and the Town of Phoebus voted to consolidate with the City of Hampton in 1952).
Emancipation reform of 1861 The Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. The reform amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by Russian peasants.
Emancipist An emancipist was any of the convicts sentenced and transported under the convict system to Australia, who had been given conditional or absolute pardons. The term was also used to refer to those convicts whose sentences had expired, and could also be used of free settlers who supported full civil rights for emancipated convicts.
Emanio EMANIO, Inc. develops Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), supply chain automation and data integration solutions for organizations that send transactions to trading partners and integrate data between applications.
Emanio, Inc. EMANIO develops Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), supply chain automation and data integration solutions for organizations that send transactions to trading partners and integrate data between applications. EMANIO produces software that enables electronic documents and messages to be automatically formed from the business applications within an organization and sent over a network to be integrated into the applications in the receiving organization.
Emanual Davis Emanual Davis (born August 27 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'4" guard from Delaware State University, Davis was never drafted by an National Basketball Association team, but did manage to play in 6 NBA seasons from 1996-1998 and 1999-2003.
Emanuel (band) Emanuel is a five-piece post-hardcore band from Clarksville, Indiana. They formed in 1998 under their lesser known name Emanuel Nice and appeared on four releases, before getting signed to Vagrant Records and changing their name in 2004.
Emanuel Celler Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888—January 15, 1981) was a politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. For his first twenty-two years in Congress, 1923-1945, Celler represented New York's 10th congressional district.
Emanuel Cleaver The Reverend Emanuel Cleaver II (born October 26, 1944) is a United Methodist pastor and a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent the Fifth Congressional District of Missouri (map), which primarily consists of the Kansas City-Jackson County metro area.
Emanuel De Porras Emanuel MatĂ­as De Porras, aka Cachi de Porras, was born on October 16, 1981 in Cutral-CĂł, Argentina. He is a striker currently playing for Persija with the status of the highest paid foreign player in Liga Indonesia.
Emanuel Gambino Emanuel 'Manny' Gambino (May 31, 1943 - May 1972) was the nephew of infamous mafia leader, Carlo Gambino, and an organized crime figure in New York. He was kidnapped from outside of ex-mobster Henry Hill's supper club The Suite, in Queens, New York by a group of Irish gangsters.
Emanuel Hirsch Emanuel Hirsch (June 14, 1886/1888, Bentwisch, Brandenburg (Landkreis Perleburg, West-Priegnitz) - July 17, 1972, Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian and also a member of the Nazi Party. He escaped denazification at the end of the war by obtaining an early medical retirement and pension from his University.
Emanuel Löwy Em(m)anuel Löwy, or Emanuel Loewy (born September 1, 1857, Vienna; died February 11, 1938 in Vienna) was a classical archaeologist and theorist who employed the methodology of universal psychological sources of form in his work.
Emanuel Leutze Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868) was a German-born American history painter. Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, Germany, was brought to America as a child, and then returned to Germany as an adult.
Emanuel Moreno Emanuel Moreno (Hebrew: עמנואל מורנו, Immanuel Moreno) (June 17 1971-August 18 2006) born in France and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel was a Colonel in the elite special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force Sayeret Matkal.
Emanuel Neto Emanuel Neto (born 1984 in Luanda, Angola) is a 6'9" basketball center currently attending Stony Brook University by way of San Jacinto College. He has also been a member of the Angola national basketball team which most recently earned 10th place in the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Emanuel Parzen Emanuel Parzen (born April 21, 1929 in New York City) is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen window in his honor).
Emanuel Ringelblum Emanuel Ringelblum (November 21, 1900 – March 7, 1944) was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyn, and the so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Emanuel Schäfer Emanuel Schäfer (born April 20, 1900-died December 4,1974), an SS-Oberführer, was Reinhard Heydrich's protegee, and head of the security police in Serbia during World War II. After the war, in Germany, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for having gassed to death 6,280 women and children.
Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (Straubing, September 9, 1751 – September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, and singer. He is famous as the librettist of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute).
Emanuel Stance Emanuel Stance (died December 25 1887) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29,January 29 according to the Julian calendar. In the Gregorian calendar, the date would be February 8 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic,He is called a mystic by many sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica online version, Swedenborg, Emanuel, retrieved November 8, 2006, and the Encyclopedia of Religion (1987) which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic" .
Emanuel van Meteren Emanuel van Meteren (September 6, 1535 - April 11, 1612) was a Flemish historian and Consul for "the Traders of the Low Countries" in London. He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Orrilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the famous cartographer Abraham Ortelius.
Emanuel Vigeland Emanuel Vigeland (1875 - 1958) was a multitalented Norwegian artist. Mostly known for his paintings, he also produced frescos, stained glass and sculptures, many of which were commanded by churches in different parts of Norway.
Emanuel Weiss Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss (June 11, 1906 - March 4, 1944) was a highly prolific professional hitman who worked for the criminal organization known as Murder, Inc. during the 1930's and up to the time of his arrest in 1940.
Emanuel Xavier In 1996, Emanuel Xavier took the New York City spoken word scene by storm, quickly becoming one of the most significant voices to emerge from the neo-Nuyorican poetry movement. Following in the tradition of writers/performers like Miguel Piñero, Xavier captivated audiences with a fresh and poignant brand of art that celebrated sexuality, Latino heritage, and the often brutal streets of New York.
Emanuela Orlandi Emanuela Orlandi (born January 14, 1968), a citizen of Vatican City, mysteriously disappeared on June 22, 1983 at the age of fifteen. What might have seemed like a "common"' disappearance was immediately transformed into one of the darkest and most mysterious cases in Italian history.
Emanuele Basile Emanuele Basile (died May 4 1980) was a captain of Carabinieri and a collaborator of Paolo Borsellino on anti-Mafia investigations. He was killed by Cosa Nostra in Monreale, Palermo, shot repeatedly in the back whilst he carried his four-year-old daughter, who was unhurt in the shooting.
Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (13 January, 1869 – July 4, 1931) was the eldest son of Amadeo I of Spain and a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. During the First World War the Duke of Aosta commanded the Italian Third Army, and following the war he was promoted to the rank of Marshal of Italy by Benito Mussolini in 1926.

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