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Emergency Relief and Construction Act The Emergency Relief and Construction Act, passed by Congress in July 1932, was the United States's first major-relief legislation. It created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which released funds for public works projects across the country.
Emergency Response Guidebook The Emergency Response Guidebook is used by first responders, firefighters, police officers, and ambulance personnel when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials. It was first issued by the US Department of Transportation in 1973 and was most recently reissued in 2004 as a joint publication of the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Emergency shelter Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered women, victims of domestic violence in general, or victims of sexual abuse.
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, by Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain and Doctor Andrew Thomson, is the memoir of three young people who join the UN in Cambodia with a dream of making the world a better place. Set in the 1990s, the book was published in 2004.
Emergency Social Services Emergency Social Services (ESS) is a component of the Provincial Emergency Program of the Province of British Columbia. ESS are those services required to preserve the well-being of people affected by an emergency or disaster.
Emergency telephone An Emergency telephone is a phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services and are most often found in places of special danger or where it is likely that there will only be a need to make emergency calls.
Emergency telephone number Many countries' public telephone networks have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance. The emergency telephone number may differ from country to country.
Emergency Task Force A tactical unit of the Toronto Police Service to deal with high risk situations like gun calls, hostage taking, barricaded persons, emotionally disturbed persons, high risk arrest and protection details. The unit was created in 1965.
Emergency vehicle equipment In addition to all of the equipment that a non-emergency vehicle is fitted with (eg: headlights, steering wheel, windshield/windscreen), emergency vehicles are fitted with additional emergency vehicle equipment. This equipment falls into several categories:
Emergency warning system for vehicles Emergency Warning System for Vehicles Telematics technologies are self-orientating open network architecture structure of variable programmable intelligent beacons developed for application in the development of intelligent vehicles - with target intent to accord (blend, or mesh) warning information with surrounding vehicles in the vicinity of travel, intra-vehicle, and infrastructure. Emergency warning system for vehicles telematics particularly developed for international harmonisation and standardisation of vehicle-to-vehicle – infrastructure-to-vehicle – and vehicle-to-infrastructure real-time Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) systems.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, approved November 10, 1986, authorized the purchase of wetlands from Land and Water Conservation Fund monies, removing a prior prohibition on such acquisitions. It required the Secretary to establish a National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan, required the States to include wetlands in their Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans, and transferred to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund amounts equal to the import duties on arms and ammunition.
Emergenesis In psychology, a trait (or phenotype) is called emergenic if it is the result of a specific combination of several interacting genes (rather than of a simple sum of several independent genes). Emergenic traits will not run in families, but identical twins will share them.
Emergent democracy Emergent democracy refers to the Internet phenomenon change of the geopolitical landscape to increasingly reflect more democratic principles. It is used in the context of defining a political rift in the current world order between the interests of corporate-run business and the public, and to describe the new abilities of the public to organize with a newfound realistic capability of transcending the preexisting and established order.
Emergent evolution Emergent evolution is the philosophical doctrine that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as life and consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities.
Emergent materialism In the philosophy of mind, emergent (or emergentist) materialism is a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense, albeit not in the sense of being an ontological simple, and that the study of mental phenomena is independent of other sciences.
Emergent organisation The term emergent organizations (alternatively emergent organisations) first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference at University of Ghent, Belgium in May, 1999.
Emergent Viruses Emergent viruses is a concept based on the fact that through certain selection pressures, viruses can adapt and can emerge as a new disease/pathogenic strain with a new attribute facilitating its pathogenicity in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus. This includes viruses that are the cause of a disease which has notably increased in incidence; this is often a result of a wide variety of causes from both the influence of man and nature.
Emerging church movement The emerging or emergent church movement (US) is a controversial, 21st century Christian movement seeking to engage people, especially the unchurched, living in postmodern or postcolonial cultures. Proponents call the movement an emerging "conversation" to emphasize its developing and decentralized nature.
Emerging markets The term emerging markets is commonly used to describe business and market activity in industrializing or emerging regions of the world. Originally brought into fashion in the 1980s by then World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael,the term is sometimes loosely used as a replacement for emerging economies, but really signifies a business phenomenon that is not fully described by or constrained to geography or economic strength; such countries] are considered to be in a transitional phase between [[developing country|developing and developed status.
Emerging Market Debt Emerging Market Debt (EMD) is a term used to encompass bonds issued by less developed countries. It does not include borrowing from government, supranational organizations such as the IMF or private sources, though loans that are securitized and issued to the markets would be included.
Emerging nation Emerging nation is the term given to a large number of newly independent African, Middle Eastern, and Asian nations in the 1960s. These were on the whole socialist in their governmental makeup and were supported in varying degrees by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
Emerging Scholars Program The Emerging Scholars Program is a first-year honors program at The University of Texas at Austin, which offers separate calculus and chemistry courses for students who are majoring in the College of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Business, or Liberal Arts. The program, which began in the fall of 1978, provides students with a challenging but friendly environment to motivate them in these subjects.
Emerging technologies The expression emerging technologies is used to cover such new and potentially powerful technologies as genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, alternate energy and nanotechnology. Although the exact denotation of the expression is vague, various writers, including Bill Joy and Joel Garreau, have identified clusters of such technologies that they consider critical to humanity's future.
Emerging Technologies Conference The Emerging Technologies Conference, sponsored by MIT and its Technology Review magazine, is an annual conference highlighting invention and new developments in engineering and technology. Started in 2001, the latest conference was held on September 28 and 29, 2005 on MIT campus.
Emerging Technology Conference The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (not to be confused with the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference) is O'Reilly Media's premier conference about the new technologies that are on the O'Reilly Radar. O'Reilly defines its core business not as books, conferences, or online publishing, though it does all three, but as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
Emerging Virtual Institutions Emerging Virtual Institutions collectively include the future economic and community-based growth of virtual reality worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, the point where these spaces are no longer just a place for individuals to interact through computer-mediated reality, but instead become significant structures and mechanisms of social order and cooperation within the real-world. As demonstrated by Prof.
Emeric Jenei Emerich Jenei (or Emerich Ienei) (born March 22, 1937 in AgriĹź, near Arad, Romania) is a former Romanian football player and coach, now enjoying his retirement after a long and successful career. In May 1986 he won the European Cup as coach.
Emerich de Vattel Emer(Emerich) de Vattel (April 25, 1714 - December 28, 1767) was a Swiss philosopher, diplomat, and legal expert whose theories laid the foundation of modern international law and political philosophy. He was born in Couvet in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1714 and died in 1767 of edema.
Emerich Jenei Emerich Jenei, an ethnic Hungarian, his name being written Jenei Imre in Hungarian (born March 22, 1937 in AgriĹź, near Arad, Romania), is a former Romanian football player and coach, now enjoying his retirement after a long and successful career. In May 1986 he won the European Cup as coach.
Emeril and Elmo's Healthy Start Emeril and Elmo's Healthy Start was a special episode of the Food Network show Emeril Live, featuring Elmo and Emeril Lagasse, that aired November 4, 2005. Aired as part of the Food Network's second annual "Cook With Your Kids Week", the special was produced in conjunction with Sesame Workshop's Healthy Habits for Life program.
Emeril Lagasse Emeril John Lagasse (October 15 1959 - , Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry.
Emerin Emerin, together with MAN1, is a LEM domain-containing integral membrane protein of the nuclear envelope in vertebrates. The function of MAN1 is not extensively known, but emerin is known to interact with nuclear lamins, barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF), nesprin-1alpha , and a transcription repressor.
Emerita (genus) Emerita is a genus of clawless oval-shaped crustaceans found on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America. Emerita are popularly known as mole crabs, sand fleas, sand crabs, beach hoppers, or even more colloquially as lookie cookies.
Emeritus assisted living Emeritus Corporation () is a retirement home company based in Seattle, Washington. The company runs assisted living homes for people who may need some help with daily activities but don't need skilled nursing care (offered at a few of its properties).
Emerson C. Itschner Emerson Charles Itschner (July 1, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois–March 15, 1995) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1924 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He obtained a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University in 1926.
Emerson College Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," in Boston, Massachusetts. Emerson's main campus is located near the Boston Common, at the gateway to the Theatre District; it also maintains campuses in Los Angeles and the town of Well, Netherlands.
Emerson Crossing Emerson Crossing is the informal name given to the intersection of South Road, Cross Road and the Noarlunga railway line in Adelaide, South Australia. South Road crosses north-south over both Cross Road and the diagonal railway via a large bridge built in the early 1980s.
Emerson DeLacy Emerson Hugh DeLacy (9 May 1910-19 August 1986), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat.
Emerson Etheridge Emerson Etheridge was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 9th congressional district. He was born in Currituck, North Carolina on September 28, 1819.
Emerson Harrington Emerson Columbus Harrington (March 26, 1864 – December 15, 1945) was the 48th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1916 to 1920. He also served as Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1912 to 1916.
Emerson Hospital Emerson Hospital is a hospital located in Concord, Massachusetts, founded in 1911 on forty acres donated by Charles Emerson. As of 2006, it is a full-service, non-profit community hospital and acute care medical center with 177 bed, providing advanced medical services to over 300,000 individuals in 25 towns.
Emerson literary society The Emerson Literary Society began in 1882 in the town of Clinton, NY at Hamilton College. Six weeks before Ralph Waldo Emerson died, a group of students honored his life's work by beginning a non-secretive, non-selective society based on his American philosophy.
Emerson railway station, Adelaide Emerson railway station is a railway station on the Noarlunga railway line and Tonsley railway line, which is located in the inner southwestern Adelaide suburbs of Black Forest and Clarence Park. It is located 7.
Emerson Radio Emerson Radio Corporation, founded in 1948, is one of the United States’ largest volume consumer electronics distributors, with a recognized trademark in continuous use since 1912. The company designs and markets many product lines internationally, including video (including televisions, VCRs and DVD players), audio, microwave ovens, home theater, high end acoustics, office, mobile stereo, and wireless.
Emerson Records Emerson Records was a record label active in the United States of America between 1916 to 1928. Emerson Records produced between the 1910s and early 1920s offered generally above average audio fidelity for the era, pressed in high quality shellac.
Emerson Review The Emerson Review, founded in 1953 as The Scribe, is Emerson College's oldest student-run literary magazine. The book is published annually and is released each spring during a Release Event, which is open to the entire literary community of Boston.
Emerson School District The Emerson School District are a comprehensive community public school district that serves children in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Emerson, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Vice principal, Andrew Espinosa, was a contestant on Jeopardy!
Emerson String Quartet The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Formed in 1976, they have released more than 20 albums and won six Grammy Awards.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. It was released by Atlantic Records in October 1979 more as a contract-fulfilling album, since the band had broken up before then.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 and released on CD in 1997.
Emerson, Manitoba Emerson is a town in south central Manitoba, population 655. It is located on the east bank of the Red River, just north of the border with the United States at the point where Manitoba, Minnesota, and North Dakota meet.
Emersons Green Emersons Green is a residential area on the northern outskirts of Bristol, England. It was developed from farming land during the 1990s and early 21st century, and sits between the historic villages of Mangotsfield and Downend.
Emery (band) Emery is a post-hardcore rock band from Seattle, Washington that is stated on The Question Deluxe Edition DVD to be named after a first grader that the lead singer met in college. They were formed early on in South Carolina but moved to the West Coast in search of a better musical environment.
Emery (mineral) Emery is a very hard rock type used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide), mixed with other species such as the iron-bearing spinels hercynite and magnetite, and also rutile (titania).
Emery Go Round The Emery-Go-Round is a free bus service in Emeryville, California, near Oakland, California. It has two lines that run seven days a week, with more limited service on weekends, and no or reduced service on holidays.
Emery paper Emery paper is a type of paper that can be used for sanding down hard and rough surfaces. It can also be used for resistant technology purposes to give a smooth, shiny finish to manufactured products and is often used in the finishing of high-end watch movements.
Emery Roth Emery Roth (1871 – August 20, 1948) was an American architect who built many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details. Born in Gálszécs, Hungary (now Sečovce, Slovakia) he emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 after his family fell into poverty upon his father's death.
Emery Valentine Emery (or Emory) Valentine (1858 - September, 1930) was an Alaskan politician and the sixth mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1917 to 1919. He was also a miner, goldsmith, jeweller, assayer, gunsmith, watchmaker, architect, firefighter, and businessman.
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a condition that chiefly affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles) and heart (cardiac) muscle. Among the earliest features of this disorder are joint deformities called contractures, which restrict the movement of certain joints.
Emeryville (Amtrak station) The Emeryville Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Emeryville, California that replaced the older Amtrak 16th Street Station in Oakland. The original Beaux-Arts Oakland 16th Street Station was declared unsafe due to unreinforced masonry after sustaining damage in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.
Emeryville Shellmound The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil containing a high concentration of human food waste remains, including shellfish). It was one of a complex of five or six mounds along the mouth of the perennial Temescal Creek, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay between Oakland and Berkeley.
Emese Antal Emese Antal (born February 13, 1971 in Târgu-Mureş) is a former ice speed skater from Romania, who after her marriage with an Austrian became known as Emese Dörfler-Antal. She represented Austria in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1994 in Hamar, Norway.
Emesis basin An emesis basin is a shallow basin with a kidney-shaped footprint and sloping walls (hence its alternate name, the kidney basin). Various sizes of emesis basin are a common sight in healthcare settings, including also facilities such as nursing homes that may have bedridden patients.
Emeterio Cerro HĂ©ctor Medina, better known by his literary pen name as Emeterio Cerro (Balcarce, Argentina; December 3, 1952 - Buenos Aires, Argentina; December 12, 1996) was an Argentine poet, playwright and short fiction writer.
Emetophilia Emetophilia is a sexual fetish in which an individual is aroused by vomiting or observing others vomit. When emetophiles put emetophilia into practice by actually vomiting, especially on a partner, it is called a Roman shower, after the supposed frequent induction of vomiting at Roman feasts.
Emetophobia Emetophobia is the irrational fear of vomiting or of being around others who are vomiting. It is one of the specific phobias and the fifth most common phobia according to the International Emetophobia Society.
EmEditor EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. It is supported on Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows 2000 (all 32-bit and 64-bit).
Emi Wakui is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 1994 Best Actress award for her performance in Niji no hashi, and the 1992 awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer for her performance as Seiko Kawashima in Musuko
Emic and etic Emic and etic (also known as "nemic" and "netic" when used in an inter-cultural marketing context) are terms used by some in the social sciences and the behavioral sciences to refer to two different kinds of data concerning human behavior. An "emic" account of behavior is a description of behavior in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor.
Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate An "invited Session" symposium of the American Anthropological Association which took place at the Association's 87th Annual Meeting on November 19, 1988. The session was initiated, organized and chaired by Thomas N.
Emigrant Savings Bank Emigrant Savings Bank was founded in 1850 by 18 members of the Irish Emigrant Society and is the oldest savings bank in New York City. The bank was originally founded to serve the needs of the immigrant community in New York and has grown to be the largest privately owned bank in the country.
Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area is a state park located in central Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, approximately 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Pendleton. Located in old growth forest near the summit of the Blue Mountains along Interstate 84, the park was the location of a well-used campsite by emigrants along the Oregon Trail in the middle 19th century.
Emigrant Trail The Emigrant Trail is the name collectively applied to the network of wagon trails throughout the American West during the middle 19th century, used by emigrants from the eastern United States to settle lands west of Rocky Mountains. The term specifically applies to three interrelated routes: the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail.
Emigrant Wilderness The Emigrant Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest on the east, and California State Highway 108 on the north.
Emigrate Emigrate is the name of a band led by Richard Kruspe, the lead guitarist and co-founder of Rammstein. It began as a side-project of Kruspe's in 2005, when Rammstein decided to take some time off from touring and recording.
Emigration Canyon Emigration Canyon is a canyon and township east of Salt Lake City, Utah in the Wasatch Range. Beginning at the southern end of the University of Utah, Emigration Canyon heads east and northeast between Salt Lake and Morgan counties.
Emigre magazine Emigre () is a graphic design magazine published by Emigre Graphics between 1984 and 2005; it was first published in 1984 in San Francisco, California, USA. Art-directed by Dutch-born Rudy VanderLans using fonts designed by his wife, Czechoslovakian-born Zuzana Licko, Emigre was one of the first publications to use Macintosh computers and had a large influence on graphic designers moving into desktop publishing (DTP).
Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Chicago, Illinois that is currently under construction. Once completed, in late 2006, the arena will house the Chicago State University Cougars basketball teams.
Emil Beaulieau Emil Beaulieau (or more fully: “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist”) is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow.
Emil Boc Emil Boc (September 6, 1966, RÄchiĹŁele) was elected in June 2004 as the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania, Romania. Boc is also president of the Democratic Party of Romania, part of the Justice and Truth (DA) Alliance and the party of President Traian BÄsescu.
Emil Bose Emil Hermann Bose (1874-1911) German physicist, was the first teacher in the Physics Department at the University of La Plata, Argentina. He studied under Nernst and was recruited by the newly created university in Argentina, where he taught for two years until his untimely death from typhoid fever in 1911.
Emil Brown Emil Brown (born December 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional baseball player who currently plays outfield for the Kansas City Royals. Taken by the Oakland Athletics in the sixth round of the 1994 draft, Brown made his debut with the Pirates in 1997 in a limited role.
Emil Brunner Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian. Along with Karl Barth (see Relationship with Karl Barth), he is commonly associated with the neo-orthodoxy or dialectical theology movement.
Emil Corsillo Emil Corsillo (born August 6, 1979) is an American contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work consists of mostly paintings, drawings, and short videos and uses quasi-abstract, graphic urban imagery to convey dystopia or an apocalyptic future.
Emil Dechebal Matasareanu Emil Dechebal Matasareanu (July 19, 1966–February 28, 1997) is best known as one of two men who robbed a Bank of America in North Hollywood, California, on February 28, 1997. He was born in Romania and grew up in Altadena.
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (1841-1910) was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plausen (Saxony). He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent (1869) and professor (1871).
Emil Frommel Emil Frommel (1828-96) was a German theologian and author, born at Karlsruhe. He studied at Halle, Erlangen, and Heidelberg, held several pastorates, served as army chaplain in the Franco-German War of 1870-71 and in 1872 was appointed court preacher at Berlin and pastor of the garrison in that city.
Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award The Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award is an award made annually by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to "an individual or NGO that has made a unique contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel". The award was established in 1981 but was renamed in 1983 after the murder of activist Emil Grunzweig by a grenade thrown by a right-wing sympathizer during a Peace Now demonstration against the war in Lebanon.
Emil Haţieganu Emil Haţieganu (December 9, 1878—May 13, 1959) was a Romanian politician and jurist, a prominent member of the Romanian National Party (PNR) and of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNŢ); he was physician Iuliu Haţieganu's brother. Before his arrest, he was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
Emil Hácha Emil Hácha (July 12, 1872 – June 26, 1945) was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czechoslovakia, taking office in 1938, and the first and only State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Emil Hertzka Emil Hertzka (born Budapest, 3 August 1869, died Vienna, 9 May 1932) was an influential and pioneering music publisher who was responsible for printing and promoting some of the most important European musical works of the 20th century.
Emil Christensen Emil Pathric William Christensen (born 14 June 1984 in Stockholm), alias HeatoN, is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike player, currently playing as captain of the gaming team Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP). He is widely regarded as one the best Counter-Strike players in the world and is well known for his mastery of the "spray technique", which involves controlling the recoil of the gun by precise mouse movements rather than allowing the recoil to settle.
Emil J. Brach Emil J. Brach (born 1859 - died 1947), got his first major job in Chicago at a candy making company, where he eventually became a very high-income salesman, managing to save up $15,000 to invest in a candy manufacturing company...
Emil Jellinek Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 – 1 January 1918) was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ('DMG') between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach for the first 'modern' car.
Emil Kellenberger Emil Kellenberger (born April 3 1864) was a Swiss sports shooter who competed in the early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won three olympic medals, two gold medals in the Military Rifle 3 positions and team categories and a silver medal in the Military Rifle (kneeling).
Emil Knoevenagel Heinrich Emil Albert Knoevenagel (18 June 1865 – 11 August 1921) was the German chemist who established the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The Knoevenagel condensation reaction of benzaldehydes with nitroalkanes is a classic general method for the preparation of nitroalkenes, which are very valuable synthetic intermediates.
Emil Kolben Emil Kolben (November 1 1862 in StranÄŤice - September 3 1943 in concentration camp Theresienstadt) was an engineer and entrepreneur from Bohemia (Czech Republic). The large engineering company ÄŚKD bears his name.
Emil Kostadinov Emil Kostadinov () (born August 12, 1967 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He gained international prominence after scoring two goals in the last matchday of the European 1994 World Cup qualification, against the French national team.
Emil Lindenfeld Emil Lindenfeld (1905 – 1986) was a Hungarian-American oil-painter. He is best known for his vibrant choice of colors painting working people, idyllic pastoral landscapes, sensuous nudes, peasants on the field but, perhaps his most dramatic theme, the life of the miner.
Emil M. Mrak Emil Marcel Mrak, (October 27, 1901-April 9, 1987), was and an American food scientist and microbiologist who later became Chancellor of University of California, Davis from 1959 to 1969. He was recognized internationally for his work in food preservation and as a world authority on the biology of yeasts.
Emergency Response Guidebook The Emergency Response Guidebook is used by first responders, firefighters, police officers, and ambulance personnel when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials. It was first issued by the US Department of Transportation in 1973 and was most recently reissued in 2004 as a joint publication of the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Emergency shelter Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered women, victims of domestic violence in general, or victims of sexual abuse.
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, by Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain and Doctor Andrew Thomson, is the memoir of three young people who join the UN in Cambodia with a dream of making the world a better place. Set in the 1990s, the book was published in 2004.
Emergency Social Services Emergency Social Services (ESS) is a component of the Provincial Emergency Program of the Province of British Columbia. ESS are those services required to preserve the well-being of people affected by an emergency or disaster.
Emergency telephone An Emergency telephone is a phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services and are most often found in places of special danger or where it is likely that there will only be a need to make emergency calls.
Emergency telephone number Many countries' public telephone networks have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance. The emergency telephone number may differ from country to country.
Emergency Task Force A tactical unit of the Toronto Police Service to deal with high risk situations like gun calls, hostage taking, barricaded persons, emotionally disturbed persons, high risk arrest and protection details. The unit was created in 1965.
Emergency vehicle equipment In addition to all of the equipment that a non-emergency vehicle is fitted with (eg: headlights, steering wheel, windshield/windscreen), emergency vehicles are fitted with additional emergency vehicle equipment. This equipment falls into several categories:
Emergency warning system for vehicles Emergency Warning System for Vehicles Telematics technologies are self-orientating open network architecture structure of variable programmable intelligent beacons developed for application in the development of intelligent vehicles - with target intent to accord (blend, or mesh) warning information with surrounding vehicles in the vicinity of travel, intra-vehicle, and infrastructure. Emergency warning system for vehicles telematics particularly developed for international harmonisation and standardisation of vehicle-to-vehicle – infrastructure-to-vehicle – and vehicle-to-infrastructure real-time Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) systems.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, approved November 10, 1986, authorized the purchase of wetlands from Land and Water Conservation Fund monies, removing a prior prohibition on such acquisitions. It required the Secretary to establish a National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan, required the States to include wetlands in their Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans, and transferred to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund amounts equal to the import duties on arms and ammunition.
Emergenesis In psychology, a trait (or phenotype) is called emergenic if it is the result of a specific combination of several interacting genes (rather than of a simple sum of several independent genes). Emergenic traits will not run in families, but identical twins will share them.
Emergent democracy Emergent democracy refers to the Internet phenomenon change of the geopolitical landscape to increasingly reflect more democratic principles. It is used in the context of defining a political rift in the current world order between the interests of corporate-run business and the public, and to describe the new abilities of the public to organize with a newfound realistic capability of transcending the preexisting and established order.
Emergent evolution Emergent evolution is the philosophical doctrine that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as life and consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities.
Emergent materialism In the philosophy of mind, emergent (or emergentist) materialism is a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense, albeit not in the sense of being an ontological simple, and that the study of mental phenomena is independent of other sciences.
Emergent organisation The term emergent organizations (alternatively emergent organisations) first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference at University of Ghent, Belgium in May, 1999.
Emergent Viruses Emergent viruses is a concept based on the fact that through certain selection pressures, viruses can adapt and can emerge as a new disease/pathogenic strain with a new attribute facilitating its pathogenicity in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus. This includes viruses that are the cause of a disease which has notably increased in incidence; this is often a result of a wide variety of causes from both the influence of man and nature.
Emerging church movement The emerging or emergent church movement (US) is a controversial, 21st century Christian movement seeking to engage people, especially the unchurched, living in postmodern or postcolonial cultures. Proponents call the movement an emerging "conversation" to emphasize its developing and decentralized nature.
Emerging markets The term emerging markets is commonly used to describe business and market activity in industrializing or emerging regions of the world. Originally brought into fashion in the 1980s by then World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael,the term is sometimes loosely used as a replacement for emerging economies, but really signifies a business phenomenon that is not fully described by or constrained to geography or economic strength; such countries] are considered to be in a transitional phase between [[developing country|developing and developed status.
Emerging Market Debt Emerging Market Debt (EMD) is a term used to encompass bonds issued by less developed countries. It does not include borrowing from government, supranational organizations such as the IMF or private sources, though loans that are securitized and issued to the markets would be included.
Emerging nation Emerging nation is the term given to a large number of newly independent African, Middle Eastern, and Asian nations in the 1960s. These were on the whole socialist in their governmental makeup and were supported in varying degrees by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
Emerging Scholars Program The Emerging Scholars Program is a first-year honors program at The University of Texas at Austin, which offers separate calculus and chemistry courses for students who are majoring in the College of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Business, or Liberal Arts. The program, which began in the fall of 1978, provides students with a challenging but friendly environment to motivate them in these subjects.
Emerging technologies The expression emerging technologies is used to cover such new and potentially powerful technologies as genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, alternate energy and nanotechnology. Although the exact denotation of the expression is vague, various writers, including Bill Joy and Joel Garreau, have identified clusters of such technologies that they consider critical to humanity's future.
Emerging Technologies Conference The Emerging Technologies Conference, sponsored by MIT and its Technology Review magazine, is an annual conference highlighting invention and new developments in engineering and technology. Started in 2001, the latest conference was held on September 28 and 29, 2005 on MIT campus.
Emerging Technology Conference The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (not to be confused with the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference) is O'Reilly Media's premier conference about the new technologies that are on the O'Reilly Radar. O'Reilly defines its core business not as books, conferences, or online publishing, though it does all three, but as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
Emerging Virtual Institutions Emerging Virtual Institutions collectively include the future economic and community-based growth of virtual reality worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, the point where these spaces are no longer just a place for individuals to interact through computer-mediated reality, but instead become significant structures and mechanisms of social order and cooperation within the real-world. As demonstrated by Prof.
Emeric Jenei Emerich Jenei (or Emerich Ienei) (born March 22, 1937 in AgriĹź, near Arad, Romania) is a former Romanian football player and coach, now enjoying his retirement after a long and successful career. In May 1986 he won the European Cup as coach.
Emerich de Vattel Emer(Emerich) de Vattel (April 25, 1714 - December 28, 1767) was a Swiss philosopher, diplomat, and legal expert whose theories laid the foundation of modern international law and political philosophy. He was born in Couvet in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1714 and died in 1767 of edema.
Emerich Jenei Emerich Jenei, an ethnic Hungarian, his name being written Jenei Imre in Hungarian (born March 22, 1937 in AgriĹź, near Arad, Romania), is a former Romanian football player and coach, now enjoying his retirement after a long and successful career. In May 1986 he won the European Cup as coach.
Emeril and Elmo's Healthy Start Emeril and Elmo's Healthy Start was a special episode of the Food Network show Emeril Live, featuring Elmo and Emeril Lagasse, that aired November 4, 2005. Aired as part of the Food Network's second annual "Cook With Your Kids Week", the special was produced in conjunction with Sesame Workshop's Healthy Habits for Life program.
Emeril Lagasse Emeril John Lagasse (October 15 1959 - , Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry.
Emerin Emerin, together with MAN1, is a LEM domain-containing integral membrane protein of the nuclear envelope in vertebrates. The function of MAN1 is not extensively known, but emerin is known to interact with nuclear lamins, barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF), nesprin-1alpha , and a transcription repressor.
Emerita (genus) Emerita is a genus of clawless oval-shaped crustaceans found on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America. Emerita are popularly known as mole crabs, sand fleas, sand crabs, beach hoppers, or even more colloquially as lookie cookies.
Emeritus assisted living Emeritus Corporation () is a retirement home company based in Seattle, Washington. The company runs assisted living homes for people who may need some help with daily activities but don't need skilled nursing care (offered at a few of its properties).
Emerson C. Itschner Emerson Charles Itschner (July 1, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois–March 15, 1995) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1924 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He obtained a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University in 1926.
Emerson College Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," in Boston, Massachusetts. Emerson's main campus is located near the Boston Common, at the gateway to the Theatre District; it also maintains campuses in Los Angeles and the town of Well, Netherlands.
Emerson Crossing Emerson Crossing is the informal name given to the intersection of South Road, Cross Road and the Noarlunga railway line in Adelaide, South Australia. South Road crosses north-south over both Cross Road and the diagonal railway via a large bridge built in the early 1980s.
Emerson DeLacy Emerson Hugh DeLacy (9 May 1910-19 August 1986), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat.
Emerson Etheridge Emerson Etheridge was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 9th congressional district. He was born in Currituck, North Carolina on September 28, 1819.
Emerson Harrington Emerson Columbus Harrington (March 26, 1864 – December 15, 1945) was the 48th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1916 to 1920. He also served as Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1912 to 1916.
Emerson Hospital Emerson Hospital is a hospital located in Concord, Massachusetts, founded in 1911 on forty acres donated by Charles Emerson. As of 2006, it is a full-service, non-profit community hospital and acute care medical center with 177 bed, providing advanced medical services to over 300,000 individuals in 25 towns.
Emerson literary society The Emerson Literary Society began in 1882 in the town of Clinton, NY at Hamilton College. Six weeks before Ralph Waldo Emerson died, a group of students honored his life's work by beginning a non-secretive, non-selective society based on his American philosophy.
Emerson railway station, Adelaide Emerson railway station is a railway station on the Noarlunga railway line and Tonsley railway line, which is located in the inner southwestern Adelaide suburbs of Black Forest and Clarence Park. It is located 7.
Emerson Radio Emerson Radio Corporation, founded in 1948, is one of the United States’ largest volume consumer electronics distributors, with a recognized trademark in continuous use since 1912. The company designs and markets many product lines internationally, including video (including televisions, VCRs and DVD players), audio, microwave ovens, home theater, high end acoustics, office, mobile stereo, and wireless.
Emerson Records Emerson Records was a record label active in the United States of America between 1916 to 1928. Emerson Records produced between the 1910s and early 1920s offered generally above average audio fidelity for the era, pressed in high quality shellac.
Emerson Review The Emerson Review, founded in 1953 as The Scribe, is Emerson College's oldest student-run literary magazine. The book is published annually and is released each spring during a Release Event, which is open to the entire literary community of Boston.
Emerson School District The Emerson School District are a comprehensive community public school district that serves children in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Emerson, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Vice principal, Andrew Espinosa, was a contestant on Jeopardy!
Emerson String Quartet The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Formed in 1976, they have released more than 20 albums and won six Grammy Awards.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. It was released by Atlantic Records in October 1979 more as a contract-fulfilling album, since the band had broken up before then.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 and released on CD in 1997.
Emerson, Manitoba Emerson is a town in south central Manitoba, population 655. It is located on the east bank of the Red River, just north of the border with the United States at the point where Manitoba, Minnesota, and North Dakota meet.
Emersons Green Emersons Green is a residential area on the northern outskirts of Bristol, England. It was developed from farming land during the 1990s and early 21st century, and sits between the historic villages of Mangotsfield and Downend.
Emery (band) Emery is a post-hardcore rock band from Seattle, Washington that is stated on The Question Deluxe Edition DVD to be named after a first grader that the lead singer met in college. They were formed early on in South Carolina but moved to the West Coast in search of a better musical environment.
Emery (mineral) Emery is a very hard rock type used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide), mixed with other species such as the iron-bearing spinels hercynite and magnetite, and also rutile (titania).
Emery Go Round The Emery-Go-Round is a free bus service in Emeryville, California, near Oakland, California. It has two lines that run seven days a week, with more limited service on weekends, and no or reduced service on holidays.
Emery paper Emery paper is a type of paper that can be used for sanding down hard and rough surfaces. It can also be used for resistant technology purposes to give a smooth, shiny finish to manufactured products and is often used in the finishing of high-end watch movements.
Emery Roth Emery Roth (1871 – August 20, 1948) was an American architect who built many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details. Born in Gálszécs, Hungary (now Sečovce, Slovakia) he emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 after his family fell into poverty upon his father's death.
Emery Valentine Emery (or Emory) Valentine (1858 - September, 1930) was an Alaskan politician and the sixth mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1917 to 1919. He was also a miner, goldsmith, jeweller, assayer, gunsmith, watchmaker, architect, firefighter, and businessman.
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a condition that chiefly affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles) and heart (cardiac) muscle. Among the earliest features of this disorder are joint deformities called contractures, which restrict the movement of certain joints.
Emeryville (Amtrak station) The Emeryville Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Emeryville, California that replaced the older Amtrak 16th Street Station in Oakland. The original Beaux-Arts Oakland 16th Street Station was declared unsafe due to unreinforced masonry after sustaining damage in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.
Emeryville Shellmound The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil containing a high concentration of human food waste remains, including shellfish). It was one of a complex of five or six mounds along the mouth of the perennial Temescal Creek, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay between Oakland and Berkeley.
Emese Antal Emese Antal (born February 13, 1971 in Târgu-Mureş) is a former ice speed skater from Romania, who after her marriage with an Austrian became known as Emese Dörfler-Antal. She represented Austria in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1994 in Hamar, Norway.
Emesis basin An emesis basin is a shallow basin with a kidney-shaped footprint and sloping walls (hence its alternate name, the kidney basin). Various sizes of emesis basin are a common sight in healthcare settings, including also facilities such as nursing homes that may have bedridden patients.
Emeterio Cerro HĂ©ctor Medina, better known by his literary pen name as Emeterio Cerro (Balcarce, Argentina; December 3, 1952 - Buenos Aires, Argentina; December 12, 1996) was an Argentine poet, playwright and short fiction writer.
Emetophilia Emetophilia is a sexual fetish in which an individual is aroused by vomiting or observing others vomit. When emetophiles put emetophilia into practice by actually vomiting, especially on a partner, it is called a Roman shower, after the supposed frequent induction of vomiting at Roman feasts.
Emetophobia Emetophobia is the irrational fear of vomiting or of being around others who are vomiting. It is one of the specific phobias and the fifth most common phobia according to the International Emetophobia Society.
EmEditor EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. It is supported on Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows 2000 (all 32-bit and 64-bit).
Emi Wakui is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 1994 Best Actress award for her performance in Niji no hashi, and the 1992 awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer for her performance as Seiko Kawashima in Musuko
Emic and etic Emic and etic (also known as "nemic" and "netic" when used in an inter-cultural marketing context) are terms used by some in the social sciences and the behavioral sciences to refer to two different kinds of data concerning human behavior. An "emic" account of behavior is a description of behavior in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor.
Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate An "invited Session" symposium of the American Anthropological Association which took place at the Association's 87th Annual Meeting on November 19, 1988. The session was initiated, organized and chaired by Thomas N.
Emigrant Savings Bank Emigrant Savings Bank was founded in 1850 by 18 members of the Irish Emigrant Society and is the oldest savings bank in New York City. The bank was originally founded to serve the needs of the immigrant community in New York and has grown to be the largest privately owned bank in the country.
Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area is a state park located in central Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, approximately 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Pendleton. Located in old growth forest near the summit of the Blue Mountains along Interstate 84, the park was the location of a well-used campsite by emigrants along the Oregon Trail in the middle 19th century.
Emigrant Trail The Emigrant Trail is the name collectively applied to the network of wagon trails throughout the American West during the middle 19th century, used by emigrants from the eastern United States to settle lands west of Rocky Mountains. The term specifically applies to three interrelated routes: the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail.
Emigrant Wilderness The Emigrant Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest on the east, and California State Highway 108 on the north.
Emigrate Emigrate is the name of a band led by Richard Kruspe, the lead guitarist and co-founder of Rammstein. It began as a side-project of Kruspe's in 2005, when Rammstein decided to take some time off from touring and recording.
Emigration Canyon Emigration Canyon is a canyon and township east of Salt Lake City, Utah in the Wasatch Range. Beginning at the southern end of the University of Utah, Emigration Canyon heads east and northeast between Salt Lake and Morgan counties.
Emigre magazine Emigre () is a graphic design magazine published by Emigre Graphics between 1984 and 2005; it was first published in 1984 in San Francisco, California, USA. Art-directed by Dutch-born Rudy VanderLans using fonts designed by his wife, Czechoslovakian-born Zuzana Licko, Emigre was one of the first publications to use Macintosh computers and had a large influence on graphic designers moving into desktop publishing (DTP).
Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Chicago, Illinois that is currently under construction. Once completed, in late 2006, the arena will house the Chicago State University Cougars basketball teams.
Emil Beaulieau Emil Beaulieau (or more fully: “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist”) is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow.
Emil Boc Emil Boc (September 6, 1966, RÄchiĹŁele) was elected in June 2004 as the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania, Romania. Boc is also president of the Democratic Party of Romania, part of the Justice and Truth (DA) Alliance and the party of President Traian BÄsescu.
Emil Bose Emil Hermann Bose (1874-1911) German physicist, was the first teacher in the Physics Department at the University of La Plata, Argentina. He studied under Nernst and was recruited by the newly created university in Argentina, where he taught for two years until his untimely death from typhoid fever in 1911.
Emil Brown Emil Brown (born December 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional baseball player who currently plays outfield for the Kansas City Royals. Taken by the Oakland Athletics in the sixth round of the 1994 draft, Brown made his debut with the Pirates in 1997 in a limited role.
Emil Brunner Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian. Along with Karl Barth (see Relationship with Karl Barth), he is commonly associated with the neo-orthodoxy or dialectical theology movement.
Emil Corsillo Emil Corsillo (born August 6, 1979) is an American contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work consists of mostly paintings, drawings, and short videos and uses quasi-abstract, graphic urban imagery to convey dystopia or an apocalyptic future.
Emil Dechebal Matasareanu Emil Dechebal Matasareanu (July 19, 1966–February 28, 1997) is best known as one of two men who robbed a Bank of America in North Hollywood, California, on February 28, 1997. He was born in Romania and grew up in Altadena.
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (1841-1910) was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plausen (Saxony). He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent (1869) and professor (1871).
Emil Frommel Emil Frommel (1828-96) was a German theologian and author, born at Karlsruhe. He studied at Halle, Erlangen, and Heidelberg, held several pastorates, served as army chaplain in the Franco-German War of 1870-71 and in 1872 was appointed court preacher at Berlin and pastor of the garrison in that city.
Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award The Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award is an award made annually by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to "an individual or NGO that has made a unique contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel". The award was established in 1981 but was renamed in 1983 after the murder of activist Emil Grunzweig by a grenade thrown by a right-wing sympathizer during a Peace Now demonstration against the war in Lebanon.
Emil Haţieganu Emil Haţieganu (December 9, 1878—May 13, 1959) was a Romanian politician and jurist, a prominent member of the Romanian National Party (PNR) and of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNŢ); he was physician Iuliu Haţieganu's brother. Before his arrest, he was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
Emil Hácha Emil Hácha (July 12, 1872 – June 26, 1945) was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czechoslovakia, taking office in 1938, and the first and only State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Emil Hertzka Emil Hertzka (born Budapest, 3 August 1869, died Vienna, 9 May 1932) was an influential and pioneering music publisher who was responsible for printing and promoting some of the most important European musical works of the 20th century.
Emil Christensen Emil Pathric William Christensen (born 14 June 1984 in Stockholm), alias HeatoN, is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike player, currently playing as captain of the gaming team Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP). He is widely regarded as one the best Counter-Strike players in the world and is well known for his mastery of the "spray technique", which involves controlling the recoil of the gun by precise mouse movements rather than allowing the recoil to settle.
Emil J. Brach Emil J. Brach (born 1859 - died 1947), got his first major job in Chicago at a candy making company, where he eventually became a very high-income salesman, managing to save up $15,000 to invest in a candy manufacturing company...
Emil Jellinek Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 – 1 January 1918) was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ('DMG') between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach for the first 'modern' car.
Emil Kellenberger Emil Kellenberger (born April 3 1864) was a Swiss sports shooter who competed in the early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won three olympic medals, two gold medals in the Military Rifle 3 positions and team categories and a silver medal in the Military Rifle (kneeling).
Emil Knoevenagel Heinrich Emil Albert Knoevenagel (18 June 1865 – 11 August 1921) was the German chemist who established the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The Knoevenagel condensation reaction of benzaldehydes with nitroalkanes is a classic general method for the preparation of nitroalkenes, which are very valuable synthetic intermediates.
Emil Kolben Emil Kolben (November 1 1862 in StranÄŤice - September 3 1943 in concentration camp Theresienstadt) was an engineer and entrepreneur from Bohemia (Czech Republic). The large engineering company ÄŚKD bears his name.
Emil Kostadinov Emil Kostadinov () (born August 12, 1967 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He gained international prominence after scoring two goals in the last matchday of the European 1994 World Cup qualification, against the French national team.
Emil Lindenfeld Emil Lindenfeld (1905 – 1986) was a Hungarian-American oil-painter. He is best known for his vibrant choice of colors painting working people, idyllic pastoral landscapes, sensuous nudes, peasants on the field but, perhaps his most dramatic theme, the life of the miner.
Emil M. Mrak Emil Marcel Mrak, (October 27, 1901-April 9, 1987), was and an American food scientist and microbiologist who later became Chancellor of University of California, Davis from 1959 to 1969. He was recognized internationally for his work in food preservation and as a world authority on the biology of yeasts.
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