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Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster (1731-1814), known before 1747 as The Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766 as The Marchioness of Kildare, was the second of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and 2nd Duke of Lennox, and illegitimately descended from King Charles II of England.
Emily Fitzroy Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860, London - 3 March 1954, Gardena, California, USA) was a British American film actress. She made her film debut in 1915 and retired in 1944 notching up exactly 100 films to her resume.
Emily Gerard Emily Gerard was a nineteenth century author best known for the influence her collections of Transylvania folklore had on Bram Stoker and his creation of Dracula. She was born 7 May 1849 in Scotland and died 11 Jan 1905.
Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American weirdwriter, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Emily Hahn Emily Hahn (January 14, 1905 - February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author. Called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 52 books, and more than 180 articles and stories.
Emily Hancock Emily Hancock was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Isabella Oldham. She first appeared in a guest role along with her brother, Leo in 2000 and then reappered in 2001 when their family moved into 32 Ramsay Street until 2002.
Emily Hancock Siedeberg Emily Hancock Siedeberg (February 17, 1873 - June 13, 1968) was New Zealand's first female medical graduate. She attended Otago Girls' High School in Dunedin; the school's science building is named in her honour.
Emily Harris (SLA) Emily Harris, born Emily Montague, was, along with her husband William Harris, a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a leftist United States group involved in bank robberies, kidnapping and murder.
Emily Helen Butterfield Emily Helen Butterfield (1884 - March 22 1958) was a pioneer in the Michigan women's movement. She was Michigan's first licensed female architect, one of the founders of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, active in Greek life, and a founding member of the Detroit Business Women's Club, the first professional women's club in the nation.
Emily Hobhouse Emily Hobhouse (April 9, 1860—June 8, 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for shedding light on the bad conditions inside the British concentration camps built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.
Emily Howard Emily Howard (Born Eddie Howard, 1962 [According to the stage show prgramme guide]) is a fictional character in the cult BBC TV and Radio Show Little Britain, played by David Walliams. His catchphrase is "'I am a laaaady".
Emily Chang Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer.
Emily J. Miller Emily J. Miller is a press aide 1 who controversially ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell from Jordan on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert on May 16 2004.
Emily Joyce Emily Joyce (born 1970) is a television actress in Britain. She co-starred in the British comedy series My Hero, playing the character of Janet Dawkins, the wife of the superhero Thermoman (originally played by Ardal O'Hanlon, but now by James Dreyfus), whose assigned earth name is George Sunday.
Emily Kapnek Emily Kapnek is an actress, producer and three time Emmy nominated writer. She created the animated program As Told by Ginger] and executive produced the short-lived television series [[Emily's Reasons Why Not.
Emily Kngwarreye Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-3 September 1996), Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. The combined monetary value of her works are more than those of any other Australian Aboriginal artist.
Emily Kuroda Emily Kuroda is best known for her work on TV's Gilmore Girls, but she has had a long career on stage and screen and is a veteran of East West Players, Los Angeles' premier Asian-American theater group. She began acting and directing in high school and majored in drama at college before launching her career on stage and screen.
Emily Naylor Emily Naylor (born December 23, 1985 in Palmerston North) is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who was selected to attend an Olympic Qualifying training camp in late 2003 after performing well for the New Zealand Under 18 Team. Not only did she make the squad for the Olympic Hockey Qualifier, but was subsequently picked for the 2004 Summer Olympics team at the age of eighteen.
Emily of New Moon (TV series) Emily of New Moon was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Emily O'Leary Emily O'Leary ((née Shadwick) was a fictional character in the defunct Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. She was portrayed by Jennifer Ellison from 1998 until the character's death in 2003 after spending four months in a coma caused by a fall from a window while trying to flee her home during the Brookside siege of 2002.
Emily Pidgeon In athletics, Emily Pidgeon (born 1990 in Gloucestershire, England) is the current 3000 metres European Junior Champion. In December 2006, Pidgeon was in the victorius junior female team at the European Cross-Country Championships.
Emily Picha Emily Picha (born August 14, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter currently residing in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in the US, Germany, and Denmark in the course of her songwriting years, playing together with musicians such as Götz Widmann, Rüdiger Bierhorst, John Craigie, Carsten Schollmann, and Krista Herring.
Emily Pitkin Perkins Emily Pitkin (Perkins) Baldwin was the wife of Connecticut Governor & US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin, maternal aunt of Edward Everett Hale, and the mother Connecticut Governor Simeon Eben Baldwin. She was the daughter of Enoch Perkins and Anna (Pitkin) Perkins.
Emily Remler Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of bop, jazz standards and fusion guitar before dying of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.
Emily Rios Emily Rios (born April 27, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) is a Mexican American actress and model, reared as a Jehovah's Witness in the city of El Monte. She was discovered while shopping in an area shopping mall.
Emily Rix Emily Rix (born February 28, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a field hockey player from Canada, who was selected in the Junior Women's National Team for the 1999 National Camp and series against The United States Junior Team. Rix is a one-time resident of Vancouver, BC, and usually played midfield.
Emily Roeske Emily Roeske (born on July 15, 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is best known for her role as Sophie Piper-Cromwell in the first three Disney Channel Original Movies, Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, and a small role in Halloweentown High. Also she was karate girl in 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountainand Alicia in Fell's Redeemer [http://imdb.
Emily Rosa Emily Rosa, an American from Loveland, Colorado, is the youngest person ever (at 11 years old) to have a research paper accepted in a peer-reviewed medical journal -- the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Emily Saliers Emily Saliers (born July 22, 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, and many other instruments.
Emily Short Emily Short is the pseudonym of an interactive fiction (IF) writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters. She has been called "one of the most renowned authors in the IF community" and is the author of over fifteen works of IF in addition to being chief editor of the [http://www.
Emily Tyndall Emily Tyndall is an American actress and dancer from Utah, who made her acting debut in Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, under her maiden name Emily Kennard. She changed her name to Tyndall due to her marriage to Spencer Tyndall on July 17 2004.
Emily VanCamp Emily Peyton VanCamp (born May 12, 1986 in Port Perry, Ontario) is a Canadian actress of Flemish descent. She is best known for her role as Amy Abbott on the WB Network series Everwood, which ran from 2002 to 2006.
Emily Warren Roebling Emily Warren Roebling (1843 – 1903) was born to Phoebe Lickley and Sylvanus Warren, in the village of Cold Spring, New York, on the eastern shore of the Hudson River. She would later become the daughter-in-law of John A.
Emily West Morgan Emily West Morgan (also known as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and Emily of Morgan's Point) (1815?–1891) was an indentured servant remembered for stories of her heroism during Texas's war of independence from Mexico.
Emily Wheaton Emily Wheaton (born 5 December, 1987) is an Australian actress who played Sharon "Shazza" Cox in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2005. She also appeared in the children's TV Show Noah and Saskia, and also appeared twice in hit TV show Blue Heelers as Shayleen Burke.
Emily Wu Emily Wu (巫一毛 Wu Yimao), born 1958, Beijing, is a Chinese-American writer whose short stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and in an anthology of poetry and prose. She came to the US in 1981 and has a BA in English from Notre Dame de de Namur University in Belmont, California, and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Emily Zurrer Emily Zurrer (1987 in Crofton, British Columbia) is a Canadian soccer player considered to be one of the premier female soccer players in the country. She plays for the Canadian national women's team, notably at the 2002 FIFA U-19 World Championships and the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003.
Emin Pasha Mehmet Emin Pasha (March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892), born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized (c. 1847) Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a physician, naturalist and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was the last major European expedition into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition came to be both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing "darkest Africa", and notorious, for the bloodshed and death left in its wake.
Emina Jahović Emina Jahović (Емина Đаховић, born January 15, 1982, in Novi Pazar, Serbia) is a popular Serbian and Bosnian pop singer. Emina comes from the majority-Bosniak SandĹľak region and is herself ethnically a Bosniak.
Emine Bozkurt Emine Bozkurt (born 9 August 1967 in Zaandam, North Holland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Eminent Technology [Technology was established in 1983 by Bruce Thigpen to create innovative] products in the audio field. Eminent Technology's first product was an [[air bearing straight line tracking tonearm for phonograph playback.
Eminent Victorians Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, the oldest member of the Bloomsbury Group first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine.
Emir Emir (Arabic: ; , "commander" or "general", later also "prince"; also transliterated as amir or ameer) is a high title of nobility or office, historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Turkic world, among others.
Emir Işılay Emir Isilay is a Turkish Jazz and Film Composer as well as a pianist/keyboardist. As a graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, he has worked as a music arranger/orchestrator/engineer on projects including “Boomtown” NBC, “Eyes” ABC TV Series, and “Soul Plane” MGM Feature Film He also wrote additional music for the WB TV Series Aaron Spelling production “Summerland” for the 1st and 2nd seasons (26 Episodes) and Lifetime Television feature production “Murder on Pleasant Drive”.
Emir Kusturica Nemanja Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Емир ĐšŃŃŃ‚Ńрица; IPA: ) (born November 24, 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia). With an impressive string of internationally acclaimed features, Kusturica is seen as one of the most creative directors in cinema during the 1980s and '90s.
Emir Rodriguez Monegal Emir Rodriguez Monegal (July 28 1921 in Melo, Uruguay – November 14 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a literary critic, an editor of Latin American literature, and a professor at the Yale University since 1969<REF>Necrological notice of ERM, New York Times, November 19 1985</REF>. Especially with his editorial guidance of Mundo Nuevo, he was a part of the mid 20th century boom in Spanish American literature that led to many Latin American writers being published outside of their home countries and gaining critical recognition.
Emirate of Badajoz The Emirate of Badajoz was a small Muslim kingdom centred on the city of Badajoz which exists today as the second city of Extremadura, Spain. It rose, like the other taifa kingdoms of Spain, after the fragmentation of Al-Andalus in the late 900s and early 1000s.
Emirate of Dhala Dhala ( []), Amiri ( []), or the Emirate of Dhala ( []) was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Dhala (Ad Dali').
Emirate of Sicily The Emirate of Sicily was a Muslim state from 948 to 1072. Authority in Sicily had been vested in emirs installed from what is present day Tunisia since 827, the island then gained the status of emirate in 948 with the kalbid dynasty.
Emirate of Tbilisi The Emirs of Tbilisi ruled over the parts of today’s eastern Georgia from their base in the city of Tbilisi, from 736 to 1080 (nominally to 1122). Established by the Arabs during their invasions of Georgian lands, the emirate was an important outpost of the Muslim rule in the Caucasus until recaptured by the Georgians under King David IV in 1122.
Emirates Airline Emirates Airline (shortened form: Emirates) (Arabic: الإمارات al-ImÄrÄt) is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates owned by The Emirates Group. It operates services to the Middle East, Far East, Europe, Africa, Indian subcontinent, Asia-Pacific and North America.
Emirates Hills Emirates Hills is a gated community developed by Emaar Properties PJSC Dubai. While Emaar pioneered the idea of freehold property in Dubai, this is the only project of Emaar where land was sold per square foot to individuals to build the house of their choice.
Emirates Hotel The Emirates Hotel is a proposed skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The design for the 350 metre (1148 foot) tall tower has been approved and when completed in 2008, it will have 70 floors.
Emirates Office Tower The Emirates Office Tower, also referred to as Emirates Tower One is a 54-floor office building in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Connected with 56-floor Emirates Towers Hotel by a retail boulevard they form what is commonly referred to as the Emirates Towers complex.
Emirates Palace The Emirates Palace is a luxury hotel located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Abu Dhabi. The hotel was built by and is owned by the Abu Dhabi government, and is currently managed by the Kempinski Group.
Emirates Scout Association The Emirates Scout Association () is the national Scouting organization of the United Arab Emirates. Scouting was founded in the United Arab Emirates in 1972 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1977.
Emirates Towers The Emirates Towers complex contains the Emirates Office Tower and Emirates Towers Hotel skyscrapers, respectively the 12th (355m) and the 27th (309m) tallest currently-standing structures in the world, and a 9,000 m² (96,875 ft²) two story retail complex known as The Boulevard connecting the two towers. The complex is located on the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Emirsultan Camii Emir Sultan also known as Ĺžemseddin Mehmed Ali el-HĂĽseyin el Buhari, a dervish and scholar from Bukhara was the adviser and son-in-law of Ottoman Sultan, Bayezid I , . The present mosque bearing his epithet, Emirsultan was built in 1804 in Bursa city upon the orders of Selim III, after the collapse of the original fourteenth century monument in the 1766 earthquake.
Emis Forame To Himona Anixiatika Emis Forame To Himona Anixiatika (Greek script Εμείς φοĎάμε Ď„Îż χειμώνα ανοιξιάτικα, English translation: "We Wear Spring Clothes In Winter Time") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, performed in Greek by Mariana Efstratiou.
Emishi The name Emishi (蝦夷, pre-7th century 毛人) was used by the Japanese to designate people who lived in northeastern Japan corresponding to the present-day Tohoku region, known in contemporary sources as michi no oku, who opposed and resisted the rule of the Japanese Emperors during the late Nara and early Heian periods (7th–10th centuries A.D.
Emissary (hydraulics) An emissary (Latin emissarium, from ex and mittere, to send out) is a channel, natural or artificial, by which an outlet is formed to carry off any stagnant body of water. Such channels may be either open or underground; but the most remarkable works of the kind are of the latter description, as they carry off the waters of lakes surrounded by hills.
Emissary of the Void Emissaries of the Void is the tenth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy. It is a six-part magazine serial by Greg Keyes that was originally published in issues 8 through 10 of Star Wars Gamer and continued in issues 62 through 64 of Star Wars Insider.
Emissary veins The emissary veins are valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull. However, because they are valveless, blood can flow into the skull through them as well, making them a possible route for transmission of extracranial infection to get into the skull.
Emission (electromagnetic radiation) In physics, emission is the process by which the energy of a photon is released by another entity, for example, by an atom whose electrons make a transition between two electronic energy levels. The photon is created in the process.
Emission coefficient Emission coefficient is a coefficient in the power output per unit time of an electromagnetic source, a calculated value in physics. It is also used as a measure of environmental emissions (by mass) per MWh of electricity generated, see: Emission factor.
Emission factor An emission factor can be defined as the average emission rate of a given pollutant for a given source, relative to units of activity. Emission factors can be used to derive estimates of gas emissions (for instance, greenhouse gas emissions) based on the amount of fuel combusted or on industrial production levels.
Emission spectroscopy Emission spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique which examines the discrete photon emissions as electromagnetic spectra radiated by some given element. The element first absorbs energy elevating electrons to higher energies, then radiates this energy as characteristic emissions (photons of a particular wavelength) as the electrons drop back to lower energy levels.
Emission standard Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment. Many emission standards focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles and other transport vehicles, but they can also regulate emissions from industry, power plants, small equipment such as lawn mowers and diesel generators.
Emission test cycle An Emission test cycle is a specified procedure for measuring pollutant emissions of engines. For emission measurements to be comparable for different engines in a category, the measurements are performed under a specific operating pattern, or 'test cycle' of alternating high, medium, and low engine load.
Emissions trading Emissions trading (or cap and trade) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants In such a plan, a central authority (usually a government agency]) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups that emit the pollutant are given credits or allowances which represent the right to emit a specific amount.
Emissivity The emissivity of a material (usually written epsilon) is the ratio of energy radiated by the material to energy radiated by a black body at the same temperature. It is a measure of a material's ability to absorb and radiate energy.
Emitt Rhodes Emitt Rhodes, an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born February 25, 1950 in Hawthorne, California. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," Emitt Rhodes' recordings show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicanship.
Emjae Emjae (real name Matt Johnson), is a dance music producer, remixer and DJ originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Emjae moved North to Boston, Massachusetts where he graduated from Berklee College of Music focusing on musical production.
Emjay Emjay , Emjay = MJ = her name, Marie-Josée Riel, is a dance music artist of French-Canadian origin. She originates from Rockland, which is just outside of Ottawa, Ontario and had a series of dance hits throughout the 1990s.
Emly Emly is a village in County Tipperary, in the Republic of Ireland and is situated on the R515 Regional Road which goes west from Tipperary Town to Abbeyfeale, County Limerick. Emly lies 14km west of Tipperary Town and had a population of 278 in the 2002 census (the parish has a population of about 1,000 as it includes the surrounding countryside).
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (EHIS) is a football (soccer) computer game first released in 1988 by Audiogenic Software Ltd. It debuted on Commodore 64, but versions were also created for Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga as part of Audiogenic's general cross-platform strategy.
Emlyn Williams George Emlyn Williams CBE (26 November, 1905–25 September, 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor. He was born into a Welsh-speaking, working-class family in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales.
Emma Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled.
Emma (1932 film) Marie Dressler starred in this Clarence Brown directed 1932 film about a mature woman who selflessly and lovingly raises a widower's children, giving them constant care and attention as they grow into heedless and spoilt young adults. Their aging father goes on a vacation for his health, and she goes along to look after him (It's her first vacation in many years) and on the trip he proposes marriage- which she accepts.
Emma Amos Emma Amos (born 18 August 1967 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English actress best known for playing Yvonne Sparrow in the last three series of time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst. She replaced original actress Michelle Holmes who held the role from 1993-1996.
Emma biggs Emma Biggs is a London-based mosaicist and fine artist. She paints abstract paintings collaboratively with her husband Matthew Collings dealing with subtle colour relationships, and she is currently engaged in a large public mosaic project - Made in England.
Emma Beard Emma Soraya Beard (born in Northampton, England; October 16, 1983) is a singer with British pop group Clea. She went to school in Northampton at Mereway Upper School (now Mereway Community College) and has a twin sister named Sarah.
Emma Bonino Emma Bonino (born March 9 1948 in Bra), is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Parliament for the Rose in the Fist. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.
Emma Bull Emma Bull (born 3 January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder.
Emma Curtis Hopkins Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925) was a New Thought faith healer, theologian, teacher, writer, and feminist who actively ordained women for ministerial positions through her theological seminary, which came to be known as the Theological Seminary of Chicago. Emma Curtis Hopkins was called the "teacher of teachers" because a number of her students went on to found their own churches or to become prominent in the New Thought Movement.
Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (November 11, 1863–October 22, 1938) was an American writer, and author of the novel Four Girls At Cottage City (1895). An earlier novel, Megda (1891) was published under her maiden name of Emma Dunham Kelley.
Emma Eckstein Emma Eckstein (1865 - 1924) was an early patient of Sigmund Freud who underwent disastrous nasal surgery, undertaken by Freud's friend and confidant, Wilhelm Fliess. She came from a prominent socialist family and was active in the Viennese women's movement.
Emma Frost Emma GraceUncanny X-Men #310 Frost, also known as the White Queen, is a fictional character appearing in the . Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).
Emma Gilham Page Emma Hayden (née Gilham) Page (born 1855) was the wife of William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist, who is best known as a coal mine manager, as the co founder of the Virginian Railway, and as the namesake for the West Virginia unincorporated towns of Page in Fayette County and Pageton in McDowell County.
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27 1869 – May 14 1940) aka 'Red Emma', was a Kaunas, Lithuania-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics.
Emma Harriet Joseph Emma Harriet Joseph was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) who was employed in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. She was the sister of Julius Joseph who, together with his wife, Bella Joseph worked for NKVD, Soviet intelligence, while also working for the OSS.
Emma Holly Emma Holly is an American author born in New Jersey and raised in Baltimore who specializes in writing romance and erotica, often with a focus on BDSM. She has written over twenty books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.
Emma Johnson (swimmer) Emma Johnson (born February 24 1980 in Sydney) was an Australian freestyle and medley swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of just 16 (whilst attending the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney as a boarder).
Emma Jung Emma Jung (née Emma Rauschenbach, 1882-1955) was wife to the famous psychologist Carl Jung for fifty two years. She came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists; later, that wealth gave Carl financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests.
Emma Lee French Emma Louise Batchelor Lee French (April 21, 1836 - November 16, 1897), better known as Emma Lee French, was a British woman who travelled to Utah and Arizona, in the United States, where she became well known as a care taker of the sick.
Emma Lehmer Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) is known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory.
Emma Livry Emma Livry (September 24 1842 – July 26 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era, and a protégée of Marie Taglioni. She perished from burn injuries when her costume caught fire during a performance rehearsal.
Emma Lucy Braun Emma Lucy Braun (1889-1971) was an American botanist and ecologist, whose commitment to conservation led to the eventual preservation of over 10,000 acres in Ohio. Much of this land was carefully studied by Braun and her students, and the plant life cataloged for posterity.
Emma Maree Urquhart Emma Maree Urquhart, born 1991, from Inverness, United Kingdom, is an author. At the age of 13, her first published book, Dragon Tamers, achieved success, requiring a print run of 50,000 copies to be printed after this first run of 1,000 sold out in a few weeks.
Emily Fitzroy Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860, London - 3 March 1954, Gardena, California, USA) was a British American film actress. She made her film debut in 1915 and retired in 1944 notching up exactly 100 films to her resume.
Emily Gerard Emily Gerard was a nineteenth century author best known for the influence her collections of Transylvania folklore had on Bram Stoker and his creation of Dracula. She was born 7 May 1849 in Scotland and died 11 Jan 1905.
Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American weirdwriter, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Emily Hahn Emily Hahn (January 14, 1905 - February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author. Called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 52 books, and more than 180 articles and stories.
Emily Hancock Emily Hancock was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Isabella Oldham. She first appeared in a guest role along with her brother, Leo in 2000 and then reappered in 2001 when their family moved into 32 Ramsay Street until 2002.
Emily Hancock Siedeberg Emily Hancock Siedeberg (February 17, 1873 - June 13, 1968) was New Zealand's first female medical graduate. She attended Otago Girls' High School in Dunedin; the school's science building is named in her honour.
Emily Harris (SLA) Emily Harris, born Emily Montague, was, along with her husband William Harris, a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a leftist United States group involved in bank robberies, kidnapping and murder.
Emily Helen Butterfield Emily Helen Butterfield (1884 - March 22 1958) was a pioneer in the Michigan women's movement. She was Michigan's first licensed female architect, one of the founders of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, active in Greek life, and a founding member of the Detroit Business Women's Club, the first professional women's club in the nation.
Emily Hobhouse Emily Hobhouse (April 9, 1860—June 8, 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for shedding light on the bad conditions inside the British concentration camps built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.
Emily Howard Emily Howard (Born Eddie Howard, 1962 [According to the stage show prgramme guide]) is a fictional character in the cult BBC TV and Radio Show Little Britain, played by David Walliams. His catchphrase is "'I am a laaaady".
Emily Chang Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer.
Emily J. Miller Emily J. Miller is a press aide 1 who controversially ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell from Jordan on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert on May 16 2004.
Emily Joyce Emily Joyce (born 1970) is a television actress in Britain. She co-starred in the British comedy series My Hero, playing the character of Janet Dawkins, the wife of the superhero Thermoman (originally played by Ardal O'Hanlon, but now by James Dreyfus), whose assigned earth name is George Sunday.
Emily Kapnek Emily Kapnek is an actress, producer and three time Emmy nominated writer. She created the animated program As Told by Ginger] and executive produced the short-lived television series [[Emily's Reasons Why Not.
Emily Kngwarreye Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-3 September 1996), Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. The combined monetary value of her works are more than those of any other Australian Aboriginal artist.
Emily Kuroda Emily Kuroda is best known for her work on TV's Gilmore Girls, but she has had a long career on stage and screen and is a veteran of East West Players, Los Angeles' premier Asian-American theater group. She began acting and directing in high school and majored in drama at college before launching her career on stage and screen.
Emily Naylor Emily Naylor (born December 23, 1985 in Palmerston North) is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who was selected to attend an Olympic Qualifying training camp in late 2003 after performing well for the New Zealand Under 18 Team. Not only did she make the squad for the Olympic Hockey Qualifier, but was subsequently picked for the 2004 Summer Olympics team at the age of eighteen.
Emily of New Moon (TV series) Emily of New Moon was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Emily O'Leary Emily O'Leary ((née Shadwick) was a fictional character in the defunct Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. She was portrayed by Jennifer Ellison from 1998 until the character's death in 2003 after spending four months in a coma caused by a fall from a window while trying to flee her home during the Brookside siege of 2002.
Emily Pidgeon In athletics, Emily Pidgeon (born 1990 in Gloucestershire, England) is the current 3000 metres European Junior Champion. In December 2006, Pidgeon was in the victorius junior female team at the European Cross-Country Championships.
Emily Picha Emily Picha (born August 14, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter currently residing in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in the US, Germany, and Denmark in the course of her songwriting years, playing together with musicians such as Götz Widmann, Rüdiger Bierhorst, John Craigie, Carsten Schollmann, and Krista Herring.
Emily Pitkin Perkins Emily Pitkin (Perkins) Baldwin was the wife of Connecticut Governor & US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin, maternal aunt of Edward Everett Hale, and the mother Connecticut Governor Simeon Eben Baldwin. She was the daughter of Enoch Perkins and Anna (Pitkin) Perkins.
Emily Remler Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of bop, jazz standards and fusion guitar before dying of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.
Emily Rios Emily Rios (born April 27, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) is a Mexican American actress and model, reared as a Jehovah's Witness in the city of El Monte. She was discovered while shopping in an area shopping mall.
Emily Rix Emily Rix (born February 28, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a field hockey player from Canada, who was selected in the Junior Women's National Team for the 1999 National Camp and series against The United States Junior Team. Rix is a one-time resident of Vancouver, BC, and usually played midfield.
Emily Roeske Emily Roeske (born on July 15, 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is best known for her role as Sophie Piper-Cromwell in the first three Disney Channel Original Movies, Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, and a small role in Halloweentown High. Also she was karate girl in 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountainand Alicia in Fell's Redeemer [http://imdb.
Emily Rosa Emily Rosa, an American from Loveland, Colorado, is the youngest person ever (at 11 years old) to have a research paper accepted in a peer-reviewed medical journal -- the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Emily Saliers Emily Saliers (born July 22, 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, and many other instruments.
Emily Short Emily Short is the pseudonym of an interactive fiction (IF) writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters. She has been called "one of the most renowned authors in the IF community" and is the author of over fifteen works of IF in addition to being chief editor of the [http://www.
Emily Tyndall Emily Tyndall is an American actress and dancer from Utah, who made her acting debut in Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, under her maiden name Emily Kennard. She changed her name to Tyndall due to her marriage to Spencer Tyndall on July 17 2004.
Emily VanCamp Emily Peyton VanCamp (born May 12, 1986 in Port Perry, Ontario) is a Canadian actress of Flemish descent. She is best known for her role as Amy Abbott on the WB Network series Everwood, which ran from 2002 to 2006.
Emily Warren Roebling Emily Warren Roebling (1843 – 1903) was born to Phoebe Lickley and Sylvanus Warren, in the village of Cold Spring, New York, on the eastern shore of the Hudson River. She would later become the daughter-in-law of John A.
Emily West Morgan Emily West Morgan (also known as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and Emily of Morgan's Point) (1815?–1891) was an indentured servant remembered for stories of her heroism during Texas's war of independence from Mexico.
Emily Wheaton Emily Wheaton (born 5 December, 1987) is an Australian actress who played Sharon "Shazza" Cox in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2005. She also appeared in the children's TV Show Noah and Saskia, and also appeared twice in hit TV show Blue Heelers as Shayleen Burke.
Emily Wu Emily Wu (巫一毛 Wu Yimao), born 1958, Beijing, is a Chinese-American writer whose short stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and in an anthology of poetry and prose. She came to the US in 1981 and has a BA in English from Notre Dame de de Namur University in Belmont, California, and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Emily Zurrer Emily Zurrer (1987 in Crofton, British Columbia) is a Canadian soccer player considered to be one of the premier female soccer players in the country. She plays for the Canadian national women's team, notably at the 2002 FIFA U-19 World Championships and the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003.
Emin Pasha Mehmet Emin Pasha (March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892), born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized (c. 1847) Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a physician, naturalist and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was the last major European expedition into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition came to be both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing "darkest Africa", and notorious, for the bloodshed and death left in its wake.
Emina Jahović Emina Jahović (Емина Đаховић, born January 15, 1982, in Novi Pazar, Serbia) is a popular Serbian and Bosnian pop singer. Emina comes from the majority-Bosniak SandĹľak region and is herself ethnically a Bosniak.
Emine Bozkurt Emine Bozkurt (born 9 August 1967 in Zaandam, North Holland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Eminent Technology [Technology was established in 1983 by Bruce Thigpen to create innovative] products in the audio field. Eminent Technology's first product was an [[air bearing straight line tracking tonearm for phonograph playback.
Eminent Victorians Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, the oldest member of the Bloomsbury Group first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine.
Emir Emir (Arabic: ; , "commander" or "general", later also "prince"; also transliterated as amir or ameer) is a high title of nobility or office, historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Turkic world, among others.
Emir Işılay Emir Isilay is a Turkish Jazz and Film Composer as well as a pianist/keyboardist. As a graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, he has worked as a music arranger/orchestrator/engineer on projects including “Boomtown” NBC, “Eyes” ABC TV Series, and “Soul Plane” MGM Feature Film He also wrote additional music for the WB TV Series Aaron Spelling production “Summerland” for the 1st and 2nd seasons (26 Episodes) and Lifetime Television feature production “Murder on Pleasant Drive”.
Emir Kusturica Nemanja Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Емир ĐšŃŃŃ‚Ńрица; IPA: ) (born November 24, 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia). With an impressive string of internationally acclaimed features, Kusturica is seen as one of the most creative directors in cinema during the 1980s and '90s.
Emir Rodriguez Monegal Emir Rodriguez Monegal (July 28 1921 in Melo, Uruguay – November 14 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a literary critic, an editor of Latin American literature, and a professor at the Yale University since 1969<REF>Necrological notice of ERM, New York Times, November 19 1985</REF>. Especially with his editorial guidance of Mundo Nuevo, he was a part of the mid 20th century boom in Spanish American literature that led to many Latin American writers being published outside of their home countries and gaining critical recognition.
Emirate of Badajoz The Emirate of Badajoz was a small Muslim kingdom centred on the city of Badajoz which exists today as the second city of Extremadura, Spain. It rose, like the other taifa kingdoms of Spain, after the fragmentation of Al-Andalus in the late 900s and early 1000s.
Emirate of Dhala Dhala ( []), Amiri ( []), or the Emirate of Dhala ( []) was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Dhala (Ad Dali').
Emirate of Sicily The Emirate of Sicily was a Muslim state from 948 to 1072. Authority in Sicily had been vested in emirs installed from what is present day Tunisia since 827, the island then gained the status of emirate in 948 with the kalbid dynasty.
Emirate of Tbilisi The Emirs of Tbilisi ruled over the parts of today’s eastern Georgia from their base in the city of Tbilisi, from 736 to 1080 (nominally to 1122). Established by the Arabs during their invasions of Georgian lands, the emirate was an important outpost of the Muslim rule in the Caucasus until recaptured by the Georgians under King David IV in 1122.
Emirates Airline Emirates Airline (shortened form: Emirates) (Arabic: الإمارات al-ImÄrÄt) is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates owned by The Emirates Group. It operates services to the Middle East, Far East, Europe, Africa, Indian subcontinent, Asia-Pacific and North America.
Emirates Hills Emirates Hills is a gated community developed by Emaar Properties PJSC Dubai. While Emaar pioneered the idea of freehold property in Dubai, this is the only project of Emaar where land was sold per square foot to individuals to build the house of their choice.
Emirates Hotel The Emirates Hotel is a proposed skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The design for the 350 metre (1148 foot) tall tower has been approved and when completed in 2008, it will have 70 floors.
Emirates Office Tower The Emirates Office Tower, also referred to as Emirates Tower One is a 54-floor office building in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Connected with 56-floor Emirates Towers Hotel by a retail boulevard they form what is commonly referred to as the Emirates Towers complex.
Emirates Palace The Emirates Palace is a luxury hotel located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Abu Dhabi. The hotel was built by and is owned by the Abu Dhabi government, and is currently managed by the Kempinski Group.
Emirates Scout Association The Emirates Scout Association () is the national Scouting organization of the United Arab Emirates. Scouting was founded in the United Arab Emirates in 1972 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1977.
Emirates Towers The Emirates Towers complex contains the Emirates Office Tower and Emirates Towers Hotel skyscrapers, respectively the 12th (355m) and the 27th (309m) tallest currently-standing structures in the world, and a 9,000 m² (96,875 ft²) two story retail complex known as The Boulevard connecting the two towers. The complex is located on the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Emirsultan Camii Emir Sultan also known as Ĺžemseddin Mehmed Ali el-HĂĽseyin el Buhari, a dervish and scholar from Bukhara was the adviser and son-in-law of Ottoman Sultan, Bayezid I , . The present mosque bearing his epithet, Emirsultan was built in 1804 in Bursa city upon the orders of Selim III, after the collapse of the original fourteenth century monument in the 1766 earthquake.
Emis Forame To Himona Anixiatika Emis Forame To Himona Anixiatika (Greek script Εμείς φοĎάμε Ď„Îż χειμώνα ανοιξιάτικα, English translation: "We Wear Spring Clothes In Winter Time") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, performed in Greek by Mariana Efstratiou.
Emishi The name Emishi (蝦夷, pre-7th century 毛人) was used by the Japanese to designate people who lived in northeastern Japan corresponding to the present-day Tohoku region, known in contemporary sources as michi no oku, who opposed and resisted the rule of the Japanese Emperors during the late Nara and early Heian periods (7th–10th centuries A.D.
Emissary (hydraulics) An emissary (Latin emissarium, from ex and mittere, to send out) is a channel, natural or artificial, by which an outlet is formed to carry off any stagnant body of water. Such channels may be either open or underground; but the most remarkable works of the kind are of the latter description, as they carry off the waters of lakes surrounded by hills.
Emissary of the Void Emissaries of the Void is the tenth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the Star Wars galaxy. It is a six-part magazine serial by Greg Keyes that was originally published in issues 8 through 10 of Star Wars Gamer and continued in issues 62 through 64 of Star Wars Insider.
Emissary veins The emissary veins are valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull. However, because they are valveless, blood can flow into the skull through them as well, making them a possible route for transmission of extracranial infection to get into the skull.
Emission (electromagnetic radiation) In physics, emission is the process by which the energy of a photon is released by another entity, for example, by an atom whose electrons make a transition between two electronic energy levels. The photon is created in the process.
Emission coefficient Emission coefficient is a coefficient in the power output per unit time of an electromagnetic source, a calculated value in physics. It is also used as a measure of environmental emissions (by mass) per MWh of electricity generated, see: Emission factor.
Emission factor An emission factor can be defined as the average emission rate of a given pollutant for a given source, relative to units of activity. Emission factors can be used to derive estimates of gas emissions (for instance, greenhouse gas emissions) based on the amount of fuel combusted or on industrial production levels.
Emission spectroscopy Emission spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique which examines the discrete photon emissions as electromagnetic spectra radiated by some given element. The element first absorbs energy elevating electrons to higher energies, then radiates this energy as characteristic emissions (photons of a particular wavelength) as the electrons drop back to lower energy levels.
Emission standard Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment. Many emission standards focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles and other transport vehicles, but they can also regulate emissions from industry, power plants, small equipment such as lawn mowers and diesel generators.
Emission test cycle An Emission test cycle is a specified procedure for measuring pollutant emissions of engines. For emission measurements to be comparable for different engines in a category, the measurements are performed under a specific operating pattern, or 'test cycle' of alternating high, medium, and low engine load.
Emissions trading Emissions trading (or cap and trade) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants In such a plan, a central authority (usually a government agency]) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups that emit the pollutant are given credits or allowances which represent the right to emit a specific amount.
Emissivity The emissivity of a material (usually written epsilon) is the ratio of energy radiated by the material to energy radiated by a black body at the same temperature. It is a measure of a material's ability to absorb and radiate energy.
Emitt Rhodes Emitt Rhodes, an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born February 25, 1950 in Hawthorne, California. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," Emitt Rhodes' recordings show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicanship.
Emjae Emjae (real name Matt Johnson), is a dance music producer, remixer and DJ originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Emjae moved North to Boston, Massachusetts where he graduated from Berklee College of Music focusing on musical production.
Emjay Emjay , Emjay = MJ = her name, Marie-Josée Riel, is a dance music artist of French-Canadian origin. She originates from Rockland, which is just outside of Ottawa, Ontario and had a series of dance hits throughout the 1990s.
Emly Emly is a village in County Tipperary, in the Republic of Ireland and is situated on the R515 Regional Road which goes west from Tipperary Town to Abbeyfeale, County Limerick. Emly lies 14km west of Tipperary Town and had a population of 278 in the 2002 census (the parish has a population of about 1,000 as it includes the surrounding countryside).
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (EHIS) is a football (soccer) computer game first released in 1988 by Audiogenic Software Ltd. It debuted on Commodore 64, but versions were also created for Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga as part of Audiogenic's general cross-platform strategy.
Emlyn Williams George Emlyn Williams CBE (26 November, 1905–25 September, 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor. He was born into a Welsh-speaking, working-class family in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales.
Emma Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled.
Emma (1932 film) Marie Dressler starred in this Clarence Brown directed 1932 film about a mature woman who selflessly and lovingly raises a widower's children, giving them constant care and attention as they grow into heedless and spoilt young adults. Their aging father goes on a vacation for his health, and she goes along to look after him (It's her first vacation in many years) and on the trip he proposes marriage- which she accepts.
Emma Amos Emma Amos (born 18 August 1967 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English actress best known for playing Yvonne Sparrow in the last three series of time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst. She replaced original actress Michelle Holmes who held the role from 1993-1996.
Emma biggs Emma Biggs is a London-based mosaicist and fine artist. She paints abstract paintings collaboratively with her husband Matthew Collings dealing with subtle colour relationships, and she is currently engaged in a large public mosaic project - Made in England.
Emma Beard Emma Soraya Beard (born in Northampton, England; October 16, 1983) is a singer with British pop group Clea. She went to school in Northampton at Mereway Upper School (now Mereway Community College) and has a twin sister named Sarah.
Emma Bonino Emma Bonino (born March 9 1948 in Bra), is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Parliament for the Rose in the Fist. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.
Emma Bull Emma Bull (born 3 January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder.
Emma Curtis Hopkins Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925) was a New Thought faith healer, theologian, teacher, writer, and feminist who actively ordained women for ministerial positions through her theological seminary, which came to be known as the Theological Seminary of Chicago. Emma Curtis Hopkins was called the "teacher of teachers" because a number of her students went on to found their own churches or to become prominent in the New Thought Movement.
Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (November 11, 1863–October 22, 1938) was an American writer, and author of the novel Four Girls At Cottage City (1895). An earlier novel, Megda (1891) was published under her maiden name of Emma Dunham Kelley.
Emma Eckstein Emma Eckstein (1865 - 1924) was an early patient of Sigmund Freud who underwent disastrous nasal surgery, undertaken by Freud's friend and confidant, Wilhelm Fliess. She came from a prominent socialist family and was active in the Viennese women's movement.
Emma Frost Emma GraceUncanny X-Men #310 Frost, also known as the White Queen, is a fictional character appearing in the . Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).
Emma Gilham Page Emma Hayden (née Gilham) Page (born 1855) was the wife of William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist, who is best known as a coal mine manager, as the co founder of the Virginian Railway, and as the namesake for the West Virginia unincorporated towns of Page in Fayette County and Pageton in McDowell County.
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27 1869 – May 14 1940) aka 'Red Emma', was a Kaunas, Lithuania-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics.
Emma Harriet Joseph Emma Harriet Joseph was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) who was employed in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. She was the sister of Julius Joseph who, together with his wife, Bella Joseph worked for NKVD, Soviet intelligence, while also working for the OSS.
Emma Holly Emma Holly is an American author born in New Jersey and raised in Baltimore who specializes in writing romance and erotica, often with a focus on BDSM. She has written over twenty books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.
Emma Johnson (swimmer) Emma Johnson (born February 24 1980 in Sydney) was an Australian freestyle and medley swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of just 16 (whilst attending the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney as a boarder).
Emma Jung Emma Jung (née Emma Rauschenbach, 1882-1955) was wife to the famous psychologist Carl Jung for fifty two years. She came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists; later, that wealth gave Carl financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests.
Emma Lee French Emma Louise Batchelor Lee French (April 21, 1836 - November 16, 1897), better known as Emma Lee French, was a British woman who travelled to Utah and Arizona, in the United States, where she became well known as a care taker of the sick.
Emma Lehmer Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) is known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory.
Emma Livry Emma Livry (September 24 1842 – July 26 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era, and a protégée of Marie Taglioni. She perished from burn injuries when her costume caught fire during a performance rehearsal.
Emma Lucy Braun Emma Lucy Braun (1889-1971) was an American botanist and ecologist, whose commitment to conservation led to the eventual preservation of over 10,000 acres in Ohio. Much of this land was carefully studied by Braun and her students, and the plant life cataloged for posterity.
Emma Maree Urquhart Emma Maree Urquhart, born 1991, from Inverness, United Kingdom, is an author. At the age of 13, her first published book, Dragon Tamers, achieved success, requiring a print run of 50,000 copies to be printed after this first run of 1,000 sold out in a few weeks.
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