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EMD SW9 An EMD SW9 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between December 1950 and December 1953. Power was provided by an EMD 567B 12-cylinder engine, producing 1200 horsepower (890 kW).
EMD SW900 An EMD SW900 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and November 1965. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 8-cylinder engine that generated 900 horsepower (670 kW).
EMD TR1 The EMD TR1 was a two-unit "cow-calf" diesel locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois in 1941. Two pairs were built for the Illinois Central Railroad, the only purchaser.
EMeta Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, eMeta Corporation provides access control, subscription management and ecommerce solutions for media, entertainment and software companies. eMeta’s flagship product, the eRights Suite, helps customers like McGraw-Hill, NYTimes.
EMF Detector EMF Detectors are Gauss meters that respond to localized gradients in electromagnetic field intensity. They are very popular in the tangentially connected fields of electrical power technology and also the pseudoscience of "ghost hunting" or other paranormal research.
EMF Meter EMF meter, or Electromagnetic field meter, is a common name given to a scientific instrument for measuring Electromagnetic radiation. The abbreviation ‘EMF’ is both inaccurate and misleading for the reason that it is already the official abbreviation of electromotive force, therefore it would be sensible to name this instrument an EMR meter.
EMG 60 EMG 60 is a famous active humbucker guitar pickup manufactured by EMG. It is usually considered as a "rhythm" pickup for use in neck position, paired with EMG 81 as a "lead" pickup in bridge position.
EMG 81 EMG 81 is a famous active humbucker guitar pickup manufactured by EMG. It is usually considered as a lead pickup for use in bridge position, paired with EMG 85 as a rhythm pickup in neck position, however, it's not uncommon to see a guitar with two EMG 81s in both bridge and neck positions.
EMG 85 EMG 85 is a famous active humbucker guitar pickup manufactured by EMG. It is usually considered as a "rhythm" pickup for use in neck position, paired with EMG 81 as a "lead" pickup in bridge position.
EMI (protocol) External Machine Interface (EMI), an extension to Universal Computer Protocol (UCP), is a protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres for mobile telephones. The protocol was developed by LogicaCMG, the current SMSC market leader.
EMI Christian Music Group EMI Christian Music Group is a subsidiary of EMI which contains its Christian music record labels: ForeFront Records, Gotee Records, Sparrow Records, Tooth and Nail Records, EMI Gospel, Credential Recordings and WorshipTogether.com.
EMILE EMILE is the Early Mac Image LoadEr, a bootloader for loading Linux on Macintosh computers that have m68k processors. It was written by Laurent Vivier, and is meant to eventually replace the Penguin Booter that is more usually in use.
EMILY's List Australia EMILY's List Australia is political network in Australia that supports Labor women candidates get elected to Australian Parliament. EMILY's List Australia was inspired by EMILY's List, a Political Action Committee with similar goals in the United States.
EMLOUNGE EMLOUNGE is a Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) based software environment for electromagnetic simulation. It is used by RF/Microwave engineers to perform full wave analysis of radiation, scattering, wave propagation, and RF design problems in engineering.
EMLV EMLV (Ecole de Management Léonard De Vinci) – the Leonard de Vinci School of Management – is a 5 year school of business and management in Paris France located at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard De Vinci in the La Defense district of Paris. The diploma of EMLV is accredited by the French government and on the European level by ENQA.
EMMI EMMI (Extended Multi-Media Instructions), was an instruction set developed by Cyrix and implemented on their 6x86 MX and MII line of processors. It extended the MMX instruction set with 13 new instructions useful in multimedia applications.
EMoviX eMoviX is a small bootable version of Linux, similar to Knoppix, that, when booted will automatically start playing all the video files stored in the root directory. eMoviX only occupies about 8 megabytes of space of the CD/DVD leaving the rest for video files.
EMP 44 The EMP 44 was a firearm produced, quite confusingly, in 1942. It passed all of the German ordinance tests in 1943, but because of its outlandish, and cheap appeareance, it was not adopted by the German armed forces.
EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Index (or Enterprise-wide Master Patient Index), are Master Patient Indexes which link several smaller organisation level MPIs together. software vendors use EMPI and [[MPI] synonymously.
EMPOWER EMPOWER (Education Means Protection Of Women Engaged in Recreation) or Moolniti Songserm Okard Pooying is a non-profit community organisation in Thailand that supports sex workers; it offers free classes in language, health, law and pre-college education as well as individual counseling to these people. The organisation also lobbies the government in an attempt to extend regular labour protections to sex workers.
EMPRETEC Empretec is a United Nations programme established by UNCTAD to promote the creation of sustainable small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Empretec works to support entrepreneurs to build innovative and internationally competitive SMEs.
EMRHL EMRHL, Eastern Massachusetts Roller Hockey League, is the premier recreation hockey league in Massachusetts. Based out of Hockey Town in Saugus, Massachusetts, there are two different leagues, a Saturday morning league and a Tuesday night league.
EMS Synthi A The EMS Synthi A was a portable analog synthesizer (electronic musical instrument) made by Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd (EMS) in 1971. Instead of routing signals through patch cables, it uses a patch matrix with conductive pins.
EMS Synthi AKS The EMS Synthi A, and a version of it with a built-in keyboard/sequencer, the EMS Synthi AKS, is a portable modular analog synthesizer made by EMS in England starting in 1972. Most notable for its patch pin matrix, its functions and internal design are similar to the VCS 3 synthesizer, also made by EMS.
EMS VCS 3 The VCS 3 (an acronym for Voltage Controlled Studio with 3 oscillators) is a portable analog synthesiser with a flexible semi-modular voice architecture, initially made in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff's EMS company. The electronics were largely designed by David Cockerell and the machine's distinctive visual appearance was the work of electronic composer Tristram Cary.
EMSSA eMSSA is the Electronic Martial Spirit of Southern Africa - the original SA martial arts discussion group, which was created in 1998 by Greg Solomon. The list now includes hundreds of members around the world, although predominantly in South Africa.
EMT turntables Elektro-Mess-Technik (EMT) is a manufacturer of turntables and professional audio equipment founded by Wilhelm Franz. Born in Bremen in 1913, Franz founded his first firm, ‘Elektromesstechnik Wilhelm Franz K.
EMU-LMAO EMU-LMAO was an emulation news website primarily focused on a satirical take of other emulation news websites. Founded on February 10, 2001 the site would exist until somtime in early January 2003; when it's then host Joffemon.
EMV EMV is a standard for interoperation of IC cards ("Chip cards") and IC capable POS terminals, for authenticating credit and debit card payments. The name EMV comes from the initial letters of Europay, MasterCard and VISA, the three companies which originally cooperated to develop the standard.
EMW motorcycle EMW (VEB Eisenacher Motoren-Werke) was an East German manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles based in Eisenach. After WW2 one of the BMW factories was located in the eastern sector and was taken over by the Soviets.
EMWIN The Emergency Management Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a system for distributing a live stream of weather information in the United States. The backbone of the system is operated via satellite by the U.
En Attendant Ses Pas "En Attendant Ses Pas" (meaning "Waiting for His Steps") is the fourth single from CĂ©line Dion's S'il Suffisait d'Aimer album. It was released as a radio single on July 5 1999 in Francophone countries.
En banc En banc or in bank is a term used to refer to the hearing of a case by all the judges of a court. Appellate courts in the United States sometimes grant rehearing en banc to reconsider a decision of a panel of the court (a panel generally consisting of only three judges), where the case concerns a matter of exceptional public importance or the panel's decision appears to conflict with a prior decision of the court.
En banc rehearing En banc or in bank is a term used to refer to the hearing of a case by all the judges of a court. Appellate courts in the United States sometimes grant rehearing en banc to reconsider a decision of a panel of the court, where the case concerns a matter of exceptional public importance or the panel's decision appears to conflict with a prior decision of the court.
En cadre En cadre or cadre (usually pronounced in the United Kingdom, but in the United States) is a French expression originally denoting either the complement of commissioned officers of a regiment or the permanent skeleton establishment of a unit, around which the unit could be built if needed. This latter usage was commonly used in countries which had conscription to denote the permanent staff of a unit who then trained the conscripts assigned to it.
En Esch En Esch (born Nicklaus Schandelmaier) is a contemporary musician and has been a member of the bands KMFDM, Pigface, and Slick Idiot. Sascha Konietzko claims to have given Esch his nickname because the latter felt that his real name was inappropriate for the stage.
En femme The term en femme is used in the transgender community, usually by male crossdressers, to describe wearing feminine clothing or expressing a feminine personality. The term is derived from the French, meaning literally "as a woman".
En gĂĄng till (song) En gĂĄng till, written by Christer Lundh and Mikael Wendt, is the song that Swedish pop singer Lotta Engberg sang when it competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1990, where it finished 8th. In 1990, Lotta & Anders Engbergs Orkester relesead the single En gĂĄng till, where Bara du was the B-side.
En chamade En Chamade (French: "to sound a parley") refers to powerfully voiced reed stops in a pipe organ that are mounted horizontally rather than vertically in the front of the organ case, projecting out into the church. They produce a commanding, loud trumpet-like tone, used for fanfares and solos.
En la ciudad sin límites En la ciudad sin límites ('In the City of No Limits') is a 2002 Spanish film thriller directed by Antonio Hernández and starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Fernando Fernán Gómez. The film was nominated for four Goya Awards in 2003, and won the award for Best Screenplay.
En no Gyoja En no Gyōja (役行者), aka En no Ozunu (役小角), born 634, was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, a conglomerate religion incorporating aspects of Taoism, Shinto, esoteric Buddhism (especially Shingon Mikkyo and the Tendai sect but some Zen sects have also been heard of) and traditional Japanese shamanism. He is venerated as a bosatsu (bodhisattva, or pursuer of enlightenment) Jinben Dai.
En passant En passant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a maneuver in the board game of chess. The en passant rule applies when a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward.
En passant (album) En Passant is arguably one of the best albums produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman. The CD was produced between April and August 1997 in collaboration with Erick Benzi at the Kevin Mobile, Mega and Gimmick studios, and was released on the Columbia/Sony BMG record label the same year.
En plein air En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting in the outside environment rather than indoors (such as in a studio). In English alfresco has the same meaning, however in Italian the term al fresco has a rather different one, either in jail or simply cool air.
En pointe Dancing en pointe (pronounced , often anglicised as or ) is the action of rising to the tips of the toes while performing steps from ballet. Also known as pointe work, it is performed using hard–toed and stiff-shanked pointe shoes.
En svensk klassiker En svensk klassiker, Swedish classic circuit, is a diploma to them who have finished in races in four races diciplines (cross country skiing, cycling, swimming and cross country running) during a 12 month period. The diploma was first awarded in 1972.
En svensk tiger En svensk tiger (English: "A Swedish tiger" or "A Swede keeps his mouth shut") was a Swedish propaganda campaign (Tystnadskampanjen) during World War II, encouraging secrecy towards foreigners. Svensk can mean both Swedish and Swede while tiger could be read as either the animal or "keeps his mouth shut", giving the poster the double meaning "a Swedish tiger" and "a Swede keeps his mouth shut.
En travesti En travesti (literally "cross-dressed") was the conventional theatrical portrayal of women by male actors in drag. Up to the late 17th Century this was necessary because the law considered performance on stage by actual women to engender immorality.
En un momento dado Famous words spoken by the Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff, who is known for his own typical logic and language, both in Dutch and Spanish. Literal translation of the Dutch words "op een gegeven moment" ('at a certain time') into Spanish.
En-hazor En-hazor ("fount of Hazor") is a fortified settlement named in the Book of Joshua as part of the inheritance of Naphtali, distinct from Hazor. Its location has not been identified, though a number of possible sites have been proposed.
En-Yu Lin En-Yu Lin (林恩宇 Lin En Yu), born March 25, 1981 in Tainan City, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese baseball pitcher. He played for the Chinese Professional Baseball League's(CPBL) Macoto Cobras in 2005 and 2006 and joined NPB's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles after CPBL's 2006 season ended.
Ena Baga Ena Baga (5 January 1906–2004) was a British pianist and theatre organist. She is best known for improvising accompaniments to silent films, both in the 1920s and during the revival of interest in silent films that began in the 1970s.
Enaam Arnaout Enaam Arnaout is an American of Syrian descent, who pleaded guilty to subverting charitable donations.Benevolence Int'l Chief Pleads Guilty: Arnaout pleads to lesser charges to avoid facing potentially biased jury, About.
Enabling act An enabling act is a piece of legislation by which a legislature grants an entity which depends in on it for authorization or legitimacy to take a certain action(s). It is important not to confuse enabling acts from different times & places, since their effect varies widely.
Enabling Act of 1802 The Enabling Act of 1802 was made into law on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.
Enabling Act of 1889 The Enabling Act of 1889 is a United States law enabling North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form state governments and to gain admission as states of the union. The enabling act was passed by the United States Congress on February 22 1889, and lays out the mechanism by which the territories are admitted as states following ratification of constitutions and election of state officers in October.
Enabling Act of 1933 The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz in German) was passed by Germany's parliament (the Reichstag) on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazis obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means.
Enabling cause In 1979, as part of the Tokyo Round of the GATT, the enabling cause was adopted in order to provide a legal basis for extending the Generalized System Of Preferences (GSP) beyond the original 10 years. In practice it gave a permanent validity to the GSP.
Enabling clause In 1979, as part of the Tokyo Round of the GATT, the enabling cause was adopted in order to provide a legal basis for extending the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) beyond the original 10 years. In practice it gave a permanent validity to the GSP.
Enactivism (psychology) In psychology, and the cognitive sciences more generally, enactivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind. It incorporates an historical perspective -- in the sense that each individual's developmental trajectory shapes their understanding of reality -- with the result that it can be seen to subsume and synthesize arguments from embodied and situated cognition to present an alternative to cognitivism.
Enalapril Enalapril is an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used in the treatment of hypertension and some types of chronic heart failure. Enalapril was the first member of the group of ACE inhibitors known as the dicarboxylate-containing ACE inhibitors.
Enaliosuchus Enaliosuchus was a genus of marine crocodiliform within Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Valanginian age of the Early Cretaceous. Enaliosuchus was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.
Enamel cord The enamel cord, also called enamel septum, is a localization of cells on an enamel organ that appear from the outer enamel epithelium to an enamel knot. The function of the enamel cord and the enamel knot is not known, but they are believed to play a role in the placement of the first cusp developed in a tooth.
Enamel niche The enamel niche is a structure that appears in a histologic slide of a developing tooth from sectioning the slide in a single plane. The enamel organ looks to be connected to the oral epithelium by two or more strands of dental lamina.
Enamel organ [enamel organ, also known as dental organ, is a cellular] aggregation seen in [[histology|histologic sections of a developing tooth. It lies above a condensation of ectomesenchymal cells called the dental papilla.
Enamel pearl An enamel pearl is a condition of teeth where enamel is found on locations where enamel is not supposed to be, such as on a root surface. They are found usually in the area between roots, which is called a furcation, of molars.
Enantiodromia Enantiodromia is a concept introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung where the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It is equivalent to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order to restore balance.
Enantiomer self-disproportionation Enantiomer self-disproportionation is a process in stereochemistry describing the separation of a non-racemic mixture of enantiomers in an enantioenriched fraction and a more racemic fraction as a result of the formation of heterochiral or homochiral aggregates. This process is known to exist in achiral column chromatography.
Enantiostasis Enantiostasis is the ability of an open system, especially a living organism, to stabilize and conserve function in spite of an unstable environment. Estuarine organisms typically undergo enantiostasis in order to survive with constantly changing salt concentrations.
Enarete In Greek mythology, Enarete was the wife of Aeolus and ancesstress of the Aeolians. Her children were Canace, Sisyphus, Deioneus, Salmoneus, Macar, Cretheus, Athamas, Perieres, Calyce, Peisidice, Perimele and in some myths Alcyone.
Enarj Enawga Enarj Enawga is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Gojjam Zone, Enarj Enawga is bordered on the south by Enemay, on the southwest by Debay Telatgen, on the west by Hulet Ej Enese, on the north by Goncha Siso Enese, on the northeast by Enbise Sar Midir, on the east by the Abbay River which separates it from the Debub Wollo Zone, and on the southeast by Shebel Berenta.
Enarsa Enarsa (or all-uppercase ENARSA), in full EnergĂ­a Argentina Sociedad AnĂłnima, is a company managed by the national state of Argentina for the integral exploitation of petroleum and natural gas, and the production, industralization, transport and trade of these and of electricity.
Enayat Khan Enayat Khan (1895–1938) was one of India's most influential sitar and surbahar players in the first decades of the 20th Century. He was the father of Vilayat Khan, one of the topmost sitariyas of the postwar period.
Enånger Court District , or Enångers tingslag, was a district of Hälsingland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Enéas Carneiro Enéas Ferreira Carneiro (born November 5, 1938) is a Brazilian politician. He represents the state of São Paulo in the National Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the National Congress), and has run for the presidency three times.
Enbridge Enbridge is a Calgary, Alberta based company which is focused on three core businesses: crude oil and liquids pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and natural gas distribution. The company has over 4,000 employees, mostly in Canada, the U.
Enbridge Pipelines Enbridge Pipelines is a collection of 4 different systems of natural gas pipelines, all owned by Enbridge. They include the Enbridge Pipelines (AlaTenn) system, the Enbridge Pipelines (MidLa) system, the Enbridge Offshore Pipelines (UTOS) system, and the Enbridge Pipelines (KPC) system.
Encaenia At certain universities Encaenia is an annual ceremony typically involving the presentation of honorary degrees to famous alumni and to leading public figures. The word is derived from the Greek, meaning a festival of renewal or dedication, and corresponds to the Latin term Commencement, which will perhaps be more familiar to most people, especially in North America.
Encampment River Wilderness The Encampment River Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated to increase protection of the Encampment River and the canyon through which it flows.
Encantadia Encantadia is a Filipino fantasy television series (locally known as telefantasya) produced by GMA Network. It was dubbed as the grandest, most ambitious, and most expensive production for Philippine television.
Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas (Encantadia: Love Until the End) is the third and latest installment of the popular Encantadia franchise. It depicts the continuing story of the four royal Diwata sisters, Sang'gres Pirena, Amihan, Alena, and Danaya, along with King Ybrahim of Sapiro, in the enchanted world of Encantadia as they face the repercussions of their previous journey through Encantadia's history.
Encap Package Management System The Encap package management system is an alternative to the standard Unix approach to installing local software in /usr/local/bin, /use/local/man etc. Instead software is installed in /usr/local/encap, and running the epkg program creates symbolic links to the /usr/local/ directories.
Encapsulation (pharmacology) In pharmacology, encapsulation refers to a range of techniques used to enclose medicines in a relatively stable shell, allowing them to, for example, be taken orally or be used as suppositories. The dosage form is primarily for oil soluble actives.
Encarna Sánchez Encarna Sánchez (September 19, 1940 – April 5, 1996) was an influential Spanish talk radio host and current events commentator. Generally viewed as a conservative, her views were of great influence on working, middle classes and ruling Governments in Spain at that time.
Encarnación (sculpting) A sculpting technique employed by the Spanish artist Martines Montañés in the 17th century (Baroque Period). It is used to create life-like sculptures, hence the name (which translates to English as incarnation), which after carving and drying for 6 months are painted, varnished and sanded.
Encarta Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published and updated by Microsoft Corporation. As of 2005, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 68,000 articles, numerous images and movies, and homework tools, and is available on the World Wide Web by yearly subscription or by purchase on DVD-ROM or multiple CD-ROMs.
Encarta Webster's Dictionary The Encarta Webster's Dictionary 2004 is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, originally published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the American Heritage Dictionary, which Soukhanov previously edited.
Encash Network Service Encash Network Services, or ENS, is a planned interbank network that would connect the ATMs of four rural banks in the Philippines, eventually aiming to expand to include all rural banks in the Philippines. Its main competitor is likely to be Nationlink, which caters to the same clientele.
Encastellation Encastellation (sometimes castellation, which can also mean crenellation) is the process whereby the feudal kingdoms of Europe became dotted with castles, from which local lords could dominate the countryside of their fiefs and their neighbours', and from which kings could command even the far-off corners of their realms. The ubiquity of the castle is iconic of the Middle Ages.
Encaustic painting Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.
Encaustic tile Encaustic tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colors but a tile may be composed of as many as six.
Enceladus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Enceladus (or Enkelados, Ἐγκέλαδος) was one of the Gigantes, the enormous children of Gaia (Earth) fertilised by the blood of castrated Ouranos.Aphrodite arose from the same origins, yet no myth connected her with the Gigantes.
Encephalartos Encephalartos is a genus of cycad native to Africa. Several species of Encephalartos are commonly referred to as bread palms or Kaffir bread since a bread-like starchy food can be prepared from the centre of the stem.
Encephalartos woodii Encephalartos woodii, also known as Wood's Cycad, is a cycad in the genus Encephalartos, endemic to the Natal area of South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type.
Enci ENCI (Eerste Nederlandse Cement Industrie - First Dutch Cement Industry) is a Dutch company based in Maastricht, where they dig marl out of the hill St Pietersberg to make cement. The dug-up earth is used to make a hill called d'n Observant.
Enciclopedia Italiana The first volume of the Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti ("Italian Encyclopaedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as Treccani, was published in 1925. In all 35 volumes of text were published and one index volume.
Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana The Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (also called Enciclopedia Espasa, or Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe, after its publisher) is a Spanish encyclopedia comprising 72 volumes (numbered from 1 to 70, with parts 18 and 28 consisting of two volumes each) published from 1908 to 1930 plus a ten-volume appendix published 1930-1933. Between 1935 and 2003, 33 supplemental volumes were published plus an index, another A-Z appendix, and an atlas, for a total of 118 volumes.
Enciklopedija Slovenije Enciklopedija Slovenije is a Slovenian encyclopedia that contains topics connected to Slovenia. It was published during the years 1987-2002 in 16 volumes by Mladinska knjiga in co-operation with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Encina de San Silvestre Encina de San Silvestre is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 40 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 128 people.
Encinas de Abajo Encinas de Abajo is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 17 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 643 people.

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