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ENnies The Annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (or ENnies) are annual, fan-based awards for tabletop role-playing game products and publishers hosted at Gen Con Indy. The name of the award is derived from the EN World web site that has hosted the awards since their inception in 2001.
ENOZ ENOZ is a fictional all girl student band in the Japanese anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The band only appears once in the series, but the surprise impromptu performance is popular among fans of the show.
ENPS ENPS (Electronic News Production System) is a software application developed by the Associated Press's Broadcast Technology division for producing, editing, timing, organizing and running news broadcasts. The system is scalable and flexible enough to handle anything from the local news at a small-market station to large organizations spanning remote bureaus in multiple countries.
ENQUIRE ENQUIRE was an early project (in the second half of 1980) of Tim Berners-Lee, who went on to create the World Wide Web in 1989. ENQUIRE has some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but is different in several important ways, one of them that it was not supposed to be released to the general public.
ENSICA The ENSICA, which stands for 'École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques' (meaning National Higher School of Aeronautical Constructions), is a French engineering school founded in 1945 under General De Gaulle presidency. It is located in Toulouse.
ENTH domain The ENTH domain is a membrane binding domain which is found in members of the epsin protein family. In epsin-1 it shows specificity for the membrane protein phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (pi-4,5-bp), however not all ENTH domains bind to this molecule.
ENTO Aberaman Athletic F.C. ENTO Aberaman Athletic Football Club (known simply as Aberaman Athletic until 2004) is a Welsh football club that currently play in the Welsh Football League First Division. Their ground is situated on Cardiff Road, Aberdare, between the suburb of Aberaman and the village of Abercwmboi.
Eodelphis Eodelphis (ee-o-DEL-fiss) meaning "early opossum" (Greek: eos = dawn + delphis = opossum) is a genus of stagodont marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with distinctive crushing dentition. Named species include E.
Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone The Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Eodicynodon, a small herbivore and the earliest genus of dicynodont mammal-like reptile, whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Eogan Eogan, son of Niall Noígiallach, was an Irish king founded the kingdom of Tír Eógan (modern County Tyrone) in the 5th century. He was also the ancestor of the Cenél nEógain dynasty and their septs (O'Neill, O'Docherty, O'Boyle, etc).
Eochaid Fiadmuine Eochaid Fiadmuine, son of Congal Coscarach, was joint High King of Ireland with his brother Conaing Begeaglach (Eochaid ruled the south, Conaing the north). They ruled for five years, until Eochaid was killed and Conaing deposed by Lugaid Lámdearg.
Eochaid mac Eirc In Irish mythology and pseudohistory, Eochaid , son of Erc, son of Rinnal, of the Fir Bolg became High King of Ireland when he overthrew Fodbgen. He was the first king to establish a system of justice in Ireland.
Eochaid Mugmedon Eochaid Mugmedon ("slave-lord") was a semi-historical High King of Ireland of the 4th century who was said to be the ancestor of many of Ireland's most significant dynasties, such as the Connachta and the UĂ­ NĂ©ill.
Eoin Cameron Eoin Cameron (born 1951) is a popular radio personality in Perth, Western Australia. He currently works the ABC's Perth local station 720 ABC Perth breakfast show, regularly receiving top ratings for the most popular breakfast radio show.
Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen") (born May 14, 1965) is an Irish author. He is most famous for having written the Artemis Fowl series, The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and his new book, Half Moon Investigations.
Eoin Collins Eoin Collins (born July 28, 1968 in Dublin) is a former tennis player from Ireland, who represented his native country in the doubles competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, partnering Owen Casey. The pair was eliminated in the second round there.
Eoin O'Duffy General Eoin O'Duffy (20 October, 1892 - 30 November, 1944; Irish: Eoin Ó Dubhthaigh or Ó Dufaigh), was in succession a Teachta Dála (TD), the Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, the second Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, leader of the fascist Blueshirts and then the first leader of Fine Gael (1933 - 1934), before leading the Irish Brigade to fight for Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. He once proclaimed himself the "third most important man in Europe" after fellow Fascists Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Eolian processes Eolian (or aeolian or æolian) processes pertain to the activity of the winds and more specifically, to the winds' ability to shape the surface of the Earth and other planets. Winds may erode, transport, and deposit materials, and are effective agents in regions with sparse vegetation and a large supply of unconsolidated sediments.
Eolith An eolith (from Greek "eos", dawn, and "lithos", stone) is a chipped flint nodule. Eoliths were once thought to have been artefacts, the earliest stone tools, but are now believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.
Eolla Eolla, Bishop of Selsey, was the successor of Eadberht, and seems to have previously been Abbot of Selsey, as he witnessed a charter of NoĂ°helm] together with [[Osric of Sussex|Osric and Eadberht. He seems to have succeeded as bishop in either 716 or 717.
Eolo Car Eolo is the first Compressed Air Car ivented by Guy Nègre and built by MDI which has given the patent for the construction to Eolo International (In Italy to Eolo Italia). It was unveiled during the 2001 Bologna Motorshow car and bike fair.
EoLA EoLA (from Esperanto — Lingvo Arta "Esperanto — Art Language") is an international festival of Esperanto arts and literature sponsored by the Russian Esperantist Union and the Russian Esperantist Youth Movement. The festival began in 1998 in Volgograd, the latest one was in 2005 in Jekaterinburg.
Eomeropidae The Mecopteran family Eomeropidae contains only a single living species, Notiothauma reedi, known from the Nothofagus forests in southern Chile. It is a remarkable species, flattened and extremely roach-like in appearance and habits.
Eon (musician) Also known as Ian Loveday, the house and techno pioneer Eon released a seminal album Void Dweller (September 1992) with dark and hard driving beats, with samples of the David Lynch film Dune and themes from the classic horror movie Basket Case. His sound was a link between the early Detroit techno and modern dance music.
Eon Sinclair Eon Sinclair(born 1981) is the bassist for Canadian indie rock group Bedouin Soundclash. He met the band's guitarist/vocalist Jay Malinowski while they were both attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Eonavian Eonavian or Eonaviego is a term used to refer a set of dialects or falas whose linguistic dominion extends in the zone of Asturias between the Eo and Navia rivers (or more exactly Eo and Frejulfe rivers). It includes the Asturian municipalities of Boal, Castropol, Coaña, Illano, El Franco, Grandas de Salime,Pesoz, San Martín de Oscos, Santa Eulalia de Oscos, San Tirso de Abres, Tapia de Casariego, Taramundi, Vegadeo, Villanueva de Oscos, and partially those of Navia, Ibias, Villayón, and Allande.
Eonia Eonia (Euro OverNight Index Average) is an effective overnight rate computed as a weighted average of all overnight unsecured lending transactions in the interbank market. It has been initiated within the euro area by the contributing panel banks.
Eopteranodon Eopteranodon lii ('Lii's dawn toothless wing', Lu & Zhang 2005) is the type and only known species of a crested, toothless pterosaur, known from an incomplete skeleton and skull from the Yixian Formation of the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Beipaio City, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China. Its skull, including a large crest, was similar to that of Pteranodon.
Eora The Eora (sometimes spelt Iora or Iyora) people were the Aboriginal occupants of the Sydney region in 1788 before the first European colonists arrived. The European colonists massacred the Australian Aboriginals, because of their primitive lifestyle (the Dreamtime belief and living as gatherer hunters).
Eordaikos Eordaikos (in Greek Εορδαϊκός) was the historical football club of Ptolemaida city (Prefecture of Kozani-Greece). It was considered one of the best football club in west Macedonia and was dominantly established as soon as it played in second division (Β' Κατηγορία).
Eos Eos ("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun. As the dawn goddess, she opened the gates of heaven (with "rosy fingers") so that Helios could ride his chariot across the sky every day.
Eos Airlines Eos Airlines is an airline based in New York, USA. It operates all-business class services with a higher level of comfort than the major transatlantic carriers' business class and at fares lower than the majors' published business class tariffs.
Eosimias Eosimias is the genus of two known early Old World primates that was discovered in 1999 in China. These species are among the oldest known member of the Catarrhini suborder (the group that includes all of the Old World primates, including humans) to date, at about 42 million years old during the Eocene.
Eosinophilic Eosinophilic is a technical term used by histologists. The context in which this word is used is in describing the microscopic appearance of cells and tissues, as seen down the microscope, after a histological section has been stained with the dye eosin.
Eosinophilic pneumonia Eosinophilic pneumonia (EP) is a disease in which a certain type of white blood cell called an eosinophil accumulates in the lung. These cells cause disruption of the normal air spaces (alveoli) where oxygen is extracted from the atmosphere.
Eosinophiluria Eosinophiluria is the abnormal presence of eosinophils in the urine. It can be associated with a wide variety of conditions, including urinary tract infection or kidney disorders such as acute interstitial nephritis.
Eospirifer Eospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.
Eostre Eostre ("Easter") is the name of a putative goddess of the Anglo-Saxons. The Venerable Bede described her worship as having died out by the time he began writing the first significant history of the Anglo-Saxons.
Eosuchia Eosuchians are an extinct order of diapsid reptiles. Depending on which taxa are included the order may have ranged from the late Carboniferous to the Eocene but the consensus is that eosuchians are confined to the Permian and Triassic.
Eotitanosuchus Eotitanosuchus olsoni ("Olson's dawn titan crocodile") was a mammal-like "reptile" occurring in Ocher, in the Perm region of Russia, in channel flood deposits along with Biarmosuchus tener, Estemmenosuchus uralensis and Estemmenosuchus mirabilis.
Eotyrannus Eotyrannus ("dawn tyrant") was a tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The remains, consisting of assorted skull, axial skeleton and apendicular skeleton elements, from a juvenile or subadult, found in a plant debris clay bed, was described by Hutt et al.
Eovia The Eovia Corporation was founded in November 2000, with offices in both the US and France. The company's 3D computer graphics software products were aimed towards professional and amateur artists with a focus on remaining accessible in price and usability.
Eowa of Mercia Eowa (or Eawa) was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; according to the Historia BrittonumHistoria Brittonum, Chapter 65: "[Penda] fought the battle of Cocboy, in which fell Eawa, son of Pybba, his brother, king of the Mercians, and Oswald, king of the North-men, and he gained the victory by diabolical agency." and the Annales Cambriae.
EO Personal Communicator The EO was an early commercial tablet computer created by AT&T, released in April 1993. Officially named the AT&T EO Personal Communicator it was more similar to a large personal digital assistant with wireless communications, and competed against the Apple Newton.
EOKA EOKA (Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (Greek National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that fought for the expulsion of British troops from the island, for self-determination and for union with Greece in the mid to late 1950s. The United Kingdom promised Greece that all the above would be a commitment to be fulfilled if Greece would enter the 2nd World War on the side of the allies.
EOne The eOne desktop PC was an all-in-one computer produced by eMachines in 1999 that bore a clear resemblance to the design of the Apple iMac. It targeted buyers who liked the iMac style, but wanted to use the Microsoft Windows operating system.
EON Berhad Edaran Otomobil Nasional Berhad (EON Berhad) (KLSE: EON) is one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates which was established in 1984 to distribute Proton cars - Malaysia's first national car. The main shareholders of the company are DRB-HICOM Group, Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the Jardine Group.
EON Cyber Account The EON, officially the EON Cyber Account, is an electronic savings account offered by Union Bank of the Philippines, or UnionBank. It is a savings account, a checking account, and a debit card all in one and has two firsts attributed to its name in terms of two things: first, it is the first electronic savings account in the Philippines, and second, it is a technological marvel in the Philippine setting.
EON Productions EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. The company operates from Pinewood Studios in England and is a subsidiary of Danjaq LLC, the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the Bond characters and elements on screen.
EOQ *Economic order quantity (also known as the Wilson EOQ Model or simply the EOQ Model) is a model that defines the optimal quantity to order that minimizes total variable costs required to order and hold inventory.
EORTC The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer or EORTC is an international non-profit organisation that develops, coordinates and stimulates cancer laboratory and clinical research in Europe. The mission of the EORTC is to improve the standard of cancer treatment and to facilitate the passage of experimental discoveries into state-of-the–art treatment.
EOSDIS EOSDIS is the Earth Observing System Data Information System. It consists of several different components to collect, store , retrieve and process information which is captured from a number of different satellites currently orbiting Earth.
EOSFET An EOSFET or electrolyte-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor is a FET, like a MOSFET, but with the metal replaced by electrolyte solution for the detection of neuronal activity. Many EOSFETs are integrated in a neurochip.
Epacris Epacris is a genus of about 35-40 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, though formerly often treated in a separate family Epacridaceae. The genus is native to eastern and southeastern Australia (southeast Queensland south to Tasmania and west to southeast South Australia), New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Epact The epact (from Greek: epaktai hèmerai = added days) is, as the second Canon of the Gregorian calendar reform puts it, "nothing else than the number of days which the common solar year of 365 days surpasses the common lunar year of 354 days" (Latin: Epacta nihil aliud est quam numerus dierum quibus annus solaris communis dierum 365 annum communem lunarem dierum 354 superat).
Epameinontas Deligeorgis Epameinondas Deligeorgis (Greek: Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγιώργης) (1829 - 1879) was a Greek lawyer, newspaper reporter and politician from Mesolonghi. Deligeorgis studied law at Athens University and entered politics in 1854.
Epaminondas Epaminondas (Greek: ) (c. 418 BC–362 BC) was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics.
Epaminondas (game) Epaminondas is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott and originally introduced in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games as Crossings. While the original version used an 8x8 checkerboard, the current game uses a 12x14 board and different rules for capture.
Epanalepsis The epanalepsis is a figure of speech defined by the repetition of the initial word or words of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of stronger emphasis in a sentence; so, by having the same phrase in both places, the speaker calls special attention to it.
Epanochori (Chania), Greece Epanochori (greek Επανοχώρι) is a small village in Chania Prefecture on the island of Crete, Greece. It has 114 residents (2001 census source) and it's within the municipality of East Selino (Anatoliko Selino).
Epanochori (Kefalonia), Greece Epanochori, also Epanohori (Greek, Modern: Επανοχώριο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), Epanochorion and Epanohorion is a village located 15 km ESE of Argostoli and about 36 km W of Poros in the community of Omali on the island of Kefalonia. Epanochori is linked with a small road linking with the Travliata-Fragkata Road and the Argostoli-Poros Road.
Epanokamelavkion An epanokamelavkion (also epanokameloukion or epanokalimafko) is an item of clerical clothing worn by Orthodox Christian rassophor monastics, including bishops. It is a cloth veil, usually black, which is worn with a kamilavkion.
Epanterias Epanterias amplexus is a species of theropod dinosaur described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 Epanterias was a species of allosaur], and is considered by most paleontologists to be a species of [[Allosaurus rather than a separate genus. Epanterias may have rivaled Tyrannosaurus rex in size or exceeded it, with length estimates of around 13 or 14 meters.
Epaphroditus TribuneThis office was a military rank for Epaphroditus (three tribunes commanded a legion of the Roman army) but unique in that it had no military duties. Nero granted it to him because of the great income it carried.
Eparchy Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word, authentically latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something', but has the following specific meanings, both in political history and in the hierarchy of eastern churches.
Eparchy of Bačka The Eparchy of Bačka (Serbian: Бачка епархија or Bačka eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Bačka region, Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina and seat of the eparchy is in Novi Sad.
Eparchy of Banat The Eparchy of Banat (Serbian: Банатска епархија or Banatska eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Banat region, Serbia. It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, while the eparchy also include a small south-western part of Banat that belong to Belgrade.
Eparchy of Budimlje-Nikšić The Eparchy of Budimlje-Nikšić (Serbian: Епархија Будимљанско-Никшићка or Eparhija Budimljansko-Nikšićka) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. It belongs to the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.
Eparchy of Cetinje The Eparchy of Cetinje (Serbian: Цетињска епархија or Cetinjska eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the western Montenegro and Stara Zeta. It is mostly situated between Bjelopavlići and Podgorica to the Bojana River while the eparchy also include a small part of Herzegovina (from Grahovo and Čeva) The seat of the eparchy is in Cetinje.
Eparchy of KriĹľevci The Eparchy of KriĹľevci is the eparchy comprising the Croatian Greek Catholic Church, a Catholic Church sui iuris of the Byzantine Rite]. It spans the former Yugoslav republics of [[Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia; it mostly gathers its faithful among the Croats in central and eastern Croatia, Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia, and among the Rusyns and/or Ukrainians in eastern Croatia, northern Bosnia and northern Serbia.
Eparchy of Srem The Eparchy of Srem (Serbian: Сремска епархија or Sremska eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Srem region, Serbia. It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, while the eparchy also include a small south-eastern part of Srem that belong to Belgrade.
Eparchy of upper Karlovac The Eparchy of upper Karlovac (Serbian: Епархија горњокарловачка or Eparhija gornjokarlovačka) is an eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church seated in the city of Karlovac, Croatia. It covers the area of Banija, Kordun, Lika, Krbava, Gorski Kotar, as well as northern Croatia and Istria.
Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina The Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina (Serbian Cyrillic: Епархија захумско-херцеговачка) is a bishopric of the Serb Orthodox Church with its seat in Mostar, temporarily transferred to the Tvrdoš monastery near Trebinje, Republika Srpska,Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Epaulette Epaulette (pronunciation: ĕp'-ǝ-lĕt) a French word meaning "little shoulders" (epaule, referring to "shoulder"), originally meant only one type of ornamental shoulder piece or decoration used as insignia or rank by the military and other organizations.
Epaulette mate Epaulette mate, or Epaulet mate is, in its broadest definition, a checkmate where two parallel retreat squares for a checked king are occupied by his own pieces, preventing his escape. The most common Epaulette mate involves the king on his back rank, trapped between two rooks.
Epaulette shark The epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the western Pacific Ocean off Papua New Guinea and northern Australia, possibly occurring in Malaysia, Sumatra (Indonesia), and the Solomon Islands between latitudes 1° S and 26° S, to depths of 50 m. Its length is up to 1.
Epazote Epazote, Wormseed, Jesuit's Tea, Mexican Tea, or Herba Sancti Mariæ (Chenopodium ambrosioides) is a herb native to Central America, South America, and southern Mexico. Its name derives from the Nahuatl word for "skunk herb" (epatli = skunk + zotli = herb).
Epcot Area Resorts The Epcot Area Resorts are six resorts in Walt Disney World between Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios. It consists of Disney's Beach Club Resort, Disney's BoardWalk Resort, Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, Disney's Yacht Club Resort, the Walt Disney World Dolphin, and the Walt Disney World Swan.
Epea The European Prison Education Association or EPEA was founded in Bergen, Netherlands, in 1991, after two years of work by individuals who had discussed the idea at an international conference on prison education in Oxford in 1989 to suggest the setting up of an organisation that would also help to turn the aspirations of the new Council of Europe report, "Education in Prison," into a working reality.
Epeli Ganilau Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Ganilau, MC, MSD, (born 10 October 1951) is a Fijian soldier and statesman, who currently heads the National Alliance Party of Fiji. His career has previously encompassed such roles as Commander of the Fiji Military Forces and Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs).
Epeli Nailatikau Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, LVO, OBE, MSD, OStJ, (born 1941) (often referred to as Na Turaga Mai Naisogolaca) is a Fijian politician. From 2001 to 2006 he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives - the lower and more powerful chamber of the Fijian Parliament.
Epenthesis In poetry and phonetics, epenthesis (Greek epi "on" + en "in" + thesis "putting") is the insertion of a consonant, a vowel, or a whole syllable into a word, usually to facilitate pronunciation. The deletion of a sound is called elision.
Epeolatry Similar to idolatry and iconodulism, epeolatry literally means the worship of words. It derives from epos, which unlike logos more specifically means word in Greek, and was apparently coined in 1860 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
Eperisone Eperisone (full name: eperisone hydrochloride) is an antispasmodic drug, sold in Japan, India and Bangladesh under the brand name Myonal. Eperisone acts by relaxing both skeletal muscles and vascular smooth muscles, and demonstrates a variety of effects such as reduction of myotonia, improvement of circulation, and suppression of the pain reflex.
Eph receptor The largest sub-family of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases is the Eph family, comprised of 16 known receptors (14 found in mammals) with 9 known ephrin ligands (8 found in mammals). The Eph receptors were initially identified in 1987 following a search for tyrosine kinases with possible roles in cancer, earning their name from the erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular carcinoma cell line from which their cDNA was obtained (Murai et al.
Ephebe (Discworld) Ephebe is one of the countries of the Discworld, a fictional world created by Terry Pratchett in a series of novels of the same name. It is the Discworld analogue of Athenian Greece, and the name is an Anglization of the Greek concept of ephebos.
Ephebic Oath The Ephebic Oath was an oath sworn by young men of ancient Athens upon induction into the Ephebic College, graduation from which was required to attain status as citizens. The oath, as traditionally rendered in English, is as follows:
Ephebophilia Ephebophilia has been defined as a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to postpubescent adolescents. It comes from the (ephebos) variously defined as "one arrived at puberty", "a youth of 18 who underwent his dokimasia and was registered as a citizen (Athens)", and "arriving at man's estate"; and φιλία (-philia) "love".
Ephedra Several species of Ephedra have traditionally been used by indigenous people for a variety of medicinal purposes, and are a likely candidate for the Soma plant of Indo-Iranian religion. One particular species, Ephedra sinica, known as 麻黃 ma huang, was used in Traditional Chinese Medicine up to 5,000 years ago for the treatment of asthma and hay fever, as well as for the common cold.
Ephemera Ephemera refers to written and printed matter published with a short intended lifetime. In the world of collectors common types of ephemera include letters, advertising trade cards, cigarette cards, airsickness bags, posters, postcards, bookmarks, baseball cards, tickets, greeting cards, stock certificates, photographs and zines.
Ephemeral film Ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time. That is, the genre excludes most well-known film genres such as western film and comedies, and is composed of e.
Ephemeral Fantasia Ephemeral Fantasia is a RPG for the Playstation 2 videogame console, the descriptive name of the title aptly gives away a key point in the story. The game is known in some circles for its often absurd default character names such as "Mouse" for the main character.
Ephemeral port An [port is a TCP] or [[User Datagram Protocol|UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication. This allocation is temporary and is valid for the duration of the connection opened by the application using the protocols.
Ephemeralization Ephemeralization is a term coined by Buckminster Fuller to refer to the tendency for current technology to be replaced by much smaller, lighter, and more efficient technology. Fuller sometimes used the illustration of a compact Telstar satellite, weighing just a few hundred pounds yet functionally replacing some 750,000 tons of transatlantic cable, as an example of this concept.
Ephemeridae Ephemeridae is a family of mayflies with about 150 described species found throughout the world except Australia and Oceania. These are generally quite large mayflies (up to 35 mm) with either two or three very long tails.
Ephemeris An ephemeris (plural: ephemerides) (from the Greek word ephemeros = daily) was, traditionally, a table providing the positions (given in a Cartesian coordinate system, or in right ascension and declination or, for astrologers, in longitude along the zodiacal ecliptic), of the Sun, the Moon, the planets, asteroids or comets in the sky at a given moment in time; the astrological positions are usually given for either noon or midnight depending on the particular ephemeris that is used. In 1554, Johannes Stadius published a well-known work known as Ephemerides novae at auctae that attempted to give accurate planetary positions.
Ephemeris time Ephemeris Time (ET) is a now obsolete time scale used in ephemerides of celestial bodies, in particular the Sun (as observed from the Earth), Moon, planets, and other members of the solar system. This is distinct from Universal Time (UT): the time scale based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis.
Ephesus Ephesus (Greek: , ), was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster River (Küçük Menderes) flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). It was founded by colonists principally from Athens.
Ephia Ephia is a physical theater artist, dancer and the creator of a movement philosophy called “Unsound Body”, which concentrates on situations of physical instability, fragility, connection with nature and the deconstruction of the logic of performance. The first phase of her career can be described as having strong ties to butoh.
Ephialtes Ephialtes (Greek: ) was an ancient Athenian politician and an early leader of the democratic movement there. In the late 460s BC, he oversaw reforms that diminished the power of the Areopagus, a traditional bastion of conservatism, which are considered by many modern historians to have marked the beginning of the "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.

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