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The Earl and the Girl The Earl and the Girl is a musical comedy in two acts by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll. It was produced by William Greet and opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 10 December 1903 and transferred to the Lyric Theatre on 12 September 1904, running for a total of 371 performances.
The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite, by Christopher Avery, Andrew Fairbanks and Richard Zeckhauser, concerns early admission to colleges in the United States. The authors combine survey research with an empirial analysis of more than 500,000 applications to 14 elite colleges.
The Early Asimov The Early Asimov, or Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story.
The Early Ayn Rand The Early Ayn Rand is a collection of unpublished early short stories, plays, and excerpts from We The Living and The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand and published after her death in 1984. The collection was compiled and edited by the heir of Rand's estate, Leonard Peikoff, and, although they were never meant to be published, show Rand's development as a writer before she became famous.
The Early Days The Early Days DVD set features an exhaustive, thoroughly complete history of the early years of Iron Maiden, from their humble beginnings in London's East End in 1975 through their triumphant Piece of Mind album and tour in 1983. The set features a large collection of rare videos and concert footage, as well as interviews with former members such as Terry Rance, Ron Matthews, Terry Wapram, and Bob Sawyer.
The Early Chapters of Revelation The Early Chapters of Revelation is a 3 CDs box-set released by Swedish heavy metal band Therion in 2000. Box-set contains remastered and rereleased first three albums of the official Therion's discography: Of Darkness...
The Early Years '74 '75 '76 Rare Live and Unreleased The Early Years '74 '75 '76 Rare Live and Unreleased is a mish-mash of early live and demo recordings by The Stranglers. As can be imagined, given the age of these recordings and that the best recording equipment was probably not available, the sound quality is fairly poor; however, this material stands as a rare (and welcome) insight into the band's evolution.
The Early Years (DK) "The Early Years" contains the non-album singles Gasolin' released 1970-73 with the exception of "Uh-Lu-La-Lu" that was released in 1978. Especially the first seven songs released 1970-71 are interesting as they show a band looking for a musical identity.
The Early Years Live The Early Years Live is a video album of various live performances of the Dead Kennedys, filmed from 1978 to 1981 by Joe Reis, owner of the punk-centric video studio Target Video. It was officially released on VHS in July 1987 (and heavily pirated some years afterward) and on DVD in 2001.
The Earth Institute The Earth Institute was established at Columbia University in 1995. The research institute's stated mission is to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor.
The Earth Organization The Earth Organization is an independent, international non-profit, non-partisan, conservation and environmental organization, with new solutions, committed to the creative, responsible rehabilitation of planet Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms.
The Earth Will Swallow You The Earth Will Swallow You is a film by The Hanson Brothers detailing the summer 2000 tour of Athens, Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic, though a substantial portion of the film is behind-the-scenes footage of studio sessions, travelling, and interviews. It includes footage from their performances at larger venues such as the Red Rocks Amphitheatre and San Francisco's Warfield Theater.
The Earth's Second Moon, 1846-present In 1846, Frederic Petit, director of the observatory of Toulouse, stated that a second moon of the Earth had been discovered. It had been seen by two observers, Lebon and Dassier, at Toulouse and by a third, Lariviere, at Artenac, during the early evening of March 21 1846.
The Earthquake in Chile "The Earthquake in Chile" (in German Das Erdbeben in Chili) is a short story written by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). It tells of events in the days around the horrific earthquake in Santiago in 1647.
The East Bay Sessions The East Bay Sessions was a unofficial Smash Mouth CD released in 1999. Smash Mouth was recording at Red Clay studios and the studio decided to take material that was recorded and release it without permission of the band.
The East is Blue The East is Blue is an essay by Salman Rushdie, published in 2004, about pornography in Asia and the Muslim world. The Muslim society in the East is considered to be closed and very shy on the issue of sex, but is currently being bombarded by the influxes of globalization.
The East Is Red "The East Is Red" () is a song that was the de facto anthem of the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The lyrics of the song were attributed to, Li Youyuan, a farmer from northern Shaanxi, and the melody was from a local folk song.
The EastAfrican The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya by the Nation Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. The EastAfrican is circulated in Kenya and the other countries of East Africa including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
The Eclipse The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide is Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first memoir and fourth book. The narrative concerns her brother's suicide and the death of her ex-fiance, notorious Chicago-born GQ editor Michael VerMeulen.
The Ecology Channel The Ecology Channel is a now defunct Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel with programming on environmental, ecological, and human sustainability issues. The channel was owned by WETV and Ecology Communications Inc.
The Economic History Society The Economic History Society exists to support research and teaching in economic and social history. The Society also acts as a pressure group working to influence government policy in the interests of history, alongside other societies, such as the Social History Society, the Agricultural History Society, the Urban History Group and the Association of Business Historians, and in concert with professional bodies such as the Royal Historical Society, the Historical Association, the History in Universities Defence Group and the Academy of Learned Societies in Social Science.
The Economic Times The Economic Times, launched in 1961, is India's largest financial daily and the world's second largest financial daily after The Wall Street Journal. It is published by India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, (This company along with its other group companies are more popularly known as The Times Group), which also publishes The Times of India, the Navbharat Times, the Maharashtra Times, Femina, and Filmfare.
The Economist editorial stance The Economist was first published in September 1843 by James Wilson to "take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." This phrase is quoted on the newspaper's contents page.
The Economist Group The Economist Group delivers a series of publications and services under The Economist brand, such as The Economist (called a newspaper for historical reasons, but to all appearances a weekly news magazine), Economist.com, Economist Intelligence Unit, Economist Conferences, Intelligent Life and The World In.
The Economist's Worlds Most Livable Cities The Economist's Worlds Most Livable Cities is a World's Most Livable Cities list published by The Economist. It is based on the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey on the basis of each city's cultural attributes, climate, cost of living, and social conditions such as crime rates and health care.
The Ed Schultz Show The Ed Schultz Show, hosted by Ed Schultz, is broadcast from Fargo, North Dakota on a network of over 100 stations (as of October 2005), including seven of the 10 largest radio markets. He is also on XM and Sirius satellite radio; his show is often carried as part of a lineup that includes one or more Air America Radio shows.
The Eddies The Eddies were the only early-1980s punk rock band in Williamsburg, Virginia. Future GWAR guitarist Michael Derks and future Labradford bassist Robert Donne comprised the core of The Eddies, burning through a series of drummers who barely stayed around long enough to learn all the songs.
The Eden Express The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about his experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery. The tendency to insanity he acknowledged may be partly hereditary, influencing him to take up the study of medicine and orthomolecular psychiatry.
The Edgar Centre The Edgar Centre is a large multi-purpose indoor sports venue in Dunedin, New Zealand, on the shore of Otago Harbour close to Andersons Bay Inlet. It is the home venue of the Otago Nuggets basketball and Otago Rebels netball teams.
The Edge (film) The Edge is a 1997 survival and relationship drama film directed by Lee Tamahori starring Anthony Hopkins as billionaire magazine publicist Charles Morse and Alec Baldwin as Robert Green, one of his ambitious employees. Harold Perrineau also co-stars as the group's photographer Stephen.
The Edge Chronicles The Edge Chronicles is a Fantasy children's book series written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell. Originally published in the United Kingdom, the series has since been published in the United States as well.
The Edge Chronicles Twig Saga There are nine books (but ten planned) in The Edge Chronicles that revolve around three central characters: Quintinius Verginix (also known as Cloud Wolf), his son Twig, and Twig's grandson, Rook Barkwater, all in the time when they are about 14-17 years old. There are three books for Twig; "Beyond the Deepwoods," "Stormchaser," and "Midnight over Sanctaphrax.
The Edge Magazine The Edge Magazine is an entertainment magazine published in Columbus, GA and is distributed to many cities in Georgia and Alabama. The magazine covers music, movies, television, and sports on a national and local level.
The Edge of Destruction The Edge of Destruction (also known as Inside the Spaceship, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 2 weekly parts on February 8 and February 15, 1964.
The Edge of Etiquette The Edge of Etiquette was a punk band formed by Kirk R. Thatcher and Mark Mangini for the performance of the song I Hate You, used in the motion pictures Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and Back to the Beach (1987).
The Edible Woman The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world suddenly slips strangely out of focus. As a result, Marian McAlpin finds herself unable to eat: first meat, then eggs, and finally even vegetables become abhorrent to her.
The Edinburgh School The Edinburgh School refers to a group of 20th century artists connected with Edinburgh. Most studied at Edinburgh College of Art during or soon after the First World War, and some taught there together in the mid-20th century.
The Edmonton Clinic The Edmonton Clinic, formerly known as the Health Sciences Ambulatory Learning Centre (HSALC), will be a multidisciplinary health science facility located on the University of Alberta main campus, in Edmonton, Alberta, CA. It has been referred to as "The Mayo Clinic of the North".
The Edsel Show The Edsel Show was an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Company's new Edsel cars. It was a milestone in Bing Crosby's career, and was notable as the first full-length television program to use the new technology of videotape.
The Edsels The Edsels were an American Doo-Wop group active during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name of the group was originally The Essos, after gas station Esso, but was changed to match the then-new Ford automobile, the Edsel.
The Education of a Christian Prince The Education of a Christian Prince is a Renaissance 'how-to' book for princes, advising them on how to be a 'good Christian' prince. The book was dedicated to Prince Charles, who would later become Habsburg Emperor Charles V.
The Education of Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams purports to be the autobiography of Henry Adams (1838-1918). It in fact records the author's struggle, in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth.
The Education of Charlie Banks The Education of Charlie Banks is an independent picture filmed in Providence, Rhode Island. The film—expected for a 2007 release—is directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Eva Amurri.
The Education of Shelby Knox The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming of age story about Shelby Knox, a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and aired on PBS’s Point Of View series in 2005.
The Edukators The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei; literally "the fat years are past", translated within the film as "the days of plenty are numbered") is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the "Golden Palm Award" in 2004 Cannes Film Festival, it stars Daniel BrĂĽhl and Julia Jentsch.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher (many of his works focus on science or youth), in 1964, and was the 1971 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Obie, and the New York Drama Critics Award. It was adapted into a film in 1972 directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife Joanne Woodward and daughter Nell Potts.
The Effect of the Internet on Language and Communication As long as humans have existed and communicated with each other, they have strived to enhance the methods of doing so. The inventions of the printing press, the telegraph, and the telephone each demonstrate a landmark improvement in long-distance, instantaneous communication.
The Effigies The Effigies are "considered" one of the most importantearly punk rock] groups in [[Chicago in the 1980s. The band, first formed in 1980, was active for approximately a decade, undergoing multiple personnel changes, with frontman John Kezdy the only constant, before disbanding in 1990 The band released 5 LPs] and several [[Extended play|EPs, most on Ruthless Records and distributed by Enigma.
The Egg and I The Egg and I, first published in 1945, is a humorous memoir by American author Betty MacDonald about her adventures and travails as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. It was a blockbuster success as a novel, and was adapted into a movie and short-lived TV series, starring Patricia Kirkland, with Nancy Carroll as her mother (Carroll was Kirkland's real mother).
The Egg Tree The Egg Tree (ISBN 0-689-71568-4) is a 1950 book by Katherine Milhous that won the 1951 Caldecott Medal, based on Milhous' family tradition. It tells the classic tale of a Pennsylvania Dutch Easter, with its main characters being Katy and Carl.
The Ego and Its Own The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; also translated as The Individual and His Property; a literal translation would read The Sole One and His Property) is the main work by German philosopher Max Stirner, published in 1844.
The Ego Has Landed The Ego Has Landed is a compilation album by English pop singer Robbie Williams, released in 1999 in the United States only. It is not classed as one of his own solo albums as it was a compilation of his first two albums.
The Egoist (periodical) The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. It was founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to her The New Freewoman.
The Egypt Game The Egypt Game (1967) is a Newberry Honor-winning novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The story, set in California, follows the life of 11-year-old April Hall, the Spanish daughter of an actress sent to live with her grandmother, and Melanie Ross, her 11-year-old African-American neighbor.
The Egyptian The Egyptian (in Finnish Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949.
The Echo (1915 film) The Echo was a 1915 American silent short film directed by Tom Ricketts starring Charlotte Burton, B. Reeves Easton, Perry Banks, Louise Lester, Vivian Rich, Jack Richardson (actor), David Lythgoe and Harry von Meter.
The Echo (Irish Newspaper) The Echo is a regional newspaper for parts of Dublin, Ireland. Founded over 24 years ago by David Kennedy in the front room of his house, and originally called The Tallaght Echo, the paper has grown to cover the adjacent suburbs of Clondalkin, Ballyfermot and Lucan.
The Eight (novel) The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is Katherine Neville's debut novel. Compared to the works of Umberto Eco when it first appeared, it is a postmodern thriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must recover the pieces of the Montglane Service, a mysterious chess set once owned by Charlemagne and involved in various conspiracies.
The Eight Armed Ayurveda Ayurveda was formally organized into eight sections or branches called Astanga (eight-armed) Ayurveda. A founding sage was chosen at the founding medical conference to head a committee on each branch and to write the defining text.
The Eight Doctors The Eight Doctors is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the first of the Eighth Doctor Adventures range and features the Eighth Doctor and introduces his new companion, Sam Jones.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine published in New York and established by Joseph Weydemeyer. Later editions (such as an 1869 Hamburg edition) were entitled The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (often referred to as just Eighties Matchbox) are a psychosis rock band from Brighton, England, formed in 1999. The band's sound is dark and blues-influenced, with wild crooning vocals, deep basslines and tom-heavy tribal drumming.
The Elder Scrolls Construction Set The Elder Scrolls (TES) Construction Set is editing software for the video games The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the Morrowind version was shipped with the game while the Oblivion version is available for download. It gives full and complete control of the game's content to anyone willing to spend some time figuring it out.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine Oblivion Downloadable Content Collection is a collection of official plug-ins for the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PC. The PC collection includes the PC versions of all the downloadable content available for Oblivion including Knights of the Nine, Wizard's Tower, Orrery, Mehrunes' Razor, Theives Den, Vile Lair, Horse Armor Pack and Spell Tomes.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (commonly known as 'Oblivion') is a fantasy-themed action oriented role-playing game developed by Bethesda Softworks LLC for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. On September 27 2006 it was announced as a PlayStation 3 launch title, and a PSP version titled The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles is the title for an upcoming expansion pack to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It is currently set to be released only for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360 in Spring 2007.
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar The Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar is a RPG developed exclusively for Java-enabled cell phones in the style and scope of its fellow The Elder Scrolls games. It is one of four mobile TES games published by Bethesda Softworks.
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion is a PlayStation Portable adaptation of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC action role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The PSP version takes place in a different setting along with a new and original story.
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey is an Role-playing game developed exclusively for N-Gage in the style and scope of its fellow The Elder Scrolls games. It is one of four mobile TES games and is published by Bethesda Softworks
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold is a RPG developed exclusively for Java-enabled cell phones in the style and scope of its fellow The Elder Scrolls games. It is one of four mobile TES games and is published by Bethesda Softworks.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Mobile The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Mobile is a mobile phone role-playing game developed by Vir2l Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is an adaptation of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and as such it is set within Cyrodiil, the main province of Tamriel.
The Elect Lady The Elect Lady is an 1888 novel by George Macdonald. The story is centered upon three main characters: Andrew, a poor, scholarly, godly man; Dawtie, a simple servant girl who cares for animals; and Alexa, the landlord's daughter and the landlord himself.
The Electors' Action Movement TEAM (short for The Electors' Action Movement) was a centrist political party from 1968 to the mid-1980s at the municipal level in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It fielded candidates for the office of mayor as well as for positions on the city council, school board, and park board.
The Electric Indian The Electric Indian was a studio group assembled by Bernie Binnick, co-founder of Swan Records. Influenced by the popularity of American Indians in the media, Binnick put together the group to record an Indian-esque instrumental, "Keem-O-Sabe.
The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology is an album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released in 2003. It is comprised of two CDs consisting of a collection of the best of Satriani's electric guitar tracks remastered.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a literary journalism novel written by Tom Wolfe early in his career in 1968. Using techniques from the genre of hysterical realism and pioneering new journalism, he tells the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they drive across the country in a DayGlo painted school bus dubbed Furthur, reaching personal and collective revelations through use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
The Electric Playground The Electric Playground is a TV show focused on video games. It is written and directed by Victor Lucas and Glen Lougheed, produced by Greedy Productions (Lucas' production company), and features reviews, strategies, hints, and interviews with people in the video game industry.
The Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes are a rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s, and contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of Easy Rider. After a period in which they had little control over their music, they disappeared for a period of 30 years, reforming as a recording and touring band in 2001.
The Electric Soft Parade The Electric Soft Parade are a Brighton based indie rock band comprising siblings Alex and Tom White, who are the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians who they record and perform live with; Matthew Twaites from Restlesslist on bass and Mathew Priest from Dodgy on drums.
The Electrifying Mojo Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson (b ?) was a Detroit disc jockey whose on-air journey of musical and social development shaped a generation of music-lovers in Detroit and throughout southeastern Michigan and Canada and was of importance to the development of Detroit Techno.
The Elegant Universe The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (ISBN 0-375-70811-1) is a book by Brian Greene published in 2000 which introduces string theory and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
The Elegants The Elegants is a doo-wop band that was started in 1958 by Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogano, Carmen Romano and James Mochella in South Beach, Staten Island. Before their nursery-rhyme-inspired song, "Little Star", became a number one hit, the band usually performed informally under the boardwalk by their homes.
The Elementary Particles (film) The Elementary Particles is a 2006 film based on the controversial novel Les Particules Élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq. The film was written and directed by Oskar Roehler and produced by Oliver Berben and Bernd Eichinger.
The Elements (Beach Boys song) The Elements would have been a suite of short sections by The Beach Boys for the abandoned album SMiLE that represented Earth's major elements (fire and water). Most of this suite was recorded but never finalized in its original form.
The Elements (song) "The Elements" (1959) is a song by Tom Lehrer which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found on his albums More Songs by Tom Lehrer and the live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.
The Elements of Style The Elements of Style ("Strunk & White") is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States.
The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 semi-biographical film that tells the story of the 19th century British deformed celebrity, Joseph Merrick. It stars Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones.
The Elephant Show [Elephant Show (from the second season onward, Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show) was a Canadian] children's television show from [[1984 until 1988. The show premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and TVOntario.
The Elephant Six Collective The Elephant Six Collective (formally The Elephant 6 Recording Company or simply Elephant 6) were a group of American musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo and Of Montreal.
The Eleventh Hour (book) The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery (1989) is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base about an elephant who, on his eleventh birthday, wants to give his ten friends a feast. However, at the time they are to eat (11:00), they are startled to find that someone has already eaten all the food.
The Elf Albums Ronnie James Dio: The Elf Albums is a CD compilation released in 1991. It consists of Elf's second and third albums, Carolina County Ball (titled LA 59 in the US) and Trying To Burn The Sun, in their entirety on a single CD.
The Elfin Knight "The Elfin Knight" (Roud #12; Child #2) is a traditional Scottish folk ballad of which there are many versions, all dealing with supernatural occurrences, and the commission to perform impossible tasks. In the oldest versions of this ballad (15th century), an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task; she responds with a list of tasks which he must first perform, thus evading rape.
The Elfstones of Shannara The Elfstones of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks, the first sequel to The Sword of Shannara and the second book in The Original Shannara Trilogy. It provides the history of the Elves, which was only hinted at in the preceding story, and follows Wil Ohmsford, grandson of Shea (the hero of the first book) and inheritor of the Elfstones.
The Elgins The Elgins were an American singing group for the Motown label, active from the late 1950s to 1967. Founding members Robert Fleming, Norbert McClean, and Johnny Dawson recorded for Motown as The Sensations, The Five Emeralds, and The Downbeats before adding Saundra Edwards (Mallett) and adopting the name "The Elgins" in 1962.
The Elite The Elite were a team of super-powered anti-heroes in the DC Comics universe taking their early influences from The Authority. They made their appearance in What's so funny about Truth, Justice & the American Way?
The Elites The Elites are an online community that offer a safe haven for those that wish to have a close knit community that is always courteous and friendly. They were founded back in Spring of 2005 as a Google Group and then moved to an Invisionfree board.
The Ellen Show The Ellen Show was a television sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres that aired during the 2001-2002 season on CBS. It was DeGeneres' second attempt at a sitcom, after her more successful These Friends of Mine/Ellen on ABC (1994-1998), but it was unable to garner strong ratings and was quickly canceled.
The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls is a voluntary-aided secondary school for girls aged 11-18 years, located in the London borough of Ealing. It was awarded beacon status by the government in recognition of its academic excellence, and as a result became a specialist school for Mathematics and Science.
The Elliots The Elliots is a Swedish] [[indie rock band, formed in Gothenburg in 2005. The current members are Petur Olafsson on vocals; Christian Rosengren on guitar, bass and vocals; Fredrik Berggren on guitar and bass and Mathias Flodin on drums.
The Ellison School The Ellison School is a private, nonsectarian coeducational day school located in Vineland, New Jersey, United States, serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The school has a total enrollment of 111 students.

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