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- archaic Semitic language, probably the most ancient to survive in substantial form, dating from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. As a Northern Central Semitic language, Eblaite is affiliated with the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) family of languages.
- Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, Baroness (Freifrau) von
- Austrian novelist who portrayed life among both the poor and the aristocratic.
- Ebola
- virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever; outbreaks in primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees as well as humans have been recorded. The disease is characterized by extreme fever, rash, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ebola Surveillance Centre
- (from the article "Gabon") ...as water shortages caused by a broken pump at the Libreville filtration centre forced people to turn to untreated water supplies. On February 1 the government announced that it would build an Ebola Surveillance Centre in the eastern forest region ...
- Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire
- (from the article "Ebola") ...Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire, and Ebola-Reston, named for their outbreak locations, ...
- Ebola-Reston
- (from the article "Ebola") ...in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire, and Ebola-Reston, named for their outbreak locations, have been described. An unnamed ...
- Ebola-Sudan
- (from the article "Ebola") ...related to the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire, and Ebola-Reston, named for ...
- Ebola-Zaire
- (from the article "Ebola") ...is closely related to the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire, and Ebola-Reston, ...
- Eboli
- town, Campania regione, southern Italy, east of the city of Salerno. The higher and older section of the town dominates the Sele Plain. Historical monuments include a castle of the Colonna family and the small Romanesque-style Basilica of San Pietro ...
- Ebolowa
- town, southwestern Cameroon. It lies 70 miles (112 km) south-southwest of Yaounde, at the intersection of roads to Kribi (west), Yaounde (northeast), and Gabon (south). It is a centre of the cocoa trade, and an agricultural school operates experimental plantations ...
- Ebonics
- dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans. Many scholars hold that Ebonics, like several English creoles, developed from contacts between nonstandard varieties of colonial English and African languages. Its exact origins continue to be debated, ... [1 Related Articles]
- ebony
- wood of several species of trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), widely distributed in the tropics. The best is very heavy, almost black, and derived from heartwood only. Because of its colour, durability, hardness, and ability to take a ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ebony
- monthly magazine geared to a middle-class African American readership. It was the first black-oriented magazine in the United States to attain national circulation. [2 Related Articles]
- eboshi
- (from the article "shozoku") The priest's headgear may be either the black lacquered-silk eboshi, for less formal attire, or the more elaborate kanmuri, worn with the saifuku costume. Priests usually carry a shaku, a flat wooden sceptre, either held in the hand or thrust ...
- Eboue, Felix
- black colonial administrator who reached the highest level of the French colonial administrative system and played a crucial role in the adherence of French Equatorial Africa to Charles de Gaulle's Free France in 1940.
- Ebrahim II
- (from the article "Mosaferid Dynasty") Ebrahim II (ruled 997-c. 1030) was able to reestablish Mosaferid control over Daylam and to expand southward as far as Zanjan. After Ebrahim's death, however, the history of the dynasty becomes fragmentary; Ebrahim's descendants ruled in Daylam, first as vassals ...
- Ebrahim Simjuri
- (from the article "Simjurid Dynasty") ...originally a slave of the Samanid king Esma'il. Ahmad was appointed governor of Seistan by the Samanids in c. 912. His descendant Ebrahim Simjuri became governor of Khorasan during the reign of the Samanid Nuh I. Ebrahim's son Abu...
- Ebro River
- river, the longest in Spain. The Ebro rises in springs at Fontibre near Reinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains, in the Cantabria province of northern Spain. It flows for 565 miles (910 km) in a southeasterly course to its delta on ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ebro Valley
- (from the article "Pyrenees") South of the Central Pyrenees the valley of the Ebro-which runs in a general northwest-southeast direction and is blocked by the southwest-northeast-trending Catalonian ranges near the eastern coast of Spain-acts as a "little continent." Hence, its climate is one of ...
- Ebroin
- mayor of the palace in the Frankish kingdom of Neustria for some 20-odd years, from 656. [3 Related Articles]
- Ebsen, Buddy
- American actor, dancer, artist, and writer (b. April 2, 1908, Belleville, Ill.-d. July 6, 2003, Torrance, Calif.), began his career dancing with his younger sister, Vilma, in nightclubs, in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in a movie before going it alone ...
- ebullism
- formation of bubbles in the bodily fluids because of an extreme reduction in the surrounding pressure. Aircraft pilots are susceptible to ebullism when they venture into the upper atmosphere; the higher the pilot goes, the lower the surrounding pressure becomes.
- Eburon glacial stage
- division of Pleistocene time in northern Europe (the Pleistocene epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Eburon glacial stage preceded the Waal interglacial stage and followed the Tegelen (Tiglian) interglacial stage, which were both ...
- Eburones
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...the coast of northern France and in Flanders lived the Morini; to the north of them, between the Schelde River and the sea, the Menapii; in Artois, the Nervii; between the Schelde and the Rhine, the Eburones and the Aduatuci; ...
- Eca de Queiros, Jose Maria de
- novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist and is certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist. [2 Related Articles]
- ecarte
- card game usually played for a stake with nonplayers making side bets. The game was highly popular in France and England in the 19th century but declined thereafter.
- Ecbatana
- ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadan (q.v.), Iran. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian kings and one of the residences of the Parthian kings. ... [7 Related Articles]
- Ecca Series
- (from the article "Africa") ...Channel. Elsewhere, traces of the Permian are of continental rather than marine origin and are included in the Karoo System in South Africa. There, the Lower Permian strata are known as the Ecca Series and are divided into three groups: ...
- Eccard, Johannes
- German composer known for his setting of the year's cycle of Lutheran chorales. [1 Related Articles]
- Ecce Homo
- (Latin: "Behold the Man"), theme prevalent in western Christian art of the 15th to 17th century, so called after the words of Pontius Pilate to the Jews who demanded the crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:5). Paintings on this theme generally ... [1 Related Articles]
- eccentric anomaly
- (from the article "anomaly") ...is the angle between lines drawn from the Sun to the perihelion B and to a point (not shown) moving in the orbit at a uniform rate corresponding to the period of revolution of the planet. The eccentric anomaly is ...
- eccentric weaving
- (from the article "tapestry") ...the famed Kashmir shawls and, along with many other crafts, was probably introduced into Kashmir from Persia, in the 16th century. In contemporary European tapestries this technique, usually called eccentric weaving, occasionally has been used in making some of the ...
- eccentric-and-rod mechanism
- arrangement of mechanical parts used to obtain a reciprocating straight-line motion from a rotating shaft; it serves the same purpose as a slider-crank mechanism and is particularly useful when the required stroke of the reciprocating motion is small in comparison ... [1 Related Articles]
- eccentricity
- (from the article "celestial mechanics") ...of the ellipse. A focus is separated from the centre C of the ellipse by the fractional part of the semimajor axis given by the product ae, where e < 1 is called the eccentricity. Thus, e = 0 corresponds ...
- eccentricity
- (from the article "conic section") ...plane curves that are the paths (loci) of a point moving so that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point (the focus) to the distance from a fixed line (the directrix) is a constant, called the eccentricity of ...
- Eccles, Henry F.
- (from the article "logistics") After World War II the most notable effort to produce a theory of logistics was by a retired rear admiral, Henry E. Eccles, whose Logistics in the National Defense appeared in 1959. Expanding Thorpe's trinity to five (strategy, tactics, logistics, ...
- Eccles, Sir John Carew
- Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are communicated or repressed by nerve cells (neurons). [3 Related Articles]
- Eccles, William Henry
- British physicist who pioneered in the development of radio communication.
- Ecclesia
- ("gathering of those summoned"), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. Its roots lay in the Homeric agora, the meeting of the people. The Athenian Ecclesia, for which exists the most detailed record, was already functioning in Draco's ... [7 Related Articles]
- ecclesia
- (from the article "Christadelphian") The local organization, called an ecclesia, is the principal unit of government in the group; there is no general overall organization, and no distinction is made between clergy and laity. Ruling or serving brethren are elected and minister without compensation. ...
- Ecclesiastes
- (Preacher), an Old Testament book of wisdom literature that belongs to the third section of the biblical canon, known as the Ketuvim (Writings). In the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes stands between the Song of Solomon and Lamentations and with them belongs ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ecclesiastical Commissioners
- (from the article "Church Commissioners") The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were created by act of Parliament in 1836. Subsequent legislation greatly extended their administrative powers and also vested in them a great deal of church property. The income from the property was primarily used to augment the ...
- ecclesiastical court
- tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen. Although such courts are found today among the Jews (see bet din) and among the Muslims (Shari'ah) as well ... [5 Related Articles]
- ecclesiastical education
- (from the article "Russia") There were also ecclesiastical schools. The seminaries and theological academies not only trained future members of the episcopate and officials of the Holy Synod but also staffed government bureaus on the middle and higher levels and produced the first native ...
- ecclesiastical heraldry
- the conventions affecting the use of the arms associated with the church's administrative and collegiate bodies and the portrayal of the arms of clerics. Abbeys, priories, and dioceses have their own arms, and high ecclesiastics have always impaled these with ...
- ecclesiastical rights
- (from the article "Italy") ...Honorius III aimed at stopping the growth of heresy. Gregory's rhetoric appealed to papal claims based on the Donation of Constantine and expressed his earlier concerns about Frederick's abuse of ecclesiastical rights.
- Ecclesiastical Titles Act
- (from the article "Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, Viscount Amberley Of Amberley And Of Ardsalla") ...the franchise. But more significant, in the 1850s the national temper had changed. An age of reform had given way to a mood of self-complacency, even of belligerence. This was already evident in the Ecclesiastical Titles Act of 1851, which ...
- Ecclesiasticus
- deuterocanonical biblical work (accepted in the Roman Catholic canon but noncanonical for Jews and Protestants), an outstanding example of the wisdom genre of religious literature that was popular in the early Hellenistic period of Judaism (3rd century BC to 3rd ... [2 Related Articles]
- ecclesiolae in ecclesia
- (Latin: "little churches within the church"), the revival in 1727 of the Hussite Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren, within the framework of the established Lutheran church of Saxony. [2 Related Articles]
- Ecclesiological Society
- (from the article "Western architecture") Pugin's doctrines were taken up by the Anglican reformers, the Tractarians of Oxford and the Camdenians of Cambridge. The Ecclesiological Society, into which the Camden Society was transformed in 1845, so successfully aroused the liturgical enthusiasm of the clergy that ...
- ecclesiology
- (from the article "Christianity") Believing that divine truth and human salvation are at stake, Christians take the formulation of doctrine with the utmost seriousness. Ecclesiology, in which the church itself is the topic of study, is integral to the process, for it addresses the ...
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