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East Lindsey: district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, along the North Sea in the eastern part of the county. East Lindsey's most significant physiographic component is the chalk upland of the Wolds, about 10 miles (16 km) wide and ...
East Liverpool: city, Columbiana county, eastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River (there bridged to Newell and Chester, W.Va.), at a point where Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia meet. Founded in 1798 by Thomas Fawcett, an Irish Quaker, it was ...
East London: port city, Eastern province, South Africa. It lies at the mouth of the Buffalo River along the Indian Ocean.
East Lothian: council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the southern coast of the Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh. Much of East Lothian is an undulating coastal lowland, but it extends inland to include part of the upland ...
East Malaysia: wing of the 13-state federation of Malaysia; it consists of the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo and is separated from mainland Peninsular, or West, Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula by some ...
East Moline: city, Rock Island county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, some 160 miles (260 km) west of Chicago. With Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, it forms a complex known as the Quad ...
East Northamptonshire: district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, south-central England, in the northeastern part of the county. The district is rural and agricultural in character except in the extreme south. It is covered with fertile glacial drift, and the gently rolling ...
East Orange: city, Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Newark on the northwest. Originally settled in 1678 by 30 families from Newark, it was set off from Orange township and established as a municipality in 1863. Mainly a residential suburb, it ...
East Pacific Rise: submarine linear mountain range on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean, roughly paralleling the west coast of South America.
East Point: city, Fulton county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., a southwestern suburb of Atlanta. Established as the eastern terminus for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad (completed 1853), it was an important defense post for the South during the American Civil War and ...
East Providence: city, Providence county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S., on the eastern side of the Seekonk and Providence rivers, opposite Providence city. The site was long occupied by Wampanoag Indians before Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island colony, established himself there ...
East Prussia: former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). After World War II its territory was ...
East Rajasthan Uplands: highlands in southeastern Rajasthan state, northwestern India, with an area of about 23,200 square miles (60,000 square km), east of the Aravali (Aravalli) Range. The uplands range in height from 820 feet (250 m) in the northeast to 1,620 feet ...
East Renfrewshire: council area, west-central Scotland, just southwest of the city of Glasgow. It forms a part of the historic county of Renfrewshire and covers an area of upland farming country in the south and west, rising to an elevation of 1,230 ...
East Riding of Yorkshire: unitary authority and geographic county, historic county of Yorkshire, eastern England. It extends from the Yorkshire Wolds in the north to the River Humber in the south and from the North Sea in the east to the River Derwent in ...
East River: navigable tidal strait linking Upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound, New York City, U.S. It separates Manhattan Island from Brooklyn and Queens. About 16 miles (26 km) long and 600-4,000 feet (200-1200 m) wide, it connects with the ...
East Saint Louis: city, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River opposite St. Louis, Missouri. About 1797 a ferry station was established on the site by Captain James Piggott, a pioneer and Illinois territorial judge, and in 1818 ...
East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917: (July 2), bloody outbreak of violence in East St. Louis, Ill., stemming specifically from the employment of black workers in a factory holding government contracts. It was the worst of many incidents of racial antagonism in the United States during ...
East Scotia Basin: submarine trough of the eastern Scotia Sea, a part of the South Atlantic Ocean southeast of Argentina. Its midpoint lies about 1,300 miles (2,000 km) east of Tierra del Fuego; the basin extends about 700 miles (1,100 km) east-west and ...
East Sea: (Pacific Ocean): see Japan, Sea of.
East Siberian Sea: part of the Arctic Ocean between the New Siberian Islands (west) and Wrangel Island (east). To the west it is connected to the Laptev Sea by the Dmitrya Lapteva, Eterikan, and Sannikov straits; to the east Long Strait connects it ...
East Staffordshire: borough (district), administrative county of Staffordshire, central England. Nearly all of East Staffordshire lies within the historic county of Staffordshire, except for a small area around Rocester east of the River Dove and the section of Burton upon Trent east ...
East Sussex: administrative and geographic county of southeastern England, bordering the English Channel. The administrative county is divided into the following districts: Eastbourne and Hastings (both boroughs), and Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. The county's administrative centre is in the town of Lewes. ...
East Tennessee State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S. It is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. The university includes the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Public and Allied Health, Nursing, ...
East Timor: country occupying the eastern half of the island of Timor, the small nearby islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno surrounding the town of Pante Makasar on the northwestern coast of Timor. It is bounded by ...
East York: former borough (1967-98), southwestern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the cities of North York, Toronto, Scarborough, York, and Etobicoke to become the City of Toronto. A planned industrial and residential urban complex, East York was established in 1967, ...
East, Catherine: American feminist and public official, a major formative influence on the women's movement of the mid-20th century.
East, Edward Murray: American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist, and chemist, whose experiments, along with those of others, led to the development of hybrid corn (maize). He was particularly interested in determining and controlling the protein and fat content of corn, both of which ...
East, Michael: English composer, especially known for his madrigals. (He was once thought to be a son of the music printer Thomas East, but late research suggests that they were, at most, distant relatives.)
East, Thomas: prominent English music publisher whose collection of psalms (1592) was among the first part-music printed in score rather than as individual parts in separate books.
Eastbourne: district and borough, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast. It lies at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs, which reach the sea in high cliffs at Beachy Head (534 ...
Eastchester: town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S., between Yonkers to the west and New Rochelle to the east. Its first settlers issued their own code of laws called the Eastchester Covenant (1665). Eastchester township was organized in 1788 and ...
Easter: principal festival of the Christian church that celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from the 2nd century, though the commemoration of Jesus' Resurrection probably ...
Easter cactus: (Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri), popular spring-flowering cactus of the family Castaceae, with flattened stems, grown for its bright-red blossoms that appear about Easter time in the Northern Hemisphere. The related R. rosea is the so-called dwarf Easter cactus, a diminutive plant with ...
Easter Fracture Zone: submarine fracture zone in the Earth's surface, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The fracture zone is incompletely mapped but may be as long as 3,700 miles (5,900 km), extending east-southeastward from east of the Tuamotu archipelago, at 20° S latitude ...
Easter Island: Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world. It is famous for its giant stone statues. The island stands in isolation 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometres) east of Pitcairn Island and 2,200 miles west ...
Easter Rising: (1916), republican insurrection in Ireland against British government there, which began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin. The insurrection was planned by Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, and several other leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was a ...
eastern Africa: part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
eastern Africa, history of: history of the area from ancient times through the 20th century.
Eastern Air Lines, Inc.: former American airline that served the northeastern and southeastern United States.
Eastern Cape: province, south-central South Africa. It is bordered by Western Cape province to the west, Northern Cape province to the northwest, Free State province and Lesotho to the north, KwaZulu-Natal province to the northeast, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast ...
Eastern Chin: a phase of the Chin dynasty, ruling China from AD 317 to 420 and forming one of the Six Dynasties. See Chin dynasty; Six Dynasties.
Eastern Desert: large desert in eastern Egypt. Originating just southeast of the Nile River delta, it extends southeastward into northeastern Sudan and from the Nile River valley eastward to the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. It covers an area of ...
Eastern Illinois University: public, coeducational university in Charleston, east-central Illinois, U.S. It was founded in 1895 as Eastern Illinois State Normal School and became a state teacher's college in 1921. Renamed Eastern Illinois State College in 1947, it was elevated to university status ...
Eastern Indian bronze: any of a style of metal sculptures produced from the 9th century onward in the area of modern Bihar and West Bengal in India, extending into Bangladesh. They are sometimes referred to as Pala bronzes, after the name of one ...
Eastern Indian painting: school of painting that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in the area of what are modern Bihar and Bengal. Its alternative name, Pala, derives from the name of the ruling dynasty of the period. The style is confined ...
Eastern Jebel languages: group of related languages whose speech communities are associated with a range of hills in eastern Sudan (jebel is an Arabic word meaning "hill"). The Eastern Jebel languages, which include Gaam (Ingassana or Tabi), Aka (Sillok), Kelo ...
Eastern Kentucky University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Kentucky, U.S. The university offers an undergraduate curriculum in the arts, sciences, business, education, allied health professions, and law enforcement; it also offers master's degree programs in most of these areas. Doctoral ...
Eastern Michigan University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ypsilanti, Mich., U.S. It consists of the colleges of Education, Arts and Sciences, Health and Human Services, Technology, and Business. In addition to undergraduate programs, the university offers master's degree programs in many ...
Eastern Orthodoxy: one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity. It is characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches. Its adherents live mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Russia.
Eastern Question: diplomatic problem posed in the 19th and early 20th centuries by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, centring on the contest for control of former Ottoman territories. Any internal change in the Turkish domains caused tension among the European powers, ...