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Egg Island (undersea feature)
Egg Island, also called Isla Huevo (Chile) or Isla Santa Isabel (Argentina), is a small Antarctic island on the north side of Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula, at 63°41'S 57°42'W, sighted in 1902-03 and named in 1949 with Tail, Eagle, and Beak Islands.
Egg lysin (Sperm-lysin)
Egg lysin (sperm-lysin) is a 16-kDa abalone sperm acrosomal protein that nonenzymatically dissolves the egg vitelline envelope by binding the receptor VERL; it is species-specific and a textbook example of rapid positive-selection evolution.
Egg of Columbus
Egg of Columbus (Columbus' egg, Ei des Kolumbus, uovo di Colombo): apocryphal 1493 banquet anecdote in which Columbus stands an egg by crushing its tip; figure of speech for a solution obvious after the fact, first recorded by Benzoni in 1565.
Egg punk
Egg punk (Devo-core) is a punk microgenre blending lo-fi hardcore and garage punk with cheap synths and absurdist humor. Named by a viral 2017 Instagram meme opposing it to chain punk, it arose in the Midwestern US and grew worldwide in the 2020s.
Egg roll
Egg roll is a cylindrical, deep-fried appetizer of American Chinese cuisine, developed in New York in the 1930s as a regional adaptation of the spring roll.
Egg tart (蛋挞)
Egg tart (蛋挞, daan tat; Portuguese-style pou tat) is a small custard-filled tart. Hong Kong style has smooth custard with lard puff or butter cookie crust; Macau's 1989 Andrew Stow adaptation of pastel de nata has caramelized spots and puff pastry.
Egg white
Egg white (albumen), the clear liquid around the egg yolk, is about 88% water and 11% protein; ovalbumin (54%) drives its foaming, gelling, and emulsifying roles in foods.
Egg yolk phospholipids
Egg yolk phospholipids, or egg lecithin, are yolk lipids dominated by phosphatidylcholine (78.5% PC); the richest natural phospholipid source, used as emulsifier, flavor precursor, and liposome material.
Eggardon hill fort
Eggardon hill fort: Iron Age multivallate hillfort near Askerswell, Dorset, with three ramparts, two entrances, Bronze Age barrows, Isaac Gulliver's smuggling sea-mark, and National Trust ownership of its southern half.
Eggcorn
Eggcorn: a misheard or reinterpreted word or phrase, such as 'egg corn' for 'acorn', whose substitute still makes plausible sense; term coined by Geoffrey Pullum on Language Log in 2003, OED 2010.
Eggen Moving Groups
Eggen moving groups are groups of nearby stars sharing a common space motion, named for Olin J. Eggen, who proposed and cataloged them from 1958 to 1998.
Egger's test
Egger's test is a linear regression test for funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analysis, proposed by Matthias Egger and colleagues in 1997 to detect small-study effects that may indicate publication bias.
Eggnog
Eggnog: chilled holiday drink of eggs, sugar, milk or cream, often spiked with rum, bourbon, or brandy; descended from medieval British posset, first printed 1788, US standard 1% egg yolk solids.
Eggo
Eggo (L'Eggo My Eggo) is an American frozen waffle brand founded in 1936 by Frank Dorsa in San Jose, acquired by Kellogg in the 1970s, now Kellanova; famous for Eleven's Stranger Things obsession and a 14% sales boost.
Eggplant
Eggplant (Solanum melongena), also aubergine or brinjal, is a Solanaceae crop domesticated in South-East Asia from Solanum insanum, grown for its edible immature berry, with China and India leading production.
Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict (eggs benny) is a New York brunch dish of poached eggs on toasted English muffin halves with Canadian bacon and hollandaise sauce, created around 1894 with rival Waldorf and Delmonico's origin stories, and known for variations such as Florentine and royale.
Eggshell skull
Eggshell skull rule, also called the thin skull or talem qualem rule: a common law tort doctrine making a defendant liable for the full extent of a plaintiff's injury, even when a pre-existing vulnerability made the harm unexpectedly severe.
Eggy Party
Eggy Party (蛋仔派对) is a free-to-play party royale mobile game by NetEase Games, in which 32 players race egg-shaped characters, launched in China in 2022 and globally in 2024.
Egibi Archive
The Egibi Archive, or Egibi family archive, is a collection of about 1,700 cuneiform tablets from Babylon recording one family's affairs across five generations, from about 606 to 484 BCE.
Egibi family
The Egibi family was an entrepreneurial, land-owning family of Babylon active for five generations from Nebuchadnezzar II into the reign of Xerxes I (sixth to early fifth centuries BC).
Egidio Foscarari
Egidio Foscarari, born Obizzo in Bologna in 1512, was an Italian Dominican friar and theologian who served as bishop of Modena from 1550 until 1564.
Egil Danielsen
Egil Danielsen (9 Nov 1933 – July 2019), Norwegian javelin thrower from Hamar IL; 1956 Melbourne Olympic champion with world record 85.71 m, first javelin WR set at an Olympics; 1958 European silver.
Egil Gjelland
Egil Gjelland (born 1973, Voss) is a Norwegian biathlete, 2002 Olympic relay gold and 1998 relay silver medalist, 2005 world relay champion, later coach of Norwegian, Czech, and Italian women's teams.
Egil Krogh
Egil "Bud" Krogh, Nixon White House lawyer who headed the Plumbers unit, directed the 1971 Ellsberg psychiatrist break-in, pled guilty, served six months, and later advocated integrity in government.
Egil Søby
Egil Søby (Egil Vike Søby), Norwegian sprint kayaker born 1945 in Tønsberg; Olympic K4 1000 m gold 1968 with the gullfireren and bronze 1972; 47 Norwegian titles; later national coach and motivational speaker.
Egil's Saga
Egil's Saga (Egils saga Skallagrímssonar) is one of the Sagas of Icelanders, centered on the tenth-century skald and warrior Egill Skallagrímsson, his family, and their dealings with Norwegian kings.
Egill Reimers
Egill Reimers (1878–1946) was a Norwegian architect in Bergen and Olympic sailor; he won 1920 Antwerp 12-metre class gold aboard Heira II and designed Bergen school buildings such as the Geophysical Institute.
Egill Skallagrímsson
Egill Skallagrímsson was a tenth-century Icelandic warrior, farmer, and skald, son of Skalla-Grímr, whose life and family form the subject of Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, one of the Sagas of Icelanders.
Egils Levits
Egils Levits, Latvian lawyer, political scientist and President of Latvia 2019–2023; former ECHR judge 1995–2004, first Latvian judge at the EU Court of Justice, and author of the 2014 Constitutional Preamble.
Egilsstaðir
Egilsstaðir is the largest town in East Iceland, on the banks of the Lagarfljót river, established in 1947 and serving as the region's service, transportation, and administration center.