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Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising eight 5th- and 6th-century religious buildings in Ravenna, Italy, famed for their early Christian mosaics.
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) (Hungary)
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae): 4th-century decorated underground burial chambers with memorial chapels above, in Roman Pannonia's Sopianae, modern Pécs, Hungary; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000, criteria (iii)(iv), 16 monuments.
Early Christianity
Early Christianity, also known as the Early Church, is the Christianity from its first-century origins within Judaism to the councils of Nicaea (325) and Chalcedon (451).
Early college high school
An early college high school is a small school blending grades 9 through 12 with college coursework, letting students graduate with a diploma plus an associate degree.
Early congenital syphilis, latent
Early congenital syphilis, latent (ICD-11 1A60.2) is asymptomatic congenital syphilis of under 2 years' duration, detected only by repeatedly positive serology; managed with penicillin or close serologic follow-up.
Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic (ICD-11 1A60.0) is symptomatic Treponema pallidum infection acquired in utero, presenting in newborns up to age 2 with rash, rhinitis, hepatosplenomegaly, and bone disease; treated with IV penicillin G for 10 days.
Early Cyrillic alphabet
Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical or paleo-Cyrillic: the Slavic alphabet created in the First Bulgarian Empire at the turn of the 10th century from Greek uncial plus Glagolitic letters, ancestor of modern Cyrillic scripts.
Early dark energy
Early dark energy (EDE) is a proposed dark-energy component that briefly became significant in the early universe before diluting away, proposed to resolve the Hubble tension.
Early Daze
Early Daze is a 2024 Neil Young & Crazy Horse archival album of ten 1969 studio recordings with the original lineup (Whitten, Molina, Talbot, Nitzsche), on Reprise; not the Sex Pistols 1994 EP or Hawkwind's 2011 album of the same name.
Early descriptions of archaeal taxa (1922–1989)
Early descriptions of archaeal taxa (1922–1989) covers the first formal descriptions of archaea, then classified as bacteria, before the 1977 discovery of a third domain of life.
Early Diagnosis
Early diagnosis: identifying a disease at an early stage, typically in symptomatic patients; distinct from screening of asymptomatic populations. Covers WHO's three-step pathway, lead-time, length, and overdiagnosis biases, and the 35-62% diagnostic gap.
Early Doors
Early Doors: BBC Two sitcom (2003-2004, 12 episodes) by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, set in a northern pub called The Grapes; John Henshaw played landlord Ken; later a cult classic, repeated on BBC Four and iPlayer in 2023.
Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, also called the Archaic Period, spans the First and Second Dynasties, from Egypt's unification around 3100 BC to about 2686 BC.
Early Dynastic period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic period, also called the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer, was the era of competing Sumerian city-states in southern Mesopotamia, c. 2900–2334 BC.
Early Edition
Early Edition is an American CBS fantasy comedy-drama (1996–2000, 90 episodes) created by Ian Abrams, Patrick Q. Page, and Vik Rubenfeld, starring Kyle Chandler as Gary Hobson, a Chicagoan who receives tomorrow's newspaper from a cat.
Early English Text Society
The Early English Text Society is a British scholarly publishing society founded in 1864 by Frederick James Furnivall that produces critical editions of Old and Middle English texts.
Early European modern humans
Early European modern humans: Homo sapiens populations entering Europe by 45,000 years ago (Bacho Kiro, Zlatý kůň, Oase, Kent's Cavern), carrying elevated Neanderthal ancestry, most pioneer lineages leaving no descendants among later Europeans.
Early exfoliation of teeth
Early exfoliation of teeth (ICD-11 LA30.50), also called premature loss of primary teeth: shedding of baby teeth before age 5 or over 12 months early, usually from caries or trauma, but characteristically a sign of hypophosphatasia.
Early exiting
Early exiting is a neural network inference technique with intermediate classifiers at multiple depths, so each input exits at the shallowest point where confidence suffices, cutting computation.
Early expansions of hominins out of Africa
Early expansions of hominins out of Africa (Out of Africa I): Homo erectus dispersals from about 1.8 Ma, evidenced by Dmanisi, Georgia (1.85–1.78 Ma), early European sites like Barranco León, and the later Homo sapiens dispersal about 50,000 years ago.
Early federal district judiciary of the United States
The early federal district judiciary was the system of single-judge US district courts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789, with thirteen districts handling admiralty and minor matters.
Early flying machines
Early flying machines were the balloons, gliders, and powered aircraft built from the first manned balloon flights of 1783 to the Wright brothers' powered flight in 1903.
Early goal-directed therapy
Early goal-directed therapy is a six-hour sepsis protocol titrating fluids, vasopressors, transfusion, and dobutamine to targets, introduced in a 2001 trial but no longer recommended after later trials found no mortality benefit.
Early Greek cosmology
Early Greek cosmology: accounts of the universe from Homer and Hesiod's Theogony (Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, Eros) to the Milesian Presocratics Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, who proposed single first principles, a naturalistic kosmos, and rival cosmologies.
Early history of American football
Early history of American football, 1869-1906: Rutgers-Princeton first game, soccer-to-rugby transition, Walter Camp's scrimmage and downs rules, 1905 deaths crisis, Roosevelt reforms, and the 1906 forward pass.
Early history of video games
Early history of video games: Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device (1948), Nimrod (1951), OXO (1952), Tennis for Two (1958), Spacewar! (1962), Magnavox Odyssey and Pong (1972), and the disputed question of the first video game.
Early human development
Early human development: the field covering fetal, perinatal, and infant neurodevelopment, and the Elsevier journal Early Human Development (ISSN 0378-3782, founded 1977) publishing that research.
Early human migrations
Early human migrations: movements of Homo and Homo sapiens out of Africa, from Homo exits 2-1.8 million years ago (Dmanisi) to the main modern-human dispersal ~70-60 kya, reaching Australia ~60 kya and the Americas within 30,000 years.
Early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
Early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (EIDEE), formerly Ohtahara syndrome and early myoclonic encephalopathy, is a severe epilepsy syndrome with drug-resistant tonic or myoclonic seizures, burst-suppression EEG, and onset from birth to 3 months.
Early Irish law
Early Irish law (Brehon law) is the vernacular legal system of early medieval Ireland, preserved in over seventy Old Irish tracts mostly from the seventh and eighth centuries, alongside the Latin Collectio canonum Hibernensis, which shaped European canon law.