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Ektachrome
Ektachrome is a family of color reversal slide films made by Eastman Kodak, introduced in 1946 and processed in E-6 chemistry, with couplers built into the emulsion unlike Kodachrome.
Ektelon
Ektelon, racquetball equipment brand founded by Bud Held in San Diego (1964, 1967, or 1968 by source), maker of the first aluminum, composite, and oversized racquetball racquets; over 50% US market share in 1990, owned by Prince since 1988.
Eku Energy
Eku Energy is a global battery energy storage developer and operator launched in November 2022 by Macquarie Asset Management, building utility-scale projects across the UK, Australia, Japan, and Italy.
Ekuaibao
Ekuaibao (易快报), legally Beijing Hesi Information Technology Co., Ltd., is a Beijing corporate expense-management SaaS company founded in 2014 by Ma Chunquan, which raised RMB 1.5 billion and rebranded as Hesi.
Ekuddana
Ekuddana (एकुद्दन) is an arahant elder of the Buddha's time in the Theravada tradition, known as the one-verse monk who won arahantship through a single stanza.
Ekuikui I
Ekuikui I is the first ruler named in the traditional king list of Bailundo, an Ovimbundu kingdom in the central highlands of Angola, known through oral tradition.
Ekun iyawo
Ekun iyawo, meaning "bridal weeping" in Yoruba, is a form of Yoruba oral poetry in which a bride chants on the eve of her wedding as she prepares to leave her family home.
Ekur
The Ekur (Sumerian E-kur) was the main religious precinct of Nippur in southern Iraq, dedicated to Enlil, the chief god of the Mesopotamian pantheon, where kings sought recognition and lavished gifts on the temple.
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
City of Ekurhuleni (formerly Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality), a Category A metro in Gauteng, South Africa, formed 5 December 2000 from nine East Rand towns; Tsonga for 'Place of Peace'; 4.07 million people (2022), OR Tambo airport, R70.9bn 2026/27 budget, qualified audit 2024/25.
Ekushey Book Fair
Ekushey Book Fair (Amar Ekushey Granthamela) is the national book fair of Bangladesh, a month-long February event at Bangla Academy in Dhaka commemorating the 1952 Language Movement.
Ekushey Padak
Ekushey Padak (একুশে পদক, "Twenty-first Medal") is the second highest civilian award of Bangladesh, given annually since 1976 in memory of the Language Movement martyrs to writers, artists, researchers, and others.
Ekvtime Takaishvili
Ekvtime Takaishvili (ექვთიმე თაყაიშვილი) was a Georgian historian and archaeologist who guarded the Georgian national treasure in France from 1921 and returned it in 1945, later canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
EKZOLAND
EKZOLAND (Екзоленд), also EKZO Land, is a small indoor mini-zoo on the third floor of the Dream Town shopping center, Obolonskyi Avenue 1B, Kyiv, Ukraine, opened in 2011-2012 and run by BION Terrarium Center, with over 40 exhibits of reptiles, birds, and mammals; its animals were evacuated in 2022 during the war.
Él
Él (This Strange Passion) is Luis Buñuel's 1953 Mexican melodrama, written with Luis Alcoriza from Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel, starring Arturo de Córdova as a pathologically jealous husband and Delia Garcés as his wife Gloria.
El (deity)
El (Ugaritic il, Hebrew el) is the aged creator god and patriarchal head of the Canaanite pantheon known from the Ugaritic Baal Cycle; in Israelite religion El was assimilated with Yahweh, as the name Israel and the Yahweh-El compound attest.
El Abayarde
El Abayarde is the 2002 debut album of Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Tego Calderón, which mixed salsa and bomba into reggaetón and sold over 150,000 copies in Puerto Rico.
El Abra mine
El Abra is an open-pit copper mine in Chile's Antofagasta Region, 75 kilometers northeast of Calama, owned by Freeport-McMoRan (51%) and Codelco, producing copper cathodes since 1996.
El Al (אל על)
El Al (אל על, "to the skies") is Israel's national flag carrier airline. Established in 1948, it operates flights and serves as the authorized security provider for other Israeli carriers.
El Al Flight 1862
El Al Flight 1862, known as the Bijlmermeer disaster or Bijlmerramp, was an Israeli cargo flight that crashed into Amsterdam apartment blocks in 1992, killing 43 people.
El Alamein (العلمين)
El Alamein (العلمين), Egyptian coastal town ~100 km west of Alexandria, site of the 1942 WWII desert battles and of Commonwealth, German, and Italian war cemeteries, the Alamein Memorial, and the 1965 military museum.
El alcalde de Zalamea
El alcalde de Zalamea is a 1651 honor play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, in which farmer Pedro Crespo executes a captain who assaulted his daughter.
El Alto International Airport
El Alto International Airport is the international airport serving La Paz, Bolivia, located in El Alto at 4,061 meters, one of the highest commercial airports in the world.
El Amor Brujo
El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) is Manuel de Falla's ballet on Andalusian Gypsy themes, libretto credited to Gregorio Martínez Sierra (written by María Lejárraga), premiered Madrid 1915 for Pastora Imperio, definitive Paris 1925 version with Antonia Mercé, filmed in 1967 and 1986.
El amor no tiene receta
El amor no tiene receta is a 2024 Mexican telenovela by Juan Osorio for TelevisaUnivision, starring Claudia Martín and Daniel Elbittar, 95 episodes, aired 19 February to 28 June 2024 on Las Estrellas.
El Amrouni mausoleum
The El Amrouni mausoleum is a tower-shaped tomb in southern Tunisia with a bilingual Neo-Punic and Latin inscription, dated to about the 1st to 2nd century AD.
El Analfabeto
El Analfabeto (The Illiterate One) is a 1961 Mexican comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo, an illiterate carpenter who inherits two million pesos and learns to read to claim it; filmed in Guanajuato, Posa Films, 128 minutes.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui (born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor based in Nsukka, Nigeria, best known for large wall hangings assembled from thousands of folded aluminum liquor-bottle caps.
El Ar(i)ouia cisterns (Tubusuctu)
El Arouia (El Ariouia) cisterns, Roman water reservoirs at El Kseur, Algeria, supplying ancient Tubusuctu (Tiklat). Rectangle 76 x 38 m, 15 vaulted compartments, over 12,000 m3 capacity, fed by two aqueducts; national heritage since 1999.
El arte nuevo de hacer comedias
El arte nuevo de hacer comedias is a 1609 verse treatise by Lope de Vega that set out the principles of the Spanish comedia nueva.
El astillero
El astillero (The Shipyard) is a 1961 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, set in his fictional city of Santa María and centered on Larsen.