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Earplug

An earplug is a hearing protection device inserted into the ear canal to reduce sound, used against occupational noise, at concerts and shooting sports, and in water.

EarPods

EarPods are Apple's line of wired earbuds, introduced in 2012 to replace the earbuds shipped since the first iPod, sold in three connector versions at $19.

Earring

An earring is a piece of jewelry worn through a pierced opening in the ear or attached with a clip, worn on the earlobe or cartilage.

Earring Magic Ken

Earring Magic Ken is a 1993 Mattel Ken doll with a lavender mesh top, pleather vest, hoop earring, and chrome-ring necklace. Dan Savage's 'Ken Comes Out' column made it a gay icon; discontinued after six months, reportedly Mattel's best-selling Ken.

Earrings (song)

"Earrings" is a 2024 alternative pop song by American singer-songwriter Malcolm Todd, lead single of the mixtape Sweet Boy on Columbia; a 2026 TikTok sleeper hit peaking at No. 19 on the Hot 100, not a folk/traditional piece.

Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle

Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle (Belarusian: Kalasy pad siarpom tvaim) is a historical novel by Uladzimir Karatkievich whose published part depicts preparations for the 1863 uprising, serialized in 1965.

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the largest of the four terrestrial planets, a 4.54-billion-year-old rocky world with one moon, large surface oceans, and the only known life.

Earth (1930 film)

Earth (Земля, Zemlia), 1930 silent film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, VUFKU, Ukrainian SSR, on collectivization; premiered 8 April 1930 Kyiv, banned nine days later; his Ukraine trilogy masterpiece.

Earth (1998 film)

Earth (1947: Earth), Deepa Mehta's 1998 Canada-India drama, second in her Elements Trilogy after Fire, adapts Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India, following Parsi girl Lenny in 1947 Lahore during Partition.

Earth (American band)

Earth (American band), Olympia, Washington drone metal pioneers led by Dylan Carlson; Earth 2 (1993, Sub Pop) created drone metal, inspiring Sunn O))), Boris, Om, and Khanate; later Hex-era Americana style.

Earth (γῆ) (classical element)

Earth (γῆ, gē; also Gaia) is the classical Greek element of solids, one of Empedocles' four 'roots' (ca. 495–435 BCE), assigned the cube by Plato and cold-dry qualities and a central natural place by Aristotle.

Earth 2 (TV series)

Earth 2 (1994-1995) is an NBC science fiction series from Amblin Television and Universal Television, created by Michael Duggan, Carol Flint, Mark Levin, and Billy Ray; 21 episodes about colonists crash-landed on planet G889 trekking to New Pacifica, cancelled after one season.

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood is the Misfits' 1983 hardcore punk album, the last with Glenn Danzig, released on Plan 9, produced with Spot, featuring Robo, later expanded with the Die, Die My Darling EP tracks.

Earth Abides

Earth Abides is George R. Stewart's 1949 Random House post-apocalyptic novel about Isherwood Williams surviving a pandemic in Berkeley, California; it won the first International Fantasy Award (1951) and shaped later post-apocalyptic fiction.

Earth Abides (TV series)

Earth Abides (2024 MGM+ miniseries) adapts George R. Stewart's 1949 post-apocalyptic novel; created by Todd Komarnicki, starring Alexander Ludwig and Jessica Frances Dukes, six episodes premiering December 1, 2024.

Earth analog

An Earth analog, also called Earth 2.0, is a planet or moon with conditions similar to Earth's, sought as a possible home for liquid water and life.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, also known as EPSL, is a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal founded in 1966 that publishes short, high-impact articles on Earth and planetary sciences.

Earth Angel

"Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" is a 1954 doo-wop ballad by the Penguins, recorded as a garage demo in Los Angeles and released on Dootone Records. It topped the R&B chart, reached US pop number 8, and entered the National Recording Registry in 2004.

Earth Arcade (지구오락실)

Earth Arcade (뿅뿅 지구오락실) is a tvN Korean travel-variety show by producer Na Young-seok, starring Lee Eun-ji, Mimi, Lee Young-ji, and An Yu-jin chasing the moon rabbit Torong across Thailand, Finland, and Abu Dhabi since 2022.

Earth Day

Earth Day, annual environmental observance on April 22 founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill; first held 1970 with 20 million US participants, global since 1990, UN-recognized as International Mother Earth Day.

Earth Defense Force

Earth Defense Force (Chikyū Bōeigun) is a Sandlot/D3Publisher third-person shooter series begun in 2003 on PS2, pitting four soldier classes against giant alien hordes; EDF5 sold 1 million, EDF6 (2022) has 147 missions.

Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 sci-fi musical comedy directed by Julien Temple, based on Julie Brown's 1984 song, starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans as aliens in the San Fernando Valley.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is an annual WWF campaign in which households and landmarks switch off non-essential lights for one hour on a Saturday in March to show concern about climate change.

Earth Liberation Front

Earth Liberation Front (ELF), radical environmental network founded 1992 in Brighton, England by former Earth First! members; decentralized leaderless cells using arson and sabotage; FBI's top domestic terror threat; no fatalities.

Earth lodge

An earth lodge is a circular, dome-shaped dwelling with a timber frame covered in earth, built by Plains farming tribes such as the Mandan and Pawnee.

Earth mass

Earth mass is the total mass of Earth, about 5.9722 × 10^24 kilograms, used as the standard unit for comparing the masses of planets, moons, and exoplanets.

Earth mover's distance

The earth mover's distance (EMD), also called the Wasserstein-1 distance, is a distance between probability distributions, defined as the minimum cost of moving mass from one to the other.

Earth observation satellite

An Earth observation satellite is an uncrewed spacecraft that images Earth's surface or atmosphere from orbit, using passive optical sensors and active radar and lidar.

Earth Observing-1

Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) was a NASA satellite launched in 2000 to flight-test new technologies under the New Millennium Program; planned for one year, it operated for 16 years until 2017.

Earth potential rise

Earth potential rise (EPR), also called ground potential rise, is the voltage an earthing system, such as a substation ground grid, attains relative to remote earth during a fault.