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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth, New Jersey: founded 1664 as Elizabethtown, first permanent English settlement and first capital of New Jersey; Union County seat of about 137,000, home to the Port Newark–Elizabeth container terminal and Singer factory history.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is Shekhar Kapur's 2007 sequel to Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, covering the Babington plot, Mary Queen of Scots' execution, and the 1588 Spanish Armada.

Elizabethan collar

Elizabethan collar (E-collar, cone of shame): protective cone around a pet's head preventing licking or scratching of wounds. Studies report welfare costs; alternatives include inflatable collars and recovery suits.

Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era (1558–1603) is the reign of Elizabeth I, last Tudor monarch of England: the Church of England settlement of the 39 Articles, the 1588 Spanish Armada, the Elizabethan Poor Laws, Shakespeare's theatre, and the contested 'Golden Age' image of her rule.

Elizabethan literature

Elizabethan literature is the body of English writing produced during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), an era dominated by the commercial London theater and by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson.

Elizabethan Religious Settlement

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, also called the Elizabethan Settlement, is the framework of laws and worship that re-established a reformed Church of England under Elizabeth I between 1559 and 1571.

Elizabethtown (film)

Elizabethtown is Cameron Crowe's 2005 comedy-drama-romance starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, about a fired shoe designer returning to Kentucky for his father's funeral; it flopped commercially ($52 million worldwide), scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, and inspired the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Elizaveta Bam

Elizaveta Bam (Елизавета Бам) is a 1927 one-act play by Daniil Kharms about a woman arrested for a murder she did not commit, an early forerunner of absurdist theater.

Elize Ryd

Elize Ryd (エリーセ・リード), born 1984 in Värnamo, Sweden, is a singer and songwriter, frontwoman and co-founder of metal band Amaranthe (formed 2008), and guest vocalist for Kamelot, Falconer, Apocalyptica, and DragonForce.

Elize: Shadows of a Woman

Elize: Shadows of a Woman (Elize: Sombras de uma Mulher) is a 2026 Brazilian Netflix psychological thriller directed by Felipe Vellas, starring Lorena Comparato as Elize Matsunaga, dramatizing her 2012 murder of husband Marcos Matsunaga.

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos, "Capoeira", Brazilian UFC welterweight from Francisco Beltrão, Paraná; capoeira-based striker, CM System team, 25-10-1 record, Jungle Fight champion, No. 4 longest UFC welterweight win streak.

Elı́as Campo

Elías Campo Güerri, born 1955 in Boltaña, Spain, is a pathologist at the University of Barcelona known for genomic characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoid neoplasms.

Eljero Elia

Eljero Elia, Dutch left winger born 1987 in Voorburg; 30 Netherlands caps, 2010 World Cup finalist, Serie A 2011/12 with Juventus and Eredivisie 2016/17 with Feyenoord; clubs included HSV, Werder Bremen, and Başakşehir.

Elk

Elk, also called wapiti, is a large deer native to North America and central and eastern Asia, now treated as a species distinct from the European red deer.

Elk Creek NGL Pipeline

The Elk Creek NGL Pipeline is a 900-mile pipeline owned by ONEOK that carries natural gas liquids from the Williston Basin in Montana to Bushton, Kansas, completed in 2019.

Elk Grove, California

Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, about 15 miles south of downtown Sacramento. Incorporated in 2000, it grew to 176,124 residents by the 2020 census.

Elk Hills Oil Field

The Elk Hills Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kern County, California, once Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 and sold to Occidental Petroleum in 1998.

Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park: fully fenced Canadian national park in the Beaver Hills, 48 km east of Edmonton. Founded 1906 as Canada's first wildlife refuge; seed herd site for plains and wood bison conservation.

Elk Valley Resources

Elk Valley Resources is a Canadian steelmaking coal producer operating four mines in the Elk Valley of southeastern British Columbia, majority owned by Glencore since 2024.

ELK1

ELK1 (ETS-like gene 1), an ETS-domain transcription factor at Xp11.23, is activated by ERK/JNK/p38 phosphorylation, binds SREs with SRF to drive immediate early genes, and promotes tumorigenesis across many cancers.

Elka de Levie

Elka de Levie (1905-1979), Dutch Jewish gymnast with Amsterdam club BATO; won 1928 Olympic team gold in the first women's gymnastics event, and was the only Jewish member of the Dutch team to survive the Holocaust.

Elkan Baggott

Elkan William Tio Baggott (born 2002, Bangkok) is an Indonesian centre-back, Ipswich Town academy graduate, ex-loanee at King's Lynn, Gillingham, Cheltenham, Bristol Rovers and Blackpool, now at Millwall, with 26 Indonesia caps.

Elkan Blout

Elkan Blout was an American biophysical chemist known for research on how amino acid sequence determines protein shape, alongside an industry career at Polaroid and scientific leadership at Harvard.

Elke Barth

Elke Barth (Schmitz), born 1956 in Stolberg, West German 400 m sprinter; 1976 Olympic 4×400 m relay fifth, 1975 4×440 yd relay world record, 1975 European indoor relay silver.

Elke Erb

Elke Erb (1938–2024) was a German poet, editor, and translator, a central figure of East German experimental poetry who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2020.

Elke Hartleif

Elke Hartleif is a German business executive and daughter of VEKA founder Heinrich Laumann, Chief Human Resources Officer of the PVC window-profile maker VEKA AG since 1997.

Elke Sehmisch

Elke Sehmisch (born 1955, Leipzig) is an East German former freestyle swimmer of SC DHfK Leipzig; 1970 European champion in the 400 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay, 1972 Munich Olympic relay silver medalist, later a Leipzig psychotherapist.

Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer (born Elke Schletz, 5 November 1940, Berlin) is a German actress and painter, Golden Globe winner for The Prize (1963) and star of A Shot in the Dark, with over 70 films and a painting career as E. Schwartz.

Elke U. Weber

Elke U. Weber, born 1957 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, is a psychologist and decision scientist at Princeton University known for research on risk perception and climate decisions.

Elkem

Elkem ASA is a Norwegian industrial company founded by Sam Eyde in 1904, producing silicon products, ferrosilicon alloys, and carbon materials from quartz mining through smelting.