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Elmina Castle

Elmina Castle, also known as São Jorge da Mina, is a Portuguese-built fortress in Elmina, Ghana, from 1482, now the oldest European structure in sub-Saharan Africa.

Elmira Alembekova

Elmira Alembekova (Эльмира Алембекова) is a Russian race walker, born in Saransk in 1990, who won the 2014 European Championship in the women's 20 kilometers race walk.

Elmira College, founded 1855 in Elmira, New York, was the first American college to grant women degrees equal to men's; coeducational since 1969, MSCHE-accredited, home of the Mark Twain Study and Center for Mark Twain Studies.

Elmira Corning Regional Airport

Elmira Corning Regional Airport (ELM/KELM), also called Elmira/Corning Regional, is a Chemung County-owned non-hub commercial airport in Horseheads, New York, with three runways, Delta and Allegiant service to five US destinations, and a 2019 record of 157,338 enplanements.

Elmira, New York

Elmira, New York: county seat of Chemung County in the Southern Tier near Pennsylvania, on the Chemung River. 26,523 residents (2020); known for the 1972 Agnes flood, its Civil War prison camp, and Mark Twain's grave.

Elmo

Elmo (Elmo Monster), the furry red three-and-a-half-year-old Muppet on Sesame Street, created 1979-1980, voiced in falsetto by Kevin Clash then Ryan Dillon, host of Elmo's World and star of Tickle Me Elmo.

ELMO domain

ELMO domain (ELM): conserved domain of unknown function in ELMO/CED-12 family proteins (ELMO1-3, CED-12), scaffolds that bind DOCK180 and activate Rac1 in phagocytosis and cell migration; distinct from the ELMo NLP embedding model.

Elmo Lee Smith

Elmo Lee Smith (b. 1921, Richmond, Virginia; d. 1962), Bridgeport, Pennsylvania handyman convicted of the 1959 rape-murder of teenager Maryann Mitchell; executed April 2, 1962 at Rockview, the 350th and last Pennsylvania electric-chair execution.

Elmo Zumwalt

Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (1920–2000), 19th Chief of Naval Operations (1970–1974) and youngest ever, formerly Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam and SEALORDS architect, known for Z-Gram personnel reforms, equal opportunity directives, and Trident, Perry-frigate, and F-14 programs.

Elmo's World

Elmo's World is the Sesame Street segment hosted by Elmo, also called Elmo's World segment of Sesame Street. Debuting November 1998 as a 15-minute closer (141 episodes, writer Judy Freudberg), it was rebooted at 4–5 minutes in 2017 and returned in the Netflix Season 56.

Elmont, New York

Elmont, New York: a densely populated hamlet and CDP in Nassau County on the Queens border, Long Island; 35,265 residents (2020), 43.5% foreign-born, home to Belmont Park, UBS Arena, and the LIRR Elmont station.

Elmore James

Elmore James (born Elmore Brooks, 1918–1963), the "King of the Slide Guitar," was a Mississippi-born Chicago blues slide guitarist whose 1951 electric "Dust My Broom" and band the Broomdusters shaped electric blues and blues rock.

Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard (1925–2013), nicknamed Dutch, American crime novelist and former Western writer; author of Get Shorty, Glitz, Out of Sight, and Fire in the Hole; famed for dialogue-driven style and the 10 Rules of Writing.

Elmworth Oil and Gas Field

Elmworth Oil and Gas Field is a giant natural gas field in the Deep Basin of west-central Alberta, discovered in 1976, holding an estimated 17 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory (Elemér Hoffmann, 1906-1976), Hungarian-born painter and one of history's most prolific art forgers, sold over 1,000 fake Picassos, Matisses, and Modiglianis before his 1967 exposure, Irving's Fake!, Welles's F for Fake, and his 1976 suicide in Ibiza.

Elnaaz Norouzi

Elnaaz Norouzi, also romanized Ilnaz Nawruzii, is an Iranian-born, German actress, model, and singer known for Zoya Mirza in Netflix's Sacred Games, Kandahar, Tehran, and The Fix (2026) opposite Liam Neeson.

Sep 19, 2026

Elnathan son of Achbor

Elnathan son of Achbor (Hebrew אֶלְנָתָן, "God has given") was a Judean court official under King Jehoiakim, sent to Egypt to fetch the prophet Uriah.

Sep 19, 2026

Elnur Hüseynov

Elnur Hüseynov is an Azerbaijani singer, born in 1987 in Ashgabat, who represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision in 2008 and 2015 and won O Ses Türkiye in 2015.

Elnur Məmmədli

Elnur Məmmədli (Elnur Çingiz oğlu Məmmədli), Azerbaijani judoka born 1988 in Baku; 2008 Beijing Olympic lightweight (-73 kg) champion, Azerbaijan's first judo gold, 2007 world silver, double European champion.

Elnusa

Elnusa (PT Elnusa Tbk) is an Indonesian integrated energy services company founded in 1969 as a Pertamina support contractor and controlled by Pertamina Hulu Energi, which holds 51.10%.

Sep 19, 2026

Elo

Elo (엘로) is the stage name of Oh Min-taek, a South Korean R&B and soul singer who debuted in 2013 with the single "Blur" and records with AOMG.

ELO 2

ELO 2, titled Electric Light Orchestra II in the US, is Electric Light Orchestra's second studio album (February 1973, Harvest/United Artists), the first made without Roy Wood, containing five long tracks including their first American hit, Roll Over Beethoven.

Oct 10, 2026

ELO Group

ELO Group is a Brazilian card payment group behind the Elo card scheme, Brazil's third-largest card brand, founded by Banco do Brasil, Bradesco, and Caixa.

Elo rating system

Elo rating system: method by Arpad Elo for rating two-player game skill; adopted by USCF (1960) and FIDE (1970). Expected score from rating difference (400 points = 10:1); updated by K-factor; no uncertainty tracking, unlike Glicko and TrueSkill.

Elo Touch Solutions

Elo Touch Solutions is an American manufacturer of touchscreen monitors, interactive displays, and point-of-sale systems, founded as Elographics in 1971 and acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2025.

ELOB

ELOB (TCEB2, elongin B) is a human gene at 16p13.3 encoding the 18 kDa regulatory subunit of the Elongin (SIII) RNA polymerase II elongation factor and the Elongin BC adaptor of CUL2/CUL5 ubiquitin ligases, including VHL and HIV-1 Vif complexes.

Elobau

Elobau is a German manufacturer of contactless sensor technology and operator controls for mobile machinery and industrial applications, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Leutkirch im Allgäu.

Elobixibat

Elobixibat (A3309, GOOFICE) is a first-in-class ileal bile acid transporter inhibitor for chronic constipation, approved in Japan in January 2018; dosed 10 mg daily, it raises colonic bile acids, with abdominal pain and diarrhea as main adverse effects.

ELOC

ELOC (TCEB1, SIII) is a human gene at 8q21.11 encoding elongin C, a 112-residue adaptor in the Elongin/SIII transcription elongation factor and VCB-CR ubiquitin ligase; mutations cause VHL-like disease and ELOC-mutated renal cell carcinoma.