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Elyes Gabel
Elyes Gabel (Elyes Cherif Gabel) is a British actor born 1983 in Westminster, London, known for Guppy Sandhu in Casualty, Rakharo in Game of Thrones, and Walter O'Brien in Scorpion; he founded Roughened Verse Entertainment in 2024.
Elymaean–Parthian wars
The Elymaean–Parthian wars (جنگهای ایلام و اشکانیان) were recurrent conflicts between the kingdom of Elymais and the Parthian Empire, lasting from the second century BC until about 221 CE.
Elymais
Elymais was a semi-independent kingdom in the Zagros mountains and the plain of Susiana, southwestern Iran, ruled by local dynasts from about 147 BC until the Sasanian conquest.
Elymians
The Elymians (Greek Elymoi) were an ancient people of extreme western Sicily in the first millennium BC, centered on Segesta and Eryx, who allied with Carthage before joining Rome.
Elymus
Elymus (wild rye, wheatgrasses), Linnaeus 1753, is the largest allopolyploid grass genus of tribe Triticeae, Poaceae, with about 150-200 species combining St, H, P, W, and Y genomes, native across the Northern Hemisphere and used for forage, restoration, and breeding germplasm.
Elyn Saks
Elyn R. Saks is a legal scholar at the University of Southern California who studies mental health law and disclosed her own schizophrenia in her 2007 memoir.
Elyon (עֶלְיוֹן)
Elyon (עֶלְיוֹן), also called El Elyon, is a Hebrew word meaning "most high" that the Hebrew Bible applies to God as an epithet or title.
ELYS-like domain
ELYS-like domain (InterPro IPR025151, Pfam PF13934): conserved domain in ELYS/AHCTF1/MEL-28, the nucleoporin-kinetochore protein that seeds nuclear pore assembly and binds AT-rich chromatin; also in HOS1.
Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox (born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath, 1917-2012), American actress and model, star of The Mummy's Tomb (1942); wife of Heisman winner Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon; nearly 40 films, retired 1949.
Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace (Palais de l'Élysée), also known as the Hôtel d'Évreux, is a Paris town house built 1718 to 1722 that has been the French President's official residence since 1871.
Elysia (gastropod)
Elysia (Risso, 1818) is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, about 101 species, famous for kleptoplasty: species such as E. chlorotica, E. timida, E. crispata, and E. viridis retain functional stolen algal chloroplasts for months.
Elysia chlorotica
Elysia chlorotica is a sacoglossan sea slug that retains functional Vaucheria litorea chloroplasts for roughly a year, surviving months on light and CO2; whole-genome studies find no evidence of algal horizontal gene transfer.
Elysium (film)
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction action film written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, his second feature after District 9, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
Elysium (game)
Elysium is a 2015 Greek-mythology card-drafting and set-collection board game by Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan (Space Cowboys/Asmodee) for 2-4 players; 5 of 8 god families are used per game, and transferred cards lose powers to score as legends. Kennerspiel des Jahres 2015 nominee, distinct from the VTES client and RPG of the same name.
Elysium (λύσιον)
Elysium (Greek Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, the Elysian Plain), also called the Isles of the Blessed, is the Greek paradisiacal afterlife first named in Odyssey 4.563 for Menelaus, ruled by Rhadamanthys or Cronus, with disputed etymology and a location that later moved into the underworld.
Elysium Chasma
Elysium Chasma is an IAU-named canyon on Mars, about 130 km across, west of Elysium Mons; a floorless, roughly 2 km deep trough in the Southwest Elysium Canyon Complex, approved 1985.
Elysium Planitia
Elysium Planitia is a broad, flat lava plain near the equator of Mars, straddling the highland-lowland boundary and best known as the 2018 landing site of NASA's InSight lander.
Elysium Rupes
Elysium Rupes is an IAU-approved scarp (rupes) on Mars in the Elysium quadrangle, 130 km across, centered at 25.14°N, 148.0°E, approved 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature name.
Elza Soares
Elza Soares (Elza Gomes da Conceição Soares, 1930–2022) was a Brazilian singer from Rio de Janeiro who recorded 35 albums from 1960 to 2021, winning BBC singer of the millennium.
Elżbieta Drużbacka
Elżbieta Drużbacka, née Kowalska, was a Polish late Baroque poet called the Sarmatian Muse and one of the first Polish women to see print, publishing her only book in 1752.
Elzbieta Dunska Krzesinska
Elżbieta Duńska-Krzesińska (1934–2015), Polish long jumper also known as Elżbieta Duńska or "Złota Ela"; 1956 Olympic champion and 1960 silver medalist, world record holder at 6.35 m.
Elżbieta Sieniawska
Elżbieta Sieniawska (1669 or 1670–1729) was a Polish magnate, wife of Grand Hetman Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, and a leading political figure under August II who bought Wilanów Palace in 1720.
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was a Canadian Catholic prelate, archbishop of Quebec from 1871 to 1898 and the first Canadian cardinal, created by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
Em (typography)
An em is a typographic unit equal to the current point size of the type, so an em of 12-point type is 12 points; it is a relative unit with no fixed physical value.
EM-2
EM-2 is a human cell line derived from the bone marrow of a 5-year-old girl with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, in second relapse after a bone marrow transplant.
EM-2 rifle
The EM-2 rifle, also called the Enfield EM2 or Janson Rifle, was a British bullpup assault rifle developed at Enfield in 1948 and adopted in 1951 as Rifle No.9 Mk1.
EM-DAT
EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is a free global database of disasters and their human and economic impacts from 1900 to the present, maintained by CRED at UCLouvain in Brussels.
Ema Klinec
Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper (born 1998, Kranj), two-time Youth Olympic gold medalist 2016, 2021 world normal hill champion, women's ski flying world record holder 226 m at Vikersund, three-time Olympian.
Emaar Properties (إعمار العقارية)
Emaar Properties (إعمار العقارية) is a Dubai-listed public joint stock real estate developer founded by decree in 1997, the largest listed Arab developer and owner of Dubai Mall.
Emaciated Horse
Emaciated Horse (駿骨図, Junqu tu) is an ink handscroll by Song loyalist Gong Kai (1222–1307), depicting a bony horse as an allegory of loyalty to the fallen Song dynasty.