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Emer de Vattel
Emer de Vattel (1714–1767), Swiss jurist, author of Le droit des gens (1758), the dominant 18th–19th century treatise on the law of nations, dividing it into necessary, voluntary, conventional, and customary law.
Emer Kenny
Emer Kenny (Emer Gwynne Morganna Kenny, born 1989, Haringey, London), English actress and screenwriter; Zsa Zsa Carter in EastEnders, Bunty in Father Brown, Natasha in The Curse, and creator, sole writer, and executive producer of ITV's Karen Pirie.
Emera
Emera is a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based energy holding company whose rate-regulated electric and gas utilities serve about 2.7 million customers, mostly in Florida and Atlantic Canada.
Emera Brunswick Gas Pipeline
A 145 km natural gas pipeline carrying re-gasified LNG from the Saint John terminal near Saint John, New Brunswick, to the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline at the US border.
Emerald
Emerald is the green gem variety of the mineral beryl, colored by trace chromium or vanadium; the most prized stones come from Colombia, with Zambia, Brazil, and Zimbabwe also major sources.
Emerald ash borer
Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), an invasive metallic green wood-boring beetle from Asia, first detected in North America near Detroit in 2002; larvae girdle ash trees, killing nearly all infested Fraxinus across 38 US states.
Emerald Buddha
The Emerald Buddha (พระแก้วมรกต) is a green-stone Buddha image enshrined at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, the royal temple in Bangkok's Grand Palace, and is among Thailand's most venerated Buddhist objects.
Emerald City
Emerald City: the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, appearing green only through locked green spectacles; also The Emerald City of Oz (1910), NBC's 2017 series, and Jennifer Egan's 1993 collection.
Emerald City (TV series)
Emerald City was a 2017 NBC ten-episode fantasy drama, also billed as a dark Wizard of Oz reboot; developed by Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman, directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Adria Arjona and Vincent D'Onofrio, cancelled May 5, 2017.
Emerald Cloud Lab
Emerald Cloud Lab is a commercial cloud laboratory where scientists design experiments remotely and receive results from an automated facility, founded by Brian Frezza and DJ Kleinbaum.
Emerald Coast
Emerald Coast: unofficial name for about 100 miles of northwest Florida Panhandle Gulf coastline across Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay counties, named in 1983 for its emerald-green water and white quartz sand.
Emerald cockroach wasp
Emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa), also jewel wasp, an Ampulicidae parasitoid of Periplaneta americana; two stings, one into the brain's central complex, induce hypokinesia so the cockroach hosts its larva.
Emerald Fennell
Emerald Lilly Fennell, English actress, writer, director, and novelist born 1985; Oscar-winning screenwriter of Promising Young Woman, director of Saltburn and "Wuthering Heights", Killing Eve showrunner.
Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story (小娘惹之翡翠山)
Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story (小娘惹之翡翠山), also rendered The Little Nyonya II: Emerald Hill, is Mediacorp's 2025 30-episode Peranakan period drama, a spin-off of the 2008 The Little Nyonya, premiering 10 March 2025 on Netflix and mewatch.
Emerald Isle
Emerald Isle, North Carolina: a town on the western end of Bogue Banks barrier island on the Crystal Coast; founded by 1954 Red Springs investors, incorporated 1957, bridge-linked in 1971, population 3,797 swelling to 50,000 in summer.
Emerald Lake (British Columbia)
Emerald Lake, British Columbia: the largest lake in Yoho National Park, named in 1900 for its rock-flour blue-green water; trails, canoe rental, lodge, and current watercraft closures.
Emerald Lakes
Emerald Lakes (Ngā Rotopounamu) are three sacred blue-green crater lakes below Red Crater on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, New Zealand; mineral-colored, acidic water, tapu to Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro.
Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) is a short, cryptic Hermetic text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, first appearing in Arabic sources of the late eighth or early ninth century.
Emerald Triangle
The Emerald Triangle is the Northern California cannabis region of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, named by law enforcement after Asia's Golden Triangle; cultivation began in the late 1960s and it remains a major producer.
Emeran A. Mayer
Emeran A. Mayer is a gastroenterologist and neuroscientist at UCLA known for research on brain–gut–microbiome interactions and irritable bowel syndrome, and author of The Mind-Gut Connection.
Emerance Maschmeyer
Emerance Maschmeyer, Canadian goaltender (born 1994, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta), Olympic gold 2022 and silver 2026, Harvard saves record holder, PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes goalie after two Ottawa seasons.
Emeraude Marine Oil and Gas Field
Emeraude Marine is a shallow-water offshore oil field off Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo, discovered in 1969 as the country's first major oil field.
Emeraude Surf School
Emeraude Surf School, a surf school founded 1 April 2015 by Robin Henry on Longchamp beach, Saint-Lunaire, Côte d'Émeraude, Brittany; surf and SUP lessons, rentals from €10, season 1 April to 7 November.
Emeraude Toubia
Emeraude Toubia (born 1989, Montreal) is a Mexican-Lebanese-American actress and producer known as Isabelle Lightwood on Shadowhunters (2016–2019) and Lily Diaz on With Love (2021–2023), plus the 2025 horror film Rosario.
EMERGE-Cryo trial
EMERGE-Cryo (NCT05294445), also called EMERGE Cryo, is a German randomized trial of first-line cryoballoon ablation versus antiarrhythmic drugs in 350 emergency department patients with recent-onset atrial fibrillation.
Emergence
Emergence is the appearance of novel system-level properties or behaviors that the individual components lack, seen in bird flocks, traffic jams, phase transitions, and, on some accounts, consciousness.
Emergence (TV series)
Emergence (TV series): American ABC science fiction mystery drama created by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, starring Allison Tolman as police chief Jo Evans and Alexa Swinton as Piper; aired one 13-episode season from September 24, 2019 to January 28, 2020 before cancellation.
Emergence Capital
Emergence Capital is a San Francisco venture capital firm, founded in 2003 by Jason Green, Brian Jacobs, and Gordon Ritter, that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies like Salesforce and Zoom.
Emergence Therapeutics
Emergence Therapeutics AG was a Duisburg, Germany-based biopharmaceutical company that developed antibody–drug conjugates targeting Nectin-4, emerged from stealth with an €87 million Series A in 2021, and was acquired by Eli Lilly in 2023.
Emergency
A state of emergency is a legally defined, time-limited condition granting the executive extraordinary powers against threats like war, disaster, or epidemic, subject to judicial and parliamentary control.