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Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang
Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, personal name Li Cunxu, was a Shatuo emperor who reigned from 923 to 926, conquered Former Shu in seventy days, and died in 926.
Emperor-system fascism (天皇制ファシズム)
Emperor-system fascism (天皇制ファシズム, tennōsei fashizumu) is a historiographical concept, introduced by Japanese Marxist historians in the 1950s, that describes Japan's 1930s–1945 regime as fascism centered on the imperial institution rather than a mass party, a characterization still debated against labels like military authoritarianism.
Emperor's Carpet
The Emperor's Carpet is a large Safavid Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1943.
Emperors Palace
Emperors Palace is a hotel, casino, and entertainment resort in Kempton Park beside Johannesburg's O. R. Tambo Airport, opened in 2000 as Caesars Gauteng and known for boxing and concerts.
Empetrum
Empetrum (crowberry), Ericaceae genus of evergreen dwarf shrubs with four accepted species, bipolar across the subarctic Northern Hemisphere and southern South America; black seedy berries eaten by people and wildlife.
Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry, crowberry) is an evergreen Ericaceae dwarf shrub of boreal and arctic Northern Hemisphere heaths, with black stone fruits, diploid dioecious and tetraploid hermaphroditum groups, and bibenzyl-based allelopathy.
Empfindsamkeit
Empfindsamkeit, or "sensibility," was a literary and cultural current of the European Enlightenment, strongest in German literature from about 1740 to 1780, treating deep feeling as a moral virtue.
EMPHASIS trial
EMPHASIS: phase 3 Lancet 2026 trial (Lu et al., NCT05836740) of oral minocycline within 72 h of acute ischaemic stroke in 1,724 Chinese patients; mRS 0-1 at 90 days 52.6% vs 47.4%, no safety concerns.
EMPHASIS-HF trial
EMPHASIS-HF, the Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalization and Survival Study in Heart Failure, tested eplerenone in 2,737 patients with mild systolic heart failure and stopped early for benefit.
Emphysema
Emphysema, also called pulmonary emphysema, is a type of COPD in which alveolar walls are destroyed, mainly by smoking or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency; diagnosed by spirometry and CT, treated with bronchodilators, oxygen, and lung volume reduction.
Emphyteusis
Emphyteusis (ἐμφύτευσις), also called emphyteutic lease or bail emphytéotique, is a perpetual or long-term real right in another's land requiring cultivation and fixed rent, created in late Roman law by Zeno and Justinian and surviving in French, Belgian, Maltese, Greek, and Ukrainian property law.
Empididae
Empididae, the dance flies, is a predatory fly family in Empidoidea (Diptera). Known for aerial mating swarms, male nuptial gifts, and reversed female ornaments in Empis, Hilara, and Rhamphomyia; classification revised by Sinclair & Cumming 2006 and molecular work establishing Ragadidae as sister.
Empidonax
Empidonax is a genus of small tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) established by Cabanis in 1855; its North American species, such as Willow, Alder, Least, and Western Flycatcher, are notoriously similar and identified mainly by voice.
Empingham
Empingham is a village and civil parish in Rutland, England, on the River Gwash 6 miles WNW of Stamford, next to the dam of Rutland Water.
Empire
Empire (from Latin imperium): a large polity in which a dominant state or people rules other states or peoples with maintained hierarchy. Covers definitions, imperialism versus colonialism, empire versus nation-state, and how empires expand, administer, and decline.
Empire (2015 TV series)
Empire (2015 TV series) is a Fox musical drama created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, running 2015 to 2020 over six seasons. It follows music mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) and ex-wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) in a hip-hop succession struggle.
Empire (magazine)
Empire is a British monthly film magazine founded in 1989 by Emap and now published by Bauer Media Group. Known for mainstream blockbuster coverage, five-star reviews, the Empire Film Podcast, and guest editors like Spielberg.
Empire (podcast)
Empire (podcast) refers mainly to The Empire Film Podcast, Empire magazine's weekly film show since 2012 hosted by Chris Hewitt; also Empire: World History (Dalrymple and Anand) and Blockworks' crypto Empire.
Empire (Queensrÿche album)
Empire (1990) is Queensrÿche's fifth studio album, produced by Peter Collins. Triple-platinum, No. 7 Billboard 200, six rock-chart singles including "Silent Lucidity" (#9 Hot 100), the band's biggest seller.
Empire Air Mail Scheme
The Empire Air Mail Scheme was a British 1930s program carrying all first-class mail across the Empire by air at the ordinary surface rate, from 1937.
Empire Airlines
Empire Airlines is an American cargo airline based in Hayden, Idaho, serving as a FedEx Feeder carrier across the western United States and Alaska since 1988.
Empire Builder
The Empire Builder is a daily Amtrak long-distance train between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, splitting at Spokane for Seattle or Portland on a route through Montana.
Empire City (film)
Empire City: upcoming Gerard Butler and Hayley Atwell action thriller directed by Michael Matthews, written by Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler, about a Melbourne-shot hostage-crisis siege in New York's Clybourn Building.
Empire Company
Empire Company Limited is a Stellarton, Nova Scotia holding company whose principal asset is Sobeys, a national grocer with over 1,600 stores and about $32 billion in annual sales.
Empire Distribution
Empire Distribution (EMPIRE), founded by Ghazi Shami in San Francisco in 2010, is an independent distributor, record label, and publisher known for non-exclusive artist-friendly deals, early Kendrick Lamar and XXXTentacion releases, a 2018 UMG partnership, and expansion into Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Empire Earth
Empire Earth, historical real-time strategy series by Stainless Steel Studios (Rick Goodman, ex-Ensemble), Sierra-published 2001; 500,000 years, 14 epochs, five resources; GameSpy 2001 GOTY, 2M+ sales, fan-revived multiplayer.
Empire of AI
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a 2025 investigative nonfiction work. It examines how major AI firms extract global data and labor.
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil (Império do Brasil), 1822–1889, a constitutional monarchy under Pedro I and Pedro II, retained Portugal's territorial inheritance while Spanish America fragmented; defined by the 1824 Constitution's Moderating Power, slavery, and the 1889 military coup.
Empire of Death (Doctor Who episode)
Empire of Death is the 2024 season 1 finale of Doctor Who, episode 8, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Jamie Donoughue, in which Sutekh (voiced by Gabriel Woolf) spreads death across the universe before the Doctor drags him through the Time Vortex and Ruby Sunday leaves the TARDIS.
Empire of Dust
Empire of Dust is a 2011 Belgian documentary by Bram Van Paesschen following CREC logistics manager Lao Yang and Congolese interpreter Eddy rebuilding a 300 km road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, DRC; it won Docville 2012's Best Belgian Documentary award.