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East–West Shrine Bowl
East–West Shrine Bowl (Shriners Children's East-West Bowl): annual college football all-star game, first played December 26, 1925 at Ewing Field, San Francisco; oldest US college all-star game, benefiting Shriners Children's and showcasing NFL draft prospects.
Eastbound & Down
Eastbound & Down: HBO comedy series (2009–2013, 4 seasons, 29 episodes) created by Ben Best, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride, starring McBride as washed-up MLB pitcher Kenny Powers teaching phys ed in North Carolina.
Eastbound Strangler
Eastbound Strangler: unidentified American serial killer who murdered four Atlantic City sex workers, found November 20, 2006 in a drainage ditch behind the Golden Key Motel, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey; heads facing east, barefoot; case unsolved, Heuermann ruled out.
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast between Brighton and Hastings, known for its Victorian seafront and Beachy Head.
Eastbourne borough
Eastbourne Borough FC, "The Sports", is an English non-league club at Priory Lane, Eastbourne. Founded 1965 as Langney FC; reached the Conference Premier 2008-2011; relegated to the Isthmian League in 2026.
EastEnders
EastEnders: BBC One soap opera, first broadcast 19 February 1985, created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland, set in fictional Walford (E20), Albert Square; 30-million-viewer 1986 Christmas episode, 'The Six' 2023 mystery, 40th anniversary live episode 2025.
EastEnders: E20
EastEnders: E20 is a British online soap spin-off of EastEnders (2010-2011), set in Walford's Albert Square, written by 13 writers aged 17-22, drawing over 3 million web views and later aired on BBC3.
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha, is the Christian feast of the Resurrection, held the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, between March 22 and April 25.
Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is the folklore figure, originally the German egg-laying hare Osterhase or Oschter Haws, who brings eggs, candy, and baskets to children before Easter. First documented in 1682, brought to Pennsylvania in the 1700s; the pagan-goddess origin story is unsupported.
Easter egg
Easter egg: decorated or egg-shaped gift tied to Easter, symbolizing resurrection and new life; linked to the Lenten egg fast, wax-resist pysanky traditions, the 1682 Osterhase hare, egg hunts, and the 1878 White House egg roll.
Easter egg (media)
Easter egg (media): an intentionally hidden joke, message, or feature in software, games, or film. Coined at Atari circa 1979 for Warren Robinett's hidden 'Created by Warren Robinett' room in Adventure; earlier hidden credits exist.
Easter Happrew Roman Fort
Easter Happrew Roman Fort (SM1493) is a Flavian, Agricolan-era Roman fort and annexe near Peebles, Tweeddale, Scotland: rhomboid, about 1.42 ha, turf rampart and ditch, excavated 1956, abandoned around AD 90 for nearby Lyne fort.
Easter Island
Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua), a remote Chilean Pacific island 3,700 km offshore, famous for over 1,000 moai statues, Rano Raraku quarry, 1722 European contact, and revised collapse history.
Easter Lily (EP)
Easter Lily is U2's second surprise EP of 2026, released Good Friday, April 3, six weeks after Days of Ash. Six tracks, 32 minutes, produced by Jacknife Lee on Island/Universal, opening with the Hal Willner tribute Song for Hal.
Easter Monday
Easter Monday, called Bright Monday in Orthodox and Byzantine churches, is the day after Easter Sunday, kept as a holy day and public holiday in over 100 countries.
Easter Offensive
The Easter Offensive (Nguyen Hue Campaign) was North Vietnam's three-pronged conventional invasion of South Vietnam launched 30 March 1972 across the DMZ, into the Central Highlands, and toward An Loc, halted by US airpower and ARVN resistance.
Easter Parade (film)
Easter Parade (1948) is an MGM Technicolor musical directed by Charles Walters, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in their only screen pairing, with 17 Irving Berlin songs and an Oscar-winning score; Astaire replaced the injured Gene Kelly.
Easter Rising
The Easter Rising was an armed rebellion by Irish Republicans in Dublin, 24-29 April 1916, proclaimed from the GPO by Patrick Pearse; its suppression and the executions of 15-16 leaders turned Irish opinion toward Sinn Féin and independence.
Easter Sunday (film)
Easter Sunday is a 2022 Universal comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, starring Jo Koy as comedian Joe Valencia at a family Easter gathering; the first major Hollywood studio film centered on Filipino Americans, grossing $13 million.
Easter Sunday heist
Easter Sunday heist: the March 31, 2024 GardaWorld Sylmar burglary in Los Angeles, also called the Garda robbery, in which thieves stole up to $30 million in cash, the largest cash heist in the city's history.
Easter Vigil
The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal vigil, is the first liturgy of Easter Day, held at night between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday in Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
Easter, 1916
"Easter, 1916" is W. B. Yeats's poem on the Easter Rising of April 1916, his best-known political poem, famous for the refrain "A terrible beauty is born".
Easterlin paradox
The Easterlin paradox is the finding in happiness economics that richer people are happier at a point in time, but long-term income growth does not raise happiness.
Eastern (Kenya)
Eastern (Kenya): the former Eastern Province, now eight counties (Marsabit, Isiolo, Meru, Tharaka-Nithi, Embu, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni); 159,891 km², 4.6 million people (1999), farming-based economy.
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines, also known as Eastern Air Transport, was a major American airline based in Miami, founded in 1927 as Pitcairn Aviation, that ceased flights in 1991 after a strike and bankruptcy.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed near Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 11, 1974, killing 72 of the 82 people aboard.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a New York to Miami flight that crashed into the Everglades on December 29, 1972, killing 101 of 176 aboard.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways, legally Air Kilroe Limited, was a British regional airline based at Humberside Airport, founded in 1997, which suspended operations in October 2025 and entered liquidation.
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (东西文化及其哲学) is a 1921 book by Chinese philosopher Liang Shuming arguing that Western, Chinese, and Indian cultures rest on different directions of the life-will.
Eastern Arabic numerals
Eastern Arabic numerals (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩), also called Arabic-Indic or Hindi digits, are the digit forms used with Arabic script in the Mashriq and Gulf; distinct from Persian/Urdu variants (U+06F0..06F9) and from Western digits 0-9.