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Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (EMU), public university in Ypsilanti, Michigan, founded March 28, 1849 as a normal school. 5 academic colleges, 525 programs, $321.5M 2025-26 budget; President Brendan Kelly since April 1, 2026.
Eastern newt
Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), also called red-spotted newt or red eft (juvenile stage): a common eastern North American salamander of family Salamandridae with a four-stage life cycle, tetrodotoxin-bearing skin, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario, also called Southeastern Ontario, is a region of Ontario, Canada, extending from the Ottawa River and Québec boundary to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church, is a communion of self-governing Christian churches with about 260 million adherents, mostly in Europe.
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar orders Orthodox Christian worship through feasts, fasts, and readings, combining a fixed cycle with a movable cycle pivoting on Pascha; its year begins September 1.
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy is a communion of self-governing Orthodox Christian churches recognizing the first seven ecumenical councils, with about 200 million members, mostly in Eastern Europe.
Eastern Pacific coral reefs
Eastern Pacific coral reefs are the reef systems of the tropical Pacific American coast, from Baja California to northern Peru, including offshore islands like the Galápagos.
Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is the EU's 2009 cooperation framework with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy, offering association agreements, DCFTAs, and visa liberalization; Belarus suspended participation in 2021.
Eastern philosophy
Eastern philosophy is an umbrella term for Asian philosophical traditions, including Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist thought, covering Indian, Chinese, and Japanese schools and the comparative East-West methodology debates.
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises (2007) is a David Cronenberg crime thriller, written by Steven Knight, starring Viggo Mortensen as London Russian-mob driver Nikolai and Naomi Watts as midwife Anna; it won TIFF's People's Choice Award and earned Mortensen an Oscar nomination.
Eastern Province, Rwanda
Eastern Province (Intara y'Iburasirazuba), Rwanda's most populous province (3,563,145 in 2022), created in the 2006 territorial reform, capital Rwamagana, seven districts including Nyagatare and Bugesera, drought-prone farming region.
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Eastern Province (المنطقة الشرقية), Saudi Arabia's largest province by area (540,000 km²), capital Dammam. Prime energy hub with Ghawar and Safaniya oil fields, Saudi Aramco, and the 1938 Dammam No. 7 oil discovery.
Eastern Province, Sierra Leone
Eastern Province, Sierra Leone: one of the country's four provinces, covering Kailahun, Kenema, and Kono districts with headquarters at Kenema. A diamond-mining and cocoa-growing region with 1.18 million people (2004 census) and 60.9% poverty.
Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The Eastern Province is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, occupying the eastern coast with its capital at Trincomalee and three districts: Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Ampara.
Eastern Province, Zambia
Eastern Province, Zambia: one of Zambia's ten provinces, capital Chipata, between the Luangwa River and the Malawi and Mozambique borders; 15 districts, about 52,056 km², predominantly rural and agricultural.
Eastern Question
The Eastern Question, known to Ottomans as the Western Question, was the European Great Powers' diplomatic problem of handling the declining Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1923.
Eastern Region (Nepal)
Eastern Region (Eastern Development Region, पूर्वाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र), Nepal's former easternmost planning region of Mechi, Koshi, and Sagarmatha zones with 16 districts; dissolved by the 2015 Constitution into Province No. 1.
Eastern Region, Ghana
Eastern Region, Ghana: one of the five original regions at independence, capital Koforidua, area 19,323 km², 2021 census population about 2.9 million, third most populous region, 33 districts, agrarian cocoa and pineapple economy.
Eastern Region, Uganda
Eastern Region (Eastern Uganda) is one of Uganda's four administrative regions, comprising the Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu, Sebei, and Teso sub-regions, with about 11.4 million people in 2024, Mount Elgon agriculture, and the country's highest monetary poverty rate.
Eastern rosella
Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius, white-cheeked rosella), a red-headed Australian parrot of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania, introduced to New Zealand from 1910; IUCN Least Concern, cavity nester, BFDV carrier in NZ.
Eastern Rumelia (Източна Румелия)
Eastern Rumelia (Източна Румелия), autonomous Ottoman province created by the 1878 Treaty of Berlin south of the Balkans, governed by an Organic Statute and Christian Governor-General, united with Bulgaria in 1885.
Eastern Sayan Mountains
Eastern Sayan Mountains, part of the Sayan system of southern Siberia along the Russia–Mongolia border; highest peak Mönkh Saridag (Munku-Sardyk), 3,491 m. Paleozoic thrust-nappe foundation, Cenozoic rejuvenated uplift, Jom-Bolok volcanism.
Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
The Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO; Russian: ВСТО) pipeline connects Siberian oil fields to the Pacific port of Kozmino, with ESPO-1 completed in 2009 and ESPO-2 in 2012.
Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge replaced the seismically vulnerable eastern half with a new skyway and self-anchored suspension bridge, opened in 2013.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary, opened in Philadelphia in 1829, was the world's first full-scale penitentiary and home of the Pennsylvania System of solitary confinement with labor; designed by John Haviland, it influenced 300+ prisons, abandoned the system in 1913, closed in 1971, and is now a museum.
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)
The Eastern Suburbs is an informal region of Sydney, New South Wales, east of the city center, with no legal boundaries, including suburbs like Bondi Junction, Randwick, and Vaucluse.
Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line
The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line, also called the Illawarra Railway Line, is Sydney Trains' T4 service from Bondi Junction to Hurstville, Waterfall, and Cronulla.
Eastern Syvash
Eastern Syvash (Ramsar site 769) is a 165,000 ha shallow hypersaline lagoon wetland in Kherson and Crimea, Ukraine, designated 1997, vital for migratory waterbirds, occupied by Russia since 2014 and fully since 2022.
Eastern Taiwan
Eastern Taiwan (FEOW ecoregion 758) is a freshwater ecoregion covering basins east of Taiwan's Chungyang Range draining to the Philippine Sea, from Eluanbi to Wushibi, including Green Island and Orchid Island, with main rivers Lanyang and Peinan and few endemic fishes.
Eastern Telegraph Company
The Eastern Telegraph Company was a British submarine telegraph operator formed in 1872 by John Pender, growing into the world's largest cable company and the ancestor of Cable & Wireless.