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Eating utensil etiquette

Eating utensil etiquette covers rules for using knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, and hands at the table. Key facts: pre-16th-century Europe lacked eating utensils; the fork spread via Catherine de' Medici; à la russe service drove Victorian cutlery complexity; norms vary sharply by region.

Eating your own dog food

Eating your own dog food, or dogfooding, is the practice of a company using its own product internally as a customer would, to expose defects before release.

Eaton

Eaton (Eaton-by-Tarporley), Cheshire: village with the only known Roman villa in Cheshire, a winged-corridor villa at SJ 57176341 excavated 1980-82, occupied from about AD 170-200 to the late fourth century.

Eaton Corporation

Eaton Corporation is an Irish-incorporated power management company that designs and manufactures electrical, aerospace, and vehicle power systems, founded in 1911 and serving customers in 180 countries.

Eaton Fire

The Eaton Fire was a January 2025 wildfire in Altadena and Pasadena, California, also called the Eaton Canyon fire; it burned 14,021 acres, destroyed 9,419 structures, killed 19, and was caused by arcing on an idle Southern California Edison tower.

Eaton Hall, Cheshire

Eaton Hall, the Cheshire country house of the Grosvenor family, Dukes of Westminster, has had four successive houses since 1675; the present one dates from 1971.

Eaton House Fort

Eaton House Fort, also called Eaton House Roman Fort, is a Roman auxiliary fort near Pennocrucium, Staffordshire, about 50 m south of Watling Street; almost square at about 150 m per side, double-ditched, identified in 1965 and scheduled in 1973.

Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting

The Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting: on June 8, 2017, employee Randy Stair (Andrew Blaze) killed three coworkers with shotguns at the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania supermarket, then killed himself.

Eaton Vance Cash Collateral Fund LLC

Eaton Vance Cash Collateral Fund LLC is a Delaware pooled investment fund organized in 2006 and based in Boston, reinvesting cash collateral from Eaton Vance's securities lending under money-market standards.

Eaton Vance Institutional Senior Loan Fund

The Eaton Vance Institutional Senior Loan Fund is a Cayman Islands pooled investment fund managed by Eaton Vance Management of Boston, investing in senior secured floating-rate loans.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is a city at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers; incorporated in 1872, it is the seventh-largest city in Wisconsin.

Eau de Cologne

Eau de Cologne, or Kölnisch Wasser, is a lightly concentrated citrus fragrance created in Cologne in 1709 by the Italian perfumer Johann Maria Farina, later the generic name for dilute fresh fragrances.

Eau de Paris

Eau de Paris is the public water company of the City of Paris, serving about 3 million users and operating the service since January 2010.

Eau de toilette

Eau de toilette, also called toilet water, is an alcohol-based fragrance with 5 to 15 percent perfume oil, between eau de cologne and eau de parfum in strength.

Eau de vie

Eau de vie (French for 'water of life', from aqua vitae) is a clear, unaged fruit brandy distilled from fermented fruit other than grapes, in styles such as kirsch, poire Williams and mirabelle; in broader French usage the term covers any distilled spirit, including Cognac and Armagnac.

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was an Irish poet who brought women's domestic lives and their exclusion from national history into Irish poetry, becoming a major figure in Irish literature.

Eaves

Eaves are the edges of a roof that overhang a building's exterior walls, moving runoff clear of the siding and shading windows; the sloped gable edges are the rake.

Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping is unauthorized interception of private conversations or data transmissions. Covers acoustic bugs, wiretapping, man-in-the-middle network attacks, acoustic side channels, and the legal frameworks governing surveillance in the US and Europe.

Eavor

Eavor is a Calgary-based geothermal energy company that develops the Eavor-Loop, a closed-loop geothermal system first fed into the public grid in Geretsried, Germany, in December 2025.

Eawag

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is Switzerland's federal water research institute, founded in 1936 and based in Dübendorf near Zurich.

Eazy-Duz-It

Eazy-Duz-It is Eazy-E's 1988 debut solo album on Ruthless/Priority Records, the first N.W.A spin-off, produced by Dr. Dre and Yella, written by The D.O.C., Ice Cube, and MC Ren, and later ranked among Rolling Stone's greatest hip-hop albums.

Eazy-E

Eazy-E, born Eric Lynn Wright (1964 - March 26, 1995), was a Compton rapper who founded Ruthless Records, co-founded N.W.A, released Eazy-Duz-It, and died of AIDS-related causes in 1995.

EAZYBAKED

EAZYBAKED is an American bass music duo from Orlando, Florida, formed by Eric Ray and Andrew Principe, known for experimental bass and their 2022 debut album INTERTWINED.

EB Games

EB Games is a video game and pop-culture retail brand in Australia and Canada; GameStop acquired the business in 2005, while EB Games Canada became independent in 2025.

EB-1 visa

The EB-1 visa is the U.S. employment-based first preference (priority workers) green card: EB-1A extraordinary ability, EB-1B outstanding professors and researchers, and EB-1C multinational executives and managers.

EB-5 visa

EB-5 visa: U.S. employment-based fifth preference immigrant investor visa, created 1990. Grants green cards for $1,050,000 ($800,000 in a TEA or infrastructure project) invested and 10 U.S. jobs created; regional center pathway dominates.

EB2 [Human Burkitt lymphoma]

EB2 (EB-2, Epstein-Barr-2, CVCL_1186, ATCC HTB-61) is an EBV-transformed human B-lymphoblast cell line from a 7-year-old Ugandan girl's metastatic ovarian Burkitt lymphoma, established by Epstein, Barr, and Achong in 1965.

Ebabbar

The Ebabbar, meaning "shining house", is the temple of the sun god Shamash at the Babylonian cities of Sippar and Larsa, rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II and Nabonidus.

Ebabbar archive

The Ebabbar archive is the tablet archive of the Ebabbar temple of Šamaš at Sippar, spanning Neo-Babylonian to early Persian rule and the largest of its kind.

Ebana

Ebana of Aksum was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum around 440–470 AD, attested through his gold, silver, and bronze coins bearing Ge'ez legends and a cross.