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Erekle II

Erekle II (ერეკლე II) was king of Kakheti from 1744 and then of Kartli-Kakheti, which he united in 1762, ruling eastern Georgia until his death in 1798.

Erel Margalit

Erel Margalit (אראל מרגלית) is an Israeli venture capitalist, founder and executive chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners, established in Jerusalem in 1993, and a former Knesset member.

Eremia Chelebi

Eremia Chelebi (Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan, 1637–1695) was an Armenian poet, historian, translator, and printer of seventeenth-century Constantinople, best known for his detailed chronicles of Istanbul and his Armeno-Turkish writings.

Eremia Geton

Eremia Geton (ἡ τῶν Γετῶν ἐρημία), the "desolation of the Getae", is Strabo's waterless plain between the Danube (Ister) and Dniester (Tyras) on the Black Sea, Barrington Atlas map 23 C3 in Ukraine, where Darius I nearly perished of thirst.

Eremia Grigorescu

Eremia Grigorescu (1863–1919) was a Romanian artillery general who commanded the 1st Army to victory at the Battle of Mărășești in 1917 and authored the motto "Pe aici nu se trece."

Eremias

Eremias (racerunners, desert and steppe runners) is a genus of about 40 lacertid lizard species from southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia, established by Fitzinger in 1834 with Eremias velox as type species.

Eremochaetidae

Eremochaetidae is an extinct family of brachyceran flies from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous of Asia and Burmese amber, erected by Ussatchov in 1968, with endoparasitoid females bearing needle-like ovipositors.

Eren Holding

Eren Holding is a Turkish family-owned conglomerate headquartered in Istanbul, created in 1997 and employing about 14,000 people, whose ZETES coal plant in Zonguldak supplies about 6% of Türkiye's electricity.

Eren Yeager (エレン・イェーガー)

Eren Yeager (エレン・イェーガー), also written Eren Jaeger, is the protagonist of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan: a Paradis Island boy who becomes a titan shifter and triggers the Rumbling, killing 80% of humanity.

ERES trial

ERES trial (NCT04124172): Institut Guttmann pilot randomized triple-blind study of 1 Hz rTMS plus rehabilitation versus sham rTMS for paretic upper-limb function in subacute stroke, 24 planned participants.

Ereshkigal

Ereshkigal (Ereškigal, also Irkalla or Allatu) is the Mesopotamian goddess who rules the underworld, sister of Inanna/Ishtar and, in later tradition, consort of Nergal; known chiefly from Inanna's Descent and the Nergal and Ereshkigal myth.

Ereshkigal Corona

Ereshkigal Corona is a roughly 320-km-wide volcano-tectonic corona on Venus at 21°N, 84.5°E in Akhtamar Planitia, IAU-named in 1994 for a Mesopotamian goddess, classified as both volcano and corona.

Erethism

Erethism (erethism mercurialis, mad hatter syndrome) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome of chronic mercury poisoning: shyness, irritability, memory loss, insomnia. Linked to mercuric nitrate in 19th-century hat felt making; term coined by John Pearson in 1805.

Eretria (Thessaly)

Eretria (Ερέτρια), Thessalian Eretria near modern Tsangli in Achaia Phthiotis, was a fortified ancient Greek city, distinct from Euboean Eretria, known for its 4th-century BC walls, five gates, and sack by Philip V in 198 BC.

Eretum

Eretum (Ereto, Ἠρητόν) was an ancient Sabine town on the Via Salaria near the Tiber, identified with Casa Cotta at Montelibretti, Italy; its Colle del Forno necropolis, with princely chariot burials, was fully excavated by the CNR.

Erewhon

Erewhon; Or, Over the Range, Samuel Butler's 1872 satirical utopian novel (title evoking 'nowhere'), set in a country where illness is crime and machines were destroyed; source of the Book of the Machines.

Erewhon Market

Erewhon Market: luxury organic grocery chain founded 1966 in Boston by Michio and Aveline Kushi, owned since 2011 by Tony and Josephine Antoci with Stripes Group minority stake, known for Los Angeles stores and celebrity smoothies.

Erez Goren

Erez Goren is an American technology entrepreneur who founded the video game developer Hi-Rez Studios in Georgia in 2005 after selling his point-of-sale software company Radiant Systems.

Erez Hasman

Erez Hasman (born 1960) is an Israeli optical physicist, the Schlesinger chaired Professor at the Technion in Haifa, known for developing spinoptics and early optical metasurfaces.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Erez Lieberman Aiden, also known as Erez Aiden, is an American scientist who invented the Hi-C genome mapping method, co-created the Google Ngram Viewer, and introduced evolutionary graph theory.

Erez Raz

Erez Raz is an Israeli-born developmental and cell biologist, professor and institute director at the University of Münster, known for showing that chemokine SDF-1 guides zebrafish germ cell migration.

Erf (trucks)

ERF was a British truck manufacturer founded in 1933 by Edwin Richard Foden at Sandbach, Cheshire, that built heavy lorries from bought-in components until 2007.

Erfan Tahmasbi

Erfan Tahmasbi (عرفان طهماسبی) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer from Shushtar in Khuzestan province, who became widely known after appearing on the talent show Asr Jadid.

Erfonrilimab

Erfonrilimab (KN046, 依瑞利单抗), a PD-L1 x CTLA-4 bispecific antibody from Jiangsu Alphamab, in phase III trials (ENREACH-L-01 squamous NSCLC, ENREACH-PDAC-01 pancreatic cancer); phase II ORR 46% in first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Erfurt

Erfurt, capital of Thuringia, Germany, first recorded 742 as Erphesfurt; home of the 1379 University of Erfurt where Luther studied, ICE rail hub since 2017, and ranked Germany's happiest large city in 2026.

Erfurt latrine disaster

The Erfurt latrine disaster (Erfurter Latrinensturz) was the collapse of a wooden floor in Erfurt on 26 July 1184, dropping nobles assembled for King Henry VI into a latrine cesspit, where about 60 died.

ERG

ERG (ETS transcription factor ERG, Gene ID 2078) is a human ETS-family transcription factor on chromosome 21q22.2 regulating endothelium and hematopoiesis, and an oncogenic fusion partner in TMPRSS2-ERG prostate cancer, EWS-ERG Ewing sarcoma, and FUS-ERG AML.

Erg Chech

Erg Chech (عرق الشاش), a giant Saharan sand sea in southwestern Algeria extending into Mali and Mauritania, with longitudinal dunes up to 500 km long, area about 319,000 km², and the source of the Erg Chech 002 meteorite.

Erg Iguidi

Erg Iguidi, a Saharan sand sea (erg) stretching from Algeria into Mauritania, with dunes often over 500 m wide and tall, fed by the Oued Daoura near the Eglab massif.

ERG rearrangement analysis

ERG rearrangement analysis is a molecular diagnostic test that detects ERG gene rearrangements, most often the TMPRSS2–ERG fusion, to support prostate cancer diagnosis and risk stratification.