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Erko Jun
Erko Jun (Ermin Junuzović, born 1990, Janja, Bosnia), "The Bounty Hunter", Bosnian-Belgian light heavyweight MMA fighter, former BRAVE CF Light Heavyweight champion, 9-4 record with all finishes by KO/TKO, ex-bodybuilder and fitness model from Antwerp.
Erlan Karin
Erlan Karin (born 1976) is a Kazakh politician who became Vice President of Kazakhstan in 2026 after serving as State Counselor from 2022 to 2026.
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude (1953-1987), Dutch-born American actor, MIT-trained computer scientist, NCAA heavyweight wrestler, and bass-baritone; played Terror, Grossberger, and Dynamo in four films.
Erlang (programming language)
Erlang is a concurrent, fault-tolerant functional programming language created at Ericsson's lab in Stockholm, originally for telephone exchanges with at most four minutes of downtime per year.
Erlang (unit)
The erlang (symbol E) is the dimensionless unit of telecommunications traffic intensity, named for Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang and equal to one circuit busy for one hour.
Erlang B
Erlang B, also called the Erlang loss formula, is a teletraffic formula published in 1917 that calculates the probability a call is blocked when no circuits are free.
Erlang C
Erlang C is a queuing formula, derived by Agner Krarup Erlang in 1917, that gives the probability a caller must wait and is used for call center staffing.
Erlang distribution
The Erlang distribution is a continuous probability distribution for the sum of k independent exponential random variables, modeling the waiting time until the k-th event of a Poisson process.
Erlang Shen (二郎神)
Erlang Shen (二郎神), also Guankou Erlang or Yang Jian, is a Chinese folk and Daoist god of flood control and demon-quelling, arising in Sichuan with three fused identities (Li, Zhao, Yang) and a three-eyed image adopted only in the Qing.
Erlang/OTP
Erlang/OTP is Ericsson's development environment for concurrent programming, combining the Erlang language and runtime with OTP libraries for fault-tolerant distributed applications like RabbitMQ and WhatsApp.
Erlangen
Erlangen: kreisfreie Stadt in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; Huguenot New Town founded 1686, university founded 1743, Siemens seat since 1945; about 120,800 residents, 25.5% foreign nationals.
Erlangen program
The Erlangen program is a research program in geometry set out by Felix Klein at the University of Erlangen in 1872, defining each geometry by the transformations under which its properties stay invariant.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner, also known as A. A. Fair, was an American author who created the defense-attorney detective Perry Mason. He wrote 82 novels between 1933 and 1973.
Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover
Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover (Hannover Adventure Zoo), a German zoo opened 4 May 1865, run by Zoo Hannover gGmbH under Region Hannover; rebuilt as themed worlds from 1996, about 1,700 animals, roughly 1 million annual visitors.
Erlebnisbahnhof - Stazione d'avventura
Erlebnisbahnhof - Stazione d'avventura, the Naturns adventure train station in Staben, South Tyrol: volunteer-run railway theme park on the former Schnalsthal station, opened 2005, with an 800 m garden railway, draisine rides, and Rhaetian Railway post wagons. Distinct from the Erlebnisbahnhof Brittnau-Wikon in Switzerland.
Erlend Øye
Erlend Øye (Erlend Otre Øye), Norwegian singer-guitarist born 1975 in Bergen, of Kings of Convenience and The Whitest Boy Alive; solo albums Unrest, Legao, La Comitiva; based in Sicily.
Erlenmeyer flask
The Erlenmeyer flask, also called a conical flask or titration flask, is a flat-bottomed laboratory flask with a conical body and narrow neck, used for mixing, heating, and titration.
Erling Haaland
Erling Braut Haaland (born 2000, Leeds) is a Norwegian striker for Manchester City and Norway; 59 Champions League goals in 59 games, record 36-goal Premier League season, Norway's all-time top scorer.
Erling Jevne
Erling Jevne (born 1966, Lillehammer) is a Norwegian classical-style cross-country skier, 1998 Olympic relay gold medalist and 30 km silver medalist, world relay champion 1995 and 1997, and record seven-time winner of Birkebeinerrennet.
Erling Kongshaug
Erling Kongshaug (Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug, 1915–1993), Norwegian rifle shooter, Oslo Sporveiers Skytterlag; Olympic gold in small-bore rifle three positions at Helsinki 1952 with 1,164 points, world champion 1950 and 1952.
Erling Lorentzen
Erling Sven Lorentzen (1923–2021) was a Norwegian resistance leader and industrialist who built Aracruz Celulose in Brazil into the world's largest eucalyptus pulp producer, and married Princess Ragnhild of Norway.
Erling Persson
Erling Persson (1917–2002) was a Swedish businessman who founded the fashion retailer H&M, opening the first Hennes store in Västerås in 1947 after a 1946 trip to the United States.
Erling Seeberg
Erling Christen Seeberg (1946–2004) was a biochemist whose 1970s work showed that three uvr gene products cut ultraviolet-damaged DNA in E. coli, cited in the 2015 Nobel Prize background.
Erlitou (二里头)
Erlitou (二里头), a Bronze Age site in Yanshi, Henan, is the type-site of the Erlitou culture (c. 1900-1500 BCE), widely seen as China's earliest state-level capital; its proposed identification with the legendary Xia dynasty remains disputed.
Erlking
The Erlking (German Erlkönig, "alder king") is a malevolent child-abducting spirit of modern German folklore, born from Herder's 1778 mistranslation of Danish ellerkonge (elf-king) and fixed by Goethe's 1782 ballad and Schubert's 1815 song.
Erlkönig
Erlkönig is a 1782 ballad by Goethe in which a father rides through the night with his terror-stricken son, who dies in his father's arms.
Erlonghu Gucheng Yizhi
二龙湖古城遗址 (Erlonghu Ancient City Site): a Warring States period Yan state frontier city in Lishu County, Siping, Jilin, China. Square walled site of 750 m perimeter, found 1983, excavated 1987, northernmost known Yan-culture city, national protection unit since 2001.
Erlotinib
Erlotinib, sold as Tarceva, is an oral EGFR inhibitor approved by the FDA in 2004 for non-small cell lung cancer and, with gemcitabine, for pancreatic cancer.
Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American humorist, wrote the syndicated column "At Wit's End" about suburban family life, reaching 900 newspapers and 30 million readers, appeared on Good Morning America for 11 years, and campaigned for the ERA.
Erma Franklin
Erma Vernice Franklin (1938 or 1939-2002), American soul singer, elder sister of Aretha Franklin, original vocalist of "Piece of My Heart" (1967), later famous through Janis Joplin's cover.