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Erskine College

Erskine College (founded 1839) is a private Associate Reformed Presbyterian liberal arts college in Due West, South Carolina, with Erskine Theological Seminary, NCAA Division II Flying Fleet athletics, SACSCOC accreditation reaffirmed through 2032, and a Charter Institute authorizing 26 charter schools.

Erskine Oil and Gas Field

Erskine is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas condensate field in the UK Central North Sea about 150 miles north-east of Aberdeen, the first HPHT field developed on the UK Continental Shelf.

Ersodetug

Ersodetug (RZ358, XOMA 358) is Rezolute's investigational fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody, a negative allosteric modulator of the insulin receptor, in Phase 3 trials for congenital and tumor hyperinsulinism hypoglycemia; not yet approved.

ERSST

ERSST (Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature) is a NOAA global monthly sea surface temperature analysis, built from ship, buoy, and Argo float observations, with a record back to 1850.

Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung

Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) is an Austrian Austropop and satire band formed in Vienna in 1977, best known for the 1985 hit 'Ba Ba Banküberfall'.

Erste Group Bank

Erste Group Bank AG is a Vienna-headquartered banking group, founded in 1819 as Austria's first savings bank, serving about 23 million customers in Central and Eastern Europe.

ERTAAD study

ERTAAD (European Registry of Type A Aortic Dissection), NCT04831073, is a retrospective multicenter European registry of 3,902 patients operated for acute type A aortic dissection from 2005 to 2021, reporting about 18% in-hospital mortality, urgency-grade risk stratification, and 15-year durability of repair strategies.

Ertan hydroelectric plant

The Ertan hydroelectric plant (雅砻江二滩水电站) is a 3,300 MW hydroelectric station on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, once the country's largest before Three Gorges.

Ertapenem

Ertapenem, sold as Invanz, is a long-acting carbapenem antibiotic developed by Merck and first FDA-approved in 2001, given as a 1 g dose once daily, known for strong activity against ESBL-producing Enterobacterales but not Pseudomonas.

Erté

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, Роман Петрович Тыртов), 1892–1990, Russian-born French Art Deco fashion illustrator and stage designer; 240+ Harper's Bazaar covers, Folies-Bergère and Hollywood costumes, late bronzes.

Ertebølle culture

Ertebølle culture (c. 5400–3900 BC), Late Mesolithic southern Scandinavian hunter-gatherer-fisher culture named after the Limfjord kitchen midden excavated 1893–97; known for shell middens, bone fishhooks, early point-based pottery from c. 4700–4600 BC, and transition into the Funnel Beaker culture around 3900 BC.

Ertl Company

The Ertl Company is an American die-cast toy manufacturer founded by Fred Ertl Sr. in 1945 in Dubuque, Iowa, best known for its John Deere farm toy tractors.

Erton Köhler

Erton Carlos Köhler (born 1969) is a Brazilian Adventist pastor elected July 2025 as the 21st President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the first South American to hold the office, after leading the South American Division and serving as GC Executive Secretary.

Ertuğrul (ارطغرل)

Ertuğrul (ارطغرل), known in Turkish tradition as Ertuğrul Gazi or Ertuğrul Bey, was a 13th-century Türkmen frontier leader of northwestern Anatolia, remembered as the father of Osman Gazi, founder of the Ottoman dynasty.

Eruca sativa

Eruca sativa, known as arugula, rocket, or rucola, is an annual Mediterranean herb in the mustard family grown as a peppery salad vegetable and for Taramira oil in India.

Eruca Sativa (group)

Eruca Sativa is an Argentine rock power trio formed in 2007 in Córdoba, made up of Lula Bertoldi, Brenda Martin, and Gabriel Pedernera, and a leading act of Argentine rock.

Eruca vesicaria

Eruca vesicaria, also called garden rocket or arugula (Eruca sativa), is an annual Brassicaceae herb native to Spain, Morocco, and Algeria, grown for pungent salad leaves and taramira seed oil.

Erucic acid

Erucic acid is a 22-carbon monounsaturated fatty acid abundant in rapeseed and mustard oils, used industrially but subject to food limits for heart effects in animals.

Erudites (boshi) of the court

The erudites of the court (博士官, boshi guan) were scholarly officials of the Qin dynasty, about seventy, whose books were exempted from the burning of the books.

Eruditus

Eruditus is an executive-education company founded in 2010 by Ashwin Damera and Chaitanya Kalipatnapu, partnering with more than 80 universities including Harvard, MIT, and INSEAD.

Eruera Maihi Patuone

Eruera Maihi Patuone (c. 1764–1872) was a Ngāpuhi chief of Hokianga, New Zealand, a warrior turned peacemaker and one of the first Treaty of Waitangi signatories.

Erulus (crater on Dione)

Erulus is a 120-km impact crater on Dione, Saturn's icy moon, centered at 35S, 104.76W. Named 2008 after the Aeneid's superhuman son of Feronia; heavily relaxed with a central peak.

Erupcja

Erupcja (Polish for "eruption") is a 2025 romantic drama directed by Pete Ohs, starring Charli XCX as Bethany and Lena Góra as Nel, whose Warsaw reunion coincides with volcanic eruptions; written improvisationally during the shoot, it premiered at TIFF 2025.

Eruption (novel)

Eruption (novel) is a techno-thriller about Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano. It features a scientist racing to prevent a catastrophic eruption and a deadly chemical weapons threat.

Eruption column

An eruption column is the vertical or near-vertical mixture of pyroclasts, volcanic gas, and entrained air rising from an explosive volcanic vent, from a few hundred meters into the stratosphere.

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD was a Plinian eruption that destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum near the Bay of Naples.

Eruption of Xitle

The eruption of Xitle (erupción del Xitle) was a basaltic eruption around AD 245–315 whose lava buried the city of Cuicuilco in the Basin of Mexico.

Eruptive xanthoma

Eruptive xanthoma, ICD-11 EB90.22, is a skin marker of severe hypertriglyceridemia: sudden crops of 1–5 mm yellow papules on extensor surfaces and buttocks, with dermal foam cells on biopsy, resolving as triglycerides fall.

Eruv

An eruv (Hebrew: עירוב, "mixing") is a symbolic boundary of wires and poles that treats a shared urban area as one domain, letting observant Jews carry keys, books, and prams on Shabbat.

Erv Hall

Erv Hall (Ervin Henry Hall, born 1947, Philadelphia) is an American hurdler, 1968 Olympic 110 m hurdles silver medallist behind Willie Davenport, and 1969 NCAA 120-yard hurdles champion who equaled the 13.2 world record for Villanova.