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Escondida

Escondida is a copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta, the world's largest copper producer at about 1 million tonnes a year, operated by BHP since 1990.

Escondido, California

Escondido, California: a city of about 146,000 in northern San Diego County, incorporated October 8, 1888, named from Spanish for "hidden," governed under a council-manager system.

Escort agency

An escort agency, also called an escort service, is a business that arranges escorts to accompany clients, handling booking and screening for a commission of roughly 30 to 50%.

Escort carrier

An escort carrier, called a jeep carrier or baby flattop, is a small, slow aircraft carrier built to protect convoys and hunt submarines during World War II.

Escorts, minesweepers and small warships sunk by aircraft

Escorts, minesweepers, and small warships sunk by aircraft covers the light combatants destroyed by air attack during World War II, when aircraft sank 44 percent of Mediterranean shipping losses.

Escota

Escota is a French toll motorway concession company operating a 471 km network around Marseille and Nice, opened France's first toll motorway in 1961, and is owned by VINCI.

Sep 19, 2026

Escotet family

The Escotet family is a Spanish-Venezuelan banking dynasty headed by Juan Carlos Escotet, born in 1959, who controls ABANCA and Banesco and ranks among Spain's richest families.

Oct 3, 2026

Escouade 99

Escouade 99 is the Quebec French adaptation of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, produced by ComediHa! for Club Illico, directed by Patrick Huard, two seasons 2020-2022, set in Quebec City's 99th precinct.

Escravos is a crude oil and natural gas complex at the mouth of the Escravos River in Nigeria's Niger Delta, operated by Chevron Nigeria Limited, and the name of the light sweet crude grade loaded there.

Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS)

The Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS) is Nigeria's main natural gas pipeline, running about 270 km from Escravos in Delta State to Egbin in Lagos State.

Escrow

Escrow is a financial arrangement in which a neutral third party holds money or assets for two transacting parties and releases them once agreed contract conditions are satisfied.

ESCRT

ESCRT (endosomal sorting complexes required for transport) is a conserved membrane-remodeling machinery of ALIX, ESCRT-I, -II, -III, and Vps4 that cuts membrane necks from within, driving multivesicular body formation, HIV budding, cytokinesis, and membrane repair.

Escuela de Surf

Escuela de surf (surf school): a business teaching surfing through structured lessons with certified instructors, soft boards, wetsuits, and 1:8 supervision ratios, accredited by bodies such as the ISA, BCASI, and FESURF.

Escuela de Surf Torre Fuerte

Escuelita de Surf Torre Fuerte, surf school and board-rental spot in El Paredón Buena Vista, Escuintla, Guatemala, run by Juan Carlos and family; beginner-friendly lessons on a sandy Pacific beach break, no published rates, booked via Instagram.

Escuela de Windsurf Wingfoil Granada

Escuela de Windsurf Wingfoil Granada, run by Manuel Ruiz Ángel, is a windsurf and wingfoil school at the Embalse de Rules reservoir near Órgiva, Granada, Spain. Courses run April–September with thermal wind, max 6 students per instructor, wingfoil from 60€/day (80€/day in 2027).

Escutcheon (heraldry)

Escutcheon (heraldry): the shield or shield-shaped surface bearing a coat of arms, from Old French escuchon. Covers heater and lozenge shapes, inescutcheons of pretence, marshalling, tincture rules, and hatchments.

ESD

ESD, or esterase D, formally S-formylglutathione hydrolase, is a human enzyme and gene on chromosome 13q14 that hydrolyzes S-formylglutathione during formaldehyde detoxification; it once served as the marker for the retinoblastoma locus.

EsDeeKid

EsDeeKid, also spelled Esdeekid, is an anonymous masked rapper from Liverpool, England, active from 2024, whose debut album Rebel (2025) peaked at UK No. 8 and Billboard 200 No. 29, with singles Phantom, 4 Raws, Century and a Timothée Chalamet collaboration.

ESEC/FSE

ESEC/FSE was the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, a software engineering conference merged into one in 2017.

ESECC trial

ESECC trial (Endoscopic Screening for Esophageal Cancer in China, NCT01688908): cluster randomized trial in 668 villages of Hua County, Henan, testing Lugol chromoendoscopy screening in ~34,000 adults aged 45-69; 9-year follow-up showed modest, statistically uncertain reductions in esophageal cancer incidence and mortality.

Esek Hopkins

Esek Hopkins (1718–1802), Rhode Island sea captain and brother of Stephen Hopkins, was the first commander in chief of the Continental Navy, led the 1776 New Providence raid, commanded the slave ship Sally, was censured and dismissed by Congress, and later served in Rhode Island politics.

Eselsbrucke

Eselsbrücke ("donkey bridge", German for mnemonic) is a 2011 Schmidt Spiele memory and storytelling board game by Stefan Dorra and Ralf zur Linde, art by Michael Menzel; 3–12 players build stories from 180 picture tiles, recall them for points, 2012 Spiel des Jahres nominee.

ESEM (conference)

ESEM, the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, is an annual academic conference on empirical software engineering and software measurement, formed in 2007.

Oct 22, 2026

Esen Taishi

Esen Taishi (Эсэн тайш) was an Oirat leader who captured the Ming emperor at Tumu in 1449 and ruled as Northern Yuan khagan from 1453 until his death in 1455.

Sep 25, 2026

Esen's siege of Beijing

Esen's siege of Beijing (也先围北京) was the Oirat Mongol attack on the Ming capital at Beijing in 1449, led by Esen after capturing Emperor Yingzong at Tumubao; the Oirats withdrew.

Esenler

Esenler is a densely built residential district on the European side of Istanbul, landlocked within the city's road and rail networks, with a population of 419,878 in 2025.

Esentia Energy Systems

Esentia Energy Systems is a Mexican natural gas transportation company that owns the Wahalajara System, over 2,000 km of pipelines moving gas from West Texas to central Mexico.

Oct 20, 2026

Eseosa Desalu

Eseosa Fostine Desalu, called Fausto, Italian sprinter born 1994 in Casalmaggiore; 200 m specialist and Tokyo 2020 Olympic 4x100 m relay champion with the 37.50 Italian record; personal best 20.08.

Eseosa Sule

Eseosa Joshua Sule (born 2006, Glasgow) is a Scottish centre-forward for St. Mirren, formerly of Celtic's academy, West Bromwich Albion, and Motherwell on loan; Nigerian-eligible, uncapped.