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Estado Novo (Portugal)
The Estado Novo, also known as the Second Portuguese Republic or Salazar regime, was the authoritarian corporatist dictatorship that governed Portugal from 1933 until its overthrow in 1974.
Estado Novo Constitution of Brazil
The Estado Novo Constitution of Brazil (Constituição dos Estados Unidos do Brasil de 1937) was decreed by Getúlio Vargas in 1937, installing his authoritarian Estado Novo regime.
Estado Trujillo
Estado Trujillo is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, in the Andean region of the west; its capital is Trujillo and its largest city is Valera.
Estado Yaracuy
Estado Yaracuy, one of Venezuela's 23 federal states, capital San Felipe, area 7,100 km2, 600,852 residents (2011 census). Created as a province on 15 March 1855; governed since June 2025 by Leonardo Intoci.
Estan Patera
Estan Patera is a 95.6-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 21.53°N, 87.59°W, IAU-approved in 2006 and named for the Hittite sun god; Galileo NIMS detected its thermal emission.
Estanislao López
Estanislao López (1786–1838) was an Argentine military and political leader, caudillo and governor of Santa Fe from 1818 until his death, known as the Patriarch of the Federation.
Estanislao Zeballos
Estanislao Severo Zeballos (1854–1923) was an Argentine jurist, writer, and statesman of the Generación del '80 who served three terms as foreign minister and founded Argentina's school of international law.
Estanislao Zuleta
Estanislao Zuleta Velásquez (1935–1990) was a Colombian philosopher, essayist, and university teacher who, despite never completing formal schooling, became one of the country's most cited public intellectuals.
Estate (land)
An estate in land is a legal interest in real property defining the holder's rights; in common law, a person holds an estate rather than owning land outright.
Estate (law)
Estate (law): in common law property, an interest in land defined by duration rather than ownership, covering fee simple absolute, life estates, defeasible fees, leaseholds, and future interests, distinguishing common law estates from civil law ownership.
Estate of Amun
The Estate of Amun, or Domain of Amun, was the temple economy of the god Amun at Thebes, ruled in practice by its High Priests and God's Wives.
Estate of Jeffrey Epstein
Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, including the 1953 Trust: probate estate of the financier who died August 10, 2019, administered in USVI Superior Court by executors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, which paid about $121 million to roughly 150 abuse survivors and settled with the Virgin Islands for $105 million.
Estate of Michael Jackson
Estate of Michael Jackson: probate estate of the singer (d. 2009), run by executors John Branca and John McClain under his 2002 will; assets include Mijac Music and masters; sold Sony/ATV stake for $750M in 2016 and half his catalog to Sony for ~$600M in 2024.
Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru
A Kassite Babylonian kudurru, or entitlement stone, engraved under King Meli-Šipak recording lawsuits that confirmed the estate Bīt-Takil-ana-ilīšu in Nippur to Ur-Bēlit-muballita(t)-mīti and his descendants.
Estate planning
Estate planning is arranging a person's affairs through wills, trusts, and powers of attorney so assets are managed and distributed as wished at death or incapacity.
Estate sale
Estate sale (tag sale, estate liquidation): a public sale of most or all of a home's contents, typically after death, downsizing, divorce, or debt, run over 1-3 days by professional liquidators charging 25-40% commission.
Estate tax in the United States
Estate tax in the United States, also called the death tax, is a federal transfer tax on property at death under Form 706, unified with the gift tax. The 2026 exemption is $15 million per person ($30 million married) under the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with rates from 18% to 40%.
Estates General (France)
Estates General (états généraux), the tripartite assembly of clergy, nobility, and Third Estate of ancien-régime France, first convened in 1302 under Philip IV, meeting about twenty times, last in 1789, when its voting deadlock produced the National Assembly and the French Revolution.
Estates General of 1789
Estates General of 1789 (États généraux de 1789): assembly of clergy, nobility, and Third Estate opened 5 May 1789 at Versailles; deadlock over vote by order versus by head led to the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, and French Revolution.
Estates of Hungary
The estates of Hungary, known in Hungarian as karok és rendek, were the privileged corporate orders that, together with the king, formed the political nation of Hungary until 1848.
Estates of the realm
Estates of the realm: the tripartite medieval and early modern European social order of clergy, nobility, and commoners, with distinct legal privileges, estate assemblies like the French Estates-General, and collapse in the 1789 French Revolution.
Estates Theatre
Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo), Neoclassical Prague theatre opened 1783 by Count Nostitz; world premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1787; National Theatre drama and opera stage since 1920.
Estatuto Provisional del Imperio Mexicano
The Estatuto Provisional del Imperio Mexicano (Provisional Statute of the Mexican Empire) was an 1865 decree by Emperor Maximilian provisionally organizing the Second Mexican Empire's government.
Estazolam
Estazolam (brand Prosom, discontinued) is a triazolobenzodiazepine hypnotic with a 12-15 hour half-life, FDA approved 1990 for short-term insomnia treatment, DEA Schedule IV, dosed 1 mg (0.5 mg elderly) at bedtime.
Este Haim
Este Haim (Este Arielle Haim), born 1986, is an American bassist and vocalist, eldest member of the Los Angeles sister trio Haim, and a film and TV composer; Women in Music Pt. III earned a historic Album of the Year Grammy nomination.
Esteban A. Brignole
Esteban A. Brignole is an Argentine chemical engineer at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, known for solvent design and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Esteban Arze
Esteban Arze, or Esteban Mariano Arze Alba y Uriona, was a criollo military leader who commanded forces during the 1810 Cochabamba uprising and subsequently won the battle at Aroma.
Esteban Ballestar
Esteban Ballestar is a Spanish epigeneticist who has led the Epigenetics and Immune Disease Group at the Josep Carreras Research Institute in Barcelona since 2019.
Esteban Cambiasso
Esteban Matías Cambiasso Deleau, nicknamed Cuchu, Argentine midfielder born 1980; Inter Milan 2004-2014, 430 games, 15 trophies, 2009/10 treble and Champions League; later Leicester, Olympiacos, Argentina international.
Esteban Domingo
Esteban Domingo, also known as Esteban Domingo Solans, is a Spanish virologist known for establishing the quasispecies concept in RNA virus biology at CSIC in Madrid.