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Echoes of the Rainbow (岁月神偷)

Echoes of the Rainbow (岁月神偷), also known as 1969太空漫游, is a 2010 Hong Kong family drama by Alex Law, produced by Mabel Cheung, set in 1969 Wing Lee Street; it won the Berlin Crystal Bear and four Hong Kong Film Awards and saved the street from demolition.

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the Foo Fighters' sixth studio album, released September 25, 2007 on Roswell/RCA, produced by Gil Norton. It blends the hard rock and acoustic sides of In Your Honor on one disc, hit UK No. 1, and won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album.

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a 26-track, 2-hour-35-minute two-CD compilation released November 5, 2001, spanning 1967-1994 with non-chronological crossfaded sequencing, Thorgerson artwork, edited tracks, and When the Tigers Broke Free on CD for the first time.

Echogenic intracardiac focus

Echogenic intracardiac focus (EIF): a small bright spot under 6 mm in a fetal cardiac ventricle on second-trimester ultrasound, a soft marker for trisomy 21 found in 3–5% of normal fetuses, managed as a normal variant after negative screening.

Echolalia

Echolalia, the immediate or delayed repetition of others' speech, is common in autism (estimates 25–91%), appears in typical early language development, and occurs in aphasia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, and other conditions; increasingly viewed as communicative.

Echolocation

Echolocation is a form of active sensing in which animals emit sounds and use the returning echoes to determine the location and distance of objects, best known in bats and toothed whales.

ECHOPP study

ECHOPP (NCT04348734), Management of Parapneumonic Pleurisy Guided by an Early Pleural Ultrasound: completed French prospective multicentre observational cohort of 115 adults with pneumonia, testing daily pleural ultrasound for 96 hours with an algorithm-guided drainage strategy.

Echoriath Montes

Echoriath Montes, a mountain range on Saturn's moon Titan, IAU-approved in 2011 and named for Tolkien's Encircling Mountains of Beleriand; about 930 km across near the equator, mapped by Cassini radar.

Echosmith

Echosmith, American alt-pop band formed 2009 in Chino, California, by the Sierota siblings; formerly Ready, Set, Go!. Known for triple-platinum "Cool Kids" (No. 13 Hot 100), "Bright," albums Talking Dreams, Lonely Generation, Echosmith.

EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, whose brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Sling TV, Hughes, and HughesNet satellite internet.

EchoStar XXIV

EchoStar XXIV, marketed as JUPITER 3, is a geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar for Hughes, launched by SpaceX in 2023 to deliver broadband across the Americas.

Echothiophate

Echothiophate iodide (Phospholine Iodide), an irreversible organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor eye drop, lowers intraocular pressure in open-angle and aphakic glaucoma and treats accommodative esotropia; long-acting, scarce supply.

Echsenbach

Echsenbach, a market municipality in the Waldviertel, Lower Austria (Zwettl district, postal code 3903), home of the 1963-founded football club USC Hartl Haus Echsenbach of the 1. Klasse Waldviertel; distinct from Eschenbach LU, Eschenbach (Oberpfalz), and Eschbach clubs.

Echternach

Echternach (Iechternach) is Luxembourg's oldest town, on the Sauer at the German border, built around the Benedictine abbey Saint Willibrord founded in 698; famous for the Whit Tuesday Hopping Procession inscribed by UNESCO in 2010, a Roman villa, and the Mullerthal region.

Echus Chaos

Echus Chaos, a 473-481 km wide chaotic terrain of low hills on Mars between Lunae Planum and Echus Palus, south of Kasei Valles; IAU-named 1985 from albedo feature Echus Lacus, possibly formed by downhill sliding of plateau rocks.

Echus Chasma

Echus Chasma, a 100 km long, 10 km wide canyon in Mars' Lunae Planum north of Valles Marineris; source of the Kasei Valles outflow channel and its 3.6–3.4 billion-year-old mega-floods.

Echus Fossae

Echus Fossae: IAU-approved (1988) graben system on Mars near Echus Chasma, Lunae Palus quadrangle, centered at 2.87N, 283.10E, about 400 km across; classical albedo feature name.

Echus Montes

Echus Montes (IAU, 1985) is a ~395-km-diameter group of mesas and mountains on Mars at 7.81°N, 282.05°E, beside Echus Chasma at the head of Kasei Valles, mapped as wallrock or chaotic-terrain mesas.

Echus Palus

Echus Palus is a 715-km-wide lava-flooded plain on Mars at 12.29N, 282.73E, approved by the IAU in 2016 from the classical albedo feature Echus Lacus, at the head of Kasei Valles near Echus Chasma.

Echzell

Echzell, Hesse, Germany: site of one of the largest Roman forts (5.2 ha) on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, garrisoned from about AD 90 to 260 by the Ala I Flavia Gemina and an infantry cohort, with a vicus of 4,000-5,000 people; fort baths lie under the village church.

Eckankar

Eckankar is a new religious movement founded by Paul Twitchell in 1965, teaching that the soul journeys through spiritual planes toward God realization under a living ECK Master.

Eckard Münck

Eckard Münck is a bioinorganic chemist and emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, known for applying Mössbauer spectroscopy to iron-sulfur clusters and high-valent iron intermediates in metalloenzymes.

Eckard Wimmer

Eckard Wimmer is a virologist and Stony Brook University professor known for poliovirus research and for leading the first chemical synthesis of an infectious virus in 2002.

Eckardt Suhl

Eckardt Suhl (born 1943, Hamburg) is a German field hockey player who won Olympic gold with West Germany at Munich 1972, finished fourth at Mexico City 1968, and won the 1970 European title with Uhlenhorster HC Hamburg as his club.

Eckart Diesch

Eckart Diesch (born 1954, Friedrichshafen) is a German sailor who won Flying Dutchman Olympic gold with brother Jörg at Montreal 1976, was fifth at Los Angeles 1984, and later a Friedrichshafen dentist and yacht-club president.

Eckehard Schöll

Eckehard Schöll (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German theoretical physicist known for nonlinear dynamics and chimera states, and a professor at TU Berlin from 1989 to 2019.

Eckerd Corporation

Eckerd Corporation, also known as Eckerd Drugs, was an American drugstore chain bought by J.C. Penney in 1996 and sold to CVS and Jean Coutu in 2004.

Eckhard Jankowsky

Eckhard Jankowsky is an RNA biochemist known for his work on RNA helicases, enzymes that use ATP to remodel RNA and RNA-protein complexes; he was a professor at Case Western Reserve University until 2022.

Eckhard Lammert

Eckhard Lammert is a German biochemist and metabolic physiologist who studies blood vessel signaling to the pancreas and liver, directing the Institute for Vascular and Islet Cell Biology in Düsseldorf.

Eckhardt Schultz

Eckhardt (Eckhard) Schultz, born 1964 in Wolfsburg, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight for West Germany at Seoul 1988 (5:46.05) and later became CFO of LEG Immobilien.