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Etsy witches

Etsy witches are sellers on the online marketplace Etsy who offer paid spell casting, tarot and psychic readings, and ritual candles, despite Etsy's rules prohibiting metaphysical services since 2015.

Etta Candy

Etta Candy is a DC Comics character and Wonder Woman's best friend since Sensation Comics #2 (1942); originally the Holliday Girls sorority leader, later an A.R.G.U.S. commander and Lucy Davis's film role.

Etta James

Etta James (Jamesetta Hawkins, 1938–2012) was an American blues, R&B, and soul singer famous for "At Last," "Tell Mama," and "I'd Rather Go Blind," a 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and three-time Grammy winner.

Etta Place

Etta Place (fl. 1896–1905) was the lover, possibly wife, of outlaw Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid, and an associate of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch; her real name and fate remain unknown, with contested identifications including Ann Bassett.

Sep 23, 2026

Ettara Yogam

Ettara Yogam (ശ്രീ പത്മനാഭസ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്ര യോഗം) was the council that managed the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, holding autonomous control until the 1720s, when Marthanda Varma's state took over.

Sep 21, 2026

Ettore Appella

Ettore Appella, born in Italy in 1933, is an Italian-born scientist at the National Cancer Institute who helped identify the p53 tumor suppressor protein and discovered the Wip1 phosphatase.

Ettore Bellotto

Ettore Bellotto (1895–1966) was an Italian artistic gymnast with SG Ardita Milano who won team all-around gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, then worked as a coach.

Ettore Boiardi

Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, the real Chef Boyardee, was a Piacenza-born chef who headed the Plaza Hotel kitchen, opened Cleveland's Il Giardino d'Italia, and founded the Chef Boy-ar-dee canned Italian food company, sold in 1946 for $6 million.

Ettore Bugatti

Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (1881–1947) was an Italian-born automobile designer who founded his factory at Molsheim in Alsace in 1909 and created the celebrated Type 35 racer.

Ettore Majorana

Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist, a member of Enrico Fermi's Via Panisperna Boys group, who introduced the Majorana fermion and vanished during a 1938 Naples–Palermo ship voyage.

Oct 10, 2026

Ettore Marchiafava

Ettore Marchiafava (1847–1935) was an Italian physician and malariologist in Rome who, with Angelo Celli, named the malaria parasite Plasmodium and helped found the Italian school of malariology.

Oct 10, 2026

Ettore Pancini

Ettore Pancini (1915–1981) was an Italian experimental physicist who, with Conversi and Piccioni, showed in Rome that the muon decays spontaneously, disproving its identification as Yukawa's nuclear-force meson.

Oct 22, 2026

Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass, also known as Ettore Sottsass junior, was an Italian architect and designer famous for his Olivetti work and for founding the Memphis group in 1981.

Ettore Tavernari

Ettore Tavernari (Taja), Italian 400/800 m runner, 1905-1981, Modena; set 500 m world record 1:03.0 (1929), won 9 Italian titles, 4th in 400 m at 1934 Europeans, Olympian 1928 and 1936.

Ettringite

Ettringite is a calcium aluminum sulfate hydrate mineral of the sulfate class, crystallizing in the hexagonal system and named for its occurrence near Ettringen, Germany; in Portland cement concrete its delayed formation drives sulfate attack deterioration.

Oct 22, 2026

Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum, born Esther Hillesum, was a Dutch Jewish writer who kept a diary in Amsterdam and at the Westerbork transit camp from 1941 until her death at Auschwitz in 1943.

Étude

An étude (French for "study") is a short instrumental piece, most often for solo piano, each exploring one technique such as scales, trills, or octaves.

Etuvetidigene autotemcel

Etuvetidigene autotemcel (Waskyra, etu-cel) is an autologous lentiviral HSPC gene therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, approved by FDA December 9, 2025 and EMA January 9, 2026, marketed by Fondazione Telethon.

ETV Win

ETV Win is a Telugu-language OTT streaming platform in India owned by Eenadu Television, launched in 2019, carrying ETV Network serials, Telugu films, original web series, and seven live channels.

ETV4

ETV4 (PEA3, E1AF), ETS variant transcription factor 4, a human gene on 17q21.31 encoding a 484-aa ETS-family transcription activator of the PEA3 subfamily with ETV1 and ETV5, involved in development and overexpressed in many cancers.

ETV6

ETV6 (TEL) is a human gene at 12p13.2 encoding an ETS transcriptional repressor essential for hematopoiesis. Germline variants cause thrombocytopenia 5 with leukemia predisposition; somatic fusions drive many leukemias.

Sep 29, 2026

Etymological analysis

Etymological analysis is the method linguists use to trace a word's origin and development, reconstructing earlier forms and charting how its sound and meaning changed over time.

Etymology

Etymology, from Greek etumon 'true', is the study of word origins and history; modern scientific etymology uses sound correspondences and historical dictionaries, distinct from pre-modern speculation and folk etymology.

Etymology of California

Etymology of California: the origin of the state's name, traced to Queen Calafia's fictional island in Montalvo's 1510 novel Las sergas de Esplandián, first applied to Baja California, with disputed roots in Califerne, calida fornax, or kali forno.

EU AI Liability Directive

The EU AI Liability Directive (AILD) was a proposed EU directive, presented in 2022, that would have eased civil claims for AI-caused damage; it was withdrawn in 2025.

EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542

EU Regulation 2023/1542 is the European Union's battery law, setting sustainability, safety, and labeling rules across the whole battery life cycle; it entered into force in August 2023, replacing the 2006 Batteries Directive.

EU Clinical Trials Register

The EU Clinical Trials Register, also known as EU CTR, is a public website launched in 2011 by the European Medicines Agency for searching EU clinical trials.

EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is a 2022 EU law requiring large companies operating in the European Union to publish audited sustainability information according to common standards.

EU Cybersecurity Act

The EU Cybersecurity Act is Regulation (EU) 2019/881, adopted in 2019, which gave ENISA a permanent mandate and established a framework for voluntary EU cybersecurity certification of ICT products, services, and processes.