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Expropriation
Expropriation is the compulsory transfer of private property to a state, or severe interference with its profitable use, lawful only with public purpose, due process, and compensation.
EXPSPACE
EXPSPACE (exponential space) is the complexity class of decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine using memory bounded exponentially in input length; equivalence of regular expressions with squaring requires it.
EXPTIME
EXPTIME, also written EXP, is the complexity class of decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in time 2^(n^k); it strictly contains P, and its complete problems include generalized chess, checkers, and Go.
Expulsion from the United States Congress
Expulsion from the United States Congress: removal of a seated senator or representative by a two-thirds vote under Article I, Section 5. Senate expelled 15 members (14 Civil War); House's Myers 1980 and Traficant 2002 were post-war cases.
Expulsion of Asians from Uganda
The expulsion of Asians from Uganda was the forced removal of some 60,000 to 80,000 people of South Asian descent ordered by Idi Amin in 1972.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia
The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, known in Czech as odsun, removed roughly 3 million Sudeten Germans in 1945 and 1946, sanctioned by the Potsdam Agreement.
Expulsion of Germans from Hungary
The expulsion of Germans from Hungary (német kitelepítés) was the forced resettlement of roughly 200,000 Danube Swabians to occupied Germany from 19 January 1946 to 1948.
Expulsion of Germans from Poland
The expulsion of Germans from Poland was the forced removal of the German population after World War II, carried out mainly between 1944 and 1950 under the Potsdam agreement.
Expulsion of Greeks from Egypt
The expulsion of Greeks from Egypt was the departure of most of Egypt's large Greek community from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, triggered chiefly by Nasser's nationalization laws of 1961.
Expulsion of Guests Edict
The Expulsion of Guests Edict (逐客令) was a Qin order expelling foreign-born officials and advisers, rescinded after Li Si's memorial, and now a Chinese idiom for any order telling a guest to leave.
Expulsion of Italians from Libya
The expulsion of Italians from Libya was the removal of the remaining Italian community by Muammar Gaddafi's government in 1970, ending a presence dating to 1911.
Expulsion of Jews from Moscow (1891–1892)
The expulsion of Jews from Moscow (Выселение евреев из Москвы) was the 1891–1892 removal of most of Moscow's Jews, about 20,000–30,000 people, to the Pale of Settlement.
Expulsion of Jews from Spain
Expulsion of Jews from Spain: the 1492 Alhambra Decree (Edict of Granada) of Ferdinand and Isabella ordered unconverted Jews out of Castile and Aragon by end of July 1492, creating the Sephardic diaspora; Spain's 2015 law later granted citizenship to descendants.
Expulsion of the Acadians
Expulsion of the Acadians, or le Grand Dérangement: British forced removal of Acadians from Nova Scotia, 1755–1763, ordered by Governor Charles Lawrence; about 12,000 deported, producing the Cajun diaspora and an ethnic-cleansing-versus-genocide debate.
Expulsion of the Alexandrian scholars by Ptolemy VIII
The expulsion of the Alexandrian scholars, also known as the exile of the Alexandrian scholars, was Ptolemy VIII's removal of Alexandria's Museum and Library intellectuals in 145 BC.
Expulsion of the Banu Nadir
The expulsion of the Banu Nadir (إخراج بني النضير) was the removal of the Jewish tribe of Banu al-Nadir from Medina by Muslims under Muhammad in 625 CE.
Expulsion of the Banu Qaynuqa
The expulsion of the Banu Qaynuqa (إخراج بني قينقاع) was Muhammad's removal of a Jewish tribe of Medina by siege in AH 2, soon after the Battle of Badr.
Expulsion of the Chagossians
The expulsion of the Chagossians was the forced removal of the Chagos Archipelago's entire population by the UK between 1967 and 1973 for the US base on Diego Garcia.
Expulsion of the Hyksos
The Expulsion of the Hyksos, also called the Wars of Ahmose I against the Hyksos, was Ahmose I's defeat of the Hyksos around 1550 BCE, reunifying Egypt.
Expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil
The expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil was the 1759 removal of the Society of Jesus from Portuguese America by order of King José I of Portugal.
Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish America
The expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish America (Expulsión de los jesuitas) was ordered by King Charles III in 1767, with Jesuit property confiscated by the crown.
Expulsion of the Moriscos
Expulsion of the Moriscos (1609–1614): Philip III's decree, driven by the Duke of Lerma, forced about 300,000 baptized descendants of Spanish Muslims from Spain, mainly to North Africa, devastating Valencia, Aragon, Murcia, and Granada.
Expulsion of the Spanish
The Expulsion of the Spanish was the Tokugawa shogunate's 1624 decision to sever relations with Spain, expelling Spanish residents and barring Spanish ships under shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.
Expulsion of Trotsky from the party and exile
The expulsion of Trotsky from the party and exile (Исключение Троцкого из партии и высылка из СССР) removed Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party in 1927.
Expulsions and exoduses of Jews
The expulsions and exoduses of Jews, also called Jewish expulsions, are episodes in which Jewish communities were forced from territories, including England in 1290 and Spain in 1492.
Expungement
Expungement is the legal removal of a criminal record from public access, distinct from sealing, set-aside, and pardon. Covers US state variation, federal limits under 18 U.S.C. 3607, Clean Slate automation, the 6.5% uptake gap, and measured wage and recidivism effects.
Exquisite corpse
Exquisite corpse (cadavre exquis) is a Surrealist collaborative game invented around 1925 in Paris, in which players write or draw on folded paper, concealing prior contributions; named from the phrase "The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine."
Exquisite Corpses
Exquisite Corpses is an Image Comics series by James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh. It features a deadly game where twelve killers are dropped into a small town.
Exsanguination
Exsanguination, also called exsanguinating hemorrhage or total blood loss, is rapid extreme blood loss leading to hemorrhagic shock; it causes nearly half of early trauma deaths and is treated with damage-control resuscitation.
Exscientia
Exscientia was an Oxford-headquartered drug design company that used artificial intelligence to discover molecules. Founded in 2012 by Andrew Hopkins, it was acquired by Recursion in 2024.