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Edgeworth David
Edgeworth David was a Welsh-born Australian geologist who discovered the South Maitland coalfield, led the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and served as a military geologist in World War I.
Edgeworth expansion
The Edgeworth expansion is an asymptotic expansion approximating the distribution or density of a standardized statistic, such as a sample mean, as a normal distribution plus correction terms.
EdgeX Foundry
EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral, open-source IoT edge computing platform hosted by The Linux Foundation that connects devices, sensors, and actuators with applications and cloud systems; it began at Dell and was contributed in April 2017.
Edgio
Edgio is an American content delivery network and edge services company formed in 2022 when Limelight Networks acquired Yahoo's Edgecast business; it shut down in January 2025.
EDGLRD
EDGLRD, pronounced "edgelord," is a Miami-based art and entertainment studio founded by filmmaker Harmony Korine in 2023, blending video game design, AI, and visual effects.
Edguy
Edguy is a German power metal band formed in Fulda in February 1992 by teenage Tobias Sammet, Jens Ludwig, Dirk Sauer, and Dominik Storch; known for Theater of Salvation, Mandrake, later hard rock leanings, and Sammet's Avantasia project.
Edhem Pasha
Edhem Pasha (أدهم پاشا) was an Ottoman field marshal, commander-in-chief in the Greco-Ottoman War of 1897, where he won the Battle of Domokos and earned the title gazi.
Edi Gathegi
Edi Mue Gathegi, Kenyan-American actor born 1979 in Nairobi, known as Laurent in Twilight, Darwin in X-Men: First Class, Matias Solomon in The Blacklist, Dev Ayesa in For All Mankind, and Mister Terrific in Superman (2025).
Edi Patterson
Edi Patterson is an American actress, writer, and improviser from Texas City, Texas, a Texas State graduate and Groundlings Main Company alumna, known for playing and writing Judy Gemstone on HBO's The Righteous Gemstones and roles in Vice Principals and Knives Out.
Edi Rama
Edi Rama, Albanian politician, artist, and painter, Prime Minister of Albania since 2013 and Socialist Party leader since 2005; former Tirana mayor (2000–2011), pursuing EU membership by 2030 amid corruption protests.
Edi Steinemann
Edi Steinemann (1906–1937) was a Swiss artistic gymnast who won team gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, team silver at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and died at 30.
Ediacaran
The Ediacaran, also called the Vendian, is the last geological period of the Proterozoic, from about 635 to 538.8 million years ago, before the Cambrian.
Ediacaran biota
Ediacaran biota (Ediacara biota), the assemblage of large soft-bodied marine organisms of 575–542 Ma, first large complex life, preserved as casts and molds; includes Dickinsonia, Rangea, Charniodiscus; vanished near the Cambrian boundary.
Edibility assessment and lookalike discrimination of wild mushrooms
Edibility assessment of wild mushrooms: deciding if a foraged fungus is safe to eat and separating edible species from toxic lookalikes like the death cap; no rule of thumb exists, cooking does not detoxify, and AI apps misidentify most specimens.
Edible bird's nest
Edible bird's nest (yànwō 燕窩, cubilose) is a delicacy made from solidified swiftlet saliva, mainly Aerodramus fuciphagus, from Southeast Asia. Over 50% protein, 8–12% sialic acid; used in TCM since the Tang dynasty; Indonesia produces 85%; priced USD 2,000–10,000/kg.
Edible Complex
"Edible Complex" is the second episode of the second season of the American drama series Yellowjackets, first shown in 2023, in which the starving team eats their captain Jackie.
Edible frog
Edible frog (Pelophylax esculentus, formerly Rana esculenta) is a European hybridogenetic hybrid of the pool frog and marsh frog, reproducing via clonal genome transmission in L-E, R-E, and all-hybrid populations.
Edible mushroom
Edible mushrooms (食用菌) are fungal fruit bodies used as food, wild or cultivated. Only about 200 of 14,000 mushroom species are edible; Agaricus bisporus is the most cultivated, China produces ~94% globally.
Edible seaweed
Edible seaweed: marine macroalgae such as nori, wakame, konbu, and gim eaten as food, rooted in East Asian cuisine, about 8 million tonnes used yearly, with iodine and cadmium safety limits and EU novel food rules.
Edict Banning Permanent Sale of Farmland
The Edict Banning Permanent Sale of Farmland (田畑永代売買禁止令) was a 1643 Edo shogunate prohibition forbidding peasants to sell farmland, to protect their ability to pay land tax.
Edict Emancipating Outcastes
The Edict Emancipating Outcastes (賤民廃止令), or Kaihōrei, was an 1871 proclamation by the Meiji government's Council of State abolishing the eta and hinin outcaste statuses, though discrimination persisted.
Edict establishing community schools (shecue)
The edict establishing community schools (社学诏) was a 1375 order by the Ming Hongwu emperor directing that community schools be set up throughout the empire to teach commoners' children.
Edict Excluding Christianity
The Edict Excluding Christianity (禁教令) is the name for Japan's edicts banning Christianity, from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1587 expulsion order to the Tokugawa shogunate's nationwide ban of 1614.
Edict Expelling Guest Ministers
The Edict Expelling Guest Ministers (逐客令) was an order issued by the Qin court in 237 BC directing that all foreign officials, the guest ministers, be expelled from the state.
Edict expelling the Christian missionaries
The Edict expelling the Christian missionaries (バテレン追放令, Bateren Tsuihōrei) is a five-article 1587 decree by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordering Christian missionaries to leave Japan, though it was largely unenforced.
Edict of Cheng on Limiting Land and Slaves
A Han dynasty edict of 7 BC capping landholdings at 30 qing and limiting slaves by rank, proposed by Shi Dan but suspended before enforcement.
Edict of Cyrus
The Edict of Cyrus, also known as Cyrus's edict, was Cyrus the Great's 539 BC proclamation permitting Judean exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
Edict of Emperor Wen Abolishing the Land Tax
The Edict of Emperor Wen Abolishing the Land Tax (文帝除田租诏) was a June 167 BC decree of Emperor Wen of Han remitting the land tax on fields across the empire.
Edict of Emperor Wu on the Fengshan Sacrifice and Mingtang Deliberations
The Edict of Emperor Wu on the Fengshan Sacrifice and Mingtang Deliberations (封禪詔與明堂議) records Emperor Wu of Han's 110 BC fengshan sacrifice at Mount Tai.
Edict of Emperor Xuan of Han Establishing the Ever-Normal Granary
The Edict of Emperor Xuan of Han Establishing the Ever-Normal Granary (宣帝置常平仓诏) approved ever-normal granaries in border commanderies, proposed by Geng Shouchang around 57 to 54 BC.