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Ea-iluta-bani family
The Ea-ilūtu-bāni were a Babylonian family of Borsippa, modern Birs Nimrud, known from an archive of about 325 cuneiform tablets spanning the eighth to fifth centuries BC.
Ea-mukin-zeri
Ea-mukin-zeri was a king of Babylon, the second ruler of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand, who reigned for five months in 1008 BC between Simbar-Šipak and Kaššu-nādin-aḫhe.
Ea-nāṣir
Ea-nāṣir was a copper merchant of Old Babylonian Ur, active around 1750 BC, who traded with Dilmun (Bahrain) and received the oldest recorded customer complaint.
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, also known as the EAA Fly-In, is an annual week-long air show and fly-in held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
EAA Aviation Museum
The EAA Aviation Museum, also known as the AirVenture Museum, is an aviation museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, operated by the Experimental Aircraft Association since 1983.
Each-way
Each-way (E/W) betting: a wager of two equal stakes on one selection, one to win and one to place, with the place part paid at a fraction (usually 1/4 or 1/5) of the win odds over a set number of places; standard UK terms vary by field size and race type.
EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an XML standard for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Society of American Archivists and the Library of Congress.
Eadgifu of Kent
Eadgifu of Kent, third wife of Edward the Elder and daughter of ealdorman Sigehelm, was mother of kings Edmund I and Eadred, litigant over the Cooling estates, and possibly governor of Kent.
Eadgyth
Eadgyth (Editha, c. 910–946), Wessex princess, granddaughter of Alfred the Great, first wife of Otto I. Her remains, found in Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008 and confirmed by isotope analysis in 2010, are the oldest surviving English royal burial remains.
Eadie Island
Eadie Island (イーディー島), also Ostrov Edi or Isla Eadie, is a roughly 2 km island in the South Shetland Islands between Aspland and O'Brien Islands, named in 1937 by Lt. L. C. Hill after the Melbourne Harbour Trust dockyard manager.
Eadmer
Eadmer, also known as Edmer or Eadmer of Canterbury, was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, and the historian and biographer of Archbishop Anselm.
Eadred
Eadred, also spelled Edred, was king of the English from 946 to 955, a younger son of Edward the Elder who succeeded his murdered brother Edmund I.
Eads Bridge
The Eads Bridge is a three-span steel arch bridge carrying road and rail across the Mississippi between St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, completed in 1874.
EADS CASA C-295
The EADS CASA C-295, now marketed as the Airbus C295, is a twin-turboprop medium tactical transport developed by Spain's CASA as a stretched CN-235, first flown in 1997.
EADS Mako/HEAT
The EADS Mako/HEAT, also known as EADS Mako, was a proposed supersonic jet trainer and light combat aircraft by EADS, shelved around 2009 without a prototype.
Eadsige
Eadsige, who died on 29 October 1050, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1038 to 1050. Once a royal priest of King Cnut, he crowned Edward the Confessor in 1043.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (Edward James Muggeridge, 1830–1904), English-born American photographer of the West who proved with 1878 Sallie Gardner photos that galloping horses go airborne, invented the zoopraxiscope, and published Animal Locomotion (1887).
Eadwig
Eadwig (Edwy, "the Fair"), king of the English 955-959, son of Edmund I, crowned at Kingston 956; famous coronation-feast threesome story is now judged propaganda; lost Mercia and Northumbria to brother Edgar in 957.
Eadwine Psalter
The Eadwine Psalter, also called the Canterbury Psalter, is a richly illustrated trilingual manuscript of the Psalms made at Christ Church, Canterbury, around 1155 to 1160.
Eady model
The Eady model is an idealized analytical model of baroclinic instability, introduced by Eric Eady in 1949, which with Charney's 1947 model founded the study of extratropical circulation.
EAGeR trial
EAGeR (Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction) trial: NICHD-funded randomized trial of preconception 81 mg aspirin in 1,228 women with 1-2 prior pregnancy losses; no overall live birth benefit, subgroup benefit in single recent loss.
Eagle
Eagle: large birds of prey mainly in Accipitridae (with hawks and kites), in sea, snake, harpy, and booted eagle groups; includes bald, golden, Philippine, and extinct Haast's eagles.
Eagle (2024 film)
Eagle (ఈగల్) is a 2024 Telugu action thriller directed, written, and edited by Karthik Gattamneni, starring Ravi Teja as assassin-turned-cotton-farmer Sahadev Varma. Released 9 February 2024 by People Media Factory; streamed on Prime Video and ETV Win from 1 March 2024; mixed reviews, IMDb 5.9.
Eagle (automobile)
Eagle was an American automobile brand created by Chrysler in 1988 after buying American Motors, selling mostly rebadged AMC, Renault, and Mitsubishi designs through the Jeep-Eagle division until 1998.
Eagle Airways Flight 2300
Eagle Airways Flight 2300 was a scheduled New Zealand flight whose Beechcraft 1900D made an emergency wheels-up landing at Blenheim in June 2007, with all 17 people surviving uninjured.
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc.
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. was a Stamford, Connecticut-headquartered owner and operator of Supramax and Ultramax dry bulk vessels, incorporated in the Marshall Islands in 2005 and merged into Star Bulk Carriers in 2024.
Eagle Butte Coal Mine
The Eagle Butte Coal Mine is a surface coal mine about 8 miles north of Gillette, Wyoming, producing subbituminous thermal coal since 1978 under Eagle Specialty Materials.
Eagle Downs Coal Project
The Eagle Downs Coal Project is an undeveloped underground longwall coal mine 20 km south-east of Moranbah in Queensland's Bowen Basin, designed to produce export metallurgical coal.
Eagle eye
Eagle eye: the eye of eagles and other raptors, with 2-2.5x human visual acuity, two foveae, up to 1 million photoreceptors/mm², and a telephoto optical design; also a figurative term and an unconfirmed autism hypothesis.
Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye is a 2008 D.J. Caruso techno-thriller starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as strangers controlled by a mysterious caller; conceived by Steven Spielberg, it grossed about $180 million worldwide.