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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios, West London film and TV studio founded in 1902 by Will Barker; rebuilt for sound by Basil Dean, golden age under Michael Balcon, BBC-owned 1955-1995, home of the classic Ealing comedies.

EamA domain

EamA domain (IPR000620, Pfam PF00892, formerly DUF6): a five-helix transmembrane protein domain of the DMT/EmrE superfamily; two copies give 5+5 TM metabolite transporters including nucleotide-sugar, riboflavin, and choline transporters.

Eames furniture

Eames furniture is the chairs and tables designed by Charles and Ray Eames, manufactured by Herman Miller and Vitra, including the 1956 Lounge Chair and fiberglass shell chairs.

Eames Lounge Chair

Eames Lounge Chair (models 670/671), designed 1956 by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller; molded plywood shells, leather cushions, swivel base; in continuous production, licensed also by Vitra, held at MoMA.

Eamon (singer)

Eamon (Eamon Doyle, born 1983, Staten Island) is an American R&B singer whose profane 2003 debut single "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" topped charts in the UK, Germany, Italy, and Australia; not the podcaster Eamon of Eamon and Bec.

Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), Irish revolutionary, Fianna Fáil founder, Taoiseach 1932–48, 1951–54, 1957–59, and President of Ireland 1959–73; drafted the 1937 Constitution and kept Ireland neutral in World War II.

Eamon Farren

Eamon Farren (born 1985) is an Australian actor, NIDA graduate, and AACTA winner for Carlotta. Known for Richard Horne in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) and as Cahir in Netflix's The Witcher (2019–2025).

Eamon Sullivan

Eamon Sullivan (born 1985) is a retired Australian sprint freestyle swimmer from Perth who held the 50 m and 100 m freestyle world records, won three Olympic medals at Beijing 2008, and retired in 2014 after shoulder and hip injuries.

Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews (1922–1987), Irish broadcaster, hosted This Is Your Life on BBC (1955–64) and ITV (1969–87), presented What's My Line?, World of Sport, and chaired the RTÉ Authority 1961–66.

Eamonn Coghlan

Eamonn Coghlan, the "Chairman of the Boards", Irish miler born 1952; 1983 World 5000m champion, world indoor mile record 3:49.78, seven Wanamaker Mile wins, first over-40 sub-4 miler.

Eamonn Holmes

Eamonn Holmes (born 1959, Belfast) is a Northern Irish broadcaster known for GMTV (1993-2005), Sky News Sunrise (2005-2016), This Morning (2006-2021) with Ruth Langsford, and GB News Breakfast since January 2022; OBE 2018, stroke April 2026.

Eamonn Walker

Eamonn Walker (Eamonn Roderique Walker), English actor born in London; Kareem Said on HBO's Oz (1997–2003, CableACE winner) and Chief Wallace Boden on Chicago Fire (2012–2025); first black Othello at Shakespeare's Globe, 2007.

Eanes Independent School District

Eanes Independent School District (Eanes ISD, EISD) is a Texas public district in West Lake Hills near Austin, established 1958, serving about 7,500 students at nine schools including Westlake High School; rated A/94 by TEA and ranked #1 in Texas by Niche.

Eanna

Eanna, Sumerian for "House of Heaven," is the temple precinct of the goddess Inanna at Uruk in southern Iraq, where the first written documents were found.

Eanna archive

The Eanna archive is a corpus of Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the Ishtar temple at Uruk, spanning the late seventh to early fifth centuries BC.

Éanna Hardwicke

Éanna Hardwicke (born 1996) is an Irish actor from Cork, a 2018 Lir Academy graduate known for Normal People, The Sixth Commandment, and playing Roy Keane in Saipan (2025).

Eanna-shum-iddina

Eanna-shum-iddina, also written Eanna-šuma-iddina, was governor of the Sealand in southern Babylonia around 1100 BC, known from a British Museum boundary stone recording his grant of land to Gula-eresh.

Eannatum

Eannatum (Eanatum) was ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2450 BC, best known for the Stele of the Vultures, his victory monument over rival Umma.

Eannatum's campaign against Elam

Eannatum's campaign against Elam was a victory won around 2450 BC by Eannatum, ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, known almost entirely from his own royal inscriptions.

Eannatum's conquests

Eannatum's conquests were the campaigns of Eannatum, ruler of Lagash around 2450 BC, against Umma, Elam, Uruk, Ur, Kish, Mari, and other states, recorded on the Stele of the Vultures.

Ear

Ear: the vertebrate organ of hearing and balance, with outer, middle, and inner divisions. Mammals uniquely have three middle-ear ossicles from jaw bones; paired ears enable directional hearing; mammalian hair-cell loss is permanent.

Ear (band)

Ear (stylized ear) is an American electronic duo of Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, formed 2024 at Bard College; laptop twee act behind "Nerves," The Most Dear and The Future (2025), and A24 Music's Rumspringa (2026).

Ear Acupuncture

Ear acupuncture (auricular acupuncture, auriculotherapy): stimulation of specific outer-ear points based on a body map, systematized by Paul Nogier in 1957; studied mainly for pain and addiction, including the NADA protocol.

Ear canal

Ear canal (external auditory canal, external acoustic meatus): the tube from the outer ear opening to the eardrum. Resonates at 2–4 kHz, forms from a meatal plug canalizing at 28–32 weeks, prone to exostoses in cold-water surfers.

Ear candling

Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermo-auricular therapy, is an alternative practice of burning a hollow candle in the ear canal to remove earwax; testing shows no suction, no wax removal, and burn and perforation risks, and guidelines recommend against it.

Ear mite

Ear mite (Otodectes cynotis), a psoroptic surface mite of cats, dogs, and ferrets worldwide; lives in the ear canal, causes otic pruritus and dark cerumen, spreads by direct contact, treated with macrocyclic lactones and isoxazolines.

Ear Protective Devices

Ear protective devices (hearing protection devices, HPDs): earplugs, earmuffs, and canal caps that reduce sound reaching the eardrum. Rated by NRR; real-world attenuation verified by fit testing (PAR); NIOSH recommends quantitative fit testing since 2025.

Ear-EEG

Ear-EEG is a wearable EEG method that records brain activity from electrodes placed in or around the ear canal, enabling unobtrusive long-term monitoring of sleep, auditory responses, and brain state.

Ear-lobe keloid

Ear-lobe keloid (ICD-11 EE60.00): benign fibrous scar overgrowth on the earlobe, usually after piercing. Shiny globular growths; excision alone recurs 50-100%, so steroids, pressure, or radiotherapy are added.

Ear-patella-short stature syndrome

Ear-patella-short stature syndrome, or Meier-Gorlin syndrome (MGORS), is a rare microcephalic primordial dwarfism with microtia, absent or small patellae, and short stature, caused by variants in 13 DNA replication genes including ORC1, CDT1, and CDC45.