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Easter Vigil
The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal vigil, is the first liturgy of Easter Day, held at night between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday in Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
Easter, 1916
"Easter, 1916" is W. B. Yeats's poem on the Easter Rising of April 1916, his best-known political poem, famous for the refrain "A terrible beauty is born".
Easterlin paradox
The Easterlin paradox is the finding in happiness economics that richer people are happier at a point in time, but long-term income growth does not raise happiness.
Eastern (Kenya)
Eastern (Kenya): the former Eastern Province, now eight counties (Marsabit, Isiolo, Meru, Tharaka-Nithi, Embu, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni); 159,891 km², 4.6 million people (1999), farming-based economy.
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines, also known as Eastern Air Transport, was a major American airline based in Miami, founded in 1927 as Pitcairn Aviation, that ceased flights in 1991 after a strike and bankruptcy.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed near Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 11, 1974, killing 72 of the 82 people aboard.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a New York to Miami flight that crashed into the Everglades on December 29, 1972, killing 101 of 176 aboard.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways, legally Air Kilroe Limited, was a British regional airline based at Humberside Airport, founded in 1997, which suspended operations in October 2025 and entered liquidation.
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (东西文化及其哲学) is a 1921 book by Chinese philosopher Liang Shuming arguing that Western, Chinese, and Indian cultures rest on different directions of the life-will.
Eastern Arabic numerals
Eastern Arabic numerals (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩), also called Arabic-Indic or Hindi digits, are the digit forms used with Arabic script in the Mashriq and Gulf; distinct from Persian/Urdu variants (U+06F0..06F9) and from Western digits 0-9.
Eastern Armenian
Eastern Armenian (hye, արևելահայերեն) is one of the two modern standards of Armenian, official in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, spoken also in Georgia, Russia and Iran, with seven noun cases, reformed orthography, and Russian-Persian loan vocabulary.
Eastern Bell Capital
Eastern Bell Capital (钟鼎资本) is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Yan Li, specializing in supply chain and logistics, with over US$4.1 billion under management.
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also called the Soviet bloc, was the group of Eastern European states under Soviet influence during the Cold War, organized through Comecon and the Warsaw Pact, with command economies and shortages, until the 1989 revolutions dissolved it.
Eastern bluebird
Eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis), a small North American thrush, blue above with red-brown breast, nesting in cavities and nest boxes from eastern US and Canada to Nicaragua; about 23 million, low conservation concern, recovering via nest-box trails.
Eastern Borneo
Eastern Borneo is a freshwater ecoregion of eastern Borneo, entirely within Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, defined by a distinct fish assemblage centered on the Mahakam River basin.
Eastern box turtle
Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), a hinged-plastron terrestrial turtle of the eastern United States, Maine to Texas; Vulnerable IUCN status, temperature-dependent sex determination, declining from habitat loss, roads, and trade.
Eastern brown snake
Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), or Common brown snake, a highly venomous Australian elapid. Most lethal of five NSW snakes by LD50-yield comparison; causes coagulopathy, not neurotoxicity; most snakebite deaths in Australia.
Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada (Est du Canada) is the region of Canada east of Manitoba: Ontario, Quebec, and the four Atlantic provinces. Definitions vary; some official usage counts only the Atlantic provinces as Eastern Canada.
Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Koloni region of South Africa): province created in 1994 from the eastern Cape Province plus Transkei and Ciskei; capital Bhisho; 168,966 km2; Census 2022 population 7,230,204; isiXhosa-speaking majority; automotive manufacturing hub.
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is the common central bank for eight Eastern Caribbean governments, issuing the EC dollar pegged to the US dollar since 1983.
Eastern Caribbean dollar
The Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$) is the common currency of eight Eastern Caribbean islands, issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and pegged to the US dollar since 1976.
Eastern Catholic Churches
The Eastern Catholic Churches, also called Oriental Catholic Churches, are 23 autonomous Churches in full communion with the Pope that preserve Eastern liturgical, theological, and disciplinary traditions alongside the Latin Church.
Eastern Chalukya dynasty
The Eastern Chalukya dynasty (తూర్పు చాళుక్య) was a South Indian ruling house based at Vengi, in present-day Andhra Pradesh, founded by Kubja Vishnuvardhana, brother of emperor Pulakesin II.
Eastern Chalukyas
The Eastern Chalukyas (వేంగి చాళుక్యులు) were a dynasty that ruled coastal Andhra from Vengi for nearly five centuries, founded by Vishnuvardhana, and merged into the Chola empire in the 1070s.
Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity, also called Eastern Christendom, comprises the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches, with nearly 260 million adherents; the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the largest non-European church.
Eastern Coalfields
Eastern Coalfields Limited is an Indian coal-mining company, a wholly owned Coal India subsidiary set up in 1975, headquartered at Sanctoria, West Bengal, operating mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
Eastern Coastal Australia
Eastern Coastal Australia (FEOW ecoregion 807) is a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion spanning Halifax Bay to Wilsons Promontory, 589,000 km2, home to the endemic Australian lungfish and non-parasitic lamprey Mordacia praecox.
Eastern College Athletic Conference
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), a 1938 collegiate athletic conference whose ECAC Esports division (inaugural season 2017) is one of the big four North American collegiate esports leagues, with 27 titles and 440+ schools.
Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰)
Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰, also Eastern Bald Eagles) is a 1987 Hong Kong action war film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, a Dirty Dozen-style mission to destroy a secret US missile depot in Vietnam, with Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Haing S. Ngor.
Eastern Congolian swamp forests
Eastern Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo): tropical swamp forest ecoregion on the left bank of the Congo River in DRC and Republic of Congo, 9.29 million ha, bonobo habitat, part of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.