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Edgell Island
Edgell Island is a Nunavut island off Baffin Island's southeastern tip in Davis Strait, near the Frobisher Bay entrance; 61°50′N 65°W, elevation 148 m, official Canadian name since 1946, distinct from a British Columbia namesake.
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (Edge Island), uninhabited island of Svalbard, Norway; third largest at 5,073 km², between Storfjorden and Freemansundet, named for whaler Thomas Edge, glacier-covered, in Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973.
Edgeoyjokulen
Edgeoyjokulen (Edgeøyjøkulen) is a 1,365 km² ice cap on Edgeøya, Svalbard, at about 77°40′N 23°24′E; one of Svalbard's largest ice caps, nearly three times the area of mainland Norway's Jostedalsbreen.
Edgerrin James
Edgerrin James, NFL running back 1999-2009 with Colts, Cardinals, Seahawks; 1999 4th overall pick, back-to-back rushing titles 1999-2000, 12,246 career rushing yards, 80 TDs, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2020.
Edgerton Hartwell
Edgerton Hartwell II, also listed as Ed Hartwell, American NFL linebacker (born 1978, Las Vegas); Ravens 2001-04, Falcons 2005-06; 2001 fourth-round draft pick, 77 career games.
EDGES
EDGES, a radio astronomy experiment by Arizona State University and MIT, claimed in 2018 the first detection of the global 21-centimeter signal from Cosmic Dawn.
Edgewater Growth Capital Partners
Edgewater Growth Capital Partners is the fund family of The Edgewater Funds, a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm founded by Jim Gordon that invests in growth equity and buyouts.
Edgewater, Chicago
Edgewater is Chicago Community Area #77, a dense lakefront North Side neighborhood founded by John Lewis Cochran in the 1880s, annexed in 1889, and separated from Uptown in 1980; about 56,600 residents, majority-renter, highly educated, on the CTA Red Line.
Edgewise Therapeutics
Edgewise Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2017, that develops small molecule drugs targeting the sarcomere, first for muscular dystrophies and since 2026 for cardiovascular disease.
Edgewood Arsenal human experiments
The Edgewood Arsenal human experiments were classified U.S. Army studies exposing about 7,000 soldier volunteers to over 250 chemicals, including nerve agents and LSD, from 1955 to 1975.
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.