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Egidio Foscarari
Egidio Foscarari, born Obizzo in Bologna in 1512, was an Italian Dominican friar and theologian who served as bishop of Modena from 1550 until 1564.
Egil Danielsen
Egil Danielsen (9 Nov 1933 – July 2019), Norwegian javelin thrower from Hamar IL; 1956 Melbourne Olympic champion with world record 85.71 m, first javelin WR set at an Olympics; 1958 European silver.
Egil Gjelland
Egil Gjelland (born 1973, Voss) is a Norwegian biathlete, 2002 Olympic relay gold and 1998 relay silver medalist, 2005 world relay champion, later coach of Norwegian, Czech, and Italian women's teams.
Egil Krogh
Egil "Bud" Krogh, Nixon White House lawyer who headed the Plumbers unit, directed the 1971 Ellsberg psychiatrist break-in, pled guilty, served six months, and later advocated integrity in government.
Egil Søby
Egil Søby (Egil Vike Søby), Norwegian sprint kayaker born 1945 in Tønsberg; Olympic K4 1000 m gold 1968 with the gullfireren and bronze 1972; 47 Norwegian titles; later national coach and motivational speaker.
Egil's Saga
Egil's Saga (Egils saga Skallagrímssonar) is one of the Sagas of Icelanders, centered on the tenth-century skald and warrior Egill Skallagrímsson, his family, and their dealings with Norwegian kings.
Egill Reimers
Egill Reimers (1878–1946) was a Norwegian architect in Bergen and Olympic sailor; he won 1920 Antwerp 12-metre class gold aboard Heira II and designed Bergen school buildings such as the Geophysical Institute.
Egill Skallagrímsson
Egill Skallagrímsson was a tenth-century Icelandic warrior, farmer, and skald, son of Skalla-Grímr, whose life and family form the subject of Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, one of the Sagas of Icelanders.
Egils Levits
Egils Levits, Latvian lawyer, political scientist and President of Latvia 2019–2023; former ECHR judge 1995–2004, first Latvian judge at the EU Court of Justice, and author of the 2014 Constitutional Preamble.
Egilsstaðir
Egilsstaðir is the largest town in East Iceland, on the banks of the Lagarfljót river, established in 1947 and serving as the region's service, transportation, and administration center.
Egina Oil Field
Egina is a deepwater oil field in the Gulf of Guinea offshore Nigeria, discovered in 2003 and producing since 2018 at up to 208,000 barrels per day.
Egišhurankia
Egišhurankia was a Mesopotamian temple of the goddess Bêlet-Ninua, a title of Ištar of Nineveh; its name means "House of the ordinances of heaven and earth", and it appears in cuneiform temple lists from first-millennium Babylonia.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Egle Cekanaviciute
Egle Cekanaviciute is a neuroimmunologist and space biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, known for 2017 PNAS studies showing gut bacteria from MS patients worsen autoimmune brain disease in mice.
Egle Mons
Egle Mons is a 110 km diameter mountain feature on Venus at 59°S, 134°E, named in 1997 by the IAU after a Lithuanian underwater queen, recorded in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
Eglin Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base, also known as Eglin Field, is a US Air Force base in the Florida Panhandle and the Air Force's center for weapons testing.
Eglinton Crosstown west extension
The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension is a 9.2-kilometer light rail extension of Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto, under construction and planned to open in 2030–31.
Eglinton Island
Eglinton Island, uninhabited island in the Northwest Territories Canadian Arctic Archipelago at 75°45'N 118°50'W, west of Melville Island; charted in 1853 by M'Clintock and Mecham during Franklin searches.
Église Saint-Vincent de Marimbault
The Église Saint-Vincent de Marimbault is a 12th-century Romanesque parish church in Marimbault, Gironde, France, built on a Gallo-Roman villa and protected as a monument historique.
EGLN1
EGLN1, also known as PHD2, is a human gene on chromosome 1 encoding the principal cellular oxygen sensor in the HIF pathway; mutations cause familial erythrocytosis, and variants show strong selection in Tibetans.
EGLN3
EGLN3 (PHD3, HIFP4H3) is a human chromosome 14 gene encoding an iron- and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent HIF prolyl hydroxylase oxygen sensor that prefers HIF2α, regulates apoptosis, and is implicated in renal cell, gastric, and lung cancers.
Églogas
An égloga (eclogue) is a bucolic lyric poem in which two shepherds dialogue about their loves, a genre shaped definitively in Spanish by Garcilaso de la Vega.
Egmond aan Zee
Egmond aan Zee, a former fishing village in Bergen municipality, North Holland, is a seaside resort on an 8 km beach, known for the J.C.J. van Speyk lighthouse-monument (1833-34, converted 1838-41) and its erosion-shaped history.
Egmont
Egmont is a five-act tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, begun in 1775 and completed at Rome in 1787, dramatizing the execution of the Flemish count Lamoral of Egmont by the Spanish in 1568.
Egmont Group
The Egmont Group is an informal, non-treaty network of national financial intelligence units, founded in 1995, whose members exchange financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Egnatia
KF Egnatia (Klubi i Futbollit Egnatia), Albanian football club from Rrogozhinë, named after the Via Egnatia; three straight Kategoria Superiore titles 2023-24 to 2025-26, Albanian Cup 2022-23 and 2023-24, Arena Egnatia home, first Albanian club in a UEFA league stage since 2017-18.
EGNOS
EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, is Europe's satellite-based augmentation system broadcasting corrections to improve GPS accuracy and integrity, enabling about 1,000 aviation approach procedures.
Ego death
Ego death, also called ego dissolution, ego loss, or self-loss, is a temporary loss of the sense of self reported with psychedelics, dissociatives, KOR agonists, meditation, and psychosis; measured by instruments like the EDI and EDS.
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (EDAABP) is Hayley Williams' third solo album, self-released August 28, 2025 on her Post Atlantic imprint after 17 surprise singles; Metacritic 91, four 2026 Grammy nominations.
Ego Death Capital
Ego Death Capital is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2022 by Jeff Booth, Andi Pitt, and Nico Lechuga to invest exclusively in Bitcoin companies.