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Egra
Egra, ancient Red Sea settlement at modern al-Wajh, Saudi Arabia; Pleiades place 814674, attested 330 BC-AD 300; known from Strabo 16.4.24 as a stop of Aelius Gallus in Nabataean king Obodas' territory.
Egregore
An egregore, from the Greek for "to watch," is an occult thought-form entity a group creates through shared belief and ritual, which then gains autonomy.
Égrégore
Égrégore (egregore) is an esoteric term for a group spirit formed from collective minds. Known through Mylène Farmer's 2026 album Égrégore, several metal bands named Egregore, and Jean Antonin Billard's book on the automatistes.
EGREM
EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state-owned record company, founded in 1964 to consolidate nationalized labels. It holds over 85,000 recordings, including Buena Vista Social Club sessions.
Egret
An egret is any of several white wading birds in the heron family Ardeidae, named for their plumage rather than their ancestry, and known for breeding plumes called aigrettes.
Egretta
Egretta, the true egrets, is a genus of medium wading birds in Ardeidae erected by Forster in 1817, including the snowy egret, little egret, little blue heron, tricolored heron, and reddish egret; molecular work shows it paraphyletic as formerly circumscribed.
Egretta garzetta
Egretta garzetta, the Little Egret or Lesser Egret, is a small white heron (Ardeidae) of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with black bill, yellow feet, foot-stirring foraging, and IUCN Least Concern status.
EGS (program)
EGS (Electron Gamma Shower) is a package of computer codes for the Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport through matter, developed at SLAC in the 1970s.
EGSY8p7
EGSY8p7, also cataloged as CEERS-1019, is a luminous star-forming galaxy in the Extended Groth Strip, confirmed in 2015 at redshift 8.683 and then the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy known.
EGTA (chemical)
EGTA, also called egtazic acid, is a chelating agent that binds calcium with about 10,000-fold selectivity over magnesium, used to set free calcium in biological experiments.
Eguafo
Eguafo was an Akan coastal kingdom on the Gold Coast of West Africa, in what is now Ghana's Central Region, documented from 1503 and surviving as the Eguafo Traditional Area.
Egungun
Egungun (Egúngún) is a Yoruba masquerade tradition in which costumed performers make ancestral spirits visible among the living, practiced since at least the fifteenth century in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
Egusi
Egusi: West African name for seed crops of several cucurbits, chiefly Citrullus mucosospermus (egusi melon) and Cucumeropsis mannii, whose oil- and protein-rich seeds thicken egusi soup; Nigeria is the top producer.
EGX Bond LLC
EGX Bond LLC is a Wyoming-registered limited liability company, formed in 2022 and based in Centerville, Utah, issuing 9% asset-backed bonds that fund a claimed $1.5 billion loan to Enegra Group.
Egyin
Egyin (Burmese: ဧချင်း), also spelled ainggyin, is a Burmese poetic genre of four-syllable internally rhymed lines, known as fifteenth-century courtly ballads and as folk poetry about village life sung by women.
EGYM (company)
EGYM is a Munich-based fitness-technology company founded in 2010 by Florian Sauter and Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, selling connected gym equipment, training software, and the Wellpass corporate-wellness network.
Egypt (مصر)
Egypt (مصر), the Arab Republic of Egypt, is the most populous Arab country, over 108 million people, on the Nile and Suez Canal. A lower middle-income economy under IMF programs, facing 33.5% poverty, water scarcity at 570 m³ per capita, and inflation that fell from 38% to 13.4%.
Egypt Mons
Egypt Mons is an IAU-named mountain (mons) on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, approved 1997, about 194-219 km across near 41.5 degrees south; named for where the mythological Io ended her wanderings.
Egypt national football team
Egypt national football team, the Pharaohs, governed by the Egyptian Football Association; record seven-time AFCON champions (1957-2010) and first African World Cup entrant (1934). Won its first World Cup match and reached the knockout stage in 2026 under Hossam Hassan with Mohamed Salah.
Egypt Sherrod
Egypt Sherrod (born 1976), Philadelphia-born American TV host, real estate broker and CEO of Indigo Road Realty; hosted HGTV's Property Virgins and Flipping Virgins and co-hosted Married to Real Estate with husband Mike Jackson.
Egypt Station
Egypt Station is Paul McCartney's studio album of new songs, released 7 September 2018 on Capitol Records; produced mainly by Greg Kurstin except "Fuh You" (Ryan Tedder, Zach Skelton), titled after McCartney's 1988 painting, and his first number-one album in 36 years.
Egypt–Israel peace treaty
Egypt–Israel peace treaty, signed March 26, 1979 by Sadat and Begin under Carter's mediation after the Camp David Accords; first Israel-Arab peace treaty, returning Sinai to Egypt, establishing diplomatic relations, and holding for over 45 years.
Egyptair (مصر للطيران)
Egyptair (مصر للطيران) is Egypt's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1932 as the first airline in the Middle East and Africa, flying from its hub at Cairo International Airport.
EgyptAir Flight 804
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a scheduled Paris-to-Cairo passenger flight operated with an Airbus A320 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May 2016, killing all 66 on board.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled Los Angeles–Cairo flight whose Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic near Nantucket on October 31, 1999, killing all 217 aboard.
Egyptian Air Force (القوات الجوية المصرية)
Egyptian Air Force (القوات الجوية المصرية, EAF), Egypt's air warfare branch: ~1,088 aircraft, largest fleet in Africa, flying F-16s, 54 Rafales, and MiG-29s; 85% destroyed in 1967, rebuilt with Soviet aid before 1973; no tanker fleet; Air Force Day 14 October.
Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic (العامية المصرية) is the spoken Arabic of Egypt, in diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic. Cairene ج as g and ق as glottal stop, b- present prefix, Coptic, Turkish, French, English loans, and media-driven regional intelligibility distinguish it.
Egyptian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة المصرية)
Egyptian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة المصرية), Egypt's military establishment of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Air Defense Forces; about 438,500 active personnel, third-largest world arms importer 2015–2019, and a major state economic actor since 2013.
Egyptian Army (الجيش المصري)
Egyptian Army (الجيش المصري), land branch of Egypt's armed forces: 438,500 active personnel nationwide, 1 to 3 years conscription, GFP 2026 rank 19 of 145, about 1,200 locally built M1A1 Abrams, and since 1952 a dominant political and economic actor.
Egyptian Army in the Sudan
The Egyptian Army in the Sudan (الجيش المصري في السودان) was the military arm of Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan, founded by Muhammad Ali in 1820–21 to recruit soldiers.