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Ekron
Ekron, identified with the mound of Tel Miqne, was one of the five Philistine capital cities, 22 miles southwest of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Neo-Babylonians around 604 BCE.
Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription
The Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, or Achish inscription, is a royal dedicatory text by Akhayus (Achish), ruler of Ekron, found at Tel Miqne in 1996, the most complete Philistine text known.
Ekron VIII
Ekron VIII is the Late Bronze Age Canaanite stratum at Tel Miqne, biblical Ekron, a 10-acre unfortified settlement destroyed by fire before the Philistine city.
Eksman
Eksman is the stage name of Kevin Forrester, an English drum and bass MC born in 1980, active since 1996 and among the scene's most influential MCs.
Ekspress
Ekspress (Экспресс, also written Express) is a Russian family of geostationary communications satellites built by NPO PM and successor ISS Reshetnev for RSCC since the late 1990s.
Ekstraklasa
Ekstraklasa (PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa) is Poland's top men's football league, run by Ekstraklasa S.A.: 18 teams, 34 rounds, three relegated, Legia Warszawa record 15 titles, 12th in UEFA ranking.
Ekta Kapoor (एकता कपूर)
Ekta Kapoor (एकता कपूर), also Ektaa R Kapoor, Indian TV and film producer born 1975, co-founder and joint managing director of Balaji Telefilms (1994), creator of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and ALTBalaji, Padma Shri 2020 and International Emmy Directorate Award 2023.
Ekta Kaul (एकता कौल)
Ekta Kaul (एकता कौल), Indian actress from Jammu; TV leads in Rab Se Sohna Isshq and Mere Angne Mein, web series Tanaav, films Pathaan and Main Atal Hoon; married to Sumeet Vyas. Distinct from the London textile artist of the same name.
Ekta Khurana
Ekta Khurana is a computational biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who identifies DNA changes that drive cancer, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Ekta Sohini (एकता सोहिनी)
Ekta Sohini, born Aarti Sharma and now known as Aarti Bahl, is an Indian actress active in Hindi films from 1990 to 2005 and married actor Mohnish Bahl.
Ektachrome
Ektachrome is a family of color reversal slide films made by Eastman Kodak, introduced in 1946 and processed in E-6 chemistry, with couplers built into the emulsion unlike Kodachrome.
Ektelon
Ektelon, racquetball equipment brand founded by Bud Held in San Diego (1964, 1967, or 1968 by source), maker of the first aluminum, composite, and oversized racquetball racquets; over 50% US market share in 1990, owned by Prince since 1988.
Eku Energy
Eku Energy is a global battery energy storage developer and operator launched in November 2022 by Macquarie Asset Management, building utility-scale projects across the UK, Australia, Japan, and Italy.
Ekuaibao
Ekuaibao (易快报), legally Beijing Hesi Information Technology Co., Ltd., is a Beijing corporate expense-management SaaS company founded in 2014 by Ma Chunquan, which raised RMB 1.5 billion and rebranded as Hesi.
Ekuddana
Ekuddana (एकुद्दन) is an arahant elder of the Buddha's time in the Theravada tradition, known as the one-verse monk who won arahantship through a single stanza.
Ekuikui I
Ekuikui I is the first ruler named in the traditional king list of Bailundo, an Ovimbundu kingdom in the central highlands of Angola, known through oral tradition.
Ekun iyawo
Ekun iyawo, meaning "bridal weeping" in Yoruba, is a form of Yoruba oral poetry in which a bride chants on the eve of her wedding as she prepares to leave her family home.
Ekur
The Ekur (Sumerian E-kur) was the main religious precinct of Nippur in southern Iraq, dedicated to Enlil, the chief god of the Mesopotamian pantheon, where kings sought recognition and lavished gifts on the temple.
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
City of Ekurhuleni (formerly Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality), a Category A metro in Gauteng, South Africa, formed 5 December 2000 from nine East Rand towns; Tsonga for 'Place of Peace'; 4.07 million people (2022), OR Tambo airport, R70.9bn 2026/27 budget, qualified audit 2024/25.
Ekushey Book Fair
Ekushey Book Fair (Amar Ekushey Granthamela) is the national book fair of Bangladesh, a month-long February event at Bangla Academy in Dhaka commemorating the 1952 Language Movement.
Ekushey Padak
Ekushey Padak (একুশে পদক, "Twenty-first Medal") is the second highest civilian award of Bangladesh, given annually since 1976 in memory of the Language Movement martyrs to writers, artists, researchers, and others.
Ekvtime Takaishvili
Ekvtime Takaishvili (ექვთიმე თაყაიშვილი) was a Georgian historian and archaeologist who guarded the Georgian national treasure in France from 1921 and returned it in 1945, later canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
EKZOLAND
EKZOLAND (Екзоленд), also EKZO Land, is a small indoor mini-zoo on the third floor of the Dream Town shopping center, Obolonskyi Avenue 1B, Kyiv, Ukraine, opened in 2011-2012 and run by BION Terrarium Center, with over 40 exhibits of reptiles, birds, and mammals; its animals were evacuated in 2022 during the war.
Él
Él (This Strange Passion) is Luis Buñuel's 1953 Mexican melodrama, written with Luis Alcoriza from Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel, starring Arturo de Córdova as a pathologically jealous husband and Delia Garcés as his wife Gloria.
El (deity)
El (Ugaritic il, Hebrew el) is the aged creator god and patriarchal head of the Canaanite pantheon known from the Ugaritic Baal Cycle; in Israelite religion El was assimilated with Yahweh, as the name Israel and the Yahweh-El compound attest.
El Abayarde
El Abayarde is the 2002 debut album of Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Tego Calderón, which mixed salsa and bomba into reggaetón and sold over 150,000 copies in Puerto Rico.
El Abra mine
El Abra is an open-pit copper mine in Chile's Antofagasta Region, 75 kilometers northeast of Calama, owned by Freeport-McMoRan (51%) and Codelco, producing copper cathodes since 1996.
El Al (אל על)
El Al (אל על, "to the skies") is Israel's national flag carrier airline. Established in 1948, it operates flights and serves as the authorized security provider for other Israeli carriers.
El Al Flight 1862
El Al Flight 1862, known as the Bijlmermeer disaster or Bijlmerramp, was an Israeli cargo flight that crashed into Amsterdam apartment blocks in 1992, killing 43 people.
El Alamein (العلمين)
El Alamein (العلمين), Egyptian coastal town ~100 km west of Alexandria, site of the 1942 WWII desert battles and of Commonwealth, German, and Italian war cemeteries, the Alamein Memorial, and the 1965 military museum.