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Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden (杏园雅集图) is a Ming dynasty handscroll attributed to court painter Xie Huan, recording a 1437 garden party of nine senior Ming officials in Beijing.
Elegg
Elegg (일레그) is a fictional SSR support character in Goddess of Victory: Nikke, released February 22, 2024; leader of the Electric Shock squad, voiced in Korean by Kim Hyeon-ji (김현지), not a performer.
Elegia
Elegia is a genus of about 50 evergreen, reed-like flowering plants in the family Restionaceae, endemic to South Africa's Cape Provinces and a main component of fynbos vegetation.
Elegiac couplet
Elegiac couplet (elegiac distich): classical two-line verse unit of one dactylic hexameter plus one dactylic pentameter; Greek in origin, Rome's meter of love elegy and epigram.
Elegies of Propertius
The Elegies of Propertius are four books of Latin elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius (ca 50–16 BC), the first three dominated by his love for Cynthia.
Elegies of Theognis
The Elegies of Theognis, also called the Theognidea, are a corpus of roughly 1,389 ancient Greek elegiac verses attributed to Theognis of Megara of the sixth century BCE.
Elegua
Elegua, also spelled Eleggua, is the Yoruba orisha of crossroads, doorways, and paths, a divine messenger honored first in every rite in Santería and Candomblé.
Elegy
Elegy: poetic form with a double meaning, ancient Greek elegiac couplet (hexameter plus pentameter) for any subject, and modern poem of mourning; also Persian marṯīa, defined by lament, praise, consolation stages.
Elegy for a Polish Boy
"Elegy for a Polish Boy" (Elegia o... [chłopcu polskim]) is a 1944 war poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, written as a mother's farewell to her soldier son.
Elegy of Fortinbras
Elegy of Fortinbras (Polish: Tren Fortynbrasa) is a 1957 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert in which Fortinbras, who closes Shakespeare's Hamlet, delivers a monologue over the dead Hamlet.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray's 128-line iambic-pentameter poem (also called An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard), completed 1750 and anonymously published by Dodsley in February 1751; a graveyard-school meditation on the rural dead.
Eleh Ezkerah
Eleh Ezkerah (אלה אזכרה, "These I remember") is a medieval Ashkenazic liturgical poem mourning the Ten Martyrs, ten rabbis executed by the Romans for teaching Torah, recited on Yom Kippur.
Elektra (2005 film)
Elektra is a 2005 American superhero film directed by Rob Bowman, starring Jennifer Garner as the Marvel Comics assassin Elektra Natchios in a spin-off of Daredevil (2003).
Elektra (character)
Elektra Natchios is a Marvel Comics assassin created by Frank Miller, debuting in Daredevil #168 (1981). Former college love of Matt Murdock, Hand-trained sai fighter killed by Bullseye in #181 and resurrected, later starring in solo series and operating as Daredevil.
Elektra Lopez
Elektra Lopez, ring name of Karissa Rivera (born 1992), American wrestler in WWE 2021-2025; NXT and SmackDown member of Legado del Fantasma with Santos Escobar; nickname La Madrina; released February 2025, now wrestles on the independent circuit.
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman, known for the Doors, Queen, and Metallica, now part of Warner Music Group.
Elektramat
Elektramat is a Dutch online electrical wholesaler and distribution-board specialist in Enschede, founded in 2006 by electrician Ruud Pierik, selling to the Benelux with next-day delivery.
Elektricity Nightclub
Elektricity Nightclub, known as Elektricity, is an electronic-music nightclub at 15 S. Saginaw Street in downtown Pontiac, Michigan, opened in 2011 by Detroit-area club owner and promoter Amir Daiza.
Elektrik Üretim A.Ş.
Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. (EÜAŞ), Electricity Generation Corporation, is Turkey's state-owned power producer, created in 2001 from the split of TEAŞ and still the country's largest.
Elektro
Elektro is a seven-foot humanoid robot built by Westinghouse in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1937 for the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair, where it walked, talked, counted, and smoked.
Elektrofi
Elektrofi was a Boston-based biotechnology company whose Hypercon platform concentrated biologic drugs up to fivefold for small subcutaneous injections; Halozyme acquired it in 2025 for up to $900 million.
Elektronik Türküler
Elektronik Türküler is a 1974 album by Turkish rock musician Erkin Koray, blending electrified bağlama with Anatolian folk songs and cited as a classic of Anatolian rock.
Elektroprivreda BiH
Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) is the largest electric utility in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a public joint-stock company in Sarajevo generating, distributing, and trading electricity in the Federation of BiH.
Elektroprivreda Srbije Beograd
Elektroprivreda Srbije is a state-owned, vertically integrated power company in Serbia. It is the largest entity and country's main lignite producer, generating about 70% of electricity.
Elektrostal
Elektrostal (Электросталь, formerly Zatishye) is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 52 km east of Moscow. Founded 1916 by Vtorov, city status 26 December 1938; population about 156,000; known for steel, nuclear fuel, and heavy machinery plants.
Element
Element is an international testing, inspection, and calibration company serving industries such as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and energy, with over 270 laboratories and ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration.
Element (category theory)
In category theory, a generalized element of an object X is a morphism x : A → X, whose domain A is called its shape or stage of definition.
Element (criminal law)
In criminal law, an element of a crime is a component the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, typically including actus reus, mens rea, and causation.
Element Biosciences
Element Biosciences is a privately held San Diego genomic sequencing company founded in 2017 by three scientists, best known for the AVITI DNA sequencer and over $680 million raised.
Element Capital Management
Element Capital Management is a New York-based hedge fund manager founded by Jeffrey Talpins, whose flagship fund launched in April 2005 and peaked at $18 billion in assets in 2019.