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Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American NASA astronaut and Air Force flight test engineer, the first Asian American in space, who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster.
Ellora Caves
Ellora Caves (Verul): 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monasteries and temples over 2 km of basalt cliff near Aurangabad, Maharashtra; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, famed for the monolithic top-down Kailasa temple (Cave 16).
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for hard-edged abstractions of pure, saturated color that influenced Minimalism, Color Field painting, and Pop Art.
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are a mountain range in West Antarctica, inland from the Ronne Ice Shelf, that contain Antarctica's highest peak, Mount Vinson at 4,892 m.
Ellwood Zimmerman House
The Ellwood Zimmerman House was a 1950 mid-century modern residence in Brentwood, Los Angeles, designed by Craig Ellwood for Martin and Eva Zimmerman and demolished in 2024.
Elly De La Cruz
Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds switch-hitting shortstop from the Dominican Republic, debuted June 6, 2023; first MLB shortstop with 25 HR and 65 SB in a season (2024), MLB-leading 67 steals, elite sprint speed and arm strength.
Elly Schlein
Elly Schlein (born 1985) is an Italian politician who has led the Democratic Party since 2023, defeating Stefano Bonaccini as its first woman leader.
Elly Tanaka
Elly M. Tanaka, born 1965 in Boston, is an Austrian-based regeneration biologist who studies axolotl limb and spinal cord regeneration and directs IMBA in Vienna since 2024.
Ellyn Enderlin
Ellyn Enderlin is an American glaciologist and Associate Professor of Geosciences at Boise State University in Idaho, known for measuring how glaciers change using satellite datasets.
Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Perry (born 1990), Australian cricketer and dual international, youngest Australian to play senior international cricket (2007), only person to play both cricket and FIFA World Cups for Australia, ICC Cricketer of the Decade.
Elm
Ulmus (elms), genus of trees in Ulmaceae, Rosales, native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and the Americas; 37 accepted species; devastated by Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma) spread by bark beetles.
Elm (programming language)
Elm, also known as Elmlang, is a purely functional, statically typed programming language for building web browser user interfaces, created by Evan Czaplicki in his 2012 Harvard thesis.
Elm Road power station
Elm Road Generating Station is a two-unit coal-fired power plant at We Energies' Oak Creek site on Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, operating since 2010 with about 1,268 MW capacity.
ELM327
The ELM327 is an interpreter chip by Canada's Elm Electronics, produced since 2005, that turns a vehicle's OBD-II data into plain text commands over a serial link.
Elma Saiz Delgado
Elma Saiz Delgado, born 1975 in Pamplona, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician serving as Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration since November 2023.
ELMAN (musician)
ELMAN, born Elman Zeynalov in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, in 1993, is a Russian pop singer and producer who founded RAAVA Music, home of JONY, and was Russia's most-listened singer on Yandex Music in July 2024.
Elman neural network
The Elman neural network, also called a simple recurrent network, is a recurrent network that copies its hidden layer's previous activations into a context layer, enabling sequence prediction.
Elmar Borrmann
Elmar Borrmann (born 1957, Stuttgart) is a German épée fencer, twin brother of Igor Borrmann, with Olympic team gold 1984 and 1992, silver 1988, and individual world title 1983.
Elmar Thoma
Elmar Thoma (1926–2002) was a German mathematician who worked in harmonic analysis and representation theory, known for Thoma's theorem on countable discrete groups of type I.
Elmedin Konaković
Elmedin Konaković is a Bosnian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and leads the party Naroda i Pravde, a central figure in the Trojka coalition.
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Elmendorf Air Force Base was a US Air Force installation near Anchorage, Alaska, built in 1940 and the state's largest until merging with Fort Richardson in 2010.
Elmenteita Badlands
Elmenteita Badlands (Ututu), a Holocene pyroclastic cone and basalt lava field in the Kenya Rift between Lake Elmenteita and Eburru volcano; highest cone 2,126 m, volcano number 222071, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930) was an American inventor and engineer who founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company and pioneered the gyrocompass, ship stabilizers, and automatic pilots.
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American film composer of over 150 movie scores and nearly 80 TV scores; 14 Oscar nominations, winning for Thoroughly Modern Millie; known for The Magnificent Seven, The Man with the Golden Arm, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Elmer Diktonius
Elmer Diktonius was a Finland-Swedish poet, writer, critic, and composer, born and died in Helsinki, who pioneered modernism in Nordic literature; his leftist-influenced debut was Min dikt (1921).
Elmer Drew Merrill
Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) was an American botanist who described over 3,000 Far Eastern plant species, built the Manila herbarium, and directed the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard.
Elmer Fudd
Elmer Fudd (Elmer J. Fudd), Warner Bros. Looney Tunes hunter and Bugs Bunny's foil, assembled from Egghead, named in A Feud There Was (1938), voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, known for "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits."
Elmer G. Gilbert
Elmer G. Gilbert (Elmer Grant Gilbert, 1930–2019) was an American control theorist and aerospace engineer at the University of Michigan, known for the Gilbert realization and the reference governor.
Elmer Gantry (film)
Elmer Gantry (1960), Richard Brooks's United Artists drama adapted from Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel, stars Burt Lancaster as a revivalist con man with Jean Simmons and Oscar winner Shirley Jones; it won three Academy Awards.
Elmer Keiser Bolton
Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886–1968) was an American organic chemist who directed DuPont's Chemical Department from 1930 to 1951, directing the research organizations that produced neoprene, nylon, and Teflon.