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Ely Culbertson
Ely Culbertson (1891–1955) was a Romanian-born American contract bridge player, theorist, and promoter whose forcing bidding system dominated the game in the 1930s; he won the famous 1931–32 match against Sidney Lenz.
Ely Roman Villa
Ely Roman Villa, Cardiff (Caerau), Wales: a scheduled Romano-British villa complex in a ditched enclosure, excavated 1894 and 1922 by Storrie and Wheeler, with a winged-corridor house, bath suite, ironworking, and rare domestic fortification.
Ely S. Parker
Ely S. Parker, born Hasanoanda and later known as Donehogawa, was a Tonawanda Seneca engineer and Union Army officer who served as Ulysses S. Grant's military secretary.
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely): England's second smallest cathedral city, founded around Etheldreda's monastery of c.673 on a Kimmeridge clay island in the Fens, home to Ely Cathedral's 14th-century Octagon and a growing Cambridge commuter city.
Ely, Nevada
Ely, Nevada: White Pine County seat at 6,200 ft in the Great Basin, a former copper-mining hub served by the Nevada Northern Railway (1905-1983) and now the gateway to Great Basin National Park on U.S. 50, the Loneliest Road.
Elya Baskin
Elya Baskin (Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin, Илья Залманович Баскин; born 1950, Riga) is a Soviet Latvia-born American character actor known for Moscow on the Hudson, Air Force One, The Name of the Rose, and as Mr. Ditkovich in Spider-Man 2 and 3, after emigrating from the USSR in 1976.
Elyanna
Elyanna (إليانا), born Elian Marjieh in 2002 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian-Chilean singer-songwriter in Los Angeles who performs in Arabic, blending Arabic pop with R&B and Latin sounds.
Elyas M'Barek
Elyas M'Barek, German-Austrian actor born 1982 in Munich, star of Türkisch für Anfänger and the Fack Ju Göhte trilogy as Zeki Müller; also Paddington's German voice and a producer.
Elyce Arons
Elyce Arons is an American retail and consumer-brand founder who co-founded the handbag company Kate Spade New York in 1993 and later co-founded Frances Valentine, where she is CEO.
Elye Wahi
Elye Wahi (Sepe Elye Wahi), born 2003 in Courcouronnes, French-born Ivorian striker from Caen and Montpellier youth; played for Lens, Marseille, Frankfurt, on loan at Nice; 19 Ligue 1 goals in 2022-23.
Elyes Gabel
Elyes Gabel (Elyes Cherif Gabel) is a British actor born 1983 in Westminster, London, known for Guppy Sandhu in Casualty, Rakharo in Game of Thrones, and Walter O'Brien in Scorpion; he founded Roughened Verse Entertainment in 2024.
Elymaean–Parthian wars
The Elymaean–Parthian wars (جنگهای ایلام و اشکانیان) were recurrent conflicts between the kingdom of Elymais and the Parthian Empire, lasting from the second century BC until about 221 CE.
Elymais
Elymais was a semi-independent kingdom in the Zagros mountains and the plain of Susiana, southwestern Iran, ruled by local dynasts from about 147 BC until the Sasanian conquest.
Elymians
The Elymians (Greek Elymoi) were an ancient people of extreme western Sicily in the first millennium BC, centered on Segesta and Eryx, who allied with Carthage before joining Rome.
Elymus
Elymus (wild rye, wheatgrasses), Linnaeus 1753, is the largest allopolyploid grass genus of tribe Triticeae, Poaceae, with about 150-200 species combining St, H, P, W, and Y genomes, native across the Northern Hemisphere and used for forage, restoration, and breeding germplasm.
Elyn Saks
Elyn R. Saks is a legal scholar at the University of Southern California who studies mental health law and disclosed her own schizophrenia in her 2007 memoir.
Elyon (עֶלְיוֹן)
Elyon (עֶלְיוֹן), also called El Elyon, is a Hebrew word meaning "most high" that the Hebrew Bible applies to God as an epithet or title.
ELYS-like domain
ELYS-like domain (InterPro IPR025151, Pfam PF13934): conserved domain in ELYS/AHCTF1/MEL-28, the nucleoporin-kinetochore protein that seeds nuclear pore assembly and binds AT-rich chromatin; also in HOS1.
Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox (born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath, 1917-2012), American actress and model, star of The Mummy's Tomb (1942); wife of Heisman winner Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon; nearly 40 films, retired 1949.
Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace (Palais de l'Élysée), also known as the Hôtel d'Évreux, is a Paris town house built 1718 to 1722 that has been the French President's official residence since 1871.
Elysia (gastropod)
Elysia (Risso, 1818) is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, about 101 species, famous for kleptoplasty: species such as E. chlorotica, E. timida, E. crispata, and E. viridis retain functional stolen algal chloroplasts for months.
Elysia chlorotica
Elysia chlorotica is a sacoglossan sea slug that retains functional Vaucheria litorea chloroplasts for roughly a year, surviving months on light and CO2; whole-genome studies find no evidence of algal horizontal gene transfer.
Elysium (film)
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction action film written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, his second feature after District 9, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
Elysium (game)
Elysium is a 2015 Greek-mythology card-drafting and set-collection board game by Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan (Space Cowboys/Asmodee) for 2-4 players; 5 of 8 god families are used per game, and transferred cards lose powers to score as legends. Kennerspiel des Jahres 2015 nominee, distinct from the VTES client and RPG of the same name.
Elysium (λύσιον)
Elysium (Greek Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, the Elysian Plain), also called the Isles of the Blessed, is the Greek paradisiacal afterlife first named in Odyssey 4.563 for Menelaus, ruled by Rhadamanthys or Cronus, with disputed etymology and a location that later moved into the underworld.
Elysium Chasma
Elysium Chasma is an IAU-named canyon on Mars, about 130 km across, west of Elysium Mons; a floorless, roughly 2 km deep trough in the Southwest Elysium Canyon Complex, approved 1985.
Elysium Planitia
Elysium Planitia is a broad, flat lava plain near the equator of Mars, straddling the highland-lowland boundary and best known as the 2018 landing site of NASA's InSight lander.
Elysium Rupes
Elysium Rupes is an IAU-approved scarp (rupes) on Mars in the Elysium quadrangle, 130 km across, centered at 25.14°N, 148.0°E, approved 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature name.
Elza Soares
Elza Soares (Elza Gomes da Conceição Soares, 1930–2022) was a Brazilian singer from Rio de Janeiro who recorded 35 albums from 1960 to 2021, winning BBC singer of the millennium.
Elżbieta Drużbacka
Elżbieta Drużbacka, née Kowalska, was a Polish late Baroque poet called the Sarmatian Muse and one of the first Polish women to see print, publishing her only book in 1752.