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Elzbieta Dunska Krzesinska

Elżbieta Duńska-Krzesińska (1934–2015), Polish long jumper also known as Elżbieta Duńska or "Złota Ela"; 1956 Olympic champion and 1960 silver medalist, world record holder at 6.35 m.

Elżbieta Sieniawska

Elżbieta Sieniawska (1669 or 1670–1729) was a Polish magnate, wife of Grand Hetman Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, and a leading political figure under August II who bought Wilanów Palace in 1720.

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was a Canadian Catholic prelate, archbishop of Quebec from 1871 to 1898 and the first Canadian cardinal, created by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.

Em (typography)

An em is a typographic unit equal to the current point size of the type, so an em of 12-point type is 12 points; it is a relative unit with no fixed physical value.

EM-2

EM-2 is a human cell line derived from the bone marrow of a 5-year-old girl with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, in second relapse after a bone marrow transplant.

EM-2 rifle

The EM-2 rifle, also called the Enfield EM2 or Janson Rifle, was a British bullpup assault rifle developed at Enfield in 1948 and adopted in 1951 as Rifle No.9 Mk1.

EM-DAT

EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is a free global database of disasters and their human and economic impacts from 1900 to the present, maintained by CRED at UCLouvain in Brussels.

Ema Klinec

Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper (born 1998, Kranj), two-time Youth Olympic gold medalist 2016, 2021 world normal hill champion, women's ski flying world record holder 226 m at Vikersund, three-time Olympian.

Emaar Properties (إعمار العقارية)

Emaar Properties (إعمار العقارية) is a Dubai-listed public joint stock real estate developer founded by decree in 1997, the largest listed Arab developer and owner of Dubai Mall.

Emaciated Horse

Emaciated Horse (駿骨図, Junqu tu) is an ink handscroll by Song loyalist Gong Kai (1222–1307), depicting a bony horse as an allegory of loyalty to the fallen Song dynasty.

Emacs

Emacs is a family of extensible text editors built around an embedded Lisp interpreter; GNU Emacs, begun by Richard Stallman in 1984, is the most widely used version.

Emacs Lisp

Emacs Lisp, also called Elisp, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language that serves as the extension language of GNU Emacs, in which most of the editor itself is written.

Emactuzumab

Emactuzumab (RG7155) is a humanized anti-CSF1R monoclonal antibody from Roche, now SynOx Therapeutics, that blocks receptor dimerization; it showed 86% ORR in diffuse-type tenosynovial giant cell tumor and is in the phase III TANGENT trial.

Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is a British entrepreneur who founded Stability AI, the company behind the commercial rollout of Stable Diffusion, and resigned as its chief executive in March 2024.

Emad N. Eskandar

Emad N. Eskandar is an American neurosurgeon who chairs Neurological Surgery at Montefiore Einstein, having held the Pappas chair at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emad S. Alnemri

Emad S. Alnemri is a molecular biologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who studies apoptosis and inflammatory cell death, known for discovering the AIM2 inflammasome and named a National Academy of Inventors fellow in 2018.

Emad Tajkhorshid

Emad Tajkhorshid is an Iranian-born professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane transport proteins like aquaporins.

eMagin

eMagin was a New York-based maker of OLED-on-silicon microdisplays used in military helmets, night vision goggles, and VR headsets, acquired by Samsung Display in 2023.

Emah

Emah (E-maḫ, "Exalted House") was the temple of the mother goddess Ninmah (Bēlet-ilī) at Babylon, beside the Ishtar Gate; excavated by Koldewey in 1900 and rebuilt under Nebuchadnezzar II and Ashurbanipal.

Email

Email, or electronic mail, is a method of exchanging typed messages over computer networks, first sent by Ray Tomlinson on the ARPANET in 1971 using the user@host address form.

Email address

An email address is an Internet identifier of the form local-part@domain that specifies a mailbox for electronic mail, defined in RFC 5322 and governed by SMTP.

Email client

An email client, or mail user agent, is software that lets a user compose, send, receive, read, and organize email as an app or via webmail.

Email marketing

Email marketing, also called email advertising or electronic direct marketing, sends promotional, newsletter, and transactional messages to subscribers, returning an estimated $36 to $42 per dollar spent.

Email spam

Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email or junk email, is unsolicited commercial email sent indiscriminately; the first such message went over ARPANET in 1978.

Email spoofing

Email spoofing is the forgery of an email's sender information so a message appears to come from a different domain, enabling phishing and business email compromise scams.

Email storm

An email storm, also called a reply-all storm or reply-allpocalypse, is a cascade in which reply-all messages to a large list multiply until they overwhelm mail servers.

Emails I Can't Send

Emails I Can't Send (emails i can't send) is Sabrina Carpenter's fifth studio album, released July 15, 2022 on Island Records; her first album off Disney's Hollywood Records, 13 tracks including Nonsense, Vicious, and because i liked a boy, with a March 2023 deluxe titled fwd:.

Emakimono

Emakimono (絵巻) is a Japanese narrative handscroll format combining text and pictures. This form arrived in Japan around the sixth century and flourished during the Heian and Kamakura periods.

Emakku Thozhil Romance

Emakku Thozhil Romance (எமக்கு தொழில் ரொமான்ஸ்) is a 2024 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Balaji Kesavan, starring Ashok Selvan as assistant director Umashankar and Avantika Mishra as nurse Leo, released 22 November 2024.

Emakong Patera

Emakong Patera, an IAU-named (1979) dark-floored volcanic patera about 80 km across on Jupiter's moon Io at 3.33S 119.82W, surrounded by bright radial lava flows and interpreted as a quiescent lava lake.