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Emalahleni
Emalahleni (formerly Witbank) is a coal-mining city in Mpumalanga, South Africa; the name means 'place of coal' in Nguni languages. Founded 1903, renamed 2006, home to major coal mines and power stations. Distinct from the rural Eastern Cape municipality of the same name.
Emalex Biosciences
Emalex Biosciences was a Chicago biotechnology company founded in 2018 to develop treatments for central nervous system disorders, best known for the Tourette syndrome drug ecopipam.
Emam Ali Habibi
Emam Ali Habibi (امامعلی حبیبی گودرزی), the "Tiger of Mazandaran," was an Iranian freestyle wrestler (1931-2025) who won Iran's first Olympic gold at 1956 Melbourne and three world titles (1959, 1961, 1962).
Emam Ashour (إمام عاشور متولي عبد الغني)
Emam Ashour (إمام عاشور), Egyptian midfielder born 1998, plays for Al Ahly and Egypt. Zamalek and Al Ahly league titles, 2024 CAF Champions League, 2024-25 league top scorer with 13 goals.
Emamectin
Emamectin (emamectin benzoate, MK-244) is a semisynthetic avermectin insecticide introduced in 1997 as Proclaim/Affirm, controlling lepidopteran pests at 8-16 g/ha via glutamate-gated chloride channels, and used against sea lice in salmon.
Emami
Emami Limited is a Kolkata-headquartered Indian fast-moving consumer goods company founded in 1974 by R.S. Agarwal and R.S. Goenka, selling ayurvedic personal and healthcare products including BoroPlus, Navratna, and Zandu.
Eman Bacosa Pacquiao
Eman Bacosa Pacquiao (Emmanuel Joseph Bacosa, born 2004, Tagum) is a Filipino lightweight boxer, son of Manny Pacquiao; pro since 2023, record 8-2-1 with 5 KOs, Thrilla in Manila 2 winner, 2026 PBF title loss to Rodelyn Perez.
Eman Esfandi
Eman Esfandi (born 1994, Laredo, Texas) is an Iranian-Ecuadorian-American actor and musician (DragonWulf) who plays live-action Ezra Bridger in Ahsoka and appears in King Richard, The Inspection, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Eman Košpo
Eman Košpo, born 2007 in Suhr, Switzerland, is a Bosnian centre-back from GC Zürich and Barcelona's academy who joined Fiorentina in 2025, debuted for Bosnia in 2025, and now plays for Mantova on loan.
Emanationism
Emanationism, also called emanation metaphysics, holds that all reality flows by necessity from a transcendent source such as the Neoplatonic One, contrasting with free creation ex nihilo; classical form in Plotinus, later in Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
Emancipation
Emancipation: freeing people from legal, political, or social controls; from Roman-law emancipatio through Kant, Marx, the Emancipation Proclamation, Rancière's intellectual emancipation, and critical theory.
Emancipation (2022 film)
Emancipation (2022) is an Apple Original Films historical drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Will Smith as Peter, an escaped Louisiana slave inspired by the 1863 "Whipped Peter" photographs; released December 2, 2022 in theaters and December 9 on Apple TV+.
Emancipation (Prince album)
Emancipation is Prince's 19th studio album, a three-CD, 36-song, three-hour set released November 19, 1996 on NPG Records/EMI, his first after leaving Warner Bros., debuting at number 11 on Billboard.
Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day, also called August First Day or West India Day, commemorates the abolition of slavery. Observed August 1 for the 1834 British Slavery Abolition Act across the Caribbean and Canada, with other dates such as April 16 in Washington, D.C., August 8 in Tennessee, and Juneteenth.
Emancipation decree of 22 January 1863
The Emancipation decree of 22 January 1863 (Dekret o uwłaszczeniu chłopów) was an act of the insurgent Polish National Government making peasant land their hereditary property.
Emancipation Manifesto of 1861
The Emancipation Manifesto of 1861 (Манифест 19 февраля 1861 года) is the decree signed by Alexander II in 1861 that abolished serfdom in Russia, freeing about 23 million serfs.
Emancipation Memorial
The Emancipation Memorial, or Freedman's Memorial, is Thomas Ball's 1876 bronze statue in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., funded by freed Black Americans, modeled on Archer Alexander, criticized by Frederick Douglass, and contested in 2020.
Emancipation of Labour
Emancipation of Labour (Освобождение труда) was the first Russian Marxist organization, founded in Geneva in 1883 by Plekhanov and four other émigrés; it dissolved into the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in 1903.
Emancipation of minors
Emancipation of minors, also called judicial emancipation or "divorce from parents," is the legal process freeing a minor from parental authority before the age of majority, typically age 18; routes include court order, marriage, and military enlistment, with rules set state by state.
Emancipation of the Baltic peasants
The emancipation of the Baltic peasants freed serfs in Estonia, Courland, and Livonia by laws of 1816 to 1819, granting personal freedom without land, decades before 1861.
Emancipation of the Serfs (1861)
The Emancipation of the Serfs (Крестьянская реформа 1861 года) was the 1861 reform by which Alexander II abolished serfdom, freeing more than twenty million serfs.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) was Lincoln's wartime executive order freeing enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states, exempting loyal border states, and enabling Black Union military enlistment.
Emancipation reform of 1861
The Emancipation reform of 1861 (Emancipation Manifesto of 19 February 1861) abolished serfdom in the Russian Empire under Alexander II, freeing about 23 million private-estate serfs with allotments, 49-year redemption payments, and temporary obligations.
Emancipation reform of 1864 in Congress Poland
The emancipation reform of 1864 in Congress Poland was decreed by Tsar Alexander II, giving peasants full land ownership free of redemption payments and ending serfdom there.
Emanuel
Emanuel (Emanuel Fernando Scheffer Rego, born 1973, Curitiba) is a retired Brazilian beach volleyball player; only man to play the first five Olympic beach volleyball tournaments, with 2004 gold, 2008 bronze, 2012 silver, three world titles, and a record 151 international gold medals.
Emanuel Augustus
Emanuel Augustus (Emanuel Ya'kov Burton, "The Drunken Master", "The Outlaw"), American boxer 1994-2011, record 38-34-6 (20 KOs); Ring 2001 Fight of the Year vs Micky Ward; Mayweather's toughest opponent.
Emanuel Bronner
Emanuel Bronner, born Emil Heilbronner and known as Dr. Bronner, was a German-Jewish soapmaker who founded Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps in 1948 and printed his Moral ABC philosophy on the labels.
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver II, born 1944, is a Democratic U.S. Representative for Missouri's 5th district, first elected in 2004, who previously served as Kansas City's first African American mayor.
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin (1935–2018) was an Israeli-born psychophysiologist who helped establish event-related brain potentials as a measure of cognition; his Illinois laboratory characterized the P300 and built a P300-based brain-computer interface.
Emanuel Epstein
Emanuel Epstein (1916–2022) was an American plant physiologist at UC Davis, called the father of modern root physiology, who first applied enzyme kinetics to ion uptake in roots.