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Emperor Yōzei (陽成天皇)

Emperor Yōzei (陽成天皇, personal name Sadaakira), 57th emperor of Japan, reigned 876–884 as a child under the regent Fujiwara no Mototsune, was deposed at 17 after alleged misrule, and lived 65 years as retired emperor.

Emperor Yuan of Jin

Emperor Yuan of Jin (晋元帝), personal name Sima Rui, was the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty, established at Jiankang in the Jiangdong region.

Sep 25, 2026

Emperor Yuan Ye of Northern Wei

Emperor Yuan Ye of Northern Wei (元晔) was a prince of the imperial Yuan clan placed on the throne by the Erzhu clan and later deposed in favor of Emperor Jiemin.

Emperor Yūryaku (雄略天皇)

Emperor Yūryaku (雄略天皇), also known as Ōhatsuse-wakatakeru, was a 5th-century Japanese emperor commonly identified with King Bu, who sent tribute to the Liu Song court in 478.

Emperor Zhangzong of Jin

Emperor Zhangzong of Jin (金章宗), personal name Jing, was emperor of the Jurchen Jin dynasty from 1190 to 1208, known for civil culture and the Taihe legal code.

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (唐昭宗), personal name Li Ye, was a Tang dynasty emperor reigning from 888 whose attempts to revive imperial authority failed against warlords and eunuchs.

Sep 25, 2026

Emperor Zhenzong's Heavenly Texts and Fengshan

Emperor Zhenzong's Heavenly Texts and Fengshan (天书封祀) was a Song dynasty program of staged divine omens and grand sacrifices, culminating in the fengshan at Mount Tai in 1008.

Emperor Zhezong of Song

Emperor Zhezong of Song (赵煦, personal name Zhao Xu) was the seventh emperor of the Song dynasty, reigning fifteen years from 1076 to 1100 and ruling personally from 1093.

Emperor Zhi of Han

Emperor Zhi of Han, personal name Liu Zuan, was a child emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, placed on the throne by Liang Ji and poisoned in 146.

Emperor Zhongzong of Tang

Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (唐中宗), personal name Li Xian, was the seventh son of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu who reigned twice, in 684 and 705 to 710.

Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang

Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, personal name Li Cunxu, was a Shatuo emperor who reigned from 923 to 926, conquered Former Shu in seventy days, and died in 926.

Emperor-system fascism (天皇制ファシズム)

Emperor-system fascism (天皇制ファシズム, tennōsei fashizumu) is a historiographical concept, introduced by Japanese Marxist historians in the 1950s, that describes Japan's 1930s–1945 regime as fascism centered on the imperial institution rather than a mass party, a characterization still debated against labels like military authoritarianism.

Oct 22, 2026

Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet is a large Safavid Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1943.

Sep 19, 2026

Emperors Palace

Emperors Palace is a hotel, casino, and entertainment resort in Kempton Park beside Johannesburg's O. R. Tambo Airport, opened in 2000 as Caesars Gauteng and known for boxing and concerts.

Empetrum

Empetrum (crowberry), Ericaceae genus of evergreen dwarf shrubs with four accepted species, bipolar across the subarctic Northern Hemisphere and southern South America; black seedy berries eaten by people and wildlife.

Empetrum nigrum

Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry, crowberry) is an evergreen Ericaceae dwarf shrub of boreal and arctic Northern Hemisphere heaths, with black stone fruits, diploid dioecious and tetraploid hermaphroditum groups, and bibenzyl-based allelopathy.

Oct 22, 2026

Empfindsamkeit

Empfindsamkeit, or "sensibility," was a literary and cultural current of the European Enlightenment, strongest in German literature from about 1740 to 1780, treating deep feeling as a moral virtue.

EMPHASIS trial

EMPHASIS: phase 3 Lancet 2026 trial (Lu et al., NCT05836740) of oral minocycline within 72 h of acute ischaemic stroke in 1,724 Chinese patients; mRS 0-1 at 90 days 52.6% vs 47.4%, no safety concerns.

EMPHASIS-HF trial

EMPHASIS-HF, the Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalization and Survival Study in Heart Failure, tested eplerenone in 2,737 patients with mild systolic heart failure and stopped early for benefit.

Emphysema

Emphysema, also called pulmonary emphysema, is a type of COPD in which alveolar walls are destroyed, mainly by smoking or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency; diagnosed by spirometry and CT, treated with bronchodilators, oxygen, and lung volume reduction.

Emphyteusis

Emphyteusis (ἐμφύτευσις), also called emphyteutic lease or bail emphytéotique, is a perpetual or long-term real right in another's land requiring cultivation and fixed rent, created in late Roman law by Zeno and Justinian and surviving in French, Belgian, Maltese, Greek, and Ukrainian property law.

Empididae

Empididae, the dance flies, is a predatory fly family in Empidoidea (Diptera). Known for aerial mating swarms, male nuptial gifts, and reversed female ornaments in Empis, Hilara, and Rhamphomyia; classification revised by Sinclair & Cumming 2006 and molecular work establishing Ragadidae as sister.

Empidonax

Empidonax is a genus of small tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) established by Cabanis in 1855; its North American species, such as Willow, Alder, Least, and Western Flycatcher, are notoriously similar and identified mainly by voice.

Empingham

Empingham is a village and civil parish in Rutland, England, on the River Gwash 6 miles WNW of Stamford, next to the dam of Rutland Water.

Empire

Empire (from Latin imperium): a large polity in which a dominant state or people rules other states or peoples with maintained hierarchy. Covers definitions, imperialism versus colonialism, empire versus nation-state, and how empires expand, administer, and decline.

Empire (2015 TV series)

Empire (2015 TV series) is a Fox musical drama created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, running 2015 to 2020 over six seasons. It follows music mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) and ex-wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) in a hip-hop succession struggle.