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Encyclopedia Dramatica
Encyclopedia Dramatica is a wiki website founded in December 2004 by Sherrod DeGrippo that documents internet culture, memes, and online feuds in a deliberately offensive, satirical register.
Encyclopedic novel
The encyclopedic novel, also called encyclopedic fiction, is lengthy fiction weaving in specialized knowledge from science, art, and history, a term introduced by Edward Mendelson in 1976.
Encyclopédie
The Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, is a 28-volume French encyclopedia published in Paris from 1751 to 1772 and a principal work of the French Enlightenment.
Encyrtid parasitoids in biological control
Encyrtid parasitoids are minute wasps of the family Encyrtidae, with 456 genera and 3,826 species, that kill scale insects and mealybugs and are widely used in biological control.
Encyrtidae biology and host associations
Encyrtidae, encyrtid wasps, a large Chalcidoidea family of minute parasitoids (over 4,830 species, subfamilies Encyrtinae and Tetracneminae) attacking scale insects, mealybugs, Lepidoptera eggs, and ticks, and widely used in biological control, e.g. Anagyrus lopezi against cassava mealybug.
Encyrtidae systematics
Encyrtidae systematics covers the classification of Encyrtidae, a family of chalcidoid wasps founded in 1837, with about 3,300 species in two subfamilies whose monophyly recent molecular work challenges.
Encysted hydrocele
Encysted hydrocele (ICD-10 N43.0, ICD-11 GB00.0) is a non-communicating fluid cyst of the spermatic cord or tunica vaginalis from incomplete processus vaginalis closure; constant size, transilluminates, treated by excision.
End cam
An end cam is a cam with its working profile machined into the end face of a rotating cylinder, cone, or sphere, where the follower rides that face.
End effector
An end effector, also called end-of-arm tooling (EOAT), is the tool mounted on a robotic arm's wrist that grips, welds, paints, or senses, with grippers the most common type.
End Hits
End Hits is Fugazi's fifth full-length record, released in 1998 on Dischord Records (catalog 110). Recorded at Inner Ear Studios in 1997 and produced by the band, its experimental post-hardcore sound drew mixed initial reviews.
End launch
An end launch is a ship launching method in which a vessel slides end-on, normally stern first, down greased inclined slipways, and was dominant worldwide until drydock building spread in the 1960s.
End mill
An end mill is a rotating milling cutter with cutting edges on both its end and periphery, the standard tool for slots, pockets, and shoulders.
End milling
End milling is a machining process using a rotating cutter with cutting edges on its bottom face and circumference to produce slots, pockets, contours, and profiles.
End of August
End of August is a 2026 song by Noah Kahan, also called "Endin' of August", opening his fourth album The Great Divide. Piano-led folk-pop about late-summer Vermont; peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went viral on TikTok.
End of Beginning
End of Beginning is a 2022 song by Djo, the stage name of Stranger Things actor Joe Keery, from the album Decide. Written by Keery and co-produced with Adam Thein, it went viral on TikTok in 2024 and again in 2026, topping the UK and Spotify Global charts with over 3 billion streams.
End of Days (film)
End of Days is a 1999 American action horror film directed by Peter Hyams, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as bodyguard Jericho Cane protecting Robin Tunney's character from Gabriel Byrne's Satan before the millennium; released November 24, 1999 by Universal, grossing about $212 million worldwide.
End of Dennard scaling
The end of Dennard scaling is the breakdown, in the early to mid-2000s, of the 1974 MOSFET scaling rules, after which rising power density pushed multicore chips.
End of history
The end of history is Francis Fukuyama's 1989 thesis, expanded in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that liberal democracy is the final form of government; debated against Huntington's clash of civilizations and contested by later events.
End of Roman rule in Britain
End of Roman rule in Britain: the passage of Roman Britain (Britannia) from imperial control, conventionally dated AD 410. Key events: Constantine III's 407 removal of troops, the 409 expulsion of Roman officials, and Honorius's 410 rescript.
End of Summer
End of Summer (Slutet på sommaren) is a six-part Swedish psychological thriller series in which a therapist reopens the case of her brother's 1984 disappearance after a patient recalls matching memories.
End of Summer (song)
"End of Summer" is a seven-minute 2025 single by Tame Impala (Kevin Parker), his Columbia Records debut, inspired by acid house and bush doofs; later the closing track of the album Deadbeat.
End of the A-Group
The end of the A-Group is the disappearance, or transformation, of Lower Nubia's earliest named archaeological culture around 2900-2800 BC, coinciding with halted Egyptian exchange and First Dynasty expansion.
End of the Century
End of the Century, the Ramones' fifth studio album (1980, Sire), produced by Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios; their highest-charting US album at No. 44, with the UK No. 8 hit "Baby, I Love You."
End of the Fatimid caliphate
The end of the Fatimid caliphate (انتهاء الدولة الفاطمية) came in 1171, when Saladin, vizier to the last caliph al-'Adid, had the Friday sermon in Cairo pronounced for the Abbasid caliph al-Mustadi.
End of the golden age of aviation
The end of the golden age of aviation came in the late 1930s, as the Hindenburg disaster ended passenger airships and rearmament absorbed the industry.
End of the Kingdom of Kush
The end of the Kingdom of Kush was the dissolution of the Meroitic state around AD 300–350, traditionally linked to Ezana of Aksum's conquest of Meroë.
End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song)
"End of the Line" is a 1988 Traveling Wilburys song, the closing track of Vol. 1, written mainly by George Harrison, released as their second single in January 1989, and known for its music video tribute to the late Roy Orbison.
End of the Road World Tour
KISS's End of the Road World Tour (2019–2023), the band's second farewell tour after 2000–2001, announced September 2018, opened in Vancouver, ended at Madison Square Garden with digital avatar reveal.
End of the World (Miley Cyrus song)
"End of the World" (April 3, 2025) is a disco-pop song by Miley Cyrus and the lead single from her ninth album Something Beautiful, co-written with Alvvays' Molly Rankin and Alec O'Hanley, peaking at #23 UK and #52 Billboard Hot 100.
End of Watch
End of Watch is a 2012 American action crime drama written and directed by David Ayer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as LAPD partners patrolling South Central Los Angeles.