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Engagement ring
Engagement ring: a ring signaling betrothal, from Roman iron pledge hoops and the 1477 Maximilian-Mary of Burgundy diamond ring to the De Beers "A Diamond is Forever" campaign and today's lab-grown diamond market shift.
Engativá
Engativá is the tenth locality of Bogotá, Colombia, in the northwest, formed from a Muisca settlement that became a Spanish colonial town and was annexed in 1954.
Engel v. Vitale
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Regents' Prayer case: the Supreme Court held 6-1 that state-composed, nondenominational school prayer in New York public schools violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuß (also Dollfuss, 1892–1934), Austrian Christian Social Federal Chancellor 1932–1934, suspended parliament in 1933, founded the Fatherland Front, built the authoritarian Ständestaat after the February 1934 civil war, and was assassinated by Austrian Nazis in the July 1934 putsch.
Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921) was a German composer and teacher whose fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel, premiered in 1893, made him the creator of the German Märchenoper genre.
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
Engelbert Humperdinck, stage name of Arnold George Dorsey (born 1936, Madras, India), British easy-listening singer; 1967 hit "Release Me" beat the Beatles to UK No. 1; over 150 million albums sold.
Engelbert Kaempfer
Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), German physician and traveler; Swedish legation to Persia, Persepolis cuneiform pioneer, VOC surgeon on Deshima 1690-92; author of Amoenitates Exoticae and History of Japan; manuscripts in the British Library.
Engelier (crater on Iapetus)
Engelier, a 504 km impact basin on Iapetus's bright southern trailing hemisphere at 40.5S, 264.7W, IAU-named in 2008 after a Song of Roland peer; it destroyed about half of the neighboring Gerin basin and hosts long lobate landslides.
Engels
Engels (Энгельс) is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia, on the left bank of the Volga opposite Saratov, founded in 1747 and renamed in 1931 after Friedrich Engels.
Engelsberg Ironworks
Engelsberg Ironworks (Engelsbergs bruk), a preserved Swedish iron-working estate in Västmanland, founded 1681 by Per Larsson Gyllenhöök; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 with over 50 buildings and working 18th-19th century ironmaking equipment.
Engerth locomotive
The Engerth locomotive was a supporting-tender steam design devised by Wilhelm Freiherr von Engerth for Austria's Semmering Railway, in which part of the tender's weight rested on the driving wheels.
Engführung
Engführung, translated as "The Straitening," is a long poem by Paul Celan, written in 1958 and published in 1959 as the closing poem of his collection Sprachgitter.
Engga Hostel
Engga Hostel is a 2023 Tamil-language comedy drama web series on Prime Video, TVF's official Tamil remake of Hostel Daze, directed by Sathish Chandrasekaran, with five episodes about six engineering students in a Tamil Nadu hostel.
Engi Kyaku
Engi Kyaku (延喜格) is a Japanese compilation of supplementary imperial laws from the mid-Heian period, ordered by Emperor Daigo in 905 and enforced in 908.
Engi reforms
The Engi reforms (延喜の治) were the administrative program of Emperor Daigo's court in Heian Japan, centered on the Engi-shiki, a new code of supplementary law ordered in 905 and enforced in 967.
Engi Shiki
The Engi Shiki (延喜式) is a fifty-scroll compendium of Japanese court regulations, ordered by Emperor Daigo in 905 and submitted in 927, the only nearly complete kyakushiki compilation to survive.
Engie
Engie, formerly GDF SUEZ, is a French multinational utility headquartered near Paris that generates, transmits, and supplies electricity and gas in 30 countries, with more than 90,000 employees.
ENGIE Energía Perú
ENGIE Energía Perú is a Peruvian electricity generation and transmission company, one of Peru's largest private power producers with about 2,694 MW of installed capacity.
Engin Akyürek
Engin Akyürek (born 1981, Ankara) is a Turkish actor, screenwriter, and author who won the 2004 Türkiye'nin Yıldızları contest; known as Kerim in Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, Ömer in Kara Para Aşk, and Sancar in Sefirin Kızı.
Engin Altan Düzyatan
Engin Altan Düzyatan (Engin Altan Düzyatan, born 1979, İzmir) is a Turkish actor known as Ertuğrul Bey in Diriliş: Ertuğrul (2014–2019); later a producer with a Dubai company, documentary maker, and Cemre Foundation trustee.
Engin Eroglu
Engin Eroglu is a German politician of the Free Voters who has served in the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs the delegation for relations with China.
Engine
An engine is a machine that converts the chemical energy in a fuel into mechanical work, most often through internal combustion, which powers more than 250 million US vehicles.
Engine Alliance GP7000
The Engine Alliance GP7000 is a high-bypass turbofan developed by a 50/50 joint venture of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to power the Airbus A380.
Engine braking
Engine braking, also called compression braking, is the slowing of a vehicle by using its engine, kept in gear, to absorb momentum instead of providing power.
Engine configuration
Engine configuration in aviation is the arrangement of an engine's cylinders relative to its crankshaft, described as radial, in-line, V-type, or opposed, along with cooling method.
Engine control unit
An engine control unit (ECU), also called an engine control module, is the electronic controller that governs an internal combustion engine's fuel injection and ignition timing.
Engine department
The engine department, also called the engineering department, operates and maintains a ship's propulsion and support systems; one of three merchant-ship departments, it is headed by the chief engineer.
Engine displacement
Engine displacement, also called swept volume or engine capacity, is the total volume swept by all pistons in a piston engine, usually quoted in cc or liters.
Engine efficiency
Engine efficiency is the fraction of energy supplied to an engine that is converted into useful work, always below 100% because some heat must be rejected.
Engine knocking
Engine knocking, also called pinging or spark knock, is abnormal combustion in spark-ignition engines where unburned fuel auto-ignites ahead of the flame front, producing a metallic pinging sound.