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Edison Chen photo scandal
Edison Chen photo scandal (陳冠希裸照事件, Sexy Photos Gate), January 2008 Hong Kong privacy breach: intimate photos of actor Edison Chen with female celebrities leaked from his computer, triggering arrests, his showbiz exit, and privacy-law debates.
Edoardo Agnelli
Edoardo Agnelli names two Agnelli family figures: the elder (1892–1935), son of Fiat's founder and Juventus president during the Quinquennio, and the younger (1954–2000), Gianni Agnelli's son who lived outside the family business.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-1850), called Eddie, was Abraham and Mary Lincoln's second son, born and died in their Springfield home after a 52-day illness, probably tuberculosis, at age three years ten months.
Effective accelerationism
Effective accelerationism, abbreviated e/acc, is a techno-optimist movement begun on X in 2022 that argues powerful technology, especially AGI, should be advanced quickly rather than held back.
Effects of divorce
Effects of divorce cover consequences of marital dissolution for adults and children. US research links parental divorce to lower adult earnings, higher incarceration, teen births, and mortality, mediated by income loss, neighborhood change, and reduced parent proximity.
Effects of domestic violence on children
Children's exposure to domestic violence, also called witnessing domestic violence, is when children see, hear, or are otherwise involved in home violence between adults, now recognized as a form of child abuse with psychological, behavioral, health, and intergenerational effects.
Effects of pornography on young people
Effects of pornography on young people: research on childhood and adolescent exposure to sexually explicit material, covering prevalence, age of first exposure, associations with sexual behavior, attitudes, and wellbeing, and why causal conclusions remain limited.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
EHarmony
eHarmony (eharmony) is an American online dating service founded in 2000 by psychologist Neil Clark Warren in Pasadena, California. Known for its Compatibility Quiz and patented 29 Dimensions matching model, it targets serious, marriage-minded daters and is owned by ParshipMeet Group.
Einstein family
Einstein family: German-Jewish family of Albert Einstein from Kappel, Buchau, and Cannstatt, settled in Ulm from 1864; parents Hermann and Pauline, sister Maja, wives Mileva Marić and Elsa Einstein, children Lieserl, Hans Albert, Eduard, Nazi-era losses, Princeton household.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.
Elizabeth Eden
Elizabeth (Liz) Eden, born Ernest Aron (1946-1987), American transgender woman whose partner John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery inspired Dog Day Afternoon; she told her own story in a 1977 CLUB memoir.
Elizabeth Harris Aitken
Elizabeth Harris Aitken, born Elizabeth Rees-Williams (Cardiff, 1936 – 2022), Welsh socialite, daughter of the first Baron Ogmore; married Richard Harris, Sir Rex Harrison, Peter Aitken and Jonathan Aitken; wrote Love, Honour and Dismay.
Elizabeth Kloepfer
Elizabeth Kloepfer (pseudonym Elizabeth Kendall), Ted Bundy's girlfriend 1969–1975, wrote the 1981 memoir The Phantom Prince and reported her suspicions of him to Seattle police.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), American civil rights organizer; NAACP director of branches, SCLC executive secretary, and organizer of the April 1960 Shaw University conference that founded SNCC, advocating group-centered, grassroots leadership.
Elliot Rodger
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014), London-born son of director Peter Rodger, killed six in the 2014 Isla Vista attack after two years of planning; his manifesto and incel canonization as 'The Supreme Gentleman' shaped misogynistic-extremism research.
Elopement
Elopement: running away secretly to marry, historically without parental consent; now also a small intentional wedding with few or no guests, plus an unrelated care-facility departure sense.
Elsa Einstein
Elsa Einstein (Elsa Löwenthal, 1876–1936), Albert Einstein's first cousin and second wife, married him in 1919, managed his affairs and household, and moved with him to Princeton in 1933.
Emma Vigeland
Emma Vigeland (born 1994) is an American progressive commentator, co-host of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and host of the Emmajority Report, formerly a field reporter and producer at The Young Turks.
Emos vs. Punks
Emos vs. punks: the 2008 Mexico City conflict in which punks, metalheads, and other urban tribes attacked emo youths, culminating in the 16 March 2008 Glorieta de Insurgentes clash, driven by accusations of style copying, homophobia, and gender norms.
Emotional affair
Emotional affair, also called emotional infidelity: a non-sexual extrarelational bond marked by intimacy mirroring a committed relationship, sustained contemplation, and deception or opacity; hallmarks are secrecy and diverted emotional support.
Employment of autistic people
Employment of autistic people, also called autism and employment, covers how autistic adults participate in paid work; UK employment rates are far below those of other groups.
Empty nest syndrome
Empty nest syndrome (ENS) is the sadness, loneliness, and loss some parents feel when children leave home; not a clinical diagnosis. Research shows mixed outcomes, gender and cultural variation, and role loss versus role strain relief models.
End SARS
#EndSARS is Nigeria's decentralized youth-led movement against police brutality, launched on social media in 2017 and peaking in October 2020 protests that forced the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), followed by the Lekki toll gate shooting.
Endogamy
Endogamy (in-marriage) is the rule or custom of marrying within a defined group such as a caste, religion, ethnicity, or class; its converse is exogamy. It maintains group boundaries, resources, and solidarity, and shapes genetic variation.
Engagement
Engagement, historically called betrothal, is the period between the promise to marry and marriage, once a binding legal contract and today a social commitment marked by proposals, engagement rings, and studied effects on later marital stability.
Enjo kōsai (援助交際)
Enjo kōsai (援助交際, enkō 援交) is Japanese compensated dating, exchanging money or gifts for dates or sexual services; a 1990s social panic involving schoolgirls, later shifting to papakatsu and digital platforms.
Environmental issues in India
Environmental issues in India: air pollution (1.7 million deaths in 2022 per The Lancet), water stress and pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss in the Western Ghats, Himalayan degradation, and extreme weather; governed by MoEFCC, CPCB, SPCBs, and EIA rules.
Environmental issues in the Niger Delta
The environmental issues in the Niger Delta arise from decades of petroleum extraction causing oil spills and gas flaring that contaminate soil, water, and air, harming livelihoods.