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- (from the article "eye disease") Eyestrain, or asthenopia, is the term used to describe subjective symptoms of fatigue, discomfort, lacrimation (tearing), and headache following the use of the eyes. Such symptoms may result from intensive, prolonged close work. In people with perfectly normal eyes, eyestrain may indicate abnormalities of muscle balance or refractive errors. Eyestrain ...
- eyewall
- (from the article "tropical cyclone") ...and an inner radius of about 30 to 50 km (20 to 30 miles). In this region the winds increase uniformly in speed toward the centre. Wind speeds attain their maximum value at the second region, the eyewall, which is typically 15 to 30 km (10 to 20 miles) from ...
- eyewitness memory
- (from the article "memory") Conflicting accounts by eyewitnesses demonstrate that memory is not a perfect recording of events from the past; indeed, it is actually a reconstruction of past events. A particularly striking demonstration of the inaccuracy of eyewitness testimony comes from dozens of cases in which those convicted of serious crimes were freed ...
- Eyja Fjord
- (from the article "Akureyri") town, northern Iceland. It lies at the southern end of Eyja Fjord. Akureyri is the chief centre of the north and is one of the island's most populous urban centres outside the Reykjavik metropolitan area. While primarily a commercial and distributing centre, Akureyri is also a fishing port, agricultural market, ...
- Eylau, Battle of
- (Feb. 7-8, 1807), one of the engagements in the Napoleonic War of the Third Coalition. The first major deadlock suffered by Napoleon, the battle was fought around the East Prussian town of Eylau (modern Bagrationovsk, Russia), 23 miles (37 km) south of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). The 76,000 Russians and Prussians under ...
- Eymeric, Nicholas
- Roman Catholic theologian, grand inquisitor at Aragon, and supporter of the Avignon papacy.
- Eyraud, Eugene
- (from the article "Easter Island") ...a major slave raid launched from Peru in 1862, followed by smallpox epidemics, reduced the population to 111 in 1877. At the end of the 19th century it began to increase once more. In 1864 Brother Eugene Eyraud, a French Catholic missionary, became the first foreigner to settle on the ...
- Eyre Basin
- (from the article "Australia") The Interior Lowlands are dominated by three major basins, the Carpentaria Basin, the Eyre Basin, and the Murray Basin. The Carpentaria and Eyre basins are separated by such minute residual relief elements as Mount Brown and Mount Fort Bowen in northwestern Queensland. The Wilcannia threshold divides the Eyre and Murray ...
- Eyre de Lanux, Elizabeth
- U.S. artist, writer, and Art Deco designer who created lacquered furniture and geometric patterned rugs in Paris during the 1920s; she later wrote short stories about her European travel and illustrated a number of children's books (b. March 1894--d. Sept. 8, 1996).
- Eyre North, Lake
- (from the article "Eyre, Lake") Lake Eyre, the lowest part of which lies about 50 feet (15 metres) below sea level, consists of two sections. Lake Eyre North, 90 miles (144 km) long and 40 miles (65 km) wide, is joined by the narrow Goyder Channel to Lake Eyre South, which is 40 miles long ...
- Eyre Peninsula
- large promontory of South Australia, projecting into the Indian Ocean. A broad-based triangular formation about 200 miles (320 km) on each side, it extends from a base along the Gawler Ranges and lies between the Great Australian Bight to the west and Spencer Gulf to the east. Generally sandy and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Eyre South, Lake
- (from the article "Eyre, Lake") ...part of which lies about 50 feet (15 metres) below sea level, consists of two sections. Lake Eyre North, 90 miles (144 km) long and 40 miles (65 km) wide, is joined by the narrow Goyder Channel to Lake Eyre South, which is 40 miles long and about 15 miles ...
- Eyre, Edward John
- English explorer in Australia for whom Lake Eyre and the Eyre Peninsula (both in South Australia) are named. He was subsequently a British colonial official. [2 Related Articles]
- Eyre, Lake
- great salt lake in central South Australia, with a total area of 3,700 square miles (9,300 square km). It lies in the southwestern corner of the Great Artesian Basin, a closed inland basin about 440,150 square miles (1,140,000 square km) in area that is drained only by intermittent streams. Normally ... [4 Related Articles]
- Eyring, Henry
- (from the article "chemical kinetics") ...van 't Hoff and Swedish physicist Svante August Arrhenius that were put forward to explain the effect of temperature on reaction rates. An important advance was made in 1931 by American chemist Henry Eyring and British chemist Michael Polanyi, who constructed, on the basis of quantum mechanics, a potential-energy surface ...
- Eyring, Teresa
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Notable staff changes included the appointment of Teresa Eyring, the highly regarded former managing director of the Tony-winning Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Minn., to the executive directorship of TCG, where she was expected to work toward cohesion within the U.S.'s sprawling network of resident theatres. Adventurous director Robert Woodruff ...
- Eysenck Personality Inventory
- (from the article "emotion") A number of major personality theories, such as theories of temperament, identify dimensions or traits of personality in terms of emotions. For example, the German-born British psychologist Hans J. Eysenck has proposed three fundamental dimensions of personality: extroversion-introversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism. Extroversion-introversion includes the trait of sociability,...
- Eysenck, Hans Jurgen
- German-born British psychologist best known for espousing controversial views; he held that genetic makeup might be responsible for IQ differences between whites and blacks and that smoking had not been shown to cause lung cancer (b. March 4, 1916--d. Sept. 4, 1997). [2 Related Articles]
- Eyskens, Gaston
- economist and statesman who as Belgian premier (1949-50, 1958-61, and 1968-72) settled crises concerning aid to parochial schools and the accelerating independence movement in the Belgian Congo (now Congo [Kinshasa]). [1 Related Articles]
- Eystein I Magnusson
- king of Norway (1103-22) whose reign with his brother Sigurd I Jerusalemfarer was the longest joint rule in the history of Norway. [3 Related Articles]
- Eyth, Max
- engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in the mechanization of agriculture. His expert knowledge of machinery and wide travels on behalf of the steam-traction engineer John Fowler furthered the introduction of machinery for plowing, irrigation, earth moving, and canalboat towing. After studying engineering in Stuttgart, Eyth went to Paris to pursue ...
- eyvan
- (from the article "Ghaznavid Dynasty") The Ghaznavids introduced the "four eyvan" ground plan in the palace at Lashkari Bazar near Lashkari Gah, on a plateau above the Helmond River, just north of Qal'eh-ye Best, Afghanistan. An eyvan is a large vaulted hall, closed on three sides and open to a court on the fourth. The ...
- Eyzies-de-Tayac caves
- series of prehistoric rock dwellings located downstream from Lascaux Grotto and near the town of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac in Dordogne departement, southwestern France. The caves include some of the most significant archaeological finds of the European Upper Paleolithic Period (from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) and Middle ...
- Ezana
- (from the article "Ethiopia") ...merchants. It was through such communities, established for the purposes of trade, that the Monophysite Christianity of the eastern Mediterranean reached Ethiopia during the reign of Emperor Ezanas (c. 303-c. 350). By the mid-5th century, monks were evangelizing among the Cushitic-speaking Agew people to the east and south.
- Eze
- (from the article "Cote d'Azur") ...departement and extending into southern Var departement. The population is predominantly urban. Traditional inland towns in Alpes-Maritimes include Gourdon, Eze, Utelle, and Peille; many such towns are perched on cliffs. Their streets are narrow and paved with flagstones or cobbles; houses are built of stone and roofed with rounded tiles. ...
- Ezeiza
- town and southwestern suburb of Buenos Aires, Arg. The Ezeiza International Airport, completed in 1950, is the hub of domestic and foreign flights in Argentina. The airport is connected to Buenos Aires by a modern highway. Pop. (2001) 118,072.
- Ezekiel
- prophet-priest of ancient Israel and the subject and in part the author of an Old Testament book that bears his name. Ezekiel's early oracles (from c. 592) in Jerusalem were pronouncements of violence and destruction; his later statements addressed the hopes of the Israelites exiled in Babylon. The faith of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ezekiel
- (from the article "Judaism") A Jewish dramatist of the period, Ezekiel (c. 100 BCE), composed tragedies in Greek. Fragments of one of them, The Exodus, show how deeply he was influenced by the Greek dramatist Euripides (484-406 BCE). Whether or not such plays were actually presented on the stage, they edified ...
- Ezekiel, The Book of
- one of the major prophetical books of the Old Testament. According to dates given in the text, Ezekiel received his prophetic call in the fifth year of the first deportation to Babylonia (592 BC) and was active until about 570 BC. Most of this time was spent in exile. [5 Related Articles]
- ezel
- (from the article "Ethiopian chant") ...manners of chanting: ge'ez, in which most melodies are performed; araray, presumably containing "cheerful" melodies and used only infrequently in services; and ezel, used in periods of fasting and sorrow. According to Ethiopian tradition, these forms were revealed in the 6th century to a chanter named Yared, who composed the ...
- Ezida
- (from the article "Calah") ...the outer walled town was completed by his son Shalmaneser III and other monarchs. The most important religious building, founded in 798 by Queen Sammu-ramat (Semiramis of Greek legend), was Ezida, which included the temple of Nabu (Nebo), god of writing, and his consort Tashmetum (Tashmit). The temple library and ...
- Ezion-geber
- seaport of Solomon and the later kings of Judah, located at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba in what is now Ma'an muhafazah (governorate), Jordan. The site was found independently by archaeologists Fritz Frank and Nelson Glueck. Glueck's excavations (1938-40) proved that the site had been a fortified ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ezo
- (from the article "Japan") ...selected from among the sons of local officials with martial prowess. Kammu, continuing campaigns that had plagued the regime since Nara times, dispatched large conscript armies against the Ezo (Emishi), a nonsubject tribal group in the northern districts of Honshu who were regarded as aliens. The Ezo eventually were pacified, ...
- Ezo
- (from the article "Japan") In the early 1800s foreign relations, which national seclusion policies had been designed to avoid, became a pressing problem for the bakufu, and the situation in Ezo became especially worrisome. In 1804 another Russian envoy, N.P. Rezanov, visited Japan-this time at Nagasaki, where the Dutch by law were allowed to ...
- Ezochi
- (from the article "Japan") ...to include limited areas near the capital of Kyoto as far as Osaka and present-day Kobe. Northern areas that had not come under direct control of the central government were called Ezochi (or Yezochi), "Land of the Ezo (Ainu)."
- ezov
- (from the article "hyssop") Ezov, the hyssop of the Bible, a wall-growing plant used in ritual cleansing of lepers, is not Hyssopus officinalis, which is alien to Palestine; it may have been a species of caper or savory.
- Ezra
- religious leader of the Jews who returned from exile in Babylon, reformer who reconstituted the Jewish community on the basis of the Torah (Law, or the regulations of the first five books of the Old Testament). His work helped make Judaism a religion in which law was central, enabling the ... [13 Related Articles]
- Ezra and Nehemiah, books of
- two Old Testament books that together with the books of Chronicles formed a single history of Israel from the time of Adam. Ezra and Nehemiah are a single book in the Jewish canon. Roman Catholics long associated the two, calling the second "Esdras alias Nehemias" in the Douay-Confraternity. Later works, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ezzelino III da Romano
- Italian noble and soldier who was podesta (chief governing officer) of Verona (1226-30, 1232-59), Vicenza (1236-59), and Padua (1237-56). A skilled commander and successful intriguer, he expanded and consolidated his power over almost all northeast Italy by aiding the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and the pro-imperial Ghibellines in their ... [3 Related Articles]
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