Difference between revisions of "E"

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Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)
37; a Teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. Wikipedia entry

Eastern Question
168; The "Eastern Question," in European history, encompasses the diplomatic and political problems posed by the decay of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The expression does not apply to any one particular problem, instead comprehending a variety of issues raised during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, including instability in the European territories ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia entry

Eddas
142; The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes. These are fragmentary parts of a (presumably) much larger skaldic tradition of oral narration which has been written down by scholars prior to the tales being lost absolutely. Wikipedia entry

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
34; Pierpont's arrangement with; Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century, including the electric incandescent lamp; Wikipedia entry

Electricity
97-98; Wikipedia entry

embonpoint
25; plumpness: the bodily property of being well rounded

Emmett
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Epworth League
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Ernst and Adolph
88; bartenders at Pap Wyman's Saloon

Eskimo
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Esthonia Hotel
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Etienne-Louis Malus
114; schooner used by the Vormance Expedition; 118; 126;

Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
115; Swiss mathematician and physicist. He developed important concepts and proved mathematical theorems in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory and topology. Wikipedia entry

evildoer
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extra man
125; "of Arctic myth"