- Eniwetok (atoll, Marshall Islands)
Enewetak, atoll, northwestern end of the Ralik chain, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. Circular in shape (50 miles [80 km] in circumference), it comprises 40 islets around a lagoon 23 miles (37 km) in diameter. During World War II it was captured from the Japanese by
- enjambment (poetry)
enjambment, in prosody, the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse. T.S. Eliot used enjambment in the opening lines of his poem The Waste Land: Compare end
- Enjoying Everyday Life (American television program)
Joyce Meyer: Ministry and growth: …a TV show, also called Life in the Word. Using video footage from Joyce Meyer’s live conferences, the show began airing on Chicago’s WGN television station as well as the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network and rapidly gained popularity. Within five years the show, now renamed Enjoying Everyday Life, had…
- enjoyment
aesthetics: Emotion, response, and enjoyment: …instance, a certain kind of pleasure. But what kind of pleasure? While our emotions and sympathies are sometimes pleasurable, this is by no means their essential feature; they may equally be painful or neutral. How then does the aesthetic of sympathy explain the pleasure that we take, and must take,…
- Enke, Elizabeth Edith (American actress and singer)
Edie Adams was an American actor and singer who served as the comic foil for her husband, Ernie Kovacs, in his TV comedy-show sketches; she also spent more than two decades appearing as a sultry blonde beauty in Muriel cigar advertisements, in which she sang and breathily invited, “Why don’t you
- Enke, Karin (German skater)
Karin Enke is a German figure skater turned speed skater who won eight Olympic medals, including three gold. Enke’s switch from figure skating to speed skating was relatively easy, and she proved to be a natural speed skater. (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica entry on figure skating.) After placing
- Enke-Kania, Karin (German skater)
Karin Enke is a German figure skater turned speed skater who won eight Olympic medals, including three gold. Enke’s switch from figure skating to speed skating was relatively easy, and she proved to be a natural speed skater. (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica entry on figure skating.) After placing
- enkephalin (biochemistry)
enkephalin, naturally occurring peptide that has potent painkilling effects and is released by neurons in the central nervous system and by cells in the adrenal medulla. Enkephalins and closely related substances known as beta-endorphins were discovered when investigators postulated that since
- Enkhbayar, Nambaryn (president of Mongolia)
Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian politician who served as prime minister (2000–04), speaker of parliament (2004–05), and president (2005–09) of Mongolia. He was the first person to have held all three of Mongolia’s top leadership posts. Enkhbayar received a B.S. in literature and language in 1980
- Enkhbold, Miyeegombyn (prime minister of Mongolia)
Mongolia: Political developments: …replaced as MPRP chairman by Miyeegombyn Enkhbold, and Tsendiin Nyamdorj was elected MGK chairman. In January 2006, following the resignation of the MPRP ministers from the government, Elbegdorj stepped down as prime minister, and Enkhbold formed the next coalition government. Nyamdorj was forced to resign in June 2007 after the…
- Enkhuizen (Netherlands)
Enkhuizen, gemeente (municipality), northwestern Netherlands, on the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel). Chartered in 1355, the town gained importance during the 16th and 17th centuries as a fishing and shipping centre for herring, although the herring-fishing industry later declined with the silting up of
- Enki (Mesopotamian deity)
Ea, Mesopotamian god of water and a member of the triad of deities completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Enlil. Ea is considered a member of the special class of Mesopotamian gods called the Anunnaki. From a local deity worshiped in the city of Eridu, Ea evolved into a major god, Lord of Apsu (also
- Enkidu (Mesopotamian mythology)
Enkidu, a legendary hero originally appearing in Sumerian literary compositions, which were incorporated, with alterations, in the Akkadian epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu’s name has been variously interpreted: as identical with the deity Enkimdu or meaning “lord of the reed marsh” or “Enki has created.”
- Enkō Daishi (Buddhist priest)
Hōnen was a Buddhist priest and the founder of the Pure Land (Jōdo) Buddhist sect of Japan. He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan. Introduced as a student monk to Pure Land doctrines brought from China by Tendai priests, he stressed
- Enkū (Japanese sculptor)
Japanese art: Sculpture: …period was the itinerant monk Enkū. He produced charming and rough-featured sculptures revealing bold chisel marks. His goals were to inspire faith and to proselytize. His works are totally without artifice, and the energy and power of his efforts are clearly conveyed.
- ENL (pathology)
thalidomide: Modern therapeutic uses: …and nerve impairment caused by erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), a complication of leprosy. Thalidomide achieves this therapeutic effect by limiting the immune system’s powerful—and harmful—inflammatory response to leprosy bacilli within the body. Further testing revealed that thalidomide also has a significant anti-inflammatory effect in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and…
- enlarger (photography)
enlarger, in photography, device for producing a photographic print or negative larger than the original negative or transparency. The modern enlarger consists of a projection assembly attached to a vertical column that is mounted on a horizontal base. The projection assembly includes an enclosed
- enlarging (photography)
technology of photography: The usual procedure is enlargement: the negative is projected onto a sensitive paper carrying a silver halide emulsion similar to that used for the film. Exposure by the enlarger light source again yields a latent image of the negative. After a development and processing sequence the paper then bears…
- Enlightened (American television series)
Mike White: Career: …in the workplace comedy-drama series Enlightened, which featured Dern as a corporate executive who undergoes a spiritual awakening after a nervous breakdown. After Enlightened, White wrote screenplays for the drama film Beatriz at Dinner, the animated comedy The Emoji Movie, and the musical-comedy Pitch Perfect 3 (all 2017), among others.…
- enlightened anthropocentrism (philosophy)
anthropocentrism: Sometimes called prudential or enlightened anthropocentrism, this view holds that humans do have ethical obligations toward the environment, but they can be justified in terms of obligations toward other humans. For instance, environmental pollution can be seen as immoral because it negatively affects the lives of other people, such…
- enlightened despotism (political science)
enlightened despotism, form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment. Among the most prominent enlightened despots were Frederick II (the Great), Peter I (the Great), Catherine II (the Great), Maria
- Enlighteners (literary movement)
Uzbek literature: The tsarist colonial period: …new generation of Turkic-speaking writers—the Ziyolilar (“Enlighteners”), who counted themselves as Jadid reformers—made major contributions to modern Uzbek literature. These writers include Mahmud Khoja Behbudi, Abdalrauf Fitrat, Abdullah Qadiri, Cholpán (Abdulhamid Sulayman Yunús), Munawwar Qari, and Mannan Ramiz. They were among those writers who at the turn of the 20th…
- enlightenment (religion)
ecstasy: …purification (of the will); (3) illumination (of the mind); and (4) unification (of one’s being or will with the divine). Other methods are: dancing (as used by the Mawlawiyyah, or whirling dervishes, a Muslim Sufi sect); the use of sedatives and stimulants (as utilized in some Hellenistic mystery religions); and…
- Enlightenment (European history)
Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. Central
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (work by Pinker)
Steven Pinker: …the early 21st century in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018). In The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2014), Pinker prescribed effective writing techniques while acknowledging and defending the necessary elasticity of language and grammar. Rationality: What…
- Enlil (Mesopotamian god)
Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki). Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his mouth and eventually as his word or command. He was
- Enlil-nirari (king of Assyria)
history of Mesopotamia: The rise of Assyria: His son Enlil-nirari (c. 1326–c. 1318) also fought against Babylonia. Arik-den-ili (c. 1308–c. 1297) turned westward, where he encountered Semitic tribes of the so-called Akhlamu group.
- Enlli, Ynys (island, Wales, United Kingdom)
Bardsey Island, small island, with an area of 0.7 square mile (1.8 square km), off the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernavonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a channel 2 miles (3 km) wide that has a strong tidal race. On this
- Enmebaragesi (king of Kish)
Enmebaragesi was the king of Kish, in northern Babylonia, and the first historical personality of Mesopotamia. Enmebaragesi is known from inscriptions about him on fragments of vases of his own time, as well as from later traditions. He was the next-to-last ruler of the first dynasty of Kish. He
- Enmebaragisi (king of Kish)
Enmebaragesi was the king of Kish, in northern Babylonia, and the first historical personality of Mesopotamia. Enmebaragesi is known from inscriptions about him on fragments of vases of his own time, as well as from later traditions. He was the next-to-last ruler of the first dynasty of Kish. He
- Enmerkar (Mesopotamian hero)
Enmerkar, ancient Sumerian hero and king of Uruk (Erech), a city-state in southern Mesopotamia, who is thought to have lived at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd millennium bc. Along with Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh, Enmerkar is one of the three most significant figures in the surviving
- Enmerkar and Ensuhkeshdanna (Mesopotamian epic)
Enmerkar: …of Aratta is known as Enmerkar and Ensuhkeshdanna. In this tale the ruler of Aratta, Ensuhkeshdanna (or Ensukushsiranna), demanded that Enmerkar become his vassal. Enmerkar refused and, declaring himself the favourite of the gods, commanded Ensuhkeshdanna to submit to him. Although the members of Ensuhkeshdanna’s council advised him to comply…
- Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta (Mesopotamian epic)
Enmerkar: One is called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. The longest Sumerian epic yet discovered, it is the source of important information about the history and culture of the Sumero-Iranian border area. According to this legend, Enmerkar, son of the sun god Utu, was envious of Aratta’s wealth…
- enmolada (dish)
mole: …enchiladas, the dish is called enmoladas.
- Enna (Italy)
Enna, city, capital of Enna provincia (province), central Sicily, Italy, on a plateau dominating the valley of the Dittaino, northeast of Caltanissetta. A city of the Siculi, an ancient Sicilian tribe, and a centre of the pre-Hellenic cult of Demeter and Kore (Persephone), it originated as Henna
- Ennahda Party (political party, Tunisia)
Ennahda Party, Tunisian political party, founded in 1981 by Rached Ghannouchi (Rāshid al-Ghannūshī) and Abdelfattah Mourou (ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Mūrū) as the Islamic Tendency Movement. Its platform called for a fairer distribution of economic resources, the establishment of multiparty democracy, and the
- ennanga (musical instrument)
African music: Harps: Examples are the ennanga (Uganda), ardin (Mauritania), kinde (Lake Chad region), and ngombi (Gabon).
- Ennea Hodoi (ancient city, Greece)
Amphipolis, ancient Greek city on the Strymon (Strimón) River about three miles from the Aegean Sea, in Macedonia. A strategic transportation center, it controlled the bridge over the Strymon and the route from northern Greece to the Hellespont, including the western approach to the timber, gold,
- ennead (Egyptian religion)
ancient Egyptian religion: Groupings of deities: …ancient known grouping is the ennead, which is probably attested from the 3rd dynasty (c. 2650–2575 bce). Enneads were groups of nine deities, nine being the “plural” of three (in Egypt the number three symbolized plurality in general); not all enneads consisted of nine gods.
- Enneads (work by Plotinus)
Great Chain of Being: …words of Plotinus, in his Enneads, “The One is perfect because it seeks for nothing, and possesses nothing, and has need of nothing; and being perfect, it overflows, and thus its superabundance produces an Other.” This generation of the Many from the One must continue until all possible varieties of…
- Ennedi (region, Chad)
Ennedi, plateau region, northeastern Chad, central Africa, centred around the town of Fada. The terrain is primarily arid desert, with sandstone peaks rising to 4,756 ft (1,450 m). Wild game is abundant. The region has a sparse population of semi-nomads, chiefly Muslims who speak the Dazaga
- Ennedi Plateau (region, Chad)
Ennedi, plateau region, northeastern Chad, central Africa, centred around the town of Fada. The terrain is primarily arid desert, with sandstone peaks rising to 4,756 ft (1,450 m). Wild game is abundant. The region has a sparse population of semi-nomads, chiefly Muslims who speak the Dazaga
- Ennemis publics (work by Houellebecq)
Michel Houellebecq: Writing career and books: In 2008 Ennemis publics (Public Enemies) documented an exchange of opinions—via e-mail—between Houellebecq and French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy on a variety of subjects, including what they considered undeserved criticism.
- Ennin (Buddhist priest)
Ennin was a Buddhist priest of the early Heian period, founder of the Sammon branch of the Tendai sect, who brought from China a system of vocal-music notation still used in Japan. At the age of 8 Ennin began his education at Dai-ji (ji, “temple”), and he entered the Tendai monastery of Enryaku-ji
- Ennis (Ireland)
Ennis, county town (seat) of County Clare, Ireland, on the River Fergus. Incorporated in 1612, it is now controlled by an urban district council. A Franciscan abbey, founded about 1242, is a national monument. Ennis, on the main road between Limerick and Galway, is the principal rail and road
- Ennis, Jessica (British athlete)
Jessica Ennis-Hill is an English track-and-field athlete who, at the 2012 London Olympic Games, won a gold medal in the heptathlon. In 1996 Ennis participated in her first track-and-field competition. Her first major international heptathlon victory was in 2005 at the European junior championships.
- Ennis-Hill, Jessica (British athlete)
Jessica Ennis-Hill is an English track-and-field athlete who, at the 2012 London Olympic Games, won a gold medal in the heptathlon. In 1996 Ennis participated in her first track-and-field competition. Her first major international heptathlon victory was in 2005 at the European junior championships.
- Enniskillen (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
Enniskillen, town, Fermanagh and Omagh district, southwestern Northern Ireland. Situated on Cethlin’s Island, it was a strategic crossing point of Lough Erne and an ancient stronghold of the Maguires of Fermanagh. Incorporated by the English king James I, it defeated a force sent by James II in
- Ennius, Quintus (Roman author)
Quintus Ennius was an epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, rightly called the founder of Roman literature. His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the poet’s own day, was the national epic until it
- Ennodius, Magnus Felix (Italian bishop and writer)
Magnus Felix Ennodius was a Latin poet, prose writer, rhetorician, and bishop, some of whose prose works are valuable sources for historians of his period. A member of the important and influential family of the Anicii, Ennodius lived in Ticinum and Mediolanum (Milan), an important centre of
- Enns (Austria)
Enns, town, northeast-central Austria, on the Enns River near its junction with the Danube, southeast of Linz. Its suburb of Lorch (incorporated into Enns in 1938) is on the site of the Roman camp of Lauriacum. Enns itself was established as a fortress in the 9th century and was chartered in 1212,
- Enns, Henry (Canadian activist)
Henry Enns was a Ukrainian-born Canadian activist who was a prominent leader in the disability rights and independent-living movement in Canada. Having settled in Canada with his family, Enns contracted rheumatoid arthritis at age 15, and four years later he was confined to a wheelchair. He
- Ennugi (Mesopotamian deity)
Mesopotamian religion: Myths: …Ninazu (Water Sprinkler [?]), and Ennugi (the Lord Who Returns Not). The myth ends with a paean to Enlil as a source of abundance and to his divine word, which always comes true.
- Ennui (painting by Sickert)
Walter Richard Sickert: …paintings by Sickert such as Ennui (c. 1913). The group also organized exhibitions of French and British Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that exposed the British public to important developments in European avant-garde art.
- Eno, Brian (British musician and producer)
Brian Eno is a British producer, composer, keyboardist, and singer who helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most popular bands of the 1980s and ’90s and who created the genre of ambient music. While an art student in the late 1960s, Eno began experimenting with electronic music, and
- Eno, Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle (British musician and producer)
Brian Eno is a British producer, composer, keyboardist, and singer who helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most popular bands of the 1980s and ’90s and who created the genre of ambient music. While an art student in the late 1960s, Eno began experimenting with electronic music, and
- Eno, Roger (British musician and composer)
Brian Eno: He collaborated with his brother, Roger Eno, on Mixing Colours (2020), a set of tone poems. He also released Film Music 1967–2020, a collection of his songs that had been used in movies and on television.
- Enoch Arden (poem by Tennyson)
Enoch Arden, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1864. In the poem, Enoch Arden is a happily married fisherman who suffers financial problems and becomes a merchant seaman. He is shipwrecked, and, after 10 years on a desert island, he returns home to discover that his beloved wife,
- Enoch Wood and Sons (British company)
Wood Family: …continued alone, under the style Enoch Wood & Sons. The firm made all the wares that were current in Staffordshire at the time, including black basaltes, jasper, and probably porcelain. Large quantities of blueprinted earthenware were produced, much of which was exported to the United States. Busts modeled by Enoch…
- Enoch, First Book of (sacred text)
First Book of Enoch, pseudepigraphal work (not included in any canon of scripture) whose only complete extant version is an Ethiopic translation of a previous Greek translation made in Palestine from the original Hebrew or Aramaic. Enoch, the seventh patriarch in the book of Genesis, was the
- Enoch, Second Book of (religious literature)
Second Book of Enoch, pseudepigraphal work whose only extant version is a Slavonic translation of the Greek original. The Slavonic edition is a Christian work, probably of the 7th century ad, but it rests upon an older Jewish work written sometime in the 1st century ad (but before the destruction
- Enodia anthedon (insect)
satyr butterfly: Northern pearly-eyes (E. anthedon) are similar in appearance to their southern counterparts and are found mainly in the northeastern region of the United States and in Canada, from central Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia.
- Enodia portlandia (insect)
satyr butterfly: Southern pearly-eyes (Enodia portlandia) have dark eyespots near the margins of their forewings and hind wings. They are found primarily in the southeastern region of the United States, with their range extending west to the eastern edge of Texas. They inhabit damp, wooded areas and…
- enol (chemistry)
heredity: Mechanisms of mutation: …normal pairing partner), but the enol form of cytosine pairs with adenine. During DNA replication, this adenine base will act as the template for thymine in the newly synthesized strand. Therefore, a CG base pair will have mutated to a TA base pair. If this change results in a functionally…
- enol form (chemistry)
heredity: Mechanisms of mutation: …normal pairing partner), but the enol form of cytosine pairs with adenine. During DNA replication, this adenine base will act as the template for thymine in the newly synthesized strand. Therefore, a CG base pair will have mutated to a TA base pair. If this change results in a functionally…
- Enola Gay (United States aircraft)
Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. The B-29 (also called
- Enola Holmes (film by Bradbeer [2020])
Helena Bonham Carter: …the title character’s mother in Enola Holmes, an action adventure based on a young-adult series about the teenaged sister of Sherlock Holmes; she reprised the role for the 2022 sequel.
- Enola Holmes 2 (film by Bradbeer [2022])
Helena Bonham Carter: …reprised the role for the 2022 sequel.
- enolase (enzyme)
metabolism: The formation of ATP: During step [9] the enzyme enolase reacts with 2-phosphoglycerate to form phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), water being lost from 2-phosphoglycerate in the process. Phosphoenolpyruvate acts as the second source of ATP in glycolysis. The transfer of the phosphate group from PEP to ADP, catalyzed by pyruvate kinase [10], is also highly exergonic…
- enolate ion (chemistry)
acid–base reaction: Aldol condensation, base-catalyzed: …is the production of an enolate ion (as in formation of the keto–enol tautomeric mixture), but this anion then reacts with a second molecule of acetaldehyde to give the product as shown below:
- enology
wine: Enology: scientific winemaking: Prior to the 19th century little was known about the process of fermentation or the causes of spoilage. The Greeks stored wine in earthenware amphorae, and the Romans somewhat extended the life of their wines with improved oaken cooperage, but both civilizations…
- Enomoto Buyo (Japanese naval officer and statesman)
Enomoto Takeaki was a Japanese naval officer and statesman who was the last supporter of the Tokugawa family—which ruled Japan for 264 years—to capitulate to the forces that favoured the restoration of power to the emperor. In 1868, as the fighting to end the long domination of the nation by the
- Enomoto Takeaki (Japanese naval officer and statesman)
Enomoto Takeaki was a Japanese naval officer and statesman who was the last supporter of the Tokugawa family—which ruled Japan for 264 years—to capitulate to the forces that favoured the restoration of power to the emperor. In 1868, as the fighting to end the long domination of the nation by the
- Enoplosus armatus (fish)
perciform: Annotated classification: Family Enoplosidae (oldwives) Eocene to present. Body laterally compressed; spinous and soft dorsal fins elevated anteriorly, as is anal fin; general appearance gives impression in side view of 2 separate bodies joined together at midpoint; pelvic fins large. 1 species (Enoplosus armatus) in rocky areas of Australian…
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (work by Paley)
Grace Paley: It was followed by Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), both of which continued her compassionate, often comic, exploration of ordinary individuals struggling against loneliness. All feature the character of Faith, Paley’s reputed alter ego. The Collected Stories appeared in 1994. Leaning…
- Enormous Crocodile, The (work by Dahl)
Roald Dahl: …the Great Glass Elevator (1972), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The BFG (1982; films 1989 and 2016), and The Witches (1983; film 1990). One of his last such books, Matilda (1988), was adapted for film (1996 and 2022) and the stage (2010). Many of Dahl’s books have been illustrated
- Enormous Radio, The (story by Cheever)
John Cheever: …best-known for the two stories The Enormous Radio (1947) and The Swimmer (1964; film 1968). In the former story a young couple discovers that their new radio receives the conversations of other people in their apartment building but that this fascinating look into other people’s problems does not solve their…
- Enormous Room, The (work by Cummings)
E.E. Cummings: …recounted in his first book, The Enormous Room (1922).
- Enormous Suitcase, The (story by Munsch)
Robert Munsch: Socks (2004), Moose! (2011), and The Enormous Suitcase (2017). He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1999.
- Enormous Theorem (mathematics)
John Griggs Thompson: …this problem, the so-called “Enormous Theorem,” was announced in 1981 and represents the combined efforts of hundreds of mathematicians in separate journal articles consuming well over 10,000 pages. Thompson made further contributions to Galois theory, representation theory, coding theory, and, working on the proof of the nonexistence of a…
- Enos, William Berkeley (American director)
Busby Berkeley was an American motion-picture director and choreographer who was noted for the elaborate dancing-girl extravaganzas that he created on film. Using innovative camera techniques, he revolutionized the genre of the musical in the Great Depression era. That phase of his career, which he
- enosis (Greek politics)
Cyprus: Constitutional framework: …the British had been for enosis (union with Greece) and not for independence, regretted the failure to achieve this national aspiration. As a result, it was not long after the establishment of the republic that the Greek Cypriot majority began to regard many of the provisions, particularly those relating to…
- Enotah, Mount (mountain, Georgia, United States)
Brasstown Bald, highest point in Georgia, U.S., reaching an elevation of 4,784 feet (1,458 meters). It lies in the northwest part of the state in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 9 miles (14 km) east of Blairsville and just south of the North Carolina border. Heavily wooded, the mountain is within
- Enough Said (film by Holofcener [2013])
Toni Collette: …story, and the romantic comedy Enough Said. The next year she took a supporting role in the farcical Tammy and joined the ensemble casts of the drama A Long Way Down, the sentimental adventure Hector and the Search for Happiness, and the animated romp The Boxtrolls. Colette then starred as…
- enoyl-ACP-hydrase (enzyme)
metabolism: Fatty acids: …in a reaction catalyzed by enoyl-ACP-hydrase, and then undergoes a second reduction, [67], in which reduced NADP+ again acts as the electron donor. The products of [66] are crotonyl-S-ACP and water. The products of [67], which is catalyzed by crotonyl-ACP reductase, are butyryl-S-ACP and NADP+.
- enphytotic disease (plant pathology)
plant disease: Epiphytotics: In contrast, endemic (enphytotic) diseases occur at relatively constant levels in the same area each year and generally cause little concern.
- Enqelāb-e Eslāmī ([1978–1979])
Iranian Revolution, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic. The 1979 revolution, which brought together Iranians across many different social groups, has its roots in Iran’s long
- Enquêtes, Chambre des (French court)
Chambre des Enquêtes, (French: Chamber of Inquiries), in France under the ancien régime, a chamber of the Parlement, or supreme court, of Paris that was responsible for conducting investigations ordered by the Grand Chambre of the Parlement. The Chambre des Enquêtes grew out of sessions or
- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An (work by Hume)
David Hume: Mature works: …it is better known as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the title Hume gave to it in a revision of 1758. The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) was a rewriting of Book III of the Treatise. It was in those later works that Hume expressed his mature thought.
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, An (work by Godwin)
William Godwin: …of his principal work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793), was to reject conventional government by demonstrating the corrupting evil and tyranny inherent in its power of manipulation. He proposed in its place small self-subsisting communities. He argued that social institutions fail…
- Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (work by Hume)
David Hume: Morals and historical writing: The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a refinement of Hume’s thinking on morality, in which he views sympathy as the fact of human nature lying at the basis of all social life and personal happiness. Defining morality as those qualities that are approved (1)…
- Enquiry into the Extent of and Stability of National Resources, An (work by Chalmers)
Thomas Chalmers: In An Enquiry into the Extent of and Stability of National Resources (1808) he argued that Napoleon’s policy of continental blockade, far from ruining British trade, would merely cut off certain luxuries and turn to other, perhaps better, uses the funds that had supplied those luxuries.…
- Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain, An (work by Thornton)
Henry Thornton: Thornton’s Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802) is a significant work on monetary theory. Although this book was forgotten for more than 100 years, economists Jacob Viner and Friedrich von Hayek brought it to the attention of their…
- Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, An (work by Carter and Pollard)
forgery: Instances of literary forgery: … and Henry Graham Pollard published An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, proving that about 40 or 50 of these, commanding high prices, were forgeries, and that all could be traced to Wise. Subsequent research confirmed the finding of Carter and Pollard and indicted Wise for other…
- Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens, An (work by Carey)
William Carey: …later published a pamphlet titled An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens, which led to his forming, with a dozen other ministers, the English Baptist Missionary Society.
- Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, An (work by Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith: Life: His rise began with the Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759), a minor work. Soon he emerged as an essayist, in The Bee and other periodicals, and above all in his Chinese Letters. These essays were first published in the journal The Public Ledger and…
- Enquiry into the Proofs for the Existence of God (essay by Kant)
Immanuel Kant: Critic of Leibnizian rationalism: …Demonstration des Daseyns Gottes” (“Enquiry into the Proofs for the Existence of God”), he sharply criticized the Leibnizian concept of Being by charging that the so-called ontological argument, which would prove the existence of God by logic alone, is fallacious because it confuses existential with attributive statements: existence, he…
- Enquist, Per Olov (Swedish writer)
Per Olov Enquist was a Swedish writer and social critic of the who is considered one of the giants of contemporary Swedish literature. His works, which garnered him prestigious awards such as the August Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize, include novels, plays, screenplays, and essays.
- Enragé (French revolutionary group)
Enragé, any of a group of extreme revolutionaries in France in 1793, led by a former priest, Jacques Roux, and Varlet, a postal official, who advocated social and economic measures in favour of the lower classes. The Enragés’ name reflects the horror that they aroused in the bourgeoisie. Concerned
- enrichment (food processing)
cereal processing: Enrichment: Enrichment of breakfast cereals with minerals, and especially with vitamins, is now common practice. In many of the manufacturing processes employed in breakfast-food production, considerable vitamin destruction occurs. The various heat treatments involved may destroy 90 percent of the original B1 content of the…