ermine, (Mustela erminea), northern weasel species in the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae. The species is called ermine especially during its winter white colour phase. The animal’s pelt was used historically in royal robes in Europe, and the term ermine also refers to the animal’s white coat,

ermine moth, any of several species of insects belonging to the family Yponomeutidae (order Lepidoptera). Ermine moths are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. The hairy caterpillars feed on dandelions and other weeds, cultivated shrubs, and trees, particularly fruit trees. Ermine moths

Ermine Street, major Roman road in England between London and York. The road was built within the first three decades after the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 ce and expanded north with the continuing conquest. It ran north from Bishopsgate, London, through Ware, Royston, Godmanchester, and

Manila: City layout: On the south shore, Ermita and Malate are choice residential districts and the sites of hotels and embassies. The districts to the southeast are generally middle-income residential areas.

Murcia: In the Hermitage of Jesus (Ermita de Jesús) are the majority of the Passion sculptures of Francisco Salzillo, which attract many visitors during Holy Week. The University of Murcia was founded in 1915.

Peter Weiss: Die Ermittlung (1965; The Investigation) is a documentary drama re-creating the Frankfurt trials of the men who carried out mass murders at Auschwitz; at the same time, it attacks later German hypocrisy over the existence of concentration camps and investigates the root causes of aggression. Weiss’s other plays…

Fridrikh Markovich Ermler was a motion-picture director whose films deal with Soviet problems. Ermler studied at the Leningrad Institute of Screen Arts. He directed his first film in 1927 and then earned critical notice for Parizhsky sapozhnik (1928; The Parisian Cobbler). Other major films include

St. Erasmus ; feast day June 2) was an early Christian bishop and martyr. He is one of the patron saints of sailors and is associated with Saint Elmo’s fire (the glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that appears as a tip of light on the masts of ships during stormy

Hermoúpolis, chief port of the island of Syros (part of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea), South Aegean (Modern Greek: Nótio Aigaío) periféreia (region), southeastern Greece. The seat of both a Greek Orthodox and a Roman Catholic archbishopric, it was founded in 1821 at the beginning of the War

Oswald Mosley was an English politician who was the leader of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 to 1940 and of its successor, the Union Movement, from 1948 until his death. Those groups were known for distributing anti-Semitic propaganda, conducting hostile demonstrations in the Jewish

Giuseppe Verdi: Early career: …on the First Crusade) and Ernani (1844). The latter became the only work of the “galley-slave” period to gain a steady place in the opera repertory worldwide. His other operas had varying receptions. A list made in 1844 of possible subjects for librettos shows Verdi’s high-minded concern for literary and…

Annie Ernaux is a French author known for her lightly fictionalized memoirs, which are written in spare, detached prose. Her work examines her memories, sometimes revisiting events in later works and reconstructing them, thus revealing the artifice of her own genre. Themes include her illegal

Fermanagh: …chiefly in the ruggedly scenic Erne basin, which divides it into two nearly equal sections. The surface is hilly, rising to 2,188 feet (667 metres) on the southern frontier at Cuilcagh. Upper and Lower Lough (lake) Erne stretch from southeast to northwest, being expansions of the River Erne, which enters…

Lough Erne, lake in Fermanagh district (established 1973), formerly County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is 40 miles (64 km) long and has an average width of 5 miles (8 km) and a maximum depth of 200 feet (60 m). The lake consists of the shallow Upper Lough Erne, 12 miles (19 km) long, and Lower

River Erne, river in northwestern Ireland and southwestern Northern Ireland. It rises in Lough (lake) Gowna, County Longford (Ireland), and flows into Upper and Lower Lough Erne via Enniskillen in the district of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The river then reenters Ireland before reaching Donegal

Austria: Early Babenberg period: In 1075 Margrave Ernest, who had regained the Neumark and the Bohemian March for his family, was killed in the Battle of the Unstrut, fighting on the side of Henry IV against the rebellious Saxons. Altmann, bishop of Passau, a leader of church reform and a champion of…

Ernest Augustus was a duke (from 1679) and elector (from 1692) of Hanover, father of George Louis, who became George I, king of Great Britain. The Protestant bishop of Osnabrück from 1661, Ernest Augustus succeeded his elder brother as ruler of the duchy of Lüneburg-Calenburg (which became known as

Ernest Augustus was the only son of George V of Hanover and pretender to the Hanoverian throne from 1878 to 1913. After his father was deposed as a result of the Seven Weeks’ War between Prussia and Austria (in which Hanover had sided with losing Austria), Ernest Augustus lived mainly in Austria.

Ernest Augustus was the king of Hanover, from 1837 to 1851, the fifth son of George III of England. Ernest Augustus studied at Göttingen, entered the Hanoverian army, and served as a leader of cavalry when war broke out between Great Britain and France in 1793. When Hanover withdrew from the war in

Ernest Augustus was the king of Hanover, from 1837 to 1851, the fifth son of George III of England. Ernest Augustus studied at Göttingen, entered the Hanoverian army, and served as a leader of cavalry when war broke out between Great Britain and France in 1793. When Hanover withdrew from the war in

Ernest I was the duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who, after the ravages of the Thirty Years’ War, sought to rebuild and reform his country. An ardent Lutheran, Ernest allied himself with the Swedes from 1631, fighting in the battles of Lech, Nürnberg, Lützen, and Nördlingen. In 1635 he signed the

Ernest Hemingway House, house in Key West, Florida, U.S. that was the home of American novelist and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway and his second wife, fashion journalist Pauline Pfeiffer, from 1931 until their divorce in 1940. The house, as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, is the most

Ernest I was the duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who, after the ravages of the Thirty Years’ War, sought to rebuild and reform his country. An ardent Lutheran, Ernest allied himself with the Swedes from 1631, fighting in the battles of Lech, Nürnberg, Lützen, and Nördlingen. In 1635 he signed the

Ernest I was the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 and then, from 1826, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was the uncle of Queen Victoria and the father of her husband, Prince Albert. When Ernest succeeded to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on the death of his father (Francis) in

Ernest II was the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, brother of Prince Albert (consort of Queen Victoria of England), and a strong supporter of German unification. Ernest was the eldest son of Duke Ernest I and his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha. In 1842 he married Alexandrine of Baden, and he succeeded

Ernest Louis was the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. His father was the grand duke Louis IV, whom he succeeded on March 13, 1892, and his mother was Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria of England and the prince consort, Albert.

Japanese literature: Introduction of Western literature: …of a European novel was Ernest Maltravers, by the British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which appeared in 1879 under the title Karyū shunwa (“A Spring Tale of Blossoms and Willows”). The early translations were inaccurate, and the translators unceremoniously deleted any passages that they could not understand readily or that they…

Ernest I was the duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who, after the ravages of the Thirty Years’ War, sought to rebuild and reform his country. An ardent Lutheran, Ernest allied himself with the Swedes from 1631, fighting in the battles of Lech, Nürnberg, Lützen, and Nördlingen. In 1635 he signed the

Johann Sebastian Bach: Nonmusical duties: …1734 and was succeeded by Johann August Ernesti, a young man with up-to-date ideas on education, one of which was that music was not one of the humanities but a time-wasting sideline. Trouble flared up again in July 1736; it then took the form of a dispute over Bach’s right…

Saxon duchies, several former states in the Thuringian region of east-central Germany, ruled by members of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin between 1485 and 1918; today their territory occupies Thuringia Land (state) and a small portion of northern Bavaria Land in Germany. The house of

Saxon duchies, several former states in the Thuringian region of east-central Germany, ruled by members of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin between 1485 and 1918; today their territory occupies Thuringia Land (state) and a small portion of northern Bavaria Land in Germany. The house of

Lynda Barry: Career: …comic strip, which she renamed Ernie Pook’s Comeek, focused on satirical views of personal relationships and countercultural society. The strip was picked up by the Chicago Reader weekly newspaper in 1979 and was eventually published in 75 alternative newspapers across the United States.

Ernest Augustus was a duke (from 1679) and elector (from 1692) of Hanover, father of George Louis, who became George I, king of Great Britain. The Protestant bishop of Osnabrück from 1661, Ernest Augustus succeeded his elder brother as ruler of the duchy of Lüneburg-Calenburg (which became known as

Ernest Louis was the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. His father was the grand duke Louis IV, whom he succeeded on March 13, 1892, and his mother was Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria of England and the prince consort, Albert.

Germany: Religion and politics, 1555–1618: …by Spanish troops, and Duke Ernst of Bavaria was chosen as his successor. Throughout the 1590s the incorporation of church properties by Protestant governments was a cause of litigation before the empire’s courts, as Roman Catholic authorities sought to compel the return of everything confiscated since 1555; Protestant states, in…

education: The schools of Gotha: The duke, Ernst the Pious, commissioned the rector Andreas Reyher to compile a system of school regulations, which appeared in 1642 and is known historically as the Gothaer Schulmethodus. This was the first independent civil system of school regulations in Germany and was strongly influenced by Ratke.…

Joni Ernst is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and began her first term representing Iowa the following year. She was the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate and the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress. Culver was raised on a

Reichstag fire: …whereby 10 agents led by Karl Ernst were to gain access to the Reichstag through a tunnel leading from the official residence of Hermann Göring, Reichstag president and Hitler’s chief minister, who was then to conduct an official investigation, which would fix responsibility for the fire on the communists. The…

Max Ernst was a German painter and sculptor who was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism. He became a naturalized citizen of both the United States (1948) and France (1958). Ernst’s early interests were psychiatry and

Max Ernst was a German painter and sculptor who was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism. He became a naturalized citizen of both the United States (1948) and France (1958). Ernst’s early interests were psychiatry and

Paul Ernst was a German writer known particularly for his short stories and for essays on philosophical, economic, and literary problems. Ernst studied for the ministry but quickly became disillusioned with theology. He became a militant Marxist and the editor of the Berliner Volkstribüne. He

Paul Ernst was a German writer known particularly for his short stories and for essays on philosophical, economic, and literary problems. Ernst studied for the ministry but quickly became disillusioned with theology. He became a militant Marxist and the editor of the Berliner Volkstribüne. He

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss chemist and teacher who in 1991 won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of techniques for high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Ernst’s refinements made NMR techniques a basic and indispensable tool in chemistry and also extended

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss chemist and teacher who in 1991 won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of techniques for high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Ernst’s refinements made NMR techniques a basic and indispensable tool in chemistry and also extended

Hamburg: Cultural life: The Ernst-Barlach-Haus, in Jenisch Park, was founded in 1961–62 by another great patron of the arts, Hermann F. Reemtsma, to make his private collection accessible to the public. Hamburg’s once famous Zoological Museum was destroyed by bombs in 1943 after a century of existence.

eugenics: Eugenics organizations and legislation: In the United States, the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was opened at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, in 1910 with financial support from the legacy of railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. Whereas ERO efforts were officially overseen by Charles B. Davenport, director of the Station for Experimental Study…

Oskar Maria Graf: …in particular his utopian novel, Die Eroberung der Welt (1949; “The Conquest of the World”), reissued as Die Erben des Untergangs (1959; “The Heirs of the Ruins”).

Erode, city, northern Tamil Nadu state, southern India. It lies on the Kaveri (Cauvery) River, roughly equidistant from Salem (northeast) and Tiruppur (southwest). Temple inscriptions indicate the prominent role played by the town as early as the 10th century ce. Its name is associated with a Chola

storksbill, any of several flowering plants of the genus Erodium, in the geranium family (Geraniaceae), of worldwide distribution. Many species are wild flowers useful in garden borders and rock gardens; some are used for forage; and a number of them are weedy. The common names refer to the

Geraniales: Erodium cicutarium (pin-clover), a Mediterranean species now naturalized in the United States, is a weed, though in California it is grown as a forage crop.

Vasco Pratolini: …A Hero of Today, or, A Hero of Our Time) attacks fascism.

Derviş Eroğlu is a Turkish Cypriot physician and politician who served as president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) from 2010 to 2015. Eroğlu completed his secondary education in Famagusta, Cyprus, after which he attended Istanbul University in the faculty of medicine. After

Greek literature: Literature after 1922: …in the turbulent 1920s; and Eroica (1937) by Kosmás Polítis, about the first encounter of a group of well-to-do schoolboys with love and death.

Eroica Symphony, symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, known as the Eroica Symphony for its supposed heroic nature. The work premiered in Vienna on April 7, 1805, and was grander and more dramatic than customary for symphonies at the time. It was Beethoven’s largest solely instrumental work. It has

Giordano Bruno: Works: …De gli eroici furori (1585; The Heroic Frenzies), Bruno, making use of Neoplatonic imagery, treats the attainment of union with the infinite One by the human soul and exhorts man to the conquest of virtue and truth.

dunlin, (Calidris alpina), one of the most common and sociable birds of the sandpiper group. The dunlin is a member of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes). It is about 20 cm (8 inches) long and has a bill curved downward at the tip. In breeding season, its plumage is brightly coloured,

Erromango, volcanic island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, with an area of 376 square miles (975 square km), rises in the interior to 2,907 feet (886 metres) at Santop. It had a sandalwood trade beginning in 1825; overexploitation caused almost total depletion of the

Erromango, volcanic island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, with an area of 376 square miles (975 square km), rises in the interior to 2,907 feet (886 metres) at Santop. It had a sandalwood trade beginning in 1825; overexploitation caused almost total depletion of the

whitlow grass: …species (formerly of the genus Erophila) are native to Europe. Whitlow grasses usually bloom in the spring and bear small white or yellow flowers with four petals. Despite their name, the plants are not true grasses.

whitlow grass: The European common whitlow grass (Draba verna) is a low annual with small rosettes of narrow leaves, clusters of white flowers at the ends of leafless stems, and spear-shaped fruits borne on long stalks. It has naturalized in northern North America and grows on mountains, sandy ground,…

Eros, first asteroid found to travel mainly inside the orbit of Mars and the first to be orbited and landed on by a spacecraft. Eros was discovered on August 13, 1898, by German astronomer Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin. It is named for the god of love in Greek mythology. A member

Christianity: Church and family: …in the Platonic concept of eros, was opposed in the Christian community by the biblical understanding of love, agape. Although erotic love has frequently been understood primarily as sexual desire and passion, its classical religious and philosophical meaning was the idealistic desire to acquire the highest spiritual and intellectual good.…

Eros, in Greek religion, god of love. In the Theogony of Hesiod (fl. 700 bce), Eros was a primeval god, son of Chaos, the original primeval emptiness of the universe, but later tradition made him the son of Aphrodite, goddess of sexual love and beauty, by either Zeus (the king of the gods), Ares

Western sculpture: 19th-century sculpture: …fountain since the Renaissance (the Eros in Piccadilly Circus), also became the first sculptor of the foremost rank since Cellini to devote himself wholeheartedly to the art of the goldsmith.

Herbert Marcuse: Marcuse’s first major work, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955), is a sweeping indictment of capitalism that is remarkable for not once mentioning Karl Marx (1818–83). The basis of Marcuse’s critique is the instinctive psychological drives posited by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939); according to Marcuse, these drives…

Anne Carson: Poetry: …part philosophy, Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986, reissued 1998), is an examination of the nature of desire. The short essays (or prose poems) on several topics that comprise Short Talks (1992) were incorporated into Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995), a volume with water as its central…

Dany Laferrière: …further enhanced with Éroshima (1987; Eroshima), followed by L’Odeur du café (1991; An Aroma of Coffee) and Le Goût des jeunes filles (1992; Dining with the Dictator), which together earned widespread praise for the lyrical quality of his narrative voice and for his thematic exploration of racial and sexual tension,…

Jorie Graham: Erosion (1983) examines the connection between the body and the soul in such poems as “Reading Plato,” “I Watched a Snake,” and “The Sense of an Ending.” In The End of Beauty (1987), Graham experimented with form, constructing subtle, sometimes inaccessible poems divided into series…

erosion, removal of surface material from Earth’s crust, primarily soil and rock debris, and the transportation of the eroded materials by natural agencies (such as water or wind) from the point of removal. The broadest application of the term erosion embraces the general wearing down and molding

geomorphic cycle, theory of the evolution of landforms. In this theory, first set forth by William M. Davis between 1884 and 1934, landforms were assumed to change through time from “youth” to “maturity” to “old age,” each stage having specific characteristics. The initial, or youthful, stage of

geomorphic cycle, theory of the evolution of landforms. In this theory, first set forth by William M. Davis between 1884 and 1934, landforms were assumed to change through time from “youth” to “maturity” to “old age,” each stage having specific characteristics. The initial, or youthful, stage of

river: Origin of river terraces: In contrast to depositional terraces, erosional terraces are specifically related to the processes of floodplain development. Erosional terraces are those in which lateral river migration and lateral accretion are the dominant processes in constructing the floodplain surface that subsequently becomes the terrace tread. Most of the terrace surface is underlain…

Constantine Lascaris: …and wrote for her his Erotemata (1476). Published in Milan, this was the first book printed entirely in Greek and enjoyed long popularity as an elementary grammar. He held university chairs at Naples in 1465 and at Messina from 1467 to his death; he tutored the writer Pietro Bembo in…

Manuel Moschopoulos: …is best remembered for his Erotemata grammatika (“Grammatical Questions,” first printed in Milan, 1493), a handbook of Greek in the form of question and answer that enjoyed great popularity among Western humanists of the early Renaissance. He also compiled a lexicon of Attic Greek (Sylloge onomaton Attikon) and wrote treatises…

Western dance: Ancient Egyptian dance: …definitely were aware of the sensual allure of the sparsely clad body in graceful movement. A tomb painting from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qurnah, now in the British Museum, shows dancers dressed only in rings and belts, apparently designed to heighten the appeal of their nudity. These figures probably were intended to…

erotica, literary or artistic works having an erotic theme; especially, books treating of sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner. The word erotica typically applies to works in which the sexual element is regarded as part of the larger aesthetic aspect. It is usually distinguished from

human sexual activity: Sociosexual activity: …society or the individual as erotic (i.e., capable of engendering sexual response) depends chiefly on the context in which the activity occurs. A kiss, for example, may express asexual affection (as a kiss between relatives), respect (a French officer kissing a soldier after bestowing a medal), or reverence (kissing the…

Western dance: Ancient Egyptian dance: …definitely were aware of the sensual allure of the sparsely clad body in graceful movement. A tomb painting from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qurnah, now in the British Museum, shows dancers dressed only in rings and belts, apparently designed to heighten the appeal of their nudity. These figures probably were intended to…

Meret Oppenheim: …modeled for images such as Érotique Voilée (1933; “Erotic Veiled”), in which she appeared nude behind a large printing-press wheel, her left forearm and hand covered in black ink and held against her forehead. The image was published in the Surrealist movement’s journal, Minotaure, in 1934. That year she also…

Sigmund Freud: Sexuality and development: …on the progressive replacement of erotogenic zones in the body by others. An originally polymorphous sexuality first seeks gratification orally through sucking at the mother’s breast, an object for which other surrogates can later be provided. Initially unable to distinguish between self and breast, the infant soon comes to appreciate…

stalking, the crime of following another person against his or her wishes and harassing that person. The status of stalking as a criminal offense is relatively new, having emerged in the early 1990s, although the behaviours that characterize stalking are not. What is today called stalking was

pleasing fungus beetle, (family Erotylidae), any of more than 3,500 species of widely distributed, mostly tropical beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that feed on fungi such as mushrooms and are often brightly coloured with orange, red, and black patterns. Pleasing fungus beetles range in size from

attention: Electrical changes: …potentials or, more precisely, as event-related potentials (ERPs). They extend over the period of half a second or so immediately following the onset of the signal concerned. ERPs are composed of a relatively consistent pattern of positive and negative electrical peaks that vary systematically when the properties of the signal…

Argentina: Military government, 1966–73: …by a Trotskyite group, the People’s Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo; ERP), and by Peronist groups. In 1970 one of these Peronist organizations, the Montoneros, destroyed the moderate Peronist union leadership and captured and killed former president Aramburu, who had been organizing a movement for a return to constitutional…

Marshall Plan, (April 1948–December 1951), U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. The United States feared that the poverty, unemployment, and

information system: Operational support and enterprise systems: …human resources—are integrated into an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, the principal kind of enterprise system. ERP systems support the value chain—that is, the entire sequence of activities or processes through which a firm adds value to its products. For example, an individual or another business may submit a custom…

Erfurt, city, capital of Thuringia Land (state), central Germany. It is located in the Thuringian Basin, on the Gera River, 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Berlin. It was first mentioned in 724 as Erpesfurt, the site of an abbey and a royal residence at a ford (Furt) on the Gera (originally named

reedfish, (Erpetoichthys calabaricus), species of air-breathing eel-like African fishes classified in the family Polypteridae (order Polypteriformes), inhabiting the lower stretches of freshwater river systems in Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon. Their elongated body is covered with rhomboid scales

snake: Specializations for securing food: An Asian water snake, Erpeton tentaculatus, has a sizable pair of tentacles on its snout, the purpose of which is uncertain. There is a great correlation between the difficulty in catching a particular kind of prey and the development of morphological and behavioral devices to help solve the problem.…

History of film: Introduction of sound: …Electric’s newly created marketing subsidiary, Electrical Research Products, Incorporated (ERPI), to use Western Electric equipment with the Movietone sound-on-film recording system. ERPI’s monopoly did not please the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which had tried to market a sound-on-film system that had been developed in the laboratories of its parent…

annelid: Annotated classification: >Erpobdella. Most authors accept the annelids as having three major classes: Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, and Hirudinea. Older systems would place the polychaetes and oligochaetes under the class Chaetopoda because both groups possess setae. Other systems would join the oligochaetes and leeches in a single…

art market: The latter half of the 20th century: …organization called the ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg). Although the ERR was originally charged with the collection and suppression of “undesirable” political media, Hermann Göring almost immediately changed its mission to the seizure of private Jewish collections. It confiscated more than 200 French private collections and inflicted forced sales and…

Pakistan: Housing of Pakistan: …Pakistani government quickly established the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), which received funding from the World Bank and a large number of other sources. In addition to constructing new earthquake-resistant houses and reinforcing existing structures, the ERRA is repairing roads and other infrastructure in the region. Massive floods in…

history of Mesopotamia: Adad-nirari III and his successors: …764, after an epidemic, the Erra epic, the myth of Erra (the god of war and pestilence), was written by Kabti-ilani-Marduk. He invented an original plot, which diverged considerably from the old myths; long discourses of the gods involved in the action form the most important part of the epic.…

Erramala Range, range of hills in western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. The hills, which trend northeast to southwest, are situated on the eastern edge of the Deccan plateau, between the basins of the Krishna River (north) and the Penneru River (south). They are composed of quartzites and

Erramala Range, range of hills in western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. The hills, which trend northeast to southwest, are situated on the eastern edge of the Deccan plateau, between the basins of the Krishna River (north) and the Penneru River (south). They are composed of quartzites and

Jorie Graham: …received a Pulitzer Prize; and The Errancy (1997). In Swarm (2000) and Never (2002) she departed from her characteristic imagery-focused style. Overlord (2005) is a more-accessible collection that deals with political, social, and environmental matters, often through allusions to World War II. Sea Change (2008)

Jerry Lewis: …Bellboy, a Hollywood messenger in The Errand Boy (1961), and a handyman at a girls’ school in The Ladies Man (1961). His films displayed an inventive use of locations, such as the Florida hotel in The Bellboy, and sets, such as the full-size 60-room school built for The Ladies Man.…

Martha Graham: Maturity of Martha Graham: …borrowed from Greek legend, including Errand into the Maze (1947), an investigation of hidden fears presented through the symbols of the Minotaur and the labyrinth; Alcestis (1960); Phaedra (1962); and Circe (1963). Biblical themes and religious figures also inspired her: Seraphic Dialogue (1955; Joan of Arc), Embattled Garden (1958; referring…

annelid: … (Polychaeta), which are divided into free-moving and sedentary, or tube-dwelling, forms; the earthworms (Oligochaeta); and the leeches (Hirudinea).