Patricia Arquette: …break out in the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), which was based on true events. For her performance, Arquette won a second Golden Globe Award. In 2019 she assumed another real-life disquieting figure for The Act, a limited series in which she played an abusive mother who submits her daughter…

avoidance behaviour, type of activity, seen in animals exposed to adverse stimuli, in which the tendency to act defensively is stronger than the tendency to attack. The underlying implication that a single neural mechanism is involved (such as a specific part of the brain, which, under electrical

conflict of laws: Historical development: …parties resorted to so-called “escape devices” that yielded better, more appropriate results. Among these is the recharacterization of a set of facts—e.g., the recasting of a question of contract as a tort or a tort question as one of family law. For example, what law governs the question of…

Don Siegel: Films with Eastwood: Escape from Alcatraz (1979) was stronger, a prime vehicle for Eastwood based on real-life inmate Frank Morris’s 1962 escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. Although perhaps longer than necessary, the film gains power from its starkness. Siegel’s final two films were box-office failures. In…

John Sturges: Bad, Magnificent, and Great: Escape from Fort Bravo (1953), however, was better, a solid western about the U.S. cavalry battling Native Americans; it starred William Holden and Eleanor Parker.

Erich Fromm: In Fromm’s first major work, Escape from Freedom (1941), he charted the growth of freedom and self-awareness from the Middle Ages to modern times and, using psychoanalytic techniques, analyzed the tendency, brought on by modernization, to take refuge from contemporary insecurities by turning to totalitarian movements such as Nazism. In…

John Carpenter: Later films: …Village of the Damned (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Vampires (1998), and The Ward (2010). Although these were not as popular as his earlier movies, some of them developed devoted followers.

John Carpenter: From Assault on Precinct 13 to Starman: The sci-fi thriller Escape from New York (1981) starred Kurt Russell as a convict tasked with rescuing the U.S. president from a New York City converted into a maximum security prison. It was a box-office hit that became another cult favorite. The Thing (1982), the first of several…

Ricky Gervais: …voice to the animated comedies Escape from Planet Earth (2013) and The Willoughbys (2020). In addition, Gervais was a frequent host of the Golden Globes ceremony (2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2020), earning both praise and criticism for his often acerbic barbs. In 2024 he won a Golden Globe for…

Planet of the Apes: …Planet of the Apes (1970), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). Director Tim Burton remade the first film in 2001.

automobile: Electric-gasoline hybrids: In 2004 the Ford Escape Hybrid (SUV) became the first American hybrid, beating two General Motors trucks, the Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra, to market by one year. The first luxury hybrid vehicle, the Lexus RX 400h, was released in 2005. In 2010 General Motors introduced the Chevrolet…

Elisabeth Bergner: …there as Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never (1933) was met with great enthusiasm, and she repeated the role in New York City (1935) and again for the film version that was directed by Czinner (1935); the latter performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination. Other English-language films of Bergner’s…

Vincent D’Onofrio: …in the prison break film Escape Plan (2013) and a son of a prominent man (Robert Duvall) accused of wrongdoing in The Judge (2014). He portrayed a misguided security guard in Jurassic World (2015), a coach in the biopic Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016), and Jack Horne in the…

Steven Spielberg: Early life and work: …and during his teens his Escape to Nowhere (1962), a 40-minute war movie, won first prize at a film festival. He next directed Firelight (1964), a feature-length science-fiction yarn, which was followed by an accomplished short about hitchhikers called Amblin’ (1968). An executive at Universal Studios saw the latter film…

escape velocity, in astronomy and space exploration, the velocity needed for a body to escape from a gravitational centre of attraction without undergoing any further acceleration. The escape velocity vesc is expressed as vesc = 2GM r ,where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the

Charles Portis: Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany (2012) contains various writings, including essays and short fiction. Throughout his oeuvre, Portis portrayed the restless pursuit of belief or adventure as emblematic of the American character.

warrant: Other judicial warrants include escape warrants, issued for the recapture of escaped prisoners, and warrants of commitment, issued to incarcerate a prisoner either before or after trial.

Big Ben: In a pendulum clock an escape wheel is allowed to rotate through the pitch of one tooth for each double swing of the pendulum and to transmit an impulse to the pendulum to keep it swinging. An ideal escapement would transmit the impulse without interfering with the free swing, and…

Black theater: William Wells Brown’s The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) was the first Black play published, but the first real success of an African American dramatist was Angelina W. Grimké’s Rachel (1916).

Caryl Churchill: …included Love and Information (2012), Escaped Alone (2016), and the short play What If If Only (2021).

escapement, in mechanics, a device that permits controlled motion, usually in steps. In a watch or clock, it is the mechanism that controls the transfer of energy from the power source to the counting mechanism. The classic form for a timepiece, which made the mechanical clock possible, was the

Damian Lewis: …films, including Dreamcatcher (2003) and The Escapist (2008). In 2016 he starred in the thriller Our Kind of Traitor. He later played Steve McQueen in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019). Lewis’s other films included the dramedy Dream Horse (2020). He was made an Officer of the Order…

escargot, any of several species of edible land snails, a delicacy of French cuisine. Although the snails eaten as escargots are terrestrial, they are technically mollusks and therefore classified as seafood. The word escargot, in that regard, descends from the Latin word for mollusk, conchylium,

hopscotch: …(this variant is known as escargot in France, for the spiral of the snail shell), in which players hop on one foot to a central rest spot and then back out again. Each player who succeeds may initial a space. The game continues until it becomes impossible to reach the…

Rachid Boudjedra: In L’Escargot entêté (1977; The Obstinate Snail), a petty bureaucrat exposes his mediocre life and values, symbolizing the incompleteness of the Algerian revolution. With Les 1001 Années de la nostalgie (1979; “1,001 Years of Nostalgia”), Boudjedra created a satire of an imaginary Saharan village confronted with what he viewed…

Mercury: Basin and surrounding region: …a relatively steep slope, or escarpment. A second, much smaller escarpment ring stands about 100–150 km (60–90 miles) beyond the first. Smooth plains occupy the depressions between mountain blocks. Beyond the outer escarpment is a zone of linear, radial ridges and valleys that are partially filled by plains, some with…

continental slope: …at all and are called escarpments.

telenovela: The Brazilian telenovela Escrava Isaura (“The Slave Isaura”), a 1970s program about an enslaved girl working on a 19th-century Brazilian coffee plantation, also attracted large audiences, though the fact that it and other Brazilian programs were taped in Portuguese limited their distribution throughout the rest of Latin America.

Schelde River, river, 270 miles (435 km) long, that rises in northern France and flows across Belgium to its North Sea outlet in Dutch territory. Along with the Lower Rhine and the Meuse rivers, it drains one of the world’s most densely populated areas. As a waterway, with its numerous branch

José Carlos Mariátegui: In essays in La escena contemporánea (1925; “The Contemporary Scene”), Mariátegui attacked fascism and defined the responsibilities of the intellectual in countries where social oppression reigns. César Vallejo, Peru’s greatest poet, was deeply influenced by him.

Rubén Blades: …Grammy Award for his album Escenas, in which Linda Ronstadt joined him in a Spanish duet, and the following year he released his first English-language album, Nothing but the Truth, which featured songs written or cowritten by Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, and Sting. His music echoed such social issues as…

José María de Pereda: …first literary effort was the Escenas montañesas (1864), starkly realistic sketches of the fisherfolk of Santander and the peasants of the Montaña. There followed other sketches and early novels of pronounced controversial spirit, such as El buey suelto (1878; “The Unfettered Ox”); Don Gonzalo González de la Gonzalera (1879), a…

The Sleepwalkers: …oder die Anarchie 1903 (1931; The Anarchist), and Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit 1918 (1932; The Realist).

Albert Baird Cummins: In 1920 the Esch-Cummins Act provided for the return of the railroads to private control—after their government operation during the war—but did not include Cummins’ plan for consolidation of the roads into a few national, truly competitive companies. His last years were embittered by the rebellion of his…

Esch-sur-Alzette, town, southern Luxembourg, on the upper Alzette River, southwest of Luxembourg city, near the French border. A small village until 1870, it eventually became the second largest town in Luxembourg, largely because of the local phosphoric iron ore, and the centre of the country’s

Justo José de Urquiza: …Aires as the agent of Pascual Eschagüe, the governor of Entre Ríos. In the capital Urquiza became a confidant of the dictator Rosas. Made a colonel in 1837, he replaced his patron Eschagüe as governor of Entre Ríos in 1841.

keyboard instrument: Reed pipes: The shallot of a beating reed pipe is roughly cylindrical in shape, with its lower end closed and the upper end open. A section of the wall of the cylinder is cut away and finished off to a flat surface. The slit, or shallot opening, thus…

burn: Hospital treatment.: …the overlying dead skin, or eschar. The goal of exposure therapy is to soften the eschar and remove it. Exposure allows the eschar to dry. After it dries, saline-soaked gauzes are applied to the eschar to soften it and hasten its spontaneous separation from the underlying tissues. The advantage of…

esker, a long, narrow, winding ridge composed of stratified sand and gravel deposited by a subglacial or englacial meltwater stream. Eskers may range from 16 to 160 feet (5 to 50 m) in height, from 160 to 1,600 feet (500 m) in width, and a few hundred feet to tens of miles in length. They may occur

dualism: Nature and significance: …is that between dialectical and eschatological dualism. Dialectical dualism involves an eternal dialectic, or tension, of two opposed principles, such as, in Western culture, the One and the many, or Idea and matter (or space, called by Plato “the receptacle”), and, in Indian culture, maya (the illusory world of sense…

eschatology, the doctrine of the last things. It was originally a Western term, referring to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs about the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the messianic era, and the problem of theodicy (the vindication of God’s justice). Historians

escheat, in feudal English land law, the return or forfeiture to the lord of land held by his tenant. There were generally two conditions by which land would escheat: the death of the tenant without heirs or the conviction of the tenant for a felony. In case of felony, the land would lose its

National Symphony Orchestra: …1994–96; music director, 1996–2008), and Christoph Eschenbach (2010–17). Gianandrea Noseda assumed the music directorship in 2017.

Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German poet whose epic Parzival, distinguished alike by its moral elevation and its imaginative power, is one of the most profound literary works of the Middle Ages. An impoverished Bavarian knight, Wolfram apparently served a succession of Franconian lords: Abensberg,

Frankfurt am Main: The contemporary city: …include the 155-foot- (47-metre-) tall Eschenheimer Tower (1400–28); the red sandstone cathedral, which was dedicated to St. Bartholomew in 1239; and the Paulskirche, which was the meeting place of the first Frankfurt National Assembly.

Alfred Escher was a dominant figure in 19th-century Zürich politics and legislator of national prominence who, as a railway magnate, became a leading opponent of railway nationalization. Quickly rising in cantonal political affairs, Escher had by 1848 become president of the Zürich government.

Hans Conrad Escher was a Swiss scientist and politician who was president of the Great Council of the Helvetic Republic (1798–99) and who was an outspoken opponent of federalism. He directed the canalization of the Linth River. With his friend and political colleague Paul Usteri, Escher founded the

Hans Conrad Escher was a Swiss scientist and politician who was president of the Great Council of the Helvetic Republic (1798–99) and who was an outspoken opponent of federalism. He directed the canalization of the Linth River. With his friend and political colleague Paul Usteri, Escher founded the

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his detailed realistic prints that achieve bizarre optical and conceptual effects. Maurits Cornelis Escher was the youngest of five boys and was raised by his father, George Escher, a civil engineer, and his father’s second wife, Sarah Gleichman.

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his detailed realistic prints that achieve bizarre optical and conceptual effects. Maurits Cornelis Escher was the youngest of five boys and was raised by his father, George Escher, a civil engineer, and his father’s second wife, Sarah Gleichman.

Rudolf Escher was a Dutch composer and music theoretician especially noted for his chamber works. Escher studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1931 to 1937, but most of his early compositions were lost in the bombing of Rotterdam during World War II. During 1945 and 1946 he worked as a music

Rudolf Escher was a Dutch composer and music theoretician especially noted for his chamber works. Escher studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1931 to 1937, but most of his early compositions were lost in the bombing of Rotterdam during World War II. During 1945 and 1946 he worked as a music

human microbiome: Discovery of the human microbiome: …the mid-1880s, when Austrian pediatrician Theodor Escherich observed a type of bacteria (later named Escherichia coli) in the intestinal flora of healthy children and children affected by diarrheal disease. In the years that followed, scientists described a number of other microorganisms isolated from the human body, including in 1898 the…

E. coli, (Escherichia coli), species of bacterium that normally inhabits the stomach and intestines. When E. coli is consumed in contaminated water, milk, or food or is transmitted through the bite of a fly or other insect, it can cause gastrointestinal illness. Mutations can lead to strains that

keyboard instrument: The clavichord: …when an instrument called the eschiquier was mentioned in account books of John II the Good, king of France. The eschiquier was described in 1388 as “resembling an organ that sounds by means of strings.” There exists no more complete description of the eschiquier, however, and it is not known…

Bikini, atoll in the Ralik (western) chain of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The atoll was used for peacetime atomic explosions conducted for experimental purposes by the United States between 1946 and 1958. Lying north of the Equator, Bikini is 225 miles (360 km) northwest of

cetacean: Annotated taxonomy: Family Eschrichtiidae (gray whale) 1 species. Formerly Rhachianectidae. Head less than one-quarter of total length; neck vertebrae not fused. Dorsal fin lacking. Flippers with 4 internal digits. Length to about 15 metres. Found along both coasts of the North Pacific Ocean. Exterminated in the Atlantic Ocean…

gray whale, (Eschrichtius robustus), a slender baleen whale having a profusion of external parasites that give it the appearance of a barnacle-encrusted rock. The gray whale attains a maximum length of about 15 metres (49 feet). It is gray or black, mottled with white, and has short yellow baleen

gray whale, (Eschrichtius robustus), a slender baleen whale having a profusion of external parasites that give it the appearance of a barnacle-encrusted rock. The gray whale attains a maximum length of about 15 metres (49 feet). It is gray or black, mottled with white, and has short yellow baleen

gray whale, (Eschrichtius robustus), a slender baleen whale having a profusion of external parasites that give it the appearance of a barnacle-encrusted rock. The gray whale attains a maximum length of about 15 metres (49 feet). It is gray or black, mottled with white, and has short yellow baleen

California poppy, (Eschscholzia californica), plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has become naturalized in parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Australia. Depending on conditions, California poppies flower from February to

Eshu, trickster god of the Yoruba of Nigeria, an essentially protective, benevolent spirit who serves Ifa, the chief god, as a messenger between heaven and earth. Eshu requires constant appeasement in order to carry out his assigned functions of conveying sacrifices and divining the future. One

Juan de Pareja was a Spanish painter and student of Diego Velázquez. Pareja initially assisted Velázquez in his studio as an enslaved person. Pareja accompanied Velázquez on his second visit to Italy (1649–51), where Velázquez painted Pareja’s portrait. The portrait was purchased at auction by the

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga: …the success of his opera Los ésclavos felices (“The Happy Slaves”; produced 1820, Bilbao), Arriaga enrolled in the Paris Conservatory, where by age 18 he became an assistant professor. His other compositions include three string quartets and a symphony.

Carolus Clusius was a botanist who contributed to the establishment of modern botany. He was best known by the Latin version of his name, Carolus Clusius. He developed new cultivated plants, such as the tulip, potato, and chestnut, from other parts of the world. From 1573 to 1587 he was the

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who rose to infamy as the leader of the Medellín cartel, overseeing a period marked by extreme violence, corruption, and wealth. Escobar was arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early ’90s. Soon after his birth, Escobar’s

Antonio Escobar y Mendoza was a Spanish Jesuit preacher and moral theologian who was derided for his support of probabilism, the theory according to which when the rightness or wrongness of a course of action is in doubt, any probable right course may be followed, even if an opposed course appears

Marisol was an American sculptor of boxlike figurative works combining wood and other materials and often grouped as tableaux. She rose to fame during the 1960s and all but disappeared from art history until the 21st century. Marisol was born in Paris of Venezuelan parents and spent her youth in

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who rose to infamy as the leader of the Medellín cartel, overseeing a period marked by extreme violence, corruption, and wealth. Escobar was arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early ’90s. Soon after his birth, Escobar’s

Ricardo Lagos is a Chilean economist and politician who served as president of Chile (2000–06). Lagos earned a law degree from the University of Chile in 1960 and then attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S., where he received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. Lagos returned to Chile

beehive cactus: …now placed in the genus Escobaria, which was previously considered a subgenus of Coryphantha.

Miranda warning: Miranda v. Arizona: …by a precedent established in Escobedo v. Illinois (1964). In that case the defendant, Danny Escobedo, was arrested and interrogated for hours at a police station, and his multiple requests to speak with a lawyer went unheeded. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction, citing a violation of Escobedo’s rights and…

Juan de Escobedo was a Spanish politician, secretary to Don Juan of Austria. Escobedo began his political life in the household of Ruy Gómez de Silva, prince of Eboli, but, after the Battle of Lepanto, entered the service of the victorious Don Juan and was with him when he became governor of

Escocés and Yorkino, members of two rival Masonic lodges that exercised considerable political influence in early 19th-century Mexico; the names mean Scotsman and Yorkist, respectively, after the two orders of Freemasonry, the Scottish and York rites. The Escoceses, organized about 1806 and a

Auguste Escoffier was a French culinary artist, known as “the king of chefs and the chef of kings,” who earned a worldwide reputation as director of the kitchens at the Savoy Hotel (1890–99) and afterward at the Carlton Hotel, both in London. His name is synonymous with classical French cuisine

Auguste Escoffier was a French culinary artist, known as “the king of chefs and the chef of kings,” who earned a worldwide reputation as director of the kitchens at the Savoy Hotel (1890–99) and afterward at the Carlton Hotel, both in London. His name is synonymous with classical French cuisine

Brazil: Carnival: …competitions of Carnival in so-called samba schools (escolas de samba), which function as community clubs and neighbourhood centres. Both children’s and adults’ groups make up the several thousand dancers and musicians of each samba school, and many more people are involved in constructing floats and making elaborate costumes. The samba…

Escola Velha, (Portuguese: “Old School”), Spanish dramatists in the early 16th century who were influenced by the Portuguese dramatist Gil Vicente. Although in form Vicente was a medieval dramatist, his skill in comedy and character portrayal and the varied subject matter of his plays made him a

Escondido, city, San Diego county, southern California, U.S. It is situated about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of San Diego and 18 miles (29 km) inland. The area was the site of Spanish exploration, and in 1843 it became part of the Rancho Rincón del Diablo land grant made to Juan Bautista Alvarado.

Nicaragua: Drainage: …River, the 55-mile- (89-km-) long Escondido River, the 60-mile- (97-km-) long Indio River, and the 37-mile- (60-km-) long Maíz River.

Benvenuto Cellini: Later years: The Escorial Crucifix (1556) exemplifies the superiority of Cellini’s art to the works of his rivals Bartolommeo Ammannati and Baccio Bandinelli. Two designs for the seal of the Academy of Florence (British Museum and Graphische Sammlung, Munich) date from 1563. His autobiography was begun in 1558…

El Escorial: …is the site of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a monastery originally Hieronymite but occupied since 1885 by Augustinians.

El Escorial, village, western Madrid provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), central Spain, in the Guadarrama mountains, 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Madrid. It is the site of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a monastery originally Hieronymite but

warship: World War II: …merchant convoys from submarine attack, escort carriers were built in large numbers, mainly in the United States. Many were converted merchant ships, and others were specially built on hulls originally designed for merchant service. The Royal Navy also added flight decks to some tankers and grain carriers, without eliminating their…

warship: Fleet escort ships: In the surface ships supporting aircraft carriers, the most important trend since 1945 has been an amalgamation of types. In 1945 cruisers were armoured big-gun ships that were capable of operating independently for protracted periods. Destroyers were part of the screen protecting a…

Jean Renart: His known works are L’Escoufle, a picaresque novel in verse about the adventures of Guillaume and Aelis, betrothed children who flee to France; Guillaume de Dôle, the story of a calumniated bride who cunningly defends her reputation; and the Lai de l’ombre, about a knight who presses a ring…

HIJOS: …protest activities was the so-called escrache, a typically colourful demonstration conducted in front of the home or workplace of a person who had committed human rights violations during the Dirty War but had not been punished. (The term is derived from the lunfardo word escrachar, whose many meanings include revealing…

Bernardo Guimarães: His antislavery novel A Escrava Isaura (1875; “The Slave Girl Isaura”), which helped to promote abolitionist sentiment in Brazil, is an early example of Latin-American social-protest literature and was compared to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).

Escravos River, distributary of the Niger River in the western Niger delta, southern Nigeria. Its 35-mile (56-kilometre) westerly course traverses zones of mangrove swamps and coastal sand ridges before entering the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea. There are no ports on the river, but the

Antônio de Castro Alves: …Falls”), a fragment of Os escravos, tells the story of a slave girl who is raped by her master’s son. This and Castro Alves’ other abolitionist poems were collected in a posthumous book, Os escravos (1883; “The Slaves”).

secretary, a writing desk fitted with drawers, one of which can be pulled out and the front lowered to provide a flat writing surface. There are many variations to this basic design. Early versions, which appeared in France in the first half of the 18th century, were made in one piece divided into

St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer ; canonized October 6, 2002; feast day June 26) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, founder in 1928 of Opus Dei, a Catholic organization of laypeople and priests claiming to strive to live Christian lives in their chosen professions. By the time of

escrow, in Anglo-American law, an agreement, usually a written instrument, concerning an obligation between two or more parties, that gives a third party instructions that concern property put in his control upon the happening of a certain condition. In commercial usage, this condition is most

Spanish literature: Theatre: …Escuadra hacia la muerte (1953; Death Squad), a disturbing Cold War drama, presents soldiers who have been accused of “unpardonable” offenses and condemned to stand guard in a no-man’s-land where they await the advance of an unknown enemy and face almost certain death. Other plays demonstrate the socially committed individual’s…

Vicente Escudero was a Gypsy dancer widely respected for his mastery of flamenco dance and for his adherence throughout his public career to an authentic style rarely distorted or commercialized. Known in his youth for his dancing in the cafés of Spain, Escudero performed in Paris in 1920 with his

Cabo Verde: Finance: …the Cabo Verdean currency, the escudo. There are several foreign banks and a stock exchange. The privatization in the late 1990s of a number of financial enterprises, such as banking and insurance institutions, accompanied a broader initiative to privatize state holdings in other economic sectors that was already under way.

Antonio Benítez Rojo: …short-story prize with his volume El escudo de hojas secas (“The Shield of Dry Leaves”).

Escuintla, city, southwestern Guatemala. It lies near the Guacalate River, on the southern flanks of the central highlands, at 1,109 feet (338 metres) above sea level. It is located 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Guatemala City. Escuintla, one of the larger Guatemalan cities on the Pacific coastal

escutcheon, in furniture design, an armorial shield sometimes applied to the centre of pediments on pieces of fine furniture and, also, the metal plate that surrounds a keyhole or the pivoting metal plate that sometimes covers the keyhole. The keyhole escutcheon has been used on cabinets and desks

Plain of Esdraelon, lowland in northern Israel, dividing the hilly areas of Galilee in the north and Samaria (in the Israeli-occupied West Bank) in the south. Esdraelon is the Greek derivation of the Hebrew Yizreʿel, meaning “God will sow” or “May God make fruitful,” an allusion to the fertility of