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Evers, Medgar Wiley (American civil-rights activist)
American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement....
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Evers-Williams, Myrlie (American civil rights activist)
African American activist and the wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, whose racially motivated murder in 1963 made him a national icon. In 1995–98 Evers-Williams was the first woman to head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peop...
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Evershed effect (astronomy)
English astronomer who, in 1909, discovered the horizontal motion of gases outward from the centres of sunspots, a phenomenon sometimes called the Evershed effect....
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Evershed, John (British astronomer)
English astronomer who, in 1909, discovered the horizontal motion of gases outward from the centres of sunspots, a phenomenon sometimes called the Evershed effect....
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Everson, Cory (American athlete)
...activities in American society. His Arnold Classic, a physique and fitness gala held annually in Columbus, Ohio, has become a premier event for physical culturists. Six-time Ms. Olympia Cory Everson sparked a similar awakening in women’s bodybuilding, which began holding competitions in the 1970s....
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Everson Museum of Art (museum, Syracuse, New York, United States)
...Chapel, Taiwan; the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, which, located near mountains, mimics the broken silhouettes of the surrounding peaks; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, actually four buildings joined by bridges. For the Federal Aviation Agency, Pei designed a type of pentagonal control tower that was installed in many......
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Everson, William (American poet)
American Roman Catholic poet whose works record a personal search for religious vision in a violent, corrupt world....
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Everson, William Oliver (American poet)
American Roman Catholic poet whose works record a personal search for religious vision in a violent, corrupt world....
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Everstin autonkuljettaja (work by Meri)
...stories from the war. Vuoden 1918 taphatumat (1960; “Incidents 1918”) describes the Finnish civil war (1918) as a chain of confused and disconnected actions. Just as bizarre is Everstin autonkuljettaja (1966; “The Colonel’s Driver”), in which a driver zigzags through the war zones across more than half of Finland to fetch an insignificant briefca...
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Evert, A. E. (Russian officer)
...though they won very little ground at great cost and only for a short time. They then reverted to preparations for a major offensive in July. The main blow, it was planned, should be delivered by A.E. Evert’s central group of armies, assisted by an inward movement of A.N. Kuropatkin’s army in the northern sector of the front. But at the same time, A.A. Brusilov’s southweste...
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Evert, Chris (American tennis player)
outstanding American tennis player who dominated the sport in the mid- and late 1970s and remained a major competitor into the late 1980s....
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Evert, Christine Marie (American tennis player)
outstanding American tennis player who dominated the sport in the mid- and late 1970s and remained a major competitor into the late 1980s....
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Everton (Guyana)
...form in bauxite) and most of the bauxite mined is produced at Linden. The rest of the country’s bauxite mining takes place on the Berbice River; a processing plant also operates downriver at Everton....
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Every Building on the Sunset Strip (work by Ruscha)
...vacant parking lots, swimming pools, gasoline stations, and nightspots—which he made into wordless books, such as Every Building on the Sunset Strip. The 16 artist’s books he created in this manner were widely influential among a younger generation of artists. During this period, Ruscha also made two......
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Every Day I Have the Blues (recording by Basie)
Williams’s breakthrough came when he joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1954. His recording of Every Day I Have the Blues with Basie in 1955 made him famous and was a factor in the Basie band’s comeback. Staying with Basie until 1961, Williams also had hits with Alright, Okay, You Win, Going to Chicago, and ....
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Every, Henry (British pirate)
one of Britain’s most renowned pirates of the late 17th century, and the model for Daniel Defoe’s hero in Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720)....
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Every Man for Himself (film by Godard)
Godard began making successful narrative feature films again in 1979 with Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), a story of three young Swiss people and their problems of work and love. In the 1980s he was involved in film projects at home as well as in California and Mozambique. His most notable work of the decade was his......
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Every Man for Himself (novel by Bainbridge)
...attention to Victorian and Edwardian misadventures: The Birthday Boys (1991) retraces Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole; Every Man for Himself (1996) accompanies the Titanic as it steamed toward disaster; and Master Georgie (1998) revisits the Crimean ...
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Every Man in His Humour (play by Jonson)
The year 1598 marked an abrupt change in Jonson’s status, when Every Man in His Humour was successfully presented by the Lord Chamberlain’s theatrical company (a legend has it that Shakespeare himself recommended it to them), and his reputation was established. In this play Jonson tried to bring the spirit and manner of Latin comedy to the English popular stage by presenting t...
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Every Man Out of His Humour (play by Jonson)
In his play Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), Jonson explains that the system of humours governing the body may by metaphor be applied to the general disposition, so that a peculiar quality may so possess a person as to make him or her act in one way. Jonson’s characters usually represent one humour and, thus unbalanced, are basically caricatures. Jonson......
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Every Picture Tells a Story (album by Stewart)
...and cover songs would prove to be a successful formula for Stewart. Gasoline Alley (1970) sold better and was well received by critics, but it hardly suggested what would happen in 1971. Every Picture Tells a Story became the first record to top the charts in Britain and the United States simultaneously, the single......
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Every-Day Book, The (work by Hone)
...with the caricaturist George Cruikshank, ran into 54 editions but failed to keep Hone solvent. A bankruptcy (1828) followed his imprisonment for debts incurred in publishing The Every-Day Book (1826–27), the most popular of his miscellanies, and he ended his career as subeditor on a Nonconformist weekly....
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Everybody Loves Raymond (American television program)
American comedian and actor who was perhaps best known as the bumbling well-intentioned father in the television show Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005), a witty and insightful portrayal of the quotidian travails of family life....
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Everybody’s Protest Novel (work by Baldwin)
In 1949 the young New York essayist James Baldwin, a protégé of Wright, published Everybody’s Protest Novel, a criticism of protest fiction from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Native Son. Baldwin’s charge that the protest novel was prone to categorize humanity rather ...
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Everyman (English morality play)
an English morality play of the 15th century, probably a version of a Dutch play, Elckerlyc. It achieves a beautiful, simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and the fate of the human soul—of Everyman’s soul as he tries to justify his time on earth. Though morality plays on the whol...
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Everyman (novel by Roth)
...counterhistorical story of fascism in the United States during World War II. With Everyman (2006), a novel that explores illness and death, Roth became the first three-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which he had won previously for Operation......
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Everyman His Own Historian (work by Becker)
...experience and a larger, socially defined reality that determines the process by which the historian selects his data. His presidential address in 1931 to the American Historical Association, “Everyman His Own Historian” (published in 1932 and expanded to book length in 1935), deals most explicitly with this theme of historical relativism. In one of his best-known books,......
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Everyman’s Library
...Yellow Book; J.M. Dent, who commissioned Aubrey Beardsley to illustrate Malory and who used Kelmscott-inspired endpapers for his Everyman’s Library; Stone and Kimball of Chicago and Thomas Mosher of Maine, who issued small, readable editions of avant-garde writers with Art Nouveau bindings and decorated tit...
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everything, theory of (physics)
While GUTs resolve some of the problems with the Standard Model, they remain inadequate in a number of respects. They give no explanation, for example, for the number of pairs of quarks and leptons; they even raise the question of why such an enormous gap exists between the masses of the W and Z bosons of the electroweak force and the X bosons of lepton-quark interactions. Most important, they......
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Eve’s pin cushion (plant)
...O. imbricata, and O. whipplei—are hardy to -18° C (0° F) or below. O. leptocaulis, the desert Christmas cactus, holds its bright red fruits through the winter. Eve’s pin cushion (O. subulata), found in South America, has large leaves for an Opuntia; they are awl-shaped, grow to 12.5 cm (5 inches) long, and last much longer than the ...
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Evesham (England, United Kingdom)
town (“parish”) located in Wychavon district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England, on the right bank of the River Avon. Evesham is an agricultural centre situated in the middle of a fertile vale that has become an important fruit-growi...
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Evesham, Vale of (valley, England, United Kingdom)
...the parishes of Ashton-under-Hill and Kemerton belong the historic county of Gloucestershire. Wychavon district consists mostly of the fertile clay valleys of the Severn and (Upper) Avon rivers. The Vale of Evesham in the south and centre has the proper soil and climate for the cultivation of plums and various other fruits and vegetables. The steep limestone scarps of the ......
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Évian Conference (France [1938])
Responding to domestic pressures to act on behalf of Jewish refugees, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened, but did not attend, the Évian Conference on resettlement, in Évian-les-Bains, France, in July 1938. In his invitation to government leaders, Roosevelt specified that they would not have to change laws or spend government funds; only philanthropic funds would be used......
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Évian-les-Bains (France)
spa and tourist resort, Haute-Savoie département, Rhône-Alpes région, eastern France, on the southern shore of Lake Geneva, opposite Lausanne on the Swiss shore of the lake. Lying below the lowest Alpine spurs, it has a mild climate. The spa buildings, the new hôtel ...
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evidence (law)
in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it....
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evidence (reasoning)
In addition to this and other work concerning religious language there was a renewal of fundamental discussion of Christian, and more broadly religious, epistemology. The natural theology tradition held that, in order to be rational, religious belief must be supported by adequate evidences or arguments. It was assumed that God’s existence must be validly inferred from generally acceptable.....
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evil
...draw him to the crime. Utilitarian morality suggests that killing her is a positive good because her money could be used to help many others. On the other hand, Raskolnikov reasons that belief in good and evil is itself sheer prejudice, a mere relic of religion, and that, morally speaking, there is no such thing as crime. Nevertheless, Raskolnikov, despite his denial of morality, sympathizes......
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evil eye (occult)
glance believed to have the ability to cause injury or death to those on whom it falls; pregnant women, children, and animals are thought to be particularly susceptible. Belief in the evil eye is ancient and ubiquitous; it occurred in ancient Greece and Rome, in Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hi...
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evil, problem of (theology)
problem in theology and the philosophy of religion that arises for any view that affirms the following three propositions: God is almighty, God is perfectly good, and evil exists....
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Evinrude, Ole (American inventor)
Norwegian-American inventor of the first commercially successful outboard marine internal-combustion engine....
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evirato (music)
male soprano or contralto voice of great range, flexibility, and power, produced as a result of castration before puberty. The castrato voice was introduced in the 16th century, when women were banned from church choirs and the stage. It reached its greatest prominence in 17th- and 18th-century opera. The practice of castration, illegal and inhumane, produced an adult voice of extraordinary power ...
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evisceration (industrial technology)
...carcasses drop off the shackle and are rehung by their hock onto the eviscerating shackle line. By law in the United States, the scalding and defeathering steps must be separated by a wall from the evisceration steps in order to minimize cross-contamination....
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Evita (musical by Lloyd Webber and Rice)
...to tell the story of Jesus’ life. This show was one of the longest-running musicals in British theatrical history. Lloyd Webber’s last major collaboration with Rice was on Evita (1978), a musical about Eva Perón, the wife of the Argentine dictator Juan Perón....
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Evita (Argentine leader)
second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón, who, during her husband’s first term as president (1946–52), became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes....
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Evita (film by Parker [1996])
...PatientOriginal Dramatic Score: Gabriel Yared for The English PatientOriginal Musical or Comedy Score: Rachel Portman for EmmaOriginal Song: “You Must Love Me” from Evita; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim RiceHonorary Award: Volker W. Bahnemann, Michael Kidd, Joe Lombardi, Burton “Bud” Stone...
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evkâf (Ottoman institution)
Mahmud began by curbing the power of rival claimants. He undermined the influence of the ulama and of popular religious organizations. He created a new directorate of evkâf (charitable endowments) in 1826, hoping to gain control of the hitherto independent financial base of ulama power. To make his power more effective, he built new roads and in 1834 inaugurated a postal service....
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Evliya Çelebi (Turkish traveler and writer)
one of the most celebrated Ottoman travelers, who journeyed for more than 40 years throughout the territories of the Ottoman Empire and adjacent lands....
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Evlogy (Russian metropolitan)
...Russian church. This group, which to this day includes a sizable portion of the Russian emigration, was formally dissolved in 1922 by Patriarch Tikhon, who then appointed metropolitans Platon and Evlogy as ruling bishops in America and Europe, respectively. Both of these metropolitans continued intermittently to entertain relations with the synod in Karlovci, but neither of them accepted it......
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evo-devo (evolution)
In recent years the pendulum has begun to swing once again in the other direction. There is now a vital and flourishing school of evolutionary development, often referred to as “evo-devo,” and along with it a resurgence of interest in form over function. Many researchers in evo-devo argue that nature imposes certain general constraints on the ways in which organisms may develop, and....
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evocatio (Roman religion)
...religious conservatism. Moreover, at some quite early stage (though there is no positive evidence of the practice until the 3rd century), Romans borrowed from elsewhere in Italy a special ritual (evocatio) for inviting the patron deities of captured towns to abandon their homes and migrate to Rome....
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Evocation (work by Picasso)
...of the so-called Blue Period. Picasso made two death portraits of Casagemas several months later in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (Mourners and Evocation), and in 1903 Casagemas appeared as the artist in the enigmatic painting La Vie....
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évolué (French-African colonial group)
The association met with opposition from two sources. Gallicized Algerian Muslims, known as évolués—Arabs by tradition and Frenchmen by education—insisted that Islam and France were not incompatible. They rejected the idea of an Algerian nation and stated that Algeria had for generations been identified in terms of its economic......
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Evoluon (museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
science and technology museum in Eindhoven, Neth., opened in 1966 to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of Philips Industries. The building is a striking mushroom-shaped structure. Its exhibitions are set in a single large dome on three ring-shaped floors with two balconies. Some of the displays are interactive. The upper ring describes problems associated with the rapid growth of world po...
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Evolution (painting by Mondrian)
...material elements began to merge with the overall spiritual message of his work. He concentrated on depicting large forms in nature, such as the lighthouse in Westcapelle. In Evolution (1910–11), a triptych of three standing human figures, the human figure and architectural subjects look surprisingly similar, thus stressing Mondrian’s move toward a pai...
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evolution (scientific theory)
Biological theory that animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations....
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“Evolution créatrice, L’ ” (work by Bergson)
...philosophy of vitalism sought to contrast the subjective notion of “duration” with the objective conception of time proper to the natural sciences. As he remarked in Creative Evolution (1907): “Anticipated time is not mathematical time…. It coincides with duration, which is not subject to being prolonged or retracted at will. It is no longer....
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evolution, cultural (social science)
the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. The subject may be viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that describes the evolution of human behaviour as a whole, or it may be viewed as a multilinear phenomenon, in which case it describes the evolution of individual cultures or societies (or of given parts of a culture...
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Évolution de l’humanité, L’ (work by Berr)
...history and the social sciences, and in 1924 he founded the Centre International de Synthèse in Paris. Meanwhile, he undertook the enormous task of editing a cooperative enterprise entitled L’Évolution de l’humanité, 100 vol. (65 published between 1920 and 1954), a series of historical monographs intended as a synthetic survey of civilization from prehi...
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evolution, human
the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing, upright-walking species that lives on the ground and first evolved in Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. We are now the only living members of what many zoologists refe...
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Evolution of a Revolt (work by Lawrence)
...published in his lifetime. His first postwar writings, including a famous essay on guerrilla war and a magazine serial version of an early draft of Seven Pillars, have been published as Evolution of a Revolt (edited by S. and R. Weintraub, 1968). Minorities (1971) reproduced an anthology of more than 100 poems Lawrence had collected in a notebook over many years, each......
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Evolution of Man and Society, The (work by Darlington)
Darlington’s published works ranged from the purely scientific (e.g., The Evolution of Genetic Systems, 1939) to broader discussions of the role of genetics in human history. The Evolution of Man and Society (1969) raised controversy by insisting that the intelligence of races was determined by inheritance....
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Evolution of the Igneous Rocks, The (work by Bowen)
...Working at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., Norman L. Bowen conducted extensive phase-equilibrium studies of silicate systems, brought together in his Evolution of the Igneous Rocks (1928). Experimental petrology, both at the low-temperature range explored by van’t Hoff and in the high ranges of temperature investigated by Bowen, continue...
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Evolution of the Land Plants (work by Campbell)
...distribution of plant life. His best-known works are The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (1895), which remained a standard college text for nearly half a century, and Evolution of the Land Plants (1940), which summarized his phylogenetic arguments....
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evolution, social (social science)
Yet it should not be imagined that revolution by force or radical remodeling inspired every thinking European. Even if liberals and reactionaries were still ready to take to the barricades to achieve their ends, the conservatives were not, except in self-defense. The conservative philosophy, stemming from Burke and reinforced by modern historical studies, maintained the contrary principle of......
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evolution, sociocultural (social science)
the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. The subject may be viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that describes the evolution of human behaviour as a whole, or it may be viewed as a multilinear phenomenon, in which case it describes the evolution of individual cultures or societies (or of given parts of a culture...
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evolution, synthetic theory of (genetics)
The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel’s theory of heredity, by the Dutch botanist and geneticist Hugo de Vries and others, led to an emphasis on the role of heredity in evolution. De Vries proposed a new theory of evolution known as mutationism, which essentially did away with natural selection as a major evolutionary process. According to de Vries (who was joined by other geneticists such as.....
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evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is faced with two major explanatory problems: form and function. How is it possible to account for the forms of organisms and their parts and in particular for the structural similarities between organisms? How is it possible to account for the ways in which the forms of organisms and their parts seem to be adapted to certain functions? These topics are much older than......
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evolutionary botany
American botanist and geneticist known for his application of the modern synthetic theory of evolution to plants. Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under natural conditions....
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evolutionary Christianity (Christianity)
American botanist and geneticist known for his application of the modern synthetic theory of evolution to plants. Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under natural conditions.......
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evolutionary computing
Samuel’s checkers program was also notable for being one of the first efforts at evolutionary computing. (His program “evolved” by pitting a modified copy against the current best version of his program, with the winner becoming the new standard.) Evolutionary computing typically involves the use of some automatic method of generating and evaluating successive......
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evolutionary ecology
...result of coevolution with a particular species of flower; however, its wings are not the result of coevolution. Wings were already present in birds before hummingbirds evolved. Therefore, both the evolutionary ecology and the history (phylogeny) of the interacting species must be studied. The phylogeny indicates when each species arose within a lineage and when each new trait made its first......
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evolutionary economics
Charles Darwin’s influence can be seen in all of the social sciences, and another alternative school, evolutionary economics—like much of the literature in economics, psychology, and sociology—builds on analogies to evolutionary processes. Also drawing heavily on game theory, it is primarily concerned with economic change, innovation, and dynamic competition. This is not, of c...
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evolutionary epistemology (philosophy)
Because the evolutionary origins and development of the human brain must influence the nature, scope, and limits of the knowledge that human beings can acquire, it is natural to think that evolutionary theory should be relevant to epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge. There are two major enterprises in the field known as “evolutionary epistemology”: one attempts to......
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evolutionary ethics (philosophy)
In evolutionary ethics, as in evolutionary epistemology, there are two major undertakings. The first concerns normative ethics, which investigates what actions are morally right or morally wrong; the second concerns metaethics, or theoretical ethics, which considers the nature, scope, and origins of moral concepts and theories....
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evolutionary fitness (biology)
...In this way the more successful variants would make a greater contribution to subsequent generations in the number of offspring. For such selection to act continuously in successive generations, Darwin also recognized that the variations had to be inherited, although he failed to fathom the mechanism of heredity. Moreover, the amount of variation is particularly important. According to what......
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evolutionary psychology
Darwin always understood that an animal’s behaviour is as much a part of its repertoire in the struggle for existence as any of its physical adaptations. Indeed, he was particularly interested in social behaviour, because in certain respects it seemed to contradict his conception of the struggle as taking place between, and for the sole benefit of, individuals. As noted above, he was inclin...
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Evolutionary Socialism (work by Bernstein)
...This led him to conclude that the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism was neither necessary nor desirable. A gradual, peaceful transformation to socialism, he argued in Evolutionary Socialism (1899), would be safer than the revolutionary route, with its dangerously vague and potentially tyrannical dictatorship of the proletariat....
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evolutionary taxonomy (biology)
The second half of the 20th century was marked by a debate between three main schools. In the first, traditional evolutionary taxonomy, classification was intended to represent a maximum of evolutionary information. Generally this required that groupings be “monophyletic,” or based solely on shared evolutionary history, though exceptions could occur and were allowed. Crocodiles, for....
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evolutionary theism (Christianity)
The second half of the 20th century was marked by a debate between three main schools. In the first, traditional evolutionary taxonomy, classification was intended to represent a maximum of evolutionary information. Generally this required that groupings be “monophyletic,” or based solely on shared evolutionary history, though exceptions could occur and were allowed. Crocodiles, for....
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evolutionary tree
Evolutionary trees are models that seek to reconstruct the evolutionary history of taxa—i.e., species or other groups of organisms, such as genera, families, or orders. The trees embrace two kinds of information related to evolutionary change, cladogenesis and anagenesis. The figure can be used to illustrate both kinds. The branching relationships of the trees reflect the relative......
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evolutionism (social science)
In the 1950s and ’60s, evolutionist ideas gained fresh currency in American anthropology, where they were cast as a challenge to the relativism and historical particularism of the Boasians. Some of the new evolutionists (led by Leslie White) reclaimed the abandoned territory of Victorian social theory, arguing for......
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Evolutionists (political party, Portugal)
By 1912 the republicans were divided into Evolutionists (moderates), led by António José de Almeida; Unionists (centre party), led by Manuel de Brito Camacho; and Democrats (the leftist core of the original party), led by Afonso Costa. A number of prominent republicans had no specific party. The whirligig of republican political life offered little improvement on the monarchist......
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Evolvulus (plant genus)
...to dry, desert regions as dense plant surfaces and thorns. The largest genera—Ipomoea (morning glory, with some 500 species), Convolvulus (bindweed, with 100 species), and Evolvulus (100 species)—include twining vines, herbs, trees, and a few aquatics. The large parasitic genus Cuscuta (dodder, 145 species), formerly placed in its own family......
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Évora (Portugal)
city, south-central Portugal. It lies in a fertile valley surrounded by low hills, 70 miles (110 km) east of Lisbon....
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Evora, Cesaria (Cape Verdean singer)
Cape Verdean singer and Grammy Award-winning recording artist known for her rich, haunting voice....
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Evpatoriya (Ukraine)
city, Crimea, southern Ukraine, on the Kalamit Bay on the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula. Founded in the 6th century bc as a Greek colony and later renamed for Mithradates VI Eupator, sixth king of Pontus, the city has known many masters, passing to Russia with the ann...
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Evreinov, Nikolay (Russian director)
The Russian theatre during these years produced many other talented and innovative directors. Three who deserve mention are Nikolay Evreinov, Aleksandr Tairov, and Nikolay Okhlopkov....
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Evreiskaia (oblast, Russia)
autonomous oblast (province) in Khabarovsk kray (region), far eastern Russia, occupying an area of 13,900 sq mi (36,000 sq km) in the basin of the middle Amur River. Most of the oblast consists of level plain...
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Evren, Kenan (Turkish general)
On Sept. 12, 1980, the senior command of the army, led by General Kenan Evren, carried out a bloodless coup. This coup, the third army intervention in 20 years, was generally supported by the public. The leading politicians were arrested, and parliament, political parties, and trade unions were dissolved. A five-member National Security Council took control, suspending the constitution and......
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Évreux (France)
town, capital of Eure département, Haute-Normandie région, northwestern France. It lies west-northwest of Paris, in a pleasant valley on branches of the Iton River, which is a tributary of the Eure....
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Évreux, house of (French royal house)
...various counts of Artois (from 1237), with controversial succession; the first Capetian house of Anjou, with kings and queens of Naples (1266–1435) and kings of Hungary (1310–82); the house of Évreux, with three kings of Navarre (1328–1425); the second Capetian house of Anjou, with five counts of Provence (1382–1481); and other lesser branches....
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Evrípos (strait, Greece)
narrow strait in the Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), between the Greek island of Euboea (Évvoia) and the mainland of central Greece. It is 5 miles (8 km) long and varies from 130 feet (40 m) to 1 mile (1.6 km) in width. It has strong ...
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Evrípou, Porthmós (strait, Greece)
narrow strait in the Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), between the Greek island of Euboea (Évvoia) and the mainland of central Greece. It is 5 miles (8 km) long and varies from 130 feet (40 m) to 1 mile (1.6 km) in width. It has strong ...
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Évros River (river, Europe)
river in Bulgaria, rising in the Rila Mountains southeast of Sofia on the north face of Musala Peak. It flows east and southeast across Bulgaria for 170 miles (275 km), forms the Bulgaria–Greece frontier for a distance of 10 miles (16 km), and then becomes the Greece–Turkey frontier for another 115 miles (185 km). At Edirne it ch...
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Evrótas River (river, Greece)
nonnavigable river rising in the Taíyetos Mountains in the southern Peloponnese, Greece. The principal stream of Laconia, it flows south-southeast through the agricultural Laconian plain between the Taíyetos and Párnon ranges and debouches at the head of the Gulf of Laconia northeast of Yíthion after a course of 51 ...
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Evrouin (Neustrian official)
mayor of the palace in the Frankish kingdom of Neustria for some 20-odd years, from 656....
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Évry (France)
new town (French ville nouvelle), département of Essonne, Île-de-France région in north-central France. Évry is approximately 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Paris and is one of several new towns developed outside the capital since 1965. Évry is linked to Par...
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Evtushenko, Evgenii (Russian poet)
poet and spokesman for the younger post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, whose internationally publicized demands for greater artistic freedom and for a literature based on aesthetic rather than political standards signaled an easing of Soviet control over artists in the late 1950s and ’60s....
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Évvoia (island, Greece)
island, the largest in Greece, after Crete. In the Aegean Sea, it forms with the island of Skyros to the northwest, the nomós (department) of Euboea, whose capital is Chalcis. Recognized geographically as part of the Greek mainland, which it almost touches at ...
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Evvoïkós Kólpos (gulf, Greece)
arm of the Aegean Sea, between the island of Euboea (northeast) and the Greek mainland (southwest). Trending northwest-southeast, the gulf is divided by the narrow Strait of Euripus, at the town of Chalcis (Khalkís). The northern part is about 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) wide, and the southern part is about 30 miles (...
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