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Eärwa
Eärwa is the fictional world on which the stories in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series of fantasy novels are set. Eärwa has much the same feel as a Tolkien constructed world but holds a more darker theme to it. The 'Prince of Nothing' series is set a little differently in that the dominan..
Eärwen
Eärwen is a fictional character created by J. R. R. Tolkien. She is a daughter of Olwë, wife of Finarfin, and mother of Galadriel, Finrod, Angrod, and Aegnor.In the family tree of Elwë in the Silmarillion, Eärwen is given as the only child of Olwë, but in the 60th page it states her having brot..
Erwan Vallerie
Erwan Vallerie(1944-) is a Breton nationalist. He worked as an economist when he founded the monthly periodical Sav Breizh with Yann Choucq(Debout Bretagne, Stand Brittany) in 1969. In 1971, it became a bi-monthly study review. It continued in this direction unitl it dissolved in 1975. Vallerie then..
Erwarton
Erwarton or Arwarton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England, on the Shotley Peninsula. It is about nine miles south by road from Ipswich. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 110. ..
Erwig
Erwig (or Ervigio, also known as Euric II) was a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687 CE). His reign began when he deposed King Wamba during a civil war. Erwig then restored stability by using the Jews as a scapegoat. Declaring them a plague on the kingdom, he called for their exterminat..
Erwin
Erwin is also a character in the online daily comic strip User Friendly or may refer to the Danish philosopher and author Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff Erwin was a powerful storm which hit Denmark and Sweden on 8 January, 2005. The name Erwin was chosen by the German Weather Service, while the storm was nam..
Erwin, New York
Erwin is a town in Steuben County, New York, USA. The population was 7,227 at the 2000 census. The Town of Erwin is in the southeast part of the county. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Communities and locations in Erwin5 External links History Erwin was..
Erwin, North Carolina
Erwin is a town in Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,537 at the 2000 census. Geography Erwin is located at [35°19′22″N, 78°40′19″W] (35.322840, -78.672005)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, th..
Erwin, South Dakota
Erwin is a town in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 58 at the 2000 census. Geography Erwin is located at [44°29′13″N, 97°26′33″W] (44.487051, -97.442543)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the t..
Erwin, Tennessee
Erwin is a city in Unicoi County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 5,610 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Unicoi County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Erwin is located at [36°8′42″N, 82°24′39″W] (36.145036, -82.410796)[Geographic r..
Erwinia
Erwinia is a genus of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria containing mostly plant pathogenic species which was named for the first phytobacteriologist, Erwin Smith. A well-known member of this genus is the species E. amylovora, which causes fireblight on apple, pear, and other Rosaceous crops. Another spe..
Erwinia amylovora
Erwinia amylovora is a bacterial pathogen of plants of the Rosacea family, and causes a disease known as Fireblight on apple and pear. After the pathogen gains entry to the plant through nectathodes, hydathodes, or wounds, it uses a syringe-like complex of proteins known as the Type-3-secretion sys..
Erwinia chrysantum
Erwinia chrysanthemi is a gram-negative bacillus that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a close relative of E. coli and other animal pathogens that include Salmonella, Shigella, Klebsiella, Proteus and Yersinia. Members of this family are facultative anaerobes, able to ferment sugars ..
Erwinia psidii
Erwinia psidii is a Gram-negative bacillus and a phytopathogen of the guava (Psidium guajava), causing rot in branches, flowers and fruits. Recently, it was demonstrated that this species produces two acyl-homoserine lactones (S-(-)-N-hexanoyl- and N-heptanoyl-homoserine lactone), widely recognized..
Erwin Adlers
Erwin Adlers was the chief designer for Germany's Henschel & Son, during World War II. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] [Picture of Erwin Adlers] ..
Erwin Ballarta
--> Mataas Na Guro Erwin Ballarta is a self-defense expert in Pekiti Tirsia Kali and various weapons. Ballarta has taught hand-to-hand combat and weapon tactics to the FBI, the Texas Highway patrol, and various military personnel and has been a bodyguard of George W. Bush and various celebrities. ..
Erwin Bälz
Erwin Bälz (13 January 1849 - 31 August 1913) was a German internist, anthropologist, personal physician of the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern medicine in Japan. Life Son of a contractor, Bälz was born in 1849 in Bietigheim-Bissingen. He attended grammar school in Stuttgart ..
Erwin Bauer
Erwin Bauer (born July 17 1912 in Stuttgart, Germany; died June 3 1958) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Veritas team. he became famous for racing an undermatched Lotus to a fourth place in the 1954 1000km Nürburgring, and thus, providing Lotus with one of its earliest successes. His sole..
Erwin Baur
Erwin Baur (1875 - 1933) was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics, he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for plant breeding research (since 1938 Erwin Baur-Institude). Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology and discovered the inheritance of p..
Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was a famous American photographer of German origin. In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was interned in a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish. In 1941, he could escape to ..
Erwin Bumke
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke (born 7 July 1874 in Stolp, Pomerania, nowadays Słupsk, Poland; died 20 April 1945 in Leipzig) was the last president of the Reichsgericht, Germany's old Imperial Court. Bumke's family background was Pomeranian middle class. His father was a doctor and his mother a factor..
Erwin C. Dietrich
Erwin C. Dietrich (born October 4 1930 in St. Gallen) is a Swiss film producer, director and writer, mainly of exploitation vehicles like "Ranch of the Nymphomaniac Girls", "Barbed Wire Dolls", and "The Erotic Adventures of Robin Hood". Dietrich produced films as early as 1955 but began his most p..
Erwin Chamberlain
Erwin Groves "Murph" Chamberlain (Born February 14, 1915 in Shawville, Quebec) was a professional hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Brooklyn Americans and Boston Bruins of the NHL. Contents 1 Playing Career2 Coaching Career3 Achievements4 External ..
Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff (August 11, 1905 – June 20, 2002) was an Austrian biochemist. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA. Chargaff had one son, Thomas, with his wife Vera Broido, who he married in 192..
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky (born 1953) is a nationally known professor of Constitutional law and federal civil procedure, currently teaching at the Duke University School of Law, a position which he has held since July 1, 2004. Before that, he taught for over twenty years at the University of Southern Califo..
Erwin Degraff
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Erwin Emata
Erwin "Pastor" Emata (born 1973 in Davao City) is a mountain climber, disputedly the second Filipino to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Like Leo Oracion, disputedly the first Filipino to reach Mount Everest's summit, he is a member of the First Philippine Mount E..
Erwin Engst
Erwin (Sid) Engst (1919 - 2003, Chinese name: Yáng Zǎo 阳早) was an American advisor to the People's Republic to China. He moved to China in 1946 to assist in developments in agriculture and later to participate in the construction of that country's socialist economy. He married Joan Hinton in 1..
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
Einstein Tower in Potsdam Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (May 29, 1885 - July 24, 1964) [Scottish name:"Finlay"] was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Biebrich, Germany. Freundlich was a working associate of Albert Einstein and introduced experiments for which the g..
Erwin George Baker
Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker (1882-May 10, 1960) was an automobile racing driver and organizer in the first half of the 20th century. Baker is famous for his record-setting point-to-point drives, in which he was paid to promote the products of various automobile manufacturers. Baker also raced..
Erwin Griswold
Erwin Griswold (1904-1994) was a prominent American lawyer. He served as Solicitor General of the United States (1967-1973) under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. He also served as Dean of Harvard Law School for 21 years. During a career that spanned more than six decades, he serv..
Erwin Hahn
Erwin Hahn (born 1921) is a U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He has been Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley since 1991 and was professor of physics, 1955-91. External link Official biography: [link] ..
Erwin Hillier
Erwin Hillier (September 2 1911 – January 10 2005) was German-born cinematographer known for his work in British cinema from the 1940s to 1960s. Contents 1 Early career2 Work with The Archers3 Post-war career4 External links Early career Born in Germany to English-Germ..
Erwin Hinckly Barbour
Erwin Hinckly Barbour, Ph. D ( 1856 - ? ) was an American geologist, born near Oxford, Ohio, and educated at Miami University and at Yale, where he graduated in 1882. He was assistant paleontologist to the United States Geological Survey from 1882 to 1888. He was employed in various places thereaf..
Erwin Keller
Erwin Keller (born on April 8, 1905 – died 1971) is a former field hockey player from Germany, who won the silver medal for his native country at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. His son Carsten was also a top hockey player, and captured the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Two of..
Erwin Koeman
Erwin Koeman (born September 20, 1961 in Zaandam) is a Dutch football head coach and former player, who's nickname is Snertwin. He is the older brother of Ronald Koeman. Koeman was a midfielder for the Dutch team that won the Euro 1988 and featured in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. In total Erwin Koeman ..
Erwin Komenda
Erwin Komenda (April 6, 1904 - August 22, 1966) was the designer of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars. He was born in Weyer, a little village in Upper Austria near Steyr. From 1926 to 1929 he worked as a car-body designer in the Steyrer factories. There he met Ferdinand ..
Erwin König
The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Erwin Koenig. Major Erwin König (also known as Heinz Thorvald) was reputedly the best German sniper during World War II, with more than 400 kills. While Soviet sources pitted..
Erwin Kreyszig
Erwin Kreyszig (January 6, 1922 - ) was a Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. He completed his Ph.D. in 1979. He is a pioneer in the relatively new field of applied mathematics: non wave replicating linear systems. He is also a distinguished author with the textbook Advanced Engineeri..
Erwin Krüger
Erwin Krüger (1915-1973) was a Nicaraguan folklore poet and singer. He was born in León, Nicaragua to a German father and Nicaraguan mother. ..
Erwin Lanc
Erwin Lanc (born May 17, 1930) is a former Austrian bank employee and politician (SPÖ, Austrian Social Democratic Party). Born in Vienna, Lance worked at the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1949 to 1955. In 1959, he joined the Vienna bank Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank. In 1966, he became ch..
Erwin Lemmens
Erwin Lemmens is an experienced and much-travelled Belgian goalkeeper. Contents 1 Profile2 National team3 Club4 2004/05 Profile Team: Olympiacos Date of birth: 12.05.1976 Country: Belgium Position: Goalkeeper National team Lemmens won two caps for Belgium in 2004. Club Lemm..
Erwin Lindner
Erwin Lindner ( 1888 – 1988 ) was a German entomologist mainly interested in Diptera He was born in Böglins, Memmingen , 7 April 1888 and died in Stuttgart 30 November 1988, aged 100 years. In 1913 Erwin Lindner (1888-1988) joined the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart [link�..
Erwin Mortier
Erwin Mortier Erwin Mortier (born November 28, 1965) is a Belgian author, originally writing in Dutch. He lived his youth in a village near Ghent, where he moved by the end of the 20th century. He wrote as a columnist for newspapers like De Morgen and published several novels (only those tran..
Erwin Müller
Erwin Wilhelm Müller or Erwin Wilhelm Mueller (June 13, 1911, in Berlin – May 17, 1977, in Washington D.C.) was a German-born physicist who invented the field emission microscope, the field ion microscope, and the atom probe. He was the first person to experimentally observe atoms. Müller ..
Erwin N. Griswold
Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (July 14 1904 - November 19 1994) was born to parents James Harlen and Hope (Erwin) in East Cleveland, Ohio. Griswold graduated from Oberlin College in 1925. In 1928, Griswold graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. Throughout his career he received numerous hon..
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher (born March 20, 1944) in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria is a German biologist. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.Along with Bert Sakmann, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Me..
Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff
Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff (born 24 November, 1949) is a Danish author and philosopher having published within genres of science fiction, science, horror, and prose. Contents 1 Life2 Competencies and Influence3 Activities and Interests4 Works4.1 Demons and computers4.2 Bri..
Erwin Nyc
Erwin (Edward) Piotr Nyc (May 24, 1914 in Katowice - May 1, 1988) is an interwar Polish soccer midfield player of Upper Silesian origin. Born Erwin Nytz, he changed his last name to its Polonized version in 1934 and during the Second World War again changed his name to Nytz. In late 1930s Nyc play..
Erwin Panofsky
Erwin Panofsky (30 March 1892 - 14 March 1968) was a German art historian and essayist often credited with the founding of the academic iconography. His most well-known work is Studies in Iconology : Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939, reissued 1972). Contents 1 Career2&nbs..
Erwin Piscator
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator, (December 17, 1893 – March 30, 1966) was a German theatrical director and producer who, with Bertolt Brecht, was the foremost exponent of epic theater, a genre that emphasizes the sociopolitical context rather than the emotional content or aesthetics of the pla..
Erwin Planck
Erwin Planck (born 12 March 1893; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German politician, and a resistance fighter in the Third Reich. Erwin Planck was theoretical physicist Max Planck's and his first wife's fourth child. After his Abitur in 1911, Planck went into the military and pursued a care..
Erwin Pröll
Dr. Erwin Pröll (born December, 24th in Radbrunn,Niederösterreich) is an Austria politician of the ÖVP. Since October, 22nd 1992 he’s the governor (Landeshauptmann) of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich). He’s the longest serving governor (13 years of continuous service) in Austria. Pröll is ..
Erwin Raphael McManus
Erwin Raphael McManus serves as lead pastor of Mosaic non-denominational church in Los Angeles, California. He is also currently a professor at Bethel Theological Seminary, and a prominent figure in the emerging church movement. Family He and his wife Kim have two children Aaron and Mariah. Book..
Erwin Raphael McManus.
Erwin Raphael McManus is a husband, father, writer, futurist, activist and spiritual and cultural leader. He also serves as the lead pastor and Cultural Architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles, California, a community of followers of Jesus Christ committed to live by faith, to be known by love, and to..
Erwin Ratz
Erwin Ratz (1898 - 1973) was an Austrian musicologist and music theorist. He studied musicology with Guido Adler and composition with Arnold Schoenberg and was active in the Schoenberg circle. In the 1920s he worked at the Bauhaus. After World War II he was a professor of musical form and analysi..
Erwin Riess
Erwin Riess, playwright and dramatist was born on March 13, 1957 in Vienna, Austria. He attended school in Krems, Austria and later returned to Vienna to study policy and theatre science. In 1983 he was relegated to a wheelchair after the discovery of a back tumor. He has since been active in dis..
Erwin Ringel
Erwin Ringel Erwin Ringel (April 27, 1921 – July 28, 1994) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who dedicated his life to suicide prevention and who, in 1960, defined the presuicidal syndrome. In 1960 he founded the [IASP - International Association for Suicide Prevention]..
Erwin Rohde
Erwin Rohde Erwin Rohde (October 9, 1845 - January 11, 1898) was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Rohde was born in Hamburg and was the son of a doctor. Outside of antiquarian circles, Rohde is known today chiefly for his friendship and correspo..
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ([listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info])) (November 15 1891 – October 14 1944) was one of the most distinguished German Field Marshals of World War II. He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known by the nickn..
Erwin Sánchez
Erwin Sánchez (born October 19, 1969 in Santa Cruz) is a former Bolivian footballer and a current football manager. A striker, he was a leading player for Bolivian national team both in the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifyings and finals. He started his career at Club Destroyers, and was signed to SL B..
Erwin Schild
Erwin Schild (born 1920) is a Canadian Conservative rabbi and author. Born in Cologne, Germany, a Holocaust survivor of the Dachau concentration camp , he is the author of World Through My Window (ISBN 0969622600) and his autobiography The very narrow bridge: a memoir of an uncertain passage (ISBN ..
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger, as depicted on the former Austrian 1000 Schilling bank note. Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961), an Austrian physicist,..
Erwin Schulhoff
Erwin Schulhoff (June 8, 1894 – August 18, 1942) was a Czech composer and pianist of Jewish-German origin. Born in Prague, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germa..
Erwin Stein
Erwin Stein (1885-1958) was a Viennese musician and writer, prominent as a pupil and friend of Schoenberg, with whom he studied between 1906 and 1910. He was one of Schoenberg’s principal assistants in organizing the Society for Private Musical Performances. Until 1938 he lived in Vienna, where he..
Erwin Straus
Erwin Straus (1891-1975), a phenomenologist and neurologist of European origin, helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings. His books published i..
Erwin Strauss
Erwin S. Strauss is an American author and filk musician, was born in Washington, D.C., USA. He frequently goes by the nickname "Filthy Pierre." Strauss is a filk musician and creator of the Voodoo message board system used at WorldCons and also seen at Arisia, a Boston-area convention which has ex..
Erwin Stresemann
Erwin Stresemann (November 22, 1889 - November 20, 1972) was a German ornithologist. Stresemann was one of the outstanding ornithologists of the 20th century. From 1921 onwards he was in charge of the bird department of the Berlin Zoological Museum, and encouraged a number of young German scientist..
Erwin Teufel
Erwin Teufel (born September 4 1939 in Rottweil) is a German politician of the CDU. He was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg from 1991 to 2005. Teufel is an honorary member of A.V. Cheruskia Tübingen, a catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband. |- style="text-alig..
Erwin Township, Michigan
Erwin Township is a township in Gogebic County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 357 at the 2000 census. The township is just south of Ironwood. The Montreal River is the western boundary, with Wisconsin on the other side and to the south. Bessemer Township is on the east and north..
Erwin Vandenbergh
Erwin Vandenbergh (born January 26, 1959) was a legendary Belgian football striker. Between 1979 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division, with three different clubs (the first three with Lierse S.K., the following two with R.S.C. Anderlecht, and the last one with K.A...
Erwin Van Den Daele
Erwin Van Den Daele was a Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1971 while at Club Brugge. He played 32 times for the national team between 1970 and 1977, starting in a 1-2 friendly defeat to France on November 15, 1970. In the summer of 1974 Van Den Daele moved to the rival A..
Erwin von Lahousen
General Erwin Lahousen testifying against Hermann Göring and 21 other Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg war crimes trial in 1946. Generalmajor Erwin von Lahousen (1897 - 1955) was Chief of German sabotage during World War II and a key player in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. An Austr..
Erwin von Witzleben
Job-Wilhelm Georg "Erwin" von Witzleben (born 4 December 1881 in Breslau; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German army officer (by 1940 a Generalfeldmarschall) and in the Second World War an Army commander and a resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot.[[link] Contents 1 ..
Erwitte
Erwitte is a town and a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 8 km south of Lippstadt and 15 km east of Soest. Officially the Town of Erwitte is mentioned in the year 836 and a middleage Architecture can still be seen in the Towns center. I..
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