E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)


E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)


Quotes·Quotation by E.T.

Pat Welsh as E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

¶ E.T. phone home.

Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell


Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan O'Connell from 'The Mummy', 'The Mummy Returns', and 'Maria Bello in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'

Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell (Rachel Weisz in'The Mummy', 'The Mummy Returns', and 'Maria Bello in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor') is the second protagonist of the series, a clever, intelligent, but clumsy Egyptologist in Cairo's Museum of Antiquities. She, along with Rick and her brother Jonathan, travels to the lost city of Hamunaptra, where she hopes to find a rare, ancient book. The book of Amun-Ra. When some Americans find a book (not the golden book of Amun-Ra, but in fact the Book of the Dead which gives life), Evie steals the book from the sleeping American Egyptologist and reads a page of it. This unintentionally resurrects the titular mummy, Imhotep. Imhotep wants to use her body as a vessel to resurrect his long-dead lover, Anck-Su-Namun, and he takes Evie captive. Upon being rescued, she reads a page from the book of Amun-Ra, rendering Imhotep mortal. Rick then pierces Imhotep in the stomach. While he dies, he returns to his original undead form as a rotting corpse with the final parting words which Evie translates as "Death is only the beginning". Evie shows little fighting skill but much bravery, such as when she attempts to shoot a Medjai with Rick's gun, and fights Anck-Su-Namun. In the first part of the film she thinks Rick is a "no good, complete scoundrel" and states that she "doesn't like him one bit". However, as the film progresses he slowly gains her trust and they eventually fall in love.


Quotes·Quotations by Evelyn Carnahan

Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan from The Mummy (1999)


¶ If you call that a kiss.

¶ It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Mummy_characters

Eve Myles (1978- )


Eve Myles (1978- )

Eve Myles (born 8 July 1978) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Gwen Cooper in the Doctor Who television spin-off show Torchwood, Ceri Owen in the BBC Wales drama Belonging and Lady Helen of Mora on the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin.


Quotes·Quotations by Eve Myles

Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper from Torchwood

¶ Martha: Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations.
Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student?
Martha: Student loans company?
Gwen: Yeah, I think you just cracked it.
[They both laugh.]
[Torchwood, Reset (2.6)]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Myles

Eva Green (1980- )


Eva Green (1980- )

Eva Gaëlle Green (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈgʁeːn]; born 5 July 1980) is a French actress and model. Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film, The Dreamers. Green quickly achieved greater fame by appearing in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and as Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). In 2006, Green was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Since 2006, Green has starred in many independent films, including Womb, Perfect Sense, and Cracks. She has more recently appeared in the television series Camelot, and played Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows.



Quotes·Quotations by Eva Green from Casino Royale

Eva Green as Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale (2006)

¶ I don't believe you. You've got a choice, you know. Just because you've done something doesn't mean you have to keep doing it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Green

Eva Gabor (1919-1995)


Eva Gabor (1919-1995)

Éva Gábor (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born American socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on the 1965 to 1971 television sitcom, Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas. She portrayed Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gábor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television; she was also successful in business, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor, were also American actresses and socialites.


Quotes·Quotation by Eva Gabor

Love

¶ Love is a game that two can play and both win.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gabor

Sam Levenson (1911-1980)


Sam Levenson (1911-1980)

Sam Levenson (December 28, 1911 – August 27, 1980) was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist.


Quotes·Quotations by ***

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Levenson

Ethiopia


Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ
ye-Ītyōṗṗyā Fēdēralāwī Dīmōkrāsīyāwī Rīpeblīk

Ethiopia ( /ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/) (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, located in the Horn of Africa, and is the most populous landlocked country in the world. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. Ethiopia is the second-most populous nation on the African continent, with over 84,320,000 inhabitants, and the tenth largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2. The capital is Addis Ababa, known as "the political capital of Africa," as it is home to the headquarters of many international organizations.

Ethiopia is one of the oldest sites of human existence known to scientists. It may be the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history, and the Ethiopian dynasty traces its roots to the 2nd century BC. Alongside Rome, Persia, China and India, the Kingdom of Aksum was one of the great world powers of the 3rd century. During the Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only African country beside Liberia that retained its sovereignty as a recognized independent country, and was one of only four African members of the League of Nations. Ethiopia then became a founding member of the UN. When other African nations received their independence following World War II, many of them adopted the colors of Ethiopia's flag, and Addis Ababa became the location of several international organizations focused on Africa. Ethiopia is one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, G-77 and the Organisation of African Unity. Addis Ababa is currently the headquarters of the African Union, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce, UNECA and the African Standby Force. Ethiopia has seen a variety of governmental systems after the dynasty led by Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974.

The ancient Ge'ez script is widely used in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar. The country is a multilingual and multiethnic society of around 80 groups, with the two largest being the Oromo and the Amhara, both of which speak Afro-Asiatic languages. The majority of the population is Christian while a third of it is Muslim, with both religions having strong roots in the country. A substantial population of Ethiopian Jews resided in Ethiopia until the 1980s. The country is also the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari movement. There are 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ethiopia.

Despite being the major source of the Nile river, Ethiopia underwent a series of famines in the 1980s, exacerbated by adverse geopolitics and civil wars. The country has begun to recover, and it now has the biggest economies by GDP in East Africa and Central Africa. Ethiopia follows a federal republic political system and EPRDF has been the ruling party since 1991.


Ethiopian Proverb

Evil

¶ Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia

Ethel Thayer (On Golden Pond)


Ethel Thayer from On Golden Pond (1981)


Quotes·Quotation by Ethel Thayer

Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer from On Golden Pond

¶ You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're gonna get back up on that horse and I'm gonna be right behind you holding on tight and away we're gonna go, go, go.

Esperanto


Esperanto

Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.[1] Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto ("Esperanto" translates as "one who hopes"), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, on July 26, 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that transcends nationality and would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and/or national languages. Nowadays Esperanto is seen by Esperantists as a positive alternative to the growing use of English throughout the world. Esperanto is found as an ethical solution (for the threat about the cultural and linguistic diversity related to the expansion of English[2]) as well as an economical alternative (for foreigners the learning of Esperanto is much easier than the learning of English).[3]

Estimates of Esperanto speakers range from 10,000 to 2,000,000 active or fluent speakers, as well as perhaps a thousand native speakers, that is, people who learned Esperanto from birth as one of their native languages. Esperanto has a notable presence in over a hundred countries. Usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America.[4]

The first World Congress of Esperanto was organized in France in 1905. Since then congresses have been held in various countries every year with the exception of years in which there were world wars. Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO (which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states). In 2007 Esperanto was the 32nd language that adhered to the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR)".[5] Esperanto is currently the language of instruction of the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino.[6] There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a superior foundation for learning languages in general, and some primary schools teach it as preparation for learning other foreign languages.[7] On February 22, 2012, Google Translate added Esperanto as its 64th language.[8]


Esperanto Proverbs

Friend

¶ Amikon montras malfeliĉo.
Translation: A friend shows in misfortune.
Idiomatic translation: A friend is known in adversity, like gold is known in fire.


References

[1]^ Zasky, Jason (2009-07-20), "Discouraging Words", Failure Magazine, "But in terms of invented languages, it’s the most outlandishly successful invented language ever. It has thousands of speakers—even native speakers—and that’s a major accomplishment as compared to the 900 or so other languages that have no speakers. - Arika Okrent"
[2]^ Grin Report
[3]^ Grin Report, page 81 "Thus Flochon (2000: 109) notes that 'the Institute of Cybernetic Education of Paderborn (Germany) has compared the learning times of several groups of French-speaking baccalauréat students to reach an equivalent "standard" level in four different languages: Esperanto, English, German and Italian. The results are as follows: to reach this level, 2000 hours of German study produce a linguistic level equivalent to 1500 hours of English study, 1000 hours of Italian study and ... 150 hours of Esperanto study.' No comment." Other estimates scattered in the literature confirm faster achievement in target language skills in Esperanto than in all the other languages with which the comparison has been made (Ministry of Education [Italy], 1995) as well as propaedeutic benefits of Esperanto (Corsetti and La Torre, 1995)."
[4]^ Overview of the spread of Esperanto speakers worldwide.
[5]^ Official European CEFR papers in Esperanto.
[6]^ a b "Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS) San-Marino". Ais-sanmarino.org. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
[7]^ YouTube: Learn Esperanto first: Tim Morley at TEDxGranta
[8]^ Brants, Thorsten (February 22, 2012). "Tutmonda helplingvo por ĉiuj homoj". Google Translate Blog. Google. Retrieved August 14, 2012.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Esperanto_proverbs

Eskimo


Eskimo

Eskimos (or Esquimaux) or Inuit–Yupik (for Alaska: Inupiat–Yupik) peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States), Canada, and Greenland.

There are two main groups that are referred to as Eskimo: Yupik and Inuit. A third group, the Aleut, is related. The Yupik language dialects and cultures in Alaska and eastern Siberia have evolved in place beginning with the original (pre-Dorset) Eskimo culture that developed in Alaska. Approximately 4,000 years ago the Unangan (also known as Aleut) culture became distinctly separate, and evolved into a non-Eskimo culture. Approximately 1,500–2,000 years ago, apparently in Northwestern Alaska, two other distinct variations appeared. The Inuit language branch became distinct and in only several hundred years spread across northern Alaska, Canada and into Greenland. At about the same time, the technology of the Thule people developed in northwestern Alaska and very quickly spread over the entire area occupied by Eskimo people, though it was not necessarily adopted by all of them.

The earliest known Eskimo cultures (pre-Dorset) date to 5,000 years ago. They appear to have evolved in Alaska from people using the Arctic small tool tradition who probably had migrated to Alaska from Siberia at least 2,000 to 3,000 years earlier, though they might have been in Alaska as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years or more. There are similar artifacts found in Siberia going back perhaps 18,000 years.

Today, the two main groups of Eskimos are the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the Yupik of Central Alaska. The Yupik comprises speakers of four distinct Yupik languages originated from the western Alaska, in South Central Alaska along the Gulf of Alaska coast, and the Russian Far East.

The term Eskimo is commonly used by those in the lower 48 and in Alaska to include both Yupik and Inupiat. No universal term other than Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, exists for the Inuit and Yupik peoples. In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit. The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982, sections 25 and 35 recognized the Inuit as a distinctive group of aboriginal peoples in Canada.


Eskimo Proverb

Attitude

¶ Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

Evan Esar (1899-1995)


Evan Esar (1899-1995)

Evan Esar (1899–1995) was an American humorist who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968. He is known for quotes like "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." He also wrote The Legend of Joe Miller, which was privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in 1957.

His quotes are commonly found in Crossword puzzles


Quotes·Quotations by Evan Esar

Education

¶ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Esar

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)


Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.

After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.


Quotes·Quotation by Ernest Hemingway

Advice

¶ Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. [The Old Man and the Sea]

¶ We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. [New York Journal-American]

¶ We do not find the deep truths of life; they find us. [Advice to a young man ‘Playboy']

Death·Immortality

¶ The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. [“A Farewell to Arms” Ch. 34]

Food·Dieting

¶ This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. [“The Sun Also Rises” in Book 1, Ch. 7]

Happiness

¶ Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. [“The Garden of Eden” Ch. 11]

Success·Failure

¶ If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. [“For Whom the Bell Tolls ” Ch 43]

War

¶ Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Writing·Reading

¶ A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. [Nobel Prize Speech]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Ernestine Ulmer


Ernestine Ulmer


Quotes·Quotation

Life

¶ Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)


Erma Louise Bombeck (1927-1996)

Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.

From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife with broad, and sometimes eloquent humor. By the 1970s, her columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of the 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.


Quotes·Quotation

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. [Advice]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)


Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.


Quotes·Quotations by Erich Fromm

Love

¶ Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." [The Art of Loving (1956)]

Solitude·Self-reliance

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm

Eric Delko (CSI: Miami)


Eric Delko

Detective Eric Delko (né Delektorsky)[1] is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by Adam Rodríguez.


Quotes·Quotations by Eric Delko

Adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko from CSI: Miami

¶ Natalia: I'm late!
Eric: For what?!
Natalia: I'm late!
Eric: What we gonna do?
Natalia: [laughs]
Eric: WHAT?
Natalia: It's just nice. You said 'we'.
Eric: It takes two to tango.


References

[1]^ http://www.aetv.com/csi_miami/csi_cast_and_crew.jsp?index=1&type=character


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Delko

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)


Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen,[1] although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.[2] In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005.


Quotes·Quotations by Eric Hoffer

Awareness

¶ To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.


References

[1]^ "Hoffer, Eric". Encyclopædia Britannica, from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003 Ultimate Reference Suite CD-ROM. Copyright 1994–2002 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. May 30, 2002.
[2]^ According to longtime companion Lili Fabilli Osborne executrix of the Hoffer Estate; also noted in personal archives stored at the Hoover Institute.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer

Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.


Automobiles and transport

@ I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes

Epictetus (AD55-AD135)


Epictetus (AD55-AD135)

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty to care for all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness and peace of mind.


Quotes·Quotation by Epictetus

Attitude

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus

Epick High


Epick High

Epik High (Hangul: 에픽하이) is a South Korean alternative hip-hop group from Seoul, composed of Tablo, Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz. The group is known for combining different styles of hip hop, along with different musical genres and collaborations on each album. The group has been on hiatus since 2009 whilst members served individual mandatory military service. On July 25, 2012, YG Entertainment announced that they would sign Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz (Tablo already being signed as he had a solo album under YG) and the group would return with their seventh studio album 99 on October 23, 2012.


Quotes·Quotations by Epick High

Challenge

¶ Even though I’m crawling on the ground tonight,
Tomorrow I’m going up to the sky.
Even if the wind is wild I’m goin’ up
[Up by Epick High featuring by PARK Bom of 2NE1]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_High

England and English


England and English

England

England (i/ˈɪŋɡlənd/) is the most populous country in the United Kingdom.[5][6][7] It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world.[8] The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations.[9] The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation.[10]

England's terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north (for example, the mountainous Lake District, Pennines, and Yorkshire Dales) and in the south west (for example, Dartmoor and the Cotswolds). The former capital of England was Winchester until replaced by London in 1066. Today London is the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures.[nb 3] England's population is about 53 million, around 84% of the population of the United Kingdom, and is largely concentrated in London, the South East and conurbations in the Midlands, the North West, the North East and Yorkshire, which each developed as major industrial regions during the 19th century. Meadowlands and pastures are found beyond the major cities.

The Kingdom of England—which after 1284 included Wales—was a sovereign state until 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union put into effect the terms agreed in the Treaty of Union the previous year, resulting in a political union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.[11][12] In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the Irish Free State was established as a separate dominion, but the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 reincorporated into the kingdom six Irish counties to officially create the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England


English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is a country of the United Kingdom, and English people in England are British Citizens. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain after the fifth century AD.[7]

Historically, the English population is descended from several genetically similar peoples—the earlier Britons (or Brythons), the Germanic tribes that settled in the region, including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, who founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland), and the later Danes, Normans and other groups. Following the Act of Union in 1707, in which the Kingdom of England became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain,[8] English customs and identity became closely aligned with British customs and identity.

Today, some English people have recent forbears from other parts of the United Kingdom, while some are also descended from more recent immigrants from other European countries and from the Commonwealth.

The English people are the source of the English language, the parliamentary system, the common law system and numerous major sports. These and other English cultural characteristics have spread worldwide, in part as a result of the former British Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people


English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world.[4] It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.[5] It is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of the European Union, many Commonwealth countries and the United Nations, as well as in many world organisations.

English arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and what is now southeast Scotland. Following the extensive influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 17th century to the mid-20th century, through the British Empire, and also of the United States since the mid-20th century,[6][7][8][9] it has been widely propagated around the world, becoming the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions.[10][11]

Historically, English originated from the fusion of closely related dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic settlers (Anglo-Saxons) by the 5th century – with the word English being derived from the name of the Angles,[12] and ultimately from their ancestral region of Angeln (in what is now Schleswig-Holstein). A significant number of English words are constructed on the basis of roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life.[13] The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language because of Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century gave rise to heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the appearance of a close relationship with Romance languages[14][15] to what had then become Middle English. The Great Vowel Shift that began in the south of England in the 15th century is one of the historical events that mark the emergence of Modern English from Middle English.

Owing to the assimilation of words from many other languages throughout history, modern English contains a very large vocabulary, with complex and irregular spelling, particularly of vowels. Modern English has not only assimilated words from other European languages, but from all over the world. The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 distinct words, not including many technical, scientific, and slang terms.[16][17]

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English Proverbs

Endeavor

¶ Many a man has turned and left the dock just before his ship come in.


Notes

England

[nb 3]^ According to the European Statistical Agency, London is the largest Larger Urban Zone which uses conurbations and areas of high population as its definition. A ranking of population within municipal boundaries places London first. However, the University of Avignon in France claims that Paris is first and London second when including the whole urban area and hinterland, that is the outlying cities as well.

[5]^ Office for National Statistics. "The Countries of the UK". statistics.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[6]^ "Countries within a country". number-10.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[7]^ "Changes in the list of subdivision names and code elements (Page 11)" (PDF). International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[8]^ "England – Culture". britainusa.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[9]^ "Country profile: United Kingdom". BBC News (news.bbc.co.uk). 26 October 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[10]^ "Industrial Revolution". Ace.mmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
[11]^ William E. Burns, A Brief History of Great Britain, p. xxi
[12]^ Acts of Union 1707 parliament.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2011

English people

[7]^ "Online Etymology Dictionary". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
[8]^ "Act of Union 1707". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2010.

English language

[4]^ Seth Mydans (14 May 2007) "Across cultures, English is the word" New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2011
[5]^ a b "Ethnologue, 1999". Archived from the original on 29 April 1999. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
[6]^ Ammon, pp. 2245–2247.
[7]^ Schneider, p. 1.
[8]^ Mazrui, p. 21.
[9]^ Howatt, pp. 127–133.
[10]^ Crystal, pp. 87–89.
[11]^ Wardhaugh, p. 60.
[12]^ "English – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-webster.com. 25 April 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
[13]^ a b Daniel Weissbort (2006). "Translation: theory and practice : a historical reader". p.100. Oxford University Press, 2006
[14]^ "Words on the brain: from 1 million years ago?". History of language. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
[15]^ Albert C. Baugh & Thomas Cable (1978). "Latin Influences on Old English". An excerpt from Foreign Influences on Old English. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
[16]^ "How many words are there in the English Language?". Oxforddictionaries.com.
[17]^ "Vista Worldwide Language Statistics". Vistawide.com. Retrieved 31 October 2010.


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Emmanuelle Chriqui (1977- )



Emmanuelle Chriqui (1977- )

Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (English pronunciation: /ɨˈmænjuːl ˈʃriːki/; born December 10, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her role on HBO's Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as the love interest of Adam Sandler in the movie You Don't Mess with the Zohan. In May 2010, she topped the AskMen.com Most Desirable Women of 2010 list.


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Emma Morley (One Day, 2011)


Emma Morley (One Day, 2011)


Quotes·Quotations by Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway as Emma Morley from One Day (2011)

¶ Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.

Emma Frost


Emma Frost

Emma Grace Frost is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980), and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne.

An urbane, mutant telepath with a well-noted dry wit initially known as the White Queen, Frost has evolved from one of the X-Men's most dangerous foes to one of its most central members.

The character placed #30 as Marvel's highest ranking female on Empire's Top 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters in 2008 and took 69th place on Wizard’s 200 Greatest Characters of All Time List in 2008, ranking ahead of other X-Men with more extensive histories. She was ranked fifth in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.

Actress January Jones portrays the character in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class.


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Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848), one of the Brontë sisters, was an English novelist and poet who is most famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.


@ Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idle froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The stedfast rock of immortality. [No Coward Soul Is Mine (1848)]

Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)


Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)

Emily Prentiss is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Paget Brewster. Prentiss first appeared in "The Last Word" - episode nine of season two, replacing Agent Elle Greenaway who had quit in "The Boogeyman". Her role in the show's sixth season was reduced, for what Brewster believed to be financial reasons, However, reports on May 28, 2011 at Deadline confirmed that Brewster would be returning to her role for the show's seventh season.

On February 15, 2012, Brewster revealed in a statement that the seventh season would be her final season on the show. Brewster's final episode as a main cast member on the show was on the May 16, 2012 episode "Run".


Quotes·Quotations by Emily Prentiss

Paget Brewster as Emily Prentiss from Criminal Minds

¶ "Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb. [4x05 Catching Out (2008)]

¶ [closing quote, voiceover] "Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould. [4x05 Catching Out (2008)]

@ Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars." [Criminal Minds 04.09 52 Pickup]

@ Leonardo da Vinci said, "He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done." [Criminal Minds 04.17 Demonology]


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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.


Quotes·Quotations by Emily Dickinson

Hope

¶ Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Spring

¶ A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Winter

¶ There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--


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Émile Zola (1840-1902)


Émile Zola (1840-1902)

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [e.mil zɔ.la]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse.


Quotes·Quotation

Arts

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.


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