Julius Erving
Julius Erving is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim.
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Julius Erving is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim.
The European Extremely Large Telescope will be a ground-based astronomical observatory with a 42-meter diameter segmented mirror. The design features a filled aperture mirror with an area of 1,300 m². The telescope's "eye" will be almost half the length of a soccer pitch in diameter and will gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today. If completed it will become the largest of a new generation of Extremely Large Telescopes.
Everclear is a brand of neutral grain spirit that is available at concentrations of 75.5% alcohol (151 proof) and 95% alcohol (190 proof). Due to its high alcohol content, Everclear is illegal, unavailable, or difficult to find in many areas.
Elie Nadelman was Polish-born sculptor whose mannered curvilinear human figures greatly influenced early 20th-century American sculpture.
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome.
Elevator surfing is an activity involving moving around on top of elevators, or jumping between moving elevators where possible.
Pour batter onto a griddle and watch the mixture spread out into a round-shaped pancake. The movement is similar to the flow of piedmont glaciers, which form when ice spills from a steep valley onto a relatively flat plain. These glaciers are known for their nearly symmetric, fan-shaped lobes. The shape of Greenland’s Elephant Foot Glacier is so distinct that it stands out dramatically from its surroundings when viewed from space.
Eugène Mercier was a ‘big’ man with life-size ideas that were also useful for publicity, so it was no surprise that the champagne cellars that he built were out of the ordinary. In 1871, he decided to build an authentic underground town. “Count in kilometres, not metres”, were his instructions to the architect in charge of the project. It took six years to excavate the 47 tunnels covering 18 kilometres of single level cellars with a direct connection to the Paris-Strasbourg railway line. Eugène thought of the cellars not just as a facility for champagne production, but also as a place to visit and learn. He opened his cellars to the public as early as 1885. The staff members were given the task to welcome and guide visitors through the cellars. They were able to enjoy the work of local sculptor Gustave-Andre Navlet who had been commissioned to carve high reliefs from the chalk. These tours, which are nowadays an everyday event in Champagne, helped to increase Mercier brand recognition. This was the first time that Eugene Mercier demonstrated his excellent marketing savvy. Among the many famous visitors, which Eugène Mercier warmly received, was the President of France, Sadi Carnot. On 19 September 1871, at half past three in the afternoon, a guided tour by horse-drawn carriage of the torch-lit cellars was made for the President. Eugène Mercier also installed electrical appliances, avant-garde for the time, as well as a steam engine to light the caves and supply power to a network of machines in a number of different workshops.
Elliott Erwitt is a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings.
Edward Leedskalnin was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who, it is alleged, single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his unusual theories on magnetism.