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European Space Operations Center
(Encyclopedia)European Space Operations Center (ESOC): see European Space Agency. ...European Space Research Institute
(Encyclopedia)European Space Research Institute (ESRIN): see European Space Agency. ...European Space Research Organization
(Encyclopedia)European Space Research Organization (ESRO): see European Space Agency. ...European Court of Justice
(Encyclopedia)European Court of Justice: see Court of Justice of the European Union. ...European Free Trade Association
(Encyclopedia)European Free Trade Association (EFTA), customs union and trading bloc; its current members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. EFTA was established in 1960 by Austria, Denmark, Great...European Atomic Energy Community
(Encyclopedia)European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom or EAEC), economic organization that came into being as the 3d treaty organization of what has become the European Union; established by the Treaty of Rome (1...Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(Encyclopedia)Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), civil-rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr., and headed by him until his assassination in 1968. Composed largely of African-Am...Council of the European Union
(Encyclopedia)Council of the European Union, institution of the European Union (EU) that has the final vote on legislation proposed by the European Commission and approved by the European Parliament; in some cases ...El Niño–Southern Oscillation
(Encyclopedia)El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ĕl nēnˈyō [key], large-scale climatic fluctuation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the overlying atmosphere. The El Niño [Span.,=the child] is the South Am...Aa, in European place names
(Encyclopedia)Aa ä [key] [from a word for “water” of the same Indo-European root as Lat. aqua], name of many small streams of N Europe and Switzerland. Aa, or a derivative of it, is a component part of hundred...Browse by Subject
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