EA 



Ea. God of Babylonian myth- 

 ology. He is said to have arisen out 

 of the Persian Gulf, bringing with 

 him the elements of culture. He 

 was the god of wisdom and of 

 life, the trees of which grew under 

 his protection in the Babylonian 

 Paradise, which was watered by 

 the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, 

 created by him at the beginning 

 of time. He was also known as the 

 potter who moulded gods and men. 

 Eade, SIR PETER (1825-1915). 

 British physician. He was born at 

 Acle, Norfolk, Jan. 19, 1825, and 

 educated a t 

 Yarmouth 

 Grammar 

 School and 

 King's College, 

 London. H e 

 graduated 

 M.D. at Lon- 

 don University , 

 1 850, and prac- 

 tised in Nor- 

 wich for fifty 

 years. He was president of the 

 British Medical Association, 1874; 

 sheriff of Norfolk, 1880-81; and 

 twice mayor of Norwich. He was 

 the author of Notes on Diphtheria, 

 1883; and Influenza, 1891; and 

 part author of a report on the cattle 

 plague in Norfolk, 1865. He also 

 wrote on the topography of Nor- 

 wich. He was knightedlSSo, and 

 died Aug. 12, 1915. See Autobio- 

 graphy, ed. S. H. Long, 1916. 



Eadie, DENNIS (b. 1875). British 

 actor. Born at Glasgow, Jan. 14. 

 1875, in 1899 he toured with the 

 St. James's 

 Repertoire 

 Company, 

 making his 

 first appear- 

 ance in London 

 under George 

 Alexander at 

 the St. James's 

 Theatre, Feb. 

 7, 1900, in The 

 Prisoner of 

 Z e n d a. He 



Sir Peter Eade, 

 British physician 



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Dennis Eadie, 

 British actor 



Hugh Cecil 



entered into management of the 

 Royalty with J. E. Vedrenne in 



1911, in the same year taking 

 the part of Patent in the com- 

 mand performance of Money at 

 Drury Lane, May 17. As John 

 Rhead he made a success in Mile- 

 stones, which was produced in 



1912. On June 27, 1913, he ap- 

 peared as Martin in the all-star 

 performance of London Assurance, 

 at the St. James's. In 1915 he 

 played in The Man Who Stayed 

 at Home. In 1920 he played in 

 The Romantic Young Lady at the 

 Royalty. 



Eadmer OR EDMER'd. c. 1124). 

 English historian. Brought up a 

 monk at Canterbury, he became 



the intimate companion of Arch- 

 bishop Anselm. Elected to the 

 archbishopric of St. Andrews, Scot- 

 land, 1120, he refused to be conse- 

 crated except by the archbishop of 

 Canterbury, and on the Scottish 

 king denying the jurisdiction of 

 Canterbury, Eadmer remained in 

 England, and eventually renounced 

 his claims to the see. He wrote 

 a life of S. Anselm and Historia 

 Novorum the latter an English 

 history from 1066-1122. Both 

 works were edited by M. Rule, for 

 the Rolls Series, in 1884. 



Eads, JAMES BUCHANAN (1820- 

 87). American inventor. Born 

 May 23, 1820, at Lawrenceburg, In- 

 diana, he began life as a clerk at St. 

 Louis, when quite a boy. Employ- 

 ment on a steamer on the Missis- 

 sippi led him to the study of navi- 

 gation, and in a few years he 

 became a recognized authority on 

 river engineering. In 1861, just 

 after the outbreak of the Civil War. 



EAGLE 



he was entrusted by the Federal 

 government with the work of build- 

 ing a fleet of warships for river 

 service, a task quickly carried 

 through. He was responsible for 

 building the bridge across the Mis- 

 sissippi at St. Louis, and later for 

 deepening and otherwise improving 

 the entrance to that river ; this was 

 his greatest work. He died in the 

 Bahamas, March 8, 1887, being 

 then engaged on planning a canal 

 across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. 

 See Life, L. How, 1900. 



Eagle (Fr. oigle, Lat. aquila). 

 Group of large birds of prey, in- 

 cluding some fourteen genera and 

 a large number of species. The 

 true eagles belong to the hawk 

 family, of which they are the 

 largest members. All have strong, 

 curved beaks with sharp cutting 

 edges, and the head has usually a 

 flattened and rather snakelike look. 

 The plumage is generally dark, and 

 the wines are long and powerful. 



Eagle. Typical examples of this large bird of prey. 1. White-tailed sea 

 eagle, found in the Hebrides. 2. Imperial eagle, a native of Asia and S. Europe. 

 3. Golden eagle, found in certain districts of the British Isles. 4. Spotted 

 eagle, occasionally found in the British Isles in winter 



