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Egg (biology) (3941 bytes)
2: ...Egg125o.gif|thumb|250px|An average Whooping Crane egg is 102 mm long, and weighs 208 grams]]
3: ...ight|250px|A baby tortoise emerges from a reptile egg.]]
6: ...o]]. '''Oviparous animals''' are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other development within the ...
8: Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs are surrounded by a protective shell, either fle...
9: ... known bird egg, which weighs half of a gram. The eggs laid by some reptiles and most fish are even sma...

Egg (1043 bytes)
1: '''Egg''' has multiple meanings.
3: ...ymously with [[ovum]], the [[female]] sex [[cell (biology)|cell]] in animals and plants. These are a part o...
4: ...d nutrients for the developing embryo. See [[egg (biology)]].
5: * Some [[Egg (food)|eggs]] are edible and can be used as [[food]], either...
6: ... tradition or religious celebration with [[Easter egg]]s being an example

The Egg and I (853 bytes)
1: '''''The Egg and I''''', first published in [[1946]], is a [[h...
6: [[Category:1946 books|Egg and I, The]]
7: [[Category:1947 films|Egg and I, The]]

Egg decorating (1313 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eggs2.jpg|thumb||230px|Ukrainian Easter eggs]]
3: ...e used, but generally the larger and stronger the eggshell is, the more favoured it will be by decorato...
5: ...lown, i.e. the content of the egg is removed. The egg is sometimes sculpted, otherwise decorated in a n...
7: ...ay be carved without breaking. Decorations on emu eggs take advantage of the contrast in colours betwee...
9: ...an Court. These eggs resembled standard decorated eggs, but they were made from gold and precious stone...

Egg salad (366 bytes)
1: ...ar. In the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], it is called egg mayonnaise.

Egg rolling (679 bytes)
1: [[Image:Egg roll 2.jpg|right|thumb|Egg roll at the White House lawn, 1929]]
2: ...r Egg Roll''' is a traditional game with [[Easter eggs]].
5: ... the tradition after a particularly active Easter Egg Roll in 1876. At the request of several children,...
9: *[[Egg decorating]]

Kinder Egg (2281 bytes)
1: ...ldren's confection in the form of a [[chocolate]] egg containing a small [[toy]], often to be assembled...
5: ...nst non-food products within a food shell. Kinder Eggs are available, but only in a form filled with sm...
7: ...ad slogan: "Jetzt in jedem siebten Ei"). Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the ...

Egg tempera (3761 bytes)
3: ... [[artists]]. It is made of pigments mixed with [[egg yolk]] which acts as a binding medium. It is made...
7: ...s of pigment. Some pigments require slightly more egg medium, some require less.
8: ...dded, the important ratio is the pigment paste to egg medium.
12: An egg yolk has a membrane which contains the liquid yol...
14: In preparing egg tempera, isolate the yolk and dry the membrane sl...

World egg (2373 bytes)
2: ...g came into existence by coming out of the cosmic egg.
9: The '''cosmic egg''' is also a [[cosmology|cosmological]] concept d...
11: ===The cosmic egg theory===
12: ... universe will again contract into another cosmic egg (the [[Big Crunch]]). The universe will then "bou...
19: ...vious [[Big Crunch]] who, preserved in the cosmic egg, emerged as a being of immense power in the prese...

Easter egg (2621 bytes)
1: ...er programs, DVDs, books, CDs, etc., see [[Easter egg (virtual)]]. ''
4: ...astry decoration techniques. The ubiquitous jelly egg (or [[jelly bean]]) is made from sugar-coated pec...
5: [[Image:Eggs.jpg|thumb||250px|Ukrainian Easter eggs]]
7: ...[Passover]] [[Seder]] service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new ...
9: ...en in and around [[Easter]]) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient.

Nest egg (233 bytes)
3: ...[[retirement]]. Similar to a life savings, a nest egg is usually put aside to guarantee saftey and comf...

The chicken or the egg (3208 bytes)
1: ...e first? - The [[chicken]] or the [[egg (biology)|egg]]?'' is one of the most debated arguments of all ...
3: A '''chicken and egg''' problem is a dilemma or a [[deadlock]] situati...
6: ...place to start is by asking what is meant by 'the egg':
11: The egg is assumed to be a chicken egg. This is an obvious assumption given that the qu...
15: ...then we have to define what is meant by a chicken-egg:

Egg Nebula (761 bytes)
1: [[Image:Egg_Nebula.jpg|thumb|CRL2688, the Egg Nebula.]]
3: The '''Egg Nebula''' (also known as '''CRL2688''') is a [[pl...
5: The Egg Nebula was photographed by the [[Wide Field and P...

Scotch egg (733 bytes)
1: ...] origin consisting of a hard-boiled [[Egg (food)|egg]], removed from its shell, wrapped in a [[sausage...
3: ...ade from the processed components of several real eggs.

Egg Venture (1835 bytes)
1: Egg Venture was a 1997 arcade shoot-em-up game which ...
3: ...fferent missions of play which involved these CGI eggs with faces and floating hands.
5: ...gg divers from green [[piranha]]s, or shooting an egg's submarine through the sea.
7: The original version of Egg Venture had no ending, and was programmed to simp...
9: ...m]] released a "deluxe version", which plotted an egg travelling around the world, bumping into landmar...

Egg (food) (3322 bytes)
1: ...iology)|egg]]s are common [[food]] sources. Fish eggs are known as [[roe]] or [[caviar]].
3: ...es the [[egg yolk]] is used separately from the [[egg white]].
5: ...farming]] is considered cruel. Even [[free range eggs]] are sometimes unacceptable to those who are co...
6: ...left|Potato galettes, served with quail eggs. The eggs of the quail are edible and are a popular delica...
7: ...Image:Freerange eggs.jpg|thumb|Free-range chicken eggs]]

Fried egg (1909 bytes)
1: ... egg, sunny side up.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A fried egg, sunny side up]]
3: ...egg''' is one of the ways of cooking [[Egg (food)|egg]]s. They are typically fried in [[butter]] or [[m...
5: Types of fried egg:
9: *[[Scrambled eggs]] - eggs are beaten and mixed with milk, then fried
11: ...sually fried, being slowly cooked in a pot. Fried eggs are an essential part of an English or [[Irish b...

Egg (person) (3339 bytes)
1: An '''egg''' is a joking term for someone of [[Caucasian ra...
3: ...ellow on the outside, white on the inside, and an egg is white on the outside, yellow on the inside. A ...
5: ...hile the term egg is usually one of pride for the egg in question, other terms involving the notion of ...
9: A term related to egg which ''is'' pejorative is the term [[Wapanese]],...
11: A good or bad egg is an English slang expression for describing som...

Egg, Switzerland (1011 bytes)
1: '''Egg''' is a municipality in the canton of [[Canton of...
11: ...icts in Egg: ''Hinteregg'' (population: 1,500), ''Egg'' (population: 4,800) and [[Esslingen, Switzerlan...
18: * [http://www.egg.ch/ Official Page] (German)

Fabergé egg (4458 bytes)
1: ...mlin_egg-700px.jpg|thumb|Fabergé's Moscow Kremlin Egg, 1906]]
2: ...a]]n [[Tsar]]s between [[1885]] and [[1917]]. The eggs are among the masterpieces of the [[jeweller]]'s...
4: ...rovna]]. On the outside it looked like an simple egg of white [[vitreous enamel|enamel]]led [[gold]], ...
8: ...et of imperial patronage), the preparation of the eggs came to take up an entire year; once a concept w...
10: ...e, on the outside, the [[Trans-Siberian railway]] Egg of [[1900]] was dominated by a dull metallic gray...

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