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- American athlete (b. June 8, 1943, Troy, Ala.-d. June 17, 2002, Chicago, Ill.), competed in four Summer (1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976, as a hurdler) and one Winter (1980, on ...
- Daventry
- (from the article "Daventry") town and district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. Daventry district's rich, undulating landscape is predominantly rural, with more than 70 parishes. At the heart of the district is ...
- Daventry
- town and district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. Daventry district's rich, undulating landscape is predominantly rural, with more than 70 parishes. At the heart of the district is ...
- Daves, Delmer
- writer and director of motion pictures in traditional Hollywood genres but particularly noted for his sensitive treatment of American Indians on screen.
- Davey, Allen
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Dev Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Louis H. Mesenkop, Harry Mills, Walter Oberst, Irmin Roberts, Loren Ryder, and Art Smith for Spawn of the NorthHonorary Award: Allen Davey ...
- Davey, Bruce
- (from the article "1995: Best Picture") Other Nominees
- Davey, John
- (from the article "pruning") ...future decay; judicious cutting to compensate for root loss and promote formation of blossoms; and heading back to revitalize an aged tree. The origin of modern tree surgery is attributed ...
- David
- second of the Israelite kings (after Saul), reigning c. 1000 to c. 962 BC, who established a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital. In Jewish tradition ... [26 Related Articles]
- David
- (from the article "Dominica") Hurricane David severely damaged the island in August 1979, virtually wiping out the nation's agricultural economy. The hurricane carried away most of the island's topsoil, and it was estimated that ...
- David
- marble sculpture executed from 1501 to 1504 by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue was commissioned for the cathedral of Florence, but the Florentine government decided instead to place ... [3 Related Articles]
- David
- (from the article "naval ship") ...boat, one of several means the Confederates explored in trying to break the blockade. These little craft had weak steam engines and mounted a torpedo lashed to a spar projecting ...
- David
- city, western Panama, on the David River and surrounded by fruit groves. It is Panama's largest city outside of the Panama City metropolitan area and is an important commercial centre, ...
- David
- (from the article "Robert III") ...to 1296, who was not favourably remembered. Fife, created duke of Albany in 1398, continued to govern throughout this reign, except for three years (1399-1402) when Robert III's eldest son, ...
- David ap Gruffudd
- the last native prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales; he initiated a major rebellion against the English in Wales, and upon his death Wales fell completely under English rule. [3 Related Articles]
- David Ap Llywelyn
- Welsh prince, ruler of the state of Gwynedd in northern Wales from 1240 to 1246. [1 Related Articles]
- David ben Zakkai
- (from the article "Sa'adia ben Joseph") On May 22 of the same year he was appointed by the exilarch (head of Babylonian Jewry) David ben Zakkai as the gaon ("head") of the academy of Sura, which ...
- David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean
- French sculptor, who sought to honour the heroes of modern times by means of an expressive form that could appeal to and inspire a broad public. [1 Related Articles]
- David de Mayrena, Marie-Charles
- eccentric French adventurer who became the self-styled king of the Sedang tribe of the northern Central Highlands in what is now southern Vietnam.
- David I
- one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. ... [7 Related Articles]
- David II
- (from the article "Georgian literature") With the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the 10th century, Georgia's rulers achieved prosperity sufficient to allow a secular literature to develop. King David II (the Builder) and, later, ...
- David II
- king of Scots from 1329, although he spent 18 years in exile or in prison. His reign was marked by costly intermittent warfare with England, a decline in the prestige ... [7 Related Articles]
- David of Sasun
- (from the article "Sasuntzi Davith") Armenian folk epic dealing with the adventures of the Christian king David of Sasun in his defense against infidel invaders from Egypt and Persia. The epic was based on oral ...
- David's maple
- (from the article "maple") ...an attractive winter landscaping feature. These trees are the striped maple (A. pennsylvanicum), the red snake-bark maple (A. capillipes), the Her's maple (A. hersii), and the David's maple (A. davidii). ...
- David, Armand
- (from the article "panda, giant") ...attraction at the Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, until its death in 1938. No European observed a live giant panda in the wild until the Walter Stotzner expedition of 1913-15, although ...
- David, Eduard Heinrich
- a leader of the revisionist wing of the German Social Democratic Party and a minister in the early years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33).
- David, Felicien-Cesar
- composer whose music opened the door for the Oriental exoticism that was to become a fixture in French Romantic music.
- David, Ferenc
- Unitarian preacher, writer, and theologian influential in promoting religious toleration and the growth of anti-Trinitarian thought in Hungary. [2 Related Articles]
- David, Gerard
- painter who was the last great master of the Bruges school. [1 Related Articles]
- David, Hal
- (from the article "1969: Other Winners") ...Newman for Hello, Dolly!Song Original for the Picture: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal DavidHonorary Award: ...
- David, House of
- (from the article "Benton Harbor") ...Hart Benton, a Missouri senator who had supported statehood for Michigan, and it was separately incorporated as a village in 1869, following a disagreement over bridging the river. The Israelite ...
- David, Jacques-Louis
- the most celebrated French artist of his day and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style. [13 Related Articles]
- David, Larry
- In February 2008 Larry David-cocreator of the hit television show Seinfeld and star of the HBO cable channel series Curb Your Enthusiasm-was cast as the leading man in Woody Allen's ... [1 Related Articles]
- David, Nicol
- (from the article "Squash") It was expected that Nicol David of Malaysia would retain her dominant position at the top of the women's game, but while the 24-year-old David kept the top spot in ...
- David, Saint
- patron saint of Wales.
- David, Sir T W Edgeworth
- geologist noted for his monumental study of the geology of Australia. [2 Related Articles]
- David, Star of
- Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel. The symbol-which historically ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davidescu, Nicolae
- Romanian poet and novelist whose early poems, Inscriptii (1916), showed the influence of Charles Baudelaire. Among his prose works the novel Zana din fundul lacului (1912; "The Fairy at the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") The Branch Davidians are only one of the surviving Davidian groups. Others include the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association headquartered in Exeter, Missouri, and the General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists ...
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") an offshoot group of the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church that made headlines on February 28, 1993, when its Mt. Carmel headquarters near Waco, Texas, was raided by the U.S. ...
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, General Association of
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") ...Roden, who had previously called the Davidians to "Get off the dead Rod [led by Florence Houteff] and move to the living Branch." Roden gained control of Mt. Carmel and ...
- Davidist
- (from the article "Joris, David") religious Reformer, a controversial and eccentric member of the Anabaptist movement. He founded the Davidists, or Jorists, who viewed Joris as a prophet and whose internal dissension led-three years after ...
- Davidoglu, M.
- (from the article "Romanian literature") Dramatists included Aurel Baranga, who dealt with the problems of contemporary life; Horia Lovinescu, whose plays depicted changing intellectual attitudes; and M. Davidoglu, author of plays set in mines and ...
- Davidovic, Ljubomir
- twice prime minister (1919-20, 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia). [1 Related Articles]
- Davidsen, Arthur
- American astrophysicist (b. May 26, 1944, Freeport, N.Y.-d. July 19, 2001, Baltimore, Md.), was a leading researcher in the fields of high-energy astrophysics and ultraviolet space astronomy. After service in ...
- Davidson College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Davidson, North Carolina, U.S. It is a liberal arts college with bachelor's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and is ...
- Davidson, Bruce
- American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the loneliness and isolation of the subjects portrayed. [1 Related Articles]
- Davidson, Donald
- American poet, essayist, and teacher who warned against technology and idealized the agrarian, pre-Civil War American South. [1 Related Articles]
- Davidson, Donald
- American philosopher known for his strikingly original and unusually systematic treatments of traditional problems in a number of fields. [3 Related Articles]
- Davidson, John
- (from the article "wage and salary") ...their opposition to employee demands, and employers were also able to withstand the loss of income for a longer period than could the employees. This idea was developed to a ...
- Davidson, John
- Scottish poet and playwright whose best work shows him a master of the narrative lyrical ballad.
- Davidson, Mount
- (from the article "San Francisco") The most prominent of San Francisco's hills are Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, and Mount Sutro, all of which exceed 900 feet (270 metres) in elevation. The best known are Nob ...
- Davidson, Norman Ralph
- American biochemist (b. April 5, 1916, Chicago, Ill.-d. Feb. 14, 2002, Pasadena, Calif.), conducted groundbreaking research in molecular biology that contributed to a fuller understanding of the genetic blueprint of ...
- Davidson, Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron
- Anglican archbishop of Canterbury who was prominent as a speaker in parliamentary debates on moral and national questions during his 25-year tenure.
- Davidson, Robyn
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...too were interesting for the light they shed upon the writers as well as being fine examples of the essay form. Travel writing continued to be published; one of the ...
- Davidson, Thomas
- Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on lamp shells, a phylum of bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates (Brachiopoda) whose fossils are among the oldest found.
- Davie, Donald Alfred
- British poet, literary critic, and teacher who was a major conservative influence on British poetry in the 1950s. [2 Related Articles]
- Davies, Arthur B.
- American painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer known for his idylls of classical fantasy painted in a Romantic style but best remembered for his leadership in introducing modern European painting styles ... [2 Related Articles]
- Davies, Cyril
- (from the article "British blues") ...France-d. Jan. 1, 1984London, Eng.) and the harmonica player Cyril Davies (b. 1932Denham, Buckinghamshire, Eng.-d. Jan. 7,...
- Davies, David Davies, 1st Baron
- British promoter of the League of Nations, advocate of an international policing force to prevent war.
- Davies, Derek Gwyn
- British journalist (b. March 9, 1931, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 15, 2002, Antibes, France), revitalized the Far Eastern Economic Review, turning it from a single-sheet paper with a tiny readership into ...
- Davies, Donald Watts
- British computer scientist (b. June 7, 1924, Treorchy, Wales-d. May 28, 2000, Esher, Eng.), helped lay the groundwork for the Internet in the 1960s when he devised a more efficient ...
- Davies, Emily
- English pioneer in the movement to secure university education for women and chief founder of Girton College, Cambridge. She was responsible for University College, London, admitting women to classes in ...
- Davies, John
- English poet and writing master whose chief work was Microcosmos (1603), a didactic religious treatise.
- Davies, John Paton, Jr.
- American diplomat who suffered an undeserved dismissal from the foreign service in 1954 following accusations by Sen. Joseph McCarthy that Davies had "lost China" to the communists in 1949. Davies, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davies, Marion
- American actor, renowned more for her 34-year relationship with publishing giant William Randolph Hearst than for her performance career.
- Davies, Paul Charles William
- On May 3 the mathematical physicist Paul Davies was awarded the 1995 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Professor of natural philosophy at the University of Adelaide, Australia, Davies received ...
- Davies, Ray
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Joss Stone topped the album charts with Mind Body and Soul, but at the prestigious Mercury Music Prize awards, she was beaten by Glaswegian guitar band Franz Ferdinand. The Kinks' ...
- Davies, Richard
- (from the article "Celtic literature") ...Testament of 1567. Despite some eccentricities, it was a fine piece of translation. In the same year was published the Welsh Prayer Book, also translated mainly by Salesbury in collaboration ...
- Davies, Robertson
- novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery. [3 Related Articles]
- Davies, Samuel
- Presbyterian preacher in colonial British America who defended religious dissent and helped lead the Southern phase of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening.
- Davies, Siobhan
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...by choreographer Jonathan Burrows. With only himself and longtime colleague composer Matteo Fargion, Burrows made a series of minimalist works that won a quite unexpected popularity. Choreographer Siobhan Davies celebrated ...
- Davies, Sir John
- English poet and lawyer whose Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing reveals a typically Elizabethan pleasure in the contemplation of the correspondence between the natural order and human activity.
- Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell
- English composer, conductor, and teacher whose powerfully innovative music made him one of the most influential British composers of the 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Davies, Valentine
- (from the article "1947: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Seaton for Miracle on 34th StreetOriginal Story: Valentine Davies for Miracle on 34th StreetOriginal Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon for The Bachelor and the BobbysoxerCinematography, Black-and-White: Guy Green for Great ...
- Davies, William Henry
- English poet whose lyrics have a force and simplicity uncharacteristic of the poetry of most of his Georgian contemporaries.
- Davila, Arrigo Caterino
- Italian historian who was the author of a widely read history of the Wars of Religion in France.
- Davila, Miguel
- (from the article "Honduras") In the first decade of the 20th century, Nicaraguan strongman Jose Santos Zelaya put Miguel Davila into the Honduran presidency. This led in 1911 and 1912 to something more serious ...
- Davis
- city, Yolo county, central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento River valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of Sacramento. The city, founded in 1868, was named Davisville for Jerome ...
- Davis Cup
- trophy awarded to the winner of an annual international lawn-tennis tournament originally for amateur men's teams. The official name is the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy. The trophy was donated ... [8 Related Articles]
- Davis Islands
- (from the article "Tampa") ...Petersburg, was inaugurated in 1914, and the Gandy Bridge between the two cities opened 10 years later. In 1928 Tampa was connected by road to Miami via the Tamiami Trail. ...
- Davis Mountains
- segment of the southern Rocky Mountains, mainly in Jeff Davis county, western Texas, U.S., extending northward for 45 miles (72 km) above the town of Marfa. Locally called the Texas ...
- Davis Strait
- bay of the northern Atlantic Ocean, lying between southeastern Baffin Island (Canada) and southwestern Greenland. It separates the depths of Baffin Bay (north) from those of the Labrador Sea (south) ... [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Alexander Jackson
- American architect, designer, draftsman, and illustrator who was best known for his innovative, picturesque country houses. He helped establish the familiar type of American rural house in the "carpenter Gothic" ... [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Angela
- militant American black activist who gained an international reputation during her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970-72.
- Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.
- pilot, officer, and administrator who became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the first African American to become a ... [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.
- soldier who became the first black general in the U.S. Army.
- Davis, Bette
- versatile, volatile American actress, whose raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years. [4 Related Articles]
- Davis, Billy
- American songwriter and advertising executive (b. July 11, 1932, Detroit, Mich.-d. Sept. 2, 2004, New Rochelle, N.Y.), collaborated with Gwen Gordy and her brother Berry Gordy, Jr., in the 1950s ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davis, Carl
- (from the article "Chicago soul") ...Gordy, Jr., and his Motown Records, based in Detroit, Michigan, overshadowed the Windy City during the 1960s. But several black music producers-including Roquel ("Billy") Davis and Carl Davis (who were ...
- Davis, Charles Harold
- American painter, whose romantic interpretations of the landscape excelled in their cloud effects.
- Davis, Charles Henry
- U.S. naval officer and scientist.
- Davis, Cleland
- (from the article "artillery") ...were long attracted by the prospect of abolishing recoil, since achieving this meant doing away with the gun's heavy recoil system and lightening the carriage. The first to succeed was ...
- Davis, Clive
- (from the article "Columbia Records") ...of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." The song launched the West Coast's version of folk rock, which culminated in the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, where Columbia's new managing director, Clive ...
- Davis, David
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...In early October a two-month contest was started under the old rules. After two ballots by party MPs, the names of the top two candidates were submitted to the wider ...
- Davis, David
- American politician, a close associate of Abraham Lincoln. He was a Supreme Court justice and senator during the antebellum, American Civil War, and postwar eras. [1 Related Articles]
- Davis, David Brion
- (from the article "animal rights") ...rights and remedies. Parallels have frequently been drawn between the legal status of animals and that of human slaves. "The truly striking fact about slavery," the American historian David Brion ...
- Davis, Donald
- Canadian actor who was adept in both classical and modern roles and was admired as one of the most outstanding interpreters of Samuel Beckett's works; his signature role was the ...
- Davis, Dwight F.
- tennis player best known as the donor of the Davis Cup (properly the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy) for competition among teams representing various nations. He later became a United ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davis, Elmer
- news broadcaster and writer, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.
- Davis, Ernie
- American collegiate gridiron football player who was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
- Davis, Fred
- British snooker and billiards player who was world professional snooker champion eight times (1948-49, 1951-56) and world billiards champion twice (1980-81); Davis carried on the tradition of his renowned older ...
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