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Day, Clarence: American writer whose greatest popular success was his autobiographical Life with Father.
Day, Doris: American singer and motion-picture actress whose performances in movie musicals of the 1950s and sex comedies of the early '60s made her a leading Hollywood star. [2 Related Articles]
Day, Dorothy: American journalist and reformer, cofounder of the Catholic Worker and an important lay leader in its associated activist movement.
Day, John: Elizabethan dramatist whose verse allegory The Parliament of Bees shows unusual ingenuity and delicacy of imagination.
Day, Laraine: American actress portrayed decent and steadfast women in Hollywood films of the 1940s, but her most memorable role was that of Mary Lamont, the beloved nurse in seven Dr. Kildare ...
Day, Leon: U.S. baseball player (b. Oct. 30, 1916, Alexandria, Va.--d. March 13, 1995, Baltimore, Md.), was a phenomenal right-handed pitcher whose fastball and change-up pitches secured his place as a strikeout ...
Day, Mary: American dance teacher and artistic director (b. Jan. 25, 1910, Washington, D.C.-d. July 11, 2006, Washington, D.C.), cofounded (with Lisa Gardiner) in 1944 the Washington School of Ballet, which attracted ...
Day, Pat: (from the article "Equestrian Sports") Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day announced his retirement at age 51. Day, who ranked fourth all time with 8,803 victories, earned $297,912,019 in purses during a career that began ...
Day, Richard: (from the article "1935: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Dudley Nichols for The InformerOriginal Story: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur for The ScoundrelCinematography: Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's DreamArt Direction: Richard Day for The Dark AngelScoring: RKO ...
Day, Sir Robin: British broadcast journalist (b. Oct. 24, 1923, London, Eng.-d. Aug. 7, 2000, London), gained the label "grand inquisitor" for his technique in political interviews, in which he asked pointed questions ...
Day, Stephen: founder of the first printing press in England's North American colonies. [1 Related Articles]
Day, Stockwell: On March 28, 2000, Albertan politician Stockwell Day announced that he would enter the race to head the newly formed Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (CRCA). The group succeeded the Reform ... [2 Related Articles]
Day, Thomas: (from the article "children's literature") They took more easily to Rousseau's emphasis on virtuous conduct and instruction via "nature" than they did to his advocacy of the liberation of personality. Some writers, such as Thomas ...
Day, William R.: statesman and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1903-22).
day-care centre: institution that provides supervision and care of infants and young children during the daytime, particularly so that their parents can hold jobs. Such institutions appeared in France about 1840, and ... [5 Related Articles]
Day-Lewis, C.: one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed in more traditional forms. [3 Related Articles]
Day-Lewis, Daniel: British actor known for his on- and offscreen intensity and exhaustive preparation for roles. [2 Related Articles]
daya: (from the article "tabla") ...Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched of the two drums, which is played with the right hand, is also referred to individually as the tabla or as the
Dayabhaga: (from the article "suttee") The larger incidence of suttee among the Brahmans of Bengal was indirectly due to the Dayabhaga system of law (c. 1100), which prevailed in Bengal and which ...
Dayak: the non-Muslim indigenous peoples of southern and western Borneo (modern Kalimantan). Most of them live along the banks of the larger rivers. Dayak is a generic term that has no ... [4 Related Articles]
Dayal Das: (from the article "Nirankari") religious reform movement within Sikhism. The Nirankari movement was founded by Dayal Das (died 1855), who belonged to a half-Sikh, half-Hindu community in Peshawar. He believed that God is formless, ...
Dayan Khan: (from the article "Chahar") eastern tribe of Mongols, prominent in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Chahar were part of the empire of Dayan Khan (1470-1543), the last great khan of a united Mongolia. ...
Dayan, Moshe: soldier and statesman who led Israel to dramatic victories over its Arab neighbours and became a symbol of security to his countrymen.
Dayananda Anglo-Vedic School: (from the article "Lajpat Rai, Lala") After studying law at the Government College, Lahore, Lajpat Rai practiced at Hissar and Lahore, where he helped to establish the nationalistic Dayananda Anglo-Vedic School and became a follower of ...
Dayananda Sarasvati: Hindu ascetic and social reformer who was the founder (1875) of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement advocating a return to the temporal and spiritual authority of the Vedas, ... [5 Related Articles]
Daye: city, southeastern Hubei sheng (province), east-central China. Daye, established as a city in 1994, is situated on the south bank of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) near ... [1 Related Articles]
dayflower: any member of the genus Commelina (family Commelinaceae), which includes about 100 species of weak-stemmed herbs of wide distribution, only a few of which are of horticultural interest. Commelina coelestis, ...
dayglow: (from the article "airglow") ...of the Earth. Unlike the aurora, airglow does not exhibit structures such as arcs and is emitted from the entire sky at all latitudes at all times. The nocturnal phenomena ...
Daylight Saving Time: system for uniformly advancing clocks, so as to extend daylight hours during conventional waking time in the summer months. In countries in the Northern Hemisphere, clocks are usually set ahead ... [3 Related Articles]
daymark: (from the article "lighthouse") The daymark requirement of a lighthouse is also important; lighthouse structures are painted to stand out against the prevailing background. Shore lighthouses are usually painted white for this purpose, but ...
Dayr al-Bahri: Egyptian archaeological site in the necropolis of Thebes. It is made up of a bay in the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile River east of the Valley ... [8 Related Articles]
Dayr al-Jamajim, Battle of: (from the article "Ibn al-Ash'ath") ...having received in the meantime a steady stream of Syrian reinforcements from the caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, confronted Ibn al-Ash'ath's superior army of 200,000 at Dayr al-Jamajim, outside Kufah. ...
Dayr al-Madinah: ancient site on the west bank of the Nile River at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is known primarily as the location of a settlement for craftsmen who laboured on ... [1 Related Articles]
Dayr al-Zawr: town, eastern Syria. The town is situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River; its name, meaning "monastery of the grove" (zawr, "tamarisk"), is probably derived from the ancient ... [1 Related Articles]
Dayr Mari Antonios: (from the article "Anthony of Egypt, Saint") ...established themselves nearby. When Christian persecution ended after the Edict of Milan (313), he moved to a mountain in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red Sea, where ...
Dayr Yasin: (from the article "Palestine") ...'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, in command of the Jerusalem front; and the massacre, by Irgunists and members of the Stern Gang, of civilian inhabitants of the Arab village of Dayr Yasin. ...
Dayr, Ad-: (from the article "Petra") ...from the east by a narrow gorge known as the Sik (Siq, or Wadi as-Sik). Among the first sites viewed from the Sik is the Khasneh ("Treasury"), which is actually ...
Days of Remembrance: (from the article "Holocaust remembrance days") ...U.S. Congress passed legislation introduced by Senator John Danforth that declared April 28-29, 1979, the anniversary of the American liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, to be Days ...
dayside auroral oval: (from the article "geomagnetic field") ...others cross over the polar caps. The regions where the field lines split are called polar cusps. The projection of the polar cusps on the atmosphere at about 72° magnetic ...
Dayton: city, seat (1803) of Montgomery county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., 54 miles (87 km) northeast of Cincinnati, on a low floodplain of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of the ... [5 Related Articles]
Dayton: city, seat (1899) of Rhea county, southeastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies on Richland Creek near the Tennessee River, 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Chattanooga. Originally called Smith's Crossroads (c. ...
Dayton Accords: (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") In November the U.S.-sponsored Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the 1992-95 conflict, was commemorated. The accord, though widely credited with preserving the peace, remained a target of harsh criticism, mainly ...
Dayton Literary Peace Prizes: (from the article "Literature") ...PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction went to E.L. Doctorow for The March (2005). Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett shared the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The newly inaugurated ...
Dayton, Jonathan: youngest member of the U.S. Constitutional Convention, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and developer of large tracts in what later became the state of Ohio. The city of ...
Dayton, University of: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. The university is affiliated with the Marianist order (Society of Mary) of the Roman Catholic church. It is composed of ...
Daytona 200-mile race: (from the article "motorcycle racing") ...began in 1903 with the formation of the Federation of American Motorcyclists in New York City. By 1924 this society evolved into the still-active American Motorcycle Association. Since 1937 the ...
Daytona 500: annual U.S. stock-car race that is the most prestigious event in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) season. The race has been held every February since 1959 ... [5 Related Articles]
Daytona Beach: city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S., on the Atlantic Ocean and Halifax River (a tidewater lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway), about 90 miles (145 km) south of Jacksonville. The ... [2 Related Articles]
Daytona International Speedway: (from the article "Daytona Beach") ...his racer Bluebird V over the course at 276.82 miles (445.49 km) per hour. Motor vehicles are still permitted on the beach, although their access is limited. The city is ...
dayyo: (from the article "middot") ...and the gezera shawa (comparison of similar expressions, or laws), in which an inference is made by analogy. The kol wa-homer rule is limited by the principle of dayyo ("it ...
Daza: (from the article "Chad") ...Yedina (Buduma) and Kuri inhabit the Lake Chad region and, in the Kanem area, are associated with the Kanembu and Tunjur, who are of Arabic origin. All of these groups ...
Dazai Osamu: novelist who emerged at the end of World War II as the literary voice of his time. His dark, wry tone perfectly captured the confusion of postwar Japan, when traditional ... [1 Related Articles]
Dazhanlan: (from the article "Beijing") ...part of the 18th century it gradually became a market for curios, antiques, old books, paintings, works of ancient Chinese calligraphers, and paper. It is still a centre for traditional ...
dazhuan: in Chinese calligraphy, script evolved from the ancient scripts jiaguwen and guwen by the 12th century BC and developed during the Zhou dynasty (12th ... [3 Related Articles]
Dazmana: (from the article "Theophilus") ...brother, the caliph al-Mu'tasim, who struck at the most important centres of Asia Minor on the route to Constantinople. Theophilus was defeated in a bloody battle at Dazimon (now Dazmana, ...
Dbus-Gtsang: one of three historical regions of Central Asia (the other two being A-mdo and Khams) into which Tibet was once divided. [1 Related Articles]
dc potential: (from the article "electricity") In addition to the potentials originating in nerve or muscle cells, relatively steady or slowly varying potentials (often designated dc) are known. These dc potentials occur in the following cases: ...
DC-10: (from the article "Boeing Company") ...Aircraft was deteriorating. In 1967 McDonnell purchased Douglas and took the name McDonnell Douglas Corporation. McDonnell Douglas subsequently introduced several notable aircraft, including the DC-10 (first flown in 1970) for ...
DC-2: (from the article "airplane") ...sought to order some, Boeing declined. TWA turned to a smaller builder, the Douglas Company, and commissioned a similar plane as a trial. The prototype was the DXCX-l; in its ...
DC-3: transport aircraft, the world's first successful commercial airliner, readily adapted to military use during World War II. The DC-3, first flown in 1935, was a low-wing twin-engine monoplane that in ... [7 Related Articles]
DC-4: (from the article "flight, history of") Meanwhile, Douglas had introduced the DC-4. Although it was unpressurized, it possessed a comparable performance to the Stratoliner and could carry more passengers. Also, the DC-4 had a tricycle landing ...
DC-6: (from the article "airplane") ...critical decade great technical changes were made in passenger flying. During the first eight years after the war the DC-4 and the Constellation competed grimly to dominate long-distance flying. The ...
DC-7: (from the article "airplane") ...expansion could take place because there was a market for used aircraft. As airlines strove to fly faster and with lengthened stages, more people switched from trains or ships to ...
DC-7C: (from the article "flight, history of") ...Iceland, or Ireland. These constraints began to evaporate in the 1950s with the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Douglas DC-7. The ultimate versions appeared in 1956-57 as the DC-7C, known ...
DC-8: (from the article "flight, history of") ...gamble for Boeing, which for many years had been almost entirely a military supplier, the 707 was a commercial success after entering service in 1958. Douglas responded with its similar ...
DC-9: (from the article "Boeing Company") ...ballistic missile (first launched in 1957), which later became a first-stage space launcher and gave rise to the Delta family of launch vehicles. In 1965 Douglas first flew its twin-engine ...
Dda, Howel: (from the article "Celtic literature") ...prose were utilitarian: notes on Latin texts dealing with weights and measures, an agreement, a list of church dues, and an astronomical commentary. Shortly before the middle of the 10th ...
DDT: a synthetic insecticide belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, highly toxic toward a wide variety of insects as a contact poison that apparently exerts its effect by disorganizing ... [20 Related Articles]
De Amicis, Edmondo: novelist, short-story writer, poet, and author of popular travel books and children's stories.
De Angelis, Milo: (from the article "Literature") ...tries to help his 10-year-old daughter cope with her mother's death; he receives unexpected comfort and guidance from the girl and the world of childhood. Love and loss were also ...
de Beer, Sir Gavin: English zoologist and morphologist known for his contributions to experimental embryology, anatomy, and evolution.
De Beers S.A.: world's largest producer and distributor of diamonds. Headquarters are in Johannesburg, S.Af. [10 Related Articles]
De Bono, Emilio: Italian general, an early convert to Fascism who helped the party's founder and chief, Benito Mussolini, gain power. [1 Related Articles]
de Broglie wave: any aspect of the behaviour or properties of a material object that varies in time or space in conformity with the mathematical equations that describe waves. By analogy with the ... [5 Related Articles]
De Bruijn, Inge: Four years after having nearly quit swimming altogether, Inge de Bruijn of The Netherlands turned in a phenomenal performance at the Olympic Games in 2000. De Bruijn won gold medals ... [1 Related Articles]
De Camp, Joseph: (from the article "Ten, The") ...of Design, they chose to exhibit independently, hoping to draw public attention to their paintings. The members of The Ten were Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Thomas ...
de Camp, L Sprague: American writer (b. Nov. 27, 1907, New York, N.Y.-d. Nov. 6, 2000, Plano, Texas), wrote more than 100 science-fiction and fantasy books. He began his writing career in the late ...
De Carlo, Andrea: (from the article "Italian literature") Among younger voices, two extremely professional authors-cosmopolitan minimalist Andrea De Carlo and painstaking observer and stylist Daniele Del Giudice-were "discovered" in the early 1980s by Italo Calvino. In novels such ...
De Carlo, Yvonne: American actress appeared in a string of B-westerns and was best remembered on the big screen for her role as the wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), ...
de Chastelain, John: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...a resumption of devolved government. In response to continuing pressure, however, the IRA announced on July 28 that it had ordered all its units to "dump arms." On September 26 ...
de Chirico, Giorgio: Italian painter who, with Carlo Carra and Giorgio Morandi, founded the style of Metaphysical painting. [6 Related Articles]
de Coninck, Herman: (from the article "Belgian literature") ...Kreatief, Yang, and De Brakke Hond, as well as by the critical work of Hugo Brems, Hugo Bousset, and Herman de ...
De Cordova, Frederick Timmins: American television director-producer (b. Oct. 27, 1910, New York, N.Y.-d. Sept. 15, 2001, Woodland Hills, Calif.), had what he called "the best job in television" when he served as executive ...
De Dion-Bouton: (from the article "automobile") In France the giants were De Dion-Bouton, Peugeot SA, and Renault (the last two are still in existence). The Italians were later in the field: the Stefanini-Martina of 1896 is ...
De donis conditionalibus: (from the article "property law") Legislation at the end of the 13th century (statute De donis conditionalibus, 1285) allowed a conveyor of land to limit its inheritance to the direct descendants of ...
de facto census: (from the article "census") ...censuses refer to a precisely delimited territory and subareas and, for this reason, are normally planned and conducted with the aid of detailed maps. They aim to enumerate every person ...
De Forest, Lee: American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention ... [11 Related Articles]
De Gasperi, Alcide: politician and prime minister of Italy (1945-53) who contributed to the material and moral reconstruction of his nation after World War II. [5 Related Articles]
De Geer, Charles: Swedish entomologist.
De Geer, Gerhard, Friherre: Swedish geologist, originator of the varve-counting method used in geochronology. [1 Related Articles]
De Geer, Louis: (from the article "Sweden") ...power had in reality gradually passed into the hands of the privy council, which, under the leadership of the minister of finance, Baron Johan August Gripenstedt, and the minister of ...
de Gournay, Marie: (from the article "Montaigne, Michel de") ...the publication of the fifth edition of the Essays, the first to contain the 13 chapters of Book III, as well as Books I and II, enriched ...
De Grey River: river in northwestern Western Australia. It rises as the Oakover River in the Robertson Range, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Marble Bar, and flows north. Midway in its course, ... [1 Related Articles]
De Havilland Aircraft Company: (from the article "De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey") ...During World War I he worked as chief designer and test pilot for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company and produced a number of successful fighters and light bombers. In September 1920 ...
De Havilland DH-4: (from the article "aerospace industry") ...production, the government enlisted automobile manufacturers to mass-produce engines and airplanes. For its own use the U.S. Army ordered the production of the two-seat British De Havilland DH-4 bomber and ...
de Havilland, Olivia: American motion-picture actress remembered for the lovely and gentle ingenues of her early career as well as for the later, more substantial roles she fought to secure. [2 Related Articles]
De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey: English aircraft designer, manufacturer, and pioneer in long-distance jet flying. He was one of the first to make jet-propelled aircraft, producing the Vampire and Venom jet fighters.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park: (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...edge of the wooded-heath Veluwe region. Founded in the 8th century by the Saxons, it is a garrison town with a 15th-century church, the Doesburger Mill (1507), and an open-air ...
de Hoop Scheffer, Jaap: With NATO struggling to overcome a fractious membership divided over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it chose Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a career civil servant turned politician, to serve ... [1 Related Articles]
De Jong, Meindert: (from the article "children's literature") Fiction about foreign lands boasted at least one modern American master in Meindert De Jong, whose most sensitive work was drawn from recollections of his Dutch early childhood. A Hans ...
de Jouy, Brillon: (from the article "Boccherini, Luigi") ...of 1761) as well as new ones (Six Trios for Two Violins and Cello, G 83-88, and Symphony in D Major, G 500, of 1766 and c. 1766?). From Boccherini's ...