Merovingian Frankish king who succeeded his father, Childebert III, in 711. For most of his reign the boy was dominated by Pippin II of Herstal, the Austrasian mayor of the ...
the dominant ethnic group in the chiefdom of Dagbon in the northern region of Ghana; they speak Dagbani (Dagbane), a language of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family. ...
French painter and physicist who invented the daguerreotype (q.v.), the first practical process of photography. Though the first permanent photograph from nature was made in 1826/27 by Joseph-Nicephore Niepce of ...
first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Joseph-Nicephore Niepce in the 1830s. Daguerre and Niepce found that if a ...
city and port, western Luzon Island, Philippines. It lies on the southern shore of Lingayen Gulf near the mouth of the Dagupan River. It was founded in 1590 by Augustinian ...
city, northern Iraq, capital of Dahuk muhafazah (governorate). The city lies near the northern end of the Tigris River valley. The area in which the city is ...
Swedish soldier, civil servant, and graphic artist who served with distinction in the Swedish war against Denmark (1675-79) and the Great Northern War (1700-21) and directed fortifications as part of ...
American inventor of the smooth-bore cannon that was, from its shape, familiarly known as the "soda-water bottle." The shape resulted from a design in which the thickness of metal was ...
genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, containing 12 to 20 species of tuberous-rooted herbs that are native to the higher elevations of Mexico and Central America. Most have leaves ...
prominent liberal historian and advocate of German unification along Kleindeutsch ("Little German," or anti-Austrian) lines, who played a major role in creating the draft constitution of 1848 that attempted unsuccessfully ...
city, seat (1833) of Lumpkin county, northern Georgia, U.S. Gold was discovered in the locality in 1828, and the site was settled and incorporated in 1833 after one of the ...
(Arabic: "desert"), great arc of reddish sandy desert, central Saudi Arabia, extending about 800 miles (1,300 km) southward from the northeastern edge of an-Nafud (desert) to the northwestern borders of ...
kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to tradition, at the beginning of the 17th century ...
in Islam, the unbelievers who contend that the course of time (Arabic: dahr) is all that governs their existence. They were so called because of a reference to them in ...
ancient pyramid site just south of Saqqarah, northern Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River. Dahshur and other ruins in the area of ancient Memphis-Abu Sir, Saqqarah, Abu ...
one of three Japanese banks that merged in 2000 to create the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in ...
leading Japanese motion-picture studio that produced some of the major post-World War II film classics, although most of its releases were directed toward urban teenage audiences. The company was formed ...
60th emperor of Japan. He was unsuccessful in continuing his father's policy of limiting the power of the important Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese government from 857 to 1160.
emperor of Japan (1318-39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions.
in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck); the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is depicted in legend and art as dark-skinned, stout, carrying ...
morning newspaper published in London, known for its sensational treatment of news and also for its thorough coverage of international events. The Sunday edition is published as the
morning daily newspaper published in London, long noted for its foreign reporting, it was one of the first British papers to popularize its coverage to appeal to a mass readership. ...
international automotive company, formed in 1998 by the merger of Chrysler Corporation and Daimler-Benz AG. One of the world's largest automakers, it manufactures Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler passenger cars, Jeep and ...
any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded ...
leader of adventurers from the vicinity of Makasar, Celebes, who spearheaded the political penetration of the Malay Peninsula by the Buginese, a people who came from the southern Celebes seeking ...
branch of agriculture that encompasses the breeding, raising, and utilization of dairy animals, primarily cows, for the production of milk and the various dairy products processed from it.
any raised platform in a room, used primarily for ceremonial purposes. Originally the term referred to a raised portion of the floor at the end of a medieval hall, where ...
any of several species of garden plants belonging to the family Asteraceae (also called Compositae). The name daisy commonly denotes the oxeye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) and the English, or true, ...
city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the eastern border of Osaka city. Daito extends eastward from the Ikoma Mountains to the Osaka plain on land ...
islands, Okinawa ken (prefecture), Japan, within the Ryukyu island group in the Pacific Ocean. The Daito Islands lie about 217 miles (350 km) east of Okinawa. North ...
town, northwestern Dominican Republic. The town is located along the Dajabon River, just across from Ouanaminthe, Haiti, on the northern slopes of the Cordillera Central (Massif du Nord). It was ...
(Arabic: "The Deceiver"), in Islamic eschatology, the Antichrist who will come forth before the end of time; after a reign of 40 days or 40 years, he will be destroyed ...
council of state of the Japanese imperial government during the Nara and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was ...
group of related languages scattered across the Nuba Hills of central Sudan (including Lagowa, Liguri, and Shatt), western Sudan (including Bego, Geneina, Daju of Darfur [also called Nyala], and Nyalgulgule), ...
capital of Senegal and one of the chief seaports on the western African coast. It is located midway between the mouths of the Gambia and Senegal rivers on the southeastern ...
island located in the Meghna River estuary, south-central Bangladesh. The island, 43 miles (69 km) long and 10-15 miles (16-24 km) wide, is separated from Hatia Island (east) by the ...
(Avestan: "tower of silence"), Parsi funerary tower erected on a hill for the disposal of the dead according to the Zoroastrian rite. Such towers are about 25 feet (8 m) ...
antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite and developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin's solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, ...
French politician who as premier signed the Munich Pact (Sept. 30, 1938), an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland (a region of Czechoslovakia) without fear ...
town, south-central Mongolia, in the Gobi Desert. It is connected by road to Ulaanbaatar, the national capital, 320 miles (514 km) north-northeast. Local brown and bituminous coal deposits are worked ...
nephew and heir of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, and minister and foreign envoy under Napoleon and Louis XVIII of France. As Baden's envoy in Paris from 1803 he became a ...
archbishop of Mainz and arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, primate of Germany, and president of the Confederation of the Rhine. A member of an important German noble family, he ...
town, southeastern Queensland, Australia. It lies along Myall Creek near the Condamine River. Founded as Myall Creek Station in 1841, it was renamed for Dalby, on the Isle of Man, ...
English physiologist who in 1936 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the German pharmacologist Otto Loewi for their discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
Swedish engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for his invention of the automatic sun valve, or Solventil, which regulates a gaslight source by the action of ...
mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death; he was reelected every fourth year through 1975. Daley was called "the last of the big-city bosses" because of his tight control ...
small meteorite crater near Dalgaranga, Western Australia. Known earlier but not attributed to meteoritic origin until 1938, it is 70 feet (21 m) in diameter and 11 feet deep. Both ...
city, northwestern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. Situated in the Himalayan foothills at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 m), it is 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Pathankot, with ...
town, seat (1837) of Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Restigouche River on Chaleur Bay, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Campbellton. Icebreakers ...
privately endowed institution of higher learning located in Halifax, Canada. It was founded in 1818 as Dalhousie College by the 9th earl of Dalhousie, then lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, ...
British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the map of modern India, through his conquests and annexations of independent provinces, and of ...
site of paleoanthropological excavations near Jiefang village in Dali district, Shaanxi (Shensi) province, China, best known for the 1978 discovery of a well-preserved cranium that is about 200,000 years old. ...
writer and historian who wrote the first easily readable and popular Swedish works and who helped bring the ideas of the Enlightenment into Swedish culture.
burgh (town), Midlothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It is near the capital, Edinburgh, and has an increasing population of workers who commute to that city. Dalkeith is ...
