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- nihilistic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zurich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th century. [24 Related Articles]
- Daddah, Moktar Ould
- statesman who was independent Mauritania's first president (1961-78). He was noted for his progress in unifying his ethnically mixed, dispersed, and partly nomadic people under his authoritarian but enlightened rule. [3 Related Articles]
- Daddi, Bernardo
- Florentine painter of the early Italian Renaissance who was a pupil of Giotto and was influenced by Pietro Lorenzetti. Daddi's efforts to fuse the plastic qualities of Giotto's art with ...
- daddy longlegs
- any of about 7,000 species of arachnids that differ from spiders (order Araneida or Araneae) by the extreme length and thinness of the legs and by the shape of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dades River
- river in southern Morocco. It rises in the Atlas Mountains and flows south for 220 miles (350 km) through wild gorges to the Sahara, where it merges into the Draa ...
- Dadie, Bernard Binlin
- Ivoirian poet, dramatist, novelist, and administrator whose works have been inspired both by traditional themes from Africa's past and by a need to assert the modern African's desire for equality, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dadin Kowa Dam
- (from the article "Gongola River") ...Cotton, peanuts (groundnuts), and sorghum are grown for export to other parts of the nation; but millet, beans, cassava, onions, corn (maize), and rice are also cultivated. The government built ...
- Dadler, Sebastian
- (from the article "medal") The large struck propaganda medal was issued widely in northern Europe in the 17th century. The Thirty Years' War and later the Dutch wars with France and England stimulated such ...
- dado
- in Classical architecture, the plain portion between the base and cornice of the pedestal of a column and, in later architecture, the paneled, painted, or otherwise decorated lower part of ...
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- union territory of India, located in the western part of the country between the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, some 15 miles (24 kilometres) from the Arabian Sea and 80 ...
- Dadu
- Hindu-Muslim saint who inspired the formation of a sect called Dadu Panth. [2 Related Articles]
- Dadu
- town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. The town lies just west of the Indus River, about 100 miles (160 km) north-northwest of Hyderabad. A distribution centre, it is connected by road ...
- Dadu Panth
- (from the article "Dadu") Hindu-Muslim saint who inspired the formation of a sect called Dadu Panth.monasticismmonasticismHinduismOf the approximately 90 monastic orders in Hinduism, some ...
- Dadullah, Mullah
- Afghan guerrilla commander was a notoriously ruthless senior leader of the Taliban insurgency. Dadullah, an ethnic Pashtun, fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. He rose to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daector
- (from the article "toadfish") ...groups: true toadfishes, such as the oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau), a common resident of shallow coastal waters along eastern North America; venomous toadfishes (Thalassophryne and Daector), found in Central and ...
- Daedala
- ancient festival of Hera, consort of the supreme god Zeus. The Daedala was celebrated on Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia (in present-day central Greece). In the festival, a wooden image dressed ...
- Daedalic sculpture
- type of sculpture attributed to a legendary Greek artist, Daedalus, who is connected in legend both to Bronze Age Crete and to the earliest period of Archaic sculpture in post-Bronze ... [2 Related Articles]
- Daedalus
- mythical Greek architect and sculptor, who was said to have built, among other things, the paradigmatic Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Daedalus fell out of favour with Minos and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Daehlie, Bjorn
- Norwegian cross-country skier who holds the Winter Olympic records for the most medals won and the most gold medals. His Olympic success, combined with his record in World Cup competition ... [4 Related Articles]
- Daemonorops
- (from the article "dragon's blood") red resin obtained from the fruit of several palms of the genus Daemonorops and used in colouring varnishes and lacquers. Once valued as a medicine in Europe because of its ...
- Daemonorops longispathus
- (from the article "palm") ...in another type of vegetation on the landward fringe of mangrove swamps in the western Malay Archipelago, where Oncosperma tigillarium and Calamus erinaceus (and, in Borneo, Daemonorops longispathus) are found. ...
- Daemonorops verticillaris
- (from the article "palm") ...formed when palms in a population die result in considerable soil turnover. Many palms accumulate leaf litter in their crowns (Asterogyne martiana, Eugeissona minor, Pinanga ridleyana, and Daemonorops verticillaris), presumably ...
- daena
- (from the article "Iranian religion") ...is the ruvan that is held accountable for a person's actions during life and that suffers reward or punishment in the life to come. At the time of judgment the ...
- Daendels, Herman Willem
- soldier who fought with distinction in the army of the Batavian Republic (the Dutch Republic established by Revolutionary France) and later ably administered Dutch East Indian possessions. [1 Related Articles]
- Daeninckx, Didier
- (from the article "Literature") Another striking trend of French literature of 2006 was the profusion of historical novels. Didier Daeninckx published Itineraire d'un salaud ordinaire, which portrayed the long career of a policeman who ...
- daer tenure
- (from the article "Brehon laws") ...land itself but the right to graze cattle, and they sometimes even rented out the cattle themselves. There were two distinct methods of letting and hiring: saer ("free") and daer ...
- Daewoo Group
- (from the article "automotive industry") ...and buses; it was part of the larger Hyundai Corporation, which had interests ranging from construction to shipbuilding. Kia, South Korea's second largest automaker, was acquired by Hyundai in 1999. ...
- Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve
- (from the article "Yancheng") Yancheng National Nature Reserve (established 1983) and the smaller Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve (1986) encompass much of Jiangsu's Yellow Sea coastline north and south of Yancheng. They protect salt ...
- daffodil
- bulb-forming flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (q.v.), native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. The daffodil grows to about 16 inches (41 cm) ... [2 Related Articles]
- Daffy Duck
- cartoon character, a gangly, black-feathered duck whose explosive temperament and insatiable ego lead him into an endless series of comic misadventures. He is a cornerstone of the Warner Bros. stable ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dafoe, Allan Roy
- (from the article "Dionne quintuplets") ...providing profitable endorsements for products from cod-liver oil to typewriters and automobiles, and attracting hordes of tourists to northern Ontario. The attending physician, Allan Roy Dafoe (d. 1941), also became ...
- Dafoe, John Wesley
- (from the article "Winnipeg Free Press") ...1872 by William F. Luxton and John A. Kenny as the Manitoba Free Press, the paper grew in circulation and influence during Canada's westward expansion in the 1880s. From 1901 ...
- Dafydd ab Edmwnd
- poet who authoritatively classified and defined the 24 Welsh bardic metres (announced at the Carmarthen eisteddfod, or poets' assembly, about 1451). A master of bardic forms, he wrote elegant and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dafydd ap Gwilym
- poet generally considered one of the greatest figures in Welsh literature. He introduced into a formalistic poetic tradition an authenticity, freshness, and naturalness hitherto unknown. [1 Related Articles]
- Dafydd Nanmor
- Welsh poet, master of the cywydd form (characterized by rhyming couplets), whose poems express his belief in tradition and aristocracy. Many of his poems reflect his support ... [1 Related Articles]
- daga
- (from the article "Great Zimbabwe") ...divided into three main areas: the Hill Complex, the Great Enclosure, and the Valley Ruins. The first two are characterized by mortarless stone construction, but they also include ruined
- Dagan
- West Semitic god of crop fertility, worshiped extensively throughout the ancient Middle East. Dagan was the Hebrew and Ugaritic common noun for "grain," and the god Dagan was the legendary ... [4 Related Articles]
- Dagana
- (from the article "Senegal River") From Bakel to Dagana, a distance of 385 miles, the river flows through an alluvial valley as much as 12 miles wide. Floods come in early September at Bakel, reaching ...
- Dagda
- in Celtic religion, one of the leaders of a mythological Irish people, the Tuatha De Danann ("People of the Goddess Danu"). The Dagda was credited with many powers and possessed ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dagens Nyheter
- morning daily newspaper published in Stockholm. It is one of the largest and most influential newspapers in Sweden. It was founded in 1864 by Rudolf Wall. Dagens ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dagerman, Stig
- Swedish short-story writer, novelist, and playwright whose works, showing the influence of William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, and Dagerman's older compatriot, Eyvind Johnson, have been held to express a sense of ...
- Dagestan
- republic in southern European Russia. Dagestan lies on the eastern end of the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range, along the western shore of the Caspian Sea. The capital ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dagestan rug
- usually small floor covering woven in the republic of Dagestan in the eastern Caucasus (Russia). Dagestan rugs are finer than the Kazakh types, but less fine than rugs from the ...
- Dagestanian languages
- group of languages spoken in the northeastern part of the Caucasus and including the Avar-Andi-Dido, the Lak-Dargin (Lak-Dargwa), and the Lezgian groups. One of the distinctive characteristics of a majority ... [4 Related Articles]
- dagger
- short stabbing knife, ostensibly the diminutive of the sword, though in ancient and medieval times the distinction between a long dagger and a short sword was often obscure. From approximately ... [7 Related Articles]
- Daglarca, Fazil Husnu
- (from the article "Turkish literature") ...of brevity and wit; they occasionally refer obliquely to the Ottoman culture of the past. Sevgilerde (1976; "Among the Beloveds") is a collection of his earlier poetry. Fazil Husnu Daglarca ...
- Dagly, Gerhard
- royal Kammerkunstler, or chamber artist, who, as one of the greatest craftsmen in European lacquer, was an important force behind the Baroque style.
- Dagly, Jacques
- (from the article "Dagly, Gerhard") In 1713, on the succession of Frederick William I to the Prussian crown, Dagly's world collapsed, for the new king severely stripped the court, considering art unnecessary and artists dispensable. ...
- Dagmar
- American comic actress (b. Nov. 29, 1921, Logan, W.Va.-d. Oct. 9, 2001, Ceredo, W.Va.), portrayed a stereotypical sexy dumb blonde in early 1950s television, most notably on the late-night talk ...
- dagoba
- (from the article "architecture") Some architecture depends much more on mass expression than on space expression. The Egyptian pyramid, the Indian stupa, and the dagoba of Sri Lanka have no meaningful interior spaces; they ...
- Dagobert I
- the last Frankish king of the Merovingian dynasty to rule a realm united in more than name only. [5 Related Articles]
- Dagobert II
- Merovingian Frankish king of Austrasia. [1 Related Articles]
- Dagobert III
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dagomba
- 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. ...
- Dagomba kingdom
- (from the article "Dagomba") According to tradition, the Dagomba kingdom was founded by northern invaders in the 14th century. It extended south to the Black Volta River, but it was reduced in size by ...
- Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande
- French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype. Though the first permanent photograph from nature was made in 1826/27 by Nicephore Niepce ... [9 Related Articles]
- daguerreotype
- first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicephore Niepce in the 1830s. Daguerre and Niepce found that if a ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dagupan
- 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 ...
- Dagwood sandwich
- (from the article "Young, Chic") ...1941), and Daisy and her pups. A comedy of situations that only slightly exaggerates life, Blondie was adapted to motion pictures and to a television series and a radio series. ...
- Dah Sun Cotton Mill
- (from the article "Nantong") ...district. After the disasters of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, Zhang decided to abandon politics and to devote himself to developing Nantong into a model district. In 1895 he founded ...
- Dahab
- (from the article "Egypt") On April 24, the eve of the anniversary of the return by Israel of the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, the Red Sea resort area of Dahab was targeted for a ...
- Dahae
- (from the article "Vologeses I") ...(AD 54-63). A peace was finally concluded by which Tiridates was acknowledged as a Roman client king in Armenia. The power of Vologeses was further weakened by an attack by ...
- Dahe culture
- (from the article "China") ...and Machang (last half of 3rd millennium) cultures. Some two-thirds of the pots found in the Machang burial area at Liuwan in Qinghai, for example, were painted. In the North ...
- Dahir al-'Umar
- (from the article "Palestine") ...most outside influences. The prosperity of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine was followed by an economic and political decline in the 17th century. Ottoman control in the 18th century was indirect. Dahir ...
- Dahl, Carl F.
- (from the article "papermaking") ...From these crude beginnings, modern papermaking machines evolved. By 1875 paper coated by machinery was being made for use in the printing of halftones by the new photoengraving process, and ...
- Dahl, Ole-Johan
- Norwegian computer scientist (b. Oct. 12, 1931, Mandal, Nor.-d. June 29, 2002), was cocreator of the first "object-oriented" computer programming language, SIMULA, with his longtime colleague Kristen Nygaard (q.v.).
- Dahl, Roald
- British writer, a popular author of ingenious, irreverent children's books and of adult horror stories.
- Dahl, Robert
- (from the article "political science") The American political theorist Robert Dahl, who had long been a scholar of the topic, viewed democracy as the pluralist interplay of groups in what he called a "polyarchy." Historical-cultural ...
- Dahlak Archipelago
- (from the article "Eritrea") Off the coast in the Red Sea is the Dahlak Archipelago, a group of more than 100 small coral and reef-fringed islands. Only a few of these islands have a ...
- Dahlbeck, Eva
- Swedish actress and writer played strong, wise women in several early films by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, notably Sommarnattens leedne (1955; Smiles of a Summer Night) and Nara livet (1958; ...
- Dahlbergh, Eric, Count
- 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 ...
- Dahlem Museums
- (from the article "Berlin") ...for its many excellent museums. Because the prewar museum sites and parts of the old collections were located in what became East Berlin, a magnificent new museum complex, collectively called ...
- Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard
- 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 ...
- Dahlia
- genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, containing about 30 species of tuberous-rooted herbs that are native to the higher elevations of Mexico and Central America. Most have leaves that ...
- Dahlia bipinnata
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...been bred for cultivation as ornamental flowers. Wild species of dahlias have both disk and ray flowers in the flowering heads, but many varieties of ornamentals such as the common ...
- Dahlia coccinea
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...Great Britain from Spain in 1789, and countless varieties of dahlias, many of them double-flowered, were subsequently developed in Britain and elsewhere from the species D. variabilis and D. coccinea. ...
- Dahlia variabilis
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...was first introduced into Great Britain from Spain in 1789, and countless varieties of dahlias, many of them double-flowered, were subsequently developed in Britain and elsewhere from the species D. ...
- Dahlmann, Friedrich
- 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 ...
- Dahlonega
- city, seat (1833) of Lumpkin county, northern Georgia, U.S. Gold was discovered in the locality in the late 1820s, and the site was settled and incorporated in 1833 after one ...
- Dahmer, Jeffrey
- American serial killer whose arrest in 1991 provoked controversy and resulted in an upsurge of popular interest in serial murder and other crimes. [1 Related Articles]
- Dahn, Felix
- German jurist, historian, poet, and novelist who made his greatest contribution as a scholar of German antiquity.
- Dahna', ad-
- (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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dahomey
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- Dahriyah
- 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 ...
- Dahshur
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dahuk
- 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 ...
- Dai Ailian
- British-born Chinese dancer, choreographer, and teacher (b. May 10, 1916, Trinidad, British West Indies-d. Feb. 9, 2006, Beijing, China), was dubbed "the mother of Chinese ballet," and she was instrumental ...
- Dai hyakkajiten
- (Japanese: "Great Encyclopaedia"), comprehensive Japanese general encyclopaedia, published in Tokyo.
- Dai Jin
- Chinese landscape painter of the Ming dynasty. [2 Related Articles]
- Dai jiten
- (Japanese: "Great Dictionary"), dictionary of the Japanese language published in 13 illustrated volumes in Tokyo (1953-54).
- Dai Noi
- (from the article "Hue") ...China Sea coast, Hue is traversed by the broad, shallow Huong River (Hue River, or Perfume River). At the city's heart, on the river's left bank, is the Chinese-style Vietnamese ...
- Dai Viet
- (from the article "Suryavarman II") From 1123 until 1136 Suryavarman waged a series of unsuccessful campaigns against Dai Viet, the Vietnamese kingdom that had asserted its independence from China in 939. He attempted a land ...
- Dai Zhen
- Chinese empirical philosopher, considered by many to have been the greatest thinker of the Qing period (1644-1911/12). [1 Related Articles]
- Dai, Mount
- (from the article "Chugoku Range") ...the Kibi Plateau, except in the Akiyoshi Plateau area in the west, where karst topography occurs in some places. Numerous semicircular depressions have been buried by lava-dome volcanoes, including Mount ...
- Dai-Ichi Bank Ltd.
- (from the article "Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank") ...the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in 30 other countries, Dai-Ichi had been established in 1971 through the ...
- Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank
- 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 ...
- Daiei
- (from the article "Japan") In October Daiei, Japan's supermarket giant, asked the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan (IRCJ) to help support its reconstruction. The IRCJ was an official entity that had been established in ...
- Daiei Motion Picture Company
- 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 ...
- Daigak Guksa
- Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch'ont'ae sect of Buddhism. [1 Related Articles]
- Daigle, France
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...Chiasson (Mourir a Scoudouc [1974; "To Die at Scoudouc"], Conversations [1998; Eng. trans. Conversations]) and postmodern novelist France Daigle. Acadian literature excels in lyric poetry, represented by authors who include ...
- Daigo
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
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