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- a confederation of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who occupied the Atlantic seaboard from Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to western Long Island. Before colonization, they were especially concentrated in the Delaware River ... [5 Related Articles]
- Delaware
- county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., located southwest of Philadelphia and bounded to the east by Cobbs Creek and to the south by New Jersey and Delaware, the Delaware River constituting the ...
- Delaware
- city, seat (1808) of Delaware county, central Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Olentangy River, 25 miles (40 km) north of Columbus. The Delaware Indians had a village in the ...
- Delaware
- constituent state of the United States of America. The first of the original 13 states to ratify the federal Constitution, it occupies a small niche in the Boston-Washington, D.C., urban ... [11 Related Articles]
- Delaware
- county, south-central New York state, U.S., bordered by the Susquehanna River to the northwest and Pennsylvania to the southwest, the Delaware River constituting the boundary. The mountainous terrain is drained ...
- Delaware and Hudson Canal
- (from the article "Jervis, John Bloomfield") ...worked as an axman on the survey for the Erie Canal and earned rapid promotion on that project thereafter, serving as chief engineer from 1821 to 1825. In 1827 he ...
- Delaware and Hudson Railroad
- (from the article "railroad") The earliest locomotives used in North America were of British design. In 1829 the Stourbridge Lion was the first to run on a North American railroad. But on the Delaware ...
- Delaware Aqueduct
- circular tunnel, part of the system that supplies water to New York City from the Delaware River near its source and from other streams in the Catskill Mountains. Running deep ... [1 Related Articles]
- Delaware Basin
- (from the article "Permian Period") ...characterized by the gradual withdrawal of shorelines and the progressive increase in eolian (wind-transported) sands, red beds, and evaporites. Many intracratonic basins-such as the Anadarko, Delaware, and Midland basins in ...
- Delaware Bay
- inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean, on the east coast of the United States, forming part of the New Jersey-Delaware state border. The bay extends southeastward for 52 miles (84 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Delaware River
- river of the Atlantic slope of the United States, meeting tidewater at Trenton, N.J., about 130 miles (210 km) above its mouth. Its total length (including the longest branch) is ... [3 Related Articles]
- Delaware State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Dover, Del., U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of a College of Arts and Sciences and schools of Management; Education and Professional ...
- Delaware Technical and Community College
- (from the article "Delaware") ...veterinary science and dentistry, in which no training is offered in Delaware's public institutions. Delaware State University, a historically black institution founded in 1891, is located in Dover. Delaware Technical ...
- Delaware, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a blue field (background) with a buff (light tan) diamond bearing a central coat of arms above the inscription "December 7, 1787."
- Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
- American railroad built to carry coal from the anthracite fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. Originally known as Ligget's Gap Railroad, it was chartered in 1851 as the Lackawanna and Western. Eventually ...
- Delaware, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Newark, Del., U.S. It also offers courses at other sites, including Wilmington, Dover, Georgetown, and Lewes. The university consists of seven colleges offering ... [1 Related Articles]
- delay line
- (from the article "television") ...of each line scan in storage (or "memorizing" it-hence the name of the system, French for "electronic colour system with memory"). The storage device is known as a delay line; ...
- delay system
- (from the article "explosive") Delay, or rotational, shooting has many advantages over instantaneous firing in almost all types of blasting. It generally gives better fragmentation, more efficient use of the explosive, reduced vibration and ...
- DeLay, Dorothy
- American violin teacher (b. March 31, 1917, Medicine Lodge, Kan.-d. March 24, 2002, Upper Nyack, N.Y.), was a master teacher who trained some of the world's leading violinists, including Itzhak ...
- Delay, Florence
- (from the article "French literature") ...Eden (1970; Eden, Eden, Eden), a novel about war, prostitution, obscenity, and atrocity, set in the Algerian desert, was banned by the censor for 11 years; Florence ...
- DeLay, Tom
- (from the article "United States") ...showed unusual unity and organized to stop the administration agenda; they were occasionally joined by key Republicans. Ethics problems sapped the majority party. When the U.S. House's GOP leader, Tom ...
- delayed fallout
- (from the article "nuclear weapon") ...early (local) and delayed (worldwide) fallout. Early fallout settles to the ground during the first 24 hours; it may contaminate large areas and be an immediate and extreme biological hazard. ...
- delayed implantation
- (from the article "bear") ...pair off, and mate in seclusion. The male leaves the female soon after mating and plays no role in raising the young. Gestation periods vary, the fertilized egg remaining dormant ...
- delayed literature
- (from the article "Russian literature") ...works smuggled abroad for publication ("tamizdat"), and works written "for the drawer," or not published until decades after they were written ("delayed" literature). Moreover, literature publishable at one time often ...
- delayed puberty
- (from the article "endocrine system, human") In girls, puberty is considered to be delayed if no pubertal development has occurred by 13 or 14 years of age, and girls who have not menstruated by 16 years ...
- delayed rectifier channel
- (from the article "nervous system") The best-known flow of K+ is the outward current following depolarization of the membrane. This occurs through the delayed rectifier channel (IDR), which, activated by the influx of Na+, counteracts ...
- delayed toxic response
- (from the article "poison") ...to the time it takes for development of a toxic response. If it takes up to a few days after exposure, the response is considered immediate. There is no universal ...
- Delbarjin
- (from the article "Afghanistan") ...Kabul; it includes painted glass from Alexandria; plaster matrices, bronzes, porphyries, and alabasters from Rome; carved ivories from India; and lacquers from China. A massive Kushan city at Delbarjin, north ...
- Delblanc, Sven
- Swedish novelist who was notable for his use of the intrusive narrator and for the incorporation of grotesque, visionary, and mythical elements to give detailed descriptions of society in his ... [1 Related Articles]
- Delbruck, Berthold
- German linguist who addressed himself to the problems of syntax (the patterning of words into meaningful phrases and sentences). He is credited with having founded the study of the comparative ...
- Delbruck, Hans
- (from the article "strategy") From his study of the Peloponnesian War, the 19th-century German military historian Hans Delbruck drew a fundamental distinction between strategies based on overthrow of the opponent and those aimed at ...
- Delbruck, Max
- German-born U.S. biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics. With Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Luria, he was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for ... [3 Related Articles]
- Delbruck, Rudolph von
- statesman and chief executor of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's free-trade policy for Prussia and then for imperial Germany. He entered government service in 1837 and in 1848 was transferred to ...
- Delcasse, Theophile
- French foreign minister (1898-1905 and 1914-15) who was a principal architect of the new system of European alliances formed in the years preceding World War I. [4 Related Articles]
- Delco
- (from the article "Kettering, Charles F.") With Edward A. Deeds, Kettering founded Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) to design automotive electrical equipment. He developed improved lighting and ignition systems as well as the first electric starter, ...
- Delecluze, Etienne-Jean
- (from the article "art criticism") ...to think in terms of stark oppositions and distinctions-often beauty and ugliness-and thus often failed to achieve an adequate dialectical criticism. Thus, for example, French critic Etienne-Jean Delecluze was a ...
- Deledda, Grazia
- novelist who was influenced by the verismo (q.v.; "realism") school in Italian literature. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. [2 Related Articles]
- delegate
- (from the article "presidency of the United States of America") ...party conventions. Although the presidential and vice presidential candidates of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are still formally selected by national conventions, most of the delegates are ...
- Delegates, Assembly of
- (from the article "Egypt") ...The richer peasants, from whom the village headmen were recruited, in particular increased in importance. When, in November 1866, Isma'il set up the consultative council known as the Assembly of ...
- Delehaye, Hippolyte
- Belgian scholar who was the foremost exponent of biographical church history based on archaeological and documentary work.
- Delemont
- capital of Jura canton, northwestern Switzerland, situated in a wide valley at the confluence of the Sorne and Birse rivers. First mentioned in historical records in 727, Delemont was annexed ...
- Delerm, Philippe
- (from the article "Literature") ...Picouly told the tale of a black nobleman, Saint-Georges, who may possibly have been the father of the "leopard child," whose mother now may have been Marie Antoinette herself. Finally, ...
- Delerue, Georges
- (from the article "1979: Other Winners") ...Robert Benton for Kramer Vs. KramerCinematography: Vittorio Storaro for Apocalypse NowArt Direction: Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton for All That JazzOriginal Score: Georges Delerue for A Little RomanceOriginal Song Score ...
- Delescluze, Charles
- French revolutionary figure who participated in the uprisings of 1830 and 1848 and who was an important leader in the Paris Commune (1871).
- deletion
- (from the article "heredity") The simplest, but perhaps most damaging, structural change is a deletion-the complete loss of a part of one chromosome. In a haploid cell this is lethal, because part of the ...
- Deleuze, Gilles
- French writer and antirationalist philosopher. [3 Related Articles]
- Delft
- gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. It lies along the canalized Schie River between Rotterdam and The Hague. Founded in 1075 and chartered in 1246, it was severely damaged ... [4 Related Articles]
- Delft, Treaty of
- (from the article "Jacoba Of Bavaria") ...Philip's power in the Netherlands. Her hopes dimmed, however, after the pope declared her marriage to Humphrey illegal (Jan. 9, 1428); she made a settlement with Philip on July 3, ...
- delftware
- tin-glazed earthenware first made early in the 17th century at Delft, Holland. Dutch potters later brought the art of tin glazing to England along with the name delft, which now ... [4 Related Articles]
- Delfzijl
- (from the article "Groningen") ...paper and cardboard factories; engineering, shipbuilding, chemical, and electrical industries; and textile and hosiery factories. There is sugar refining and dairy processing in the north, and Delfzijl, connected with Groningen ...
- Delgado Aparain, Mario
- (from the article "Literature") Two authors, Chilean Luis Sepulveda and Uruguayan Mario Delgado Aparain, worked together on a singular book with the parodic title Los peores cuentos de los hermanos Grim. These Grim(m) brothers ...
- Delgado, Jose Matias
- (from the article "cacos") ...before independence was declared in 1821, one of the two leading political factions was also called cacos. Their leaders were such prominent Creoles as Jose Matias Delgado ...
- Delgado, Junior
- Jamaican reggae singer (b. Aug. 25, 1958, Kingston, Jam.-d. April 11, 2005, London, Eng.), was celebrated for his distinctively gruff voice, which imbued his recordings with a feeling of anguish. ...
- Delgado, Leandro Silva
- (from the article "Uruguay") ...painter Pedro Figari achieved international renown for his pastel studies of subjects in Montevideo and the countryside. Blending elements of art and nature, the work of the landscape architect Leandro ...
- Delger River
- (from the article "Selenga River") river in Mongolia and east-central Russia. It is formed by the confluence of the Ider and Delger rivers. It is Mongolia's principal river and is the most substantial source of ...
- Delhi
- (from the article "Delhi") city and national capital territory, north-central India. Popularly known as Old Delhi, it is the country's second largest city, surpassed in population only by Greater Mumbai (Bombay). New Delhi, the ...
- Delhi
- city and national capital territory, north-central India. Popularly known as Old Delhi, it is the country's second largest city, surpassed in population only by Greater Mumbai (Bombay). New Delhi, the ... [16 Related Articles]
- Delhi Pact
- pact made on April 8, 1950, following the state of tension that had arisen between India and Pakistan in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after economic relations between the two countries ...
- Delhi sultanate
- principal Muslim sultanate in North India from the 13th to the 16th century. Its creation owed much to the campaigns of Muhammad of Ghur (brother of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din of Ghur) ... [4 Related Articles]
- Delhi Zoological Park
- zoo founded in 1957 in New Delhi, India. Its facilities are funded and administered by the national government. More than 1,700 specimens representing at least 185 species are exhibited and ...
- Delhi, pillar of
- (from the article "metalwork") ...or acquired. In southern India iron immediately succeeded stone as a material for tools and weapons, and prehistoric iron weapons began to come into use about 500 BC. The wrought-iron ...
- Delhi, University of
- state-controlled institution of higher education located at Delhi, India. Founded in 1922 as a residential university, it developed into a teaching and affiliating body and is now designated as one ... [2 Related Articles]
- Deli Hasan
- (from the article "Jelali Revolts") ...them the Jelalis withdrew to Urfa in southeastern Anatolia, making it the centre of resistance. Karayazici rejected offers of governorships in Anatolia and died in 1602. His brother Deli Hasan ...
- Delia
- ancient quadrennial festival of the Ionians, held on Delos (hence the name) in honour of the Greek god Apollo. The local title was Apollonia, which seems always to have been ...
- Delian League
- confederacy of ancient Greek states under the leadership of Athens, with headquarters at Delos, founded in 478 BC during the Greco-Persian wars. The original organization of the league, as sketched ... [12 Related Articles]
- deliberate inbreeding
- (from the article "consanguinity") ...death of the infant offspring of consanguineous parents purges the gene pool and reduces the possibility that recessive disease genes will be expressed in succeeding generations. The principle of deliberate ...
- deliberative multilateralism
- (from the article "international relations") ...combat only under U.S. command. Trimming their sails, Lake and Albright said that the administration would henceforth take multilateral or unilateral action on a case-by-case basis. Dubbed "deliberative multilateralism," it ...
- deliberative oratory
- (from the article "oratory") Demosthenes, the Athenian lawyer, soldier, and statesman, was a great deliberative orator. In one of his greatest speeches, "On the Crown," he defended himself against the charge by his political ...
- Delibes, Leo
- French opera and ballet composer who was the first to write music of high quality for the ballet. His pioneering symphonic work for the ballet opened up a field for ... [2 Related Articles]
- Delibes, Miguel
- Spanish novelist, essayist, and journalist who wrote widely of travel, the outdoors, sport, and his native Valladolid. His realist fiction is best known for its critical analysis of 20th-century Spanish ... [1 Related Articles]
- Delicate Arch
- (from the article "Arches National Park") ...eroded into a variety of unusual shapes, including pinnacles, windows, and arches. Notable features are Balanced Rock, Courthouse Towers (with spires that resemble skyscrapers), The Windows Section, Delicate Arch, Fiery ...
- Delicias Project, Las
- (from the article "Mexico") ...attempt at providing water to the arid North, and huge cooperative ejidos were formed to farm cotton using modern mechanized methods. This was followed by the Las ...
- delict
- in Roman law, an obligation to pay a penalty because a wrong had been committed. Not until the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD were public crimes separated from private crimes ... [2 Related Articles]
- Deligne, Pierre Rene
- Belgian mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, Fin., in 1978 for his work in algebraic geometry. [1 Related Articles]
- Delilah
- in the Old Testament, the central figure of Samson's last love story (Judges 16). She was a Philistine who, bribed to entrap Samson, coaxed him into revealing that the secret ... [1 Related Articles]
- Delille, Jacques
- poet and classicist who enjoyed an impressive reputation in his day as the "French Virgil."
- DeLillo, Don
- American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. [3 Related Articles]
- delineation
- (from the article "mining") Normally, core holes are drilled in a more or less regular pattern, and the locations of the holes are plotted on plan maps. In order to visualize how the deposit ...
- delineator
- (from the article "drafting") ...but depends upon the support of several levels of drafters who prepare graphic studies of details; determine fits, clearances, and manufacturing feasibility; and prepare the working drawings. The delineator, or ...
- delinquency
- criminal behaviour, especially that carried out by a juvenile. Depending on the nation of origin, a juvenile becomes an adult anywhere between the ages of 15 to 18, although the ... [10 Related Articles]
- deliquescence
- the process by which a substance absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution. Deliquescence occurs when the vapour pressure of the ...
- deliquescent branching
- (from the article "tree") ...(excurrent branching). Many angiosperms show for some part of their development a well-defined central axis, which then divides continually to form a crown of branches of similar dimensions (deliquescent branching). ...
- delirium
- a mental disturbance marked by disorientation and confused thinking in which the patient incorrectly comprehends his surroundings. The delirious person is drowsy, restless, and fearful of imaginary disasters. He may ... [3 Related Articles]
- delirium tremens
- (from the article "alcohol consumption") ...more than they are pharmacological. Alcohol is important pharmacologically for use with some active medicines that are poorly soluble in water but readily dissolve in alcohol and for preventing delirium ...
- Delisle, Guillaume
- mapmaker who led the reform of French cartography.
- Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas
- French astronomer who proposed that the series of coloured rings sometimes observed around the Sun is caused by diffraction of sunlight through water droplets in a cloud. He also worked ...
- Delisle, Leopold
- (from the article "library") ...as a result of the Revolution and the confiscation of aristocratic and church private collections. The catalog of the library on cards was completed under the librarianship (1874-1905) of Leopold ...
- delit grave
- (from the article "crime, delit, and contravention") ...adopting the new definitions retained the three-tiered structure of the judiciary. In consequence, an informal yet important distinction was made between delits moins graves and delits graves-that is, between ordinary ...
- delit moins grave
- (from the article "crime, delit, and contravention") Most countries adopting the new definitions retained the three-tiered structure of the judiciary. In consequence, an informal yet important distinction was made between delits moins graves and delits graves-that is, ...
- Delius, Frederick
- composer, one of the most distinctive figures in the revival of English music at the end of the 19th century.
- delivery
- (from the article "carriage of goods") In all legal systems, carriers incur liability for delay in delivering the goods to the consignee. Statutes, international conventions, administrative regulations, or even contractual agreements may fix the period of ...
- delivery
- (from the article "writ") ...the performance of a specific act. The most common modern writs are those, such as the summons, used to initiate an action. Other writs may be used to enforce the ...
- delivery system
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...missile, beginning in 1967. FOBS was based on a low-trajectory launch that would be fired in the opposite direction from the target and would achieve only partial earth orbit. With ...
- Dell Inc.
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") PC maker Dell Inc., acknowledging that some quarterly results had been falsified in the years 2003-06 to meet sales targets, reduced its earnings for fiscal year 2003 to the first ...
- Dell, Floyd
- novelist and radical journalist whose fiction examined the changing mores in sex and politics among American bohemians before and after World War I. [4 Related Articles]
- Dell, Michael
- American entrepreneur, businessman, and author, known as the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc., one of the world's leading sellers of personal computers (PCs). [1 Related Articles]
- Della Falls
- series of three cascades from Della Lake to the valley of Drinkwater Creek on Vancouver Island, B.C., Can. They are located approximately 37 miles (60 km) northwest of the mill ...
- Della Robbia, Andrea
- Florentine sculptor who was the nephew of Luca Della Robbia and assumed control of the family workshop after his uncle's death in 1482.
- Della Robbia, Giovanni
- Florentine sculptor, son of Andrea Della Robbia and grandnephew of Luca Della Robbia who, upon the death of his father in 1525, assumed control of the family workshop.
- Della Robbia, Girolamo
- (from the article "Della Robbia, Giovanni") Giovanni's younger brother, Girolamo (1488-1566), was trained in Andrea's studio and collaborated with his father and brother until he moved to France (c. 1527-28), where he was employed on the ...
- Della Robbia, Luca
- sculptor, one of the pioneers of Florentine Renaissance style, who was the founder of a family studio primarily associated with the production of works in enameled terra-cotta. [2 Related Articles]
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