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Demetrius II Nicator: king of Syria from 145 to 139 and from 129 to 125 BC. [3 Related Articles]
Demetrius of Lacon: (from the article "Epicureanism") ...have heard Epicurus. Superior to both, however, were Metrodorus and Colotes, against whom a small work by Plutarch was directed. Among the Epicureans of the 2nd century BC, mention must ...
Demetrius Of Phaleron: Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher who was appointed governor of Athens by the Macedonian general Cassander (317 BC). He favoured the upper classes and gave effect to the ideas of ... [3 Related Articles]
Demetrius of Scepsis: (from the article "Strabo") ...about Greece, in books VIII to X, he still relied upon Artemidorus, but the bulk of his information was taken from two commentators of Homer-Apollodorus of Athens (2nd century BC) ...
Demetz, Frederic-Auguste: French jurist and early advocate of the cottage reformatory for juvenile offenders, which anticipated the English system of Borstal reformatories established in the 20th century.
demi plie: (from the article "plie") ...shock, and as an exercise to loosen muscles and to develop balance. Performed in all of the five basic foot positions, plies may be shallow, so that the dancer's heels ...
Demian, Cyrill: (from the article "accordion") ...debate among researchers. Many credit C. Friedrich L. Buschmann, whose Handaoline was patented in Berlin in 1822, as the inventor of the accordion, while others give the distinction to Cyril ...
demicannon: (from the article "naval ship") The armament of an English man-of-war of the early 16th century consisted of four or five short-barreled cannon, or curtals, a similar number of demicannon, and culverins. The average cannon, ...
demicanton: (from the article "canton") In Switzerland, canton is the name given to each of the 23 states comprising the Swiss Confederation. Three cantons-Unterwalden, Basel, and Appenzell-are subdivided into demicantons, or half cantons, which function ...
Demidov Family: Russian family that acquired great wealth in the 18th century, largely through iron production and mining, and became patrons of the arts and sciences.
Demidov, Akinfy: (from the article "Demidov Family") Akinfy Demidov (1678-1745), Nikita's son, increased his inherited wealth by expanding his holdings and establishing gold, silver, and copper mines, mainly in the Ural Mountains. Largely as a result of ...
Demidov, Anatoly Nikolayevich: (from the article "Demidov Family") ...mainly in Moscow. Nikolay's elder son, Pavel Nikolayevich Demidov (1798-1840), founded an annual prize for Russian literature, to be awarded by the Academy of Sciences. Nikolay's younger son, Anatoly Nikolayevich ...
Demidov, Nikita Demidovich: (from the article "Demidov Family") Nikita Demidovich Antufyev (1656-1725) was a blacksmith from the western Russian city of Tula, who took the surname Demidov in 1702. He began to accumulate his family's fortune by manufacturing ...
Demidov, Nikolay Nikitich: (from the article "Demidov Family") ...of the family engaged in philanthropic activities. Akinfy's nephew Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov (1738-1821) traveled extensively and became a benefactor of Russian education. His nephew Count Nikolay Nikitich Demidov (1773-1828) directed ...
Demidov, Pavel Grigoryevich: (from the article "Demidov Family") Subsequently, other members of the family engaged in philanthropic activities. Akinfy's nephew Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov (1738-1821) traveled extensively and became a benefactor of Russian education. His nephew Count Nikolay Nikitich ...
Demidov, Pavel Nikolayevich: (from the article "Demidov Family") ...His nephew Count Nikolay Nikitich Demidov (1773-1828) directed the family's mining business and also contributed liberally to scientific education, mainly in Moscow. Nikolay's elder son, Pavel Nikolayevich Demidov (1798-1840), founded ...
demilitarization: (from the article "Japan") ...in the Potsdam Declaration and elucidated in U.S. government policy statements drawn up and forwarded to MacArthur in August 1945. The essence of these policies was simple and straightforward: the ...
demilitarized zone: (from the article "Korea, North") ...possessed nuclear weapons; it tested its first nuclear device in October 2006. Efforts to restore a North-South dialogue continued. In May 2007 trains from both the North and the South ...
DeMille, Cecil B.: American motion-picture producer-director, whose use of spectacle attracted vast audiences and made him a dominant figure in Hollywood for almost five decades. [3 Related Articles]
DeMille, William Churchill: (from the article "DeMille, Cecil B.") ...at the Pennsylvania Military College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he began his career in the theatre as an actor in 1900. He was soon collaborating with his ...
Deming: city, seat (1901) of Luna county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S., about 55 miles (89 km) west of Las Cruces. The city is located in the broad valley of the Mimbres ...
Deming Prize: (from the article "Deming, W. Edwards") ...Japanese companies quickly adopted his methods, with the result being a commitment to quality control that helped Japanese firms dominate some product markets in many parts of the world. The ...
Deming, W. Edwards: American statistician, educator, and consultant whose advocacy of quality-control methods in industrial production aided Japan's economic recovery after World War II and spurred the subsequent global success of many Japanese ... [2 Related Articles]
demiourgos: (from the article "Hellenistic Age") ...After that they took a fresh decision to appoint a single general and to entrust him with plenary authority. Margus of Cerynea was the first." There were also 10 magistrates ...
Demirci Huyuk: (from the article "Anatolia") ...buildings, villages, towns, or palaces-were the norm. A single building at Karatas-Semayuk was defended by a ditch, a plastered rampart, and an enclosure wall. Villages such as Demirci Huyuk relied ...
Demirel, Suleyman: politician and civil engineer who served seven times as prime minister of Turkey and was president from 1993 to 2000. [4 Related Articles]
Demirtas: (from the article "Esref Dynasty") ...son Mehmed captured Aksehir and Bolvadin and in 1314 accepted Il-Khanid (western Mongol) suzerainty. He was succeeded by his son Suleyman II, whose reign coincided with an attempt by Demirtas, ...
Demissie, Netsanet: (from the article "Ethiopia") ...committed various crimes, Pres. Girma Wolde-Giyorgis pardoned 38 of them. The pardon restored the political rights of the CUD leaders to vote and stand for election. Two civil social activists, ...
Demiurge: in philosophy, a subordinate god who fashions and arranges the physical world to make it conform to a rational and eternal ideal. Plato adapted the term, which in ancient Greece ... [9 Related Articles]
Demme, Edward: American film director (b. Oct. 26, 1964, New York, N.Y.-d. Jan. 13, 2002, Santa Monica, Calif.), counted among his credits such films as Beautiful Girls (1996), Life (1999), and Blow ...
Demme, Jonathan: (from the article "1991: Best Director") Other NomineesOscar to "The Silence of the Lambs" for best picture, 19911991: Best PictureThe Silence of the Lambs, produced ...
democracy: literally, rule by the people. The term is derived from the Greek demokratia, which was coined from demos ("people") and kratos ... [49 Related Articles]
Democracy and Development: The East Asian Experience: by Richard Saludo [10 Related Articles]
Democracy and Free Trade, Forum on: (from the article "Qatar") Qatar hosted its fifth annual international Forum on Democracy and Free Trade. As a result of exchanges between the more than 500 conference participants from virtually every corner of the ...
Democracy and Progress, Congress for: (from the article "Burkina Faso") In the May 6 elections, the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress won a substantial majority in the National Assembly, taking 73 of the 111 seats. Former ambassador Tertius Zongo ...
Democrat Party: (from the article "Indonesia") ...vehicle of the former Suharto regime, as the largest party, with 22% of the vote (down 1% on its 1999 result). Two parties made spectacular advances in the election: SBY's ...
Democrat Party: (from the article "Bayar, Celal") third president of the Turkish Republic (1950-60), who initiated etatism, or a state-directed economy, in Turkey in the 1930s and who after 1946, as the leader of the Democrat Party, ...
Democratic Action: social-democratic political party of Venezuela. [4 Related Articles]
Democratic Action, Party of: (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...League of Communists of Yugoslavia fragmented, and multiparty elections were held in each of the country's six constituent republics. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the national parties-the Bosniac Party of Democratic ...
Democratic Alliance: (from the article "Bulgaria") ...policies alienated the old political leaders, the Military League (comprising active and reserve officers), and Tsar Boris's court. The rightist parties united in the National Alliance (later called Democratic Alliance) ...
Democratic Alliance: (from the article "Portugal") ...to enact an effective austerity program. A number of volatile coalition governments followed, until in 1980, in the general election scheduled by the constitution, a centre-right coalition, the Democratic Alliance ...
Democratic Alliance: (from the article "South Africa") In May, Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille replaced Tony Leon as leader of the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. In January Zille's coalition government in Cape Town had been ...
democratic centralism: decision-making practice and disciplinary policy adopted by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and subsequently followed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and by communist parties in other ... [1 Related Articles]
Democratic Centralist: in the history of the Soviet Union, member of an opposition group within the Communist Party that objected to the growing centralization of power in party and government organs.
Democratic Centre, Union of the: (from the article "Argentina") ...of neoliberal economic policies during the 1990s; the Front for a Country in Solidarity (Frente del Pais Solidario; Frepaso), a moderate leftist grouping of dissident Peronists; and the Union of ...
Democratic Choice of Kazakstan Party: (from the article "Kazakhstan") In early January one of the country's major opposition political parties, the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK), was shut down by court order for having allegedly called publicly for civil ...
Democratic Constitutional Rally: Tunisian political party that led the movement for independence from France (1956) and ruled Tunisia thereafter. [6 Related Articles]
Democratic Convention of Romania: (from the article "Romania") ...PDSR) in 1993-to revive the economy and ensure essential social services led to widespread unrest and strikes. In 1996 Iliescu lost the presidency to Emil Constantinescu, the leader of the ...
Democratic Entente: (from the article "Tsankov, Aleksandur") ...coup of June 9, 1923, Tsankov replaced Stamboliyski as premier but had to face a wave of terrorist activity organized by communists and pro-Marxist Agrarians. His new political coalition, the ...
Democratic Farmers' Party: (from the article "Germany") ...lists" of candidates drawn from all parties, as well as representatives of mass organizations controlled by the communist-dominated SED. Two additional parties, a Democratic Farmers' Party and a National Democratic ...
Democratic Forces, Union of: (from the article "Bulgaria") ...party gave up its guaranteed right to rule, adopted a new manifesto, streamlined its leadership, and changed its name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). Despite these reforms, the opposition ...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: one of several organizations associated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO); it engaged in acts of terrorism in the 1970s and '80s and originally maintained a Marxist-Leninist orientation, believing the ... [3 Related Articles]
Democratic Labor Party: (from the article "Victoria") ...government, destroyed the crucial influence of the Country Party in the Legislative Assembly. The rebel Liberal Party was annihilated at the 1955 election. A breakaway group from official Labor, the ...
Democratic Labour Party: (from the article "Barbados") A no-confidence motion against the Barbados Labour Party government that had been moved by the opposition Democratic Labour Party was defeated in the House of Assembly in June. The motion ...
Democratic Labour Party: (from the article "Korea, Republic of") ...new 299-seat parliament. The other parties suffered a great defeat. The GNP lost 16 seats, which left it with 121 seats, and the MDP lost 53 seats, which left it ...
Democratic Left: short-lived socialist party, organized in both Northern Ireland and the Irish republic, that broke away from the Workers' Party in 1992 and went on to serve in the government of ...
Democratic Left Alliance: (from the article "Poland") Despite promises for the early dissolution of the government, the politicians of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance continued to cling to power, although its public support dropped to 11% and ...
Democratic Liberal Party: (from the article "Grand National Party") The Grand National Party was formed in 1997 through the merger of the New Korea Party (NKP; formerly known as the Democratic Liberal Party) and the Democratic Party (DP). At ...
Democratic Movement of Forces for Change: (from the article "Sao Tome and Principe") ...negotiations were successful in guaranteeing his reinstatement on the condition that the coup leaders would not be punished for their actions. De Menezes was reelected in 2006, representing the Democratic ...
Democratic National Committee: (from the article "Brown, Ron") ...Party. In 1979 he joined the presidential campaign of Senator Edward Kennedy. Though the campaign was unsuccessful, Brown proved adept at political work and in 1982 became deputy chairman of ...
Democratic National Convention: (from the article "United States Presidential Election of 2008") Democratic National Convention
Democratic National Union of Mozambique: (from the article "Mozambique, flag of") One of the early leaders in the struggle for independence from Portuguese rule was the Democratic National Union of Mozambique (Udenamo), whose flag was adopted in November 1961. It had ...
Democratic Nationalist Organization: (from the article "El Salvador") ...and the victory of its candidate, Jose Napoleon Duarte, in the 1964 mayoral election in the city of San Salvador. At the same time, the Rivera government oversaw the formation ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Albania") ...in local elections. After both sides agreed on a compromise designed to prevent double voting, the opposition dropped its threat to boycott the February 18 vote. Prime Minister Sali Berisha's ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Peru") The decline in national prestige created an atmosphere conducive to political change. The Democratic Party was formed, and in 1895, under the leadership of Nicolas de Pierola, it won the ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Romania") ...year, the ruling PDSR was reorganized as the Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat; PSD). In 2004 it was ousted from power by another centre-right coalition of parties, including the ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Huynh Tan Phat") ...Nien ("Youth"). After the war he joined the Vanguard Youth organization, a movement for social reform and political change, and eventually became secretary-general of the liberal Democratic Party. Despite his ...
Democratic Party: in the United States, one of the two major political parties, the other being the Republican Party. Historically, the Democratic Party has supported organized labour, ethnic minorities, and progressive reform. ... [50 Related Articles]
Democratic Party: (from the article "Uganda") ...Buganda should receive a wide degree of autonomy within a federal relationship. Faced with the emergence of Obote's UPC, which claimed support throughout the country apart from Buganda, and of ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Thailand") Held on December 23, the general election saw the pro-Thaksin PPP gain more parliamentary seats than the anti-Thaksin Democrat Party, the oldest existing party in Thailand. Rumours circulated about Thaksin's ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Tajikistan") ...four other opposition parties did nominate candidates, the groups were far too small to pose a credible challenge to Rakhmonov. After the Central Electoral Commission allowed a splinter group of ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Grand National Party") The Grand National Party was formed in 1997 through the merger of the New Korea Party (NKP; formerly known as the Democratic Liberal Party) and the Democratic Party (DP). At ...
Democratic Party: South African political party established in 1989 by the merger of the Progressive Federal Party with two smaller liberal parties, the National Democratic Movement and the Independent Party. The Democratic ... [1 Related Articles]
Democratic Party: (from the article "Serbia") In the early 21st century the pro-European Democratic Party (DS) and its offshoot, the centre-right Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), emerged as leading parties. In 2007 they formed the governing ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Mazowiecki, Tadeusz") ...by Walesa. Just prior to the 1990 elections, he served as founder and first chairman of the Democratic Union (now Freedom Union); he left the party in 2002. In 2005 ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Mongolia") ...government was composed mainly of MPRP members but also included the leaders of the MP and the Republican Party, Badarchiyn Erdenebat (energy) and Bazaryn Jargalsayhan (industry and trade); a former ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Cambodia") ...1945 and the achievement of complete independence in 1953, the most important of which was the confrontation between Sihanouk and his advisers on the one hand and the leaders of ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Chile") The Democratic Party (Partido Democratico; formed 1887) was led by Malaquias Concha, who spoke for the needs of the artisans and a part of the urban workers. Founded by former ...
Democratic Party: (from the article "Italy") ...prepared to launch a new centre-right party to intensify pressure on Prodi, a plan his traditional allies criticized as divisive. Meanwhile, the two leading centre-left parties fused into the Democratic ...
Democratic Party of Albanians: (from the article "Macedonia") ...BDI ended its boycott on May 29, after winning concessions from the government, including a commitment that certain laws could be passed only if supported by a majority of ethnic ...
Democratic Party of Azerbaijan: (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...public protest in January against steep increases in the price of electricity, natural gas, and gasoline met with little success. Following a protracted and acrimonious dispute, the opposition Democratic Party ...
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire: (from the article "Houphouet-Boigny, Felix") ...against European settlers. In the first Cote d'Ivoire elections (1945) he was elected a deputy to the French National Assembly and was easily reelected in 1946. That year he also ...
Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea: (from the article "Equatorial Guinea") The ruling party in Equatorial Guinea is the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (Partido Democratico Guinea Ecuatorial; PDGE), formed in 1987. It was the only political party until 1991, when ...
Democratic Party of Guinea: (from the article "Guinea") For more than 25 years under President Sekou Toure, Guinea was a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG). In April 1984, after Toure's death, a military ...
Democratic Party of Japan: (from the article "Japan") ...party, claiming another 9. That left the ruling coalition with a total of 106 seats in the upper house, a sharp reduction from the 132 that it had held before ...
Democratic Party of Serbia: (from the article "Serbia") In the early 21st century the pro-European Democratic Party (DS) and its offshoot, the centre-right Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), emerged as leading parties. In 2007 they formed the governing ...
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro: (from the article "Montenegro") In September a parliamentary election saw the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), headed by Milo Djukanovic, and its junior partner, the Social Democrat Party (SDP), led by Ranko Krivokapic, ...
Democratic Progressive Party: political party in Taiwan (the Republic of China [ROC]). It was formed in September 1986 by those who initially sought self-determination for people considered to be ethnically Taiwanese, democratic freedoms, ... [7 Related Articles]
Democratic Rally: (from the article "Cyprus") ...with some reformists breaking away to form their own party. Other parties have had varying success. Among them are the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK (Kinima Sosialdimokraton EDEK) and the ...
Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People: (from the article "Cameroon") Despite a reportedly low voter turnout (62%) for the July 22 legislative and municipal elections, Pres. Paul Biya's Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People (RDPC) won a landslide victory. The ...
Democratic Revolution, Party of the: (from the article "Mexico") ...Calderon proved capable of slowly building public support and moving his legislative agenda forward. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the presidential candidate of the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) ...
Democratic Revolutionary Party: (from the article "Panama") ...ranging from nepotism to buying votes in the Legislative Assembly. In the event, Martin Torrijos, son of former military strongman Gen. Omar Torrijos and candidate of the main opposition Democratic ...
Democratic Socialism, Party of: (from the article "Germany") ...of the Socialists' reform measures and the fact that it was being squeezed on the left by a new Linke ("Left") party, which brought together the former communists of eastern ...
Democratic Socialist Party: former Japanese political party that was formed in 1960 by moderate socialists who had broken away from the Japan Socialist Party the year before because of its alleged Marxist dogmatism ... [2 Related Articles]
Democratic Society Party: (from the article "Turkey") ...2002). The CHP came in second (with 21% and 112 seats), and the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP) took third place (with 14% and 70 seats). Members of the Kurdish ...
Democratic Union for Integration: (from the article "Macedonia") ...friction between ethnic Albanian and ethnic Macedonian parties as well as within the ethnic Albanian political spectrum characterized Macedonian politics for much of 2007. On January 27 the Democratic Union ...
Democratic Union for the Defense of African Interests: (from the article "Congo") Two major parties existed at independence: the African Socialist Movement (Mouvement Socialiste Africain; MSA) and the Democratic Union for the Defense of African Interests (Union Democratique pour la Defense des ...
Democratic Union of Liberation: (from the article "Nicaragua") ...Sandinistas and the organization founded by Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, editor and publisher of La Prensa ("The Press") of Managua, called the Democratic Union of Liberation (Union Democratica ...
Democratic Union of Scientific Workers: (from the article "Hungary") ...Demokratak Szovetsege; Fidesz), the Network of Free Initiatives, and the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Society proliferated and served as points of departure for new political parties. The Democratic Union of Scientific Workers, supported ...
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto: (from the article "Abbas, Ferhat") ...federated to a renewed, anti-colonial France. After the suppression of the AML and a year's imprisonment, in 1946 he founded the Union Democratique du Manifeste Algerien (UDMA; Democratic Union of ...
Democratic Unionist Party: unionist party in Northern Ireland. The DUP was cofounded by Ian Paisley, who led it from 1971 to 2008. The party traditionally competes for votes among Northern Ireland's unionist Protestant ... [11 Related Articles]