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- French painter, one of the leading artists and theoreticians of the Symbolist movement. [5 Related Articles]
- Denis, Saint
- allegedly first bishop of Paris, a martyr and a patron saint of France. [1 Related Articles]
- Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts
- dance school and company founded in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn. Considered a fountainhead of American modern dance, the Denishawn organization systematically promoted nonballetic dance ... [4 Related Articles]
- Denison
- city, Grayson county, north-central Texas, U.S., situated near the Oklahoma border, 73 miles (117 km) north of Dallas. The city of Sherman lies to the south and Lake Texoma, impounded ...
- Denison Dam
- (from the article "Red River") ...the head of navigation, vessels drawing more than 4 feet (1.2 m) can reach that far only a few months of the year. Most traffic is in the lowermost 35-mile ...
- Denison University
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Granville, Ohio, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) east of Columbus. It offers an undergraduate curriculum in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and ...
- denitrifying bacteria
- microorganisms whose action results in the conversion of nitrates in soil to free atmospheric nitrogen, thus depleting soil fertility and reducing agricultural productivity. Thiobacillus denitrificans, Micrococcus denitrificans, and some species ... [1 Related Articles]
- Denizli
- city, southwestern Turkey. It lies near a tributary of the Menderes River. Set among the gardens at the foot of Mount Gokbel (7,572 feet [2,308 metres]), Denizli inherited the economic ...
- Denker, Arnold Sheldon
- American chess master (b. Feb. 21, 1914, Bronx, N.Y.-d. Jan. 2, 2005, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), was a top chess player during the 1940s and later a respected administrator and promoter ...
- Denktash, Rauf
- (from the article "Cyprus") ...(including Turkish settlers and Turkish military) | Capital: Lefkosia/Lefkosa (also known as Nicosia) | Head(s) of state and government: President Tassos Papadopoulos; of the TRNC, Presidents Rauf Denktash and, from ...
- Denkyera
- major 17th-century kingdom of the southern Akan peoples, situated in the forested hinterland of modern Ghana's southwestern coast. According to tradition, its kings migrated from the area of the northern ... [4 Related Articles]
- Denmark
- country occupying the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland), which extends northward from the centre of continental western Europe, and an archipelago of more than 400 islands to the east of the ... [71 Related Articles]
- Denmark Strait
- channel partially within the Arctic Circle, lying between Greenland (west) and Iceland (east). About 180 miles (290 km) wide at its narrowest point, the strait extends southward for 300 miles ...
- Denmark's Aquarium
- largest aquarium in Denmark, located in Charlottenlund, outside of Copenhagen. It is noted for its collection of unusual fishes. Included among the more than 3,000 specimens of nearly 200 species ...
- Denmark, flag of
- national flag consisting of a red field with an off-centre white cross. The width-to-length ratio of the flag is 28 to 34 (14 to 17), but the length may be ... [2 Related Articles]
- Denmark, history of
- (from the article "Denmark") The history of the people of Denmark, like that of all humankind, can be divided into prehistoric and historic eras. Sufficient written historical sources for Danish history do not become ...
- Dennehy, Brian
- In June 1999 Brian Dennehy received a Tony Award for his portrayal of Willy Loman, the lead role in the 50th-anniversary Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. ...
- Denner, Charles
- Polish-born French motion-picture actor who was best known for his role as the lascivious title character in Francois Truffaut's 1977 film The Man Who Loved Women (b. May 28, 1926--d. ...
- Denner, Johann Christoph
- German maker of musical instruments and inventor of the clarinet. [2 Related Articles]
- Dennett, Daniel C.
- For centuries philosophers had grappled with the problem of the nature of consciousness, and at the end of the 20th century the mind-body problem still provoked lively debate. At home ...
- Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware
- American reformer, best remembered for her activism in support of the ready and free availability of birth control and sex education.
- Dennie, Joseph
- essayist and editor who was a major literary figure in the United States in the early 19th century.
- Denning, Alfred Thompson Denning, Baron
- British judge who was known as a champion of the common man, more concerned with justice than with the strict letter of the law; one of the U.K.'s best-known and ...
- Denning, Richard
- American actor who played opposite Lucille Ball in the radio series "My Favorite Husband," portrayed the "other man" in a number of movies in the 1940s and '50s, and became ...
- Dennis
- town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It extends across Cape Cod and includes the villages of Dennis, Dennis Port (Dennisport), East Dennis, South Dennis, and West Dennis. Settled in ...
- Dennis the Menace
- American comic strip character, a five-and-a-half-year-old boy whose curiosity continually gets him in trouble.
- Dennis v. United States
- (from the article "censorship") ...arrangements in the United States. Justice Holmes's constitutional flexibility in the Schenck case can be considered to have culminated in the later assurance by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson in ...
- Dennis, Clarence
- American surgeon (b. June 16, 1909, St. Paul, Minn.-d. July 11, 2005, St. Paul), performed on April 5, 1951, the world's first open-heart surgery carried out with the use of ...
- Dennis, Clarence Michael James
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...ignored local preoccupations in his Symbolist poetry; he tapped instead the deep sources of spiritual restlessness, particularly through the use of myth and archetype. Some popular writers, such as C.J. ...
- Dennis, Eugene
- American Communist Party leader and labour organizer. He was general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) from 1945 to 1957 and national chairman during ...
- Dennis, John
- English critic and dramatist whose insistence upon the importance of passion in poetry led to a long quarrel with Alexander Pope.
- Dennis, Nigel
- English writer and critic who used absurd plots and witty repartee to satirize psychiatry, religion, and social behaviour, most notably in his novel Cards of Identity (1955).
- Dennis, Sandy
- (from the article "1966: Best Supporting Actress") Other Nominees
- Dennison, Aaron Lufkin
- watch manufacturer who was among the first to adapt the concept of interchangeable parts to the production of pocket watches. He is generally credited with being the father of American ...
- Dennstaedtia
- (from the article "fern") ...the base of the sorus, often enclosing the sorus until the sporangia are mature (e.g., Cyathea). In some genera, marginal sori are protected by a two-lipped, or valvate, indusium (e.g., ...
- Dennstaedtiaceae
- the bracken fern family, containing 11 genera and 170 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). Dennstaedtiaceae is distributed nearly worldwide; although the family is most diverse in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Denny, A. S.
- (from the article "calliope") in music, a steam-whistle organ with a loud, shrill sound audible miles away; it is used to attract attention for circuses and fairs. It was invented in the United States ...
- Denny, Martin
- American bandleader (b. April 10, 1911, New York, N.Y.-d. March 2, 2005, Hawaii Kai, near Honolulu, Hawaii), specialized in so-called exotica-music that combined jazz, Polynesian rhythms and instrumentation, and jungle ...
- denomination
- (from the article "United States") ...has never supported an established church, and the diversity of the population has discouraged any tendency toward uniformity in worship. As a result of this individualism, thousands of religious denominations ...
- denominator
- (from the article "arithmetic") ...is written n/d and is called a common fraction. It may be considered as the quotient of n divided by d. The number d is called the denominator (it determines ...
- Denon, Dominique Vivant, Baron
- French artist, archaeologist, and museum official who played an important role in the development of the Louvre collection.
- Denpasar
- city, capital of Bali provinsi (province), south-central Bali, Indonesia, 40 miles (70 km) south of Singaraja. The largest city on the island of Bali, it is also ... [1 Related Articles]
- dense granule
- (from the article "bleeding and blood clotting") ...The normal platelet count in humans is between 150,000 and 400,000 platelets per cubic millimetre of blood. The inactive platelet contains three types of internal granules: the alpha granules, the ...
- dense linear ordering
- (from the article "metalogic") The possibility is not excluded that a theory may be categorical in some infinite cardinality. The theory Td, for example, of dense linear ordering (such as that of the rational ...
- dense pack
- (from the article "fortification") ...nuclear explosions cannot occur at the same time in close proximity to one another because the first detonated warhead triggers low-yield partial explosions in the others. The proposal, called dense ...
- densification
- (from the article "advanced ceramics") Densificationglacier iceglacierTransformation of snow to ice...in the ice grains. This causes a general rounding of the tiny ice grains so ...
- densitometer
- device that measures the density, or the degree of darkening, of a photographic film or plate by recording photometrically its transparency (fraction of incident light transmitted). In visual methods, two ...
- density
- mass of a unit volume of a material substance, expressed as kilograms per cubic metre in MKS or SI units; the densities of common solids, liquids, and gases are listed ... [17 Related Articles]
- density current
- any current in either a liquid or a gas that is kept in motion by the force of gravity acting on small differences in density. A density difference can exist ... [4 Related Articles]
- density-dependent factor
- (from the article "population ecology") Population ecologists commonly divide the factors that regulate the size of populations into density-dependent and density-independent factors. Density-independent factors, such as weather and climate, affect the same proportion of individuals ...
- density-functional theory
- (from the article "Kohn, Walter") ...A. Pople, received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award recognized their individual work on computations in quantum chemistry. Kohn's share of the prize acknowledged his development of the ...
- density-gradient centrifuge
- (from the article "Meselson, Matthew Stanley") ...nitrogen incorporated it in their DNA. When the bacteria were returned to nutrients containing ordinary nitrogen, their reproduction formed cells that had a new medium-weight DNA. (A new technique, density-gradient ...
- density-independent factor
- (from the article "population ecology") Population ecologists commonly divide the factors that regulate the size of populations into density-dependent and density-independent factors. Density-independent factors, such as weather and climate, affect the same proportion of individuals ...
- density-wave theory
- (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...understanding of the relative importance of the various effects thought to determine their structure. The overall pattern is almost certainly the result of a general dynamical effect known as a ...
- Densmore, Frances
- ethnologist, foremost American authority of her time on the songs and music of American Indian tribes, and widely published author on Indian culture and life-styles.
- Denson, William Dowdell
- American lawyer who, as chief military prosecutor of Nazis accused of many of the most horrific of the atrocities committed in Germany at the Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenberg, and Dachau concentration ...
- Densusianu, Ovid
- folklorist, philologist, and poet who introduced trends of European modernism into Romanian literature. [1 Related Articles]
- dent corn
- (from the article "corn") Commercial classifications, based mainly on kernel texture, include dent corn, flint corn, flour corn, sweet corn, and popcorn. Dent corn is characterized by a depression in the crown of the ...
- Dent, Edward John
- Englishman noted for his design and construction of fine and historically important precision clocks and chronometers.
- Dent, Frederick Rippon
- (from the article "Dent, Edward John") ...at Westminster, but he died before completing the project. Upon the death of Rippon, Dent had married his widow, whose sons Frederick and Richard took Dent's name and succeeded to ...
- Dent, J. M.
- (from the article "typography") ...as a bridge between the deluxe bibliophilic editions and ordinary books. Companies such as those of John Lane and Elkin Mathews, who published Oscar Wilde and the periodical The Yellow ...
- dental assistant
- (from the article "dental auxiliary") About 65 percent of all dental auxiliaries are dental assistants. Their duties vary according to the degree to which the dentist elects to delegate duties that do not require extensive ...
- dental auxiliary
- person qualified by training and experience to perform dental work under the direction and supervision of a dentist. Some of these auxiliary persons work directly for the dentist in his ... [1 Related Articles]
- dental ceramics
- (from the article "bioceramics") Dental cements are used for the cementation of crowns and bridges and as bases under other restorative materials. A good dental cement is strong and stiff, resistant to dissolution in ...
- dental comb
- (from the article "primate") ...upper incisors are peglike, one or the other pair often being absent; in the lower jaw, the incisors show a peculiar conformation that has been likened structurally and functionally to ...
- dental consonant
- (from the article "Romance languages") The Classical Latin consonant system probably included a series of labial sounds (produced with the lips) /p b m f/ and probably /w/; a dental or alveolar series (produced with ...
- dental continuant
- (from the article "Semitic languages") In phonetic terms, the dental continuants (voiceless *th and voiced *dh) were probably pronounced like the initial sounds of English think and this, respectively. The emphatic *th of early Semitic ...
- dental education
- (from the article "dentistry") ...countries. For this to be acceptable there has had to be mutual recognition of dental degrees and comparable forms of qualification. The EU has directives that set out the training ...
- dental hygienist
- (from the article "dental auxiliary") ...others work in a separate office or laboratory, where they perform services to the dentist on the basis of work authorizations or prescriptions. There are three principal dental-auxiliary groups: dental ...
- dental implant
- (from the article "dentistry") A dental implant is an artificial tooth root. It serves to attach artificial teeth to the underlying jawbone. Dental implants may be visualized as screws, and the jawbone may be ...
- dental insurance
- (from the article "insurance") Dental insurance, usually sold on a group plan and sponsored by an employer, covers such dental services as fillings, crowns, extractions, bridgework, and dentures. Most policies contain relatively low annual ...
- dental laboratory technician
- (from the article "dental auxiliary") A dental laboratory technician, upon receiving a prescription or work-authorization form from a licensed dentist, fabricates various appliances, such as full and partial dentures, crowns and bridges, and other prosthetic ...
- dental nurse
- (from the article "dentistry") In New Zealand, auxiliaries known as dental nurses (or dental therapists) have been carrying out a dental care program for children for a number of years. Traditionally, a dental nurse ...
- Dentalium
- (from the article "Hupa") Hupa people traditionally measured wealth in terms of the ownership of woodpecker scalps and dentalium shells, the latter of which were probably received in trade from the Yurok. The village's ...
- Dentatus, Manius Curius
- Roman general, conqueror of the Samnites and victor against Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
- denticle
- (from the article "gastropod") ...gastropods have a firm odontophore at the anterior end of the digestive tract. Generally, this organ supports a broad ribbon (radula) covered with a few to many thousand "teeth" (denticles). ...
- denticle
- part of a conodont, a small toothlike fossil found in marine rocks representative of a long span of geologic time. Although they resemble cusps, denticles are generally smaller than distinct ... [1 Related Articles]
- dentine
- in anatomy, the yellowish tissue that makes up the bulk of all teeth. It is harder than bone but softer than enamel and consists mainly of apatite crystals of calcium ... [1 Related Articles]
- dentistry
- the profession concerned with the prevention and treatment of oral disease, including diseases of the teeth and supporting structures and diseases of the soft tissues of the mouth. Dentistry also ... [4 Related Articles]
- Dentists of England, College of
- (from the article "dentistry") ...It was through the activity of this group that the Royal Dental Hospital of London was established in 1858. In opposition to the Odontological Society, a group of dental professionals ...
- dentition
- (from the article "digestive system, human") The teeth are hard, white structures found in the mouth. Usually used for mastication, the teeth of different vertebrate species are sometimes specialized. The teeth of snakes, for example, are ...
- Denton
- (from the article "Tameside") Coal mining, hatting, and cotton textiles were the traditional industries of the borough. In Denton hatting grew from a cottage industry in the 17th century into a major economic activity ...
- Denton
- city, seat (1857) of Denton county, northern Texas, U.S. Denton is situated about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth. Permanently settled in 1857 and named for John B. ...
- denture
- artificial replacement for one or more missing teeth and adjacent gum tissues. A complete denture replaces all the teeth of the upper or lower jaw. Partial dentures are commonly used ...
- Dentz, H.-F.
- (from the article "World War II") German military supplies for Rashid Ali were dispatched too late to be useful to him; but they reached Iraq via Syria, whose high commissioner, General H.-F. Dentz, was a nominee ...
- denudation
- (from the article "igneous rock") The deep-seated plutonic rocks can be exposed at the surface for study only after a long period of denudation or by some tectonic forces that push the crust upward or ...
- denunciation
- (from the article "punishment") Another form of deterrence, known by the term denunciation, utilizes public condemnation as a form of community moral education. In this approach, a person found guilty of a crime is ...
- Denver
- city and county, capital of Colorado, U.S., at the western edge of the Great Plains, just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The city and county were ... [2 Related Articles]
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
- former American railroad chartered in 1870 as the Denver and Rio Grande Railway (D&RG). It began with a narrow-gauge line extending from Denver, Colorado, south to New Mexico and west ...
- Denver Art Museum
- (from the article "Architecture") ...three older buildings and joined with them into a single structure. Also new were an underground auditorium and a top-floor reading room. Daniel Libeskind's spectacular design for the newly opened ...
- Denver Broncos
- (from the article "Football") ...berth-since 1990. The other division winners were Seattle (13-3) in the NFC West, the New York Giants (11-5) in the NFC East, Indianapolis (14-2) in the AFC South, and Denver ...
- Denver Center Theatre Company
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Theater Group (CTG), which had been steered for nearly four decades by the liberal/activist vision of director Gordon Davidson; and the flagship arts institution of Colorado, the well-appointed Denver Center ...
- Denver City
- (from the article "Denver") ...1858, the rival towns of Auraria and St. Charles were founded on opposite sides of Cherry Creek. The claim of St. Charles was soon jumped by William Larimer, Jr., who ...
- Denver classification
- (from the article "genetics, human") ...of artificial culture. After growth, the cells are fixed on slides and then stained with a variety of DNA-specific stains that permit the delineation and identification of the chromosomes. The ...
- Denver Developmental Screening Test
- (from the article "diagnosis") Psychosocial development can be measured using the Denver Developmental Screening Test. This test evaluates motor, language, and social development skills in children up to 6 years of age.
- Denver Nuggets
- (from the article "Anthony, Carmelo") American professional basketball player credited with turning the Denver Nuggets, then the worst team in the National Basketball Association (NBA), into a play-off team in his first season.Iverson
- Denver, Bob
- American actor (b. Jan. 9, 1935, New Rochelle, N.Y.-d. Sept. 2, 2005, Winston-Salem, N.C.), became a cult favourite for two roles in hit television series: the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ...
- Denver, John
- American singer and songwriter (b. Dec. 31, 1943, Roswell, N.M.--d. Oct. 12, 1997, Monterey Bay, Calif.), was identified by his wholesome, sentimental music that extolled nature's and life's simple pleasures. ...
- Denver, University of
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Denver, Colorado, U.S. Though the university is supported by the United Methodist Church, it maintains a nonsectarian approach to education. It is known ... [1 Related Articles]
- Denys, Odilio
- (from the article "Brazil") ...following a heart attack that incapacitated Cafe Filho, rumours circulated of a coup that would prevent Kubitschek's inauguration. However, Teixeira Lott, the war minister, and Marshal Odilio Denys, who commanded ...
- Deo Van Seng
- (from the article "Deo Van Tri") Deo Van Tri was the son of Deo Van Seng, chief of the Tais who occupied the Vietnamese lands surrounding the Black River. As the head of a band of ...
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