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domino theory: theory in U.S. foreign policy after World War II stating that the "fall" of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighbouring states. The ...
domino whist: domino game for four players. Partners are drawn for as in the card game whist; the player drawing the highest domino leads. Each player takes seven dominoes, or bones. There ...
Domino, Fats: American singer and pianist, a rhythm-and-blues star who became one of the first rock-and-roll stars and who helped define the New Orleans sound. Altogether his relaxed, stylized recordings of the ...
dominus: in ancient Rome, "master," or "owner," particularly of slaves. The name became the official title for the emperor, beginning with Diocletian, who reigned from AD 284 to 305; and thus ...
Domitian: Roman emperor (AD 81-96), known chiefly for the reign of terror under which prominent members of the Senate lived during his last years.
domovoy: in Slavic mythology, a household spirit appearing under various names and having its origin in ancestor worship. A domovoy dwells in any number of places in each home: near the ...
Domremy-la-Pucelle: village, Vosges departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France. It lies on the banks of the Meuse River, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of Bar-le-Duc. Domremy was where St. Joan of Arc ...
domus: private family residence of modest to palatial proportions, found primarily in ancient Rome and Pompeii. In contrast to the insula (q.v.), or tenement block, which housed numerous families, the domus ...
Don: in Celtic mythology, leader of one of two warring families of gods; according to one interpretation, the Children of Don were the powers of light, constantly in conflict with the ...
Don Juan: fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; ...
Don Pacifico Affair: (1850), a quarrel between Great Britain and Greece, in which British acts antagonized France and Russia and caused controversy at home.
Don Quixote: novel published in two parts (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes, one of the most widely read classics of Western literature. Originally conceived as a comic ...
Don River: one of the great rivers of the European portion of Russia. It has been a vital artery in Russian history since the days of Peter I the Great, who initiated ...
Don, River: river in England that rises at about 1,500 ft (460 m) in the Pennine range. It flows in a deeply entrenched course across the South Yorkshire coalfield past the city ...
Don, River: river in Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland, rising in the Grampian Mountains, flowing generally eastward parallel to and north of the River Dee, and emptying into the North Sea at Aberdeen after ...
Donald Bane: king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I.
Donald Duck: an ill-tempered, squawking cartoon duck who was Walt Disney's second most famous cartoon character after Mickey Mouse and who enjoyed worldwide popularity as the star of animated films, newspaper comic ...
Donald I: king of Alba, the united kingdom of the Picts and Scots (858-862), brother and successor of Kenneth I MacAlpin. Donald established an ancient corpus of laws and rights (known as ...
Donald II: king of the Scots (from 889), son of Constantine I and successor to Eochaid and Giric (reigned 878-889). His reign coincided with renewed invasions by the Danes, who came less ...
Donaldson, Simon Kirwan: British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his work in topology. (See the table of Fields Medalists.)
Donaldson, Walter: U.S. lyricist, arranger, pianist, and prolific composer of popular songs for stage productions and films.
donatario: the recipient of a capitania (captaincy), both a territorial division and a royal land grant in Portuguese colonies, especially Brazil. The Portuguese had used the captaincy system with success in ...
Donatello: master of sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists.
Donati, Corso: Florentine nobleman and soldier who formed and led the political faction known as the Blacks (Neri). He was master of Florence from 1301 to 1308.
Donati, Giovanni Battista: Italian astronomer who, on Aug. 5, 1864, was first to observe the spectrum of a comet (Comet 1864 II). This observation indicated correctly that comet tails contain luminous gas and ...
Donatia: the only genus of the family Donatiaceae, of the bellflower order (Campanulales), containing two species of small cushion plants, native to Tasmania, New Zealand, and sub-Antarctic South America. The little ...
Donation of Constantine: the best-known and most important forgery of the Middle Ages, the document purporting to record the Roman emperor Constantine the Great's bestowal of vast territory and spiritual and temporal power ...
Donation of Pippin: traditional name of the oral or written promise made by the Carolingian king Pippin III to Pope Stephen II (or III) granting the pope rights over large territories in central ...
Donatist: a member of a Christian group in North Africa that broke with the Roman Catholics in 312 over the election of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage; the name derived from ...
Donatus, Aelius: famous grammarian and teacher of rhetoric at Rome, one of whose pupils was Eusebius Hieronymus (later St. Jerome).
Donauworth: city and port, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the confluence of the Danube and Wornitz rivers, some 25 miles (40 km) north-northwest of Augsburg.
Doncaster: town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, England. The borough lies in the historic county of Yorkshire, except for the parish of Finningley and an area west of ...
Donders, Frans Cornelis: ophthalmologist, the most eminent of 19th-century Dutch physicians, whose investigations of the physiology and pathology of the eye made possible a scientific approach to the correction of refractive disabilities such ...
Donegal: seaport and market town, County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Eske at the head of Donegal Bay. It is famed for its historic associations and picturesque environs. South of the ...
Donegal: most northerly county of Ireland, in the historic province of Ulster. It is bounded on the west and north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by Lough (lake) Foyle ...
Donelaitis, Kristijonas: Lutheran pastor and poet who was one of the greatest Lithuanian poets and one of the first to be appreciated outside his country.
Donen, Stanley: American motion-picture director and choreographer whose inventive dance sequences infused musicals with a fresh vitality in the 1940s and '50s.
Donets Basin: large mining and industrial region of southeastern Europe, notable for its large coal reserves. The coalfield lies in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasti (provinces), southeastern Ukraine, and in the adjoining Rostov ...
Donets River: a tributary of the Don River, southwestern Russia and eastern Ukraine. The Donets is 650 miles (1,050 km) long and drains a basin of 39,000 square miles (100,000 square km). ...
Donetsk: oblast (province) in the southeastern part of Ukraine. Formed in 1938 as Stalino oblast, it stretches from the Donets Hills in the north, across the low, gently ...
Donetsk: city and administrative centre of Donetsk oblast (province), southeastern Ukraine, on the headwaters of the Kalmius River. In 1872 an ironworks was founded there by a Welshman, ...
Dong: an ethnic minority of China found in southeastern Guizhou province and in neighbouring Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi and Hunan province. According to most linguists the Dong speak a Kam-Sui ...
Dong Hai: arm of the Pacific Ocean and part of the China Sea (q.v.).
Dong Nai River: river rising in the central highlands (Annamese Cordillera) of southern Vietnam, northwest of Da Lat. Near its source the river has rapids and is known as the Da Dung River. ...
Dong Qichang: Chinese painter, calligrapher, and theoretician who was one of the finest artists of the late Ming period. The most distinguished connoisseur of his day, Dong Qichang set forward ideas that ...
Dong Son culture: important prehistoric culture of Indochina; it is named for a village in northern Vietnam where many of its remains have been found. The Dong Son site shows that bronze culture ...
Dongan, Thomas, 2nd Earl Of Limerick: British colonial governor of New York under Charles II and James II.
Dongen, Kees van: Dutch-born French painter and printmaker who was one of the leading Fauvists and was particularly renowned for his stylized, sensuously rendered portraits of women.
Donitz, Karl: German naval officer and creator of Germany's World War II U-boat fleet who for a few days succeeded Adolf Hitler as German head of state.
Donizetti, Gaetano: Italian opera composer whose numerous operas in both Italian and French represent a transitional stage in operatic development between Rossini and Verdi. Among his major works are Lucia di Lammermoor ...
donkey: domestic ass belonging to the horse family, Equidae, and descended from the African wild ass (Equus asinus; see ass). It is known to have been used as a beast of ...
donkey orchid: any of about 38 species of terrestrial plants, family Orchidaceae, that constitute the genus Diuris. One species is found in Java; the others are native to Australia. A donkey orchid ...
Donkin, Bryan: developer of a commercial application of the so-called Fourdrinier machine for making paper and inventor of the composition roller used in printing.
Donleavy, J.P.: American-born author of the lusty comic novel The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955; U.S., 1958), which introduced Dangerfield, a coarse, comic anti-hero. Donleavy is noted for his characters who display heroism ...
Donme: (Turkish: "Convert"), Jewish sect founded in Salonika (now Thessaloniki, Greece) in the late 17th century, after the conversion to Islam of Shabbetai Tzevi, whom the sectarians believed to be the ...
Donnan, Frederick George: British chemist whose work was instrumental in the development of colloid chemistry.
Donnay, Maurice: French playwright whose dramas deal with love and adultery, social problems, and the manners of his time.
Donne, John: leading English poet of the Metaphysical school and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London (1621-31). Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also ...
Donnelly, Ignatius: American novelist, orator, and social reformer, one of the leading advocates of the theory that Francis Bacon was the author of William Shakespeare's plays.
Donner Pass: pass, in the Sierra Nevada of northern California, U.S. Rising to an elevation of more than 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), it lies 35 miles (55 km) west-southwest of Reno, Nevada. ...
Donner, Georg Raphael: sculptor whose works marked the transition from the Baroque to the Neoclassical style.
Donoso, Jose: Chilean novelist and short-story writer who was important in the development of the Latin American new novel. He used dark surrealism, black comedy, and social satire to explore the lives ...
Donostia-San Sebastin: city, capital of Guipuzcoa provincia (province), northeastern Pais Vasco (Basque Country) comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), north-central Spain. It is a fashionable seaside resort at ...
Donoughmore Commission: committee sent by the British government to Ceylon in 1927 to examine the Ceylonese constitution and to make recommendations for its revision. The commission's recommendations, reluctantly accepted by Ceylonese political ...
Donovan: Scottish singer-songwriter who had consistent commercial success with his playful pop songs in the mid- to late 1960s.
Donovan, William J: American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who directed (1942-45) the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.
Donus: also spelled Domnus pope from 676 to 678. Elected (August 676) to succeed Adeodatus II, Donus ended a schism created by Archbishop Maurus of Ravenna (whose plan was to make ...
doo-wop: style of rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal music popular in the 1950s and '60s. The structure of doo-wop music generally featured a tenor lead vocalist singing the melody of the song ...
doodle: absent-minded scrawl or scribble, usually executed in some unexpected place, such as the margin of a book or manuscript or a blotting pad when the doodler is preoccupied with some ...
Dooley, Thomas Anthony: "jungle doctor" whose lectures and books recounted his efforts to supply medical aid to peoples of less developed countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.
Doolin, Bill: Western outlaw who led a gang through robberies in Oklahoma and east Texas, 1892-95.
Doolittle, Hilda: American poet, known initially as an Imagist. She was also a translator, novelist-playwright, and self-proclaimed "pagan mystic."
Doolittle, James H.: American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Doon De Mayence: hero baron of the medieval epic poems in Old French known as chansons de geste, which together form the core of the Charlemagne legends. Doon's story is told in a ...
door: barrier of wood, stone, metal, glass, paper, leaves, hides, or a combination of materials, installed to swing, fold, slide, or roll in order to close an opening to a room ...
Door Peninsula: area of land, eastern Wisconsin, U.S. Lying between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door Peninsula is about 80 miles (130 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide at its ...