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- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...towed to the site, sunk in a previously dredged trench, connected to sections already in place, and then covered with backfill. This basic procedure was first used in its present ...
- Detroit Shock
- (from the article "Basketball") The Detroit Shock won the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship for the second time in four seasons, taking the best-of-five final three games to two over the Sacramento Monarchs. ...
- Detroit Teachers College
- (from the article "Wayne State University") ...was formed in 1933 from the merger of several established colleges in Detroit. The oldest of these antecedents was the Detroit Medical College, founded in 1868 and now the School ...
- Detroit Tigers
- (from the article "Baseball") The St. Louis Cardinals struggled during the latter stages of the regular season but came back to stun the Detroit Tigers four games to one and capture the 10th World ...
- detrusor urinae
- (from the article "urination") ...is a storage reservoir for urine-a liquid containing waste products given off by the body and extracted from the bloodstream by the kidneys. The major contractile muscle of the bladder ...
- Detterer, Ernst F.
- (from the article "calligraphy") Before World War II English and German calligraphic influences came together in the United States. Ernst Detterer, who had studied with Edward Johnston in England in 1913, taught lettering and ...
- Detti Falls
- waterfall, northeastern Iceland, on the island's second longest river, Jokulsa a Fjollum. The Detti Falls have a vertical drop of 144 feet (44 m). It is the largest Icelandic waterfall ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dettingen, Battle of
- (from the article "Noailles, Adrien-Maurice, 3e duc de") ...most important wars of the reign of Louis XV in Italy and Germany and became a marshal in 1734. His last command was in the War of the Austrian Succession, ...
- Deuba, Sher Bahadur
- (from the article "Nepal") Area: 147,181 sq km (56,827 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 27,133,000 | Capital: Kathmandu | Head of state: King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev | Head of government: Prime ...
- Deucalion
- in Greek legend, the Greek equivalent of Noah, the son of Prometheus (the creator of humankind), king of Phthia in Thessaly, and husband of Pyrrha; he was also the father ...
- deuce
- (from the article "tennis") ...first; thus, 30-15 means that the server has two points to one, whereas 15-30 means that the receiver has two points to one. If both players reach 40, the score ...
- Deulino, Truce of
- (December 1618), agreement suspending for 14 12 years the hostilities between Poland and Russia that resulted from Polish intervention in Russia during the Time of Troubles (1606-13). In 1609, during ... [1 Related Articles]
- deus ex machina
- a person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. [1 Related Articles]
- deus otiosus
- (Latin: "neutral god," or "hidden god"), in the history of religions and philosophy, a high god who has withdrawn from the immediate details of the governing of the world. The ... [5 Related Articles]
- Deus, Joao de
- lyric poet who fashioned a simple, direct, and expressive language that revitalized Portuguese Romantic poetry. He was a major influence on Portuguese literature of the early 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Deusdedit, Saint
- also called Deusdedit I, or Adeodatus I pope from 615 to 618. His pontificate is chiefly noteworthy for an unsuccessful resumption of the Byzantine war against the Lombards in Italy ...
- Deutch, John Mark
- In 1995 U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton appointed John Deutch the new director of central intelligence. Although once considered one of the prime jobs in government, this directorship was now viewed ...
- deuteragonist
- (from the article "Aeschylus") ...The actor could assume different roles by changing masks and costumes, but he was limited to engaging in dialogue only with the chorus. By adding a second actor (the
- deuteranopia
- (from the article "colour blindness") Colour-blind persons may be blind to one, two, or all of the colours red, green, and blue. (Blindness to red is called protanopia; to green, deuteranopia; and to blue, tritanopia.) ...
- deuterium
- isotope of hydrogen with atomic weight of approximately 2. Its nucleus, consisting of one proton and one neutron, has double the mass of the nucleus of ordinary hydrogen. Deuterium is ... [11 Related Articles]
- deuterium excess
- (from the article "glacier") ...precipitation temperature is based on measuring the ratio of deuterium (hydrogen-2) to normal hydrogen (hydrogen-1). The relation between these oxygen and hydrogen isotopic ratios, termed the deuterium excess, is useful ...
- deuterium-tritium pellet
- (from the article "fusion reactor") ...performed with hydrogen or deuterium plasmas in most cases. For years, radioactive tritium was not added, because remote-handling requirements complicated the experiments. However, in 1991 the first tritium-deuterium reaction was ...
- Deutero-Isaiah
- (from the article "Deutero-Isaiah") section of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah (chapters 40-55) that is later in origin than the preceding chapters, though not as late as the following chapters. See Isaiah, Book ...
- Deutero-Zechariah
- (from the article "Zechariah, Book of") Deutero- and Trito-Zechariah, each of which has an introduction setting it apart from the rest (9:1 and 12:1), are separate collections of sayings usually dated to the 4th and 3rd ...
- deuteromycetes
- fungi (kingdom Fungi) in which a true sexual state is uncommon or unknown. Many of these fungi reproduce asexually by spores (conidia or oidia) or by budding. Conidial stages are ... [2 Related Articles]
- deuteron
- nucleus of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) that consists of one proton and one neutron. Deuterons are formed chiefly by ionizing deuterium (stripping the single electron away from the atom) and are ... [4 Related Articles]
- Deuteronomic Code
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...by the discovery of a book of the Law in the Temple during its rebuilding and supported not only by Hilkiah, a high priest, and Huldah, a prophetess, but also ...
- Deuteronomic Reform
- great religious reformation instituted in the reign of King Josiah of Judah (c. 640-609 BC). It was so called because the book of the Law found in the Temple of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Deuteronomist
- (D), one of the supposed sources of a portion of the Hebrew canon known as the Pentateuch, in particular, the source of the book of Deuteronomy, as well as of ... [4 Related Articles]
- Deuteronomy
- ("Words"), fifth book of the Old Testament, written in the form of a farewell address by Moses to the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land of Canaan. The speeches ... [6 Related Articles]
- Deuterostomia
- (Greek: "second mouth"), group of animals-including those of the phyla Echinodermata (e.g., starfish, sea urchins), Chordata (e.g., sea squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates), Chaetognatha (e.g., arrowworms), and Brachiopoda (e.g., lamp shells)-classified ... [4 Related Articles]
- deuterotoky
- (from the article "hymenopteran") Parthenogenesis, which occurs in many insect orders, is particularly common in the Hymenoptera and can occur in three forms: arrhenotoky, thelytoky, and deuterotoky. In arrhenotoky, males are produced from unfertilized ...
- deutocerebrum
- (from the article "nervous system") The other complex compartmentalized nervous system is found in arthropods (see the diagram). The arthropodan brain consists of three main regions: the protocerebrum, deutocerebrum, and tritocerebrum. The anterior protocerebrum, which ...
- Deutsch, Adolph
- (from the article "1950: Other Winners") ...Direction, Color: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler for Samson and DelilahMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Franz Waxman for Sunset BoulevardScoring of a Musical Picture: Adolph Deutsch and ...
- Deutsch, Albert
- (from the article "mental hygiene") ...stimulated further public interest in mental health. The mental-health movement and the mass media discovered each other, and a flood of exposes swept Canada and the United States, notably Albert ...
- Deutsch, Babette
- American poet, critic, translator, and novelist whose volumes of literary criticism, Poetry in Our Time (1952) and Poetry Handbook (1957), were standard English texts in American universities for many years.
- Deutsch, Martin
- Austrian-born American physicist (b. Jan. 29, 1917, Vienna, Austria-d. Aug. 16, 2002, Cambridge, Mass.), discovered positronium, a fleeting hydrogen-like atom that contains a particle of antimatter. Building on the work ...
- Deutsche Airbus
- (from the article "Airbus Industrie") ...funding came from France's Aerospatiale (later Aerospatiale Matra), created by the merger of Sud Aviation with Nord Aviation and the French missile maker SEREB, and 50 percent came from Germany's ...
- Deutsche Bahn AG
- the railway system of Germany created in 1994 by the merger of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway), the state rail system in the former West Germany, with the Deutsche ...
- Deutsche Bank AG
- German banking house founded in 1870 in Berlin and headquartered since 1957 in Frankfurt am Main. One of the world's largest banks, it has a number of foreign offices and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Deutsche Bibliothek, Die
- the national library of Germany. It was created by the merger (1990) of the Deutsche Bibliothek (founded 1947) in Frankfurt am Main and the Deutsche Bucherei (1912) in Leipzig, which ...
- deutsche Blumen
- in pottery, floral decoration consisting of naturalistically painted "German" (i.e., European) flowers appearing individually or in bouquets. Although Viennese potters had produced a type of naturalistic floral decoration about 1730, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Deutsche Bucherei
- (from the article "Deutsche Bibliothek, Die") the national library of Germany. It was created by the merger (1990) of the Deutsche Bibliothek (founded 1947) in Frankfurt am Main and the Deutsche Bucherei (1912) in Leipzig, which ...
- Deutsche Bundesbahn
- (from the article "Deutsche Bahn AG") the railway system of Germany created in 1994 by the merger of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway), the state rail system in the former West Germany, with the Deutsche ...
- Deutsche Bundesbank
- (from the article "Germany") ...by a plurality of agencies. For example, there are numerous insurance institutions that deliver social benefits. The most important institution in post-World War II Germany is the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bundesbank ...
- Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft
- (from the article "Fried, Alfred Hermann") ...Berlin, founded the pacifist periodical Die Waffen nieder! ("Lay Down Your Arms!"), from 1899 called Friedenswarte ("The Peacekeeper"). In 1892 he founded the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society), which became ...
- Deutsche Grammophon
- (from the article "Performing Arts") The discovery of the Hatto hoax was a minor consequence of the burgeoning use of downloads. In November Deutsche Grammophon (DG) became the first major classical label to distribute its ...
- Deutsche Lesegesellschaft
- (from the article "Follen, Adolf Ludwig") While studying at Giessen in 1814, he founded the democratic Deutsche Lesegesellschaft (German Reading Society). Expelled for his political views in 1815, he went to Heidelberg, where he was among ...
- Deutsche Luft Hansa
- (from the article "Lufthansa") ...W.Ger., on Jan. 6, 1953, jointly by the federal government, the German National Railway, and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia; later it accepted private investors. It was the successor to ...
- Deutsche Luftreederie
- (from the article "airplane") With practical planes in hand in 1918 the organization of an airline to operate these craft on a scheduled basis over a consistent route was attempted. The first airline was ...
- Deutsche Messe
- (from the article "The Protestant Heritage") ...initiated the process in 1523 with his Formula Missae ("Formula of the Mass"), a service that retained the Latin language; but he soon devised (in 1526) a ...
- Deutsche Reichsbahn
- (from the article "Deutsche Bahn AG") the railway system of Germany created in 1994 by the merger of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway), the state rail system in the former West Germany, with the Deutsche ...
- Deutsche Schauspielhaus
- (from the article "Hamburg") ...from 1678, has won world renown. Its performances of classical and contemporary works bear comparison with those given by the great opera houses of Vienna, Milan, London, and New York ...
- Deutsche Welle
- (from the article "Germany") Two radio stations-Deutschland Radio and Deutsche Welle-are publicly operated to provide a comprehensive German perspective of events; Deutsche Welle is beamed to Europe and overseas. There are also several regional ...
- Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank
- (from the article "Germany") The cooperative banks are headed by the DZ Bank (Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, or "German Central Cooperative Bank"), which serves as a central bank for some 1,500 industrial and agricultural credit cooperatives.There ...
- Deutsche-Presse Agentur
- (from the article "news agency") ...expanded coverage abroad in a limited degree to supplement their domestic service but still depend on Reuters and Agence France-Presse for much of their foreign news. Germany since 1949 has ...
- Deutscher Monistenbund
- (from the article "Ostwald, Wilhelm") ...derivative of Esperanto). Moreover, he considered that both war and traditional religion squandered energy, so he committed himself to the international peace movement and served as president of the Deutscher ...
- Deutscher Werkbund
- important organization of artists influential in its attempts to inspire good design and craftsmanship for mass-produced goods and architecture. The Werkbund, which was founded in Munich in 1907, was composed ... [5 Related Articles]
- Deutsches Museum
- museum of science and industry established in Munich in 1903 and opened in 1925. Its pattern of organization and administration became the model for such later foundations as the Museum ... [4 Related Articles]
- Deutsches Theater
- private dramatic society founded in Berlin in 1883 by the dramatist Adolf L'Arronge in reaction to outmoded theatrical traditions. It presented plays in the ensemble style of the influential Meiningen ... [3 Related Articles]
- Deutsches Worterbuch
- the first German dictionary conceived on scientific lines; initiated by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The dictionary was designed to give the etymology and history, illustrated by quotations, of all the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Deutschland Radio
- (from the article "Germany") Two radio stations-Deutschland Radio and Deutsche Welle-are publicly operated to provide a comprehensive German perspective of events; Deutsche Welle is beamed to Europe and overseas. There are also several regional ...
- Deutschlandlied
- ("Germany, Germany above all"), national anthem of Germany from 1922 to 1945, of West Germany from 1950 to 1990, and of unified Germany from 1990. The verses were written in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Deutschosterreich
- (from the article "Austria") ...Treaty of Saint-Germain (1919), signed by Austria and the Allied Powers, forbade Anschluss without the consent of the League of Nations and stipulated that the republic should cease to call ...
- Deutz Medal
- (from the article "Literature") ..."Plane Sailing," 45 years after her father, prolific author C.K. Stead, received the prize. Veteran author Maurice Gee's latest novel, Blindsight (2005), was named winner of the Deutz Medal for ...
- Deutzia
- (from the article "Cornales") ...of the flower cluster are enlarged and look like petals. Two other members of the hydrangea family often grown in gardens are Philadelphus, known as mock orange or sweet syringa, ...
- Deux-Sevres
- (from the article "Poitou-Charentes") region of France encompassing the western departements of Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Deux-Sevres. Poitou-Charentes is bounded by the regions of Pays ...
- Dev, Guru
- (from the article "Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi") ...of the Maharishi's early life. He studied physics at the University of Allahabad and worked for a time in factories. He later left for the Himalayas, where for 13 years ...
- Deva
- (from the article "Ngada") ...by a common ancestor and a geographic location, clans traditionally acted also as political units until the Dutch instituted the office of radja. Originally the Ngada recognized a high god ...
- Deva
- city, capital of Hunedoara judet (county), west-central Romania, on the banks of the Mures River, at an elevation of 590 feet (180 m). The town is dominated by Citadel Hill ...
- deva
- in the Vedic religion of India, one of many divine powers, roughly divided on the basis of their identification with the forces of nature into sky, air, and earth divinities ... [9 Related Articles]
- Deva Samaj
- (from the article "Agnihotri, Shiv Narayan") Hindu founder of an atheistic society called Deva Samaj ("Society of God").
- Devadasi
- group of women who dedicated themselves to the service of the patron god of the great temples in eastern and southern India. [2 Related Articles]
- Devadatta
- Buddhist monk who sought to reform the sangha (the Buddhist monastic community) by imposing upon it a stricter code of life. He was a cousin of the Buddha. [1 Related Articles]
- devaluation
- reduction in the exchange value of a country's monetary unit in terms of gold, silver, or foreign monetary units. Devaluation is employed to eliminate persistent balance-of-payments deficits. For example, a ... [3 Related Articles]
- Devanagari
- Indian script used to write the Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, and Marathi languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Gupta and ultimately from the Brahmi alphabet, from which ... [9 Related Articles]
- Devant, David
- (from the article "Maskelyne, John Nevil") ...Brothers as fraudulent spiritualists. For eight years he and Cooke performed a show featuring Maskelyne's box trick, juggling, and automata. After Cooke died in 1904, Maskelyne took as a partner ...
- Devapala
- (from the article "India") ...Candellas (Chandelas), Guhilas, Kalacuris, Paramaras, and Caulukyas (also called Solankis)-were asserting their independence, although the last of the Pratiharas survived until 1027. Meanwhile Devapala (reigned c. 810-850) was reasserting Pala ...
- devaraja
- in ancient Cambodia, the cult of the "god-king" established early in the 9th century AD by Jayavarman II, founder of the Khmer empire of Angkor. For centuries, the cult provided ... [2 Related Articles]
- Devaraya I
- (from the article "India") Harihara II's death in 1404 was followed by a violent succession dispute among his three surviving sons. Only after two of them had been crowned and dethroned was the third, ...
- Devaraya II
- (from the article "India") ...combined invasion by the king of Orissa and the Velamas of Andhra resulted in the loss of the territories newly gained in the partition of the Reddi kingdom of Kondavidu. ...
- Devasuri
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...itself to a new situation. In this period the great works on Hindu law were written. Jainism, of all the "unorthodox" schools, retained its purity, and great Jaina works, such ...
- Devaux, Andrew
- (from the article "Bahamas, The") ...the colony surrendered to Spain. Although it was restored to Britain by the preliminary articles of the Peace of Paris in January 1783, it was nonetheless brilliantly recaptured in April ...
- Devawongse Varoprakar, Prince
- foreign minister of Siam from 1885 to 1923, whose policies enabled the kingdom to survive as an independent state.
- devayana
- (from the article "eschatology") ...human, animal, insect, or plant body. Some souls, however, may be so irredeemably evil that they are assigned to eternal damnation; others may be assigned to redemption, or
- developed dye
- (from the article "azo dye") ...azo dyes to cotton involved successive treatments with solutions of two chemical components that react to form the dye within the fibre or on its surface. Dyes applied in this ...
- developer
- (from the article "baking") ...ingredients into a homogeneous mass. The batterlike material passes through a dough pump regulating the flow and delivering the mixture to a developing apparatus, where kneading work is applied. The ...
- developer
- (from the article "photography, technology of") The developer consists typically of one or more developing agents, a preservative (such as sodium sulfite) to prevent oxidation by the air, an alkali (such as sodium carbonate) to activate ...
- developing
- (from the article "motion-picture technology") ...film. The first is to convert the negative silver image that is obtained from a normally exposed film into a positive dye image. The clue to how this can be ...
- developing nation
- (from the article "Business Overview") ...October that would extend liberalized trade benefits to impoverished countries. The New Partnership for Development Act would grant duty-free and tariff-free access for products from as many as 50 LDCs. ...
- developing tank
- (from the article "photography, technology of") Amateurs usually process films in developing tanks. In this type of development roll or miniature film is wound around a reel with a spiral groove, which keeps adjacent turns separated ...
- development
- (from the article "chess") Morphy appreciated that superior development-getting pieces onto good squares in the first 10 to 15 moves-was relatively unimportant in the semiclosed, blocked pawn structures that Philidor had embraced. But, as ...
- development anthropology
- (from the article "anthropology") The final quarter of the 20th century saw an increasing involvement of social anthropologists with the process of accelerated incorporation of formerly colonial countries into the world economic system. Referred ...
- development bank
- national or regional financial institution designed to provide medium- and long-term capital for productive investment, often accompanied by technical assistance, in poor countries.
- Development Bank of Southern Africa
- (from the article "South Africa") ...transactions. There are many registered banking institutions, a number of which concentrate on commercial banking, as well as merchant, savings, investment, and discount banks. One such bank, the Development Bank ...
- Development Bank of the Republic of Niger
- (from the article "Niger") ...sector of the economy consists partly of a multitude of small enterprises and partly of enterprises belonging to large French or international companies. The government, through the agency of the ...
- Development Board
- (from the article "Iraq") Despite political instability, Iraq achieved material progress during the 1950s, thanks to a new oil agreement that increased royalties and to the establishment of the Development Board. The original oil ...
- development chromatography
- (from the article "chromatography") In terms of operation, in development chromatography the mobile phase flow is stopped before solutes reach the end of the bed of stationary phase. The mobile phase is called the ...
- Development Cooperation Policy Program
- (from the article "Latvia") Latvia confirmed its status as a donor country in February 2006 when it launched a Development Cooperation Policy Program. Assistance was initially directed toward Moldova and Georgia, but there were ...
- development laboratory
- (from the article "research and development") Development laboratories are specifically committed to the support of particular processes or product lines. They are normally under the direct control of the division responsible for manufacture and marketing and ...
- Development Loan Fund
- (from the article "Point Four Program") ...to contribute to various aspects of development-such as the International Finance Corporation (1956) for investing equity capital in private enterprises in underdeveloped countries, the Development Loan Fund (1957) for long-term ...
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