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- emperor of Japan (1318-39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions. [9 Related Articles]
- Daikaku Temple
- (from the article "Japan") ...imperial succession. In the mid-13th century two competing lines for the succession emerged-the senior line centred on the Jimyo Temple in Kyoto and the junior line centred on the Daikaku ...
- Daikoku
- in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck); the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is depicted in legend and art as dark-skinned, stout, carrying ...
- Dail
- (from the article "Dublin") Dublin is the headquarters for government departments, their advisory committees, and associated agencies. The two houses of the Irish parliament, the Dail and the Seanad (Senate), meet at Leinster House. ...
- Dail Eireann
- (from the article "Ireland") ...United States as "president of the Irish Republic." Again the republicans set up their provisional government, elected by the Irish members of Parliament at a meeting in Dublin called Dail ...
- daily double
- (from the article "pari-mutuel") ...may also display race results, payoff amounts, running times, and other information. Increasingly sophisticated equipment has encouraged introduction of a variety of combination bets, such as the daily double (picking ...
- Daily Express
- morning newspaper published in London, known for its sensational treatment of news and also for its thorough coverage of international events. The Sunday edition is published as the [2 Related Articles]
- Daily Mail
- morning daily newspaper published in London, long noted for its foreign reporting, it was one of the first British papers to popularize its coverage to appeal to a mass readership. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Daily News Building
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...arose in Chicago, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings (1929) being the best examples; New York City acquired a straightforward expression of tall vertical piers and setback cubical masses in ...
- Daily Telegraph, The
- daily newspaper published in London and generally accounted, with The Times and The Guardian, as one of Britain's "big three" quality newspapers. [5 Related Articles]
- Daily Values
- (from the article "nutrition, human") ...reference value is listed, and because sex and age categories usually are not taken into consideration, the amount chosen is generally the highest RDA value. In the United States, for ...
- Daily Worker
- newspaper published in New York City that generally reflects the views of the Communist Party of the United States. [1 Related Articles]
- Daima culture
- (from the article "art, African") ...whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Small figurines of fired clay were excavated in ...
- Daimatsu Hirofumi
- (from the article "The Japanese Women's Volleyball Team: The Hardest Part") ...were high. Chosen to represent Japan was the country's best women's team, the Kaizuku Amazons, sponsored by the Dai Nippon spinning mill located near Osaka. The team was coached by ...
- Daimbert
- first archbishop of Pisa, Italy, who, as patriarch of Jerusalem, played a major role in the First Crusade. [2 Related Articles]
- Daimler
- (from the article "automobile") Most authorities are inclined to honour Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler of Germany as the most important pioneer contributors to the gasoline-engine automobile. Benz ran his first car in 1885, ...
- Daimler
- (from the article "Business Overview") A symbolic moment occurred in October for Chrysler when DaimlerChrysler, its former owner, officially changed its name to Daimler. The change marked the epilogue to a contentious decadelong partnership that ...
- Daimler AG
- international automotive company. One of the world's leading car and truck manufacturers, its vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Maybach (luxury automobiles), and Smart (micro hybrid cars). Daimler manufactures commercial vehicles under ... [2 Related Articles]
- Daimler, Gottlieb
- German mechanical engineer who was a major figure in the early history of the automotive industry. [8 Related Articles]
- Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
- (from the article "Daimler, Gottlieb") ...vehicle designed from the start as an automobile (1889). This commercially feasible vehicle had a framework of light tubing, a rear-mounted engine, belt-driven wheels, and four speeds. In 1890 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft ...
- DaimlerChrysler Aerospace
- (from the article "Airbus Industrie") ...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 Airbus (later DaimlerChrysler ...
- DaimlerChrysler AG
- (from the article "Business Overview") A symbolic moment occurred in October for Chrysler when DaimlerChrysler, its former owner, officially changed its name to Daimler. The change marked the epilogue to a contentious decadelong partnership that ...
- daimoku
- (from the article "Nichiren Buddhism") ...showing the name of the Lotus Sutra surrounded by the names of divinities mentioned in the sutra (words of the Buddha). The second great mystery is the
- daimyo
- any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded ... [5 Related Articles]
- daina
- (from the article "Baltic states") The Balts worshiped the forces of nature, personified as divinities, in sacred oak groves. Their religious and cultural life is primarily known from the large body of folk songs, dainos, ...
- Daines, Simon
- (from the article "punctuation") ...using most of the marks described by the younger Aldo in 1566; but their purpose was elocutionary, not syntactic. When George Puttenham, in his treatise The Arte of English Poesie ...
- Daing Parani
- leader of adventurers from the vicinity of Makasar, Celebes, who spearheaded the political penetration of the Malay Peninsula by the Buginese, a people who came from the southern Celebes seeking ...
- Dairo I K
- Nigerian musician and composer who--as leader from 1957 of the 10-piece Morning Star Orchestra (later renamed the Blue Spots)--brought new life and international popularity to Yoruban juju music by introducing ...
- Dairy Belt
- (from the article "North America") The Dairy Belt, another recognized division, makes use of a shorter growing season and cooler summers in New England and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region, where clover, timothy hay, and ...
- dairy product
- milk and any of the foods made from milk, including butter, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, and condensed and dried milk. [5 Related Articles]
- dairying
- branch of agriculture that encompasses the breeding, raising, and utilization of dairy animals, primarily cows, for the production of milk and the various dairy products processed from it. [7 Related Articles]
- dais
- any raised platform in a room, used primarily for ceremonial purposes. Originally the term referred to a raised portion of the floor at the end of a medieval hall, where ...
- Daisei-in
- (from the article "Soami") ...Temple garden, in Kyoto, an outstanding example of kare sansui, a dry landscape technique in which combinations of stones and sand are used to suggest mountains and water; and the ...
- Daishin-in
- (from the article "Supreme Court of Japan") The Supreme Court of Japan is the successor to the Daishin-in, which was established in 1875 and reorganized in 1890 under the Meiji Constitution (1889) as a supreme court of ...
- daisy
- any of several species of garden plants belonging to the family Asteraceae (also called Compositae). The name daisy commonly denotes the oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and the English, or true, ...
- Daisy (Margherita) party
- (from the article "Italy") ...House of Freedoms and the centre-left Olive Tree. In 2007 a new centre-left party, known simply as the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico), emerged when the DS merged with the centrist ...
- Daito
- city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the eastern border of Osaka city. Daito extends eastward from the Ikoma Mountains to the Osaka plain on land ...
- Daito Islands
- islands, Okinawa ken (prefecture), Japan, within the Ryukyu island group in the Pacific Ocean. The Daito Islands lie about 217 miles (350 km) east of Okinawa. North ...
- Daizo
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...puppet plays continued to decline as they had for the previous hundred years. There was a brief revival of interest in Osaka puppet drama in the 1870s under the impetus ...
- Dajabon
- town, northwestern Dominican Republic. The town is located along the Dajabon River, just across from Ouanaminthe, Haiti, on the northern slopes of the Cordillera Central (Massif du Nord). It was ...
- Dajjal, ad-
- (Arabic: "The Deceiver"), in Islamic eschatology, the Antichrist who will come forth before the end of time; after a reign of 40 days or 40 years, he will be destroyed ...
- Dajokan
- council of state of the Japanese imperial government during the Nara and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was ...
- Dajokan
- (from the article "Dajokan") council of state of the Japanese imperial government during the Nara and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was ...
- Dajokan
- (from the article "Dajokan") ...and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was named after this ancient imperial institution. As reestablished, the Dajokan was ...
- Daju
- (from the article "Chad") ...aristocracy. They constitute a nucleus surrounded by a host of other groups who, while possessing their own languages, nevertheless constitute a distinct cultural unit. The Tama to the north and ...
- Daju languages
- group of related languages scattered across the Nuba Hills of central Sudan (including Lagowa, Liguri, and Shatt), western Sudan (including Bego, Geneina, Daju of Darfur [also called Nyala], and Nyalgulgule), ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dakar
- capital of Senegal and one of the chief seaports on the western African coast. It is located midway between the mouths of the Gambia and Senegal rivers on the southeastern ... [10 Related Articles]
- Dakar Rally
- (from the article "rally") ...and elsewhere, and international competitions were instituted. Weekend rallies came to be common worldwide, ranging from those held by local clubs to events sponsored by larger organizations. The Dakar (Senegal) ...
- Dakhani
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Earlier varieties of Urdu, variously known as Gujari, Hindawi, and Dakhani, show more affinity with eastern Punjabi and Haryani than with Khari Boli, which provides the grammatical structure of standard ...
- Dakhilah Oasis, Ad-
- (from the article "Wadi al-Jadid, Al-") ...by rail from Al-Kharijah to Naj' Hammadi. A tile- and shale-quarrying industry opened in the late 1970s at Al-Kharijah, and brick manufacturing was started. Al-Dakhilah Oasis is much smaller; date ...
- Dakhin Shahbazpur Island
- island located in the Meghna River estuary, south-central Bangladesh. The island, some 43 miles (69 km) long and 10-15 miles (16-24 km) wide, is separated from the Hatia Islands to ...
- Dakhla, Al-
- (from the article "Rio de Oro") ...and there are extreme variations of temperature in the interior, ranging from nearly 32 °F (0 °C) at night to about 122 °F (50 °C) in the afternoon. Its principal ...
- dakhma
- (Avestan: "tower of silence"), Parsi funerary tower erected on a hill for the disposal of the dead according to the Zoroastrian rite. Such towers are about 25 feet (8 m) ... [4 Related Articles]
- dakhni
- (from the article "India") ...competing successfully for important positions within the political hierarchy. The original rebels from the Delhi sultanate and their descendants, who came to be called dakhnis (i.e., Deccanis-from ...
- Dakin's solution
- antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite and developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin's solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dakin, Henry Drysdale
- (from the article "Dakin's solution") antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite and developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin's solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, ...
- dakkatsu
- (from the article "kanshitsu") ...the surface details being subsequently modelled with a mixture of lacquer, sawdust, powdered clay stone, and other materials. The technique has two varieties: hollow kanshitsu (called dakkatsu), made by preparing ...
- Dakota Boom
- (from the article "North Dakota") ...when railroads reached the Red River from St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. A flood of pioneers who had acquired land under the Homestead Act of 1862 turned to wheat farming. ...
- Dakota language
- (from the article "The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band") ...the (notional) Sioux tribe encompassed a diverse group of linguistic and political entities; ironically, none of these ever used the ethnonym (self-name) Sioux. By the 19th century the speakers of ...
- Dakota State University
- (from the article "Madison") ...1880 the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad passed through a homestead that lay about 5 miles (8 km) northwest, and the residents of Madison and nearby Herman moved their ...
- Daksheshwar temple
- (from the article "Haridwar") ...footprint of Vishnu impressed into a stone. Large numbers of pilgrims gather there annually at the beginning of the Hindu solar year in April; a Kumbh Mela (q.v.) is held ...
- Daksinapatha
- (from the article "India") ...the military prowess of the Guptas. Samudra Gupta acquired Pataliputra (present-day Patna), which was to become the Gupta capital. Proceeding down the eastern coast, he also conquered the states of ...
- Dal River
- (from the article "Sweden") ...of the lake's southern end to the North Sea; along its southernmost course are the famous falls of Trollhattan. The Muonio and Torne rivers form the frontier with Finland, and ...
- Dalaborg, Treaty of
- (from the article "Sweden") ...charters stripping him of his powers (1371 and 1383). At the end of the 1380s Albert had plans to reassert his power, primarily by recalling the royal lands that had ...
- Dalada Maligava
- (from the article "relic") ...a number of shrines dedicated to them throughout Asia. Most famous of these sarira ("corporeal relics") is the left canine tooth, honoured at the Temple of the ...
- Daladier, Edouard
- French politician who as premier signed the Munich Pact (Sept. 30, 1938), an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland (a region of Czechoslovakia) without fear ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dalai Lama
- head of the dominant Dge-lugs-pa (Yellow Hat) order of Tibetan Buddhists and, until 1959, both spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet. [15 Related Articles]
- Dalai Lama XIV
- title of the Tibetan Buddhist monk Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho (Tenzin Gyatso), the 14th Dalai Lama but the first to become a global figure, largely for his advocacy of Buddhism and of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dalandzadgad
- town, south-central Mongolia, in the Gobi Desert. It is connected by road to Ulaanbaatar, the national capital, 320 miles (514 km) north-northeast. Local brown and bituminous coal deposits are worked ...
- Dalarna
- lan (county) and traditional landskap (province), central Sweden. It extends from the Norwegian border in the west nearly to the town of Gavle, on ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dalberg, Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, duc de
- nephew and heir of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, and minister and foreign envoy under Napoleon and Louis XVIII of France. As Baden's envoy in Paris from 1803 he became a ...
- Dalberg, Heribert von
- (from the article "Schiller, Friedrich von") ...detention and forbade him to write any more plays. To escape from this intolerable situation, Schiller fled from Stuttgart at night and set out for Mannheim in the hope of ...
- Dalberg, Karl Theodor von
- archbishop of Mainz and arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, primate of Germany, and president of the Confederation of the Rhine. A member of an important German noble family, he ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dalby
- town, southeastern Queensland, Australia. It lies along Myall Creek near the Condamine River. Founded as Myall Creek Station in 1841, it was renamed for Dalby, on the Isle of Man, ...
- Dalcroze method
- (from the article "Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile") ...and regular current of communication between brain and body." His pupils were taught to indicate note values by movements of the feet and body and time values by movements of ...
- Dale Hollow Lake
- (from the article "Obey River") ...Fork Obey rivers in southern Pickett county. It flows north and west to join the Cumberland River at Celina after a course of about 60 miles (100 km). Dale Hollow ...
- Dale's principle
- (from the article "nervous system") ...it is especially concentrated, the concept leading to the identification of the substance as a neurotransmitter of the central nervous system is a landmark in neuroscience. The concept is called ...
- Dale, Dick
- (from the article "surf music") genre of popular music that arose in southern California in the early 1960s. As the sport of surfing became increasingly popular on the West Coast of the United States, Dick ...
- Dale, Richard
- American naval officer during the American Revolution.
- Dale, Sir Henry
- English physiologist who in 1936 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the German pharmacologist Otto Loewi for their discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. [4 Related Articles]
- Dale, Sir Thomas
- (from the article "Pocahontas") ...during her captivity, Pocahontas was converted to Christianity and was baptized Rebecca. She accepted a proposal of marriage from John Rolfe, a distinguished settler; both the Virginia governor, Sir Thomas ...
- Dalea spinosa
- (from the article "smoke tree") any of several plant species whose foliage suggests clouds of smoke. Dalea spinosa is a spiny, grayish green shrub, of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to arid regions of southwestern ...
- Dalen, Cornelius van, II
- (from the article "printmaking") Portrait engraving in Holland was on a higher level than in Germany. Cornelis van Dalen was a fine engraver who emigrated to England and died there. More gifted than his ...
- Dalen, Nils
- Swedish engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for his invention of the automatic sun valve, or Solventil, which regulates a gaslight source by the action of ... [1 Related Articles]
- daler
- (from the article "coin") ...there was highly curious money of necessity (i.e., a coinage struck to fulfill a need, usually in time of war and siege, but with inadequate technical means available). The small ...
- Daley, Richard J
- mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death; he was reelected every fourth year through 1975. Daley was called "the last of the big-city bosses" because of his tight control ... [6 Related Articles]
- Daley, Richard M.
- American lawyer and politician, who became mayor of Chicago in 1989 and who played a major role in transforming it into a dynamic international city. [2 Related Articles]
- Dalgaranga Crater
- small meteorite crater near Dalgaranga, Western Australia. Known earlier but not attributed to meteoritic origin until 1938, it is 70 feet (21 m) in diameter and 11 feet deep. Both ...
- Dalgarno, George
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...The goal of a universal language had already been suggested by Descartes for mathematics as a "universal mathematics"; it had also been discussed extensively by the English philologist George Dalgarno ...
- Dalhousie
- town in Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Restigouche River on Chaleur Bay, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Campbellton. Icebreakers keep the ...
- Dalhousie
- city, northwestern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. Situated in the Himalayan foothills at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 m), it is 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Pathankot, with ...
- Dalhousie Springs
- (from the article "Oodnadatta") ...little produce. The town's name, which is Aboriginal (as is much of its population), means "blossom of the mulga," in reference to local species of acacia trees. North of Oodnadatta ...
- Dalhousie University
- privately endowed institution of higher learning located in Halifax, Canada. It was founded in 1818 as Dalhousie College by the 9th earl of Dalhousie, then lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, ...
- Dalhousie, Fox Maule Ramsay, 11th Earl of
- British secretary of state for war (1855-58) who shared the blame for the conduct of the last stage of the Crimean War.
- Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Marquess and 10th Earl of
- British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the map of modern India, through his conquests and annexations of independent provinces, and of ... [4 Related Articles]
- Dali
- site of paleoanthropological excavations near Jiefang village in Dali district, Shaanxi (Shensi) province, China, best known for the 1978 discovery of a well-preserved cranium that is about 200,000 years old. ...
- Dali
- historical town, west-central Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated in a fertile basin on the west side of Lake Er; since 1983 historical Dali has ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dali
- city, western Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated at the southern end of Lake Er in a fertile basin about 10 miles (16 km) southeast ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dali cranium
- (from the article "Dali") site of paleoanthropological excavations near Jiefang village in Dali district, Shaanxi (Shensi) province, China, best known for the 1978 discovery of a well-preserved cranium that is about 200,000 years old. ...
- Dali, Salvador
- Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker, influential for his explorations of subconscious imagery. [4 Related Articles]
- Dalian
- city and port, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It consists of the formerly independent cities of Dalian and Lushun, which were amalgamated (as Luda) in 1950; ... [4 Related Articles]
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