chief Irish poet of his time, probably the author of the Amra Choluim Chille, or Elegy of St. Columba, one of the earliest Irish poems of any length. The poem ...
city, Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwell, and Kaufman counties, seat (1846) of Dallas county, north-central Texas, U.S. It lies along the Trinity River near the junction of that river's three forks, ...
municipal zoological garden in Marsalis Park, Dallas, Texas, U.S. It is noted for its fine reptile and amphibian collection. Founded in 1888, the zoo houses about 1,500 specimens of more ...
inland port, seat (1854) of Wasco county, Oregon, U.S., on the south bank of the Columbia River, 75 miles (121 km) east of Portland, within the Columbia River Gorge National ...
region of Croatia, comprising a central coastal strip and a fringe of islands along the Adriatic Sea. Its greatest breadth, on the mainland, is about 28 miles (45 km), and ...
dog breed named after the Adriatic coastal region of Dalmatia, its first definite home. The time and place of origin of the breed are unknown. The Dalmatian has served as ...
extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast from the island of Veglia (modern Krk) to Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik). Ragusan Dalmatian probably disappeared in the 17th century; the Vegliot ...
liturgical vestment worn over other vestments by Roman Catholic and some Anglican deacons. It probably originated in Dalmatia in Greece and was a commonly worn outer garment in the Roman ...
town, administrative headquarters (since 1969) of Daloa departement, west-central Cote d'Ivoire, at the intersection of major north-south and east-west routes. It is the chief collecting point for ...
French sculptor noted for allegorical group compositions of Baroque inspiration and for simpler studies of common people, representative of the naturalist trend in French sculpture.
sequence of highly folded and metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of late Precambrian to Early Cambrian age, about 540 million years old, that occurs in the southeastern portions of the ...
Gaelic kingdom that, at least from the 5th century AD, extended on both sides of the North Channel and composed the northern part of the present County Antrim, Northern Ireland, ...
Scottish geographer, first hydrographer of the British Admiralty and proponent of the existence of a vast, populous continent in the South Pacific, which he called the Great South Land.
landskap (province), southwestern Sweden, on the Norwegian border, one of the smaller traditional provinces in the country. It is bounded to the east by Lake Vanern, to the west by ...
city, seat (1851) of Whitfield county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., encircled by the Cohutta Mountains. Although founded in 1837 as Cross Plains, it was renamed, probably, for the mother of Edward ...
four train and bank robbers famous in U.S. Western history: Grattan ("Grat"; 1861-92), William ("Bill"; 1863-94), Robert ("Bob"; 1870-92), and Emmett (1871-1937). Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers.
secondary-education technique based on individual learning. Developed by Helen Parkhurst in 1919, it was at first introduced at a school for the handicapped and then in 1920 in the high ...
the statement that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual component gases. The partial pressure is the ...
city, San Mateo county, California, U.S. Daly City is adjacent to San Francisco, between the San Bruno Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on the San Francisco peninsula. First inhabited by ...
river in northwestern Northern Territory, Australia; it is formed by the juncture of the King, Katherine, and Flora rivers in the hills west of Arnhem Land and flows northwest for ...
American mining tycoon. Called the "Copper King," he was the prime mover behind the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., one of the world's largest copper producers.
Canadian-American geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stoping, whereby molten magma rises through the Earth's crust and shatters, but does not melt, the surrounding rocks. The rocks, being ...
structure built across a stream, river, or estuary to retain water. Its purposes are to meet demands for water for human consumption, irrigation, or industry; to reduce peak discharge of ...
Danish biochemist who, with Edward A. Doisy, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1943 for research into antihemorrhagic substances and the discovery of vitamin K (1939).
town, Daman and Diu union territory, western India. The town, together with numerous villages in the surrounding area, forms an enclave in southeastern Gujarat state and is situated on the ...
union territory of India, comprising two widely separated districts on the country's western coast. Daman, with an area of 28 square miles (72 square km), is an enclave on the ...
city, capital of Al-Buhayrah muhafazah (governorate) in the western Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. Its name is derived from the ancient Egyptian Timinhor ("City of Horus") and ...
historical region of Namibia; the name is in part a misnomer, as it was originally applied to lands of north-central Namibia predominantly occupied by the Herero and Khoisan (Hottentot) people ...
art of encrusting gold, silver, or copper wire on the surface of iron, steel, bronze, or brass. A narrow undercut is made in the surface of the metal with a ...
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and last in the succession of Platonic scholars at the Greek Academy at Athens, which was founded by Plato about 387 BC.
city, capital of Syria. Located in the southwestern part of the country, it has been called the "pearl of the East." Its Arabic name (colloquially ash-Sham, meaning "the northern," as ...
one of the most important extant works of the ancient Essene community of Jews at Qumran in Palestine. The Essenes fled to the Judaean desert wilderness around Qumran during Antiochus ...
usually small floor covering, often attributed to Damascus, Syria, in the 16th or 17th century in continuation of the rug art of the Mamluk rulers of that land. The usual ...
one of the famous steels of the pre-industrial era, typically made into weapon blades. Manufacture involved a secret carburization process in which a form of wrought iron was heated to ...
the earliest surviving stone mosque, built between AD 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I. The mosque stands on the site of a 1st-century Hellenic temple to Jupiter ...
patterned textile, deriving its name from the fine patterned fabrics produced in Damascus (Syria) in the European Middle Ages. True damask was originally wholly of silk, but gradually the name ...
archbishop of Athens and regent of Greece during the civil war of 1944-46, under whose regency came a period of political reconstruction. He was a private in the army during ...
pope from July 17 to Aug. 9, 1048. His brief reign, delayed by a rival claimant to the papal throne, occurred during a period when the German emperors and factions ...
town, capital of Yobe state, northeastern Nigeria. Damaturu became the capital of newly created Yobe state in 1991. The town lies in a plains region that is covered by savanna ...
town, east-central Sudan, on the western bank of the Blue Nile River. Irrigation made possible by the Rusayris (Roseires) dam to the east of Ad-Damazin has increased the agricultural potential ...
town, northwestern Angola. In a fertile area, it is a market centre for coffee, rice, and sugarcane. The Kongo peoples of the town's hinterland cultivate beans and cassava (manioc). About ...
rulers of most of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1255 to about 1330 whose seat was at Dambadeniya. Arising in opposition to the Malay usurper Magha, who seized power in ...
judet (county), southern Romania. The Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians) and the sub-Carpathians rise above settlement areas in intermontane valleys and lowlands of the county. Dambovita is drained ...
small private school for young children run by women; such schools were the precursors of nursery, or infant, schools in England and colonial America. They existed in England possibly before ...
(Hesperis matronalis), Eurasian plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) that is widely naturalized in North America and Great Britain. A garden ornamental with flowers of violet-like fragrance, dame's rocket reaches ...
black American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, especially noted during the bop era for the melodic beauty and warmth of the songs he composed.
town, northern Iran. It lies at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,200 metres), just southeast of the Elburz Mountains on a large, barren gravel plain. It is on the road ...
city, capital of Dumyat muhafazah (governorate), in the Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast. Damietta, the port of the governorate, is located 8 miles ...
town, northeastern Sudan. It lies on the right (east) bank of the Nile River, about 155 miles (250 km) northeast of Khartoum. Located at an elevation of 1,158 feet (353 ...
city, eastern Saudi Arabia. It lies on the Persian Gulf northwest of Bahrain Island and forms a larger metropolitan and industrial complex with Al-Khubar, Al-Qatif, and Al-Zahran. The discovery of ...
any of a variety of hard varnish resins obtained from coniferous trees characteristic of Southeast and East Asia, including Shorea species (especially S. wiesneri), several species of the family Dipterocarpaceae, ...
municipality, West Flanders province, northwestern Belgium, on the Brugge-Sluis Canal. Originally on the Zwijn Estuary of the North Sea, it was the North Sea port for Brugge in the 13th ...
a courtier of Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, in Sicily, tyrant from 405 to 367 BC. The courtier is known to history through the legend of the "Sword of Damocles."
river in northeastern India, rising with its many tributaries, notably the Bokaro and Konar, in the Chota Nagpur plateau of south-central Bihar state. It follows a generally eastward course for ...
town, central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. An agricultural trade centre, it has industries that include oilseed milling, handloom weaving and dyeing, and the manufacture of bell-metal vessels and pottery. ...
ancient Greek sculptor of Messene, who executed many statues at Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium, and other cities of the Peloponnesus. Soon after 183 BC he repaired Phidias' sculpture of Zeus at ...
town and port in Roebourne shire, northwestern Western Australia, on Nickol Bay (an inlet of the Indian Ocean). Beginning in 1965, it was built to handle iron ore mined at ...
buccaneer who later explored parts of the coasts of Australia, New Guinea, and New Britain for the British Admiralty. A keen observer of natural phenomena, he was, in some respects, ...
in physics, restraining of vibratory motion, such as mechanical oscillations, noise, and alternating electric currents, by dissipation of energy. Unless a child keeps pumping a swing, its motion dies down ...
disease of plant seedlings, caused by such seed- and soil-borne fungi as Rhizoctonia solani, Aphanomyces cochlioides, and species of Pythium, Phytophthora, Botrytis, Fusarium, Cylindrocladium, Diplodia, Phoma, and Alternaria. There are ...
north-south-trending range of high hills, an offshoot of the Kravanh Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Chuor Phnum Damrei literally translated means "The mountains round which the clouds turn." Extending 70 miles (110 ...
Thai prince, son of King Mongkut and brother of King Chulalongkorn. He was the founder of modern education and provincial administration and was Thailand's leading intellectual of his generation.
any predacious aphid- and caterpillar-eating bug of the family Nabidae (order Heteroptera). Damsel bugs are generally divided into two types. One is about 8 mm (0.3 inch) long and yellow-brown ...
