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- (from the article "Gesell, Arnold") ...scheme for development in the four areas of motor skills, adaptive behaviour, language development, and personal and social skills. In Infancy and Human Growth (1928), he presented a developmental schedule ...
- developmental age
- (from the article "human development") The concept of developmental age, as opposed to chronological age, is an important one. To measure developmental age, there is need of some way of determining how far along his ...
- developmental psychology
- the branch of psychology concerned with the changes in cognitive, motivational, psychophysiological, and social functioning that occur throughout the human life span. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, developmental ... [2 Related Articles]
- Developmental Pueblo period
- (from the article "Ancestral Pueblo culture") ...is typically divided into six developmental periods. The periods and their approximate dates are Late Basketmaker II (AD 100-500), Basketmaker III (500-750), Pueblo I (750-950), Pueblo II (950-1150), Pueblo III ...
- Devensian Glacial Stage
- (from the article "Pleistocene Epoch") ...8 and 6, respectively. Deposits and soils of the last interglaciation, the Eemian and Ipswichian, are correlative with oxygen-18 stage 5e, and those of the last glaciation, the Weichselian and ...
- Deventer
- gemeente (municipality), east-central Netherlands, on the IJssel River at the west end of the Overijssel Canal. Deventer developed in the 8th century around a chapel established by St. Lebuinus. During ... [1 Related Articles]
- Deventer, Conrad Theodor van
- Dutch jurist and statesman whose article Een eereschuld ("A Debt of Honour") and ideas had a profound influence on the development of the colonial Ethical Policy in the Dutch East ... [1 Related Articles]
- devequt
- (Hebrew: "attachment"), in Jewish religious thought, an adherence to or communion with God that stops short of mystical union. The notion of devequt apparently derived from the biblical reference to ... [1 Related Articles]
- devernalization
- (from the article "vernalization") Devernalization can be brought about by exposing previously vernalized plants or seeds to high temperatures, causing a reversion to the original nonflowering condition. Onion sets that are commercially stored at ...
- Devers, Gail
- American track athlete who overcame physical adversity to win Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996.
- Devers, Jacob L.
- U.S. general during World War II, whose 6th Army Group successfully penetrated German-held positions in central Europe and helped wrest the mainland from Nazi control.
- Devetashka Cave
- (from the article "Lovech") ...the Vasil Levski house museum commemorates his life. Other historic attractions are a covered bridge that is a facsimile of an older wooden structure destroyed by fire, the Stratesh Hill, ...
- Devey, George
- British architect who influenced nonacademic architects in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Devi
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...Another dance pose adopted by Shiva is the doomsday tandava, executed in his destructive Bhairava manifestation, usually with 10 arms and accompanied by Devi and demons. The ...
- Devi, Phoolan
- Indian bandit and politician (b. Aug. 10, 1963, Uttar Pradesh state, India-d. July 25, 2001, New Delhi, India), was the notorious "Bandit Queen" who became legendary for both her acts ... [1 Related Articles]
- deviance
- (from the article "Becker, Howard S.") ...shared understandings that people use to coordinate their activities" to dance musicians, marijuana users, and students. Becker's most famous book, Outsiders (1963), viewed deviance as the cultural product of interactions ...
- deviation warranty
- (from the article "insurance") ...and crew will be qualified, and supplies and other necessary equipment for the voyage will be on hand. Any losses stemming from lack of seaworthiness will be excluded from coverage. ...
- deviation-type gauge
- (from the article "gauge") Deviation-type gauges indicate the amount by which the object being gauged deviates from the standard. This deviation is usually shown in units of measurement, but some gauges show only whether ...
- devil
- (from Greek diabolos, "slanderer," or "accuser"), the spirit or power of evil. Though sometimes used for minor demonic spirits, the word devil generally refers to the prince of evil spirits ... [15 Related Articles]
- devil dance
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The Buddhists of Sri Lanka still believe in supernatural beings and the healing power of magical rites. Their devil dancing is the expression, however, of pre-Buddhist beliefs.
- devil facial tumour disease
- (from the article "Tasmanian devil") ...be more than 150,000. From 1996 to 2007, however, this figure dwindled by more than 50 percent. Since 1996 the Tasmanian devils living on Tasmania have been threatened by a ...
- devil's advocate
- in the Roman Catholic church, the promoter of the faith, who critically examines the life of and miracles attributed to an individual proposed for beatification or canonization. He is popularly ...
- devil's backbone
- (from the article "kalanchoe") ...foliage, include the panda plant (K. tomentosa); penwiper plant (K. marmorata); air plant, or maternity plant (K. pinnata); velvet leaf, or felt bush (K. beharensis); devil's backbone (K. daigremontiana); and ...
- devil's bit scabious
- (from the article "Dipsacales") ...stiff, globe-shaped, white to bluish flower heads and has divided leaves. Knautia has 60 species, some cultivated, such as K. arvensis (field scabious). Succisa pratensis (devil's bit scabious), a blue-flowered ...
- devil's coachhorse
- (from the article "rove beetle") ...and vegetable matter, preying on carrion-feeding insects. Most of them are slender and small (usually less than 3 mm, or 18 inch); the largest species, such as the devil's coachhorse ...
- Devil's Ditch
- (from the article "Newmarket") ...There are two racecourses on Newmarket Heath, southwest of the town: the Rowley Mile course, used in the spring and autumn, and the July course, used in the summer. The ...
- devil's food cake
- (from the article "baking") Common cake varieties include white cake, similar in formula to yellow cake, except that the white cake uses egg whites instead of whole eggs; devil's food cake, differing from chocolate ...
- Devil's Peak
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...feet on Lantau Peak and 2,851 feet on Sunset Peak. Extending southeastward from Mount Tai Mo, the Kowloon Peak attains an elevation of 1,975 feet, but there is an abrupt ...
- Devil's Peak
- (from the article "Cape Town") ...between Table Mountain and Table Bay. It was bounded on the northwest by the ridges known as Lion's Head and Lion's Rump (later called Signal Hill), on the north by ...
- Devil's Tower
- (from the article "Gibraltar remains") Four sites in particular have produced archaeological and paleoanthropological evidence of occupation: Forbes' Quarry, Devil's Tower, Gorham's Cave, and Vanguard Cave. The first locality yielded the second Neanderthal fossil ever ...
- Devil's Woodyard
- (from the article "Trinidad and Tobago") ...of the island, extending west into the Gulf of Paria and east into the Atlantic Ocean. Gas and water seepages give rise to mud volcanoes of various types, the best-known ...
- Deville process
- (from the article "metallurgy") ...Sainte-Claire Deville, who by 1855 had developed a method by which cryolite, a double fluoride of aluminum and sodium, was reduced by sodium metal to aluminum and sodium fluoride. The ...
- Deville, Edouard Gaston
- French-born Canadian surveyor of Canadian lands (1875-1924) who perfected the first practical method of photogrammetry, or the making of maps based on photography.
- Devils Garden
- (from the article "Arches National Park") ...Notable features are Balanced Rock, Courthouse Towers (with spires that resemble skyscrapers), The Windows Section, Delicate Arch, Fiery Furnace (so named because it glows in the setting sun), and Devils ...
- Devils Hole
- (from the article "North Sea") ...metres) deep in the vicinity of Bergen, reaching a maximum depth of about 2,300 feet (700 metres) in the Skagerrak. There also are some deep trenches in the western part ...
- Devils Hole pupfish
- (from the article "Death Valley") ...are common. Even native fish are to be found in Death Valley. Several species of pupfish of the genus Cyprinodon live in Salt Creek and other permanent bodies of water; ...
- Devils Island
- rocky islet off the Atlantic coast of French Guiana. The smallest of the three Iles du Salut, about 10 miles (16 km) from the mainland and the Kourou River mouth, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Devils Lake
- city, seat (1883) of Ramsey county, northeast-central North Dakota, U.S. It lies about 90 miles (145 km) west of Grand Forks.
- Devils Lake
- (from the article "North Dakota") ...of the state is drained by the systems of the Red and Souris rivers, with roughly another two-fifths-the Missouri Plateau and the James River system-drained by the Missouri River. Devils ...
- Devils Postpile National Monument
- scenic area in Madera county, east-central California, U.S. It is situated in Inyo National Forest on the Middle Fork San Joaquin River, about 12 miles (20 km) southeast of Yosemite ...
- Devils Tower National Monument
- the first U.S. national monument, established in 1906 in northeastern Wyoming, near the Belle Fourche River. It encompasses 2.1 square miles (5.4 square km) and features a natural rock tower, ... [1 Related Articles]
- devilwood
- (from the article "tea olive") ...distinguished by its holly-like leaves, bears white flowers, on 5-metre trees. Osmanthus delavayi reaches 2 metres and has small, oval leaves and white flowers. The main American species, devilwood (O. ...
- Devine, Daniel John
- American football coach (b. Dec. 23, 1924, Augusta, Wis.-d. May 9, 2002, Phoenix, Ariz.), served three universities as head coach-Arizona State (1955-57), Missouri (1958-70), and Notre Dame (1975-80)-and was head ...
- Devine, George
- (from the article "theatre, Western") ...collective productions, many of them (e.g., Oh, What a Lovely War! [1963]) developed through improvisation. After observing the Berliner Ensemble at work in Germany, George Devine set ...
- devisee
- (from the article "inheritance") ...of the kinship group, the village, or the feudal lord. Transition to free alienation has often been achieved by means of subterfuge, such as the adoption of the "purchaser" or ...
- devitrification
- process by which glassy substances change their structure into that of crystalline solids. Most glasses are silicates (compounds of silicon, oxygen, and metals) in which the atomic structure does not ... [4 Related Articles]
- Devivashini
- (from the article "Dewas") city, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located on the Malwa Plateau at the foot of the conical Chamunda Hill, which rises to a Devivasini shrine. Jaina and ...
- Devizes
- town ("parish"), Kennet district, administrative and historical county of Wiltshire, England. It lies along the disused Kennet and Avon Canal, at the edge of Roundway Down. It was the site ...
- Devkota, Laksmiprasad
- (from the article "Nepali literature") ...1920s and '30s with the work of Balkrishna Sama, who wrote lyric poetry, plays based on Sanskrit and English models, and some short stories. Sama and his great contemporary, the ...
- Devlin, Patrick Joseph
- Northern Irish trade unionist and political activist who was interned (1942-45) by the British for his involvement in the Irish Republican Army, but he renounced violence, cofounded (1970) the moderate ...
- Devo
- American new-wave band from Akron, Ohio, that took its name from devolution, the theory of mankind's regression that informed the band's music and stage act. The band members were Mark ...
- Devol, George C.
- (from the article "automation") ...mechanical arm to perform useful work. The first industrial robot was installed in 1961 to unload parts from a die-casting operation. Its development was due largely to the efforts of ...
- devolatilization reaction
- (from the article "metamorphic rock") ...phases. (Nucleation is the process in which a crystal begins to grow from one or more points, or nuclei.) They can be either solid-solid reactions(mineral A + mineral B = ...
- devolution
- (from the article "Devolution, War of") Devolution was a local custom governing the inheritance of land in certain provinces of the Spanish Netherlands, by which daughters of a first marriage were preferred to sons of subsequent ...
- devolution
- the transfer of power from a central government to subnational (e.g., state, regional, or local) authorities. Devolution usually occurs through conventional statutes rather than through a change in a country's ... [8 Related Articles]
- Devolution, War of
- (1667-68), conflict between France and Spain over possession of the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and Luxembourg). [4 Related Articles]
- Devon
- administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, forming part of the Southwest Peninsula of Great Britain and bounded on the west by Cornwall and on the east by Dorset and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Devonian Period
- in geologic time, an interval of the Paleozoic Era that follows the Silurian Period and precedes the Carboniferous Period, spanning between about 416 million and 359.2 million years ago. The ... [7 Related Articles]
- Devonian shale gas
- (from the article "natural gas") Devonian shale gas was generated from organic mud deposited during the Devonian Period. Subsequent sedimentation and the resultant heat and pressure transformed the mud into shale and also produced natural ...
- Devonport
- city, northern Tasmania, Australia. It lies near the mouth of the River Mersey, which empties into Bass Strait. One of the state's largest communities, it was formed through the amalgamation ...
- Devonport
- (from the article "Auckland") ...steel mill was opened at Glenbrook (20 miles [32 km] south) in 1969. The Auckland Harbour Bridge (1959) links the city with the rapidly growing, primarily residential North Shore suburbs ...
- Devonshire White Paper
- (from the article "Kenya") ...was turned into a colony and renamed Kenya, for its highest mountain. The colonial government began to concern itself with the plight of African peoples; in 1923 the colonial secretary ...
- Devonshire, Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th duke of
- British landowner (b. Jan. 2, 1920, London, Eng.-d. May 3, 2004, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Eng.), set an example to other British aristocrats when he paid off crushing inheritance taxes and ...
- Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of, marquess of Hartington, earl of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish of Hardwick
- British statesman whose opposition to the Irish Home Rule policy of his own Liberal Party caused him to assume (1886) the leadership of the Liberal Unionist Party and to become ... [2 Related Articles]
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of, Marquess Of Hartington, Earl Of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish Of Hardwick
- a leader of the parliamentary movement that sought to exclude the Roman Catholic James, duke of York (afterward James II), from succession to the British throne and that later invited ...
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, 1st Earl of, Baron Cavendish Of Hardwick
- first of the long line of Devonshire peers.
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of
- (from the article "Hobbes, Thomas") ...served the family and their associates as translator, traveling companion, keeper of accounts, business representative, political adviser, and scientific collaborator. Through his employment by William Cavendish, the first earl of ...
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of, Marquess Of Hartington, Earl Of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish Of Hardwick
- prime minister of Great Britain from November 1756 to May 1757, at the start of the Seven Years' War. [1 Related Articles]
- devotio moderna
- religious movement within Roman Catholicism from the end of the 14th to the 16th century stressing meditation and the inner life, attaching little importance to ritual and external works, and ... [6 Related Articles]
- devotion
- (from the article "Hinduism") Devotion (bhakti) effectively spans and reconciles the seemingly disparate aims of obtaining aid in solving worldly problems and locating one's soul in relation to divinity. It is ...
- devotional
- (from the article "Memling, Hans") ...representations of the half-length Madonna with the Child, often including a pendant with the donor's portrait (the "Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove"; Memling-Museum, Brugge). Many devotional diptychs (two-panel paintings) such ...
- Devoy, John
- (from the article "Ireland") ...Home Rule Party, which soon elected him as its leader in place of Butt. Parnell undertook a tour of North America to raise funds for the Land League; there he ...
- Devrient, Eduard
- actor, director, manager, translator of Shakespeare into German, and author of the first detailed account of the development of the German theatre, Geschichte der deutschen Schauspielkunst (1848; "History of German ... [1 Related Articles]
- Devrient, Emil
- German actor of the 19th century who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts. [1 Related Articles]
- Devrient, Karl August
- German actor who achieved popularity in heroic and character roles such as the title roles of Friedrich von Schiller's Wallenstein, Goethe's Faust, and Shakespeare's King Lear.
- Devrient, Ludwig
- greatest and most original actor of the Romantic period in Germany, whose temperament, characterizations, and life invite comparison with his English contemporary Edmund Kean. Devrient's characterizations conformed to no existing ...
- Devrient, Max
- German actor who excelled in tragic roles, particularly in the plays of Goethe, Schiller, and Shakespeare, but who was also much admired in comedy, especially as Petruchio in Shakespeare's The ...
- Devrient, Otto
- German actor, director, producer, and playwright.
- devsirme
- (from the article "Balkans") ...Most Balkan Christians, being Orthodox, were members of the millet headed by the Greek patriarch in Constantinople. The taxes that they were required to pay included the
- dew
- deposit of waterdrops formed at night by the condensation of water vapour from the air onto the surfaces of objects freely exposed to the sky (see ). It forms on ... [3 Related Articles]
- dew claw
- (from the article "claw") ...(keratinized) modification of the epidermis. Claws may be adapted for scratching, clutching, digging, or climbing. By analogy, the appendages of other lower animals are frequently called claws. The claw's shape ...
- dew retting
- (from the article "retting") ...on plants to dissolve or rot away much of the cellular tissues and gummy substances surrounding bast-fibre bundles, thus facilitating separation of the fibre from the stem. Basic methods include ...
- dew-point hygrometer
- (from the article "hygrometer") Dew-point hygrometers typically consist of a polished metal mirror that is cooled at a constant pressure and constant vapour content until moisture just starts to condense on it. The temperature ...
- dew-point temperature
- (from the article "climate") The meaning of dew-point temperature can be illustrated by a sample of air with a vapour pressure of 17 mb. If an object at 15 °C is brought into the ...
- Dewantoro, Ki Hadjar
- original name Raden Mas (Lord) Suwardi Surjaningrat founder of the Taman Siswa (literally "Garden of Students") school system, an influential and widespread network of schools that encouraged modernization but also ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dewar benzene
- (from the article "physical science") ...German chemist August Kekule (later Kekule von Stradonitz) in 1865, with alternating single and double bonds between adjacent carbon atoms in the six-carbon ring. The other three (now called Dewar ...
- Dewar, Donald Campbell
- U.K. statesman (b. Aug. 21, 1937, Glasgow, Scot.-d. Oct. 11, 2000, Edinburgh, Scot.), was for many years a leading proponent of Scottish devolution; he saw his desire become reality and ...
- Dewar, Sir James
- British chemist and physicist whose study of low-temperature phenomena entailed the use of a double-walled vacuum flask of his own design which has been named for him. [2 Related Articles]
- Dewas
- city, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located on the Malwa Plateau at the foot of the conical Chamunda Hill, which rises to a Devivasini shrine. Jaina and ...
- dewatering
- (from the article "mineral processing") Concentrates and tailings produced by the methods outlined above must be dewatered in order to convert the pulps to a transportable state. In addition, the water can be recycled into ...
- dewberry
- any blackberry of the genus Rubus (family Rosaceae) so lacking woody fibre in the stems that it trails along the ground. In the eastern and southern United States, several trailing ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- system for organizing the contents of a library based on the division of all knowledge into 10 groups, with each group assigned 100 numbers. The 10 main groups are: 000-099, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dewey, George
- U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). [4 Related Articles]
- Dewey, John
- American philosopher and educator who was one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education ... [25 Related Articles]
- Dewey, Melvil
- American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science in the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Dewey, Thomas E.
- vigorous U.S. prosecuting attorney whose successful racket-busting career won him three terms as governor of New York (1943-55). A long-time Republican leader, he was his party's presidential nominee in 1944 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Dewhurst, Colleen
- American actress who was the leading Broadway interpreter of the plays of Eugene O'Neill in the second half of the 20th century.
- Dewing, Thomas W.
- (from the article "Ten, The") ...National Academy of Design, they chose to exhibit independently, hoping to draw public attention to their paintings. The members of The Ten were Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden ...
- Dewitt's Corner, Treaty of
- (from the article "Cherokee") ...villages destroyed, and their warriors dispersed. The defeated tribes sued for peace; in order to obtain it, they were forced to surrender vast tracts of territory in North and South ...
- DeWitt, Lydia Maria Adams
- nee Adams American experimental pathologist and investigator of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.
- DeWitt-Chestnut Apartments
- (from the article "building construction") ...to build the 39-story Executive House in Chicago to a height of 111 metres (371 feet). Of equal importance was the introduction of the perimeter-framed tube form in concrete by ...
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