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Dumfries and Galloway: council area of southwestern Scotland whose coast borders the Solway Firth, the Irish Sea, and the North Channel. It encompasses the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire and a ...
Dumfriesshire: historic county, southwestern Scotland. Along the Solway Firth in the south, Dumfriesshire incorporates a coastal plain stretching from the mouth of the River Nith in the west to the English ...
Dumka: town, east-central Bihar state, northeastern India, east of the Mor River. It is a road junction and major agricultural-trade centre. A weekly cattle mart is held. There is a college ...
Dummer, Jeremiah: British-American colonial agent, author, and benefactor of Yale College.
Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sebastien-Cesar: French navigator who commanded voyages of exploration to the South Pacific (1826-29) and the Antarctic (1837-40), resulting in extensive revisions of existing charts and discovery or redesignation of island groups.
Dumont, Francois: one of the greatest miniature painters.
Dumouriez, Charles-Francois du Perier: French general who won signal victories for the French Revolution in 1792-93 and then traitorously deserted to the Austrians.
dumpling: small mass of leavened dough that is either boiled or steamed and served in soups or stews or with fruit. Dumplings are most commonly formed from flour or meal bound ...
Dumuzi-Abzu: in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity, city goddess of Kinirsha near Lagash in the southeastern marshland region. She represented the power of fertility and new life in the marshes. Dumuzi-Abzu corresponded ...
Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana: in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity especially popular in the southern orchard regions and later in the central steppe area. He was the young bridegroom of the goddess Inanna (Akkadian: Ishtar), ...
Dumyat: muhafazah (governorate) in the Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast. It is bisected by the Damietta branch of the Nile, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea 8 ...
Dun Cow, The Book of the: oldest surviving miscellaneous manuscript in Irish literature, so called because the original vellum upon which it was written was supposedly taken from the hide of the famous cow of St. ...
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown: county in the province of Leinster, east-central Ireland. The county of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown was created in 1994 when County Dublin was split administratively into three separate councils. Area 49 square ...
Dunajec River: river in southern Poland, rising in the Tatra Mountains near the Slovak border and flowing about 156 miles (251 km) northeast into the Vistula River. It is dammed for hydropower ...
Dunant, Henri: Swiss humanitarian, founder of the Red Cross (now Red Cross and Red Crescent) and the World's Young Men's Christian Association. He was cowinner (with Frederic Passy) of the first Nobel ...
Dunash Ben Labrat: Hebrew poet, grammarian, and polemicist who was the first to use Arabic metres in his verse, thus inaugurating a new mode in Hebrew poetry. His strictures on the Hebrew lexicon ...
Dunash Ben Tamim: Jewish physician and one of the first scholars to make a comparative study of the Hebrew and Arabic languages.
Dunaway, Faye: American actress known for her tense, absorbing performances. She enjoyed early success on stage and then gained international stardom for her work in films.
Dunbar: royal burgh (town) and fishing port, East Lothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland, on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunbar Castle, built about 856, was ...
Dunbar Nelson, Alice: novelist, poet, essayist, and critic associated with the early period of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: U.S. author whose reputation rests upon his verse and short stories written in black dialect. He was the first black writer in the U.S. to make a concerted attempt to ...
Dunbar, William: Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV who was the dominant figure among the Scottish Chaucerians (see makar) in the golden age of Scottish poetry.
Dunbartonshire: historic county of west-central Scotland, northwest and northeast of Glasgow. It comprises two sections: the main body of the county in the west, extending along the north bank of the ...
Duncan: city, seat (1907) of Stephens county, south-central Oklahoma, U.S. Once a cow town on the Chisholm Trail, it was founded officially in 1892, when the Rock Island Railroad reached the ...
Duncan I: king of the Scots from 1034 to 1040.
Duncan II: king of Scotland (1093-94), son of Malcolm III and grandson of Duncan I.
Duncan, David Douglas: American photojournalist noted for his dramatic combat photographs of the Korean War.
Duncan, Isadora: American dancer whose teaching and performances helped free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern expressive dance. She was among the first to raise interpretive dance ...
Duncan, Otis Dudley: American sociologist whose study of the black population of Chicago (1957) demonstrated early in his career the validity of human ecology as an extension of the discipline of sociology.
Duncan, Robert: American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s.
Duncan, Ronald: British playwright, poet, and man of letters whose verse plays express the contrast between traditional religious faith and the materialism and skepticism of modern times.
Dundalk: seaport, urban district, and administrative centre of County Louth, extreme northeastern Ireland. It lies near the mouth of the Castletown River on Dundalk Bay, about 45 miles (70 km) north ...
Dundas: former Greenlandic (Eskimo) settlement of Umanak (Umanaq), now a major U.S. air base and communications centre, northwestern Greenland. It lies on Cape Atholl and the southern shore of Wolstenholme Fjord, ...
Dundee: major industrial city, royal burgh, and seaport of eastern Scotland. Dundee is the fourth largest city of Scotland by population. It constitutes the council area of Dundee City in the ...
Dundee, Angelo: American professional boxing trainer and manager, brother of boxing promoter Chris Dundee.
Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount of, Lord Graham Of Claverhouse: Scottish soldier, known as "Bonnie Dundee," who in 1689 led an uprising in support of the deposed Roman Catholic monarch James II of Great Britain. Graham's death at the outset ...
Dunderlands: valley, along the lower course of the Rana River, Nordland fylke (county), north-central Norway. On the Arctic Circle, it extends about 30 miles (50 km) northeast from Rana, an inlet ...
Dundo: mining town, northeastern Angola. It lies 15 miles (24 km) south of the Congo (Kinshasa) border. Founded near a site where diamonds were first discovered in 1912, the town was ...
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of: British admiral, who ranks among the greatest of British seamen.
dundun pressure drum: double-membrane, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. It is capable of imitating the tones and glides of the spoken language and is employed by a skilled musician ...
Dunedin: city and port, Otago local government region, southeastern South Island, New Zealand, at the head of Otago Harbour (14 miles [23 km] long) with deepwater Port Chalmers at its mouth.
Duner, Nils Christofer: Swedish astronomer who studied the rotational period of the Sun.
Dunes, Battle of the: (June 14, 1658), military victory of French and English forces led by Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount de Turenne, attacking Spanish forces near Dunkirk (then in the Spanish Netherlands). ...
Dunfermline: royal burgh and city, Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland, situated on high ground 3 miles (5 km) inland from the Firth of Forth.
dung beetle: any member of the scarab subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coprinae) of the insect order Coleoptera. The dung beetle forms manure into a ball-sometimes as large as an apple-with its scooper-like head and ...
dung fly: any insect of the family Scatophagidae (order Diptera). These flies, common in pastures, breed and live in cow dung and speed its decomposition. The adult fly is yellow or brown ...
Dungannon: town, seat, and district (established 1973; formerly astride Counties Armagh and Tyrone), Northern Ireland. Its early history is linked with the O'Neills, earls of Tyrone, whose chief residence was there; ...
Dungarpur: town, administrative headquarters of Dungarpur district, Rajasthan state, northwestern India. An agricultural market centre, it is linked by road with Udaipur, as well as with Vadodara, Ahmadabad, and Indore via ...
Dungarvan: market town, seaport, urban district, and administrative centre of County Waterford, Ireland, on the Bay of Dungarvan at the mouth of the River Colligan. The name is derived from St. ...
Dungeness: promontory on the south coast of the county of Kent, England. It is a bleak triangle of shingle (gravel), projecting southeastward into the English Channel where it narrows to the ...
Dungeness crab: (Cancer magister), edible crab (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea), occurring along the Pacific coast from Alaska to lower California; it is one of the largest and, commercially, most important ...
Dunham, Katherine: American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist noted for her innovative interpretations of ritualistic and ethnic dances.
Dunhill, Thomas Frederick: British composer known for his light operas and songs.
dunite: light yellowish green, intrusive igneous rock that is composed almost entirely of olivine. Dunite usually forms sills (tabular bodies intruded between other rocks) but may also occur as lenses (thin-edged ...
Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott: American pioneer, suffragist, and writer, remembered chiefly for her ultimately successful pursuit in Oregon of the vote for women.
Dunk Island: island in the Family Islands group, 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It lies north of the entrance to Rockingham Bay, which is an inlet ...
Dunkeld: historic cathedral city in Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland. It is situated on the left bank of the River Tay and is surrounded by wooded ...
Dunkirk: city and port, Chautauqua county, western New York, U.S. It lies along Lake Erie, just north of Fredonia and 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Buffalo. First settled about 1805, ...
Dunkirk: town, seaport, in the Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France. It lies along the Strait of Dover between Calais and the Belgian frontier, 49 ...
dunlin: one of the most common and sociable birds of the sandpiper (q.v.) group. The dunlin is a member of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes). It is about 20 cm (8 ...
Dunlop Holdings PLC: subsidiary company of BTR PLC, and the major British manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. It is headquartered in London.
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, Viscount Of Fincastle, Lord Murray Of Blair, Moulin, And Tillemot: British royal governor of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution.
Dunn, Douglas: Scottish writer and critic, best known for his poems evoking working-class British life.
Dunne, Finley Peter: American journalist and humorist who created the homely philosopher Mr. Dooley.
Dunne, Irene: American motion-picture and stage actress and singer, known for her leading roles as a gracious and well-bred woman and also well known for her comedic roles.
Dunne, John Gregory: American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter who is noted for his works of social satire, personal analysis, and Irish American life.
Dunnet Head: a rounded, cliffed sandstone headland in the Highland council area, Scotland, that is the northernmost point on the mainland of Great Britain. Dunnet Head is about 3 miles (5 km) ...
Dunning, John R: American nuclear physicist whose experiments in nuclear fission helped lay the groundwork for the development of the atomic bomb.
dunnock: thrushlike bird, a species of accentor (q.v.).
Dunois, Jean d'Orleans, comte de: French military commander and diplomat, important in France's final victory over England in the Hundred Years' War.
Dunoon: small burgh (town), Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, western Scotland, on the northwestern shore of the Firth of Clyde. It has grown as a seaside resort, ...
Dunqulah: town, northern Sudan. It lies on the west bank of the Nile River, about 278 miles (448 km) northwest of Khartoum. The town is an agricultural centre for the surrounding ...
Duns: small burgh (town), Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Berwickshire, southeastern Scotland. It is the historic county town (seat) of Berwickshire. The old settlement, Duns Law, was the birthplace ...
Duns Scotus, John: influential Franciscan realist philosopher and scholastic theologian who pioneered the classical defense of the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin (the Immaculate Conception). He ...
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of: Irish dramatist and storyteller, whose many popular works combined imaginative power with intellectual ingenuity to create a credible world of fantasy.
Dunsinane: peak in the Sidlaw Hills, about 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Perth, eastern Scotland. On the peak, with an elevation of 1,012 feet (308 metres), stand the ruins of ...