| | - Dalin, Olof von
- writer and historian who wrote the first easily readable and popular Swedish works and who helped bring the ideas of the Enlightenment into Swedish culture. [1 Related Articles]
- Dalip Singh
- Sikh maharaja of Lahore (1843-49) during his childhood.
- Dalitz, Richard Henry
- Australian-born nuclear physicist (b. Feb. 28, 1925, Dimboola, Vic., Australia-d. Jan. 13, 2006, Oxford, Eng.), was celebrated for having devised the Dalitz plot and demonstrated the existence of Dalitz pairs, ...
- Dalkeith
- burgh (town), Midlothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It is near the capital, Edinburgh, and has an increasing population of workers who commute to that city. Dalkeith is ...
- Dall porpoise
- (from the article "porpoise") The Dall porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) is the largest porpoise and the only member of its genus. Active and gregarious, it often rides the bow waves of ships. ...
- Dall sheep
- (from the article "Dall sheep") (Ovis dalli), species of bighorn (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicbighorn sheepoccurrence in Alaskan Mountains
- Dalla Hill
- (from the article "Kano") Dalla Hill (1,753 feet [534 m]) and Goron Dutse Hill (1,697 feet [517 m]) dominate the old city, which has lowland pools and borrow pits, source of the mud for ...
- Dallaire, Lieut. Gen. Romeo
- By the time that Canadian Lieut. Gen. Romeo A. Dallaire left Rwanda in 1994, the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission he led had been forced to watch helplessly as extremist ethnic ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dallaji, Umaru
- (from the article "Katsina") ...herdsmen settled in Katsina by the 15th century, and in 1804 the Fulani jihad (holy war) leader, Usman dan Fodio, led a revolt (beginning in Gobir) against the Hausa overlords. ...
- Dallam, Thomas
- prominent English organ builder, whose sons were also known for their organ-building.
- Dallan Forgaill
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dallapiccola, Luigi
- Italian composer, noteworthy for putting the disciplined 12-tone serial technique at the service of warm, emotional expression. [2 Related Articles]
- Dallas
- 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, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dallas
- American television soap opera that revolutionized prime-time drama and was among the most popular programs of the 1980s. Dallas started as a five-part miniseries on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dallas Aquarium
- (from the article "Dallas Zoo") The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, which is operated by Dallas Zoo, opened in 1936 as part of the city's celebration of the Texas centennial. The aquarium features some 6,000 ...
- Dallas Cotton Exchange
- (from the article "Dallas") Locally produced grain, leather, and especially cotton (grown in the black-clay fields around Dallas) fed the city's early growth and were followed by insurance and, later, oil. The Dallas Cotton ...
- Dallas Cowboys
- (from the article "Football") ...their fifth straight division titles in the AFC East and South, respectively, while Seattle (10-6) won its fourth straight in the NFC West, and San Diego (11-5) repeated in the ...
- Dallas Mavericks
- (from the article "Basketball") ...Heat, having waited through the first 18 seasons of its existence as a National Basketball Association franchise, secured the NBA title in the team's first appearance in the finals, defeating ...
- Dallas Zoo
- 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 ...
- Dallas, Alexander J.
- (from the article "Dallas, George Mifflin") Dallas was the son of Alexander J. Dallas, secretary of the Treasury (1814-16), and Arabella Maria Smith. In 1813 his father arranged for George to serve as a private secretary ...
- Dallas, George Mifflin
- 11th vice president of the United States (1845-49) in the Democratic administration of President James K. Polk.
- Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
- (from the article "airport") ...unit terminal is used wherever an airport passenger terminal system comprises more than one terminal. Unit terminals may be made up of a number of terminals of similar design (e.g., ...
- Dalle, Francois Leon Marie-Joseph
- French business executive (b. March 18, 1918, Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France-d. Aug. 9, 2005, Geneva, Switz.), in his role as CEO (1957-84), built L'Oreal SA from a small French producer of ...
- Dalles, The
- 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 ...
- Dallin, Cyrus Edwin
- American sculptor, best known for equestrian portraits of American Indians.
- dallis grass
- (from the article "Paspalum") genus of annual and perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, containing about 400 species distributed throughout warm regions of the world. Some are valuable forage grasses. P. dilatatum, a South ...
- Dallmeyer, John Henry
- British inventor and manufacturer of lenses.
- Dallmeyer, Thomas Rudolphus
- (from the article "Dallmeyer, John Henry") His son Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (1859-1906) introduced telephoto lenses into ordinary practice (patented 1891) and wrote a standard book on the subject (Telephotography, 1899).
- Dally, Clarence
- (from the article "radiation") ...fingers to X rays and provided accurate observations on the burns produced. That same year, Thomas Alva Edison was engaged in developing a fluorescent X-ray lamp when he noticed that ...
- Dalmatia
- 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 ... [8 Related Articles]
- Dalmatian
- dog breed named after the Adriatic coastal region of Dalmatia, Croatia, its first definite home. The origins of the breed are unknown. The Dalmatian has served as a sentinel, war ...
- Dalmatian language
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dalmatian sage
- (from the article "sage") S. officinalis, which has many varieties, grows wild and is cultivated in many parts of the world. Dalmatian sage, held in high esteem, is warmly fragrant and slightly bitter. There ...
- dalmatic
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dalmatin, Jurij
- (from the article "Slovene literature") ...of the Protestant Reformation. The Slovene Protestants, despite the lack of literary forebears, evinced a clear national consciousness: Primoz Trubar, who wrote the first Slovene book (1550), Jurij Dalmatin, who ...
- Daloa
- town, west-central Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), at the intersection of major north-south and east-west routes. It is the chief collecting point for a forest region that sends coffee, cocoa, kola ...
- Dalou Mountains
- (from the article "Sichuan") ...attain an elevation between 11,000 and 13,000 feet (3,400 and 4,000 metres) above sea level. The limestone Daba Mountains rise to approximately 9,000 feet (2,700 metres) on the northeast, while ...
- Dalou, Jules
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Dalpe, Jean Marc
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...in the early 1970s, achieved popular success with his musical comedy Lavalleville (1975). Continuing the theatrical tradition into the 1980s and 1990s, both Jean Marc Dalpe (
- Dalradian Series
- 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 ...
- Dalriada
- 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, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Dalrymple, Alexander
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Dalrymple, George
- (from the article "Herbert River") ...at Halifax Bay in the Hinchinbrook Channel. A relatively deep stream, the longest tributary of which is Blunder Creek, it drains an area of 3,340 square miles (8,650 square km). ...
- Dalrymple, Ian Murray
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Bernard Shaw; adaptation by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb for PygmalionOriginal Story: Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary for Boys TownCinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg for The Great...
- Dalrymple, Sir John
- (from the article "William III") ...inquiry but took no further action until in 1695 the Scottish Parliament demanded a public investigation. He then showed culpable leniency to the offenders, merely dismissing from his secretaryship Sir ...
- Dalsland
- 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 ...
- Dalton
- 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 ...
- Dalton Brothers
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Dalton Defenders Museum
- (from the article "Coffeyville") ...important trading and industrial centre. It is located in the mid-continent gas and oil field (natural gas was discovered there in 1892) and is the seat of Coffeyville Community College ...
- Dalton Plan
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dalton's law
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dalton, Emmet
- (from the article "Dalton Brothers") 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.
- Dalton, John
- English meteorologist and chemist, a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory. [15 Related Articles]
- Dalton, Katharina Dorothea Kuipers
- British gynecologist (b. Nov. 11, 1916, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 17, 2004, Poole, Dorset, Eng.), identified the symptoms suffered by women before and during their menstrual cycles as those of an ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dalton, Roque
- (from the article "El Salvador") ...prized the arts, especially literature. But any kind of antigovernment literature was an extremely dangerous enterprise during the civil war years; one of the country's most widely respected poets, Roque ...
- Dalton, William
- (from the article "Dalton Brothers") 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.
- Daltrey, Roger
- (from the article "Who, the") ...members were Pete Townshend (b. May 19, 1945London, England), Roger Daltrey (b. March 1, 1944London), John...
- daluo
- (from the article "luogu") ...instrumentation and style vary according to function and region. Even the sizes and names of instruments differ. The three major instruments present in most styles are daluo ...
- Daly City
- 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 ...
- Daly detector
- (from the article "mass spectrometry") In 1960 N.R. Daly introduced a form of detector with properties superior to the electron multipliers described above. In this design the incident ions are attracted to a rounded electrode ...
- Daly River
- 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 ...
- Daly, (John) Augustin
- American playwright and theatrical manager whose companies were major features of the New York and London stage. [4 Related Articles]
- Daly, Cesar-Denis
- (from the article "Sullivan, Louis") ...Charles Darwin. Darwin's writings on evolution, particularly on organic growth, left their mark on European writers on architecture and, in turn, on Sullivan's own thinking. The French architect Cesar-Denis Daly, ...
- Daly, Marcus
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Daly, N. R.
- (from the article "mass spectrometry") In 1960 N.R. Daly introduced a form of detector with properties superior to the electron multipliers described above. In this design the incident ions are attracted to a rounded electrode ...
- Daly, Reginald Aldworth
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- dam
- (from the article "dog") ...behaviour is a combination of instinct and environment. Dogs are born with certain innate characteristics that are evident from birth. Puppies are born blind and deaf, totally dependent on the ...
- dam
- structure built across a stream, river, or estuary to retain water. Dams are built to provide water for human consumption, for irrigating arid and semiarid lands, or for use in ... [16 Related Articles]
- Dam, Henrik
- 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).
- Dama gazelle
- (from the article "gazelle") The Dama gazelle (G. dama) is the largest of all gazelles and inhabits North Africa. Its coat ranges from reddish brown with a white rump, underparts, and head in the ...
- Damad Ferid Pasa
- (from the article "Turkey") The official government yielded to Kemalist pressure. The unpopular grand vizier, Damad Ferid Pasha, resigned and was replaced by the more sympathetic Ali Riza Pasha. Negotiations with the Kemalists were ...
- damage buoyancy
- (from the article "ship") Building a ship that can be neither sunk nor capsized is beyond practicality, but a ship can be designed to survive moderate damage and, if sinking is inevitable, to sink ...
- damage stability
- (from the article "ship") ...a passenger liner of similar size and type, sank within a period of 20 minutes after being hit by two torpedoes on May 7, 1915. Its fault lay not in ...
- damages
- in law, money compensation for loss or injury caused by the wrongful act of another. Recovery of damages is the objective of most civil litigation. [5 Related Articles]
- Damaji
- (from the article "India") The rule of Damaji (died 1768) at Baroda was followed by a period of some turmoil. The Gaekwads still remained partly dependent on Pune and the peshwa, ...
- Daman
- 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 ...
- Daman and Diu
- 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 ...
- Damanganga
- (from the article "Dadra and Nagar Haveli") ...Haveli is undulating and hilly, reaching elevations of 1,000 feet in the northeast and east near the Western Ghats. Lowland areas are limited to the central plains, which are crossed ...
- Damanhur
- 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 ...
- Damaraland
- 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 ...
- Damaran Belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...and Pilbara blocks in Western Australia. Linear belts, up to several thousand kilometres long, that are frequently though not exclusively of Proterozoic age include the Limpopo, Mozambique, and Damaran belts ...
- Damari, Shoshana
- Israeli singer (b. 1923, Damar, Yemen-d. Feb. 14, 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel), introduced pop music to Israel in 1948 and helped to create a unique sense of cultural identity for ...
- damaru
- (from the article "drum") ...by a network of thongs. A waisted, or hourglass, drum is seen on one of the Bharhut reliefs, the oldest Indian temple reliefs (2nd century BC). The modern Indian
- Damas, Leon
- (from the article "Negritude") ...assimilation. Its leading figure was Leopold Sedar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aime Cesaire from Martinique and Leon Damas from French ...
- damascening
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damascius
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Damascus
- city, capital of Syria. Located in the southwestern corner of the country, it has been called the "pearl of the East," praised for its beauty and lushness; the 10th-century traveler ... [22 Related Articles]
- Damascus Document
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damascus Gate
- (from the article "Jerusalem") ...walls dating chiefly to the period of the Crusades but in some places to Byzantine, Herodian, and even Hasmonean times. The Old City may be entered through any of seven ...
- Damascus International Airport
- (from the article "Damascus") ...Aleppo, and Baghdad. A rail line north to Hims (Homs) ties in with the national railroad system; along with the trucking industry, it transports imported products to the city. Damascus ...
- Damascus rug
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damascus steel
- 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 ...
- Damascus ware
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of this type of ceramic decoration is intimately tied to the complex and much controverted problem of the growth of several distinctive Ottoman schools of pottery: Iznik, Rhodian, and Damascus ...
- Damascus, Great Mosque of
- 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 ... [9 Related Articles]
- Damascus, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...education for the vast majority of Damascene children. Private schools supplement the public schools, and there is a separate system run by the United Nations for Palestinian refugee children. The ...
- damask
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- damask rose
- (from the article "rose") Attar of rose, used in perfumes, is obtained from the rose blossoms, especially those of the damask rose (R. damascena). Rose hips, particularly those of R. rugosa, are a source ...
- Damaskinos
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damasus I Saint
- pope from Oct. 1, 366, to Dec. 11, 384. During his rule the primacy of the Roman see was asserted. [5 Related Articles]
- Damasus II
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damaturu
- 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 ...
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