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- 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 ...
- Damba
- 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 ...
- Dambadeniya Dynasty
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dambovita
- 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 ...
- Dambovita River
- (from the article "Arges River") ...across the Danube Plain to enter the Danube near Oltenita. Its length is 203 miles (327 km), and the area of its basin is 4,850 square miles (12,550 square km). ...
- dambuster
- (from the article "Wallis, Sir Barnes") British aeronautical designer and military engineer who invented the innovative "dambuster" bombs used in World War II.
- dame school
- 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 ...
- dame's rocket
- (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 ...
- Dameron, Tadd
- 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.
- Dames Point Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...360 metres (1,200 feet). It, too, employs a single plane of cables, but these remain in one plane that fans out down the centre of the deck. The longest cable-stayed ...
- Damghan
- 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 ...
- Damiao, Frei
- , Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic monk who walked from town to town in northeastern Brazil preaching to poor villagers, who considered him a saint capable of performing miracles (b. Nov. ...
- Damien, Father
- Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers. [1 Related Articles]
- Damiens, Robert-Francois
- French fanatic who in 1757 made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of King Louis XV.
- Damietta
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damietta
- (from the article "Nile River") ...distributaries. The flow has since been controlled and redirected, so that the river now flows across the delta to the sea through two main distributaries, the Rosetta and the Dumyat ...
- Daming calendar
- (from the article "Zu Gengzhi") Beginning in 504, Zu Gengzhi actively advocated his father's calendar (the Daming calendar) and finally succeeded in getting it officially adopted in 510. His astronomical observations with gnomons allowed him ...
- Damir, Al-
- 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 ...
- Damiri, ad-
- Muslim theologian, best known for his encyclopaedia of animals.
- Dammam, Al-
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- dammar
- any of a variety of hard varnish resins obtained from coniferous and hardwood trees characteristic of Southeast and East Asia. These include the conifer genus Agathis (family Araucariaceae), such flowering ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dammartin
- medieval French countship, whose seat was at Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Meaux (in the modern departement of Seine-et-Marne).
- Dammastock
- (from the article "Uri") ...of the canton's area is reckoned as productive. Forests occupy part of the canton, and more than 20 percent of the unproductive area in Uri is covered with glaciers. The ...
- dammusa
- (from the article "Arabian Desert") ...locusts and other insects. Many lizards, including skinks, geckos, agamids, and collared lizards, are found in the sand. Lively and pretty, a salmon-coloured lizard, the dammusa seeks ...
- damnatio memoriae
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...also renounced their allegiance, Nero lost his nerve and committed suicide. He brought the Julio-Claudian dynasty to an ignominious end by being the first emperor to suffer
- damnation
- (from the article "The Protestant Heritage") ...of people are not saved, does this not mean that God is responsible for creating humans only to have them suffer and is he not guilty of the worst kind ...
- Damnonii
- (from the article "Clackmannanshire") The early inhabitants belonged to the great Celtic tribe known to the Romans as Damnonii; they may have been the ancestors of the Picts who lived there afterward. Later the ...
- Damocles
- a courtier of Dionysius I of Syracuse, in Sicily, tyrant from 405 to 367 BC. The courtier is known to history through the legend of the "Sword of Damocles."
- Damodar River
- 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 ...
- Damodar Valley
- (from the article "Chota Nagpur") ...in its entirety lies between the basins of the Ganges and Son rivers to the north and the Mahanadi River to the south; through its centre, from west to east, ...
- Damodar Valley Corporation
- (from the article "Burdwan") ...and swampy. The western region is one of the busiest industrial tracts in West Bengal, with rich coal, fireclay, and iron-ore deposits, especially in the Raniganj coalfield area. The Damodar ...
- Damoh
- 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. ...
- Damon
- (from the article "Pericles") The only name associated with his early education is that of the musical theorist Damon, whose influence, it is said, was not just confined to music. The arrival of the ...
- Damon, Matt
- American actor, screenwriter, and producer, who was noted for his clean-cut good looks and intelligent performances. He won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Good ...
- Damophon
- 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 ...
- damoz
- (from the article "Amhara") Descent is reckoned patrilineally, and married couples usually reside near the husband's home. The Amhara practice three types of marriage: kal kidan, qurban, and damoz. Kal kidan (also called serat ...
- damp-fold drapery
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...artists to a more organic, if expressively attenuated, conception of the human body. Drapery is now stretched and gathered, with sinuous folds isolating curving islands of taut cloth (so-called damp-fold ...
- damped vibration
- (from the article "mechanics") The simple harmonic oscillations discussed above continue forever, at constant amplitude, oscillating as shown in Figure 3 between A and −A. Common experience indicates that real oscillators behave somewhat differently, ...
- damper
- (from the article "piano") ...are therefore much louder than were those of the 18th century, an increase in loudness necessitated in part by the size of 19th-century concert halls. Of the three pedals found ...
- damper winding
- (from the article "electric motor") This additional rotor winding is usually referred to as a damper winding because of its additional property of damping out any oscillation that might be caused by sudden changes in ...
- Dampier
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dampier Archipelago
- (from the article "Dampier, William") ...He sailed from England on Jan. 14, 1699, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Shark Bay off western Australia on July 26. After exploring the coast northward to ...
- Dampier, William
- 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, ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dampierre, Chateau de
- (from the article "garden and landscape design") ...sophistication, it remained an inward-looking, essentially medieval garden. The first sign of prolongation and calculated extension of vision beyond the garden proper appeared in the grounds of Dampierre. Here the ...
- damping
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- damping capacity
- (from the article "magnesium processing") Magnesium applications are motivated by the light weight, high strength, high damping capacity, close dimensional tolerance, and ease of fabrication of its alloys. Applications include hand tools, sporting goods, luggage ...
- damping-off
- 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 ...
- Damrei Mountains
- north-south-trending range of high hills, an offshoot of the Kravanh Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Extending 70 miles (110 km) north from the Gulf of Thailand, they reach a high point in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damrong Rajanubhab
- 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.
- Damrosch, Walter
- Prussian-born American orchestral conductor and composer whose activities spanned more than half a century of American musical life.
- damsel bug
- any predacious insect in the true bug order, Heteroptera, that feeds on insect eggs, aphids, and small caterpillars. Damsel bugs are generally divided into two types. One is about 8 ... [1 Related Articles]
- damselfish
- any of about 250 species of small, primarily tropical marine fishes of the family Pomacentridae (order Perciformes) found in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Damselfishes are deep-bodied and usually have ... [1 Related Articles]
- damselfly
- any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damson plum
- (from the article "plum") ...Sea. According to the earliest writings in which the plum is mentioned, the species is at least 2,000 years old. Another Old World plum species, probably of European or Asiatic ...
- Damu
- in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity, city god of Girsu, east of Ur in the southern orchards region. Damu, son of Enki, was a vegetation god, especially of the vernal flowing ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damu
- (from the article "Damu") The cult of Damu influenced and later blended with the similar cult of Tammuz the Shepherd, a Sumerian deity. A different deity called Damu was a goddess of healing and ...
- damyan
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") ...specific instruments and repertoire. There appears to be a great deal of both Indian-related and indigenous folk music in the three Himalayan kingdoms. Varieties of lute, such as the long-necked ...
- Dan
- one of the 12 tribes of Israel that in biblical times comprised the people of Israel who later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the first of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dan
- an ethnolinguistic grouping of people inhabiting the mountainous west-central Cote d'Ivoire and adjacent areas of Liberia. The Dan belong to the Southern branch of the Mande linguistic subgroup of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dan Flavin Art Institute
- (from the article "Flavin, Dan") ...and scale of his pieces depending on the space. From 1983 to 1988 he renovated a former firehouse and church in Bridgehampton, N.Y., as a permanent site for his work. ...
- Dan Patch
- (foaled 1896), American harness racehorse (Standardbred), a nearly legendary horse in his time, who established in 1905 a world pacing record of 1:55 14 that endured for 33 years. (In ...
- Dan River
- (from the article "Jordan River") ...which rises in Lebanon, near Hasbayya, at an elevation of 1,800 feet (550 metres). From the east, in Syria, flows the Baniyas River; between the two is the Dan, the ...
- Dan Takuma
- manager of the giant Mitsui zaibatsu, the greatest of the family-owned combines in pre-World War II Japan. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an important member of ...
- dana
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...appear independently within the tradition. The veneration of the Buddha or Buddha figure is a common ritual often practiced independently of other rituals. Moreover, the dana (Pali: ...
- Dana, Charles A.
- American journalist who became a national figure as editor of the New York Sun. [2 Related Articles]
- Dana, Francis
- (from the article "Adams, John Quincy") In 1781, at age 14, Adams accompanied Francis Dana, United States envoy to Russia, as his private secretary and interpreter of French. Dana, after lingering for more than a year ...
- Dana, James D
- American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist who, in explorations of the South Pacific, the U.S. Northwest, Europe, and elsewhere, made important studies of mountain building, volcanic activity, sea life, and the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dana, Richard Henry
- American lawyer and author of the popular autobiographical narrative Two Years Before the Mast.
- Danae
- (from the article "Perseus") in Greek mythology, the slayer of the Gorgon Medusa and the rescuer of Andromeda from a sea monster. Perseus was the son of Zeus and Danae, the daughter of Acrisius ...
- Danaea
- (from the article "fern") ...eusporangiate, in sori, or more or less coalescent in synangia (clusters); homosporous; mostly massive, fleshy ferns; 4 modern genera (Angiopteris, Christensenia, Marattia, and Danaea) with about 150 species, widely distributed ...
- Danaid
- (from the article "Danaus") in Greek legend, son of Belus, king of Egypt, and twin brother of Aegyptus. Driven out of Egypt by his brother, he fled with his 50 daughters (the Danaids) to ...
- Danao
- city, eastern Cebu island, Philippines, about 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Cebu City. It was founded in 1844 and is a port on the Camotes Sea for nearby coalfields. ...
- Danapur
- town, northern Bihar state, northeastern India, on the Ganges River. It is a major road and rail junction and agricultural trade centre. Industries include printing, oilseed milling, and metalworks. There ...
- Danaus
- in Greek legend, son of Belus, king of Egypt, and twin brother of Aegyptus. Driven out of Egypt by his brother, he fled with his 50 daughters (the Danaids) to ...
- Danbury
- city, coextensive with the town (township) of Danbury, Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Still River in the foothills of the Berkshire Hills. Settled in 1685, it ...
- Danbury Hatters' Case
- U.S. Supreme Court case in which unions were held to be subject to the antitrust laws. In 1902 the United Hatters of North America, having failed to organize the firm ...
- Danby, Ken
- Canadian painter was best known for paintings that featured brilliant colours and were emblematic of Canada, notably At the Crease (1972), which depicted a masked hockey goalie, Lacing Up, which ...
- dance
- (from the article "hymenopteran") The highly integrated activities of the Hymenoptera colony require sophisticated methods of passing information among its members. The so-called dance of the honeybee is perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of ...
- dance
- the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply ... [66 Related Articles]
- dance drama
- (from the article "Indonesia") Some theatrical traditions incorporate dance to such an extent that they are typically termed "dance-dramas." Of these traditions, the wayang wong and wayang topeng (masked theatre) of Java and Bali, ...
- dance fly
- any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are named for their erratic movements while in flight. Dance flies are small with a disproportionately large ...
- dance notation
- the recording of dance movement through the use of written symbols. [4 Related Articles]
- dance paddle
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") ...stand out. Among the items carved were mortars and spatulas used to prepare betel nut; long, flat war clubs; splashboards and decorative panels attached to the prow and stern of ...
- Dance Repertory Theatre
- (from the article "Tamiris, Helen") ...began to develop her own approach and in 1927 made her concert debut. She toured Europe in 1928 and in 1930 founded her own company and school, which she directed ...
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- (from the article "dance, Western") ...areas, often without music. Her later work melded classical ballet and jazz with modern dance. A different perspective was offered by Arthur Mitchell, who left the New York City Ballet ...
- Dance Theatre Workshop
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Celebrating its 40th anniversary as a crucible of experimental work, Dance Theatre Workshop in May included among its globe-reaching offerings Discreet Deaths, an especially haunting work by French Algerian choreographer ...
- Dance Umbrella
- (from the article "Performing Arts") The biggest event on the modern dance scene was Merce Cunningham's Ocean, which opened the 2006 Dance Umbrella. Dance Umbrella also featured Speaking Dance, the final part of a trilogy ...
- Dance, George, the Younger
- British architect who was responsible for extensive urban redevelopment in London. He was a founding member of Great Britain's Royal Academy of Arts. [2 Related Articles]
- dance, Western
- history of Western dance from ancient times to the present and including the development of ballet, the waltz, and various types of modern dance. [1 Related Articles]
- dancehall music
- style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and '90s. Central to dancehall ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dancer, Stanley Franklin
- American horseman (b. July 25, 1927, West Windsor, N.J.-d. Sept. 8, 2005, Pompano Beach, Fla.), captured 3,781 races during his career as one of harness racing's most aggressive drivers. He ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dances of Universal Peace
- (from the article "folk dance") The Dances of Universal Peace were developed by Samuel Lewis from California, who was a Sufi and Zen master. He had been a student of modern dance pioneer Ruth St. ...
- dancing devil
- (from the article "whirlwind") ...in Ethiopia. In the Mojave Desert in eastern California, a series of smaller whirls were seen following in the wake of a larger primary vortex. In India, such secondary vortices ...
- Dancing Figures, Tomb of the
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...though portraits were still painted, they depicted the dead master in connection with some important event in his life, rather than seated solemnly and godlike as in the earlier period. ...
- dancing master
- (from the article "choreography") During the Renaissance, dance masters in Italy, such as Domenico da Piacenza, taught social dances at court and probably began to invent new ones or arrange variants of known dances, ...
- Danckelmann, Eberhard
- (from the article "Brandenburg") ...himself with other German princes against Louis XIV of France, and afterward fought on the side of the Holy Roman Empire against both France and Turkey. Frederick's chief adviser about ...
- Dancourt, Florent Carton
- actor and playwright who created the French comedy of manners and was one of the most popular of French dramatists before the Revolution. [1 Related Articles]
- danda
- (from the article "India") The existence of the state was primarily dependent on two factors: danda (authority) and dharma (in its sense of the social order-i.e., the preservation ...
- Dandak Forest
- (from the article "Dandakaranya") ...Pradesh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh states. It has dimensions of about 200 miles (320 km) from north to south and about 300 miles (480 km) from east to west. The ...
- Dandakaranya
- physical region in east-central India. Extending over an area of about 35,600 square miles (92,300 square km), it includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and borders the Eastern Ghats ...
- Dandakaranya Development Authority
- (from the article "Dandakaranya") ...rice and dal (pigeon-pea) milling, sawmilling, bone-meal manufacturing, bidi (cigarette) making, beekeeping, and furniture making. There are deposits of bauxite, iron ore, and manganese. The Dandakaranya Development Authority was created ...
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