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Daodejing: classic of Chinese philosophical literature. The name was first used during the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220); it had previously been called Laozi in the belief that it was written ...
Daonella: genus of extinct pelecypods (clams) useful as a guide, or index, fossil in Triassic rocks. The shell is characterized by a wide dorsal region and by fine, radiating, riblike lineations. ...
Daphnae: ancient fortress town (Fortress of Penhase), situated near Qantarah, in present-day ash-Sharqiyah muhafazah (governorate), northeastern Egypt. Excavations by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1886 uncovered a massive fort and enclosure surrounded ...
Daphne: in Greek mythology, the personification of the laurel (Greek daphne), a tree whose leaves, formed into garlands, were particularly associated with Apollo (q.v.). Traditionally, the special position of the laurel ...
Daphne: genus of about 50 species of flowering shrubs of the mezereum family (Thymelaeaceae) native to Eurasia but widely cultivated for their form and flower clusters. The most popular species include ...
Daphnephoria: in Greek religion, festival held every ninth year at Thebes in Boeotia in honour of Apollo Ismenius (after the Theban river called Ismenus) or Apollo Chalazius (god of hail). It ...
Daphnia: well-known water flea (q.v.) genus.
Daphnis: legendary hero of the shepherds of Sicily and the reputed inventor of bucolic poetry. According to tradition, Daphnis was the son of Hermes and a Sicilian nymph and was found ...
Dapitan: chartered city and port, western Mindanao, Philippines, situated on Dapitan Bay of the Sulu Sea. One of the principal cities located on the Zamboanga Peninsula, it lies 8 miles (12 ...
Daqahliyyah, Al-: muhafazah (governorate), northeastern Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. Its triangular area, with the "point" to the south, is traversed by the Damietta ...
Daqiqi: poet, one of the most important figures in early Persian poetry.
Daquin, Louis-Claude: French harpsichordist, organist, and composer of keyboard music whose playing was noted for its neatness and precision and whose music was admired for its gentle charm.
Dar es Salaam: seat of government, largest city, industrial centre, and major port of Tanzania, eastern Africa. Its climate is hot and humid, with an annual rainfall of 43 inches (1,100 mm). Dar ...
Dar'a: town, southwestern Syria. Dar'a, which is the chief town of the Hawran (a region of southwestern Syria), is a road and rail junction located less than 6 miles (10 km) ...
Darab: town southwestern Iran, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) in a well-watered basin just south of some high ranges. The winter climate is mild, and fruits, cereals, ...
darabukka: goblet-shaped small drum that is widely played in Islamic classical and folk music throughout North Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. The darabukka is a single-headed drum usually made ...
Daranyi, Kalman: Hungarian statesman under whose premiership (1936-38) right-wing political elements gained increased influence in pre-World War II Hungary.
Darazi, Muhammad ibn Isma'il ad-: propagandist for the Isma'ili sect of Islam and the man for whom the religion of the Druze sect is named.
Darbhanga: town, northern Bihar state, northeastern India. It is situated just to the east of the Baghmati River, a tributary of the Ganges. The town was the capital of the Darbhanga ...
Darboux, Jean-Gaston: French mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and analysis and after whom the Darboux integral is named.
Darby, Abraham: British ironmaster who first successfully smelted iron ore with coke.
Darcy's law: mathematical relationship discovered (1856) by the French engineer Henri Darcy that governs the flow of groundwater through granular media or the flow of other fluids through permeable material, such as ...
Darcy, Henri-Philibert-Gaspard: French hydraulic engineer who first derived the equation (now known as Darcy's law) that governs the laminar (nonturbulent) flow of fluids in homogeneous, porous media and who thereby established the ...
Darcy, Thomas Darcy, Lord: powerful English nobleman who, disliking the separation of England from papal jurisdiction, was implicated in the rebellion in 1536, in the north, against the ecclesiastical policy of Henry VIII.
Dardanelles: narrow strait in northwestern Turkey, 38 mi (61 km) long, linking the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It is 34 to 4 mi wide and lies between the ...
Dardanelles Campaign: (February 1915-January 1916), in World War I, an Anglo-French operation against Turkey, intended to force the 38-mile- (61-km-) long Dardanelles channel and to occupy Constantinople. Plans for such a venture ...
Dardanus: in Greek legend, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, mythical founder of Dardania on the Hellespont. He was the ancestor of the Dardanians of the Troad and, through ...
Dardic languages: group of closely related Indo-Iranian languages spoken in Pakistan, Kashmir, and Afghanistan. They are often divided into three subgroups: Kafiri, or Western; Khowari, or Central (spoken in the Chitral district ...
Dardistan: region inhabited by the so-called Dard peoples in the north of Pakistan and northern Kashmir. It includes Chitral, the upper reaches of the Panjkora River, the Kohistan (highland) of Swat, ...
Dare, Virginia: the first English child born in the Americas. She was given the name Virginia because she was the first Christian born in Virginia.
Dares Phrygius: a Trojan priest of Hephaestus who appears as one of the characters in Homer's Iliad and is the reputed author of a lost pre-Homeric "eyewitness" account of the Trojan War. ...
Dareste de la Chavanne, Antoine: French historian whose reputation rests on his authoritative major work, Histoire de France, 9 vol. (1865-79).
Daret, Jacques: early French Renaissance painter of Tournai whose work shows the strong influence of the Master of Flemalle. Only one group of his works is known, that from the period 1433-35. ...
Darfur: historical region of the Bilad al-Sudan (Arabic: "Land of the Fur"), roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of the present-day Sudan. It lay between Kordofan to the east and Wadai ...
Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr: Russian composer of songs and operas whose works are now seldom performed.
Darhan: town, northern Mongolia, northwest of Ulaanbaatar. A large industrial complex, built in the late 1960s with Soviet and eastern European aid, makes Darhan one of the largest industrial centres in ...
Dari language: member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages; it is, along with Pashto, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan dialect of ...
Darien: geographic region of the easternmost Isthmus of Panama; it extends into northwestern Colombia, around the Gulf of Uraba (a section of the Gulf of Darien), and forms the physiographic link ...
Darien: city, seat (1818) of McIntosh county, southeastern Georgia, U.S. It is situated near the mouth of the Altamaha River on the Atlantic coast, about 20 miles (32 km) north of ...
Darien: town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound. Originally part of Stamford, the area was settled by colonists from Wethersfield about 1641, and a separate community life ...
Darien, Gulf of: triangular southernmost extension of the Caribbean Sea, bounded by Panama on the southwest and by Colombia on the southeast and east. The inner section, which is called the Gulf of ...
Darin, Bobby: American singer and songwriter whose quest for success in several genres made him a ubiquitous presence in pop entertainment in the late 1950s and '60s.
Dario, Ruben: influential Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat. As a leader of the Spanish American literary movement known as Modernismo, which flourished at the end of the 19th century, he revivified and ...
Darius I: king of Persia in 522-486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and for his great building projects. Darius attempted ...
Darius II Ochus: Achaemenid king (reigned 423-404 BC) of Persia.
Darius III: the last king (reigned 336-330 BC) of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Darjeeling: town, extreme northern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Darjeeling lies 305 miles (491 km) north of Calcutta. The town is situated on a long, narrow mountain ridge of the Sikkim ...
Dark Ages: the early medieval period of western European history. Specifically, the term refers to the time (476-800) when there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West; or, more ...
dark nebula: interstellar dust and gas concentrated sufficiently to produce conspicuous obscuring of the stars beyond (see nebula).
darkling beetle: any member of the approximately 12,000 species of the insect family Tenebrionidae (order Coleoptera), so named because of their nocturnal habits. These beetles tend to be short and dark; some, ...
Darlan, Francois: French admiral and a leading figure in Marshal Philippe Petain's World War II Vichy government.
Darley, George: poet and critic little esteemed by his contemporaries but praised by 20th-century writers for his intense evocation, in his unfinished lyrical epic Nepenthe (1835), of a symbolic dreamworld. Long regarded ...
Darling Downs: pastoral and agricultural region in southeastern Queensland, Australia. It extends westward from the Great Dividing Range and southward to the Dumaresq and Macintyre rivers, generally occupying the basin of the ...
Darling Range: scarp or fault at the edge of the Great Plateau in Western Australia, paralleling the southwest coast east of Perth for 200 miles (320 km) from the Moore River (north) ...
Darling River: river, longest member of the Murray-Darling river system in Australia; it rises in several headstreams in the Great Dividing Range (Eastern Highlands), near the New South Wales-Queensland border, not far ...
Darling, Flora Adams: American writer, historian, and organizer, an influential though controversial figure in the founding and early years of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and other patriotic societies.
Darling, Grace: British heroine who became famous for her participation in the rescue of shipwreck survivors.
Darling, Jay Norwood: American political cartoonist who in his long career commented on a wide range of issues and twice received a Pulitzer Prize.
Darlington: town and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Durham, northeastern England, bounded on the south by the River Tees. The main population centre, old Darlington town, lies on the ...
Darlington: county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. It lies for the most part on the rolling hills of the Coastal Plain, bounded to the northeast by the Great Pee Dee River and ...
Darlington: city, seat of Darlington county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. Settled in the 1780s, the city and the county (formed 1785) were both named for Darlington, England. Its basic agricultural economy ...
Darlington, Cyril Dean: British biologist whose research on chromosomes influenced the basic concepts of the hereditary mechanisms underlying the evolution of sexually reproducing species.
Darmesteter, Arsene: language scholar who advanced knowledge of the history of French, particularly through his elucidation of Old French.
Darmesteter, James: French scholar noted for ancient Iranian language studies, especially his English and French translations of the Avesta, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism.
Darmstadt: city, Hessen Land (state), south-central Germany. It is situated on a gently sloping plain between the Odenwald (a forested plateau) and the Rhine River, south of Frankfurt ...
Darnah: town of northeastern Libya, on the Mediterranean coast, east of Banghazi. It lies on the eastern ridges of the Jabal al-Akhdar in the delta of the small Wadi (seasonal river) ...
darnel: noxious weed of the ryegrass (q.v.) genus Lolium.
Darnel's case: celebrated case in the history of the liberty of English subjects. It contributed to the enactment of the Petition of Right. In March 1627, Sir Thomas Darnel-together with four other ...
Darnley, Henry Stewart, Lord: cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, father of King James I of Great Britain (James VI of Scotland), and direct ancestor of all subsequent British sovereigns.
Darqawa: brotherhood of Sufis (Muslim mystics) founded at the end of the 18th century by Mawlay al-'Arbi ad-Darqawi (c. 1737-1823) in Morocco. An offshoot of the Shadhili Sufis, the order brought ...
Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis: French politician who was notorious as an anti-Semite and collaborator with Nazi Germany.
Darracq, Alexandre: French automobile manufacturer, one of the first to plan mass production of motor vehicles.
Darragh, Lydia Barrington: American Revolutionary War heroine who is said to have saved General George Washington's army from a British attack.
Darriwilian Stage: division of geologic time of the Ordovician period in Australia and, to some extent, New Zealand (the Ordovician period lasted from 505 million to 438 million years ago). The Darriwilian ...
Darrow, Clarence: lawyer whose work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him a place in American legal history. He was also well-known as a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous ...
darshan: ("auspicious viewing"), in Hindu worship, the beholding of an auspicious deity, person, or object. The experience results in a blessing of the viewer. The rathayatras (car festivals), in which images ...