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- French-Canadian plant ecologist who was a pioneer in the study of the dynamics of forests and who attempted to extend ecological concepts to the modern human environment.
- Dansgaard-Oeschger event
- (from the article "glacier") ...period, the climate frequently alternated between full-glacial and nonglacial conditions in less than a decade. Some of these changes seem to have occurred as sudden climate fluctuations, called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, ...
- danson-johi
- (from the article "Japan") ...as absolute obedience was demanded from members of the family toward the house head (kacho). Among the family members, the status of women was especially low, and the idea of ...
- danta gradha
- (from the article "Celtic literature") ...a tax collector. The courtly love themes, introduced into Irish literature by the Norman invaders, were used with native bardic wit and felicitous style to produce the enchanting poems called ...
- Dante
- Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named [29 Related Articles]
- Dante's View
- (from the article "Amargosa Range") ...extends 110 miles (180 km) from Grapevine Peak (8,705 feet [2,653 m]), south-southeastward to the Amargosa River. It is composed of three distinct mountain groups: the Grapevine, Funeral, and Black. ...
- Dante, Piazza
- (from the article "Naples") Debouching into the Neoclassical hemicycle of Piazza Dante, Via Toledo resumes its route under other names, skirting the western flank of the National Archaeological Museum in its ascent toward Capodimonte.
- Dantec, Maurice G.
- (from the article "Literature") The strangest novel of note was Maurice G. Dantec's fascist-leaning Cosmos Incorporated, in which a mechanically enhanced contract killer in a postapocalyptic future begins to wonder if he himself is ...
- Danter, John
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...in the dedication is thought by some to be the person who procured him his copy. The first Shakespeare play to be published (Titus Andronicus, 1594) was printed by a ...
- Danthonia
- (from the article "oat grass") any of the perennial plants of two genera of grasses, Arrhenatherum and Danthonia (family Poaceae). Approximately six species of tall grasses, native to temperate Europe and Asia, constitute the genus ...
- Danti, Vincenzo
- (from the article "Western sculpture") Whether in Rome or Florence, Michelangelo had a strong influence on sculptors of the 16th century. Vincenzo Danti followed closely in Michelangelo's footsteps. His bronze "Julius III" of 1553-56 in ...
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Haitian American author whose works focus on the lives of women and their relationships. She also addressed issues of power, injustice, and poverty. [1 Related Articles]
- Dantidurga
- (from the article "India") ...regions often erupted. The next 100 years of Calukya power witnessed the continuation of this conflict, weakening both contenders. Ultimately, in the mid-8th century, a feudatory of the Calukyas, Dantidurga ...
- Dantiscus, Johannes
- Polish poet and diplomat who was among the first representatives in Poland of Renaissance humanism. Dantiscus wrote, in Latin, incidental verse, love poetry, and panegyrics (formal speeches of praise). [1 Related Articles]
- Danto, Arthur
- (from the article "art criticism") ...of perspectives. This became especially apparent in the 1980s and '90s, when a variety of critical approaches emerged. A new philosophical criticism emerged in the person of American critic Arthur ...
- Danton, Georges
- French Revolutionary leader and orator, often credited as the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic (September 21, 1792). He later ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dantzig, George
- American mathematician (b. Nov. 8, 1914, Portland, Ore.-d. May 13, 2005, Stanford, Calif.), devised the simplex algorithm, a method for solving problems that involve numerous conditions and variables, and in ...
- Danu
- in Celtic religion, the earth-mother goddess or female principle, who was honoured under various names from eastern Europe to Ireland. The mythology that surrounded her was contradictory and confused; mother ...
- Danube Bend
- (from the article "Pest") The most-visited tourist area of the county is the Danube Bend, which stretches from Esztergom to Szentendre. Szentendre still reflects the influence of its Dalmatian Serb founders in its Mediterranean-style ...
- Danube delta
- (from the article "Romania") On the northern edge of the Dobruja region, adjoining the Moldavian Plateau, the great swampy triangle of the Danube delta is a unique physiographic region covering some 2,000 square miles ...
- Danube River
- river of Europe, the second longest river after the Volga. It rises in the Black Forest mountains of western Germany and flows for some 1,770 miles (2,850 km) to its ... [24 Related Articles]
- Danube school
- a tradition of landscape painting that developed in the region of the Danube River valley in the early years of the 16th century. [6 Related Articles]
- Danube Water Meadows Nature Reserve
- (from the article "Ukraine") ...Reserve shelters many species of waterfowl and is the only Ukrainian breeding ground of the Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus). Also located on the Black Sea, the Danube ...
- Danube-Black Sea Canal
- (from the article "Danube River") ...the construction of a series of canals, and river traffic has increased considerably. The most important canals-all elements in a continentwide scheme of connecting waterways-include the Danube-Black Sea Canal, which ...
- Danubian Convention
- (from the article "Danube River") ...World War II, free international navigation along the course of the river was interrupted by the hostilities, and a consensus concerning the resumption of navigation was not reached until the ...
- Danubian Plain
- (from the article "Bulgaria") ...often steep banks on the Bulgarian side contrast with the swamps and lagoons of the Romanian side. Extending southward from the Danube to the foothills of the Balkan Mountains is ...
- Danubian principalities
- (from the article "Crimean War") Supported by Britain, the Turks took a firm stand against the Russians, who occupied the Danubian principalities (modern Romania) on the Russo-Turkish border in July 1853. The British fleet was ...
- Danubyu
- (from the article "Bandula, Maha") After raising a large army in northern Myanmar, Maha Bandula marched to Danubyu, on the Irrawaddy River, where he established his headquarters in October 1824. In December he attempted, unsuccessfully, ...
- Danvers
- town (township), Essex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies just northeast of Boston. Founded in the 1630s by Governor John Endecott, it was part of Salem and originally known as ...
- Danville
- city, seat (1827) of Vermilion county, eastern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the junction of forks of the Vermilion River (there bridged) near the Indiana border, about 35 miles (55 ...
- Danville
- city, administratively independent of, but located in, Pittsylvania county, south-central Virginia, U.S. It lies along the Dan River, just north of the North Carolina border, 45 miles (72 km) northeast ...
- Danville
- city, seat of Boyle county, central Kentucky, U.S., in the Bluegrass region, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Lexington. Located along the Old Wilderness Road, it was settled in about ...
- danzante
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...that site's history, a peculiar group of reliefs was carved on stone slabs and affixed to the front of a rubble-faced platform mound and around a contiguous court. The reliefs ...
- Danzi, Franz
- the most important member of a German family of musicians of Italian ancestry. Although Danzi was a prolific composer of operas, church music, lieder, symphonies, and concerti, it is for ...
- Danzig trilogy
- (from the article "German literature") ...the same time, Gunter Grass, perhaps the most important writer of the period and later, in 1999, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, began to publish what eventually became ...
- Danzig, Sarah Palfrey
- U.S. tennis champion who combined grace and skill at the net to capture 18 Grand Slam titles, 16 of them collected in doubles and mixed doubles competition (b. Sept. 18, ...
- Danziger, Paula
- American children's author (b. Aug. 18, 1944, Washington, D.C.-d. July 8, 2004, New York, N.Y.), wrote more than 30 books, notably the popular Amber Brown series, that presented serious issues ...
- dao
- in Chinese philosophy, a fundamental concept signifying "the proper way," or "heaven's way." In the Confucian tradition, dao signifies a morally proper path of human conduct and is thus limited ... [11 Related Articles]
- Dao Tan
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...of Emperor Tu Duc, and it is probable that the present form of hat boi dates from this period. At Tu Duc's court in Hue, the playwright ...
- 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 ... [10 Related Articles]
- Daoguang
- reign name (nianhao) of the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty of China, during whose reign (1820-50) attempts to prevent governmental decline met with little success. [3 Related Articles]
- Daoism
- indigenous religio-philosophical tradition that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. In the broadest sense, a Daoist attitude toward life can be seen in the accepting and yielding, ... [52 Related Articles]
- 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. ...
- daoshi
- (from the article "China") ...decapitated. With the elimination of its highest leadership, the movement had fallen apart into many small religious communities, each led by a local Daoist master (daoshi), assisted ...
- daotai
- (from the article "China") ...as the population expanded, and as administration became increasingly complex, coordinators proliferated even at sub-provincial levels in the form of circuit intendants (daotai), who were delegated from ...
- Dapenkeng culture
- (from the article "China") ...shale plow for cultivating the wet soils of the region. Fragments of woven silk from about 3000 BC have been found at Qianshanyang (northern Zhejiang). Along the southeast coast and ...
- Dapha Bum
- (from the article "Purvachal") ...is unstable; it is crisscrossed by several faults. Its north-south-aligned hill ranges are defined by narrow parallel valleys tending toward the west. The highest peak in the region is Mount ...
- Daphnae
- ancient fortress town (Fortress of Penhase), situated near Qantarah in northeastern Egypt. Excavations by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1886 uncovered a massive fort and enclosure surrounded by a wall 40 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daphne
- (from the article "Antiochus IV Epiphanes") ...state for about a century. The fighting spirit of the Jews was all the more impressive because at the beginning of their rebellion in 166 Antiochus had just demonstrated his ...
- 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 ...
- Daphnephoros
- (from the article "Daphnephoria") ...In front of the boy walked one of his nearest relatives, carrying an olive branch hung with laurel (daphne) flowers and bronze balls and twined round with ribbons. Then followed ...
- Daphnia
- (from the article "Daphnia") well-known water flea (q.v.) genus.water fleaWater flea (Daphnia).Fritz Geller-Grimm
- Daphnia magna
- (from the article "crustacean") The water flea (Daphnia magna) and the brine shrimp (Artemia salina) are used as fish food in aquariums and fish ponds, and the larvae of the latter are widely used ...
- Daphnia middendorffiana
- (from the article "branchiopod") ...conditions. Many anomopods survive the winter as fertilized eggs; species that dwell in temporary pools lay such eggs to survive periods of drought. Certain Arctic or alpine anomopods, such as ...
- 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 ...
- dapifer
- (from the article "seneschal") ...for organizing the journeys of king or emperor and, by 1071, was the chief officer-steward of the household, head of the army, and administrator of the royal demesne. With the ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- dapping
- (from the article "fishing") ...trout on artificial flies and described how each fly was dressed (made). The rod they used was only 6 feet (1.8 metres) long and the line the same length, so ...
- dapsone
- (from the article "leprosy") For patients with localized forms of leprosy and relatively few leprosy bacilli in their bodies, two drugs, dapsone and rifampicin, are given for a total of six months. For patients ...
- 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 ...
- Daqing
- oil field and new city, western Heilongjiang sheng (province), northeastern China, one of the country's most important sources of oil. It is situated in the northern part ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daqing River
- (from the article "Hai River system") ...tributaries are the Chao River, rising in the mountains north and northeast of Beijing; the Yongding River, flowing southeastward from the Guanting Reservoir through Beijing to Tianjin; the Daqing River, ...
- Daqiqi
- poet, one of the most important figures in early Persian poetry. [2 Related Articles]
- 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 al-'ulum
- (from the article "Mubarak, 'Ali Pasha") ...for the beautification of Cairo. In his next post as assistant director of education (1867) he separated the military schools from the government-operated civilian schools. In 1870 he created the ...
- dar al-hikmah
- (from the article "Islam") ...("house of wisdom") at Baghdad, which was officially sponsored by the caliph al-Ma'mun. The Fatimid caliph al-Hakim set up a dar alhikmah ("hall of wisdom") in Cairo in the 10th-11th ...
- Dar al-Murabitin
- (from the article "North Africa") ...was a Sanhajah religious scholar from southern Morocco. Before joining the Sanhajah tribes, Ibn Yasin was attached to a centre of religious learning, Dar al-Murabitin, in Sus (southern Morocco), then ...
- 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 ... [9 Related Articles]
- Dar es Salaam, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...of government finance. As a result, private secondary schools sponsored by religious institutions and, most notably, by parents themselves have expanded in number. There are two universities, the University of ...
- 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) ...
- Dara Shikoh
- (from the article "Aurangzeb") ...He early showed signs of military and administrative ability; and these qualities, combined with a taste for power, brought him into rivalry with his eldest brother, the brilliant and volatile ...
- Dara Viravong
- (from the article "Lao literature") ...in Vientiane during this period include three children of Maha Sila Viravong, an important scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture: Pakian Viravong, Duangdeuan Viravong, and Dara Viravong (pseudonyms ...
- Darab
- town, southwestern Iran, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres) in a well-watered basin just south of some high ranges. The winter climate is mild, and fruits, cereals, ...
- Darabjird
- (from the article "Darab") Modern Darab lies just northeast of the ruined ancient city of Darabjird. Though reputedly Achaemenid in origin, the main ruins of the town are Sasanian. The layout of the Sasanian ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daranyi, Kalman
- Hungarian statesman under whose premiership (1936-38) right-wing political elements gained increased influence in pre-World War II Hungary. [1 Related Articles]
- Darapti
- (from the article "logic, history of") Third figure:Darapti, Disamis, Datisi, Felapton,
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Darboe, Ousainu
- (from the article "Gambia, The") ...poll was organized, and pressures from the National Intelligence Agency were widely applied. The president gained 67% of the ballots, but only 59% of the registered voters turned out. Ousainu ...
- 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. [4 Related Articles]
- Darby, John Nelson
- (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") As the theologians at Princeton developed their new approach, John Nelson Darby, one of the earliest leaders of the Plymouth Brethren (a British free church movement emphasizing biblical prophecy and ...
- Darby, Ken
- (from the article "1956: Other Winners") ...Color: John DeCuir and Lyle R. Wheeler for The King and IMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Victor Young for Around the World in 80 DaysScoring of a ...
- Darby, Sir Clifford
- (from the article "geography") Another British geographer who influenced the discipline considerably through his own work and that of collaborators and graduate students was Henry Clifford (later Sir Clifford) Darby. The first to obtain ...
- Darcet's alloy
- (from the article "alloy") Many fusible alloys are formulated to melt at 90-100° C (194-212° F); for example, Darcet's alloy (50 parts bismuth, 25 lead, 25 tin) melts at 98° C. By replacing half ...
- darcy
- (from the article "permeability") The standard unit of permeability is the darcy, equivalent to the passage of one cubic centimetre of fluid (having a viscosity of one centipoise) per second through a sample one ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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.
- Dard
- (from the article "Himalayas") The Champa, Ladakhi, Balti, and Dard peoples live to the north of the Great Himalayan Range in the Kashmir Himalayas. The Dard are Indo-European, while the others are Tibeto-Burman. The ...
- Dard, Frederic Charles Antoine
- French novelist (b. June 29, 1921, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France-d. June 6, 2000, Bonnefontaine, Switz.), wrote mainly "hard-boiled" detective novels, notable for their ribald humour and their inventive, often racy, vocabulary. Although ...
- 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 ... [7 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [9 Related Articles]
- Dardanelles, Battle of the
- (from the article "Adelaer") ...service, where he was known as Curzio Suffrido Adelborst. He soon distinguished himself and in 1650 was sent to patrol the Dardanelles. On May 16, 1654, his Venetian squadron took ...
- 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 ...
- Dardanus, Treaty of
- (from the article "Mithradates VI Eupator") ...murders, freeing of slaves. But this reign of terror could not prevent the cities from deserting to the victorious side. In 85, when the war was clearly lost, he made ...
- Dardenne, Jean-Pierre and Luc
- In 2005, with their film L'Enfant, the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for the second time in six years won the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or for best film. Only ...
- Dardenne, Jean-Pierre and Luc
- In 2005, with their film L'Enfant, the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for the second time in six years won the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or for best film. Only ...
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