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Dausset, Jean: French hematologist and immunologist whose studies of the genetic basis of the immunological reaction earned him a share (with George Snell and Baruj Benacerraf) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for ...
Davangere: town, central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. A major road and rail junction, it supports a large-scale textile industry and is a trading centre for cotton and grain. The ...
Davao City: city, southeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. It lies at the mouth of the Davao River near the head of Davao Gulf. The city is the leading regional centre for southeastern Mindanao ...
Davel, Jean-Abraham-Daniel: Swiss popular leader, folk hero of the canton of the Vaud, who led the Vaudois separatist movement against the rule of Bern (1723).
Davenant, Sir William: English poet, playwright, and theatre manager who was made poet laureate on the strength of such successes as The Witts (licensed 1634), a comedy; the masques The Temple of Love, ...
Davenport: city, seat (1838) of Scott county, eastern Iowa, U.S. It lies on the north bank of the Mississippi River and is the largest of the Quad Cities, an urban complex ...
davenport: in modern usage, a large upholstered settee, but in the 18th century a compact desk having deep drawers on the right side and dummy drawer fronts on the left side. ...
Davenport ware: cream-coloured earthenware made by John Davenport of Longport, Staffordshire, Eng., beginning in 1793. Davenport had great success with pierced openwork-rimmed plates, either painted or transfer printed. He produced domestic bone ...
Davenport, Charles Benedict: American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics (the improvement of populations through breeding) and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research.
Davenport, Edward Loomis: one of the most skilled and popular American actors of the mid-19th century. Three of his finest roles were Hamlet, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Sir Giles Overreach in Philip ...
Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsy: American actress who saw considerable success, especially with her own company, on the 19th-century American stage.
Davenport, John: Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Conn.).
Davenport, Thomas: American inventor of what was probably the first commercially successful electric motor, which he used with great ingenuity to power a number of established inventions.
Daventry: town and district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. Daventry district's rich, undulating landscape is predominantly rural, with more than 70 parishes. At the heart of the district is ...
David: second of the Israelite kings (after Saul), reigning c. 1000 to c. 962 BC, who established a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital. In Jewish tradition ...
David: marble sculpture executed from 1501 to 1504 by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue was commissioned for the cathedral of Florence, but the Florentine government decided instead to place ...
David: capital of Chiriqui provincia, western Panama, on the Rio David and surrounded by fruit groves. It is Panama's largest city outside of the Panama City metropolitan area ...
David ap Gruffudd: the last native prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales; he initiated a major rebellion against the English in Wales, and upon his death Wales fell completely under English rule.
David Ap Llywelyn: Welsh prince, ruler of the state of Gwynedd in northern Wales from 1240 to 1246.
David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean: French sculptor, who revolted against the prevailing Neoclassical style of early 19th-century French sculpture.
David de Mayrena, Marie-Charles: eccentric French adventurer who became the self-styled king of the Sedang tribe of the northern Central Highlands in what is now southern Vietnam.
David I: one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. ...
David II: king of Scots from 1329, although he spent 18 years in exile or in prison. His reign was marked by costly intermittent warfare with England (a stage in the Scottish ...
David, Eduard Heinrich: a leader of the revisionist wing of the German Social Democratic Party and a minister in the early years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33).
David, Felicien-Cesar: composer whose music opened the door for the Oriental exoticism that characterized much French Romantic music.
David, Ferenc: Unitarian preacher, writer, and theologian influential in promoting religious toleration and the growth of anti-Trinitarian thought in Hungary.
David, Gerard: painter who was the last great master of the Bruges school.
David, Jacques-Louis: the most celebrated French artist of his day and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style.
David, Saint: patron saint of Wales.
David, Sir T W Edgeworth: geologist noted for his monumental study of the geology of Australia.
David, Star of: Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel. The symbol-which historically ...
Davidescu, Nicolae: Romanian poet and novelist whose early poems, Inscriptii (1916), showed the influence of Charles Baudelaire. Among his prose works the novel Zana din fundul lacului (1912; "The Fairy at the ...
Davidovic, Ljubomir: twice prime minister (1919-20, 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia).
Davidson College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Davidson, North Carolina, U.S. It is a liberal arts college with bachelor's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and is ...
Davidson, Bruce: American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the loneliness and isolation of the subjects portrayed.
Davidson, Donald: American philosopher known for his strikingly original and unusually systematic treatments of traditional problems in a number of fields.
Davidson, Donald: American poet, essayist, and teacher who warned against technology and idealized the agrarian, pre-Civil War American South.
Davidson, John: Scottish poet and playwright whose best work shows him a master of the narrative lyrical ballad.
Davidson, Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron: Anglican archbishop of Canterbury who was prominent as a speaker in parliamentary debates on moral and national questions during his 25-year tenure.
Davidson, Thomas: Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on lamp shells, a phylum of bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates (Brachiopoda) whose fossils are among the oldest found.
Davie, Donald Alfred: British poet, literary critic, and teacher who was a major conservative influence on British poetry in the 1950s.
Davies, Arthur B.: American painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer known for his idylls of classical fantasy painted in a Romantic style but best remembered for his leadership in introducing modern European painting styles ...
Davies, David Davies, 1st Baron: British promoter of the League of Nations, advocate of an international policing force to prevent war.
Davies, Emily: English pioneer in the movement to secure university education for women and chief founder of Girton College, Cambridge. She was responsible for University College, London, admitting women to classes in ...
Davies, John: English poet and writing master whose chief work was Microcosmos (1603), a didactic religious treatise.
Davies, Marion: American actor, renowned more for her 34-year relationship with publishing giant William Randolph Hearst than for her performance career.
Davies, Peter Maxwell: English composer, conductor, and teacher whose powerfully innovative music made him the most influential British composer since Benjamin Britten.
Davies, Robertson: novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery.
Davies, Samuel: Presbyterian preacher in colonial British America who defended religious dissent and helped lead the Southern phase of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening.
Davies, Sir John: English poet and lawyer whose Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing reveals a typically Elizabethan pleasure in the contemplation of the correspondence between the natural order and human activity.
Davies, William Henry: English poet whose lyrics have a force and simplicity uncharacteristic of the poetry of most of his Georgian contemporaries.
Davila, Arrigo Caterino: Italian historian who was the author of a widely read history of the Wars of Religion in France.
Davis: city, Yolo county, central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento River valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of Sacramento. The city, founded in 1868, was named Davisville for Jerome ...
Davis Cup: trophy awarded to the winner of an annual international lawn-tennis tournament originally for amateur men's teams. The official name is the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy. The trophy was donated ...
Davis Mountains: segment of the southern Rocky Mountains, mainly in Jeff Davis county, western Texas, U.S., extending northward for 45 miles (72 km) above the town of Marfa. Locally called the Texas ...
Davis Strait: bay of the northern Atlantic Ocean, lying between southeastern Baffin Island (Canada) and southwestern Greenland. It separates the depths of Baffin Bay (north) from those of the Labrador Sea (south) ...
Davis, Alexander Jackson: American architect, designer, draftsman, and illustrator who was best known for his innovative, picturesque country houses. He helped establish the familiar type of American rural house in the "carpenter Gothic" ...
Davis, Angela: militant American black activist who gained an international reputation during her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970-72.
Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.: pilot, officer, and administrator who became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the first African American to become a ...
Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.: soldier who became the first black general in the U.S. Army.
Davis, Bette: versatile, volatile American actress, whose raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years.
Davis, Charles Harold: American painter, whose romantic interpretations of the landscape excelled in their cloud effects.
Davis, Charles Henry: U.S. naval officer and scientist.
Davis, David: American politician, a close associate of Abraham Lincoln. He was a Supreme Court justice and senator during the antebellum, American Civil War, and postwar eras.
Davis, Dwight F.: tennis player best known as the donor of the Davis Cup (properly the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy) for competition among teams representing various nations. He later became a United ...
Davis, Elmer: news broadcaster and writer, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.
Davis, Glenn: American world-record holder in the 400-metre hurdles (1956-62) who was the first man to win the Olympic gold medal twice in that event.
Davis, H.L.: American novelist and poet who wrote realistically about the West, rejecting the stereotype of the cowboy as hero.
Davis, Henry Winter: Maryland unionist during the secession crisis, harsh critic of Abraham Lincoln, and coauthor of the congressional plan for Reconstruction during the American Civil War.
Davis, Jefferson: president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War (1861-65). After the war, he was imprisoned for two years and indicted for treason but ...
Davis, Joe: English billiards and snooker player who was the world snooker champion from 1927 until his retirement in 1946.
Davis, John: English navigator who attempted to find the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific.
Davis, John W.: conservative Democratic politician who was his party's unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1924.
Davis, Katharine Bement: American penologist, social worker, and writer who had a profound effect on American penal reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Davis, Kingsley: American sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world ...
Davis, Miles: American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s.