| | - 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 ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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.
- darekh
- (from the article "Van, Lake") ...BC. Roughly triangular in shape, the lake lies in an enclosed basin; its brackish waters are unsuitable for either drinking or irrigation. The salt water allows for no animal life ...
- Dares Phrygius
- Trojan priest of Hephaestus who appears as one of the characters in Homer's Iliad, Book V, and is the reputed author of a lost pre-Homeric "eyewitness" account of the Trojan ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Darfur
- historical region of the Billad al-Sudan (Arabic: "Land of the Blacks"), roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of the present-day Sudan. It lay between Kordofan to the east and Wadai ... [45 Related Articles]
- Darfur Peace Agreement
- (from the article "United Nations") On July 31, 2007, the Security Council authorized the African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The main purpose of UNAMID was to support the implementation of the Darfur ...
- Darfur Plateau
- (from the article "Sudan, The") ...The western plain is composed primarily of Nubian sandstones, which form a dissected plateau region with flat-topped mesas and buttes. The volcanic highlands of the Marra Mountains rise out of ...
- Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr
- Russian composer of songs and operas whose works are now seldom performed. [3 Related Articles]
- Dargwa language
- (from the article "Lak-Dargin languages") two related languages spoken in central Dagestan in the Caucasus-Lak and Dargin. Both are written languages. The dialects of Dargin differ considerably from one another and are considered by some ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Darhat
- (from the article "shamanism") ...which feathers of birds have been pierced. The footwear is also symbolic-iron deer hooves, birds' claws, or bears' paws. The clothing of the shamans among the Tofalar (Karagasy), Soyet, and ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daria Daulat
- (from the article "Seringapatam") The modern town caters to tourists who visit its 17th-century Hindu monuments as well as a large mosque (Jami' Masjid) built by Tippu Sultan. The Daria Daulat (1784), the Tippu's ...
- daric
- (from the article "coin") ...of Asia Minor. The first ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty to strike coins was probably Darius I (522-486 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus suggests. The coins of the dynasty ...
- 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
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 National State Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") A pair of contiguous parks administer a large part of the region-Darien National Park in Panama and Los Katios National Park in Colombia. The Panamanian park was established as the ...
- 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 ...
- Dariense, Cordillera
- (from the article "Nicaragua") ...of valleys separated by low but rugged mountains and many volcanoes. This intricately dissected region includes the Cordillera Entre Rios, on the Honduras border; the Cordilleras Isabelia and Dariense, in ...
- Darii
- (from the article "logic, history of") First figure:Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferio,
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Darius
- (from the article "Artabanus") minister of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I of Persia, whom he murdered in 465. According to one Greek source, Artabanus had previously killed Xerxes' son Darius and feared that the ...
- 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 ... [29 Related Articles]
- Darius II Ochus
- Achaemenid king (reigned 423-404 BC) of Persia. [2 Related Articles]
- Darius III
- the last king (reigned 336-330 BC) of the Achaemenid dynasty. [8 Related Articles]
- Darius, Apadana of
- (from the article "art and architecture, Iranian") ...In the main gatehouse, with its guardian bulls and bull-men, the square appears as an independent unit. Facing it at a higher level is the largest building of all, the ...
- Darjeeling
- (from the article "West Bengal") ...and cultivated. Some of the finest tea plantations of India are situated there. From the Duars, the Himalayan mountain ranges rise abruptly along the northern boundary of the state. Here ...
- Darjes, Joachim Georg
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...of a logic, symbolic or otherwise. The prolific Wolff publicized Leibniz' general views widely and spawned two minor symbolic formulations of logic; that of J.A. Segner in 1740 and that ...
- Darjiling
- city, extreme northern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Darjiling lies about 305 miles (490 km) north of Kolkata (Calcutta). The city is situated on a long, narrow mountain ridge of ... [1 Related Articles]
- dark adaptation
- (from the article "vitamin") ...In the retina of the eye, retinal is combined with a protein called opsin; the complex molecules formed as a result of this combination and known as rhodopsin (or visual ...
- Dark Age
- (from the article "painting, Western") During the 13th century BC the great palatial centres of the Aegean world came to a violent end. Both internal dissension and foreign invasion seem to have played a part ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- dark elm bark beetle
- (from the article "Dutch elm disease") ...diseased to healthy trees by natural root grafts. Overland spread of the fungus normally occurs by the smaller European elm bark beetle (Scolytus multistriatus), less commonly by the American elm ...
- dark energy
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...remaining mass-energy content of the universe seemed to be a little-understood form of energy responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe and commonly referred to by astronomers as dark ...
- dark field microscopy
- (from the article "microbiology") The specimen is usually stained and observed while illuminated; useful for observation of the gross morphological features of bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa.
- dark kangaroo mouse
- (from the article "kangaroo mouse") The dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) has buff or brownish upperparts tinted with black and has gray or whitish underparts with a black-tipped tail, whereas the upperparts and entire tail ...
- Dark Learning
- (from the article "China") ...unmoving, unchanging, and undiversified. This important movement, which found its scriptural support both in Daoist and in drastically reinterpreted Confucian sources, was known as Xuanxue ("Dark Learning"); it came to ...
- dark matter
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") Since the mid-1990s astronomers had shown that the universe consists of about 4% ordinary matter (such as stars and gases in galaxies), 22% dark matter, and 74% dark energy. In ...
- dark nebula
- (from the article "dark nebula") interstellar dust and gas concentrated sufficiently to produce conspicuous obscuring of the stars beyond (see nebula).characteristicsnebulaDark nebulaeThe dark nebul
- dark night of the soul
- (from the article "religious experience") ...be prepared, but the vision may not come; being prepared, as it were, establishes no claim on the divine. The experience described by St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century ...
- dark rice rat
- (from the article "rice rat") Several related genera are also sometimes referred to as rice rats, including arboreal rice rats (Oecomys), dark rice rats (Melanomys), small rice rats (
- dark side of the Moon
- (from the article "Moon") For millennia people wondered about the appearance of the Moon's unseen side. The mystery began to be dispelled with the flight of the Soviet space probe Luna 3 in 1959, ...
- dark, firm, and dry meat
- (from the article "meat processing") Dark, firm, and dry (DFD) meat is the result of an ultimate pH that is higher than normal. Carcasses that produce DFD meat are usually referred to as dark cutters. ...
- dark-backed goldfinch
- (from the article "goldfinch") ...The 13-cm (5-in.) American goldfinch (C. tristis), also called wild canary, is found across North America; the male is bright yellow, with black cap, wings, and tail. The 10-cm (4-in.) ...
- dark-handed gibbon
- (from the article "gibbon") The lars, a group of six or seven species, are the smallest and have the densest body hair. The dark-handed gibbon (H. agilis), which lives on Sumatra ...
- 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, ... [2 Related Articles]
- darknet
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Another threat to the music companies was the development of what were termed "darknets," a type of peer-to-peer file-sharing network that allowed participants to share information with far more anonymity ...
- Darkot, Mount
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...definition of the Hindu Kush would include a fourth region known as Hindu Raj in Pakistan. This region is formed by a long, winding chain of mountains-with some lofty peaks, ...
- Darlan, Francois
- French admiral and a leading figure in Marshal Philippe Petain's World War II Vichy government. [5 Related Articles]
- Darley Arabian
- (from the article "horse racing") ...earlier Racing Calendars and sales papers. After a few years of revision, it was updated annually. All Thoroughbreds are said to descend from three "Oriental" stallions (the Darley Arabian, the ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Darling Harbour
- (from the article "Sydney") ...Taronga Zoo, a 75-acre (30-hectare) park that opened in 1916 and houses some 2,000 animals, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, founded in 1816 and the country's oldest scientific institution. Sydney's ...
- 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) ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Darling River Weirs Act
- (from the article "Darling River") ...at Wilcannia, Bourke, and Brewarrina and grape and citrus farming further south in the Mallee region. Several engineering projects have given the drainage area great potential for development. The Darling ...
- Darling, Alistair
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...the Exchequer under Blair and had been elected leader of the Labour Party unopposed three days earlier. Brown made radical changes to his new cabinet, appointing David Miliband as foreign ...
- Darling, Erik
- American folk musician was a masterful guitarist and banjo player who recorded with several prominent groups during the American folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s. Darling was a ...
- 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.
- Darling, William S.
- (from the article "1932/33: Other Winners") ...Robert Lord for One Way PassageAdaptation: Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason for Little WomenCinematography: Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., for A Farewell to ArmsArt Direction: William S. Darling for CavalcadeOscar ...
- 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
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Darlington Raceway
- (from the article "Darlington") ...livestock, soybeans, and timber) is supplemented by manufacturing (building materials, electronics, paper products, and steel). The city has a large automobile auction market and is the home of Darlington Raceway ...
- Darlington War
- (from the article "Darlington") Baptists from Delaware came to the region in the 1730s and settled in the Welsh Tract settlement granted by King George II of England. Darlington county was established in 1785 ...
- Darlington, Cyril Dean
- British biologist whose research on chromosomes influenced the basic concepts of the hereditary mechanisms underlying the evolution of sexually reproducing species.
- Darlington, Jenny
- (from the article "Ronne, Finn") ...1933, and six years later he again accompanied Byrd to the south polar regions. In 1947, after wartime service in the U.S. Navy, he led his own expedition to Antarctica. ...
- Darlingtonia
- (from the article "Sarraceniaceae") The other North American genus, Darlingtonia, includes only D. californica, the California pitcher plant. It ranges from Oregon to northern California and thrives in redwood and red fir forests to ...
- Darman, Richard Gordon
- American government official served in the cabinets of four U.S. presidents (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush), but he was best remembered as the director of ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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
- (from the article "darnel") noxious weed of the ryegrass (q.v.) genus Lolium.poisonous propertiesryegrassDarnel (poison ryegrass, or
- 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 and Ireland (James VI of Scotland), and direct ancestor of all subsequent British ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis
- French politician who was notorious as an anti-Semite and collaborator with Nazi Germany.
- Darquier, Augustin
- (from the article "Ring Nebula") (catalog numbers NGC 6720 and M 57), bright nebula in the constellation Lyra, several thousand light-years from the Earth. It was discovered in 1779 by the French astronomer Augustin Darquier. ...
- Darra-i-Kur
- (from the article "Afghanistan") Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) peoples probably roamed Afghanistan as early as 100,000 years ago. The earliest definite evidence of human occupation was found in the cave of Darra-i-Kur in Badakhshan, ...
- 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.
- Darrein Presentment
- (from the article "Henry II") ...before the King's justices and himself be present with the writ. A similar writ of Mort d'Ancestor decided whether the ancestor of a plaintiff had in fact possessed the estate, ...
- Darrieus turbine
- (from the article "turbine") ...by the French engineer G.J.M. Darrieus. Its two blades consist of twisted metal strips tied to the shaft at the top and bottom and bowed out in the middle similar ...
- Darrieussecq, Marie
- (from the article "French literature") ...Particles, also published as Atomised) are splenetic victims of their own failure of nerve, attacking a society in their own image, narcissistic and world-weary. Marie Darrieussecq's
- Darrow, Charles B.
- (from the article "Monopoly") Monopoly, which is the best-selling privately patented board game in history, gained popularity in the United States during the Great Depression when Charles B. Darrow, an unemployed heating engineer, sold ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Darrow, Whitney, Jr.
- American cartoonist who published more than 1,500 cartoons in The New Yorker magazine from 1933 to 1982 (b. Aug. 22, 1909, Princeton, N.J.-d. Aug. 10, 1999, Burlington, Vt.).
- darshan
- in Hindu worship, the beholding of a deity (especially in image form), revered person, or sacred object. The experience is often conceived to be reciprocal and results in the human ... [1 Related Articles]
- DART
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...launched the XSS-11 experimental satellite, which was designed to approach to within 500 m (1,640 ft) of target spacecraft, including several dead American satellites, and inspect them. NASA's DART (Demonstration ...
- dart
- (from the article "blowgun") Darts are the most common blowgun missiles. They are usually made from palm-leaf midribs or from wood or bamboo splinters, and they may vary from 4 to 100 cm (1.5 ...
- Dart, Raymond A.
- Australian-born South African physical anthropologist and paleontologist whose discoveries of fossil hominins (members of the human lineage) led to significant insights into human evolution. [4 Related Articles]
- Dart, Thurston
- English musicologist, harpsichordist, and conductor.
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