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- (from the article "materials science") ...bonded aluminum sheet. The plastics industry, of course, has a powerful interest in replacing as many metal automobile components as possible, and in order to help bring this about a centre called D&S Plastics International was formed in the Detroit, ...
- D region
- lowest ionospheric region, at altitudes of about 70 to 90 km (40 to 55 miles). The D region differs from the other ionospheric regions (denoted E and F) in that its free electrons almost totally disappear during the night because ... [2 Related Articles]
- D ring
- (from the article "Saturn") Interior to the C ring at 1.11 to 1.23 Saturn radii lies the extremely tenuous D ring, which has no measurable effect on starlight or radio waves passing through it and is visible only in reflected light. Exterior to the ...
- D'Alelio, Gaetano F.
- (from the article "ion-exchange reaction") In 1944 Gaetano F. D'Alelio patented styrene-divinylbenzene polymers, substances with large, network-like molecules, into which ionic groups were introduced by chemical treatment. The structure of these compounds may be represented thus:
- d'Alema, Massimo
- (from the article "Italy") ...presence at a vital NATO base in the northern city of Vicenza. Support for the base expansion fell afoul of radical politicians opposed to U.S. policy in Iraq. Before the tally Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, confident of success, linked the ...
- d'Alembert's paradox
- (from the article "Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'") ...on impact of moving bodies, he produced the surprising result that the resistance of the particles was zero. D'Alembert was himself dissatisfied with the result; the conclusion is known as "d'Alembert's paradox" and is not accepted by modern physicists. In ...
- d'Alembert's principle
- alternative form of Newton's second law of motion, stated by the 18th-century French polymath Jean le Rond d'Alembert. In effect, the principle reduces a problem in dynamics to a problem in statics. The second law states that the force F ... [1 Related Articles]
- d'Alembert's wave equation
- (from the article "analysis") D'Alembert's wave equation takes the formytt = c2yxx. (9)Here c is a constant related to the stiffness of the string. The physical interpretation of (9) is that the acceleration (ytt) of a small piece of the string is proportional to ...
- D'Amato, Cus
- (from the article "Patterson, Floyd") Born into poverty in North Carolina, Patterson grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He learned to box while in a school for emotionally disturbed children and soon began training with Constantine ("Cus") D'Amato, who later worked with Mike Tyson. Patterson ...
- d'Amboise, Jacques
- American dancer and choreographer of the New York City Ballet (1949-84), admired for his energetic, virile interpretations of both character and classical roles.
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele
- Italian poet, novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, journalist, military hero, and political leader, the leading writer of Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [6 Related Articles]
- D'Antoni, Philip
- (from the article "1971: Best Picture") Other Nominees
- D'Aquino, Iva Toguri
- Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during World War II, who, after the war, was convicted of treason and served six years in a U.S. prison. She was later pardoned by President Gerald R. Ford. [1 Related Articles]
- D'Arcy, Margaretta
- (from the article "Arden, John") In 1957 Arden married Margaretta D'Arcy, an actress and playwright, with whom he wrote a number of stage pieces and improvisational works for amateur and student players. The Happy Haven, produced in 1960 in London, is a sardonic farce about ...
- D'Arcy, William Knox
- English businessman who was the principal founder of the Iranian oil industry.
- D'Aronco, Raimondo
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...on Sullivan's decorative schemes and, for a time, those of Frank Lloyd Wright. Similarly, in Italy decorative exuberance and the formally picturesque were elements of Stile Floreale buildings by Raimondo D'Aronco, such as the main building for the Applied Art ...
- D'Arrigo, Stefano
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...considerable literary production-his best-known novel is Il giorno del giudizio (1979; The Day of Judgement)-was not revealed until after his death. Meanwhile, Stefano D'Arrigo was being supported by publisher Arnoldo Mondadori to compose his ambitious modern epic, Horcynus Orca (1975), ...
- d'Arsonval galvanometer
- (from the article "galvanometer") The most common type is the D'Arsonval galvanometer, in which the indicating system consists of a light coil of wire suspended from a metallic ribbon between the poles of a permanent magnet. The magnetic field produced by a current passing ...
- D'Entrecasteaux Channel
- inlet of the Tasman Sea, extending northeast for about 35 miles (55 km) between Bruny Island (east) and the southeast coast of mainland Tasmania, Australia, to merge with the Derwent River estuary. Sighted in 1642 by the Dutch navigator Abel ...
- D'Entrecasteaux Islands
- islands in Papua New Guinea, lying across Ward Hunt Strait from the eastern tip of New Guinea, in the Solomon Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean.
- d'Hondt formula
- (from the article "proportional representation") ...to its share of the votes. There are various alternative rules for achieving this; the two principal ones are the largest-remainder rule and the highest-average rule (the latter referred to as the d'Hondt rule, named after Belgian Victor d'Hondt). Under ...
- d'Oriola, Christian
- French foil fencer who between 1947 and 1956 won four world titles and six Olympic medals, cementing his stature as one of the great fencers in the history of the sport.
- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- (from the article "Carte, Richard D'Oyly") ...Despite subsequent commissions to other English composers (including Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen), that enterprise collapsed. After Carte's death, the touring companies he established, known as the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, continued to produce Gilbert and Sullivan works into the 21st ...
- D'Urban, Sir Benjamin
- British general and colonial administrator chiefly remembered for his frontier policy as governor in the Cape Colony (now in South Africa). [1 Related Articles]
- D'Urfey, Thomas
- English dramatist, satirist, and songwriter with a light satirical touch whose plays were very popular in their time; his comedies, with complicated plots carried forward by lively dialogue, to some extent pointed the way to sentimental comedy of the later ...
- D-12
- (from the article "military aircraft") ...in pushing speeds upward. During the 1920s the Curtiss company built a remarkable series of high-speed racing biplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps and Navy. These were powered by the innovative D-12, a 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine, also of Curtiss ...
- D-66
- (from the article "Netherlands, The") ...retained her Dutch citizenship in the end, Hirsi Ali left The Netherlands for a job at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The incident became the proximate cause for the centrist D-66 party to withdraw from the ruling coalition. ...
- D-class asteroid
- (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...spectral reflectances similar to the nickel-iron meteorites (see iron meteorite). Paradoxically, however, some M-class asteroids have spectral features due to the presence of hydrated minerals. D-class asteroids have low albedos and show reflectance spectra similar to the spectrum exhibited by ...
- D-lines
- in spectroscopy, a pair of lines, characteristic of sodium, in the yellow region of the spectrum. Their separation is too small to be detected with a spectroscope of low resolving power. The line is the fourth prominent absorption line in ... [1 Related Articles]
- d-orbital
- (from the article "crystal") Filled atomic shells with d-orbitals have an important role in covalent bonding. Electrons in atomic orbits have angular momentum (L), which is quantized in integer (n) multiples of Planck's constant h: L = nh. Electron orbitals with n = 0 ...
- D-state
- (from the article "dream") D-state (desynchronized or dreaming) sleep has been reported for all mammals studied. It has been observed, for example, among monkeys, dogs, cats, rats, elephants, shrews, and opossums; these signs also have been reported in some birds and reptiles.
- D34
- (from the article "Burian, Emil Frantisek") ...the Modern Studio of Prague and, later on, positions as director at theatres in Brno and Olomouc. His theatrical apprenticeship completed, Burian returned to Prague in 1933 to open his own theatre, D34. That theatre (the name would change annually ...
- da capo aria
- (from the article "aria") ...and also were longer and in new musical forms, often suggested by the texts. By the mid-17th century a preference for bi-partite (i.e., AB) forms was superseded by a reliance on the da capo aria, in which ...
- da Conceicao da Silva, Estanislau
- (from the article "East Timor (Timor-Leste)") ...(2007 est.) 1,155,000 | Capital: Dili | Chief of state: Presidents Xanana Gusmao and, from May 20, Jose Ramos-Horta | Head of government: Prime Ministers Jose Ramos-Horta, Estanislau da Conceicao da Silva from May 19, and, from August 8, Xanana ...
- da da kamera
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...the nationally important George Brown Theatre School. Concurrently, the city lost a well-known asset when director Daniel MacIvor closed the shutters on his influential experimental theatre company da da kamera.
- Da Hinggan Range
- major mountain system located in the northeastern section of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northeastern China. The range extends some 750 miles (1,200 km) from north to south and constitutes the divide between the flat lowlands of the Northeast (Manchurian) ... [6 Related Articles]
- Da Lat
- municipality, southern Vietnam, northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). On a lake on the Lam Vien Plateau at 4,920 feet (1,500 m) above sea level, it sits among pine-covered hills with picturesque waterfalls nearby. Founded in the 19th ... [1 Related Articles]
- Da Nang
- city, central Vietnam. Lying at the southern end of a horseshoe-shaped bay, it is one of the largest cities in Vietnam and the chief port of the central lowlands. Although partially enclosed on the northeast by the Annamese Cordillera (French: ... [2 Related Articles]
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo
- Italian poet and librettist best known for his collaboration with Mozart. [1 Related Articles]
- Da Shennongjia
- (from the article "Daba Mountains") ...as high or massive as the Qin Mountains: their average elevation is more than 6,500 feet (2,000 metres) above sea level, and individual peaks reach 7,200-8,800 feet (2,200-2,700 metres). Da Shennongjia, located north of the Wuxia Gorge, the second of ...
- da Silva, Bezerra
- Brazilian samba artist (b. March 9, 1927, Recife, Braz.-d. Jan. 17, 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), created the musical genre known as "sambandido," or bandit samba, with lyrics describing the brutality of life in the shantytowns of Brazil. Da Silva ...
- da Silva, Juliana Felisberta
- (from the article "Volleyball") The 2006 SWATCH FIVB World Tour men's and women's beach volleyball champions also hailed from Brazil. The women were led by the tandem of Juliana Felisberta da Silva and Larissa Franca, while on the men's side, Ricardo Alex Costa Santos ...
- Da Yuezhi
- (from the article "India") ...the Central Asian nomadic tribes (the Xiongnu, Wu-sun, and Yuezhi) out of China forced these tribes in their search for fresh pastures to migrate southward and westward; a branch of the Yuezhi, the Da Yuezhi, moved farthest west to the ...
- Da'amat, kingdom of
- (from the article "Ethiopia") ...from the region of the Sudan, and a people speaking Ge'ez (a Semitic language) came to dominate the rich northern highlands of Tigray. There, in the 7th century BC, they established the kingdom of Da'amat. This kingdom dominated lands to ...
- da'irah
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...These include the North African ghirbal and bendir, instruments that have a number of "snares" across the skin and are used for folk dances; and the da'irah, or tar, with jingling plates or rings set in the frame. The da'irah ...
- Da'ud
- (from the article "India") ...for the kingdom. His legacy was soon disturbed, however, when his son and successor, 'Ala' al-Din Mujahid (reigned 1375-78), was assassinated by his cousin Da'ud while returning from a campaign in Vijayanagar. Da'ud was in turn murdered by 'Ala' al-Din's ...
- Da'ud ibn Salamah
- (from the article "Mosul school") ...scenes, animals, and musicians within medallions. Mosul metalworkers also created pieces for eastern Christians. A candlestick of this variety (1238; Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris), attributed to Da'ud ibn Salamah of Mosul, is bronze with silver inlay. It displays the ...
- Da'ud Khan
- (from the article "Tukaroi, Battle of") (March 3, 1575), conflict between the forces of the Indian Mughal emperor Akbar under Mun'im Khan and Da'ud Khan, the Afghan sultan of Bengal. The battle, which took place at a village between Midnapore and Jalesar in western Bengal, was ...
- Da'ud, Ibrahim 'Abd al-Rahman al-
- (from the article "Iraq") Four officers agreed to cooperate with the Ba'th Party. These were Colonel 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Nayif, head of military intelligence, Colonel Ibrahim 'Abd al-Rahman al-Da'ud, chief of the Republican Guard, Colonel Sa'dun Ghaydan, and Colonel Hammad Shihab. The first two agreed ...
- Da'wa Party
- (from the article "Iraq") ...headed by Prime Minister Allawi. In addition, there were two important Shi'ite religious parties, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, led by Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, and the Da'wa Party, headed by Ibrahim al-Ja'fari. A few political groups ...
- Da'wah, al-
- (from the article "Kuwait") ...military supplies. Iran attacked a Kuwaiti refinery complex in 1981, which inspired subsequent acts of sabotage in 1983 and 1986. In 1985 a member of the underground pro-Iranian Iraqi radical group al-Da'wah attempted to assassinate the Kuwaiti ruler, Sheikh Jabir ...
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