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- 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. The Flemish realism developed by the Master of Flemalle was ... [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 to the west and extended southward to the Al-Ghazal (Gazelle) ... [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 Peace Agreement and to protect civilians and humanitarian relief workers. ...
- 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 the Darfur Plateau farther west to altitudes of between approximately ...
- 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 scholars to be separate languages. The Lak-Dargin languages are often ...
- 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 Mongolia. A building- industry combine produces concrete, lime cement, bricks, ... [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 Darhat are decorated with representations of human bones-ribs, arm, 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 Farsi (Persian). It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, ... [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 elaborate summer palace with murals of processions and battle scenes, ...
- 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 were the daric struck from gold of very pure quality ...
- 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 began in 1737 when the newly named Middlesex Parish was ...
- 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 between Central and South America. A hot, humid area typified ... [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 Brunswick. The site, near Fort King George, was settled in ...
- 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 Alto Darien Forest Reserve in 1972 and elevated to national ...
- 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 Uraba, is a shallow, mangrove-lined arm lying between Caribana Point ...
- 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 the north-central area; and the Huapi, Amerrique, and Yolaina mountains, ...
- 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 modernized poetry in Spanish on both sides of the Atlantic ... [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 father would avenge him; other sources relate that he killed ...
- 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 several times to conquer Greece; his fleet was destroyed by ... [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 great Apadana (hall) of Darius. It is 272 feet (83 ...
- 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 the Darjiling district is located near Sikkim. Mount Kanchenjunga, with ...
- 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 of Joachim Georg Darjes (1714-91) in 1747. Segner used the ...
- 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 the Sikkim Himalayas that descends abruptly to the bed 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 purple) are involved in dark vision. The vitamin D group ...
- 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 in this development, and, if the exact course of events ...
- 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 generally, to the period between about 500 and 1000, which ... [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 bark beetle (Hylurgopinus rufipes). Female beetles seek out dead or ...
- 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 energy.cosmological theory
- 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 of the pale kangaroo mouse (M. pallidus) are creamy buff ...
- 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 reign supreme in cultural circles, especially at Jiankang during the ...
- 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 2007 an international team of astronomers led by Nick Scoville ...
- 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 Spanish mystic, as "the dark night of the soul" points ...
- 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 (Microryzomys), and pygmy 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, which returned the first photographs of the far side. In ...
- 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. DFD meat is often the result of animals experiencing extreme ...
- 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-backed goldfinch (C. psaltria) ranges from the western U.S. (where ...
- 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 south of Lake Toba and on the Malay Peninsula between ...
- 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, however, have bright markings. Although found on every continent, they ... [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 than other file-sharing networks. The networks linked trusted members of ...
- 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, such as Mounts Darkot (22,447 feet [6,842 metres]) and Buni ...
- 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 Godolphin Barb, and the Byerly Turk, all brought to Great ...
- 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 as unreadable, this epic came to be admired in the ... [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 Condamine River. The Darling Downs is a tableland that covers ... [1 Related Articles]
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