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- (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 Harbour area, formerly a port facility, underwent redevelopment in ...
- 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) to Bridgetown (south). Average heights range from 800 to 1,000 ... [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 from the east coast, and flows generally southwest across New ... [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 River Weirs Act of 1945 authorized construction of a series ...
- 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 secretary, Alistair Darling to replace himself as chancellor, and Jacqui ...
- 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 member of the Folksay Trio, whose 1951 recording of "Tom ...
- 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 for best art direction, 1943
- 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 on parts of the southwestern border by the Lynches River.
- 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 (tobacco, cotton, livestock, soybeans, and timber) is supplemented by manufacturing ...
- 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 River Skerne near its confluence with the Tees. The town ... [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 (opened 1950), noted for stock-car racing events including the TranSouth ...
- 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 and named for Darlington, England. In 1894 when the governor ...
- 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. Edith Ronne and a scientist, Jenny Darlington, traveled with the ...
- 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 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) above sea level, where temperatures remain ...
- 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 the Office of Management and Budget under Bush. Darman advised ...
- 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 am Main and southeast of Mainz. First mentioned in the ... [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) Darnah. The town was founded in the 15th century on ...
- 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 knights, Sir John Corbet, Sir Walter Earl, Sir Edmund Hampden, ...
- 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 sovereigns. [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 together individuals of varied social class. Its doctrine is orthodox, ... [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. Like other nebulae of its type, called planetary nebulae, it ...
- 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, where a transitional Neanderthal skull fragment in association with Mousterian-type ...
- 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, whereas that of Darrein Presentment (i.e., last presentation) decided who ...
- 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 to the blades on a food mixer. A Darrieus turbine ...
- 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 Truismes (1996; Pig Tales: A ...
- 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 the concept to Parker Brothers in 1935. Before then, homemade ...
- 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 writer. [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 viewer's receiving a blessing. The Rathayatras (chariot festivals), in which ... [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 of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology) spacecraft made a successful rendezvous with ...
- 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 to 40 inches) in length. A conelike bit of pith ...
- 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.
- darter
- any of about 100 species of small, slender freshwater fishes constituting the subfamily Etheostominae of the family Percidae (order Perciformes; sometimes given family standing as the Etheostomidae). All the darters are native to eastern North America. They live near the ...
- Dartford
- (from the article "Dartford") town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It lies along the south bank of the River Thames, just east of and adjoining the metropolitan area of Greater London. In ancient times it was a marketing centre. ...
- Dartford
- town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It lies along the south bank of the River Thames, just east of and adjoining the metropolitan area of Greater London. In ancient times it was a marketing centre. ...
- Darth Vader
- film character, lead villain of the popular American science fiction franchise Star Wars.
- Dartmoor
- wild upland area in the west of the county of Devon, southwestern England. It extends for about 23 miles (37 km) north-south and 20 miles (32 km) east-west. The moorland is bleak and desolate, and heather is the chief vegetation. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dartmoor
- (from the article "Dartmoor") The name is also given to a breed of long-wooled, hornless English sheep.
- Dartmoor
- breed of pony about 12 hands (48 inches, or 122 cm) tall, hardy, and semiwild in its native Dartmoor, Devon, Eng. It is one of nine horse breeds native to the British Isles, and it is exported.
- Dartmoor National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") Within Devon's boundaries is a wide variety of scenery, including the Dartmoor National Park and, in the north, part of the Exmoor National Park. Dartmoor, with shallow marshy valleys, thin infertile soils, and a vegetation of coarse grasses, heather, and ...
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