| | - Daume, Willi
- German sports administrator who, as president of the West German Olympic Committee, played a key role in returning the Olympic Games to Germany after an interval of 36 years; those Games, however, which were held in Munich in 1972, were ...
- Daumier, Honore
- prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art. [12 Related Articles]
- Daun, Leopold Joseph, Graf von
- field marshal who was the Austrian commander in chief during the Seven Years' War against Prussia (1756-63).
- daunorubicin
- (from the article "drug") Antineoplastic antibiotics (doxorubicin, daunorubicin, bleomycin, mitomycin, and dactinomycin) are derived from Streptomyces species. While they may have antibacterial activity, they are generally too dangerous and toxic for that use. These antibiotics affect DNA synthesis and replication by inserting into DNA ...
- Daunou, Pierre-Claude-Francois
- French statesman, theorist of liberalism, and historian.
- Dauphin
- county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by Mahantango Creek, to the west by the Susquehanna River, and to the south by Conewago Creek. The topography rises from a piedmont region in the south to ridge-and-valley mountains in the ...
- Dauphin
- town, southwestern Manitoba, Canada. It lies along the Vermilion River just west of Dauphin Lake, 201 miles (323 km) by road northwest of Winnipeg. The French trader and explorer La Verendrye visited the lake in 1739 and named it for ... [1 Related Articles]
- dauphin
- title of the eldest son of a king of France, the heir apparent to the French crown, from 1350 to 1830. The title was established by the royal house of France through the purchase of lands known as the Dauphine ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dauphin Island
- island in the Gulf of Mexico, at the entrance to Mobile Bay off the southwest coast of Alabama, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) south of Mobile. Included in Mobile county, the island is about 15 miles (25 km) long.
- Dauphine
- historic and cultural region encompassing the southeastern French departements of Isere, Hautes-Alpes, and Drome and coextensive with the former province of Dauphine. [1 Related Articles]
- Dauphine Alps
- western spur of the Cottian Alps (q.v.) in southeastern France, lying between the Arc and Isere river valleys (north) and the upper Durance River valley (south). Many peaks rise to more than 10,000 feet (3,050 m), with Barre des Ecrins ...
- Dauphine, Place
- (from the article "Paris") ...insisted on completion of the Pont Neuf. The statue is an 1818 reproduction of the 1614 original, which was the first statue to stand on a public way in Paris. Opposite is the narrow entrance to the Place Dauphine (1607), ...
- Daur
- Mongol people living mainly in the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and western Heilongjiang province of China and estimated in the early 21st century to number more than 132,000. They are one of the official ethnic minorities of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Daur language
- (from the article "Mongolian languages") Daur is spoken in several places in the northeastern portion of Inner Mongolia. It preserves some unassimilated vowel sequences, and one dialect preserves /h/. It is unique in preserving a complete set of forms of the old verb a- 'to ...
- Daura
- (from the article "Daura") town and traditional emirate, Katsina state, northern Nigeria. The town lies in a savanna zone at the intersection of roads from Katsina town, Kano, Zango, and Zinder (Niger). An ancient settlement, the name of which means "blacksmith" in the Tuareg ...
- Daura
- town and traditional emirate, Katsina state, northern Nigeria. The town lies in a savanna zone at the intersection of roads from Katsina town, Kano, Zango, and Zinder (Niger). An ancient settlement, the name of which means "blacksmith" in the Tuareg ...
- Daurian jackdaw
- (from the article "jackdaw") ...and blotched. The bird's cry sounds like its name: "chak." The species ranges from the British Isles to central Asia; eastward it is replaced by the white-breasted, white-collared Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus).
- Dauser, Sue Sophia
- American nurse and naval officer responsible for preparing the Navy Nurse Corps for World War II and then overseeing the group, who simultaneously worked for parity of rank and pay for female officers and their male counterparts.
- 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 Physiology or Medicine.
- Dauvergne, Antoine
- (from the article "theatre music") ...It is usually dated to the Paris production in 1753 of Les Troqueurs ("The Barterers"), based on a fable by Jean de La Fontaine and having original music by a court violinist, Antoine Dauvergne.
- Davaine, Casimir-Joseph
- (from the article "Koch, Robert") ...anatomist and histologist Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle, who in 1840 had published the theory that infectious diseases are caused by living microscopic organisms. In 1850 the French parasitologist Casimir Joseph Davaine was among the first to observe organisms in the ...
- Davallia
- (from the article "fern") ...the indusia cup-shaped or kidney-shaped, rarely elongate; sporangia mixed with hairlike paraphyses, the annulus vertical; spores monolete (more or less bean-shaped); 4 or 5 genera, including Davallia (rabbit's-foot fern), with about 65 species, distributed in tropical and warm-temperate...
- Davalliaceae
- the hanging fern family, containing 4-5 genera and 65 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). The family is mostly restricted to tropical regions, especially in the Old World. Most of the species are epiphytes with long-creeping noticeably ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 surrounding villages produce handloomed cotton and wool. Several colleges affiliated ...
- 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 and encompasses about 50 small ports in its commercial sphere. ...
- Dave Brubeck Octet
- (from the article "Brubeck, Dave") ...in Oakland, California, under the French composer Darius Milhaud. During this period, Brubeck also studied with Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of the 12-tone system of composition. He formed the Dave Brubeck Octet in 1946, employing fellow classmates as band members. ...
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- (from the article "Brubeck, Dave") In late 1951, Brubeck reformed the trio, which soon became a quartet with the addition of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. Within several months, they attained a measure of national fame, largely by word of mouth among West Coast critics who ...
- 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, Britannia Triumphans, and Luminalia; and a volume of poems, Madagascar ... [5 Related Articles]
- 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. The sloping top of the davenport concealed a fitted well, ...
- 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 that includes neighbouring Bettendorf to the east and Moline and ...
- 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 china from 1800 and by 1810 was operating on a ...
- 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 Massinger's comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
- Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsy
- American actress who saw considerable success, especially with her own company, on the 19th-century American stage.
- Davenport, Guy Mattison, Jr.
- American writer (b. Nov. 23, 1927, Anderson, S.C.-d. Jan. 4, 2005, Lexington, Ky.), was a prolific and erudite author of short stories, essays, poetry, and translations. He spent his career in academia, teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., ...
- Davenport, John
- (from the article "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 china from 1800 and by 1810 was operating on a ...
- Davenport, John
- Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Conn.).
- Davenport, Lindsay
- (from the article "Tennis") ...prevailed at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, respectively, while Belgians Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters secured the top honours at the French and U.S. opens, respectively. American Lindsay Davenport was the number one ranked woman for the year for the ...
- Davenport, Marcia Gluck
- U.S. writer who was best known for her biography Mozart and the best-seller The Valley of Decision (b. June 9, 1903--d. Jan. 16, 1996).
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Davenport, Willie
- American athlete (b. June 8, 1943, Troy, Ala.-d. June 17, 2002, Chicago, Ill.), competed in four Summer (1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976, as a hurdler) and one Winter (1980, on the four-man bobsled team) Olympic Games-one of very few athletes ...
- Daventry
- (from the article "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 historic Daventry town.
- 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 historic Daventry town.
- Daves, Delmer
- writer and director of motion pictures in traditional Hollywood genres but particularly noted for his sensitive treatment of American Indians on screen.
- Davey, Allen
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Dev Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Louis H. Mesenkop, Harry Mills, Walter Oberst, Irmin Roberts, Loren Ryder, and Art Smith for Spawn of the NorthHonorary Award: Allen Davey and Oliver Marsh for Sweethearts
- Davey, Bruce
- (from the article "1995: Best Picture") Other Nominees
- Davey, John
- (from the article "pruning") ...future decay; judicious cutting to compensate for root loss and promote formation of blossoms; and heading back to revitalize an aged tree. The origin of modern tree surgery is attributed to John Davey of Kent, Ohio, who established a landscaping ...
- 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 he became the ideal king, the founder of an enduring ... [26 Related Articles]
- David
- (from the article "Dominica") Hurricane David severely damaged the island in August 1979, virtually wiping out the nation's agricultural economy. The hurricane carried away most of the island's topsoil, and it was estimated that it would take 20 years to rebuild what had been ...
- 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 it in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The original is ... [3 Related Articles]
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