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- (from the article "naval ship") ...boat, one of several means the Confederates explored in trying to break the blockade. These little craft had weak steam engines and mounted a torpedo lashed to a spar projecting from the bow. Called Davids, they were weak but definite ...
- David
- city, western Panama, on the David River and surrounded by fruit groves. It is Panama's largest city outside of the Panama City metropolitan area and is an important commercial centre, served by the Pacific seaports of Pedregal and Puerto Armuelles ...
- David
- (from the article "Robert III") ...to 1296, who was not favourably remembered. Fife, created duke of Albany in 1398, continued to govern throughout this reign, except for three years (1399-1402) when Robert III's eldest son, David, duke of Rothesay, took his place. The dissolute Rothesay ...
- David ap Gruffudd
- the last native prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales; he initiated a major rebellion against the English in Wales, and upon his death Wales fell completely under English rule. [3 Related Articles]
- David Ap Llywelyn
- Welsh prince, ruler of the state of Gwynedd in northern Wales from 1240 to 1246. [1 Related Articles]
- David ben Zakkai
- (from the article "Sa'adia ben Joseph") On May 22 of the same year he was appointed by the exilarch (head of Babylonian Jewry) David ben Zakkai as the gaon ("head") of the academy of Sura, which had been transferred to Baghdad. Upon assuming this office, he ...
- David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean
- French sculptor, who sought to honour the heroes of modern times by means of an expressive form that could appeal to and inspire a broad public. [1 Related Articles]
- David de Mayrena, Marie-Charles
- eccentric French adventurer who became the self-styled king of the Sedang tribe of the northern Central Highlands in what is now southern Vietnam.
- David I
- one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. He also reorganized Scottish Christianity to conform with continental European ... [7 Related Articles]
- David II
- (from the article "Georgian literature") With the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the 10th century, Georgia's rulers achieved prosperity sufficient to allow a secular literature to develop. King David II (the Builder) and, later, Queen Tamara, his great-granddaughter, oversaw a cultural golden age that ...
- David II
- king of Scots from 1329, although he spent 18 years in exile or in prison. His reign was marked by costly intermittent warfare with England, a decline in the prestige of the monarchy, and an increase in the power of ... [7 Related Articles]
- David of Sasun
- (from the article "Sasuntzi Davith") Armenian folk epic dealing with the adventures of the Christian king David of Sasun in his defense against infidel invaders from Egypt and Persia. The epic was based on oral tradition that presumably dates from the 8th to the 10th ...
- David's maple
- (from the article "maple") ...an attractive winter landscaping feature. These trees are the striped maple (A. pennsylvanicum), the red snake-bark maple (A. capillipes), the Her's maple (A. hersii), and the David's maple (A. davidii). The chalk maple, with whitish bark, is sometimes classified as ...
- David, Armand
- (from the article "panda, giant") ...attraction at the Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, until its death in 1938. No European observed a live giant panda in the wild until the Walter Stotzner expedition of 1913-15, although Armand David, a Jesuit missionary, discovered some panda furs in ...
- David, Eduard Heinrich
- a leader of the revisionist wing of the German Social Democratic Party and a minister in the early years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33).
- David, Felicien-Cesar
- composer whose music opened the door for the Oriental exoticism that was to become a fixture in French Romantic music.
- David, Ferenc
- Unitarian preacher, writer, and theologian influential in promoting religious toleration and the growth of anti-Trinitarian thought in Hungary. [2 Related Articles]
- David, Gerard
- painter who was the last great master of the Bruges school. [1 Related Articles]
- David, Hal
- (from the article "1969: Other Winners") ...Newman for Hello, Dolly!Song Original for the Picture: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal DavidHonorary Award: Cary Grant
- David, House of
- (from the article "Benton Harbor") ...Hart Benton, a Missouri senator who had supported statehood for Michigan, and it was separately incorporated as a village in 1869, following a disagreement over bridging the river. The Israelite House of David, a religious sect, established a colony there ...
- David, Jacques-Louis
- the most celebrated French artist of his day and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style. [13 Related Articles]
- David, Larry
- In February 2008 Larry David-cocreator of the hit television show Seinfeld and star of the HBO cable channel series Curb Your Enthusiasm-was cast as the leading man in Woody Allen's upcoming film Whatever Works. David's move to the big screen ... [1 Related Articles]
- David, Nicol
- (from the article "Squash") It was expected that Nicol David of Malaysia would retain her dominant position at the top of the women's game, but while the 24-year-old David kept the top spot in the Women's International Squash Players Association world rankings, she stumbled ...
- David, Saint
- patron saint of Wales.
- David, Sir T W Edgeworth
- geologist noted for his monumental study of the geology of Australia. [2 Related Articles]
- David, Star of
- Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel. The symbol-which historically was not limited to use by Jews-originated in antiquity, when, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davidescu, Nicolae
- Romanian poet and novelist whose early poems, Inscriptii (1916), showed the influence of Charles Baudelaire. Among his prose works the novel Zana din fundul lacului (1912; "The Fairy at the Bottom of the Lake") was an exercise in symbolism, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") The Branch Davidians are only one of the surviving Davidian groups. Others include the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association headquartered in Exeter, Missouri, and the General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists in Salem, South Carolina. Both groups were reorganized in the ...
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") an offshoot group of the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church that made headlines on February 28, 1993, when its Mt. Carmel headquarters near Waco, Texas, was raided by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF); four federal agents ...
- Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, General Association of
- (from the article "Branch Davidian") ...Roden, who had previously called the Davidians to "Get off the dead Rod [led by Florence Houteff] and move to the living Branch." Roden gained control of Mt. Carmel and established the General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists. He called ...
- Davidist
- (from the article "Joris, David") religious Reformer, a controversial and eccentric member of the Anabaptist movement. He founded the Davidists, or Jorists, who viewed Joris as a prophet and whose internal dissension led-three years after his death-to the sensational cremation of his body after his ...
- Davidoglu, M.
- (from the article "Romanian literature") Dramatists included Aurel Baranga, who dealt with the problems of contemporary life; Horia Lovinescu, whose plays depicted changing intellectual attitudes; and M. Davidoglu, author of plays set in mines and factories.
- Davidovic, Ljubomir
- twice prime minister (1919-20, 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia). [1 Related Articles]
- Davidsen, Arthur
- American astrophysicist (b. May 26, 1944, Freeport, N.Y.-d. July 19, 2001, Baltimore, Md.), was a leading researcher in the fields of high-energy astrophysics and ultraviolet space astronomy. After service in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, Davidsen earned a ...
- Davidson College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Davidson, North Carolina, U.S. It is a liberal arts college with bachelor's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Junior-year students can study ...
- Davidson, Bruce
- American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the loneliness and isolation of the subjects portrayed. [1 Related Articles]
- Davidson, Donald
- American poet, essayist, and teacher who warned against technology and idealized the agrarian, pre-Civil War American South. [1 Related Articles]
- Davidson, Donald
- American philosopher known for his strikingly original and unusually systematic treatments of traditional problems in a number of fields. [3 Related Articles]
- Davidson, John
- (from the article "wage and salary") ...their opposition to employee demands, and employers were also able to withstand the loss of income for a longer period than could the employees. This idea was developed to a considerable extent by John Davidson, who proposed in The Bargain ...
- Davidson, John
- Scottish poet and playwright whose best work shows him a master of the narrative lyrical ballad.
- Davidson, Mount
- (from the article "San Francisco") The most prominent of San Francisco's hills are Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, and Mount Sutro, all of which exceed 900 feet (270 metres) in elevation. The best known are Nob Hill, where the wealthy "nobs" (nabobs) built extravagant mansions in ...
- Davidson, Norman Ralph
- American biochemist (b. April 5, 1916, Chicago, Ill.-d. Feb. 14, 2002, Pasadena, Calif.), conducted groundbreaking research in molecular biology that contributed to a fuller understanding of the genetic blueprint of human life. After studying at the University of Oxford as ...
- Davidson, Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron
- Anglican archbishop of Canterbury who was prominent as a speaker in parliamentary debates on moral and national questions during his 25-year tenure.
- Davidson, Robyn
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...too were interesting for the light they shed upon the writers as well as being fine examples of the essay form. Travel writing continued to be published; one of the most interesting examples was Robyn Davidson's Tracks (1982), an account ...
- Davidson, Thomas
- Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on lamp shells, a phylum of bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates (Brachiopoda) whose fossils are among the oldest found.
- Davie, Donald Alfred
- British poet, literary critic, and teacher who was a major conservative influence on British poetry in the 1950s. [2 Related Articles]
- Davies, Arthur B.
- American painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer known for his idylls of classical fantasy painted in a Romantic style but best remembered for his leadership in introducing modern European painting styles into early 20th-century America. [2 Related Articles]
- Davies, Cyril
- (from the article "British blues") ...France-d. Jan. 1, 1984London, Eng.) and the harmonica player Cyril Davies (b. 1932Denham, Buckinghamshire, Eng.-d. Jan. 7,...
- Davies, David Davies, 1st Baron
- British promoter of the League of Nations, advocate of an international policing force to prevent war.
- Davies, Derek Gwyn
- British journalist (b. March 9, 1931, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 15, 2002, Antibes, France), revitalized the Far Eastern Economic Review, turning it from a single-sheet paper with a tiny readership into a prestigious magazine with a weekly circulation of 75,000. He ...
- Davies, Donald Watts
- British computer scientist (b. June 7, 1924, Treorchy, Wales-d. May 28, 2000, Esher, Eng.), helped lay the groundwork for the Internet in the 1960s when he devised a more efficient method of computer communications known as packet switching, a technique ...
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