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- English navigator who attempted to find the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific. [4 Related Articles]
- Davis, John W.
- conservative Democratic politician who was his party's unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1924. [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Katharine Bement
- American penologist, social worker, and writer who had a profound effect on American penal reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Davis, Kingsley
- American sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world society, based on empirical analysis of each society in its ... [1 Related Articles]
- Davis, Marc
- American cartoonist (b. March 30, 1913, Bakersfield, Calif.-d. Jan. 12, 2000, Glendale, Calif.), was an animator for Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978 and helped create the title characters for such classic Disney films as Snow ...
- Davis, Miles
- American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s. [19 Related Articles]
- Davis, Mount
- highest point in Pennsylvania, U.S., at an elevation of 3,213 feet (979 metres). The peak is on a ridge of the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains in Somerset county, 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of Somerset, near the Maryland border. [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Ossie
- American writer, actor, director, and social activist who was known for his contributions to African American theatre and film and for his passionate support of civil rights and humanitarian causes. He was also noted for his artistic partnership with his ... [3 Related Articles]
- Davis, Paulina Kellogg Wright
- American feminist and social reformer, active in the early struggle for woman suffrage and the founder of an early periodical in support of that cause.
- Davis, Raymond, Jr.
- American physicist who, with Koshiba Masatoshi, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for detecting neutrinos. Riccardo Giacconi also won a share of the award for his work on X-rays. [4 Related Articles]
- Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding
- American essayist and writer, remembered primarily for her story "Life in the Iron Mills," which is considered a transitional work of American realism.
- Davis, Richard Harding
- U.S. author of romantic novels and short stories and the best known reporter of his generation.
- Davis, Sammy, Jr.
- American singer, dancer, and entertainer. [2 Related Articles]
- Davis, Shani
- American speed skater, who was the first black athlete to win an individual Winter Olympics gold medal. [5 Related Articles]
- Davis, Sir Colin
- English conductor and the foremost modern interpreter of the composer Hector Berlioz, whose complete orchestral and operatic works Davis recorded.
- Davis, Sir Thomas
- (from the article "Dependent States") ...which created a labour shortage in the Cook Islands, whose citizens traveled freely to New Zealand for better-paid work. The territory mourned the death in July of 90-year-old former prime minister Sir Thomas Davis. The first Cook Islander to qualify ...
- Davis, Skeeter
- American country music singer (b. Dec. 30, 1931, Dry Ridge, Ky.-d. Sept. 19, 2004, Nashville, Tenn.), began performing on the Grand Ole Opry radio program in 1959 and remained a regular for more than 40 years. Her best-known hit, "The ...
- Davis, Steve
- (from the article "Billiard Games") ...the tournament, became the first qualifier to take snooker's most prestigious event. Murphy won £250,000 (about $475,000) for his efforts, which included victories over three former champions: Steve Davis, John Higgins, and Peter Ebdon. At the Preston Grand Prix, Higgins ...
- Davis, Stuart
- American abstract artist whose idiosyncratic Cubist paintings of urban landscapes presaged the use of commercial art and advertising by Pop artists of the 1960s. [3 Related Articles]
- Davis, Thomas Osborne
- Irish writer and politician who was the chief organizer and poet of the Young Ireland movement. [1 Related Articles]
- Davis, Tyrone
- American rhythm-and-blues singer (b. May 4, 1938, Greenville, Miss.-d. Feb. 9, 2005, Hinsdale, Ill.), helped shape Chicago soul music in the 1960s and '70s. He allied himself with Chicago soul and bluesmen Bobby ("Blue") Bland, Little Milton, Johnny Taylor, and ...
- Davis, Victor
- Canadian swimmer, an aggressive competitor who won four Olympic medals.
- Davis, Walter
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...one rival had thrown farther all winter. His second throw flew 22.11 m (72 ft 612 in), the longest indoor shot put since 1989. American triple jumper Walter Davis's historic win came after some initial confusion. After his first attempt ...
- Davis, William Morris
- U.S. geographer, geologist, and meteorologist who founded the science of geomorphology, the study of landforms. [6 Related Articles]
- Davis, William Strethen
- ("WILD BILL"), U.S. jazz organist and arranger who popularized the Hammond organ as a jazz instrument (b. Nov. 24, 1918--d. Aug. 22, 1995).
- Davis-Gardner, Angela
- (from the article "Literature") ...Western Limit of the World (2005)-Berkeley, Calif., writer David Masiel wrote about the last days of a chemical tanker on the high seas en route to Africa. North Carolinian Angela Davis-Gardner won some praise with Plum Wine, a quiet but ...
- Davisean window
- (from the article "Davis, Alexander Jackson") ...and the West Presbyterian Church (1831-32) and the Custom House (1833-42) in New York City. One of the original elements that Davis evolved at this time was a window type he later called Davisean-vertically unified, multistoried, and often recessed windows.
- Davison, Wild Bill
- American jazz cornet player who recorded some 800 songs and traveled extensively in his 70-year career.
- Davison, William
- (b. c. 1541-d. Dec. 21, 1608, Stepney, London), secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England, chiefly remembered for his part in the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Davisson, Clinton Joseph
- American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both ... [3 Related Articles]
- Davisville
- (from the article "North Kingstown") ...was incorporated in 1674; in 1686-89 it was called Rochester. In 1722-23 it was divided into North Kingstown and South Kingstown. North Kingstown includes the villages of Allenton, Davisville, Hamilton, Lafayette, Quonset Point, Saunderstown, Slocum, and Wickford (the administrative centre).
- Davitt, Michael
- founder of the Irish Land League (1879), which organized resistance to absentee landlordism and sought to relieve the poverty of the tenant farmers by securing fixity of tenure, fair rent, and free sale of the tenant's interest. [3 Related Articles]
- Davos
- town, Graubunden canton, eastern Switzerland, consisting of two villages, Davos-Platz and Davos-Dorf, in the Davos Valley, on the Landwasser River, 5,118 feet (1,560 metres) above sea level. The town is mentioned in historical documents of 1160 and 1213; it was ... [3 Related Articles]
- Davout, Louis-Nicolas, Duc D'auerstedt, Prince D'eckmuhl
- French general who was one of the most distinguished of the Napoleonic field commanders. [1 Related Articles]
- Davringhausen, Heinrich
- (from the article "Neue Sachlichkeit") ...assembled at the Kunsthalle, Hartlaub displayed the works of the members of this group: George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Georg Schrimpf, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, Georg Scholz, and Heinrich Davringhausen.
- Davtyan, O. K.
- (from the article "fuel cell") ...resulted in the invention of gas-diffusion electrodes in which the fuel gas on one side is effectively kept in controlled contact with an aqueous electrolyte on the other side. By mid-century O.K. Davtyan of the Soviet Union had published the ...
- davul
- (from the article "bass drum") ...sporting events) giant drums have been constructed. British orchestras often use a larger type of one-headed bass drum known as a gong drum. Similar large cylindrical drums are the Turkish folk davul and the South Asian dhol.
- Davy Crockett Lake
- (from the article "Nolichucky River") ...U.S., and flowing northwest into Tennessee, then west to join the French Broad River after a course of 150 miles (241 km). A dam on the Nolichucky just south of Greeneville, Tenn., impounds Davy Crockett Lake, named for the frontiersman, ...
- Davy lamp
- (from the article "Davy lamp") safety lamp (q.v.) devised by Sir Humphry Davy in 1815.development by DavyDavy, Sir Humphry, BaronetLater years.
- Davy, Edward
- physician, chemist, and inventor who devised the electromagnetic repeater for relaying telegraphic signals and invented an electrochemical telegraph (1838).
- Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet
- English chemist who discovered several chemical elements (including sodium and potassium) and compounds, invented the miner's safety lamp, and became one of the greatest exponents of the scientific method. [24 Related Articles]
- Davydenko, Nikolay
- (from the article "Tennis") Off-court controversies sometimes overshadowed what happened on the tennis court in 2007. Russia's Nikolay Davydenko, who finished the year ranked number four in the world, was under investigation by the ATP for allegedly having deliberately lost a match in Poland ...
- Davydova, Anastasiya
- (from the article "Swimming") ...its decadelong domination of synchronized swimming-winning six of the seven contested events in Melbourne, including the team free and the team technical routines. The two Anastasiyas-Davydova and Yermakova-unbeaten since 2002, won three gold medals each, capturing the duet free, the ...
- Dawani
- jurist and philosopher who was chiefly responsible for maintaining the traditions of Islamic philosophy in the 15th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Dawasir-Jawb, Wadi
- (from the article "Arabian Desert") ...the Pleistocene Epoch (1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago) by ancient river systems now represented by such wadis as Al-Rimah-Al-Batin, Al-Sahba', and Dawasir-Jawb, which carried vast loads of sediment from the interior toward the Persian Gulf. The Al-Dibdibah region once was ...
- Dawe, Bruce
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...he could in the secular world of spiritual realities and to demonstrate the importance of poetry in ordinary life (a representative volume of his work is Dog Fox Field [1990]), and Bruce Dawe, who evinced the Australian voice in his ...
- Dawenkou culture
- (from the article "China") ...sites in northern Jiangsu (first half of 4th millennium) represent regional cultures that derived in large part from that of Qingliangang. Upper strata also show strong affinities with contemporary Dawenkou sites in southern Shandong, northern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu. Dawenkou ...
- Dawes General Allotment Act
- (Feb. 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual tribesmen, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image. It was sponsored in several sessions of Congress by Sen. Henry L. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Dawes Plan
- arrangement for Germany's payment of reparations after World War I. On the initiative of the British and U.S. governments, a committee of experts, presided over by an American financier, Charles G. Dawes, produced a report on the question of German ... [9 Related Articles]
- Dawes, Charles G.
- 30th vice president of the United States (1925-29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the "Dawes Plan" for managing Germany's reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dawes, William Rutter
- English astronomer known for his extensive measurements of double stars and for his meticulous planetary observations.
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