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- (from the article "children's literature") They took more easily to Rousseau's emphasis on virtuous conduct and instruction via "nature" than they did to his advocacy of the liberation of personality. Some writers, such as Thomas Day, with his long-lived Sandford and Merton, were avowedly Rousseauist. ...
- Day, William R.
- statesman and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1903-22).
- day-care centre
- institution that provides supervision and care of infants and young children during the daytime, particularly so that their parents can hold jobs. Such institutions appeared in France about 1840, and the Societe des Creches was recognized by the French government ... [5 Related Articles]
- Day-Lewis, C.
- one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed in more traditional forms. [3 Related Articles]
- Day-Lewis, Daniel
- British actor known for his on- and offscreen intensity and exhaustive preparation for roles. [2 Related Articles]
- daya
- (from the article "tabla") ...Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched of the two drums, which is played with the right hand, is also referred to individually as the tabla or as the daya (dahina or dayan, ...
- Dayabhaga
- (from the article "suttee") The larger incidence of suttee among the Brahmans of Bengal was indirectly due to the Dayabhaga system of law (c. 1100), which prevailed in Bengal and which gave inheritance to widows. In the 16th century, steps to ...
- Dayak
- the non-Muslim indigenous peoples of southern and western Borneo (modern Kalimantan). Most of them live along the banks of the larger rivers. Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance and that is applied to ... [4 Related Articles]
- Dayal Das
- (from the article "Nirankari") religious reform movement within Sikhism. The Nirankari movement was founded by Dayal Das (died 1855), who belonged to a half-Sikh, half-Hindu community in Peshawar. He believed that God is formless, or nirankar (hence the name Nirankari). He ...
- Dayan Khan
- (from the article "Chahar") eastern tribe of Mongols, prominent in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Chahar were part of the empire of Dayan Khan (1470-1543), the last great khan of a united Mongolia. After his death the khanate remained formally among the Chahar, ...
- Dayan, Moshe
- soldier and statesman who led Israel to dramatic victories over its Arab neighbours and became a symbol of security to his countrymen.
- Dayananda Anglo-Vedic School
- (from the article "Lajpat Rai, Lala") After studying law at the Government College, Lahore, Lajpat Rai practiced at Hissar and Lahore, where he helped to establish the nationalistic Dayananda Anglo-Vedic School and became a follower of Dayananda Sarasvati, the founder of the conservative Hindu society Arya ...
- Dayananda Sarasvati
- Hindu ascetic and social reformer who was the founder (1875) of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement advocating a return to the temporal and spiritual authority of the Vedas, the earliest scriptures of India. [5 Related Articles]
- Daye
- city, southeastern Hubei sheng (province), east-central China. Daye, established as a city in 1994, is situated on the south bank of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) near Huangshi and about 55 miles (90 km) southeast of Wuhan, ... [1 Related Articles]
- dayflower
- any member of the genus Commelina (family Commelinaceae), which includes about 100 species of weak-stemmed herbs of wide distribution, only a few of which are of horticultural interest. Commelina coelestis, C. diffusa, and C. erecta are often grown as ground ...
- dayglow
- (from the article "airglow") ...of the Earth. Unlike the aurora, airglow does not exhibit structures such as arcs and is emitted from the entire sky at all latitudes at all times. The nocturnal phenomena is called nightglow. Dayglow and twilight glow are analogous terms.
- Daylight Saving Time
- system for uniformly advancing clocks, so as to extend daylight hours during conventional waking time in the summer months. In countries in the Northern Hemisphere, clocks are usually set ahead one hour in late March or in April and are ... [3 Related Articles]
- daymark
- (from the article "lighthouse") The daymark requirement of a lighthouse is also important; lighthouse structures are painted to stand out against the prevailing background. Shore lighthouses are usually painted white for this purpose, but in the open sea or against a light background conspicuous ...
- Dayr al-Bahri
- Egyptian archaeological site in the necropolis of Thebes. It is made up of a bay in the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile River east of the Valley of the Kings. Its name (Arabic for "northern monastery") refers ... [8 Related Articles]
- Dayr al-Jamajim, Battle of
- (from the article "Ibn al-Ash'ath") ...having received in the meantime a steady stream of Syrian reinforcements from the caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, confronted Ibn al-Ash'ath's superior army of 200,000 at Dayr al-Jamajim, outside Kufah. Negotiations were initiated by the caliph's agents, who offered the ...
- Dayr al-Madinah
- ancient site on the west bank of the Nile River at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is known primarily as the location of a settlement for craftsmen who laboured on the royal tombs, especially those in the nearby Valley of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dayr al-Zawr
- town, eastern Syria. The town is situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River; its name, meaning "monastery of the grove" (zawr, "tamarisk"), is probably derived from the ancient city of Auzara, or Azuara, situated nearby. The Ottomans built ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dayr Mari Antonios
- (from the article "Anthony of Egypt, Saint") ...established themselves nearby. When Christian persecution ended after the Edict of Milan (313), he moved to a mountain in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red Sea, where the monastery Dayr Mari Antonios still stands. Here he remained, ...
- Dayr Yasin
- (from the article "Palestine") ...'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, in command of the Jerusalem front; and the massacre, by Irgunists and members of the Stern Gang, of civilian inhabitants of the Arab village of Dayr Yasin. On April 22 Haifa fell to the Zionists, and Jaffa, ...
- Dayr, Ad-
- (from the article "Petra") ...from the east by a narrow gorge known as the Sik (Siq, or Wadi as-Sik). Among the first sites viewed from the Sik is the Khasneh ("Treasury"), which is actually a large tomb. Ad-Dayr ("the Monastery") is one of Petra's ...
- Days of Remembrance
- (from the article "Holocaust remembrance days") ...U.S. Congress passed legislation introduced by Senator John Danforth that declared April 28-29, 1979, the anniversary of the American liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, to be Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust. Danforth deliberately sought ...
- dayside auroral oval
- (from the article "geomagnetic field") ...others cross over the polar caps. The regions where the field lines split are called polar cusps. The projection of the polar cusps on the atmosphere at about 72° magnetic latitude creates the dayside auroral ovals. Auroras can be seen ...
- Dayton
- city, seat (1803) of Montgomery county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., 54 miles (87 km) northeast of Cincinnati, on a low floodplain of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of the Stillwater and Mad rivers and of Wolf Creek. It is ... [5 Related Articles]
- Dayton
- city, seat (1899) of Rhea county, southeastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies on Richland Creek near the Tennessee River, 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Chattanooga. Originally called Smith's Crossroads (c. 1820), it was renamed Dayton in the 1870s. The Rhea ...
- Dayton Accords
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") In November the U.S.-sponsored Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the 1992-95 conflict, was commemorated. The accord, though widely credited with preserving the peace, remained a target of harsh criticism, mainly for its alleged political shortcomings and biases. Opposition parties repeatedly ...
- Dayton Literary Peace Prizes
- (from the article "Literature") ...PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction went to E.L. Doctorow for The March (2005). Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett shared the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The newly inaugurated Dayton Literary Peace Prizes went to Studs Terkel for lifetime ...
- Dayton, Jonathan
- youngest member of the U.S. Constitutional Convention, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and developer of large tracts in what later became the state of Ohio. The city of Dayton, Ohio, is named for him.
- Dayton, University of
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. The university is affiliated with the Marianist order (Society of Mary) of the Roman Catholic church. It is composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and schools of business ...
- Daytona 200-mile race
- (from the article "motorcycle racing") ...began in 1903 with the formation of the Federation of American Motorcyclists in New York City. By 1924 this society evolved into the still-active American Motorcycle Association. Since 1937 the Daytona 200-mile (320-kilometre) race has been the leading U.S. race. ...
- Daytona 500
- annual U.S. stock-car race that is the most prestigious event in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) season. The race has been held every February since 1959 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Daytona Beach
- city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S., on the Atlantic Ocean and Halifax River (a tidewater lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway), about 90 miles (145 km) south of Jacksonville. The area was originally inhabited by Timucua Indians. Creek peoples lived ... [2 Related Articles]
- Daytona International Speedway
- (from the article "Daytona Beach") ...his racer Bluebird V over the course at 276.82 miles (445.49 km) per hour. Motor vehicles are still permitted on the beach, although their access is limited. The city is also known for the Daytona International Speedway, site of the ...
- dayyo
- (from the article "middot") ...and the gezera shawa (comparison of similar expressions, or laws), in which an inference is made by analogy. The kol wa-homer rule is limited by the principle of dayyo ("it is sufficient") so that the interpreter will not go beyond ...
- Daza
- (from the article "Chad") ...Yedina (Buduma) and Kuri inhabit the Lake Chad region and, in the Kanem area, are associated with the Kanembu and Tunjur, who are of Arabic origin. All of these groups are sedentary and coexist with Daza, Kreda, and Arab nomads. ...
- Dazai Osamu
- novelist who emerged at the end of World War II as the literary voice of his time. His dark, wry tone perfectly captured the confusion of postwar Japan, when traditional values were discredited and the younger generation nihilistically rejected all ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dazhanlan
- (from the article "Beijing") ...part of the 18th century it gradually became a market for curios, antiques, old books, paintings, works of ancient Chinese calligraphers, and paper. It is still a centre for traditional art shops. Dazhanlan, just west of Qianmen Dajie, was rebuilt ...
- dazhuan
- in Chinese calligraphy, script evolved from the ancient scripts jiaguwen and guwen by the 12th century BC and developed during the Zhou dynasty (12th century-256/255 BC). It is the earliest form of script to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dazmana
- (from the article "Theophilus") ...brother, the caliph al-Mu'tasim, who struck at the most important centres of Asia Minor on the route to Constantinople. Theophilus was defeated in a bloody battle at Dazimon (now Dazmana, Tur.) in July 838. Ancyra fell, and a month later ...
- Dbus-Gtsang
- one of three historical regions of Central Asia (the other two being A-mdo and Khams) into which Tibet was once divided. [1 Related Articles]
- dc potential
- (from the article "electricity") In addition to the potentials originating in nerve or muscle cells, relatively steady or slowly varying potentials (often designated dc) are known. These dc potentials occur in the following cases: in areas where cells have been damaged and where ionized ...
- DC-10
- (from the article "Boeing Company") ...Aircraft was deteriorating. In 1967 McDonnell purchased Douglas and took the name McDonnell Douglas Corporation. McDonnell Douglas subsequently introduced several notable aircraft, including the DC-10 (first flown in 1970) for its commercial customers and the F-15 Eagle fighter (1972) and ...
- DC-2
- (from the article "airplane") ...sought to order some, Boeing declined. TWA turned to a smaller builder, the Douglas Company, and commissioned a similar plane as a trial. The prototype was the DXCX-l; in its developed form as the DC-2/3, it proved to be the ...
- DC-3
- transport aircraft, the world's first successful commercial airliner, readily adapted to military use during World War II. The DC-3, first flown in 1935, was a low-wing twin-engine monoplane that in various conformations could seat 21 or 28 passengers or carry ... [7 Related Articles]
- DC-4
- (from the article "flight, history of") Meanwhile, Douglas had introduced the DC-4. Although it was unpressurized, it possessed a comparable performance to the Stratoliner and could carry more passengers. Also, the DC-4 had a tricycle landing gear (unlike the Stratoliner's conventional tail wheel), which facilitated boarding ...
- DC-6
- (from the article "airplane") ...critical decade great technical changes were made in passenger flying. During the first eight years after the war the DC-4 and the Constellation competed grimly to dominate long-distance flying. The DC-6 replaced the DC-4 on the most prestigious runs as ...
- DC-7
- (from the article "airplane") ...expansion could take place because there was a market for used aircraft. As airlines strove to fly faster and with lengthened stages, more people switched from trains or ships to planes. By 1953 the DC-7 was put in service with ...
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