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DC-7C: (from the article "flight, history of") ...Iceland, or Ireland. These constraints began to evaporate in the 1950s with the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Douglas DC-7. The ultimate versions appeared in 1956-57 as the DC-7C, known as the "Seven Seas," which was capable of nonstop transatlantic ...
DC-8: (from the article "flight, history of") ...gamble for Boeing, which for many years had been almost entirely a military supplier, the 707 was a commercial success after entering service in 1958. Douglas responded with its similar looking DC-8. Both aircraft were larger (some configurations could carry ...
DC-9: (from the article "Boeing Company") ...ballistic missile (first launched in 1957), which later became a first-stage space launcher and gave rise to the Delta family of launch vehicles. In 1965 Douglas first flew its twin-engine DC-9 short-haul commercial jetliner, which became the company's most successful ...
Dda, Howel: (from the article "Celtic literature") ...prose were utilitarian: notes on Latin texts dealing with weights and measures, an agreement, a list of church dues, and an astronomical commentary. Shortly before the middle of the 10th century, Howel (Hywel) Dda, according to tradition, had the Welsh ...
DDT: a synthetic insecticide belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, highly toxic toward a wide variety of insects as a contact poison that apparently exerts its effect by disorganizing the nervous system. [20 Related Articles]
De Amicis, Edmondo: novelist, short-story writer, poet, and author of popular travel books and children's stories.
De Angelis, Milo: (from the article "Literature") ...tries to help his 10-year-old daughter cope with her mother's death; he receives unexpected comfort and guidance from the girl and the world of childhood. Love and loss were also at the centre of Milo De Angelis's Tema dell'addio, a ...
de Beer, Sir Gavin: English zoologist and morphologist known for his contributions to experimental embryology, anatomy, and evolution.
De Beers S.A.: world's largest producer and distributor of diamonds. Headquarters are in Johannesburg, S.Af. [10 Related Articles]
De Bono, Emilio: Italian general, an early convert to Fascism who helped the party's founder and chief, Benito Mussolini, gain power. [1 Related Articles]
de Broglie wave: any aspect of the behaviour or properties of a material object that varies in time or space in conformity with the mathematical equations that describe waves. By analogy with the wave and particle behaviour of light that had already been ... [5 Related Articles]
De Bruijn, Inge: Four years after having nearly quit swimming altogether, Inge de Bruijn of The Netherlands turned in a phenomenal performance at the Olympic Games in 2000. De Bruijn won gold medals in the 100-m butterfly, the 100-m freestyle, and the 50-m ... [1 Related Articles]
De Camp, Joseph: (from the article "Ten, The") ...of Design, they chose to exhibit independently, hoping to draw public attention to their paintings. The members of The Ten were Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Thomas W. Dewing, Joseph De Camp, Frank W. Benson, Willard Leroy ...
de Camp, L Sprague: American writer (b. Nov. 27, 1907, New York, N.Y.-d. Nov. 6, 2000, Plano, Texas), wrote more than 100 science-fiction and fantasy books. He began his writing career in the late 1930s as a contributor to Astounding Stories, the influential science-fiction ...
De Carlo, Andrea: (from the article "Italian literature") Among younger voices, two extremely professional authors-cosmopolitan minimalist Andrea De Carlo and painstaking observer and stylist Daniele Del Giudice-were "discovered" in the early 1980s by Italo Calvino. In novels such as Macno (1984; Eng. trans. Macno) and Yucatan (1986; Eng. ...
De Carlo, Yvonne: American actress appeared in a string of B-westerns and was best remembered on the big screen for her role as the wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), but the character with whom she was most indelibly identified ...
de Chastelain, John: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...a resumption of devolved government. In response to continuing pressure, however, the IRA announced on July 28 that it had ordered all its units to "dump arms." On September 26 Gen. John de Chastelain, the head of the independent decommissioning ...
de Chirico, Giorgio: Italian painter who, with Carlo Carra and Giorgio Morandi, founded the style of Metaphysical painting. [6 Related Articles]
de Coninck, Herman: (from the article "Belgian literature") ...Kreatief, Yang, and De Brakke Hond, as well as by the critical work of Hugo Brems, Hugo Bousset, and Herman de Coninck. Brems proved an astute and skeptical chronicler of contemporary ...
De Cordova, Frederick Timmins: American television director-producer (b. Oct. 27, 1910, New York, N.Y.-d. Sept. 15, 2001, Woodland Hills, Calif.), had what he called "the best job in television" when he served as executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 22 ...
De Dion-Bouton: (from the article "automobile") In France the giants were De Dion-Bouton, Peugeot SA, and Renault (the last two are still in existence). The Italians were later in the field: the Stefanini-Martina of 1896 is thought of as the foundation of the industry in Italy, ...
De donis conditionalibus: (from the article "property law") Legislation at the end of the 13th century (statute De donis conditionalibus, 1285) allowed a conveyor of land to limit its inheritance to the direct descendants of the conveyee and to claim it back if the conveyee's ...
de facto census: (from the article "census") ...censuses refer to a precisely delimited territory and subareas and, for this reason, are normally planned and conducted with the aid of detailed maps. They aim to enumerate every person within the designated territory. A "de jure" census tallies people ...
De Forest, Lee: American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although bitter over the financial ... [11 Related Articles]
De Gasperi, Alcide: politician and prime minister of Italy (1945-53) who contributed to the material and moral reconstruction of his nation after World War II. [5 Related Articles]
De Geer, Charles: Swedish entomologist.
De Geer, Gerhard, Friherre: Swedish geologist, originator of the varve-counting method used in geochronology. [1 Related Articles]
De Geer, Louis: (from the article "Sweden") ...power had in reality gradually passed into the hands of the privy council, which, under the leadership of the minister of finance, Baron Johan August Gripenstedt, and the minister of justice, Baron Louis De Geer, completed the reforms. From the ...
de Gournay, Marie: (from the article "Montaigne, Michel de") ...the publication of the fifth edition of the Essays, the first to contain the 13 chapters of Book III, as well as Books I and II, enriched with many additions. He also met Marie de Gournay, an ...
De Grey River: river in northwestern Western Australia. It rises as the Oakover River in the Robertson Range, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Marble Bar, and flows north. Midway in its course, it turns northwest to join the Nullagine River and becomes ... [1 Related Articles]
De Havilland Aircraft Company: (from the article "De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey") ...During World War I he worked as chief designer and test pilot for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company and produced a number of successful fighters and light bombers. In September 1920 he formed the De Havilland Aircraft Company. The success of ...
De Havilland DH-4: (from the article "aerospace industry") ...production, the government enlisted automobile manufacturers to mass-produce engines and airplanes. For its own use the U.S. Army ordered the production of the two-seat British De Havilland DH-4 bomber and the American-designed Curtiss JN-4 Jennie trainer. By the end of ...
de Havilland, Olivia: American motion-picture actress remembered for the lovely and gentle ingenues of her early career as well as for the later, more substantial roles she fought to secure. [2 Related Articles]
De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey: English aircraft designer, manufacturer, and pioneer in long-distance jet flying. He was one of the first to make jet-propelled aircraft, producing the Vampire and Venom jet fighters.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park: (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...edge of the wooded-heath Veluwe region. Founded in the 8th century by the Saxons, it is a garrison town with a 15th-century church, the Doesburger Mill (1507), and an open-air theatre. Nearby De Hoge Veluwe National Park has St. Hubertus ...
de Hoop Scheffer, Jaap: With NATO struggling to overcome a fractious membership divided over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it chose Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a career civil servant turned politician, to serve as its 11th secretary-general, beginning on Jan. 1, 2004. He ... [1 Related Articles]
De Jong, Meindert: (from the article "children's literature") Fiction about foreign lands boasted at least one modern American master in Meindert De Jong, whose most sensitive work was drawn from recollections of his Dutch early childhood. A Hans Christian Andersen and Newbery winner, he is best savoured in ...
de Jouy, Brillon: (from the article "Boccherini, Luigi") ...of 1761) as well as new ones (Six Trios for Two Violins and Cello, G 83-88, and Symphony in D Major, G 500, of 1766 and c. 1766?). From Boccherini's contact with Madame Brillon de Jouy, the harpsichordist, came the ...
de jure census: (from the article "census") Modern censuses refer to a precisely delimited territory and subareas and, for this reason, are normally planned and conducted with the aid of detailed maps. They aim to enumerate every person within the designated territory. A "de jure" census tallies ...
de Klerk, F.W.: politician who as president of South Africa (1989-94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace ... [8 Related Articles]
De Kogge: (from the article "Enschede") ...Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches, and the modern synagogue. There is a technical school for textiles, as well as the University of Twente (1961), and Enschede is the triennial meeting place of De Kogge, an association of Dutch, Flemish, and ...
de Kooning, Elaine: American painter, teacher, and art critic who is perhaps best known for her portraits.
de Kooning, Willem: Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as Action painting. During the 1930s and '40s de Kooning worked simultaneously in figurative and abstract modes, but by about 1945 these two ... [10 Related Articles]
De Koven, Reginald: American composer, conductor, and critic who helped establish the style of American light opera.
De la Gardie, Jacob Pontusson, Count: Swedish statesman and soldier who was mainly responsible for introducing advanced Dutch military methods into Sweden. He commanded the Swedish forces in Russia and against Poland and later served as one of the five regents jointly ruling Sweden during the ...
De la Gardie, Magnus Gabriel, Greve: Swedish statesman, head of Charles XI's administration from 1660 to 1680. During the youth of Charles XI, he headed the Council of Regency; when Charles became of age (1672), he was his chief minister. War with Denmark and Brandenburg in ... [1 Related Articles]
de la Hoya, Oscar: (from the article "Boxing") ...pressure from the growing popularity of mixed martial arts, boxing enjoyed a surprisingly good year in 2007, thanks in large part to the May 5 bout between American rivals Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya. The fight shattered all ...
de la Mare, Peter: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...needed to be dealt with. As in previous crises, a committee consisting of four bishops, four earls, and four barons was set up to take responsibility for the reforms. Then, under the leadership of Peter de la Mare, who may ...
de la Mare, Walter: British poet and novelist with an unusual power to evoke the ghostly, evanescent moments in life. [2 Related Articles]
de la Pole, Sir Michael: (from the article "Richard II") ...By 1383 his personal initiative showed in the choice of his friends and counselors, including two figures of particular importance-Sir Simon Burley, his former tutor, and Burley's ally, Sir Michael de la Pole, chancellor from 1383. Richard was also on ...
de la Renta, Oscar: Dominican-born American fashion designer whose work, blending European luxury with American ease, helped define standards of elegant dressing among society circles in the late 20th and the early 21st century.