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De la Rey, Jacobus Hercules: a talented and popular Boer leader in the South African War. [1 Related Articles]
de la Roche, Mazo: Canadian author whose series of novels about the Whiteoak family of Jalna (the name of their estate) made her one of the most popular "family saga" novelists of the period between 1925 and 1950.
de la Rua, Fernando: (from the article "Argentina") ...of their southern borders, and in October 1998 Menem paid a state visit to the United Kingdom. Commercial flights were resumed between the islands and the Argentine mainland in 1999. Later that year Fernando de la Rua was elected president, ...
De la Rue, Warren: English pioneer in astronomical photography, the method by which nearly all modern astronomical observations are made.
De La Soul: American rap group whose debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising (1989), was one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. The members were Posdnuos (byname of Kelvin Mercer; b. August 17, 1969, New York, New ...
de la Vega, Aurelio: (from the article "Latin American music") ...was particularly significant in the development of electronic music in his country; Brouwer was one of the most original figures of the Cuban avant-garde and an innovative writer for the guitar. Aurelio de la Vega, a longtime resident of California ...
De La Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron: one of the English founders of Virginia, for whom Delaware Bay, the Delaware River, and the state of Delaware were named. [1 Related Articles]
De Land: city, seat (1888) of Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It is situated just east of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Daytona Beach. The area's original inhabitants, the Timucua Indians, were driven from the region ...
de Laval turbine: (from the article "turbine") ...the stationary and moving blade passages. In addition, he subsequently built the first practical large marine steam turbines. During the 1880s Carl G.P. de Laval of Sweden constructed small reaction turbines that turned at about 40,000 revolutions per minute to ...
de Leon Carpio, Ramiro: Guatemalan politician (b. Jan. 12, 1942, Guatemala City, Guat.-found dead April 16, 2002, Miami, Fla.), as a longtime opponent of racial oppression, helped draft his country's constitution in 1984 and in 1989 was elected human rights ombudsman. When Pres. Jorge ...
De Leon, Daniel: American socialist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He was one of the chief propagandists for socialism in the early American labour movement, but his uncompromising tactics were often divisive.
De Long Islands: (from the article "New Siberian Islands") The New Siberian Islands consist of three groups: to the south the Lyakhovskye Islands, separated by Sannikova Strait from the New Siberian Islands proper, and to the northeast the small De Long Islands. The New Siberian Islands proper consist of ...
De Long, George Washington: American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition gave evidence of a continuous ocean current across the polar regions. [1 Related Articles]
De Mambro, Joseph: (from the article "Solar Temple, Order of the") The Solar Temple was founded in Geneva in 1984 by Luc Jouret, a homeopathic physician and New Age lecturer, and Joseph De Mambro. Its headquarters was later moved to Zurich, where a leadership council of 33 members presided, and regional ...
de Man, Paul: Belgian-born literary critic, one of the major proponents of the critical theory known as deconstruction. [2 Related Articles]
de Marca, Pierre: (from the article "Europe, history of") ...historian John Selden repeated medium aevum, Anglicizing the term in 1614 to middle times and in 1618 to middle ages. In 1641 the French historian Pierre de Marca apparently coined the French vernacular term
De Marchi, Emilio: (from the article "Italian literature") ...Capuana, this was Sicily. Matilde Serao, on the other hand, has given a detailed and colourful reportage of the Neapolitan scene, while Renato Fucini conveyed the atmosphere of traditional Tuscany. Emilio De Marchi, another writer in the realist mold, has ...
de Marco, Guido: (from the article "Malta") Area: 315 sq km (122 sq mi) | Population (2004 est.): 401,000 | Capital: Valletta | Chief of state: Presidents Guido de Marco and, from April 4, Eddie Fenech Adami | Head of government: Prime Ministers Eddie Fenech Adami and, ...
de Maziere, Lothar: (from the article "Germany") ...of a multiparty system. With the overthrow of the ruling communist regime in East Germany's first free elections, on March 18, 1990, it was this rump party that took power by a large mandate, with Lothar de Maiziere as minister ...
de Mille, Agnes: American dancer and choreographer who further developed the narrative aspect of dance and made innovative use of American themes, folk dances, and physical idioms in her choreography of musical plays and ballets. [5 Related Articles]
De Mille, James: Canadian author of more than 30 novels with a wide range of appeal, particularly noted for his wit and humour.
de Millimete gun: (from the article "military technology") The earliest known gunpowder weapons vaguely resembled an old-fashioned soda bottle or a deep-throated mortar and pestle. The earliest such weapon, depicted in the English de Millimete manuscript, was some three feet long with a bore diameter of about two ...
De Minh: (from the article "Vietnam") According to legend, the first ruler of the Vietnamese people was King De Minh, a descendant of a mythical Chinese ruler who was the father of Chinese agriculture. De Minh and an immortal fairy of the mountains produced Kinh Duong, ...
De Morgan laws: (from the article "De Morgan, Augustus") English mathematician and logician whose major contributions to the study of logic include the formulation of De Morgan's laws and work leading to the development of the theory of relations and the rise of modern symbolic, or mathematical, logic.use infoundations ...
De Morgan, Augustus: English mathematician and logician whose major contributions to the study of logic include the formulation of De Morgan's laws and work leading to the development of the theory of relations and the rise of modern symbolic, or mathematical, logic. [5 Related Articles]
de Morgan, William: (from the article "pottery") ...by the level to which popular taste had sunk. Among them was the English poet and designer William Morris, who founded a firm of interior decorators and manufacturers in 1861. One of his pupils, William de Morgan, started a pottery ...
de Niese, Danielle: In April 2008 the first solo CD by the Australian-born American soprano Danielle de Niese, Handel Arias (2007), won the Orphee d'Or from the Academie du Disque Lyrique in Paris as the debut recording of the year. It was another ...
De Niro, Robert: American actor famous for his uncompromising portrayals of violent and abrasive characters. [4 Related Articles]
de Oliveira, Joao Carlos: Brazilian athlete who set a world record in the triple jump at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City with a jump of 17.89 m (58 ft 8.25 in); his record, which surpassed the previous mark by an astonishing ...
De Palma Manufacturing Company: (from the article "De Palma, Ralph") ...and won the 1915 Indianapolis 500. On Feb. 12, 1919, at Daytona Beach, Fla., he set a world speed record for one mile: 149.875 miles (241.15 km) per hour. He retired in 1934. In 1916 he founded the De Palma ...
De Palma, Brian: American motion-picture director and screenwriter best noted for his usually stylish, often graphic horror-suspense films that draw heavily on the work of director Alfred Hitchcock. [1 Related Articles]
De Palma, Ralph: American automobile-racing driver, one of the most popular and successful competitors in the early days of the sport.
De Paolis, Luciano: (from the article "Monti, Eugenio") Monti capped off a tremendous 1968 season with an Olympic gold medal in the two-man bobsled. Tying with the Germans at the end of the competition, Monti and his brakeman Luciano De Paolis were awarded the gold, based on having ...
De Pere: (from the article "Green Bay") ...Wisconsin, U.S. It is situated where the Fox River empties into Green Bay (an inlet of Lake Michigan), about 110 miles (180 km) north of Milwaukee. Green Bay's metropolitan area includes the city of De Pere and the villages of ...
de Prada, Juan Manuel: (from the article "Literature") ...his novel Carta blanca, a book that told the story of a man whose life elapses parallel to the convoluted events in Spain during the 1920s and '30s. The National Prize for Narrative went to Juan Manuel de Prada for ...
De Quincey, Thomas: English essayist and critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. De Quincey's biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge appeared in the eighth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see the Britannica Classic: Samuel Taylor Coleridge). [2 Related Articles]
De Roberto, Federico: (from the article "Italian literature") ...put down in an unfamiliar milieu and-as would happen in real life-left to pick up the threads from gossip and chance remarks. Another verista, Federico De Roberto, in his novel I vicere (1894; The Viceroys), has given ...
De Rossa, Proinsias: (from the article "Democratic Left") ...the Workers' Party in 1992 and went on to serve in the government of the Irish republic between 1994 and 1997. In 1999 the party was incorporated into the Labour Party, and Democratic Left leader Proinsias De Rossa became Labour ...
De Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon: Dutch seaman and one of his country's greatest admirals. His brilliant naval victories in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars enabled the United Provinces to maintain a balance of power with England. [4 Related Articles]
De Sanctis, Francesco: Italian literary critic whose work contributed significantly to the understanding of Italian literature and civilization. [2 Related Articles]
De Santis, Giuseppe: Italian film director whose Riso amaro (Bitter Rice) was considered the first successful Neorealist film and established his career; in 1995 he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival (b. Feb. 11, 1917--d. May 16, ...
De Santis, Pasqualino: (from the article "1968: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Mel Brooks for The ProducersAdapted Screenplay: James Goldman for The Lion in WinterCinematography: Pasqualino De Santis for Romeo and JulietArt Direction: John Box and Terence Marsh for Oliver!Original Score for a Motion Picture: John Barry for The Lion ...
De Sica, Vittorio: film director and actor who was a major figure in the Italian Neorealist movement. [10 Related Articles]
De Sitter model: (from the article "Sitter, Willem de") De Sitter's concept of the universe differed in some respects from that of Einstein. Einstein's relativistic conception of curved space led him to envision the universe as static and unchanging in size, but de Sitter maintained that relativity actually implied ...
de Smedt, Edward: (from the article "roads and highways") ...bitumen to draw upon and where engineers were therefore forced to study the principles behind the behaviour of this material. The first steps came in the 1860s, with the work of Belgian immigrant Edward de Smedt at Columbia University in ...
De Smet: city, seat (1880) of Kingsbury county, east-central South Dakota, U.S. It lies about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Sioux Falls, about halfway between Huron (west) and Brookings (east). It was settled in 1879 during construction of the railroad and ...
de Sousa, Mauricio: (from the article "Literature") ...A ditadura encurralada (2004), the fourth volume, dealt with the years 1974-77. The Pan American Health Organization awarded its 2003 Champion of Health in the Americas prize to Mauricio de Sousa, known as the Brazilian Walt Disney. Sousa's comic-book character ...
de Souza, Isidore: Benin religious figure who served as Roman Catholic archbishop of Cotonou from 1991; he was a major force in his country's transition to a multiparty democracy (b. April 4, 1934, Ouidah, Dahomey, French West Africa [now Benin]-d. March 13, 1999, ...
De Souza, Ivo: Jamaican diplomat who served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II and in 1953 founded the British Caribbean Welfare Service, which he headed until 1962, when he joined the diplomatic service of the newly independent Jamaica and ...
De Tham: Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
de Toni-Fanconi syndrome: a metabolic disorder affecting kidney transport, characterized by the failure of the kidney tubules to reabsorb water, phosphate, potassium, glucose, amino acids, and other substances. When the disorder is accompanied by cystinosis (q.v.), a deposition of cystine crystals, it is ... [2 Related Articles]