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- Merovingian Frankish king who succeeded his father, Childebert III, in 711. For most of his reign the boy was dominated by Pippin II of Herstal, the Austrasian mayor of the palace. [1 Related Articles]
- Dagomba
- the dominant ethnic group in the chiefdom of Dagbon in the northern region of Ghana; they speak Dagbani (Dagbane), a language of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Subject to the Dagomba are a number of peoples and ...
- Dagomba kingdom
- (from the article "Dagomba") According to tradition, the Dagomba kingdom was founded by northern invaders in the 14th century. It extended south to the Black Volta River, but it was reduced in size by the conquests of the Guang (Gonja) in the mid-17th century. ...
- Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande
- French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype. Though the first permanent photograph from nature was made in 1826/27 by Nicephore Niepce of France, it was of poor quality and required about ... [9 Related Articles]
- daguerreotype
- first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicephore Niepce in the 1830s. Daguerre and Niepce found that if a copper plate coated with silver iodide was exposed to light ... [6 Related Articles]
- Dagupan
- city and port, western Luzon Island, Philippines. It lies on the southern shore of Lingayen Gulf near the mouth of the Dagupan River. It was founded in 1590 by Augustinian missionaries. Dagupan is the port for a region that produces ...
- Dagwood sandwich
- (from the article "Young, Chic") ...1941), and Daisy and her pups. A comedy of situations that only slightly exaggerates life, Blondie was adapted to motion pictures and to a television series and a radio series. The term Dagwood sandwich came into popular usage to describe ...
- Dah Sun Cotton Mill
- (from the article "Nantong") ...district. After the disasters of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, Zhang decided to abandon politics and to devote himself to developing Nantong into a model district. In 1895 he founded the Dah Sun Cotton Mill (Dasheng Sha Chang) at Tangzha, ...
- Dahab
- (from the article "Egypt") On April 24, the eve of the anniversary of the return by Israel of the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, the Red Sea resort area of Dahab was targeted for a terrorist incident. The attack was conducted by al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, an ...
- Dahae
- (from the article "Vologeses I") ...(AD 54-63). A peace was finally concluded by which Tiridates was acknowledged as a Roman client king in Armenia. The power of Vologeses was further weakened by an attack by the nomadic Dahae and Sakas, a rebellion of the Hyrcanians, ...
- Dahe culture
- (from the article "China") ...and Machang (last half of 3rd millennium) cultures. Some two-thirds of the pots found in the Machang burial area at Liuwan in Qinghai, for example, were painted. In the North China Plain, Dahe culture sites contain a mixture of Miaodigou ...
- Dahir al-'Umar
- (from the article "Palestine") ...most outside influences. The prosperity of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine was followed by an economic and political decline in the 17th century. Ottoman control in the 18th century was indirect. Dahir al-'Umar (c. 1737-75) dominated the political life of northern Palestine ...
- Dahl, Carl F.
- (from the article "papermaking") ...From these crude beginnings, modern papermaking machines evolved. By 1875 paper coated by machinery was being made for use in the printing of halftones by the new photoengraving process, and in 1884 Carl F. Dahl invented sulfate (kraft) pulp in ...
- Dahl, Ole-Johan
- Norwegian computer scientist (b. Oct. 12, 1931, Mandal, Nor.-d. June 29, 2002), was cocreator of the first "object-oriented" computer programming language, SIMULA, with his longtime colleague Kristen Nygaard (q.v.).
- Dahl, Roald
- British writer, a popular author of ingenious, irreverent children's books and of adult horror stories.
- Dahl, Robert
- (from the article "political science") The American political theorist Robert Dahl, who had long been a scholar of the topic, viewed democracy as the pluralist interplay of groups in what he called a "polyarchy." Historical-cultural thinkers such as Lipset traced the origins of democracy to ...
- Dahlak Archipelago
- (from the article "Eritrea") Off the coast in the Red Sea is the Dahlak Archipelago, a group of more than 100 small coral and reef-fringed islands. Only a few of these islands have a permanent population.
- Dahlbeck, Eva
- Swedish actress and writer played strong, wise women in several early films by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, notably Sommarnattens leedne (1955; Smiles of a Summer Night) and Nara livet (1958; U.S. title, Brink of Life), for which she, together with ...
- Dahlbergh, Eric, Count
- Swedish soldier, civil servant, and graphic artist who served with distinction in the Swedish war against Denmark (1675-79) and the Great Northern War (1700-21) and directed fortifications as part of the military rebuilding program of King Charles XI.
- Dahlem Museums
- (from the article "Berlin") ...for its many excellent museums. Because the prewar museum sites and parts of the old collections were located in what became East Berlin, a magnificent new museum complex, collectively called the Dahlem Museums, was built in the district of Dahlem. ...
- Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard
- American inventor of the smooth-bore cannon that was, from its shape, familiarly known as the "soda-water bottle." The shape resulted from a design in which the thickness of metal was varied to match the differences in internal pressure occurring when ...
- Dahlia
- genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, containing about 30 species of tuberous-rooted herbs that are native to the higher elevations of Mexico and Central America. Most have leaves that are often segmented and toothed or cut.
- Dahlia bipinnata
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...been bred for cultivation as ornamental flowers. Wild species of dahlias have both disk and ray flowers in the flowering heads, but many varieties of ornamentals such as the common garden dahlia (D. bipinnata) have shortened ray flowers. The dahlia ...
- Dahlia coccinea
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...Great Britain from Spain in 1789, and countless varieties of dahlias, many of them double-flowered, were subsequently developed in Britain and elsewhere from the species D. variabilis and D. coccinea. The 2,000 horticultural varieties of dahlias are classed into 13 ...
- Dahlia variabilis
- (from the article "Dahlia") ...was first introduced into Great Britain from Spain in 1789, and countless varieties of dahlias, many of them double-flowered, were subsequently developed in Britain and elsewhere from the species D. variabilis and D. coccinea. The 2,000 horticultural varieties of dahlias ...
- Dahlmann, Friedrich
- prominent liberal historian and advocate of German unification along Kleindeutsch ("Little German," or anti-Austrian) lines, who played a major role in creating the draft constitution of 1848 that attempted unsuccessfully to unite Germany as a constitutional monarchy.
- Dahlonega
- city, seat (1833) of Lumpkin county, northern Georgia, U.S. Gold was discovered in the locality in the late 1820s, and the site was settled and incorporated in 1833 after one of the nation's first gold rushes; its name derives from ...
- Dahmer, Jeffrey
- American serial killer whose arrest in 1991 provoked controversy and resulted in an upsurge of popular interest in serial murder and other crimes. [1 Related Articles]
- Dahn, Felix
- German jurist, historian, poet, and novelist who made his greatest contribution as a scholar of German antiquity.
- Dahna', ad-
- (Arabic: "desert"), great arc of reddish sandy desert, central Saudi Arabia, extending about 800 miles (1,300 km) southward from the northeastern edge of an-Nafud (desert) to the northwestern borders of the desert Rub' al-Khali (the Empty Quarter). Thus, ad-Dahna' links ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dahomey
- kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to tradition, at the beginning of the 17th century three brothers vied for the kingdom of Allada, which, like ... [11 Related Articles]
- Dahriyah
- in Islam, the unbelievers who contend that the course of time (Arabic: dahr) is all that governs their existence. They were so called because of a reference to them in the Qur'an, in which they are repudiated for saying, "There ...
- Dahshur
- ancient pyramid site just south of Saqqarah, northern Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River. Dahshur and other ruins in the area of ancient Memphis-Abu Sir, Saqqarah, Abu Ruwaysh, and the Pyramids of Giza-were collectively designated a UNESCO ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dahuk
- city, northern Iraq, capital of Dahuk muhafazah (governorate). The city lies near the northern end of the Tigris River valley. The area in which the city is situated is unsuitable for cultivation but is good for fruit ...
- Dai Ailian
- British-born Chinese dancer, choreographer, and teacher (b. May 10, 1916, Trinidad, British West Indies-d. Feb. 9, 2006, Beijing, China), was dubbed "the mother of Chinese ballet," and she was instrumental in introducing Western dance in China and in creating dances ...
- Dai hyakkajiten
- (Japanese: "Great Encyclopaedia"), comprehensive Japanese general encyclopaedia, published in Tokyo.
- Dai Jin
- Chinese landscape painter of the Ming dynasty. [2 Related Articles]
- Dai jiten
- (Japanese: "Great Dictionary"), dictionary of the Japanese language published in 13 illustrated volumes in Tokyo (1953-54).
- Dai Noi
- (from the article "Hue") ...China Sea coast, Hue is traversed by the broad, shallow Huong River (Hue River, or Perfume River). At the city's heart, on the river's left bank, is the Chinese-style Vietnamese imperial citadel, Dai Noi, from which the Nguyen family controlled ...
- Dai Viet
- (from the article "Suryavarman II") From 1123 until 1136 Suryavarman waged a series of unsuccessful campaigns against Dai Viet, the Vietnamese kingdom that had asserted its independence from China in 939. He attempted a land attack through Laos to Nghe An in 1128 and met ...
- Dai Zhen
- Chinese empirical philosopher, considered by many to have been the greatest thinker of the Qing period (1644-1911/12). [1 Related Articles]
- Dai, Mount
- (from the article "Chugoku Range") ...the Kibi Plateau, except in the Akiyoshi Plateau area in the west, where karst topography occurs in some places. Numerous semicircular depressions have been buried by lava-dome volcanoes, including Mount Dai, which rises to 5,673 feet (1,729 m) in Tottori ...
- Dai-Ichi Bank Ltd.
- (from the article "Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank") ...the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in 30 other countries, Dai-Ichi had been established in 1971 through the merger of Dai Ichi Bank Ltd. (founded in 1873) and ...
- Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank
- one of three Japanese banks that merged in 2000 to create the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in 30 other countries, Dai-Ichi had been established in 1971 through ...
- Daiei
- (from the article "Japan") In October Daiei, Japan's supermarket giant, asked the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan (IRCJ) to help support its reconstruction. The IRCJ was an official entity that had been established in 2003 to help revitalize financially troubled but salvageable companies. Daiei's ...
- Daiei Motion Picture Company
- leading Japanese motion-picture studio that produced some of the major post-World War II film classics, although most of its releases were directed toward urban teenage audiences. The company was formed in 1942, when the Japanese government consolidated the production studios ...
- Daigak Guksa
- Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch'ont'ae sect of Buddhism. [1 Related Articles]
- Daigle, France
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...Chiasson (Mourir a Scoudouc [1974; "To Die at Scoudouc"], Conversations [1998; Eng. trans. Conversations]) and postmodern novelist France Daigle. Acadian literature excels in lyric poetry, represented by authors who include Raymond Leblanc, Dyane Leger, and Serge Patrice Thibodeau.
- Daigo
- 60th emperor of Japan. He was unsuccessful in continuing his father's policy of limiting the power of the important Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese government from 857 to 1160. [3 Related Articles]
- Daigo, Go-
- emperor of Japan (1318-39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions. [9 Related Articles]
- Daikaku Temple
- (from the article "Japan") ...imperial succession. In the mid-13th century two competing lines for the succession emerged-the senior line centred on the Jimyo Temple in Kyoto and the junior line centred on the Daikaku Temple on the western edge of the city. In the ...
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