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- in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck); the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is depicted in legend and art as dark-skinned, stout, carrying a wish-granting mallet in his right hand, a bag of ...
- Dail
- (from the article "Dublin") Dublin is the headquarters for government departments, their advisory committees, and associated agencies. The two houses of the Irish parliament, the Dail and the Seanad (Senate), meet at Leinster House. The judiciary is based at the Four Courts. More than ...
- Dail Eireann
- (from the article "Ireland") ...United States as "president of the Irish Republic." Again the republicans set up their provisional government, elected by the Irish members of Parliament at a meeting in Dublin called Dail Eireann, the "Irish Assembly," which sought to provide an alternative ...
- daily double
- (from the article "pari-mutuel") ...may also display race results, payoff amounts, running times, and other information. Increasingly sophisticated equipment has encouraged introduction of a variety of combination bets, such as the daily double (picking winners in two specified races, usually the first two), exacta, ...
- Daily Express
- morning newspaper published in London, known for its sensational treatment of news and also for its thorough coverage of international events. The Sunday edition is published as the Sunday Express. [2 Related Articles]
- Daily Mail
- morning daily newspaper published in London, long noted for its foreign reporting, it was one of the first British papers to popularize its coverage to appeal to a mass readership. It is the flagship publication of the Daily Mail and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Daily News Building
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...arose in Chicago, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings (1929) being the best examples; New York City acquired a straightforward expression of tall vertical piers and setback cubical masses in the Daily News Building (1930), by the versatile Hood, who ...
- Daily Telegraph, The
- daily newspaper published in London and generally accounted, with The Times and The Guardian, as one of Britain's "big three" quality newspapers. [5 Related Articles]
- Daily Values
- (from the article "nutrition, human") ...reference value is listed, and because sex and age categories usually are not taken into consideration, the amount chosen is generally the highest RDA value. In the United States, for example, the Daily Values, determined by the Food and Drug ...
- Daily Worker
- newspaper published in New York City that generally reflects the views of the Communist Party of the United States. [1 Related Articles]
- Daima culture
- (from the article "art, African") ...whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Small figurines of fired clay were excavated in a mound at Daima near Lake Chad in levels dating ...
- Daimatsu Hirofumi
- (from the article "The Japanese Women's Volleyball Team: The Hardest Part") ...were high. Chosen to represent Japan was the country's best women's team, the Kaizuku Amazons, sponsored by the Dai Nippon spinning mill located near Osaka. The team was coached by Daimatsu Hirofumi, an office-supplies manager at the mill. Infamous because ...
- Daimbert
- first archbishop of Pisa, Italy, who, as patriarch of Jerusalem, played a major role in the First Crusade. [2 Related Articles]
- Daimler
- (from the article "automobile") Most authorities are inclined to honour Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler of Germany as the most important pioneer contributors to the gasoline-engine automobile. Benz ran his first car in 1885, Daimler in 1886. Although there is no reason to believe ...
- Daimler
- (from the article "Business Overview") A symbolic moment occurred in October for Chrysler when DaimlerChrysler, its former owner, officially changed its name to Daimler. The change marked the epilogue to a contentious decadelong partnership that had come to an end. Daimler spun off Chrysler in ...
- Daimler AG
- international automotive company. One of the world's leading car and truck manufacturers, its vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Maybach (luxury automobiles), and Smart (micro hybrid cars). Daimler manufactures commercial vehicles under brands such as Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, Setra, Thomas Built ... [2 Related Articles]
- Daimler, Gottlieb
- German mechanical engineer who was a major figure in the early history of the automotive industry. [8 Related Articles]
- Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
- (from the article "Daimler, Gottlieb") ...vehicle designed from the start as an automobile (1889). This commercially feasible vehicle had a framework of light tubing, a rear-mounted engine, belt-driven wheels, and four speeds. In 1890 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was founded at Cannstatt, and in 1899 the firm built ...
- DaimlerChrysler Aerospace
- (from the article "Airbus Industrie") ...Aerospatiale (later Aerospatiale Matra), created by the merger of Sud Aviation with Nord Aviation and the French missile maker SEREB, and 50 percent came from Germany's Deutsche Airbus (later DaimlerChrysler Aerospace Airbus), a joint venture in which Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm had a ...
- DaimlerChrysler AG
- (from the article "Business Overview") A symbolic moment occurred in October for Chrysler when DaimlerChrysler, its former owner, officially changed its name to Daimler. The change marked the epilogue to a contentious decadelong partnership that had come to an end. Daimler spun off Chrysler in ...
- daimoku
- (from the article "Nichiren Buddhism") ...showing the name of the Lotus Sutra surrounded by the names of divinities mentioned in the sutra (words of the Buddha). The second great mystery is the daimoku, the "title" of the sutra; and Nichiren instituted the ...
- daimyo
- any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai ("large") and myo (for myoden, ... [5 Related Articles]
- daina
- (from the article "Baltic states") The Balts worshiped the forces of nature, personified as divinities, in sacred oak groves. Their religious and cultural life is primarily known from the large body of folk songs, dainos, many of which have survived. The songs encompass the totality ...
- Daines, Simon
- (from the article "punctuation") ...using most of the marks described by the younger Aldo in 1566; but their purpose was elocutionary, not syntactic. When George Puttenham, in his treatise The Arte of English Poesie (1589), and Simon Daines, in Orthoepia Anglicana (1640), specified a ...
- Daing Parani
- leader of adventurers from the vicinity of Makasar, Celebes, who spearheaded the political penetration of the Malay Peninsula by the Buginese, a people who came from the southern Celebes seeking trade opportunities. The Buginese were skilled and astute fighting men ...
- Dairo I K
- Nigerian musician and composer who--as leader from 1957 of the 10-piece Morning Star Orchestra (later renamed the Blue Spots)--brought new life and international popularity to Yoruban juju music by introducing a broad range of rhythms, such instruments as the electric ...
- Dairy Belt
- (from the article "North America") The Dairy Belt, another recognized division, makes use of a shorter growing season and cooler summers in New England and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region, where clover, timothy hay, and hardy small grains thrive. Dairying also exploits the lush pastures ...
- dairy product
- milk and any of the foods made from milk, including butter, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, and condensed and dried milk. [5 Related Articles]
- dairying
- branch of agriculture that encompasses the breeding, raising, and utilization of dairy animals, primarily cows, for the production of milk and the various dairy products processed from it. [7 Related Articles]
- dais
- any raised platform in a room, used primarily for ceremonial purposes. Originally the term referred to a raised portion of the floor at the end of a medieval hall, where the lord of the mansion dined with his family and ...
- Daisei-in
- (from the article "Soami") ...Temple garden, in Kyoto, an outstanding example of kare sansui, a dry landscape technique in which combinations of stones and sand are used to suggest mountains and water; and the Daisei-in garden, a miniature reproduction of a natural landscape, also ...
- Daishin-in
- (from the article "Supreme Court of Japan") The Supreme Court of Japan is the successor to the Daishin-in, which was established in 1875 and reorganized in 1890 under the Meiji Constitution (1889) as a supreme court of final appeal in criminal and civil cases. Under the control ...
- daisy
- any of several species of garden plants belonging to the family Asteraceae (also called Compositae). The name daisy commonly denotes the oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and the English, or true, daisy (Bellis perennis). These and other plants called daisies are ...
- Daisy (Margherita) party
- (from the article "Italy") ...House of Freedoms and the centre-left Olive Tree. In 2007 a new centre-left party, known simply as the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico), emerged when the DS merged with the centrist Daisy (Margherita) party. Soon afterward the FI joined with the ...
- Daito
- city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the eastern border of Osaka city. Daito extends eastward from the Ikoma Mountains to the Osaka plain on land reclaimed from the lowlands during the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
- Daito Islands
- islands, Okinawa ken (prefecture), Japan, within the Ryukyu island group in the Pacific Ocean. The Daito Islands lie about 217 miles (350 km) east of Okinawa. North Daito (Kita-Daito) and South Daito (Minami-Daito) islands are the largest ...
- Daizo
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...puppet plays continued to decline as they had for the previous hundred years. There was a brief revival of interest in Osaka puppet drama in the 1870s under the impetus of the theatre manager Daizo, the fourth Bunrakuken, who called ...
- Dajabon
- town, northwestern Dominican Republic. The town is located along the Dajabon River, just across from Ouanaminthe, Haiti, on the northern slopes of the Cordillera Central (Massif du Nord). It was founded between 1771 and 1776, abandoned during the War of ...
- Dajjal, ad-
- (Arabic: "The Deceiver"), in Islamic eschatology, the Antichrist who will come forth before the end of time; after a reign of 40 days or 40 years, he will be destroyed by Christ or the mahdi ("rightly guided one") or both, ...
- Dajokan
- council of state of the Japanese imperial government during the Nara and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was named after this ancient imperial institution. As reestablished, the Dajokan ...
- Dajokan
- (from the article "Dajokan") council of state of the Japanese imperial government during the Nara and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was named after this ancient imperial institution. As reestablished, the Dajokan ...
- Dajokan
- (from the article "Dajokan") ...and Heian periods (710-857). Following the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the new government's council of state was named after this ancient imperial institution. As reestablished, the Dajokan was subdivided into an executive branch, a legislative branch, and six ...
- Daju
- (from the article "Chad") ...aristocracy. They constitute a nucleus surrounded by a host of other groups who, while possessing their own languages, nevertheless constitute a distinct cultural unit. The Tama to the north and the Daju to the south have formed their own separate ...
- Daju languages
- group of related languages scattered across the Nuba Hills of central Sudan (including Lagowa, Liguri, and Shatt), western Sudan (including Bego, Geneina, Daju of Darfur [also called Nyala], and Nyalgulgule), and eastern Chad (including Dar Sila and Dar Daju). The ... [2 Related Articles]
- Dakar
- capital of Senegal and one of the chief seaports on the western African coast. It is located midway between the mouths of the Gambia and Senegal rivers on the southeastern side of the Cape Verde Peninsula, close to Africa's most ... [10 Related Articles]
- Dakar Rally
- (from the article "rally") ...and elsewhere, and international competitions were instituted. Weekend rallies came to be common worldwide, ranging from those held by local clubs to events sponsored by larger organizations. The Dakar (Senegal) Rally, first held in 1978, covers up to 15,000 km ...
- Dakhani
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Earlier varieties of Urdu, variously known as Gujari, Hindawi, and Dakhani, show more affinity with eastern Punjabi and Haryani than with Khari Boli, which provides the grammatical structure of standard modern Urdu. The reasons for putting together the literary products ...
- Dakhilah Oasis, Ad-
- (from the article "Wadi al-Jadid, Al-") ...by rail from Al-Kharijah to Naj' Hammadi. A tile- and shale-quarrying industry opened in the late 1970s at Al-Kharijah, and brick manufacturing was started. Al-Dakhilah Oasis is much smaller; date growing has been the traditional occupation. In the 1970s an ...
- Dakhin Shahbazpur Island
- island located in the Meghna River estuary, south-central Bangladesh. The island, some 43 miles (69 km) long and 10-15 miles (16-24 km) wide, is separated from the Hatia Islands to the east by the Shahbazpur River, which is an arm ...
- Dakhla, Al-
- (from the article "Rio de Oro") ...and there are extreme variations of temperature in the interior, ranging from nearly 32 °F (0 °C) at night to about 122 °F (50 °C) in the afternoon. Its principal town, Al-Dakhla (formerly Villa Cisneros), has a small port and ...
- dakhma
- (Avestan: "tower of silence"), Parsi funerary tower erected on a hill for the disposal of the dead according to the Zoroastrian rite. Such towers are about 25 feet (8 m) high, built of brick or stone, and contain gratings on ... [4 Related Articles]
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