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Dalkeith: burgh (town), Midlothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It is near the capital, Edinburgh, and has an increasing population of workers who commute to that city. Dalkeith is an agricultural, educational, and electronic-engineering centre, with some of the ...
Dall porpoise: (from the article "porpoise") The Dall porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) is the largest porpoise and the only member of its genus. Active and gregarious, it often rides the bow waves of ships. The Dall porpoise is black with a large white patch ...
Dall sheep: (from the article "Dall sheep") (Ovis dalli), species of bighorn (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicbighorn sheepoccurrence in Alaskan Mountains
Dalla Hill: (from the article "Kano") Dalla Hill (1,753 feet [534 m]) and Goron Dutse Hill (1,697 feet [517 m]) dominate the old city, which has lowland pools and borrow pits, source of the mud for building its square, flat-roofed houses. The population is mostly Hausa, ...
Dallaire, Lieut. Gen. Romeo: By the time that Canadian Lieut. Gen. Romeo A. Dallaire left Rwanda in 1994, the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission he led had been forced to watch helplessly as extremist ethnic Hutu butchered thousands of Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Wracked with ... [1 Related Articles]
Dallaji, Umaru: (from the article "Katsina") ...herdsmen settled in Katsina by the 15th century, and in 1804 the Fulani jihad (holy war) leader, Usman dan Fodio, led a revolt (beginning in Gobir) against the Hausa overlords. The Fulani leader Umaru Dallaji captured Katsina town in 1806 ...
Dallam, Thomas: prominent English organ builder, whose sons were also known for their organ-building.
Dallan Forgaill: chief Irish poet of his time, probably the author of the Amra Choluim Chille, or Elegy of St. Columba, one of the earliest Irish poems of any length. The poem was composed after St. Columba's death in 597 in the ... [1 Related Articles]
Dallapiccola, Luigi: Italian composer, noteworthy for putting the disciplined 12-tone serial technique at the service of warm, emotional expression. [2 Related Articles]
Dallas: city, Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwell, and Kaufman counties, seat (1846) of Dallas county, north-central Texas, U.S. It lies along the Trinity River near the junction of that river's three forks, in a region of prairies, tree-lined creeks and rivers, and ... [1 Related Articles]
Dallas: American television soap opera that revolutionized prime-time drama and was among the most popular programs of the 1980s. Dallas started as a five-part miniseries on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in April 1978 and continued to air for 13 full ... [1 Related Articles]
Dallas Aquarium: (from the article "Dallas Zoo") The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, which is operated by Dallas Zoo, opened in 1936 as part of the city's celebration of the Texas centennial. The aquarium features some 6,000 freshwater and saltwater species of fish, reptiles, and amphibians and ...
Dallas Cotton Exchange: (from the article "Dallas") Locally produced grain, leather, and especially cotton (grown in the black-clay fields around Dallas) fed the city's early growth and were followed by insurance and, later, oil. The Dallas Cotton Exchange was organized in 1907 and in the early decades ...
Dallas Cowboys: (from the article "Football") ...their fifth straight division titles in the AFC East and South, respectively, while Seattle (10-6) won its fourth straight in the NFC West, and San Diego (11-5) repeated in the AFC West. Dallas, which finished 13-3 under quarterback Tony Romo, ...
Dallas Mavericks: (from the article "Basketball") ...Heat, having waited through the first 18 seasons of its existence as a National Basketball Association franchise, secured the NBA title in the team's first appearance in the finals, defeating the Dallas Mavericks 95-92 in game six of the best-of-seven ...
Dallas Zoo: municipal zoological garden in Marsalis Park, Dallas, Texas, U.S. It is noted for its fine reptile and amphibian collection. Founded in 1888, the zoo houses about 1,500 specimens of more than 300 species on its 95-acre (38-hectare) site. It is ...
Dallas, Alexander J.: (from the article "Dallas, George Mifflin") Dallas was the son of Alexander J. Dallas, secretary of the Treasury (1814-16), and Arabella Maria Smith. In 1813 his father arranged for George to serve as a private secretary to Albert Gallatin, secretary of the Treasury (1801-14), on his ...
Dallas, George Mifflin: 11th vice president of the United States (1845-49) in the Democratic administration of President James K. Polk.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport: (from the article "airport") ...unit terminal is used wherever an airport passenger terminal system comprises more than one terminal. Unit terminals may be made up of a number of terminals of similar design (e.g., Dallas-Fort Worth and Kansas City in the United States), terminals ...
Dalle, Francois Leon Marie-Joseph: French business executive (b. March 18, 1918, Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France-d. Aug. 9, 2005, Geneva, Switz.), in his role as CEO (1957-84), built L'Oreal SA from a small French producer of salon-based hair products into a global mass marketer of cosmetics ...
Dalles, The: inland port, seat (1854) of Wasco county, Oregon, U.S., on the south bank of the Columbia River, 75 miles (121 km) east of Portland, within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The area around The Dalles is known to ...
Dallin, Cyrus Edwin: American sculptor, best known for equestrian portraits of American Indians.
dallis grass: (from the article "Paspalum") genus of annual and perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, containing about 400 species distributed throughout warm regions of the world. Some are valuable forage grasses. P. dilatatum, a South American species, is also grown in Australian and North American ...
Dallmeyer, John Henry: British inventor and manufacturer of lenses.
Dallmeyer, Thomas Rudolphus: (from the article "Dallmeyer, John Henry") His son Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (1859-1906) introduced telephoto lenses into ordinary practice (patented 1891) and wrote a standard book on the subject (Telephotography, 1899).
Dally, Clarence: (from the article "radiation") ...fingers to X rays and provided accurate observations on the burns produced. That same year, Thomas Alva Edison was engaged in developing a fluorescent X-ray lamp when he noticed that his assistant, Clarence Dally, was so "poisonously affected" by the ...
Dalmatia: region of Croatia, comprising a central coastal strip and a fringe of islands along the Adriatic Sea. Its greatest breadth, on the mainland, is about 28 miles (45 km), and its total length, from the Kvarner (Quarnero) gulf to the ... [8 Related Articles]
Dalmatian: dog breed named after the Adriatic coastal region of Dalmatia, Croatia, its first definite home. The origins of the breed are unknown. The Dalmatian has served as a sentinel, war dog, fire department mascot, hunter, shepherd, and performer. It is ...
Dalmatian language: extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast from the island of Veglia (modern Krk) to Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik). Ragusan Dalmatian probably disappeared in the 17th century; the Vegliot Dalmatian dialect became extinct in the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
Dalmatian sage: (from the article "sage") S. officinalis, which has many varieties, grows wild and is cultivated in many parts of the world. Dalmatian sage, held in high esteem, is warmly fragrant and slightly bitter. There are several other species of Salvia (q.v.) that are also ...
dalmatic: liturgical vestment worn over other vestments by Roman Catholic and some Anglican deacons. It probably originated in Dalmatia in Greece and was a commonly worn outer garment in the Roman world in the 3rd century and later. Gradually, it became ... [2 Related Articles]
Dalmatin, Jurij: (from the article "Slovene literature") ...of the Protestant Reformation. The Slovene Protestants, despite the lack of literary forebears, evinced a clear national consciousness: Primoz Trubar, who wrote the first Slovene book (1550), Jurij Dalmatin, who translated the Bible into Slovene (1584), and Adam Bohoric, who ...
Daloa: town, west-central Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), at the intersection of major north-south and east-west routes. It is the chief collecting point for a forest region that sends coffee, cocoa, kola nuts, and timber (sipo) to the coast for export. Daloa ...
Dalou Mountains: (from the article "Sichuan") ...attain an elevation between 11,000 and 13,000 feet (3,400 and 4,000 metres) above sea level. The limestone Daba Mountains rise to approximately 9,000 feet (2,700 metres) on the northeast, while the Dalou Mountains, a lower and less continuous range with ...
Dalou, Jules: French sculptor noted for allegorical group compositions of Baroque inspiration and for simpler studies of common people, representative of the naturalist trend in French sculpture. [1 Related Articles]
Dalpe, Jean Marc: (from the article "Canadian literature") ...in the early 1970s, achieved popular success with his musical comedy Lavalleville (1975). Continuing the theatrical tradition into the 1980s and 1990s, both Jean Marc Dalpe (Le Chien [1987; "The Dog"]) and Michel Ouellette ...
Dalradian Series: sequence of highly folded and metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of late Precambrian to Early Cambrian age, about 540 million years old, that occurs in the southeastern portions of the Scottish Highlands of Great Britain, where it occupies a belt ...
Dalriada: Gaelic kingdom that, at least from the 5th century AD, extended on both sides of the North Channel and composed the northern part of the present County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and part of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll, in Scotland. ... [5 Related Articles]
Dalrymple, Alexander: Scottish geographer, first hydrographer of the British Admiralty and proponent of the existence of a vast, populous continent in the South Pacific, which he called the Great South Land. [1 Related Articles]
Dalrymple, George: (from the article "Herbert River") ...at Halifax Bay in the Hinchinbrook Channel. A relatively deep stream, the longest tributary of which is Blunder Creek, it drains an area of 3,340 square miles (8,650 square km). Explored in 1864 by George Dalrymple, the river was named ...
Dalrymple, Ian Murray: (from the article "1938: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Bernard Shaw; adaptation by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb for PygmalionOriginal Story: Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary for Boys TownCinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg for The Great...
Dalrymple, Sir John: (from the article "William III") ...inquiry but took no further action until in 1695 the Scottish Parliament demanded a public investigation. He then showed culpable leniency to the offenders, merely dismissing from his secretaryship Sir John Dalrymple, on whom responsibility for the massacre was finally ...
Dalsland: landskap (province), southwestern Sweden, on the Norwegian border, one of the smaller traditional provinces in the country. It is bounded to the east by Lake Vanern, to the west by Norway and the province of Bohuslan, and to the north ...
Dalton: city, seat (1851) of Whitfield county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., encircled by the Cohutta Mountains. Although founded in 1837 as Cross Plains, it was renamed, probably, for the mother of Edward White (head of the syndicate that bought the townsite), whose ...
Dalton Brothers: four train and bank robbers famous in U.S. Western history: Grattan ("Grat"; 1861-92), William ("Bill"; 1863-94), Robert ("Bob"; 1870-92), and Emmett (1871-1937). Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. [1 Related Articles]
Dalton Defenders Museum: (from the article "Coffeyville") ...important trading and industrial centre. It is located in the mid-continent gas and oil field (natural gas was discovered there in 1892) and is the seat of Coffeyville Community College (1923). The Dalton Defenders Museum in Coffeyville commemorates local citizens ...
Dalton Plan: secondary-education technique based on individual learning. Developed by Helen Parkhurst in 1919, it was at first introduced at a school for the handicapped and then in 1920 in the high school of Dalton, Mass. The plan had grown out of ... [2 Related Articles]
Dalton's law: the statement that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual component gases. The partial pressure is the pressure that each gas would exert if it alone occupied ... [3 Related Articles]
Dalton, Emmet: (from the article "Dalton Brothers") four train and bank robbers famous in U.S. Western history: Grattan ("Grat"; 1861-92), William ("Bill"; 1863-94), Robert ("Bob"; 1870-92), and Emmett (1871-1937). Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers.
Dalton, John: English meteorologist and chemist, a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory. [15 Related Articles]
Dalton, Katharina Dorothea Kuipers: British gynecologist (b. Nov. 11, 1916, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 17, 2004, Poole, Dorset, Eng.), identified the symptoms suffered by women before and during their menstrual cycles as those of an actual physical disorder, which she called premenstrual syndrome, or PMS. ... [1 Related Articles]