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- (from the article "Arges River") ...across the Danube Plain to enter the Danube near Oltenita. Its length is 203 miles (327 km), and the area of its basin is 4,850 square miles (12,550 square km). Its major tributary is the Dambovita, which flows through Bucharest ...
- dambuster
- (from the article "Wallis, Sir Barnes") British aeronautical designer and military engineer who invented the innovative "dambuster" bombs used in World War II.
- dame school
- small private school for young children run by women; such schools were the precursors of nursery, or infant, schools in England and colonial America. They existed in England possibly before the 16th century in both towns and rural areas and ...
- dame's rocket
- (Hesperis matronalis), Eurasian plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) that is widely naturalized in North America and Great Britain. A garden ornamental with flowers of violet-like fragrance, dame's rocket reaches about 90 cm (3 feet) in height. It bears narrow, ...
- Dameron, Tadd
- black American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, especially noted during the bop era for the melodic beauty and warmth of the songs he composed.
- Dames Point Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...360 metres (1,200 feet). It, too, employs a single plane of cables, but these remain in one plane that fans out down the centre of the deck. The longest cable-stayed bridge in the United States is Dames Point Bridge (1987), ...
- Damghan
- town, northern Iran. It lies at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,200 metres), just southeast of the Elburz Mountains on a large, barren gravel plain. It is on the road and railway between Tehran and Meshed. Possibly the oldest mosque ...
- Damiao, Frei
- , Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic monk who walked from town to town in northeastern Brazil preaching to poor villagers, who considered him a saint capable of performing miracles (b. Nov. 5, 1898--d. May 31, 1997).
- Damien, Father
- Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers. [1 Related Articles]
- Damiens, Robert-Francois
- French fanatic who in 1757 made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of King Louis XV.
- Damietta
- city, capital of Dumyat muhafazah (governorate), in the Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast. Damietta, the port of the governorate, is located 8 miles (13 km) from the Mediterranean, on the right (east) bank ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damietta
- (from the article "Nile River") ...distributaries. The flow has since been controlled and redirected, so that the river now flows across the delta to the sea through two main distributaries, the Rosetta and the Dumyat (Damietta) branches.
- Daming calendar
- (from the article "Zu Gengzhi") Beginning in 504, Zu Gengzhi actively advocated his father's calendar (the Daming calendar) and finally succeeded in getting it officially adopted in 510. His astronomical observations with gnomons allowed him to measure the angular distance between Polaris and the celestial ...
- Damir, Al-
- town, northeastern Sudan. It lies on the right (east) bank of the Nile River, about 155 miles (250 km) northeast of Khartoum. Located at an elevation of 1,158 feet (353 metres), it is a local commercial centre for the date-producing ...
- Damiri, ad-
- Muslim theologian, best known for his encyclopaedia of animals.
- Dammam, Al-
- city, eastern Saudi Arabia. It lies on the Persian Gulf northwest of Bahrain Island and forms a larger metropolitan and industrial complex with Al-Khubar, Al-Qatif, and Al-Zahran. The discovery of immense oil reserves in the locality in 1938 led to ... [1 Related Articles]
- dammar
- any of a variety of hard varnish resins obtained from coniferous and hardwood trees characteristic of Southeast and East Asia. These include the conifer genus Agathis (family Araucariaceae), such flowering plants as Shorea (especially S. wiesneri) and other genera of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dammartin
- medieval French countship, whose seat was at Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Meaux (in the modern departement of Seine-et-Marne).
- Dammastock
- (from the article "Uri") ...of the canton's area is reckoned as productive. Forests occupy part of the canton, and more than 20 percent of the unproductive area in Uri is covered with glaciers. The highest summit in Uri is the Dammastock (11,909 feet [3,630 ...
- dammusa
- (from the article "Arabian Desert") ...locusts and other insects. Many lizards, including skinks, geckos, agamids, and collared lizards, are found in the sand. Lively and pretty, a salmon-coloured lizard, the dammusa seeks the black beetle for food and literally dives and swims ...
- damnatio memoriae
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...also renounced their allegiance, Nero lost his nerve and committed suicide. He brought the Julio-Claudian dynasty to an ignominious end by being the first emperor to suffer damnatio memoriae-his reign was officially stricken from the record by ...
- damnation
- (from the article "The Protestant Heritage") ...of people are not saved, does this not mean that God is responsible for creating humans only to have them suffer and is he not guilty of the worst kind of cruelty by being the sole agent of human damnation?
- Damnonii
- (from the article "Clackmannanshire") The early inhabitants belonged to the great Celtic tribe known to the Romans as Damnonii; they may have been the ancestors of the Picts who lived there afterward. Later the historic county was part of the district of Mannan, disputed ...
- Damocles
- a courtier of Dionysius I of Syracuse, in Sicily, tyrant from 405 to 367 BC. The courtier is known to history through the legend of the "Sword of Damocles."
- Damodar River
- river in northeastern India, rising with its many tributaries, notably the Bokaro and Konar, in the Chota Nagpur plateau of south-central Bihar state. It follows a generally eastward course for 368 miles (592 km) through West Bengal to join the ...
- Damodar Valley
- (from the article "Chota Nagpur") ...in its entirety lies between the basins of the Ganges and Son rivers to the north and the Mahanadi River to the south; through its centre, from west to east, runs the coal-bearing, faulted Damodar Valley. Numerous streams have dissected ...
- Damodar Valley Corporation
- (from the article "Burdwan") ...and swampy. The western region is one of the busiest industrial tracts in West Bengal, with rich coal, fireclay, and iron-ore deposits, especially in the Raniganj coalfield area. The Damodar Valley Corporation provides irrigation, industrial power supply, and flood control. ...
- Damoh
- town, central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. An agricultural trade centre, it has industries that include oilseed milling, handloom weaving and dyeing, and the manufacture of bell-metal vessels and pottery. The town has a weekly cattle market. Damoh rose to ...
- Damon
- (from the article "Pericles") The only name associated with his early education is that of the musical theorist Damon, whose influence, it is said, was not just confined to music. The arrival of the Sophist philosophers in Athens occurred during his middle life, and ...
- Damon, Matt
- American actor, screenwriter, and producer, who was noted for his clean-cut good looks and intelligent performances. He won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997).
- Damophon
- ancient Greek sculptor of Messene, who executed many statues at Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium, and other cities of the Peloponnesus. Soon after 183 BC he repaired Phidias' sculpture of Zeus at Olympia, which had been damaged by an earthquake. Considerable fragments, ...
- damoz
- (from the article "Amhara") Descent is reckoned patrilineally, and married couples usually reside near the husband's home. The Amhara practice three types of marriage: kal kidan, qurban, and damoz. Kal kidan (also called serat or semanya ["eighty"]) is marriage by civil contract. It is ...
- damp-fold drapery
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...artists to a more organic, if expressively attenuated, conception of the human body. Drapery is now stretched and gathered, with sinuous folds isolating curving islands of taut cloth (so-called damp-fold drapery) to describe three-dimensional forms in torsion. Faces are more ...
- damped vibration
- (from the article "mechanics") The simple harmonic oscillations discussed above continue forever, at constant amplitude, oscillating as shown in Figure 3 between A and −A. Common experience indicates that real oscillators behave somewhat differently, however. Harmonic oscillations tend to die away as time goes ...
- damper
- (from the article "piano") ...are therefore much louder than were those of the 18th century, an increase in loudness necessitated in part by the size of 19th-century concert halls. Of the three pedals found on most pianos, the damper pedal on the right lifts ...
- damper winding
- (from the article "electric motor") This additional rotor winding is usually referred to as a damper winding because of its additional property of damping out any oscillation that might be caused by sudden changes in the load on the rotor when in synchronism. Adjustment to ...
- Dampier
- town and port in Roebourne shire, northwestern Western Australia, on Nickol Bay (an inlet of the Indian Ocean). Beginning in 1965, it was built to handle iron ore mined at Mount Tom Price (182 miles [293 km] south) and Paraburdoo ... [1 Related Articles]
- Dampier Archipelago
- (from the article "Dampier, William") ...He sailed from England on Jan. 14, 1699, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Shark Bay off western Australia on July 26. After exploring the coast northward to what was thereafter called Dampier Archipelago, he went on to ...
- Dampier, William
- buccaneer who later explored parts of the coasts of Australia, New Guinea, and New Britain for the British Admiralty. A keen observer of natural phenomena, he was, in some respects, a pioneer in scientific exploration. [6 Related Articles]
- Dampierre, Chateau de
- (from the article "garden and landscape design") ...sophistication, it remained an inward-looking, essentially medieval garden. The first sign of prolongation and calculated extension of vision beyond the garden proper appeared in the grounds of Dampierre. Here the moat that formerly surrounded French castles became an ornamental body ...
- damping
- in physics, restraining of vibratory motion, such as mechanical oscillations, noise, and alternating electric currents, by dissipation of energy. Unless a child keeps pumping a swing, its motion dies down because of damping. Shock absorbers in automobiles and carpet pads ... [3 Related Articles]
- damping capacity
- (from the article "magnesium processing") Magnesium applications are motivated by the light weight, high strength, high damping capacity, close dimensional tolerance, and ease of fabrication of its alloys. Applications include hand tools, sporting goods, luggage frames, cameras, household appliances, business machines, and automobile parts. The ...
- damping-off
- disease of plant seedlings, caused by such seed- and soil-borne fungi as Rhizoctonia solani, Aphanomyces cochlioides, and species of Pythium, Phytophthora, Botrytis, Fusarium, Cylindrocladium, Diplodia, Phoma, and Alternaria. There are two types of damping-off: preemergence, in which sprouting seeds decay ...
- Damrei Mountains
- north-south-trending range of high hills, an offshoot of the Kravanh Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Extending 70 miles (110 km) north from the Gulf of Thailand, they reach a high point in the Bok Kou ridge at Mount Bokor (3,547 feet [1,081 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Damrong Rajanubhab
- Thai prince, son of King Mongkut and brother of King Chulalongkorn. He was the founder of modern education and provincial administration and was Thailand's leading intellectual of his generation.
- Damrosch, Walter
- Prussian-born American orchestral conductor and composer whose activities spanned more than half a century of American musical life.
- damsel bug
- any predacious insect in the true bug order, Heteroptera, that feeds on insect eggs, aphids, and small caterpillars. Damsel bugs are generally divided into two types. One is about 8 mm (0.3 inch) long and yellow-brown in colour with well-developed ... [1 Related Articles]
- damselfish
- any of about 250 species of small, primarily tropical marine fishes of the family Pomacentridae (order Perciformes) found in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Damselfishes are deep-bodied and usually have forked tails. They resemble the related cichlids and, like them, ... [1 Related Articles]
- damselfly
- any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings. Damselflies are generally smaller, more delicate, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Damson plum
- (from the article "plum") ...Sea. According to the earliest writings in which the plum is mentioned, the species is at least 2,000 years old. Another Old World plum species, probably of European or Asiatic origin, is the Damson plum (Prunus institia). Ancient writings connect ...
- Damu
- in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity, city god of Girsu, east of Ur in the southern orchards region. Damu, son of Enki, was a vegetation god, especially of the vernal flowing of the sap of trees and plants. His name means ... [1 Related Articles]
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