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dakhni: (from the article "India") ...competing successfully for important positions within the political hierarchy. The original rebels from the Delhi sultanate and their descendants, who came to be called dakhnis (i.e., Deccanis-from the Deccan), thought of themselves as the old nobility and ...
Dakin's solution: antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite and developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin's solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, Henry Drysdale Dakin, and a French surgeon, Alexis Carrel, for ... [2 Related Articles]
Dakin, Henry Drysdale: (from the article "Dakin's solution") antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite and developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin's solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, Henry Drysdale Dakin, and a French surgeon, Alexis Carrel, for ...
dakkatsu: (from the article "kanshitsu") ...the surface details being subsequently modelled with a mixture of lacquer, sawdust, powdered clay stone, and other materials. The technique has two varieties: hollow kanshitsu (called dakkatsu), made by preparing the rough shape with clay and covering the surface with ...
Dakota Boom: (from the article "North Dakota") ...when railroads reached the Red River from St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. A flood of pioneers who had acquired land under the Homestead Act of 1862 turned to wheat farming. During the period known as the Dakota Boom (from 1878 ...
Dakota language: (from the article "The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band") ...the (notional) Sioux tribe encompassed a diverse group of linguistic and political entities; ironically, none of these ever used the ethnonym (self-name) Sioux. By the 19th century the speakers of Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota (dialects of a single language within ...
Dakota State University: (from the article "Madison") ...1880 the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad passed through a homestead that lay about 5 miles (8 km) northwest, and the residents of Madison and nearby Herman moved their towns to that site. Dakota State University was founded there ...
Daksheshwar temple: (from the article "Haridwar") ...footprint of Vishnu impressed into a stone. Large numbers of pilgrims gather there annually at the beginning of the Hindu solar year in April; a Kumbh Mela (q.v.) is held every 12th year. The Daksheshwar (Siva) temple, another important pilgrimage ...
Daksinapatha: (from the article "India") ...the military prowess of the Guptas. Samudra Gupta acquired Pataliputra (present-day Patna), which was to become the Gupta capital. Proceeding down the eastern coast, he also conquered the states of Dakshinapatha but reinstated the vanquished rulers.
Dal River: (from the article "Sweden") ...of the lake's southern end to the North Sea; along its southernmost course are the famous falls of Trollhattan. The Muonio and Torne rivers form the frontier with Finland, and in the south the Dal River marks the transition to ...
Dalaborg, Treaty of: (from the article "Sweden") ...charters stripping him of his powers (1371 and 1383). At the end of the 1380s Albert had plans to reassert his power, primarily by recalling the royal lands that had been given to the nobles; in 1388 the Swedish nobles ...
Dalada Maligava: (from the article "relic") ...a number of shrines dedicated to them throughout Asia. Most famous of these sarira ("corporeal relics") is the left canine tooth, honoured at the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, Sri Lanka. Other shrines reportedly have housed ...
Daladier, Edouard: French politician who as premier signed the Munich Pact (Sept. 30, 1938), an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland (a region of Czechoslovakia) without fear of opposition from either Britain or France. [6 Related Articles]
Dalai Lama: head of the dominant Dge-lugs-pa (Yellow Hat) order of Tibetan Buddhists and, until 1959, both spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet. [15 Related Articles]
Dalai Lama XIV: title of the Tibetan Buddhist monk Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho (Tenzin Gyatso), the 14th Dalai Lama but the first to become a global figure, largely for his advocacy of Buddhism and of the rights of the people of Tibet. Despite his fame, he ... [2 Related Articles]
Dalandzadgad: town, south-central Mongolia, in the Gobi Desert. It is connected by road to Ulaanbaatar, the national capital, 320 miles (514 km) north-northeast. Local brown and bituminous coal deposits are worked commercially. Industries include cement production. Pop. (1999 est.) 12,800.
Dalarna: lan (county) and traditional landskap (province), central Sweden. It extends from the Norwegian border in the west nearly to the town of Gavle, on the Gulf of Bothnia in the east. Dalarna county came ... [1 Related Articles]
Dalberg, Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, duc de: nephew and heir of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, and minister and foreign envoy under Napoleon and Louis XVIII of France. As Baden's envoy in Paris from 1803 he became a close friend of Talleyrand. Entering the French service in 1809, ...
Dalberg, Heribert von: (from the article "Schiller, Friedrich von") ...detention and forbade him to write any more plays. To escape from this intolerable situation, Schiller fled from Stuttgart at night and set out for Mannheim in the hope of receiving help from Heribert Baron von Dalberg, the director of ...
Dalberg, Karl Theodor von: archbishop of Mainz and arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, primate of Germany, and president of the Confederation of the Rhine. A member of an important German noble family, he studied canon law at Gottingen and Heidelberg and entered the ... [1 Related Articles]
Dalby: town, southeastern Queensland, Australia. It lies along Myall Creek near the Condamine River. Founded as Myall Creek Station in 1841, it was renamed for Dalby, on the Isle of Man, in the British Isles. It became a town in 1854. ...
Dalcroze method: (from the article "Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile") ...and regular current of communication between brain and body." His pupils were taught to indicate note values by movements of the feet and body and time values by movements of the arms. The Dalcroze method (or a modified version of ...
Dale Hollow Lake: (from the article "Obey River") ...Fork Obey rivers in southern Pickett county. It flows north and west to join the Cumberland River at Celina after a course of about 60 miles (100 km). Dale Hollow Dam, finished in 1943, impounds Dale Hollow Lake, which has ...
Dale's principle: (from the article "nervous system") ...it is especially concentrated, the concept leading to the identification of the substance as a neurotransmitter of the central nervous system is a landmark in neuroscience. The concept is called Dale's principle after Sir Henry Dale, a British physiologist who, ...
Dale, Dick: (from the article "surf music") genre of popular music that arose in southern California in the early 1960s. As the sport of surfing became increasingly popular on the West Coast of the United States, Dick Dale and the Del-Tones provided the soundtrack, beginning with
Dale, Richard: American naval officer during the American Revolution.
Dale, Sir Henry: English physiologist who in 1936 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the German pharmacologist Otto Loewi for their discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. [4 Related Articles]
Dale, Sir Thomas: (from the article "Pocahontas") ...during her captivity, Pocahontas was converted to Christianity and was baptized Rebecca. She accepted a proposal of marriage from John Rolfe, a distinguished settler; both the Virginia governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and Chief Powhatan agreed to the marriage, which took ...
Dalea spinosa: (from the article "smoke tree") any of several plant species whose foliage suggests clouds of smoke. Dalea spinosa is a spiny, grayish green shrub, of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to arid regions of southwestern North America. It has sparse foliage and bears bluish violet ...
Dalen, Cornelius van, II: (from the article "printmaking") Portrait engraving in Holland was on a higher level than in Germany. Cornelis van Dalen was a fine engraver who emigrated to England and died there. More gifted than his father, Cornelis van Dalen II was an artist of considerable ...
Dalen, Nils: Swedish engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for his invention of the automatic sun valve, or Solventil, which regulates a gaslight source by the action of sunlight, turning it off at dawn and on at dusk ... [1 Related Articles]
daler: (from the article "coin") ...there was highly curious money of necessity (i.e., a coinage struck to fulfill a need, usually in time of war and siege, but with inadequate technical means available). The small copper daler was struck, sometimes plated; types included Roman divinities. ...
Daley, Richard J: mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death; he was reelected every fourth year through 1975. Daley was called "the last of the big-city bosses" because of his tight control of Chicago politics through widespread job patronage. He attained great ... [6 Related Articles]
Daley, Richard M.: American lawyer and politician, who became mayor of Chicago in 1989 and who played a major role in transforming it into a dynamic international city. [2 Related Articles]
Dalgaranga Crater: small meteorite crater near Dalgaranga, Western Australia. Known earlier but not attributed to meteoritic origin until 1938, it is 70 feet (21 m) in diameter and 11 feet deep. Both iron and stony meteorite fragments have been collected at the ...
Dalgarno, George: (from the article "logic, history of") ...The goal of a universal language had already been suggested by Descartes for mathematics as a "universal mathematics"; it had also been discussed extensively by the English philologist George Dalgarno (c. 1626-87) and, for mathematical language and communication, by the ...
Dalhousie: town in Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Restigouche River on Chaleur Bay, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Campbellton. Icebreakers keep the harbour open during the winter months and clear a route ...
Dalhousie: city, northwestern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. Situated in the Himalayan foothills at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 m), it is 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Pathankot, with which it is linked by road. A hill station, Dalhousie ...
Dalhousie Springs: (from the article "Oodnadatta") ...little produce. The town's name, which is Aboriginal (as is much of its population), means "blossom of the mulga," in reference to local species of acacia trees. North of Oodnadatta is Dalhousie Springs, which is likely the largest area of ...
Dalhousie University: privately endowed institution of higher learning located in Halifax, Canada. It was founded in 1818 as Dalhousie College by the 9th earl of Dalhousie, then lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, and became a university in 1863. The school developed rapidly ...
Dalhousie, Fox Maule Ramsay, 11th Earl of: British secretary of state for war (1855-58) who shared the blame for the conduct of the last stage of the Crimean War.
Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Marquess and 10th Earl of: British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the map of modern India, through his conquests and annexations of independent provinces, and of the centralized Indian state. So radical were Dalhousie's changes and ... [4 Related Articles]
Dali: site of paleoanthropological excavations near Jiefang village in Dali district, Shaanxi (Shensi) province, China, best known for the 1978 discovery of a well-preserved cranium that is about 200,000 years old. It resembles that of Homo erectus in having prominent browridges, ...
Dali: historical town, west-central Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated in a fertile basin on the west side of Lake Er; since 1983 historical Dali has been administered as a town under the city also called ... [1 Related Articles]
Dali: city, western Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated at the southern end of Lake Er in a fertile basin about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the historical town of Dali. The city has traditionally ... [1 Related Articles]
Dali cranium: (from the article "Dali") site of paleoanthropological excavations near Jiefang village in Dali district, Shaanxi (Shensi) province, China, best known for the 1978 discovery of a well-preserved cranium that is about 200,000 years old. It resembles that of Homo erectus in having prominent browridges, ...
Dali, Salvador: Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker, influential for his explorations of subconscious imagery. [4 Related Articles]
Dalian: city and port, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It consists of the formerly independent cities of Dalian and Lushun, which were amalgamated (as Luda) in 1950; in 1981 the name Dalian was restored, and Lushun became ... [4 Related Articles]
Dalin, Olof von: writer and historian who wrote the first easily readable and popular Swedish works and who helped bring the ideas of the Enlightenment into Swedish culture. [1 Related Articles]
Dalip Singh: Sikh maharaja of Lahore (1843-49) during his childhood.
Dalitz, Richard Henry: Australian-born nuclear physicist (b. Feb. 28, 1925, Dimboola, Vic., Australia-d. Jan. 13, 2006, Oxford, Eng.), was celebrated for having devised the Dalitz plot and demonstrated the existence of Dalitz pairs, work that made possible many other discoveries in particle physics. ...