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72a9bed5a1f30caf4a85fc8f9658cda3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Desirable-Daughters | Desirable Daughters | Desirable Daughters
Desirable Daughters (2002) attracted considerable acclaim for its intricate depictions of Indian caste relations and the immigrant experience of reconciling disparate worldviews. Mukherjee delved further into the family history of the characters from that novel in The Tree Bride (2004), broaching is... |
ef505afbfb3eddc2e97113da0720b4f0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/desk | Desk | Desk
Desk, a table, frame, or case with a sloping or horizontal top particularly designed to aid writing or reading, and often containing drawers, compartments, or pigeonholes.
The first desks were probably designed for ecclesiastical use. Early English desks derived from the church lectern were massive; after the dev... |
4c7441819317dc71003453c04fc56a82 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Desperate-Journey | Desperate Journey | Desperate Journey
Desperate Journey was a tale of five Allied pilots (Ronald Reagan among them) who are shot down over Germany and try to make their way back to England. Gentleman Jim was a biopic of boxing champ Jim Corbett (with Ward Bond as a memorable John…
…soldier in several films, including Desperate Journey (19... |
e4ffeadd7558e85cd6cf53b64731cbd8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Desperate-Youth-Blood-Thirsty-Babes | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
…the group’s first full-fledged LP, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004). Though Bunton played drums on that album, he and Smith did not officially join the band until after its release. With a foundation of eccentrically timed drum loops and droning electronics adorned with ... |
f04550bb369302fd1f28d99f46ab46c3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Despicable-Me | Despicable Me | Despicable Me
…addition, Andrews voiced characters in Despicable Me (2010), Despicable Me 3 (2017), and Aquaman (2018). In 2011 she won a Grammy Award for Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies, a spoken-word album for children, and she was honoured with a special Grammy for lifetime achievement.
…the... |
fcbc54af6bba6317a23fa19f10abc225 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Despicable-Me-3 | Despicable Me 3 | Despicable Me 3
…characters in Despicable Me (2010), Despicable Me 3 (2017), and Aquaman (2018). In 2011 she won a Grammy Award for Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies, a spoken-word album for children, and she was honoured with a special Grammy for lifetime achievement.
…in two sequels (2013 and 2... |
c2a6f1f63c1669075ef08f8be73affda | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Destiny-Fulfilled | Destiny Fulfilled | Destiny Fulfilled
…reunited in 2004 to release Destiny Fulfilled. While generally not as acclaimed as the group’s previous efforts, the album sold more than seven million copies worldwide and spawned several hit singles. The trio embarked on a world tour in 2005, during which they announced that the group would officia... |
bfa113f4c899ce924f2888a24a464b9d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Destour | Destour | Destour
Destour, byname of al-Ḥizb al-Ḥurr al-Dustūrī al-Tūnisī, English Tunisian Liberal Constitutional Party, Tunisian political party, especially active in the 1920s and ’30s in arousing Tunisian national consciousness and opposition to the French protectorate.
The forerunner of the Destour, the Young Tunisians, ha... |
e476d9e4d73aa69b7bccc8fd169b3c44 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/desuggestopedia | Desuggestopedia | Desuggestopedia
…ordinary social situations; and “desuggestopedia,” which involves removing by suggestion feelings or beliefs in students that limit their ability to learn.
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69b89e11587feaffb9dc18c7277db835 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detainee-Treatment-Act | Detainee Treatment Act | Detainee Treatment Act
…revelations, Congress eventually passed the Detainee Treatment Act, which banned the “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment of prisoners in U.S. military custody. Although the measure became law with Bush’s signature in December 2005, he added a “signing statement” in which he reserved the rig... |
d9822f4ac78fb2477ac812fcf49ce500 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/detective | Detective | Detective
…and superior mind of the detective; and (5) the startling and unexpected denouement, in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained. Detective stories frequently operate on the principle that superficially convincing evidence is ultimately irrelevant. Usually it is also axioma... |
52bf631750776aef5ba31cb5d35b3205 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/determinism | Determinism | Determinism
Determinism, in philosophy, theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Determinism is usually understood to preclude free will because it entails that humans cannot act otherwise than they do. The theory holds that the universe is utterly ratio... |
b5be288d49e568c68552dbf31430d9f6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detour | Detour | Detour
Detour, American low-budget crime drama that was virtually ignored upon its initial release in 1945 but was later championed by film critics and such directors as Martin Scorsese as one of the high points of the film noir genre.
Al Roberts (played by Tom Neal) is a hitchhiker who assumes a benefactor’s identity... |
4b48e07437e4638c9009faa02ded63fe | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detroit-film | Detroit | Detroit
…also collaborated with Boal on Detroit (2017), about the city’s 1967 riot.
…for Osama bin Laden, and Detroit (2017), focusing on the city’s 1967 riots. While Bigelow acquitted herself as a master of action pictures, Jenkins staked out a claim on superhero movies. She made her debut with Monster (2003), about s... |
6085e464cda0e4c9e13549bcfda85561 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detroit-News | Detroit News | Detroit News
…Free Press and the daily Detroit News, owned by the Gannett newspaper chain, resulted in heavy financial losses by both newspapers and threatened to collapse the Free Press. In 1989, following the approval of the U.S. attorney general, the papers’ advertising, business, production, and circulation departm... |
3939dafb1bcc638b5ed45d31b22fbc75 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detroit-Newspaper-Agency | Detroit Newspaper Agency | Detroit Newspaper Agency
…into a new company, the Detroit Newspaper Agency, owned equally by Knight Ridder and Gannett. The two newspapers retained distinct editorial staffs and continued to publish separate daily editions, although they published combined Saturday and Sunday editions. The Free Press led the News in ci... |
5e3c518d785c83700ccfd8a852f0585f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Detroit-Symphony-Orchestra | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
…principal guest conductor with the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005 and was music adviser of the St. Louis (Missouri) Symphony from 2002 to 2004. Perlman was also a teacher, regularly giving violin master classes and cofounding in 1998 (with his wife, Toby) the Perlman Music Program to enc... |
9a3da82171396b019e5257afa13ddfb4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deuces-Wild | Deuces Wild | Deuces Wild
On Deuces Wild (1997), King enlisted such artists as Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, and Eric Clapton to create a fusion of blues, pop, and country that dominated the blues charts for almost two years. Clapton and King collaborated on the more straightforward blues album
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45d2f340c3384f53002ee2e53b800659 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deuteronomist | Deuteronomist | Deuteronomist
Deuteronomist, (D), one of the supposed sources of a portion of the Hebrew canon known as the Pentateuch, in particular, the source of the book of Deuteronomy, as well as of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. (The other sources are the Yahwist [J], the Elohist [E], and the Priestly code [P].) D uses a d... |
634f603b960769d2ef78aa7a57147366 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deutsch-Franzosische-Jahrbucher | Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher | Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher
…contributed two articles to the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (“German-French Yearbooks”), which were edited by Marx in Paris. In them Engels put forth an early version of the principles of scientific socialism. He revealed what he regarded as the contradictions in liberal economic do... |
beeb0a273b2934ba8e08358b54a292f7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deutsche-Telekom-AG | Deutsche Telekom AG | Deutsche Telekom AG
…leading German telecommunications company is Deutsche Telekom AG. During the late 1990s the entire sector was liberalized, increasing the number of telecommunications firms and competition for Deutsche Telekom from companies such as Vodafone and Telefónica Germany. The adoption of telecommunication... |
c81aa1faff82cd21c2dc32e448ba8f04 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deutscher-Monistenbund | Deutscher Monistenbund | Deutscher Monistenbund
…served as president of the Deutscher Monistenbund, a scientistic quasi-religion founded by the German zoologist and evolutionary proponent Ernst Haeckel.
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3ba917ee048d33b973bfc2b41c010b03 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deutscher-Werkbund | Deutscher Werkbund | Deutscher Werkbund
Deutscher Werkbund, English German Association of Craftsmen, important organization of artists influential in its attempts to inspire good design and craftsmanship for mass-produced goods and architecture. The Werkbund, which was founded in Munich in 1907, was composed of artists, artisans, and arch... |
8cc360bfab03c1506449c847c1f8d276 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deutschlandlied | Deutschlandlied | Deutschlandlied
Deutschlandlied, (German: “Song of Germany”) official national anthem of Germany from 1922 to 1945, of West Germany from 1950 to 1990, and of reunified Germany from 1990.
The tune of the German national anthem was composed in 1796 by Austrian Joseph Haydn and was first performed in 1797 for the birthda... |
985003e3b1f9fa4da599f54539919c13 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deux | Deux | Deux
Deux (1975; “Two”) dramatizes a conflict between woman and writer represented by two sides of a single narrator. L’Enragé (1978; “The Furious One”) is a fictional biography of Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, while in L’Infini chez soi (1980; “The Infinite at Home”) a…
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d749f649f073db6780cc4691478dbba5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Development-Assistance-Committee | Development Assistance Committee | Development Assistance Committee
Development Assistance Committee (DAC), international committee acting under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The DAC collects and analyzes development data and provides a forum where the world’s major bilateral aid donors meet to discu... |
3e284a348deba92469c3d25cbdd7c266 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devi-Mahatmya | Devi Mahatmya | Devi Mahatmya
Devi Mahatmya, Sanskrit text, written about the 5th or 6th century ce, that forms a portion of a larger work known as the Markandeya-purana. It is the first such text that revolves entirely around the figure of the Goddess (Devi) as the primary deity.
While goddesses were worshiped in India before this p... |
a31315944a786282a7fd2a3f1c89384b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devil-in-a-Blue-Dress-1995-film | Devil in a Blue Dress | Devil in a Blue Dress
…the protagonist (Denzel Washington), in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), based on the first novel by Walter Mosley.
…Philadelphia (1993), the hard-boiled mystery Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and the military thriller Crimson Tide (1995). The latter was the first of several popular movies he made wi... |
b4827188c84a72e0f0759c9a8d878476 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devils-Knot | Devil’s Knot | Devil’s Knot
…movies included the crime drama Devil’s Knot (2013), about the West Memphis Three, and Remember (2015), in which an Auschwitz survivor suffering from dementia searches for a former Nazi official. Guest of Honour (2019) centres on the relationship between a woman wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct and ... |
bf350b04d64db0a53f2cbee9e3f5a4b2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devils-Night | Devil’s Night | Devil’s Night
…year he recorded the album Devil’s Night with D12 and toured with the group. He also created his own record label, Shady Records. The D12 collective, 50 Cent, and other rappers signed to and released albums with the label.
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b8e40bad96dc3e440bbd006b1cb120c3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devo | Devo | Devo
Devo, American new-wave band from Akron, Ohio, that took its name from devolution, the theory of humankind’s regression that informed the band’s music and stage act. Devo enjoyed commercial success in the early 1980s. The band members were Mark Mothersbaugh (b. May 18, 1950, Akron, Ohio, U.S.), Jerry Casale (b. J... |
18d706ea775ddea47c9282e6c35f0d05 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devotion-by-Smith | Devotion | Devotion
Devotion (2017) is an installment in Yale University Press’s Why I Write series. In 2016 Smith accepted Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature on his behalf.
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5ad2dabad2e1f2ef36ce07bb4e849cd4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dewey-Phillips-1688474 | Dewey Phillips | Dewey Phillips
Broadcasting on WHBQ in Memphis six nights a week from 9:00 pm until midnight, Dewey Phillips was tremendously popular with both black and white listeners in the 1950s. An excitable, flamboyant good old boy who seemed to have stepped from the pages of Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” comic strips but who played cu... |
5186fff00189d3cd1515b5fcb758548b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dextre | Dextre | Dextre
…astronauts brought the Canadian robot, Dextre, which was so sophisticated that it would be able to perform tasks that previously would have required astronauts to make space walks, and the first part of Kibo. In June 2008 the main part of Kibo was installed.
…carried the Canadian robot manipulator Dextre.
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d553bc37370b834e27f3f814a7d2b515 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dHondt-formula | D’Hondt formula | D’Hondt formula
…latter referred to as the d’Hondt rule, named after Belgian Victor d’Hondt). Under the largest-remainder rule a quota is set, and each party is assigned one seat for each time it meets the quota. These votes are deducted from each party’s total, and when no party has enough votes remaining…
Under the d... |
5d4923125234ad1f2793a767c32b45b5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diabelli-Variations-Op-120 | Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 | Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, in full Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, group of musical variations for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, completed in 1823 and considered one of his monumental works for the instrument. By manipulating tempi, dynamics, and themes and by addi... |
d466e0ed202e25b6df1c2ddecf6a31e3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diablo | Diablo | Diablo
Diablo, groundbreaking fantasy role-playing electronic game released in 1997 by the American company Blizzard Entertainment (now Activision Blizzard). Set in and under the fictional city of Tristam, Diablo sent players on a journey through a series of dungeons to eventually do battle with Diablo, Lord of Terror... |
1c32f3dd9382d12423d415ec12e190d4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diagnostic-and-Statistical-Manual-of-Mental-Disorders | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), publication of the American Psychiatric Association detailing diagnostic criteria for hundreds of psychiatric disorders. The manual is the standard resource of the mental health industry in the United Sta... |
93c8162db079ce8abf4589562d70fa7f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dialogue-painting-series-by-Lee-Ufan | Dialogue | Dialogue
His later minimalist Dialogue series, begun in 2006, again employed mineral pigments on canvas; their composition consisted of one, two, or three short, broad brushstrokes placed so as to suggest resonance and echo within the surrounding white space.
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88661ddf0acf407f71a8a6acc8e3b07f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dialogues-des-Carmelites | Dialogues des Carmélites | Dialogues des Carmélites
Dialogues des Carmélites, screenplay by Georges Bernanos, published posthumously in French as a drama in 1949 and translated as The Fearless Heart and The Carmelites. In Dialogues des Carmélites, Bernanos examined the religious themes of innocence, sacrifice, and death. Based on Gertrud von Le... |
91346fc8f826783baa1d9f044f29113c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diamond-v-Chakrabarty | Diamond v. Chakrabarty | Diamond v. Chakrabarty
…Court, in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, resolved the matter by ruling that “a live human-made microorganism is patentable subject matter.” This decision spawned a wave of new biotechnology firms and the infant industry’s first investment boom. In 1982 recombinant insulin became the first p... |
620ef324a8379b25ce53533fbe75aaab | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diamonds-Are-Forever | Diamonds Are Forever | Diamonds Are Forever
…return to the role for Diamonds Are Forever (1971), which he declared was his last movie as Bond.
…Bond movies: “Moonraker” (1979), “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), and especially “Goldfinger” (1964).
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ec4f57dced0c94e9e4ed2af14beed47a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dian-Cecht | Dian Cécht | Dian Cécht
Dian Cécht, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the gods of Celtic Ireland. He was the physician of the gods and father of Cian, who in turn was the father of the most important god, Lugh (see Lugus). When Nuadu, the king of the gods, had his hand cut off in the battle of Mag Tuired, Dian Cécht fashioned him a sil... |
c88965e0a1adf9b4260e0d085a1b8e5e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diaspora-Judaism | Diaspora | Diaspora
Diaspora, (Greek: “Dispersion”) Hebrew Galut (Exile), the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered “in exile” outside Palestine or present-day Israel. Although the term refers to the physical dispersal of Jews throughout the worl... |
c929439bf6bb944abd30a9419987a233 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dibi | Dibi | Dibi
Dibi, a Senegalese dish consisting of roasted meat, usually lamb, that has been seasoned, grilled, and cut into pieces. It is typically served with grilled onions, mustard, and bread. Dibi is commonly prepared and sold by street vendors or can be purchased in small, minimal eateries called dibiteries.
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d4cd05ea04f5728812742522139b8688 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dicastery | Dicastery | Dicastery
Dicastery, a judicial body in ancient Athens. Dicasteries were divisions of the Heliaea from the time of the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes (c. 508–507 bc), when the Heliaea was transformed from an appellate court to a court with original jurisdiction. Each year 6,000 volunteers, who were required to be m... |
80de74efe8bb4dd844ce79cd2bd1929f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dick-Biondi-1688331 | Dick Biondi | Dick Biondi
The fast-talking wild man of Chicago radio, Dick Biondi called himself “The Screamer,” “The Big Mouth,” “The Big Noise from Buffalo,” “The Wild Eye-tralian,” and “The Supersonic Spaghetti Slurper.” Praising his energy, presentation, and appeal to young listeners, pioneer radio programmer Mike Joseph called... |
ff72587900b793bd2d463f5aeba1eadb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dick-Tracy-film-by-Beatty | Dick Tracy | Dick Tracy
…flimsy Shanghai Surprise (1986) and Dick Tracy (1990), and recovered with Truth or Dare (1991, also known as In Bed with Madonna), a documentary of one of her tours, and A League of Their Own (1992). She scored massive success in 1996 with the starring role in the film musical…
…gangster Big Boy Caprice in ... |
8514ea54b90500d9e7de99e204dbeafa | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dick-Tracy-in-B-flat | Dick Tracy in B-flat | Dick Tracy in B-flat
…celebrated Command Performance shows was Dick Tracy in B-flat, a special hour-long musical spoof of the comic strip performed on February 5, 1945, and featuring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Durante, the Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland, Jerry Colonna, Harry von Zell, Frank... |
1756f464ab91c0a4f669cb0246ef12cd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dictionnaire-alphabetique-et-analogique-de-la-langue-francaise | Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française | Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française
Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française, (French: “Alphabetical and Analogical Dictionary of the French Language”), scholarly historical dictionary of the French language, which supplies for each entry etymology, definition, antonym... |
65a665b85a27045a68fb6714acae2810 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Didnt-it-Rain | Didn’t it Rain | Didn’t it Rain
…Let Them Talk (2011) and Didn’t It Rain (2013), which were inspired by New Orleans-style blues. He also wrote the novels The Gun Seller (1996) and The Paper Soldier (2007). Laurie was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007.
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4b4c0f9fc7d8b229fe9696bba2b46a3d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Albigenser | Die Albigenser | Die Albigenser
…religious epics Savonarola (1837) and Die Albigenser (1842; “The Albigensians”), deal with his relentless and unsuccessful search for order and constancy in love, nature, and faith. Following Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s death in 1832, the appearance in 1833 of the second part of his Faust inspired many... |
649cc1e933744b55018fd0dc10c7cd17 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Forelle | Die Forelle | Die Forelle
Die Forelle, (German: “The Trout”) song setting for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed about 1817 (with later revisions), with words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. It is among the most familiar of Schubert’s approximately 600 songs, and it is best known as the basis for the theme of the f... |
6e02339fd7cbb992ad9812b3692f671f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Hard-With-a-Vengeance | Die Hard with a Vengeance | Die Hard with a Vengeance
…1990s included Jurassic Park (1993), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), The Negotiator (1998), and Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999), as Mace Windu. He reprised that role in Star Wars:
…sequels... |
14c92379719e6c2e74d7c0bf3e00e333 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Hosen-des-Herrn-von-Bredow | Die Hosen des Herrn von Bredow | Die Hosen des Herrn von Bredow
In the first part of Die Hosen des Herrn von Bredow (1846–48; “The Trousers of the Lord of Bredow”), Alexis reveals qualities as a humorist, though the concluding section, describing the elector Joachim’s ineffectual opposition to Luther’s teaching, strikes a more serious note. In Ruhe is... |
5faaac113936bf80fd508b6912e5c322 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Krater | Die Krater | Die Krater
…Rebay and artist Otto Nebel, Die Krater (1920). The latter was formed out of the conviction that painting should be nonrepresentational and the visual expression of the artistic experience. In 1920 Bauer’s first works appeared in America by way of artist and collector Katherine Dreier, who introduced Americ... |
fc5d22e406dadbf07ef1c9fbc0bb7095 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Menschen | Die Menschen | Die Menschen
In his best-known work, Die Menschen (1918; “Humanity”), Expressionist techniques are carried to an extreme form. The characters are symbolic types, speech is reduced to staccato monosyllables, and meaning is conveyed by pantomime and stylized overacting. Later, Hasenclever abandoned the Expressionist styl... |
38ab746fe512ba526757e5b31fd2889e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Mitschuldigen | Die Mitschuldigen | Die Mitschuldigen
…starting his first mature play, Die Mitschuldigen (1787; “Partners in Guilt”), a verse comedy showing a woman’s regrets after a year of marriage to the wrong man. His emotional state became hectic, and his health gave way—he may have suffered an attack of tuberculosis—and in September 1768 he returne... |
6f000aff8bd12a1f2395cccd7c904146 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Religion-des-Geistes | Die Religion des Geistes | Die Religion des Geistes
Die Religion des Geistes (1841; “The Religion of the Spirit”) is considered the most complete exposition of his philosophy and a thorough systematization of Judaism. He believed there were only two basic religions: the religion of nature (paganism) and the religion of spirit (Judaism). He…
In D... |
c81e54bd63d36de87c4f01f0b0974c14 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Religion-ihr-Wesen-und-ihre-Geschichte | Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte | Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte
In Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte (“Religion, Its Essence and History”), Pfleiderer held that the essence of religious consciousness exhibits two elements, or moments, perpetually in tension with one another: one of freedom and one of dependence, with a number of... |
ce47f62c44e8b2cc70e3aa79b63b88e9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Religion-innerhalb-der-Grenzen-der-blossen-Vernunft | Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft | Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft
…in 1793 of his work Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft (Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone), Kant became involved in a dispute with Prussian authorities on the right to express religious opinions. The book was found to be altogether t... |
28e57e778fc2b3314c833336668d7b66 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Die-Religionsphilosophie-der-Juden | Die Religionsphilosophie der Juden | Die Religionsphilosophie der Juden
His most ambitious work, Religionsphilosophie der Juden, 2 vol. (1842), rejected Hegel’s view that Judaism had no right to place itself in the ranks of “absolute religions.”
…of Samuel Hirsch (1815–89), titled Die Religionsphilosophie der Juden (“The Philosophy of Religion of the Jews... |
0abe774ee837c8fb2bc24d9595d3c41d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diedrich-Knickerbocker | Diedrich Knickerbocker | Diedrich Knickerbocker
Diedrich Knickerbocker, persona invented by American writer Washington Irving to narrate the burlesque A History of New York (1809). An eccentric 25-year-old scholar, Knickerbocker relates this comic history of Dutch settlers in the American colony of New Amsterdam, satirizing Dutch-American man... |
ece48ccd10ecc870a644d8c3f991fd39 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dien-Cai-Dau | Dien Cai Dau | Dien Cai Dau
…Komunyakaa with the publication of Dien Cai Dau in 1988. The poems in that collection were his first to directly address his experiences in Vietnam. The book’s title, which means “crazy” in Vietnamese, was the description applied to American soldiers by the Vietnamese during the war. He wrote of the…
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3e13cf8e5946423b0e389aaa7461791d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diente-del-Parnaso | Diente del Parnaso | Diente del Parnaso
His most important work was Diente del Parnaso (“The Tooth of Parnassus”), a collection of 47 poems not published until 1873. These are given over to ridiculing the hapless doctors of Lima, who killed more often than they cured. Caviedes, as did other poets of the Barroco de Indias, found…
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20f52a8ab07cd77d6f19d88bbd4d83de | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diet-Coke | Diet Coke | Diet Coke
…its low-calorie sugar-free soft drink Diet Coke (originally named Diet Coca-Cola). In an effort to address its decline in market share, the company adopted a new flavour of Coca-Cola in April 1985, using a formula it developed through taste tests. New Coke was not well received, however. Owing to the…
…with ... |
70d31dff5d67651b180797f2433ded66 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diet-of-Augsburg | Diet of Augsburg | Diet of Augsburg
…final decree issued by the Diet accordingly confirmed, in somewhat expanded form, the resolutions embodied in the Edict of Worms of 1521. That, in turn, caused the Protestant princes to close ranks in the following year in the Schmalkaldic League. Faced with renewed Turkish onslaughts, the emperor gra... |
8f9c81854e14fda7a9956dcbe6e742d8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dietland | Dietland | Dietland
…magazine editor in the series Dietland; the show was canceled after one season. She then starred in the miniseries The Hot Zone (2019), about an ebola crisis in the United States in 1989. In 2020 Margulies appeared in the series Billions, cast as a sociology professor and writer.
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8bde641948418543f280c60a755749c8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dietrich-von-Bern | Dietrich von Bern | Dietrich von Bern
Dietrich von Bern, heroic figure of Germanic legend, apparently derived from Theodoric the Great, an Ostrogothic king of Italy who reigned from c. 493 to 526 ad.
Dietrich’s exploits are related in a number of south German songs preserved in Das Heldenbuch (“The Heroes Book”)—including Dietrichs Fluch... |
52765374362540e7c7693955f8af057a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diets-of-Speyer | Diets of Speyer | Diets of Speyer
…accepting a declaration by the Diet of Speyer of that year to the effect that every estate “will, with its subjects, act, live, and govern in matters touching the Worms edict in a way each can justify before God and his Imperial Majesty.” This declaration gave Lutheran rulers the signal…
…of the imperi... |
7d52ad6c93b98e9fb467dbac285b343f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Different-Trains | Different Trains | Different Trains
For Different Trains (1988), Reich integrated fragments of audio recordings pertaining to rail travel, including the reminiscences of Holocaust survivors, with a string quartet that mimicked both the rhythm of a train and the natural musicality of the voices on tape. The piece, as performed by…
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9a1145ab64df6816ce750e5b341c424c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Digest-of-Stoic-Philosophy | Digest of Stoic Philosophy | Digest of Stoic Philosophy
…Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam (1604; Digest of Stoic Philosophy) and Physiologia Stoicorum (1604; Physics of the Stoics) provided the basis for the considerable Stoic influence during the Renaissance. About the turn of the 17th century, Guillaume du Vair, a French lawyer and Christian p... |
e99a80edc8f5ff0203e7536661cddd53 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Digha-Nikaya | Digha Nikaya | Digha Nikaya
Digha Nikaya (“Long Collection”; Sanskrit Dirghagama), 34 long suttas including doctrinal expositions, legends, and moral rules. The first, the Brahmajala Sutta (“Discourse on the Divine Net”), renowned and much quoted, deals with fundamental Buddhist doctrines and with rival philosophies and tells much ab... |
b072f54e54ae7a8f30c4b178ca1694af | https://www.britannica.com/topic/digital-information | Digital information | Digital information
…are the basic components of digital technology. Because these devices exist only in one of two states, information is represented in them either as the absence or the presence of energy (electric pulse). The two states of binary devices are conveniently designated by the binary digits, or bits, zer... |
6413a06e8edbf52a96ea775ba3d5e877 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Digital-Underground | Digital Underground | Digital Underground
…the dance party sound of Digital Underground, and its tone and content were much closer to the works of Public Enemy and West Coast gangsta rappers N.W.A. The lack of a clear single on the album limited its radio appeal, but it sold well, especially after U.S. Vice Pres. Dan…
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28091437f344a81afe6191665bcf3839 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dik-Danle-Sap | Dik Danle Sap | Dik Danle Sap
Dik Danle Sap (“The Waters of Tonle Sap”), by Kim Hak, was also hailed as “the first modern novel of Cambodia” when it appeared in Kambujasuriya in January 1939, but it never enjoyed the same popularity and acclaim as Sophat. Two other classic novels from…
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c8bcbbf2adb763fcc861d37779a8dc7c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dilbert | Dilbert | Dilbert
Dilbert, American newspaper comic strip that treated workday life in a large corporation. Dilbert became a cultural touchstone for many frustrated white-collar workers.
Dilbert, whose face is usually drawn with only a nose and a pair of round eyeglasses, is a disillusioned, mid-level corporate drone. He is at ... |
7c3a8ab47e414c8ae4c52a09567a97af | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diminished-responsibility | Diminished responsibility | Diminished responsibility
Diminished responsibility, legal doctrine that absolves an accused person of part of the liability for his criminal act if he suffers from such abnormality of mind as to substantially impair his responsibility in committing or being a party to an alleged violation. The doctrine of diminished... |
13ea60d9c92dbcec76fcb42761f2d574 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dinar-currency | Dinar | Dinar
Dinar, monetary unit used in several Middle Eastern countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, and Tunisia. It was first introduced as an “Islamic coinage” in the late 7th century ce by ʿAbd al-Malik, the fifth caliph (685–705) of the Umayyad dynasty. The dinar dates from Roman times, wh... |
be5a2283b67038d9a613e79f1d926852 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dinka | Dinka | Dinka
Dinka, also called Jieng, people who live in the savanna country surrounding the central swamps of the Nile basin primarily in South Sudan. They speak a Nilotic language classified within the Eastern Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan languages and are closely related to the Nuer. Numbering some 4,500,000 in the... |
fa3461af7e85c2bec9f51abbea829062 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dionysus | Dionysus | Dionysus
Dionysus, also spelled Dionysos, also called Bacchus or (in Rome) Liber Pater, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. The occurrence of his name on a Linear B tablet (13th century bce) shows that he was already worshipped in the Myc... |
368d5a13f87559b509e30051c077f2e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dioramas | Dioramas | Dioramas
…his first body of work, Dioramas. Photographing exhibits inside natural history museums, Sugimoto’s images brought to life extinct creatures and prehistoric situations. The photographs took on a sense of authenticity that the museum dioramas themselves did not possess. In his next series, Theaters, begun in 1... |
082d568fe7a06ff5234b5c57f557860b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diplomatic-compellence | Diplomatic compellence | Diplomatic compellence
Diplomatic, or immediate, compellence involves verbal threats and promises. Shows of force also assist this kind of coercion; realist scholars note that most diplomacy is underwritten by the unspoken possibility of military action. Demonstrative compellence involves a limited use of force coupled... |
518738883a0cb8f242cbeb6ba816b0b5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diplomatics | Diplomatics | Diplomatics
Diplomatics, the study of documents. The term is derived from the Greek word diploma, meaning “doubled” or “folded.” Besides the documents of legal and administrative import with which it is properly concerned, diplomatics also includes the study of other records, such as bills, reports, cartularies, regis... |
bfc9a8b727172d2c3d8206b91655d293 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diplomatics/Development-and-characteristics-of-chanceries | Development and characteristics of chanceries | Development and characteristics of chanceries
Rulers, all of whom needed to issue directives and edicts, developed writing offices, or chanceries, in which formal documents were drawn up. The Roman imperial chancery, called the Office of Letters (ab epistulis), was subdivided into a Greek and a Latin department. In the... |
31591c3e61ee093215ced97d6981b2e3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/direct-democracy | Direct democracy | Direct democracy
Direct democracy, also called pure democracy, forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making, in contrast to indirect or representative democracy. Direct democracies may operate through an assembly of citizens or by means of referenda and initiatives in which citizens vote on ... |
b1231b9048e18a207a5e7641533b3fdd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/direct-method | Direct method | Direct method
Teachers using the direct method use only the target language, even at the outset of instruction. They make no overt reference to grammar, which they assume will be absorbed inductively; they proceed from conversation to reading in the target language; and they give no attention to translation.
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ec1ce71bde8ecdc008bfae89cefdc807 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Direction-Social-Democracy | Direction–Social Democracy | Direction–Social Democracy
Major parties include the populist Smer (“Direction”), the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, the Slovak National Party, the Party of the Hungarian Coalition, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, and the Christian Democratic Movement.
…leader of the populist party Smer, Robert Fico, be... |
52626a47aab31745771cce61d5bd541a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Directive-Number-51 | Directive Number 51 | Directive Number 51
…no longer, and in his Directive Number 51 he announced that France would be reinforced. To oversee defensive preparations, Hitler appointed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, former commander of the Afrika Korps, as inspector of coastal defenses and then as commander of Army Group B, occupying the threate... |
8f82ba3ca8b623de17364bc618afefe8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Director-British-ship | Director | Director
…he was captain of the Director, his crew took part in the general mutiny of the fleet at the Nore (in the Thames estuary) in 1797. In 1805 he was court-martialed, but acquitted, for abusive language. In 1808, while governor of New South Wales, his bad relations with the New…
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7c3e8af35051f91b718a66e7eaa8b8e9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/director-of-central-intelligence | Director of central intelligence | Director of central intelligence
The director of central intelligence (DCI) plays two distinct roles as both head of the CIA and a leading adviser to the president on intelligence matters relating to national security. The powers vested in the office of the DCI have increased over the years.
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03be3101a457fc0c1a751494e2f669a7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Directorate-of-Posts | Directorate of Posts | Directorate of Posts
…the farming system, a general Directorate of Posts attached to the Ministry of Finance was created in 1804. During the 19th century, the service developed to keep pace with the Industrial Revolution, notably through improvements in administration and transportation. The first French postage stamp ... |
e04e7c0d5057f12c7ab8d8b59829e8dd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dirham | Dirham | Dirham
…of the silver coin (dirham, from the name of the Sāsānian coin, which in its turn was derived from Greek drachma) was reduced to 2.92 grams, but it retained in its thin material and style some features of its Sāsānian predecessor; the name of the copper change, fals, comes…
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5fc68299bbdb43ebc3a1ea65d0236ff6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dirt-Music | Dirt Music | Dirt Music
…more times: for Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt Music (2002), and Breath (2009). He also wrote several children’s books, including Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo (1990), The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991), and The Deep (1998).
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56f72ddda854477d52d36bb4bb240b19 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dirty-Money | Dirty Money | Dirty Money
…with La Maudite Galette (Dirty Money) in 1972. He directed the film Le Crime d’Ovide Plouffe (Murder in the Family) in 1984 and the television miniseries based on it that followed the next year.
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3dbcca7dffcc48a973187a39b1db4d04 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dirty-protest | Dirty protest | Dirty protest
…known as the “blanket” and “dirty” protests, wherein protesting prisoners would only wear a blanket instead of prison uniforms and refused to wash.
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86802e562ce3bdf917718ad9f36bb160 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dirty-Rotten-Scoundrels-film-by-Oz | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
…Without a Clue (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988). By the end of the 20th century, Caine had appeared in more than 100 films. He won his second best-supporting-actor Oscar for The Cider House Rules (1999) and was nominated as best actor for his performance as a conflicted British journa... |
e66134e16b7818913e1514ecda9d48f8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/disability-management | Disability management | Disability management
Disability management, discipline concerned with reducing the impact of disability on individuals and employers. The term disability management commonly is used in three areas: work and work discrimination, symptom and condition management, and resource management.
Within the area of work, disabi... |
f379eb905cbed1a0ee9d94b8564bcece | https://www.britannica.com/topic/disability-survey | Disability survey | Disability survey
Disability survey, collection of information about disability by using survey methods. Although disability statistics can be produced from census data or administrative records, disability surveys are relatively inexpensive, unobtrusive, and accurate. The statistics gathered from disability surveys c... |
34b4710c45a7afb31df8a28fc8834565 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disappearing-Acts | Disappearing Acts | Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts (1989; TV movie 2000) concerns two dissimilar people who begin an intimate relationship. Waiting to Exhale (1992; film 1995) follows four Black middle-class women, each of whom is looking for the love of a worthy man. The book’s wild popularity helped the author…
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