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12d70f8d80f2dc60ad3d3a1d3b8306a4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/discount-rate | Discount rate | Discount rate
Discount rate, also called rediscount rate, or bank rate, interest rate charged by a central bank for loans of reserve funds to commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. This charge originally was an actual discount (an interest charge held out from the amount loaned), but the rate is now a tr... |
9055cd2b354d52f744f92d2dca26c4ee | https://www.britannica.com/topic/discount-store | Discount store | Discount store
Discount store, in merchandising, a retail store that sells products at prices lower than those asked by traditional retail outlets. Some discount stores are similar to department stores in that they offer a wide assortment of goods; indeed, some are called discount department stores.
Others specialize ... |
f549221d57793e60057907d611da9e16 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Discours-sur-le-style | Discours sur le style | Discours sur le style
…1753, he delivered his celebrated Discours sur le style (“Discourse on Style”), containing the line, “Le style c’est l’homme même” (“The style is the man himself”). He was also treasurer to the Academy of Sciences. During the brief trips he made each year to Paris, he frequented the literary and…... |
c5bfe3132be79df54a88cf9845b6e827 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/discourse-analysis | Discourse analysis | Discourse analysis
…work on what he called discourse analysis (the formal analysis of the structure of continuous text). It was further developed and given a somewhat different theoretical basis by Chomsky.
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f3bbf114cc59b77acf3740b307c40531 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Discourse-to-the-Greeks | Discourse to the Greeks | Discourse to the Greeks
Indeed, Tatian’s Discourse to the Greeks is less a positive vindication of Christianity than a sharp attack on paganism. His contemporary Athenagoras of Athens, author of the apologetic work Embassy for the Christians and a treatise On the Resurrection of the Dead, is as friendly as Justin…
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61c2aebf5243f57f6fe22d8573964434 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Discourse-upon-the-Institution-of-Medical-Schools-in-America | Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America | Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America
…distinct disciplines, outlined in his Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America (1765), met with widespread opposition from colonial physicians and failed to gain acceptance.
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8a42ddb34005b01120e0ef836eeb937a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Discovery-album-by-Daft-Punk | Discovery | Discovery
For Daft Punk’s next album, Discovery (2001), Bangalter and Homem-Christo took a more expansive and song-oriented approach. A colourful mélange of disco, rhythm-and-blues, and glam rock sounds of the 1970s and ’80s filtered through lustrous electronic production, Discovery was a success both on and off the da... |
c56d69b2fece1d399eb367ed240f13e0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/disinfection-by-product | Disinfection by-product | Disinfection by-product
…result in the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs), such as trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, chlorite, and bromate. Exposure to DBPs in drinking water can lead to health issues. Worries stem from the practice’s possible association with stomach and bladder cancer and the hazards of re... |
8d89bd4da682f4e9065b6249e707e9bb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disks-of-Newton-Study-for-Fugue-in-Two-Colors | Disks of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colors) | Disks of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colors)
…he exhibited his abstract painting Disks of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colours) (1912). Kupka’s vibrating colour orchestrations on the canvas were intended to unite visual and musical ideas. His title refers both to music and to 17th-century physicist Sir Isaac Newto... |
8fb60533ac4967e8a571ae75144fdad7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/disparate-impact | Disparate impact | Disparate impact
Disparate impact, also called adverse impact, judicial theory developed in the United States that allows challenges to employment or educational practices that are nondiscriminatory on their face but have a disproportionately negative effect on members of legally protected groups. When the U.S. Suprem... |
352e4f65cdbde62f964808121bcce6c5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dispensationalism | Dispensationalism | Dispensationalism
…very different theological perspective, called dispensationalism. First taught to the Brethren in the mid-19th century, dispensationalism maintained that history is divided into distinct periods, or “dispensations,” during which God acts in different ways toward his chosen people. The present period,... |
ef44a045949964f81ccb2ab31b53e423 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dispositio-Achillea | Dispositio Achillea | Dispositio Achillea
…24, 1473, he proclaimed the Dispositio Achillea (“Disposition of Achilles”), which was to preserve Brandenburg as a united whole and keep his dynastic inheritance intact. This settlement gave the mark of Brandenburg to his eldest son and the Hohenzollerns’s then more lucrative Franconian possession... |
ac06d5a55531fa2f38cdae1234a8235c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dispositional-knowledge | Dispositional knowledge | Dispositional knowledge
In contrast, dispositional knowledge, as the term suggests, is a disposition, or a propensity, to behave in certain ways in certain conditions. Although Smith may not now be thinking of his home address, he certainly knows it in the sense that, if one were to ask him…
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20c82e28193e709a74ec7297d740901a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disputa | Disputa | Disputa
…of these frescoes are the Disputa and the School of Athens. The Disputa, showing a celestial vision of God and his prophets and apostles above a gathering of representatives, past and present, of the Roman Catholic Church, equates through its iconography the triumph of the church and the triumph of…
…the Holy ... |
19a3fc1ef5a228a6066b33597384906b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disputatio-Iudaei-et-Christiani | Disputatio Iudaei et Christiani | Disputatio Iudaei et Christiani
His skillful writings include Disputatio Iudaei et Christiani, in which a dialogue on the Christian faith is carried out between Gilbert and his Jewish acquaintance. Other historical and doctrinal works are De Simoniacis, De Spiritu Sancto, and Disputatio Christiani cum gentilli.
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7385cbd9d972f4078a7c1c34a017f4ce | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disquisitiones-Arithmeticae | Disquisitiones Arithmeticae | Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
…proved by Gauss in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. It states that every composite number can be expressed as a product of prime numbers and that, save for the order in which the factors are written, this representation is unique. Gauss’s theorem follows rather directly from another theorem... |
4e5476f71110bb70b63b1559d24e648e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dissent-political | Dissent | Dissent
Dissent, an unwillingness to cooperate with an established source of authority, which can be social, cultural, or governmental. In political theory, dissent has been studied mainly in relation to governmental power, inquiring into how and to what extent dissent should be promoted, tolerated, and controlled by ... |
877e6ea936d1e8d5f729f7ecf9cfb4ca | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dissertations-and-Discussions | Dissertations and Discussions | Dissertations and Discussions
…two volumes (1859) of Mill’s Dissertations and Discussions and give evidence of the increasing breadth of his interests. Among the more important are “Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties” (1833), “Writings of Alfred de Vigny” (1838), “Bentham” (1838), “Coleridge” (1840), “M. De Tocquevil... |
24962ad0e714be563eaa1ddb123c250c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dissidence | Dissidence | Dissidence
” As first secretary, Husák patiently tried to persuade Soviet leaders that Czechoslovakia was a loyal member of the Warsaw Pact. He had the constitution amended to embody the newly proclaimed Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted the right of the Soviet Union to intervene militarily if…
…1950s and early ’60s,... |
725c4ad4c991c0804fe5fb495097c92d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dissimilation-linguistics | Dissimilation | Dissimilation
Dissimilation refers to the process by which one sound becomes different from a neighbouring sound. For example, the word “pilgrim” (French pèlerin) derives ultimately from the Latin peregrinus; the l sound results from dissimilation of the first r under the influence of the second r.…
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f28e4e7f6fc654b97afc62d45335f43e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dissoi-logoi | Dissoi logoi | Dissoi logoi
Iamblichus, and the so-called Dissoi logoi found in the manuscripts of Sextus Empiricus (3rd century ce). This evidence suggests that while most later writers took their accounts of the Sophists from earlier writers, especially from Plato, the original writings did in many cases survive and were consulted.... |
b9e0fb58fb87d9d002ff91ee86f1fd30 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/distilled-spirit/Distillation | Distillation | Distillation
As mentioned above, the difference in the boiling points of alcohol and water is utilized in distillation to separate these liquids from each other. Basic distillation apparatus consists of three parts: the still or retort, for heating the liquid; the condenser, for cooling the vapours; and the receiver, f... |
6abc9a2f1c4b02293e04ec46622fc610 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/distilled-spirit/Fermenting-and-distilling | Fermenting and distilling | Fermenting and distilling
As mentioned above, yeasts are found throughout the world; more than 8,000 strains of this vegetative microorganism have been classified. Approximately nine or 10 pure strains, with their subclassifications, are used for fermentation of grain mashes; these all belong to the type Saccharomyces ... |
8a31df798094b890f8cb4dc970f891aa | https://www.britannica.com/topic/distilled-spirit/Producing-the-mash | Producing the mash | Producing the mash
The raw materials used for making a distilled spirit are of two basic types: (1) those containing a high concentration of natural sugars or (2) those containing other carbohydrates that can easily be converted to sugars by enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts to promote chemical reacti... |
7469f6e49d3242d387855fff6d0341d2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/distinguished-element | Distinguished element | Distinguished element
…“true” ones (called the “distinguished elements” of the set). In the particular case of the system N, one theory Ta is built up on the basis of the language and the set of theorems of N, and another theory Tb is determined by the true sentences of N according…
A Platonist might still ask whether,... |
0d5ae3f68e5fd20a3a8579f57bd551cc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Distributed-Proofreaders | Distributed Proofreaders | Distributed Proofreaders
In 2000 Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders, a Web-based program for parsing the difficult task of proofreading scanned texts for Project Gutenberg. In 2002 Distributed Proofreaders became part of Project Gutenberg. The ability to distribute the proofreading task among volunteer tea... |
684b22a957e8480a891d46ac7b29cb78 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/distribution-logic | Distribution | Distribution
Distribution, also called Distribution Of Terms, in syllogistics, the application of a term of a proposition to the entire class that the term denotes. A term is said to be distributed in a given proposition if that proposition implies all other propositions that differ from it only in having, in place of... |
0c89ac09387868bcd925e628a031541c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/district-attorney | District attorney | District attorney
, district attorney in the state jurisdictions of the United States, procurator-fiscal in Scotland, and crown attorney in Canada). The prosecutor may be an elected local official (as in many jurisdictions in the United States) or a member of an organization responsible to a minister of…
…the prosecuti... |
1a4900c5a655e277e432186b94a32329 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Disturbance-Reduction-System | Disturbance Reduction System | Disturbance Reduction System
…Technology Package (LTP) and the Disturbance Reduction System (DRS). In the LTP two gold-platinum cubes, measuring 46 mm (1.8 inches) on a side, were suspended in evacuated chambers 37.6 cm (14.8 inches) apart. The distance between them was designed to be measured to within 1 picometre (10... |
4dd78130449964e88173f20f27939fd9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/disznotor | Disznótor | Disznótor
Disznótor, extravagant feast held to accompany a pig slaughter in Hungary. Many sources suggest that the disznótor is a kind of parody of the halotti tor, the reception following a funeral.
In preparation for the disznótor, the pig is fattened and then is killed early in the morning, typically during the Chr... |
c04ec6056a735def1468cabdc807c2df | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divan-poetry-by-Hafez | Dīvān | Dīvān
…comparatively small collection of work—his Dīvān contains about 400 ghazals—was soon acclaimed as the finest lyrical poetry ever written in Persian. The discussion of whether or not to interpret its wine and love songs on a mystical plane has continued for centuries. Yet this discussion seems sterile since Ḥāfeẓ... |
deed6d30639156657d446d37c8b62ea6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divergent-film | Divergent | Divergent
…as a ruthless operative in Divergent (2014), based on a series of young-adult novels, and wafted through the period piece A Little Chaos (2014), a fictional take on the romantic life of Versailles garden designer André Le Nôtre.
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5893701da7a58bbd2cb782caac59037a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diversion | Diversion | Diversion
Diversion, any of a variety of programs that implement strategies seeking to avoid the formal processing of an offender by the criminal justice system. Although those strategies, referred to collectively as diversion, take many forms, a typical diversion program results in a person who has been accused of a ... |
61e37934bce910068e9866ddd5bbea10 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diversions-of-the-Morning | Diversions of the Morning | Diversions of the Morning
…series of farcical entertainments called Diversions of the Morning, in which he ridiculed other actors and celebrities. Later, to avoid the restraints of the Licensing Act, which required patents for public performances, he styled his entertainments for his friends as “teas.”
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f8d7a255d63e86e770382a6995a52f59 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/divestment | Divestment | Divestment
Divestment, also called divestiture, the disposal of assets in any of a variety of ways, usually for ethical, financial, or political reasons. At the institutional level, divestment is a policy and set of economic sanctions used by corporations, groups of shareholders, individuals, and governments to put pr... |
5aa4f1f5184787ed67bc614a2a12a39e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/divination/Intuitive-divination | Intuitive divination | Intuitive divination
The prototype of the intuitive diviner is the shaman or curer who uses trance states. These are achieved idiopathically (i.e., arising spontaneously) or induced by drugs or by autokinetic (self-energized) techniques, such as hand trembling among the Navajo. As a mantic art, trance is associated wit... |
0b38e6420973c3b3240611518d03fe04 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/divination/Varieties-of-divination | Varieties of divination | Varieties of divination
Because dramatic effect is important, divination takes many forms and employs a wealth of devices. In a general way, it may be said that inductive divination employs nonhuman phenomena, either artificial or natural, as signs that can be unambiguously read. The prime condition is that the signs a... |
d75dc43b581262c7e220d81ea2f89f0a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divine-Husbandsmans-Classic-of-Medicine | Divine Husbandsman’s Classic of Medicine | Divine Husbandsman’s Classic of Medicine
…in the Shennong bencaojing (Divine Husbandsman’s Classic of Medicine), where he categorized the medicines as superior (nonpoisonous and rejuvenating), medium (having some toxicity based on the dosage and exerting tonic effects), or inferior (poisonous but able quickly to reduce... |
b940b8e45918de01cfc59a691216a555 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divine-Secrets-of-the-Ya-Ya-Sisterhood | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
…relationship with her mother in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), and as an underappreciated lawyer in Two Weeks Notice (2002). She later appeared as the racist wife of a Los Angeles district attorney in the critically acclaimed Crash (2004). Bullock took another ser... |
74a0697634a77f4ea5e1573960cf4325 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divino-afflante-spiritu | Divino afflante spiritu | Divino afflante spiritu
In his Divino afflante spiritu (“With the Help of the Divine Spirit”; 1943), for example, he sanctioned a limited use of critical historicism for biblical studies, while his Mystici corporis Christi (“Mystical Body of Christ”; 1943) sought to promote a more positive relationship between the chur... |
aa66bbad9b8f83b7a44431de7b9916b8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Divorce-American-Style | Divorce American Style | Divorce American Style
…Come Blow Your Horn (1963); Divorce American Style (1967), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay; Cold Turkey (1971), which he also directed; and the television film The Little Rascals (1977).
…The Singing Nun (1966), and Divorce American Style (1967), with Dick V... |
61fbe90bf2da6d6881ae0447aaea8a83 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Diwan-by-al-Khansa | Dīwān | Dīwān
…collected poetry of al-Khansāʾ, the Dīwān (published in an English translation by Arthur Wormhoudt in 1973), reflects the pagan fatalism of the tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. The poems are generally short and imbued with a strong and traditional sense of despair at the irretrievable loss of life. The elegies of…
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0b704429e3adeabfb755b580b078ea2b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/diwaniyyah | Diwāniyyah | Diwāniyyah
…is the institution of the diwāniyyah, a regular gathering of men—usually in a tent or a separate room of the main house—which serves as a time to gather, enjoy refreshments, talk, or play games. Kuwaitis observe all major Islamic holidays, including Ramadan and the two ʿīds (festivals), ʿĪd al-Fiṭr and…
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1ad21936646c13187839a706399be6a0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dixie-Chicks | The Chicks | The Chicks
The Chicks, formerly Dixie Chicks, American country music group that achieved crossover success in the pop market. The group’s principal members included Martie Maguire (née Erwin; b. October 12, 1969, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.), Emily Robison (née Erwin; b. August 16, 1972, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.),... |
08db94d026df6bb7e8bfac483a6f23b0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dizang | Dizang | Dizang
Dizang, Wade-Giles romanization Ti-ts’ang, in Chinese Buddhism, bodhisattva (buddha-to-be) who is especially committed to delivering the dead from the torments of hell. His name is a translation of the Sanskrit Kshitigarbha (“Womb of the Earth”). Dizang seeks to deliver the souls of the dead from the punishment... |
60cdb926fb2bc63702499697af65fc83 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Djoliba-Percussions | Djoliba Percussions | Djoliba Percussions
…16 Sangaré joined the band Djoliba Percussions and briefly toured Europe with the group as its lead vocalist. Following the tour she set about writing music for her first album. She worked within the framework of wassoulou music, the popular style that had been created and cultivated by the Wassoul... |
d650318451e9fd0ae7c0aee06d8a275d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/DNS | DNS | DNS
DNS, in full domain name system, network service that converts between World Wide Web “name” addresses and numeric Internet addresses.
The concept of a name server came about as a result of the first computer networks in the mid-1970s. Each computer on a network was identified by a unique number, but, as the size ... |
7195f406527757cac4472f85bec98e42 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Do-Re-Mi-song-by-Guthrie | Do Re Mi | Do Re Mi
…“Dust Bowl Refugee” and “Do Re Mi” by folksinger Woody Guthrie, an Oklahoman who had joined the parade of those headed west in search of work. That experience was perhaps most famously depicted in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
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9185ac9435e6fba33eb759a7366275ff | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Do-You-Know-the-Way-to-San-Jose | Do You Know the Way to San Jose? | Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
…a Little Prayer,” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” He and David created the successful musical Promises, Promises (1968), and their score for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) won an Academy Award, as did the movie’s song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My…
…pop vocal... |
7bf39d735a9e42a1a57330a25511640e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/DOA | D.O.A. | D.O.A.
D.O.A., American film noir, released in 1950, that was noted for its ingenious plot.
Tax accountant Frank Bigelow (played by Edmond O’Brien) walks into a police station to report his own murder. A few days earlier, he had left his girlfriend for a weekend of relaxation in San Francisco. While in a jazz club, so... |
79e0b89202efa72caeef236f332429b4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dobro | Dobro | Dobro
…of abundance; ray (“paradise”); and dobro (“the good”). The word bog is an Indo-Iranian word signifying riches, abundance, and good fortune. Sporysh symbolizes the same concept. In Iranian ray has a similar meaning, which it probably also had in Slavic languages before it acquired the Christian meaning of paradi... |
6cadec5fa1d72551878164410f701a79 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Docetism | Docetism | Docetism
Docetism, (from Greek dokein, “to seem”), Christian heresy and one of the earliest Christian sectarian doctrines, affirming that Christ did not have a real or natural body during his life on earth but only an apparent or phantom one. Though its incipient forms are alluded to in the New Testament, such as in ... |
a4320c6de1352df97a6edb277bdb2694 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Doom | Doctor Doom | Doctor Doom
…menace was more persistent than Doctor Doom, whose hideously scarred face was hidden behind an ominous iron mask. This despotic mastermind—originally Richards’s scientific colleague Victor von Doom—habitually returned to plague the group and to engage Richards in intellectual battles, always with dire cons... |
0a493f4851044601dd7da221f202571d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Heideggers-Experiment | Doctor Heidegger's Experiment | Doctor Heidegger's Experiment
Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment, also spelled Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in Twice-Told Tales (1837).
Elderly Dr. Heidegger and four of his contemporaries participate in his scientific experiment on aging. Dr. Heidegger applies water from the Fountain... |
5f52eb5b0515cd5a8c35364fe55d96b9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-My-Eyes | Doctor My Eyes | Doctor My Eyes
…the Top Ten hit “Doctor My Eyes”). Part of a coterie of musicians that established Los Angeles as the home of country rock, Browne cowrote several songs for the Eagles (most notably “Take It Easy”).
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b624061c0d86d21e5c2d0804e1385fc3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Pascal | Doctor Pascal | Doctor Pascal
Finally, in Le Docteur Pascal (1893) he uses the main character, the doctor Pascal Rougon, armed with a genealogical tree of the Rougon-Macquart family published with the novel, to expound the theories of heredity underlying the entire series.
…in Le Docteur Pascal (1893; Doctor Pascal) he uses the main c... |
2742a8c8b9426006fc7352244e2bb081 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Strange-fictional-character | Doctor Strange | Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange, American comic-book superhero created for Marvel Comics by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. The character first appeared in a backup strip in Strange Tales no. 110 in July 1963 but soon blossomed into one of the cult characters of the decade and a staple in the Marvel pantheon.
Ma... |
e2f3588b7bc1451eac985528eab9bae7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Thorne | Doctor Thorne | Doctor Thorne
Doctor Thorne, novel by Anthony Trollope, published in three volumes in 1858. The book was the third in the series of Barsetshire novels, in which Trollope explored the fictional English county of Barset.
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fa9d9cd1c7ac0ecb54a0129c9cf1393b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctors-Boy | Doctor’s Boy | Doctor’s Boy
, Doctor’s Boy, 1965) is a quietly moving tale of small-town life in the horse-and-buggy days. The Sandbergs, Inger and Lasse, have advanced the Beskow tradition in a series of lovely picture books. Fantasy has been well served by Lindgren, Edith Unnerstad, Holmberg, Hellsing, and others.…
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98c8b4355565bd35a9124cc9a775ebf8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctrinas-de-Guaranies | Doctrinas de Guaranies | Doctrinas de Guaranies
…the famous “Jesuit Utopia,” the Doctrinas de Guaranies. In 1767, however, the expulsion of the Jesuits was followed by the scattering of mission Indians, who were often taken into slavery, and the confiscation of Indian land.
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14f1fa9e84d64a147ae9fdd990cb7be3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctrine-and-Covenants | Doctrine and Covenants | Doctrine and Covenants
Doctrine and Covenants, one of the four scriptures of Mormonism, along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Pearl of Great Price. It contains the ongoing revelations through 1844 of Joseph Smith, the founder and first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). The... |
81e643a2dc80c9c73516749f7f8cfa16 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/doctrine-of-double-effect | Doctrine of double effect | Doctrine of double effect
…situation in which the so-called doctrine of double effect would apply. If a pregnant woman, for example, is found to have a cancerous uterus, the doctrine of double effect allows a doctor to remove it, notwithstanding the fact that such action would kill the fetus. This allowance is made not... |
42860c4b9e9466359c04f14374522375 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctrines-and-Covenants | Doctrines and Covenants | Doctrines and Covenants
The Doctrines and Covenants contains Smith’s ongoing revelations through 1844. The editions of the Utah church and of the Community of Christ add the revelations of their respective church presidents (who, like Smith, are regarded as prophets). The Community of Christ’s version of the Doctrines ... |
4c3d12a8ed449ee5e54a1b3c1d63b751 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/document | Document | Document
In these and other early document collections (e.g., those of China produced during the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium bc and Buddhist collections in India dating to the 5th century bc), it is difficult to separate the concepts of the archive and the library.
In the questioned-documents unit, examiners st... |
e6d13a071f7636525d4f142861185171 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/documentation | Documentation | Documentation
…organization is responsible for preparing documents that contain instructions for a variety of tasks, such as payment of customer bills or preparing employee payrolls. It prepares confidential documents, such as records of employees’ salaries and wages. Many of these documents also serve other accounting... |
06716e7c42080d7e9a8eefd9ed99c079 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dod-yon-sna-lnga | 'dod-yon sna-lnga | 'dod-yon sna-lnga
’dod-yon sna-lnga, (Tibetan: “five desire qualities,” “five strands of desire,” or “five qualities of enjoyment”) also called offerings of the five senses, in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies, pleasurable sense perceptions presented to honour tranquil deities. The offerings include a mirror (to please the... |
00efa95352421b13225b1f8ddedadbda | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dodecachordon | Dodecachordon | Dodecachordon
…Glareanus in his music treatise Dodecachordon (1547). In that work Glareanus expanded the standing system of eight church modes—which had prevailed since the 9th century—to accommodate the increasingly common major and minor modes as well as the growing importance of harmony as a determinant of melodic m... |
18be3cf95520426501eda45f6a462201 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dodge-Brothers-Company | Dodge Brothers Company | Dodge Brothers Company
The Dodge Brothers Company in 1910 established a large auto-parts plant in Hamtramck, Michigan. There the brothers made engines and other auto parts for the Ford Motor Company and for Olds Motor Works. In 1913 they began producing their own automobiles, and the first Dodge automobile…
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617fd59def7c9d0de5921492e0849edf | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doe-v-Commonwealths-Attorney-for-the-City-of-Richmond | Doe v. Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond | Doe v. Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond
…(without comment) affirmance (1976) of Doe v. Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond (1975), in which a district court in Virginia had upheld a state law prohibiting sodomy. The Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed the Georgia district court’s... |
6304d0d60c986f5be4d5476a593a9e71 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Does-the-Tiger-Wear-a-Necktie | Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? | Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?
…his performance in the play Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? Pacino’s first leading role in a film came with The Panic in Needle Park (1971), a grim tale of heroin addiction that became something of a cult classic.
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024176ad1d7a19c9e6088573eaae0139 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dog-Barking-at-the-Moon | Dog Barking at the Moon | Dog Barking at the Moon
In paintings such as Dog Barking at the Moon (1926), he rendered figures of animals and humans as indeterminate forms. Miró signed the manifesto of the Surrealist movement in 1924, and the members of the group respected him for the way he portrayed the realm of unconscious experience. The…
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97659b0e608f13a91173cd851bf78c88 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dog-Husband | Dog Husband | Dog Husband
…of myth are Bungling Host, Dog Husband, and Star Husband. In Bungling Host, Trickster, after seeing his host produce food in various ways (e.g., letting oil drip from his hands), fails to imitate the magic methods to procure food and barely escapes death. In Dog Husband, a girl has a…
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2f701be46b4b4845078f9ed69359ee33 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dog-Soldiers-Cheyenne-military-society | Dog Soldiers | Dog Soldiers
…and 7 military societies; the Dog Soldiers were the most powerful and aggressive of the military groups. There were also social, dance, medicine, and shamanistic societies; a given society was generally open to either male or female members but not to both.
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09b626148dc44605da20694c9f1ad134 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dog-team | Dog team | Dog team
Because dog teams require large quantities of meat, they were not kept to pull toboggans until the fur trade period, when people began to supplement their diets with European staples; after that point, dog teams became increasingly important in transporting furs to market. An idea of…
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ac993127f606b98ffad3d98151fcbc00 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dog-Years | Dog Years | Dog Years
…and Mouse), and Hundejahre (1963; Dog Years). The trilogy presents a grotesquely imaginative retrospective on the Nazi period. The narrator of Die Blechtrommel is the dwarf Oskar Matzerath, who claims that he deliberately stopped growing on his third birthday out of protest against the corruptions of adult s... |
14541cfa26ec56652bc2aa8b668e208b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogana-della-Mene-delle-Pecore | Dogana della Mene delle Pecore | Dogana della Mene delle Pecore
…and 1442 and established the Dogana della Mene delle Pecore (“Custom of the Sheep”) to levy taxes on sheep and other livestock. The Dogana reduced the number of small farmers and agricultural labourers in southern Italy by favouring the conversion of cropland to pasture.
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c6ae47bc77edf5d3bd1746290058c1be | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogberry | Dogberry | Dogberry
…unveiled by the bumbling constable Dogberry and his comically inept fellow constable, but not before the story of Hero has taken a nearly tragic turn. Claudio’s slanders of Hero have so outraged her cousin Beatrice that she turns to Benedick, pleading with him to kill Claudio. Former friends are near…
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e37c00090f2b4c50f06775ffedf001c0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/doge | Doge | Doge
Doge, (Venetian Italian: “duke”), highest official of the republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years (from the 8th to the 18th century) and symbol of the sovereignty of the Venetian state. The title was also used relatively briefly in Genoa.
In Venice the office of doge (from Latin dux, “leader”) originated wh... |
7e013c681180db8ec3b50e22893147b5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doge-Andrea-Gritti | Doge Andrea Gritti | Doge Andrea Gritti
Doge Andrea Gritti is to a greater extent a symbol of the office—that is, that of ruler of Venice. The gigantic body in a canvas of large size is sweeping in design and commanding in presence. In later works, too, Titian very effectively managed the…
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8529e0dbf30c03eefd7159e5dd573dd5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doge-Leonardo-Loredan | Doge Leonardo Loredan | Doge Leonardo Loredan
His Doge Leonardo Loredan in the National Gallery, London, has all the wise and kindly firmness of the perfect head of state, and his Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1505; thought to be a likeness of the Venetian writer and humanist Pietro Bembo) in the…
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65303dcfaead1b9f5ef024aba0b98d28 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dogma-religion | Dogma | Dogma
dogma, the explication and officially acceptable version of a religious teaching. The development of doctrines and dogmas has significantly affected the traditions, institutions, and practices of the religions of the world. Doctrines and dogmas also have influenced and been influenced by the ongoing development ... |
bbe8c69f59dfc8532d65a886b78c0e2b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogmatic-Letter | Dogmatic Letter | Dogmatic Letter
…to this with his famous Dogmatic Letter, also endorsed at Chalcedon, which affirmed the coexistence of two complete natures, united without confusion, in the one person of the incarnate Word, or Christ.
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e74a04a07c8538beeaeaa1f2036d9d84 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogme-95 | Dogme 95 | Dogme 95
…which unveiled a doctrine called Dogme 95 (Dogma 95) at the Cannes film festival in 1998. The 10 rules of the Dogme manifesto argued against technological gadgetry in cinema and for a straightforward realism in style and content. A leader of the group was Lars von Trier, a Danish director…
…a purist film move... |
6476a7c0faa8f95db9b9bc0cfc6ec009 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogri-language | Dogri language | Dogri language
Dogri language, member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European languages. Dogri is spoken by approximately 2.6 million people, most commonly in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is an officially recognized language of India. The earliest written reference to Dogri (using the p... |
1a8be0731b82dd917aa6bf775c85e591 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dogrib | Dogrib | Dogrib
Dogrib, self-name Thlingchadinne, Tlicho, or Doné, a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American First Nations (Indian) people inhabiting the forested and barren-ground areas between the Great Bear and Great Slave lakes in the Northwest Territories, Canada. There are six settlements: Behchoko (formerly Rae-Edzo... |
f76899a833d4ab73f9dd13ed43f000dd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dokimasia | Dokimasia | Dokimasia
…to undergo an examination (dokimasia) by the Boule and the law courts of birth qualifications, physical fitness, treatment of parents, and military activity; at the end of their term, they underwent an examination (euthyna) of their conduct, especially financial, while in office. Membership was originally op... |
32a7ff91ac7f7563617dbd252e31b818 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doktor-Burgers-Ende | Doktor Bürgers Ende | Doktor Bürgers Ende
His first novel, Doktor Bürgers Ende (1913; “The End of Doctor Bürger”; revised and republished in 1930 as Die Schicksale Doktor Bürgers, “The Fortunes of Doctor Bürger”), in which a young doctor, driven to despair by the suffering around him, commits suicide when he fails to save the…
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bffc4732632fe08eb67e4581ada1221d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dolman | Dolman | Dolman
…outer coat, the mente (pelisse), was the dolmány (a fitted jacket decorated with braids); tight trousers and a hat with egret feathers completed the ensemble. The style was evidently influenced by the cut, soutaches, and braids of the hussar’s traditional uniform.
…with heavy braiding; and a dolman, or pelisse,... |
f0a171e5adab42ec63d39dae61a7b8cc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dombey-and-Son | Dombey and Son | Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son, in full Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation, novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments during 1846–48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial novel in his development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer tho... |
fc32345f482525a2c0f6f0132acfdb59 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/domestic-tourism | Domestic tourism | Domestic tourism
While domestic tourism could be seen as less glamorous and dramatic than international traffic flows, it has been more important to more people over a longer period. From the 1920s the rise of Florida as a destination for American tourists has been characterized…
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f32eda60c829729ff4f615710a655aa6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/domicile | Domicile | Domicile
Domicile, in law, a person’s dwelling place as it is defined for purposes of judicial jurisdiction and governmental burdens and benefits. Certain aspects of a person’s legal existence do not vary with the state he happens to be in at any given moment but are governed by a personal law that follows him at all ... |
e35905b6fced6f2154dcf38081752ee9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dominate | Dominate | Dominate
…often referred to as the dominate (dominatus), as contrasted with the earlier principate (principatus) of Augustus and his successors. Some earlier emperors, such as Caligula (reigned ad 37–41), however, also had used the title. By Trajan’s day it was the common form of address to the emperor.
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5a879e6318e4509bf69b254f12f39835 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dominica-Freedom-Party | Dominica Freedom Party | Dominica Freedom Party
…initially formed her party, the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), to oppose legislation limiting freedom of the press. More conservative in her approach than either of her predecessors, she moved Dominica toward closer ties with Barbados. Her government faced several coup attempts in 1981, but those... |
6705ca10ad685dc55adcd6c274c064ea | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dominion-theory | Dominion theory | Dominion theory
This belief that the American colonies and other members of the British Empire were distinct states united under the king and thus subject only to the king and not to Parliament was shared by several other delegates, notably James Wilson and John Adams, and strongly influenced…
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8f387f2810ebb8bfc45a0f70ee680b81 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dominus | Dominus | Dominus
Dominus, plural Domini, in ancient Rome, “master,” or “owner,” particularly of slaves. The name became the official title for the emperor, beginning with Diocletian, who reigned from ad 284 to 305; and thus he and his successors are often referred to as the dominate (dominatus), as contrasted with the earlier ... |
18e0bc46e4e42de93cb13381713a73f2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dominus-Iesus | Dominus Iesus | Dominus Iesus
…Britain to the Vatican declaration Dominus Iesus (2000; “The Lord Jesus”), which stated that the Roman Catholic Church was the only instrument of salvation. In his final sermon before his retirement, Murphy-O’Connor issued a controversial critique of secularism that some viewed as a denunciation of athei... |
6c529e3e9a2b1fc201c5b3599ca9d62c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Domus-Sanctae-Marthae | Domus Sanctae Marthae | Domus Sanctae Marthae
…cardinals now reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae (“St. Martha’s House”), a hotel-like building constructed for visiting clergy during the reign of John Paul II. Strict security measures are taken in order to ensure the secrecy of the procedure. The area of the conclave is completely sealed off f... |
b2edc87019ad33a3da550efccf08f8d0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Cossack | Don Cossack | Don Cossack
…six major Cossack hosts: the Don, the Greben (in Caucasia), the Yaik (on the middle Ural River), the Volga, the Dnieper, and the Zaporozhian (mainly west of the Dnieper).
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52c8db44372ea17112765c8835903fe9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Indian-motion-picture | Don | Don
…“Wall”), Sholay (1975; “Embers”), and Don (1978). Nicknamed “Big B,” Bachchan personified a new type of action star in Indian films, that of the “angry young man,” rather than the romantic hero. He was often compared to Clint Eastwood—although, unlike Eastwood and other American action stars, Bachchan was renowned... |
114fe1f4f5f6b7fad34ba175132dba50 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Juan-fictional-character | Don Juan | Don Juan
Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Seducer of Seville,” translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tir... |
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