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74bd22332bffbceb8a9092a60dda269a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Kirshner-1688403 | Don Kirshner | Don Kirshner
Don Kirshner managed singers Bobby Darin and Connie Francis before forming Aldon Music in 1958 with veteran publisher Al Nevins. Setting up office in the heart of Tin Pan Alley on Broadway across from the Brill Building, they cultivated prolific songwriting partnerships including those of Neil Sedaka and ... |
f435f14089c0912c98412701f70b203b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/don-Mafia | Don | Don
…was a “boss,” or “don,” whose authority could be challenged only by the commission. Each don had an underboss, who functioned as a vice president or deputy director, and a consigliere, or counselor, who had considerable power and influence. Below the underboss were the caporegime, or lieutenants, who, acting…
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0272f719ef43ebcea8fbf6d367b79866 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Quixote-fictional-character | Don Quixote | Don Quixote
Don Quixote, also spelled Don Quijote, 17th-century Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The book, originally published in Spanish in two parts (1605, 1615), concerns the eponymous would-be knight errant whose delusions of grandeur make him the butt o... |
2823d842d6360de31d458b130c634c00 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Segundo-Sombra | Don Segundo Sombra | Don Segundo Sombra
…best remembered for his novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926). This work is a poetic interpretation of the Argentinian gaucho, the free-spirited vagabond cattle herder of the pampas (grasslands), and it has become a classic work of Spanish American literature.
…history: Don Segundo Sombra (1926; Don Segun... |
1af3018d095c54cbf70618616ef13ef0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/donatario | Donatário | Donatário
Donatário, the recipient of a capitania (captaincy), both a territorial division and a royal land grant in Portuguese colonies, especially Brazil. The Portuguese had used the captaincy system with success in the Madeira Islands and the Azores, and in 1533 King John III decided to employ it to consolidate Po... |
b02b9f84ee0702771df60843444dd5ae | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donation-of-Ireland | Donation of Ireland | Donation of Ireland
…Canterbury, and granted him the Donation of Ireland (known as the bull Laudabiliter), which supposedly gave Ireland to Henry II of England. Attacked for false representation, the bull was subsequently refuted. (Even if Laudabiliter is authentic, which is doubtful, it does not grant hereditary posse... |
280b476b54fcff690979d3facbd97327 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dong | Dong | Dong
Dong, Wade-Giles romanization Tung, also called Dongjia or Dongren, (Wade-Giles) Tung-chia or Tung-jen, an ethnic minority of China found in southeastern Guizhou province and in neighbouring Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi and Hunan province. According to most linguists the Dong speak a Kam-Sui language that ... |
bdb3c04d37d3304ac6b21a3812db6786 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dongfang-Shuo-Stealing-the-Peaches-of-Longevity | Dongfang Shuo Stealing the Peaches of Longevity | Dongfang Shuo Stealing the Peaches of Longevity
Many kesi, such as Dongfang Shuo Stealing the Peaches of Longevity, imitated paintings and were mounted on scrolls or album leaves in the same manner as the pictures they copied. Tapestries to cover large wall surfaces, such as the kesi (7 feet 3 inches by 5 feet 9 inches... |
8beeea10921e0f9bc95f93dd2869e939 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dongshuitian-system | Dongshuitian system | Dongshuitian system
…the eastern basin is the dongshuitian (literally, “winter water-storage field”) system, in which large tracts of terraced fields are left fallow during the winter season and are used for the storage of water that is needed in the paddy fields in the spring; from the air they resemble a mosaic…
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588051b2f49e6c000e24bf3dbd3e943e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dongxiwenhua-ji-qu-zhexue | Dongxiwenhua ji qu zhexue | Dongxiwenhua ji qu zhexue
His influential Dongxiwenhua ji qu zhexue (1921; “The Cultures of East and West and Their Philosophies”) attempted to demonstrate to an increasingly iconoclastic and Westernized Chinese intelligentsia the modern relevance of Chinese, especially Confucian, culture. Characterizing the Western at... |
51b6bba3a0d6f6e19222e000e481124d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donkey-Kong-Country | Donkey Kong Country | Donkey Kong Country
…sequels, including the critically acclaimed Donkey Kong Country series, and it inspired a cartoon television show and a documentary.
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7c5750cc1aaed4855381f214c593f54f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donnie-Brasco | Donnie Brasco | Donnie Brasco
…a thief (Robert De Niro); Donnie Brasco (1997), in which he starred as a low-level mobster who unknowingly befriends an FBI agent (Johnny Depp); and Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday (1999). Also in 1999 Pacino appeared opposite Russell Crowe in The Insider; based on real-life events, it examines tobacco c... |
db7e05d2477d71b149604378f1f7d064 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Bother-Me | Don’t Bother Me | Don’t Bother Me
…original works, beginning with “Don’t Bother Me” (1963). A few of his later songs came to be regarded as some of the Beatles’ finest, including “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (1968), “Here Comes the Sun” (1969), and “Something” (1969). In 1965 Harrison studied the sitar with Ravi Shankar and…
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e6a6739518c78242ad064fe0723b944e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Drink-the-Water-television-film-by-Allen | Don’t Drink the Water | Don’t Drink the Water
…for the made-for-television version of Don’t Drink the Water (1994) that Allen directed and in which he starred.
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570c84d84f22febb7a7f40963eb045a7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Think-Twice | Don’t Think Twice | Don’t Think Twice
…a producer on Birbiglia’s film Don’t Think Twice (2016), which was about a New York City improv comedy troupe.
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d21034203b055187bcd74e476399e260 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Worry-Be-Happy | Don’t Worry, Be Happy | Don’t Worry, Be Happy
…featured the hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” He also recorded television commercials and a theme song for The Cosby Show; improvised music for actor Jack Nicholson’s readings of Rudyard Kipling’s children’s stories; and released an album with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, titled Hush, in 1992.
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f895e4896138c6c479f317516d4dfea3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Worry-He-Wont-Get-Far-on-Foot | Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot | Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Van Sant then directed Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018), a biopic on the quadriplegic artist John Callahan, who was known for his controversial cartoons.
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ef673dab3865926e9b149b5da5948c09 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dookie | Dookie | Dookie
…released Green Day’s major-label debut, Dookie, in 1994. The album carried the band’s catchy pop-punk sound and Armstrong’s apathetic lyrics into the mainstream, earning a Grammy Award for best alternative music performance and selling more than 15 million copies worldwide.
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cfea010be430b245e5fb47ef257bc6c0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doolittle-Pixies-album | Doolittle | Doolittle
In 1989 the group released Doolittle, its most revered album, which built upon the Pixies’ existing formula and perfected the stop-and-start dynamics that would perhaps become its greatest legacy to later alternative bands, especially Nirvana. Bossanova, a surf music-inspired variation on the earlier albums, ... |
4e24ac728e91f80c22301c0b2d7bdd9e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dora-Spenlow | Dora Spenlow | Dora Spenlow
Dora Spenlow, fictional character, the childlike first wife of David Copperfield in the novel David Copperfield (1849–50) by Charles Dickens.
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10af64ce68bdfe819014a93830d2855b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dorian-Gray | Dorian Gray | Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray, fictional character, the hedonistic protagonist of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). He exchanges his soul for youth that never fades.
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cc0d55df21782a8e5cfd658dd706e84a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doris-Day-Animal-League | Doris Day Animal League | Doris Day Animal League
…member and president of the Doris Day Animal League, a lobbying organization for laws regulating the treatment of animals.
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0e0c2eb84231c621dd58160e0d0ce1e0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dormition | Dormition | Dormition
…on August 15 commemorating her dormition, or falling asleep. The feast, which originated in the Byzantine Empire, was brought to the West, where the term Assumption replaced the earlier title to reflect increased emphasis on the glorification of Mary’s body as well as her soul. Although the dormition of Mary... |
6a5f9fd5872a2a78d540c326860930fb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dorothy | Dorothy | Dorothy
Dorothy, fictional character, the youthful heroine of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900; film 1939), a book-length tale for children by L. Frank Baum, and most of its sequels. Dorothy’s down-to-earth Kansas upbringing serves her well in the fantastic Land of Oz, where she travels in the company of the Scarecrow... |
9fe7586a23aba7ddbdc441b4e4cd03b7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dorset-dialect | Dorset dialect | Dorset dialect
His first Dorset dialect poems were published in the Dorset County Chronicle (1833–34). His many books include an Anglo-Saxon primer (1849), An Outline of English Speech-Craft (1878), Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (two series: 1844, 1862), Hwomely Rhymes (1859), and Poems of Rural Life…
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87b7941b8abcee16977dfb43a31a144b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dortmund-Ems-Canal | Dortmund-Ems Canal | Dortmund-Ems Canal
Dortmund-Ems Canal, German Dortmund-Ems-Kanal, important commercial canal in western Germany linking the Ruhr industrial area with the North Sea near Emden. The canal was opened in 1899 and is about 269 km (167 miles) long. It extends from Dortmund, its southern terminus, to meet the Rhine-Herne Can... |
0a4452cdd83a04fabb2bbfad55df635a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dos | ¡Dos! | ¡Dos!
…a trilogy—the separately released ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!—that found the band returning to the high-energy immediacy of its punk roots while also drawing inspiration from its classic-rock forebears. Green Day’s next release, Revolution Radio (2016), was a more-focused return to basics. Father of All… (2020) feat... |
80e73f3b39c0aefd6fa13e1acdbe1c70 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dosparth-Byrr | Dosparth Byrr | Dosparth Byrr
As a result there appeared Dosparth Byrr (“A Short Rationale”), the earliest printed Welsh primer, the work of Gruffydd Robert (c. 1522–c. 1610), and several religious works, many of which were published on the Continent.
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4f380d963d426264a20138cfb2bd54e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dothard-v-Rawlinson | Dothard v. Rawlinson | Dothard v. Rawlinson
…year the Supreme Court, in Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977), addressed Title VII’s “bona fide occupational qualification” exception in sex-discrimination cases. Here a class of women challenged a state’s height and weight requirements for prison guards at male correctional facilities. The requirements ... |
635381298c9dc819536950c1a7707b3f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dottore | Dottore | Dottore
Dottore, (Italian: “Doctor”) also called Gratiano, stock character of the Italian theatrical form known as the commedia dell’arte, who was a loquacious caricature of pedantic learning.
The Dottore’s professional affiliation was imprecise. He was at times a legal scholar, ready with advice for any occasion, who... |
1af7c6001d651b550cb450f4f89900e5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Double-Negative | Double Negative | Double Negative
Michael Heizer’s Double Negative (1969–70) involved the removal of thousands of tons of earth in order to produce two “cuts” that faced each other across the chasm of the Mormon Mesa in Nevada. Bulgarian-born artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude, his Moroccan-born wife, specialized throughout the 1960s and ... |
7412f3644c568797f23d9522d98fdb16 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/double-predestination | Double predestination | Double predestination
…extreme is the notion of double predestination, commonly identified with Calvinism and especially associated with the Synod of Dort (1618–19) and appearing also in some of the writings of St. Augustine and Martin Luther and in the thought of the Jansenists. According
…sovereignty and initiative, ... |
de0f4c7dd0aafd892ac07bc5bc8eb3e6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/double-standard | Double standard | Double standard
This double standard of morality is also seen in premarital life. Postmarital coitus (i.e., coitus by separated, divorced, or widowed persons) is almost always ignored. Even societies that try to confine coitus to marriage recognize the difficulty of trying to force abstinence upon sexually experienced ... |
a49b7fbe0cba197dd090e66dc4feca9f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/double-unilineal-descent | Double unilineal descent | Double unilineal descent
In systems of double unilineal descent, society recognizes both the patrilineage and the matrilineage but assigns to each a different set of expectations. For example, the inheritance of immovable materials, such as land, may be the domain of the patrilineage, while the matrilineage controls th... |
51a7bf6bdf5e839c57470c16d79af74d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doublework | Doublework | Doublework
British choreographer Richard Alston’s Doublework (1978), for example, derived its structure from the exploration of the duet form and the repetition of dance material in different contexts. Other movement ideas that may develop in this way are the use of contrasting sections of movement (a section of fast, ... |
f7a1f888489d863bac6d2e3865418bb3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doulton-and-Co-Ltd | Doulton and Co., Ltd. | Doulton and Co., Ltd.
After about 1860 Doultons of Lambeth (London) copied 18th-century brown stoneware, making small figures and repeating earlier designs. The incised decoration by Hannah Barlow is both pleasant and competent. From a Fulham pottery owned by the Martin brothers came grotesque and often amusing stonewa... |
d3617e18792b4fdcf68fad644fc07ed5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dover-Beach | Dover Beach | Dover Beach
Dover Beach, poem by Matthew Arnold, published in New Poems in 1867. The most celebrated of the author’s works, this poem of 39 lines addresses the decline of religious faith in the modern world and offers the fidelity of affection as its successor.
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b2ef67bbc3bc1a62caf60c62d583e014 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doves-Press-Bible | Doves Press Bible | Doves Press Bible
…its monumental masterpiece, the 1903 Doves Press Bible, are remarkably beautiful typographic books. They have no illustrations or ornaments; the press instead relied upon fine paper, perfect presswork, and exquisite type and spacing to produce inspired page designs. The Ashendene Press, directed by E... |
49c1ccf925539aed993d41b1773aa78c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dow-Process-Company | Dow Process Company | Dow Process Company
In 1895 Dow founded the Dow Process Company to electrolyze brine for chlorine (producing caustic soda and sodium hypochlorite) at Navarre, Ohio, soon moving the company to Midland and creating the Dow Chemical Company (1897) to absorb the Midland Chemical and Dow Process. Dow’s chlorine products fou... |
2910edb4b450d33b252ace197cfe4133 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-at-the-Cross-Letter-from-a-Region-in-My-Mind | Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind | Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind
In the second essay, “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” Baldwin recounts his coming-of-age in Harlem, appraises the Black Muslim (Nation of Islam) movement, and gives a statement of his personal beliefs.
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62f3f6cd50d2b2840ced176da1497ba2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-Below | Down Below | Down Below
…endured there in her book Down Below (1944). She managed to escape further psychiatric treatment and, through a marriage of convenience with Mexican diplomat Renato Leduc, secured passage to New York in 1941. She stayed in New York City about a year, and in that time she continued to write…
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6e5237bc467629d1bfd489d41ca99f03 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-by-the-River-song-by-Young | Down by the River | Down by the River
…about established forms, and “Down by the River,” a long, raw-edged guitar blitzkrieg around lyrics about murder, the album made Young an icon.
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afe7a155aa4b478f5e36dad641c0dacb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-Stream | Down Stream | Down Stream
…first was À vau-l’eau (1882; Down Stream), a tragicomic account of the misfortunes, largely sexual, of a humble civil servant, Folantin. À rebours (1884; Against the Grain), Huysmans’s best-known novel, relates the experiments in aesthetic decadence undertaken by the bored survivor of a noble line. The amb... |
7648b2ae38987b9b98b3c846b533473f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-to-Earth | Down to Earth | Down to Earth
…writer on the Rock-starring films Down to Earth (2001) and I Think I Love My Wife (2007).
…including Nurse Betty (2000) and Down to Earth (2001). In 2001 he provided the voice of the title character in the animated movie Osmosis Jones. He later starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the thriller Bad Company... |
465caebc2e2deff32b8fec4701bebd6d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Downing-Street-memo | Downing Street memo | Downing Street memo
…the substance of the so-called Downing Street memo, which purportedly showed that the Bush administration had deliberately “juiced up” military intelligence to support war against Iraq. Criticism of the mainstream media has come not only from the left. Dan Rather, a news anchor for CBS TV, was no d... |
b25760ac341f7a83118357c22aa922d9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Downsizing | Downsizing | Downsizing
…science fiction with the satire Downsizing (2017), which he also cowrote. It starred Matt Damon as a man who undergoes a medical procedure that causes him to shrink and received scant critical praise.
…other credits from 2017 included Downsizing, a sci-fi satire in which he portrayed a man who undergoes a m... |
15116fd1c657d5b9965e036ad9d714ac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Downton-Abbey | Downton Abbey | Downton Abbey
…2010 Fellowes created and produced Downton Abbey, which began following the fortunes of more than a dozen major characters, from the earl and countess of Grantham down to the scullery maid, in the pre-World War I period. Although the costume drama, which debuted on Britain’s ITV television, was dismissed... |
dae36373add8403e3d507a8178f90b60 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Downtown-Petula-Clark-song | Downtown | Downtown
…Diddy Diddy”), Petula Clark (“Downtown”), Freddie and the Dreamers (“I’m Telling You Now”), Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (“Game of Love”), Herman’s Hermits (“Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”), the Rolling Stones (“[I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction” and others), the Troggs (“Wild Thing
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185625d5635054a94540d2c3a7b1ec5c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dowsing | Dowsing | Dowsing
Dowsing, in occultism, use of a forked piece of hazel, rowan, or willow wood or of a Y-shaped metal rod or of a pendulum suspended by a nylon or silk thread, in an attempt to detect such hidden substances as water, minerals, treasure, archaeological remains, and even dead bodies. The practice seems to have fi... |
f5af5ccf6ef2cb1991a524f2f0a147a3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doxiadis-Plan | Doxiadis Plan | Doxiadis Plan
The Doxiadis Plan (later revised by a French consulting group) introduced a linear development concept along a central spine running in a north-south direction, thus avoiding encroachment of the city on the Wadi Ḥanīfah system to the west, the boundaries of which have been the prime…
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9ea60d713f24261132738a61e34fe4ea | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doyle-Dane-Bernbach | Doyle Dane Bernbach | Doyle Dane Bernbach
…who launched his career at Doyle Dane Bernbach was George Lois, whose works were engagingly simple and direct. Lois went on to design over 90 covers for Esquire magazine in the 1960s. He used powerful photographs and photomontages, usually by Carl Fischer, to make succinct editorial statements abou... |
9799d9249fa8e8538cffa711a72d2d9f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dozsa-Gyorgy | Dózsa György | Dózsa György
Erkel’s 1867 opera, Dózsa György, displays Wagnerian stylistic touches in its use of leitmotifs, while Brankovics György (1874) employs Hungarian, Serbian, and Turkish musical material.
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e97addf9d8c812c707cda8426fe4d9f7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dr-Aziz | Dr. Aziz | Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz, fictional character, a humble Muslim surgeon in A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster. Aziz represents the native Indian community in conflict with the British ruling class. The central event of the novel is his trial for the alleged rape of a visiting Englishwoman, Adela Quested.
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549a86262c5ba2b021384819902aab63 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dr-Goldfoot-and-the-Bikini-Machine | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
…threatens his upcoming wedding, and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1966), a spy spoof about a secret agent’s attempts to thwart a mad scientist (Vincent Price) who wants to use female robots to take over the world. Four Presley musicals completed Taurog’s career: Spinout (1966... |
4b17a2673142056252dc7649dd8343ac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drafting/Auxiliary-views | Auxiliary views | Auxiliary views
Figure 8 illustrates another basic principle of descriptive geometry that facilitates the discussion of auxiliary views:
II. Given two planes (A and C) perpendicular to a third plane (B), a point P projected orthogonally onto the three planes, and the rotation of A and C into B about their respective li... |
bb2501e78129275afeadd2035d15a79f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dragnet-American-radio-program | Dragnet | Dragnet
…life breathed into it with Dragnet, which debuted on June 3, 1949, over NBC. The brainchild of a young writer-director-actor named Jack Webb, Dragnet employed essentially the same format as Calling All Cars, but it was much more realistic, focusing on the day-to-day, tedious grind of catching crooks. Webb star... |
221e2f682721a785ebc0f78ec2d7f213 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dragoman | Dragoman | Dragoman
Dragoman, Arabic Tarjumān, Turkish Tercüman, official interpreter in countries where Arabic, Turkish, and Persian are spoken. Originally the term applied to any intermediary between Europeans and Middle Easterners, whether as a hotel tout or as a traveller’s guide, but there developed the official dragomans o... |
ea1c9390f7acfd0ba821016390e2ce10 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dragon-2 | Dragon 2 | Dragon 2
…new American crew capsule, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, had its first flight to the ISS in 2020, and the Boeing Company’s CST-100 Starliner was scheduled to have its first crewed test flight in 2021. Prior to Crew Dragon, all astronauts used Soyuz spacecraft to reach the ISS. Crew Dragon carried four…
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fd90ac7aea4182aa7f1063a0c6509d15 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dragon-palace | Dragon palace | Dragon palace
…structure known as the “dragon palace” or “dragon cave,” consisting chiefly of a brick- or stone-lined room. This enclosure, which was sometimes decorated with murals, held a container in which relics and funerary objects had been placed. The container holding the sacred objects was usually placed within... |
cab647d70c03daa0be3c6ea279244db2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dragonheart | Dragonheart | Dragonheart
Knight (1995), The Rock (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Entrapment (1999). Connery officially retired from acting following his appearance in the film adaptation (2003) of the comic-book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, though he went on to perform various voice roles.
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fd27cab671bbeebc52d483f41bcc83c5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dragons-blood-resin | Dragon's blood | Dragon's blood
Dragon’s blood, red resin obtained from the fruit of several palms of the genus Daemonorops and used in colouring varnishes and lacquers. Once valued as a medicine in Europe because of its astringent properties, dragon’s blood now is used as a varnish for violins and in photoengraving for preventing und... |
8f194f97848f250c3ad97d2d7ebbdf99 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drake-University | Drake University | Drake University
Drake University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. It consists of the colleges of arts and sciences, business and public administration, and pharmacy and health sciences and the schools of journalism and mass communication, law, and education. In addition... |
4c797f7fb95fee15f46b45bcc25e1699 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dramatic-television | Dramatic television | Dramatic television
…the categories of comedy and drama emerged in the 1950s to deserve the attention of discriminating viewers. They are the most fondly remembered of the Golden Age genres for both emotional and intellectual reasons. Live TV drama was, in essence, the legitimate theatre’s contribution to the new mediu... |
4471c77a87f38a3ef15eb5cdb61ba26f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dravidian-languages/Inflection | Inflection | Inflection
Inflection is expressed by combining the following elements: a verb stem (simple, complex, or compound) + (optional modal auxiliary) + tense + gender-number-person (g-n-p) marker. Each of these components conveys a particular meaning. A complex verb stem provides the general meaning implied by the verb and m... |
3fd11f4e8728283e1a0a2c351dbb21fc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dravidian-languages/Literary-languages | Literary languages | Literary languages
Of the four literary languages in the Dravidian family, Tamil is the oldest, with examples dating to the early Common Era. In the early 21st century, Tamil was spoken by more than 66 million people, mostly residing in India, northern Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, Fiji, and Myanmar (Burma... |
fa060eb890b43a5b940d4881864cbc05 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dravidian-languages/Phonological-features-of-Dravidian-languages | Phonological features of Dravidian languages | Phonological features of Dravidian languages
The Dravidian languages belong to a single family—including the distant relative Brahui. Examples that are prefixed with asterisks have been reconstructed following the time-tested procedures of comparative linguistics. Proto-Dravidian reconstructions can be explained in ter... |
d289ca87e0be10d8b83290afa63e6a2d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dreadful-Freedom-A-Critique-of-Existentialism | Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism | Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism
…several works on Existentialism, including Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism (1948). She also was one of the first to interpret the philosophical meaning of random events that occur in the course of evolution and to address the philosophical impacts of the in... |
2d66008d5f4eeab875d27de6afcd20e9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/DREAM-Act | DREAM Act | DREAM Act
Dick Durbin helped formulate the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, dedicated to setting undocumented students on a path to U.S. citizenship. Also in 2001 he became one of the few Republican advocates of stem cell research, and he praised Democratic Pres. Barack Obama for lifting... |
3cd7723b81d6f74a1186d2e8bca50441 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dream-of-Life | Dream of Life | Dream of Life
…her husband in 1988 (Dream of Life) and began working on new songs with him a few years later, it was only after his sudden death from a heart attack in 1994 that her comeback began in earnest. Gone Again appeared in 1996 and was followed by Peace and…
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66489afd11932eafb5cd606f9b76a652 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dream-sleep-experience/Dreamlike-activities | Dreamlike activities | Dreamlike activities
Related states of awareness may be distinguished from the dream experiences typically reported; these include dreamlike states experienced as a person falls asleep and as he awakens, respectively called hypnagogic and hypnopompic reveries. During sleep itself there are nightmares, observable signs ... |
addcc64072034d082970fb5db6a8c4e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dreams-in-a-Time-of-War | Dreams in a Time of War | Dreams in a Time of War
Ngugi later published the memoirs Dreams in a Time of War (2010), about his childhood; In the House of the Interpreter (2012), which was largely set in the 1950s, during the Mau Mau rebellion against British control in Kenya; and Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening (2016), a…
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6eaca087b819d763214c56eaeb8ee789 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/DreamWorks-Animation | DreamWorks Animation | DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation, American entertainment company producing animated feature films, original TV series and shorts, interactive media, live entertainment, theme park attractions, and consumer products. It is based in Glendale, California.
DreamWorks Animation originated as a division of DreamWor... |
248cd3e16ffaef599fb84ed4f19e2d48 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drexel-University | Drexel University | Drexel University
Drexel University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It consists of the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Administration, Engineering, and Information Science and Technology, as well as the Nesbitt College of Design Arts. In addition t... |
fb3be12efd884e611351e802124ce030 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dreyfusards | Dreyfusards | Dreyfusards
The Dreyfusards (those seeking exoneration of Captain Dreyfus) saw the issue as the principle of the freedom of the individual subordinated to that of national security. They wanted to republicanize the army and put it under parliamentary control.
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b422acd61388c741949fe78b7c5d3e7d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dried-egg | Dried egg | Dried egg
Dried or dehydrated eggs are less expensive to ship, more convenient to use, and easier to store than fresh whole eggs. Spray dryers are used to produce a high-quality egg product with foaming and emulsification properties similar to those of fresh eggs.…
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128bb64e0521da4c83d7a9d437816f59 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drift-The-Unmooring-of-American-Military-Power | Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
…2012 Maddow published the book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a wide-ranging examination of U.S. military policy from the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War. In Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry... |
6e4d01e4f7d68dbb3a77992732a42350 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drive-He-Said | Drive, He Said | Drive, He Said
…as an uncredited writer on Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Jack Nicholson. His own directorial debut, Badlands (1973), which he also scripted, starred Martin Sheen as a small-town hoodlum who persuades a naive teenage girl (played by Sissy Spacek) to run away with him as he embarks on a…
… (1971), di... |
a50163a143fabbdf7d191ae4fc3a0b0c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drive-time-radio | Drive time radio | Drive time radio
“Drive-time” radio had become important after 1960 as morning and evening commutes in most urban areas grew longer, and it continued to be a mainstay, attracting the medium’s largest audiences. Such programs continued to thrive despite decades of competition from broadcast television and increasing com... |
a22ea9542f7621bdccf1af9c2746adfd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drochel | Drochel | Drochel
, and known as drochel. The fine meshes were hexagonal, the threads of the two longer sides being plaited four times and of the shorter sides twisted. In Brussels application the motifs could be made either by bobbin (an elongated spool of thread) or by needle; in Honiton they…
…could be a meshwork of drochel (... |
080c961eabe49a3e937c4507a16d67da | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Droll-Stories | Droll Stories | Droll Stories
Droll Stories, collection of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published in three sets of 10 stories each, in 1832, 1833, and 1837, as Contes drolatiques.
Rabelaisian in theme, the stories are written with great vitality in a pastiche of 16th-century language. The tales are fully as lively as the author... |
7b68c7f5aaa61eb6028f223c2a9d502f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dromos | Dromos | Dromos
…parts: a narrow entranceway, or dromos, often lined with fieldstones and later with cut stones; a deep doorway, or stomion, covered over with one to three lintel blocks; and a circular chamber with a high vaulted or corbeled roof, the thalamos. When the facades are finely dressed with cut stones…
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079fc051470c45991ceb5f7ea53679a1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drones-War-and-Peace-2119125 | Drones, War, and Peace | Drones, War, and Peace
I have spent much of my life creating art for peace in the face of war. As an artist, filmmaker, and photojournalist, I have witnessed more than three decades of wars from the front line, in Nicaragua, Cambodia, the Philippines, Somalia, Western Sahara, Palestine, South Africa, Northern Ireland, ... |
9eeac8f71e248b639d14be0273e083b2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Droop-quota | Droop quota | Droop quota
…developed a quota (the so-called Droop quota) to determine the number of votes a candidate needed to capture to win election under STV. The quota is calculated by dividing the total number of valid votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one, and one is then…
…developed a quota (the so-called D... |
12371774b7d7d3fff6fa067ce8077139 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drop | Drop | Drop
…for this process, called the drop or break, depends on such variables as temperature, type of flour, amount of yeast, absorption, and amount of malt, which are frequently adjusted to produce a drop in about three to five hours.
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5e7aabb3cb08f49050c2cdfcbc88b228 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drop-Down-and-Get-Me | Drop Down and Get Me | Drop Down and Get Me
Drop Down and Get Me (1982), a strong album and a modest chart success, was produced by Tom Petty and featured his band, the Heartbreakers.
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b7bfc158cc8ed080d51a3d5695280274 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drop-shipper | Drop shipper | Drop shipper
Drop shippers do not carry inventory or handle the merchandise. Operating primarily in bulk industries such as lumber, coal, and heavy equipment, they take orders but have manufacturers ship merchandise directly to final consumers. Rack jobbers, who handle nonfood lines such as housewares or personal…
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e4765aa2d7b085d04d584e3d9fa853fd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drop-the-Monkey | Drop the Monkey | Drop the Monkey
… (2009), and the “live film” Drop the Monkey (2009), which he made with no external editing, rehearsals, or other conventional elements of film for Performa 2009, the 3rd biennial of visual art performance in New York City.
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55ecf912fedf66174a42f39c86a938f6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dropping-the-Pilot | Dropping the Pilot | Dropping the Pilot
…famous cartoon was probably “Dropping the Pilot” (1890), on the subject of Bismarck’s resignation. Tenniel was knighted in 1893 and retired from Punch in 1901. He illustrated many books; his drawings for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are remarkably subtle and clever ... |
f3d71354f1899d84c028d95a873d4d75 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drottningholm-Palace | Drottningholm Palace | Drottningholm Palace
Drottningholm Palace, Royal palace, near Stockholm. It was designed by Nicodemus Tessin (1615–81) and built 1662–86. It shows French Baroque influences in its plan, gardens, and interior, but it also has Italian Classical elements and is capped by a Nordic sateri roof. A theatre attached to it was... |
6434c47a426e71cf5c80ccbf0eeca86a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drottningholm-Theatre | Drottningholm Theatre | Drottningholm Theatre
Drottningholm Theatre, Swedish Drottningholmsteater, 18th-century court theatre of the Royal Palace of Drottningholm, near Stockholm, Swed. It is preserved with its original sets and stage machinery as a theatrical museum.
Built in the 1760s by the architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, it was the ho... |
6be2c55ff6eb6d03d225d06ad3eb9b48 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drug-use/Addiction-habituation-and-dependence | Addiction, habituation, and dependence | Addiction, habituation, and dependence
The traditional distinction between “addiction” and “habituation” centres on the ability of a drug to produce tolerance and physical dependence. The opiates clearly possess the potential to massively challenge the body’s resources, and, if so challenged, the body will make the cor... |
bacd0e555d9e0219b085bd885ddcd74a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drug-use/Hallucinogenic-drugs | Hallucinogenic drugs | Hallucinogenic drugs
It is difficult to find a suitable generic name for a class of drugs having as many diverse effects as have been reported for “hallucinogens.” Abnormal behaviour as profound as the swings in mood, disturbances in thinking, perceptual distortions, delusions, and feelings of strangeness that sometime... |
7287f34642793f5f9757d57ebeb37828 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/drug-use/Psychotropic-drugs | Psychotropic drugs | Psychotropic drugs
The opiates are unrivalled in their ability to relieve pain. Opium is the dried milky exudate obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum), which grows naturally throughout most of Turkey. Of the 20 or more alkaloids found in opium, only a few are pharmacologically... |
5b2c8e0a9cba7b995228126d181b66c2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drum-Taps | Drum-Taps | Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps, collection of poems in free verse, most on the subject of the American Civil War, by Walt Whitman, published in May 1865. The mood of the poetry moves from excitement at the falling-in and arming of the young soldiers at the beginning of the war to the troubled realization of the war’s true signif... |
a58b539e12b696e3582fe0ce887857c5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Drury-Lane-Theatre | Drury Lane Theatre | Drury Lane Theatre
Drury Lane Theatre, in full Theatre Royal Drury Lane, oldest London theatre still in use. It stands in the eastern part of the City of Westminster.
The first theatre was built by the dramatist Thomas Killigrew for his company of actors as the Theatre Royal under a charter from Charles II. It opened ... |
999660ed0d46557824cc94b01c9bcd5b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dry-fly | Dry fly | Dry fly
Dry flies, representing the perfect or imago stage, are those that float on the surface. Constructed from materials that will aid flotation, these flies attempt to imitate insects that are either emerging from the stream or returning to it to lay eggs or to die…
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f545b8669c2080f6a04eb66bd2f4f11b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/dry-well-installation | Dry-well installation | Dry-well installation
Dry-well installations have two separate chambers, one to receive the wastewater and one to enclose and protect the pumps and controls. The protective dry chamber allows easy access for inspection and maintenance. All sewage lift stations, whether of the wet-well or dry-well type, should include…
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e1c0b5557f3207dc698665329225628e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dryasdust | Dryasdust | Dryasdust
Dryasdust, in full Jonas Dryasdust, fictional character, an antiquarian created by Sir Walter Scott writing pseudonymously as “Editor,” or “Antiquary,” in the prefaces to several works, such as The Antiquary (1816). A dull expert on rare books, Dryasdust is a scholar and friend of the “Editor,” with whom he ... |
163e2ff5139282a7e7e6d5589faf1e82 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/DST-French-intelligence-agency | DST | DST
The DST (Directorate of Territorial Security), a third important member of the French intelligence system, is responsible for internal security, playing a role similar to that of the American FBI. It is controlled by the Ministry of the Interior.
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9a5577e1329b3a5456eace058ebc506f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Du-Barry-Was-a-Lady-film-by-Del-Ruth | Du Barry Was a Lady | Du Barry Was a Lady
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), with Lucille Ball and Red Skelton, had great potential—the original stage version was a huge success on Broadway—but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cut most of Cole Porter’s score, limiting the film’s appeal. Del Ruth’s two films from 1944, Broadway Rhythm and Barbary…
…Street (1942... |
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