Dodson, Owen African-American poet, teacher, director, and playwright and a leading figure in black theatre.
dodu (from the article "art, African") ...neighbours, seeing the figure in front of a woman's hut, will fill it with gifts ...
Dodwell, C. R. (from the article "Theophilus") ...of interest in reflecting the attitude to his art of a practicing medieval craftsman who ...
doe (from the article "goat") ...Related to the sheep, the goat is lighter of build, has horns that arch backward, ...
Doe, John (from the article "X") ...Cervenka (original name Christine Cervenka; b. Feb. 1, 1956 Chicago, Ill., U.S. John Doe (b. Feb. ...
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dog food (from the article "dog") There are three basic types of commercially produced dog foods: canned, dry, and semimoist. Predominant ...
Dog Husband (from the article "Native American literature") ...a family and are regarded as the property of that group. Thus, these stories can ...
dog lichen (species Peltigera canina ), foliose (leafy) lichen usually found in patches 5 to 10 cm (2 ...
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dog show competition in which purebred dogs are judged on the basis of their physical perfection as ...
dog snapper (from the article "snapper") Snappers are valuable and well-regarded food fishes. Some, however, such as the dog snapper (Lutjanus ...
Dog Soldiers (from the article "Cheyenne") Traditional Cheyenne society was organized into 10 major bands governed by a council of 44 ...
dog team (from the article "American Subarctic peoples") Because dog teams require large quantities of meat, they were not kept to pull toboggans ...
dog's mercury (from the article "mercury") ...of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa but naturalized in ...
Dogana della Mene delle Pecore (from the article "Mezzogiorno") ...The French Angevins ousted the Hohenstaufen in 1266 and greatly expanded the power of the ...
Dogara (from the article "Niger") ...to the south and east of Air. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria ...
dogbane (from the article "Gentianales") Apocynaceae, or the dogbane family, is broadly circumscribed to include the traditional Asclepiadaceae, or milkweed ...
dogbane beetle (species Chrysochus auratus ), member of the insect subfamily Eumolpinae of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae ...
Dogberry (from the article "Much Ado About Nothing") ...Claudio publicly rejects Hero at the wedding ceremony. She is so shamed that her family ...
doge (Venetian Italian: "duke"), highest official of the republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years ... [2 Related Articles]
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dogfight (from the article "aerobatics") ...development of successful fighter aircraft in 1915 that pilots began to engage in serious aerial ...
dogfighting (from the article "pit bull terrier") ...against humans was not encouraged because, even while fighting, the dogs had to be handled ...
dogfish any of several small sharks of the families Squalidae, Scyliorhinidae, and Triakidae. In North America, ...
Dogger Bank extensive isolated shoal in the North Sea, lying about 60 miles (100 km) off the ... [1 Related Articles]
Dogger Bank herring (from the article "migration") ...Sea, distinct groups spawn in different seasons and on different grounds: Buchan herring spawn in ...
Dogger Bank, Battle of the (from the article "naval warfare") ...other's codes. Special intelligence and attempts to entrap a weaker enemy were rife throughout the ...
doggerel a low, or trivial, form of verse, loosely constructed and often irregular, but effective because ... [1 Related Articles]
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dogma (from the article "doctrine and dogma") the explication and officially acceptable version of a religious teaching. The development of doctrines and ...
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (from the article "Vatican Council, Second") The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" attempts to relate the role of Scripture and tradition ...
Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (from the article "Vatican Council, Second") The "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" reflects the attempt of the council fathers to utilize ...
Dogon ethnic group of the central plateau region of Mali that spreads across the border into ... [16 Related Articles]
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Dogon Plateau (from the article "Mali") ...are a series of small, broken hills. Elevations in the southeast range between almost 1,000 ...
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dogsled (from the article "sled dog") ...climates to pull a sled across snow and ice. The breeds most commonly associated with ...
dogsled racing sport of racing sleds pulled by dogs, usually over snow-covered cross-country courses. In warmer climates, ... [1 Related Articles]
dogu abstract clay figurines, generally of pregnant females, made in Japan during the Jomon period (c. ...
Dogubayazit town, eastern Turkey, at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) and situated about 10 ...
dogwatch (from the article "ship's bell") ...hour of a watch. The mariner's day is divided into six watches, each four hours ...
dogwood any of the shrubs, trees, or herbs of the genus Cornus, in the dogwood family ... [3 Related Articles]
dogwood anthracnose (from the article "anthracnose") In the late 1970s a new form of the disease, which is known as dogwood ...
Doh (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...A water bird may be older than the Devil; it also occurs, however, without the ...
Doha city, capital of Qatar, located on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula in the ... [6 Related Articles]
Doha Development Round (from the article "Multinational and Regional Organizations") ...Cooperation (APEC) also approved a nonbinding agreement on climate change, which focused more on improving ...
Dohachi family (from the article "pottery") ...earthenware body covered with a finely crackled glaze. Also produced at Kyoto, the works of ...
Doheny, Edward L. (from the article "Los Angeles") When Edward L. Doheny discovered oil under a private residence in 1892, he set off ...
Doherty brothers English tennis players who dominated the sport from 1897 to 1906. As a team, Laurie ...
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Doherty, Laurie (from the article "All-England (Wimbledon) Tennis Championships—doubles") Laurie held the Wimbledon record for most men's titles altogether, with 13 between 1897 and ...
Doherty, Pete (from the article "Fashions") British GQ singled out Moss's rock star boyfriend, Pete Doherty, on its best-dressed list, commending ...
Doherty, Peter C. Australian immunologist and pathologist who, with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland, received the Nobel Prize for ... [2 Related Articles]
Doherty, Reggie (from the article "All-England (Wimbledon) Tennis Championships—doubles") Laurie held the Wimbledon record for most men's titles altogether, with 13 between 1897 and ...
Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von (from the article "Mendelssohn, Moses") ...German but printed in Hebrew characters (1780-83). At the same time, he became involved in ...
Dohnanyi, Ernst von Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor, principally known for his Variations on a Nursery Song for ... [2 Related Articles]
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Doiran, Lake (from the article "Macedonia") The greater part of Macedonia (87 percent of its area) drains southeastward into the Aegean ...
Doisneau, Robert French photographer noted for his poetic approach to street photography. [2 Related Articles]
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Doke, Clement (from the article "Bantu languages") ...may be made of Carl Meinhof's work in the 1890s, in which he sought to ...
dokimasia (from the article "archon") The potential power of the archons placed them under a variety of restrictions. Before entering ...
Dokkosai (from the article "Hayashi Razan") Gaho, Hayashi's third son (also called Harukatsu), became his father's successor as chief official scholar; ...
Doko Toshio Japanese businessman who was instrumental in revitalizing Japanese manufacturing after World War II, notably with ...
Dokubo-Asari, Alhaji Mujahid (from the article "Nigeria") ...Local communities resented government policy on resource control and what they saw as high-handed oil-company ...
Dokuchayev, Vasily Vasilyevich Russian geomorphologist and early soil scientist.
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Dokyu (from the article "Sobaek Mountains") ...of T'aebaek Mountain (5,121 ft [1,561 m]) in Kangwon Province to the Kohung Peninsula near ...
Dolabella, Publius Cornelius (from the article "Cassius Longinus, Gaius") ...Caesar, taking a very active part in the assassination. Forced by popular resentment to withdraw ...
Dolby noise-reduction system (from the article "sound recording") ...variation in magnetization is a microscopic effect, tape hiss is primarily a high-frequency phenomenon. Several ...
Dolby, Ray (from the article "magnetic recording") In 1956 Charles P. Ginsburg and Ray Dolby of Ampex Corporation, a U.S. electronics firm, ...
dolce stil nuovo the style of a group of 13th-14th-century Italian poets, mostly Florentines, whose vernacular sonnets, canzones, ... [5 Related Articles]
Dolci, Carlo Italian painter, one of the last representatives of the Florentine school of Baroque painting, whose ...
Dolci, Giovanni dei (from the article "Vatican palace") Under commission from Sixtus IV, Giovanni dei Dolci built the Sistine Chapel. He also remodelled ...
Dolcino, Fra (from the article "Apostolic") ...a bull of condemnation; but the sect continued to spread. In 1294 four of the ...
doldrums equatorial regions of light ocean currents and winds within the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), a ... [3 Related Articles]
Dole town, Jura departement, Franche-Comte region, eastern France. The town lies along the Doubs River and ...
Dole Aseptic Canning System (from the article "food preservation") ...industry. However, because of unreliable machinery, it remained commercially unsuccessful until 1948 when William McKinley ...
Dole Corporation (from the article "Lanai") ...long contained small fishing villages. In 1854 a group of Mormon elders formed a colony, ...
Dole, Bob U.S. senator and Republican congressional leader who was his party's candidate for the presidency in ... [3 Related Articles]
Dole, La (from the article "Jura Mountains") ...highest peaks of the Jura are in the south, in the Geneva area, and include ...
Dole, Sanford Ballard first president of the Republic of Hawaii (1894-1900), and first governor of the Territory of ... [1 Related Articles]
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Dolfin, Dionisio (from the article "Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista") ...full maturity of expression. In these frescoes, he gave up the chiaroscuro of his early ...
Dolgan Turkic-speaking people constituting the basic population of the Taymyr autonomous okrug , which ... [4 Related Articles]
Dolge, Alfred (from the article "autoharp") ...patent for the autoharp (a modified version of the Akkordzither ) was granted ...
Dolgellau (from the article "Merioneth") ...of the hero Owen Glendower, who in the early 1400s was the last Welshman to ...
Dolgopolsky, Aron (from the article "Nostratic hypothesis") ...and Dravidian. He also offered a detailed but still incomplete reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic. Important contributions ...
Dolgoprudny city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia. It is situated north of Moscow, where the Savyolovo ...
Dolgoruky family Russian princely family who claimed descent from Rurik, the semilegendary founder of the first Russian ...
Dolgoruky, Grigory Fyodorovich (from the article "Dolgoruky family") ...Peter I the Great, served in the military and was held prisoner in Sweden for ...
Dolgoruky, Ivan Alekseyevich (from the article "Russia") ...Peter's grandson (the son of Alexis, who had perished in prison) was proclaimed Emperor Peter ...
Dolgoruky, Ivan Mikhaylovich (from the article "Dolgoruky family") ...Dolgoruky (1740-1830), a memoirist, served in the armies of the field in the Seven Years' ...
Dolgoruky, Vasily Lukich, Knyaz (Prince) Russian diplomat and statesman who acquired political power for himself and his family during ...
Dolgoruky, Vasily Vladimirovich, Knyaz (Prince) military officer who played a prominent role in political intrigues against Peter I the ... [1 Related Articles]
Dolgoruky, Yakov Fyodorovich (from the article "Dolgoruky family") ...achieved a number of victories in the Russo-Polish War of 1654-57. In 1676 he was ...
Dolgoruky, Yekaterina Alekseyevna (from the article "Dolgoruky, Vasily Lukich, Knyaz") He shortly secured a position on the powerful Supreme Privy Council and arranged the betrothal ...
Dolgoruky, Yury (from the article "Andrew I") Having accompanied his father, Yury Dolgoruky, on his conquest of Kiev, Andrew refused to remain ...
Dolgoruky, Yury Alekseyevich (from the article "Dolgoruky family") Yury Alekseyevich Dolgoruky (d. 1682) was a high-ranking nobleman and military commander who achieved a ...
Dolgoruky, Yury Vladimirovich (from the article "Moscow") The first documentary reference to Moscow is found in the early monastic chronicles under the ...
Doliacea (from the article "gastropod") ...reduced radula or with none, jaws often modified into a stylet-shaped structure; many occur on ...
Dolichopithecus (from the article "primate") ...would have made their appearance. Yet no fossils referable to modern ape lineages are known ...
dolichos (from the article "Olympic Games") ...In 724 BC a two-length race, the diaulos , roughly similar to the ...
Dolin, Sir Anton British ballet dancer, choreographer, and director who, with his frequent partner Alicia Markova, founded the ...
doline karst (from the article "cave") Such karsts are usually rolling plains that have few surface streams and often no surface ...
doliolaria larva (from the article "echinoderm") ...of sand dollars and cake urchins extends downward, presumably to help keep the larva upright. ...
Doliolida (from the article "tunicate") ...a ventral stolon; about 70 species. Order Pyrosomida Zooids embedded in a tube open at one end. Order ...
dolipore septum (from the article "fungus") ...whereas fungi in other groups have septa with one to few pores that are small ...
Dolittle, Doctor (from the article "Dolittle, Doctor") hero of 10 children's books by the British-American author Hugh Lofting (q.v. ).discussed in biography of ...
Dolj judet (county), southwestern Romania, bounded on the south by Bulgaria. The Jiu and Teslui rivers ...
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