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Dandridge, Ray American professional baseball player who spent most of his career between 1933 and 1955 playing ... dandruff (from the article "dandruff") skin disorder, a form of seborrheic dermatitis (q.v.) that affects the scalp.characteristics and causes dandy roll (from the article "papermaking") The dandy roll is a light, open-structured unit covered with wire cloth and placed on ... Dane, Clemence (from the article "1946: Other Winners") Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood for The Best Years of Our LivesOriginal Story: Clemence Dane for ... Danebury (from the article "Europe, history of") ...of settlements, but they have been found in wells, such as at Berlin-Lichterfelde, in Germany. ... Danebury Confederacy (from the article "Gully, John") ...in 1844, the Derby and the Oaks in 1846, and the Two Thousand Guineas and ... Danegeld a tax levied in Anglo-Saxon England to buy off Danish invaders in the reign of ... Danehof (from the article "Vordingborg") ...Denmark, on Masned Sound. Founded in the 12th century around its castle, which was built ... Danel (from the article "Aqhat Epic") ancient West Semitic legend probably concerned with the cause of the annual summer drought in ... Danelaw the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in ... [2 Related Articles] Danelis (from the article "Greece, history of") ...regions until the 13th and 14th centuries and perhaps beyond. Traces of the preconquest social ... Danev, Stoyan (from the article "Bulgaria") ...on retaining most of the Macedonian territory they had occupied, and Romania demanded compensation for ... Danewirk the ancient frontier rampart of the Danes against the Germans, extending 10.5 miles (17 kilometres) ... [3 Related Articles] danewort (from the article "elder") ...from northern Europe to North China, has round clusters of scarlet berries and reaches 4 ... 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Dangjin Pass (from the article "Altun Mountains") ...aridity, particularly in its central section. In the west various small streams run off into ... Dangrek Mountains forested range of hills averaging 1,500-2,000 feet (450-600 m) and dividing Thailand from Cambodia. This ... [1 Related Articles] Dangriga town, east-central Belize, at the mouth of the 20-mile- (32-km-) long North Stann Creek on ... Danhofer, Joseph Philipp (from the article "pottery") ...and strapwork" (Laub-und-Bandelwerk) was a much used type of motif, and excellent work was done ... Danian Stage lowermost and oldest division of Paleocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Danian ... [1 Related Articles] Danican, Michel (from the article "Philidor, Andre") The first recorded representatives of the family were Michel Danican (died c. 1659), upon whom ... Daniel (from the article "biblical literature") The Book of Daniel presents a collection of popular stories about Daniel, a loyal Jew, ... Daniel al-Qumisi (from the article "Judaism") ...unauthoritative addition to Scripture; a return to Palestine to hasten the messianic redemption; and a ... Daniel Aleksandrovich (from the article "Russia") ...the grand principality of Vladimir, and this new seat grew in importance when Michael Khorobrit, ... Daniel Boone Homestead (from the article "Reading") ...Berks). Mount Penn (1,300 feet [396 metres]), with a red-and-gold pagoda (1908) and a stone ... Daniel Hale Williams Westside Preparatory School (from the article "Collins, Marva") In 1975 Collins left the Chicago school system to found the private Daniel Hale Williams ... Daniel Johnson Dam (from the article "World's largest dams") ...lumbering artery supporting the huge pulp and paper factories at Baie-Comeau, the river has become ... Daniel Of Kiev the earliest known Russian travel writer, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land ... Daniel Romanovich ruler of the principalities of Galicia and Volhynia (now in Poland and Ukraine, respectively), who ... [5 Related Articles] Daniel Sieff Research Institute (from the article "Weizmann, Chaim") Weizmann turned again to science, founding the Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot, Palestine (1934), ... Daniel, Clifton, Jr. American journalist and newspaper editor (b. Sept. 19, 1912, Zebulon, N.C.-d. Feb. 21, 2000, New ... Daniel, Frank Czechoslovak-born filmmaker who, faced with Soviet persecution, fled to the U.S. after producing the 1965 ... Daniel, Gabriel French Jesuit historian whose writings include an outstanding history of France. Daniel, Peter Vivian associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1841-60). Daniel, Samuel English contemplative poet, marked in both verse and prose by his philosophic sense of history. [1 Related Articles] Daniel, The Book of a book of the Old Testament found in the Ketuvim (Writings), the third section of ... 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Danishkadeh (from the article "Bahar, Muhammad Taqi") ...("The New Spring"), he wrote in praise of the new Iranian constitution. He led an ... Danishmend (from the article "Islamic arts") ...late Middle Ages, having as their basis local traditions. One such epic had as its ... Danishmend dynasty Turkmen dynasty that ruled in the Sivas-Kayseri-Malatya-Kastamonu region of central and northeastern Anatolia from about ... [1 Related Articles] Danjon astrolabe (from the article "Danjon, Andre-Louis") ...concluded that the transit had reached its ultimate in precision and began looking for a ... Danjon, Andre-Louis French astronomer noted for his important developments in astronomical instruments and for his studies of ... Danjou, Jean (from the article "Foreign Legion, French") ...interesting tactical experiments, such as mounted units, and also staked out what would become its ... Danjuro I (from the article "Ichikawa Family") ...to inherit the mantle of a famous ancestor. Thus, there have been 12 Danjuros (the ... Danjuro IX (from the article "Ichikawa Family") ...greatest actor of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867), established the Kabuki juhachiban ("18 Grand Plays ... Danjuro VII (from the article "Ichikawa Family") Danjuro VII (1791-1859), the greatest actor of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867), established the Kabuki ... Danko, Rick Canadian-born musician played bass and other instruments and was a lead vocalist in the seminal ... [1 Related Articles] Dankova Peak (from the article "Tien Shan") ...the depressions that separate them vary from 6,000 to 10,500 feet (1,800 to 3,200 metres). ... danmono (from the article "arts, East Asian") Koto music is known in general as sokyoku. In the koto solo instrumental music (shirabemono), ... Dannatt, Sir Richard (from the article "United Kingdom") ...in Afghanistan-was not attainable and that the troops should be brought home within months rather ... Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von (from the article "Western sculpture") Important among central European sculptors early in the period was Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. Subsequent ... Danner process (from the article "industrial glass") Tubes and rods are made in three processes: the Danner process, the downdraw process, and ... Dannoura, Battle of (from the article "Antoku") 81st emperor of Japan; his death in the famous naval Battle of Dannoura (1185) on ... Dano-Norwegian language (from the article "Scandinavian languages") ...jag) but remained ek in West Scandinavian (New Norwegian and Faroese eg, Icelandic eg); in ... Danoa (from the article "Chad, Lake") ...from the imposed authority of Kanem's successor state, Bornu, located southwest of Lake Chad. Some ... Danquah, J.B. the dean of Ghanaian nationalist politicians and one of the principal opposition leaders against Kwame ... Danrin school (from the article "Japanese literature") Inevitably, a reaction arose against Teitoku's formalism. The poets of the Danrin school, headed by ... Dansereau, Pierre French-Canadian plant ecologist who was a pioneer in the study of the dynamics of forests ... Dansgaard-Oeschger event (from the article "glacier") ...period, the climate frequently alternated between full-glacial and nonglacial conditions in less than a decade. ... danson-johi (from the article "Japan") ...as absolute obedience was demanded from members of the family toward the house head (kacho). ... danta gradha (from the article "Celtic literature") ...a tax collector. The courtly love themes, introduced into Irish literature by the Norman invaders, ... Dante Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known ... 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Danube Bend (from the article "Pest") The most-visited tourist area of the county is the Danube Bend, which stretches from Esztergom ... Danube delta (from the article "Romania") On the northern edge of the Dobruja region, adjoining the Moldavian Plateau, the great swampy ... Danube River river of Europe, the second longest river after the Volga. It rises in the Black ... [24 Related Articles] Danube school a tradition of landscape painting that developed in the region of the Danube River valley ... [6 Related Articles] Danube Water Meadows Nature Reserve (from the article "Ukraine") ...Reserve shelters many species of waterfowl and is the only Ukrainian breeding ground of the ... Danube-Black Sea Canal (from the article "Danube River") ...the construction of a series of canals, and river traffic has increased considerably. The most ...

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