| | - Donau-Gunz Interglacial Stage
- major division of early Pleistocene time and deposits in the Alpine region of Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch dates from 1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). The Donau-Gunz Interglacial, a period of relatively moderate climatic conditions, followed the Donau Glacial Stage and preceded the Gunz Glacial Stage. It is correlated with the ...
- Donauworth
- city and port, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the confluence of the Danube and Wornitz rivers, some 25 miles (40 km) north-northwest of Augsburg. [3 Related Articles]
- donbassite
- (from the article "clay mineral") ...(Al3+, Fe3+, etc.) for divalent cations (Mg2+, Fe2+, etc.). Chlorites with a muscovite-like silicate layer and an aluminum hydroxide sheet are called donbassite and have the ideal formula of Al4.33(Si3Al)O10(OH)8 as an end-member for the dioctahedral chlorite. In many cases, the octahedral aluminum ions...
- Doncaster
- (from the article "Doncaster") town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, north-central England. The borough lies in the historic county of Yorkshire, except for the parish of Finningley and an area west of Bawtry, both of which belong to the historic county of Nottinghamshire. At the heart of the metropolitan borough lies ...
- Doncaster
- town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, north-central England. The borough lies in the historic county of Yorkshire, except for the parish of Finningley and an area west of Bawtry, both of which belong to the historic county of Nottinghamshire. At the heart of the metropolitan borough lies ... [1 Related Articles]
- Donck, Adriaen van der
- (from the article "Yonkers") ...the Hudson River, in a hilly region north of the Bronx, New York City. The site, once a major village, Nappeckamack, of the Manhattan Indians, was acquired by the Dutch West India Company in 1639. Adriaen van der Donck-known as De Jonkheer, a courtesy title roughly equivalent to "young lord," ...
- Donders' law
- (from the article "Donders, Frans Cornelis") ...interest in ophthalmology began in 1847 with a study of muscae volitantes, the problem of specks seen floating before the eye. This study resulted in his formulation of what is now known as Donders' law: the rotation of the eye around the line of sight is involuntary.
- Donders, Frans Cornelis
- ophthalmologist, the most eminent of 19th-century Dutch physicians, whose investigations of the physiology and pathology of the eye made possible a scientific approach to the correction of refractive disabilities such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
- Donegal
- most northerly county of Ireland, in the historic province of Ulster. It is bounded on the west and north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by Lough (lake) Foyle and Northern Ireland, and on the south by Northern Ireland and the Irish county of Leitrim. The small village of ...
- Donegal
- seaport and market town, County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Eske at the head of Donegal Bay. It is famed for its historic associations and picturesque environs. South of the town are the ruins of the Franciscan Donegal Abbey (founded 1474). Donegal Castle, a stronghold of the O'Donnells, was rebuilt ...
- Donegan, Anthony James
- Scottish musician (b. April 29, 1931, Glasgow, Scot.-d. Nov. 3, 2002, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Eng.), became known as the king of skiffle-a blend of music styles that encompassed folk, country, jazz, blues, and jug band-and in the process served as the inspiration for the British rock and roll musicians who followed ... [2 Related Articles]
- Donegan, Dorothy
- American jazz pianist who was known for her flamboyant showmanship, her outrageous humour, and the mixture of musical styles she incorporated into her performances (b. April 6, 1922, Chicago, Ill.--d. May 19, 1998, Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Donelaitis, Kristijonas
- Lutheran pastor and poet who was one of the greatest Lithuanian poets and one of the first to be appreciated outside his country. [1 Related Articles]
- Donelson, John
- (from the article "Nashville") ...from the Cherokee. In 1779 he sent a party under James Robertson to investigate the Cumberland Valley. They settled at French Lick and were joined in the spring of 1780 by another group under John Donelson. Fort Nashborough, built at the site and named for American Revolutionary War general Francis ...
- Donen, Stanley
- American motion-picture director and choreographer whose inventive dance sequences infused musicals with a fresh vitality in the 1940s and '50s.
- Donets Basin
- large mining and industrial region of southeastern Europe, notable for its large coal reserves. The coalfield lies in southeastern Ukraine and in the adjoining region of southwestern Russia. The principal exploited area of the field covers nearly 9,000 square miles (23,300 square km) south of the Donets River, but coal ... [6 Related Articles]
- Donets River
- a tributary of the Don River, southwestern Russia and eastern Ukraine. The Donets is 650 miles (1,050 km) long and drains a basin of 39,000 square miles (100,000 square km). Rising in the Central Russian Upland, it flows south past Belgorod, Russia; enters Ukraine and passes to the east of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Donetsk
- city, southeastern Ukraine, on the headwaters of the Kalmius River. In 1872 an ironworks was founded there by a Welshman, John Hughes (from whom the town's pre-Revolutionary name Yuzivka was derived), to produce iron rails for the growing Russian rail network. Later steel rails were made. The plant used coal ...
- Donetsko-Yuryevsky ironworks
- (from the article "Alchevsk") city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the railway from Luhansk to Debaltseve. Alchevsk was founded in 1895 with the establishment of the Donetsko-Yuryevsky ironworks. The plant developed into a large, integrated ironworks and steelworks, which was expanded greatly in the 1950s and '60s. The city has been a major bituminous-coal ...
- Dong
- 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 is closely related to the Tai languages, and they call themselves Kam. [5 Related Articles]
- Dong Duong
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Apart from My Son there are one or two other sites in north and central Vietnam where Cham art was made in quantity. The most important of these is Dong Duong, in Quang Nam. It is a ruined Buddhist monastery complex of the late 9th century, conceived on the most ...
- Dong Jin dynasty
- (from the article "Dong Jin") second phase of the Jin dynasty (265-420 CE), ruling China from 317 to 420 CE and forming one of the Six Dynasties.Chinese historyChinaThe Dong (Eastern) Jin (317-420) and later
- Dong Nai River
- river rising in the central highlands (Annamese Cordillera) of southern Vietnam, northwest of Da Lat. Near its source the river has rapids and is known as the Da Dung River. It flows west and southwest for about 300 miles (480 km), joining the Saigon River southwest of Bien Hoa. At ...
- Dong Qichang
- Chinese painter, calligrapher, and theoretician who was one of the finest artists of the late Ming period. The most distinguished connoisseur of his day, Dong Qichang set forward ideas that have continued to influence Chinese aesthetic theory. [7 Related Articles]
- Dong Son culture
- important prehistoric culture of Indochina; it is named for a village in northern Vietnam where many of its remains have been found. The Dong Son site shows that bronze culture was introduced into Indochina from the north, probably about 300 BC, the date of the earliest Dong Son remains. Dong ... [3 Related Articles]
- Dong Yuan
- (from the article "Juran") ...Tang in what is now Nanjing. In 975 or shortly thereafter, he followed Li Houzhu to the Song capital Bianliang and gradually gained a reputation as a painter. He was supposedly a follower of Dong Yuan, a similarly little-known painter of the Five Dynasties in the court at Nanjing. No ...
- Dong Zhongshu
- scholar instrumental in establishing Confucianism in 136 BCE as the state cult of China and as the basis of official political philosophy-a position it was to hold for 2,000 years. As a philosopher, Dong merged the Confucian and Yinyang schools of thought. [2 Related Articles]
- Dong Zhuo
- general whose seizure of power and tyrannical rule ended the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) and divided the Chinese empire.
- Dongan, Thomas, 2nd Earl Of Limerick
- British colonial governor of New York under Charles II and James II. [2 Related Articles]
- Dongba
- (from the article "Naxi") Most of the Naxi engage in agriculture and grow rice, corn (maize), wheat, potatoes, beans, hemp, and cotton. Their indigenous religion, called Dongba, is a form of shamanism influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. Matriarchal family structure predominated among the Naxi until the mid-20th century, and remnants of it can still be ...
- Dongen, Kees van
- Dutch-born French painter and printmaker who was one of the leading Fauvists and was particularly renowned for his stylized, sensuously rendered portraits of women.
- Donghai
- (from the article "Leizhou Peninsula") ...southern China, and separated from the island province of Hainan by the 10-mile- (16-km-) wide Qiong Strait. The peninsula is curved; together with two large islands on the east coast, Naozhou and Donghai, it forms two bays, Leizhou to the south of the islands and Zhanjiang to the north. The ...
- Donglin
- party of Chinese scholars and officials who attempted to combat the moral laxity and intellectual weakness they felt was undermining public life during the last years of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). [1 Related Articles]
- dongshuitian system
- (from the article "Sichuan") ...has freed the plain from the hazard of floods and droughts and ensured the agricultural prosperity of the basin. A special landscape feature of the eastern basin is the dongshuitian (literally, "winter water-storage field") system, in which large tracts of terraced fields are left fallow during the ...
- Dongtan
- (from the article "Architecture") Green architecture was taking root worldwide. Near Shanghai, for example, an area called Dongtan was planned to be what developers called "the world's first truly sustainable new urban development." It was to have 80,000 inhabitants by 2020 and would be designed to not produce carbon-dioxide emissions. Europe had been the ...
- Dongting Lake
- large lake in northern Hunan province, south-central China. It lies in a basin to the south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and is connected to the Yangtze by four channels. Typically, some two-fifths of the river's waters flow into the lake, the amount increasing during flood periods. The lake ... [3 Related Articles]
- Donhoff, Marion
- German journalist (b. Dec. 2, 1909, Castle Friedrichstein, near Konigsberg, East Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]-d. March 11, 2002, Berlin, Ger.), was known as the doyenne of German journalism for her nearly 60-year association with the liberal weekly Die Zeit as a founding staff member (1946-55), political editor ...
- Doni, Anton Francesco
- (from the article "short story") ...other kinds of stories appeared. Agnolo Firenzuolo's popular Ragionamenti diamore ("The Reasoning of Love") is characterized by a graceful style unique in tales of ribaldry; Anton Francesco Doni included several tales of surprise and irony in his miscellany, I marmi ("The Marbles"); and Gianfrancesco Straparola experimented with common folktales and...
- Donin Hirata I
- (from the article "enamelwork") ...8th century, provides one official to be in charge of founding metals and "painted glass decoration." Subsequently, however, this art seems almost to die out until the 17th century. When Donin Hirata I (1591-1646) made enamelled wares, having learned the technique from Koreans, his art was highly appreciated by Tokugawa ...
- Donitz, Karl
- German naval officer and creator of Germany's World War II U-boat fleet who for a few days succeeded Adolf Hitler as German head of state. [4 Related Articles]
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Italian opera composer whose numerous operas in both Italian and French represent a transitional stage in operatic development between Rossini and Verdi. Among his major works are Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), La fille du regiment (1840), and La favorite (1840). In his serious operas he developed considerably the dramatic weight ... [5 Related Articles]
- donkey
- domestic ass belonging to the horse family, Equidae, and descended from the African wild ass (Equus asinus; see ass). It is known to have been used as a beast of burden since 4000 BC. The average donkey stands 101.6 cm (40 inches) at the shoulder, but different breeds vary greatly. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Donkey Kong
- legendary arcade electronic game, originally released in 1981 by the Japanese Nintendo Company Ltd., that spawned a popular franchise and helped start the video game revolution of the 1980s. The arcade machine marked the first appearance of Donkey Kong, a rampaging ape who rolled barrels down a series of platforms, ...
- donkey orchid
- any of about 38 species of terrestrial plants, family Orchidaceae, that constitute the genus Diuris. One species is found in Java; the others are native to Australia. A donkey orchid has grasslike leaves. The two upper petals on each flower resemble the ears of a donkey, and the greenish lateral ...
- Donkin, Bryan
- developer of a commercial application of the so-called Fourdrinier machine for making paper and inventor of the composition roller used in printing.
- Donleavy, J.P.
- American-born Irish author of the comic novel The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955; U.S., 1958), which introduced Dangerfield, a crass, comic antihero. Donleavy's works are noted for their coarse sense of humour and for characters who remain deeply attached to life despite its flaws.
- Donmar Warehouse
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Elling was a transfer from the tiny Bush Theatre, and the other main "off-West End" venues that continued to prosper included the Donmar Warehouse-which announced a West End residency from September 2008 in Cameron Mackintosh's Wyndham's Theatre (Jude Law was announced as Hamlet)-with sparkling revivals that starred Ian McDiarmid in ...
- Donme
- (Turkish: "Convert"), Jewish sect founded in Salonika (now Thessaloniki, Greece) in the late 17th century, after the conversion to Islam of Shabbetai Tzevi, whom the sectarians believed to be the Messiah. The Donme, who numbered about 15,000 in the late 20th century, are found primarily in Istanbul, Edirne, and Izmir, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Donn
- (from the article "Celtic religion") ...the great battle feasting in the presence of the severed head of Bran the Blessed, having forgotten all their suffering and sorrow. But this "delightful plain" was not accessible to all. Donn, god of the dead and ancestor of all the Irish, reigned over Tech Duinn, which was imagined as ...
- Donn Cuailnge
- (from the article "Celtic religion") ...by a ram-headed serpent; in this role he closely resembles the Hindu god Siva in the guise of Pasupati, Lord of Beasts. Another prominent zoomorphic deity type is the divine bull, the Donn Cuailnge ("Brown Bull of Cooley"), which has a central role in the great Irish hero-tale Tain Bo ...
- Donn, Bertram
- (from the article "comet") ...with Comet Halley for two reasons. First, cosmic-ray processing of the outer layers had been described by Leonid M. Shul'man of the Soviet Union (1972) and later advocated by Fred Whipple and Bertram Donn of the United States, while the outgassing of the outer layers by solar heat had also ...
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