Johan van der Does was a Dutch statesman, jonkheer (squire) of Noordwijk, poet, and historian who commanded the citizens’ resistance movement during the Spanish siege of Leiden (1573–74); he was also the first curator of the Leiden University. In recognition of his leadership during the siege, as

Claude Chabrol: … (1962; Bluebeard), Les Biches (1968; The Does), and Le Boucher (1969; The Butcher).

Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch painter, decorator, poet, and art theorist who was the leader of the De Stijl movement. Originally van Doesburg intended to pursue a career in the theatre, but he turned to painting about 1900. He worked in Post-Impressionist and Fauvist styles until 1915, when he

petroleum production: Safety and the environment: This approach, commonly termed “digital oil field (DOF),” essentially allows remote operations by using automated surveillance and control. From a central control room, DOF engineers and operators monitor, evaluate, and respond in advance of issues. This work includes remotely testing or adjusting wells and stopping or starting wells, component…

Germany: Wenceslas: …of the Swabian League at Döffingen, near Stuttgart. The stipendiaries of the Rhenish League were put to flight by the count palatine Rupert II near Worms on November 6.

hand tool: Workbench and vise: …what are variously known as bench stops, holdfasts, or dogs. The stems of these T-shaped iron fittings were set into holes in the workbench, and a sharp end of the horizontal part of the T was turned to engage the wood.

dog, (Canis lupus familiaris), domestic mammal of the family Canidae (order Carnivora). It is a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and is related to foxes and jackals. The dog is one of the two most ubiquitous and most popular domestic animals in the world (the cat is the other). For more

Channing Tatum: The Lego movies and Logan Lucky: …Carolin, his first feature film, Dog; he also starred in the heartfelt dramedy as a former soldier who takes a road trip with his military service dog. The movie was a success at the box office.

Joan Miró: Paris and early work: 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…

choker: …that was soon dubbed the “dog collar.”

Sidney Lumet: The 1970s: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network: …on another highly acclaimed drama, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which was also based on a true event. Pacino starred as a man who tries to rob a bank in order to finance a gender-reassignment operation for his boyfriend (Chris Sarandon). A critical and commercial success, the drama received six Academy…

dog days, periods of exceptionally hot and humid weather that often occur in July, August, and early September in the northern temperate latitudes. The name originated with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians; they believed that Sirius, the dog star, which rises simultaneously with the Sun

Joni Mitchell: Later albums: …music, from the Thomas Dolby-produced Dog Eat Dog (1985) to the more reflective Night Ride Home (1991) and the Grammy Award-winning Turbulent Indigo (1994). Having dealt with international political and social issues such as Ethiopian famine on Dog Eat Dog, she returned by the early 1990s to more personal subject…

field trial, any of the competitions among individual sporting dogs, under conditions that approximate or simulate those found in the hunting field. Competing dogs need not necessarily be of the same breed. In the United States many of the field trials in the bird-dog (pointing dog) category are

flea: Importance: …human flea (Pulex irritans), the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis), the sticktight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea), and the jigger, or chigoe, flea (Tunga penetrans). Poultry may be parasitized by the European chicken flea (Ceratophyllus gallinae) and, in the United States, by the western chicken flea (Ceratophyllus niger

beluga: as food for humans and dogs. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was taken commercially for its oil, flesh, and hides, which provided industrial leather, belts, and shoelaces. The beluga population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was nearly exterminated for its hides, and some other beluga populations…

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …volume of his work is Dog Fox Field [1990]), and Bruce Dawe, who evinced the Australian voice in his contemporary, journalistic poetry appearing in, for example, Sometimes Gladness (1978). Robert Gray continued the tradition of spare, almost Imagistic lyric verse in such volumes of his as Piano (1988) and Certain…

Native American literature: Northwest Coast: …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…

German literature: The turn of the 21st century: …Ransmayr’s powerful Morbus Kitahara (1995; The Dog King) is set in a dystopian landscape that resembles Mauthausen concentration camp and in an imagined alternative history in which Germany has not been permitted to redevelop its industrial capabilities following World War II. W.G. Sebald’s haunting novel Austerlitz (2001; Eng. trans. Austerlitz)—the…

dog lichen, (species Peltigera canina), foliose (leafy) lichen usually found in patches 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 inches) in diameter on heaths, sand dunes, walls, or grassy ground. The dull brown thallus with rounded lobes is soft when moist and papery when dry. Because its reproductive bodies resemble

Dav Pilkey: The graphic novels include Dog Man (2016), Dog Man and Cat Kid (2017), Lord of the Fleas (2018), Grime and Punishment (2020), and Mothering Heights (2021). Pilkey gave Cat Kid and a few other characters from Dog Man their own series of graphic novels. The titles include Cat Kid…

Ouida: …of animal stories, of which A Dog of Flanders (1872) was long a children’s favourite. Extravagance and the loss of her copyrights (reprints of her early novels continued to sell well but earned her nothing) reduced her to poverty in later life.

Lion of Fo, in Chinese art, stylized figure of a snarling lion. Its original significance was as a guardian presence in a Buddhist temple. Lions of Fo are often created in pairs, with the male playing with a ball and the female with a cub. They occur in many types of Chinese pottery and in Western

Charles Portis: …to the literary scene with The Dog of the South (1979). The picaresque novel follows a bookish man’s meandering journey from Arkansas to Belize in search of his estranged wife and his car. In the similarly episodic Masters of Atlantis (1985), Portis humorously skewered secret societies and cults with his…

David Rabe: …A Question of Mercy (1998); The Dog Problem (2002); The Black Monk (2004), based on a Chekhov short story; An Early History of Fire (first performed 2012); and Visiting Edna (2016).

dog racing, the racing of greyhounds around an enclosed track in pursuit of an electrically controlled and propelled mechanical hare (rabbit). Dog racing is a 20th-century outgrowth of the older sport of coursing, in which dogs hunted by sight rather than scent. O.P. Smith demonstrated dog racing

chum salmon, (Oncorhynchus keta), lightly speckled North Pacific fish, family Salmonidae, weighing up to 15 kg (33 pounds). During the spawning season in autumn, it may swim more than 3,200 km (2,000 miles) up the Yukon River. (See also

dog show, competition in which purebred dogs are judged on the basis of their physical perfection as determined by breed standards or on performance criteria such as agility, tracking, obedience, or herding. In some performance shows, “companion dogs” of mixed breeds are allowed to compete. Dog

snapper: Some, however, such as the dog snapper (Lutjanus jocu) of the Atlantic, may contain a toxic substance and cause ciguatera, a form of poisoning. The better known species of snapper include the emperor snapper (L. sebae), a red and white Indo-Pacific fish; the gray, or mangrove, snapper (L. griseus), a…

Robert Stone: His second novel, Dog Soldiers (1974), concerns the legacy of corruption of the Vietnam War. It won the 1975 National Book Award, and Stone cowrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978).

Cheyenne: …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.

Dog sports are organized contests that provide physical exercise and mental stimulation for the animals, fun opportunities that allow dog owners to bond with their pets, and entertainment for spectators. There are numerous types of dog sports, as highlighted below. While some are better suited for

Sirius, brightest star in the night sky, with apparent visual magnitude −1.46. It is a binary star in the constellation Canis Major. The bright component of the binary is a blue-white star 25.4 times as luminous as the Sun. It has a radius 1.71 times that of the Sun and a surface temperature of

American Subarctic peoples: Production and technology: 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…

German literature: The late 1950s and the ’60s: …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 society under Nazism.…

mercury: Major species: Dog’s mercury (M. perennis), which is malodorous and poisonous to livestock, grows wild in European woodlands. Its leaves are the source of an unstable blue dye. Several former members of the genus are now placed in the monotypic genus Leidesia.

Erythronium, genus of about 20 species of spring-blooming plants of the family Liliaceae, commonly known as dog’s tooth violet. All the species are native to North America except for the purple- or pink-flowered dog’s tooth violet of Europe (E. dens-canis). The nodding flowers, usually one to a

cicada: Major genera and species: Annual cicadas include the dog-day cicadas (genus Neotibicen), scrub cicadas (genus Diceroprocta), several species of the genus Neocicada, and members of the genus Okanagana.

Mezzogiorno: …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.

Niger: Ethnic groups: …number of subgroups—the Manga, the Dogara (Dagara), the Mober, the Buduma, and the Kanembu; they are also found living in Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Apart from the nomadic Teda of the Tibesti region, who constitute an important minority, the remainder of the population consists of Arabs, Black Africans from other…

Apocynaceae: Major genera and species: Dogbane (Apocynum) and bluestar (Amsonia) are sometimes grown as ornamentals. The impala lily (Adenium multiflorum) is an ornamental shrub with star-shaped flowers and large underground tubers.

dogbane beetle, (Chrysochus auratus), species of leaf beetle native to eastern North America. It feeds on dogbane and milkweed plants and is toxic to other animals that ingest it. Taxonomy See also list of beetles. The dogbane beetle is oval, convex, and between about 8 to 11 mm (less than 0.5

mountain ash: Common species: …noteworthy mountain ashes are the American mountain ash (Sorbus americana), also called dogberry, and the European mountain ash (S. aucuparia), also called rowan-berry, or quickbeam. Both are handsome trees, the European growing to 18 metres (60 feet), twice the height of the American species, and yielding several cultivated varieties popular…

Much Ado About Nothing: …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…

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”)

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), U.S. federal department that was formerly called the United States Digital Service (USDS). On January 20, 2025, U.S. Pres. Donald Trump issued an executive order that reorganized the USDS and changed its name to the United States DOGE Service; DOGE stands

Titian: Portraits: 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…

ProCon Debate: Should the U.S. Penny Stay in Circulation? ProCon Issue in the News: On January 21, 2025, the newly created U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posted on X the following information on the costs of producing the U.S. penny: The U.S. Mint’s 2024 annual report states that

Giovanni Bellini: 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…

Dōgen was a leading Japanese Buddhist during the Kamakura period (1192–1333), who introduced Zen to Japan in the form of the Sōtō school (Chinese: Ts’ao-tung). A creative personality, he combined meditative practice and philosophical speculation. Dōgen was born into a family of the court nobility

Doges’ Palace, official residence in Venice of the doges, who were the elected leaders of the former Venetian republic. This impressive structure, built around a courtyard and richly decorated, was the meeting place of the governing councils and ministries of the republic. In its successive

aerobatics: History of aerobatics: …a significant advantage in a dogfight. With this realization and with the aid of aircraft manufactured with enhanced aerobatic capabilities, pilots began to develop a growing range of aerobatic maneuvers, principally for evading enemy airplanes. Such skills were entirely self-taught or acquired from comrades in arms, and only late in…

pit bull: However, the resurgence of dogfighting—illegal in the United States, Great Britain, and many other countries—led irresponsible breeders to encourage such traits in their animals and to mistreat them in order to induce a vicious temperament. Well-publicized attacks on people by dogs identified as pit bulls led to the passage…

dogfish, (order Squaliformes), any of several small sharks making up an order of chondrichthyian fishes composed of the families Centrophoridae (gulper sharks), Dalatiidae, Echinorhinidae, Etmopteridae, Oxynotidae, Somniosidae, and Squalidae. In North America the name is also used for a freshwater

mudminnow: …sometimes called rockfish, and the central mudminnow (U. limi) mudfish or dogfish. Mudminnows are often used as bait and sometimes kept in home aquariums.

bowfin, (Amia calva), freshwater fish of the order Amiiformes (infraclass Holostei); it is the only recognized living representative of its family (Amiidae), which dates back to the Jurassic Period (201.3 million to 145 million years ago). The bowfin is a voracious fish found in sluggish waters in

Dogger Bank, extensive isolated shoal in the North Sea, lying about 60 miles (100 km) off the northeastern coast of England. It rises 70 feet (20 metres) higher than the surrounding seafloor, is 160 miles (260 km) long and 60 miles wide at the 120-foot (35-metre) level, and reaches its shallowest

migration: Oceanodromous fish: …the coast of southwestern Norway; Dogger Bank herring spawn in September and October in the central part of the North Sea and along the English coast and then migrate to the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea between Denmark and Norway; Downs herring spawn from November to January off…

Battle of Dogger Bank, a naval encounter on June 17, 1696, between a French force, under the command of the famous privateer Jean Bart, and a squadron of Dutch ships acting as escort to a convoy of more than one hundred merchant vessels. The battle was part of the ongoing War of the Grand Alliance.

Battle of Dogger Bank, naval engagement between British and German battle cruisers during World War I. It was fought near Dogger Bank in the North Sea on January 24, 1915. The result was a British victory, and the German navy delayed further significant action against the British fleet for more

doggerel, a low, or trivial, form of verse, loosely constructed and often irregular, but effective because of its simple mnemonic rhyme and loping metre. It appears in most literatures and societies as a useful form for comedy and satire. It is characteristic of children’s game rhymes from ancient

Doggett’s Coat and Badge, one of the world’s oldest continuing rowing races, held annually in England along the River Thames from London Bridge to Chelsea, a distance of 4 miles 5 furlongs (7.4 km). The race is a sculling contest between skiffs originally used to ferry passengers across the river.

instrumentals: …charts in the mid-1950s, with Bill Doggett’s organ- and saxophone-driven “Honky Tonk” (1956) leading the way. Thereafter instrumental records regularly reached number one. Link Wray’s “Rumble” and the Champs’ “Tequila” hit it big in 1958, the year Duane Eddy began a string of hits featuring his trademark twang guitar sound.…

Thomas Doggett was an English actor who excelled in low-comedy parts and is best remembered as a member of a famous actor-manager triumvirate of Cibber, Doggett, and Wilks at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. Doggett is said to have begun his acting career about 1691 in the provinces, appearing in

Snoop Dogg: Legal problems and public persona: …release of his next album, Tha Doggfather (1996). By that time the gangsta rap movement had begun to ebb. For a few years Snoop’s records failed to generate excitement comparable to that of his debut, but his carefully cultivated—and at times cartoonish—public persona made him a pop culture icon. His…

Snoop Dogg: Dr. Dre and Doggystyle: His own album Doggystyle (1993) became the first debut record to enter the Billboard 200 chart at number one. Its single “Gin and Juice” became one of Snoop’s signature songs and scored him a Grammy nomination for best rap solo performance.

doctrine and 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 of…

Ben Affleck: Starring roles in Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and The Sum of All Fears: …Stoppard; and another Smith film, Dogma (1999), in which Affleck and Damon portrayed fallen angels. In Pearl Harbor (2001) he played an enthusiastic American pilot fighting alongside the British in World War II. Although the film was largely panned by critics, it was a box-office success. Branching out, Affleck began…

History of film: European cinema: …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…

Second Vatican Council: Documents: The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum; Latin: “Word of God”) attempts to relate the role of Scripture and tradition (the postbiblical teaching of the church) to their common origin in the Word of God that has been committed to the church. The document affirms…

Second Vatican Council: Documents: The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen gentium; Latin: “Light of the Nations”) reflects the attempt of the council fathers to utilize biblical terms rather than juridical categories to describe the church. The treatment of the hierarchical structure of the church

patristic literature: The Chalcedonian Fathers: …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.

epistemology: Ancient Skepticism: The first, Academic Skepticism, arose in the Academy (the school founded by Plato) in the 3rd century bce and was propounded by the Greek philosopher Arcesilaus (c. 315–c. 240 bce), about whom Cicero (106–43 bce), Sextus Empiricus (flourished 3rd century ce), and

Eugenius Bulgaris: His Dogmatic Theology (c. 1800) was the first Greek compendium on philosophical theology since the 14th century. Prominent also was his Treatise on Tolerance, written at Leipzig in 1768 to refute the right assumed by Russian ecclesiastical and civil authorities to compel the largely Roman Catholic…

History of film: European cinema: …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…

Dogo Argentino, breed of working dog created in Argentina in the 1920s as a pack-hunting, big-game hunter. The Dogo Argentino was developed by two brothers, the Argentinian physicians Antonio and Agustín Nores Martinez, mixing the nearly extinct Viejo Perro de Pelea Cordobés (“old fighting dog of

Dogo Argentino, breed of working dog created in Argentina in the 1920s as a pack-hunting, big-game hunter. The Dogo Argentino was developed by two brothers, the Argentinian physicians Antonio and Agustín Nores Martinez, mixing the nearly extinct Viejo Perro de Pelea Cordobés (“old fighting dog of

Dogon, ethnic group of the central plateau region of Mali that spreads across the border into Burkina Faso. There is some doubt as to the correct classification of the many dialects of the Dogon language; the language has been placed in the Mande, Gur, and other branches of the Niger-Congo language

Dogon language, language of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by some 600,000 Dogon people in northeastern Mali to the east of Mopti and along the border between Mali and Burkina Faso. Earlier classifications of Niger-Congo have included Dogon within the Gur branch on the basis that it had

Mali: Relief: …of the Niger River the Dogon Plateau descends gently westward to the river valley but ends in abrupt cliffs on the southeast. These cliffs reach an elevation approaching 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) at Bandiagara. Northwest of the region is the country’s highest point, Mount Hombori Tondo, which rises to a…

Benjamin Franklin was an American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, represented the United States in France during the American

Niger: Ethnic groups: …number of subgroups—the Manga, the Dogara (Dagara), the Mober, the Buduma, and the Kanembu; they are also found living in Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Apart from the nomadic Teda of the Tibesti region, who constitute an important minority, the remainder of the population consists of Arabs, Black Africans from other…

Dogra dynasty, Rajput clan, or group of clans, in the Kashmir region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. They form the chief, or mian, portion of Rajputs of the territory centred on Jammu (lying north of what is now Lahore, Pakistan, roughly between the Chenab and Ravi rivers). They attained

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

Dogrib, 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), Whati (Lac la Martre),

Necmettin Erbakan: A centre-right coalition of the True Path (Doğru Yol) and Motherland (Anavatan) parties then held power until internal disagreements brought it down in June. Erbakan was again asked to try to form a coalition, and this time, when Tansu Çiller, head of the True Path Party, agreed to join him,…

Henning Mankell: …with Hundarna i Riga (1992; The Dogs of Riga) and ending with Pyramiden (1999; The Pyramid), a prequel to the first Wallander book. Mankell then waited a decade to feature Wallander once more, this time in Den orolige mannen (2009; The Troubled Man). Mankell’s non-Wallander crime novels feature such characters…

Frederick Forsyth: …The Dogs of War (1974; film 1980), about an uprising in a fictional African nation. Forsyth’s works emphasize the power of individuals to change the world and history. His later novels included The Devil’s Alternative (1979), The Fourth Protocol (1984; film 1987), The Negotiator (1989), The Fist of God

Frederick Forsyth: …a Nazi war criminal, and The Dogs of War (1974; film 1980), about an uprising in a fictional African nation. Forsyth’s works emphasize the power of individuals to change the world and history. His later novels included The Devil’s Alternative (1979), The Fourth Protocol (1984; film 1987), The Negotiator (1989),…

Inuit: Dogsleds were the basic means of transport on land. Inuit clothing was fashioned of caribou furs, which provided protection against the extreme cold. Most Inuit wintered either in snow-block houses generally referred to as igloos (iglus or igluvigaqs, depending on dialect) or in semisubterranean houses…

dogsled racing, sport of racing sleds pulled by dogs, usually over snow-covered cross-country courses. In warmer climates, wheeled carts are substituted for the sleds. Dogsledding was developed from a principal Eskimo method of transportation. The gold rushes in Alaska and the Yukon Territory (now

Erythronium, genus of about 20 species of spring-blooming plants of the family Liliaceae, commonly known as dog’s tooth violet. All the species are native to North America except for the purple- or pink-flowered dog’s tooth violet of Europe (E. dens-canis). The nodding flowers, usually one to a

dogū, abstract clay figurines, generally of pregnant females, made in Japan during the Jōmon period (c. 10,500 to c. 300 bce). Dogū are reminiscent of the rigidly frontal fertility figures produced by other prehistoric cultures. Their precise function is unknown, but archaeological evidence

Doğubayazıt, town, eastern Turkey. It lies at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) and is situated about 10 miles (16 km) from Turkey’s border with Iran. Lying near the ancient trade route from Trabzon (ancient Trebizond) to northwestern Iran, Doğubayazıt was once an important trading town,

Pug, breed of toy dog that probably originated in China and was introduced to England near the end of the 17th century by Dutch traders. The Pug has a short muzzle and a tightly curled tail. It is a squarely built muscular dog with a large head, prominent dark eyes, and small drooping ears. Its

Pontic Mountains, mountains rising out of the northern side of the Anatolia peninsula, northern Turkey, in an area once occupied by the ancient country of Pontus. The range reaches a height of 12,900 feet (3,932 m) and makes a gentle double bend, reflected in the outline of the southern shore of

Lars von Trier: …Trier attracted further attention for Dogville (2003), a cynical and dramatically austere parable about the United States, starring Nicole Kidman. Though it was criticized for its lack of subtlety and for its gender politics, the film was followed two years later by a sequel, Manderlay. Later films included Antichrist (2009),…

ship’s bell: …into the first and second dogwatches, each two hours long, to allow men on duty to have their evening meal.

dogwood, (genus Cornus), genus of shrubs, trees, and herbs in the dogwood family (Cornaceae), native to Europe, eastern Asia, and North America. Several are cultivated for their attractive flowers, and a few shrubby species are planted for their variegated leaves and colourful twigs—which can be

anthracnose: …of the disease, known as dogwood anthracnose, was identified in North America. Unlike other forms of anthracnose, it thrives in cool climates. Dogwood anthracnose first appeared in the Pacific Northwest and soon spread to the eastern United States, eventually resulting in severe losses to natural stands of dogwoods in mountainous…