Tirso de Molina: …situations; and in, for example, Don Gil de las calzas verdes (1635; “Don Gil of the Green Stockings”), he manipulates a complex, rapidly moving plot with exhilarating vitality. His tragedies and comedies are both famous for their clowns, whose wit has a tonic air of spontaneity. Naturalness in diction suited…

Don Giovanni, opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) that premiered at the original National Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. The opera’s subject is Don Juan, the notorious libertine of fiction, and his eventual descent into hell. For Mozart, it

José María de Pereda: …suelto (1878; “The Unfettered Ox”); Don Gonzalo González de la Gonzalera (1879), a satire on the revolution of 1868 and a eulogy of the old patriarchal system of government; and De tal palo tal astilla (1880; “As the Wood, So the Chips”), a protest by a rigid Catholic against the…

Louis Béjart: …le festin de pierre (1665; Don John; or, The Libertine). He was lamed in a brawl and retired on a pension in 1670.

Scarlett Johansson: …pornography in the romantic comedy Don Jon and provided the voice of a sentient computer operating system in director Spike Jonze’s romance Her. She played a mysterious alien who drives around Glasgow and abducts men in Under the Skin (2013), a kindhearted restaurant hostess in Chef (2014), a woman who…

Lord Byron: Life and career: …would write his greatest poem, Don Juan, a satire in the form of a picaresque verse tale. The first two cantos of Don Juan were begun in 1818 and published in July 1819. Byron transformed the legendary libertine Don Juan into an unsophisticated, innocent young man who, though he delightedly…

Spanish literature: Novels and essays: In novels such as Don Juan (1922) and Doña Inés (1925), Azorín created retrospective, introspective, and nearly motionless narratives that shared many of the qualities of works by his contemporary Marcel Proust. Azorín’s essays—in El alma castellana (1900; “The Castilian Soul”), La ruta de Don Quijote (1905; “Don Quixote’s…

Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Seducer of Seville,” translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish

History of film: Introduction of sound: …on August 6, 1926, with Don Juan, a lavish costume drama starring John Barrymore, directed by Alan Crosland, and featuring a score performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The response was enthusiastic; Warner Brothers announced that all of its films for 1927 would be released with synchronized musical accompaniment…

Don Juan in Hell, the third act of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. Set off from the main action of the play, this act is a nonrealistic dream episode. A dialogue for four actors, it is spoken theatre at its most operatic and is often performed as a separate

Don Juan Tenorio, Spanish drama in seven acts by José Zorrilla, produced and published in 1844. The play, a variation of the traditional Don Juan story, was the most popular play of 19th-century Spain. Zorrilla’s Romantic style and sensibility are revealed in the rollicking story of the young

Christian Dietrich Grabbe: His tragedy Don Juan und Faust (1829) is an imaginative and daring attempt to combine the two great works of Mozart and Goethe. Like many of his plays, it exceeded the practical demands of the theatre. Among his most enduring is the mordant satire Scherz, Satire, Ironie,…

Joni Mitchell: Hejira, Mingus, and visual art pursuits: With Hejira (1976) and Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), she continued to disregard commercial considerations, while Mingus (1979) was considered by many as beyond the pale. An album that began as a collaboration with the jazz bassist Charles Mingus ended up as a treatment of his themes after his…

Don Juan, Op. 20, tone poem for orchestra by German composer Richard Strauss, first performed in Weimar on November 11, 1889. One of the earliest tone poems by Strauss, Don Juan tells of the legendary Spanish libertine Don Juan, who by then already had appeared in works by Mozart and other

Max Frisch: …die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953; Don Juan, or The Love of Geometry) is a reinterpretation of the legend of the famous lover of that name. In his powerful parable play Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958; The Firebugs, also published as The Fire Raisers), arsonists insinuate themselves into the house of…

Gasparo Angiolini: …composer Cristoph Gluck to produce Don Juan, ou le festin de pierre, based on Molière’s play of the same name; in this ballet much of the action was expressed through dance itself. In 1765 he choreographed the ballet Sémiramis to music by Gluck and in 1762 staged the ballet sequences…

Louis Béjart: …le festin de pierre (1665; Don John; or, The Libertine). He was lamed in a brawl and retired on a pension in 1670.

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

Thailand: Transportation and telecommunications: Don Muang International Airport, north of Bangkok, was the hub of Thailand’s air network until late 2006, when much of its commercial air traffic was then redirected to Suvarnabhumi, a large new international airport about 20 miles (30 km) east of the city. However, cracks…

Don Pacifico Affair, (1850), a quarrel between Great Britain and Greece, in which British acts antagonized France and Russia and caused controversy at home. David Pacifico (known as Don Pacifico) was a Portuguese Jew who, having been born in Gibraltar in 1784, was a British subject. After serving

Don Pasquale, opera buffa (comic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (Italian libretto by Donizetti and Giovanni Ruffini) that premiered at the Théâtre Italien in Paris on January 3, 1843. As a masterpiece of comic opera, Don Pasquale remains a staple of the world’s opera

Don Quixote, 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 of many practical

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo: …del lector del Quijote (1926; Don Quixote), an analysis of Cervantes’ classic; and Spain (1942), a historical essay. He also published books on various periods in Latin-American history, among them Cuadro histórico de las Indias, 2 vol. (1945; The Rise and Fall of the Spanish American Empire), and the trilogy…

Don Quixote, 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 of many practical

Richard Strauss: Life: …two most ambitious tone poems, Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life). In 1904 he and Pauline, who was the foremost exponent of his songs, toured the United States, where in New York City he conducted the first performance of his Symphonia Domestica (Domestic Symphony). The following year, in…

Don Quixote, novel published in two parts (part 1, 1605, and part 2, 1615) by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, one of the most widely read classics of Western literature. Originally conceived as a parody of the chivalric romances that had long been in literary vogue, it describes realistically

Don River, one of the great rivers of the European portion of Russia. It has been a vital artery in Russian history since the days of Peter I the Great, who initiated a hydrographic survey of its course. Throughout the world the river is associated with images of the turbulent and colourful Don

Don River: History and economy: …expansion of irrigation in the Don River basin, which grew from about 124,000 acres (50,000 hectares) in 1950 to nearly 2.5 million acres by 1980. In the upper basin an extensive network of ponds aids irrigation; these ponds are also used for raising fish.

Alberto Ginastera: His first opera, Don Rodrigo (1964), unsuccessful in its premiere in Buenos Aires, was hailed as a triumph in New York City in 1966.

Pierre Corneille: Contribution to comedy. of Pierre Corneille: Don Sanche d’Aragon (performed 1650), Andromède (performed 1650), a spectacular play in which stage machinery was very important, and Nicomède (performed 1651) were all written during the political upheaval and civil war of the period known as the Fronde (1648–53), with Don Sanche in particular…

Ricardo Güiraldes: …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.

Sharon Tate: Career: …role in the beach farce Don’t Make Waves (1967) led to her breakthrough that same year as the starlet in Valley of the Dolls. She and Polanski married in England in 1968, and the glamorous couple had an array of friends in the entertainment industry. She appeared as a red-haired…

David Williamson: …authority, violence, and sexuality; and Don’s Party (1973; film 1976), about a group of frustrated former radicals. He examines the social dynamics of bureaucracies in The Department (1975) and The Club (1978; film 1980). The Perfectionist (1983; film 1987) and Emerald City (1987; film 1991) are both comedies of manners.…

José Emilio Pacheco: …cómo pasa el tiempo (1969; Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By) includes poems in which there is a nostalgic desire to relive the past, sometimes coupled with a fine sense of irony. The short stories in El principio del placer (1972; “The Pleasure Principle”) are united by the…

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), byname for the former official U.S. policy (1993–2011) regarding the service of homosexuals in the military. The term was coined after Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993 signed a law (consisting of statute, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personnel

Robert Frank: …of Robert Frank (2004) and Don’t Blink—Robert Frank (2015).

George Harrison: …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…

Vinnette Carroll: The hit gospel revue Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, conceived by Carroll and with music and lyrics by Micki Grant, opened on Broadway in 1972 with Carroll as director and was nominated for four Tony Awards. Her adaptation of The Gospel According to Matthew, Your Arms Too Short…

James Purdy: His first two works—Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories and 63: Dream Palace, a novella (both 1956)—were rejected by a number of American publishing houses and were first published by Purdy through a subsidy publisher. These books won the support of Dame Edith Sitwell…

Sarah Polley: …Dead (2004) and Wim Wenders’s Don’t Come Knocking (2005), she costarred with Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgård in Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel (2006). She also worked in television, appearing with her father in the critically acclaimed Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows (2006) and with Paul Giamatti in the…

Tim Rice: Partnership with Lloyd Webber: …the international hit song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.” For the cast show album, Rice won the first of several Grammy Awards. A 1996 film adaptation featured a new Rice–Lloyd Webber song, “You Must Love Me,” performed by pop star Madonna. It won an Academy Award for best original…

Haki R. Madhubuti: The verse collection Don’t Cry, Scream (1969) includes an introduction by poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Lee’s poetry readings were extremely popular during that time.

Woody Allen: The 1990s and sexual-abuse allegations: …for the made-for-television version of Don’t Drink the Water (1994) that Allen directed and in which he starred.

Woody Allen: Youth and early work: …meantime, he wrote a play, Don’t Drink the Water, which won acclaim on Broadway in 1966. That year also marked Allen’s first contribution to The New Yorker. Writing initially in the style of S.J. Perelman, Allen would go on to contribute dozens of sophisticated humour pieces to the magazine over…

Shirley MacLaine: In 1970 MacLaine published Don’t Fall off the Mountain, which turned out to be the first in a series of best-selling memoirs describing not only her life in movies and her relationships (including that with her brother) but also her search for spiritual fulfillment. In 1987 she cowrote, produced,…

The so-called gift tax. It’s one of the more perplexing taxes in the U.S. Unlike other types of IRS levies—sales tax, income tax, property tax—gift tax rules are best understood in terms of how gifts are excluded from the tax. That’s because contrary to almost everything else in the IRS rule book,

Solomon Burke: His 2002 album Don’t Give Up on Me won the Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album, and three of his subsequent releases—Make Do with What You Got (2005), Like a Fire (2008), and Nothing’s Impossible (2010)—were nominated in that category. He was traveling to the Netherlands for…

Little Richard: …of the earliest rock-and-roll movies: Don’t Knock the Rock and The Girl Can’t Help It (both 1956) and Mr. Rock and Roll (1957). In the latter he stands at the piano belting out songs with a dark intensity that, in the bland Eisenhower years, seemed excessive, an impression amplified by…

Let It Be: …studio chatter and removed “Don’t Let Me Down.” McCartney especially was displeased with Spector’s orchestral additions; Lennon and Starr, meanwhile, liked the tracks. Nonetheless, Rolling Stone magazine criticized Spector’s work, and the general critical consensus was that Let It Be lacked the cohesiveness of the band’s previous albums.

Elton John: …Honky Château (1972) and “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” on Caribou (1974).

Bob Dylan: The king of folk music: …engulfed Dylan is captured in Don’t Look Back (1967), the telling documentary of his 1965 tour of Britain, directed by D.A. Pennebaker.

Nicolas Roeg: …including the erotic psychological thriller Don’t Look Now (1973), which starred Julie Christie and was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier; the science-fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), featuring an otherworldly David Bowie; Bad Timing (1980), starring Art Garfunkel; and The Witches (1990), based…

Adam McKay: McKay’s next film was Don’t Look Up (2021), about an impending comet strike that will destroy Earth. The dramedy, which featured an all-star cast, earned several Academy Award nominations, most notably for best picture and for McKay’s original screenplay. During this time he also directed an episode of the…

Dionne Warwick: First recordings: …more popular B side “Don’t Make Me Over”—written and produced by Bacharach and David. Warrick’s surname was misspelled as “Warwick” on the record, and she adopted the mistake as her name thereafter.

Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and Happier than Ever: Darkroom released Eilish’s Don’t Smile at Me in August 2017, an eight-song EP written by Eilish and FINNEAS. The EP was reissued with a bonus track in December 2017; two more bonus tracks were added in later reissues. Following its release, Don’t Smile at Me peaked at 14…

Olivia Newton-John: Philanthropy and honours: She released an autobiography, Don’t Stop Believin’, in 2018, and she made her last public appearance in February 2020, at an event for Fire Fight Australia. Window in the Wall, a duet recorded with her daughter, was released in 2021 and was Newton-John’s final song.

Christina Applegate: Married… with Children and other early roles: …had roles in movies including Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991), Across the Moon (1994), Wild Bill (1995), and Mars Attacks! (1996).

the Chemical Brothers: Later releases included Further (2010), Don’t Think (2012), and Born in the Echoes (2015). In addition, the Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed the song “This Is Not a Game” for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014). For No Geography…

Ira Glass: …a producer on Birbiglia’s film Don’t Think Twice (2016), which was about a New York City improv comedy troupe.

Gadsden flag, historical flag used by Commodore Esek Hopkins, the United States’ first naval commander in chief, as his personal ensign during the American Revolution (1775–83). The flag features a coiled rattlesnake above the words “Don’t Tread on Me” on a yellow background. The flag was one of

Alabama Shakes: …by the soul anthem “Don’t Wanna Fight,” the album’s first single, which logged heavy airplay on alternative rock stations. Sound & Color embraced funk, blues, and soul conventions in a way that transcended mere revival. This departure was especially apparent on tracks such as “Gimme All Your Love,” which…

the Beach Boys: Surfer Girl: …“I Get Around,” and “Don’t Worry Baby”).

Olivia Wilde: Directing: …Wilde directed and acted in Don’t Worry Darling, which she described as “The Feminine Mystique on acid,” a reference to Betty Friedan’s 1963 work about the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles. Don’t Worry Darling centers on a housewife (Florence Pugh) who begins to grow suspicious of her seemingly…

Bobby McFerrin: …features 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.

Gus Van Sant: 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.

Huey Smith: …Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Don’t You Just Know It.” The latter, with its “Koobo, kooba, kooba, kooba” chorus, was a favourite of American teenagers. The band’s final hit was the 1959 Smith song “Sea Cruise,” sung by a white youth, Frankie Ford. Smith’s performances grew increasingly infrequent, and in…

Stevie Wonder: …“Living for the City,” “Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing,” “Boogie On Reggae Woman,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke.”

River Don, river in Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland, rising in the Grampian Mountains, flowing generally eastward parallel to and north of the River Dee, and emptying into the North Sea at Aberdeen after a course of 82 miles (132 km). In its upper course it receives a number of short mountain

River Don, river in England that rises at about 1,500 feet (460 metres) in the Pennine range. It flows in a deeply entrenched course across the South Yorkshire coalfield past the city of Sheffield, where its basin forms the heart of the steelmaking district. From there the river flows northeastward

Rómulo Gallegos: …in Latin American literature with Doña Bárbara (1929; Eng. trans. Doña Barbara), the story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo. She and the violent frontier yield in the face of civilization and law. The novel Cantaclaro (1934; “Chanticleer”) deals…

Brazilian literature: Modernismo and regionalism: …e seus dois maridos (1966; Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands), the latter a tour de force that has been interpreted as an allegory of Brazil’s paradoxically bawdy yet conservative proclivities. The most revered regionalist is Graciliano Ramos, whose pungent novels—which include Vidas sêcas (1938; Barren Lives) and Angústia (1936;…

Brazilian literature: Modernismo and regionalism: …e seus dois maridos (1966; Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands), the latter a tour de force that has been interpreted as an allegory of Brazil’s paradoxically bawdy yet conservative proclivities. The most revered regionalist is Graciliano Ramos, whose pungent novels—which include Vidas sêcas (1938; Barren Lives) and Angústia (1936;…

Spanish literature: Novels and essays: In novels such as Don Juan (1922) and Doña Inés (1925), Azorín created retrospective, introspective, and nearly motionless narratives that shared many of the qualities of works by his contemporary Marcel Proust. Azorín’s essays—in El alma castellana (1900; “The Castilian Soul”), La ruta de Don Quijote (1905; “Don Quixote’s…

Manuel Vilar: …Aztecs; and La Malinche (1852; La Malinche or Doña Marina), the first native woman of Mexico who converted to Christianity and who also served as Hernán Cortés’s translator.

Ards: Donaghadee, at the northeastern end of the peninsula, is a popular resort town, and bird sanctuaries are found along the lough-side. Roads extending throughout the former district merge with a national highway at Newtownards, then run westward to Belfast. Area former district, 139 square miles…

The Blair Witch Project: …and hired three unknown actors—Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard—to play the student filmmakers, using their own names as the names of their characters. Myrick and Sánchez taught the actors how to operate a 16-mm camera and an 8-mm camcorder and told them to record everything they did…

Phil Donahue is an American journalist and television personality who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented TV talk show. His hugely popular show aired from 1967 to 1996, and Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards (1977–80, 1982–83, 1985–86, and 1988) as outstanding host. Donahue graduated from the

Phil Donahue is an American journalist and television personality who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented TV talk show. His hugely popular show aired from 1967 to 1996, and Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards (1977–80, 1982–83, 1985–86, and 1988) as outstanding host. Donahue graduated from the

AFL–CIO: Merger of the AFL and the CIO: …1995, he named his secretary-treasurer, Thomas R. Donahue, to fill the remainder of his term. At the organization’s 1995 convention, Donahue was defeated for the presidency by John J. Sweeney in what marked the first competitive election in AFL-CIO history. Sweeney, former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),…

Tom Donahue: As a Top 40 deejay in Philadelphia and San Francisco, “Big Daddy” Tom Donahue opened his show with a self-spoofing line: “I’m here to clean up your face and mess up your mind.” But it was on the FM band in the late 1960s and…

Donald Bane was the king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown. Donald Bane besieged Edinburgh Castle, took it, and, with the support of

Donald Bane was the king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown. Donald Bane besieged Edinburgh Castle, took it, and, with the support of

Donald Bane was the king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown. Donald Bane besieged Edinburgh Castle, took it, and, with the support of

Donald Bane was the king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown. Donald Bane besieged Edinburgh Castle, took it, and, with the support of

Donald Duck, an ill-tempered, squawking cartoon duck who was Walt Disney’s second most famous cartoon character after Mickey Mouse and who enjoyed worldwide popularity as the star of animated films, newspaper comic strips, comic books, and television. Donald Duck’s first film appearance was in a

Donald I was the king of Alba, the united kingdom of the Picts and Scots (858–862), and brother and successor of Kenneth I MacAlpin. Donald established an ancient corpus of laws and rights (known as the laws of Aed, or Aedh) that apparently included the custom of tanistry. According to this custom,

Donald II was the king of the Scots (from 889), son of Constantine I and successor to Eochaid and Giric (reigned 878–889). His reign coincided with renewed invasions by the Danes, who came less to plunder and more to occupy the lands bordering Scotland and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. He was also

Trump v. Anderson, a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, 2024, unanimously overturned a December 2023 decision by the Colorado Supreme Court holding that Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination of 2024, was ineligible to appear on the

Campaigning for president of the United States is a full-time job. There are speeches to deliver, debates to prepare for, and babies to kiss. But imagine if you were trying to do that while defending yourself against four criminal cases. Donald Trump, the leading candidate to become the Republican

National Portrait Gallery: …building, now known as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, reopened in 2006 after undergoing renovations to emphasize its strongest architectural features, including porticos, vaulted ceilings, and a curving double staircase.

Donald Bane was the king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I. Upon the death of his brother Malcolm III Canmore (1093) there was a fierce contest for the crown. Donald Bane besieged Edinburgh Castle, took it, and, with the support of

baseball: Segregation: …of the greatest Black pitchers, John Donaldson and Jose Mendez.

Sam Donaldson is an American television journalist best known for his long and distinguished career at ABC (the American Broadcasting Company), where he covered stories and conducted investigations of national and international interest. Donaldson was raised on his family’s farm in Chamberino, New

Sam Donaldson is an American television journalist best known for his long and distinguished career at ABC (the American Broadcasting Company), where he covered stories and conducted investigations of national and international interest. Donaldson was raised on his family’s farm in Chamberino, New

Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his work in topology. Donaldson attended Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A., 1979), and Worcester College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1983). From 1983 to 1985 he was a junior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford,

Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his work in topology. Donaldson attended Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A., 1979), and Worcester College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1983). From 1983 to 1985 he was a junior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford,

Walter Donaldson was a U.S. lyricist, arranger, pianist, and prolific composer of popular songs for stage productions and films. Donaldson began his career as a pianist for a music publisher. After 19 months spent entertaining troops at Camp Upton, New York, during World War I, he joined the new

Somalia: Penetration of the interior: During 1894–95 A. Donaldson-Smith explored the headwaters of the Shabeelle in Ethiopia, reached Lake Rudolf, and eventually descended the Tana River to the Kenyan coast. In 1891 the Italian Luigi Robecchi-Bricchetti trekked from Mogadishu to Hobyo and then crossed the Ogaden region to Berbera. About the same…

Coto Doñana National Park, national park on the southwestern coast of Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. A hunting ground for royalty from the 14th century, it was made a reserve in 1963 and a national park in 1969. Its natural habitats encompass some 196 square miles (507 square km) of

Christianity: Theology of icons: Donar, a Germanic god, reputedly whispered in a holy oak, and Boniface merely had to fell the Donar oak in order to demonstrate the superiority of Christ over the pagan god. Among the Germanic tribes in the West, there was no guild of sculptors or…