• Doolittle, James Harold (United States general)

    James H. Doolittle was an American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Doolittle was educated at Los Angeles Junior College (1914–16) and the University of California School of Mines (1916–17). As an

  • Doolittle, Jimmy (United States general)

    James H. Doolittle was an American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Doolittle was educated at Los Angeles Junior College (1914–16) and the University of California School of Mines (1916–17). As an

  • Doom (electronic game)

    Doom, first-person shooter electronic game released in December 1993 that changed the direction of almost every aspect of personal computer (PC) games, from graphics and networking technology to styles of play, notions of authorship, and public scrutiny of game content. The authors of Doom were a

  • doom jellyfish (marine invertebrate)

    Irukandji jellyfish, any of at least 16 species of box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) known for their transparency, small size, and highly venomous stings. The group is distributed primarily in the warm waters along the northern coasts of Australia, especially in the Coral Sea along Queensland, with

  • Doom Patrol (comic book)

    Grant Morrison: …notably in Animal Man and Doom Patrol. Morrison used Animal Man as a way to discuss animal rights, Doom Patrol as a forum to explore issues of madness and disability, and both to continue the postmodern deconstruction of the superhero genre. However, it was in 1989, with Arkham Asylum (art…

  • Doomed Love (novel by Castelo Branco)

    Camilo Castelo Branco: …work, Amor de perdição (1862; Doomed Love), the story of a love thwarted by family opposition that eventually led the hero to crime and exile. It is the typical expression of the view of life with which Castelo Branco came to be identified—a view in which passion is the irresistible…

  • Doomes-day, or, The Great Day of the Lords Judgement (work by Stirling)

    William Alexander, 1st earl of Stirling: His last important poetical work, Doomes-day, or, The Great Day of the Lords Judgement (1614), caused King James to choose him to collaborate in translating the Psalms.

  • Doomsday Clock (nuclear threat)

    Doomsday Clock, symbolic clock adopted by atomic scientists to show how close human beings are considered to be to a global catastrophe, with midnight standing for annihilation, or “doomsday.” Metaphorically, the clock’s minute hand moves closer to or farther from midnight, depending on the level

  • Doomsday Defense (football history)

    Bob Lilly: …of the Dallas Cowboys’ “Doomsday Defense,” he helped the team win its first Super Bowl title (1972).

  • Doomsday Glacier (glacier, Antarctica)

    Thwaites Glacier, segment of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) that drains parts of Ellsworth Land in Antarctica into Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea. The Thwaites Glacier has the world’s widest glacial interface with the ocean, extending roughly 75 miles (120 km), and the collapse of this

  • doomsday machine (nuclear device)

    doomsday machine, hypothetical device that would automatically trigger the nuclear destruction of an aggressor country or the extinction of all life on Earth in the event of a nuclear attack on the country maintaining the device. The former type of device might automatically launch a large number

  • Doomsday Vault (agricultural project, Norway)

    Svalbard Global Seed Vault, secure facility built into the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard islands (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean), that is intended to safeguard the seeds of the world’s food plants in the event of a global crisis. The site was chosen

  • Doon De Mayence (legendary hero)

    Doon De Mayence, hero baron of the medieval epic poems in Old French known as chansons de geste, which together form the core of the Charlemagne legends. Doon’s story is told in a chanson belonging to a cycle called Geste de Doon de Mayence. This cycle tells of Charlemagne’s rebellious barons and

  • Doone, Lorna (fictional character)

    Lorna Doone, fictional heroine of the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore. The novel is set in 17th-century Exmoor, a remote area of Devon, England, and concerns a virtuous and somewhat mysterious young woman who has been raised by bandits who abducted her when she was

  • Doonesbury (comic strip by Trudeau)

    Doonesbury, American newspaper comic strip chronicling the lives of a large group of characters, mostly a set of college friends, over the years. Doonesbury’s humour has been noted for its explicitly political content. The strip’s namesake is Mike Doonesbury, who serves as an everyman for America’s

  • Doopgein Sheptoon (king of Bhutan)

    Bhutan: The emergence of Bhutan: La-Pha was succeeded by Doopgein Sheptoon, who consolidated Bhutan’s administrative organization through the appointment of regional penlops (governors of territories) and jungpens (governors of forts). Doopgein Sheptoon exercised both temporal and spiritual authority, but his successor confined himself to only the spiritual role and appointed a minister to exercise…

  • door (architecture)

    door, barrier of wood, stone, metal, glass, paper, leaves, hides, or a combination of materials, installed to swing, fold, slide, or roll in order to close an opening to a room or building. Early doors, used throughout Mesopotamia and the ancient world, were merely hides or textiles. Doors of

  • Door gagan ki chhaon mein (film by Kumar [1964])

    Kishore Kumar: …also directed several productions, including Door gagan ki chhaon mein (1964) and Door ka rahi (1971). In contrast to the lighthearted films in which he typically participated as an actor, singer, or composer, the films that Kumar directed were often tragedies.

  • Door into the Dark (poetry by Heaney)

    Seamus Heaney: In this book and Door into the Dark (1969), he wrote in a traditional style about a passing way of life—that of domestic rural life in Northern Ireland. In Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ireland and contemporary…

  • Door ka rahi (film by Kumar [1971])

    Kishore Kumar: …ki chhaon mein (1964) and Door ka rahi (1971). In contrast to the lighthearted films in which he typically participated as an actor, singer, or composer, the films that Kumar directed were often tragedies.

  • Door of Life, The (work by Bagnold)

    Enid Bagnold: …Squire (1938; also published as The Door of Life), which conveys the mood of expectancy in a household awaiting the birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied (1951), a study of a woman facing the approach of old age. As a playwright, Bagnold achieved great success with The…

  • Door Peninsula (peninsula, Wisconsin, United States)

    Door Peninsula, area of land, eastern Wisconsin, U.S. Lying between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door Peninsula is about 80 miles (130 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide at its base and tapering northeastward. It is crossed southeast-northwest by a waterway at Sturgeon Bay. The peninsula includes

  • door-hinge (metalwork)

    metalwork: England: …are found with massive iron hinges, the bands worked in rich ornamental designs of scrollwork, varying from the plain hinge band, with crescent, to the most elaborate filling of the door. Examples exist at Skipwith and Stillingfleet in Yorkshire, many in the eastern counties, others in Gloucester, Somerset, and the…

  • door-to-door sale (business)

    marketing: Direct selling: …industry consisting of companies selling door-to-door, office-to-office, or at private-home sales meetings. The forerunners in the direct-selling industry include The Fuller Brush Company (brushes, brooms, etc.), Electrolux (vacuum cleaners), and Avon (cosmetics). In addition, Tupperware pioneered the home-sales approach, in which friends and neighbours gather in a home where Tupperware…

  • Doordarshan India (Indian broadcasting company)

    India: Media and publishing: …name Doordarshan, later changed to Doordarshan India (“Television India”). Television and educational programming are transmitted via the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system. The country’s first Hindi-language cable channel, Zee TV, was established in 1992, and this was followed by other cable and satellite services.

  • Doorman, Karel (Dutch admiral)

    Karel Doorman was a Dutch rear admiral who commanded a combined American, British, Dutch, and Australian naval force against a Japanese invasion fleet in the Java Sea during World War II. Intended to halt the Japanese naval invasion of the Netherlands East Indies, the Battle of the Java Sea ended

  • Doorman, Karel Willem Frederik Marie (Dutch admiral)

    Karel Doorman was a Dutch rear admiral who commanded a combined American, British, Dutch, and Australian naval force against a Japanese invasion fleet in the Java Sea during World War II. Intended to halt the Japanese naval invasion of the Netherlands East Indies, the Battle of the Java Sea ended

  • Doornik (Belgium)

    Tournai, municipality, Wallonia Region, southwestern Belgium. It lies along the Schelde (Scheldt, or Escaut) River, northwest of Mons. Tournai has changed hands many times. As Turnacum, it was important in Roman times. Seized by the Salic Franks in the 5th century, it was the birthplace of the

  • Doors of Perception, The (work by Huxley)

    Aldous Huxley: …victims of demonic possession, and The Doors of Perception (1954), a book about Huxley’s experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline. His last novel, Island (1962), is a utopian vision of a Pacific Ocean society.

  • Doors, The (film by Stone [1991])

    Oliver Stone: Kennedy, and The Doors, a stylish account of the rise and fall of the titular American rock band. For JFK Stone used actual footage of from the Zapruder film as well as recreated scenes in a way that some say added to the conspiracy furor surrounding the…

  • Doors, the (American rock group)

    the Doors, American band that, with a string of hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, channeled the dark undercurrents of the era’s counterculture with such songs as “The End,” “Light My Fire,” and “Riders on the Storm.” The band was the creative vehicle for singer Jim Morrison, one of rock

  • doorstop (furniture)

    doorstop, usually decorative and invariably heavy object used to prevent doors from swinging shut. Doorstops came into use about 1775 following the introduction of the rising butt, a type of hinge designed to close a door automatically. Many stops took the form of famous persons, such as Napoleon,

  • Doorway God (pre-Inca figure)

    Huari: …on Huari pottery is the Doorway God, a stylized, anthropomorphic figure often represented in front view with a rectangular face and rayed headdress. This motif is also found at Tiwanaku. Huari architecture features large enclosures constructed of stone masonry. Monumental temple sculpture is naturalistic and depicts both male and female…

  • doosra (cricket)

    Muttiah Muralitharan: …of delivery, nicknamed the “doosra,” in which the ball turns away from a right-handed batsman, prompted still further allegations of throwing in 2004; however, in early 2005 the ICC modified the rules to allow Muralitharan’s unusual arm movement.

  • Dootson, F. W. (British scientist)

    gas: Thermal diffusion: …the aid of the chemist F.W. Dootson to verify it experimentally.

  • Dooxo Nugaaleed (river valley, Somalia)

    Nugaaleed Valley, river valley, northeastern Somalia. It is a shallow valley, long and broad, with an extensive network of seasonal watercourses. The valley’s principal watercourses, the Nugaaleed and the more westerly Dheere, fill briefly during and after rainstorms (April to June) and drain into

  • Dooyeweerd, Herman (Dutch philosopher)

    pessimism: …Brunner, and the Dutch neo-Calvinists Herman Dooyeweerd and D.H.T. Vollenhoven). Perhaps the most uncompromisingly pessimistic system ever developed is that of the existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger, for whom death, nothingness, and anxiety were central topics of interest and for whom the highest possible act of human freedom was a coming…

  • dopa (chemical compound)

    dopamine: …intermediate compound from dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) during metabolism of the amino acid tyrosine and is the precursor of the catecholamine neurotransmitters epinephrine and norepinephrine. Dopamine is produced mainly in the regions of the brain known as the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area (VTA), and hypothalamus.

  • dopamine (chemical compound)

    dopamine, a nitrogen-containing organic compound that acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, influencing various neural pathways, including those involved in reward, motivation, and movement. Dopamine is a member of both the catecholamine and the phenethylamine families. It is formed as an

  • dopamine receptor 3 (gene)

    essential tremor: …in a gene known as DRD3 (dopamine receptor 3; formerly designated ETM1, or essential tremor 1). The DRD3 gene encodes a protein called dopamine receptor D3. This receptor binds dopamine, a neurotransmitter that normally inhibits the transmission of nerve impulses in the brain, thereby

  • dopamine-receptor agonist (drug)

    antiparkinson drug: Dopamine-receptor agonists: Dopamine-receptor agonists work by binding to dopamine receptors on dopaminergic neurons (the neurons that normally synthesize and use dopamine) in the neurotransmitter’s absence. Stimulation of the receptors increases dopaminergic activity in the brain, thereby lessening the severity of parkinsonism symptoms. Examples of dopamine-receptor…

  • dopaminergic receptor (biology)

    nervous system: Dopamine: There are two types of dopaminergic receptors, called the D1 and the D2. The former catalyzes the synthesis of cAMP, and the latter inhibits its synthesis. These reactions then regulate calcium and potassium channels in the postsynaptic membrane. Dopaminergic receptors also exist on the presynaptic membrane. The neurotransmitter is terminated…

  • dopant (electronics)

    dopant, any impurity deliberately added to a semiconductor for the purpose of modifying its electrical conductivity. The most commonly used elemental semiconductors are silicon and germanium, which form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares one electron with each of its four nearest

  • doped fullerene (chemical compound)

    superconductivity: Thermal properties of superconductors: …only carbon is present) or fullerides (if doped). They have superconducting transition temperatures higher than those of the classic superconductors. It is not yet known whether these compounds are fundamentally similar to the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

  • Dopesick (American television miniseries)

    Michael Keaton: Later work: Dopesick and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: …opioid crisis in the miniseries Dopesick (2021), which was based on a book by Beth Macy. For his performance, Keaton won an Emmy Award. In the horror film Morbius (2022), he reprised the role of Adrian Toomes (Vulture). Keaton then returned to the character of Batman for the superhero film…

  • Döpfner, Mathias (German businessman)

    Mathias Döpfner is a German businessman who served as chairman and CEO (2002– ) of Axel Springer SE, a German media and tech company especially known for its newspapers and magazines. Döpfner studied musicology and theatrical arts before he joined the staff of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine

  • doping (electronics)

    dopant, any impurity deliberately added to a semiconductor for the purpose of modifying its electrical conductivity. The most commonly used elemental semiconductors are silicon and germanium, which form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares one electron with each of its four nearest

  • doping (drug abuse)

    doping, use of substances or techniques to illegally improve human performance and, more specifically, to gain a competitive advantage in athletic events. In the realm of sports, doping is a complex issue, owing to impacts on not only the physical and mental health of athletes but also on the

  • Doppelfrieskrug (pottery)

    pottery: Stoneware: The Doppelfrieskrüge were jugs with two molded friezes (usually portraying classical subjects) around the middle. They and the tankards were made in Raeren brownware by Jan Emens, surnamed Mennicken, in the last quarter of the 16th century. Emens also worked in the gray body that was…

  • doppelgänger (folklore)

    doppelgänger, (German: “double goer”), in German folklore, a wraith or apparition of a living person, as distinguished from a ghost. The concept of the existence of a spirit double, an exact but usually invisible replica of every man, bird, or beast, is an ancient and widespread belief. To meet

  • Doppelleben (work by Benn)

    Gottfried Benn: …richly reflected in the autobiography Doppelleben (1950; “Double Life”). A broad selection of his poetry and prose in English translation was published under the title Primal Vision (1961).

  • Doppelmonarchie (historical empire, Europe)

    Austria-Hungary, the Habsburg empire from the constitutional Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 between Austria and Hungary until the empire’s collapse in 1918. A brief treatment of the history of Austria-Hungary follows. For full treatment, see Austria: Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918. The empire of

  • Doppler effect (physics)

    Doppler effect, the apparent difference between the frequency at which sound or light waves leave a source and that at which they reach an observer, caused by relative motion of the observer and the wave source. This phenomenon is used in astronomical measurements, in Mössbauer effect studies, and

  • Doppler frequency shift (radar technology)

    radar: Postwar progress: The Doppler frequency shift also has been used in Doppler-navigation radar to measure the velocity of the aircraft carrying the radar system. The extraction of the Doppler shift in weather radars, moreover, allows the identification of severe storms and dangerous wind shear not possible by other…

  • Doppler radar, pulse (radar technology)

    radar: Doppler frequency and target velocity: …indication (MTI) radar or a pulse Doppler radar, depending on the particular parameters of the signal waveform.

  • Doppler spectroscopy (astronomy)

    Geoffrey Marcy: …American astronomer whose use of Doppler shifts to detect extrasolar planets led to the discovery of several hundred planetary bodies in multiple star systems.

  • Doppler weather radar (radar technology)

    radar: Doppler weather radar: For many years radar has been used to provide information about the intensity and extent of rain and other forms of precipitation. This application of radar is well known in the United States from the familiar television weather reports of precipitation observed…

  • Doppler, Christian (Austrian physicist)

    Christian Doppler was an Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenomenon became known as the Doppler effect. Educated at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, Doppler

  • Doppler-limited spectroscopy (spectra analysis)

    spectroscopy: Doppler-limited spectroscopy: With the exception of specially designed molecular-beam spectrometers, the line width of a molecular absorption transition is limited by the Doppler effect. The resolution of conventional spectrometers, with the exception of a few very expensive Fourier-transform instruments, is generally limited to a level…

  • Dor (Israel)

    Dor, modern settlement and ancient port in northwestern Israel, on the Mediterranean coast, south of Haifa. Ancient Dor was a strategic site on the Via Maris, the historic road that ran largely along the Palestine coast. Ruins found at the site date back to the Late Bronze Age (1500–1200 bc), and

  • Dor fortress (fort, Aligarh, India)

    Aligarh: Another fort, the Dor fortress (1524), now in ruins, lies at the city’s center; its site is occupied by an 18th-century mosque. The city contains tombs of Muslim saints. Wheat, barley, and other crops are grown in the surrounding area. Pop. (2001) 669,087; (2011) 874,408.

  • Dor, Plain of (plain, Israel)

    Plain of Sharon: …River and Mount Carmel, the Plain of ʿAtlit, or the Plain of Dor.

  • Dora (Israel)

    Dor, modern settlement and ancient port in northwestern Israel, on the Mediterranean coast, south of Haifa. Ancient Dor was a strategic site on the Via Maris, the historic road that ran largely along the Palestine coast. Ruins found at the site date back to the Late Bronze Age (1500–1200 bc), and

  • Dora and the Lost City of Gold (film by Bobin [2019])

    Benicio Del Toro: …fox in the family film Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019). In 2021 he reteamed with Soderbergh on the drama No Sudden Move (2021), starring with Don Cheadle as a small-time criminal in 1950s Detroit. That year he also appeared in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, playing an…

  • Dora the Explorer (American television series)

    feminism: Manifestations: …characters such as Dora (Dora the Explorer, 2000–14, 2019), Carly and Sam (iCarly, 2007–12), and Sesame Street’s first female lead, Abby Cadabby, who debuted in 2006. The sassy self-expression of “Girl Power” merchandise also proved popular.

  • dorab wolf herring (fish species)

    wolf herring, (Chirocentrus dorab), species of fish belonging to the family Chirocentridae (order Clupeiformes). It is exclusively marine in habitat, occurring in the Indian Ocean and in the western Pacific to Japan and eastern Australia. In contrast to other herrings, which feed on plankton, wolf

  • Dorade (yacht)

    Olin James Stephens II: …and navigator of the yacht Dorade, the winner of the 1931 Transatlantic and Fastnet races, and who was codesigner and relief helmsman of the J-class Ranger, the winner of the America’s Cup in 1937.

  • Doradidae (fish)

    ostariophysan: Annotated classification: Family Doradidae (thorny catfishes) Overlapping plates cover sides of body. Intestinal modifications for aerial respiration. Aquarium fishes. Generally small, to more than 1 metre (3 feet). South America. About 30 genera, about 72 species. Family Auchenipteridae (driftwood catfishes) Internal insemination. Fresh and brackish water, Panama and South…

  • dorado (fish)

    mahimahi, (Coryphaena hippurus), species of open-ocean fishes known for its iridescent coloring and popularity in commercial and sport fishing. The mahimahi is one of two species classified in the genus Coryphaena, a single genus within the family Coryphaenidae, the other being the pompano

  • dorado (fish, Salminus species)

    dorado, (Salminus maxillosus), powerful game fish of the characin family, Characidae, found in South American rivers. The dorado is golden, with red fins and with lengthwise rows of dots on its body, and superficially resembles a salmon. It reaches a length of about 1 m (39 inches) and a weight of

  • Dorado (constellation)

    Dorado, constellation in the southern sky at about 5 hours right ascension and 60° south in declination. Its brightest star is Alpha Doradus, with a magnitude of 3.2. This constellation contains more than half of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite of the Milky Way Galaxy and one of the

  • Dorāh Pass (mountain pass, Asia)

    Hindu Kush: Physiography: …in the east to the Dorāh (Do Rāh) Pass (14,940 feet [4,554 metres]) not far from Mount Tirich Mir; the central Hindu Kush, which then continues to the Shebar (Shībar) Pass (9,800 feet [2,987 metres]) to the northwest of Kabul; and the western Hindu Kush, also known as the Bābā…

  • Doran Ann (American actress)

    Rebel Without a Cause: Cast:

  • Dorando Pietri: Falling at the Finish

    “It would be no exaggeration,” declared The New York Times, to say that the finish of the marathon at the London 1908 Olympic Games was “the most thrilling athletic event that has occurred since that Marathon race in ancient Greece, where the victor fell at the goal and, with a wave of triumph,

  • Dorat, Jean (French humanist)

    Jean Dorat was a French humanist, a brilliant Hellenist, one of the poets of the Pléiade, and their mentor for many years. Dorat belonged to a noble family; after studying at the Collège de Limoges, he became tutor to the pages of Francis I. He tutored Jean-Antoine de Baïf, whose father he

  • Dorati, Antal (American conductor)

    Antal Dorati was a Hungarian-born American conductor notable for his promotion of 20th-century music, particularly that of Béla Bartók. The son of musicians, he entered at age 14 the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he studied with Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Leo Weiner. He read philosophy at Vienna

  • Dörben Oirat (Mongol confederation)

    Kalmyk: …a confederation known as the Dörben Oirat (“Four Allies,” from which the name Oirat is derived); at times they were allies, at times enemies, of the eastern Mongols. Part of the western Mongols remained in their homeland, northern Xinjiang, or Dzungaria, and western Mongolia. Part of the Oirat confederation, including…

  • dorcas gazelle (mammal)

    gazelle: Asian gazelles: bilkis; now extinct), and the dorcas gazelle (G. dorcas). The dorcas gazelle also ranges into North Africa. The range of the goitred gazelle extends across the Asian deserts to China, though its population is greatly reduced in numbers. A sixth Asian gazelle, the Indian gazelle or chinkara (G. bennetti), survives…

  • Dorcasiidae (gastropod family)

    gastropod: Classification: …(Strophocheilidae) or southwestern Africa (Dorcasiidae). Order Sigmurethra Ureter originates near anterior margin of kidney, follows backward to posterior end, then reflexes forward along hindgut to open alongside anus; position greatly altered in sluglike forms; about 18,000 species. Suborder Holopodopes A group of 4

  • Dorchester (county, Maryland, United States)

    Dorchester, county, southeastern Maryland, U.S., bounded by the Choptank River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Nanticoke River to the southeast, and Chesapeake Bay to the south and west. It consists of a low-lying, marshy peninsula that extends into the bay and includes Barren, Bloodsworth,

  • Dorchester (Massachusetts, United States)

    Massachusetts Bay Colony: Charlestown, Dorchester, Medford, Watertown, Roxbury, and Lynn.

  • Dorchester (England, United Kingdom)

    Dorchester, town (parish), West Dorset district, administrative and historic county of Dorset, southwestern England, on the River Frome. Dorchester is the county town (seat) of Dorset. The ancient town (then known as Durnovaria) was a sizable Roman British centre, and many remains of the period

  • Dorchester (county, South Carolina, United States)

    Dorchester, county, southern South Carolina, U.S. The Edisto River forms the southwestern boundary, and the county is also drained by the Ashley River. Dorchester county lies in the flat Coastal Plain, and much of it consists of woodlands and swamps. Francis Beidler Forest is the largest remaining

  • Dorchester of Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron (British statesman)

    Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester was a soldier-statesman who, as governor of Quebec before and during the American Revolutionary War, succeeded in reconciling the British and French and in repulsing the invasion attempts of Continental forces. Carleton was commissioned an ensign in the British

  • Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron (British statesman)

    Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester was a soldier-statesman who, as governor of Quebec before and during the American Revolutionary War, succeeded in reconciling the British and French and in repulsing the invasion attempts of Continental forces. Carleton was commissioned an ensign in the British

  • Dorcopsulus (marsupial)

    wallaby: The dwarf wallaby is the smallest member of the genus and the smallest known member of the kangaroo family. Its length is about 46 cm (18 inches) from nose to tail, and it weighs about 1.6 kg (3.5 pounds).

  • Dordogne (department, France)

    Aquitaine: Geography: In Dordogne many visitors travel to the valley of Vézère, one of the earliest known cradles of human habitation. Caves at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and Lascaux contain some of the world’s best prehistoric drawings and paintings. Dordogne also has about 1,000 châteaus and a number of picturesque…

  • Dordogne River (river, France)

    Dordogne River, river in southwestern France, rising in the Massif Central and flowing west for 293 mi (472 km) to Bec d’Ambès, north of Bordeaux, where it unites with the Garonne to form the Gironde Estuary; its drainage basin is about 9,300 sq mi (24,000 sq km). Its headwaters, rising at a height

  • Dordrecht (Netherlands)

    Dordrecht, gemeente (municipality), southwestern Netherlands, at the divergence of the Merwede, Noord, Oude Maas (Old Meuse), and Dordtse Kil rivers. Founded in 1008, it was the residence of the counts of Holland until 1203 and was first chartered in 1220. It was fortified in 1271, and, although

  • Dordrecht, Synod of (Netherlands church assembly)

    Synod of Dort, assembly of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands that met at Dort (in full Dordrecht) from November 13, 1618, to May 9, 1619. The synod tried to settle disputes concerning Arminianism. In 1610 the Dutch followers of Jacobus Arminius presented to the States General a Remonstrance in

  • Dordt (Netherlands)

    Dordrecht, gemeente (municipality), southwestern Netherlands, at the divergence of the Merwede, Noord, Oude Maas (Old Meuse), and Dordtse Kil rivers. Founded in 1008, it was the residence of the counts of Holland until 1203 and was first chartered in 1220. It was fortified in 1271, and, although

  • doré (alloy)

    silver processing: From copper concentrates: The metal recovered, called doré, generally contains 0.5 to 5 percent gold, 0.1 to 1 percent platinum metals, and the balance silver. This metal is cast to form anodes and electrolyzed in a solution of silver-copper nitrate. Two different electrorefining techniques are employed, the Moebius and Thum Balbach systems.…

  • Doré, Gustave (French illustrator)

    Gustave Doré was a French printmaker, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. In 1847 he went to Paris, and from 1848 to 1851 he produced weekly

  • Doré, Jean-Marie (Guinean politician)

    Guinea: Conté’s death, 2008 military coup, and 2010 elections: Jean-Marie Doré took office as interim prime minister on January 26, 2010, and established a transitional administration the next month.

  • Doré, Paul-Gustave (French illustrator)

    Gustave Doré was a French printmaker, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. In 1847 he went to Paris, and from 1848 to 1851 he produced weekly

  • Doren, Carl Clinton Van (American critic)

    Carl Van Doren was a U.S. author and teacher whose writings range through surveys of literature to novels, biography, and criticism. Educated at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1911), Van Doren taught there until 1930. In that period he was one of a group of academicians who helped to establish

  • Doren, Mark Van (American writer)

    Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer, and eminent teacher. He upheld the writing of verse in traditional forms throughout a lengthy period of experiment in poetry. As a teacher at Columbia University for 39 years (1920–59), he exercised a profound influence on generations of students. Van

  • Dorestad (ancient city, Netherlands)

    history of the Low Countries: Decline of the Frankish empire: (Dorestad, for example, was destroyed four times between 834 and 837.) Churches and monasteries, with their rich treasures, were the principal targets for the Vikings, who soon took to spending the winter in the Low Countries. In order to ward off the danger, attempts were…

  • Dorfman, Ariel (Chilean author)

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