• Dream of St. Ursula (work by Carpaccio)

    Vittore Carpaccio: The genre scene of the Dream of St. Ursula has been especially praised for its wealth of naturalistic detail.

  • Dream of the Blue Turtles, The (album by Sting)

    Sting: Solo career: For his first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985), Sting switched from bass to guitar. The album was a big success and had the standout singles “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and “Fortress Around Your Heart.” The album included collaborations with jazz musician Branford Marsalis…

  • Dream of the Red Chamber (novel by Cao Zhan)

    Dream of the Red Chamber, novel written by Cao Zhan in the 18th century that is generally considered to be the greatest of all Chinese novels and among the greatest in world literature. The work, published in English as Dream of the Red Chamber (1929), first appeared in manuscript form in Beijing

  • Dream of the Rood, The (English literature)

    The Dream of the Rood, Old English lyric, the earliest dream poem and one of the finest religious poems in the English language, once, but no longer, attributed to Caedmon or Cynewulf. In a dream the unknown poet beholds a beautiful tree—the rood, or cross, on which Christ died. The rood tells him

  • Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, The (poetry by Graham)

    Jorie Graham: subsequent collections include Materialism (1993); The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974–1994 (1995), a survey of her work for which she received a Pulitzer Prize; and The Errancy (1997). In Swarm (2000) and Never (2002) she departed from her characteristic imagery-focused style. Overlord (2005) is a more-accessible

  • Dream of the Yellow Sorghum (Chinese literature)

    Lu Dongbin: …Lu’s life is dramatized in Dream of the Yellow Sorghum: after meeting as a student with one of the Immortals (xian), Lu fell asleep and saw in a vision his future successful life suddenly terminated by a disaster. Lu awoke and renounced the world. He is by far the most…

  • Dream on Monkey Mountain (work by Walcott)

    Derek Walcott: …30 plays, the best-known are Dream on Monkey Mountain (produced 1967), a West Indian’s quest to claim his identity and his heritage; Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1958), based on a West Indian folktale about brothers who seek to overpower the Devil; and Pantomime (1978), an exploration of colonial relationships through…

  • Dream Play, A (play by Strindberg)

    A Dream Play, fantasy play in 14 scenes by August Strindberg, published in Swedish as Ett drömspel in 1902 and first produced in 1907. Presented as a dream, this fluid tableau of human foibles is a poignant lament that humans are to be pitied. As the play opens, the daughter of the Vedic god Indra

  • Dream Scenario (film by Borgli [2023])

    Michael Cera: Later credits and voice work: …played an opportunistic agent in Dream Scenario, a surreal comedy about a professor (Nicolas Cage) who becomes famous after appearing in random people’s dreams. His other credits from 2023 include The Adults, a well-received comedy about three unfulfilled siblings.

  • Dream Sleepers and Other Stories, The (short stories by Grace)

    Patricia Grace: …produced another collection of stories, The Dream Sleepers, and Other Stories (1980), before turning to children’s literature. A picture book on which Grace collaborated with Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, The Kuia and the Spider (1981) is a story about a weaving contest between a female elder (kuia) and a spider.…

  • Dream Songs, The (work by Berryman)

    The Dream Songs, masterwork of John Berryman, published in 1969 as a compilation of his earlier works 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest

  • Dream Swimmer, The (novel by Ihimaera)

    Witi Ihimaera: …Matriarch (1986) and its sequel, The Dream Swimmer (1997), investigate the ramifications of European colonization of New Zealand over several generations of a Māori family. In The Whale Rider (1987; film 2002), the dynamics of Māori society are examined through the eyes of a young girl who must overcome gender…

  • Dream Team (American basketball team)

    Dream Team, nickname given to the 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team, which went undefeated in eight games at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It was the first U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team to include professional basketball players from the NBA. In 1989 FIBA, the international

  • Dream Variation (poem by Hughes)

    Dream Variation, poem by Langston Hughes, published in 1926 in The Weary Blues, his first poetry collection. The poem articulates the dream of African Americans as the speaker yearns for freedom and for acceptance in American

  • Dream Variations (poem by Hughes)

    Dream Variation, poem by Langston Hughes, published in 1926 in The Weary Blues, his first poetry collection. The poem articulates the dream of African Americans as the speaker yearns for freedom and for acceptance in American

  • dream vision (literary genre)

    dream allegory, allegorical tale presented in the narrative framework of a dream. Especially popular in the Middle Ages, the device made more acceptable the fantastic and sometimes bizarre world of personifications and symbolic objects characteristic of medieval allegory. Well-known examples of the

  • Dream, The (painting by Rousseau)

    Henri Rousseau: Later paintings and recognition of Henri Rousseau: …ambitious of these jungle paintings, The Dream (1910; also called Yadivigha’s Dream), which was also one of his greatest works. In this impressive fantasy, an enchanting nude rests on a red plush Victorian sofa in the middle of a dense jungle. Huge flowers wave about her head, two lions and…

  • Dream, the (American basketball player)

    Hakeem Olajuwon is a Nigerian-born American professional basketball player who led the Houston Rockets to consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1994 and 1995. Olajuwon was unfamiliar with basketball until age 15, instead playing association football (soccer) and team

  • dream-time (Australian Aboriginal mythology)

    the Dreaming, mythological period of time that had a beginning but no foreseeable end, during which the natural environment was shaped and humanized by the actions of mythic beings. Many of these beings took the form of human beings or of animals (“totemic”); some changed their forms. They were

  • Dreamboat Annie (album by Heart)

    Heart: Career: …Heart released its debut album, Dreamboat Annie, featuring the signature tracks “Magic Man” and “Crazy on You,” which peaked at number 9 and number 35, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

  • Dreamcast (electronic game console)

    electronic fighting game: Home console games: …consoles, such as the Sega Dreamcast (1998), PlayStation 2 (2000), and the Microsoft Corporation’s Xbox (2001). In particular, the Dreamcast included a modem for connecting players over the Internet, Microsoft launched Xbox Live (2001), an Internet-based subscription gaming service, and Sony responded in 2002 with a modem

  • Dreamcatcher (film by Kasdan [2003])

    Damian Lewis: …also appeared in films, including Dreamcatcher (2003) and The Escapist (2008). In 2016 he starred in the thriller Our Kind of Traitor. He later played Steve McQueen in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019). Lewis’s other films included the dramedy Dream Horse (2020). He

  • Dreamer, The (album by Shelton)

    Blake Shelton: Shelton’s second album, The Dreamer (2003), reached the number two spot on the country chart, and the song “The Baby” was the top country single. The more-assured Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill (2004) contained the charming and humorous “Some Beach.” Pure BS (2007) spawned the hit country-rock songs…

  • Dreamers (American Indian religion)

    Smohalla: …founded a religious cult, the Dreamers, that emphasized traditional Native American values.

  • Dreamers of the Ghetto (work by Zangwill)

    Israel Zangwill: …concerning an 18th-century rogue, and Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898), essays on famous Jewish figures, including Benedict de Spinoza, Heinrich Heine, and Ferdinand Lassalle. The image of America as a crucible wherein the European nationalities would be transformed into a “new race” owes its origin to the title and theme…

  • Dreamers, The (film by Bertolucci [2003])

    Bernardo Bertolucci: …teenager’s visit to Italy, and The Dreamers (2003), an erotic thriller about an American student in Paris during the student protests of 1968.

  • Dreamgirls (film by Condon [2006])

    Beyoncé: Acting career and soundtracks: …she played Deena Jones in Dreamgirls, the film adaptation of the 1981 Broadway musical about a 1960s singing group. Beyoncé’s performance was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and her song “Listen” for an Academy Award. She later starred in Cadillac Records (2008), in which she portrayed singer

  • Dreamhouse (novel by Grenville)

    Kate Grenville: …her first published novel, and Dreamhouse (1986) both examined women struggling against oppressive situations: Lilian Singer is a woman abused by her father, and Louise Dufrey is a wife facing a disintegrating marriage. Joan Makes History (1988) considers the subject of Australian history and identity through the story of Joan,…

  • Dreaming of You (album by Selena)

    Selena: Legacy: The album Dreaming of You (1995) was released a few months after Selena’s death and includes several completed English songs as well as previously recorded and new Tejano songs. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, the first album by a Latina artist…

  • dreaming state (sleep)

    dream: Physiological dream research: D-state (desynchronized or dreaming) sleep has been reported for all mammals studied. It has been observed, for example, among monkeys, dogs, cats, rats, elephants, shrews, and opossums; these signs also have been reported in some birds and

  • Dreaming Up America (work by Banks)

    Russell Banks: Dreaming Up America (2008) is a nonfiction work scrutinizing the history of destructive and constructive policies pursued by the United States. Banks later published Voyager (2016), a collection of his travel writings.

  • Dreaming, the (Australian Aboriginal mythology)

    the Dreaming, mythological period of time that had a beginning but no foreseeable end, during which the natural environment was shaped and humanized by the actions of mythic beings. Many of these beings took the form of human beings or of animals (“totemic”); some changed their forms. They were

  • Dreaming, The (album by Bush)

    Kate Bush: Never for Ever, The Dreaming, and Hounds of Love: On The Dreaming (1982), the first album she produced entirely on her own, she employed new synthesizer technology to create densely layered arrangements for songs that explore such subjects as the life of Harry Houdini and the plight of the Aboriginal people of Australia. The album…

  • Dreamland (film by Joris-Peyrafitte [2019])

    Margot Robbie: …in a Dust Bowl drama, Dreamland, which she produced through LuckyChap Entertainment, a production company that she cofounded in 2014.

  • Dreamliner (jetliner)

    Boeing Company: History of Boeing Company: …began taking orders for the 787 Dreamliner, a mid-range jet with speeds (Mach 0.85) that would match the fastest wide-body long-range planes but with vastly improved fuel efficiency, thanks to new high-bypass turbofan engines built by Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce and a radically innovative body design. Roughly half of…

  • Dreams (work by Quevedo y Villegas)

    Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas: Quevedo’s Sueños (1627; Dreams), fantasies of hell and death, written at intervals from 1606 to 1622, shows his development as a master of the then new Baroque style conceptismo, a complicated form of expression depending on puns and elaborate conceits. An anthology of his poems in English translation…

  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (memoir by Obama)

    Barack Obama: Early life: The memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), is the story of Obama’s search for his biracial identity by tracing the lives of his now-deceased father and his extended family in Kenya. Obama lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago and worked as an attorney on…

  • Dreams in a Time of War (memoir by Ngugi)

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Ngugi later published the memoirs Dreams in a Time of War (2010), about his childhood; In the House of the Interpreter (2012), which was largely set in the 1950s, during the Mau Mau rebellion against British control in Kenya; and Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening (2016), a…

  • Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics (essay by Kant)

    Immanuel Kant: Critic of Leibnizian rationalism: …durch Träume der Metaphysik (1766; Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics). This work is an examination of the whole notion of a world of spirits, in the context of an inquiry into the spiritualist claims of Emanuel Swedenborg, a scientist and biblical scholar. Kant’s position at first…

  • Dreams, Hall of (hall, Hōryū Temple, Japan)

    Japanese art: Sculpture: …the Hall of Dreams (Yumedono) of the Hōryū Temple. The Tori style seen in these works reveals an interpretive dependence on Chinese Buddhist sculpture of the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534/535), such as that found in the Longmen caves. Symmetry, a highly stylized linear treatment of draped garments, and a…

  • Dreamtigers (work by Borges)

    Jorge Luis Borges: Life: Dreamtigers) and El libro de los seres imaginarios (1967; The Book of Imaginary Beings), almost erase the distinctions between the genres of prose and poetry. His later collections of stories include El informe de Brodie (1970; Doctor Brodie’s Report), which deals with revenge, murder, and…

  • Dreamtime (Australian Aboriginal mythology)

    the Dreaming, mythological period of time that had a beginning but no foreseeable end, during which the natural environment was shaped and humanized by the actions of mythic beings. Many of these beings took the form of human beings or of animals (“totemic”); some changed their forms. They were

  • dreamwork (psychology)

    Sigmund Freud: The interpretation of dreams: …of the dream’s disguise, or dreamwork, as Freud called it. The manifest content of the dream, that which is remembered and reported, must be understood as veiling a latent meaning. Dreams defy logical entailment and narrative coherence, for they intermingle the residues of immediate daily experience with the deepest, often…

  • DreamWorks Animation (American company)

    DreamWorks Animation, American entertainment company producing animated feature films, original TV series and shorts, interactive media, live entertainment, theme park attractions, and consumer products. It is based in Glendale, California. DreamWorks Animation originated as a division of

  • DreamWorks SKG (American company)

    Jeffrey Katzenberg: …Katzenberg, Spielberg, and Geffen founded DreamWorks. With their new entertainment studio, they intended to make movies, television shows, and music albums and to produce interactive computer-based entertainment. Katzenberg’s first feature film as executive producer was the animated The Prince of Egypt (1998). DreamWorks subsequently produced such films as American Beauty…

  • Dreary Story, A (work by Chekhov)

    Anton Chekhov: Literary maturity: …notable of which was “A Dreary Story” (1889), a penetrating study into the mind of an elderly and dying professor of medicine. The ingenuity and insight displayed in that tour de force was especially remarkable, coming from an author so young. The play Ivanov (1887–89) culminates in the suicide…

  • Drebbel, Cornelis (Dutch inventor)

    Cornelis Drebbel was a Dutch inventor who built the first navigable submarine. An engraver and glassworker in Holland, Drebbel turned to applied science and in 1604 went to England, where King James I became his patron. He devised an ingenious “perpetual motion clock,” actuated by changes in

  • Drebbel, Cornelis Jacobszoon (Dutch inventor)

    Cornelis Drebbel was a Dutch inventor who built the first navigable submarine. An engraver and glassworker in Holland, Drebbel turned to applied science and in 1604 went to England, where King James I became his patron. He devised an ingenious “perpetual motion clock,” actuated by changes in

  • Drechsler, Horst (German historian)

    German-Herero conflict of 1904–07: Aftermath: In 1966 the German historian Horst Drechsler first made the case that the German campaign against the Herero and Nama was tantamount to genocide. In all, about 75 percent of the entire Herero population and some 50 percent of the Nama population died during the campaign. This would make it…

  • Dred Scott decision (law case)

    Dred Scott decision, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens

  • Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford (law case)

    Dred Scott decision, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (law case)

    Dred Scott decision, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens

  • Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (work by Stowe)

    Harriet Beecher Stowe: In 1856 she published Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, in which she depicted the deterioration of a society resting on a slave basis. When The Atlantic Monthly was established the following year, she found a ready vehicle for her writings; she also found outlets in the…

  • dredge (excavation)

    dredge, large floating device for underwater excavation. Dredging has four principal objectives: (1) to develop and maintain greater depths than naturally exist for canals, rivers, and harbours; (2) to obtain fill to raise the level of lowlands and thus create new land areas and improve drainage

  • dredge (fishing)

    commercial fishing: Dragged gear: Dredges and trawls are of great importance in commercial sea fisheries. Dredges are generally used in shallow water by small vessels, although a deep-sea dredge is operated by research vessels at depths of up to 1,000 metres. The simplest dredges in sea fishery are hand…

  • dredger (fishing vessel)

    commercial fishing: Dredgers: These vessels tend to fish in sheltered and shallow waters for certain types of shellfish. They are similar to beam trawlers, but they may have four booms for towing the dredges. The hulls are often shallow-draft, and hand or mechanical sorting facilities are fitted…

  • dredging (mining)

    mining: Dredging: Dredging is the underwater excavation of a placer deposit by floating equipment. Dredging systems are classified as mechanical or hydraulic, depending on the method of material transport.

  • dredlocks (hairstyle)

    dreadlocks, hairstyle consisting of ropelike strands of knotted hair formed by methods including twisting, backcombing, palm rolling, and braiding, or by allowing hair to mat and tangle on its own. A distinction is made between what are also sometimes called locs (short for locks) and dreads. Locs

  • dredlocs (hairstyle)

    dreadlocks, hairstyle consisting of ropelike strands of knotted hair formed by methods including twisting, backcombing, palm rolling, and braiding, or by allowing hair to mat and tangle on its own. A distinction is made between what are also sometimes called locs (short for locks) and dreads. Locs

  • Drees, Willem (prime minister of the Netherlands)

    Willem Drees was a statesman and socialist leader who was the prime minister of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1958. His four successive governments augmented his country’s comprehensive welfare state, continued the postwar abandonment of the traditional Dutch neutrality in favour of military and

  • dregvant (Zoroastrianism)

    Zoroastrianism: God: …ashavan, while the other became dregvant, partisan of the Druj. After them it was the daevas’ turn, and they all chose wrongly. Ever since, the daevas have tried to corrupt each human being’s choice also.

  • Drehu (island, New Caledonia)

    Lifou Island, largest and most populous of the Loyalty Islands in the French overseas country of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is the central island of the group. Lifou rises no higher than 200 feet (60 metres) above sea level. The coralline limestone creates a fertile soil but also

  • Drei Meister (essay by Zweig)

    Stefan Zweig: …Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Drei Meister, 1920; Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive

  • drei Sprünge des Wang-lun, Die (work by Döblin)

    Alfred Döblin: …drei Sprünge des Wang-lun (1915; The Three Leaps of Wang-lun), is set in China and describes a rebellion that is crushed by the tyrannical power of the state. Wallenstein (1920) is a historical novel, and Berge, Meere und Giganten (1924; “Mountains, Seas, and Giants”; republished as Giganten in 1932) is…

  • dreidel (toy)

    Hanukkah: Nonreligious traditions: …a four-sided top called a dreidel (Hebrew sevivon). On each side of the top is a Hebrew letter, which forms the initials of the words in the phrase nes gadol haya sham, meaning “a great miracle happened there.” In modern Israel the letters of the dreidel were changed to reflect…

  • Dreier, Katherine (American artist and collector)

    Katherine Dreier was an American art collector, artist, and writer who took it as her mission to promote the understanding and appreciation of modern art and the work of living artists, including Paul Klee, Jacques Villon, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Naum Gabo, and many more.

  • Dreier, Katherine Sophie (American artist and collector)

    Katherine Dreier was an American art collector, artist, and writer who took it as her mission to promote the understanding and appreciation of modern art and the work of living artists, including Paul Klee, Jacques Villon, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Naum Gabo, and many more.

  • Dreifaltigkeitskirche (church, Salzburg, Austria)

    Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach: Early career in Italy and Austria.: …elegant concave facade of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Church of the Holy Trinity), for example, contrasts to and heightens the effect of the sober front of the adjoining seminary buildings. The almost geometric forms of the Kollegienkirche (University Church) surmounted by the undulating forms of its towers crown the university complex, providing…

  • Dreifuss, Ruth (president of Switzerland)

    Social Democratic Party of Switzerland: In 1999 Ruth Dreifuss, who was first elected as a Social Democratic Party representative to the Federal Council in 1993, became the country’s first woman president. In the October 2011 general election, support declined for all four members of the ruling coalition, with minor parties posting impressive…

  • Dreigroschenoper, Die (musical drama by Brecht)

    The Threepenny Opera, musical drama in three acts written by Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, produced in German as Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928 and published the following year. The play was adapted by Elisabeth Hauptmann from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728). Antihero

  • Dreikaiserbund (European history)

    Dreikaiserbund, an alliance in the latter part of the 19th century of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, devised by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It aimed at neutralizing the rivalry between Germany’s two neighbours by an agreement over their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans

  • dreikanter (petrology)

    ventifact: …curved facets is called a dreikanter. Ventifacts are produced under arid conditions and are generally formed from hard, fine-grained rocks such as obsidian, chert, or quartzite.

  • Dreikurs, Rudolf (American psychiatrist)

    Rudolf Dreikurs was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and educator who developed the Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler’s system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behaviour in children and for stimulating cooperative behaviour

  • Dreischiffige Kirche (architecture)

    hall church, church in which the aisles are approximately equal in height to the nave. The interior is typically lit by large aisle windows, instead of a clerestory, and has an open and spacious feeling, as of a columned hall. Hall churches are characteristic of the German Gothic period. There are

  • Dreiser, Theodore (American author)

    Theodore Dreiser was a novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Among other themes,

  • Dreissena polymorpha (mollusk)

    zebra mussel, a species of tiny mussels (genus Dreissena) that are prominent freshwater pests. They proliferate quickly and adhere in great numbers to virtually any surface. The voracious mussels disrupt food webs by wiping out phytoplankton, and their massive clustering on water-intake valves and

  • Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (mollusk)

    zebra mussel: The quagga mussel (D. rostriformis burgensis), a similar species in both form and habit, was first discovered in the Great Lakes in 1989.

  • Dreiwaldstätterbund (Swiss history)

    Everlasting League, (Aug. 1, 1291), the inaugural confederation from which, through a long series of accessions, Switzerland grew to statehood. The league was concluded by the representatives of three districts, Uri, Schwyz, and Nidwalden, for self-defense against all who might attack or trouble

  • Dreja, Chris (British musician)

    the Yardbirds: …30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey), bassist Chris Dreja (b. November 11, 1946, London), drummer Jim McCarty (b. July 25, 1943, Liverpool, Merseyside), bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (b. May 8, 1943, London), and guitarist Anthony (“Top”) Topham (b. July 3, 1947, Southall, Middlesex). Later members were Jeff Beck (b. June 24, 1944, Wallington,…

  • Dreme, The (work by Lyndsay)

    Sir David Lyndsay: The Dreme (completed 1528), Lyndsay’s earliest surviving work in verse, is an allegory of the contemporary condition of Scotland, with a delightfully personal epistle to the king. The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo (completed 1530), written to celebrate the king’s escape from…

  • Dremomys (rodent)

    ground squirrel: Tropical ground squirrels: …fruit, roots, and insects; plain long-nosed ground squirrels (genus Dremomys) eat fruit, insects, and earthworms. The two species of Sulawesi ground squirrel (genus Hyosciurus) have elongated snouts and use their long, strong claws to dig for beetle larvae in rotting wood; they also eat acorns.

  • Drenewydd (Wales, United Kingdom)

    Newtown, new town, Powys county, historic county of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn), central Wales. It is located on the River Severn, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Welshpool, and includes the small community of Llanllwchaiarn just to the northeast. In 1967 Newtown was designated the second new

  • Drenova, Aleks Stavre (Albanian poet)

    Albanian literature: …period are Asdren (acronym of Aleks Stavre Drenova), a poet; Çajupi (in full Andon Zako Çajupi), a poet and playwright; Ernest Koliqi, a short-story writer, poet, and novelist; Ndre Mjeda, a poet and linguist; and Migjeni (acronym of Milosh Gjergj Nikolla), a poet and novelist.

  • Drente (province, Netherlands)

    Drenthe, provincie (province), northeastern Netherlands. It extends westward from the German border, between the provinces of Groningen and Friesland (north and northwest) and Overijssel (south). Its capital is Assen. More than 50 megalithic funerary monuments (hunebedden, “huns’ graves”) attest to

  • Drente substage (paleontology)

    Saale Glacial Stage: These are the Drente, Treene, and Warthe substages. The Drente and Warthe represent periods of glacial advance, or maxima, whereas the Treene represents an interstadial period of glacial retreat between the early Drente and the late Warthe. In the region of central Europe, the Saale is represented by…

  • Drenthe (province, Netherlands)

    Drenthe, provincie (province), northeastern Netherlands. It extends westward from the German border, between the provinces of Groningen and Friesland (north and northwest) and Overijssel (south). Its capital is Assen. More than 50 megalithic funerary monuments (hunebedden, “huns’ graves”) attest to

  • Drepanidae (insect)

    Lepidoptera: Annotated classification: Family Drepanidae (hooktip moths) Approximately 650 species worldwide, chiefly Indo-Australian; many of the adults have the forewing apexes strongly hooked; larvae usually lack last pair of prolegs; subfamilies Thyatirinae and Epibleminae sometimes classified as families. Family Epicopeiidae (epicopeiid moths) 25 species in Arctic and

  • Drepanididae (bird)

    Hawaiian honeycreeper, any member of a group of related birds, many of them nectar-eating, that evolved in the forests of the Hawaiian Islands and are found only there. Recent evidence from osteology, behaviour, plumage, breeding biology, and genetics has led to a consensus that the Hawaiian

  • Drepaniidae (bird)

    Hawaiian honeycreeper, any member of a group of related birds, many of them nectar-eating, that evolved in the forests of the Hawaiian Islands and are found only there. Recent evidence from osteology, behaviour, plumage, breeding biology, and genetics has led to a consensus that the Hawaiian

  • Drepanis pacifica (extinct bird)

    mamo, (species Drepanis pacifica), Hawaiian songbird of the family Drepanididae (order Passeriformes), which became extinct in about 1898. About 20 cm (8 inches) long, it was black with yellow touches and had a long, decurved bill for nectar-feeding. The native Hawaiian nobility killed mamos for

  • Drepanius, Latinius Pacatus (Gallo-Roman orator)

    Latinius Pacatus Drepanius was a Gallo-Roman orator and poet, the author of an extant panegyric addressed to Theodosius I at Rome in 389 after the defeat of the usurper Maximus. He was a friend of Symmachus, the champion of paganism, and of the Christian poet Ausonius. It is uncertain whether

  • Drepanocladus (plant genus)

    bryophyte: Ecology and habitats: …including species of the genera Drepanocladus and Calliergon. These mosses also build up a moss mat that, through organic accumulation of its own partially decomposed remains, alters the acidity of the site and makes it attractive to the formation of Sphagnum peatland.

  • Drepanoidea (insect superfamily)

    Lepidoptera: Annotated classification: Superfamily Drepanoidea Approximately 700 species worldwide in 2 families. Family Drepanidae (hooktip moths) Approximately 650 species worldwide, chiefly Indo-Australian; many of the adults have the forewing apexes strongly hooked; larvae usually lack last pair of prolegs; subfamilies Thyatirinae and Epibleminae sometimes classified as

  • Drepanum (Italy)

    Trapani, city, northwestern Sicily, Italy. It is situated on a promontory overlooked by the town of Erice (Monte San Giuliano), west of Palermo. The ancient Drepana, it was the port for the Elymian settlement of Eryx until it was captured and made a naval base by the Carthaginians in 260 bce. It

  • Drepung (monastery, Tibet, China)

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