American literature: Realism and metafiction: … (1967) and Freudian fiction in The Dead Father (1975). Barthelme was most successful in his short stories and parodies that solemnly caricatured contemporary styles, especially the richly suggestive pieces collected in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968), City Life (1970), and Guilty Pleasures (1974).

agricultural technology: Primary tillage equipment: …of one bottom, called a dead furrow. When land is broken by continuous lapping of furrows, it is called flat broken. If land is broken in alternate back furrows and dead furrows, it is said to be bedded or listed.

doomsday machine: …automated system, known as the Dead Hand, was allegedly designed to launch nuclear missiles at U.S. targets if it detected a nuclear attack on Moscow and if communications links with top military commanders were cut (indicating that the commanders had been killed). The existence of a semiautomated version of the…

Paul Theroux: Later works: A Dead Hand (2009) is a crime novel set in India. The Lower River (2012) chronicles an elderly man’s return to the Malawian village where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in his youth. Some of Theroux’s short fiction was collected in Mr.…

doomsday machine: …formerly secret documentary evidence in The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2010), by the American journalist David Hoffman, which received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

hardcore punk: The West Coast scene: …Descendents (Manhattan Beach, California), the Dead Kennedys (San Francisco), and D.O.A. (Vancouver). D.O.A.’s album Hardcore 81 (1981) is often cited as the first use—at least in print—of the term hardcore in relation to the genre.

Sara Paretsky: (2017), Shell Game (2018), and Dead Land (2020).

language: Written versus spoken languages: In studying ancient (dead) languages one is, of course, limited to studying the grammar of their written forms and styles, as their written records alone survive. Such is the case with Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit (Latin lives as a spoken language in very restricted situations, such…

The Dead Lecturer, collection of verse by Amiri Baraka, published in 1964 under the name LeRoi Jones. The collection marked a separation for Baraka from the style and literary philosophy of the Beats, with whom he had previously been associated. In the poem “Rhythm & Blues” he used the structures

bridge: Live load and dead load: The primary function of a bridge is to carry traffic loads: heavy trucks, cars, and trains. Engineers must estimate the traffic loading. On short spans, it is possible that the maximum conceivable load will be achieved—that is to say, on spans of less…

Neil Young: Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps, and Harvest Moon: … (1997) and for whose film Dead Man (1995) Young provided the guitar score.

Tim Robbins: … nomination for best director for Dead Man Walking (1995), starring Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean, a nun who worked with death row inmates.

Sister Helen Prejean: Her first book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States (1994), narrated her experiences as a spiritual adviser to two condemned men, Sonnier and Robert Willie, both of whom she accompanied to the death chamber. The book described her early years…

Wild Bill Hickok: Final years: …card—became known as the “Dead Man’s Hand.”

Marc Chagall: Early life and works: …early maturity are the nightmarish The Dead Man (1908), which depicts a roof violinist (a favourite motif), and My Fiancée with Black Gloves (1909), in which a portrait becomes an occasion for the artist to experiment with arranging black and white.

Carl Reiner: Film directing: …was the black-and-white film-noir parody Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982), in which a private eye (Martin) interacts, through old film clips, with characters from a number of 1940s classics, including Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, and Ava Gardner. The movie, which featured a script by Reiner, Martin, and George Gipe,…

Lamiaceae: Major genera and species: …genus Lamium are known as dead nettles; they are low weedy plants that are sometimes cultivated as medicinal plants.

Dead of Night, British horror anthology film, released in 1945, that is considered a classic of the genre. Of the movie’s five segments, arguably the most notable is the episode featuring a tormented ventriloquist. Dead of Night opens with architect Walter Craig (played by Mervyn Johns) being

Arthur Penn: Films of the 1980s and later work: Dead of Winter (1987), based on Joseph H. Lewis’s 1945 film noir My Name Is Julia Ross and starring Mary Steenburgen as the woman being held prisoner in a spooky mansion, was better. Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989), a marriage of black humour and…

Tom Clancy: …Teeth of the Tiger (2003), Dead or Alive (2010), and Command Authority (2013) are subsequent novels.

Samuel Fuller: Films of the 1960s and ’70s: …Taube in der Beethovenstrasse (1973; Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street) was shot for West German television as an episode of the crime series Tatort. Glenn Corbett starred as a private eye in the Raymond Chandler vein who is hired by a woman played by Christa Lang. (Lang was Fuller’s real-life…

Peter Weir: …acclaim with films such as Dead Poets Society (1989), a drama set in a boys’ preparatory school in the 1950s, The Truman Show (1998), a fable about the tyranny of the media, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the series…

dead reckoning, determination without the aid of celestial navigation of the position of a ship or aircraft from the record of the courses sailed or flown, the distance made (which can be estimated from velocity), the known starting point, and the known or estimated drift. Some marine navigators

John Cromwell: From The Prisoner of Zenda to Caged: Dead Reckoning (1947) was a change of pace for Cromwell. The film noir starred Humphrey Bogart as a war hero who is betrayed by a femme fatale (Lizabeth Scott).

Roddy Doyle: Other works: …through the United States, and The Dead Republic (2010), which chronicles his return to Ireland. In Smile (2017) a lonely middle-aged man looks back on his life, especially his troubled childhood. Doyle’s next novel, Love (2020), follows two old friends as they spend a night drinking and looking back at…

Dead Ringers, Canadian film, a psychological thriller about twin gynecologists who gradually descend into madness, that is considered one of director David Cronenberg’s best films. Regarded by many as one of the best horror movies ever made, it won 10 Genie Awards from the Academy of Canadian

Dead Sea, landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan in southwestern Asia. Its eastern shore belongs to Jordan, and the southern half of its western shore belongs to Israel. The northern half of the western shore lies within the Palestinian West Bank and has been under Israeli occupation since

Qumrān: …north of the waterway Wadi Qumrān, have revealed the ruins of buildings, believed by some scholars to have been occupied by a community of Essenes, who have been posited as the owners of the Scrolls.

Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is among the more important finds in the history of modern archaeology. Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars

Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired

radiation measurement: Counting systems: …is the concept known as dead time. Following each event in a detector, there is a period of time in which the measurement system is processing that event and is insensitive to other events. Because radiation events typically occur randomly distributed in time, there is always some chance that a…

Christina Applegate: Dead to Me, second marriage, and MS diagnosis: … in the hit Netflix series Dead to Me. In the dark comedy Applegate played a widowed mother who is befriended by a woman (Cardellini) who is grieving the loss of her fiancé. For her performance, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for the series’ first season and an Emmy…

bullfighting: Bullfighting and the arts: …Manet often painted taurine themes, The Dead Toreador (1864) being perhaps his most famous example. Pablo Picasso began drawing bullfights as a boy in Málaga, Spain, and continued to depict taurine subjects in his mature art. John Fulton, the North American matador promoted to the corrida’s highest rank in Spain,…

wave: Internal waves: …may cause internal waves (dead water) if there is a shallow brackish upper layer.

the White Stripes: …the Stone Age, Jack formed the Dead Weather, a bluesy psychedelic rock combo whose debut album, Horehound, was released in July 2009.

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …are Travelling North (1980) and Dead White Males (1995). Other playwrights who came into prominence were Jack Hibberd, Alex Buzo, Peter Kenna, Louis Nowra, Steve J. Spears, and Michael Gow. Nowra’s Così (1992) was successfully adapted for film.

Natalia Ginzburg: title, A Light for Fools), Ginzburg portrayed the crises of the Italian younger generation during the fascist period. Lessico famigliare (1963; Family Sayings) is a novelistic memoir of her upbringing and career. Ginzburg’s novels of the 1970s and ’80s pessimistically explore the dissolution of family ties…

water pollution: Effects of water pollution on groundwater and oceans: …the seasonal formation of “dead zones” (i.e., hypoxic areas, where dissolved oxygen levels drop so low that most higher forms of aquatic life vanish) in certain coastal areas. The cause is nutrient enrichment from dispersed agricultural runoff and concomitant algal blooms. Dead zones occur worldwide; one of the largest…

sand dune: Formation and growth of dunes: …from the surface leaving a “dead zone” in the lee into which falls the sand brought up the windward slope. When this depositional slope is steepened to the angle of repose of dry sand (about 32°), this angle is maintained and the added sand slips down the slope or slip…

Stephen King: Other novels: …miniseries 1994 and 2020–21); and The Dead Zone (1979; film 1983; TV series 2002–07). The Shining, a horror novel set in a haunted Colorado hotel in the winter offseason, was inspired by King’s one-night stay in a similar hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, during a time when the Kings were…

David Cronenberg: Rabid, The Fly, and Crash: Beginning with The Dead Zone (1983), a straightforward adaptation of a horror novel by Stephen King, Cronenberg moved closer to the mainstream. The gory horror remake The Fly (1986), in which a scientist gradually metamorphoses into an enormous grotesque insect, was widely considered superior to the 1958…

ancient Egyptian religion: The world of the dead: The majority of evidence from ancient Egypt comes from funerary monuments and burials of royalty, of the elite, and, for the Late period, of animals; relatively little is known of the mortuary practices of the mass of the population. Reasons for…

lantern of the dead, small stone structure with windows in the upper part, in which lamps were placed to mark the position of a cemetery at night. Their use, which seems limited to western and central France, is probably owing to a traditional survival of primitive Celtic rather than Christian

Teotihuacán: …130-foot- (40-metre-) wide road, the Avenue of the Dead (“Calle de los Muertos”), that stretches 1.5 miles (2.4 km); oriented slightly east of true north, it points directly at the nearby sacred peak of Cerro Gordo. The Avenue of the Dead was once erroneously thought to have been lined with…

The Dead, short story by James Joyce, appearing in 1914 in his collection Dubliners. It is considered his best short work and a masterpiece of modern fiction. The story takes place before, during, and after an evening Christmas party attended by Gabriel and Gretta Conroy and their friends and

Grateful Dead: …2003 the band dubbed itself the Dead (dropping “Grateful” out of respect for Garcia) and added former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes to the lineup the following year. Personality conflicts surfaced during the 2004 tour season, however, and a four-year hiatus for the band followed. The Dead reunited in…

John Huston: Last films: …would be his final movie, The Dead (Anjelica acted in it, and Tony was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay). Based on the short story “The Dead” from James Joyce’s Dubliners, the film focused on a holiday party hosted by a pair of elderly sisters and their niece…

industrial glass: Lamination: …although a single ply of dead-annealed glass as thick as 20 to 25 millimetres is used in some applications. The reason for having dead-annealed glass is the absence of tension in the interior; internal tension would cause the glass to shatter upon impact of the first bullet, thereby rendering the…

baseball: League formation: …also known as the “dead-ball era”). The inside game was a style of play that emphasized pitching, speed, and batsmanship. Bunting was very common, and doubles and triples were more heralded than home runs (which during this era were almost exclusively of the inside-the-park variety). Two managers were credited…

chromatography: Detector characteristics: The dead-band is that region of the signal in which the system does not respond to small changes in the amount of solute; there is “slack” in the system. Such imprecision becomes insignificant, however, if sample injection is not instantaneous. The injected sample must not reside…

George Graham: …1695, and also perfected the dead-beat escapement, developed by Richard Towneley and Tompion in the mid-1670s. In 1721 Graham invented the temperature-compensated mercury pendulum, which was extensively adopted in the trade. In fact, when combined with the dead-beat escapement, such high-grade clocks were not surpassed in accuracy for more than…

dead reckoning: …marine navigators differentiate between the dead-reckoning position, for which they use the course steered and their estimated speed through the water, and the estimated position, which is the dead-reckoning position corrected for effects of current, wind, and other factors. Because the uncertainty of dead reckoning increases over time and maybe…

Kurt Vonnegut: Later works of fiction: His later novels include Deadeye Dick (1982), which revisits characters and settings from Breakfast of Champions; Galápagos (1985), a fantasy of human evolution told from a detached future perspective; Bluebeard (1987), the fictional autobiography of an aging painter; Hocus Pocus (1990), about a college professor turned prison warden; and…

American Subarctic peoples: Production and technology: …small game such as rabbits; deadfalls (traps with logs or other weights that fall on game and kill them); pit traps; and decoys for birds. Vehicles were also vital, as people depended heavily on mobility for survival; these included bark canoes, hardwood toboggans, and travel aids such as large sinew-netted…

Richard Brooks: Early films: Deadline—USA (1952) was a significant step forward, using Brooks’s newspaper background to provide Humphrey Bogart with one of his better late films. After a string of indifferent movies, Brooks had his first major success with Blackboard Jungle (1955). Based on a popular novel by Evan…

computer science: Parallel and distributed computing: …concurrency control are known as deadlocks and race conditions. Deadlock occurs when a resource held indefinitely by one process is requested by two or more other processes simultaneously. As a result, none of the processes that call for the resource can continue; they are deadlocked, waiting for the resource to…

Sara Paretsky: Warshawski novels, such as Deadlock (1984) and Killing Orders (1985), the sleuth becomes the target of violence and learns of conspiracies involving big business, organized crime, and (in Killing Orders) the Roman Catholic church. Paretsky explored social issues in many of her books, including Bitter Medicine (1987), which deals…

John le Carré: …for the Dead (filmed as The Deadly Affair, 1966), was published. More a detective story than a spy story, it introduced the shrewd but self-effacing intelligence agent George Smiley, who became le Carré’s best-known character and was featured in several later works. Le Carré’s breakthrough came with his third novel,…

Sharon Stone: Early roles: …was in the horror movie Deadly Blessing (1981), followed by several TV roles and appearances in a range of other movies, such as the comedy Irreconcilable Differences (1984), alongside child star Drew Barrymore; the Indiana Jones knockoffs King Solomon’s Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of

Sam Peckinpah: First films: …as a film director with The Deadly Companions (1961), a low-budget western that starred Brian Keith as a former cavalry officer who, after accidentally killing a young boy, accompanies the funeral procession through hostile Apache territory. Next came the elegiac Ride the High Country (1962), about two former lawmen (played…

James Patterson: …Target: Alex Cross (2018), and Deadly Cross (2020). Patterson later launched a spin-off series that centres on Cross’s son; it began with Ali Cross (2019).

computer science: Parallel and distributed computing: …concurrency control are known as deadlocks and race conditions. Deadlock occurs when a resource held indefinitely by one process is requested by two or more other processes simultaneously. As a result, none of the processes that call for the resource can continue; they are deadlocked, waiting for the resource to…

Joseph H. Lewis: …to United Artists to make Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female), a tale of sexual obsession and the thrill of violence. The classic B-film, which was considered ahead of its time, was based on the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde and featured a script cowritten by Dalton…

belladonna, (Atropa belladonna), tall bushy herb of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), the source of the crude drug of the same name. The highly poisonous plant is a native of wooded or waste areas in central and southern Eurasia. It grows to about 1.5 metres (4–5 feet) tall and has dull green

Kurt Russell: …acclaim for two TV movies: The Deadly Tower (1975), in which he portrayed Charles Whitman, a mass murderer responsible for the attack known as the Texas Tower shooting of 1966, and Elvis (1979), a biopic about the legendary performer. The latter was directed by John Carpenter, and the duo collaborated…

Deadmau5 is a Canadian electronic dance music (EDM) producer and performer who was at the forefront of the revitalization of that genre in the 2000s. Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers. As a teenager he started making music with old

Deadpool: Impact and legacy: …culture mainstream owed much to Deadpool (2016), an ultraviolent blockbuster that cast Ryan Reynolds in the starring role. Deadpool was the top-grossing R-rated film at that time, earning nearly $800 million in global box office receipts. Deadpool 2 (2018), which saw Reynolds return in the lead role and cast Josh…

Deadpool, is a Marvel Comics antihero. Making his debut in The New Mutants no. 98 in February 1991, Deadpool has since become an American comic book staple, known for his ultraviolence, fourth wall–breaking antics, and consistent (if not insufferable) quips and punch lines. Deadpool is the creation

Deadpool: Impact and legacy: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) marks the first appearance of either character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of the studio’s “Phase 5” of storytelling.

Josh Brolin: Sicario and The Avengers series: …role alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2 (2018), a hugely popular action film. During this time Brolin also played the villain Thanos in a series of blockbuster movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was introduced as the character in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and later appeared in Avengers:…

Orono, town, Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It lies along the Penobscot River 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bangor. Settled about 1775, it was known as Deadwater and Stillwater Plantation before it was incorporated under its present name honouring Joseph Orono, a Penobscot Indian chief

ship: Hydrostatics: …form a total known as deadweight. To deadweight must be added the weight of the ship’s structure, propulsion machinery, hull engineering (nonpropulsive machinery), and outfit (fixed items having to do with crew life support). These categories of weight are known collectively as lightship weight. The sum of deadweight and lightship…

tonnage: Deadweight tonnage (DWT) is a measurement of total contents of a ship including cargo, fuel, crew, passengers, food, and water aside from boiler water. It is expressed in long tons of 2,240 pounds (1,016.0469088 kilograms).

Deadwood, city, seat (1877) of Lawrence county, western South Dakota, U.S. Located just northeast of Lead and about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Rapid City, Deadwood lies in a canyon formed by Whitewood Creek in the northern Black Hills, more than 4,530 feet (1,380 metres) above sea level. Built

Brian Cox: Career: … (2006), the Western television series Deadwood (2006), the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), and the miniseries drama The Slap (2015).

deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

James Burke was a British bare-knuckle fighter who was the English heavyweight champion from 1833 to 1839. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Burke, who was hearing impaired from infancy, worked on the River Thames as a waterman before beginning his boxing career. He began

deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

deaf-blindness, disability in which an individual has both a hearing impairment and a visual impairment. Deaf-blind individuals form a highly heterogeneous group, in which hearing and visual impairments are expressed to varying degrees. An individual is diagnosed with a hearing impairment if he or

speech disorder: Speech of the hard of hearing: Deaf children have traditionally been educated in special schools for the deaf, where the oral method (showing how to shape the oral structures for each speech sound) of teaching speech has competed with the older manual method of allowing the deaf to communicate through their…

deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction deafness and nerve deafness. In conduction deafness, there is interruption of the sound vibrations in their passage from the outer world to the nerve cells in the inner ear. The obstacle may be earwax

deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, phenomenon in which a disproportionate percentage of the population living on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, U.S., was affected by a hereditary form of deafness. The overall rate of Vineyard deafness peaked in the 19th

marimba: …the early 20th century by J.C. Deagan and U.G. Leedy. It is a tube-resonated instrument pitched an octave below the orchestral xylophone; its range varies, but 312octaves upward from the C below middle C is common. Players may hold two sticks in each hand to play up to four notes…

Nicholas L. Deak: In 1939 he founded Deak & Company, but he closed the operation in 1942, when he joined the U.S. Army. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943 and eventually a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Hungary: Hungary under dualism: …Compromise, then known as the Deák Party, held office first but soon got into such financial and personal difficulties that complete chaos threatened. It was averted when in 1875 Kálmán Tisza, the leader of the moderate nationalist Left Centre, merged his party with the remnants of the Deákists on a…

Ferenc Deák was a Hungarian statesman whose negotiations led to the establishment of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867. Deák was the son of a wealthy Hungarian landowner. After graduating in law, he entered the administrative service of his county of Zala, which in 1833 sent him to

Nicholas L. Deak was a banker and founder of an internationally renowned retail currency-exchange service and dealer in precious metals. Deak received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1929. He worked with the Hungarian Trade Institute (1930–35) and with the

Nicholas L. Deak was a banker and founder of an internationally renowned retail currency-exchange service and dealer in precious metals. Deak received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1929. He worked with the Hungarian Trade Institute (1930–35) and with the

Alfred Deakin was the prime minister of Australia (1903–04, 1905–08, 1909–10), who shaped many of the policies of the new commonwealth, especially those dealing with restriction of nonwhite immigration, social welfare, and protection of domestic industry. In 1880 Deakin entered the legislative

Arthur Deakin was a leader of British trade unionism in the decade after World War II. A cobbler’s son, Deakin began work at age 13 in a South Wales steel plant, becoming an active trade unionist during World War I and a full-time union official in 1919. In 1932 he was appointed national secretary

Deal, town (parish), Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, eastern England. It is situated on the Strait of Dover, about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Dover. The town has a natural roadstead harbour, the Downs, enclosed by the North and South Forelands and the perilous Goodwin

boat: Northern Europe and Britain: …noted English type was the Deal galley punt, a square-sterned, lapstrake open boat rigged with a single dipping lugsail and once used for salvage and rescue work off the beach. The cat was a larger lugger of two or three masts used at Deal; both types were very seaworthy and…

A Deal in Wheat, short story by Frank Norris, first published serially in 1902 and then in the book A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West, published posthumously in 1903. Employing the techniques of naturalism, the five-part story examines the business of wheat speculation at

William Friedkin: …was with the disappointing comedy Deal of the Century (1983), which features Chevy Chase as an international arms dealer. Although To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) failed to salvage Friedkin’s reputation, the gritty drama about federal agents on the trail of a counterfeiting ring was generally praised. Of particular…

Pixies: June 10, 1965, Manila, Philippines), Kim Deal (b. June 10, 1961, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.), and David Lovering (b. December 6, 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.).

Meg Ryan: Later work: …My Mom’s New Boyfriend, and The Deal, as well as the 2009 film Serious Moonlight. Ryan also appeared on TV, including Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009 and Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy in 2013. For most of the 2010s and early 2020s, however, she acted only occasionally. In 2015…

security: Brokers and jobbers: Trading on the London Stock Exchange is carried on through a unique system of brokers and jobbers. A broker acts as an agent for his customers; a jobber, or dealer, transacts business on the floor of the exchange but does not deal with the…

Dealey Plaza, city park at the west end of downtown Dallas, Texas, between and on either side of the three main thoroughfares of Elm Street, Main Street, and Commerce Street at a point just before they converge in the Triple Underpass. Created on the spot where the city was founded and often

dealfish, any of several slender marine fishes that belong to the genus Trachipterus (family Trachipteridae, order Lampridiformes), a subgroup of the ribbonfish. The dealfish inhabits the middle waters, probably not below 400 m (1,300 feet), and is characterized by a long, laterally compressed