Cambridge Encyclopedia

Cambridge Encyclopedia Vol. 19

Dame Laura Knight

Dame Millicent Fawcett

Damien Hirst - Life, Career, Work philosophy, Critical response, Restaurant ventures, Artworks

Damien Parer - Early life, Career, Filmography

Damocles

Damon (Graham Devereux) Hill - Personal and early life, Career, Complete Formula One results, Further reading

Damon and Pythias - The legend, Works based on the legend

damping - Example: mass-spring-damper

damselfish - Damselfish in movies

damselfly - Gallery

damson

Dan (Irvin) Rather - Biography, Journalistic history and influence, Awards, Criticisms of Rather, Notable incidents, "Ratherisms", Pop culture figure

Dan Aykroyd - Biography, Filmography, Trivia

Dan Brown - Early life, Songwriter and pop singer, New England teacher, Author, Future projects

Dan Flavin

Dan Jacobson - Works

Dan Leno - Life and career, Legacy

Dan Marino - Early years, College career, Professional career, NFL records set by Dan Marino, Additional statistics

Dan Rice - Biography, Expressions

Dan(iel Carter) Beard - Scouting, Bibliography

Dan(iel) Andersson

dance notation - Notation and Computers, Further reading

dandelion - Description, Name, Seed development and genetics, Uses, False dandelions

dandruff - Causes, Treatment

Danelaw - Geography of the Danelaw, History of the Danelaw, Legal concepts of the Danelaw

Daniel (Clement) Dennett

Daniel (Edgar) Sickles - Early life and politics, Civil War, Postbellum career, In popular media

Daniel (Jacob) Radcliffe

Daniel (Louis) Schorr - Birth and early years, Journalism during the Cold War, The '70s

Daniel (Wroughton) Craig - Selected filmography

Daniel Appleton

Daniel Arap Moi - Early life and entry into politics, Vice-Presidency, Presidency, Criticism and corruption allegations

Daniel Auteuil - Films

Daniel Barenboim - Marriages, Career, His Music, Conducting Wagner in Israel, Sympathies, Wolf Prize, Awards and Recognitions

Daniel Bell

Daniel Berkeley Updike

Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Boone - Youth, Hunter, husband, and soldier, Kentucky, Businessman on the Ohio, Missouri

Daniel Bovet

Daniel Chester French - AAAS members, Notable works, Other works, Architectural Sculpture, Publications, Reference

Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel David Palmer - Palmer's fundamental idea, Palmer's mysticism, Historical quotes, Further reading

Daniel Day-Lewis - Early life, Career, Personal life, Selected filmography, Academy Award and nominations

Daniel De Leon

Daniel Defoe - Biography, Novels and other works, Defoe and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, Quotations, Bibliography

Daniel Drake

Daniel Drew

Daniel Frohman

Daniel Garrison Brinton - Works

Daniel Hale Williams

Dani

Daniel Horsmanden - Bibliography

Daniel Jones

Daniel Kahneman - Notable contributions

Daniel Katz

Daniel Kirkwood

Daniel Maclise - Reference

Daniel Mannix

Daniel Morgan - Early years, French and Indian War, Civilian life, American Revolution, After the Revolution, Trivia

Daniel Nathans

Daniel O'Connell - Early life, Campaigning for Catholic Emancipation, Campaign for "Repeal of the Union"

Daniel Ortega (Saavedra) - Personal Life, The Sandinista Revolution (1979-1990), Interim years, Current activities

Daniel P(atrick) Moynihan - Education, Public service, Commission on Government Secrecy, Academe and authorship

Daniel Read - Life and work, Example

Daniel Shays

Daniel Webster - Early life, Rise to prominence, Notable Supreme Court cases, Return to politics, Senate

Daniel Yankelovich - Education, Founds research firm, Landmark Education study

Daniele Manin - Biography

Danielle (Fernande Schuelein) Steel - Biography, Bibliography

Daniello Bartoli

Danish literature - Middle Ages, The 16th and 17th Centuries, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century

Dannie Abse

Danny Blanchflower

Danny Boyle - Road to Success, Trivia

Danny Glover - Early life, Acting and directing career, Political and social activism, Trivia, Filmography

Danny Kaye - Biography, Trivia, Filmography

Dante (Alighieri) - Life, Works, Cultural references

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Additional images, Sources

Danube School

Danville (Kentucky)

Danville (Virginia)

Daphnis - Daphnis, Franck

Dar es Salaam - Geography, History, Economy and infrastructure, City Life, Culture, Education, Trivia

Darcey (Andrea) Bussell

Darci Kistler

Dari

Dario Fo - Biography, Creative Inspiration, Selected works, Selected bibliography in Italian and in English

Darius Milhaud - Works, Location of Original Source Material Relating to Darius Milhaud

Dark Ages - The Dark Ages concept after the Renaissance, Modern academic use, Modern popular use

dark matter - Observational evidence, Dark matter composition, Alternative explanations, Dark matter in popular culture

darkling beetle - Characteristics, Notable species, Rearing mealworms into adult beetles

Darling River

Darmstadt - History, Sights, Institutions, Sons and Daughters of the City, Military, Trivia, Twinning

darter - Range:, Diet:, Breeding:, Systematics and evolution

Dartford - Geological history, History, Employment, Education, Transport, Dartford Heath, Notable residents, International links

Dartmoor - Geographical information, History, Myths and literature, Ownership and access, Preserving Dartmoor, Towns and villages, Features, Letterboxing

Dartmoor pony - Breed Characteristics, History of the Dartmoor Pony, The Dartmoor Today

darts - Dart boards, Soft tip boards and darts, Playing darts, Famous players

Darwin (Australia) - Other uses

Darwin (Falkland Is) - Other uses

Darwin's finches - The finches and Darwin's theory, The finch species

Darwinism - Darwinism and other -isms, Classical Darwinism, Darwinism as selectionism, Darwinian processes

data - Etymology, Usage in English, Uses of data in computing, Meaning of data, information and knowledge

data processing (DP)

database - History, Database models, Database internals, Applications of databases

date palm

Daughters of the American Revolution - Eligibility, Marian Anderson controversy, Partial list of famous DAR members, Further reading

Dauphin - List of Dauphins, 1349-1830, In Literature, Modern Uses of the Term

Dauphin

Dave Brubeck - History, Web sources, Notes and references, Media

Dave Garroway

Davenport

David - Scriptural account of David's life, David's family, "Descendants" of David

David (Alan) Mamet - Family, Filmography, Plays, Books

David (Andrew) Platt

David (Andrew) Seaman - End of Career, Honours

David (Bremner) Henderson

David (Burman) Edgar

David (Christopher) Kelly - Biography, Involvement with the WMD dossier, Contact with Andrew Gilligan, Appearance before House of Commons committees

David (Desire Marc) Ginola

David (Edward) Hughes

David (Edward) Jenkins

David (Eli) Lilienthal - Hoosier childhood, Higher education, Lilenthal and the Tennessee Valley Authority, David Lilienthal, controversial figure

David (Emery) Gascoyne - Early Life and Surrealism, Politics, Later Life and Works, Gascoyne's Reputation, Bibliography

David (Fyodorovitch) Oistrakh - Early years, In Moscow, Awards, During WWII, International travel, Older Years

David (Glasgow) Farragut - Early life and naval career, Civil War, European Squadron and death, In memoriam, In popular culture

David (Graham) Phillips - Bibliography

David (Henry Peter) Maybury-Lewis - Major Publications, Awards

David (Ian) Campese

David (Ivon) Gower

David (James) Bellamy - Background, Career, Views on global warming, Recognition, Bibliography

David (John) Mellor - Scandal, After Parliament

David (Joseph) Herlihy

David (Keith) Williamson - Biography

David (Leo) Lawrence

David (Lewis) Jacobs

David (Mackenzie) Ogilvy - Works

David (Malcolm) Storey - Style

David (Robert Joseph) Beckham

David (Royston) Bailey - Books

David (Russell) Lange - Early life, Political career, International affairs, Post-resignation, Personal life, Quote

David (Walter) Del Tredici

David (William Donald) Cameron - Family life and early career, The 2005 party leadership election, Cameron's politics, Criticism

David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Allan

David Alter - Inventions, Biography

David Amram - Discography, Bibliography, Reference

David Baltimore

David Bedford - Trivia

David Belasco

David Ben-Gurion - Early life, Zionist leadership, Prime Ministership, Trivia

David Berkowitz - Biography, References in popular culture

David Blaine - Magic career

David Blunkett - Early life, Rise in politics, As Education Secretary, As Home Secretary, First resignation

David Bomberg

David Bowie - Career overview, Discography, Acting career

David Brainerd - Additional Reading

David Bushnell

David Cannadine

David Cronenberg - Trivia, Filmography, Further reading

David Crystal - Work

David Daiches

David Davis

David Dellinger - Quote, See further

David Deutsch - Summary of views

David Dimbleby - Education, TV presenter, Family

David Dinkins - Political Career, Mayoralty, Economic Policy, 1993 Election, Citywide Tickets Mayor Dinkins Ran On, External Links

David Dixon Porter - Pre-Civil War career, Civil War service, Post-war career, Publications, Legacy

David Douglas Duncan - Childhood and Education, Career

David Dubinsky - Years in Poland, Early days in the rag trade and the union, Battles with the left

David Duchovny - Filmography

David Dunbar Buick

David Einhorn

David Eugene Smith

David Fabricius

David Garnett - Works, Reference

David Garrick - Early life, Acting at Drury Lane, Managing Drury Lane, An easy, natural manner

David Gordon - Publications, Source

David Guterson - Bibliography

David Hall

David Harvey

David Helfgott - Awards

David Hempleman-Adams

David Hilbert - Life, The finiteness theorem, Axiomatization of geometry, The 23 Problems, Formalism, The Göttingen school, Functional analysis

David Hockney - Career, Public

David Hume - Life, Legacy, Perspectives of Hume, Works, Further reading, Footnotes and references

David Ignatow - Life, Bibliography

David Irving - Early life, Student years, The Destruction of Dresden

David J(osiah) Brewer

David Jayne Hill - Works

David K(ellogg) Lewis - Early Life and Education, Early Work on Convention, Work on Counterfactuals, Later Life and Death

David Keilin

David Koresh - Early life, Ascent to leadership of the Branch Davidians, Accusations of rape, Return to Earth

David Kossoff

David Letterman - Early career, Late Show

David Lewis

David Livingstone - Early life, Zambezi expedition, Source of the Nile, Illness, pain and death, Legacy

David Lubin

David Lynch

David Malouf - Books

David McTaggart

David Mercer - Works

David Niven - Biography, Filmography

David Octavius Hill - Early life, Free Church of Scotland, Photography studio, Source

David Packard

David Rabe - Works, External Links

David Ricardo - Personal life, Ideas, The Theory of Wages, Publications

David Rice Atchison - Early life and Senate career, "President for One Day"

David Riesman

David Rittenhouse - Biography, Notable events, Rittenhouse Square

David Rizzio

David Salle

David Sarnoff - Early years, 1891-1919, Later years, 1956-1971

David Schwimmer - Early life, Filmography

David Starr Jordan - Notable works, Eponymy

David Susskind - External links

David Thompson

David Trimble - Education and Early Career, Leadership of Ulster Unionist Party, First Minister of Northern Ireland, Death Threats

David Tudor

David Walker

David Walliams - Biography, Career, Personal life, Swimming the English Channel, Selected Filmography, Trivia

David Wechsler - Biography, Intelligence scales

David Wilmot - Sources

Davis Cup - Davis Cup winners, Recent finals

Davis Strait

Davos

Davy Crockett - Political career, Texas Revolution, Death, Funeral, Legacies, Crockett in media, Trivia

Dawes Plan - Results of the Dawes Plan

Dawn Fraser - Swimming achievements

Dawn French - Biography, Personal life, Bibliography, Film and television

day - Definitions, Introduction, Civil day, Leap seconds, Astronomy, Boundaries of the day, Metaphorical days

Daylight Saving Time - Observation of DST, Rationales for DST, Criticism of DST, Mnemonic, Associated practices, Computing, Name, Hour interchange

Dayton

Dazzy Vance

DDT - Properties, History, Environmental impact, Impact on human health

deacon - Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Methodism / Wesleyanism, Other Traditions, Cognates

Dead Sea

Dead Sea Scrolls - Interpretations, Discovery, Significance

deadly nightshade - Description, Toxicity, Uses, Popular culture

deafness - Categories of deafness and hearing impairment

dean

Dean (Bartlett) Cromwell - Reference

Dean (Gooderham) Acheson - Early life and career, Economic diplomacy, "The Attack of the Primitives", Return to private life

Dean Dixon

Deanna Durbin - Filmography

death - Determining when death actually occurs, Causes

death cap

Death Valley - Geography, Native population, In Popular Culture

debenture - Debenture holders, Nomenclature

Deborah Kerr - Filmography, Oscar nominated performances

Deborah Sampson - Books:

Debra Winger - Biography, Academy Awards nominations

Debrecen - Location and transport infrastructure, Education, Famous people, Sister cities

debt - Payment, Types of debt, Accounting debt, Debt, inflation and the exchange rate

decadence - Leninist use, Further reading

Decadents - Leninist use, Further reading

Decapoda

decathlon - World Records, Other multiple event contests, Top 10 performers

Decatur - Geographical Locations, School Systems, News Papers, Ports, Railroads, Malls and Shopping Centers, Songs

decibel - History of bels and decibels

Decimus Burton - Regent's Park, Other Burton projects, Death

decision support system - Definitions, Taxonomies, Architectures

decision theory - Normative and descriptive decision theory, What kinds of decisions need a theory?, Complex decisions

Decius - Early life and rise to power, Political actions, Persecutions of Christians, Military actions and death

Declaration of Independence - List of Declarations of Independence, Independence without a Declaration of Independence

declarative programming - Domain-specific languages, Examples

declension

declination - Varying declination

decomposition - Plant Decomposition, Animal Decomposition

decompression sickness - History, Predisposing factors, Treatment, Common pressure reductions that cause DCS

deconstruction - The difficulty in defining deconstruction, Logocentrism and the critique of binary oppositions, Text and deconstruction, Undeconstructibility

Deep Space Network (DSN) - History, General information, Antennas

deep structure

deer - Names, Habitat, Physical Characteristics, Taxonomy, Antlers, Economic significance, Literature

defendant

deforestation - Impact on the Environment, Characterization, Historical causes, Deforestation today, Environmental effects, Controlling deforestation

degaussing - Degaussing ships, Degaussing monitors, Degaussing magnetic data storage media

degree (education)

degree (mathematics) - Degree of a polynomial, Degree of a field extension, Degree of a vertex in a graph

dehydration - Medical causes of dehydration in humans, Symptoms and prognosis, Treatment, Avoiding dehydration

Deimos

deism - Overview, Historical Background, Features of Deism, The History of Deism, Deism Today, Bibliography

Delariviere Manley - Fiction, Literature, Television and film, Boating, Royalty, Other

Delaware - Geography, History, Demographics, Economy, Transportation, Law and government, Important cities and towns, Education, Miscellaneous topics

Delaware River - Flooding, New York City Water Supply, Crossings

delegated legislation - United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Delft - Culture, Education, Recreation, Famous people, Sister Cities

Delftware

Delhi - Etymology, History, Geography, Government and politics, Economy, Transport, Demographics, Culture, Education, Media

Delhi Sultanate - Sultans of Delhi, Literature

Delia Smith - Chef, author and TV personality, Business and football, Publications

Delian League

Delilah

deliquescence - History, Building physics, Biology, Deliquescence

delirium - Common usage of the term verses medical usage, Causes, Commonly concuring mental symptoms, Duration, Causation

delirium tremens - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Cultural References

Dell (Hathaway) Hymes - Influences on his work, Significance of his work

Delmore Schwartz - Published works

Delphi - Location, Apollo, Oracle, Treasuries, The "Delphic Sibyl", Modern Delphi

delphinium