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Poland 1892 The city of Lodz in modern Poland came to prominence in the mid-nineteenth century as a textile production center. Part of the Kingdom of Poland, the city was the most important manufacturing center in the Russian Empire and t...
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D. B. Cooper Active: November 2b, 1971 The identity of a man referred to as “D. B. Cooper” has never been discovered. No one knows who he was or what became of him. But on November 24, 1971, he stepped out of a plane and into hi...
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One of the most widely discussed and renowned twentieth-century authors, D. H. Lawrence remains intriguing and problematic in terms of his biography, his writings, and his prophetic role. In his relatively short life, he was a prolific aut...
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Among the 1950s poets who rejected the modernist tradition, D.J. Enright deserves a secure place. Though sometimes associated with The Movement and sharing The Movement's dislike of the esoteric and their cultivation of vernacular diction ...
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Dorothy Kathleen Broster's writing career spanned the period from just before World War I until just after World War II, and this turbulent period of uncertainty and conflict may well have influenced the attitudes encoded in her work. Her ...
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D. M. Thomas is widely known for his novel The White Hotel, which quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists after its American publication in the spring of 1981. Yet, he is also an accomplished poet. In his poetry, as well as in his...
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David Wark Griffith (1875-1948), American filmmaker, was a pioneer director-producer who invented much of the basic technical grammar of modern cinema. On Jan. 22, 1875, D.W. Griffith was born at Crestwood, Oldham County, Ky., the descenda...
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(2002 pop. 446,000). Da Nang is a large city located on the central coast of Vietnam 973 kilometers (603 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City and 30 kilometers (17 miles) north of Hoi An. It became an important port city at the end of the nine...
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In Dan Browns new book entitled, "The Da Vinci Code," he presents a strong idea that in order to understand a religion one needs a strong base of knowledge on that religion. This theme is present throughout the entire book in many ways. T...
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Eugène Dabit's corpus of novels and shorter fiction represents one of the more important achievements among the many left-wing French writers of the 1930s. Although he left school at an early age and was largely self-taught, he over...
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Robert Daborne, a minor Jacobean play-wright and clergyman, is of interest today mainly because of his series of letters to theatrical entrepreneur Philip Henslowe, which show Henslowe's relations with the dramatists in his employ and whic...
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Maria Dabrowska is generally regarded in Poland as one of the most prominent Polish prose writers of the twentieth century. She has not, however, gained a similar recognition outside her native country, although her major novel, Noce i dni...
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In Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (1986) editors Philip Dacey and David Jauss provide an overview of the continuing presence of formal poetry in contemporary writing. Strong Measures brought Dacey and hi...
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GETO-DACIAN RELIGION. The Getae and the Dacians were ancient Thracian peoples who lived in Moesia, on the northern plain of the river Danube, and in the Carpathian Mountains, approximately in the territory of modern-day Romania and Moldova...
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DACIAN RIDERS. The so-called Dacian Riders were associated with a mystery religion of the Getae and the Dacians, peoples of Thracian stock who lived in ancient Dacia (roughly equivalent to modern-day Romania). The cult of the Dacian, or Da...
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Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua...
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As I stand here today in front of you all I want to tell you about someone who means a great deal to me. He is loving and kind, he listens, suggests, and defends. He has the strength of a mountain, and the wisdom of ages. He loved to tell m...
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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was an Indian political leader and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress. A leading nationalist author and spokesman, he was the first Indian to be elected to membership in the British Parliament....
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DADDY GRACE. Charles M. "Daddy" (1881–1960) Grace was the founder of the United House of Prayer for All People of the Church on the Rock of the Apostolic Faith. A combination of Daddy Grace's grandiosity, his fo...
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Plath's poem "Daddy" describes feelings of oppression from childhood and conjures up the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life...
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(2001 pop. 220,000). The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, located in western India, is surrounded by the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. It is a predominantly rural area and has seventy-two villages. Its capital city is Silvas...
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(2000 est. pop. 2.5 million). Taegu is the third most populous city in South Korea (Republic of Korea). The city's origins date back to the Shilla kingdom (57 BCE–935 CE), when it was called Talguhwahyon or Talbulsong. It has...
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(2000 pop. 1.4 million). Taejon, a city of 540 square kilometers, is located in South Ch'ungch'ong Province in South Korea (Republic of Korea). Taejon has been administratively autonomous since its 1995 designation as a �...
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(1821–1898), Korean statesman. Yi Ha-ung, also known as the Taewon'gun, served as the de facto regent of the Yi (Choson) dynasty (1392– 1910) from the time his twelve-year-old son, Kojong, assumed the throne in 1864 un...
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SOURCE: Fulton, Helen. “The Love Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym.” Aumla, no. 49 (May 1978): 22-37. In the following essay, Fulton compares and contrasts the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym to that of Chaucer, suggesting that while both are creat...
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The Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) served as the secretary general of the United Nations from 1953 until his death. Dag Hammarskjöld played a leading role in expanding the operations of the United Nations (UN), mos...
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One of the most innovative novelists of his generation, Dag Solstad searches in his works for the meaning of life in modern society, especially in a well-organized Scandinavian welfare state. His protagonists are writers, historians, teach...
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(2002 est. pop. 2.2 million). A southern Russian republic, Dagestan is bordered by Azerbaijan to the south, Georgia to the west, and the Caspian Sea to the east. Although Dagestan translates as "land of the mountains," the re...
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DAGAN (Dagān) was a West Semitic god, well known in ancient Syria and ancient Palestine. He is mentioned in texts from Ebla (Tell Mardīḫ, in Northern Syria) dating to the mid-third millennium BCE, in which his name occ...
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(b. 1941), Chinese journalist and environmental activist. Dai Qing is the adopted daughter of Ye Jianying, who was a high-ranking government official. Raised in a privileged revolutionary family, she was trained as a missile engineer and w...
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