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...

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top. Guts are a com...

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love....

I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do....

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 ...

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman....

Darryl Lynn "D. L." Hughley (born March 6, 1963) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and star of the television sitcom The Hughleys, which ran from 1998 to 2002 on ABC and then on UPN. Most notably, D. L. Hughley is a member of The Or...

...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon......

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...

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...

"Da" is a Tony Award-winning comedy by Irish playwright Hugh Leonard. The play is largely autobiographical: its protagonist, an expatriate writer named Charlie, represents Leonard himself. The play deals with Charlie's relationships with th...

(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...

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...

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...

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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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...

Note: this article also contains information about the films based upon the book. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college ...

This television article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of TV show articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Dad's Army (1968-1977), British sitcom ab...

(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 �...

(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...

The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green. What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste...

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