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Daughters of the Confederacy, United (American organization)
American women’s patriotic society, founded in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 10, 1894, that draws its members from descendants of those who served in the Confederacy’s armed forces or government or who gave to either their loyal and substantial private support. Its chief purpose is broadly commemorative and historical: to preserve and mark sites; to gather historical records and other m...
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Daughtry, Chris (American musician)
...show business, Jennifer Hudson was voted off in season three but went on to win an Academy Award for her performance in Dreamgirls (2006), and Chris Daughtry, a finalist in season five, scored multiplatinum success with his hard rock band Daughtry....
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Dauk Ket (Lao writer)
...social values. Major writers in Vientiane during this period include three children of Maha Sila Viravong, an important scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture: Pakian Viravong, Duangdeuan Viravong, and Dara Viravong (pseudonyms Pa Nai, Dauk Ket, and Duang Champa, respectively). An equally important writer was Outhine Bounyavong, Maha Sila Viravong’s son-in-law, who r...
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Daukantas, Simanas (Lithuanian historian)
historian who was the first to write a history of Lithuania in Lithuanian and a pioneer of the Lithuanian national renaissance....
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Daulat (Indian painter)
an important Mughal painter who worked during the reigns of both the emperors Akbar and Jahāngīr and painted under Shah Jahān as well....
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Daulat Rao Sindhia (Maratha leader)
...finally won control of the peshwa by defeating the Maratha Holkar, the peshwa’s chief general, in 1793. His grandnephew, Daulat Rao, however, suffered serious reverses. He came into conflict with the British in 1803. After being defeated in four battles by Gen. Gerard Lake, he was obliged to disband his French-tr...
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Daulatabad (India)
village and ancient city, Maharashtra state, western India. Founded in the late 12th century by King Bhillam of the Yadava dynasty, it was a major fortress and administrative centre in medieval times. The fortress, located in and around a large rock outcropping, was so impregnable that it was never taken by force, although it was taken by in...
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Daumas, François (French missionary)
...he explored as far as the Augrabies Falls. The source of the Orange was first reached by the French Protestant missionaries Thomas Arbousset and François Daumas in 1836....
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Daume, Willi (German sports administrator)
German sports administrator who, as president of the West German Olympic Committee, played a key role in returning the Olympic Games to Germany after an interval of 36 years; those Games, however, which were held in Munich in 1972, were marred by the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists (b. May 24, 1913--d. May 2...
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Daumier, Honoré (French artist)
prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art....
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Daumier, Honoré-Victorin (French artist)
prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art....
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Daumont, Simon François (French explorer)
...until he was sure it flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, not into the Pacific Ocean. In 1671 Simon François d’Aumont (or Daumont, sieur de St. Lusson) at Sault Ste. Marie took possession of all the interior of the North American continent for France as an extension of New Fran...
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Daun, Leopold Joseph, Graf von (Austrian general)
field marshal who was the Austrian commander in chief during the Seven Years’ War against Prussia (1756–63)....
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daunorubicin (drug)
...occurs in adults. The studies, which appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, examined cancer status and rate of survival in patients given an amount of the chemotherapeutic agent daunorubicin that was twice the dose typically prescribed. In one study, of those who took the higher dose, some 71% experienced remission of their disease, whereas of those patients receiving......
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Daunou, Pierre-Claude-François (French statesman)
French statesman, theorist of liberalism, and historian....
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Dauphin (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by Mahantango Creek, to the west by the Susquehanna River, and to the south by Conewago Creek. The topography rises from a piedmont region in the south to ridge-and-valley mountains in the north. Other waterways include DeHart Reservoir and the Juniata River, as well as Wiconisco, Clark, Powell, Stony, a...
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dauphin (French political history)
title of the eldest son of a king of France, the heir apparent to the French crown, from 1350 to 1830. The title was established by the royal house of France through the purchase of lands known as the Dauphiné in 1349 by the future Charles V....
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Dauphin (Manitoba, Canada)
town, southwestern Manitoba, Canada. It lies along the Vermilion River just west of Dauphin Lake, 201 miles (323 km) by road northwest of Winnipeg. The French trader and explorer La Vérendrye visited the lake in 1739 and named it for the dauphin of France. One of the two settlements that developed in the area after 1882 took the same name. The settlements, Dauphin and Gartmore, merged in 18...
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Dauphin County (Pennsylvania, United States)
town, southwestern Manitoba, Canada. It lies along the Vermilion River just west of Dauphin Lake, 201 miles (323 km) by road northwest of Winnipeg. The French trader and explorer La Vérendrye visited the lake in 1739 and named it for the dauphin of France. One of the two settlements that developed in the area after 1882 took the same name. The settlements, Dauphin and Gartmore, merged in 18...
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Dauphin Island (island, Alabama, United States)
island in the Gulf of Mexico, at the entrance to Mobile Bay off the southwest coast of Alabama, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) south of Mobile. Included in Mobile county, the island is about 15 miles (25 km) long....
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Dauphiné (historical region, France)
historic and cultural region encompassing the southeastern French départements of Isère, Hautes-Alpes, and Drôme and coextensive with the former province of Dauphiné....
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Dauphiné Alps (mountains, France)
western spur of the Cottian Alps in southeastern France, lying between the Arc and Isère river valleys (north) and the upper Durance River valley (south). Many peaks rise to more than 10,000 feet (3,050 m), with Barre des Écrins (13,459 feet [4,102 m]) the highest. The mountains include the Massif du Pelvoux (Massif des Écrins) and the Bel...
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Dauphine, Place (square, Paris, France)
...insisted on completion of the Pont Neuf. The statue is an 1818 reproduction of the 1614 original, which was the first statue to stand on a public way in Paris. Opposite is the narrow entrance to the Place Dauphine (1607), named for Henry’s heir (le dauphin), the future Louis XIII. The place was formerly a triangl...
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Daur (people)
Mongol people living mainly in the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and western Heilongjiang province of China and estimated in the early 21st century to number more than 132,000. They are one of the official ethnic minorities of China. Their language,...
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Daur language
Daur is spoken in several places in the northeastern portion of Inner Mongolia. It preserves some unassimilated vowel sequences, and one dialect preserves /h/. It is unique in preserving a complete set of forms of the old verb a- ‘to be’ and in preserving complete sets of forms for both inclusive and exclusive ‘we’. Some Daur speakers used Manchu as their written...
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Daura (Nigeria)
town and traditional emirate, Katsina state, northern Nigeria. The town lies in a savanna zone at the intersection of roads from Katsina town, Kano, Zango, and Zinder (Niger). An ancient settlement, the name of which means “blacksmith” in the Tuareg language, it was founded by a queen and was ruled by women in ...
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Daura (historical kingdom, Nigeria)
town and traditional emirate, Katsina state, northern Nigeria. The town lies in a savanna zone at the intersection of roads from Katsina town, Kano, Zango, and Zinder (Niger). An ancient settlement, the name of which means “blacksmith” in the Tuareg language, it was founded by a queen and was ruled by women in the 9th and 10th......
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Daurat, Jean (French humanist)
French humanist, a brilliant Hellenist, one of the poets of the Pléiade, and their mentor for many years....
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Daurian jackdaw (bird)
...and blotched. The bird’s cry sounds like its name: “chak.” The species ranges from the British Isles to central Asia; eastward it is replaced by the white-breasted, white-collared Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus)....
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Dauser, Sue Sophia (American nurse)
American nurse and naval officer responsible for preparing the Navy Nurse Corps for World War II and then overseeing the group, who simultaneously worked for parity of rank and pay for female officers and their male counterparts....
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Dausset, Jean (French hematologist and immunologist)
French hematologist and immunologist whose studies of the genetic basis of the immunological reaction earned him a share (with George Snell and Baruj Benacerraf) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine....
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Dausset, Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim (French hematologist and immunologist)
French hematologist and immunologist whose studies of the genetic basis of the immunological reaction earned him a share (with George Snell and Baruj Benacerraf) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine....
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Dauvergne, Antoine (court violinist and composer)
...of Les Troqueurs (“The Barterers”), based on a fable by Jean de La Fontaine and having original music by a court violinist, Antoine Dauvergne....
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Davaine, Casimir-Joseph (French biologist)
...anatomist and histologist Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle, who in 1840 had published the theory that infectious diseases are caused by living microscopic organisms. In 1850 the French parasitologist Casimir Joseph Davaine was among the first to observe organisms in the blood of diseased animals. In 1863 he reported the transmission of anthrax by the inoculation of healthy sheep with the blood of.....
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Davallia (fern genus)
...the indusia cup-shaped or kidney-shaped, rarely elongate; sporangia mixed with hairlike paraphyses, the annulus vertical; spores monolete (more or less bean-shaped); 4 or 5 genera, including Davallia (rabbit’s-foot fern), with about 65 species, distributed in tropical and warm-temperate......
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Davalliaceae (plant family)
the hanging fern family, containing 4–5 genera and 65 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). The family is mostly restricted to tropical regions, especially in the Old World. Most of the species are epiphytes with long-creeping noticeably and densely scaly rhizomes. Leaf morphology is var...
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Davalos, Richard (American actor)
In this modern retelling of the story of Cain and Abel, Dean portrayed Cal Trask, a troubled youth in competition with his brother, Aron (played by Richard Davalos), for the love of his stern father (Raymond Massey), a California farmer. After the family fortunes suffer, Cal develops a plan to regain the lost wealth, but his success only increases tensions....
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Davangere (India)
city, central Karnataka state, southern India. A major road and rail junction, it supports a large-scale textile industry and is a trading centre for cotton and grain. The surrounding villages produce hand-loomed cotton and wool. Several colleges affiliated with the University of Mysore are situated at Davangere. It is the site of Bapuji Institute of Engineeri...
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Davao City (Philippines)
city, southeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. It lies at the mouth of the Davao River near the head of Davao Gulf. The city is the leading regional centre for southeastern Mindanao and encompasses about 50 small ports in its commercial sphere. Pakiputan Strait, formed by offshore Samal Island, shelters both Santa Ana, an urban port servicing small vessels, and the deepwater p...
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Davao hemp (plant)
plant of the family Musaceae, and its fibre, which is second in importance among the leaf fibre group. Abaca fibre, unlike most other leaf fibres, is obtained from the plant leaf stalks (petioles). Although sometimes known as Manila hemp, Cebu hemp, or Davao hemp, the abaca plant is not rel...
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Dave Brubeck Octet (American jazz group)
...in Oakland, California, under the French composer Darius Milhaud. During this period, Brubeck also studied with Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of the 12-tone system of composition. He formed the Dave Brubeck Octet in 1946, employing fellow classmates as band members. The group made several recordings (released in 1951) that reflected Brubeck’s studies in polyrhythms and polytonality......
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Dave Brubeck Quartet (American jazz group)
In late 1951, Brubeck reformed the trio, which soon became a quartet with the addition of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. Within several months, they attained a measure of national fame, largely by word of mouth among West Coast critics who championed the group’s innovations. Also during this time, Brubeck became one of the first jazz musicians to regularly tour and conduct seminars at colle...
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Dave Clark Five (British rock group)
...the British pop artists on screen, and his first feature film, Catch Us If You Can (1965), followed the rock group the Dave Clark Five through Bristol using the cityscape as film background. His film Point Blank (1967), a classic gangster movie, was made in Los Angeles and featured the city....
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Davel, Jean-Abraham-Daniel (Swiss political leader)
Swiss popular leader, folk hero of the canton of the Vaud, who led the Vaudois separatist movement against the rule of Bern (1723)....
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Davenant, Sir William (English writer)
English poet, playwright, and theatre manager who was made poet laureate on the strength of such successes as The Witts (licensed 1634), a comedy; the masques The Temple of Love, Britannia Triumphans, and Luminalia; and a volume of poems, Madagascar (published 1638)....
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davenport (furniture)
in modern usage, a large upholstered settee, but in the 18th century a compact desk having deep drawers on the right side and dummy drawer fronts on the left side. The sloping top of the davenport concealed a fitted well, the front of which protruded beyond the drawers and was supported by a pair of columns on a base, or plinth. The back of the writing area was normally flat and might be protecte...
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Davenport (city, Iowa, United States)
city, seat (1838) of Scott county, eastern Iowa, U.S. It lies on the north bank of the Mississippi River and is the largest of the Quad Cities, an urban complex that includes neighbouring Bettendorf to the east and Moline and Rock Island across the river in Illinois. Credit Island, now a park, was a batt...
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Davenport, Charles Benedict (American zoologist)
American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics (the improvement of populations through breeding) and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research....
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Davenport, Edward Loomis (American actor)
one of the most skilled and popular American actors of the mid-19th century. Three of his finest roles were Hamlet, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger’s comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts....
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Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsy (American actress)
American actress who saw considerable success, especially with her own company, on the 19th-century American stage....
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Davenport, Guy Mattison, Jr. (American author)
American writer (b. Nov. 23, 1927, Anderson, S.C.—d. Jan. 4, 2005, Lexington, Ky.), was a prolific and erudite author of short stories, essays, poetry, and translations. He spent his career in academia, teaching at Washington University in St. L...
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Davenport, John (Puritan clergyman)
Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Conn.)....
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Davenport, John (British potter)
cream-coloured earthenware made by John Davenport of Longport, Staffordshire, Eng., beginning in 1793. Davenport had great success with pierced openwork-rimmed plates, either painted or transfer printed. He produced domestic bone china from 1800 and by 1810 was operating on a large scale; the business continued until 1887. Gilding, an......
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Davenport, Marcia Gluck (American writer)
U.S. writer who was best known for her biography Mozart and the best-seller The Valley of Decision (b. June 9, 1903--d. Jan. 16, 1996)....
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Davenport, Thomas (American inventor)
American inventor of what was probably the first commercially successful electric motor, which he used with great ingenuity to power a number of established inventions....
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Davenport ware (pottery)
cream-coloured earthenware made by John Davenport of Longport, Staffordshire, Eng., beginning in 1793. Davenport had great success with pierced openwork-rimmed plates, either painted or transfer printed. He produced domestic bone china from 1800 and by 1810 was operating on a large scale; the business continued until 1887. G...
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Davenport, Willie (American athlete)
American athlete (b. June 8, 1943, Troy, Ala.—d. June 17, 2002, Chicago, Ill.), competed in four Summer (1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976, as a hurdler) and one Winter (1980, on the four-man bobsled team) Olympic Games—one of very few athletes to have competed in both Summer and ...
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Daventry (district, England, United Kingdom)
town and district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. Daventry district’s rich, undulating landscape is predominantly rural, with more than 70 parishes. At the heart of the district is historic Daventry town....
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Daventry (England, United Kingdom)
town and district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. Daventry district’s rich, undulating landscape is predominantly rural, with more than 70 parishes. At the heart of the district is historic Daventry town....
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Daves, Delmer (American screenwriter and director)
writer and director of motion pictures in traditional Hollywood genres but particularly noted for his sensitive treatment of American Indians on screen....
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Daves, Delmer Lawrence (American screenwriter and director)
writer and director of motion pictures in traditional Hollywood genres but particularly noted for his sensitive treatment of American Indians on screen....
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Davey, Allen (American cinematographer)
...Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Dev Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Louis H. Mesenkop, Harry Mills, Walter Oberst, Irmin Roberts, Loren Ryder, and Art Smith for Spawn of the NorthHonorary Award: Allen Davey and Oliver Marsh for Sweethearts...
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Davey, Bruce (Australian producer and actor)
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Davey, John (American horticulturalist)
...root loss and promote formation of blossoms; and heading back to revitalize an aged tree. The origin of modern tree surgery is attributed to John Davey of Kent, Ohio, who established a landscaping business there in 1880. ...
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Davey, Marie Augusta (American actress)
American actress who became one of the leading exemplars of realism on the American stage, especially through her performances in Henrik Ibsen’s plays....
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Davey, Norris Frank (New Zealand writer)
novelist and writer of short stories whose ironic, stylistically diverse works made him the most widely known New Zealand literary figure of his day....
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David (poem by Birney)
...detail participate in the documentary tradition. Influenced by Pratt, Earle Birney, another innovative and experimental poet, published the frequently anthologized tragic narrative David (1942), the first of many audacious, technically varied poems exploring the troubling nature of humanity and the cosmos. His publications include the verse play Trial....
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David (bronze work by Donatello)
...and three nude putti, or child angels (one of which was stolen and is now in the Berlin museum). These putti, evidently influenced by Etruscan bronze figurines, prepared the way for the bronze David, the first large-scale, free-standing nude statue of the Renaissance. Well-proportioned and superbly poised, it was conceived independently of any architectural setting. Its harmonious calm......
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David (Panama)
city, western Panama, on the David River and surrounded by fruit groves. It is Panama’s largest city outside of the Panama City metropolitan area and is an important commercial centre, served by the Pacific seaports of Pedregal and Puerto Armuelles on the Gulf of Chiriquí and by Enrique Malek Airport. Industrie...
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David (duke of Rothesay)
...to 1296, who was not favourably remembered. Fife, created duke of Albany in 1398, continued to govern throughout this reign, except for three years (1399–1402) when Robert III’s eldest son, David, duke of Rothesay, took his place. The dissolute Rothesay died in March 1402 while imprisoned in Albany’s castle of Falkland, Fife. Perhaps in an attempt to save his remaining son,...
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David (king of Israel)
second of the Israelite kings (after Saul), reigning c. 1000 to c. 962 bc, who established a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital. In Jewish tradition he became the ideal king, the founder of an enduring dynasty, around whose figure and reign clustered messianic expectations of the people of Israel. Since he...
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“David” (work by Holm)
...boldest original talent is Anne Holm, who aroused healthy controversy with her (to some) shocking narrative of a displaced boy’s journey to Denmark, the novel David (1963; Eng. trans., North to Freedom, 1965)....
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David (torpedo boat)
...boat, one of several means the Confederates explored in trying to break the blockade. These little craft had weak steam engines and mounted a torpedo lashed to a spar projecting from the bow. Called Davids, they were weak but definite forerunners of the torpedo boat and the versatile destroyer....
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David (work by Machaut)
...generally is found in short passages (often at the endings of sections or phrases) within a larger composition, it is used pervasively in the 14th-century French composer Guillaume de Machaut’s “David,” in which the two upper voices sing in hocket above a slower moving tenor....
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David (marble work by Donatello)
...Ghiberti, a sculptor in bronze who in 1402 had won the competition for the doors of the Florentine baptistery. Donatello’s earliest work of which there is certain knowledge, a marble statue of David, shows an artistic debt to Ghiberti, who was then the leading Florentine exponent of International Gothic, a style of graceful, softly curved lines strongly influenced by northern European ar...
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David (hurricane)
Hurricane David severely damaged the island in August 1979, virtually wiping out the nation’s agricultural economy. The hurricane carried away most of the island’s topsoil, and it was estimated that it would take 20 years to rebuild what had been destroyed. The economy was set back by Hurricane Allen a year later and in 1989 by Hurricane Hugo....
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David (marble sculpture by Michelangelo)
marble sculpture executed from 1501 to 1504 by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue was commissioned for one of the buttresses of the cathedral of Florence and was carved from a block of marble that had been partially blocked out by other sculptors and left outdoors. After Michelangelo completed the sculpture, the Florentine government decided instead to place...
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David Aghmashenebeli (king of Georgia)
king of Georgia (1089–1125). Sometimes known as David II, he became coruler with his father, Giorgi II, in 1089. David defeated the Turks in the Battle of Didgori (1122) and captured Tbilisi. Under his leadership Georgia became the strongest state in Caucasia....
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David and Goliath (painting by Gentileschi)
In the first years of the 17th century Gentileschi came under the influence of Caravaggio, also in Rome at the time. His paintings of this period—e.g., David and Goliath (1610?) and St. Cecilia and the Angel (1610?)—employ Caravaggio’s use of dramatic, unconventional gesture and monumental composition, his uncompromisin...
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David ap Gruffudd (Welsh prince)
the last native prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales; he initiated a major rebellion against the English in Wales, and upon his death Wales fell completely under English rule....
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David ap Llywelyn (Welsh prince)
Welsh prince, ruler of the state of Gwynedd in northern Wales from 1240 to 1246....
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David, Armand (French missionary)
...attraction at the Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, until its death in 1938. No European observed a live giant panda in the wild until the Walter Stötzner expedition of 1913–15, although Armand David, a Jesuit missionary, discovered some panda furs in 1869....
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David at War (play by Goldfaden)
...opened a dramatic school. Since many of his dramatic works are set to his own music, Goldfaden is also considered to be the founder of Yiddish opera. Among his nearly 400 plays are David at War (the first Hebrew play produced in the United States; first performed, 1904), Shulamit (considered his masterwork, 1880), and Bar......
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David ben Zakkai (Jewish religious leader)
On May 22 of the same year he was appointed by the exilarch (head of Babylonian Jewry) David ben Zakkai as the gaon (“head”) of the academy of Sura, which had been transferred to Baghdad. Upon assuming this office, he recognized the need to systematize Talmudic law and canonize it by subject. Toward this end he produced Kitāb al-mawārīth......
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David Copperfield (novel by Dickens)
fictional character, a stagecoach driver in the novel David Copperfield (1849–50) by Charles Dickens. Barkis is persistent in his courtship of Clara Peggotty, Copperfield’s childhood nurse, and is known for the hopeful often-repeated phrase “Barkis is willin’.”...
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David d’Angers, Pierre-Jean (French sculptor)
French sculptor, who sought to honour the heroes of modern times by means of an expressive form that could appeal to and inspire a broad public....
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David Davis Mansion (building, Bloomington, Illinois, United States)
French sculptor, who sought to honour the heroes of modern times by means of an expressive form that could appeal to and inspire a broad public.......
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David de Mayrena, Marie-Charles (French adventurer)
eccentric French adventurer who became the self-styled king of the Sedang tribe of the northern Central Highlands in what is now southern Vietnam....
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David, Eduard Heinrich Rudolph (German politician)
a leader of the revisionist wing of the German Social Democratic Party and a minister in the early years of the Weimar Republic (1919–33)....
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David, Félicien-César (French composer)
composer whose music opened the door for the Oriental exoticism that was to become a fixture in French Romantic music....
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Dávid, Ferenc (Unitarian preacher)
Unitarian preacher, writer, and theologian influential in promoting religious toleration and the growth of anti-Trinitarian thought in Hungary....
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David, Gerard (Dutch painter)
Flemish painter who was the last great master of the Bruges school....
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David, Hal (American songwriter)
...and Henry Cowell. In the 1950s he wrote arrangements for Steve Lawrence and Vic Damone and later toured with Marlene Dietrich. In the late 1950s he began his long association with lyricist Hal David, which would produce many hits especially for singer Dionne Warwick, including Walk On By, I Say a Little Prayer, and Do......
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David Harum: A Story of American Life (work by Westcott)
American novelist and banker whose posthumously published novel David Harum: A Story of American Life (1898) was immensely popular....
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David, House of (religious sect)
...Hart Benton, a Missouri senator who had supported statehood for Michigan, and it was separately incorporated as a village in 1869, following a disagreement over bridging the river. The Israelite House of David, a religious sect, established a colony there in 1903. The city is also the site of Lake Michigan College (1946), a two-year institution, as well as a branch of Siena Heights......
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David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus (work by Jacobi)
...“On the Teachings of Spinoza, in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn”). With other Enlightenment thinkers, Mendelssohn attacked Jacobi’s notion of belief as obscurantist. Jacobi replied in David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus (1787; “David Hume on Belief, or Idealism and Realism”), showing his concept of belief to be no different f...
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David I (king of Scotland)
one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. He also reorganized Scottish Christianity to conform with continental European and English usages and founded many religious communities, mostly for Cistercian...
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David II (king of Scotland)
king of Scots from 1329, although he spent 18 years in exile or in prison. His reign was marked by costly intermittent warfare with England, a decline in the prestige of the monarchy, and an increase in the power of the barons....
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David II (king of Georgia)
king of Georgia (1089–1125). Sometimes known as David II, he became coruler with his father, Giorgi II, in 1089. David defeated the Turks in the Battle of Didgori (1122) and captured Tbilisi. Under his leadership Georgia became the strongest state in Caucasia....
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David IV (king of Georgia)
king of Georgia (1089–1125). Sometimes known as David II, he became coruler with his father, Giorgi II, in 1089. David defeated the Turks in the Battle of Didgori (1122) and captured Tbilisi. Under his leadership Georgia became the strongest state in Caucasia....
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