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Dahlonega (Georgia, United States)
city, seat (1833) of Lumpkin county, northern Georgia, U.S. Gold was discovered in the locality in the late 1820s, and the site was settled and incorporated in 1833 after one of the nation’s first gold rushes; its name derives from the Cherokee taulonica (“yellow metal”). A U.S. mint operated there from 1838 until 1861, when Georgia seceded from the U...
Dahmer, Jeffrey (American serial killer)
American serial killer whose arrest in 1991 provoked controversy and resulted in an upsurge of popular interest in serial murder and other crimes....
Dahn, Felix (German historian)
German jurist, historian, poet, and novelist who made his greatest contribution as a scholar of German antiquity....
Dahn, Julius Sophus Felix (German historian)
German jurist, historian, poet, and novelist who made his greatest contribution as a scholar of German antiquity....
Dahnāʾ, ad- (desert, Saudi Arabia)
(Arabic: “desert”), great arc of reddish sandy desert, central Saudi Arabia, extending about 800 miles (1,300 km) southward from the northeastern edge of an-Nafūd (desert) to the northwestern borders of the desert Rubʿ al-Khali (the ...
Dahomey (people)
people living in the south of Benin (called Dahomey until 1975) and adjacent parts of Togo. Their language, also called Fon, is closely related to Ewe and is a member of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages. The Fon numbered more than 1.7 million in the early 21st century....
Dahomey (historical kingdom, Africa)
kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to tradition, at the beginning of the 17th century three brothers vied for the kingdom of Allada, which, like neighbouring Whydah (now Ouidah), ...
Dahomey (republic, Africa)
country of western Africa. It consists of a narrow wedge of territory extending northward for about 420 miles (675 kilometres) from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, on wh...
Dahomey and the Slave Trade (work by Polanyi)
...written with others), concentrated on nonmarket forms of society. Polanyi developed a conceptual framework for what he regarded as nonmarket economies. His final work, published posthumously, was Dahomey and the Slave Trade (1966), which analyzed the economic structure of a slave-exporting state....
Dahomey, Republic of (republic, Africa)
country of western Africa. It consists of a narrow wedge of territory extending northward for about 420 miles (675 kilometres) from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, on wh...
Dahomey, University of (university, Cotonou, Benin)
The University of Abomey-Calavi (previously known as the University of Dahomey [1970–75] and the National University of Benin [1975–2001]), located in Cotonou, was founded in 1970. The university’s student body has been, along with workers, the main political force in the country since the early 1980s. The University of Parakou was founded in 2001....
Dahra (region, Algeria)
mountainous region of northern Algeria, situated between the Chelif River and the Mediterranean coast. Its highest point is more than 3,700 feet (1,100 metres) above sea level. It has typical Mediterranean vegetation...
Dahrendorf of Clare Market in the city of Westminster, Baron (German-born British academic and politician)
May 1, 1929Hamburg, Ger.June 17, 2009Cologne, Ger.German-born British academic and politician who served (1974–84) as the first foreign director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). As...
Dahrendorf, Ralf Gustav (German-born British academic and politician)
May 1, 1929Hamburg, Ger.June 17, 2009Cologne, Ger.German-born British academic and politician who served (1974–84) as the first foreign director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). As...
Dahrīyah (Islam)
in Islām, the unbelievers who contend that the course of time (Arabic: dahr) is all that governs their existence. They were so called because of a reference to them in the Qurʾān, in which they are repudiated for saying, “There is no other than our present life; we die and we live and nothing but the course of time destroys us” (45:24)....
Dahshūr (archaeological site, Egypt)
ancient pyramid site just south of Ṣaqqārah, northern Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River. Dahshūr and other ruins in the area of ancient Memphis—Abū Ṣīr, Ṣaqqārah, Abū Ruwaysh, and the ...
Dahshūr Pyramids (archaeological site, Egypt)
ancient pyramid site just south of Ṣaqqārah, northern Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River. Dahshūr and other ruins in the area of ancient Memphis—Abū Ṣīr, Ṣaqqārah, Abū Ruwaysh, and the ...
Dahūk (Iraq)
city, northern Iraq, capital of Dahūk muḥāfaẓah (governorate). The city lies near the northern end of the Tigris River valley. The area in which the city is situated is unsuitable for cultivation but is good for fruit orchards and pasturage. Dahūk has a fruit-canning pla...
Dahur (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,...
Dai (people)
peoples of mainland Southeast Asia, including the Thai, or Siamese (in central and southern Thailand), the Lao (in Laos and northern Thailand), the Shan (in northeast Myanmar [Burma]), the Lü (primarily in Yunnan province, China, but also in Myanmar, Laos, northern Thailand, and Vietnam), the Yunnan Tai (the major Tai...
Dai Ailian (Chinese dancer, choreographer, and teacher)
British-born Chinese dancer, choreographer, and teacher (b. May 10, 1916, Trinidad, British West Indies—d. Feb. 9, 2006, Beijing, China), was dubbed “the mother of Chinese ballet,” and she was instrumental in introducing Western dance in China and in creating dances based on Chinese folk traditions. Dai studied ballet and modern dance in London under Anton Dolin, Margaret Cras...
Dai hyakkajiten (Japanese encyclopaedia)
(Japanese: “Great Encyclopaedia”), comprehensive Japanese general encyclopaedia, published in Tokyo....
Dai Jin (Chinese painter)
Chinese landscape painter of the Ming dynasty....
Dai jiten (Japanese dictionary)
(Japanese: “Great Dictionary”), dictionary of the Japanese language published in 13 illustrated volumes in Tokyo (1953–54)....
Dai Kui (Chinese artist)
...as amateurs and who were far better remembered in the written record of the art than were their professional, artisan-class counterparts. Among the first named painting masters, Cao Buxing and Dai Kui painted chiefly Buddhist and Daoist subjects. Dai Kui was noted as a poet, painter, and musician and was one of the first to establish the tradition of scholarly amateur painting (......
Dai, Lady (Chinese noble)
...An outer layer of sticky white kaolin clay prevented moisture from penetrating the tomb, and an inner layer of charcoal fixed all the available oxygen within a day of burial, so the deceased (Xin Zhui, or Lady Dai, the governor’s wife) was found in a near-perfect state of preservation. Included among the grave goods, which came with a written inventory providing contemporaneous......
Dai, Mount (mountain, Japan)
...the Kibi Plateau, except in the Akiyoshi Plateau area in the west, where karst topography occurs in some places. Numerous semicircular depressions have been buried by lava-dome volcanoes, including Mount Dai, which rises to 5,673 feet (1,729 m) in Tottori prefecture....
Dai Namboku (Japanese dramatist)
Japanese Kabuki playwright of the late Tokugawa period (1603–1867), known for his plays with supernatural themes and macabre and grotesque characters....
Dai Nihon shi (Japanese literature)
Japanese feudal lord who began the compilation of the Dai Nihon shi (“History of Great Japan”), a comprehensive rewriting of Japanese history modelled after the great Chinese dynastic histories. Mitsukuni’s project, which was not finally completed until 1906 (although most of the work was done during his lifetime), helped establish Confucian philosophy in Japan and als...
Dai Noi (citadel, Hue, Vietnam)
...China Sea coast, Hue is traversed by the broad, shallow Huong River (Hue River, or Perfume River). At the city’s heart, on the river’s left bank, is the Chinese-style Vietnamese imperial citadel, Dai Noi, from which the Nguyen family controlled southern and central Vietnam from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. The citadel’s 7-mile (11-km) walled circumference enclosed ...
Dai Viet (historical kingdom, Vietnam)
From 1123 until 1136 Suryavarman waged a series of unsuccessful campaigns against Dai Viet, the Vietnamese kingdom that had asserted its independence from China in 939. He attempted a land attack through Laos to Nghe An in 1128 and met with defeat. A few months later, Suryavarman’s fleet of 700 junks began a long harassment along the coast in the Gulf of Tonkin. Suryavarman persuaded the......
Dai Zhen (Chinese philosopher)
Chinese empirical philosopher, considered by many to have been the greatest thinker of the Qing period (1644–1911/12)....
Dai-Ichi Bank Ltd. (Japanese bank)
...the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in 30 other countries, Dai-Ichi had been established in 1971 through the merger of Dai Ichi Bank Ltd. (founded in 1873) and Nippon Kangyō Bank Ltd. (founded in 1897)....
Dai-Ichi Kangyō Bank (Japanese bank)
one of three Japanese banks that merged in 2000 to create the Mizuho Financial Group. Once one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, with branches there and operations in 30 other countries, Dai-Ichi had been established in 1971 through the merger of Dai Ichi Bank Lt...
Dai-Kun-i Kikka-shō Kubikazari (Japanese order)
Japan’s highest and most exclusive order, established in 1877 by the Meiji emperor, awarded mainly to members of Japan’s royal family and to foreign royalty or heads of state. The order has only one class and is exclusively for men....
“Dai-nihon-shi” (Japanese literature)
Japanese feudal lord who began the compilation of the Dai Nihon shi (“History of Great Japan”), a comprehensive rewriting of Japanese history modelled after the great Chinese dynastic histories. Mitsukuni’s project, which was not finally completed until 1906 (although most of the work was done during his lifetime), helped establish Confucian philosophy in Japan and als...
Daia (emperor of Rome)
Roman emperor from 310 to 313 and a persistent persecutor of the Christians. He was a nephew of Galerius, one of the two men named augustus after the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian....
Daïa Mountains (mountains, Algeria)
short northeast-southwest mountain range in the High Plateaus (Hauts Plateaux) region of the Atlas Mountains, northern Algeria. It is northwest of the salt lake of Chott El-Chergui and rises to 4,515 feet (1,376 metres) at Mount Taze...
Daiberto (patriarch of Jerusalem)
first archbishop of Pisa, Italy, who, as patriarch of Jerusalem, played a major role in the First Crusade....
Daibutsu (statue, Kamakura, Japan)
...functions as a historic site, a resort, and a residential district along the Yokosuka Line (railway). The Ōfuna area developed industrially after 1945. Historic landmarks include the bronze Great Buddha, or Daibutsu, a national treasure; the Kenchō and Engaku temples; and the statue of Kannon, the goddess of compassion. The city houses the Kamakura Museum and the Kamakura......
Daibutsu
...Temple as kokubunji of the capital and the installation within it of a huge bronze figure of the Vairocana Buddha as supreme guardian deity of the nation. The casting of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu) was a tremendously difficult task; but the emperor called on the people at large to contribute to the project, in however humble a way, and thereby partake of the grace of the Buddha. The......
Daibutsu-den (hall, Nara, Japan)
The main monument to the Nara period is undoubtedly the huge Tōdai Temple complex with its colossal central image of the cast-bronze Great Buddha. The construction of the Great Buddha Hall (Daibutsuden) commenced in 745, and dedication ceremonies for the nearly 50-foot- (15-metre-) high seated figure were held in 752. Only fragments of the original are extant. Most of the present......
Daic languages
closely related family of languages, of which the Thai language of Thailand is the most important member. Because the word Thai has been designated as the official name of the language of Thailand, it would be confusing to use it for the various other languages of the family as well. Tai is therefore used to refer to the entire group....
Daiei (Japanese company)
In October Daiei, Japan’s supermarket giant, asked the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan (IRCJ) to help support its reconstruction. The IRCJ was an official entity that had been established in 2003 to help revitalize financially troubled but salvageable companies. Daiei’s finances had long been considered to be emblematic of the dangers of nonperforming loans, and the company ...
Daiei Motion Picture Company (Japanese company)
leading Japanese motion-picture studio that produced some of the major post-World War II film classics, although most of its releases were directed toward urban teenage audiences. The company was formed in 1942, when the Japanese government consolidated the production studios of Shinko, Daito, and Nikkatsu (Nikkatsu remained as an independent distribution company only)....
Daigak Guksa (Buddhist priest)
Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch’ŏnt’ae sect of Buddhism....
Daigle, France (Canadian novelist)
...Chiasson (Mourir à Scoudouc [1974; “To Die at Scoudouc”], Conversations [1998; Eng. trans. Conversations]) and postmodern novelist France Daigle. Acadian literature excels in lyric poetry, represented by authors who include Raymond Leblanc, Dyane Léger, and Serge Patrice Thibodeau....
Daigo (emperor of Japan)
60th emperor of Japan. He was unsuccessful in continuing his father’s policy of limiting the power of the important Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese government from 857 to 1160....
Daigo, Go- (emperor of Japan)
emperor of Japan (1318–39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions....
Daigo II (emperor of Japan)
emperor of Japan (1318–39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions....
Daigo Tennō (emperor of Japan)
60th emperor of Japan. He was unsuccessful in continuing his father’s policy of limiting the power of the important Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese government from 857 to 1160....
Daikaku Temple (temple, Kyōto, Japan)
...imperial succession. In the mid-13th century two competing lines for the succession emerged—the senior line centred on the Jimyō Temple in Kyōto and the junior line centred on the Daikaku Temple on the western edge of the city. In the last half of the century, each side sought to win the support of the bakufu. In 1317 Kamakura proposed a compromise that would allow t...
Daikoku (Japanese deity)
in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck); the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is depicted in legend and art as dark-skinned, stout, carrying a wish-granting mallet in his right hand, a bag of precious things sl...
Dáil (Irish parliament)
Dublin is the headquarters for government departments, their advisory committees, and associated agencies. The two houses of the Irish parliament, the Dáil and the Seanad (Senate), meet at Leinster House. The judiciary is based at the Four Courts. More than 40 countries maintain embassies, and several others are represented by consuls, both honorary and professional....
Dáil Éireann (Irish history)
...The republicans refused to take their seats in the Westminster Parliament but instead set up their provisional government, elected by the Irish members of Parliament at a meeting in Dublin called Dáil Éireann (“Irish Assembly),” which sought to provide an alternative to British administration and which first met on Jan. 21, 1919. Simultaneously, the Irish Republican....
Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament)
Dublin is the headquarters for government departments, their advisory committees, and associated agencies. The two houses of the Irish parliament, the Dáil and the Seanad (Senate), meet at Leinster House. The judiciary is based at the Four Courts. More than 40 countries maintain embassies, and several others are represented by consuls, both honorary and professional....
Daily Advertiser, The (British newspaper)
Typical of the new breed of English papers was The Daily Advertiser (1730–1807), which offered advertising space along with news of a political, commercial, and social nature. An important gap in the political pages was filled from 1771, when the right to publish proceedings in Parliament had been granted. This right was not won lightly, for illicit accounts of.....
Daily Beast, The (newsmagazine)
...Talk magazine and Talk Miramax Books, folded in 2002. In 2008 Brown partnered with American media executive Barry Diller of IAC/InterActiveCorp to form The Daily Beast, an online newsmagazine named for the newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop (1938). In early 2011 The Daily Beast......
daily double (horse racing)
...may also display race results, payoff amounts, running times, and other information. Increasingly sophisticated equipment has encouraged introduction of a variety of combination bets, such as the daily double (picking winners in two specified races, usually the first two), exacta, or perfecta (picking the first two finishers in a race in precise order), quinella (picking the first two......
Daily Dozen, The (work by Camp)
...writer and promoter of the sport. For his many innovations in play and rules, he is recognized as the “father of American football.” He is also known for the book The Daily Dozen (1925), which outlined a regimen of exercises he had designed for naval recruits in World War I. It became a household phrase and was copied by countless fitness gurus in......
“Daily Evening Bulletin, The” (American newspaper)
daily newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1847 to 1982, long considered one of the most influential American newspapers....
Daily Express (British newspaper)
morning newspaper published in London, known for its sensational treatment of news and also for its thorough coverage of international events. The Sunday edition is published as the Sunday Express....
Daily Globe (American newspaper)
...12, he worked at the trade in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah (1867–72). At 19 he was publisher of the Golden (Colo.) Globe and in 1877 founded the Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe, made famous by frequent reprinting of his paragraphs throughout the United States. His first and most successful novel, The Story of a Country Town (1883), was the first......
Daily Herald (British newspaper)
...the value of gold in the Bank of England on a given day. In the 1920s one paper offered free insurance to subscribers, but this soon proved too costly to maintain. In 1930 the Daily Herald offered gifts to woo new readers. Although they were condemned by the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association (later known as the Newspaper Publishers Association), gift schemes....
Daily Kos (blog)
...thousands of participants. Trust became a commodity, as sharing opinions or ratings proved to be a key to effective blog discussions, as well as an important component of many e-commerce Web sites. Daily Kos, one of the largest of the political blogs, made good use of ratings, with high-rated members gaining more power to rate other members’ comments; under such systems, the idea is that...
Daily Mail (British newspaper)
morning daily newspaper published in London, long noted for its foreign reporting, it was one of the first British papers to popularize its coverage to appeal to a mass readership. It is the flagship publication of the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC, a London media company incorporated in 1922 with holdings in radio, television, and weekly and daily newspapers....
“Daily Mirror, The” (British newspaper)
daily newspaper published in London that frequently has the largest circulation in Britain....
“Daily News” (American newspaper)
morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City, once the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States....
Daily News Building (building, New York City, New York, United States)
...arose in Chicago, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings (1929) being the best examples; New York City acquired a straightforward expression of tall vertical piers and setback cubical masses in the Daily News Building (1930), by the versatile Hood, who had run the course from Gothic to modern form. The bank and office building of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (1931–32) by George....
daily rhythm (biology)
the cyclical 24-hour period of human biological activity....
Daily Show, The (American television program)
...wreck on a not-deserted-enough tropical island. In another sign of its ascendancy to the top of the topical comedy heap—in critical and popular buzz, if not in overall viewership—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won two Emmys. Daily Show later spun off a nightly half-hour program called The Colbert Report, which was adored by critics for the manner in which......
Daily Sketch (British newspaper)
...than one million copies by 1914. Lord Northcliffe sold the Mirror to his brother Lord Rothermere in 1913. Meanwhile, the equally successful tabloid Daily Sketch had been begun in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton....
“Daily Telegraph and Courier” (British newspaper)
daily newspaper published in London and generally accounted, with The Times and The Guardian, as one of Britain’s “big three” quality newspapers....
Daily Telegraph, The (British newspaper)
daily newspaper published in London and generally accounted, with The Times and The Guardian, as one of Britain’s “big three” quality newspapers....
“Daily Universal Register, The” (British newspaper)
daily newspaper published in London, one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers. It is generally accounted, with The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s “big three...
Daily Values (diet)
...reference value is listed, and because sex and age categories usually are not taken into consideration, the amount chosen is generally the highest RDA value. In the United States, for example, the Daily Values, determined by the Food and Drug Administration, are generally based on RDA values published in 1968. The different food components are listed on the food label as a percentage of their.....
Daily Worker (American newspaper)
newspaper that, under a variety of names, has generally reflected the views of the Communist Party of the United States....
“Daily Worker” (British newspaper)
newspaper that, under a variety of names, has generally reflected the views of the Communist Party of the United States.......
“Daily World” (American newspaper)
newspaper that, under a variety of names, has generally reflected the views of the Communist Party of the United States....
Daima culture
...whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Small figurines of fired clay were excavated in a mound at Daima near Lake Chad in levels dating from the 5th century bce or earlier, while others were found in Zimbabwe in deposits of the later part of the 1st millennium ce. Both o...
Daimatsu Hirofumi (Japanese athletic coach)
...were high. Chosen to represent Japan was the country’s best women’s team, the Kaizuku Amazons, sponsored by the Dai Nippon spinning mill located near Ōsaka. The team was coached by Daimatsu Hirofumi, an office-supplies manager at the mill. Infamous because of his tough training regimen, Daimatsu gained the reputation as a heartless drill sergeant whose intense practice sess...
Daimbert (patriarch of Jerusalem)
first archbishop of Pisa, Italy, who, as patriarch of Jerusalem, played a major role in the First Crusade....
daimio (Japanese social class)
any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai (“large”) and myō (for myōden, or “name-land,” meaning “private land”)....
Daimler (automobile)
Most authorities are inclined to honour Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler of Germany as the most important pioneer contributors to the gasoline-engine automobile. Benz ran his first car in 1885, Daimler in 1886. Although there is no reason to believe that Benz had ever seen a motor vehicle before he made his own, he and Daimler had been preceded by Étienne Lenoir in France and Siegfried......
Daimler AG (international automotive company)
international automotive company. One of the world’s leading car and truck manufacturers, its vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Maybach (luxury automobiles), and Smart (micro hybrid cars). Daimler manufactures commercial vehicles under brands such as Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, Setra, Thomas Built Buses, Orion, and Fuso. The company is also involved in technological research a...
Daimler, Gottlieb (German engineer and inventor)
German mechanical engineer who was a major figure in the early history of the automotive industry....
Daimler-Benz (international automotive company)
international automotive company. One of the world’s leading car and truck manufacturers, its vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Maybach (luxury automobiles), and Smart (micro hybrid cars). Daimler manufactures commercial vehicles under brands such as Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, Setra, Thomas Built Buses, Orion, and Fuso. The company is also involved in technological research a...
Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (German company)
...vehicle designed from the start as an automobile (1889). This commercially feasible vehicle had a framework of light tubing, a rear-mounted engine, belt-driven wheels, and four speeds. In 1890 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was founded at Cannstatt, and in 1899 the firm built the first Mercedes car....
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (German company)
...Aerospatiale (later Aerospatiale Matra), created by the merger of Sud Aviation with Nord Aviation and the French missile maker SEREB, and 50 percent came from Germany’s Deutsche Airbus (later DaimlerChrysler Aerospace Airbus), a joint venture in which Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm had a 65 percent stake and VFW-Fokker a 35 percent stake. Spain’s Construcciones Aeronáuti...
DaimlerChrysler AG (international corporation)
After enduring collapsing revenues and (in two cases) stays in bankruptcy court, the Big Three American automakers—Ford, General Motors (GM), and Chrysler—had a year of solid recovery in 2010. Big Three vehicle sales rose 11% year over year through August, compared with an overall 8% increase in global auto sales. In another promising sign, J.D. Power & Associate...
daimoku (Buddhism)
...showing the name of the Lotus Sutra surrounded by the names of divinities mentioned in the sutra (words of the Buddha). The second great mystery is the daimoku, the “title” of the sutra; and Nichiren instituted the devotional practice of chanting the phrase namu Myōhō renge......
daimon (Greek religion)
in Greek religion, a supernatural power. In Homer the term is used almost interchangeably with theos for a god. The distinction there is that theos emphasizes the personality of the god, and demon his activity. Hence, the term demo...
daimyo (Japanese social class)
any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai (“large”) and myō (for myōden, or “name-land,” meaning “private land”)....
daimyo oak (plant)
...libani), Macedonian oak (Q. trojana), and Portuguese oak (Q. lusitanica). Popular Asian ornamentals include the blue Japanese oak (Q. glauca), daimyo oak (Q. dentata), Japanese evergreen oak (Q. acuta), and sawtooth oak (Q. acutissima). The English oak, a timber tree native to Eurasia and northern......
daina (folk song)
The Balts worshiped the forces of nature, personified as divinities, in sacred oak groves. Their religious and cultural life is primarily known from the large body of folk songs, dainos, many of which have survived. The songs encompass the totality of human life in communion with nature and reveal a strong sense of ethics. Archaeological excavations complement this picture. The spiritual......
daina (Zoroastrianism)
...is the ruvan that is held accountable for a person’s actions during life and that suffers reward or punishment in the life to come. At the time of judgment the ruvan encounters the dainā, which is an embodiment of the sum of its deeds during life, manifested as either a beautiful maiden or an ugly hag. Depending on how these deeds are weighed, the soul either ...
Daines, Simon (British author)
...using most of the marks described by the younger Aldo in 1566; but their purpose was elocutionary, not syntactic. When George Puttenham, in his treatise The Arte of English Poesie (1589), and Simon Daines, in Orthoepia Anglicana (1640), specified a pause of one unit for a comma, of two units for a semicolon, and of three for a colon, they were no doubt trying to bring some sort of...
Daing Parani (Buginese adventurer)
leader of adventurers from the vicinity of Makasar, Celebes, who spearheaded the political penetration of the Malay Peninsula by the Buginese, a people who came from the southern Celebes seeking trade opportunities. The Buginese were skilled and astute fighting men and were soon drawn into Malay political struggles. Daing Parani helped one Raja Kechil win the ...
Dainichi Nyorai (Buddha)
the supreme Buddha, as regarded by many Mahayana Buddhists of East Asia and of Tibet, Nepal, and Java....
“Dainichi-kyō” (Buddhist text)
text of late Tantric Buddhism and a principal scripture of the large Japanese Buddhist sect known as Shingon (“True Word”). The text received a Chinese translation, under the title Ta-jih Ching, about ad 725, and its esoteric teachings were propagated a century later in Japan by Kūka...