Dawes Plan, arrangement for Germany’s payment of reparations after World War I. On the initiative of the British and U.S. governments, a committee of experts (with two members each from France, Belgium, Italy, Britain, and the United States), presided over by an American financier, Charles G.

Dawes General Allotment Act, (February 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image. It was sponsored in several sessions of Congress by Sen. Henry L. Dawes of

Charles G. Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States (1925–29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the “Dawes Plan” for managing Germany’s reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly

Charles G. Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States (1925–29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the “Dawes Plan” for managing Germany’s reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly

Dawes General Allotment Act: Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts and finally was enacted in February 1887. Under its terms, the president determined the suitability of the recipients and issued the grants, usually by a formula of 160 acres (65 hectares) to each head of household and 80 acres (32…

Dawes General Allotment Act: Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts and finally was enacted in February 1887. Under its terms, the president determined the suitability of the recipients and issued the grants, usually by a formula of 160 acres (65 hectares) to each head of household and 80 acres (32…

Sophie Dawes, baroness de Feuchères was an English adventuress, mistress of the last survivor of the princes of Condé. The daughter of a drunken fisherman named Dawes, she grew up in the workhouse, went up to London as a servant, and became the mistress of the Duke de Bourbon, afterward the ninth

Paul Revere: Both he and his compatriot William Dawes reached Lexington separately and were able to warn Hancock and Adams to flee. The two men together with Samuel Prescott (ancestor of the Bush family, which would produce two U.S. presidents) then started for Concord, but they were soon stopped by a British…

William Rutter Dawes was an English astronomer known for his extensive measurements of double stars and for his meticulous planetary observations. Trained as a physician, Dawes practiced at Haddenham and (from 1826) Liverpool; subsequently he became a Nonconformist clergyman. In 1829 he set up a

Doha, city, capital of Qatar, located on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula in the Persian Gulf. More than two-fifths of Qatar’s population lives within the city’s limits. Situated on a shallow bay indented about 3 miles (5 km), Doha has long been a locally important port. Because of offshore

Ikhwān: …October 1928 deposed Ibn Humayd, al-Dawish, and Ibn Hithlayn, the leaders of the revolt. A massacre of Najd merchants by Ibn Humayd in 1929, however, forced Ibn Saud to confront the rebellious Ikhwān militarily, and, in a major battle fought in March on the plain of Al-Sabalah (near Al-Arṭāwiyyah), Ibn…

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy with his enthusiastic advocacy of atheism. Dawkins spent his early childhood in Kenya, where his father was

The Artful Dodger, fictional character in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist (1837–39). The Artful Dodger is a precocious streetwise boy who introduces the protagonist Oliver to the thief Fagin and his gang of children, who work as thieves and

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy with his enthusiastic advocacy of atheism. Dawkins spent his early childhood in Kenya, where his father was

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), transnational jihad movement that has orchestrated or inspired numerous terrorist attacks around the world, including the Paris attacks of 2015, the Brussels bombings of 2016, the Orlando shooting of 2016, and the New Orleans attack of 2025. The organization

Kuwait, country of the Arabian Peninsula located in the northwestern corner of the Persian Gulf. A small emirate nestled between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is situated in a section of one of the driest, least-hospitable deserts on Earth. Its shore, however, includes Kuwait Bay, a deep harbour on

Bābur: Early years: of Delhi, but the governor, Dawlat Khan Lodī, resented Ibrāhīm’s attempts to diminish his authority. By 1524 Bābur had invaded the Punjab three more times but was unable to master the tangled course of Punjab and Delhi politics sufficiently enough to achieve a firm foothold. Yet it was clear that…

Qatar, independent emirate on the west coast of the Persian Gulf. The small country has tremendous influence as a trusted mediator between rivals in the region and as one of the world’s largest exporters of natural gas. It has also garnered international attention through its popular television

Persian literature: Modern Iran: …stands the social realism of Mahmoud Dawlatabadi. His great novel Kalīdar, published in 10 parts (1978–84), depicts the lives of nomads in the plains of Khorāsān, the author’s native region.

Dawlish, town (parish), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England. It is situated on the English Channel, just north-northeast ot Teignmouth. Dawlish became fashionable in the 19th century and is featured in the novels of Charles Dickens and Jane

sunlight: …tints to the sky at dawn and dusk.

Dawn, U.S. spacecraft that orbited the large asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn was launched September 27, 2007, and flew past Mars on February 17, 2009, to help reshape its trajectory toward the asteroid belt. Dawn arrived at Vesta on July 16, 2011, and orbited Vesta until September

Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel: …otherwise they form a contrast: Dawn, a virginal figure, strains upward along her curve as if trying to emerge into life; Night is asleep, but in a posture suggesting stressful dreams.

Gustav Ucicky: Morgenrot (1932; Dawn), which gained some recognition both in Europe and the United States, is a realistic story of U-boat warfare and depicts the dangerous and tenuous life in a submarine. Flüchtlinge (1933; “Refugees”) was crudely anti-Soviet and was followed by several other propaganda films. After the…

blind snake: Anomalepids (early blind snakes) and leptotyphlopids (threadsnakes and wormsnakes) are slender, and species of both families are seldom more than 30 cm (12 inches) long from snout to vent and grow to a maximum of 40 cm (16 inches) in total length. The anomalepids are made…

The Weeknd: Breakthrough and albums: …year his fifth studio album, Dawn FM, appeared. The work was described as a “dance party in purgatory,” and it was narrated by Jim Carrey with guest appearances by Quincy Jones, Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, and Tyler, The Creator.

Brash, confident, and strong-willed, Australian Dawn Fraser became a dominant figure in women’s swimming during the 1950s and ’60s, despite a penchant for Olympic misadventures that frequently drew the ire of coaches and officials. Fraser was the clear favourite for the gold medal in the 100-metre

Eohippus, (genus Hyracotherium), extinct group of mammals that were the first known horses. They flourished in North America and Europe during the early part of the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago). Even though these animals are more commonly known as Eohippus, a name given by

zombie: History: …about the ills of consumerism—with Dawn of the Dead (1978), in which a handful of living people attempt to escape the undead by hiding in a shopping mall. He followed up with a number of related films over the next several decades: Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the…

Zack Snyder: Career: He followed up Dawn of the Dead by directing and contributing to the script for 300, a stylishly violent historical epic about the Battle of Thermopylae starring Gerard Butler as the Spartan king Leonidas. Snyder quickly gained a reputation for his aesthetic eye and cinematography, blending moody darkness…

Ahmed Haşim: In 1909 he joined the Fecr-i âti (“Dawn of the Future”) literary circle but gradually drew apart from this group and developed his own style. Haşim, following the French masters, strove to develop the Turkish Symbolist movement. In a 1924 article on Turkish literature for the French publication Mercure de…

Keri Russell: The Americans and The Diplomat: …Jane Austen, and the action-drama Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). In 2016 she appeared with Matthew McConaughey in Free State of Jones, set during the American Civil War.

Emmanuel Roblès: Dawn on Our Darkness), a novel set in Sardinia and concerning a man caught between love and duty. Le Vésuve (1961; Vesuvius) and Un Printemps d’Italie (1970; “A Springtime in Italy”) are love stories set in wartime Italy. His later novels include Venise en hiver…

Edmund Goulding: The 1930s: …splash, but Goulding’s remake of The Dawn Patrol (1938) was a major hit. Errol Flynn gave one of his best performances as the squadron leader who cannot bear to see inexperienced pilots sent on dangerous missions; Basil Rathbone and David Niven provided fine support. Goulding’s version of the film, which…

Howard Hawks: Early life and work: The Dawn Patrol (1930), another film about flying, was Hawks’s first true sound film. It was based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as…

dawn redwood, (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), ancient conifer from central China, the only living species of its genus. The dawn redwood holds an interesting place in the history of paleobotany as one of the few living plants known first as a fossil—a true living fossil. Its fossilized foliage and

Bangkok: History of Bangkok: During these years Wat Arun, noted for its tall spire, Wat Yan Nawa, and Wat Bowon Niwet were completed, Wat Pho was further enlarged, and Wat Sutat was begun. There were, however, few other substantial buildings and fewer paved streets; the river and the network of interconnected canals…

Bernard Patrick O’Dowd: In Dawnward? (1903), his first book of verse, he expressed strong political convictions. The Silent Land followed in 1906, and the philosophical Dominions of the Boundary in 1907. In an important prose pamphlet “Poetry Militant” (1909), O’Dowd, a political and philosophical radical, argued that the poet…

Daur, 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, which varies widely

Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at

Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at

Dawson Creek, city, northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The city lies along Dawson Creek near the Alberta border. It has the Mile “Zero” post marking the beginning of the Alaska Highway and is a terminus of the British Columbia Railway from Vancouver (741 miles [1,193 km] south-southwest) and

Dawson River, river in eastern Queensland, Australia. It rises in the Carnarvon Range and flows southeast, northeast, and north for about 400 miles (640 km) through a 50-mile-wide valley to join the Fitzroy River near Duaringa. The Dawson Valley Irrigation Project (inaugurated 1923) comprises

Dawson’s Creek, American television drama series that depicts the interactions of a group of teens in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and, later, Boston. The series debuted on January 20, 1998, and ran for six seasons (1998–2003) and 128 episodes. It became one of the flagship shows

Piltdown man, (Eoanthropus dawsoni), proposed species of extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) whose fossil remains, discovered in England in 1910–12, were later proved to be fraudulent. Piltdown man, whose fossils were sufficiently convincing to generate a scholarly controversy lasting

Washington Nationals: …catcher Gary Carter and outfielders Andre Dawson and Tim Raines, the Expos advanced to their first postseason appearance two years later during the strike-shortened 1981 season. That year they won their first-round series against the Philadelphia Phillies before losing to the eventual world champion Los Angeles Dodgers as the result…

Piltdown man: …series of discoveries in 1910–12, Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and amateur geologist, found what appeared to be the fossilized fragments of a cranium, a jawbone, and other specimens in a gravel formation at Barkham Manor on Piltdown Common near Lewes in Sussex. Dawson took the specimens to Arthur Smith…

George Geoffrey Dawson was an English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his retirement in 1941. He changed his surname from Robinson to Dawson following an inheritance in 1917. Dawson was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was elected a

Kansas City Chiefs: Early years in Dallas and the move to Kansas City: The Texans brought in quarterback Len Dawson (like Stram, a future Hall of Famer) before the 1962 season, and Dallas went 11–3 that year, defeating the Houston Oilers in the AFL championship game.

Sir John William Dawson was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology. During his term as superintendent of education for Nova Scotia (1850–53), Dawson studied the geology of all parts of the province, making a special

bryophyte: General features: …feet) in height (the moss Dawsonia) or, if reclining, reach lengths of more than 1 metre (3.3 feet; the moss Fontinalis). They are generally less than 3 to 6 cm (1.2 to 2.4 inches) tall, and reclining forms are usually less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) long. Some, however, are…

dawsonite, a carbonate mineral, NaAlCO3 (OH)2, that is probably formed by the decomposition of aluminous silicates. Of low-temperature, hydrothermal origin, it occurs in Montreal, where it was first discovered; near Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy; and in Algiers. In the oil shale near Green River,

Ẓāhirīyah: …the 9th century by one Dāwūd ibn Khalaf, though nothing of his work has survived. From Iraq, it spread to Iran, North Africa, and Muslim Spain, where the philosopher Ibn Ḥazm was its chief exponent; much of what is known of early Ẓāhirī theory comes through him. Although it was…

Dax, town, Landes département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, southwestern France. It lies on the left bank of the Adour River, 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Bordeaux and 50 miles (80 km) north of the Pyrenees frontier with Spain. The town is a spa resort whose thermal springs and mud baths have been

China: 4th and 3rd millennia bce: …4th and 3rd millennia, the Daxi and Qujialing cultures shared a significant number of traits, including rice production, ring-footed vessels, goblets with sharply angled profiles, ceramic whorls, and black pottery with designs painted in red after firing. Characteristic Qujialing ceramic objects not generally found in Daxi sites include eggshell-thin goblets…

Chang’an, ancient site, north-central China. Formerly the capital of the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, it is located near the present-day city of

Beijing: Transportation: A new international airport, Daxing, opened south of the city centre in 2019.

Daxue, brief Chinese text generally attributed to the ancient sage Confucius (551–479 bc) and his disciple Zengzi. For centuries the text existed only as a chapter of the Liji (“Collection of Rituals”), one of the Wujing (“Five Classics”) of Confucianism. When Zhu Xi, a 12th-century philosopher,

Daxue Mountains, great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of Tibet; their formation occurred during successive foldings that took place in the

Daxue Mountains, great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of Tibet; their formation occurred during successive foldings that took place in the

Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel: The immensely massive Day and Dusk are relatively tranquil in their mountainous grandeur, though Day perhaps implies inner fire. Both female figures have the tall, slim proportions and small feet considered beautiful at the time, but otherwise they form a contrast: Dawn, a virginal figure, strains upward along…

day, time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially the period of the Earth’s rotation. The sidereal day is the time required for the Earth to rotate once relative to the background of the stars—i.e., the time between two observed passages of a star over the same meridian

James Blish: …or, Faust Aleph-Null (1968) and The Day After Judgement (1971), a fantasy in which Satan and his demons conquer Earth.

Jake Gyllenhaal: Films: Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, and Zodiac: …appeared in the disaster film The Day After Tomorrow as the son of Dennis Quaid’s character. Though the movie received only tepid reviews, it was a box-office hit. Gyllenhaal was especially busy in 2005. His credits from that year include Jarhead, about U.S. Marines serving in the Persian Gulf War,…

Michael Rumaker: A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979) and My First Satyrnalia (1981) are semiautobiographical accounts of initiation into New York’s homosexual community. His later novels included To Kill a Cardinal (1992), which was inspired by the ACT UP protest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…

Sam Wood: Films with the Marx Brothers: …with the Marx Brothers on A Day at the Races. Although not as critically acclaimed as their earlier effort, the comedy was a huge box-office hit. Part of its success was attributed to the fact that the material had been polished through numerous live public performances prior to filming (although…

Robert Lowell: Later works: …a second Pulitzer Prize, and Day by Day (1977). His translations include Phaedra (1963) and Prometheus Bound (1969); Imitations (1961), free renderings of various European poets; and The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire (1968).

fighter aircraft: A day fighter is an airplane in which weight and space are saved by eliminating the special navigational equipment of the night fighter. The air supremacy, or air superiority, fighter must have long-range capability, to enable it to travel deep into enemy territory to seek out…

the Tragically Hip: The Hip in the 1990s: Day for Night is a murky, moody, and mysterious record. Comanager Gregg told the band to re-record it; they told him to butt out. It ended up yielding six Canadian singles, including two of the Hip’s most beloved songs, “Grace, Too” and “Nautical Disaster.”

History of film: France: …narratives (La Nuit américaine [Day for Night], 1973), and literary adaptations (L’Histoire d’Adèle H. [The Story of Adele H.], 1975; Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro], 1980).

gecko: …and dirty whites predominating, though Phelsuma, a genus made up of the day geckos of Madagascar, is bright green and active in the daytime. The banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus), the most widespread native North American species, grows to 15 cm (6 inches) and is pinkish to yellowish tan with darker…

heron: Herons are subdivided into typical herons, night herons, and tiger herons. Typical herons feed during the day. In breeding season some develop showy plumes on the back and participate in elaborate mutual-courtship posturing. Best known of the typical herons are the very large, long-legged and long-necked, plain-hued, crested members…

Nayantara Sahgal: In her fourth novel, The Day in Shadow (1971), for example, the heroine is an educated divorcée struggling in India’s male-dominated society.

Jean Renoir: Early years: …Partie de campagne (released 1946; A Day in the Country), which he finished with great difficulty. A masterpiece of impressionist cinema, this film presents all the poetry and all the charm of the pictorial sense that is, far more than his technique, the basis of his art as a filmmaker.…

Margaret Drabble: …20th century were collected in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (2011). She also edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000).

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Composition and design: …in the epic piece “A Day in the Life,” which ultimately came to be revered as one of the greatest songs in the Beatles’ discography. The track combines Lennon’s breathtaking, wistful vocals with discordant orchestral music and, for the middle eight (eight bars in the middle of a conventionally…

Terry McMillan: Later works and career: McMillan’s other novels include A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001); The Interruption of Everything (2005); Getting to Happy (2010), a sequel to Waiting to Exhale; Who Asked You? (2013); and I Almost Forgot About You (2016). McMillan edited Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American

Berea College v. Kentucky: …the Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, which prohibited African American and white students from receiving an education at the same school or in schools that were located less than 25 miles (40 km) apart. Insofar as Berea College was the only integrated educational institution in Kentucky, it was clearly…

day-care centre, institution that provides supervision and care of infants and young children during the daytime, particularly so that their parents can hold jobs. Such institutions appeared in France about 1840, and the Société des Crèches was recognized by the French government in 1869. Day-care

A. Alvarez: …unconscious on Hampstead Heath; and Day of Atonement (1991), a psychological thriller.

American literature: The 17th century: …doggerel verse of Calvinistic belief, The Day of Doom (1662). There was some poetry, at least, of a higher order. Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts wrote some lyrics published in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650), which movingly conveyed her feelings concerning religion and her family. Ranked still…

Australian literature: Literature from 1940 to 1970: Martin Boyd’s Day of My Delight (1965) defines his family in its historical and moral context, while Hal Porter’s The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony (1963) is a résumé of post-Edwardian Australia as seen in a country town (an audacious but convincing variant on the bush orientation…

Nayantara Sahgal: She also wrote Day of Reckoning: Stories (2015).

Day of Reconciliation, public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Before the

Day of Reconciliation, public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Before the

Day of the Dead, holiday in Mexico, also observed to a lesser extent in other areas of Latin America and in the United States, honoring deceased loved ones and making peace with the eventuality of death by treating it familiarly, without fear and dread. It is typically observed on November 1 and 2.

George A. Romero: …Dead (1978) and continuing with Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007), and Survival of the Dead (2009). The Dead series was rife with social commentary, with allusions to the Cold War, consumerism, and class conflict. In addition to zombies, Romero’s films…

Mike Nichols: Early films: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge: …on to the big-budget film The Day of the Dolphin (1973), which starred George C. Scott as a scientist whose trained talking dolphins are kidnapped by extremists, who plan to use the animals to assassinate the president. A curious addition to Nichols’s filmography, it tried unsuccessfully to blend comedy, thriller,…

Stanley Kubrick: Early life and films: …was released by RKO as Day of the Fight (1951). Kubrick left Look, began auditing classes at Columbia University, became a voracious reader, and turned to full-time filmmaking.

Mickey Spillane: …a new book series with Day of the Guns (1964), which centred on the international agent Tiger Mann. Among his other books are The Last Cop Out (1973) and the children’s book The Day the Sea Rolled Back (1979).

Fred Zinnemann: Last films: …suspenseful but chilly political thriller The Day of the Jackal (1973), from Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 best-selling novel of the same name about a plot to assassinate French Pres. Charles de Gaulle. Edward Fox played the meticulously prepared assassin. Julia (1977), a much warmer film based on a portion of playwright…

Carlos the Jackal: …a copy of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal, and Carlos was soon dubbed “Carlos the Jackal” by the media.

The Day of the Locust, novel by Nathanael West, published in 1939, about the savagery lurking beneath the surface of the Hollywood dream. It is one of the most striking examples of the “Hollywood novel”—those that examine the unattainable fantasies nurtured by the Hollywood movie industry. Tod

John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: …the United States to film Day of the Locust (1975), based on Nathanael West’s novel about the savagery lurking behind the facade of the Hollywood dream machine. Despite a strong cast that included Burgess Meredith, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page, the film, in the eyes of many

Leonardo Sciascia: Mafia Vendetta), a study of the Mafia. Other mystery novels followed, among them A ciascuno il suo (1966; A Man’s Blessing), Il contesto (1971; Equal Danger), and Todo modo (1974; One Way or Another). Sciascia also wrote historical analyses, plays, short stories, and essays on…

James Joyce: Early life: …he published an essay, “The Day of the Rabblement,” attacking the Irish Literary Theatre (later the Abbey Theatre, in Dublin) for catering to popular taste.

Spain: Festivals and holidays: October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the “discovery” of America is celebrated (a counterpart to the celebration of Columbus Day in the United States); it has been called at different times the Day of the Race (Día de…

The Raj Quartet: …Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975), is set in India during the years leading up to that country’s independence from the British raj (sovereignty). The story examines the role of the British in…

The Day of the Triffids, post-apocalyptic science fiction novel that was created by English science fiction writer John Wyndham and published in 1951. Though it initially received only moderate acclaim, The Day of the Triffids later became a science fiction classic (as well as a low-budget movie in

Spain: Festivals and holidays: October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the “discovery” of America is celebrated (a counterpart to the celebration of Columbus Day in the United States); it has been called at different times the Day of the Race (Día de…