• Deadmau5 (Canadian music producer)

    Deadmau5 is a Canadian electronic dance music (EDM) producer and performer who was at the forefront of the revitalization of that genre in the 2000s. Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers. As a teenager he started making music with old

  • Deadpool (film by Miller [2016])

    Deadpool: Impact and legacy: …culture mainstream owed much to Deadpool (2016), an ultraviolent blockbuster that cast Ryan Reynolds in the starring role. Deadpool was the top-grossing R-rated film at that time, earning nearly $800 million in global box office receipts. Deadpool 2 (2018), which saw Reynolds return in the lead role and cast Josh…

  • Deadpool (fictional character)

    Deadpool, is a Marvel Comics antihero. Making his debut in The New Mutants no. 98 in February 1991, Deadpool has since become an American comic book staple, known for his ultraviolence, fourth wall–breaking antics, and consistent (if not insufferable) quips and punch lines. Deadpool is the creation

  • Deadpool & Wolverine (film by Levy [2024])

    Deadpool: Impact and legacy: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) marks the first appearance of either character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of the studio’s “Phase 5” of storytelling.

  • Deadpool 2 (film by Leitch [2018])

    Josh Brolin: Sicario and The Avengers series: …role alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2 (2018), a hugely popular action film. During this time Brolin also played the villain Thanos in a series of blockbuster movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was introduced as the character in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and later appeared in Avengers:…

  • Deadwater (Maine, United States)

    Orono, town, Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It lies along the Penobscot River 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bangor. Settled about 1775, it was known as Deadwater and Stillwater Plantation before it was incorporated under its present name honouring Joseph Orono, a Penobscot Indian chief

  • deadweight (ship design)

    ship: Hydrostatics: …form a total known as deadweight. To deadweight must be added the weight of the ship’s structure, propulsion machinery, hull engineering (nonpropulsive machinery), and outfit (fixed items having to do with crew life support). These categories of weight are known collectively as lightship weight. The sum of deadweight and lightship…

  • deadweight tonnage (nautical science)

    tonnage: Deadweight tonnage (DWT) is a measurement of total contents of a ship including cargo, fuel, crew, passengers, food, and water aside from boiler water. It is expressed in long tons of 2,240 pounds (1,016.0469088 kilograms).

  • Deadwood (South Dakota, United States)

    Deadwood, city, seat (1877) of Lawrence county, western South Dakota, U.S. Located just northeast of Lead and about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Rapid City, Deadwood lies in a canyon formed by Whitewood Creek in the northern Black Hills, more than 4,530 feet (1,380 metres) above sea level. Built

  • Deadwood (American television series)

    Brian Cox: Career: … (2006), the Western television series Deadwood (2006), the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), and the miniseries drama The Slap (2015).

  • deaf history

    deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

  • deaf history

    deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

  • Deaf Un, the (British boxer)

    James Burke was a British bare-knuckle fighter who was the English heavyweight champion from 1833 to 1839. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Burke, who was hearing impaired from infancy, worked on the River Thames as a waterman before beginning his boxing career. He began

  • deaf, history of the

    deaf history, the experience and education of deaf persons and the development of deaf communities and culture through time. The history of deaf people (those affected by varying degrees of deafness) has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education

  • deaf-blindness (medicine)

    deaf-blindness, disability in which an individual has both a hearing impairment and a visual impairment. Deaf-blind individuals form a highly heterogeneous group, in which hearing and visual impairments are expressed to varying degrees. An individual is diagnosed with a hearing impairment if he or

  • deaf-mutism (pathology)

    speech disorder: Speech of the hard of hearing: Deaf children have traditionally been educated in special schools for the deaf, where the oral method (showing how to shape the oral structures for each speech sound) of teaching speech has competed with the older manual method of allowing the deaf to communicate through their…

  • deafness (medical condition)

    deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction deafness and nerve deafness. In conduction deafness, there is interruption of the sound vibrations in their passage from the outer world to the nerve cells in the inner ear. The obstacle may be earwax

  • deafness on Martha’s Vineyard

    deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, phenomenon in which a disproportionate percentage of the population living on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, U.S., was affected by a hereditary form of deafness. The overall rate of Vineyard deafness peaked in the 19th

  • Deagan, J. C. (American musician)

    marimba: …the early 20th century by J.C. Deagan and U.G. Leedy. It is a tube-resonated instrument pitched an octave below the orchestral xylophone; its range varies, but 312octaves upward from the C below middle C is common. Players may hold two sticks in each hand to play up to four notes…

  • Deak & Company

    Nicholas L. Deak: In 1939 he founded Deak & Company, but he closed the operation in 1942, when he joined the U.S. Army. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943 and eventually a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  • Deák Party (Hungarian politics)

    Hungary: Hungary under dualism: …Compromise, then known as the Deák Party, held office first but soon got into such financial and personal difficulties that complete chaos threatened. It was averted when in 1875 Kálmán Tisza, the leader of the moderate nationalist Left Centre, merged his party with the remnants of the Deákists on a…

  • Deák, Ferenc (Hungarian statesman)

    Ferenc Deák was a Hungarian statesman whose negotiations led to the establishment of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867. Deák was the son of a wealthy Hungarian landowner. After graduating in law, he entered the administrative service of his county of Zala, which in 1833 sent him to

  • Deak, Nicholas L. (American banker)

    Nicholas L. Deak was a banker and founder of an internationally renowned retail currency-exchange service and dealer in precious metals. Deak received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1929. He worked with the Hungarian Trade Institute (1930–35) and with the

  • Deak, Nicholas Louis (American banker)

    Nicholas L. Deak was a banker and founder of an internationally renowned retail currency-exchange service and dealer in precious metals. Deak received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1929. He worked with the Hungarian Trade Institute (1930–35) and with the

  • Deakin, Alfred (prime minister of Australia)

    Alfred Deakin was the prime minister of Australia (1903–04, 1905–08, 1909–10), who shaped many of the policies of the new commonwealth, especially those dealing with restriction of nonwhite immigration, social welfare, and protection of domestic industry. In 1880 Deakin entered the legislative

  • Deakin, Arthur (British labor leader)

    Arthur Deakin was a leader of British trade unionism in the decade after World War II. A cobbler’s son, Deakin began work at age 13 in a South Wales steel plant, becoming an active trade unionist during World War I and a full-time union official in 1919. In 1932 he was appointed national secretary

  • Deal (England, United Kingdom)

    Deal, town (parish), Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, eastern England. It is situated on the Strait of Dover, about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Dover. The town has a natural roadstead harbour, the Downs, enclosed by the North and South Forelands and the perilous Goodwin

  • Deal galley punt (watercraft)

    boat: Northern Europe and Britain: …noted English type was the Deal galley punt, a square-sterned, lapstrake open boat rigged with a single dipping lugsail and once used for salvage and rescue work off the beach. The cat was a larger lugger of two or three masts used at Deal; both types were very seaworthy and…

  • Deal in Wheat, A (short story by Norris)

    A Deal in Wheat, short story by Frank Norris, first published serially in 1902 and then in the book A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West, published posthumously in 1903. Employing the techniques of naturalism, the five-part story examines the business of wheat speculation at

  • Deal of the Century (film by Friedkin [1983])

    William Friedkin: …was with the disappointing comedy Deal of the Century (1983), which features Chevy Chase as an international arms dealer. Although To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) failed to salvage Friedkin’s reputation, the gritty drama about federal agents on the trail of a counterfeiting ring was generally praised. Of particular…

  • Deal, Kim (American musician)

    Pixies: June 10, 1965, Manila, Philippines), Kim Deal (b. June 10, 1961, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.), and David Lovering (b. December 6, 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.).

  • Deal, The (film by Schachter [2008])

    Meg Ryan: Later work: …My Mom’s New Boyfriend, and The Deal, as well as the 2009 film Serious Moonlight. Ryan also appeared on TV, including Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009 and Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy in 2013. For most of the 2010s and early 2020s, however, she acted only occasionally. In 2015…

  • dealer (London Stock Exchange)

    security: Brokers and jobbers: Trading on the London Stock Exchange is carried on through a unique system of brokers and jobbers. A broker acts as an agent for his customers; a jobber, or dealer, transacts business on the floor of the exchange but does not deal with the…

  • dealer’s choice (poker)

    poker: Dealer’s choice: In informal poker games, each successive dealer is usually permitted to dictate the variant of poker that will be played. This privilege is most often expressed by the dealer selecting one of the forms of poker described above. The dealer may also designate…

  • Dealey Plaza (plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States)

    Dealey Plaza, city park at the west end of downtown Dallas, Texas, between and on either side of the three main thoroughfares of Elm Street, Main Street, and Commerce Street at a point just before they converge in the Triple Underpass. Created on the spot where the city was founded and often

  • dealfish (fish)

    dealfish, any of several slender marine fishes that belong to the genus Trachipterus (family Trachipteridae, order Lampridiformes), a subgroup of the ribbonfish. The dealfish inhabits the middle waters, probably not below 400 m (1,300 feet), and is characterized by a long, laterally compressed

  • Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation (novel by Dickens)

    Dombey and Son, novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments during 1846–48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial novel in his development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy

  • Dealul Pricopanului (hills, Romania)

    Romania: Relief: …feet (467 metres) in the Pricopan Hills.

  • deamination (chemical reaction)

    excretion: Products of excretion: …acids for energy production is deamination, the splitting off of ammonia from the amino-acid molecule. The remainder is oxidized to carbon dioxide and water, with the concomitant production of the energy-rich molecules of adenosine triphosphate (ATP; see metabolism).

  • dean (diplomat)

    diplomacy: Diplomatic agents: …papal envoy is always the doyen, or dean, of the diplomatic corps; internuncios elsewhere found themselves in the tiny remaining group of ministers. Hence, the title of pro-nuncio was devised to gain entry into the first class.

  • Dean Martin Show, The (American television program)

    Dean Martin: His television variety show, The Dean Martin Show, began an eight-year run in 1965 and was followed by The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (1973–74), the latter a series of celebrity “roasts.” He continued to host celebrity roasts occasionally through 1984. Although Martin often seemed to be intoxicated during his…

  • Dean of Lismore, The Book of the (Gaelic literature)

    The Book of the Dean of Lismore, miscellany of Scottish and Irish poetry, the oldest collection of Gaelic poetry extant in Scotland. It was compiled between 1512 and 1526, chiefly by Sir James MacGregor, the dean of Lismore (now in Argyll and Bute council area), and his brother Duncan. The

  • Dean, Basil (British actor, director and producer)

    Ealing Studios: …of England’s best known producers, Basil Dean and Reginald Baker, with the financial support of the Courtauld family, manufacturers of textiles, the company opened its own distribution outlet within two years and built the studios at Ealing near London. It produced several vaudeville-style musical comedies as well as serious feature…

  • Dean, Christopher (English figure skater)

    Torvill and Dean: Torvill and Dean were already accomplished figure skaters with other partners when they first joined forces in 1975—Torvill was the British junior pairs champion, Dean the British junior ice dance champion. They built their partnership into a formidable dance team while working full-time, Torvill as an insurance…

  • Dean, Christopher Colin (English figure skater)

    Torvill and Dean: Torvill and Dean were already accomplished figure skaters with other partners when they first joined forces in 1975—Torvill was the British junior pairs champion, Dean the British junior ice dance champion. They built their partnership into a formidable dance team while working full-time, Torvill as an insurance…

  • Dean, Dixie (British football player)

    Dixie Dean was a British football (soccer) player, remembered as one of the great centre forwards of his time. Dean first worked as a railway apprentice but at age 16 turned to professional soccer and at 17 played for the Tranmere Rovers. In the 1924–25 season he scored 27 goals in 27 matches.

  • Dean, Dizzy (American baseball player)

    Dizzy Dean was an American professional baseball player who had a brief but spectacular pitching career with the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League. He was one of the most colourful athletes in the history of organized sports. In five outstanding seasons (1932–36), Dean, a right-hander, won

  • Dean, Forest of (forest, England, United Kingdom)

    Forest of Dean, ancient royal forest of oak and beech in western Gloucestershire, England, covering an area of about 26,000 ac (10,500 ha) between the Rivers Severn and Wye. It became a National Forest Park administered by the Forestry Commission in 1938. Forest residents (“commoners”) retain their

  • Dean, Gordon (American scientist)

    nuclear weapon: The weapons are tested: Gordon Dean, chairman of the AEC, convened a meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, hosted by Oppenheimer, on June 16–17, 1951, where the new idea was discussed. In attendance were the GAC members, AEC commissioners, and key scientists and consultants…

  • Dean, Howard (American politician)

    Howard Dean is an American physician and politician who was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002. He ran for the Democratic nomination for the president of the United States in the 2004 election and served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee. Dean was born to Howard Brush Dean, Jr.,

  • Dean, Howard Brush, III (American politician)

    Howard Dean is an American physician and politician who was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002. He ran for the Democratic nomination for the president of the United States in the 2004 election and served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee. Dean was born to Howard Brush Dean, Jr.,

  • Dean, James (American actor)

    James Dean was an American film actor who was enshrined as a symbol of the confused, restless, and idealistic youth of the 1950s. Although he made few films before his death in a car accident at age 24, his performances, perhaps most notably in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), have proved enduring.

  • Dean, James Byron (American actor)

    James Dean was an American film actor who was enshrined as a symbol of the confused, restless, and idealistic youth of the 1950s. Although he made few films before his death in a car accident at age 24, his performances, perhaps most notably in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), have proved enduring.

  • Dean, Jay Hanna (American baseball player)

    Dizzy Dean was an American professional baseball player who had a brief but spectacular pitching career with the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League. He was one of the most colourful athletes in the history of organized sports. In five outstanding seasons (1932–36), Dean, a right-hander, won

  • Dean, John (United States political adviser)

    John Dean is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel (1970–73) during the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon and whose revelation of official participation in the Watergate scandal ultimately led to the resignation of the president and the imprisonment of Dean himself and

  • Dean, John Wesley, III (United States political adviser)

    John Dean is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel (1970–73) during the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon and whose revelation of official participation in the Watergate scandal ultimately led to the resignation of the president and the imprisonment of Dean himself and

  • Dean, Laura (American dancer and choreographer)

    Mark Morris: as Eliot Feld, Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, and Hannah Kahn. In 1980 he launched his company when he and 10 fellow dancers presented a concert of his works, and its reputation was solidified at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 1984 Next Wave Festival. Two years later Morris won a Guggenheim…

  • Dean, Paul Dee (American baseball player)

    Dizzy Dean: …games and that his brother Paul Dee Dean, also a pitcher for the Cardinals, would win 15. That year Dizzy won exactly 30 and Paul 19. Dizzy then announced: “Who won the pennant? Me and Paul. Who’s going to win the [World] Series? Me and Paul.” Each brother defeated the…

  • Dean, Priscilla (American actress)

    Tod Browning: Early life and work: …nine films with leading actress Priscilla Dean, including the hit The Virgin of Stamboul (1920). The Wicked Darling (1919) marked Browning’s first work with Lon Chaney and starred Dean and Chaney as a pair of pickpockets. Browning, Dean, and Chaney reunited for Outside the Law (1920), a crime story set…

  • Dean, Roger (British artist)

    Yes: …of Yes’s relationship with artist Roger Dean, whose album covers and stage designs defined the group’s visual style. Their sound, which featured Anderson’s falsetto vocals and Howe’s complex guitar supported by Squire’s bass and Wakeman’s multilayered keyboards, further developed with Close to the Edge (1972) and Tales from Topographic Oceans…

  • Dean, William Ralph (British football player)

    Dixie Dean was a British football (soccer) player, remembered as one of the great centre forwards of his time. Dean first worked as a railway apprentice but at age 16 turned to professional soccer and at 17 played for the Tranmere Rovers. In the 1924–25 season he scored 27 goals in 27 matches.

  • Deane, Derek (British ballet dancer and choreographer)

    English National Ballet: Schaufuss, Ivan Nagy, Derek Deane, Matz Skoog, and Wayne Eagling. Tamara Rojo was appointed to the position in 2012.

  • Deane, Martha (American journalist and broadcaster)

    Mary Margaret McBride was an American journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best remembered for the warm down-home personality she projected on her highly popular long-running radio program. McBride moved frequently from farm to farm with her family. Her schooling was similarly episodic until 1906,

  • Deane, Raymond (Irish composer and pianist)

    Raymond Deane is an Irish composer and pianist known for being an outspoken advocate on behalf of contemporary Irish classical composers. Deane was raised on Achill Island and at age 10 moved to Dublin with his family. He began taking piano lessons at the Dublin College of Music, and, according to

  • Deane, Silas (American diplomat)

    Silas Deane was the first U.S. diplomat sent abroad (1776), who helped secure much-needed French aid for the American Revolutionary cause. Admitted to the bar in 1761, Deane served as a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia (1774–76). Congress then sent him to France

  • Deanwood (neighborhood, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    Washington, D.C.: Northeast: The neighbourhood of Deanwood was established in Northeast in 1888 as a semirural, self-sufficient, racially mixed community. By the mid-20th century it had become a predominately African American neighbourhood.

  • Dear Ann (novel by Mason)

    Bobbie Ann Mason: …the Blue Beret (2011), and Dear Ann (2020). Among her other short-story collections were Love Life: Stories (1989), Midnight Magic (1998), and Nancy Culpepper (2006). In 2003 Mason wrote a biography about Elvis Presley. Clear Springs: A Family Story (1999) is a memoir.

  • Dear Basketball (film by Keane [2017])

    Kobe Bryant: …Bryant wrote the poem “Dear Basketball,” and two years later it served as the basis for a short film of the same name, which he also narrated. The work won an Academy Award for best animated short film. In 2018 Bryant published the book The Mamba Mentality: How I…

  • Dear Brigitte (film by Koster [1965])

    Brigitte Bardot: … (1963; Contempt), Viva Maria! (1965), Dear Brigitte (1965), and Masculin-Féminin (1966; Masculine Feminine). With her career waning, Bardot appeared in her final films in 1973 and subsequently retired.

  • Dear Darkness (poetry by Young)

    Kevin Young: Poetry collections: Dear Darkness (2008) memorializes Young’s father, who died in 2004 in a hunting accident. The collection pays tribute to family and grief in poems such as “Cousins,” “Aunties,” “Pallbearing,” and “Ode to My Father’s Feet.” Other poems explore the bonds of family through short yet…

  • Dear Evan Hansen (film by Chbosky [2021])

    Amy Adams: Stage debut and later career: …her neighbor being attacked, and Dear Evan Hansen, which was based on a Broadway musical. In Disenchanted (2022), Adams reprised her role as Princess Giselle in the sequel to Enchanted, 15 years after her happy ending. She next starred in Nightbitch (2024), a dark comedy about an exhausted mother who…

  • Dear Ghosts (poetry by Gallagher)

    Tess Gallagher: (1974), The Valentine Elegies (1993), Dear Ghosts (2006), Midnight Lantern (2011), and Is, Is Not (2019).

  • Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life (memoir by Wong)

    Ali Wong: Career: …she authored the comedic memoir Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life, written as letters of advice to her young daughters. Wong went on to play assistant district attorney Ellen Yee in the 2020 DC Comics superhero film Birds of Prey. Khan directed Wong’s…

  • Dear Heart (film by Mann [1964])

    Delbert Mann: Feature films: …who fall in love in Dear Heart (1964).

  • Dear John (novel by Sparks)

    Nicholas Sparks: …in Rodanthe (2002; film 2008), Dear John (2006; film 2010), The Choice (2007; film 2016), The Last Song (2009; film 2010), The Lucky One (2008; film 2012), The Best of Me (2011; film 2014), and The Longest Ride (2013; film 2015). In 2015 he released the novel See Me,

  • Dear John, Dear Coltrane (poetry by Harper)

    Michael S. Harper: Harper’s first book, Dear John, Dear Coltrane (1970), addresses the theme of redemption in compact poems that are based both on historical events and figures and on his travels and personal relationships. The poetry in History Is Your Own Heartbeat (1971) and Song: I Want a Witness (1972)…

  • Dear Life (short stories by Munro)

    Alice Munro: Final works: …her oeuvre, the stories in Dear Life (2012) were unified by examinations of sex, love, and death. Four of the stories in the collection were explicitly framed as fictionalized autobiography meant to encapsulate the aging Munro’s feelings about her life. She told an interviewer that Dear Life, her 14th collection,…

  • Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (short stories by Ihimaera)

    Witi Ihimaera: …New Net Goes Fishing (1977), Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1989), and The Thrill of Falling (2012). One of the novellas from the collection Ask the Posts of the House (2007) was rewritten and filmed as White Lies (2013). The play Woman Far Walking (2000) tells…

  • Dear Mr. Henshaw (novel by Cleary)

    Beverly Cleary: …Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983), an epistolary novel about a boy who copes with his parents’ divorce by writing to his favourite author. She also had several of her works adapted for television, and in 2010 Ramona and Beezus, a film adaptation that draws from several…

  • Dear Mr. Wonderful (film by Lilienthal [1982])

    Joe Pesci: …part in the German film Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982), starred with comedian Rodney Dangerfield in Easy Money (1983), and played a mobster in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Pesci achieved broad popularity with his turn as a comically pestiferous government witness in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989).…

  • Dear Science (album by TV on the Radio)

    TV on the Radio: Dear Science (2008) offered a brightening of the group’s musical textures and lyrics, with an increased focus on hip-hop beats and major-key melodies. It debuted in the upper reaches of the Billboard albums chart and was named album of the year by Rolling Stone and…

  • Dear White People (film by Simien [2014])

    Tessa Thompson: …wrote songs for the films Dear White People and Creed, and she was the singer for the electronic soul band Caught a Ghost from 2014 to 2016.

  • Dear World (musical by Herman)

    Angela Lansbury: …Awards, for her roles in Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975), and Sweeney Todd (1979). Her later stage work included the Terrence McNally comedy Deuce (2007), as well as revivals of Mame (1983), Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (2009), and Gore Vidal’s The

  • Dearborn (Michigan, United States)

    Dearborn, city, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. Adjacent to Detroit (north and east), it lies on the River Rouge. The birthplace of Henry Ford, it is the headquarters of research, engineering, and manufacturing of the Ford Motor Company. Settled in 1795, it originated as a stagecoach stop

  • Dearborn, Emma (American educator)

    Speedwriting: …in the United States by Emma Dearborn about 1924. In Speedwriting, words are written as they sound, and only long vowels are expressed. Thus, “you” is written u, and “file” is fil. Some letters are modified for speed (e.g., the i is not dotted). The system also uses abbreviations and…

  • Dearborn, Fort (historic fort, Illinois, United States)

    Fort Dearborn, blockhouse and stockade, built in 1803 because of Indian unrest, at a narrow bend in the Chicago River, northeastern Illinois, U.S., and named for Henry Dearborn, Revolutionary War hero. The fort was evacuated in 1812, but the garrison party was massacred by Potawatomi Indians just

  • Dearborn, Henry (United States general and politician)

    Henry Dearborn was a U.S. army officer, congressman, and secretary of war for whom Ft. Dearborn—whose site is located in what is now the heart of Chicago—was named. He abandoned the practice of medicine to fight in the American Revolution, fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was captured

  • Dearden, Basil (British director)

    Khartoum: Production notes and credits:

  • Deare, John (British sculptor)

    Neoclassical art: Britain: John Bacon the Elder, John Deare, and Christopher Hewetson—the last two working mostly in Rome. The leading artist of the younger generation was John Flaxman, professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy and one of the few British artists of the period with an international reputation. The last generation…

  • Dearg, Loch (lake, Ireland)

    Lough Derg, lake on the River Shannon, situated at the boundary of Counties Tipperary, Galway, and Clare, in Ireland. Lough Derg is 24 miles (39 km) long and 0.5 to 8 miles (1 to 13 km) wide. It is 37 square miles (96 square km) in area, with a maximum depth of 119 feet (36 m). The lake has many

  • Dearly (poetry by Atwood)

    Margaret Atwood: Poetry: Her 16th collection, Dearly, was published in 2020. In 2024 she released Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023, a collection that traces the evolution of her poetry across six decades of her writing career. It also includes the entirety of Dearly and another earlier volume, Power Politics…

  • Deary, Ian (British psychologist)

    human intelligence: Cognitive theories: …work of the British psychologist Ian Deary, among others. He argued that inspection time is a particularly useful means of measuring intelligence. It is thought that individual differences in intelligence may derive in part from differences in the rate of intake and processing of simple stimulus information. In the inspection-time…

  • Deason, Muriel Ellen (American singer and songwriter)

    Kitty Wells was an American country music singer and songwriter who was the first female star of the genre. Deason sang gospel music in church as a child. In the 1930s she made her radio debut and took her stage name, Kitty Wells, from a Carter Family song. She married Johnny Wright in 1937, and

  • deastres de la guerra, Los (print series by Goya)

    caricature and cartoon: Spain: …de la guerra” (1810–14, “Disasters of War”), which used the Peninsular phase of the Napoleonic Wars as a point of departure. They are closer to universality than even Callot’s similarly inspired series and are searching comments on more stages of cruelty than Hogarth covered. In them, Goya was really…

  • Déat, Marcel (French politician)

    Marcel Déat was a French politician who was a leading collaborator with Nazi Germany. A brilliant student, Deat graduated from the École Normale and taught philosophy in Reims. In 1926 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a Socialist but broke with the party in 1932 in opposition to Léon

  • death

    death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to culture and legal systems. During the latter half of

  • death adder (reptile)

    adder: Although death adders (Acanthophis) are related to the slender-bodied cobras, they are viperlike in appearance, with thick bodies, short tails, and broad heads. They are about 45 to 90 cm (18 to 35 inches) long and are gray or brownish with darker crosswise bands. Death adders…

  • Death and Dying Words of Poor Maillie, The (poem by Burns)

    Robert Burns: Development as a poet: …“An Address to the Deil,” “The Death and Dying Words of Poor Maillie,” “To a Mouse,” “To a Louse,” and some others, including a number of verse letters addressed to various friends. There were also a few Scots poems in which he was unable to sustain his inspiration or that…

  • Death and Fire (painting by Klee)

    Paul Klee: Artistic maturity of Paul Klee: …to their former selves, and Death and Fire (1940), Klee’s evocation of the underworld, in which a rueful face of death is placed in an infernal setting of fiery red. These late images are among the most memorable of all Klee’s works and are some of the most significant depictions…

  • Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (work by Jacobs)

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