Dail Eireann. 1919. Irish national parliament.

Dale, Henry. 1875-1968. English physiologist. Nerve transmission process.

Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.

Damocles. 4C BC. Dionysius suspended a sword by a single hair over his head at a banquet.

Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Dana, Charles. 1819-97. US journalist, editor. Attacked corruption.

Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.

Danelaw. 878-955. NE England under Viking occupation and the laws in effect.

D’Annunzio, Gabriele. 1863-1938. Italian nationalist writer. Siezed Fiume 1919. Revived Roman salute.

Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.

Dark Ages. c500-1000. Period of decline, frequent war. Little documentation survives.

Darwin, Charles. 1809-1882. English Naturalist. His Theory of Evolution supported Materialism. Origin of Species by Natural Selection 1859. Descent of Man 1871.

Darwinism. Evolution by heredity, variety (mutation), and natural selection.

Daudet, Leon. 1867-1942. Cofounder of Action Française, 1908.

Daughters of the American Revolution. 1890-. Patriotic organization of revolutionaries’ descendants.

David, Louis. 1748-1825. French republican. Neoclassical painter. Oath of the Horatii 1784. Marat 1793. Coronation of Napoleon 1808.

Davies, William. 1871-1940. Welsh peripatetic poet. Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 1907.

Davis, William. 1850-1934. US geologist. Effect of erosion.

Dawes Plan. 1924-9. US economic assistance to Germany during reparations.

De Kooning, Willem. 1904-97. Dutch/US Abstract Expressionist painter. Woman 1950s.

De Quincey, Thomas. 1785-1859. English essayist. Confessions of an English Opium Eater 1821.

De-Stalinization. 1956. Soviet denunciation of Stalin’s regime and policies.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

De Vries. Mutation laws, 1901.

De Wet, Christiaan. 1854-1922. Boer general. Led 1914 Rebellion.

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