Anne Dacier was a classical commentator, translator, and editor, famous throughout Europe for her translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, for her part in the French literary controversy between the “ancients and moderns,” and for her work, with her husband, André Dacier, on the famous Delphin

dacite, volcanic rock that may be considered a quartz-bearing variety of andesite. Dacite is primarily associated with andesite and trachyte and forms lava flows, dikes, and sometimes massive intrusions in the centres of old volcanoes. Like andesite, dacite consists mostly of plagioclase feldspar

Dacke War, (1542–43), a Swedish peasant revolt against the autocratic Reformation policies of Gustav I Vasa (ruled 1523–60). Although unsuccessful, the revolt proved a challenge to the King’s centralizing efforts and caused Gustav to moderate his regime. Led by Nils Dacke, an outlaw, the peasants

Dacke War, (1542–43), a Swedish peasant revolt against the autocratic Reformation policies of Gustav I Vasa (ruled 1523–60). Although unsuccessful, the revolt proved a challenge to the King’s centralizing efforts and caused Gustav to moderate his regime. Led by Nils Dacke, an outlaw, the peasants

Dacke War: Led by Nils Dacke, an outlaw, the peasants of the province of Småland took up arms against the King in the spring of 1542 in protest against the royal suppression of Catholicism; furthermore, the ruthless collection procedures of nobles and state bailiffs exacerbated the peasants’ discontent. After…

David Dacko was the president of the Central African Republic from 1960 to 1965 and from 1979 to 1981. Dacko, a former teacher, held ministerial posts under Barthélemy Boganda, the prime minister of the autonomous Central African Republic. Claiming a family relationship, Dacko succeeded to the

Romania: The Dacians: …fate of the Romanized, or Daco-Roman, population north of the Danube after Aurelian’s withdrawal has been a subject of great controversy. Many scholars, especially Hungarians, argue that Romanization in Dacia was, in fact, modest and that the later Romanian population living north of the Carpathians was not native to the…

India: The Indo-Gangetic Plain: …violent gangs of criminals called dacoits, who found shelter in its many hidden ravines till the early 2000s.

Romanian language: …principal dialects may be distinguished: Dacoromanian, the basis of the standard language, spoken in Romania and Moldova in several regional variants; Aromanian (also called Macedoromanian), spoken in scattered communities in Greece, the Republic of North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, and

Dacorum, borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. The borough, in the northwestern corner of the county, includes part of the range of chalk hills known as the Chilterns, which border the London Basin on the north. Dacorum embraces a number of the outer

Nia DaCosta is a filmmaker who, at age 34, became the youngest director and the first African American woman to helm a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film, with the 2023 superhero sequel The Marvels. Her critically acclaimed feature film debut, the crime drama Little Woods (2018), won the Nora

ska: International appeal: From Millie Small to Madness to No Doubt: …by Prince Buster and by Desmond Dekker and the Aces. In the 1970s ska was a significant influence on British pop culture, and so-called groups (whose name derived from both the suits they wore and their often integrated lineups) such as the Specials, Selector, and Madness brought punk and more…

coarctation of the aorta: …a synthetic fibre such as Dacron™, or the defect is left but is bypassed by a Dacron™ tube opening into the aorta on either side of the defect—a permanent bypass for the blood flow. Surgery for this condition is most effective in young persons and is rarely performed on patients…

Podocarpaceae: Dacrydium has about 16 species of Australasian trees and shrubs, including the rimu, or New Zealand red pine. The celery-top pine (Phyllocladus asplenifolius, see photograph) is the best known of the six species of Australasian trees and shrubs in the genus Phyllocladus. The Prince Albert…

rimu, (Dacrydium cupressinum), coniferous timber tree of the family Podocarpaceae, native to New Zealand. The rimu tree may attain a height of 45 metres (150 feet) or more. The wood is reddish brown to yellowish brown, with a distinctive figuring, or marking, of light and dark streaks. It is made

fungus: Annotated classification: Order Dacrymycetales Saprotrophic; some with “tuning fork” basidia; some with fruiting bodies ranging from cup-shaped to cone-shaped; example genera include Dacrymyces, Calocera, and Guepiniopsis. Class Agaricomycetes Parasitic, pathogenic, symbiotic, or saprotrophic; most are terrestrial, with few aquatic members; all are

fungus: Annotated classification: Class Dacrymycetes Mostly saprotrophic; parenthesome imperforate (forms a dome-shaped cover over dolipore); contains 1 order. Order Dacrymycetales Saprotrophic; some with “tuning fork” basidia; some with fruiting bodies ranging from cup-shaped to cone-shaped; example genera include Dacrymyces, Calocera, and Guepiniopsis.

dacryocystitis, inflammation and infection of the lacrimal sac, usually stemming from obstruction of the flow of tears into the nose. Tears leave the eye through small openings called puncta in the inner corner of the eye and flow into the lacrimal, or tear, sac, from which they drain through a

herbicide: History: …to suspend the use of dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA or Dacthal, after the herbicide was found to cause irreversible damage to fetuses exposed in utero, including low birth weight, impaired brain development, decreased IQ, and impaired motor skills later in life. A preemergent herbicide targeting annual grasses, DCPA…

fingerprint: …book form under the title Dactiloscopía comparada (1904; “Comparative Fingerprinting”). His system is still used in most Spanish-speaking countries.

antineoplastic antibiotic: bleomycin, mitomycin, and dactinomycin, all of which are derived from species of Streptomyces bacteria. While these drugs may have antibacterial activity, they are generally too dangerous and toxic for that use. Antineoplastic antibiotics are associated with blood cell damage, hair loss, and other toxicities common to the antimetabolites…

dactyl, metrical foot consisting of one long (classical verse) or stressed (English verse) syllable followed by two short, or unstressed, syllables. Probably the oldest and most common metre in classical verse is the dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and of other ancient

asteroid: Spacecraft exploration: …moon was given the name Dactyl, from the Dactyli, a group of beings in Greek mythology who lived on Mount Ida in Crete. In 1999 astronomers using an Earth-based telescope equipped with adaptive optics discovered that the asteroid (45) Eugenia likewise has a moon. Once the orbit of an asteroid’s…

fungus: Predation: >Dactylaria—soil-inhabiting fungi easily grown under laboratory conditions. In the presence of nematodes, the mycelium produces large numbers of rings through which the average nematode is barely able to pass. When a nematode rubs the inner wall of a ring, which usually consists of three cells…

Dactylella, a genus of 30 species of fungi in the order Helotiales (phylum Ascomycota, kingdom Fungi) that exists as asexual forms (anamorphs) and captures and kills nematodes (roundworms). Once prey is captured, a penetration tube grows out of a hypha (one of the filaments that make up the body of

orchard grass, (Dactylis glomerata), perennial pasture, hay, and forage grass of the family Poaceae. Orchard grass is native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa and is widely cultivated throughout the world. It has naturalized in many places and is considered an invasive species in some areas

cochineal: …of certain female scale insects, Dactylopius coccus, of the Coccidae family, cactus-eating insects native to tropical and subtropical America. Cochineal is used to produce scarlet, crimson, orange, and other tints and to prepare pigments such as lake and carmine (qq.v.). The dye was introduced into Europe from Mexico, where it…

flying gurnard, (family Dactylopteridae), any of a small group of marine fish comprising the family Dactylopteridae (order Scorpaeniformes). Flying gurnards are similar to the sea robins, or gurnards (family Triglidae, order Scorpaeniformes), and are sometimes considered as relatives of that group

flying gurnard: …are quite colourful; those of Dactylopterus volitans, a flying gurnard species found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, for example, are brightly spotted with blue. Flying gurnards are further characterized by a covering of bony plates on their heads and by a single dorsal fin ray, separate from…

Dactylorhiza, genus of about 30 species of terrestrial orchids (family Orchidaceae) with palmately lobed root tubers. They grow in meadows and damp places throughout Eurasia and in parts of North Africa, Alaska, and some Atlantic islands. Some are cultivated as garden ornamentals. Dactylorhiza

Dactylorhiza: sambucina), and spotted orchid (D. fuchsii) are common European species.

Dactylorhiza: The early marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), elder-flowered orchid (D. sambucina), and spotted orchid (D. fuchsii) are common European species.

Dactylorhiza: …early marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), elder-flowered orchid (D. sambucina), and spotted orchid (D. fuchsii) are common European species.

frog orchid, (Dactylorhiza viridis), (formerly Coeloglossum viride), small terrestrial orchid (family Orchidaceae), native to moist temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The flowers usually are green or brownish green, occasionally tinged with red, and are each borne with a long tapering

stargazer: …(electric stargazers) and Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers), both of the order Perciformes. Stargazers habitually bury themselves in the bottom. They have tapered bodies and big, heavy, flat heads. Their mouths slant vertically, their lips are fringed, and their eyes are on top of the head (hence the common name).

dactyloscopy, the science of fingerprint identification. Dactyloscopy relies on the analysis and classification of patterns observed in individual prints. Fingerprints are made of series of ridges and furrows on the surface of a finger; the loops, whorls, and arches formed by those ridges and

cnidarian: Reproduction and life cycles: Some colonies possess dactylozooids, tentacleless polyps heavily armed with nematocysts that seem primarily concerned with defense. Gonozooids develop reproductive structures called gonophores. Members of the order Siphonophora, free-floating colonial hydrozoans, display an even greater variety of polymorphs. These include gas-filled floats called pneumatophores,

fruit fly: …which attacks citrus crops; the Oriental fruit fly (Dacus dorsalis), which infests many kinds of subtropical fruits; and the olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae), which destroys olives in the Mediterranean region. Control methods vary with the species involved and include spraying of fruits with insecticides during the egg-laying season, destruction…

fruit fly: …of subtropical fruits; and the olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae), which destroys olives in the Mediterranean region. Control methods vary with the species involved and include spraying of fruits with insecticides during the egg-laying season, destruction of infested fruit, and control by parasites.

William Wharton: Wharton’s second novel, Dad (1981; filmed 1989), tells the story of the title character’s life through the memories of his son and grandson as they care for him in his old age. A Midnight Clear (1982; filmed 1992) mines Wharton’s experiences in World War II, while Scumbler (1984)…

compact disc (CD), a molded plastic disc containing digital data that is scanned by a laser beam for the reproduction of recorded sound and other information. Since its commercial introduction in 1982, the audio CD has almost completely replaced the phonograph disc (or record) for high-fidelity

Jamie Foxx: Later credits: In the TV sitcom Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! (2021) he played a single father of a teenager; he also cocreated and cowrote the show. Foxx later reprised the role of Electro in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

Tim O’Brien: Other works: In the nonfiction Dad’s Maybe Book (2019), O’Brien combines memoir with a discussion of parenting, including advice to his sons. In 2023 he published America Fantastica, his first novel in more than 20 years. It follows a disgraced journalist who is also a compulsive liar as he embarks…

Dada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th century. Several explanations have been given by various members of the movement as to how it received its

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Dada movement’s founding in Zürich, Switzerland. Dadaism arose as a radical, anti-aesthetic, and antiestablishment movement that was founded in its members’ profound revulsion for bourgeois elitism and for the destruction and tragic loss of life taking place

Ahmedabad: The contemporary city: …city center are the distinctive Dada Harir (1501) and Mata Bhavani wavs (stepwells), which are used for religious purposes.

Moktar Ould Daddah was a statesman who was the first president of independent Mauritania (1961–78). He was noted for his progress in unifying his ethnically mixed, dispersed, and partly nomadic people under his authoritarian but enlightened rule. Of aristocratic background, Moktar Ould Daddah was

The White Lotus: Season one: Hawaii: …Rachel Patton (Jake Lacy and Alexandra Daddario) are newlyweds. Shane is a spoiled man-child who frequently complains and demeans the staff, including Armond, and speaks often to his mother, Kitty (Molly Shannon). Rachel spends much of the show in a state of disillusionment about her nascent marriage, wondering if her…

Bernardo Daddi was a Florentine painter of the early Italian Renaissance who was a pupil of Giotto and was influenced by Pietro Lorenzetti. Daddi’s efforts to fuse the plastic qualities of Giotto’s art with some aspects of Sienese art came to represent the dominant style of painting directly after

Dakota Johnson: Later films: In Daddio (2023), which is largely set in a taxi cab, Johnson portrays a young woman who has a candid conversation with the driver (Sean Penn). In 2024 she assumed the title role in the Marvel film Madame Web. It was widely panned, and Johnson’s ambivalence…

Daddy, poem by American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, published posthumously in 1965 in the collection Ariel. One of Plath’s most famous poems, “Daddy” was completed in October 1962, during a brief prolific period of writing before her suicide in February 1963. In images that progress from

Ed Bullins: …Home Boy (produced 1976), and Daddy (produced 1977). In 1975 he received critical acclaim for The Taking of Miss Janie, a play about the failed alliance of an interracial group of political idealists in the 1960s.

Charles Emmanuel Grace was an African American revivalist and founder of the United House of Prayer for All People. After spending his youth in Cabo Verde, Grace immigrated to the United States in 1904 and Anglicized his name. He settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and set up his first “House of

Jean Negulesco: Millionaire and Three Coins: …Fred Astaire in the musical Daddy Long Legs (1955), about a rich playboy who secretly puts a French orphan (Leslie Caron) through school. Negulesco’s other notable films from the decade include The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)—an adaptation of a novel by Louis Bromfield, starring Lana Turner, Richard Burton, and MacMurray—and…

daddy longlegs, (order Opiliones), any of more than 6,650 species of arachnids (class Arachnida) that are known for their extremely long and thin legs and for their compact bodies. Daddy longlegs are closely related to scorpions (order Scorpiones) but, because of their appearance, are often

daddy longlegs, (order Opiliones), any of more than 6,650 species of arachnids (class Arachnida) that are known for their extremely long and thin legs and for their compact bodies. Daddy longlegs are closely related to scorpions (order Scorpiones) but, because of their appearance, are often

spider: Annotated classification: Family Pholcidae (daddy longlegs spiders) About 960 species worldwide. Similar to the nonspiders called daddy longlegs of the order Opiliones. Tarsi of legs with many false articulations; no tracheae; web loose and tangled; Pholcus of Europe and America. Family Amaurobiidae 680 species common

Joyce Carol Oates: Novels and short stories: …Skyler Rampike (2008), Mudwoman (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Carthage (2014), Jack of Spades (2015), The Man Without a Shadow (2016), and Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020).

Carl Perkins: …hit with Perkins’s composition “Daddy Sang Bass.” Indeed, many other country acts found similar success with his songs. Subsequently, Perkins again played with a family band, this time with sons Greg (on bass) and Stan (on drums). Unquestionably one of rock music’s pioneers, Perkins was inducted into the Rock…

Ntozake Shange: …children’s books, including Whitewash (1997), Daddy Says (2003), and Ellington Was Not a Street (2004).

Harold Gray: …she was frequently rescued by Daddy Warbucks, a bald billionaire who often expressed Gray’s conservative political leanings. Annie had courage, determination, and honesty, and Gray kept her at her original age—around 10 or 12. At the time of his death, the strip was carried by 400 papers in the United…

reggaeton: …women in the male-dominated genre, Daddy Yankee, and other future reggaeton performers tested their talents. It was also the spot for the perreo, a sexual dance move that soon became associated with the music. Like reggae en español and hip-hop in Spanish, underground was known for having homophobic, misogynistic, and…

Mark Robson: Later films: Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting (1969), a small suspense film, earned less attention, and Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) was a flawed adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s play, with Steiger as a big-game hunter who returns home after having been missing in the Amazon for eight years. The…

Mary Higgins Clark: … (1989), We’ll Meet Again (1999), Daddy’s Gone a Hunting (2013), and I’ve Got My Eyes on You (2018). Several of Clark’s novels and stories were adapted into films.

Will Ferrell: Step Brothers and Anchorman 2: …their father (Mark Wahlberg) in Daddy’s Home (2015). In 2017 he reprised the role in Daddy’s Home 2 and also starred with Amy Poehler in The House, about a suburban couple who run an illegal casino in order to pay for their daughter’s college tuition.

Will Ferrell: Step Brothers and Anchorman 2: …he reprised the role in Daddy’s Home 2 and also starred with Amy Poehler in The House, about a suburban couple who run an illegal casino in order to pay for their daughter’s college tuition.

Paul Durcan: Durcan’s Daddy, Daddy (1990) was awarded the Whitbread Book Award for poetry. The collection comprises a series of elegiac and counter-elegiac poems for his father. Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999) contains some of his most audacious poetry; “Meeting the President” is a strikingly original,…

Jean Webster: …remembered for her fiction best-seller Daddy-Long-Legs, which was also successful in stage and motion picture adaptations.

Second Seminole War: The Dade Massacre marked the start of the Second Seminole War. That same day Osceola also killed Thompson. On December 31 another contingent of some 750 soldiers and volunteers, led by General Duncan Clinch, was ambushed on the Withlacoochee River and forced to withdraw.

Second Seminole War: …December 28, 1835, as Major Francis Dade was leading more than 100 soldiers from Fort Brooke (near Tampa) to Fort King (near present-day Ocala), some 180 Seminoles and their allies ambushed the troops, killing all but three. The Dade Massacre marked the start of the Second Seminole War. That same…

A once-unused airfield located in Big Cypress National Preserve, deep within the Florida Everglades, gained renewed attention in 2025—not for its aviation legacy, but for its contentious transformation into a large-scale immigration detention center. The project at Dade-Collier Training and

Dadès River, river in southern Morocco. It rises in the Atlas Mountains and flows south for 220 miles (350 km) through wild gorges to the Sahara, where it merges into the Drâa River. The Dadès River, especially its gorges, is a popular tourist

Dadès River, river in southern Morocco. It rises in the Atlas Mountains and flows south for 220 miles (350 km) through wild gorges to the Sahara, where it merges into the Drâa River. The Dadès River, especially its gorges, is a popular tourist

Dadès River, river in southern Morocco. It rises in the Atlas Mountains and flows south for 220 miles (350 km) through wild gorges to the Sahara, where it merges into the Drâa River. The Dadès River, especially its gorges, is a popular tourist

Sun Quan was the founder and first emperor of the Wu dynasty, one of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo) into which China was divided at the end of the Han period (206 bc–ad 220). The Wu occupied the area in eastern China around Nanjing and lasted from 222 to 280. Its capital, Jianye, became

Bernard Binlin Dadié was an Ivoirian poet, dramatist, novelist, and administrator whose works were inspired both by traditional themes from Africa’s past and by a need to assert the modern African’s desire for equality, dignity, and freedom. Dadié received his higher education in Senegal, where his

medal: The Baroque period: Sebastian Dadler (1586–1657) was employed by the courts of Saxony, Sweden, Poland, and the Holy Roman Empire to produce large struck medals on the political events of the time. The Swiss Johann Carl Hedlinger (1691–1771) was trained in Paris, became court medalist in Stockholm, and…

dado, in Classical architecture, the plain portion between the base and cornice of the pedestal of a column and, in later architecture, the paneled, painted, or otherwise decorated lower part of a wall, up to 2 or 3 feet (60 to 90 cm) above the floor. Internal walls were so treated between the 16th

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, district, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu union territory, west-central India, located in the western part of the country and situated between the states of Gujarat to the north and Maharashtra to the south. It lies some 15 miles (24 km) from the Arabian Sea and

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, union territory, western India, consisting of three noncontiguous districts—Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman, and Diu—and which came into being in January 2020 following the merger of Dadra and Nagar Haveli union territory and Daman and Diu union territory.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, district, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu union territory, west-central India, located in the western part of the country and situated between the states of Gujarat to the north and Maharashtra to the south. It lies some 15 miles (24 km) from the Arabian Sea and

Beijing, city, province-level shi (municipality), and capital of the People’s Republic of China. Few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China. The city has been an integral part of China’s history over the past

Dadu, town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. The town lies just west of the Indus River, about 100 miles (160 km) north-northwest of Hyderabad. A distribution centre, it is connected by road and rail with Hyderabad, Karachi, and Quetta. Dadu has men’s and women’s government colleges that are

Taidu, name by which the Venetian traveler Marco Polo referred to the city of Beijing, China, which at that time was the capital of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty

Dadu was a Hindu-Muslim saint who inspired the formation of a sect called Dadu Panth. A cotton carder by profession, Dadu became a religious wanderer and preacher, settling for periods of time at Sembhar, at Amber, and finally at Naraina, near Jaipur (Rajasthan state), which remains the centre of

Dadu: …formation of a sect called Dadu Panth.

Dadu: …formation of a sect called Dadu Panth.

A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (DAE), four-volume dictionary designed to define usage of words and phrases in American English as it differed from usage in England and other English-speaking countries, as well as to show how the cultural and natural history of the United

Parhae: by a former Koguryŏ general, Tae Cho-Yŏng (Dae Jo-Yeong).

Democratic Party of Korea (DP), centrist-liberal political party in South Korea. The party supports greater human rights, improved relations with North Korea, and an economic policy described as “new progressivism.” The party was founded by Kim Dae-Jung in 1995 as the National Congress for New

toadfish: toadfishes (Thalassophryne and Daector), found in Central and South America and notable for inflicting painful wounds with the hollow, venom-injecting spines on their dorsal fins and gill covers; and midshipmen (Porichthys), shallow-water American fishes named for numerous (600–840) small, buttonlike light organs arranged in rows along the body.

Daedala, ancient festival of Hera, consort of the supreme god Zeus. The Daedala was celebrated on Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia (in present-day central Greece). In the festival, a wooden image dressed as a bride was carried in procession, then burnt with sacrificed animals and a wooden sacrificial

Daedalic sculpture, type of sculpture attributed to a legendary Greek artist, Daedalus, who is connected in legend both to Bronze Age Crete and to the earliest period of Archaic sculpture in post-Bronze Age Greece. The legends about Daedalus recognize him both as a man and as a mythical embodiment.

animation: Early history: …William George Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures that could be changed. The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876 adapted the principle into a form that could be projected before a theatrical audience. Reynaud became not only animation’s first entrepreneur but, with his gorgeously…

Daedalus, mythical Greek inventor, architect, and sculptor who was said to have built, among other things, the paradigmatic Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Ancient sources for the legends of Daedalus give varying accounts of his parentage. It is reported that in a fit of envy he murdered his

Antonio Canova, marchese d’Ischia: In 1779 he sculpted Daedalus and Icarus which had been commissioned by Pisani, procurator of the Venetian republic; it was Canova’s first important work. Somewhat Rococo in style, the figures were considered so realistic that the sculptor was accused of making plaster casts from live models.

Emanuel Swedenborg: Early life and works: …country’s first scientific journal, called Daedalus Hyperboreus, in which he wrote numerous reports of his projects and discoveries and of the inventions of Sweden’s foremost mechanical talent of the time, Christopher Polhem. King Charles XII made the young scientist an assistant to Polhem by appointing him assessor extra ordinem (“extraordinary”)…

taegŭm, large transverse bamboo flute with a distinctive sound, widely used in Korean music. The taegǔm is about 31 inches (80 cm) long. It has a mouthpiece opening and six finger holes, as well as two to five open holes toward the end. A special aperture covered with a reed membrane gives the

Icelandic literature: The 19th century: …prose fantasies, and an autobiography, Dægradvöl (1923; “Day-Spending”). Þorsteinsson wrote nature poetry and satiric epigrams but is best remembered as a translator of The Thousand and One Nights (1857–64) and Shakespeare’s King Lear (1878). Jochumsson’s Hallgrímur Pétursson (1874) and hymn Fadir andanna (c. 1884; “Father of Spirits”) established him as…

Daegu, metropolitan city, southeastern South Korea. Daegu is one of South Korea’s largest urban areas and has the status of a metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government, with administrative status equal to that of a province. It lies east of the confluence of the Nakdong