date volume 4 page 17, picture, volume 4
page 18
Morocco picture, volume 8 page 184
David (king of Israel)
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Bethlehem volume 2 page 64
Judaism volume 7 page 38
David, Jacques-Louis (French painter)
“Napoleon in His Study” picture, volume
9 page 8
painting volume 10 page 10
“David” (sculpture by Michelangelo)
Michelangelo volume 8 page 115
“David Copperfield” (work by Dickens)
Dickens volume 4 page 45
Davila, Pedro Arias (Spanish soldier and
colonial administrator)
Balboa volume 2 page 11
Panama City volume 10 page 24
da Vinci, Leonardo (Italian artist, engineer,
and scientist): see in index
Leonardo da Vinci
Davis, Jefferson (president of the Confederate
States of America)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 18, picture,
volume 4 page 19
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American CivilWar volume 1 page 96
Confederacy volume 3 page 177
Davis, Miles (U.S. musician)
jazz volume 7 page 16
Davis, Mount (mountain in Pennsylvania,
U.S.)
Allegheny Mountains volume 1 page 83
Dawes,William (U.S. patriot)
American Revolution volume 1
page 100
dawn horse (fossil equine): see in index
Eohippus
Dawson (city in Yukon, Canada)
Yukon volume 15 page 98
Dawson picture, volume 15 page 98
day
calendar volume 3 page 9
time volume 13 page 67
daylily (plant)
lily volume 7 page 151
D-Day (European-U.S. history): see in
index Normandy Invasion
deadly nightshade (plant)
nightshade volume 9 page 71
dead reckoning (navigation)
navigation volume 9 page 24
Dead Sea (salt lake in the Middle East)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 19
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Israel volume 6 page 168
Jordan River volume 7 page 36
salt deposits picture, volume 4 page 20
Dead Sea Scrolls (ancient manuscripts)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 20, picture,
volume 4 page 20
deafness (medical disorder)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 21
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Bell volume 2 page 58
teacher using sign language picture, volume
12 page 87
death
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 22
death camp (Nazi concentration camp)
Holocaust volume 6 page 72
death penalty (law): see in index capital
punishment
Death Valley (region in California, U.S.)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 22, picture,
volume 4 page 23
MORE TO EXPLORE
United States volume 14 page 24
Death Valley National Park (national
park in California and Nevada, U.S.)
sand dunes picture, volume 12 page 27
deathwatch beetle (insect)
types of beetles picture, volume 2 page 49
decathlon (athletic competition)
Thorpe volume 13 page 61
track and field volume 13 page 87
deciduous forest (life zone)
biome volume 2 page 74
tropics volume 13 page 99
deciduous tree
forest volume 5 page 53
leaf volume 7 page 118
tree volume 13 page 94
decimal fraction (mathematics)
numbers and number systems volume 9
page 106
decimal number system (mathematics):
see in index base-ten number system
deck (watercraft part)
boat volume 2 page 97
ship volume 12 page 82
Declaration of Independence (U.S. history)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 23, picture,
volume 4 page 24
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Adams, John volume 1 page 23
American Revolution volume 1
page 101
Delaware volume 4 page 31
George III volume 5 page 100
human rights volume 6 page 97
Independence Day volume 6 page 122
Jefferson volume 7 page 17
Liberty Bell volume 7 page 141
Pennsylvania volume 10 page 56
United States volume 14 page 28
Declaration of the Rights of Man and
of the Citizen (document of the French
Revolution, 1789): see in index Rights
of Man and of the Citizen, Declaration
of the
decomposer (biology)
ecosystem volume 4 page 101
food chain volume 5 page 45
decorative arts
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 24, picture,
volume 4 page 25, picture, volume 4
page 25, picture, volume 4 page 26
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ironwork railing picture, volume 6
page 157
lace: see in index lace
pottery: see in index pottery
rugs: see in index rug
deejay (entertainment)
hip-hop volume 6 page 58
Deep Junior (computer)
match against Kasparov picture, volume
1 page 195
Deep South (region in the United States)
for the states in this region: see in index
Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Georgia;
Louisiana; Mississippi; South Carolina
deer (mammal)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 26
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doe and fawn picture, volume 6 page 4
white-tailed deer picture, volume 4
page 26
Deere, John (U.S. inventor and manufacturer)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 27
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Deere & Company (U.S. company)
Deere volume 4 page 27
steel plow picture, volume 4 page 27
defendant (law)
law volume 7 page 117
defender (soccer position)
soccer volume 12 page 117
Defense, Department of (U.S. government
agency)
United States government executive
departments table, volume 14 page 35
defense (sports)
basketball volume 2 page 34
football volume 5 page 49
defensive behavior (biology)
reptile volume 11 page 52
Defoe, Daniel (British author)
literature for children volume 7
page 163
deforestation
global warming volume 5 page 121
rain forest volume 11 page 24
Degas, Edgar (French artist)
painting volume 10 page 10
De Gaulle, Charles (president of France)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 4 page 28, picture,
volume 4 page 28
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France volume 5 page 60
WorldWar II volume 15 page 66
degree (of an angle)
geometry volume 5 page 98
