Danaë. Mother of Perseus by Zeus. Danaïdes.

Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.

Dance, George. (The Younger). 1741-1825. English Neoclassical architect College of Surgeons 1813. Founder, Royal Academy.

Danegeld. Anglo-Saxon tax 991-1012 to buy off Norse attacks. Heregeld, 1012-51 to raise A-S army vs Norse.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.

Daphne. Nymph rejected Apollo-turned to Laurel tree.

Daphnis. Greek mythological shepherd, inventor of bucolic poetry.

Darby, Abraham. 1678-1717. Iron coking process, 1709.

Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.

Dares Phrygius. Trojan Priest. Wrote about Trojan Wars.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

Darius II. Persian King, 423-404BC. Allied with Sparta vs Athens. Lost Egypt.

Darius III. Last Persian King, 335-330BC. Beaten by Alexander the Great.

Darlan, François. 1881-1942. French admiral. Built navy 1933-40. Collaborated with Germany, 1941-2, then Americans. Assassinated.

Darnley, Lord. 1545-67. 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Assassinated.

Darrow, Clarence. 1857-1938. US defense lawyer for Leopold and Loeb, Scopes, Debs.

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.

Daugherty, Harry. 1860-1941. US attorney general. Acquitted in Teapot Dome scandal.

Daumesnil, Gen. (Peg Leg). Defender of Vincennes, 1814. “Give me back my leg, and I’ll give you Vincennes.”

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

Davis, Jefferson. 1808-89. US Confederate president during Civil War.

Davy, Humphrey. 1778-1829. English inventor. Nitrous-Oxide anaesthetic 1800. Aluminum 1807. Calcium 1808. Arc lamp 1810. Miner’s lamp 1815. Acetylene 1836.

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

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