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Dewing, Thomas Wilmer

(Encyclopedia) Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851–1938, American painter, b. Boston, Mass. Dewing studied in Paris with the academician Jules Lefebvre. Returning to New York City in 1880, he produced hazy,…

De Wint, Peter

(Encyclopedia) De Wint, Peter, 1784–1849, English landscape painter. He was a leading watercolorist. Most of De Wint's landscapes are distinctly English in subject and treatment, Lincolnshire scenes…

De Witt

(Encyclopedia) De Witt, uninc. town (2020 pop. 26,074), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse.

Alhazen

(Encyclopedia) Alhazen: see Ibn al-Haytham.

Dewsbury

(Encyclopedia) Dewsbury Dewsbury dy&oomacr;zˈbərē [key], town, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England,…

Dexedrine

(Encyclopedia) DexedrineDexedrinedĕkˈsĭdrēn [key], trade name for the drug dextroamphetamine sulfate. See amphetamine.

Dexippus

(Encyclopedia) Dexippus (Publius Herennius Dexippus)Dexippusdĕksĭpˈəs [key], fl. 253–276, Greek historian of the Roman period. He commanded Greek troops in an unsuccessful attempt to halt a Gothic…

Dexter, Colin

(Encyclopedia) Dexter, Colin (Norman Colin Dexter), 1930–2017, English mystery novelist, b. Stamford, Lincolnshire. He as a classics teacher in secondary schools until deafness forced him to find a…