Doldrums
among seamen, the parts of the ocean near the equator that abound in calms, squalls, and light baffling winds; otherwise known as the horse-latitudes. DÔLE, a town in the French department of Jura, on the Doubs, 29 miles S. E. of Dijon by rail rail . It contains a Gothic cathedral, a college, and a library; and it has quarries, foundries, manufactures of metal wares, and a trade in wine and cheese. Pop. about 16,000. Dôle, the birthplace of Pasteur, is the Dola Sequanorum of the Romans, of whom many traces remain. It was in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries a strong and oft-disputed fortress, and the capital of the Franche-Comté with a university and a parliament
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Dole
CHARLES FLETCHER, an American clergyman and writer, born in Brewer, Me., in 1845. He graduated Harvard University in 1868 and from from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1872. He served as minister in Portland and in Jamaica Plain, Mass., from 1879 to 1916. Among his writings are "The Citizen and the Neighbor" (1884); "The Golden Rule in Business" (1895); "The Theology of Civilization" (1899); "The Spirit of Democracy" (1906); mocracyon ess" ( "The "The Ethics of Progress" 1909); Burden of Poverty" (1912). an
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Dole (II)
NATHAN HASKELL, American literarian; born in Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 31, 1852. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1874, and after several years of teaching, engaged in literary work in Boston and New York. He was literary and musical editor of the Philadelphia "Press" until 1887, when he became literary adviser to the firm of T. Y. Crowell & Co. His principal original works are: "Young Folks' History of Russia" (1881); "A Score of Famous Composers"; "The Hawthorn Tree" (1895); "The Mistakes We Make" (1898), and "Omar, the Tent-Maker" (1898). In 1899 he edited of Count L. N. Tolthe complete work plete works stoi, whose novels, "Anna Karenina," "War and Peace," and many others he had already translated. He has also translated "Maria y Maria," "Maximina," and "Sister St. Sulpice," from the Spanish of Valdes; "The Letters of Victor tor Hugo," novels from rom the F French; and a multitude of songs for music, operas, etc. In 1896 he edited a multivariorum edition of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," containing many translations in English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Danish. Among his more recent works are "Life of Tolstoi" (1911), "Spell of Switzerland" (1913). He has lectured widely clubs and other institubefore women's women's tions. In 1882 he married Helen James Bennett, well known for translations from the French and German.
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Dole (III)
SANFORD BALLARD, an American statesman; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23, 1844, his parents being missionaries on the the island. Dole received his early education in Oahu College, Honolulu, and completed his studies at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. He studied law in Boston and was admitted to the bar in 1873, returning in the same year to Hawaii. In 1884 he was made a member of the Legislature and again in 1889. He had been in the meantime, in 1887, appointed an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, under the monarchy, which post he resigned to accept the leadership of the revolution y in Januthat overturned the monarchy ary, 1893, and established a provisional government on the 17th of that month. The proposition for annexation of the islands being rejected by President Cleveconstitutional convention was land, a constitutional held in Honolulu, and on July 4, 1893, a republic was formally proclaimed, of which Judge Dole was elected president. After the annexation of Hawaii in 1898, he was one of the five commissioners appointed by President McKinley to recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the Hawaiian Islands as they , and was subsequently should deem best, est appointed governor of the islands. He retired in 1915.
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Dolerite
a variety of trap-rock, consisting of labradorite and pyroxene, with generally some magnetite. It may be either light-colored crystalline, or granitoid, or dark-colored, compact, massive; either porphyrite or not, sometimes crypto-crystalline, and also a cellular lava. It includes much of the so-called trap, greenstone, and amygdaloid.
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Dolet
ETIENNE (dō-lā'), "the martyr of the Renaissance"; born in Orleans, France, in 1509. At the age of 12 Dolet went to the University of Paris, where his attention was directed to the study which became the chief interest of his life the writings of Cicero. In 1534 Dolet left Toulouse for Lyons where he killed a person of the name of Compaing. Having received the royal pardon, he continued to reside in Lyons, always under strong suspicion of heresy. At length, in 1544, he was found guilty of heresy on a charge mainly based on an alleged mistranslation of Plato, in which he was accused of denying the immortality of the soul. After two years' imprisonment, Dolet was burned in the Palace Maubert, Paris, Aug. 3, 1546.
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Dolichocephalic
long-headed; an epithet applied to those human skulls in which the transverse diameter or width from side to side bears a less proportion to the longitudinal diameter, or width from front to back than 8 to 10. Such are the skulls of the west African negroes.
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Dolichos
a genus of papilionaceous plants, tribe Phaeseoleæ sub-tribe Euphaseoleæ. As founded by Linnæus it included many species now transferred to other genera; it is now limited to those which have a linear legume, with incomplete cellular dissepiments, and ovate seeds with a small oval hilum. Even when thus restricted it contains about 70 known species, which are from the tropics of both hemispheres. The legumes of D. sesquipedalis are eaten in the S. of Europe. D. lignosus is one of the most common kidney beans in India. D. unifloris is the horse gram of the same country. The tuberous root of D. tuberosus is eaten in Martinique. The legumes of various species now removed to other genera are eaten.
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Dolichosoma
an amphibian of the Carboniferous period. It is divided by Cope into the genera of Phlegethontia and Molgophis. Fossils have been found in Ohio and Nova Scotia. The Ohio specimens were imbedded in cannel coal formations indicating lake-like conditions during the life of the species.
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