Don (River of Russia which issues)
a river of Russia, which issues from Lake Ivan- Ozero, in the government of Tula; and flows S. E. through governments Riazan, Tambov, Voronej, and Don Cossacks, to within 37 miles of the Volga, where it turns abruptly S. W. for 236 miles, and falls into the Sea of Azof; whole course nearly 900 miles. The chief tributaries are: Right bank, the Donetz and Voronej; left, the Khoper and Manitsch. Although not admitting vessels of much draught, the Don carries a large traffic especially during the spring floods, and a canal connects it with the Volga system of navigation. It has also very extensive and productive fisheries.
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Don (River of Scotland county)
a river of Scotland, county of Aberdeen, rising near the Banffshire border. It flows tortuously E. through the whole breadth of Aberdeenshire, and falls into the North Sea a little to the N. of Aberdeen, after a total course of 82 miles. Its salmon fisheries are of considerable value. Also, a river of Yorkshire, England, which rises near Cheshire, and joins the Ouse after a course of about 70 miles. It is navigable for small craft to Sheffield.
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Don Quixote
with all its unquenchable and irresistible humor, its bright views and its cheerful trust in goodness and virtue, was written in Cervantes' old age, at the conclusion of a life which had been marked at nearly every step with struggle, disappointment, and calamity; it was begun in prison, and finished when he felt the hand of death pressing cold and heavy upon his heart.--Botta.
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Don Quixote
the title of a famous romance by Cervantes. The name of the hero, Don Quixote, is used as a synonym for foolish knight-errantry or extravagant generosity.
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Donald
the name borne by a line of Scotch kings who lived in the early ages of the Christian era, and whose annals are stained with murder, treachery, and revolting vices. DONALD I. began his reign in 216; and the VIIIth, called the "Bane," was dethroned by Edgar Atheling in 1098. town of
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Donatello
don-a-tel'lo, in Hawthorne's Marble Faun, a young Tuscan count. Donatello's resemblance to the statue of the "Marble Faun" by Praxiteles gives the title to the story. See Marble Faun ; The
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Donati
GIAMBATTISTA (dō-nä' tē), an Italian astronomer; born in Pisa, in 1826; was appointed in 1852 assistant at the observatory in Florence, of which he became director in 1864. Here he discovered, inter alia, the brilliant comet of 1858, which is known as Donati's comet. He afterward was instrumental in erecting the fine observatory at Arcetri, near Florence, and constructed a spectroscope of 25 prisms. He died Sept. 20, 1873. DONATELLO
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Donatist
one of a sect of schismatics in Africa, the followers of Donatus, Bishop of Casa Nigra, in Numidia. The sect arose in A. D. 311, when Cæcilianus was elected Bishop of Carthage, and consecrated by the African bishops alone, without the concurrence of those of Numidia. The people, resenting this, refused to acknowledge Cæcilianus, and set up Majorinus, who was then consecrated The Donatists held that by Donatus. Christ, though of the same substance with the Father, yet was less than the Father; they also denied the infallibility of the Church, which they said had fallen away in many particulars. They were condemned in a council held at Rome A. D. 313, also in another at Arles in the following year; and a third time, in A. D. 316, at Milan, before Constantine the Great. At the end of the 4th century they had a large number of churches, but soon after began to decline, owing to a schism among themselves, occasioned by the election of two bishops in the room of Parmenian, the successor of Donatus, and also through the zealous opposition of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. They were finally suppressed in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great.
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Doncaster
a municipal borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and an important railway junction, on the right right bank bank of the Don. It has long been famous for its annual races, begun in 1703, and held a mile S. E. of the town in the second week of September. Colonel St. Leger, in 1776, founded stakes which have been yearly run for by the best horses in England. On an eminence 5 miles W. S. W. of Doncaster are the ruins of Conisborough Castle, the strong hold of Scott's "Ivanhoe. " A Norman-Saxon round tower, it is 37 feet in diameter and 86 feet high, with walls 15 feet thick. Pop. (1919) 51,592.
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Donegal
a town of Ireland, on the Eske river. It is in a rich agricultural region. It is surrounded on three sides by hills. Near the town are the ruins of Donegal Castle. The town is one of the most historic in Ireland. Pop. about 3,000.
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Dongan
THOMAS, Earl of Limerick; born in Castleton, Ireland, in 1634. After serving in the British and French armies and attaining the rank of colonel, he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Tangiers by Charles II. and colonial governor of New York by the Duke of York in 1682. He gave the city of New York its first charter in 1686 and being accused of ignoring his pacific instructions regarding the French and Indians, and of inciting the Five Nations to war, resigned his commission in 1688, returned to England in 1691, and inherited the earldom of Limerick in 1698. He died in London, Dec. 14, 1715.
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Dongola
a province of Anglo- Egyptian Soudan, within the region formerly known as Nubia. Its surface is generally level and fertile and large quantities of wheat and dates are grown for export. The capital of the province is New Dongola on the west bank of the Nile. Old Dongola on the east bank of the Nile, about 75 miles above, was formerly an important town, but is now no more than a village. The province has railroad connection with Egypt, Khartum, and the Red Sea by a line opened in 1906. Pop. about 60,000.
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Doniphan
ALEXANDER WILL- IAM, an American military officer; born in Mason co., Ky., July 9, 1808; graduated at Augusta College and began the practice of law in 1830 in Lexington, Mo. He was three times elected to the Missouri Legislature. He served in the Mexican War, in which he made a brilliant record, capturing Chihuahua, after an unexpected encounter with an army of 4,000 men. He was one of the Peace Commissioners at the convention which met at Washington previous to the Civil War, which it vainly sought to avert. He died in Richmond, Mo., Aug. 8, 1887.
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