in the Old Testament of the Bible, a Jewish man who was made a prisoner by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and was put into a lions' den as a punishment for not changing his beliefs. The lions did not kill him, however, because God protected him. The phrase in the lion's den comes from this story, and is used to describe a difficult situation in which you are surrounded by people who are your enemies. One of the Prophets of the Hebrew scriptures, the central figure in the book of Daniel. The book is a composite work, written partly in Hebrew and partly in Aramaic. The first six chapters tell of Daniel and his adventures in Babylon, including the stories of Daniel's delivery from the lion's den, the Jews in the fiery furnace, and the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. The rest of the book offers apocalyptic visions of the end of history and the last judgment. Though it contains references to rulers of the 6th century BC, the book is thought to have been written in the 2nd century BC during the persecutions of the Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Daniel's upright character made him a model for a persecuted community. Barenboim Daniel Berrigan Daniel Joseph and Philip Francis Boone Daniel Burnham Daniel Hudson Daniel Romanovich Daniel of Galicia De Leon Daniel Defoe Daniel Daniel Foe Drew Daniel Dulany Daniel DuLhut Daniel Greysolon Lord Ehrlichman John Daniel Emmett Daniel Decatur Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel French Daniel Chester Gable Daniel Mack Gajdusek Daniel Carleton Guggenheim Meyer and Daniel David Daniel Kaminski Leahy William Daniel Macmillan Daniel and Alexander Malan Daniel François Marino Daniel Constantine Jr. Mazia Daniel McFadden Daniel L. Moi Daniel Toroitich arap Morgan Daniel Moynihan Daniel Patrick Nathans Daniel O'Connell Daniel Ortega Saavedra José Daniel Palmer Arnold Daniel Schleiermacher Friedrich Ernst Daniel Tompkins Daniel D. Webster Daniel Williams Daniel Hale Daniel Nathan
-- Shakespeare (Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
A Hebrew name apparently meaning "God is my judge " The name is the same in both Slovak and English, curiously, and is attached to the 21st of July
my Judge is God Eleazar : God has helped Eli : my God Eliab : God my father Eliezer : God my help Elijah : my God is Ja (i e my God is the One True God, not one of the "gods" of the heathen) Elimelech : my God is king Elisha : my God is salvation Elkanah : God created Ezekiel : God strengthens Hazael : God has seen Joel : Ja is God
Jewish prophet of the Babylonian captivity, wrote the book of Daniel Taken into captivity around 586 B C (after Ezekiel) by Nebuchadnezzar Babylon took the southern kingdom of Israel in three moves, first in 605 B C , then 597 B C , and finally destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B C
an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar a wise and upright judge; "a Daniel come to judgment"
Daniel was a Hebrew of the southern kingdom of Judah who was taken to Babylon to live as an exile at the time of the conquest of Judah by King Nebuchadnezzar When God gave him the interpretation of the king's dream, he became an adviser to Nebuchadnezzar and subsequent rulers The book in the Old Testament bearing his name, tells his story and details of the visions he received
A Judean who was taken into Babylonian captivity by Nebuchadnezzar; a Jewish hero, he is the main character in the book of Daniel See Chapter 17
(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
The book of Daniel, the most famous of the Jewish apocalypses, and the source of many of the ideas and symbols in Revelation Likely written in the 2nd century B C as a response to the desecration of the Temple by Antiochus IV of Syria, although the author is cast back to the time of the Exile and "predicts" events back to the present In Daniel, one sees many of the elements of the apocalyptic world view coming together for the first time in a single work In it, God's chosen rise up and overthrow their oppressors, thus inheriting "the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven "
an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
born Nov. 15, 1942, Buenos Aires, Arg. Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor. A prodigy, he made his debut at age eight. His family moved to Israel in 1952, and he first performed in the U.S. at Carnegie Hall in 1957. As a pianist he became known for his colourful interpretations of Classical and Romantic composers. He started conducting professionally in 1962 and led the English Chamber Orchestra (1964-75) and the Orchestre de Paris (1975-89). He became principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1991 and was appointed music director of the Berlin State Opera in 1992. He has been a prominent advocate for peace in the Middle East
one of the first white Americans to go to Kentucky, where he started to build a town (1734-1820). born , Nov. 2, 1734, Berks county, Pa. died Sept. 26, 1820, St. Charles, Mo., U.S. U.S. frontiersman and legendary hero. He lived on the North Carolina frontier as a hunter and trapper. He made several trips through the Cumberland Gap into eastern Kentucky (1767, 1769-71) and in 1775 was employed to blaze a permanent trail, called the Wilderness Road. He established the settlements of Boonesboro and Harrodsburg. As a militia captain he defended Boonesboro against the Indians; he was captured by the Shawnee in 1778 but escaped after five months to warn Boonesboro of an impending attack. After losing his Kentucky land claims in the late 1780s, he moved to the Missouri Territory. His exploits were featured in a widely read history of Kentucky and in Lord Byron's epic poem Don Juan
{i} (born 1923) US virologist who worked in the United States and in Iran and Australia studying infectious diseases, winner of 1976 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology together with Baruch Samuel Blumberg
born Sept. 9, 1923, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. U.S. physician and researcher. He received his M.D. from Harvard University. He provided the first medical description of the central-nervous-system disorder kuru, unique to the Fore people of New Guinea, and concluded that it was spread by their funeral custom of ritually eating the deceased's brains. With Clarence Gibbs, Jr., he proposed that it was caused by an extremely slow-acting virus. Though kuru is now known to be caused by prions, his study had significant implications for research into multiple sclerosis, parkinsonism, and other degenerative neurological conditions. He shared a 1976 Nobel Prize with Baruch S. Blumberg
born April 20, 1850, Exeter, N.H., U.S. died Oct. 7, 1931, Stockbridge, Mass. U.S. sculptor. He produced his first important commission for the town of Concord, Mass. the famous statue The Minute Man (1874). He was the leading turn-of-the-century American sculptor, with studios in Boston, Concord, Washington, D.C., and New York City. His best-known work, the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 1922. His other notable public monuments include the equestrian statues of Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia (1898) and George Washington in Paris (1900) and sculptures representing Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in front of the New York City customhouse (1907)
born Sept. 15, 1961, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S. U.S. gridiron football quarterback. Chosen by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 1983 NFL draft, he set all-time career records for passes completed (4,453 in 7,452 attempts), yards passing (55,416), and touchdown passes (385) and for 21 other categories. In 1984 he became the first quarterback to pass for more than 5,000 yards in a single season (5,084) and the first to complete over 40 touchdown passes (48) in a season
born June 21, 1774, Scarsdale, N.Y., U.S. died June 11, 1825, Staten Island, N.Y. U.S. politician. He served on the state supreme court (1804-07). As governor (1807-17), he initiated education and penal-code reforms and helped secure state legislation outlawing slavery. An opponent of banking interests, he blocked the chartering of a bank by calling an end to the legislature's session, the only such occurrence in New York history. He was twice elected vice president with Pres. James Monroe (1817-25)
born Dec. 14, 1852, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles died May 11, 1914, New York, N.Y., U.S. Dutch-born U.S. socialist. Arriving in the U.S. in 1874, he joined joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1890 and soon became one of its leaders. Finding the labour-union leadership insufficiently radical, he led a faction that seceded from the Knights of Labor in 1895, later forming the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance (STLA). In 1905 he helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which absorbed the STLA. In 1908 he was refused a seat at the IWW convention by extremists who rejected political activity of the sort he advocated and who favoured more violent tactics. He then created the unsuccessful Workers' International Industrial Union
born Oct. 29, 1815, Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S. died June 28, 1904, Mount Vernon U.S. showman and songwriter. The son of an Ohio blacksmith, he joined the army at age 17 as a fifer. In 1843 in New York he helped organize the Virginia Minstrels, one of the earliest minstrel-show troupes. He is credited with writing "Dixie" (1859), a minstrel "walk-around" (concluding number) that became the Confederacy's unofficial national anthem. His other songs include "Old Dan Tucker" and "Blue-Tail Fly." He also wrote banjo tunes and music instruction manuals
a British writer whose most famous works are the novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders (1660-1731). orig. Daniel Foe born 1660, London, Eng. died April 24, 1731, London British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist. A well-educated London merchant, he became an acute economic theorist and began to write eloquent, witty, often audacious tracts on public affairs. A satire he published resulted in his being imprisoned in 1703, and his business collapsed. He traveled as a government secret agent while continuing to write prolifically. In 1704-13 he wrote practically single-handedly the periodical Review, a serious and forceful paper that influenced later essay periodicals such as The Spectator. His Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 3 vol. (1724-26), followed several trips to Scotland. Late in life he turned to fiction. He achieved literary immortality with the novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), which drew partly on memoirs of voyagers and castaways. He is also remembered for the vivid, picaresque Moll Flanders (1722); the nonfictional Journal of the Plague Year (1722), on the Great Plague in London in 1664-65; and Roxana (1724), a prototype of the modern novel
born July 29, 1797, Carmel, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 18, 1879, New York, N.Y. U.S. railway financier. In 1844 he founded the Wall Street brokerage firm of Drew, Robinson, and Co., which became one of the principal traders in railroad stocks in the U.S. The "Erie War" of 1866-68, in which Drew joined Jay Gould and James Fisk against Cornelius Vanderbilt in a struggle for control of the Erie Railroad Co., eventually led to his ruin, and he filed for bankruptcy in 1876
born June 28, 1722, Annapolis, Md. died March 17, 1797, Baltimore, Md., U.S. American lawyer. He was educated in England and became a lawyer after returning to Maryland. After serving in Maryland's legislative assembly (1751-54), he was appointed to the Governor's Council (1757-76) in recognition of his support for the colony's proprietary government. Though he wrote an influential pamphlet criticizing the Stamp Act (1765), he opposed revolt against British rule and remained a loyalist during the American Revolution
born May 22, 1874, near Riebeeck West, Cape Colony died Feb. 7, 1959, Stellenbosch, S.Af. South African politician. Malan obtained a doctorate in divinity (1905) and became a Dutch Reformed minister before entering parliament in 1918. He joined J.B.M. Hertzog's cabinet (1924-33) but broke with Hertzog to form the Purified Nationalist Party (1934). He reconciled with Hertzog in 1939 and assumed leadership of the National Party after Hertzog withdrew (1940). His party won the 1948 elections by appealing to Afrikaner racial sentiments. He formed South Africa's first exclusively Afrikaner government (1948-54) and instituted apartheid
born May 24, 1686, Gdask, Pol. died Sept. 16, 1736, The Hague, Dutch Republic German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision meteorological instruments. He is best known for inventing a successful alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale, setting zero at the freezing point of an equal mixture of ice and salt. He discovered that water can remain liquid below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure
born May 22, 1874, near Riebeeck West, Cape Colony died Feb. 7, 1959, Stellenbosch, S.Af. South African politician. Malan obtained a doctorate in divinity (1905) and became a Dutch Reformed minister before entering parliament in 1918. He joined J.B.M. Hertzog's cabinet (1924-33) but broke with Hertzog to form the Purified Nationalist Party (1934). He reconciled with Hertzog in 1939 and assumed leadership of the National Party after Hertzog withdrew (1940). His party won the 1948 elections by appealing to Afrikaner racial sentiments. He formed South Africa's first exclusively Afrikaner government (1948-54) and instituted apartheid
born May 24, 1686, Gdask, Pol. died Sept. 16, 1736, The Hague, Dutch Republic German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision meteorological instruments. He is best known for inventing a successful alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale, setting zero at the freezing point of an equal mixture of ice and salt. He discovered that water can remain liquid below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure
born 1639, Saint-Germain-Laval, France died Feb. 25/26, 1710, Montreal French soldier and explorer. He made two voyages to New France before 1674 and returned to Montreal in 1675. He negotiated fur-trade agreements with Indian tribes, rescued Louis Hennepin from the Sioux, assisted count de Frontenac in the campaign against Indian allies of the British, and is credited with establishing French control over the land north and west of Lake Superior. Duluth, Minn., is named for him
born Sept. 4, 1846, Henderson, N.Y., U.S. died June 1, 1912, Heidelberg, Ger. U.S. architect and city planner. He pioneered the development of Chicago commercial architecture with his partner, John Wellborn Root (1850-91). Three of the firm's Chicago buildings were designated landmarks in 1962: the Rookery (1886), the Reliance Building (1890), and the Monadnock Building (1891), the last and tallest (16-story) U.S. masonry skyscraper. As chief consulting architect for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition (1893), Burnham chose firms working in academic eclecticism, the antithesis of the Chicago School. The exposition's resulting "White City," with its boulevards, gardens, and Classical facades, influenced subsequent planning in the U.S. Burnham's plan for Chicago (1907-09), which the city used for many years, is a classic example of U.S. city planning
born Jan. 18, 1858, Hollidaysburg, Pa., U.S. died Aug. 4, 1931, Idlewild, Mich. U.S. surgeon. He graduated from Chicago Medical College. In 1891 he founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first interracial hospital in the U.S., to provide training for black interns and nurses. There in 1893 he performed the first successful heart surgery; the patient lived at least 20 years after Williams opened the thoracic cavity, sutured a wound of the pericardium (the sac around the heart), and closed the chest. In 1913 he became the only black charter member of the American College of Surgeons
born Sept. 4, 1846, Henderson, N.Y., U.S. died June 1, 1912, Heidelberg, Ger. U.S. architect and city planner. He pioneered the development of Chicago commercial architecture with his partner, John Wellborn Root (1850-91). Three of the firm's Chicago buildings were designated landmarks in 1962: the Rookery (1886), the Reliance Building (1890), and the Monadnock Building (1891), the last and tallest (16-story) U.S. masonry skyscraper. As chief consulting architect for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition (1893), Burnham chose firms working in academic eclecticism, the antithesis of the Chicago School. The exposition's resulting "White City," with its boulevards, gardens, and Classical facades, influenced subsequent planning in the U.S. Burnham's plan for Chicago (1907-09), which the city used for many years, is a classic example of U.S. city planning
born May 9, 1921, Virginia, Minn., U.S.(born Oct. 5, 1923, Two Harbors, Minn., U.S. died Dec. 6, 2002, Baltimore, Md.) U.S. priests and political activists. After joining the Catholic priesthood (Daniel became a Jesuit, Philip a Josephite), the brothers became involved in nonviolent political activism, carrying out campaigns of civil disobedience to oppose racism, the nuclear arms race, and the Vietnam War. They were best known for their Vietnam-era raid of draft-board files in Catonsville, Md., which they destroyed with chicken blood and napalm. They were also known for the persistence of their activism. Philip later left the priesthood. Both authored numerous books on their work and beliefs; Daniel also wrote poetry and plays
born July 29, 1937, Raleigh, N.C., U.S. U.S. economist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, along with James Heckman, for development of methods for analyzing individual or household behaviour. McFadden studied physics (B.S. 1957) and economics (Ph.D. 1962) at the University of Minnesota. He taught economics at the University of California, Berkeley (1963-79 and 1990- ), Yale University (1977-78), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-91). In 1974 McFadden developed conditional logit analysis a method for determining how people make choices that maximize the utility of their decisions. His work has helped predict usage rates for mass transit, and his statistical methods have been applied to labour-force participation, health care, housing, and the environment
born Oct. 25, 1948, Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. U.S. freestyle wrestler and coach. Gable never lost a wrestling match in his high school years. After an outstanding career at Iowa State University, he won the 1971 world and Pan-American championships. At the 1972 Olympics he won a gold medal, not losing a single point. From 1972 he coached at the University of Iowa, winning 9 consecutive national titles and 12 Big Ten championships; he coached the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic wrestling teams
born Dec. 18, 1912, Scranton, Pa., U.S. died June 9, 1996, Monterey, Calif. U.S. cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focused on various aspects of cell reproduction, including mitosis and regulation. He is best known for isolating the structure responsible for cell division, research that he carried out with Katsuma Dan (1905?-96) in 1951
born 1736, Hunterdon county, N.J. died July 6, 1802, Winchester, Va., U.S. American Revolutionary army officer. He was commissioned a captain of the Virginia riflemen and fought under Benedict Arnold in the unsuccessful assault on Quebec (1775). In 1777 he joined Gen. Horatio Gates in the Battle of Saratoga. In 1780 he was made brigadier general and fought in the South, defeating a large British force at Cowpens, S.C. In 1794 he led Virginia militiamen to help suppress the Whiskey Rebellion
born Oct. 30, 1928, Wilmington, Del., U.S. died Nov. 16, 1999, Baltimore, Md. U.S. microbiologist. He received a medical degree from Washington University. Working principally at Johns Hopkins University, he used the restriction enzyme isolated from a bacterium by Hamilton O. Smith to investigate the structure of the DNA of a monkey virus (SV40), the simplest virus known to produce cancer. His construction of a genetic map of the virus was the first application of restriction enzymes to the problem of identifying the molecular basis of cancer. He shared a 1978 Nobel Prize with Smith and Werner Arber
an Irish politician who forced the government to give rights to Catholics, and worked for an end to the union with Britain (1775-1847). known as the Liberator born Aug. 6, 1775, near Cahirciveen, County Kerry, Ire. died May 15, 1847, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia Irish nationalist leader. A lawyer, he gradually became involved in the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, organizing nationwide "aggregate meetings" of Irish Catholics to petition for their legal rights. In 1823 he cofounded the Catholic Association, which won support from Irish political and church leaders. After helping win passage of the 1829 Emancipation Act, which allowed Irish Catholics to serve in the British Parliament, he was elected to the House of Commons. He supported the Whig Party in return for Irish reform measures but became disenchanted with the administration's inaction. In 1839 he formed the Repeal Association to dissolve the Anglo-Irish Act of Union. A series of illegal mass meetings in Ireland led to his arrest for sedition in 1843. After his release in 1844, he faced dissension from William Smith O'Brien's radical Young Ireland movement
born Nov. 11, 1945, La Libertad, Nic. President of Nicaragua (1984-90). In 1963 he became a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and organized urban resistance to the corrupt dictatorship of the Somoza family. Jailed and later exiled, he returned secretly to Nicaragua and helped unite opposition to Somoza. After the Sandinistas prevailed in 1979, he coordinated the ruling junta; in 1984 he was elected Nicaragua's president. U.S. efforts to destabilize his government led to economic hardship and a protracted war, and Ortega lost his bid for reelection in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001. See also Violeta Chamorro; contras
born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Okla., U.S. died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C. U.S. scholar and politician. He grew up in poverty in New York City. After serving in the U.S. navy in World War II, he attended Tufts University, where he earned a doctorate in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he worked at the U.S. Labor Department, where he cowrote a controversial report that attributed the educational problems of African Americans to the instability of urban African American families. He taught at Harvard (1966-77) and held advisory posts in the administration of Richard Nixon. He was ambassador to India (1973-75) and U.S. representative to the UN (1975-76). He ran successfully for the U.S. Senate from New York in 1976; though he was a Democrat, his candidacy was opposed by many Democratic liberals. Reelected three times, he retired in 2001. In 2000 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
{i} (born 1949) United States historian and columnist who specializes in the Middle East, founded the "Middle East Forum" in 1990 and serves as its director, counter-terrorism analyst who has been awarded honorary doctorates from universities in the United States and Switzerland
known as Daniel of Galicia born 1201 died 1264 Ruler of Galicia and Volhynia, one of the most powerful princes in east central Europe. He inherited the two principalities at age 4, but pretenders to the succession kept him from ruling. He finally gained control over Volhynia in 1221 and Galicia in 1238. Daniel enriched his realm, but Mongol invasions (1240-41) forced him to acknowledge the rule of the khan. He led a rebellion against the Mongols (1256) and succeeded briefly in driving them out of Volhynia, but another Mongol force subdued the principality in 1260
born 1924, Sacho, Kenya Colony Five-term president of Kenya (from 1978). Trained as a teacher, Moi served in the cabinet and as vice president (1967-78) under Pres. Jomo Kenyatta before succeeding him as president. Head of the dominant Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party, he governed autocratically, finally permitting multiparty elections in 1991, when international pressure forced his hand. His subsequent electoral victories (1992, 1998) led to civil unrest and charges of stealing the elections. During his time in office some sectors of the economy have grown, but critics have attributed this to the strong political patronage system
a US politician who was Secretary of State from 1841 to1843 and from 1850 to 1852. He was also an important lawyer in the Supreme Court and was especially famous for his skill at public speaking. He strongly believed that the federal (=national) government was more important than the individual governments in each US state (1782-1852). born Jan. 18, 1782, Salisbury, N.H., U.S. died Oct. 24, 1852, Marshfield, Mass. U.S. lawyer and politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1813-17). After moving to Boston (1816), he built a prosperous law practice and represented Massachusetts in the House (1823-27). He argued several precedent-setting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the Dartmouth College case, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden. Elected to the U.S. Senate (1827-41, 1845-50), he became famous as an orator for his speeches supporting the Union and opposing the nullification movement and its advocates, John C. Calhoun and Robert Y. Hayne. As U.S. secretary of state (1841-43, 1850-52) he negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty to settle the Canada-Maine border dispute
born Sept. 13, 1813, Isle of Arran, Buteshire, Scot. died June 27, 1857, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. born Oct. 3, 1818, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scot. died Jan. 26, 1896, London? Scottish booksellers and publishers. Apprenticed to a bookseller in Scotland at age 11, Daniel worked for London booksellers from 1837 to 1843. In 1843 he and his brother Alexander founded Macmillan & Co., a successful bookshop in Cambridge that began publishing textbooks in 1844 and novels in 1855. After Daniel's death, Alexander expanded the firm's list and founded Macmillan's Magazine (1859-1907), a literary periodical, and from 1869 Nature, still a leading scientific journal. He established offices abroad and published many important Victorian writers. Long led by Daniel's descendants, the company grew into one of the largest publishing firms in the world
born May 9, 1921, Virginia, Minn., U.S.(born Oct. 5, 1923, Two Harbors, Minn., U.S. died Dec. 6, 2002, Baltimore, Md.) U.S. priests and political activists. After joining the Catholic priesthood (Daniel became a Jesuit, Philip a Josephite), the brothers became involved in nonviolent political activism, carrying out campaigns of civil disobedience to oppose racism, the nuclear arms race, and the Vietnam War. They were best known for their Vietnam-era raid of draft-board files in Catonsville, Md., which they destroyed with chicken blood and napalm. They were also known for the persistence of their activism. Philip later left the priesthood. Both authored numerous books on their work and beliefs; Daniel also wrote poetry and plays
born 1924, Sacho, Kenya Colony Five-term president of Kenya (from 1978). Trained as a teacher, Moi served in the cabinet and as vice president (1967-78) under Pres. Jomo Kenyatta before succeeding him as president. Head of the dominant Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party, he governed autocratically, finally permitting multiparty elections in 1991, when international pressure forced his hand. His subsequent electoral victories (1992, 1998) led to civil unrest and charges of stealing the elections. During his time in office some sectors of the economy have grown, but critics have attributed this to the strong political patronage system
born Sept. 10, 1929, Latrobe, Pa., U.S. U.S. golfer. The son of a greenskeeper, Palmer turned professional in 1954 after winning the U.S. Amateur championship. He was the first player to win the Masters Tournament four times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964); his other major titles include the U.S. Open (1960) and the British Open (1961-62). From 1954 through 1975 he won 61 tournaments. He won the PGA Senior Open in 1980 and 1981. He was the first golfer to earn $1,000,000 in tournament prize money. His exciting play and amiable personality won him wide popularity among fans, who became known as "Arnie's Army." Palmer was also the first athlete to parlay success on the playing field into lucrative off-the-field contracts, and thus he paved the way for athletes who followed to earn substantial sums from endorsement contracts
born Nov. 21, 1768, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia died Feb. 12, 1834, Berlin German theologian, preacher, and classical philologist. A member of the clergy from 1796, he taught at the University of Berlin from 1810 to his death. In On Religion (1799), he contended that the Romantics were not as far from religion as they thought. In 1817 he helped unite Prussia's Lutheran and Reformed churches. His major work, The Christian Faith (1821-22), is a systematic interpretation of Christian dogmatics. His work influenced theology through the 19th and early 20th centuries; he is generally recognized as the founder of modern Protestant theology
born March 20, 1925, Tacoma, Wash., U.S. died Feb. 14, 1999, Atlanta, Ga. U.S. presidential assistant who played a central role in the Watergate scandal. He received his law degree from Stanford University in 1951 and established a law firm in Seattle, Wash. In 1969 he became domestic affairs adviser to Pres. Richard Nixon. With H.R. Haldeman he formed the so-called "palace guard" that controlled access to the president and filtered information directed to him. Ehrlichman soon established a group known as the "plumbers," whose purpose was to acquire political intelligence and to repair "leaks" of information to the press. When members of the plumbers were caught breaking into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex, Ehrlichman became involved in a cover-up of involvement by White House officials. He was forced to resign in 1973. Convicted of conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice, he served 18 months in jail. See also Pentagon Papers
born Feb. 1, 1828, Langnau, Switz. died March 15, 1905, Palm Beach, Fla., U.S. born July 9, 1856, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1930, Port Washington, N.Y. U.S. industrialists, father and son, who developed worldwide mining interests that yielded a vast fortune. Meyer immigrated to the U.S. in 1847 and built an import firm specializing in Swiss embroideries. His investments in two Colorado copper mines in the 1880s were the foundation of extensive mining interests. His seven sons, especially Daniel, built a large organization of smelting and refining operations. In 1901 the Guggenheims merged their holdings with the American Smelting and Refining Co., a trust composed of the country's largest metal-processing plants. Daniel directed the trust until 1919 and acquired mines throughout the world. Philanthropies include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1925), which awards fellowships to artists and scholars studying abroad, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1937), which oversees New York City's Guggenheim Museum and the Guggenheim Collection in Venice. See also Solomon Guggenheim
born May 6, 1875, Hampton, Iowa, U.S. died July 20, 1959, Bethesda, Md. U.S. naval officer. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion. He commanded a navy transport during World War I, when he began a friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the navy. He served as chief of naval operations (1937-39), as governor of Puerto Rico (1939), and as U.S. ambassador to France (1940). He was Roosevelt's chief of staff during World War II and continued in that post under Harry S. Truman. He was made a fleet admiral in 1944
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() From Ancient Greek Δανιήλ (Dānīēl), from Hebrew דניּאל (daniyél, “God is my judge”). Name borne from the prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.