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Dacia
Ancient country, central Europe. Roughly equivalent to modern Romania, the area's earliest known inhabitants were Getae and Dacian people of Thracian stock. Known for its rich silver, iron, and gold mines, the region was made a Roman province in AD 107 after two centuries of hostilities. It was abandoned to the Goths in 270 and ultimately divided into the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia.
Dalriada
Ancient kingdom, NE Ireland. Known from the 5th cent. AD, it included the N part of the present Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland and part of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll in Scotland. Earlier, Argyll had received N Irish people known as Scoti, and had become an Irish (i.e. "Scottish") area. In the late 5th cent. the rulers of Irish Dalriada expanded into Scottish Dalriada. Irish Dalriada gradually declined, while the Dalriada of the Scottish mainland continued to expand. In the mid-9th cent. the Picts were brought permanently under Dalriadic rule, and the area was thereafter known as Scotland.
Macready
English actor-manager. He made his debut in 1810, and by 1820 he was famous for his performances as Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth. As theater manager of London's Covent Garden (1837-39) and Drury Lane (1841-43), he introduced such reforms as full rehearsals, historically accurate costumes and sets, and a reversion to the original Shakespeare texts. He toured the U.S. in 1826, 1843, and 1848-49; his last tour ended with the Astor Place riot, caused by partisans of E. Forrest. He retired from the stage in 1851. His diary provides a view of 19th-cent. theatrical life.
Marryat
English naval officer and novelist. He served in the Royal Navy from age 14 until he retired in 1830 as a captain. He then began a series of adventure novels--incl. The King's Own (1830), Peter Simple (1834), and Poor Jack (1840)--marked by a lucid, direct narrative style, humor, and incidents drawn from his varied experience at sea. His Children of the New Forest (1847), set during the English Civil Wars, is a classic of children's literature.
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