In the field of juvenile and young adult literature, Darren Shan wrote a twelve-book series ( The Saga of Darren Shan ) about a boy who becomes a vampire's assistant, beginning with Cirque Du Freak ( 2000 ) and ending with Sons of Destiny ( 2006 ).

However, Du ' a literature is not restricted to prophetic supplications ; many later Muslim scholars and sages composed their own supplications, often in elaborate rhyming prose that would be recited by their disciples.

Lyric poetry advanced far more in China than in Europe prior to 1000, as multiple new forms developed in the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties: perhaps the greatest poets of this era in Chinese literature were Li Bai and Du Fu.

The Tale of Kiều is an epic poem in Vietnamese written by Nguyễn Du ( 1766 – 1820 ), and is widely regarded as the most significant work of Vietnamese literature.

The word adultism was used by Patterson Du Bois in 1903, and appears in French psychology literature in 1929, describing the influence of adults over children.

An important Vietnamese poet and her contemporary is Nguyễn Du, who similarly wrote poetry in demotic Vietnamese, and so helped to found a national literature.

Du Xing is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Du Qian is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

Under its plan Du Pont would retain its General Motors shares but be required to pass on to its stockholders the right to vote those shares.

Du Pont would be denied the right to acquire any additional General Motors stock except through General Motors' distributions of stock or subscription rights to its stockholders.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

Du Bois, held its first meeting on American soil on the campus of Storer College, now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.

The Period of Division with its many tragedies and dramatic historical developments inspired many poets and gave rise to some Vietnamese masterpieces in verse, including the epic poem The Tale of Kiều ( Truyện Kiều ) by Nguyễn Du, Song of a Soldier's Wife ( Chinh Phụ Ngâm ) by Đặng Trần Côn and Đoàn Thị Điểm, and a collection of satirical, erotically charged poems by a female poet, Hồ Xuân Hương.

The Kankakee River, Du Page River and the Des Plaines River run through the county and join on its western border.

In 2008, the shop was listed in the Guardian's list of London's finest bookshops. Du Cane Court is a distinctive local landmark with its Art Deco design

Buda bore the name of “ Du Pre ” from its birth in 1881 until the autumn of 1887, when postal officials became aware that another Texas town was also named Du Pre.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

The centrality of a father in this novel matches Balzac's own position – not only as mentor to his troubled young secretary, Jules Sandeau, but also the fact that he had ( most likely ) fathered a child, Marie-Caroline, with his otherwise-married lover, Maria Du Fresnay.

Two of China's most famous poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, belonged to this age, as did many famous painters such as Han Gan, Zhang Xuan, and Zhou Fang.

In 1816 he wrote the German text O Du Fröhliche .. to the melody of one of the most popular Christmas songs, O Sanctissima.

When the album Du & jag döden ( You & me, Death ) was released, it was very well received and was considered by most fans to be one of their best albums.

Perhaps the most famous purveyor of beignets is New Orleans restaurant Cafe Du Monde.

The song was already published in several song books and sung with " Du gamla, Du friska ", but a priest who had known Dybeck got the opportunity to tell the singer most associated with the song, opera singer Carl Fredrik Lundqvist, about the change in the year 1900.

After singing with various dance bands and touring in vaudeville with the likes of Ted Mack, Leon Belasco, and comic bandleader Larry Rich, they first came to national attention with their recordings and radio broadcasts in 1937, most notably via their major Decca record hit, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön ( translation: " To Me, You Are Beautiful "), originally a Yiddish tune, the lyrics of which Sammy Cahn had translated to English and which the girls harmonized to perfection.

" The Black Crwth Player ", the most notable of which is " Y Crythor Du a ' r Bleiddiaid " or " The Black Crwth Player and the Wolves ", where a player escapes attack from a pack of hungry wolves by playing in turn forcefully, melodiously and gently.

Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, he became one of the early 20th century's most prominent activists and commentators.

After the appearance in 1816 of his French translation of Plutarch's treatise On the Delay of Divine Justice in the Punishment of the Guilty, in 1819 Maistre published Du Pape (" On the Pope "), the most complete exposition of his authoritarian conception of politics.

In Jean Joseph Gaume's Life of the Good Thief ( Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882 ), Saint Augustine said ; the thief said to Jesus, the child: " O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day.

His descendants, the Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and most prominent families in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Instrumental bands, however, have been the most successful, including Gwerz, Bleizi Ruz, Strobinell, Sonerien Du and Tud.

While the most famous of such books today are books like Le guide culinaire by Escoffier or The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America, such books go at least back to medieval times, represented then by works such as Taillevent's Viandier and Chiquart d ' Amiço's Du fait de cuisine.

In 1818 Lisa was with most of the residents in St. Louis, who turned out to welcome the newly assigned Bishop Louis William Du Bourg.

Du Bois ' The Souls of Black Folk convinced him that the fight for social equality was most important.

In this decisive battle, more than 500, 000 KMT soldiers were annihilated ; among the POWs was General Du Yuming, Chiang's most distinguished protégé.

Toward the end of the struggles against the communists, Du correctly guessed that Major General Guo Rugui ( 郭汝瑰 ), one of Chiang's most trusted staff officers, was a communist agent but the only evidence he came up with was that unlike most corrupted nationalist cadres and officers, the suspected communist spy was clean.

A very peculiar characteristic of this structure is that the link between active members and Alte Herren is usually so direct that already the youngest members are asked to address even their most decorated Alte Herren by Du, the intimate form of salutation in German, or even by their first name.