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LEFT DORTMUND 407 DOXTAY BIBLE DORTMUND (dort'mont), a city of Prussia, province of Westphalia; on the Ems, 47 miles N. N. E. of Cologne. Its prosperity is due to its becoming the center of several important railway systems, to the extensive coal mines in the vicinity, and to the active manu- factures of iron, steel, machinery, rail- way plant, etc. There are also a number of breweries, potteries, tobacco factories, chemical works, etc. It was once a free imperial Hanseatic town, and the seat of the chief tribunal of the Vehme. Pop. about 215,000. DORUS, the eponymous ancestor of the Dorians. DORY, a popular name for Zeus Faber, an acanthopterygious fish, the typical one of the family Zeidee. It is found at times on the North Atlantic coasts and is much esteemed for eating. It is very commonly called John Dory, which is a corruption of the French Jaune-doree = golden-yellow. Also a small two-oared boat used by fishermen and 'longshoremen. DOSITHEANS (from their founder, Dositheus), a sect founded by Dosi- theus, whose life and labors were in Samaria. The popular belief is that he was the first Christian "heretic." He is said to have been very rigid in his Sab- batarianism. His other opinions were partly Samaritan, partly Sadducean. DOSTOEVSKY, FEODOR MICHAIL- OVITCH (dos-to-yev'ske), a Russian novelist; born in Moscow, Nov. 11, 1821. His first book, "Poor Folk" (1846) is an example of his talent for psychological analysis. He was condemned to the Si- berian mines in 1849 for a socialist con- spiracy, but in 1859 returned to St. Petersburg and resumed literary work. The thrilling "Memoirs of a Dead House," describes penal life in Siberia. His most celebrated novel is "Crime and Punishment" dramatized in France and the United States. "Complete Works," 14 volumes. There are translations of all of his works. He died in St. Peters- burg, Feb. 8, 1881. DOTHAN, a city of Alabama, the county-seat of Houston co. It is on the Atlantic Coast Line, the Central of Georgia, and the Atlanta and St. An- drews Bay railroads. It has important compressed cotton and fertilizer inter- ests and manufactures of sashes and doors, ice, cotton-oil, and lumber. There are a library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,016; (1920) 10,034. DOTO, one of the Nereids. DOTTERED. a species of plover which breeds in the N. of Europe, and returns to the S. for the winter. In Scotland it appears in April and leaves in August, the young being hatched in July. It is found all over Europe and northern Asia. Several species are represented in the United States, including the golden- plover, the kill-deer, and piping-plover. DOUAUMONT, FORT, one of the out- lying strongholds of Verdun, to whoso capture the Germans devoted their main efforts during 1916 and 1917, their final failure signalizing their loss of the war. Fort Douaumont was termed by the Ger- mans "the main pillar of the Verdun de- fenses," and had been captured by them in the last week of February, 1916. The fort was retaken by the Allied troops on May 22, 1916, only to be lost again two days later. On Oct. 24, 1916, the French recaptured it, after a furious engagement lasting several days. FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY DOUAY or DOUAI, an ancient French town, department of Le Nord, 108 miles N. by E. from Paris. Douay is the seat of a univei'sity, and possesses a good public library, containing upward of 36,- 000 volumes. Pop. about 36,000. DOUAY BIBLE, the English version of the Bible translated by the students of the Roman Catholic college at Douay, under the auspices of Cardinal Allen, the founder of that seat of education. The work was published at Douay in 1609, about two years before the appearance of King James' authorized Protestant