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8032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Denmark | Geography of Denmark | Denmark is a Nordic country located in Northern Europe. It consists of the Jutland peninsula and several islands in the Baltic sea, referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state (and former possession) Schleswig-Holstein to the ... |
8033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Denmark | Demographics of Denmark | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Denmark, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
National demographics
Since 1980, the number of people of Danish descent, defined ... |
8035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Denmark | Economy of Denmark | The economy of Denmark is a modern mixed economy with comfortable living standards, a high level of government services and transfers, and a high dependence on foreign trade. The economy is dominated by the service sector with 80% of all jobs, whereas about 11% of all employees work in manufacturing and 2% in agricultu... |
8037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Denmark | Transport in Denmark | Transport in Denmark is developed and modern. The motorway network covers 1,111 km while the railway network totals 2,667 km of operational track. The Great Belt Fixed Link (opened in 1997) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge (opened in 1970) connecting Funen and Jutland greatly i... |
8038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Defence | Danish Defence | Danish Defence (, , ) is the unified armed forces of the Kingdom of Denmark charged with the defence of Denmark and its constituent, self-governing nations Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The Defence also promote Denmark's wider interests, support international peacekeeping efforts and provide humanitarian aid.
Since... |
8039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Denmark | Foreign relations of Denmark | The foreign policy of Denmark is based on its identity as a sovereign state in Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. As such its primary foreign policy focus is on its relations with other nations as a sovereign state compromising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Denmark h... |
8041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Djibouti | History of Djibouti | Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Somaliland to the southeast, Eritrea and the Red Sea to the north and northwest, Ethiopia to the west and south, and the Gulf of Aden to the east.
In antiquity, the territory was part of the Land of Punt. The Djibouti area, along with other localities in t... |
8042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Djibouti | Geography of Djibouti | Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. To the east is its coastline on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Rainfall is sparse, and most of the territory has a semi-arid to arid environment. Lake Assal is a saline l... |
8043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Djibouti | Demographics of Djibouti | This article is about the demographics of Djibouti, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Ethnic groups
Djibouti is a multiethnic country. As of 2018, it has a population of around 884,017 inhabitants. Djibouti's ... |
8044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Djibouti | Politics of Djibouti | Politics of Djibouti takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the National Assembly. The party system and legislature are dominated by the socialis... |
8045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Djibouti | Economy of Djibouti | The economy of Djibouti is derived in large part from its strategic location on the Red Sea. Djibouti is mostly barren, with little development in the agricultural and industrial sectors. The country has a harsh climate, a largely unskilled labour force, and limited natural resources. The country's most important econo... |
8047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Djibouti | Transport in Djibouti | Transport in Djibouti is overseen by the Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport. Over the last years, the Government of Djibouti have significantly increased funding for rail and road construction to build an infrastructure. They include highways, airports and seaports, in addition to various forms of public and privat... |
8048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti%20Armed%20Forces | Djibouti Armed Forces | The Djibouti Armed Forces (DJAF; , ) are the military forces of Djibouti. They consist of the Djiboutian National Army and its sub-branches the Djiboutian Air Force and Djiboutian Navy. As of 2018, the Djibouti Armed Forces consists of 20,470 (2018 est.) ground troops, which are divided into several regiments and batta... |
8051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Dominica | History of Dominica | The first written records in the history of Dominica began in November 1493, when Christopher Columbus spotted the island. Prior to European contact, Dominica was inhabited by the Arawak. Dominica was a French colony from 1715 until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, and then became a British colony from 1763 to ... |
8052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Dominica | Geography of Dominica | Dominica is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe (to the north) and Martinique (to the south). Its coordinates are 15 25 N, 61 20 W. It is known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which is protecte... |
8053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Dominica | Demographics of Dominica | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Dominica, including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Population
According to the preliminary 2011 census results Dominica has a population of 71,293. The population growth rate is very low, due... |
8054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Dominica | Politics of Dominica | The politics of Dominica takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Dominica is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the House of ... |
8056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Dominica | Telecommunications in Dominica | Telecommunications in Dominica comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission which regulates all related industries to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.
Telephony
Calls from Dominica to the US, Cana... |
8058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20of%20Dominica | Military of Dominica | There has been no standing army in Dominica since 1981. Defense is the responsibility of Regional Security System (RSS).
The civil Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force includes a Special Service Unit and Coast Guard. In the event of war or other emergency, if proclaimed by the authorities, the Police Force shall be ... |
8059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Dominica | Foreign relations of Dominica | Like its Eastern Caribbean neighbours, the main priority of Dominica's foreign relations is economic development. The country maintains missions in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels and is represented jointly with other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) members in Canada. Dominica is also a membe... |
8060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican%20Republic | Dominican Republic | The Dominican Republic ( ; , ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two... |
8062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches%20Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Normung | Deutsches Institut für Normung | (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardisation) is the German national organization for standardization and is the German ISO member body. DIN is a German Registered Association (e.V.) headquartered in Berlin. There are currently around thirty thousand DIN Standards, covering nearly every field of technolog... |
8063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | History of the Dominican Republic | The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa-born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who... |
8064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Geography of the Dominican Republic | The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola. It has an area of 48,670 km2, including offshore islands. The land border shared with Haiti, which occupies the western three-eighths of the island, is 376 km long. The maximum le... |
8065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Demographics of the Dominican Republic | This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Dominican Republic, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Population
According to the total population was in , compared to... |
8067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Economy of the Dominican Republic | The economy of the Dominican Republic is the seventh largest
in Latin America, and is the largest in the Caribbean and Central American region. The Dominican Republic is an upper-middle income developing country with important sectors including mining, tourism, manufacturing (medical devices, electrical equipment, phar... |
8068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic | Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Numerous television channels are available. Tricom, S.A, WIND Telecom, S.A., Viva (network operator), and Claro Codetel provide television services digitally, with channels from Latin America and else... |
8069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Transport in the Dominican Republic | Transport in the Dominican Republic utilizes a system of roads, airports, ports, harbours, and an urban railway.
Roadways
Five main highways (DR-1, DR-2, DR-3, DR-4, DR-5) connect the Dominican Republic's biggest cities and tourist centers; they are in good condition. There are nearly of highways and roads, 9,872 b... |
8070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic | The Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic () is the combined national military of the Dominican Republic. It consists of approximately 44,000 active duty personnel, approximately 60 percent of which are utilized mainly for non-military operations, including security providers for government-owned non-military faciliti... |
8071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Foreign relations of the Dominican Republic | The foreign relations of the Dominican Republic are the Dominican Republic's relations with other governments.
The Dominican Republic has a close relationship with the United States and with the other states of the Inter-American system. It has accredited diplomatic missions in most Western Hemisphere countries and in... |
8072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease | Disease | A disease is an abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific signs and symptoms. A disease may be caused by external factors su... |
8073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanelles | Dardanelles | The Dardanelles (; , ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asi... |
8074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daugava | Daugava | Daugava () or Western Dvina (; ) is a large river rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia that flows through Belarus then Latvia into the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea. It rises close to the source of the Volga. Its length is 1,020 km (630 mi), of which 325 km (202 mi) are in Russia. It is a westward-flowing river, tra... |
8075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun | Datsun | The Datsun (, ) is an automobile brand owned by Nissan. Datsun's original production run began in 1931. From 1958 to 1986, only vehicles exported by Nissan were identified as Datsun. By 1986, Nissan had phased out the Datsun name, but relaunched it in June 2013 as the brand for low-cost vehicles manufactured for emergi... |
8078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite | Dynamite | Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany and patented in 1867. It rapidly gained wide-scale use as a more powerful alternative to black powder.
Today, dyna... |
8079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Fincher | David Fincher | David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly psychological thrillers and biographical dramas, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. ... |
8080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20decades%2C%20centuries%2C%20and%20millennia | List of decades, centuries, and millennia | This is a list of decades, centuries, and millennia from 10,000 BC to 2030 AD, including links to corresponding articles with more information about them.
Notes
See also
List of years
Timelines of world history
List of timelines
Chronology
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.
See his... |
8081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Engelbart | Douglas Engelbart | Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creatio... |
8082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond | Diamond | Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond converts to it extremely slowly. Diamond has the highest hardness and t... |
8083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Dre | Dr. Dre | Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and previously co-founded, co-owned, and was the president of Death Row Records. Dr. Dre began his career a... |
8085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicate%20Arch | Delicate Arch | Delicate Arch is a freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park, near Moab in Grand County, Utah, United States. The arch is the most widely recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of admission to th... |
8086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed%20poll | Deed poll | A deed poll (plural: deeds poll or deed polls) is a legal document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention. It is, strictly speaking, not a contract because it binds only one party and expresses an intention instead of a promise.
Use for changing name
The most ... |
8088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary%20film | Documentary film | A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterised the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience rec... |
8090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%20of%20the%20Tentacle | Day of the Tentacle | Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle—a sen... |
8091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Adams | Douglas Adams | Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copi... |
8092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum%20and%20bass | Drum and bass | Drum and bass (also written as Drum&Bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165-185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers. The genre grew out of the UK's jungle scene in the e... |
8095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Knuth | Donald Knuth | Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
H... |
8097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy%20product | Dairy product | Dairy products or milk products are food products made from (or containing) milk. The most common dairy animals are cow, water buffalo, nanny goat, ewe, and camel. Dairy products include common grocery store food items in the Western world such as yogurt, cheese and butter. A facility that produces dairy products is kn... |
8099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Grohl | Dave Grohl | David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, songwriter, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the drummer for the Seattle grunge band Nirvana and the frontman and guitarist of Foo Fighters.
At 17, Grohl joined the punk rock band Scream after the departure of their drummer Kent Stax. He becam... |
8100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar | Dollar | Dollar is the name of more than 20 currencies. They include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, United States dollar, and several others. The symbol for most of those currenci... |
8101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch | Dutch | Dutch commonly refers to:
Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
Dutch people ()
Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People
Ethnic groups
Germanic peoples, the original meaning of the term Dutch in Engli... |
8102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosium | Dysprosium | Dysprosium is the chemical element with the symbol Dy and atomic number 66. It is a rare-earth element in the lanthanide series with a metallic silver luster. Dysprosium is never found in nature as a free element, though, like other lanthanides, it is found in various minerals, such as xenotime. Naturally occurring dys... |
8103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation | Deforestation | Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests. About 31% of Earth's land surface is... |
8104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification | Desertification | Desertification is a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid. It is the spread of arid areas caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and overexploitation of soil a... |
8117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton%20Bridge%20%28California%29 | Dumbarton Bridge (California) | The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California. Carrying over 70,000 vehicles and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily (384 on weekends), it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at . Its eastern end is in Fremont, near Newark in the San Fran... |
8118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock | Dock | Dock may refer to:
Computing
Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
Dock (macOS), a toolbar-like application launcher in the macOS operating system
Docking station, a laptop accessory
People
Dock or Hayden Scott-Baron (born 1980), English manga illustrator
Dock (given name), include a list of people ... |
8121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%20Cowboys | Dallas Cowboys | The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Frisco, Texas, and plays its home games at AT&T... |
8122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%20Broncos | Denver Broncos | The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team is headquartered in Dove Valley, Colorado and plays home games at Empower Field at Mile... |
8123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D | D | D, or d, is the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is dee (pronounced ), plural dees.
History
The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this... |
8124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20%28letter%29 | Delta (letter) | Delta (; uppercase Δ, lowercase δ or 𝛿; , délta, ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃, Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д.
A river delta (originally, the Nile River delta) is so na... |
8125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma | Digamma | Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound but it has remained in use principally as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was originally called waw or wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma; as a numer... |
8126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dose | Dose | Dose means quantity (in units of energy/mass) in the fields of nutrition, medicine, and toxicology. Dosage is the rate of application of a dose, although in common and imprecise usage, the words are sometimes used synonymously.
Music
Dose (Gov't Mule album), 1998
Dose (Latin Playboys album)
Dosage (album), by the b... |
8127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert | Dilbert | Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert as the title character. It has spawned dozens of books, an animated television series, a video game, an... |
8128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect | Dialect | The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. Under t... |
8129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis | Digitalis | Digitalis ( or ) is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.
Digitalis is native to Europe, western Asia, and northwestern Africa. The flowers are tubular in shape, produced on a tall spike, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white... |
8131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite | Dendrite | Dendrites (from Greek δένδρον déndron, "tree"), also dendrons, are branched protoplasmic extensions of a nerve cell that propagate the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project. Electrical stimulation is transmitted onto dendri... |
8133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai%20Lama | Dalai Lama | Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. The Dalai Lam... |
8134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages | Damages | At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognised at law, the loss must involve damage to property, or mental or physical injury... |
8137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster | Disaster | A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more ... |
8138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Zoff | Dino Zoff | Dino Zoff (; born 28 February 1942) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the oldest ever winner of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian national team in the 1982 tournament, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days. He also won the award for best goalke... |
8141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsacales | Dipsacales | The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons. In the APG III system of 2009, the order includes only two families, Adoxaceae and a broadly defined Caprifoliaceae. Some well-known members of the Dipsacales order are honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, and valerian.
Under ... |
8142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat | Democrat | Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
A member of a Democratic Party:
Democratic Party (United States) (D)
Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
Democratic Party (Japan) (DP)
Democratic Party (Italy) (P... |
8143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December | December | December is the twelfth and the final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is also the last of seven months to have a length of 31 days.
December got its name from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus which began in... |
8144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%207 | December 7 |
Events
Pre-1600
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.
574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.
1601–1900
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded... |
8145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2015 | December 15 |
Events
Pre-1600
533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodore.
1025 – Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire, 63 years after ... |
8148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo%20C%C3%A3o | Diogo Cão | Diogo Cão (), anglicised as Diogo Cam and also known as Diego Cam,<ref>{{citation |contribution=Angola |title='Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. II |editor-last=Baynes |editor-first=Thomas Spencer |display-editors=0 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |date=1878 |ref= |page=45 }}.</ref> was a Por... |
8162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking%20game | Drinking game | Drinking games are games which involve the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Evidence of the existence of drinking games dates back to antiquity. Drinking games have been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities.
History
Ancient Greece
Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games... |
8166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon | Devon | Devon (, archaically known as Devonshire) is a county in South West England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south. It is bounded by Cornwall to the west, Somerset to the north-east and Dorset to the east. The city of Exeter is the county town. The county includes the distri... |
8167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor | Dartmoor | Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers .
The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. The landscape consists of moorland capped with m... |
8169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%20Alighieri | Dante Alighieri | Dante Alighieri (), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (, also ; – 14 September 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considere... |
8171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20the%20Menace | Dennis the Menace | Dennis the Menace may refer to either of two comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951, one in the UK and one in the US.
British character
Dennis the Menace (UK comics) is the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in "The Beano" on March 12, 1951 (in the edition cover dated March ... |
8176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Brubeck | Dave Brubeck | David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. Some of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecti... |
8179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye | Dye | A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do not chemically bind to the material they color. Dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution, and may require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber.
Bo... |
8181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples%20of%20differential%20equations | Examples of differential equations | Differential equations arise in many problems in physics, engineering, and other sciences. The following examples show how to solve differential equations in a few simple cases when an exact solution exists.
Separable first-order ordinary differential equations
Equations in the form are called separable and are sol... |
8182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20D.%20Eisenhower | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star ra... |
8185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima | Dejima | was a Portuguese and subsequently Dutch trading post at Nagasaki, Japan, from 1634 to 1854. Dejima was also the location for trade with the Chinese at the time, and thus the only place designated for foreign trade and exchange during the historical Japanese Edo period.
Dejima was a small fan-shaped artificial island ... |
8187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive%20statistics | Descriptive statistics | A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information, while descriptive statistics (in the mass noun sense) is the process of using and analysing those statistics. Descriptive statistics is distinguished from infer... |
8189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic%20statistics | Demographic statistics | Demographic statistics are measures of the characteristics of, or changes to, a population. Records of births, deaths, marriages, immigration and emigration and a regular census of population provide information that is key to making sound decisions about national policy.
A useful summary of such data is the populatio... |
8192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective%20fiction | Detective fiction | Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has rem... |
8193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Defoe | Daniel Defoe | Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents ... |
8194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%208 | December 8 |
Events
Pre-1600
395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
877 – Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of t... |
8197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%20Morris | Desmond Morris | Desmond John Morris FLS hon. caus. (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.
Early life
Morris was born in Purton, Wiltshire, to M... |
8198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2028 | December 28 |
Events
Pre-1600
418 – A papal conclave begins, resulting in the election of Pope Boniface I.
457 – Majorian is acclaimed as Western Roman emperor.
484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
893 – An earthquake dest... |
8199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Diderot | Denis Diderot | Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.
Diderot initially studied philosophy at... |
8200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20chemical%20element%20discoveries | Timeline of chemical element discoveries | The discovery of the 118 chemical elements known to exist as of 2022 is presented in chronological order. The elements are listed generally in the order in which each was first defined as the pure element, as the exact date of discovery of most elements cannot be accurately determined. There are plans to synthesize mor... |
8202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic%20scale | Diatonic scale | In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale. This pattern ensures that, in a di... |
8203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied | Deutschlandlied | The "" (; "Song of Germany"), officially titled "" ("The Song of the Germans"), or part of it, has been the national anthem of Germany since 1922. In East Germany, the national anthem was "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" ("Risen from Ruins") between 1949 and 1990.
After World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany, only the thi... |
8204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2031 | December 31 | It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the following year. It is also the last day of the fourth and final quarter of the year.
... |
8205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng%20Xiaoping | Deng Xiaoping | Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997), also known by his courtesy name Xixian (), was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradua... |
8206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM%20Prison%20Dartmoor | HM Prison Dartmoor | HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. Its high granite walls dominate this area of the moor. The prison is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.
History
In 1805, the United Kingdom was at war w... |
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