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8406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative%20case | Dative case | In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated , or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "Maria Jacobo potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink". In this example, the dative marks what would be considered the ... |
8407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron | Dodecahedron | In geometry, a dodecahedron (Greek , from dōdeka "twelve" + hédra "base", "seat" or "face") or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid. There are also three regular star dodecahedra, ... |
8408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%2C%20Northern%20Territory | Darwin, Northern Territory | Darwin (; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely-populated Northern Territory.
It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves ... |
8409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator | Dictator | A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium).
Like the term tyrant, and ... |
8410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel | Decibel | The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B). It expresses the ratio of two values of a power or root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale. Two signals whose levels differ by one decibel have a power ratio of 101/10 (approximately ) or root-power ratio of 10 (approximately... |
8411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism | Darwinism | Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also ca... |
8412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon | Doraemon | Doraemon ( ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 tankōbon volumes and published by Shogakukan from 1970 to 1996. The story revolves around an earless robotic cat named Doraemon, who tr... |
8414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor%20Preservation%20Association | Dartmoor Preservation Association | Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) is one of the oldest environmental or amenity bodies in the UK. It was founded in 1883. It concerns itself with Dartmoor, a National Park in Devon, south-west England. It began with two main areas of concern. Firstly, commoners' rights were being eroded through army use, includin... |
8418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%20College | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College (; ) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although found... |
8419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%2C%20Devon | Dartmouth, Devon | Dartmouth () is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district, and... |
8420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo | Dodo | The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest genetic relative was the also-extinct Rodrigues solitaire. The two formed the subfamily Raphinae, a clade of extinct flightless birds that were a pa... |
8421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideroxylon%20grandiflorum | Sideroxylon grandiflorum | Sideroxylon grandiflorum, known as tambalacoque or dodo tree, is a long-lived tree in the family Sapotaceae, endemic to Mauritius. It is valued for its timber. The Sideroxylon grandiflorum fruit is analogous to the peach. They are both termed drupes because both have a hard endocarp, or pit, surrounding the seed, with ... |
8425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Schultz | Dwight Schultz | Dwight Schultz (born in November 24, 1947) is an American television, film and voice actor.
He is known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact.
He is als... |
8429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density | Density | The density (more precisely, the volumetric mass density; also known as specific mass), of a substance is its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter D can also be used. Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided by volume:
... |
8432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Barry | Dave Barry | David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commen... |
8436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Angell | David Angell | David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American screenwriter and television producer. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the sitcoms Wings and Frasier. Angell and his wife Lynn both died heading home from their vaca... |
8437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diedrich%20Hermann%20Westermann | Diedrich Hermann Westermann | Diedrich Hermann Westermann (June 24, 1875 – May 31, 1956) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the work of Carl Meinhof, his teacher, although he rejected some of Meinhof's theories only implicitly. Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguist... |
8439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic | Diacritic | A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diac... |
8442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph | Digraph | Digraph may refer to:
Digraph (orthography), a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound, such as "sh" in English
[in Unicode] orthographic ligature, the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as "æ"
Digraph (computing), a group of characters used in computer programming to symbolise one ... |
8443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo | Didgeridoo | The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with continuously vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago... |
8449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20biology | Developmental biology | Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.
Perspectives
The main processes involved in t... |
8452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2027 | December 27 |
Events
Pre-1600
537 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated.
1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.
1521 – The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and preaching the Apocalypse.
... |
8454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20planet | Double planet | In astronomy, a double planet (also binary planet) is a binary satellite system where both objects are planets, or planetary-mass objects, that share an orbital axis external to both planetary bodies.
Although up to a third of the star systems in the Milky Way are binary, double planets are expected to be much rarer ... |
8456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation%20%28biochemistry%29 | Denaturation (biochemistry) | Denaturation is a process in which proteins or nucleic acids lose the quaternary structure, tertiary structure, and secondary structure which is present in their native state, by application of some external stress or compound such as a strong acid or base, a concentrated inorganic salt, an organic solvent (e.g., alcoh... |
8459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20L.%20Moody | Dwight L. Moody | Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publ... |
8460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieting | Dieting | Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-reduced diets, such as those emphasising particular macronutrients (low-fat, low-c... |
8461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet | Diet | Diet may refer to:
Food
Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group
Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake
Diet food, foods that aid in creating a diet for weight loss or gain
Healthy diet, the process of helping to maintain or improve overall... |
8463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubnium | Dubnium | Dubnium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Db and atomic number 105. It is highly radioactive: the most stable known isotope, dubnium-268, has a half-life of about 28 hours. This greatly limits extended research on the element.
Dubnium does not occur naturally on Earth and is produced artificially. The So... |
8464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaccharide | Disaccharide | A disaccharide (also called a double sugar or biose) is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage. Like monosaccharides, disaccharides are simple sugars soluble in water. Three common examples are sucrose, lactose, and maltose.
Disaccharides are one of the four chemical groupings of ca... |
8465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic%20hexameter | Dactylic hexameter | Dactylic hexameter (also known as "heroic hexameter" and "the meter of epic") is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme in poetry. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin and was consequently considered by many to be the grand style of Western classical po... |
8466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorado | Dorado | Dorado () is a constellation in the southern sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), which is known as dorado in Spanish, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish. Dorado contains most of the Large Mage... |
8467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco%20%28lawgiver%29 | Draco (lawgiver) | Draco (; , Drakōn; fl. c. 7th century BC), also called Drako or Drakon, was the first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court of law. Draco was the first democratic legislator requested by the Athenian... |
8468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinant | Determinant | In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar value that is a function of the entries of a square matrix. It allows characterizing some properties of the matrix and the linear map represented by the matrix. In particular, the determinant is nonzero if and only if the matrix is invertible and the linear map represented by... |
8470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Ricardo | David Ricardo | David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. He was also a politician, and a member of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland.
Personal life
Born in London, England... |
8471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinus | Delphinus | Delphinus (Pronounced or ) is a small constellation in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, close to the celestial equator. Its name is the Latin version for the Greek word for dolphin (). It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations re... |
8472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20storage | Disk storage | Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are the ha... |
8474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Wellesley%2C%201st%20Duke%20of%20Wellington | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He is among the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic ... |
8476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20operating%20system | Disk operating system | A disk operating system (abbreviated DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive, or optical disc. A disk operating system must provide a file system for organizing, reading, and writing files on the storage disk. Strictly speaking, this ... |
8477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual | Dual | Dual or Duals may refer to:
Paired/two things
Dual (mathematics), a notion of paired concepts that mirror one another
Dual (category theory), a formalization of mathematical duality
see more cases in :Category:Duality theories
Dual (grammatical number), a grammatical category used in some languages
Dual county, a... |
8478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak | Doublespeak | Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to... |
8481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressed%20to%20Kill%20%281980%20film%29 | Dressed to Kill (1980 film) | Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American neo-noir erotic thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon, the film depicts the events leading up to the murder of a New York City housewife (Dickinson) before following a prostitute (Allen) who witness... |
8483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%20cycle | Diesel cycle | The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression of air in the combustion chamber, into which fuel is then injected. This is in contrast to igniting the fuel-air mixture with a spark plug as in the Otto cycle (four-st... |
8484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus%20Ex%20%28video%20game%29 | Deus Ex (video game) | Deus Ex is a 2000 action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. Set in a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world in the year 2052, the game follows JC Denton, an agent of the fictional agency United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO), who is given superhuman abilities by nanotechno... |
8485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20Maradona | Diego Maradona | Diego Armando Maradona (; 30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award. Maradona's vision, passing, ball control, an... |
8487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Brewster | David Brewster | Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA Scot FSSA MICE (11 December 178110 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the... |
8488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone%20multi-frequency%20signaling | Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling | Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and switching centers. DTMF was first developed in the Bell System in the United States, and became known under the trademar... |
8489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical%20books | Deuterocanonical books | The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but which Protestant denominations re... |
8490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus%20throw | Discus throw | The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue Discobolus. Although not part of the modern pent... |
8492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20mathematics | Discrete mathematics | Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that can be considered "discrete" (in a way analogous to discrete variables, having a one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers) rather than "continuous" (analogously to continuous functions). Objects studied in discrete mathematics include in... |
8494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT | DDT | Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts. DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by the Austrian chemist Othmar Zeidler. DD... |
8495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20set | Data set | A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data. In the case of tabular data, a data set corresponds to one or more database tables, where every column of a table represents a particular variable, and each row corresponds to a given record of the data set in question. The data set lists values for each of the variables... |
8496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA | DMA | DMA may refer to:
Arts
DMA (magazine), a defunct dance music magazine
Dallas Museum of Art, an art museum in Texas, US
Danish Music Awards, an award show held in Denmark
BT Digital Music Awards, an annual event in the UK
Doctor of Musical Arts, a degree
Detroit Music Awards, an award show held in Michigan, US
D... |
8498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic%20and%20Statistical%20Manual%20of%20Mental%20Disorders | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5, published in 2013) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria.
It is used—mainly in the United States—by clinicians, resear... |
8500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar%20es%20Salaam | Dar es Salaam | Dar es-Salaam (; from ) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over six million people, Dar is the largest city in East Africa and the seventh-largest in Africa.
Located on the Swahili coast, Dar es Salaam is an ... |
8501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20computing | Distributed computing | Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. The components interact with one anoth... |
8504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin | Dublin | Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, it lies within the province of Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while th... |
8506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX | DirectX | Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so ... |
8508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slalom%20skiing | Slalom skiing | Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super giant slalom and downhill, necessitating quicker and shorter turns. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, ... |
8518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachshund | Dachshund | The dachshund ( or ; German: "badger dog"), also known as the wiener dog, badger dog, and sausage dog, is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed. They may be smooth-haired, wire-haired, or long-haired.
The standard-sized dachshund was developed to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwel... |
8519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20structure | Data structure | In computer science, a data structure is a data organization, management, and storage format that enables efficient access and modification. More precisely, a data structure is a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data, i.e., it is an alge... |
8520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Shostakovich | Dmitri Shostakovich | Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century and one of its most popular composers.
Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of the Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, b... |
8521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom%20%281993%20video%20game%29 | Doom (1993 video game) | Doom is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by id Software for MS-DOS. Players assume the role of a space marine, popularly known as Doomguy, fighting their way through hordes of invading demons from Hell. The first episode, comprising nine levels, was distributed freely as shareware and played by an estim... |
8522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver | Denver | Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 United States census, a 19.22% increase since the 2010 United States census. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state ca... |
8524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium | Deuterium | Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1). The nucleus of a deuterium atom, called a deuteron, contains one proton and one neutron, whereas the far more common protium has no neutrons in the nucleus. D... |
8525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20signal%20processing | Digital signal processing | Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations. The digital signals processed in this manner are a sequence of numbers that represent samples of a continuous variable in a do... |
8527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism | Discordianism | Discordianism is a religion or philosophy/paradigm centered on Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the Goddess of chaos. Discordianism uses archetypes or ideals associated with her. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its "holy book," the Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two worki... |
8528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunction%20introduction | Disjunction introduction | Disjunction introduction or addition (also called or introduction) is a rule of inference of propositional logic and almost every other deduction system. The rule makes it possible to introduce disjunctions to logical proofs. It is the inference that if P is true, then P or Q must be true.
An example in English:
Socra... |
8529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunction%20elimination | Disjunction elimination | In propositional logic, disjunction elimination (sometimes named proof by cases, case analysis, or or elimination), is the valid argument form and rule of inference that allows one to eliminate a disjunctive statement from a logical proof. It is the inference that if a statement implies a statement and a statement ... |
8530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20Sea | Dead Sea | The Dead Sea ( lit. Sea of Salt; , lit. the Dead Sea, or Buhayrat, Bahret or Birket Lut, lit. "Lake/Sea of Lot") is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank of Palestine to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
The lake's surface is b... |
8531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon | Dragon | A dragon is a reptile-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, four-legged, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons in ea... |
8533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche%20Mode | Depeche Mode | Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon in 1980. The group consists of a trio of Dave Gahan (lead vocals and co-songwriting), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, co-lead vocals and main songwriting) and Andy Fletcher (keyboards).
Depeche Mode released their debut album, Speak & Spell, in 1981,... |
8536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20cryptanalysis | Differential cryptanalysis | Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in information input can affect the resultant difference at the output. In the case of a block ciphe... |
8537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20type%20definition | Document type definition | A document type definition (DTD) is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language (GML, SGML, XML, HTML).
A DTD defines the valid building blocks of an XML document. It defines the document structure with a list of validated elements and attributes. A DTD can be declared i... |
8539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil | Devil | A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
It is difficult to specify a particular definition of any complexity that will cover all of the traditions, beyond that it is a manifestation of ... |
8540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%20engine | Diesel engine | The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-called compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using s... |
8541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Star | Dark Star | Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
Astronomy
Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity
Dark star (dark matter), a star heated by annihilation of dark matter particles within it
Dark-energy star, an object composed of dark energy that ... |
8544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing | Drawing | Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silve... |
8545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedham%2C%20Massachusetts | Dedham, Massachusetts | Dedham ( ) is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 25,364 at the 2020 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood, and on the southeast by Canton. The town was first settled by E... |
8547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Deuteronomy | Book of Deuteronomy | The Book of Deuteronomy (literally "second law" from Greek deuteros + nomos) is the fifth book of the Torah, where it is called Devarim (), "the words [of Moses]", and the fifth book of the Christian Old Testament, where it is also known as the Fifth Book of Moses.
Chapters 1–30 of the book consist of three sermons ... |
8550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down | Down | Down most often refers to:
Down, the relative direction opposed to up
Down (gridiron football), in American/Canadian football, a period when one play takes place
Down feather, a soft bird feather used in bedding and clothing
Downland, a type of hill
Down may also refer to:
Places
County Down, Northern Ireland, ... |
8551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David | David | David (; ) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah. In the Books of Samuel, David is a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying the giant Goliath, a champion of the Philistines in southern Canaan. David becomes a favorite of the first king of united Israel, Saul... |
8556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo%20II | Diablo II | Diablo II is an action role-playing hack-and-slash computer video game developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS, and macOS. The game, with its dark fantasy and horror themes, was conceptualized and designed by David Brevik and Erich Schaefer, who,... |
8560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design | Design | A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct cons... |
8561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization | Denormalization | Denormalization is a strategy used on a previously-normalized database to increase performance. In computing, denormalization is the process of trying to improve the read performance of a database, at the expense of losing some write performance, by adding redundant copies of data or by grouping data. It is often moti... |
8562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20topology | Differential topology | In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which concerns the geometric properties of smooth manifolds, including notions of... |
8564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffeomorphism | Diffeomorphism | In mathematics, a diffeomorphism is an isomorphism of smooth manifolds. It is an invertible function that maps one differentiable manifold to another such that both the function and its inverse are differentiable.
Definition
Given two manifolds and , a differentiable map is called a diffeomorphism if it is a bijec... |
8567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune%20Messiah | Dune Messiah | Dune Messiah is a science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, the second in his Dune series of six novels. A sequel to Dune (1965), it was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969, and then published by Putnam the same year. Dune Messiah and its own sequel Children of Dune (1976) were collectively a... |
8569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Nukem%203D | Duke Nukem 3D | Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms. It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II, published by 3D Realms.
Duke Nukem 3D features the adventures of the titular Duke Nukem, voiced by Jon St. John, who fights against an alien invasion on Earth. Along with Wolfen... |
8573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daoism%E2%80%93Taoism%20romanization%20issue | Daoism–Taoism romanization issue | The English words Daoism () and Taoism ( or ) are alternative spellings for the same-named Chinese philosophy and religion. The root for Daoism or Taoism is the Chinese word 道 ("road" or "way"), which was transcribed tao or tau in the earliest systems for the romanization of Chinese and dao or dau in 20th century syste... |
8574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao%20Te%20Ching | Tao Te Ching | The Tao Te Ching (, ; ) is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text ... |
8577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Lions | Detroit Lions | The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team plays its home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.
The franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio as t... |
8578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne | Dyne | The dyne (symbol dyn, from ) is a derived unit of force specified in the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units, a predecessor of the modern SI.
History
The name dyne was first proposed as a CGS unit of force in 1873 by a Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Definition
The dyne ... |
8579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Tigers | Detroit Tigers | The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) Central division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit as a member of the minor league Western League in 1894 and... |
8580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian | Diocletian | Diocletian (; ; c. 242/245 – 311/312) was Roman emperor from 284 to 305. Born to a family of low status in Dalmatia, originally named Diocles, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become a cavalry commander of the Emperor Carus's army. After the deaths of Carus and his son Numerian on campaign in Persia... |
8582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism | Deism | Deism ( or ; derived from the Latin deus, meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the... |
8584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturge | Dramaturge | A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults authors, and does public relations work. Its modern-day function was origina... |
8585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion | Dispersion | Dispersion may refer to:
Economics and finance
Dispersion (finance), a measure for the statistical distribution of portfolio returns
Price dispersion, a variation in prices across sellers of the same item
Wage dispersion, the amount of variation in wages encountered in an economy
Dispersed knowledge, notion that any o... |
8586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%20sphere | Dyson sphere | A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed what can be generated... |
8587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide | Democide | Democide is a concept proposed by American political scientist Rudolph Rummel to describe "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command." According to Rummel, this definition covers a wide range of ... |
8589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%209 | December 9 |
Events
Pre-1600
536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego ... |
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