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8591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora%20studies | Diaspora studies | Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late 20th century to study dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples. The usage of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to expulsion, coercion, slavery, racism, or war, especially nationalist conflicts.... |
8592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian | Domitian | Domitian (; ; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 81 to 96. The son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus, his two predecessors on the throne, he was the last member of the Flavian dynasty. Described as "a ruthless but efficient autocrat", his authoritarian style of ruling put ... |
8593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus%20steel | Damascus steel | Damascus steel was the forged steel of the blades of swords smithed in the Near East from ingots of Wootz steel either imported from Southern India or made in production centres in Sri Lanka, or Khorasan, Iran. These swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water, ... |
8594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back%20myth | Stab-in-the-back myth | The stab-in-the-back myth (, , ) was an antisemitic conspiracy theory, widely believed and promulgated in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918. The belief was that the German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially Jews, revolutionary... |
8599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport%2C%20Iowa | Davenport, Iowa | Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States. It is located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, and is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population estimate of 382,630 and a CSA population of 474,226; it is the 90th largest CSA in t... |
8603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction | Diffraction | Diffraction refers to various phenomena that occur when a wave encounters an obstacle or opening. It is defined as the bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture. The diffracting object or aperture effectively becomes a secon... |
8605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Donaldson%20%28activist%29 | Stephen Donaldson (activist) | Stephen Donaldson (July 27, 1946 – July 18, 1996), born Robert Anthony Martin Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual rights activist, and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering activism in LGBT rights and prison reform, and for his writing about punk rock and subcul... |
8608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen | Dolmen | A dolmen () is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BC) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. Small pad-stones may be wedged... |
8612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declination | Declination | In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle. Declination's angle is measured north or south of the celestial equator, along the hour circle passing through the point in question... |
8613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora | Diaspora | A diaspora ( ) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. Historically, the word diaspora was used to refer to the mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, specifically the dispersion of Jews. Whilst the word was originally used to describe the forced displaceme... |
8615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dog%20breeds | List of dog breeds | This is a list of dog breeds, including extant breeds and extinct breeds, varieties and types.
Extant breeds
A–C
D–K
L–R
S–Z
Extinct breeds, varieties and types
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
Breeds
D |
8617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Jones%20%28phonetician%29 | Daniel Jones (phonetician) | Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). He was head of the Department of Phonetics at University College, London.
Biography
In 1900, Jones studied ... |
8618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Beckham | David Beckham | David Robert Joseph Beckham (; born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the current president & co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City. He played for Manchester United, Preston North End (on loan), Real Madrid, AC Milan (on loan), LA Galaxy, Paris Saint-Germain and the England na... |
8620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianic%20Wicca | Dianic Wicca | Dianic Wicca, also known as Dianic Witchcraft, is a Modern Pagan, goddess tradition, focused on female experience and empowerment. Leadership is by women, who may be ordained as priestesses, or in less formal groups that function as collectives. While some adherents identify as Wiccan, it differs from most traditions o... |
8622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Host%20Configuration%20Protocol | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network using a client–server architecture.
The technology eliminates the need for individually... |
8623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava%20Sobel | Dava Sobel | Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison, and Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste, and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of th... |
8625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20geometry | Differential geometry | Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds, using the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra. The field has its origins in the study of spherical geometry as ... |
8626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhole | Dhole | The dhole (; Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South, East, and Southeast Asia. Other English names for the species include Asian wild dog, Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red dog, and mountain wolf. It is genetically close to species within the genus Canis, but distinct in several anatomica... |
8629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Rumsfeld | Donald Rumsfeld | Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense.... |
8630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20Garcia | Diego Garcia | Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to find it and it ... |
8631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmu%20Borgir | Dimmu Borgir | Dimmu Borgir () is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Jessheim, formed in 1993. The name is derived from Dimmuborgir, a volcanic formation in Iceland, the name of which means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The band has been through numerous lineup changes over t... |
8632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze | Druze | Druze (; or , plural ) are members of an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group originating in Western Asia. They practice Druzism, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad and the sixth Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and ancient Gree... |
8633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2012 | December 12 |
Events
Pre-1600
627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
1601–1900
1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the ... |
8637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door | Door | A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the doorway (portal). Conventionally, it is a panel that fi... |
8640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20normalization | Database normalization | Database normalization is the process of structuring a database, usually a relational database, in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data redundancy and improve data integrity. It was first proposed by Edgar F. Codd as part of his relational model.
Normalization entails organizing t... |
8641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmothoracid | Desmothoracid | Order Desmothoracida, the desmothoracids, are a group of heliozoan protists, usually sessile and found in freshwater environments. The adult is a spherical cell around 10-20 μm in diameter surrounded by a perforated organic lorica, or shell, with many radial pseudopods projecting through the holes to capture food. Thes... |
8642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalhousie%20University | Dalhousie University | Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and medical teaching facilities in Saint John, New Brunswick. Dalhousie offers more than 4,000 courses, and 180 degree programs in twelve undergraduate, graduate, ... |
8643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20diffusion | Molecular diffusion | Molecular diffusion, often simply called diffusion, is the thermal motion of all (liquid or gas) particles at temperatures above absolute zero. The rate of this movement is a function of temperature, viscosity of the fluid and the size (mass) of the particles. Diffusion explains the net flux of molecules from a region ... |
8645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension | Declension | In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles to indicate number (e.g., singular, dual, plural), case (e.g., nominati... |
8648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffynition | Daffynition | A daffynition (a portmanteau blend of daffy and definition) is a form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). Presented in the form of dictionary definitions, they are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and e... |
8649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20football%20clubs%20in%20the%20Netherlands | List of football clubs in the Netherlands | The Dutch Football League is organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB, Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond).The most successful teams are Ajax (35), PSV (23) and Feyenoord (15). Important teams of the past are HVV (10 titles), Sparta Rotterdam (6 titles) and Willem II (3 titles).
The annual match that m... |
8650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%2032/64 | Dragon 32/64 | The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s. The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer, and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd., initially in Swansea, Wales before moving to Port Talbot, Wales (until 1984) and by Eurohard S.A. in Casar de Cáceres, S... |
8651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20matter | Dark matter | Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not absorb, reflect, or emit electromagnetic radiation (like light) and is, therefo... |
8653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati%20Motor%20Holding | Ducati Motor Holding | Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. () is the motorcycle-manufacturing division of Italian company Ducati, headquartered in Bologna, Italy. The company is directly owned by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini, whose German parent company is Audi, itself owned by the Volkswagen Group.
History
In 1926 Antonio Cavalieri ... |
8654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20Nova | Data General Nova | The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units.
The first model, known simply as "Nova", was released in 1969. The Nova was packaged into a single 3U rack-mount case an... |
8659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant%20Church%20in%20the%20Netherlands | Protestant Church in the Netherlands | The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Calvinist and Lutheran.
It was founded on 1 May 2004 as the merger of the vast majority of the Dutch Reformed Church, the vast majority of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the... |
8660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Church%20%28Disciples%20of%20Christ%29 | Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th century as a loose association of churches working towards Christian unity,... |
8662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rice%20Atchison | David Rice Atchison | David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confed... |
8663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Gabriel%20Fahrenheit | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (; ; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), then a predominantly German-speaking city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He later moved to the Dutch Republic at a... |
8664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale%20DragonBall | Freescale DragonBall | Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor's DragonBall, or MC68328, is a microcontroller design based on the famous 68000 core, but implemented as an all-in-one low-power system for handheld computer use. It is supported by μClinux. It was designed by Motorola in Hong Kong and released in 1995.
The DragonBall's major design wi... |
8667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit%20experiment | Double-slit experiment | In modern physics, the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena. This type of experiment was first performed, using light, by T... |
8668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Bricklin | Dan Bricklin | Daniel Singer Bricklin (born July 16, 1951) is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix. which he left in 2004. He currently serves as the chief technology o... |
8674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20enhanced%20cordless%20telecommunications | Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications | Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (Digital European cordless telecommunications), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a standard primarily used for creating cordless telephone systems. It originated in Europe, where it is the common standard, replacing earlier cordless phone standards, such as 900 MHz CT1 ... |
8676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na | Dhyāna | Dhyāna may refer to:
Meditative practices in Indian religions
Dhyāna in Buddhism (Pāli: jhāna)
Dhyāna in Hinduism
Jain Dhyāna, see Jain meditation
Other
Dhyana, a work by British composer John Tavener (1944-2013)
Dhyana (MaYaN album), 2018
Hygon Dhyana, a x86 compatible microprocessor |
8677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2030 | December 30 |
Events
Pre-1600
534 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.
999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland.
1066 – Gran... |
8678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn | Donn | In Irish mythology, Donn ("the dark one", from ) is an ancestor of the Gaels and is believed to have been a god of the dead. Donn is said to dwell in Tech Duinn (the "house of Donn" or "house of the dark one"), where the souls of the dead gather. He may have originally been an aspect of the Dagda. Folklore about Donn s... |
8681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20compression%20ratio | Data compression ratio | Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a measurement of the relative reduction in size of data representation produced by a data compression algorithm. It is typically expressed as the division of uncompressed size by compressed size.
Definition
Data compression ratio is defined as the ratio betwe... |
8683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc%20jockey | Disc jockey | A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties... |
8687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit | Detroit | Detroit (, ; ) is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the county seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The ... |
8688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan%20Traps | Deccan Traps | The Deccan Traps is a large igneous province of west-central India (17–24°N, 73–74°E). It is one of the largest volcanic features on Earth, taking the form of a large shield volcano. They consist of numerous layers of solidified flood basalt that together are more than about thick, cover an area of about , and have a ... |
8690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20ask%2C%20don%27t%20tell | Don't ask, don't tell | "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service by gay men, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted during the Clinton administration. The policy was issued under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 on December 21, 1993, and was in effect from February 28, 1994, until September ... |
8691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination | Divination | Divination (from Latin divinare, 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by re... |
8693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diets%20of%20Nuremberg | Diets of Nuremberg | The Diets of Nuremberg, also called the Imperial Diets of Nuremberg, took place at different times between the Middle Ages and the 17th century.
The first Diet of Nuremberg, in 1211, elected the future emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen as German king.
At the Diet of 1356 the Emperor Charles IV issued the Golden Bu... |
8695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Strangelove | Dr. Strangelove | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known simply as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and ... |
8697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20ligase | DNA ligase | DNA ligase is a specific type of enzyme, a ligase, () that facilitates the joining of DNA strands together by catalyzing the formation of a phosphodiester bond. It plays a role in repairing single-strand breaks in duplex DNA in living organisms, but some forms (such as DNA ligase IV) may specifically repair double-stra... |
8699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey%20Decimal%20Classification | Dewey Decimal Classification | The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. It was first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876. Originally described in a fo... |
8702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E1%B8%A5kha | Duḥkha | Duḥkha (; Sanskrit:दुःख; Pāli: dukkha) is an important concept in Hinduism and Buddhism, commonly translated as "suffering", "unhappiness", "pain", "unsatisfactoriness" or "stress". It refers to the fundamental unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of mundane life. It is the first of the Four Noble Truths and it is one of... |
8703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20Awards | Darwin Awards | The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized via their own actions.
The project became more formalized wit... |
8704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20dance | Outline of dance | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dance:
Dance – human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. Definitions of what co... |
8706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCM | DCM | DCM may refer to:
Science and technology
Dichloromethane, a common solvent in organic chemistry
Deep chlorophyll maximum, subsurface maximum in the concentration of chlorophyll
Dynamic causal modelling, a method for the interpretation of functional neuroimaging data
Docking Cargo Module, a planned Russian module o... |
8707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW | DKW | DKW (Dampf-Kraft-Wagen, , also Deutsche Kinder-Wagen . Das-Kleine-Wunder, or Des-Knaben-Wunsch, ) was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and is hence an ancestor of the modern day Audi company.
In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded ... |
8708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Syn | Doctor Syn | The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915. The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th-century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to... |
8709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone | Dhrystone | Dhrystone is a synthetic computing benchmark program developed in 1984 by Reinhold P. Weicker intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. The Dhrystone grew to become representative of general processor (CPU) performance. The name "Dhrystone" is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called Whetsto... |
8713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Winer | Dave Winer | Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955, in Queens, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer who resides in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software comp... |
8714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2010 | December 10 |
Events
Pre-1600
1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France,... |
8715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko | Taiko | are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called and to the form of ensemble drumming more specifically called . The process of constructing varies between manufactu... |
8716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly%20Parton | Dolly Parton | Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s ... |
8717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprotodon | Diprotodon | Diprotodon is an extinct genus of large marsupials native to Australia from the Pleistocene epoch. It is considered one of Australia's core species of "megafauna", which ranged throughout the continent during the Pleistocene. The genus is currently considered monotypic, containing only Diprotodon optatum, the largest ... |
8718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Benedict | Dirk Benedict | Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1, 1945) is an American movie, television and stage actor, philosopher and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series and Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television... |
8724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20effect | Doppler effect | The Doppler effect or Doppler shift (or simply Doppler, when in context) is the change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source. It is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who described the phenomenon in 1842.
A common example of Doppler shift is the ... |
8727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T%20%28timekeeping%29 | ΔT (timekeeping) | In precise timekeeping, ΔT (Delta T, delta-T, deltaT, or DT) is a measure of the cumulative effect of the departure of the Earth's rotation period from the fixed-length day of atomic time (86,400 seconds). Formally, ΔT is the time difference between Universal Time (UT, defined by the Earth's rotation) and Terrestrial ... |
8728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2022 | December 22 |
Events
Pre-1600
AD 69 – Vespasian is proclaimed Emperor of Rome; his predecessor, Vitellius, attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the Gemonian stairs.
401 – Pope Innocent I is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office.
856 – Damghan earthquake: An earthquake near the Persian city of ... |
8729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Deutsch | David Deutsch | David Elieser Deutsch ( ; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by ... |
8730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssturm | Volkssturm | The (; "people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was not set up by the German Army, the ground component of the combined German Wehrmacht armed forces, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established on 25 Septemb... |
8731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s%20cut | Director's cut | A director's cut is an edited version of a film (or video game, television episode, music video, or commercial) that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit in contrast to the theatrical release. "Cut" explicitly refers to the process of film and game editing; in preparing a film for release, the dire... |
8733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20video | Digital video | Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises a series of digital images displayed in rapid succession.
Digital video wa... |
8735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND | BIND | BIND () is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS). Its most prominent component, named (pronounced name-dee: , short for name daemon), performs both of the main DNS server roles, acting as an authoritative name server for DNS zones and as a recursive resolver in the network. As of 2015, i... |
8736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns | Djbdns | The djbdns software package is a DNS implementation. It was created by Daniel J. Bernstein in response to his frustrations with repeated security holes in the widely used BIND DNS software. As a challenge, Bernstein offered a $1000 prize for the first person to find a security hole in djbdns, which was awarded in March... |
8741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%20%28programming%20language%29 | Dylan (programming language) | Dylan is a multi-paradigm programming language that includes support for functional and object-oriented programming (OOP), and is dynamic and reflective while providing a programming model designed to support generating efficient machine code, including fine-grained control over dynamic and static behaviors. It was cre... |
8742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20Core | Dublin Core | The Dublin Core, also known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen "core" elements (properties) for describing resources. This fifteen-element Dublin Core has been formally standardized as ISO 15836, ANSI/NISO Z39.85, and IETF RFC 5013. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), which for... |
8743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20Object%20Model | Document Object Model | The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an XML or HTML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document. The DOM represents a document with a logical tree. Each branch of the tree ends in a node, and each node cont... |
8745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20pattern | Design pattern | A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander and has been adapted for various other disciplines, notably software engineering.
Details
An organized collection of design patterns that relate to a particular field is called a p... |
8748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2CN-Dimethyltryptamine | N,N-Dimethyltryptamine | N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a substituted tryptamine that occurs in many plants and animals and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a recreational psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen.
DMT has a rapid onset, int... |
8750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%20capo | Da capo | Da capo (, also , ) is an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning" (literally, "from the head"). It is often abbreviated as D.C. The term is a directive to repeat the previous part of music, often used to save space, and thus is an easier way of saying to repeat the music from the beginning.
In small piece... |
8751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominatrix | Dominatrix | A dominatrix (; ) is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities. A dominatrix might be of any sexual orientation, but her orientation does not necessarily limit the genders of her submissive partners. Dominatrices are known for inflicting physical pain on their submissive subjects, but this is not done in ... |
8752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Denmark | Flag of Denmark | The national flag of Denmark (, ) is red with a white Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side.
A banner with a white-on-red cross is attested as having been used by the kings of Denmark since the 14th century. An origin legend with considera... |
8753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma | Dharma | Dharma (; , ; ; ) is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and others. Although there is no direct single-word translation for dharma in Western languages, it is commonly translated as "righteousness", "merit" or "religious and moral duties" governing ind... |
8756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Dennett | Daniel Dennett | Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
As of 2017, he is the co-di... |
8757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s%20Dangerous%20Idea | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory. The crux of the argument is that, whether or not Darwin's theories are overturned, there is no going back from the dangerous idea that... |
8758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Hofstadter | Douglas Hofstadter | Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in math... |
8765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey | Dahomey | The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast.
... |
8767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon | Dragoon | Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback. While their use goes back to the late ... |
8768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcimer | Dulcimer | The word dulcimer refers to two types of musical string instruments.
Hammered dulcimers
The word originally refers to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of this instrument are found in many cultures, including
Hammered dulcimer (England, Scotland, ... |
8769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20West%20India%20Company | Dutch West India Company | The Dutch West India Company (, or GWC; ; ) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors. Among its founders was Willem Usselincx (1567–1647) and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624). On 3 June 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the Dutch West Indies by the Republic of the Seven Un... |
8771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyula%20language | Dyula language | Dyula (or Jula, Dioula, Julakan ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a language of the Mande language family spoken in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali. It is one of the Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken ... |
8774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi%20Arnaz | Desi Arnaz | Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), better known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, bandleader, and film and television producer. He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred with his then-wife Lucille Ball. Arnaz and Ball a... |
8777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20virus | DNA virus | A DNA virus is a virus that has a genome made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is replicated by a DNA polymerase. They can be divided between those that have two strands of DNA in their genome, called double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses, and those that have one strand of DNA in their genome, called single-stranded D... |
8778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Ortega | Daniel Ortega | José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously, he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1985) and then as President of Nicaragua (1985–1990). A leader in th... |
8779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer | Destroyer | In naval terminology, a destroyer () is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in 1885 by Fernando Villaamil for the Spanish Navy as a defense against torped... |
8781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Parker | Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works publishe... |
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