id stringlengths 2 8 | url stringlengths 31 174 | title stringlengths 1 110 | text stringlengths 10 288k |
|---|---|---|---|
8783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%20Thomas | Dylan Thomas | Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of ... |
8785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%20Hill | Fern Hill | "Fern Hill" (1945) is a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published in Horizon magazine in October 1945, with its first book publication in 1946 as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances.
Thomas had started writing Fern Hill in New Quay, Cardiganshire, where he lived from September 4, 1944 to July 1945. Furthe... |
8786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bowie | David Bowie | David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for hi... |
8788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20cutter | Daisy cutter | Daisy cutter may refer to:
Daisy cutter (fuse), a type of fuse designed to detonate an aerial bomb at or above ground level
BLU-82, a type of bomb nicknamed Daisy Cutter in Vietnam
In cricket, a ball that bounces multiple times before reaching the batsman
A seldom used term for a sharply struck ground ball in base... |
8791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Hopper | Dennis Hopper | Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and filmmaker. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in Giant (1956). In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films, notabl... |
8795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Red%20Wings | Detroit Red Wings | The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference, and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. Founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars until 1930.... |
8796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge | Demiurge | In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge () is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The Gnostics adopted the term demiurge. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the Creator figur... |
8798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubravka%20of%20Bohemia | Doubravka of Bohemia | Doubravka of Bohemia, Dobrawa (, ; ca. 940/45 – 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans.
She was the daughter of Boleslaus I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota.
According to earlier sources, Doubravka urged her husband Mieszk... |
8799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20B.%20Cooper | D. B. Cooper | D. B. Cooper is a media epithet used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. The aircraft was operated by Northwest Orient Airlines and was flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. The hijacker extorted $200,000 in... |
8805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism | Distributism | Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. In its furthest extent some supporters of distributism (to an extent), support the redistribution of the means of production (productive assets) - in some ideological circles including the re... |
8807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydroepiandrosterone | Dehydroepiandrosterone | Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), also known as androstenolone, is an endogenous steroid hormone precursor. It is one of the most abundant circulating steroids in humans. DHEA is produced in the adrenal glands, the gonads, and the brain. It functions as a metabolic intermediate in the biosynthesis of the androgen and estr... |
8811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Fourier%20transform | Discrete Fourier transform | In mathematics, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) converts a finite sequence of equally-spaced samples of a function into a same-length sequence of equally-spaced samples of the discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT), which is a complex-valued function of frequency. The interval at which the DTFT is sampled is the r... |
8815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20polyhedron | Dual polyhedron | In geometry, every polyhedron is associated with a second dual figure, where the vertices of one correspond to the faces of the other, and the edges between pairs of vertices of one correspond to the edges between pairs of faces of the other. Such dual figures remain combinatorial or abstract polyhedra, but not all are... |
8816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20bass | Double bass | The double bass, also known simply as the bass (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings.
The bas... |
8817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deicide%20%28band%29 | Deicide (band) | Deicide is an American death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer Steve Asheim and guitarist brothers Eric and Brian Hoffman as "Carnage", then hiring bassist/vocalist Glen Benton and becoming "Amon". They would later change the band name to Deicide in 1989. The band rose to mainstream success in 1992... |
8822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Williamson | Daniel Williamson | Daniel Williamson may refer to:
Danny Williamson (footballer) (born 1973), former English footballer
A DJ, stage name LTJ Bukem
Daniel Alexander Williamson (1823–1903), British artist |
8824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20of%20labour | Division of labour | The division of labour is the separation of tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation). Individuals, organizations, and nations are endowed with or acquire specialised capabilities and either form combinations or trade to take advantage of the capabilities of other... |
8826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy%20lamp | Davy lamp | The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called fireda... |
8827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands%20Light%20Railway | Docklands Light Railway | The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London, England. First opened on 31 August 1987, the DLR has been extended multiple times, giving a total route length of . Lines now reach north to Stratford, south to Lewisham, west to and in the City of L... |
8828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee | Dundee | Dundee (; ; or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or 6,420/sq mi, the second-highest in Scotland. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north ba... |
8829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20Not%20Adjust%20Your%20Set | Do Not Adjust Your Set | Do Not Adjust Your Set (DNAYS) is a British television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969. The show took its name from the message (frequently seen on the TV screen in those days) ... |
8832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Memphis%20Three | West Memphis Three | The West Memphis Three are three men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prose... |
8833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Dewar | Donald Dewar | Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) was a Scottish politician who served as inaugural First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 1999 until his death in 2000. He previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1997 to 1999. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for... |
8835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon | Digimon | , short for "Digital Monsters" ( Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures, who inhabit a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communicati... |
8837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Beatty%2C%201st%20Earl%20Beatty | David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty | Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (17 January 1871 – 12 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after wh... |
8838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictum%20of%20Kenilworth | Dictum of Kenilworth | The Dictum of Kenilworth, issued on 31 October 1266, was a pronouncement designed to reconcile the rebels of the Second Barons' War with the royal government of England. After the baronial victory at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, Simon de Montfort took control of royal government, but at the Battle of Evesham the next y... |
8839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Docklands | London Docklands | London Docklands is the riverfront and former docks in London. It is located in inner east and southeast London, in the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham, and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port. After the docks closed, the area had be... |
8840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%20multiple%20unit | Diesel multiple unit | A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also generally classed as DMUs. Diesel-powered units may be further classified by t... |
8843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20A.%20Wollheim | Donald A. Wollheim | Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 – November 2, 1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher, writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell.
A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction developme... |
8844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20cinema | Digital cinema | Digital cinema refers to adoption of digital technology within the film industry to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film. Whereas film reels have to be shipped to movie theaters, a digital movie can be distributed to cinemas in a numb... |
8845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Progressive%20Party | Democratic Progressive Party | The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and center-left political party in Taiwan (Republic of China). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majority ruling party and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition as of 2022.
Founded i... |
8846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura | Datura | Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae. They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia). O... |
8847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator%20subgroup | Commutator subgroup | In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, the commutator subgroup or derived subgroup of a group is the subgroup generated by all the commutators of the group.
The commutator subgroup is important because it is the smallest normal subgroup such that the quotient group of the original group by this subgrou... |
8848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2019 | December 19 |
Events
Pre-1600
1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 – Pope Clement III is elected.
1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1562 – The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1601–1900
1606 – The ships , , and d... |
8849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2020 | December 20 |
Events
Pre-1600
AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian.
1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.
1334 – Cardinal Jacques Fournier, a Cistercian monk, is elected Pop... |
8850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2021 | December 21 | In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 is often the shortest day of the year and is sometimes regarded as the first day of winter. In the Southern Hemisphere, December 21 is often the longest day of the year and occurs during the southern summer.
Events
Pre-1600
AD 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of... |
8851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2014 | December 14 |
Events
Pre-1600
557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the N... |
8852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2013 | December 13 |
Events
Pre-1600
1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1601–1900... |
8855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Seuss | Dr. Seuss | Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss (,). His work includes many of the most popular children's b... |
8858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20compositing | Digital compositing | Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display. It is the digital analogue of optical film compositing.
Mathematics
The basic operation used in digital compositing is known as 'alpha blending', where an opacity v... |
8859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy | Dandy | A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance. A dandy could be a self-made man who strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background, especially in late 18th- and ea... |
8860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing%20%28filmmaking%29 | Dubbing (filmmaking) | Dubbing, mixing or re-recording, is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary recordings are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
The process usually takes place on a dub stage. After sound editors edit and... |
8864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay%20triangulation | Delaunay triangulation | In mathematics and computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation (also known as a Delone triangulation) for a given set P of discrete points in a general position is a triangulation DT(P) such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle in DT(P). Delaunay triangulations maximize the minimum angle ... |
8865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defendant | Defendant | In court proceedings, a defendant is a person or object who is the party either accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.
Terminology varies from one jurisdiction to another. In Scots law, the terms "accused" or "panel" are used ins... |
8873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius%20Afer | Domitius Afer | Gnaeus Domitius Afer (died 59) was a Roman orator and advocate, born at Nemausus (Nîmes) in Gallia Narbonensis. He flourished in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of September to December 39 as the colleague of Aulus Didius Gallus.
Life
Afer became praetor in ... |
8875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Simmons | Dan Simmons | Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won t... |
8876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Auguste%20Affre | Denis Auguste Affre | Denis-Auguste Affre (27 September 179327 June 1848) was Archbishop of Paris from 1840 to 1848. He was killed while trying to negotiate peace during the June Days uprising of 1848.
His cause of canonization has commenced and he is titled as a Servant of God.
Life
Early life and career
Affre was born at Saint-Rome-de... |
8877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dione | Dione | Dione may refer to:
Astronomy
106 Dione, a large main belt asteroid
Dione (moon), a moon of Saturn
Helene (moon), a moon of Saturn sometimes referred to as "Dione B"
Mythology
Dione (Titaness), a Titaness in Greek mythology
Dione (mythology), a name for various women in Greek mythology
Biology
Dione (alga), a genus... |
8878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Leary | Denis Leary | Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. A native of Massachusetts, Leary first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV (including the comedic song "Asshole") and through the stand-up specials No Cure for Cancer (1993) and Lo... |
8879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational%20use%20of%20dextromethorphan | Recreational use of dextromethorphan | Dextromethorphan, or DXM, a common active ingredient found in many over-the-counter cough suppressant cold medicines, is used as a recreational drug and entheogen for its dissociative effects. It has almost no psychoactive effects at medically recommended doses. However, dextromethorphan has powerful dissociative prope... |
8880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryope | Dryope | In Greek mythology, Dryope (; Ancient Greek: Δρυόπη derived from δρῦς drys, "oak"; dryope "woodpecker") is the name attributed to several distinct figures:
Dryope, daughter of Dryops and mother of Amphissus by Apollo.
Dryope, mother of Tarquitus by Faunus, the god of the woods. Tarquitus was slain by Aeneas.
Dryope... |
8881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20%28title%29 | Doctor (title) | Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, when the first doctorates were awarded at the University of Bologna and the Un... |
8882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domnall%20mac%20Ailp%C3%ADn | Domnall mac Ailpín | Domnall mac Ailpín (Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein), anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I (812 – 13 April 862), was King of the Picts from 858 to 862. He followed his brother Kenneth I to the Pictish throne.
Reign
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Do... |
8884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse%20Macabre | Danse Macabre | The Danse Macabre (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the danse macabre unites all.
The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning represe... |
8885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Abercromby | David Abercromby | David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702. Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit priests, he was converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure popery, and published Protestancy proved Safer than Popery (1686).
Works
His medical reputation was ... |
8886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction | Deconstruction | The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. It was originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who defined it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which take precedence over appearances, instead considering the constantly chan... |
8887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20product | Direct product | In mathematics, one can often define a direct product of objects already known, giving a new one. This generalizes the Cartesian product of the underlying sets, together with a suitably defined structure on the product set. More abstractly, one talks about the product in category theory, which formalizes these notions.... |
8888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20vu | Déjà vu | Déjà vu ( , ; "already seen") is a French loanword expressing when a person has done something and they experience the same feelings or the feeling that one has lived through the present situation before. Although some interpret déjà vu in a paranormal context, mainstream scientific approaches reject the explanation of... |
8892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius%20Thrax | Dionysius Thrax | Dionysius Thrax ( Dionysios o Thrax, 170–90 BC) was a Greek grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was long considered to be the author of the earliest grammatical text on the Greek language, one that was used as a standard manual for perhaps some 1,500 years, and which was until recently regarded as t... |
8893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2029 | December 29 |
Events
Pre-1600
875 – Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.
1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Ch... |
8895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina | Despina | Despina may refer to:
People
Despina Delios, American beauty pageant contestant
Despina Stratigakos (born 1963), Canadian-born architectural historian and academic
Despina Vandi (born 1969), Greek singer
Olivera Despina ( – after 1444), Serbian princess and Ottoman queen consort
Milica Despina of Wallachia ( – 1... |
8900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination | Discrimination | Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories. Discrimination espec... |
8904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-ended%20queue | Double-ended queue | In computer science, a double-ended queue (abbreviated to deque, pronounced deck, like "cheque") is an abstract data type that generalizes a queue, for which elements can be added to or removed from either the front (head) or back (tail). It is also often called a head-tail linked list, though properly this refers to a... |
8905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diene | Diene | In organic chemistry a diene ( ) (diolefin ( ) or alkadiene) is a covalent compound that contains two double bonds, usually among carbon atoms. They thus contain two alkene units, with the standard prefix di of systematic nomenclature. As a subunit of more complex molecules, dienes occur in naturally occurring and syn... |
8906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatessaron | Diatessaron | The Diatessaron (; c. 160–175 AD) is the most prominent early gospel harmony, and was created by Tatian, an Assyrian early Christian apologist and ascetic. Tatian sought to combine all the textual material he found in the four gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—into a single coherent narrative of Jesus's life and de... |
8910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Koontz | Dean Koontz | Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with fourteen hardcovers and sixteen paperbacks re... |
8912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%20equation | Drake equation | The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The equation was formulated in 1961 by Frank Drake, not for purposes of quantifying the number of civilizations, but as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at t... |
8914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus | Damascus | Damascus ( , ; , , Syrian Arabic: ; ) is the capital of Syria, the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
It is colloquially known in Syria as () and titled the "City of Jasmine" ( ). Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. The city had an... |
8921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic%20immunity | Diplomatic immunity | Diplomatic immunity is a form of legal immunity that ensures diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws, although they may still be expelled. Modern diplomatic immunity was codified as international law in the Vienna Convention on Diplomat... |
8922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR%20SDRAM | DDR SDRAM | Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR SDRAM) is a double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) class of memory integrated circuits used in computers. DDR SDRAM, also retroactively called DDR1 SDRAM, has been superseded by DDR2 SDRAM, DDR3 SDRAM, DDR4 SDRAM and DDR5 SD... |
8927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Rosa | Don Rosa | Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known simply as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his Disney comics stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other characters which Carl Barks created for Disney-licensed comic books, first published in America by Dell Comics. Many of ... |
8930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga%20Vertov | Dziga Vertov | Dziga Vertov (, born David Abelevich Kaufman, , and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a... |
8932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos | Deimos | Deimos, a Greek word for dread, may refer to:
Deimos (deity), one of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology
Deimos (moon), the smaller and outermost of Mars' two natural satellites
Elecnor Deimos, a Spanish aerospace company
Deimos-1, an artificial Earth observation satellite
Deimos-2, an artificial Ea... |
8933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20General%20Corporation%20Law | Delaware General Corporation Law | The Delaware General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) is the statute governing corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware. Adopted in 1899, the statute has since made Delaware the most important jurisdiction in United States corporate law. Over half of publicly traded corporations listed in th... |
8935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20River | Detroit River | The Detroit River flows west and south for from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system. The river divides the metropolitan areas of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario—an area collectively referred to as Detroit–Windsor—and forms part of the border between Canada and the United States. T... |
8937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dsungaripterus | Dsungaripterus | Dsungaripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterosaur with an average wingspan of . Dsungaripterus lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China, and its first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.
Description
Dsungaripterus weii had a wing span of 3 to 3.5 meters (9.8 to 11.5 ft). Like most dsungaripteroid... |
8940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Huffman | David Huffman | David Oliver Huffman (May 10, 1945 – February 27, 1985) was an American actor and producer.
Personal life
Huffman was born on May 10, 1945, in Berwyn, Illinois, to Clarence and Opal Huffman (née Dippel).
Huffman married casting director Phyllis Huffman (nee Grennan) in 1967, whom he had met as a student at Webster Un... |
8941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagome%20iudex | Dagome iudex | Dagome iudex is one of the earliest historical documents relating to Poland. Although Poland is not mentioned by name, it refers to Dagome and Ote (Mieszko I and his wife, Oda von Haldensleben) and their sons in 991, placing their land (called "Civitas Schinesghe") under the protection of the Apostolic See. The documen... |
8942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DA | DA | Da, DA, dA, DÄ and other variants may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
DA! (band), a Chicago post-punk band of the 1980s
Da (play), a 1978 play by Hugh Leonard
Da (film), a 1988 film based on the play
Damon Amendolara, American sports talk radio host
Daniel Amos, also known as D.A. and Dä, an American C... |
8945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Walcott | Derek Walcott | Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the University of Alberta's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poe... |
8946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment | Decipherment | In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts. Decipherment in cryptography refers to decryption. The term is used sardonically in everyday language to describe attempts to read poor handwriting. In genetics, decipherment is the successful attemp... |
8949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca%20Navigator%20System | Decca Navigator System | The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic radio navigation system which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by using radio signals from a dedicated system of static radio transmitters. The system used phase comparison of two low frequency signals between 70 and 129 kHz, as opposed to pulse timing s... |
8953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Rohrabacher | Dana Rohrabacher | Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (; born June 21, 1947) is a former American politician, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019. A Republican, he formerly represented for the last three terms of his House tenure.
Rohrabacher ran for re-election to Congress in 2018, losing to Democrat Harley Rouda. H... |
8957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA | DARPA | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7,... |
8958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan | Dunstan | Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988) was an English bishop. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer Osbern, himself an ... |
8960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming | Deprogramming | Deprogramming is measures that claim to assist a person who holds a controversial belief system in changing those beliefs and abandoning allegiance to the religious, political, economic, or social group associated with the belief system. The dictionary definition of deprogramming is "to free" or "to retrain" someone fr... |
8964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily%20Planet | Daily Planet | The Daily Planet is a fictional newspaper appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. The newspaper was first mentioned in Action Comics #23 (April 1940). The Daily Planet building's distinguishing feature is the enormous globe that sits on top of the building.
Base... |
8965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Private%20Network%20Signalling%20System | Digital Private Network Signalling System | The Digital Private Network Signalling System (DPNSS) is a network protocol used on digital trunk lines for connecting to PABX. It supports a defined set of inter-networking facilities.
DPNSS was originally defined by British Telecom. The specification for the protocol is defined in BTNR188. The specification currentl... |
8966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Access%20Signalling%20System%201 | Digital Access Signalling System 1 | Digital Access Signalling System 1 (DASS1) is a proprietary protocol defined by British Telecom to provide ISDN services in the United Kingdom. It is now obsolete, having been replaced by DASS2. This too will become obsolete over the coming years as Q.931, a European standard, becomes widely adopted in the EU.
BT Grou... |
8967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Access%20Signalling%20System%202 | Digital Access Signalling System 2 | Digital Access Signalling System 2 (DASS2) is an obsolescent protocol defined by British Telecom for digital links to PSTN based on ISDN. Although still available on request, it has been superseded by ETS 300 102 ("EuroISDN").
DASS2 is an improved version over DASS1, based on experiences with DPNSS.
In the UK, the I... |
8968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari | Devanagari | Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (), is a left-to-right abugida, based on the ancient Brāhmī script, used in the Indian subcontinent. It was developed in ancient India from the 1st to the 4th century CE and was in regular use by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 ... |
8970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic%20mission | Diplomatic mission | A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes an embassy, which is the main office of a country's diplomatic representati... |
8971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%20Alpha | DEC Alpha | Alpha, originally known as Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Alpha was designed to replace 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computers (CISC) and to be a highly competitive RISC processor for Unix worksta... |
8972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger | Dagger | A dagger is a knife with a very sharp point and usually two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon. Daggers have been used throughout human history for close combat confrontations, and many cultures have used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial contexts. The dis... |
8973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican%20Order | Dominican Order | The Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominicans (; abbreviated OP), is an order of the Catholic Church founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominic... |
8987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20McLean | Don McLean | Donald McLean (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1971 hit song "American Pie", an 8-and-a-half-minute folk rock "cultural touchstone" about the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation. His other hit singles include "Vincent", "Dreidel", a rendition of Roy Orbiso... |
8989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense | Defense | Defense or defence may refer to:
Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups
Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare
Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with enemy attacks
Defense industry, industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology
Self-defense, the... |
8992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirkJan | DirkJan | DirkJan is a Dutch comic strip series, created in 1989 by Dutch author and artist Mark Retera. It is also the name of its main character. The series is a gag-a-day comic.
Description
DirkJan is a loser who stumbles through life in mostly three-panel gag-a-day comic strips. He started out in 1989 as a student at the c... |
8993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck%20Hunt | Duck Hunt | is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console and the Nintendo Vs. System arcade hardware. The game was first released in April 1984, in Japan for the Family Computer (Famicom) console and in North America as an arcade game. It ... |
8994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das%20Boot | Das Boot | Das Boot (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and a TV miniseries (1985). There are also several different h... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.