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8848 | December 19 | Events
Pre-1600
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*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 Dre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_19 | 2025-04-05T18:28:47.788243 |
8849 | 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 Pope B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20 | 2025-04-05T18:28:47.920360 |
8850 | December 21 | Events
Pre-1600
*AD 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
*1124 – Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II.
*1140 – After a siege of several weeks, the city of Weinsberg a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21 | 2025-04-05T18:28:47.993408 |
8851 | 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_14 | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.035004 |
8852 | 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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13 | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.078082 |
8855 | Dr. Seuss | Suess}}
| birth_name = Theodor Seuss Geisel
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| birth_place = Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| death_place = San Diego, California, U.S.
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| signature = Dr Seuss signature.sv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.155700 |
8858 | 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. It's part of VFX processing.
Mathematics
The basic operation used in digital compositing is known as alph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.162978 |
8859 | Dandy | thumb|Parisian costumes: The dandies of Paris in 1831.
A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies. A dandy could be a self-made man both in person and persona, who emulated the aristocratic style of life regardless of his mid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.189045 |
8860 | Dubbing | }}
Dubbing (also known as re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and the video production process where supplementary recordings (known as doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production audio to create the final product.
Often this process is performed on films by repla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.357151 |
8864 | Delaunay triangulation | In computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation or Delone triangulation of a set of points in the plane subdivides their convex hull into triangles whose circumcircles do not contain any of the points; that is, each circumcircle has its generating points on its circumference, but all other points in the set are out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay_triangulation | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.375678 |
8865 | Defendant | thumb|Cuffed defendant before criminal court (Transportation Security Administration image)
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 varie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defendant | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.379167 |
8873 | Gnaeus 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 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Domitius_Afer | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.387010 |
8875 | Dan Simmons | | birth_place = Peoria, Illinois, U.S.
| occupation = Novelist
| education = Wabash College (BA)<br>Washington University in St. Louis (MEd)
| period = 1983–present
| genre = Science fiction, horror, fantasy
| subject | movement
| notableworks = Song of Kali (1985)<br /> Hyperion (1989)<br /> Carrion Comfort (198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.425581 |
8876 | Denis Auguste Affre | | birth_place = Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, Aveyron, France
| death_date
| death_place = Paris, France
| buried = Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, France
| nationality = French
| religion = Catholic Church
| residence | parents
| spouse | children
| occupation | profession
| alma_mater | signature
| coat_of_arms = Blason Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Auguste_Affre | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.431986 |
8877 | 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dione | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.434472 |
8878 | Denis Leary | |birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
|yearsactive = 1987–present
| label_name =
|citizenship =
|spouse =
|children = 2
|relatives = Conan O'Brien (third cousin)
|medium=
|genre=
|alma_mater=Emerson College
}}
Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor<!--ONLY include... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Leary | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.497267 |
8879 | 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 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_use_of_dextromethorphan | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.517109 |
8880 | 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. She was the wife of Andraemon.
Dryope, mother of Tarquitus by Faunus, the god of the woods. Tarquitu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryope | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.521364 |
8881 | Doctor (title) | president Catharine Bond Hill wearing doctoral robes. She has a doctorate and can carry the title of "Doctor".]]
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 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title) | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.587661 |
8882 | 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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domnall_mac_Ailpín | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.594690 |
8884 | Danse Macabre | thumb|right|upright=1.2|The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
The Danse Macabre (; ), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.655898 |
8885 | 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 b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abercromby | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.658559 |
8886 | Deconstruction | In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.690107 |
8887 | Direct product | In mathematics, a direct product of objects already known can often be defined by giving a new one. That induces a structure on the Cartesian product of the underlying sets from that of the contributing objects. More abstractly, the product in category theory is mentioned, which formalizes those notions.
Examples are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_product | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.709205 |
8888 | Déjà vu | Déjà vu ( , ; "already seen") is the phenomenon of feeling like one has lived through the present situation in the past. It is an illusion of memory whereby—despite a strong sense of recollection—the time, place, and context of the "previous" experience are uncertain or impossible. Approximately two-thirds of surveyed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Déjà_vu | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.729368 |
8892 | Dionysius Thrax | Dionysius Thrax ( Dionýsios ho Thrâix, 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Thrax | 2025-04-05T18:28:48.744523 |
8893 | December 29 | Events
Pre-1600
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 Church.
1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernánd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_29 | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.246668 |
8895 | Despina | Despina may refer to:
People
Despina Achladiotou, the Lady of Ro (c1890–1982), Greek patriot
Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis (born 1967), Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
Despina Delios, American beauty pageant contestant
Despina Georgiadou (born 1991), Greek fence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.249632 |
8900 | Discrimination | }}
water cooler marked "Colored", in Oklahoma City |alt=]]
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, class, religion, or sexual orientation. Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.280212 |
8904 | Double-ended queue | In computer science, a double-ended queue (abbreviated to deque, ) 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 specific data structure imple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-ended_queue | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.301856 |
8905 | Diene | thumb|150px|1,3-butadiene
In organic chemistry, a diene ( ); also 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diene | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.307922 |
8906 | Diatessaron | thumb|Parchment manuscript of the Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron, from Egypt, late 5th or early 6th century, in the Chester Beatty Library
The Diatessaron (; c. 160–175 AD) is the most prominent early gospel harmony. It was created in the Syriac language by Tatian, an Assyrian early Christian apologist and asc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatessaron | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.324172 |
8910 | Dean Koontz | * Aaron Wolfe
* Brian Coffey
* David Axton
* Deanna Dwyer
* John Hill
* K.R. Dwyer
* Leigh Nichols
* Anthony North
* Owen West
* Richard Paige
| birth_name = Dean Ray Koontz
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Everett, Pennsylvania,<br />United States
| death_date | death_place
| education = Shippensburg State College (B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.362775 |
8912 | 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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.435566 |
8914 | Damascus | | settlement_type = Metropolis <!--Dimash'a For Country or Village (Leave blank for the default City) -->
| image_skyline = Damascus coll.jpg
| imagesize | image_caption <div style="background:#fee8ab;"> Umayyad Mosque<br /> General view of Damascus • Mount Qasioun<br /> Maktab Anbar • Azm Palace<br /> Sulaymaniyya Tak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.497556 |
8921 | Diplomatic immunity | Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country. It allows diplomats safe passage and freedom of travel in a host country, and affords almost total protection from local lawsuits and cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.553956 |
8922 | DDR SDRAM | GDDR}}
| image | caption Comparison of DDR modules for desktop PCs (DIMM)
| image2 | caption2 Front and back of a 1GB DDR-400 RAM module for desktop PCs (DIMM)
| label1 = Developer
| data1 Mbit) in June 1998, followed soon after by Hyundai Electronics (now SK Hynix) the same year. DDR SDRAM specification was finalized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.582077 |
8927 | Don Rosa | | birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| art = y
| write = y
| pencil = y
| ink = y
| signature = Don Rosa Signature.svg
| notable works =
| awards = Full list
| spouse =
}}
Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rosa | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.600148 |
8930 | Dziga Vertov | David Kaufman) in 1913
| birth_name = David Abelevich Kaufman
| birth_date
| birth_place = Białystok, Russian Empire
| notable_works = Kino-Eye (1924)<br />A Sixth Part of the World (1926)<br />Man with a Movie Camera (1929)<br />Enthusiasm (1931)
| death_date
| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union
| spouse =
| other_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga_Vertov | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.616390 |
8932 | Deimos | Deimos, a Greek word for dread, may refer to:
In general
Deimos (deity), one of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology
Deimos (moon), the smaller and outermost of Mars' two natural satellites
Fictional characters
Deimos (comics), villain for the Warlord comic series
Deimos, the brother of Kratos in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.618398 |
8933 | Delaware General Corporation Law | The Delaware General Corporation Law (sometimes abbreviated DGCL), officially the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code), is the statute of the Delaware Code that governs corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware. The statute was adopted in 1899. Since the 1913 anti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_General_Corporation_Law | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.626329 |
8935 | Detroit River | | width_min | width_avg
| width_max | depth_min
| depth_avg | depth_max
| discharge1_location| discharge1_min
| discharge1_avg | discharge1_max
<!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES -->
| source1 = Lake St. Clair
| source1_location | source1_coordinates
| source1_elevation
| mouth = Lake Erie
| mouth_location ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_River | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.644807 |
8937 | Dsungaripterus | | genus = Dsungaripterus
| parent_authority = Young, 1964
| species = weii
| authority = Young, 1964
| display_parents = 2
}}
Dsungaripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China and possibly South Korea. Its fossils come from the Wuerho Pterosaur Fauna gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dsungaripterus | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.653267 |
8940 | David Huffman | |birth_place = Berwyn, Illinois, U.S.
|death_date
|death_place = San Diego, California, U.S.
|death_cause = Homicide
|occupation = Actor and producer
|years_active = 1969–1985
|spouse =
|children = 2
}}
David Oliver Huffman (May 10, 1945 – February 27, 1985) was an American actor and producer.
Personal life
Huffman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Huffman | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.681416 |
8941 | Dagome iudex | thumbthumb
thumb|right|Poland under Mieszko's rule (ca. 960–992)
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 Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagome_iudex | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.691167 |
8942 | 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 Christia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DA | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.694142 |
8945 | Derek Walcott | Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.768311 |
8946 | Decipherment | In philology and linguistics, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of the symbols found in extinct languages and/or alphabets. Decipherment is possible with respect to languages and scripts. One can also study or try to decipher how spoken languages that no longer exist were once pronounced, or how living langu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.785475 |
8949 | Decca Navigator System | The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic radio navigation system that 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 between pairs of low frequency signals between 70 and 129 kHz, as opposed to pulse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca_Navigator_System | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.797597 |
8953 | Dana Rohrabacher | (1989–1993)| (1993–2003)| (2003–2013)| (2013–2019)}}
| birth_name | birth_date
| birth_place = Coronado, California, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| party = Republican
| spouse =
| children = 3
| education = Los Angeles Harbor College<br />California State University, Long Beach (BA)<br />University of Southern Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rohrabacher | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.888276 |
8957 | DARPA | (as ARPA)
| preceding1 = Advanced Research Projects Agency
| jurisdiction = Federal government of the United States
| headquarters = 675 North Randolph St., Ballston, Virginia, U.S.
| employees 220
| budget $4.122 billion (FY2024)
| website =
| parent_department = United States Department of Defense
| chief1_name = Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.958354 |
8958 | Dunstan | | birth_place = Baltonsborough, Wessex
| death_date = 19 May 988 (aged about 79)
| death_place = Canterbury, England
| buried = Canterbury Cathedral
<!----------Sainthood---------->
| feast_day = 19 May
| venerated
Dunstan soon became a favourite of the king and was the envy of other members of the court. A plot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan | 2025-04-05T18:28:49.979674 |
8960 | Deprogramming | Deprogramming is a controversial tactic that seeks to dissuade someone from "strongly held convictions" such as religious beliefs. Deprogramming purports to assist a person who holds a particular belief system—of a kind considered harmful by those initiating the deprogramming—to change those beliefs and sever connectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.010698 |
8964 | 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 #9 (November 13, 1939) – Underworld Politics, War on Crime. The Daily Planet building's distinguishing feature is the enormous glo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Planet | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.054625 |
8965 | 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 curre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Private_Network_Signalling_System | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.056659 |
8966 | 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.
Referen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Access_Signalling_System_1 | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.057573 |
8967 | Digital Access Signalling System 2 | Digital Access Signalling System 2 (DASS2) is an obsolescent protocol defined by British Telecom (BT) 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, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Access_Signalling_System_2 | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.058542 |
8968 | Devanagari | | sample = Devanagari letters.svg
| caption = Devanāgarī script (vowels top three rows, consonants below)
| type = Abugida
| languages = Apabhramsha, Angika, Awadhi, Bajjika, Bhili, Bhojpuri, Boro, Braj, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri, Fiji Hindi, Garhwali, Haryanvi, Hindi, Kashmiri, Khandeshi, Konkani, Kumaoni, Magahi, Maithili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.201669 |
8970 | Diplomatic mission | thumb|right|Spanish embassy to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome
thumb|right|Embassy of the United States in Helsinki, Finland
thumb|Multiple embassies in one location: The embassies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden in a joint compound of Nordic Embassies in Berlin, Germany.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.215093 |
8971 | DEC Alpha | | design = RISC
| type = Load–store
| encoding = Fixed
| branching | endianness Bi
| extensions = Byte/Word Extension (BWX), Square-root and Floating-point Convert Extension (FIX), Count Extension (CIX), Motion Video Instructions (MVI)
| open Yes Linux (Debian, SUSE, Gentoo and Red Hat), BSD UNIX (NetBSD, OpenBSD and F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.262804 |
8972 | Dagger | 300px|thumb|upright=1.35|The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, a modern-day dagger
A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a cutting or thrusting weapon. Daggers have been used throughout human history for close combat confro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.297125 |
8973 | Dominican Order | (of pontifical right)}}
| founder = Dominic de Guzmán
| founding_location =
| headquarters Convento Santa Sabina, Piazza Pietro d'Illiria 1, Rome, Italy After completing his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego de Acebo appointed him to the cathedral chapter of Osma.
Preaching to the Cathars
In 1203, Dominic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.337469 |
8987 | Don McLean | | birth_place = New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
| instrument =
| genre =
| label =
| occupation = Singer-songwriter
| years_active = 1964–present
| website =
| alias =
}}
Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.388419 |
8989 | 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 emergencies or enemy attacks
Defense industry, industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology
Sel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.392249 |
8992 | 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 an underachiever who stumbles through life in mostly three-panel gag-a-day comic strips. He started out in 1989 as a student... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirkJan | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.393636 |
8993 | Duck Hunt | 'Arcade
| genre = Light gun shooter, sports, shooting gallery
| modes = Single-player, multiplayer
| arcade system = Nintendo VS. System, PlayChoice-10
| programmer = Kenji Nakajima
}}
is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.410088 |
8994 | Das Boot | Das Boot (2018 TV series)|other uses|Das Boot (disambiguation)}}
|Lothar-Günther Buchheim}}
| producer = Günter Rohrbach
| starring =
| cinematography = Jost Vacano
| editing = Hannes Nikel
| music = Klaus Doldinger
| studio =
| distributor = Neue Constantin Film
| released
| runtime = 149 minutes<br />(see below)
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.433550 |
8996 | Dynamic HTML | Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a term which was used by some browser vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and client-side scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, or any other supported scripts) that enabled the creation of interactive and animated documents. The application of DHTML was introduced by Microsoft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.438006 |
8997 | Distance education | Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. or blended). Other modalities include distance learning with complementary virtual environment or teaching i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.479836 |
9000 | Death of a Hero | thumb|First editionCover art by Paul Nash
Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1929, and thought to be partly autobiographical.
Plot summary
Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Hero | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.482768 |
9001 | Degree Confluence Project | thumb|upright|right|A GPS unit at confluence 53N 0, in Lincolnshire, England
The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project that aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Confluence_Project | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.486609 |
9002 | Danny Kaye | <!--WP:STRONGNAT,WP:DATERET-->
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation =
| years_active = 1933–1987
| party = Democratic
| spouse =
| children = 1
}}
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kaye | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.548213 |
9003 | Dan DeCarlo | | birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place = New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
| cartoonist | write
| art | pencil y
| ink = y
| edit | publish
| letter | color
| alias | signature
| signature_alt | notable works *Archie Comics:<br>Sabrina the Teenage Witch<br>Josie and the Pussycats<br>Cheryl Blossom<br />
* Marvel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_DeCarlo | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.561163 |
9008 | Debit card | <!-- per pre-existing mix of MDY and DMY dates, not adding USE xxx DATES -->
debit card]]
A debit card, also known as a check card or bank card, is a payment card that can be used in place of cash to make purchases. The card usually consists of the bank's name, a card number, the cardholder's name, and an expiration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debit_card | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.603981 |
9010 | Dance Dance Revolution | (DDR) is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.966017 |
9011 | Dual Alliance (1879) | 300px|thumbnail|right|The Dual Alliance in 1914, Germany in blue and Austria-Hungary in red
The Dual Alliance (, ) was a defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was created by treaty on October 7, 1879, as part of Germany's Otto von Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent or limit war. The two p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Alliance_(1879) | 2025-04-05T18:28:50.994332 |
9014 | Developmental psychology | Developmental Psychology (journal)}}
. One of the many experiments used for children.]]
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.088325 |
9015 | DNA replication | thumb|200px|DNA replication: The double helix is 'unzipped' and unwound, then each separated strand (turquoise) acts as a template for replicating a new partner strand (green). Nucleotides (bases) are matched to synthesize the new partner strands into two new double helices.
In molecular biology, DNA replication is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.172721 |
9016 | Dravidian | Dravidian, Dravidan, or Dravida may refer to:
Language and culture
Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka
Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages
Dravidian University, a university situated in Andhra Pradesh
South I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.197873 |
9020 | Daisy Duck | | creator = Carl Barks
| designer = Carl Barks
| voice = <!-- To avoid clutter, this list is limited to people who voiced Daisy more than one time. The complete list will be given in the article. -->
| gender = Female
| significant_other = Donald Duck (boyfriend)
| relatives =
| noinfo | species Duck
}}
Daisy Duck i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Duck | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.244236 |
9021 | Dot-com bubble | index spiked in 2000 and then fell sharply as a result of the dot-com bubble.]]
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.326045 |
9023 | Discounted cash flow | }}
The discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, in financial analysis, is a method used to value a security, project, company, or asset, that incorporates the time value of money.
Discounted cash flow analysis is widely used in investment finance, real estate development, corporate financial management, and patent valuat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.411026 |
9025 | Lists of deities | This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.
List of deities by classification
Lists of deities by cultural sphere
List of fictional deities
List of goddesses
List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_deities | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.442132 |
9030 | Dachau, Bavaria | | image_plan = Dachau in DAH.svg
| image_coa =DEU Dachau COA.svg
| state = Bayern
| region = Oberbayern
| district = Dachau
| elevation = 483
| area = 34.85
| postal_code = 85221
| area_code = 08131
| licence = DAH
| Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 1 74 115
| website = http://www.dachau.de
| mayor = Florian Hartmann
| leader_t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau,_Bavaria | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.521652 |
9032 | Drosophila | }}
Drosophila (}}), from Ancient Greek δρόσος (drósos), meaning "dew", and φίλος (phílos), meaning "loving", is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.637924 |
9033 | Dictatorship | A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, and they are facilitated through an inner circle of elites that includes advisers, generals, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.729476 |
9039 | Django Reinhardt | | birth_place = Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium
| death_date
| death_place Fontainebleau, France
| spouse = <br>
| relatives = Joseph Reinhardt (brother)<br>Lousson Reinhardt (son)<br>Babik Reinhardt (son)
| module =
}}
Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.802981 |
9041 | Digit | Digit may refer to:
Mathematics and science
Numerical digit, as used in mathematics or computer science
Hindu–Arabic numerals, the most common modern representation of numerical digits
Digit (anatomy), the most distal part of a limb, such as a finger or toe
Digit (unit), an ancient measurement unit
Hartley (unit)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit | 2025-04-05T18:28:51.827895 |
9048 | Dana Plato | | birth_place = Huntington Park, California, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = Moore, Oklahoma, U.S.
| years_active = 1975–1999
| alma mater | occupation Actress
| spouse =
*
}}
| children = 1
| signature = Dana Plato signature.jpeg
}}
Dana Michelle Plato (; November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Plato | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.042375 |
9051 | Drop kick | A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player intentionally dropping the ball onto the ground and then kicking it either (different sports have different definitions) 'as it rises from the first bounce' (rugby) or 'as, or immediately after, it touches the ground' (gridiron football).
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_kick | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.104625 |
9053 | Diaeresis | Diaeresis (dieresis, diæresis, diëresis) may refer to:
Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word
Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.127770 |
9055 | Derry | <!--NOTE TO EDITORS: THE AGREED COMPROMISE FOR THE DERRY/LONDONDERRY NAMING DISPUTE IS THAT THIS CITY PAGE SHALL BE TITLED "DERRY" AND THE COUNTY PAGE SHALL BE TITLED "COUNTY LONDONDERRY". (See WP:DERRY)-->
<br />"Life, Truth, Victory"<br />(Adapted from a decoration on the Craigavon Bridge)
| coordinates
| label_po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.228094 |
9058 | European influence in Afghanistan | European influence in Afghanistan has been present in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game.
Rise of Dost Mohammad Khan
with one of his sons.]]
After the decline of the Durrani dynasty in 1823, Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_influence_in_Afghanistan | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.308457 |
9059 | Dementia praecox | on dementia praecox (1911)]]
Dementia praecox (meaning a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. Over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_praecox | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.356158 |
9061 | Dolphin | thumb|right|250px|
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale). Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.467106 |
9067 | Division ring | In algebra, a division ring, also called a skew field (or, occasionally, a sfield), is a nontrivial ring in which division by nonzero elements is defined. Specifically, it is a nontrivial ring.}} in which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, that is, an element usually denoted }}, such that a aa 1}}. So,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_ring | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.499309 |
9069 | Dia (software) | | developer = Dia developers
| latest release version
| latest release date
| latest preview version
| latest preview date
| programming language = C <!--Ruby-->
| operating_system = Windows, OS X, Linux, Unix
| genre = Diagramming software
| license = GPL-2.0-or-later
| website
| repo = (upstream), (mirror)
}}
Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_(software) | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.524571 |
9070 | Deep Space 1 | JPL
| COSPAR_ID = 1998-061A
| SATCAT = 25508
| website = [https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/deep-space-1-ds1 jpl.nasa.gov]
| mission_duration =
| manufacturer = Orbital Sciences
| launch_mass
| dry_mass
| launch_rocket Delta II 7326TechnologiesThe purpose of Deep Space 1 was technology development and validation fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1 | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.558492 |
9071 | King David (disambiguation) | David was the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
King David may also refer to:
People
Kings
David I (disambiguation)
David II (disambiguation)
David III of Tao
David IV of Georgia (1073–1125)
David V of Georgia (died 1155)
David VI of Georgia (1225–1293)
David VII of Georgia (1215–1270)
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_(disambiguation) | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.581056 |
9072 | Jacques-Louis David | | birth_place = Paris, Kingdom of France
| death_date
| death_place = Brussels, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
| party = The Mountain
| alma_mater = Collège des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris
| training | spouse
*
}}
| children = 4
| blank1 = Movement
|data1= Neoclassicism
| known_for =
| awards |C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David | 2025-04-05T18:28:52.652295 |
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