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8,757 | # Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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***Darwin\'s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life*** is a 1995 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author loo... | 409 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | 0 |
8,757 | # Darwin's Dangerous Idea
## Synopsis
### Part I: Starting in the Middle {#part_i_starting_in_the_middle}
\"Starting in the Middle\", Part I of *Darwin\'s Dangerous Idea*, gets its name from a quote by Willard Van Orman Quine: \"Analyze theory-building how we will, we all must start in the middle. Our conceptual fir... | 810 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | 1 |
8,757 | # Darwin's Dangerous Idea
## Central concepts {#central_concepts}
### Design Space {#design_space}
Dennett believes there is little or no principled difference between the naturally generated products of evolution and the man-made artifacts of human creativity and culture. For this reason he indicates deliberately t... | 433 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | 2 |
8,757 | # Darwin's Dangerous Idea
## Reception
In *The New York Review of Books*, John Maynard Smith praised *Darwin\'s Dangerous Idea*:
> It is therefore a pleasure to meet a philosopher who understands what Darwinism is about, and approves of it. Dennett goes well beyond biology. He sees Darwinism as a corrosive acid, cap... | 341 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | 3 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
The **Kingdom of Dahomey** (`{{IPAc-en|d|ə|ˈ|h|oʊ|m|i}}`{=mediawiki}) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th centur... | 615 | Dahomey | 0 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## History
The Kingdom of Dahomey was established around 1600 as an offshoot of the royal dynasty of the Kingdom of Allada. The foundational king for Dahomey is often considered to be Houegbadja (c. 1645--1685), who built the Royal Palaces of Abomey and began raiding and taking over towns outside of the Abo... | 543 | Dahomey | 1 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## History
### Rule of Ghezo (1818--1859) {#rule_of_ghezo_18181859}
When King Ghezo ascended the throne in 1818, he was confronted by two immediate obstacles: the Kingdom of Dahomey was in political turmoil, and it was financially unstable. First, he needed to gain political independence by removing the tri... | 571 | Dahomey | 2 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Politics
Early writings often presented the kingdom as an absolute monarchy led by a despotic king. These depictions were often deployed as arguments by different sides in the slave trade debates, mainly in the United Kingdom, and as such were probably exaggerations. Recent historical work has emphasized... | 433 | Dahomey | 3 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Foreign relations {#foreign_relations}
The relations between Dahomey and other countries were complex and heavily impacted by the transatlantic slave trade.
### Brazil
In 1750, the Kingdom of Dahomey sent a diplomatic mission to Salvador, Portuguese colony of Brazil in order to strengthen diplomatic re... | 492 | Dahomey | 4 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Foreign relations {#foreign_relations}
### Portugal
The Portuguese fort at Ouidah was destroyed by the army of Dahomey in 1743 during its conquest of the city, so King Tegbesu desired to renew relations with Portugal. Dahomey sent at least five embassies to Portugal and Brazil during the years of 1750, 1... | 975 | Dahomey | 5 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Military
The military of the Kingdom of Dahomey was divided into two units: the right and the left. The right was controlled by the *migan* and the left was controlled by the *mehu*. At least by the time of Agaja, the kingdom had developed a standing army that remained encamped wherever the king was. Sol... | 586 | Dahomey | 6 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Military
### Siege and engineering {#siege_and_engineering}
In order to repress the navies of its neighbors, Dahomey built causeways starting from 1774. During a campaign against Whydah that year, Dahomey was able to force Whydah to fortify itself at an island called Foudou-Cong. Dahomey cut trees which ... | 608 | Dahomey | 7 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Economy
The economic structure of the kingdom was highly intertwined with the political and religious systems and these developed together significantly. The main currency was cowry shells.
### Domestic
The domestic economy largely focused on agriculture and crafts for local consumption. Until the deve... | 946 | Dahomey | 8 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Religion
The Kingdom of Dahomey shared many religious rituals with surrounding populations. It also developed unique ceremonies, beliefs, and religious stories. These included royal ancestor worship and West African Vodun.
### Royal ancestor worship {#royal_ancestor_worship}
Early kings established cle... | 399 | Dahomey | 9 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## Arts
The arts in Dahomey were unique and distinct from the artistic traditions elsewhere in Africa. The arts were substantially supported by the king and his family, had non-religious traditions, assembled multiple different materials, and borrowed widely from other peoples in the region. Common art form... | 670 | Dahomey | 10 |
8,765 | # Dahomey
## In popular culture {#in_popular_culture}
The Kingdom of Dahomey has been depicted in a number of different works of fiction or creative nonfiction.
### Literature and theatre {#literature_and_theatre}
- In the novel *Robur the Conqueror* (1886) by Jules Verne, the crew and passengers of the *Albatros... | 734 | Dahomey | 11 |
8,768 | # Dulcimer
The term **dulcimer** refers to two families of musical string instruments.
## Hammered dulcimers {#hammered_dulcimers}
The word *dulcimer* originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld \"hammers\". Variants of this instrument are found in many... | 198 | Dulcimer | 0 |
8,777 | # DNA virus
thumb\|upright=1.2\|*Orthopoxvirus* particles 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 h... | 579 | DNA virus | 0 |
8,777 | # DNA virus
## Baltimore classification {#baltimore_classification}
### Single-stranded DNA viruses {#single_stranded_dna_viruses}
The second Baltimore group of DNA viruses are those that have a single-stranded DNA genome. ssDNA viruses have the same manner of transcription as dsDNA viruses. However, because the geno... | 365 | DNA virus | 1 |
8,777 | # DNA virus
## ICTV classification {#ictv_classification}
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) oversees virus taxonomy and organizes viruses at the basal level at the rank of realm. Virus realms correspond to the rank of domain used for cellular life but differ in that viruses within a realm do n... | 902 | DNA virus | 2 |
8,785 | # 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*.
## Creation
Thomas had started writing *Fern Hill* in New Quay, Cardiganshire, where he lived from ... | 718 | Fern Hill | 0 |
8,815 | # Dual polyhedron
thumb\|right\|upright=1.35\|The dual of a cube is an octahedron. Vertices of one correspond to faces of the other, and edges correspond to each other.
In geometry, every polyhedron is associated with a second **dual** structure, where the vertices of one correspond to the faces of the other, and the... | 1,180 | Dual polyhedron | 0 |
8,815 | # Dual polyhedron
## Self-dual polyhedra {#self_dual_polyhedra}
Topologically, a polyhedron is said to be **self-dual** if its dual has exactly the same connectivity between vertices, edges, and faces. Abstractly, they have the same Hasse diagram. Geometrically, it is not only topologically self-dual, but its polar r... | 270 | Dual polyhedron | 1 |
8,815 | # Dual polyhedron
## Dual polytopes and tessellations {#dual_polytopes_and_tessellations}
Duality can be generalized to *n*-dimensional space and **dual polytopes;** in two dimensions these are called dual polygons.
The vertices of one polytope correspond to the (*n* − 1)-dimensional elements, or facets, of the othe... | 278 | Dual polyhedron | 2 |
8,826 | # Davy lamp
The **Davy lamp** is a safety lamp used 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,... | 803 | Davy lamp | 0 |
8,826 | # Davy lamp
## Impact
In 1816, the Cumberland Pacquet reported a demonstration of the Davy lamp at William Pit, Whitehaven. Placed in a blower \"\... the effect was grand beyond description. At first a blue flame was seen to cap the flame of the lamp, -- then succeeded a lambent flame, playing in the cylinder; and sh... | 1,157 | Davy lamp | 1 |
8,829 | # Do Not Adjust Your Set
***Do Not Adjust Your Set*** is a British television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, and 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 th... | 319 | Do Not Adjust Your Set | 0 |
8,829 | # Do Not Adjust Your Set
## Home media {#home_media}
Nine of the 14 episodes from the first (Rediffusion) series were released on DVD in the UK and the US on 25 August 2005. Both releases use the same NTSC Region 0 discs made from telerecordings of the original videotapes. In this DVD release, the episodes are number... | 313 | Do Not Adjust Your Set | 1 |
8,829 | # Do Not Adjust Your Set
## Episodes
### Christmas Special (1967) {#christmas_special_1967}
The very first episode, an introductory special meant for Boxing Day 1967, was accidentally switched with the first regular episode in all regions except for London.
### Series 1 (1968) {#series_1_1968}
The first series was... | 790 | Do Not Adjust Your Set | 2 |
8,829 | # Do Not Adjust Your Set
## Episodes
### Series 2 (1969) {#series_2_1969}
The second and final series, thirteen episodes were broadcast from 19 February 1969 to 14 May 1969, on Wednesdays at 17:20. Most of the episodes from this series are currently missing from the archives, although audio recordings survive from se... | 672 | Do Not Adjust Your Set | 3 |
8,835 | # Digimon
, short for \"Digital Monsters\" (`{{Nihongo2|デジタルモンスター}}`{=mediawiki} *Dejitaru Monsutā*), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses 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 un... | 693 | Digimon | 0 |
8,835 | # Digimon
## Media
### Anime
#### Television series {#television_series}
Multiple *Digimon* anime series have been produced by Toei Animation since 1999. The first of these was *Digimon Adventure*; it began as a short film, but after its storyboard was finished, a request for the film to become a television series ... | 1,077 | Digimon | 1 |
8,835 | # Digimon
## Media
### Manga
*Digimon* first appeared in narrative form in the one-shot manga *C\'mon Digimon*, released in the summer of 1997. *C\'mon Digimon* spawned the popular *Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01* manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.
#### *Digimon Next* {#di... | 512 | Digimon | 2 |
8,835 | # Digimon
## Media
### Video games {#video_games}
The *Digimon* series has inspired various video games, including the *Digimon World* and *Digimon Story* sub-series of role-playing video games. Other genres have included life simulation, adventure, video card game, strategy, and racing games.
By March 2001, Bandai ... | 514 | Digimon | 3 |
8,838 | # Dictum of Kenilworth
The **Dictum of Kenilworth** (*Dictum de 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 roy... | 410 | Dictum of Kenilworth | 0 |
8,838 | # Dictum of Kenilworth
## The Dictum of Kenilworth {#the_dictum_of_kenilworth}
The commission was created by parliament appointing three bishops and three barons, who then selected one more bishop, two earls, and three more barons. The final committee consisted of the bishops of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Worcester and ... | 389 | Dictum of Kenilworth | 1 |
8,838 | # Dictum of Kenilworth
## Aftermath
Hostilities did not end with the publication of the Dictum. The garrison at Kenilworth refused to accept the terms given, and held out until 14 December, when deprivation forced them to surrender. In April 1267, the earl of Gloucester`{{spaced ndash}}`{=mediawiki}who had been centr... | 314 | Dictum of Kenilworth | 2 |
8,839 | # London Docklands
thumb\|upright=1.4\|Modern Docklands, showing Canary Wharf thumb\|upright=1.4\|Map of the Docklands
**London Docklands** is an area of London encompassing the city's former docks. It is located in inner east and southeast London, in the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Gre... | 320 | London Docklands | 0 |
8,839 | # London Docklands
## Development
Three principal kinds of docks existed. Wet docks were where ships were laid up at anchor and loaded or unloaded. Dry docks, which were far smaller, took individual ships for repairing. Ships were built at dockyards along the riverside. In addition, the river was lined with innumerab... | 605 | London Docklands | 1 |
8,839 | # London Docklands
## Redevelopment
Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect. The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners invol... | 410 | London Docklands | 2 |
8,839 | # London Docklands
## Transport
The Docklands historically had poor transport connections. This was addressed by the LDDC with the construction of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which connected the Docklands with the city. According to Transport for London, the owner of the project, it was a remarkably inexpensiv... | 519 | London Docklands | 3 |
8,839 | # London Docklands
## 21st century {#st_century}
The population of the Docklands has more than doubled during the last 30 years, and the area has become a major business centre. Canary Wharf has emerged as one of Europe\'s biggest clusters of skyscrapers and a major extension to the financial services district of the... | 482 | London Docklands | 4 |
8,847 | # 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... | 429 | Commutator subgroup | 0 |
8,847 | # Commutator subgroup
## Definition
This motivates the definition of the **commutator subgroup** $[G, G]$ (also called the **derived subgroup**, and denoted $G'$ or $G^{(1)}$) of *G*: it is the subgroup generated by all the commutators.
It follows from this definition that any element of $[G, G]$ is of the form
$$[... | 844 | Commutator subgroup | 1 |
8,849 | # December 20
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8,850 | # December 21
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8,858 | # 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 ... | 435 | Digital compositing | 0 |
8,858 | # Digital compositing
## Mathematics
### Algebraic properties {#algebraic_properties}
When many partially transparent layers need to be composited together, it is worthwhile to consider the algebraic properties of compositing operators used. Specifically, the associativity and commutativity determine when repeated ca... | 367 | Digital compositing | 1 |
8,858 | # Digital compositing
## Software
The most historically significant nonlinear compositing system was the Cineon, which operated in a logarithmic color space, which more closely mimics the natural light response of film emulsions (the Cineon System, made by Kodak, is no longer in production). Due to the limitations of... | 445 | Digital compositing | 2 |
8,864 | # 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 a... | 670 | Delaunay triangulation | 0 |
8,864 | # Delaunay triangulation
## Properties
Let `{{mvar|n}}`{=mediawiki} be the number of points and `{{mvar|d}}`{=mediawiki} the number of dimensions.
- The union of all simplices in the triangulation is the convex hull of the points.
- The Delaunay triangulation contains `{{tmath|\textstyle O\bigl(n^{\lceil d/2 \rc... | 350 | Delaunay triangulation | 1 |
8,864 | # Delaunay triangulation
## Visual Delaunay definition: Flipping {#visual_delaunay_definition_flipping}
From the above properties an important feature arises: Looking at two triangles `{{math|△''ABD'', △''BCD''}}`{=mediawiki} with the common edge `{{mvar|{{overline|BD}}}}`{=mediawiki} (see figures), if the sum of the... | 914 | Delaunay triangulation | 2 |
8,864 | # Delaunay triangulation
## Algorithms
### Sweephull
Sweephull is a hybrid technique for 2D Delaunay triangulation that uses a radially propagating sweep-hull, and a flipping algorithm. The sweep-hull is created sequentially by iterating a radially-sorted set of 2D points, and connecting triangles to the visible part... | 102 | Delaunay triangulation | 3 |
8,864 | # Delaunay triangulation
## Applications
The Euclidean minimum spanning tree of a set of points is a subset of the Delaunay triangulation of the same points,`{{r|AK2013}}`{=mediawiki} and this can be exploited to compute it efficiently.
For modelling terrain or other objects given a point cloud, the Delaunay triangu... | 277 | Delaunay triangulation | 4 |
8,873 | # 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.
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8,880 | # Dryope
In Greek mythology, **Dryope** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|r|aɪ|.|ə|p|iː}}`{=mediawiki}; 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.
-... | 140 | Dryope | 0 |
8,882 | # 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 Ch... | 292 | Domnall mac Ailpín | 0 |
8,885 | # 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
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8,904 | # Double-ended queue
In computer science, a **double-ended queue** (abbreviated to **deque**, `{{IPAc-en|d|ɛ|k}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Respell|DEK}}`{=mediawiki}) 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 cal... | 413 | Double-ended queue | 0 |
8,904 | # Double-ended queue
## Implementations
There are at least two common ways to efficiently implement a deque: with a modified dynamic array or with a doubly linked list.
The dynamic array approach uses a variant of a dynamic array that can grow from both ends, sometimes called **array deques**. These array deques hav... | 1,039 | Double-ended queue | 1 |
8,904 | # Double-ended queue
## Language support {#language_support}
Ada\'s containers provides the generic packages `Ada.Containers.Vectors` and `Ada.Containers.Doubly_Linked_Lists`, for the dynamic array and linked list implementations, respectively.
C++\'s Standard Template Library provides the class templates `std::dequ... | 355 | Double-ended queue | 2 |
8,904 | # Double-ended queue
## Complexity
- In a doubly-linked list implementation and assuming no allocation/deallocation overhead, the time complexity of all deque operations is O(1). Additionally, the time complexity of insertion or deletion in the middle, given an iterator, is O(1); however, the time complexity of ran... | 230 | Double-ended queue | 3 |
8,905 | # Diene
In organic chemistry, a **diene** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|aɪ|iː|n}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|DY|een}}`{=mediawiki}); also **diolefin**, `{{IPAc-en|d|aɪ|ˈ|oʊ|l|ə|f|ᵻ|n}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|dy|OH|lə|fin}}`{=mediawiki}) or **alkadiene**) is a covalent compound that contains two double bonds, usually among carbon atom... | 345 | Diene | 0 |
8,905 | # Diene
## Reactivity and uses {#reactivity_and_uses}
### Polymerization
The most heavily practiced reaction of alkenes, dienes included, is polymerization. 1,3-Butadiene is a precursor to rubber used in tires, and isoprene is the precursor to natural rubber. Chloroprene is related but it is a synthetic monomer.
##... | 275 | Diene | 1 |
8,940 | # David Huffman
**David Oliver Huffman** (May 10, 1945 -- February 27, 1985) was an American actor and producer.
## Personal life {#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 196... | 434 | David Huffman | 0 |
8,940 | # David Huffman
## Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
------ ------------------- ------------------------------- -------
1978 *F.I.S.T.* Abe Belkin
1978 *Ice Castles* Brian Dockett
1979 *The Onion Field* ... | 501 | David Huffman | 1 |
8,941 | # 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 th... | 617 | Dagome iudex | 0 |
8,946 | # 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,... | 396 | Decipherment | 0 |
8,946 | # Decipherment
## Methods
There is no single recipe or linear method for decipherment, however: instead, philologists and linguists must rely on a set of heuristic devices that have been established. Broadly, it is important to be familiar with the relevant texts where the script or language occurs in, access to accu... | 692 | Decipherment | 1 |
8,946 | # Decipherment
## Deciphering pronunciation {#deciphering_pronunciation}
Related to attempts to decipher the meaning of languages and alphabets, include attempts to decipher how extinct writing systems, or older versions of contemporary writing systems (such as English in the 1600s) were pronounced. Several methods a... | 297 | Decipherment | 2 |
8,946 | # Decipherment
## Challenges
Many challenges exist in the decipherment of languages, including when:
- When it is not known which language is closest to it.
- When the words in the script are not clearly segmented, like in some Iberian languages.
- When the writing system is not known. In specific, if there is... | 839 | Decipherment | 3 |
8,965 | # 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 proto... | 473 | Digital Private Network Signalling System | 0 |
8,965 | # Digital Private Network Signalling System
## Overview of the Protocol {#overview_of_the_protocol}
Layer 1(CCITT) ITU-G703 defines the physical and electrical interface. G704 defines the Frame structure of the 2,048 Mbs sent across the link. G732 defines the allocation of that frame structure into the 32 discrete 64... | 734 | Digital Private Network Signalling System | 1 |
8,966 | # 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 standa... | 57 | Digital Access Signalling System 1 | 0 |
8,968 | # Devanagari
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8,992 | # 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... | 276 | DirkJan | 0 |
8,996 | # 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 ... | 304 | Dynamic HTML | 0 |
8,996 | # Dynamic HTML
## Uses
DHTML allows authors to add effects to their pages that are otherwise difficult to achieve, by changing the Document Object Model (DOM) and page style. The combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript offers ways to:
- Animate text and images in their document.
- Embed a ticker or other dynami... | 756 | Dynamic HTML | 1 |
8,996 | # Dynamic HTML
## Dynamic styles {#dynamic_styles}
Dynamic styles are a key feature of DHTML. By using CSS, one can quickly change the appearance and formatting of elements in a document without adding or removing elements. This helps keep documents small and the scripts that manipulate the document fast.
The object... | 221 | Dynamic HTML | 2 |
9,001 | # Degree Confluence Project
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. The project describes itself as \"an organi... | 447 | Degree Confluence Project | 0 |
9,003 | # Dan DeCarlo
**Daniel S. DeCarlo** (December 12, 1919 -- December 18, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known for having developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher\'s house style up until his dea... | 816 | Dan DeCarlo | 0 |
9,003 | # Dan DeCarlo
## Atlas and Archie {#atlas_and_archie}
### Josie
DeCarlo created Josie on his own in the late 1950s; his wife, named Josie, said in an interview quoted in a DeCarlo obituary, \"We went on a Caribbean cruise, and I had a \[cat\] costume for the cruise, and that\'s the way it started.\" DeCarlo first tri... | 598 | Dan DeCarlo | 1 |
9,003 | # Dan DeCarlo
## Atlas and Archie {#atlas_and_archie}
### Death
DeCarlo died in New Rochelle, New York, of pneumonia. Comics creator Paul Dini said upon DeCarlo\'s death, \"It was tragic that when he was at an age when many cartoonists are revered as treasures by more beneficent publishers, Dan felt spurned and sligh... | 132 | Dan DeCarlo | 2 |
9,003 | # Dan DeCarlo
## Josie DeCarlo {#josie_decarlo}
**Josette Marie \"Josie\" DeCarlo** (née Dumont; September 8, 1923 -- March 14, 2012) was a French-born model who became the inspiration and namesake for Josie McCoy of *Josie and the Pussycats* comics and the 1970 Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series.
She met... | 397 | Dan DeCarlo | 3 |
9,011 | # Dual Alliance (1879)
The **Dual Alliance** (*Zweibund*, *Kettős Szövetség*) 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 powers promised each other support ... | 489 | Dual Alliance (1879) | 0 |
9,025 | # Lists of deities
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world | 22 | Lists of deities | 0 |
9,032 | # Drosophila
***Drosophila*** (`{{IPAc-en|d|r|ə|ˈ|s|ɒ|f|ᵻ|l|ə|,_|d|r|ɒ|-|,_|d|r|oʊ|-}}`{=mediawiki}`{{refn|{{cite book | vauthors = Jones D |author-link=Daniel Jones (phonetician) |title=English Pronouncing Dictionary| veditors = Roach P, Hartmann J, Setter J |place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|orig-... | 492 | Drosophila | 0 |
9,032 | # Drosophila
## Biology
### Habitat
*Drosophila* species are found all around the world, with more species in the tropical regions. *Drosophila* made their way to the Hawaiian Islands and radiated into over 800 species. They can be found in deserts, tropical rainforest, cities, swamps, and alpine zones. Some norther... | 673 | Drosophila | 1 |
9,032 | # Drosophila
## Biology
### Mating systems {#mating_systems}
#### Courtship behavior {#courtship_behavior}
The following section is based on the following *Drosophila* species: *Drosophila simulans* and *Drosophila melanogaster*.
Courtship behavior of male *Drosophila* is an attractive behaviour. Females respond vi... | 958 | Drosophila | 2 |
9,032 | # Drosophila
## Biology
### Use in genetic research {#use_in_genetic_research}
*Drosophila* is considered one of the most valuable genetic model organisms; both adults and embryos are used in experiments. *Drosophila* is a prime candidate for genetic research because the relationship between human and fruit fly genes... | 1,098 | Drosophila | 3 |
9,032 | # Drosophila
## Genetics
*Drosophila* species are extensively used as model organisms in genetics (including population genetics), cell biology, biochemistry, and especially developmental biology. Therefore, extensive efforts are made to sequence drosophilid genomes. The genomes of these species have been fully seque... | 318 | Drosophila | 4 |
9,058 | # 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 {#rise_of_dost_mohammad_khan}
Aft... | 267 | European influence in Afghanistan | 0 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## The Great Game {#the_great_game}
The British became the major European power in the Indian subcontinent after the 1763 Treaty of Paris and began to show interest in Afghanistan as early as their 1809 treaty with Shah Shuja Durrani. It was the threat of the expanding Russian Empi... | 644 | European influence in Afghanistan | 1 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838--1842 {#first_anglo_afghan_war_18381842}
As a prelude to his invasion plans, the Governor-General of India Lord Auckland issued the Simla Manifesto in October 1838, setting forth the necessary reasons for British intervention in Afghanistan. The mani... | 382 | European influence in Afghanistan | 2 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## Mid-nineteenth century {#mid_nineteenth_century}
After months of chaos in Kabul, Mohammad Akbar Khan secured local control and in April 1843 his father Dost Mohammad, who had been released by the British, returned to the throne in Afghanistan. In the following decade, Dost Moham... | 450 | European influence in Afghanistan | 3 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878--1880 {#second_anglo_afghan_war_18781880}
After tension between Russia and Britain in Europe ended with the June 1878 Congress of Berlin, Russia turned its attention to Central Asia. That same summer, Russia sent an uninvited diplomatic mission to K... | 554 | European influence in Afghanistan | 4 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## The Iron Amir, 1880--1901 {#the_iron_amir_18801901}
As far as British interests were concerned, Abdur Rahman answered their prayers: a forceful, intelligent leader capable of welding his divided people into a state; and he was willing to accept limitations to his power imposed b... | 1,078 | European influence in Afghanistan | 5 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## Habibullah Khan, 1901--1919 {#habibullah_khan_19011919}
Habibullah Khan, Abdur Rahman Khan\'s eldest son and child of a slave mother, kept a close watch on the palace intrigues revolving around his father\'s more distinguished wife (a granddaughter of Dost Mohammad), who sought ... | 427 | European influence in Afghanistan | 6 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## Third Anglo-Afghan War and Independence {#third_anglo_afghan_war_and_independence}
Amanullah\'s ten years of reign initiated a period of dramatic change in Afghanistan in both foreign and domestic politics. Amanullah declared full independence and sparked the Third Anglo-Afghan ... | 601 | European influence in Afghanistan | 7 |
9,058 | # European influence in Afghanistan
## Amanullah Khan, 1919--1929 {#amanullah_khan_19191929}
On 20 February 1919, Habibullah Khan was assassinated on a hunting trip. He had not declared a succession, but left his third son, Amanullah Khan, in charge in Kabul. Amanullah did have an older brother, Nasrullah Khan. But, ... | 536 | European influence in Afghanistan | 8 |
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