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D2 (video format) D2 is a professional digital video tape format created by Ampex and other manufacturers through a standards group of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and introduced at the 1988 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention as a lower-cost alternative to the D1 format. Like D1, D2 video is uncompressed; however, it saves bandwidth and other costs by sampling a fully-encoded NTSC or PAL composite video signal, and storing it directly to magnetic tape, rather than sampling component video.
D2 class Melbourne tram The D2 class, or Combino (affectionately known as "Bigbino"), electric tram operates in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. They were built by Siemens Transportation Systems, and the first unit was delivered to the city in 2004, with the last units entering service in November 2004.
D20 Future d20 Future is an accessory for the d20 Modern role-playing game written by Christopher Perkins, Rodney Thompson, and JD Wiker. It allows the playing of campaigns in the far future, using elements such as cybernetics, mecha, mutations, robotics, space travel, starships, and xenobiology.
D20 Menace Manual The D20 Menace Manual is a listing of statistics for animals, aliens, and other potential enemies, for use in the D20 Modern role-playing game. It also contains various d20 conversions of monsters from the Alternity campaign setting Dark•Matter, including Mothfolk.
D20 Past d20 Past is a supplement to the d20 Modern role-playing game, providing a rule framework for campaigns set in a variety of historic settings from the Renaissance to World War II. The material shown in d20 Past covers five centuries of technology, spanning from 1450 through 1950.
D20 System The d20 System is a set of game mechanics for roleplaying games published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast and is based on the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The system is named after the 20-sided dice which are central to the core mechanics of many actions in the game.
D2: The Mighty Ducks D2: The Mighty Ducks is the second film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy and the first theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks, produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally released to movie theatres on March 25, 1994.
D3 (expo) The D3 (Danish Electronic Entertainment Expo) is the first electronic entertainment expo in Northern Europe, and the first edition is being held at Øksnehallerne in Copenhagen. The expo is noted for it's presence of all three of the big next-generation consoles, the Xbox 360, the Wii and the Playstation 3.
D3: The Mighty Ducks D3: The Mighty Ducks is the third and final film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy and the second theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks, and first to D2: The Mighty Ducks. produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally released to movie theatres on October 4, 1996.
D4 framing standard In telecommunication, a D-4 is a framing standard for traditional time-division multiplexing, which standard describes user channels multiplexed onto a trunk that has been segmented (framed) into 24 bytes of 8 bits each.
D4 Princess D4 Princess (D4プリンセス) is an anime series based on the manga created by Shotaro Harada (原田将太郎, Harada Shōtarō). It is composed of 24 ten-minute episodes and is part of the anime program Anime Complex II; it ran from April 6 to September 28, 1999.
D5 HD D5 is a professional digital video format introduced by Panasonic in 1994. Like Sony's D1 (8 bit), it is an uncompressed digital component system (10bit), but uses the same half-inch tapes as Panasonic's digital composite D3 format.
D6 Adventure D6 Adventure is a generic modern role-playing game (RPG) based on the D6 System. D6 Adventure is published as a stand alone rulebook (not dependent upon or requiring any other D6 System rulebooks) and is supported by its own line of supplements.
D6 Fantasy D6 Fantasy is a generic fantasy role-playing game (RPG) based on the D6 System. D6 Fantasy is published as a stand alone rulebook (not dependent upon or requiring any other D6 System rulebook) and is supported by its own line of supplements.
D6 Space D6 Space is a generic science fiction role-playing game (RPG) based on the D6 System. Although derived, in part, from material originally presented in The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, D6 Space is published as a stand alone rulebook (not dependent upon or requiring other D6 System or Star Wars rulebooks) and is supported by its own line of supplements.
D6 System The D6 System is a role-playing game system published by West End Games (WEG) and licensees. While the system is primarily intended for pen-and-paper role-playing games, variations of the system have also been used in live action role-playing games and miniature battle games.
D6288 D6288 is a Tangara T-Set carriage in the CityRail network. D6288 was one of five "spare" Tangara driving trailers built in 1996 to provide replacements for carriages that are written off after an accident or carriages out of service for an extended period of time.
D65 D65 is one of the standard illuminants (or white points) defined by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE). It is one of a series of illuminants called D series that try to portray standard illuminanting conditions at open air in different parts of the world.
D66 (die) The D66 is a base six variant of the base ten Percentile die(d100). The D66 is generally a combination of two six-sided dice (or D6s), often made distinguishable from each other by colour, or simply one die rolled twice.
Da (movie) Da (1988) - a movie directed by Matt Clark and starring, among others, notable American actors Martin Sheen (The_West_Wing_%28TV_series%29, Apocalypse Now, Badlands) and Barnard Hughes (Mr. Merlin, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Lost Boys).
Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko is the third season and fourth season of the Filipino fantasy TV series Komiks. The third season began airing in the Philippines on September 9, 2006 and currently airs on Saturday evenings on the ABS-CBN network in the Philippines.
Da Band Da Band, known officially as Bad Boy's Da Band, was a hip-hop group consisting of the second season cast of MTV's reality show, Making the Band, created by rap mogul Diddy. The show's prize included the opportunity to be featured on Diddy's label, Bad Boy Records.
Da Brat Da Brat (born Shawntae Harris on April 14, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is a rapper who emerged in the early 1990s and was the first solo female rap artist to go platinum. Throughout the 90s, she could typically be seen wearing baggy cargo pants, a backwards baseball cap, a nose stud, and using profuse vulgarity.
Da Capo Chamber Players Da Capo Chamber Players is an American contemporary music ensemble, founded in 1970. Winners of the Naumburg Award in 1973, its founding members included composer/pianist Joan Tower, violinist Joel Lester, Dean of Mannes College of Music, and flutist Patricia Spencer.
Da Costa Da Costa is from the Portuguese word for coast (Costa). It is originally a Christian family name and was adopted by many of the Sephardic Portuguese Jews when they were forced to convert or be expelled after 1497 and particularly after the establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1536.
Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention is an album by Nelly, released in 2003. It is a remix album of all of his hits, and it contains a previously unreleased song "Iz U", which was also released as a single.
Da hui Da Hui (also known as the Black Shorts) is a group of local surfers from Hawaii. The group was formed in 1976 by Eddie Rothman, Squiddy, Perry Dane and other braddahs as a reaction to their belief that the Haoles were disrespecting their culture and taking all the waves.
Da Hong Pao tea Da Hong Pao is a very important Wuyi Oolong tea. Legend has it that the mother of a Tang Dynasty emperor was cured of an illness by a certain tea, and that emperor sent great red robes to clothe the four bushes from which that tea originated.
Da Hood Da Hood (ebonics for "the neighborhood") usually refers to a neighborhood with high crime rates, low income housing and a general mentality of despair and hopelessness. It may also refer to one of the following:
Da Hoss Da Hoss (born January 18, 1992) by Gone West (by Mr. Prospector) out of Jolly Saint (by Welsh Saint) is a bay Thoroughbred gelding bred in Kentucky by Fares Farms and originally owned by Prestonwood Farm as well as Wallstreet Racing Stables.
Da Chen Da Chen is a Chinese author whose works include Brothers, China's Son, and Colors of the Mountain. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Da Chen lives in the Hudson Valley in New York with his wife and two children.
Da kine "Da kine" is a word in Hawaiian Pidgin that usually functions grammatically as a placeholder name (compare to English "whatsit"), but can also take the role of a verb, adjective, or adverb. Unlike other placeholder names in English, however, which usually refer specifically to a device (e.
Da Lench Mob Da Lench Mob were a rap group who first appeared on Ice Cube's debut album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. Da Lench Mob -- Shorty, J-Dee, and T-Bone -- struck out on their own, with Ice Cube as their executive producer, in 1992.
Da Li Princess Da Li Princess (Traditional Chinese: 大理公主; Simplified Chinese: 大理公主; pinyin: Da Li Gong Zhu) is a Chinese History television series produced by China Central Television (CCTV) in 2006. This series completed filming on January 22 2006 and its release is scheduled for Dec 2006.
Da Muzicianz Da Muzicianz are an American hip hop group from Atlanta, Georgia signed to TVT Records. Their debut album, "In Stores Now" was released May 23, 2006, and are currently working on their new album set for 2007.
Da Nang Da Nang (occasionally Danang; in Vietnamese: Đà Nẵng ) is a major port city in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea. It is one of the 5 independent municipalities in Vietnam.
Da Pump is a popular Japanese singing and dancing hip hop group consisting of four members from Okinawa, Japan. They are the first all male vocal group to graduate from Okinawa's Actor School which also trained superstars, Namie Amuro, SPEED, and MAX.
Da Vinci (lunar crater) da Vinci is a lunar crater that is located in the eastern part of the Moon, to the northwest of Mare Fecunditatis. It lies along the eastern shore of the Sinus Concordiae, a bay along the eastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis.
Da Vinci Project The da Vinci Project was a privately funded, volunteer-staffed attempt to launch a reusable manned suborbital spacecraft. It was a contender for the Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable manned spacecraft.
Da Vinci's Notebook Da Vinci's Notebook (or simply DVN) is a comedic a cappella singing group. Formed in 1993 in Arlington, Virginia, USA, the band achieved early success in the a cappella community with their appearance at the 1996 Harmony Sweepstakes finals.
Da'at (Kabbalah) Daat or Daas ("Knowledge", Hebrew: דעת ) in Jewish mysticism, called Kabbalah, is the location (the mystical state) where all ten sefirot in the Tree of Life are united as one. It is sometimes wrongly described as an eleventh sefira.
Da'at Miqra Da’at Miqra is a series of volumes of Hebrew-language biblical commentary published by the Jerusalem-based Rav Kook Institute and constitutes a cornerstone of contemporary Israeli Orthodox bible scholarship. Its editors included the late Prof.
Da'i (Islam) A Da'i (Arabic: داعي or داع), also transliterated as Da'ee, Dā`ī, etc., is someone who invites or calls non-Muslims to become Muslims, and so is the Islamic equivalent of a Christian missionary; the activity of such a person is referred to as Dawah.
Da'i al-Mutlaq The term Dāˤī al-Mutlaq (Arabic: الداعي المطلق) literally means "the absolute or unrestricted missionary". In Ismā'īlī Islām, the term dāˤī has been used to refer to important religious leaders other than the hereditary Imāms and the Daˤwa or "Mission" is a clerical-style organisation.
Da'if al-Tirmidhi Da`if al-Tirmidhi is a Hadith collection written by the Muslim Scholar al-Albani, based on the Sunan al-Tirmidhi, which he separated into Sahih al-Tirmidhi and Da'if al-Tirmidhi. Sahih ahadeeth are considered as reliable whereas da'if ahadeeth are "weak" (Arabic literal).
Da'naxda'xw Awaetlatla Nation The Da'naxda'xw Awaetlatla Nation is a First Nation government based on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, focused on the community of Alert Bay, British Columbia in the Queen Charlotte Strait region. It is a member of the Kwakiutl District Council and, for treaty negotiation purposes, the Winalagalis Treaty Group which includes three other members of the Kwakiutl District Council (the Quatsino First Nation, the Gwa'Sala-Nakwaxda'xw Nation, and the Tlatlasikwala Nation.
Da-Hong Seetoo Da-Hong Seetoo (; born September 29, 1960) is a classical record producer and recording engineer. He has worked with the Emerson String Quartet since the early 1980s and has won several Grammy Awards for his recordings.
Daan The Da'an District (; Taiwanese: TĹŤa-an-khu) is an important educational, commercial, residential and cultural district of Taipei City. The name of the district means "great safety" or "great peace", and the district is named after a village that was once located near the intersection of Xinyi and Fuxing S.
Daan Jippes Daan Jippes (birth name Daniel Jan Jippes, born 14 October 1945 in Amsterdam) is a Disney comics artist. He is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of Carl Barks' drawing style, and was therefore chosen by Egmont to redraw some old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1960s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey and Tony Strobl, for a new audience in the 1990s.
Daantjie Badenhorst Daniel Streicher Badenhorst (6 December 1967 - ) (better known as Daantjie Badenhorst or even Daantjie Dinamiet (Daantjie Dynamite) is South Africa's most well-known person living with Asperger's syndrome. He shot to fame after winning Series 24 of South Africa's long-running Afrikaans language television musical quiz show, Noot vir Noot.
Daara J Daara J (Pronounced Daa-raa Jee, which means "The School" in the Wolof language) are a Senegalese rap trio, consisting of N’Dango D, Aladji Man and Faada Freddy. Their music blends western hiphop with traditional African rhythms to create an infectious dance style.
Daasanach The Daasanach are an ethnic group of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia, around the North end of Lake Turkana.
Dağ İçinde, Hakkari Dağ İçinde (Kurdish: Navçiya; Syriac: ܢܲܒܼܟ̰ܝܼܵܐ Nochiya) is a sub-district located within center of the Şemdinli district which lies in the south-east part of Hakkari Province, Turkey. The name Nochiya is a Kurdish word meaning "between the mountains" .
Dabancheng District The Dabancheng District (Pinyin: Dábǎnchéng Qū) is a district within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Ürümqi City. It contains an area of 5,042 sq km.
Dabbat al-ard Dabbat al-ard (Arabic: دابة الأرض) is an Arabic phrase meaning beast of the earth. In Islam it is one of the signs preceding the Day of Judgment and is associated with the "second beast" in the Christian eschatalogical work the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John.
Dabbawala A dabbawala (one who carries the box, see Etymology), sometimes spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers. Tiffin is an old-fashioned English word for a light lunch, and sometimes for the box it is carried in.
Dabbe The name dabbe means an animal or a creature, often a baby animal in Classical Arabic and a baby camel in a still more specific sense. Its verb form is "debbe" which means "walking with difficulty", often referring to animals and insects.
Dabble DB Dabble DB is a web application written using the Seaside web framework which allows users to create database applications using a web browser. A Dabble DB application can import data and export data in a variety of formats.
Dabda Abbreviated in the acronym DABDA, the five stages of grief and dying are sytematically organized in order to better understand the progression of an individuals' emotional hardship(s)in their lives. The acronym DABDA first appeared in KĂĽbler-Ross"s classic book "On Death and Dying" in 1969 and has remained in American slang since.
Dabieshan Dabieshan is the name of a mountain region in central-eastern China, straddling the borders of Hubei and Anhui provinces. The name in Chinese literally means Great Dividing Mountains, and they rise to peaks of around 1,500 meters.
Dabistan-e-Madahib The Dabistān-e Mazāheb or Dabestān-i Maðāhib (Persian: دابستان المذهب ) "School of Religions" is an imaginative examination and comparison of South Asian religions and sects of the mid-17th century. The work is believed to have been written around 1655 CE.
Dabke Dabke (also transliterated from the Arabic as debke, ""dabka,"" and dabkeh) is the traditional folk dance of the Levant, going back generations, and is also the national dance of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, it's found also in Iraq but with a different name (Chobi). It can be danced by men, women, or both, with different steps and different rhythms being more common in different areas of the Middle East.
Dabney Carr Dabney Carr (April 27, 1773 - January 8, 1837) was born in Albemarle County, Virginia (some sources say he was born in Richmond, Virginia) just three weeks prior to the death of his father, also named Dabney Carr, brother-in-law and close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson took an active role in the support and education of his nephew after his father's death.
Dabney H. Maury Dabney Herndon Maury (May 21, 1822 – January 11, 1900) was an officer in the United States Army, instructor at West Point, author of military training books, and a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Dabotap The stone pagoda Dabotap, also known as pagoda of many treasures, is located in the temple of Bulguksa in Gyeongju, South Korea. From entering the temple through the Cheongun and Baegun Bridge, Dabotap is located on the right side, opposing Seokgatap on the left side.
Dabus In the Dungeons & Dragons Planescape campaign setting, Dabus (singular and plural are the same) are the personal entourage of the Lady of Pain. They can communicate only through visual rebuses they create, filling the air near them with golden shining lines (from which the name Dabus originates).
Dabus River The Dabus River is a north-flowing tributary of the Abay River in southwestern Ethiopia. It is politically important because its course defines not only part of the boundary between the Benishangul-Gumaz and the Oromia Regions, but also because it defines the entire shared boundary of the Asosa and Kamashi Zones of the Benishangul-Gumaz Region.
Dacarbazine Dacarbazine (da-KAR-ba-zeen) (brand names DTIC, DTIC-Dome; also known as DIC or Imidazole Carboxamide) is an antineoplastic chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of various cancers, among them malignant melanoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. Antineoplastic drugs are drugs which interfere with cell growth and impede the formation of new tissue - in this case, tumor tissue.
Dacco Dacco are a Japanese band formed by former Psycho le Cému members, Lida and YURAサマ (YURA-sama). Most of the band's songs consist of acoustic guitar (usually played by Lida) and tambourine (played by YURAサマ).
Dacem Dacem is a wholesaler of electrical accessories, established in 1984. The company sources products, negotiates with suppliers, purchases products and brings them into its warehouse and afterwards sells the products, normally to electrical retailers.
Dacia Gamma The Dacia Gamma is a pick-up truck derived from the Dacia 1300, and available in three model types, the 1304 single-cab pick-up, 1307 Double cab pick-up and Drop Side. Unusually, the vehicle is available in a number of different transmissions including Front Wheel Drive, Rear Wheel Drive and 4x4, whilst a 1.
Dacia Maraini Dacia Maraini (born November 13, 1936 in Fiesole, Italy) is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Topazia, an artist who belonged to an aristocractic Sicilian family (the Alliata di Salaparuta) and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan.
Dacia Nova Dacia Nova was the first car designed by the Romanian engineers, taking a very long time to complete. This is the reason for the car looking slightly outdated when it exited the factory's gates for the first time, in 1995.
Dacia Solenza The Dacia Solenza was a small hatchback produced by Dacia of Romania from 2003 to 2005. The Solenza was a reshaped version of the Dacia SuperNova, which in turn was an improved version of the Dacia Nova, which was just similar to the Peugeot 309 design that Peugeot had inherited from Talbot in England.
Dacia SuperNova Dacia SuperNova was a small front wheel drive hatchback car produced by Dacia from 2000 to 2003, beeing the first car released after signing the contract with Renault. The SuperNova is in fact a Dacia Nova which has been improved by Renault.
Dacian script The Dacian script and alphabet were the system of writing used by the people of Dacia, or present-day Romania, before being replaced by Latin due to being conquered by the Romans during the reign of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
Dack Rambo Dack Rambo (born Norman Rambo, November 13, 1941 – March 21 1994) was an American actor, most notable for appearing as Jack Ewing in the TV Series Dallas from 1985 to 1987 and as Grant Harrison on the NBC soap opera Another World from 1990 to 1991.
Daco-Romanian Daco-Romanian (Romanian: limba dacoromânǎ, Latin: lingua Daco-Romana) is the term used to identify the Romanian language in contexts where distinction needs to be made between the various Eastern Romance languages or dialects (Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian). Certain sources classify these four languages as dialects of a larger Romanian languageEncyclopaedia Britannica article on "Romanian" http://www.
Dacon DACON (Data on Consultants) is a consulting database used by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for firms with at least five professionals. DACON provides information to World Bank and IDB Borrowers when identifying firms for projects.
Dacrydium cupressinum Dacrydium cupressinum (Rimu) is a large evergreen coniferous tree endemic to the forests of New Zealand. It was formerly known as "red pine" by the European colonists, although this name is misleading since it is not a true pine but a member of the southern conifer group the podocarps.
Dacrydium gibbsiae Dacrydium gibbsiae is a conifer species native to Malaysia. It grows on Mount Kinabalu on ultramafic soil and is notable for being able to tolerate the high levels of toxic metal compounds present in these soils.
Dacryphilia Dacryphilia (also known as dacrylagnia) is a form of paraphilia where pleasure is derived from tears and/or emotional situations. It is most often associated with sexual arousal, though the term covers all forms of pleasure from the tears of others.
Dactyl (mythology) In Greek mythology, the Dactyls (Greek for "fingers") were the archaic race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea, spirit-men like the Curetes, Cabiri and Korybantes. The Dactyls were ancient smiths and healing magicians.
Dactylic hexameter Dactylic hexameter (also known as "heroic hexameter") is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with classical epic poetry, both Greek and Latin, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.
Dactylopteridae The flying gurnards are a family, Dactylopteridae, of marine fish notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins, which they use to "walk" along sandy sea floors while looking for crustaceans and other small invertebrates. They are the only family in the suborder Dactylopteroidei.
Dad (film) Dad is a 1989 comedy drama based on William Wharton's novel of the same name. The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey & Ethan Hawke, and was written and directed by Gary David Goldberg.
Dad Mohammad Khan Dad Mohammad Khan, locally known as Amir DadoIn the land of the Taliban - The New York Times 10/26/2006, is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Afghanistan representing the Helmand province. He is the former chief of intelligence for the Helmand province, and ran unsuccessfully as second vice-presidential running mate to Sayyed Abdul Hadi Dabir in the 2004 Afghan presidential election Presidential Candidates Sayyed Abdul Hadi DABIR.
Dad Savage Released in 1998 and directed by Betsan Morris Evans, Dad Savage stars Patrick Stewart as the title character, tulip plantation owner, quasi-legal entrepreneur and 'cowboy'. Tagged as 'a tale of untamed revenge,' the movie is distinct from, but can be considered similar to, Guy Ritchie's English gangster movies.
Dad Vail Regatta The Dad Vail Regatta, held annually on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest regular intercollegiate rowing event in the USA drawing over a hundred colleges and universities from North America.
Dad's Army (film) Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Normen Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series.
Dad's Army missing episodes A few episodes of the long-running British sitcom television programme Dad's Army are missing, with no known film or videotape copies existing. Other episodes were missing for some years but subsequently copies were recoved.
Dad's Garage Theatre Company Dad's Garage Theatre Company, located in Inman Park near Little Five Points in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1995 by graduates from Florida State University, and a couple non-FSU alums from Portland, Oregon and Orlando, Florida. The small theatre company has since achieved international recognition for original theatre productions and Improvisational comedy.
Dad's Porno Mag Dad's Porno Mag was a glam metal band featuring lead vocalist and guitarist Ryan Roxie, guitarist Keri Kelli, and drummer Mike Fasano. At different times the band featured bassists Stefan Adika and Will Effertz.
Dada Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral ZĂĽrich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.
Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) was a Parsi intellectual and educator, and an early Indian political leader. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP.
Dadala Raphael Ramanayya Monsieur Dadala Raphael Ramanayya was born on 30 June 1908 to a poor farm coolie Dadala Bhairvaswamy and his wife Ramanamma and grew up to become a prominent freedom fighter from Yanam and was key figure who is instrumental in the merger of Yanam into the Indian Union. He is also one of the very few Pre-Independence dalit leaders in India who worked selflessly for the nation and brought pride to the community.
Dadanawa The Dadanawa Ranch, also known as Melville's Ranch, is located on the Rupununi River in the Rupununi savannah in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana. It is the largest and most isolated cattle ranch in Guyana.
Dadao The Dadao (大刀) (big knife), one of the varieties of dao or Chinese saber, is also known as the Chinese great sword. Based on agricultural knives, dadao have broad blades generally between two and three feet long, long hilts meant for "hand and a half" or two-handed use, and generally a weight-forward balance.
Dadaocheng Dadaocheng (; Taiwanese: Tōa-tiū-tiâⁿ; literally "big rice drying-field"), spelled Twatutia before the Japanese occupation, Daitotei by the Japanese and Tataocheng during the Kuomintang era, is an area in Taipei Basin and a historic section of Taipei City. It was an important trading port in the 19th century, and is still a major historical tourist attraction and shopping area.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema.

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