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Database system A database system or DBS is a system or software designed to manage a database, and run operations on the data requested by numerous clients. Typical examples of DBS use include accounting, human resources and customer support systems.
Database Source Name Database Source Names, more commonly seen as the abbreviation, DSN, are data structures used to describe a connection to a database. This DSN will take the form of protocol: subprotocol: host: port: database so as to completely specify all parameters of the connection.
Database transaction A database transaction is a unit of interaction with a database management system or similar system that is treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions that must be either entirely completed or aborted. Ideally, a database system will guarantee all of the ACID properties for each transaction.
Database trigger A database trigger is procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table in a database. Triggers can restrict access to specific data, perform logging, or audit data modifications.
Database tuning Database tuning describes a group of activities used to optimize and homogenize the performance of a database. It usually overlaps with Query Tuning, but refers to configuration of the database files, the database management system (DBMS), and the operating system and hardware the DBMS runs on.
Database Technologies DBT Online was founded by Hank Asher as Database Technologies. The group once had a data management contract with the FBI, however, this was terminated following allegations that Asher was associated with Bahamian drug dealers.
Datacasting Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the broadcasting of data over a wide area via radio waves. It most often refers to supplemental information sent by television stations along with digital television, but may also be applied to digital signals on analog TV or radio.
DataEase DataEase is an allegedly easy to use database that enables you to create applications to store, retrieve and manipulate information. These can be shared with other users over a network, Web published for remote access, or used to manage your own personal data.
Dataflex DataFlex originated in around 1980 as a database programming language, self-described as an applications development database. It is a relatively early example of a fully fledged and commercially used fourth-generation programming language (4GL).
Dataflow architecture Dataflow architecture is a computer architecture that directly contrasts the traditional von Neumann architecture or control flow architecture. Dataflow architectures do not have a program counter or (at least conceptually) the executability and execution of instructions is solely determined based on the availability of input arguments to the instructions.
Dataflow language In computer programming, a dataflow language is a programming language that implements dataflow principles and architecture, and models a program, conceptually if not physically, as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations. Dataflow languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in order to bring some functional concepts to a language more suitable for numeric processing.
DataFactory DataFactory is a testing tool for database applications. It allows developers and QA personnel to generate data and automatically populate test databases with rows of meaningful, syntactically correct test data.
Datagram Transport Layer Security In information technology, the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol provides communications privacy for datagram protocols. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
Dataindustrier AB Dataindustrier AB or DIAB was a Swedish computer engineering and manufacturing firm, founded in 1970 by Lars Karlsson and active in the 1970s through 1990s. The company's first product was a board-based computer centered around a specific bus named Data Board 4680.
Datalog Datalog is a query and rule language for deductive databases that syntactically is a subset of Prolog. Its origins date back to the beginnning of logic programming, but it became prominent as a separate area around 1978 when Hervé Gallaire and Jack Minker organized a workshop on logic and databases.
Datalore "Datalore" is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, first broadcast January 18, 1988. It is episode #13, production #114, teleplay written by Robert Lewin and Gene Roddenberry, based on a story
DataLink OASIS DataLink OASIS™ ("Online Automated Sales & Inventory System") & Web DataLink™ are eBusiness/eCommerce/Accounting integration software range that allows a business to efficiently transfer their data to and from MYOB, Sage & Mamut and their online store. The shopping carts that the DataLink OASIS™ supports are osCommerce, Zen Cart, Cubecart with development currently underway for EziMerchant.
Datamation Datamation was a computer magazine published in the United States between 1957 and 1997. When first published it wasn't clear there would be a significant market for a computer magazine given how few computers there were.
Datamax UV-1 The Datamax UV-1 was a pioneering computer designed by a group of computer graphics artists working at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known as the Circle Graphics Habitat. It was primarily the brainchild of Tom DeFanti, who was trying to build a machine capable of running his GRASS programming language at a personal computer price point, a project they referred to as the Z-Box.
Datamost Datamost was a software design company based in Chatsworth, California that operated in the early 1980s, producing games and other software for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari platforms. Datamost also published educational and reference materials related to computers and computer programming.
DataparkSearch DataparkSearch Engine is an open source search engine written in C. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.
Datapoint Datapoint Corporation, originally known as Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), was a computer company based in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1967 by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, its first products were, as the company's initial name suggests, computer terminals (intended to replace teletype units connected to time sharing systems).
Datapoint 2200 The Datapoint 2200 was a mass-produced programmable terminal released by Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC) in June, 1970 (although some accounts say it was released sometime in 1971). It was intended by its designers simply to be a versatile, cost-efficient terminal for connecting to a wide variety of mainframes by loading various terminal emulations from tape rather than being hardwired as most terminals were.
DataPower DataPower is product division within IBM that produces XML appliances for processing XML messages. DataPower was the first company that created network devices to perform XML processing, integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed to accelerate XML processing into products, and implement a broad XML-aware & application-oriented networking strategy.
Dataran Merdeka The Dataran Merdeka (or Merdeka Square) is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was here, in front of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building that the Union Jack was lowered and the Malayan flag hoisted for the first time at midnight on August 31, 1957.
Datasaab Datasaab was the computer division of and later a separate company spun off from aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden. Its history dates back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early Swedish computer design using vacuum tubes, from Matematikmaskinnämnden (the Swedish governmental board for mathematical machinery).
DatasheetArchive The DatasheetArchive is a large free resource for electronic component datasheets and scanned data books. In 2003, the company launched an ambitious effort to digitize thousands of obsolete data books and technical manuals, making them searchable via their DatasheetArchive website.
Datassette The Commodore 1530* (C2N) Datassette (a portmanteau of data + cassette), was Commodore's dedicated computer tape recorder. It provided access to an inexpensive storage medium for Commodore's 8-bit home/personal computers, notably the PET, VIC-20, and C64.
Datastream Datastream is the name of a type of broadband network connection in the United Kingdom. Datastream is a wholesale product in which the wholesale customer can purchase connectivity between their own point of presence and a number of end users.
DataSnap DataSnap (Previously known as MIDAS) is a COM-based software technology that enables RAD creation of multi-tier database applications for the Win32 environment. DataSnap components approach allows Borland software development tools such as Delphi or C++ Builder to create Data Broker/Client applications with TCP/IP, DCOM, HTTP or even SOAP transport protocols.
DataTAC DataTAC is a wireless data network technology originally developed by Motorola and deployed in the United States as the ARDIS network. DataTAC was also marketed in the mid-1990s as MobileData by Telecom Australiahttp://www.
DataTreasury DataTreasury, located in Plano, Texas USA, develops and licenses technology for secure cheque image capture and storage. Their technology is protected in part by and Similar patents are pending on other countries as well.
Dataweb The Dataweb is an open source project started in 1995 to provide access to statistical data in the same way that the current world wide web provides access to documents. The data browser for the DataWeb is Data FERRETT (Federated Electronic Research Review Extraction Tablulation Tool) The url for this work can be found at http://www.
Datawrite Datawrite is a major importer and distributer to the UK of blank CD and DVD media which was formed in 1992. They sell CDs manufactured by many different companies, but branded with their own labels (Data-safe, Datawrite, Titanium, etc).
Datça Datça is a district, as well as the center town of that district, in Muğla Province of Turkey. It is situated midway through the Datça Peninsula, almost 100 km in length, following the ondulations of small bays and coves all along, and practically an island since it is connected to the mainland through an isthmus of only several hundred meters in width. At the very tip of the peninsula is the antique city of Knidos (at the locality called Tekir today).
Datça Peninsula The Datça or Reşadiye Peninsula, formerly called the Dorian Peninsula or the Cnidos Peninsula (Chersonisos Cnidia), is an 80 km-long, narrow peninsula in Muğla province, southwestern Turkey, separating the Gulf of Gökova (to the north) from the Gulf of Hisarönü.
Datblygu Datblygu (meaning 'development') was an experimental Welsh rock group in the 1980s and early to mid-1990s, now regarded as a catalyst of the new wave of Welsh rock in the early '80s. The band was composed of vocalist David R.
Date (metadata) In metadata, the term date is a representation term used to specify a calendar date in the Gregorian calendar. Many data representation standards such as XML, XML Schema, Web Ontology Language specify that ISO date format ISO 8601 should be used.
Date cultivation in Dar al-Manasir Date trees are cultivated in Sudan from the Egyptian border in the North all the way along the Nile south of Khartoum until Sennar. In addition to the banks of the Nile, isolated occurrences of cultivated date trees occur in the Red Sea Hills in the vicinity of Port Sudan, in Kassala, along the Atbara River, in the deserts around Dongola and far Southwest in Darfur, for example in Wadi Kutum, Wadi Mellit and Barra.
Date family The was a lineage of daimyo who controlled northern Japan (the Tohoku Region) in the late 16th century and into the Edo period. Their most famous member was Date Masamune, who established the family's power by avenging his father's death and through support of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Date magic square A date magic square is a 4Ă—4 magic square in which the numbers in a given date (for example, April 15, 1707) are used to construct the first row (4, 15, 17, 07). The magic constant (M) of a 4Ă—4 'normal' magic square is 34.
Date Movie Date Movie is a 2006 spoof of romantic comedies directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, two of the writers of the first Scary Movie. It stars Sophie Monk, Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Mauricio Sanchez.
Date My Mom Date My Mom is a television dating show airing on the music channel MTV and produced by Kallissa Productions. An 18-24-year-old male, or gay male/lesbian female, goes on 3 separate dates with 3 moms who try to convince them to pick their son or daughter to date.
Date of establishment The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. Often the criteria that define a date of establishment or founding are ill-defined—or more specifically, are ill-defined in general, although each institution tends to adopt a rather rigid definition of its own date of establishment.
Date rape The term, "date rape" (also called "contact rape" or "acquaintance rape") refers to rape or non-consensual sexual activity between people who are already acquainted, or who know each other socially — friends, acquaintances, people on a date, or even people in an existing romantic relationship — where it is alleged that consent for sexual activity was not given, or was given under duress. In most jurisdictions, there is no legal distinction between rape committed by a stranger, or by an acquaintance, friend or lover, and the term is often used to describe any rape where there is a lack of physical coercion, in contrast to more traditional (although often inaccurate) conceptions of rape.
Date rape drug The term date rape drug refers to any drug which can be used to assist in the commission of a sexual assault. These drugs commonly have sedative, hypnotic and amnestic affects, and when used to facilitate rape are often added to a food or drink without the victim's knowledge.
Date Tadamune (1600-1658) was the elder son of the famous and powerful daimyĹŤ (feudal lord) Date Masamune, and a powerful lord in his own right. When he died in 1658, his son Tsunamune became daimyĹŤ, but was removed soon afterwards in a noble family dispute known as the Date SĹŤdĹŤ or Date Disturbance.
Date Tsunamune (1640-1711) was the daimyĹŤ (lord) of Mutsu Province for about two years, from 1658 to 1660. His father, Date Tadamune, died in 1658, but Tsunamune's succession and rule was soon opposed by a number of his kinsmen and vassals.
Date with Destiny Adventure The Date with Destiny Adventure series comprises two short novels of interactive fiction published by Quirk Books in 2003 that parodied the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Both books featured covers and interior designs similar to those of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, but they are based around adult themes.
Date With Debbi Date With Debbi is a DC comic which ran for 18 issues between 1969 and 1972. The series was about the attempts of Debbi, whose similarities (apart from gender) with Archie Andrews are remarkable, to find happiness, often through dating.
Date-time group Date-time group (DTG): In a message, a set of characters, usually in a prescribed format, used to express the year, the month, the day of the month, the hour of the day, the minute of the hour and the time zone (if different from Zero zone or UTC+0). The order may vary, for example, 21:52 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC) .
Datel Datel (previously Datel Electronics) produced a wide range of hardware and peripherals for home computers in the 1980s, for example replacement keyboards for the ZX Spectrum, the PlusD disk interface (originally designed and sold by Miles Gordon Technology) and the Action Replay cartridge.
Dateline A dateline is a short piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was filed, though the date is often omitted. In the case of articles reprinted from wire services, the distributing organization is also included (though the originating one is not).
Dateline (Australian TV series) Dateline is a television current affairs program aired on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in Australia. Since its debut in 1984, it has focused largely on international events, often in developing or warring nations.
Dateline Timeline Trivia segment on Dateline NBC in which viewers were asked to name in what year certain events happened. Hosted by Jane Pauley about halfway through an episode, she would name five things that happened the week the program aired but a number of years earlier, and show clips pertaining to them.
Datenschlag Datenschlag is a German language BDSM support and information site based on a private mailing list and a public website. Datenschlag was founded in 1996 to collect and provide as much information about sadomasochism as possible -- as an offspring of that effort, it has compiled the worlds largest bibliography, one of the most extensive history and a dictionary of German BDSM terms.
Datenschleuder Die Datenschleuder. Das wissenschaftliche Fachblatt fĂĽr Datenreisende (german: Daten data; Schleuder slingshot), correspondingly The scientific trade journal for data voyagers, is a German hacker magazine that is released four times a year by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
Daterape Daterape is an internet exclusive album by Thighpaulsandra. The album is completely different from his other releases since it is based much more heavily upon industrial rock than drone or classic industrial than all of his other releases.
Dates in Star Wars Fans of the fictional Star Wars universe keep track of the dates of key events with a dating system (or calendar) reckoned at the Battle of Yavin featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In this dating system, BBY stands for Before the Battle of Yavin, and ABY stands for After the Battle of Yavin, so 50 BBY would come before 5 ABY, and 45 BBY would come after 50 BBY, much as in AD and BC.
Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has had a diplomatic tug-of-war with its rival in Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC). Throughout the Cold War, both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all China and allowed countries to recognize either one or the other.
Dates of Epoch-Making Events Dates of Epoch-Making Events is an entry in The Nuttall Encyclopaedia listing the most important turning points in history from the viewpoint of the author, James Wood. Every historian could come up with a different list, and Wood's illustrates his own cultural prejudices, and of course his view from the early 20th century.
Datestone A datestone is typically an embedded stone with the date of engraving and other information carved into it. They are not considered a very reliable source for dating a house, as instances of old houses being destroyed and rebuilt (with the old datestones intact) have been reported.
DathĂ­ Feradach DathĂ­, also known as Nath ĂŤ, son of Fiachrae, son of Eochaid Mugmedon, was a legendary king of Connacht and High King of Ireland of the 4th century or 5th century. His given name was Feradach, and he was named DathĂ­ ("quick") for the speed he put on his armour.
Dathema Dathema or Diathema was the name of a fortress in Gilead to which the Jews fled when hard pressed by Timotheus of Ammon. There they shut themselves in, prepared for a siege, and sent to Judas Maccabeus for aid (I Maccabees v.
Dathina Dathina ( []), the Dathina Sheikhdom (Arabic: مشيخة دثينة []), or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. It was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and is now part of the Republic of Yemen.
Datchet Datchet is an English village on the banks of the River Thames, situated in the unitary authority of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire. Prior to the 1974 boundary changes, Datchet was situated in Buckinghamshire.
Datchet railway station Datchet railway station is a railway station serving the village of Datchet in Berkshire, England. The station is located on the line between Windsor and Eton Riverside and London Waterloo 38 km (23Âľ miles) to the west.
Datia train crash The Datia train crash was a railroad accident that occurred on 3 October 2005 involving a passenger train near Datia in India's Madhya Pradesh Province. The accident was one of approximately thirty which India's poorly maintained transport system suffers each year, and occurred just three weeks before the Veligonda rail disaster which killed 114 people.
Dating Do's and Don'ts Dating Do's and Don'ts1 is a 1949 instructional film designed for high schools, to teach adolescents basic dating skills, produced by Coronet Instructional Films and directed by Gilbert Altschul with the assistance of Reuben Hill, Research Professor of Family Life at the University of North Carolina. In this film, the boy is the sole initiator of any contact with the girl, and all arrangements are made under the warm supervision of the family, particularly a matriarchal housewife for a mother.
Dating game show Dating game shows are television game shows, some say reality game shows, that incorporate a dating system in the form of a game with clear rules. Human matchmaking is involved only in selecting the game's contestants - usually for amusement value as opposed to any concern for their happiness or compatibility.
Dating methodology (archaeology) Dating material drawn from the archaeological record can made by a direct study of a artifact or may be deduced by association with materials found in the context the item is drawn from or inferred by its point of discovery in the sequence relative to datable contexts. Dating is carried out mainly post excavation but to support good practice some preliminary dating work called spot dating is usually run in tandem with excavation.
Dating sim Dating simulations (or dating sims) are a genre of computer and video games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. Contrary to popular Western misconception, a very small percentage of them are tied to anime titles, though some do exist, such as Tokimeki Memorial, Angelique, Sotsugyou M, and Chobits.
Dating system A dating system is any systemic means of improving matchmaking via rules or technology. It is a specialized meeting system where the objective of the meeting, be it live or phone or chat based, is to go on a live date with someone, with usually romantic implications.
Dating the Bible The Bible is a compilation of various texts or "books" of different age. While the books of the New Testament may be dated with some confidence, the dates of many of the texts of the Hebrew Bible are difficult to establish.
Dating violence Dating Violence is defined as the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship. This violence encompasses all forms: sexual assault, physical violence, and verbal or emotional abuse.
Dative case The dative case (also called the third case) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given. The name is derived from the Latin casus dativus, meaning "the case appropriate to giving"; this was in turn modelled on the Greek , from its use with the verb διδόμαι (didómai) — "to give".
Dative construction The dative construction is a grammatical way of constructing a sentence, with the subject in the dative case and the direct object in the nominative case. A sentence is also said to be in dative construction if the subject and the object (direct or indirect) can switch their cases for a given verb, without altering the verb's structure (subject becoming the new object, and the object becoming the new subject).
Dative shift Dative shifting is a grammatical process by which an oblique argument of a verb, usually one functioning as a recipient or a benefactive (roles often expressed by datives), is placed in the same grammatical role as a patient, increasing the valency of the verb and forming a clause with two objects. This is commonly done to emphasize the oblique, which would normally be of secondary importance.
Datiware Datiware is a village in the state of Maharashtra (Palghar taluk, Thane district) in India on the northern bank of Datiware creek at the mouth of the river Vaitarna. This area is especially famous for being its birds and is a popular destination for birdwatchers in winter.
Dato (newspaper) dato (Danish: date) is a Danish free daily newspaper owned by Det Berlingske Officin. Launched on August 16, 2006, the newspaper is Berlingske's offering in the "newspaper war" initiated by DagsbrĂşn's Nyhedsavisen.
Dato Tan Chin Nam Dato Tan Chin Nam is the main owner for one of Australia's most successful horse trainers, Bart Cummings. He owns at least a share in most of Cummings's well known horses including the great "Saintly".
Dato' Seri Megat Jaafar Dato' Seri Megat Jaafar Bin Megat Yunus was appointed by the Sultan of Perak in 1985 to the title Orang Kaya Besar Maharaja Diraja - one of the Four Major Chiefs (Orang Besar Empat) of Perak. Prior to that he was in the Malayan Civil Service (MCS).
Datoga The Datoga are an ethnic and linguistic group based in north-central Tanzania. In 2000 the Datoga population was estimated to number 87,978, including an unspecified number of members of the Barabaig and other subgroups groups in Tanzania]
Datong, Taipei Datong District (Chinese: 大同區; Wade Giles: Ta-t'ung) is a district of Taipei City famous for the Dihua (Tihua) Street Market during the Chinese New Year holidays. The market sells dried fruits, nuts, dried meats, dried seafood, snacks, and health drinks.
Datsan Datsan () is the term used for Buddhist university monasteries in the Tibetan tradition of Gelukpa located throughout Russia, but concentrated in Eastern Siberia. As a rule, in a datsan there are two departments—philosophical and medical.
Datsu-A Ron Datsu-A Ron (Japanese Kyūjitai: 脱亞論, Shinjitai: 脱亜論) was an article written by Japanese author and political theorist Fukuzawa Yukichi. It was first published in a newspaper in Japan called Jiji Shimpo on March 16 1885 (Year Meiji 18th) issue.
Datsun 200B The Datsun 200B was an Australian-market mid-size car sold from 1977 to 1981. Continuing with the Japanese styling, the first 200B's were all fully imported in sedan, station wagon and coupe, the latter retaining the SSS badge.
Datsun 510 The Datsun 510 was a car sold from 1968 to 1973 by Nissan of Japan. The 510 has often been called the "poor man's BMW", and some believe that the 510's design was inspired by contemporary BMWs (particularly the BMW 1600-2, released in March 1966).
Datsun Roadster The Datsun Roadster was a light weight automobile produced by Datsun in the 1930s. The series was a predecessor to the Fairlady sports cars, and was an example of the earliest passenger cars produced in Japan.
Datsun Sports The Datsun Sports (called Fairlady in the home market), was a series of roadsters produced by Nissan in the 1960s. The series was a predecessor to the Z-car in the Fairlady line, and offered an inexpensive alternative to the European MG and Triumph sports cars.
Datsun Urvan The Urvan was a transporter vehicle manufactured by Datsun with 3, 5, 7 and up to 10 seats (minibus). It was especially popular in Europe, and was again very popular in Fire Departments and as ambulances in certain countries.
Dattatreya Dattatreya (Sanskrit: दत्तात्रेय) is considered by some Hindus (in western India) to be God who is an incarnation of the Divine Trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The word Datta means "Given," Datta is called so because the divine trinity have "given" themselves in the form of a son to the sage couple Atri and Anasuya.
Dattatreya Gopal Karve Dattatreya Gopal Karve (Marathi: दत्तात्रेय गोपाल कर्वे; December 24, 1898 – December 28, 1967) was an Indian economist and professor who contributed to the fields of economics, public administration and the cooperative movement in India.
Datteln Datteln is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on a crossroads of four canals (Datteln-Hamm Canal, Wesel-Datteln Canal, Dortmund-Ems Canal and Rhein-Herne Canal), approx.
Datu Datu or datto is the title for ancient tribal chieftains and monarchs in the pre-Hispanic Philippines. Together with sultan and raja, they are also titles of royalty and currently used in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
Datuk Ooi Chean See Datuk Ooi Chean See is among the few women in the classical music world to hold a major position as a conductor of an international orchestra after her appointment in 1997 as Resident Conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra ( MPO ). The MPO gave its inaugural concert in the newly built Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Kuala Lumpur in August 1998.
Datum A datum (plural datums) is a reference from which measurements are made. In surveying and geodesy, a datum is a reference point on the earth's surface against which position measurements are made, and an associated model of the shape of the earth for computing positions.
Datura Datura is a genus of 12-15 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. Their exact natural distribution is uncertain, due to extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe, but is most likely restricted to the Americas, from the United States south through Mexico (where the highest species diversity occurs) to the mid-latitudes of South America.
Datura (band) Datura is a electronic band from Bologna, Italy that came to life in 1991 by the musicians Ciro Pagano & Stefano Mazzavillani (ex-members of the Italian electro pop group "Gaznevada" , one of the most importants in the decade of 1980) and the DJs Ricci (Riccardo Testoni) and Cirillo (Carlo Andrea Raggi). First single was "Nu Style", in the summer of 1991, followed by smash-hits as "Yerba Del Diablo", a cover of Visage's Fade to Grey & "Eternity".
Datura discolor Datura discolor, the desert thorn-apple or small datura, is an herbaceous annual plant native to the Sonoran Desert of western North America, where it grows in sandy soils and washes. All parts of the plant are poisonous if ingested.

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