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De La Salle College Ashfield De La Salle College Ashfield was established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, to provide Catholic Education for young men in Inner West Parishes of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The College is under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell and seeks to provide an education in faith for its students.
De La Salle College Churchtown De La Salle College Churchtown is an Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools-run school located in Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1952, the college moved to its present location in 1957 and caters for around 500 pupils.
De La Salle Collegiate High School De La Salle Collegiate High School is an all-boys Catholic high school run by the Lasallian Brothers. Founded in 1926, the school was located on the east side of Detroit before moving to its current location in Warren, Michigan in 1982.
De La Salle Junior Archers The De La Salle Junior Archers is the varsity team of De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School and is the Juniors' team of the De La Salle Green Archers in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. Its girls' team, the Lady Junior Archers is Zobel's varsity team to the Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association.
De La Salle Lipa De La Salle Lipa, or DLSL is a Lasallian educational instution located in Lipa City, Batangas, the Philippines. It is the latest of the third generation of La Salle schools founded by the De La Salle Brothers in the country: La Salle Academy-Iligan (Iligan City, Lanao del Norte) in 1958, La Salle Green Hills (Mandaluyong) in 1959, Saint Joseph School-La Salle (Villamonte, Bacolod City) in 1960 and lastly, De La Salle Lipa in 1962.
De La Salle School De La Salle School is a Roman Catholic voluntary aided school located in Basildon, Essex in the United Kingdom. The school is named after John Baptist De la Salle who is the patron saint of those who work in educationhttp://www.
De La Salle University Pops Orchestra The De La Salle University Pops Orchestra (also known as the DLSU Pops), based in De La Salle University-Manila in the Philippines, is a 70-piece orchestra with its own vocals section. It is the first "pop" orchestra in the Philippines.
De La Salle University-Dasmariñas De La Salle University-Dasmariñas (DLSU-D, also informally called as "Dasma") is a member institution of De La Salle Philippines located in Dasmariñas, Cavite. It was established on July 18, 1977 as a private nonsectarian tertiary school named General Emilio Aguinaldo College-Cavite and managed by the Yaman Lahi Foundation.
De La Salle University-Manila De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU-M, La Salle Taft, or simply La Salle) is a private Catholic university located in Taft Avenue in the district of Malate in Manila. It was established on June 16, 1911 by the De La Salle Brothers on Calle Nozaleda in Paco, Manila at the request of Archbishop Jeremiah James Harty.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Business and Economics The College of Business and Economics (CBE) of De La Salle University-Manila is one of six undergraduate and graduate schools of the University. It was established in 1920, as the College of Commerce, when the University began offering a two-year commercial course.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Computer Studies The College of Computer Studies (CCS) is the newest member college of De La Salle University-Manila which was established in 1981 as the Center for Planning, Information, and Computer Science offering only a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. The department was formally declared as a college in 1984.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Education The College of Education (CED) of De La Salle University-Manila is one of the oldest colleges in the university where it dates back to 1936 when De La Salle College was authorized to confer the degree of Master of Science in Education. It was in 1959 when the college started to offer undergraduate degrees in Education.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering The College of Engineering of De La Salle University-Manila is one of six colleges that comprise the University. It was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men who are knowledgeable in science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines, which was then devastated in the aftermath of World War II.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) of De La Salle University-Manila, formerly known as the College of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1918. In 1982, the College of Arts and Sciences was split into two colleges, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Science.
De La Salle University-Manila College of Science The College of Science (COS) of De La Salle University-Manila was originally part of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1982, the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics separated to form the College of Science while the liberal arts departments formed the College of Liberal Arts.
De La Salle Zobel Symphony Orchestra The De La Salle Zobel Symphony Orchestra (DLSZ Symphony) is an 80-piece orchestra that is based in De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School in Muntinlupa City, the Philippines. Its current conductor and orchestral arranger is Leopoldo F.
De La Salle-Araneta University The De La Salle-Araneta University (DLS-AU) is the seventh campus of De La Salle Philippines. It was formerly known as the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation which was established in 1946 as the Araneta Institute of Agriculture in Bulacan, then transferred to Malabon the year after.
De La Salle-Canlubang De La Salle-Canlubang (DLS-C), is a member institution of De La Salle Philippines, located in Biñan, Laguna, Philippines right across the Laguna Technopark district. A portion of the campus is also within Santa Rosa City.
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB, CSB or simply Benilde), is a private Catholic college and member institution of De La Salle Philippines located in the vicinity of Malate, located along Taft Avenue across the street from De La Salle University-Manila. It was established in 1980 during the administration of Br.
De La Salle-Health Sciences Campus The De La Salle-Health Sciences Campus (DLS-HSC) is an institution dedicated to health care education and research located along the Congressional Road in Dasmariñas, Cavite. In was established in 1987 when the Hermano San Miguel Febres Cordero Medical Educational Foundation, Inc.
De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ, De La Salle Zobel or Zobel) is a Catholic institution for boys and girls located in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It was opened in 1978 by the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines because of the increasing number of students in the grade school department of the former De La Salle College (Now, De La Salle University-Manila) in Manila.
De La Soul De La Soul is a Grammy-award winning hip hop group from Long Island, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap subgenre.
De Lafontaine De Lafontaine (or Mademoiselle De Lafontaine) was a French ballerina and the first professional female dancer, the premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera. Together with Jean-Baptiste Lully and others, De Lafontaine contributed to the development of Opera ballet.
De Landa alphabet The de Landa alphabet is the correspondence of Spanish letters and glyphs written in the pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th century Bishop of Yucatán, Fray Diego de Landa recorded as part of his documentation of the Maya civilization during his tenure there. With the aid of two Maya interlocutors who were familiar with the script, de Landa made an attempt to provide a transcribed "A, B, C" for the Maya script with the intent of providing a key to its decipherment and translation.
De Laval nozzle A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube that is pinched in the middle, making an hourglass-shape. It is used as a means of accelerating the flow of a gas passing through it.
De Laveaga Disc Golf Course De Laveaga Disc Golf Course ("Dela") is a world renowned 27-hole disc golf course in the hills above Santa Cruz, California. It boasts one of the original long disc golf courses, with some holes measuring more than 500 feet in length.
De Legibus In the last years of the Roman Republic, the former consul Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote a work bearing the same name as Plato’s famous dialogue, The Laws. Unlike his previous work de re publica, in which Cicero felt compelled to set the action in the times of Scipio Africanus Minor, Cicero wrote this work as a fictionalized dialogue between himself, his brother Quintus and their mutual friend Titus Pomponius Atticus.
De Lesseps Story Morrison DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., (January 18, 1912 -- May 22, 1964) was the mayor of New Orleans from 1946-1961 who failed in three hard-fought bids for the then pivotal Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
De Lijn Vlaamse Vervoermaatschappij De Lijn - usually known as De Lijn (in English, The Line) - is a company run by the Flemish government in Belgium to provide public transportation, similar to the way in which Belgian railroads or the postal system is run. It runs 1,942 buses and 305 trams.
De Lorean DMC-12 The De Lorean DMC-12 is a sports car which was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company from 1981 through 1983. It is most commonly known as the De Lorean, as it was the only model ever produced by the company.
De Lorean Motor Company The De Lorean Motor Company (DMC) was a short-lived automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John De Lorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one distinctive model it produced – the stainless steel De Lorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors – and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982.
De Luxe Ford Ford Motor Company introduced its De Luxe Ford line in 1938 as an upscale alternative to bridge the gap between its standard Ford line and luxury Lincoln offerings. The "Deluxe" name was used intermittently before and after this to specify an upscale trim, but the De Luxe Ford line was differentiated as a separate "marque within a marque" with separate styling and pricing through 1940.
De minimis De minimis is a Latin expression meaning about minimal things, which is mostly used as part of de minimis non curat praetor or de minimis non curat lex, in the sense that law is not interested in trivial matters.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum The Latin tag de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est is usually shortened to de mortuis nil nisi bonum or sometimes just nil nisi bonum. It is variously translated as "No one can speak ill of the dead," "Of the dead, speak no evil," or, more literally, "Let nothing be said of the dead but what is good.
De motu corporum in gyrum De motu corporum in gyrum (On the motion of bodies in an orbit) is a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmund Halley in November 1684. It derived the three laws of Kepler assuming an inverse square law of force, and generalized the answer to conic sections.
De munitionibus castrorum De munitionibus castrorum (About the fortifications of (military camps) is a work by an uknown author. Due to this work formerly being attributed to Hyginus Gromaticus, its author is conventionally called "Pseudo-Hyginus".
De Magnete De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert.
De Marcay The De Marcay was a French automobile manufactured from 1920 until 1922. Similar to the GN, it was a cyclecar powered by a 1000cc Anzani vee-twin engine and shaft drive, and was the product of a former manufacturer of aircraft.
De Materie De Materie is a four-part semi-staged vocal and orchestral composition by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. De Materie ("Matter") became an international sensation with its anti-traditional orchestration, minimalist sense of form, offbeat texts and emotional intensity.
De Montfort Hall De Montfort Hall is a music and performance venue in Leicester, England. It is situated near Victoria Park a few minutes from Leicester railway station, and is named after Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.
De Montfort's Parliament The English parliament of 1265 was instigated by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester without royal approval. Simon de Montfort's army had met and defeated the royal forces at the Battle of Lewes on May 14, 1264.
De Montmorency College of Dentistry de'Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore The de'Montmorency College of Dentistry is situated on Fort Road, Lahore, Punjab(Province), Pakistan and has the historical edifice of Badshahi Mosque to its north. Sir Geoffery Fritzharvey de'Montmorency, the then Governor of the Punjab, founded this institution in 1929 and the Punjab Dental Hospital started functioning on April,1930.
De Morgan (crater) De Morgan is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the central region of the Moon, mid-way between D'Arrest crater two crater diameters to the south, and Cayley crater to the north. It is named after British logician Augustus De Morgan.
De Morgan Centre The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society is a museum and gallery in Wandsworth, London, England that houses a large collection of the work of the Victorian ceramic artist William De Morgan and his wife, the painter Evelyn De Morgan.
De Morgan's laws In logic, De Morgan's laws (or De Morgan's theorem) are rules in formal logic relating pairs of dual logical operators in a systematic manner expressed in terms of negation. The relationship so induced is called De Morgan duality.
De Motu (Berkeley's essay) De Motu Berkeley's Philosophical Writings, New York: Collier, 1974, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-22680(on Motion) is an essay written by George Berkeley and published in 1721. Its full title is De Motu or The Principle and Nature of Motion and the Cause of the Communication of Motions.
De Nadie De Nadie (English title: No One) is a documentary by Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal on the impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hope of a better life in the United States. It premiered in 2005 and was shown at different international film festivals.
De Nederlandse Opera De Nederlandse Opera (DNO), (The Netherlands Opera) in Amsterdam, is the leading opera company of the Netherlands. The DNO is renowned for its adventurous and theatrical stagings, its mixed repertoire of modern and established operas, and its strong ensemble orientation.
De Nugis Curialium De Nugis Curialium is the major surviving work of the 12th century Latin author Walter Map. He was an English courtier of Welsh descent, probably born in Herefordshire, whose studies and employment took him to Canterbury, Paris, Rome and to several royal and noble courts of western Europe.
De Phazz De Phazz is a downtempo jazz ensemble integrating modern turntablism and elements of soul, Latin, trip hop and drum and bass into a lounge music sound. De Phazz is led by Pit Baumgartner, a German producer who changes his crew for every new album.
De Praetistigiis According to the demonologist Weirus, in his book "De Praetistigiis" published in 1568, there were estimated to be 7451926 devils, divided into 1111 legions and obeying 72 infernal princes. Weirus and several other demonologist claimed from their intimate knowledge of the hells discovered that everything controlled itself like on earth: hell arranged itself hierarchically in an infernal court which is divided into princes, ministries and ambassadors.
De Prony brake The Prony Brake is a simple device invented by Gaspard de Prony to measure the torque produced by an engine. The term Brake horsepower is one measurement of torque obviously derived from the method of measurement.
De Providentia De Providentia ("On Providence") is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "Seneca the Younger" (died AD 65) in the last years of his life. He chose the dialogue form (as in the well-known Plato's works) to deal with the problem of the co-existence of the stoic design of providence with the evil in the world.
De Puta Madre 69 De Puta Madre 69 is a fashion brand created by an ex-Columbian drug dealer Ilan Fernandez who was arrested in 1991 in Barcellona for drug and arms trafficking. Repenting of his illegal actions, he tried to give vent to his innermost feelings, beginning to create T-shirts with felt penned slogans and words that they were smuggled out of jail secretly.
De re metallica De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloging the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the latinized Georgius Agricola.
De re publica De re publica is a dialogue by Cicero, written in six books between 54 and 51 BC. It is written in the format of a Socratic dialogue; that is to say, Scipio Africanus Minor (who had died a few decades before Cicero was born) takes the role of a wise old man — an obligatory part for the genre.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; German: Von den Umdrehungen der Himmelskörper; Polish: O obrotach sfer niebieskich), first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, is the seminal work on heliocentric theory and the masterpiece of the great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). The book offers an alternative model of the universe to the Ptolemaic system.
De Rance Corporation The De Rance Corporation was the world's largest Catholic charity until its dissolution in 1992. It was named for Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rance, the 17th-century abbot of the monastery at La Trappe, France.
De Re Aedificatoria De re aedificatoria (English: On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius' De architectura, it was the first modern theoretical book on the subject and in 1485 became the first printed book on architecture.
De Rham cohomology In mathematics, de Rham cohomology (after Georges de Rham) is a tool belonging both to algebraic topology and to differential topology, capable of expressing basic topological information about smooth manifolds in a form particularly adapted to computation and the concrete representation of cohomology classes. It is a cohomology theory based on the existence of differential forms with prescribed properties.
De Rham curve In mathematics, a de Rham curve is a certain type of fractal curve. The Cantor function, Minkowski's question mark function, the LĂ©vy C curve, the blancmange curve and the Koch curve are all special cases of the general de Rham curve.
De Roy (crater) De Roy is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just behind the southwestern limb. This portion of the lunar surface is brought into view during favorable librations, allowing observation of this formation.
De Ruyter class cruiser The De Ruyter class was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after the famous Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter. It was designed during the Great Depression, which, in addition to being a period of economical depression, was also a period in which pacifism was widespread in the Netherlands.
De spectaculis Also known as On the Spectacles, De Spectaculis is one of Tertullian's extant moral and ascetic treatises. Written somewhere between 197-202, De Spectaculis looks at the moral legitimacy and consequences of Christians attending the circus, theatre, or amphitheatre ("the pleasures of public shows").
De sphaera mundi De sphaera mundi (Latin meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval astronomy textbook written by Johannes de Sacrobosco c. 1230.
De Saisset Museum The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University opened in the early 1950s after Isabel de Saisset, the last member of a French pioneer family bequest her estate to the University of Santa Clara. The museum owns nearly 10,000 art pieces and historical artifacts, including the work of well known early Californian artist and university alumnus Ernest de Saisset and a considerable collection of California mission artifacts.
De Selby De Selby is the name of a fictitious Irish philosopher and scientist, originally invented by Flann O'Brien, for his novel The Third Policeman. De Selby does not actually appear in the plot of the novel, but only in references and frequent footnotes, where his unorthodox theories and areas of research are, however tenuously, linked to the plot.
De Sitter (crater) De Sitter is a lunar crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon, to the north of the Baillaud-Euctemon crater pair. Due to its location, this crater appears very foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, limiting the detail that can be viewed.
De Sitter space In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional de Sitter space, denoted dS_n, is the maximally symmetric, simply-connected, Lorentzian manifold with constant positive curvature. It may be regarded as the Lorentzian analog of an n-sphere (with its canonical Riemannian metric).
De Sitter universe A de Sitter universe is a solution to Einstein's field equations of General Relativity which is named after Willem de Sitter. It is common to describe a patch of this solution as an expanding universe of the FLRW form where the scale factor is given by:
De Situ Albanie De Situ Albanie (dSA) is the name given to the first of seven Scottish documents found in the so-called Poppleton Manuscript, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. It was probably written sometime between 1202 and 1214, in the reign of the William the Lion, by a French-speaking resident of Scotland (north of the Forth), as an introduction to the compilation.
De Soto National Forest De Soto National Forest is 378,538 acres (1,532 km²) of pine forests in southern Mississippi. It offers year-round opportunities for outdoor activities including camping, canoeing, hunting, fishing, and more.
De Soto National Memorial De Soto National Memorial, 5 miles (8 km) west of Bradenton, Florida, commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States.
De Soto School District The De Soto School District is a Johnson County, Kansas school district. Although named after the small town of De Soto, Kansas, the district covers a very large portion of northern and western Johnson County in the towns of Shawnee, Lenexa, De Soto, and Olathe.
De Stijl De Stijl (in English generally pronounced (IPA) after style; from the Dutch for "the style" – Dutch pronunciation: IPA ), also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement, founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work created by a group of Dutch artists, from 1917 to 1931.
De Tomaso Vallelunga The Vallelunga was an extremely rare mid-engined sports car produced by De Tomaso from 1965 through 1967. The Vallelunga was based on De Tomaso's Formula One racing technology, and the spider version was first shown as a concept car at the Turin Motor Show in 1963.
De Tour Reef Light The DeTour Reef Light is a non-profit-operated lighthouse marking the southern entrance of the DeTour Passage between Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Drummond Island. The DeTour Passage marks the northern end of Lake Huron, and is used by almost all of the Great Lakes commercial freight traffic moving to and from Lake Superior, approximately 5,000 vessel movements annually.
De Troubadour "De Troubadour" (English translation: "The Troubadour") was one of four winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, this one being performed in Dutch by Lenny Kuhr representing the Netherlands. The other three winners were Salomé representing Spain with "Vivo Cantando", Lulu representing the United Kingdom with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" and Frida Boccara representing France with "Un Jour, Un Enfant".
De vulgari eloquentia De vulgari eloquentia (On the Eloquence of Vernacular) is the title of an important essay by Dante Alighieri, written in Latin and initially meant to consist in four books, but aborted after the second. It was probably written in the years that preceded Dante's exile, between 1303 and 1305.
De Vaux The De Vaux (deVoe) was an automobile produced by the De Vaux Motors Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Oakland, California (USA). Heavily based on the 1930 Durant (automobile), the vehicle was produced for the 1931 model year only.
De Viris Illustribus (Petrarch) De viris illustribus is a collection of two, written in the Vulgate Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). There is as yet no English translation, however Harvard University has it under contract to appear in the I Tatti Renaissance Library sometime in 2007.
De Vogels Van Holland De Vogels Van Holland (English translation: "The Birds Of Holland") was the first Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 - the only Contest at which two entries per country were allowed - performed in Dutch by Jetty Paerl.
De Wayne Buice De Wayne Allison Buice (born August 20, 1957 in Lynwood, California) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Buice played two seasons for the California Angels and half a season for the Toronto Blue Jays.
De Wet Barry De Wet Barry (born 24 June 1978 in Ceres, South Africa) is a South African rugby union footballer who played 38 test matches for the South African national rugby union team the Springboks. In the year 2000 Barry made his Springbok debut against Canada in East London.
De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre is a captive breeding facility for cheetahs and other animals that is situated in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range (near Brits and the Hartbeespoort Dam) in the North West Province of South Africa.
De Witt Clinton Littlejohn Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn (February 7, 1818 - October 27, 1892) was a brigadier general in the Union Army and a United States Representative from New York during the Civil War. Born in Bridgewater, Oneida County, he pursued an academic course and engaged in mercantile pursuits and in the manufacture of flour at Oswego.
De Zeven Provinciën class frigate The De Zeven Provinciën class frigates are highly advanced air-defence frigates in service with the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy). This class of ships is also known as LCF (Luchtverdedigings- en commandofregat, air defence and command frigate).
De'Dondi Jacopo and Giovanni de'Dondi (father and son) were scholars active in 14th century Padua, Italy, and are remembered today as being pioneers in the art of clock design and construction. The Astrarium, designed and built by Giovanni de'Dondi over a period of 16 years, was a highly complex astronomical clock and planetarium, constructed only 60 or so years after the very first mechanical clocks had been built in Europe, and demonstrated an ambitious attempt to describe and model the solar system with mathematical precision and technological sophistication.
De-Anne Kelly De-Anne Margaret Kelly (born 21 March 1954), is an Australian politician. She has been a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Dawson, Queensland.
De-cock/safety A decock/safety allows the hammer to be dropped on a live cartridge without discharging, via disengaging, retracting or covering the firing pin. So long as the safety is in Decock position, the hammer may not be cocked and the trigger is disengaged.
De-escalation De-escalation refers to behavior that is intended to escape the escalation of commitment bias. Since Escalation of commitment often has the tenets of escalation of conflict, it can also refer to approaches in conflict resolution.
De-policing De-policing is a "law enforcement strategy in which police avoid accusations of racial profiling by ignoring traffic violations and other petty crimes committed by members of visible minorities." 1 In a sense de-policing is the opposite of racial profiling.
Deacon Deacon is a role in the Christian Church which is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many traditions, the diaconate is a clerical office; in others, it is for laity.
Deacon Lunchbox Deacon Lunchbox was the stage name of Atlanta performance artist and poet Timothy Tyson Ruttenber (1950-1992). Ruttenber, a construction worker by day, was popular in the Atlanta area for his flamboyant spoken-word performances.
Deacon McGuire James Thomas "Deacon" McGuire (November 18 1863 - October 31 1936) was an American catcher, manager and coach in Major League Baseball who spent over a quarter of a century playing professional baseball in a much-traveled career which saw him set several records for durability. His record of playing in 26 major league seasons was unmatched until 1989, and he established a major league record for career games caught which stood until 1925; his record of 1859 career assists as a catcher remains the major league record.
Deacon process The Deacon process was a secondary process used during the manufacture of alkalis (the initial end product was sodium carbonate) by the Leblanc process. Hydrogen chloride gas was converted to chlorine gas which was then used to manufacture commercially valuable bleaching powder, and at the same time the emission of waste hydrochloric acid was curtailed.
Deacon White James Laurie "Deacon" White (December 7 1847 - July 7 1939) was an American professional baseball player in the National Association throughout its 5-year existence, and later for 15 seasons in the National League and Players League of Major League Baseball. His brother Will was a major league pitcher, and briefly his teammate.
Deacon's Hill Deacon's Hill is an area of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. It is the part of the town which lies to the west of the railway line and is informally known as being part of Elstree by its residents, even though it is geographically separate from the village of that name.
Deaconess Deaconess (and also deacon) comes from a Greek word diakonos (διακονος). This Greek word means a servant or helper and occurs frequently in the Christian New Testament of the Bible and is sometimes applied to Christ himself.
Deactivating groups In organic chemistry, a deactivating group is a functional group attached to a benzene molecule that removes electron density from the benzene ring, making electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions slower and more complex relative to benzene. Depending on their relative strengths, deactivating groups also determine the positions (relative to themselves) on the benzene ring where substitutions must take place; this property is therefore important in processes of organic synthesis.

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