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Debbie Brill Debbie Brill, OC (born March 10, 1953 in Mission, British Columbia) is a Canadian high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend".
Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered Also known as The Curse of Debbie Does Dallas, Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered is a documentary in the vein of Inside Deep Throat which examines the history of the production and marketing of the 1978 cult hit, Debbie Does Dallas. Originally aired on British Television in 2005, the film is a study of the porn industry in the 1970's.
Debbie Gallagher Deborah "Debbie" Gallagher is a fictional character in the Channel 4 drama Shameless, played by Rebecca Ryan. Debbie is the fourth child and the second daughter of Frank Gallagher and Monica Gallagher.
Debbie Gross Debbie Gross is a developmental psychologist. She is the founder and director of the Crisis Center for Religious Women in Jerusalem, Israel, which addresses domestic violence in the ultra religious orthodox communities
Debbie Hockley Deborah ("Debbie") Ann Hockley (born 7 November 1962 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand cricketer. Hockley played in 19 women's Test matches, making a high score of 126 not out and averaging 52.
Debbie Jordan Debbie Jordan was a popular UK men's magazine model from the mid-1980s to the 1990s. She was very petite but boasted a natural DD bust, which was fairly large in the days before silicone implants became commonplace.
Debbie King Debbie King (born May 31, 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire), is an British television presenter of Jewish decent. She was recently one of the presenters on late night ITV game show Quizmania, which she created with Chuck Thomas and Simone Thorogood.
Debbie Lee Carrington Debbie Lee Carrington (December 14, 1959) is an American actress known for her diminutive size (little person). She has appeared in many films and TV shows, including Return of the Jedi, Total Recall, Men in Black, Seinfeld, Baywatch and Boston Legal.
Debbie Levin Debbie Levin is a Producer and Director based in Los Angeles. She has produced/directed television programming featured on VH1, MTV, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TBS, TLC, Nine Network Australia, and History Channel.
Debbie Loeb Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Loeb is a female singer/songwriter/actress and is the sister of singer/songwriter/actress Lisa Loeb. She is a native of Bethesda, Maryland, was raised in Dallas, Texas and now calls New York City home.
Debbie Martin Deborah 'Debbie' Martin was a fictional character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She first appeared in 1985 and was played by Mandy Storvik for one episode then Katrina McEwan for two episodes and finally by Marnie Reece-Wilmore when the character returned in 1992.
Debbie McGrath Debbie McGrath was a fictional character in the channel 4 soap opera Brookside played by Gillian Kearney from 1986 to 1988. Debbie was Damon Grant's girlfriend who he ran away with to York when their parents objected to them dating.
Debbie Thrower Debbie Thrower (born 17 November 1957) is a British Television presenter currently working for ITV region Meridian on the Southern edition of its flagship programme Meridian Tonight. She was educated at Edgehill College, formerly a girls' independent school in Bideford, Devon.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is a Florida Democrat elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, representing . The district includes portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Debbie Watson (actor) Debbie Watson, (born 17 January 1949) is an American movie and television actress. Born in La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California, she got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 sitcom TV series Karen.
Debbie Watson (water polo) Debbie Watson (born September 28, 1965 in Sydney) is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. For some time Debbie was a high school PE teacher at Mackellar Girls High School, Manly Vale, Sydney - where she greatly expanded the schools' water polo team.
Debbie Wong Debbie Wong is a Hong Kong born actress and model. Working primarily in Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, she has been involved in projects including dramas, sitcoms, and modelling jobs.
Debby Bishop Debby Bishop is a British actress. She is probably best known to television viewers for her appearance in the second series of the crime drama Widows, having taken over the part of Bella O'Reilly from Eva Mottley.
Debconf (software package) debconf is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems. It is developed for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and is closely integrated with Debian's package management system, dpkg.
Debden, Epping Forest Debden is a suburb of the town of Loughton, located in the Epping Forest district of Essex. Essentially a large housing estate, it was built by the London County Council between 1947 and 1952 as an out-county estate, with the intention of rehousing people from London whose homes were demolished during the Second World War.
Debed Debed River located in the forested Lori region are the Cathedrals of Haghpat and Sanahin, two of Armenia's Unesco World Heritage sites. Constructed and expanded over several hundred years starting in the 10th century, these resplendent ecclesiastical and academic centers are reminders of Armenia's years of past glory, intellectual activity, and cultural heritage.
Debelah Morgan Debelah Morgan (born September 29, 1977, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B singer and songwriter. Her stage name was simply Debelah at the beginning of her music career, but changed to her full name after her first music label dropped her.
Debelt Glacier The Debelt Glacier (Lednik Debelt 'led-nik 'de-belt) sits on Livingston Island draining the southeastern slopes of Vidin Heights into Moon Bay between Edinburgh Hill and Helis Nunatak. The glacier extends three km in an E-W direction, and 1.
Debendranath Tagore Debendranath Tagore (Bangla: দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকŕ§ŕ¦° Debendronath Ţhakur)(May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was an Indian Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India.
Debeweyin Debeweyin is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Korahe Zone, Debeweyin is bordered on the south and west by the Gode Zone, on the north by Kebri Dar, and on the east by Shilavo.
Debhelper debhelper is a suite of programs originally written by Joey Hess that help a Debian packager write a rules files. A rules file is a Makefile that contains instructions for building and creating a Debian package.
Debi Doss US-born Debi came to England on a mission to photograph the fledgling super-stars of the 70s. She soon discovered a voice of her own and stepped on stage as a backing vocalist, touring with The Kinks for over three years.
Debi Nova Debi Nova is a multi-talented female vocalist from Escazu, Costa Rica who calls Los Angeles, California home. A graduate of The Los Angeles Music Academy, Nova has graced her signature voice on various projects from jazz artist Boney James to rapper Q-Tip to Sergio Mendes and Will.
Debian Debian is a project based around the development of a free, complete operating system based on the work of the GNU Project through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. The project's primary focus, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular Linux distribution.
Debian Free Software Guidelines The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is a free software license, which in turn is used to determine whether a piece of software can be included in Debian. The DFSG is part of the Debian Social Contract.
Debian Social Contract The Debian Social Contract is a document framing the core moral agenda of the Debian Project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the moral compass for the rules set forth in the Debian Free Software Guidelines which provides the basis for the Open Source Definition.
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (November 19, 1918 - May 8, 1993) was an eminent Bengali Marxist philosopher from India. He made an extensive contribution to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian Philosophy.
Debit card A debit card is a plastic card which provides an alternative payment method to cash when making purchases. Physically the card is an ISO 7810 card like a credit card, however its functionality is more similar to writing a check as the funds are withdrawn directly from the cardholder's bank account; some cards are referred to as check cards.
Debit card cashback Debit card cashback is a service offered to retail customers whereby an extra amount of money is added to the total purchase price of a transaction (paid by debit card) and the customer receives the extra amount in cash along with their goods. For example, a customer purchasing ÂŁ18.
Debit spread In finance, a debit spread, AKA net debit spread, results when an investor simultaneously buys an option with a higher premium and sells an option with a lower premium. The investor is said to be a net buyer and expects the premiums of the two options (the spread) to widen.
Debitage Small pieces of stone debris that break off during the manufacturing of stone tools. Although these pieces are usually considered waste material, debitage analysis often yields important information about specific aspects of the lithic reduction process.
Debitel debitel AG, is one of the largest mobile services provider in Europe, offering a wide range of telecommunication products – mobile and fixed-line telephony as well internet services. In Germany, debitel’s largest market, the business has a 47% market share of the mobile service provider market and 12.
Debka.com DEBKAfile (Hebrew: תיקדבקה) is a Jerusalem based website with news and indepth information about terrorism, intelligence, military affairs, security and politics. It began in the summer of 2000, and has been quite successful and has received several awards, including Forbes Best of The Web award.
Debmar-Mercury Debmar-Mercury is a television syndication company that is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment, which acquired the company in July 2006. Debmar-Mercury was formed from a merger of Debmar Studios and Mercury Entertainment.
Deborah Deborah or Dvora (Hebrew: "Bee", Standard Hebrew DÉ™vora, Tiberian Hebrew DəḇôrÄh) was a prophetess and the fourth Judge and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament (Tanakh). Her story is told twice in chapters 4 and 5 of Judges.
Deborah (Genesis) Deborah is the name of the nurse of Rebeccah (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah when she dies in a place called Alon Bachot, and is buried by Jacob, who is returning with his large family to Canaan.
Deborah Burlingame Deborah ("Debra") Burlingame (born 1954) is the sister of Charles "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 by Al Qaeda terrorists. Ms.
Deborah Byrd Deborah Byrd (born March 1, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is executive producer and cohost of the internationally syndicated Earth & Sky radio series. She has more than 30 years experience in science broadcasting,.
Deborah Carroll Deborah Carroll, later known as Nanny Deb (born December 10, 1961, in the United Kingdom), is a British nanny who appears on the FOX television show Nanny 911, and has been described as being a nanny continuously since 1982. She was spoofed on a 2005 comic episode of the webcomic The Little Wolf and the Bad Little Girl entitled Jane Hates Nannies.
Deborah Conway Deborah Conway is an Australian rock singer and songwriter who became well known in the 1980s rock band Do-Re-Mi with their surprise hit Man Overboard. Do-Re-Mi went on to record two albums and a batch of singles.
Deborah Coyne Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne, (born 1955), LLD , MPhil is a Canadian constitutional lawyer, professor and author. She is the cousin of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress Susan Coyne, and the niece of former governor of the Bank of Canada, James Coyne.
Deborah David Deborah David born January 7 into the Garifuna community of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. She is best known as "La Negra Del Tumbao" from the music video "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" by Celia Cruz.
Deborah Davis Deborah Davis is an American citizen who refused to show her identification papers on September 26, 2005 to federal police when they boarded her Regional Transportation District (RTD) bus and demanded ID at the Federal Center stop near Denver, Colorado.
Deborah Fouts Deborah Fouts is Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI). CHCI is the home of Washoe, the first non-human to acquire a human language, and three other chimpanzees who use the signs of American Sign Language to communicate with each other and their human caregivers.
Deborah Freund Deborah Anne Freund is an American academic, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and formerly Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University. She was in the running to replace Albert Carnesale as Chancellor of the UCLA.
Deborah Goldberg Deb Goldberg is the former chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen and a candidate running in the September 19, 2006 Democratic Primary election who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
Deborah Gore Dean Deborah Gore Dean is a former United States federal employee, in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Ronald Reagan presidency, she is also a distant relative of the famous Senator Albert Gore Sr. and second cousin once removed of former Vice President Albert Gore Jr..
Deborah Holland Deborah Holland was the lead singer and songwriter of Animal Logic featuring Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland. Beginning her musical studies at age 14, Holland attended the Berklee College of Music and Rutgers University, from which she received her B.
Deborah Houlding Deborah Houlding (born 14 May 1962 in Mansfield) is an English astrologer specializing in traditional astrological methods. She is perhaps best known for her book The Houses: Temples of the Sky and for her in-depth courses on horary astrology.
Deborah Housen-Couriel Deborah Housen-Couriel is an international lawyer who lives in the Jerusalem area. She has published articles on issues of water rights in the Middle East, possible legal regimes and arrangements for the city of Jerusalem, international telecommunications law and regional free trade zones.
Deborah Jeanne Rowe Deborah Jeanne Rowe (born 6 December 1958) was the dermatologist's nurse who married singer Michael Jackson, and bore two children for him: son Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr. (who publicly goes by the name "Prince"), and a daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.
Deborah Lipp Deborah Lipp is Wiccan High Priestess of the Gardnerian Tradition and an American author. She was initiated into a traditional Gardnerian coven of Witches in 1981, became a Wiccan High Priestess in 1986, and has been teaching Wicca and running Pagan circles ever since.
Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947, New York City) is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.
Deborah Lynn Steinberg Deborah Lynn Steinberg is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She has a BA in Women's Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from the University of Kent, England, and a PhD from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), University of Birmingham, England.
Deborah Mailman Deborah Mailman (born July 14, 1972), Australian actress, was the first Aboriginal actor to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and played the character "Kelly" on successful Australian television series, The Secret Life Of Us.
Deborah McGuinness Deborah Louise McGuinness is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust. She is the co-director and senior research scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.
Deborah Meier Deborah Meier (1931– ) is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement. After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, in 1974 Meier became the founder and director of the alternative Central Park East school, which embraced progressive ideals in the tradition of John Dewey in an effort to provide better education for "inner-city" children in East Harlem, within the New York City public school system.
Deborah number The Deborah number is a dimensionless number, used in rheology to characterize how "fluid" a material is. Even some apparent solids "flow" if they are observed long enough; the origin of the name is the line "The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah recorded in the Bible (Judges 5:5).
Deborah Ombres Deborah Ombres (born Javier DĂaz, Valladolid, Spain 1976) is a drag queen, conductor and actor. DĂaz moved to Madrid to study theatre, dance and martial arts, and started working in theatres with Mamá, quiero ser drágstica (Mummy, I want to be a drag queen) before starting to work for the Spanish division of MTV, MTV Spain in MTV Hot.
Deborah Ryan Deborah Ryan is an American actress who appeared in a number of television shows and movies during the late 1970s through the early 1980s. She had a starring role in the 1978 TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
Deborah S. Jin Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado.
Deborah Sampson Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 18, 1827) was the first known American woman to impersonate a man, to join the army and take part in combat. She was born in Plymouth County, Massachusetts in the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, the eldest of 7 children born to Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson.
Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon is a journalist and cultural critic with a weekly Q & A column in The New York Times Magazine. She was born in New York City on August 9, 1957, and was educated at Cornell University, where she majored in art history.
Deborah Spungen Deborah Spungen is the mother of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of punk rocker Sid Vicious who was reputedly murdered by him. Deborah Spungen recounts her life with her daughter in her autobiography "And I Don't Want to Live this Life".
Deborah T. Poritz Deborah Tobias Poritz (October 26, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) was the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1996 to 2006, and was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 – 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position.
Deborah Voigt Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American opera singer. She is most famous for her interpretations of the Strauss and Wagner roles, including Isolde, Sieglinde, Elsa, Elisabeth, Senta, Ariadne, Chrysothemis, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Salome, Helen of Troy, Marie in Friedenstag, and the Marschallin.
Deborah Watling Deborah Watling (born 2 January 1948, Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire) is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who. She also starred in Alice, Dennis Potter's version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand in 1965 and in the series Danger UXB in 1979.
Deborah Wiles Deborah Wiles is the Author of Each Little Bird that Sings,award winning Love, Ruby Lavender. She was born in Alabama but grew up summers in Mississippi where she learned a few things about The families living there.
Debra Byrd Debra Byrd (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer, musical theater actress, and author who is most notable as the head vocal coach on American Idol and Canadian Idol and also sings backup for the Idol contestants. She has starred in musical films and several Broadway musicals.
Debra Fischer Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. Fischer has co-authored over 80 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighbourhood, including many on extrasolar planets.
Debra Lafave Debra Jean Beasley (born August 28, 1980) is a former reading teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida when she was charged with several counts of having illegal sex with a minor in 2005.
Debra Mailman 'Debra Mailman is the first Australian actress of Aboriginal descent to win AFI's Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Nona in the film Radiance. She also won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Performance for the same role.
Debra Miceli Debra Ann Miceli (born February 6, 1963 in Milan, Italy) better known as Madusa (shorthand for Made in the USA) or Alundra Blayze, is a former professional wrestler for WCW and WWF. She has also recently driven the Madusa monster truck for Clear Channel Communications on Monster Jam, and will drive a truck of the same name for Team Bigfoot beginning in 2007.
Debra Morgan (Dexter character) Deborah "Debra" Morgan, Dexter's foster sister, is a vice cop desperate to be transferred to Homicide, a goal she accomplishes in the 2nd episode. Deb is smart, but unsure of herself, and so relies on Dexter's "expertise" to solve difficult cases.
Debra Ruh Debra Ruh (1958-present) is an advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities. She is President and CEO of TecAccess, LLC, an internationally renowned consulting firm focused on accessibility of information technology products.
Debra Shipley Debra Ann Shipley (born 22 June 1957) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Labour Party member of Parliament for Stourbridge from 1997 until the 2005 general election, when she stood down for reasons of ill health on 11 April.
Debra Whitman Debra Whitman was a fictional character from the Spider-Man universe, and a brief love interest of Peter Parker in the Spectacular Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man comic titles in the late 70s and early 80s. She is perhaps better remembered for her role in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
Debra Wurzburger Debra ("Debby") Joanne Wurzburger (born December 12, 1969 in Burlington, Ontario) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she finished in ninth position in her only start, the 800m Freestyle.
Debralee Scott Debralee Scott (April 2, 1953 – April 5, 2005) was an American actress best known for her role on the soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as the title character's trampy younger and prettier sister, "Cathy Shumway". Scott was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was born, and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a cheerleader.
Debre Berhan Debre Berhan (also spelled Debre Birhan) is a city and woreda in central Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, about 120 kilometers north east of Addis Ababa on the paved highway to Dessie, the town has a latitude and longitude of .
Debre Damo Debre Damo is the name of a mountain and a 6th century monastery in northern Ethiopia, lying west of Adigrat in the region of Tigray. Thomas Pakenham records a tradition that Dabra Damo had also once been a royal prison for heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia, like the better known Wehni and Amba Geshen.
Debre Sina (woreda) Debre Sina is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Debre Sina is bordered on the south by Wegde, on the west by the Abbay River which separates it from the Misraq Gojjam Zone, on the north by Sayint, and on the east by Legambo.
Debre Sina Monastery (Eritrea) Debra Sina is a village in the highlands of Eritrea that is the site of a pilgrimage by thousands of Eritrean Orthodox believers each year in June. The pilgrimage centres on a church above the village where a vision of Mary, Mother of Jesus was said to have been seen by shepherd girls beneath a large boulder.
Debre Tabor Debre Tabor is a town and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, about 100 kilometers southeast of Gondar and 50 kilometers east of Lake Tana, this historic town has a latitude and longitude of .
Debrecen University Anatomy Scandal The Debrecen University Anatomy Scandal is an academic dispute regarding Medical students at University of Debrecen accessing the dissecting rooms of the Anatomy department illigaly, smuggling body parts out to their dorms and private residences -for some extracurricular study- with the help of a few officials.The Medical Faculty of Debrecen University came under harsh criticism after Debrecen university anatomy scandal on April 2005, soon followed by reactions from Hungarian and Norwegian officials and several investigations.
Debrett's Debrett’s is a specialist publisher, founded in 1769 with the publication of the first edition of The New Peerage. This genealogical guide to the British aristocracy evolved into a keystone of British society and is published today under the name Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage, a book which includes a short history of the family of each titleholder.
Debridement Debridement is a medical term referring to the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Often this removal is surgical, but other methods exist: mechanical, chemical, autolytic, and even maggot therapy, where certain species of live maggots selectively eat only necrotic tissue.
Debriefing A debriefing or psychological debriefing is a one-time, semi-structured conversation with an individual who has just experienced a stressful or traumatic event. In most cases, the purpose of debriefing is to reduce any possibility of psychological harm by informing people about their experience or allowing them to talk about it.
Debris disk Debris disk is a ring-shaped circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star. Debris disks have been found around both evolved and young stars, as well as at least one debris disk in orbit around a neutron star.
Debrune The Debrune were a civilisation in the fictional Star Trek universe, that had become extinct long before the events depicted in the various Star Trek series. The Debrune were an ancient offshoot of the Vulcans and, possessed the capability for interstellar travel.
Debs Garms Debs Garms (June 26, 1907 in Bangs, Texas - December 16, 1984 in Glen Rose, Texas) was a professional baseball player who played twelve seasons as an outfielder and third baseman for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and St.
Debs Tendency The Debs Tendency (DT) is a left-wing political tendency in the Socialist Party USA (SP USA). The primary goal of the DT is the development of the SP as a revolutionary democratic socialist political party of the working class.
Debsirindra Queen Debsirindra(Thai:สมเด็ŕ¸ŕ¸žŕ¸Łŕ¸°ŕą€ŕ¸—พศิรินทราบรมราชินี)(17 July 1834-9 September 1861)She was the granddaughter of King Rama III. Her given name is Princess Ramboei(หมŕąŕ¸ŕ¸ˇŕą€ŕ¸ŕą‰ŕ¸˛ŕ¸«ŕ¸Ťŕ¸´ŕ¸‡ŕ¸Łŕ¸łŕą€ŕ¸žŕ¸˘).
Debswana Debswana Diamond Company Ltd, or simply Debswana, is a mining company located in Botswana, and is the world's leading producer of diamonds by value. Debswana is a joint venture between the government of Botswana and the South African diamond company De Beers; each party owns 50 percent of the company.
Debt Debt is that which is owed; usually referencing assets owed, but the term can cover other obligations. In the case of assets, debt is a means of using future purchasing power in the present before a summation has been earned.
Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered Also known as The Curse of Debbie Does Dallas, Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered is a documentary in the vein of Inside Deep Throat which examines the history of the production and marketing of the 1978 cult hit, Debbie Does Dallas. Originally aired on British Television in 2005, the film is a study of the porn industry in the 1970's.
Debbie Gallagher Deborah "Debbie" Gallagher is a fictional character in the Channel 4 drama Shameless, played by Rebecca Ryan. Debbie is the fourth child and the second daughter of Frank Gallagher and Monica Gallagher.
Debbie Gross Debbie Gross is a developmental psychologist. She is the founder and director of the Crisis Center for Religious Women in Jerusalem, Israel, which addresses domestic violence in the ultra religious orthodox communities
Debbie Hockley Deborah ("Debbie") Ann Hockley (born 7 November 1962 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand cricketer. Hockley played in 19 women's Test matches, making a high score of 126 not out and averaging 52.
Debbie Jordan Debbie Jordan was a popular UK men's magazine model from the mid-1980s to the 1990s. She was very petite but boasted a natural DD bust, which was fairly large in the days before silicone implants became commonplace.
Debbie King Debbie King (born May 31, 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire), is an British television presenter of Jewish decent. She was recently one of the presenters on late night ITV game show Quizmania, which she created with Chuck Thomas and Simone Thorogood.
Debbie Lee Carrington Debbie Lee Carrington (December 14, 1959) is an American actress known for her diminutive size (little person). She has appeared in many films and TV shows, including Return of the Jedi, Total Recall, Men in Black, Seinfeld, Baywatch and Boston Legal.
Debbie Levin Debbie Levin is a Producer and Director based in Los Angeles. She has produced/directed television programming featured on VH1, MTV, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TBS, TLC, Nine Network Australia, and History Channel.
Debbie Loeb Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Loeb is a female singer/songwriter/actress and is the sister of singer/songwriter/actress Lisa Loeb. She is a native of Bethesda, Maryland, was raised in Dallas, Texas and now calls New York City home.
Debbie Martin Deborah 'Debbie' Martin was a fictional character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She first appeared in 1985 and was played by Mandy Storvik for one episode then Katrina McEwan for two episodes and finally by Marnie Reece-Wilmore when the character returned in 1992.
Debbie McGrath Debbie McGrath was a fictional character in the channel 4 soap opera Brookside played by Gillian Kearney from 1986 to 1988. Debbie was Damon Grant's girlfriend who he ran away with to York when their parents objected to them dating.
Debbie Thrower Debbie Thrower (born 17 November 1957) is a British Television presenter currently working for ITV region Meridian on the Southern edition of its flagship programme Meridian Tonight. She was educated at Edgehill College, formerly a girls' independent school in Bideford, Devon.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is a Florida Democrat elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, representing . The district includes portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Debbie Watson (actor) Debbie Watson, (born 17 January 1949) is an American movie and television actress. Born in La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California, she got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 sitcom TV series Karen.
Debbie Watson (water polo) Debbie Watson (born September 28, 1965 in Sydney) is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. For some time Debbie was a high school PE teacher at Mackellar Girls High School, Manly Vale, Sydney - where she greatly expanded the schools' water polo team.
Debbie Wong Debbie Wong is a Hong Kong born actress and model. Working primarily in Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, she has been involved in projects including dramas, sitcoms, and modelling jobs.
Debby Bishop Debby Bishop is a British actress. She is probably best known to television viewers for her appearance in the second series of the crime drama Widows, having taken over the part of Bella O'Reilly from Eva Mottley.
Debconf (software package) debconf is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems. It is developed for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and is closely integrated with Debian's package management system, dpkg.
Debden, Epping Forest Debden is a suburb of the town of Loughton, located in the Epping Forest district of Essex. Essentially a large housing estate, it was built by the London County Council between 1947 and 1952 as an out-county estate, with the intention of rehousing people from London whose homes were demolished during the Second World War.
Debed Debed River located in the forested Lori region are the Cathedrals of Haghpat and Sanahin, two of Armenia's Unesco World Heritage sites. Constructed and expanded over several hundred years starting in the 10th century, these resplendent ecclesiastical and academic centers are reminders of Armenia's years of past glory, intellectual activity, and cultural heritage.
Debelah Morgan Debelah Morgan (born September 29, 1977, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B singer and songwriter. Her stage name was simply Debelah at the beginning of her music career, but changed to her full name after her first music label dropped her.
Debelt Glacier The Debelt Glacier (Lednik Debelt 'led-nik 'de-belt) sits on Livingston Island draining the southeastern slopes of Vidin Heights into Moon Bay between Edinburgh Hill and Helis Nunatak. The glacier extends three km in an E-W direction, and 1.
Debendranath Tagore Debendranath Tagore (Bangla: দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকŕ§ŕ¦° Debendronath Ţhakur)(May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was an Indian Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India.
Debeweyin Debeweyin is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Korahe Zone, Debeweyin is bordered on the south and west by the Gode Zone, on the north by Kebri Dar, and on the east by Shilavo.
Debhelper debhelper is a suite of programs originally written by Joey Hess that help a Debian packager write a rules files. A rules file is a Makefile that contains instructions for building and creating a Debian package.
Debi Doss US-born Debi came to England on a mission to photograph the fledgling super-stars of the 70s. She soon discovered a voice of her own and stepped on stage as a backing vocalist, touring with The Kinks for over three years.
Debi Nova Debi Nova is a multi-talented female vocalist from Escazu, Costa Rica who calls Los Angeles, California home. A graduate of The Los Angeles Music Academy, Nova has graced her signature voice on various projects from jazz artist Boney James to rapper Q-Tip to Sergio Mendes and Will.
Debian Debian is a project based around the development of a free, complete operating system based on the work of the GNU Project through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. The project's primary focus, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular Linux distribution.
Debian Free Software Guidelines The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is a free software license, which in turn is used to determine whether a piece of software can be included in Debian. The DFSG is part of the Debian Social Contract.
Debian Social Contract The Debian Social Contract is a document framing the core moral agenda of the Debian Project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the moral compass for the rules set forth in the Debian Free Software Guidelines which provides the basis for the Open Source Definition.
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (November 19, 1918 - May 8, 1993) was an eminent Bengali Marxist philosopher from India. He made an extensive contribution to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian Philosophy.
Debit card A debit card is a plastic card which provides an alternative payment method to cash when making purchases. Physically the card is an ISO 7810 card like a credit card, however its functionality is more similar to writing a check as the funds are withdrawn directly from the cardholder's bank account; some cards are referred to as check cards.
Debit card cashback Debit card cashback is a service offered to retail customers whereby an extra amount of money is added to the total purchase price of a transaction (paid by debit card) and the customer receives the extra amount in cash along with their goods. For example, a customer purchasing ÂŁ18.
Debit spread In finance, a debit spread, AKA net debit spread, results when an investor simultaneously buys an option with a higher premium and sells an option with a lower premium. The investor is said to be a net buyer and expects the premiums of the two options (the spread) to widen.
Debitage Small pieces of stone debris that break off during the manufacturing of stone tools. Although these pieces are usually considered waste material, debitage analysis often yields important information about specific aspects of the lithic reduction process.
Debitel debitel AG, is one of the largest mobile services provider in Europe, offering a wide range of telecommunication products – mobile and fixed-line telephony as well internet services. In Germany, debitel’s largest market, the business has a 47% market share of the mobile service provider market and 12.
Debka.com DEBKAfile (Hebrew: תיקדבקה) is a Jerusalem based website with news and indepth information about terrorism, intelligence, military affairs, security and politics. It began in the summer of 2000, and has been quite successful and has received several awards, including Forbes Best of The Web award.
Debmar-Mercury Debmar-Mercury is a television syndication company that is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment, which acquired the company in July 2006. Debmar-Mercury was formed from a merger of Debmar Studios and Mercury Entertainment.
Deborah Deborah or Dvora (Hebrew: "Bee", Standard Hebrew DÉ™vora, Tiberian Hebrew DəḇôrÄh) was a prophetess and the fourth Judge and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament (Tanakh). Her story is told twice in chapters 4 and 5 of Judges.
Deborah (Genesis) Deborah is the name of the nurse of Rebeccah (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah when she dies in a place called Alon Bachot, and is buried by Jacob, who is returning with his large family to Canaan.
Deborah Burlingame Deborah ("Debra") Burlingame (born 1954) is the sister of Charles "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 by Al Qaeda terrorists. Ms.
Deborah Byrd Deborah Byrd (born March 1, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is executive producer and cohost of the internationally syndicated Earth & Sky radio series. She has more than 30 years experience in science broadcasting,.
Deborah Carroll Deborah Carroll, later known as Nanny Deb (born December 10, 1961, in the United Kingdom), is a British nanny who appears on the FOX television show Nanny 911, and has been described as being a nanny continuously since 1982. She was spoofed on a 2005 comic episode of the webcomic The Little Wolf and the Bad Little Girl entitled Jane Hates Nannies.
Deborah Conway Deborah Conway is an Australian rock singer and songwriter who became well known in the 1980s rock band Do-Re-Mi with their surprise hit Man Overboard. Do-Re-Mi went on to record two albums and a batch of singles.
Deborah Coyne Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne, (born 1955), LLD , MPhil is a Canadian constitutional lawyer, professor and author. She is the cousin of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress Susan Coyne, and the niece of former governor of the Bank of Canada, James Coyne.
Deborah David Deborah David born January 7 into the Garifuna community of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. She is best known as "La Negra Del Tumbao" from the music video "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" by Celia Cruz.
Deborah Davis Deborah Davis is an American citizen who refused to show her identification papers on September 26, 2005 to federal police when they boarded her Regional Transportation District (RTD) bus and demanded ID at the Federal Center stop near Denver, Colorado.
Deborah Fouts Deborah Fouts is Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI). CHCI is the home of Washoe, the first non-human to acquire a human language, and three other chimpanzees who use the signs of American Sign Language to communicate with each other and their human caregivers.
Deborah Freund Deborah Anne Freund is an American academic, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and formerly Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University. She was in the running to replace Albert Carnesale as Chancellor of the UCLA.
Deborah Goldberg Deb Goldberg is the former chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen and a candidate running in the September 19, 2006 Democratic Primary election who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
Deborah Gore Dean Deborah Gore Dean is a former United States federal employee, in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Ronald Reagan presidency, she is also a distant relative of the famous Senator Albert Gore Sr. and second cousin once removed of former Vice President Albert Gore Jr..
Deborah Holland Deborah Holland was the lead singer and songwriter of Animal Logic featuring Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland. Beginning her musical studies at age 14, Holland attended the Berklee College of Music and Rutgers University, from which she received her B.
Deborah Houlding Deborah Houlding (born 14 May 1962 in Mansfield) is an English astrologer specializing in traditional astrological methods. She is perhaps best known for her book The Houses: Temples of the Sky and for her in-depth courses on horary astrology.
Deborah Housen-Couriel Deborah Housen-Couriel is an international lawyer who lives in the Jerusalem area. She has published articles on issues of water rights in the Middle East, possible legal regimes and arrangements for the city of Jerusalem, international telecommunications law and regional free trade zones.
Deborah Jeanne Rowe Deborah Jeanne Rowe (born 6 December 1958) was the dermatologist's nurse who married singer Michael Jackson, and bore two children for him: son Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr. (who publicly goes by the name "Prince"), and a daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.
Deborah Lipp Deborah Lipp is Wiccan High Priestess of the Gardnerian Tradition and an American author. She was initiated into a traditional Gardnerian coven of Witches in 1981, became a Wiccan High Priestess in 1986, and has been teaching Wicca and running Pagan circles ever since.
Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947, New York City) is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.
Deborah Lynn Steinberg Deborah Lynn Steinberg is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She has a BA in Women's Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from the University of Kent, England, and a PhD from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), University of Birmingham, England.
Deborah Mailman Deborah Mailman (born July 14, 1972), Australian actress, was the first Aboriginal actor to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and played the character "Kelly" on successful Australian television series, The Secret Life Of Us.
Deborah McGuinness Deborah Louise McGuinness is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust. She is the co-director and senior research scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.
Deborah Meier Deborah Meier (1931– ) is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement. After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, in 1974 Meier became the founder and director of the alternative Central Park East school, which embraced progressive ideals in the tradition of John Dewey in an effort to provide better education for "inner-city" children in East Harlem, within the New York City public school system.
Deborah number The Deborah number is a dimensionless number, used in rheology to characterize how "fluid" a material is. Even some apparent solids "flow" if they are observed long enough; the origin of the name is the line "The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah recorded in the Bible (Judges 5:5).
Deborah Ombres Deborah Ombres (born Javier DĂaz, Valladolid, Spain 1976) is a drag queen, conductor and actor. DĂaz moved to Madrid to study theatre, dance and martial arts, and started working in theatres with Mamá, quiero ser drágstica (Mummy, I want to be a drag queen) before starting to work for the Spanish division of MTV, MTV Spain in MTV Hot.
Deborah Ryan Deborah Ryan is an American actress who appeared in a number of television shows and movies during the late 1970s through the early 1980s. She had a starring role in the 1978 TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
Deborah S. Jin Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado.
Deborah Sampson Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 18, 1827) was the first known American woman to impersonate a man, to join the army and take part in combat. She was born in Plymouth County, Massachusetts in the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, the eldest of 7 children born to Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson.
Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon is a journalist and cultural critic with a weekly Q & A column in The New York Times Magazine. She was born in New York City on August 9, 1957, and was educated at Cornell University, where she majored in art history.
Deborah Spungen Deborah Spungen is the mother of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of punk rocker Sid Vicious who was reputedly murdered by him. Deborah Spungen recounts her life with her daughter in her autobiography "And I Don't Want to Live this Life".
Deborah T. Poritz Deborah Tobias Poritz (October 26, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) was the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1996 to 2006, and was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 – 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position.
Deborah Voigt Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American opera singer. She is most famous for her interpretations of the Strauss and Wagner roles, including Isolde, Sieglinde, Elsa, Elisabeth, Senta, Ariadne, Chrysothemis, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Salome, Helen of Troy, Marie in Friedenstag, and the Marschallin.
Deborah Watling Deborah Watling (born 2 January 1948, Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire) is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who. She also starred in Alice, Dennis Potter's version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand in 1965 and in the series Danger UXB in 1979.
Deborah Wiles Deborah Wiles is the Author of Each Little Bird that Sings,award winning Love, Ruby Lavender. She was born in Alabama but grew up summers in Mississippi where she learned a few things about The families living there.
Debra Byrd Debra Byrd (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer, musical theater actress, and author who is most notable as the head vocal coach on American Idol and Canadian Idol and also sings backup for the Idol contestants. She has starred in musical films and several Broadway musicals.
Debra Fischer Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. Fischer has co-authored over 80 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighbourhood, including many on extrasolar planets.
Debra Lafave Debra Jean Beasley (born August 28, 1980) is a former reading teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida when she was charged with several counts of having illegal sex with a minor in 2005.
Debra Mailman 'Debra Mailman is the first Australian actress of Aboriginal descent to win AFI's Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Nona in the film Radiance. She also won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Performance for the same role.
Debra Miceli Debra Ann Miceli (born February 6, 1963 in Milan, Italy) better known as Madusa (shorthand for Made in the USA) or Alundra Blayze, is a former professional wrestler for WCW and WWF. She has also recently driven the Madusa monster truck for Clear Channel Communications on Monster Jam, and will drive a truck of the same name for Team Bigfoot beginning in 2007.
Debra Morgan (Dexter character) Deborah "Debra" Morgan, Dexter's foster sister, is a vice cop desperate to be transferred to Homicide, a goal she accomplishes in the 2nd episode. Deb is smart, but unsure of herself, and so relies on Dexter's "expertise" to solve difficult cases.
Debra Ruh Debra Ruh (1958-present) is an advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities. She is President and CEO of TecAccess, LLC, an internationally renowned consulting firm focused on accessibility of information technology products.
Debra Shipley Debra Ann Shipley (born 22 June 1957) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Labour Party member of Parliament for Stourbridge from 1997 until the 2005 general election, when she stood down for reasons of ill health on 11 April.
Debra Whitman Debra Whitman was a fictional character from the Spider-Man universe, and a brief love interest of Peter Parker in the Spectacular Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man comic titles in the late 70s and early 80s. She is perhaps better remembered for her role in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
Debra Wurzburger Debra ("Debby") Joanne Wurzburger (born December 12, 1969 in Burlington, Ontario) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she finished in ninth position in her only start, the 800m Freestyle.
Debralee Scott Debralee Scott (April 2, 1953 – April 5, 2005) was an American actress best known for her role on the soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as the title character's trampy younger and prettier sister, "Cathy Shumway". Scott was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was born, and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a cheerleader.
Debre Berhan Debre Berhan (also spelled Debre Birhan) is a city and woreda in central Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, about 120 kilometers north east of Addis Ababa on the paved highway to Dessie, the town has a latitude and longitude of .
Debre Damo Debre Damo is the name of a mountain and a 6th century monastery in northern Ethiopia, lying west of Adigrat in the region of Tigray. Thomas Pakenham records a tradition that Dabra Damo had also once been a royal prison for heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia, like the better known Wehni and Amba Geshen.
Debre Sina (woreda) Debre Sina is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Debre Sina is bordered on the south by Wegde, on the west by the Abbay River which separates it from the Misraq Gojjam Zone, on the north by Sayint, and on the east by Legambo.
Debre Sina Monastery (Eritrea) Debra Sina is a village in the highlands of Eritrea that is the site of a pilgrimage by thousands of Eritrean Orthodox believers each year in June. The pilgrimage centres on a church above the village where a vision of Mary, Mother of Jesus was said to have been seen by shepherd girls beneath a large boulder.
Debre Tabor Debre Tabor is a town and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, about 100 kilometers southeast of Gondar and 50 kilometers east of Lake Tana, this historic town has a latitude and longitude of .
Debrecen University Anatomy Scandal The Debrecen University Anatomy Scandal is an academic dispute regarding Medical students at University of Debrecen accessing the dissecting rooms of the Anatomy department illigaly, smuggling body parts out to their dorms and private residences -for some extracurricular study- with the help of a few officials.The Medical Faculty of Debrecen University came under harsh criticism after Debrecen university anatomy scandal on April 2005, soon followed by reactions from Hungarian and Norwegian officials and several investigations.
Debrett's Debrett’s is a specialist publisher, founded in 1769 with the publication of the first edition of The New Peerage. This genealogical guide to the British aristocracy evolved into a keystone of British society and is published today under the name Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage, a book which includes a short history of the family of each titleholder.
Debridement Debridement is a medical term referring to the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Often this removal is surgical, but other methods exist: mechanical, chemical, autolytic, and even maggot therapy, where certain species of live maggots selectively eat only necrotic tissue.
Debriefing A debriefing or psychological debriefing is a one-time, semi-structured conversation with an individual who has just experienced a stressful or traumatic event. In most cases, the purpose of debriefing is to reduce any possibility of psychological harm by informing people about their experience or allowing them to talk about it.
Debris disk Debris disk is a ring-shaped circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star. Debris disks have been found around both evolved and young stars, as well as at least one debris disk in orbit around a neutron star.
Debrune The Debrune were a civilisation in the fictional Star Trek universe, that had become extinct long before the events depicted in the various Star Trek series. The Debrune were an ancient offshoot of the Vulcans and, possessed the capability for interstellar travel.
Debs Garms Debs Garms (June 26, 1907 in Bangs, Texas - December 16, 1984 in Glen Rose, Texas) was a professional baseball player who played twelve seasons as an outfielder and third baseman for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and St.
Debs Tendency The Debs Tendency (DT) is a left-wing political tendency in the Socialist Party USA (SP USA). The primary goal of the DT is the development of the SP as a revolutionary democratic socialist political party of the working class.
Debsirindra Queen Debsirindra(Thai:สมเด็ŕ¸ŕ¸žŕ¸Łŕ¸°ŕą€ŕ¸—พศิรินทราบรมราชินี)(17 July 1834-9 September 1861)She was the granddaughter of King Rama III. Her given name is Princess Ramboei(หมŕąŕ¸ŕ¸ˇŕą€ŕ¸ŕą‰ŕ¸˛ŕ¸«ŕ¸Ťŕ¸´ŕ¸‡ŕ¸Łŕ¸łŕą€ŕ¸žŕ¸˘).
Debswana Debswana Diamond Company Ltd, or simply Debswana, is a mining company located in Botswana, and is the world's leading producer of diamonds by value. Debswana is a joint venture between the government of Botswana and the South African diamond company De Beers; each party owns 50 percent of the company.
Debt Debt is that which is owed; usually referencing assets owed, but the term can cover other obligations. In the case of assets, debt is a means of using future purchasing power in the present before a summation has been earned.
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