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Debt arbitration Debt Arbitration is the industry created around the practice of debt settlement. Debt arbitrators are third-party institutions that work on behalf of their clients to negotiate out-of-court settlements for old bills, invoices, lawsuits, liens, medical bills, utility bills, judgements, and other types of significant debt.
Debt buyer A Debt Buyer is a term used to describe a company that purchases delinquent debts from a creditor for a fraction of the face value of the debt. The debt buyer then either attempts to collect the debt on its own or uses the services of a collection agency.
Debt cash flow Debt Cash Flow is a finance term describing a firm's non-Equity cash flows. Theoretically, adding the discounted Debt Cash Flow to the discounted Flows to equity (also known as Equity Cash Flows) will give the firm's Enterprise Value.
Debt compliance In finance, the term Debt compliance describes various legal measures taken to ensure that creditors, whether individuals, businesses, or governments, honor their debts and make an honest effort to repay them. Generally regarded as a subdivision of tax law, debt compliance is most often enforced through a combination of audits and legal restrictions.
Debt coverage ratio Debt Coverage Ratio, also known as the debt service coverage ratio, is a popular benchmark used in the measurement of an income-producing property’s ability to produce enough revenue to cover its monthly mortgage payments. To calculate a property’s debt coverage ratio, you first need to determine the property’s net operating income.
Debt Diet The Debt Diet refers to a debt management plan made popular by a multi-part series for The Oprah Winfrey Show, first airing on February 17, 2006. In the series, Oprah Winfrey teamed up with three financial experts to create a step-by-step plan demonstrating how to get out of debt.
Debt management plan A Debt Management Plan (DMP) is a method used in the United States and elsewhere for paying personal debts (which typically have gotten out of control in the sense of payments due taking too large a portion of income, or even exceeding it) that involves cataloguing all the debts, assessing income and budget, and re-negotiating interest rates and payments with the lenders, based upon evidence that the result will be a higher liklihood of collection by the lenders. The simplest form of such a plan is done by creating a budget for paying debts, and then paying all the minimum payments on time from the fund created by the budget, using all extra funds each month to make pre-payments on the highest-interest debt first (assuming no pre-payment penalty exists), not taking on new debt until all the debt is paid.
Debt negotiation Debt Negotiation is the process of negotiating with a creditor to pay off a percentage of a balance owed on old bills, invoices, lawsuits, liens, medical bills, utility bills, and judgments. This process is commonly used in debt settlement and debt arbitration.
Debt relief Debt relief is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations. It concerns in particular the Third World debt, which started exploding with the Latin American debt crisis (Mexico 1982, etc.
Debt service coverage ratio The debt service coverage ratio, or debt service ratio, is the ratio of net operating income to debt payments on a piece of investment real estate. The higher this ratio is, the easier it is to borrow money for the property.
Debt to capital ratio The Debt to Capital Ratio (D/C ratio) shows the proportion of a company's debt to its total capital, which consists of the sum of its debt and equity combined. For example, if a company uses $25 debt and $75 in equity, the total capital of the company is $100, and the debt-to-capital ratio would be 25%.
Debt validation Debt Validation, or "debt verification", refers to a consumer's right to challenge a debt and/or receive written verification of a debt from a debt collector. The right to dispute the debt and receive validation are part of the consumer's rights under the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and are set out in §809 [] of that act.
Debt wall Hitting the debt wall is a dire financial situation that can occur when a nation depends on foreign debt and/or investment to subsidize their budget and then commercial deficits stop being the recipient of foreign capital flows. The lack of foreign capital flows reduces the demand for the local currency.
Debt-for-nature+swaps Debt for nature swaps are tools used to encourage natural area preservation in third world countries while assisting the country economically as well: in exchange for setting aside land, some of the country's foreign debt is forgiven.
Debt-snowball method The debt-snowball method of debt repayment is a form of debt management that is most often applied to repaying revolving credit — such as credit cards. This method has gained more recognition recently due to the fact that it is the primary debt-reduction method taught by Dave Ramsey.
Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa (or DATA) is a multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign.
Debtor in possession A debtor in possession, in United States bankruptcy law, is a person who has filed a bankruptcy petition, but remains in possession of property upon which a creditor has a lien or similar security interest. Under certain circumstances, the debtor in possession may be able to keep the property by paying the creditor the fair market value, as opposed to the contract price.
Debtors Anonymous Debtors Anonymous is an international organization of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other to solve their common problem and help others to recover from the disease of compulsive debting. Debtors Anonymous is based on the Alcoholics Anonymous model which brings together people with similar addictive behaviors and uses as its structure the practice of the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions.
Debub Gondar Zone Debub Gondar (or "South Gondar") is a Zone in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. This zone is named for the city of Gondar, which was the capital of Ethiopia until the mid-19th century, and has often been used as a name for the local province.
Debub Omo Zone Debub Omo (or "South Omo") is a Zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR). Debub Omo is bordered on the south by Kenya, on the southwest by the Ilemi Triangle, on the west by Bench Maji, on the northwest by Keficho Shekicho, on the north by Semien Omo, on the northeast by the Dirashe and Konso Special Woredas, and on the east by the Oromia Region.
Debubawi Zone Debubawi (or "Southern") is one of four Zones in the Ethiopian Region of Tigray. Debubawi is bordered on the south and west by the Amhara Region, on the northwest by Mehakelegnaw (Central), the north by Misraqawi (Eastern) and on the east by the Afar Region.
Debug menu A debug menu is a section of a game that game developers use for testing a game and that can usually allow one to do actions unavailable in the actual game. Debug menus that have been left on a game's data are normally only able to be found using hacking devices such as the Action Replay or GameShark, but some may be found through glitches in the game or through cheat codes.
Debug new Debug_new refers to a technique in C++ to overload and/or redefine operator new and operator delete in order to intercept and memory allocation and deallocation calls, and thus debug a program for memory usage. It often involves defining a macro named DEBUG_NEW, and makes new become something like new(__FILE__, __LINE__) to record the file/line information on allocation.
Debug room A debug room is a location in a computer game, structured like other rooms in the game, within which game-playing actions can be used to set options, pick characters and items, and control other aspects of game play. It is not intended to be accessible to players within the game, but only to programmers or play-testers debugging the game.
Debug Symbols Debug symbols are additional information compiled into a binary by a compiler. They enable a developer using a debugger to gain additional information about the binary, such as the names of variables and routines from the original source code.
DebugDiag DebugDiag is a diagnostic tool designed to help troubleshoot performance issues with Internet Information Services (IIS). Even though the tool was designed with troubleshooting IIS in mind, it can be used to identify performance issues for any process.
Debugger A debugger is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs. The code to be examined might alternatively be running on an instruction set simulator (ISS), a technique that allows great power in its ability to halt when specific conditions are encountered but which will typically be much slower than executing the code directly on the appropriate processor.
Debugger front-end In computer programming, some of the most capable and popular debugger programs implement only a simple command line interface (CLI) — often to maximize portability and minimize resource consumption. However, many programmers find that debugging via a graphical user interface (GUI) is easier and more productive.
Debugging Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. Debugging tends to be harder when various subsystems are tightly coupled, as changes in one may cause bugs to emerge in another.
Debulking Debulking is the surgical removal of part of a malignant tumour which cannot be completely excised, so as to enhance the effectiveness of radiation or chemotherapy. It is used only in specific malignancies, as generally partial removal of a tumor is not considered a worthwhile intervention.
Debunker Debunkers are scientific skeptics who attempt to disprove and pursue what they consider to be false, unscientific, bizarre or abnormal claims. The ultimate intent of the debunking, according to some, is conclusively to disprove the validity of an event, theory, and/or phenomenon by exposing it as nonsense.
Debut (Hellven album) Debut is an album of 7 conceptual tracks by the members of the fifth incarnation of netlabel Hellven. The collective having been dormant for years, this was the first release from Hellven under their most recent lineup of artists and its expansion outside of demoscene music.
Debut album (Expatriate album) The as yet untitled second album by Sydney-based Australian indie rock band Expatriate is currently in post-production. The band had previously revealed on MySpace that they hope to have the album released by February 2007 "Play A Part" will be the lead single.
Debut Records Debut Records is a United States jazz record label, which was founded in 1952 by bassist Charles Mingus, his then-wife Celia and drummer Max Roach. This short-lived label was an attempt to avoid the compromises of working for major companies.
Debutante A debutante (or deb) (French word for "female beginner") is a young lady from an aristocratic or upper class family who has reached the age of maturity, and as a new adult, is introduced to society at a formal presentation known as her "debut" or "coming out." Originally, it meant the young woman was eligible for marriage, and part of the purpose was to display her to eligible bachelors and their families with a view to marriage within a select upper class circle.
Debye frequency The debye frequency of a crystal is the theoretical maximum frequency of vibration for the atoms that make up the crystal It was proposed by Peter Debye] as part of the [[Debye model. It plays a role in the computation of the specific heat capacity of solids and in theoretical estimates of rates of diffusion.
Debye model In thermodynamics and solid state physics, the Debye model is a method developed by Peter Debye in 1912'Zur Theorie der spezifischen Warmen', Annalen der Physik 39(4), p. 789 (1912) for estimating the phonon contribution to the specific heat (heat capacity) in a solid.
Debye relaxation Debye relaxation is the dielectric relaxation response of an ideal, noninteracting population of dipoles to an alternating external electric field. It is usually expressed in the complex permittivity varepsilon of a medium as a function of the field's frequency omega:
Debye sheath The Debye sheath (also electrostatic sheath) is a layer in a plasma which has a greater density of positive ions, and hence an overall excess positive charge, that balance an opposite negative charge in the surface of a material in which it is in contact. The thickness of such a layer is several Debye lengths thick, a value whose size depends on various characteristics of plasma (eg.
Debye-HĂĽckel equation The Debye-HĂĽckel equation, named for its developers Peter Debye and Erich HĂĽckel, provides one way to obtain activity coefficients . Activities, rather than concentrations, are needed in many chemical calculations because solutions that contain ionic solutes do not behave as ideal solution even at very low concentrations.
Debye-Waller factor The Debye-Waller factor, also known as the B factor or the temperature factor describes the decrease in scattering intensity (either from x-ray or neutron scattering) due to the thermal motion of the atoms, or due to crystal disorder. The thermal motion, or disorder, in some sense reduces the validity of the Laue diffraction condition which is based on fixed atoms.
DeBarge DeBarge was an American R&B and soul music group. Hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the group is named for their shared surname, and included the brothers Mark, James, Randy, and Eldra (or "El"), and their sister Bunny.
DeBence Antique Music World DeBence Antique Music World is a museum in Franklin, Pennsylvania whose collection contains more than 100 antique mechanical musical instruments, including music boxes, calliopes, player pianos, and automated brass bands that date from the mid-1800s to the 1940s; as well as a number of other antiques. Many of the collection's mechanical instruments are rare; a number are among only a few manufactured, and a few are among the last in existence.
DeBow's Review DeBow's Review was a widely circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the American South during the middle of the 19th century. It bore the name of its first editor, James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow.
Decacarbonyldihydridotriosmium Decacarbonyldihydridotriosmium is a chemical compound with the formula H2Os3(CO)10. This purple-violet crystalline air-stable cluster is notworthy because it is electronically unsaturated and hence adds a variety of substrates.
Decad The number ten or decad was not considered a number by the Pythagoreans, it was seen as an "assembly point" and a symbol of earth and heaven. Hemenway, Priya – Divine Proportion, Sterling Publishing, ISBN 1-4027-3522-7
Decade A decade is a set or a group of ten, commonly a period of 10 years in contemporary English, or a period of 10 days in the French revolutionary calendar. The word is derived from the late Latin "decas", from Greek "dekas*, from deka.
Decade (disambiguation) A decade is a period of ten days, or in contemporary English, a period ten years. The French Republican Calendar also used the word "decade", designating a period of ten days in order to replace the biblical week of seven days.
Decade (log scale) One decade is a factor of 10 difference between two numbers. It is a useful concept in logarithmic scale graphical representations, especially of frequencies; and when describing frequency response of electronic systems, such as audio amplifiers and filters.
Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World On 10 November 1998, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. (Resolution A/RES/53/25)
Decade nostalgia Decade nostalgia, the feeling of nostalgia for certain aspects of a past decade, is common in contemporary popular culture. This article mainly considers the phenomenon in modern US culture, where it is largely focused on the period from the 1950s to 1980s, a time of relative peace and prosperity and
Decade of Roma Inclusion The Decade of Roma Inclusion is an initiative of nine Central and Southeastern European countries to improve the socio-economic status and social inclusion of the Roma (gypsy) minority across the region. The initiative was launched in 2005, with the Decade of Roma Inclusion running from 2005 to 2015, and represents the first multinational project in Europe to actively enhance the lives of Roma.
Decade Volcanoes The Decade Volcanoes are 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas. The Decade Volcanoes project encourages studies and public-awareness activities at these volcanoes, with the aim of achieving a better understanding of the volcanoes and the dangers they present, and thus being able to reduce the severity of natural disasters.
Decade: Ten Years of Fierce Panda Decade: Ten Years of Fierce Panda (released 1 March 2004) is a compilation album released by Fierce Panda Records. The album celebrates the label's tenth anniverary, and features some of their best known artists.
Decadence Decadence generally refers to the alleged decline of a society because of moral weakness. The classic example of this is ancient Rome, where, the story has it, a great empire was laid low by wicked emperors like Nero.
Decadent & Desperate (song) Decadent & Desperate is the second single released by Norwegian industrial-rock solo artist, Mortiis from the album The Grudge. It includes the previously unreleased track Underdog, along with various remixes and live songs not taken from the album.
Decadent movement In 19th century European and especially French literature, decadence was the name given, first by hostile critics, and then triumphantly adopted by some writers themselves, to a number of late nineteenth century fin de siècle writers who were associated with Symbolism or the Aesthetic movement and who relished artifice over the earlier Romantics' naïve view of nature (see Rousseau). Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
Decades Rock Live VH1 Classic Decades Rock Live features performances by celebrated artists from rock to soul who have influenced popular music over the last 50 years, as well as performances from some of today’s hottest recording acts who have been inspired by these legends. Each one-hour episode pays tribute to a specific artist.
Decagon In geometry, a decagon is any polygon with ten sides and ten angles, and usually refers to a regular decagon, having all sides of equal length and all angles equal to 144°, therefore making each angle of a regular decagon be 144°. Its Schläfli symbol is {10}.
Decal A decal or transfer is a plastic, cloth or paper substrate that has printed on it a pattern that can be moved to another surface upon contact, usually with the aid of heat or water. The word is short for "decalcomania.
Decal (software) Decal is a plugin architecture for creating and running third-party tools for use with Asheron's Call. It provides a variety of Application Programming Interfaces for programmers to use to create plugins that can interact directly with Asheron's Call, expanding the functionality of the game.
Decalcomania Decalcomania, or décalcomanie, a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to other materials, was invented in Russia and introduced into the United States at least as early as 1868.
Decans The Decans (also bakiu (Egyptian), dekanoi (Greek), drekkana (Sanskrit) ) are a way of grouping stars or reckoning time that originated in Ancient Egypt. Such stars, comprising 36 'constellations' are parallel to the ecliptic and 'co-rise' with the constellations of the zodiacal belt.
Decantation Decantation is a process for the separation of mixtures, carefully pouring a solution from a container, leaving the precipitate (sediments) in the bottom of the container. Usually a small amount of solution must be left in the container, and care must be taken to prevent a small amount of precipitate from flowing with the solution out of the container.
Decanter A decanter is a vessel used for holding the results of decantation, in which liquid from another vessel is poured into the decanter in order to separate a small volume of liquid containing sediment, such as wine, from a larger volume of "clear" liquid, which hopefully contains no sediment. In the process, the sediment is left in the original vessel, and the clear liquid is transferred to the decanter.
Decapacitation factors, spermatozoa Decapicitization factor (DF) is composed of factors in seminal plasma which modulates the fertilizing ability of spermatozoa. The activity is achieved by interaction between cholesterol, phospholipids and fibronectin-like substances and delivered via sall vesicles in seminal plasma.
Decapentaplegic Decapentaplegic refers to the 15 (decapenta-) major imaginal discs present in Drosophila melanogaster larvae and to the usually fatal consequences of allelic mutations in the genetic locus that governs the development of these disks into their respective body parts (-plegic, "paralysis"); as such, it is a morphogen. As such, it is the name is used for the entire decapentaplegic gene complex in the Drosophila melanogaster genome (e.
Decapitation (cricket) Decapitation is a strategy in the sport of cricket. It involves the deliberate and systematic targeting of the opposing team's captain, in the hope that if the captain is given out (in the case of a batsman) or rendered ineffective (in the case of a bowler), it would lead to diminished respect for the captain's authority and the rest of their team losing morale and the will to win.
Decapitation strike In the theory of nuclear warfare, a decapitation strike is a first strike attack that aims to remove the command and control mechanisms of the opponent, in the hope that it will severely degrade or destroy its capacity for nuclear retaliation.
Decapod anatomy The body of a decapod crustacean, such as a crab, lobster, or prawn, is made up of nineteen body segments grouped into two main body parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Each segment may possess one pair of appendages, although in various groups these may be reduced or missing.
Decapodian The Decapodians are a fictional race of humanoid, lobster-like aliens, who speak with a Yiddish accent, from the animated television show Futurama. The Decapodians are natives of the planet Decapod 10 (literally meaning "10-legged 10") that made contact with Earth in the 23rd century.
Decapolis The Decapolis (Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea (renamed Palestine in 135 AD). The ten cities were not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status.
Decarabia In demonology, Decarabia (also called Carabia) is a demon and, according to The Lesser Key of Solomon, a Great Marquis of Hell, although he has no title in the hellish hierarchy given by Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. He has thirty legions of demons under his command.
Decarburization Decarburization is the process opposite to carburization, namely aimed at decreasing the content of carbon in metals (usually steel). Higher grade steel is achieved when carbon content of a steel melt is decreased
Decartelization Decartelization is the transition of a national economy from monopoly control by groups of large businesses, known as cartels, to a free market economy. This change rarely arises naturally, and is generally the result of regulation by a governing body.
Decasyllable Decasyllable verse or meter (in Italian decasillabo) is a kind of verse used mostly in epic poetry of the Southern Slavs (for example Serbian epic poetry sung to the gusle instrument). Each verse has exactly ten syllables (and the literal meaning of the word is just "of ten syllables").
Decatur Commodores The Decatur Commodores were a professional minor league baseball team based in Decatur, Illinois. They played, with sporadic interruptions, from 1900 to 1974 in a variety of minor leagues, but spent the majority of their existence in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League (the "Three-I" League) and after that league's demise they joined the Midwest League.
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Decatur High School (Washington) Decatur High School is a high school (grades 9-12) located in the Federal Way School District, with an enrollment of about 1600 students. The school was built in 1976, renovated in 1987, then again remodelled in 2002.
Decatur Metropolitan Area The Decatur Metropolitan Area is a moderately urban region of North-Central Alabama. The 2004 estimate population is 149, 629, one third of which resides within the boundaries of its core city, Decatur, Alabama.
Decatur Township, Marion County, Indiana Decatur Township is the smallest in geographic size and in population of the nine townships in Marion County, Indiana. Located on the southwest corner of the county, the township will soon be the home of the new Indianapolis International Airport main terminal.
Decauville Paul Decauville (1846-1922) was a French pioneer in light railways. His major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily.
Decay heat Decay heat is the heat] released as a result of [[radioactive decay. This is when the radiation interacts with materials and the energy of the alpha, beta or gamma radiation is converted into the thermal movement of atoms.
Decay product In nuclear physics, a decay product, also known as a daughter product, daughter isotope or daughter nuclide, is a nuclide resulting from the radioactive decay of a parent isotope or precursor nuclide. The daughter product may be stable or it may decay to form a daughter product of its own.
Decca Navigator System The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic low frequency radio navigation system (also known as multilateration) that was first deployed during World War II when the Allied forces needed a system which could be used to achieve accurate landings. As was the case with Loran C, its primary use was for ship navigation in coastal waters.
Decca Radar The Decca Company, a British gramophone manufacturer that, as Decca Records, released records under the Decca label, contributed to the British war effort during the Second World War. This military engineering activity resulted in a number of commercial ventures after the war, in particular the Decca Navigator System, and the Decca Radar company.
Deccan Herald The Deccan Herald is the largest English-language daily newspaper in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is published by the Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and has a number of editions in Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga.
Deccan Odyssey The Deccan Odyssey is a special train modelled on the Palace on Wheels to boost tourism on the Konkan route. The route starts in Mumbai (Bombay) and travels to Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Goa, Kolhapur, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Ajanta-Ellora, and then back to Mumbai.
Deccan Plateau The Deccan Plateau (Hindi: डेक्कन, दक्शिण), is an elevated area making up the whole of the southern India tableland and extenting over eight states. It is a vast plateau lying east of the Western Ghats, encompassing most of Central and Southern India.
Deccan Queen The Deccan Queen, also called dakhkhanchii raaNii (दख्खनची राणी) in Marathi, is an Indian passenger train that connects Mumbai with Pune. It is a daily means of transport for thousands of passengers travelling between the two cities.
Deccan sultanates The Deccan sultanates were five Muslim-ruled kingdoms–-Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmednagar, Bidar, and Berar of south-central India. The Deccan sultanates were located on the Deccan Plateau, between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range.
Deccan States Agency The Deccan States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, and was composed of a number of princely states in western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Deccan thorn scrub forests The Deccan thorn scrub forests is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of India and northernmost Sri Lanka. It covers the arid portions of the Deccan Plateau, extending across the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu to the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
Deccan Traps The Deccan Traps is a large igneous province located on the Deccan Plateau of west-central India and is one of the largest volcanic features on Earth. It consists of multiple layers of solidified flood basalt that together are more than 2,000 m thick and cover an area of 500,000 km².
Deceangli The Deceangli or Deceangi were one of the Celtic tribes living in the British Isles, prior to the Roman invasion of Britain. The tribe lived in north Wales, though it is uncertain whether their territory covered only the modern counties of Flintshire and Denbighshire in the north-east of Wales or whether it extended further west.
Deceased (band) Deceased is a death metal band from Virginia. Founded in 1984, the first band to sign to Relapse Records, they released four full albums through the label, along with a number of EPs, demos and re-releases of early demos.
Decelea Decelea (Greek: Δεκέλεια), modern Dekeleia or Dekelia, Deceleia or Decelia, previous name Tatoi was a previous source of supplies and trade route from Euboea for Athens. The Spartans had taken control of Decelea in the early 410's.
Deceleron A deceleron is a type of aileron, developed in the late 1940s by Northrop originally for use on the F-89 Scorpion fighter aircraft. It is a two-part aileron that can be deflected as a unit to provide roll control, or split open to act as an air brake.
December 2001 riots (Argentina) The December 2001 riots were a period of civil unrest and rioting in Argentina, which took place during December 2001, with the most violent incidents taking place on December 19 and December 20 in the capital, Buenos Aires.
December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong On December 4, 2005, tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protested for democracy and called on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage. The protesters demanded the right to directly elect the Chief Executive and all the seats of the Legislative Council.

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