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DesignbuildBluff * DesignBuildBluff is a community of students, from the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah, that gather in Bluff, Utah for the Spring semester. A house is designed and built by this group of young aspiring architects for a family on the Navajo Reservation in the four corners area of South West United States.
Designed to Sell Designed to Sell is an HGTV American reality television show focused on the fixing up an renovation of a home that is about to go on the market. The show is one half hour long and is produced by Pietown Productions.
Designer Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. That usually implies the task of creating or of being creative in a particular area of expertise. It is frequently used to reference someone who draws or in some ways uses visual cues to organize their work. Designers are usually responsible for making a model that takes into consideration each step in a product's development, including not only how a product will be used but also how it will be made.
Designer baby The colloquial term "designer baby" has been used in popular scientific and bioethics literature to specify a child whose hereditary makeup (genotype) would be, using various reproductive and genetic technologies, purposefully selected ("designed") to be the optimal recombination of their parents' genetic material. The term is usually used pejoratively to signal opposition to such use of human biotechnologies.
Designer clothing Designer clothing are items of clothing made by fashion designers such as Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, Gucci, Juicy Couture, Hudson, Seven for All Mankind, True Religion, Ed Hardy, Grail etc. 99 % of these designers are men.
Designer drug Designer drug is a term used to describe psychoactive drugs which are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws by modifying their molecular structures to varying degrees.
Designer Guys Designer Guys is a design show on HGTV Canada starring Matt Davis, Allen Chan, and Anwar Mukhayesh. The show currently airs in 5 countries including New Zeland, South Africa, Israel, US (on HGTV US), and Canada.
Designer jeans Designer jeans are jeans that were marketed as fashion and status symbols. The Nakash brothers (Joe, Ralph and Avi Nakash) are generally credited with starting the trend when they launched their Jordache line of jeans in 1978.
Designer label The term designer label refers to clothing and other personal accessory items sold under an often prestigious marquee which is commonly named after a designer. The term is most often only applied to luxury items.
Designer toys Designer toys is a term used to describe toys and other collectables that are produced in limited editions (as few as 50 or as many as 2000 pieces) and created by artists and designers. Designer toys employ a variety of materials; plastic and vinyl are most common, although wood and metal are occasionally used.
DesignHazard designHazard is a multi-disciplinary design firm that covers from architecture to graphic design, from software architecture to information architecture. It is known for the interface and graphic designs for software such as the popular skinnable IM client Trillian and Shareaza.
Designing Social Inquiry Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research is a 1994 book written by Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba that lays out guidelines for conducting qualitative research. The central thesis of the book is that qualitative and quantitative research share the same "logic of inference" (p.
Designs in Machine Embroidery Designs in Machine Embroidery is a magazine dedicated to machine embroidery, featuring articles on how to use an embroidery machine and the related software. Also included are designs for quilts, crafts, wearables and home decor projects.
Desimal Desimal was the moniker of Canadian drum and bass producer Graham March. Creating a highly unique style of neurofunk, his work was signed to a number of important drum and bass labels, including Black Sun Empire, Barcode, Citrus, and Renegade Hardware.
Desinicization Desinicization (, de + sinicization, meaning "making non-Chinese") is a term which appeared in the political vocabulary of the Republic of China on Taiwan in 2001. It is mainly used by groups which support Chinese reunification to describe what they are opposed to, and to distinguish it from the Taiwanese localization movement.
Desirée Goyette Desirée Goyette is an accomplished singer, composer, lyricist and voice-over artist. She has been nominated for two Grammys and has voiced such characters as Betty Boop, Barbie, Nermal, Petunia Pig, Honey Bunny and numerous others for radio, television and toys.
Desirée Sparre-Enger Desirée Sparre-Enger, also known as Bambee, is a Norwegian pop singer. She uses the name Bambee as a reference to her eyes, comparable to those of a deer - originally, she considered using the name Bambi but changed the spelling to avoid copyright issues.
Desire (Do As Infinity song) "Desire" is the seventh single of Do As Infinity, released in 2001. Desire and CARNAVAL are almost the same songs but CARNAVAL was meant to be written in a male perspective while Desire described a female perspective in the lyrics.
Desire (Pharoahe Monch album) Desire is the title of the upcoming sophomore album from Hip Hop artist Pharoahe Monch, set for release in late January or early February 2007. The album comes seven years after the rapper's critically acclaimed solo debut Internal Affairs, which followed the break-up of Monch's former group Organized Konfusion.
Desire (Talk Talk song) "Desire" was the third song on Talk Talk's 1988 album Spirit of Eden. Note that in European versions of the album it was combined as one track with the previous two songs, "The Rainbow" and "Eden".
Desire Projects The Desire Projects, located in New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward, is one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans. Historically one of the city's most crime-ridden areas, a renovation and other efforts drastically reduced the crime occurring among the complex's 660 residents.
Desireé Cousteau Desireé Cousteau (born Deborah Clearbranch in 1956 in Savannah, Georgia, USA) was a porn star of the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her roles in the 1978 film Pretty Peaches and 1979's Inside Desireé Cousteau.
Desired Life Ministries Desired Life Ministries (DLM), is an evangelical Christian 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States. The organization describes itself as "teaching men and women what their spiritual lives have to do with the rest of their lives".
Desiree del Valle Desirée Lois del Valle Dunham, better known by her screen name Desiree del Valle (born May 28, 1982 in the Philippines), is a Filipina actress. Controversy struck when she married her ex-lesbian lover in Las Vegas, USA.
Desiree Dominguez Desiree Dominguez was born in Los Angeles, CA, the 1st child of Gustavo "Gus" and Delia Dominguez. Her exact birthdate is a matter of dispute, but most historians agree that she was born at some point between 1870 and 1985.
Desiree Washington Desiree Washington (born 1973), a native of Coventry, Rhode Island, was an eighteen-year-old Miss Black America beauty pageant contestant representing her home state of Rhode Island when she accused boxer Mike Tyson of raping her in an Indianapolis hotel room on July 19, 1991.
Desireless Desireless (born 25 December, 1952, as Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop) is a French singer. Between 1986 and 1988, her hit song "Voyage Voyage" made it to number one in many European and Asian single charts and sold over five million copies.
Desiring-production Desiring-production is a term coined by the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari in their book Anti-Ĺ’dipus (1972). They oppose the Freudian conception of unconsciousness as a "theater", instead favoring a "factory" model: desire is not an imaginary force based on lack, but a real, productive force.
Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH is the German producer of products, mostly CNS drugs (one of the leading german antiepileptic generics mark) such as Orfiril (sodium valproate film-coated tablets, gastroresistent tablets, sustained-release tablets and extended-release granulate), Luminal (phenobarbital tablets and sodium phenobarbital injections), Lamotrigin (lamotrigine) and Timonil (carbamazepine).
Desiya Desiya was a dance/house music project fronted by DJ/remixer/producer Matthew Parkhouse from New York City and featured Melissa Yiannakou on vocals. Their 1992 #1 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play track "Comin' On Strong" is considered a classic among dance purists and was the first track to be remixed by Masters At Work.
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (in Tamil: தேசிய முற்போக்கு திராவிடக் கழகம், meaning National Progressive Dravidian Federation) is a regional political party formed by Tamil cinema actor "Captain" Vijayakanth in Tamil Nadu along the lines of the regional Dravidian political parties. He formally announced party formation on September 14, 2005 at Madurai.
Desjardins Canal The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was built to give Dundas, Ontario, easier access to Lake Ontario and the Great Lakes system of North America. Although a technological achievement and a short term commercial success, the canal was soon eclipsed by the railway and Dundas by neighbouring Hamilton.
Desk and bench A Desk and bench can be an antique or a modern form of desk combined with a small bench or a stool made in exactly the same style and material. The desk is usually not very big and meant to be placed against a wall, in a little room or a hallway.
Desk on a frame The desk on a frame (or desk on frame) is usually an antique form made up of two pieces of furniture. The first piece is a fairly large and closable portable desk with a slanted hinged top giving access to the writing surface and utility nooks and small drawers.
Desk on a chest A Desk on a chest is an antique Portable desk made up of two chests, the bottom one usually having drawers and the top one having a hinged desk surface which also serves as a side mounted lid. A Vargueno or Bargueno desk is a specific form of the "Desk on a chest" when it is mounted on a chest of drawers called a "Taquillon".
Desk research Desk Research (sometimes known as secondary data or secondary research) involves gathering data that already exists either from internal sources of the client, publications of governmental and non-governmental institutions, free access data on the internet, in professional newspapers and magazines, in annual reports of companies and commercial databases to name but a few. In many projects, carrying out an initial desk research stage is strongly recommended to gain background knowledge to a subject as well as providing useful leads that will help to get the maximum from a research budget
Desk Set Desk Set (or His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, and Dina Merrill. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the play by William Marchant.
Deskaheh Deskaheh, also known as Levi General (Grand River, Ontario, 1873 - Tuscarora Reservation, New York, 1925), was a Haudenosaunee statesman noted for his persistent efforts to get recognition for his people. Raised and educated as a traditional Cayuga, he became a Cayuga "chief" and assumed the name Deskaheh.
Deskee Deskee is a male house music act from Germany that consisted of DJ/remixer/producers Maximilian Lenz and Klaus Jankuhn (aka WestBam) with rapper Crumpley. They scored three hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: Two #1s from 1990 ("Let There Be House" and "Dance Dance") and a top 20 hit in 1991 ("Kid Get Hyped", peaking at #11).
Deskjet DeskJet is a brand name for inkjet printers manufactured by Hewlett Packard. These printers range from small domestic to large industrial models, although the largest models in the range have generally been dubbed DesignJet.
Deskman A deskman is a seemingly archaic term, referring to a journalist who performs a copy editing (also known as 'sub editing') role on newspapers or magazines. The usage is American-English (unlike the more universal copy editor and sub editor), and is cited in 'Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers' by Harold Evans, a bible for journalists.
DeskMate DeskMate was a software application that provided an operating environment that competed with early versions of Microsoft Windows. It originally was made for Tandy's TRS-DOS Operating System and for their TRS-80 line of computers, but eventually shifted to PC, where it was developed using C and Assembly.
DeskStation Tyne The DeskStation Tyne was a line of computer workstations made by DeskStation Technology and based on the MIPS R4000 and R4400 series of RISC microprocessors. The DeskStation Tyne was designed to run Windows NT, and was designed to conform to the Advanced RISC Computing standard and run the associated firmware.
Desktastic Desktastic is a utility for Mac OS X that allows the user to actually paint on the desktop or any other window, as opposed to in a standard window. It impliments a little sidebar on the screen where things like colors or tools can be chosen.
Desktop alert A Desktop Alert application enables publishers on an intranet or internet server the ability to send an alert or content directly to a computer desktop without the need for an e-mail client or web browser application. Alert software is often used as part of a mass notification system (MNS).
Desktop Developers' Conference The Desktop Developers' Conference is a Linux conference where developers discuss and work on X11, Linux desktops like GNOME and KDE, FreeDesktop.org projects, and desktop software such as web browsers, office suites, and groupware.
Desktop environment In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE, sometimes desktop manager) offers a graphical user interface (GUI) to the computer. The name is derived from the desktop metaphor used by most of these interfaces, as opposed to the earlier, textual command line interfaces (CLI).
Desktop manufacturing Desktop manufacturing or personal fabrication is the use of a personal computer to drive a printer that produces material in three dimensions. It can be used for making prototypes or objects that have limited public demand.
Desktop metaphor The desktop metaphor is a set of unifying concepts currently used in a number of graphical user interfaces in computer operating systems. The monitor of a computer represents the user's desktop upon which documents and folders of documents can be placed.
Desktop organizer Desktop Organizer software applications are applications that automatically create organizational structures from desktop content from heterogeneous types of content including email, files, contacts, companies, RSS news feeds, photos, music, and chat sessions. The organization is based on a combination of automated scanning of metadata similar to data mining and manual tagging of content.
Desktop publishing Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. Users create page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements using software such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, the free Scribus, Microsoft Publisher, or Apple Pages.
Desktop search Desktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet. The emphasis is on finding all the information that is available on the user's PC, including web browser histories, e-mail archives, and word-processor documents.
Desktop Virtualization In computing, Desktop Virtualization involves separating the physical location where the PC desktop resides from where the user is accessing the PC. A remotely accessed PC is typically either located at home, at the office or in a data center.
Desktop Window Manager The Desktop Window Manager (abbreviated DWM; previously called Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is a windowing system introduced Windows Vista that enables the Windows Aero user interface. Users will need to have a DirectX 9 capable video card to be able to use the Desktop Window Manager.
DesktopDefender2 Desktop Defender 2: Battle For Existence is a freeware shoot'em up game, where you take the command of a defence laser cannon, positioned onto the Moon's surface.Your mission is to prevent alien ships from the Black League to destroy they Earth.
DesktopX DesktopX is a shareware desktop enhancement program that allows users to build their own custom desktops with a friendly GUI. Amongst its features is a complete widget engine for Windows as well as a desktop object system.
Desmatosuchus Desmatosuchus (meaning "link crocodile") is an extinct genus of archosaur reptile belonging to the aetosaur order. It was one of the largest aetosaurs, being 5 m (17 ft) long and about 1,50 m (5 ft) high.
Desmid Desmids are an order (Desmidiales) of green algae, comprising around 40 genera and more than 10,000 species, found mostly but not exclusively in fresh water. Most are unicellular, and are divided into two compartments separated by a narrow bridge or isthmus.
Desmichels Treaty The Desmichels Treaty was signed on February 26, 1834 by Abd-el-Kader and French military officials. As a result of this agreement, France acknowledged Abd-el-Kader as the bey (governor) of Mascara, as well as the independent sovereign ruler of the province of Oran in Algeria.
Desmognathus auriculatus The Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus) is a species of salamander native to the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Texas. Older sources often refer to it as the Eared Triton.
Desmond Bagley Desmond Bagley (October 29, 1923 Kendal - April 12, 1983 Southampton), was a UK journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers. Along with fellow UK writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean, Bagley established the basic conventions of the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos in order to advance their agenda.
Desmond Briscoe Harry Desmond Briscoe (born Birkenhead, 21 June 1925; died 7 December 2006) was a composer, sound engineer and studio manager. He was the co-founder and original manager of the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Desmond Carrington Desmond Carrington (born 23 May 1926) is a UK-based actor and broadcaster, currently best-known for his weekly show on BBC Radio 2. His show went out on Sundays for 23 years from 1981 to 2004, when it moved to Tuesdays.
Desmond Castle Desmond Castle is an example of an urban tower house located in the town of Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland. It was built as the Customs House for Kinsale about the year 1500 by the ninth Earl of Desmond Maurice Fitzgerald, following the grant of the custom of the port of Kinsale to the Earls of Desmond by King Henry VII in 1497.
Desmond Cory Desmond Cory is a pseudonym used by British mystery and thriller writer Shaun Lloyd McCarthy between 1951 and 1991. Under it he wrote 40+ novels, including the creation of serial characters such as Johnny Fedora, a debonair British secret agent.
Desmond de Silva Desmond de Silva is one of Sri Lanka's greatest entertainers, he is known as the King of Baila. De Silva, (who was born in Matara in Sri Lanka ) is now resident in Great Britain and has performed to packed audience halls across the world.
Desmond Dekker Desmond Dekker (July 16, 1941 – May 25, 2006), was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with “Israelites”.
Desmond Donnelly Desmond Louis Donnelly (October 16, 1920 – April 3, 1974) was a British politician and journalist who was noted for moving from the left to the right wing and for his resistance to following party lines (he was a member of four different political parties during the course of his career, and moved between parties on five occasions).
Desmond Doyle Desmond Doyle was an Irish worker whose children were taken into care when his wife left him in the 1950s. He fought a legal battle to regain custody of them, and this required overturning the provisions of the Irish Children's Act, which did not allow for a father to care for his own children in the absence of their mother (unless she was living and gave written permission for him to do so), and a case presented in the Irish Supreme Court in which it was claimed that the Children's Act contravened several sections of the Irish Constitution.
Desmond Fell Desmond Robert Fell (16 December 1912 - 22 January 1992) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket in for Natal either side of the Second World War, later becoming an umpire. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, and died aged 79 in Durban.
Desmond Foley Desmond (Des) Foley (1940 - 1995) was an Irish Sports star in the 1960s, specialising in the gaelic games of Gaelic football and hurling. He was also an Irish parliamentarian and represented Fianna Fáil in Dáil Éireann.
Desmond Howard Desmond Kevin Howard (born May 15, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American football wide receiver and kick returner in the NFL. He played for the Washington Redskins (1992-1994), Jacksonville Jaguars (1995), Green Bay Packers (1996, 1999), Oakland Raiders (1997-1998) and Detroit Lions (1999-2002).
Desmond King-Hele Desmond George King-Hele (born 1927) is a British physicist. He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1971 for his work on the geophysical application of the study of the orbits of artificial satellites.
Desmond Leslie Desmond Arthur Peter Leslie (29 June 1921, County Monaghan, Ireland-21 February 2001, Antibes, France) was a British pilot, film maker and writer among other things. Leslie was the younger son of Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie, 3rd Bt.
Desmond Llewelyn Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (September 12, 1913The Internet Movie Database or 1914From a tribute video on the special features DVD of The World Is Not Enough (1999), among other sources. — December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films.
Desmond Luke Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke was a politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone. Luke had served as foreign minister (1973-1975), Health Minister (1977-1978), and ambassador to the West Germany (1969-1973), France (1971-1973) and the European Economic Community (1971-1973) at various points in his political career.
Desmond Mason Desmond Tremaine Mason (born October 11 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. He is designated as a swingman, meaning he plays both shooting guard and small forward.
Desmond Morris Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, a boys' independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire, and then at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford.
Desmond Morton (officer) Major Sir Desmond Morton (1891 - 1971) was a British military officer and government official. He played an important role in organizing a response to appeasement of German under Hitler during the period prior to World War II, and provided intelligence information about German re-armament to Winston Churchill while Churchill was out of power.
Desmond Noonan Desmond "Dessie" Noonan (1959-March 19, 2005) was a British organized crime figure in Manchester who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family. He and his younger brother, Dominic Noonan, were suspected by police to be responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20 year reign in Manchester's underworld.
Desmond O'Malley Desmond Joseph (Des) O'Malley (; born 2 February, 1939), was a senior Fianna Fáil politician, the founder of the Progressive Democrats and the party's first leader (1985-1993). He served as a TD for Limerick from 1968 to 2002 and as Minister at the Departments of Justice and Industry & Commerce.
Desmond Plummer Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, Baron Plummer of St Marylebone, KBE (usually known as Desmond Plummer) (born May 25, 1914) was a Conservative Party politician in London and the longest serving Leader of the Greater London Council.
Desmond Rebellions The Desmond Rebellions occurred in the 1569- 1573 and 1579-1583 in Munster in southern Ireland. They were rebellions of the Earl of Desmond dynasty—the Fitzgerald family or Geraldines—and their allies against the efforts of the Elizabethan English government to extend their control over the province of Munster.
Desmond Swayne Desmond Angus Swayne (born 20 August 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of New Forest West in Hampshire, and was first elected in May 1997 and is currently the Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron.
Desmond Thompson Desmond Thompson is a professional wrestler who currently wrestles in World Wrestling Entertainment's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. He briefly appeared in WWE as Bruce the Butler in mid 2003 and in early 2004 as Lamont, the sidekick to Ernest Miller.
Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Desmond Williams Desmond Williams is an American electronica musician, as well as a record producer and was the chief sound engineer for the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Born in Jamaica and raised in New Jersey, Williams has been known for his remixing and producing style.
Desmopressin Desmopressin (DDAVP®, Stimate®, Minirin®) is a synthetic drug that mimics the action of antidiuretic hormone, also known as arginine vasopressin. It may be taken nasally, intravenously, or through a recently developed pill.
Desmosome A desmosome, also known as macula adherens (Latin: adhering spot), is a cell structure specialized for cell-to-cell adhesion. A type of junctional complex, they are localized spot-like adhesions randomly arranged on the lateral sides of plasma membranes.
Desmostylia The Desmostylia are an extinct order of marine mammals comprising four genera, known from late Oligocene and Miocene fossil records. Dental and skeletal form suggests desmostylians were amphibious herbivores dependent on littoral (seashore) habitats.
Desmothoracid The desmothoracids are a group of heliozoan protists, usually sessile and found in freshwater environments. Each adult is a spherical cell around 10-20 ÎĽm in diameter surrounded by a perforated organic lorica or shell, with many radial pseudopods projecting through the holes to capture food.
Desmoulin's whorl snail Desmoulin's whorl snail, Vertigo moulinsiana, is a species of small snail that lives in marshes and swamps across Europe as far north as southern Sweden. However, within the European Union, only the populations in England and Ireland are considered to be viable .
Desolation Desolation is the first full-length studio album by progressive rock band Amphoteric. Although the album was praised by critics and earned the band an almost 'cult-like' following, it received marginal commercial success.
Desolation Angels (novel) Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is one of Jack Kerouac's most autobiographical novels, and makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state.
Desolation Lava Field The Desolation Lava Field is a volcanic field located around the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in British Columbia, Canada. It covers 150 km² on the northern end of the Mount Edziza plateau and is the largest area of the youngest lava flows.
Desolation Row "Desolation Row" is the final song of Bob Dylan's sixth album, Highway 61 Revisited. The eleven minute song is a favorite of Dylan's fans; the lyrics especially are often cited as among his best, full of evocative imagery and poetry.
Desolation Wilderness The Desolation Wilderness is a 63,690 acre (258 km²) wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just west of Lake Tahoe in California, United States. It is a popular backpacking destination, with much barren rocky terrain at the edge of the tree line: it has extensive areas of bare granite.
Desoldering In electronics, desoldering is the removal of solder and components from a circuit for troubleshooting and repair purposes. Electronic components are often mounted on a circuit board and it is usually desirable to avoid damaging the circuit board, surrounding components, and the component being removed.
Desorption Desorption is a phenomenon and process opposite of sorption (that is, adsorption or absorption), whereby some of a sorbed substance is released. This occures in a system being in the state of sorption equilibrium between bulk phase (fluid, i.
Desoxyn Desoxyn® CII is a brand pharmaceutical form of methamphetamine hydrochloride (also known as desoxyephedrine, hence the name "Desoxyn"), indicated for treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), narcolepsy, and exogenous obesity. Desoxyn is a Schedule II medication under the U.

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