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D'espairs Ray
D'espairsRay is a four-member Japanese Visual Kei band, signed with Sweet Child Records. The band consists of Hizumi, Karyu, Zero, and Tsukasa. Contents 1 Sound and style2 History3 Current4 Members5 Discography5.1 Album5.2 E.P.5.3 Singles5.4 Demo Tape..
D'Estaing
d'Estaing is a surname that can refer to: Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing (1729–1794), French admiral serving in the American and French revolutionsValéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926), President of the French Republic This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of article..
D'Estienne d'Orves class
Career Displacement: 1100 t tonnes (1250 tonnes full load) Length: 80 m Width: 10,3 m Draught: 5,3 m Propulsion: Engines : 2 diesel SEMT Pielstick 12PC2V400Power: 12 000 hp (8.8 MW)Propellers: 2 4-bladed orientable propellersElectrical power: 840 kW (2 DA x 320 + 1 DA x 200) Speed: 24 ..
D.E. Shaw
The D. E. Shaw Group is a New York-based investment and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. Based in Times Square, it was founded by David Shaw (a former associate professor of computer science at Columbia Univer..
D. E. Stevenson
D. E. Stevenson (1892-1973) - married name Dorothy Emily Peploe - was a Scottish author of light romantic novels. Many of her novels were set in the Scottish borders, and have minor characters who are the subjects of her other books, making a network of information in her own little universe. Other..
DES
DES may mean: Data Encryption Standard, a FIPS approved cipherDiethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen developed to supplement a woman's natural estrogen productionDelivered Ex Ship, an IncotermDeep Ecliptic Survey, an astronomy project to find Kuiper belt objectsDepartment for Education and Skill..
Des'ree
Des'ree, born Desiree Weeks on November 30, 1968 in London, England was one of Britain's most successful pop/soul vocalists throughout the 1990s. She changed her name from Desiree Weeks because she preferred a two-syllable name. Growing up in South London, Des'ree's introduction to music came fro..
Des-Airdramon
Des-Airdramon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Sea Dragon Digimon. It is from the Italian manga. Abilities Attacks Unknown ..
Des-Devimon
Des-Devimon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Evil Digimon. It is from the Italian Manga. Abilities Attacks Lethal Des-Claw ..
Des-Meramon
Des-Meramon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Flame Digimon. It is from the Italian Manga. Abilities Attacks Unknown ..
Des-MetalGreymon
Des-MetalGreymon is an Ultimate Level Android Digimon. It is from the Italian Manga. Abilities Attacks Unknown ..
Des-Ogremon
Des-Ogremon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Dragon Digimon. It is from the Italian Manga. Abilities Attacks Des-Bone Club ..
DES-X
In cryptography, DES-X (or DESX) is a variant on the DES (Data Encryption Standard) block cipher intended to increase the complexity of a brute force attack using a technique called key whitening. The original DES algorithm was specified in 1976 with a 56-bit key size: 256 possibilities for the key..
Desaad
In DC Comics' comic books, Desaad is one of the followers of Darkseid from the planet of Apokolips in Jack Kirby's Fourth World meta-series. Darkseid's master torturer, his name is a play on the Marquis de Sade. Physically, he stands at 5 feet, 11 inches, and weighs 152 pounds. At one point Des..
Desabhimani
Desabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper run by Communist Party of India (Marxist). Originally started as a weekly in 1942 and later converted to a daily in 1946. It has different editions published from Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kottayam and Trichur. External links [Desabhima..
Desacralization
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Desafio de Estrellas
Desafio de Estrellas is a Mexican musical show produced and distrivuted by TV Azteca, the second most important network in the country. The format of the Desafio is similar to American Idol with contestants eliminated every week and a grand finale with the top contestants competing to win the first ..
Desafuero
Desafuero refers, in Spanish, to the process through which a government official immunity to criminal prosecution is removed. This article is based on Mexico law and events. Strictly speaking the term is incorrect, as fuero (from Latin "forum") refers to the freedom of speech protection enjoyed by..
DeSagana Diop
DeSagana N'gagne Diop (Pronounced: Suh-GAH-nah JOP) (also known as simply Gana Diop) (born January 30, 1982 in Dakar) is a Senegalese professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. The seven-feet (213 cm), 280 lb (127 kg) Diop's natural position is center. Conten..
Desaguadero
Desaguadero is the name of: Desaguadero (Bolivia) - a town on the Peruvian-Bolivian border on the southern shore of Lago TiticacaRío Desaguadero - a river that connects Lago Titicaca and Lago Poopó in the Bolivian AltiplanoRío Desaguadero - a river in Argentina, also known as Río Salado redirec..
Desaguadero River
The Desaguadero River is the general name of a river in western Argentina that receives a number of different names on its path of 1,515 kilometres, with its most important section named Desaguadero proper. Contents 1 Spring2 Cuyo3 La Pampa4 Basin of the Desaguadero Spring I..
Desai
Desai is an Indian administrative title derived from the word "Dah Sai" which means 10 percent. Desais were like collectors who looked after a region or area on the King's behalf and in return would get 10 percent of the collection. Desais can be found all over India and can belong to various castes..
Desaiganj
Desaiganj is a city and a municipal council in Gadchiroli district in the state of Maharashtra, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Desaiganj had a population of 24,786. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Desaiganj has an..
Desairology
Desairology is caring for the hair, skin, and nails of the deceased. ..
Desai Williams
Desai Williams (born June 12, 1959 in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis) is a former sprinter from Canada, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Los Angeles 1984. Competing at the two first World Championships (1983 and 1987), he set his personal best 200 metres time with 20...
Desak the God Slayer
The character Desak was introduced in Thor Annual 2001. He later became a major part of a storyline that led Thor (and all of earth) nearly 200 years into the future. Contents 0.1 Origin0.2 Thor0.3 The Death of Odin0.4 Rebirth Origin Desak originally hails from an unknown ..
DeSales High School
DeSales High School Administration Fr. Joseph Anthony Grasso C.P.P.S.(Principal) Ms. Marisa Capuano (Assistant Principal) Ms. Sally Schilaci (Guidance Counselor)Mr. Scott Redding (Athletic Director) School type Private (U.S.) Religious affiliation Roman Catholic Grade level 9-12 Ye..
DeSales University
DeSales University is a private Catholic university for men and women, located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Before 2001, it was known as Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales. Contents 1 Affiliation2 Accreditations3 Athletics4 External link Affi..
Desalination
Desalination or desalinization refers to any of several processes that remove the excess salt and other minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for animal consumption or irrigation, and if almost all of the salt is removed, for human consumption, sometimes producing table salt as..
DeSalvo
DeSalvo is a Glaswegian band, formed in 2001 by Idlewild musicians Allan Stewart and Alex Grant. ..
Desamparados Canton
Desamparados Canton is the third canton of San José Province, and one of the most populated cantons in Costa Rica. Desamparados Canton is attached to San José, and it's one of the poorest cantons in the province. Its capital is Desamparados city. Desamparados canton limits with San José, Alajueli..
Desanka Maksimović
--> Desanka Maksimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Десанка Максимовић) (1898-1993) was a Serbian poet, professor of literature, and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography Desanka Maksimović was born on May 16 1898 in Rabrovica, near Valjevo, the oldest child of fath..
Desaparecidos (band)
Desaparecidos was an American indie/punk rock side project headed by singer/guitarist Conor Oberst, the frontman of the indie band Bright Eyes. They have also been hailed as the "Saddle Creek supergroup". Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, Desaparecidos' lyrics were political in nature, and are about ..
Desargues' theorem
In projective geometry, Desargues' theorem, named in honor of Gérard Desargues, states: In a projective space, two triangles are in perspective axially if and only if they are in perspective centrally. To understand this, denote the three vertices of one triangle by (lower-case) a, b, and c, an..
Desarguesian plane
In finite geometry a Desarguesian plane is a plane in which Desargues' theorem holds. The ordinary Euclidean plane (where points correspond to ordered pairs of real numbers) is of course a Desarguesian plane. But there are examples of finite geometries where the theorem does not hold. ..
Desargues (crater)
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Desarrollo Integral de la Familia
The Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) (formally, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia) is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families. The National Director of DIF reports directly to ..
Desaru
Desaru is a beach and resort area in Johor, Malaysia. It is located approximately 88 kilometers east of Johor Bahru, on the South China Sea. It is a very popular weekend escape for residents of Singapore who come to enjoy the attractive 25 km stretch of beaches and splendid golf courses. Located n..
Desatoya Mountains
The Desatoya Mountains are located in central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill and Lander Counties. The mountains reach an elevation of 9,973 feet at Desatoya Peak near Rock Creek Canyon. The Cold Springs Pony Express Station and the Po..
Desaturase
A Desaturase is an enzyme which removes two hydrogen atoms from an organic compound, creating a carbon/carbon double bond. In the biosynthesis of essential fatty acids, an elongase alternates with different desaturases (Δ6desaturase, Δ5desaturase, Δ4desaturase) repeatedly inserti..
Desbarats, Ontario
Desbarats is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on Highway 17 approximately 30 kilometres east of Sault Ste. Marie. The community is part of Johnson Township. ..
Desboro, Ontario
Desboro is a small town in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Desboro is located south of Owen Sound, near Chatsworth. ..
Desborough
Desborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England. It developed around the spinning and weaving industries, by the nineteenth century specialising in silk. Many archaeological finds from the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon periods have been made in the town. The Kettering Leg of the Student cross pilgrim..
Desborough (hundred)
The hundred of Desborough is one of the three Chiltern Hundreds in Buckinghamshire, England. The hundred is in the southwest of the county and is bounded by the River Thames to the south and Oxfordshire to the west. To the north it borders the Aylesbury hundred, and to the east the Burnham hundred..
Desborough Castle
Desborough Castle is an Iron Age hill fort which lies on the southern side of the valley of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which runs through the Chiltern Hills from the river Thames to the Vale of Aylesbury and the Ridgeway. The castle was constructed by the Saxon population to monitor of the Da..
Desborough Loatland (Kettering BC Ward)
Desborough Loatland Ward (Kettering Borough Council) Desborough Loatland within Kettering Borough Kettering Borough within Northamptonshire Northamptonshire within England Desborough Loatland Ward is a two member ward within Kettering Borough Council located in the north of Desborough, North..
Desborough School
Desborough School is an all boys comprehensive school in Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It was founded as Maidenhead Grammar School in 1894, and renamed in September 1973 when it admitted its first comprehensive intake. Famous students include Nick Hornby, John O'Farrell, Mar..
Desborough St. Giles (Kettering BC Ward)
Desborough St. Giles Ward (Kettering Borough Council) Desborough St. Giles within Kettering Borough Kettering Borough within Northamptonshire Northamptonshire within England Desborough St. Giles Ward is a 2-member ward within Kettering Borough Council located in the north of Desborough, Nort..
Desborough Town F.C.
Desborough Town F.C. are a football club based in northern Northamptonshire, England. They were established in 1896. In the 1926-27 season, they reached the 1st round proper of the FA Cup where they were beaten by Doncaster Rovers. They are currently members of the United Counties Football League Pr..
Descaling agent
A descaling agent, also known as descaling, anti-limestone, anti-limescale, anti-lime, or anti-scale, is a solution to remove limescale, e.g. from water taps, kettles, toilets and water pipes. Descaling agents usually contain an acid as the active ingredient, e.g. acetic acid, lactic acid, citric ac..
Descalvado
Descalvado is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [21°54′14″S, 47°36′10″W]. The population in 2003 is 30,548 and the area is 757.25 km² The elevation is 679 m. ..
Descalzas Reales
History El Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, literally the Monastery of Barefoot Royals, resides in the former palace of Carlos I and Isabel of Portugal. Their daughter, Joan of Austria, founded this convent of Franciscan nuns in 1557. Throughout the remainder of the 16th century and into the 1..
Descamisado
This is a model of a statue called "El Descamisado." This statue was to be built as memorial to Eva Perón. It was projected to stand taller than the Statue of Liberty, but Juan Perón was overthrown before the monument was completed. Descamisado is a Spanish word that literally means "withou..
Descanso
From Spanish descanso "resting place (of a dead person)," from the verb descansar "to (have a) rest." [link] is a Roadside memorialDescanso is also a genus of jumping spiders. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If ..
Descanso (spider)
Descanso is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Etymology From Spanish descanso "resting place (of a dead person)," from the verb descansar "to (have a) rest." Species Descanso chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (Brazil)Descanso discicollis (Taczanowski, 1878) (Peru)Descanso ..
Descanso Gardens
Descanso Gardens located in La Cañada Flintridge, California is a 25 acre (101,000 m²) camellia forest. At one time the property of the newspaper magnate E. Manchester Boddy (who owned the Los Angeles Daily News), he ran a commercial Camellia garden at this location (supplying prom bouto..
Descant
Descant or discant can refer to several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others. A discant (occasionally, particularly later, written descant) is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a ..
Descarga
Music of Cuba: Topics Batá and yuka Chachachá Changui Charanga Conga Danzón Descarga Guajira Guaracha Habanera Jazz Hip hop Mambo Música campesina Nueva trova Pilón Rock Rumba Salsa cubana Son Son montuno Timba History(Timeline and Samples) Awards Beny Moré Award Festival..
Descartes' Error
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a book by neurologist Antonio R. Damasio, in which the author presents an argument that emotion and reason are not completely separate and, in fact, are quite dependent upon one another and essential to rational thinking. This is a treatment..
Descartes' rule of signs
Descartes' rule of signs, first described by René Descartes in his work La Geometrie, is a technique for determining the number of positive or negative roots of a polynomial. The rule states that if the terms of a single-variable polynomial with real coefficients are ordered by descending variabl..
Descartes' theorem
In geometry, Descartes' theorem, named after René Descartes, establishes a relationship between four kissing, or mutually tangent, circles. The theorem can be used to construct a fourth circle tangent to three given, mutually tangent circles. Contents 1 History2 Definition of curvature..
Descartes, Indre-et-Loire
Descartes Country      France Région Centre Départment Indre-et-Loire Arrondissement Loches Canton Descartes INSEE 37115 Postal Code 37160 MayorCurrent Term 2001-2008 Intercommunality Communauté de communes de la Touraine du Sud ..
Descartes (crater)
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Descartes (disambiguation)
René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Descartes may also refer to: [[University of Paris V: René Descartes]], a university in ParisThe Descartes Prize, the European prize for excellence in scientific research and science communicationDescartes (crater), on the MoonDescartes (..
Descartes (plotting tool)
descartes is a platform independent image, data, and function plotter, with underlying Python scripting in the background. Its source code is released under the GNU GPL licence. External links [descartes web site] ..
Descartes Prize
The Descartes Prize is an annual award in science given by the European Union, named in honour of the French mathematician and philosopher, Rene Descartes. The prizes are awarded in two categories - Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Researc..
Descemet's membrane
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Descendant
The term descendant or descendent has several meanings, some of which are listed below: A descendant of a lineage, any living being that belongs to that lineageA type of object that developed from another object existing before it.descendant (astrology), the point directly opposite from the ascen..
Descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ali ibn Abi Talib was one of the first caliphs of Islam. He was a cousin of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, as well as Muhammad's son-in-law. He had several children by Fatima Zahra, Muhammad's daughter, as well as children by other wives. His descendants through Fatima are still revered today, as imam..
Descendants of Darkness
|} Descendants of Darkness, known in Japan as Yami no Matsuei (闇の末裔), is a manga and anime series created by Yoko Matsushita. The anime is broadcast by WOWOW in Japan and is produced in North America by Central Park Media. The manga was serialized in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume, and is pub..
Descendants of Gustav II Adolf
Descent from Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, a venerated hero to some peoples and ideological groups, has often been alleged to have gone totally extinct, as far as known and/or documented descents are in question, as opposite to invented or sort of mythical descendants. However, according to docum..
Descendants of Nazi Officials
(note: split from War children - work in progress) This page should be a list and a short description about notable children of Nazi party officials and other well-known members of the Third Reich only. For the topic of children of Nazi collaborators and soldiers in occupied territories, see ar..
Descendant (astrology)
The sescendant is directly across from the ascendant (As) in the chart, in the three o'clock position In astrology, the descendant is the point directly opposite, or 180 degrees away from the ascendant. The descendant forms the cusp of the seventh house of the horoscope and refers to partners ..
Descended Like Vultures
Descended Like Vultures is an album by Oakland-based band, Rogue Wave. It was released October 25, 2005 on Sub Pop Records. Track listing "Bird on a Wire" - 3:40"Publish My Love" - 3:43"Salesman at the Day of the Parade" - 2:36"Catform" - 3:12"Love's Lost Guarantee" - 4:44"10:1" - 3:20"California..
Descendents (band)
Descendents are a punk rock band from Lomita, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. They are credited as one of the most influential punk bands ever by many critics. Contents 1 History1.1 Early/peak years1.2 First hiatus1.3 Reformation1.4 All1.5 Second hiatus1.6 ..
Descender
The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline, highlighted in red. In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends below the baseline of a font. For example, in the letter y, the descender would be the "tail," or that ..
Descending aorta
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Descending colon
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Descending palatine artery
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Descent
Descent may refer to: Media Descent (computer game), a computer game released by Parallax Software in the mid-1990s* [[Descent: Freespace]], a computer game series released by Volition Inc., a successor of Parallax Software. Note that aside from titling these two games have no relaionships.Descen..
Descent: FreeSpace
Descent: FreeSpace Screenshot. Descent: FreeSpace is a space simulation computer game series developed by Volition Inc., one of the two companies (along with Outrage Entertainment) that formed when Parallax Software, the creators of Descent, split. For contractual reasons the game was called ..
Descent: Freespace units
This is a list of units from [[Descent: Freespace]]. Contents 1 Galactic Terran Alliance1.1 Combat1.1.1 Fighter1.1.1.1 GTF Apollo1.1.1.2 GTF Valkyrie1.1.1.3 GTF Ulysses1.1.1.4 GTF Hercules1.1.1.5 GTF Loki1.1.1.6 GTF Myrmidon1.1.1.7 GTF Hercules ..
Descent: Journeys in the Dark
Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a 2-5 player high fantasy board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. The game is not related to the video game Descent , but rather is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's licensed Doom board game. In Descent, players take the roles of ..
Descent (aircraft)
A descent during air travel is any portion where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are an essential component of an approach to landing. Other intentional descents might be to avoid traffic, poor flight conditions (turbulence, icing conditions, or ..
Descent (category theory)
In mathematics, the idea of descent has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is actually the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts with some ideas on identification. At a fundamental..
Descent (computer game)
It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a [Disambiguationdisambiguation page]. ([[Wikipedia talk:|Discuss]]) Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing th..
Descent (Stargate SG-1)
"Descent" }||}}} }|episode list=|overridean=}} episode }|episode list=}} of the science fiction}}} television series Stargate SG-1}}}. Plot } A Tel'tak with SG-1, Jacob Carter, Major Davis and Dr. Friesen on board flies to a Ha'tak which was detected near Earth. Jonas is very joyful since he was ne..
Descent (TNG episode)
Descent is a two-part episode from the sixth/seventh season of the television series [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]. Plot summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The Enterprise encounters a group of Borg. As they battle, the Borg do not act like ..
Descent direction
In optimization, a descent direction is a vector [\mathbf\in\mathbb R^n] that, in the sense below, moves us closer towards a local minimum [\mathbf^*] of our objective function [f:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R]. Suppose we are computing [\mathbf^*] by an iterative ..
Descent from antiquity
Descent from antiquity (commonly abbreviated as DFA) is the project of establishing a well-researched, generation-by-generation descent of living persons from people living in antiquity. It is an ultimate challenge in prosopography and genealogy. The idea is by no means new. Hellenistic dynasties..
Descent from Attila Hun
Descent from antiquity projects have put great efforts to track verifiable genealogical lines from Attila the Hun to modern-day Europeans. Verifiablity however is a problem in early generations of those descents: while many Attila's children are known at least by name and some other relatives, soon ..
Descent from Genghis Khan
With the recent popularity of genealogical DNA testing, many people now claim descent from Genghis Khan. Medieval culture was full of rulers who boasted having a highest and mightiest ancestry. Genghis Khan, despite having stayed in Asia and a conqueror and father of conquerors ("barbarians"), als..
Descent from the Cross
The Descent from the Cross (ΑΠΟΚΑΘΗΛΩΣΙΣ), or Deposition, is the scene as depicted in art, from the story of Christ when Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus took him down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the Occid..
Descent into Chaos
Descent into Chaos is an album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It is their second studio album and was released by Century Media on March 29, 2005. It was Nightrage's last album to feature Tomas Lindberg on vocals, who was replaced by Jimmie Strimmel shortly after the al..
Descent into the Depths of the Earth
Descent Into the Depths of the Earth is the name of two related First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons module. The most common use refers to a combined adventure which re-published two related adventures: D1 Descent Into the Depths and D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa. The original D1 Descent Into th..
Descent of Elizabeth II
This table shows the descent of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from Egbert, traditionally regarded as first King of England, and before that from Cerdic, founder of the House of Wessex. Some of the links between Cerdic and Egbert are a little uncertain, but there is no doubt that Egbert was a de..
Descent of Mary
The Descent of Mary (Τεννα Μαριας) is a minor work of the New Testament apocrypha which presents an anti-Jewish legend. It portrays Zachariah as having been put to death by the Jews because he had seen Yahweh in the form of an ass in the Temple in Jerusalem. ..
Deschambault, Quebec
Deschambault is a village in the Canadian province of Quebec, located at Latitude 46°38' North and Longitude 71°55' West. As of 2001, the population was 1,263. The area of the village is 56.97 square kilometres. It is located in Portneuf County. It is also a common family name. Other forms of the..
Deschambault Lake
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Deschamps
Deschamps is a common family name of French origin: Didier Deschamps (b. 1968), football player and managerÉmile Deschamps (1795-1871), French poetEustache Deschamps (1328-1415), French poetHubert Jules Deschamps, Governor of French Somaliland (1938-1940)Johanne Deschamps (b. 1959), Canadian polit..
Deschampsia
Deschampsia is a genus of wild plant in the grass family Poaceae, commonly known as hair grass or tussock grass. Deschampsia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Antler Moth, The Clay, Clouded-bordered Brindle, Common Wainscot, Dark Arches, Dusky Bro..
Deschampsia antarctica
Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort). Due to a recent warming trend (attributed to global warming), more seeds are germinating, creating a large number of seedlings and plants...
Deschênes Commission
The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, often referred to as the 'Deschênes Commission was established by the government of Canada in February 1985 to investigate claims that Canada had become a haven for Nazi war criminals. Headed by retired Quebec Superior Court judge Jules Deschên..
Deschooling
Deschooling is a term used by both education philosophers and proponents of alternative education and/or homeschooling, which refers to different things in each context. It was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1971 book Deschooling Society (ISBN 0060803818). Philosophically, it refers to the belie..
Deschutes
Deschutes may refer to: Deschutes RiverDeschutes County, OregonAn improved edition of Intel's Pentium II microprocessor, code-named "Deschutes". This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wis..
Deschutes Brewery
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Deschutes County, Oregon
Deschutes County (IPA: [də ʃuts]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The county was created in 1916 out of part of Crook County and was named for the Deschutes River, which itself was named by French-Canadian trappers of the early nineteenth century. The county seat of Desc..
Deschutes River
Alternate meanings: Deschutes River (disambiguation) Deschutes River in central Oregon The Deschutes River is a river which runs through central Oregon and is a major tributary to the Columbia River. The river provides much of the drainage on the eastern side of the Cascade Range in Orego..
Deschutes River (disambiguation)
Deschutes River can refer to: The river in Oregon: Deschutes RiverThe river in Washington: Deschutes River (Washington) This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred yo..
Deschutes River (Washington)
Tumwater Falls of the Deschutes River, Tumwater, Washington. The Deschutes River is a 50-mile-long river in Washington. Its source is in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Lewis County, and it empties into Budd Inlet of Puget Sound at Olympia in Thurston County. It was given its name by F..
Deschutes River Woods, Oregon
Deschutes River Woods is a census-designated place and census tract in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2000 census, this unincorporated suburb of Bend, Oregon population was 4,631. Geography Deschutes River Woods is located at [43°59′33″N, 121°21′27″W] (43.99..
Descloizite
Descloizite is a rare mineral species consisting of basic lead and zinc vanadate, (Pb, Zn)2(OH)VO4, crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and isomorphous with olivenite. It was discovered by A Damour in 1854, and named by him in honor of the French mineralogist Des Cloizeaux. It occurs as small..
Descoberto
Descoberto is a town in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. It has a population of approximately 4,761 inhabitants. ..
Descolada
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The Descolada is a fictional virus in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. It is a quasi-conscious self-modifying organism capable of infecting any form of life. The Descolada is first mentioned in Speaker for th..
Descoladores
These are a sentient species used in Orson Scott Card's book Children of the Mind. Little is known about them other than the fact that they communicate using chemicals. They created the Descolada and other viruses to possibly terraform planets such as Lusitania. Most people wanted to destroy their..
Descôteaux v. Mierzwinski
Descôteaux et al. v. Mierzwinski, [1982] 1 S.C.R. 860 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on solicitor-client privilege. The Court reaffirmed the opinion in R. v. Solosky that privilege was a substantive right that even existed outside of a proceeding. Contents 1 Backgrou..
Describing function
The Describing function method of Krylov and Bogolyubov is an approximate procedure for analyzing Non-linear control problems. It is based on quasi-linearization, that is the replacement of the non-linear system under investigation by a system that is linear except for a dependence on the amplitude..
Describing speech
Describing speech is explaining how something is said. e.g. Bob shouted "Ahhh!" Describing speech is a dramatic device in stories or other descriptive text and the use of different words is used to add variation to dialogue and help the reader imagine the speech. Contents 1 Ways of describin..
Description
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A description consists of an enumeration of the quantitative and qualitative parameters which seek to provide a definition of some thing, such as what that thing looks like, sounds like, or feels like. A complete description includ..
Descriptions des Arts et Métiers
Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences was published by the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris between 1761 and 1788. The full series comprises 113 folio volumes plus three supplements and provide detailed accounts of a wide ran..
Descriptions of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons
Jyllands-Posten cartoons controversy Events and reactions TimelineCartoon descriptionsAkkari-Laban DossierNewspaper ReprintsInternational ReactionsOpinionsEconomic & human costsPrimary parties involved Jyllands-PostenIslamisk TrossamfundDenmarkMuslim world[ v]·[ d]&midd..
Description de l'Egypte
Description de l'Égypte is the title of several books. Description de l'Égypte - Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française Pub; First Edition (23 books), L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1809-1813; l..
Description de l'Egypte (1809)
IDescription de l'Égypte (English: Description of Egypt) is the monumental French comprehensive scientific description of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is a publication that is the collaborated work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists, known popularly as the ..
Description language
Description language may refer generally a kind of language which is used to describe an interface to another. In computer terms, a description language may be confused with or less formally referred to by other terms such as API, interface language, specification language, or middleware. User inte..
Description logic
Description logics (DL) are a family of knowledge representation languages which can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an application domain in a structured and formally well-understood way. The name description logic refers, on the one hand, to concept descriptions used to desc..
Description of a Career
Description Of A Career (DOAC) is a semantic vocabulary created by Ramon A. Parada to describe professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the European curriculum (Europass) so those can be generated from a FOAF+DOAC file. It includes information about education..
Description of Democratic Republic of Congo
Contents 0.1 Description of the Country’s constitution, the symbol of the flag0.1.1 The new constitution of Democratic Republic of Congo0.1.2 Colours of the flag0.1.3 Main languages: French, Swahili and Sudanic tribal languages0.1.4 Religions and Education in Democrati..
Descriptive botanical names
Descriptive botanical names: Art 16 of the ICBN rules that a name above the rank of family may be either descriptive or formed from the name of an included family. The latter leads to names such as Magnoliophyta and Magnoliopsida. Descriptive plant names are decreasing in importance but many are s..
Descriptive chess notation
Descriptive chess notation, or just descriptive notation is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the most popular notation for doing so. It has been superseded by abbreviated algebraic notation, but is still important for understanding older chess books. Descriptive notation ..
Descriptive complexity
Descriptive complexity is also a synonym for Kolmogorov complexity. Descriptive complexity is a branch of finite model theory, a subfield of computational complexity theory and mathematical logic, which seeks to characterize complexity classes by the type of logic needed to express the languages in ..
Descriptive ethics
Descriptive ethics deal with what the population actually believes to be right and wrong, and holds up as ideals or condemns or punishes in law or politics, as contrasted to normative ethics which deals with what the population should believe to be right and wrong, and such concepts as sin and evil...
Descriptive geometry
Descriptive geometry builds on a practice, evolved over centuries, of displaying two images of an object, one as seen in one direction and a second image as seen from a direction 90° rotated (e.g., a "front" and a "side" view). Gaspard Monge is the father of descriptive geometry. He developed a gra..
Descriptive knowledge
Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the species of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from what is commonly known as "know-how", or procedural kno..
Descriptive linguistics
Linguistics Theoretical linguistics Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Lexical semantics Structural semantics Prototype semantics Stylistics Prescription Pragmatics Applied linguistics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics Generative linguistics Cognitive lingui..
Descriptive poetry
For general context, see Poetry. Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that may be defined as belonging mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times, all poetry which was not subjectively lyrical was apt to indulge in ornament which might be ..
Descriptive research
Descriptive research, also known as statistical research, describes data and characteristics about the population or phenomenon being studied. Descriptive research answers the questions who, what, where, when and how. Although the data description is factual, accurate and systematic, the research ..
Descriptive science
A descriptive science, also called a special science, is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, that seeks to discover what is true about a recognized domain of phenomena. See also Descriptive knowledgeNormative scienceProce..
Descriptive set theory
In mathematics, descriptive set theory is the study of certain classes of "well-behaved" sets of real numbers, e.g. Borel sets, analytic sets, and projective sets. A major aim of descriptive set theory is to describe all of the "naturally occurring" sets of real numbers by using various construction..
Descriptive statistics
Descriptive statistics is a branch of statistics that denotes any of the many techniques used to summarize a set of data. In a sense, we are using the data on members of a set to describe the set. The techniques are commonly classified as: Graphical description in which we use graphs to summarize da..
Descriptive Video Service
The Descriptive Video Service (DVS), created by WGBH-TV in Boston #redirect [[Template:Fact]], is used by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the U.S. to provide video description for the visually impaired, so they can better understand what is happening on the video portion of the program. Th..
Descriptivism
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Descriptivism can refer to: Descriptivist theory of names in philosophyDescrip..
Descriptivist theory of names
Descriptivist theory of names is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The theory consists essentially in the idea that the meanings (semantic contents) of names are identical to the descriptions associated with ..
Descriptor
A descriptor is an index term used to identify a record in a database. It can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. It can describe the content of the record or be an arbitrary code. When a descriptor is descriptive, it can be an effective search parameter. The term was coined by Calvi..
Desdemona
Desdemona is a moon of Uranus666 Desdemona is an asteroidDesdemona (Othello) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play OthelloDesdemona (Otello) is a soprano role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera OtelloDesdemona (band) is an Italian Power Metal band.Desdemona was a character in the animated se..
Desdemona (moon)
There is also an asteroid called 666 Desdemona. {| Desdemona align="center" Voyager 2 image of the Uranian moon Desdemona Discovery Discovered by Stephen P. Synnott / Voyager 2 Discovered in January 13, 1986 Orbital characteristics Mean radius 62,659 km Eccentricity 0.00023..
Desdemona (Othello)
Desdemona by Frederic Leighton Desdemona is a fictional character in the play Othello by William Shakespeare. She is Othello's wife, and the daughter of Senator Brabantio. She is both lightskinned and innocent; Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent Iago and his wor..
Desdemona (song)
"Desdemona" is a song by the British cult band John's Children. It was released in 1967 and failed to chart in Britain, possibly due to the fact it was banned by the BBC for a "controversial" lyric (lift up your skirt and fly). However, the song was a minor hit in Europe. The song was a Marc Bolan..
Desdemona Music Festival
Desdemona Music Festival is a music festival happening in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 23, 24, and 25 2006. It will be taking place at Sawyer Point, a park on the Ohio riverfront. Acts scheduled to perform include: Ghostface Killah (From the Legendary Wu Tang Clan biatch!), VHS or Beta, Mates of State,..
Deseado
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Deseado (Spanish for "wished" or "wished for") is a 10m sloop rigged yacht that survived about a month in the So..
Deseado River
Deseado River (Spanish: Río Deseado) is a river in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz. The river is born from the glacier-thaw Buenos Aires Lake on the northwestern part of the province at the Andes range, and travels for 615 km before reaching the Atlantic Coast. On its way southeast, its water..
Desecheo Island
Desecheo is a small (area – 1.46 km²), uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico located in the northeast of the Mona Passage; 21 km from the west coast (Punta Higüero) of the main island of Puerto Rico. Politically, the island is administered by the municipality of Mayagü..
Desecration
For the book, see Desecration (book). Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character. This can include desecration of sacred books, sacred places or sacred objects. Desecration generally may be considered from the perspective of a particular religion or spiritual activity. De..
Desecration Smile
This is a song off the Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium. It is the first track on the second CD of the album, "Mars". ..
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American civil rights movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegre..
Desegregation busing
Desegregation busing, referred to as forced busing in some areas, is the practice of pursuing racial or economic integration in American public schools by transporting schoolchildren to schools outside their area of residence. Contents 1 Rationale2 Criticism3 Effects of busing4&nbs..
Deseilligny (crater)
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Deseloper
A term Flash Deseloper was first used by Adobe's Flash expert Jen deHaan and refers to those whose mastery of the Flash IDE distinguishes them as both designers and developers. Flash Deseloper is defined at Jen daHaan`s newly registered domain [link] as "One who, or that which, develops an..
Desembarco del Granma National Park
Desembarco del Granma National Park ..
Desembocadura de la Cruz de Río Grande
Desembocadura de la Cruz de Río Grande is a municipality in the Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur department of Nicaragua. ..
Desenrascanço
Desenrascanço (loosely translated as "disentanglement"; pronounced: [dɨ.zẽ.ʁɐʃ.'kɐ̃.su]) is a Portuguese word used in certain specific contexts and situations. It is used to express an ability to solve a problem without the adequate tools or proper technique to do so, and by u..
Desensitation
In telecommunication, desensitation is the reduction of desired signal gain as a result of receiver reaction to an undesired signal. The gain reduction is generally due to overload of some portion of the receiver (e.g., the AGC circuitry) resulting in desired signal suppression because the receive..
Desensitization
Desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism's negative reaction to a substance or stimulus. In medicine For example, if a person with diabetes mellitus has a bad allergic reaction to taking a full dose of beef insulin, the doctor gives the person a very small amount of the insu..
Desensitized
The title Desensitized may refer to: Desensitized (Pitchshifter), a 1993 metal album by PitchshifterDesensitized (Drowning Pool), a 2004 hard-rock album by Drowning Pool"Desensitized" (Green Day Song), a 1997 song by Green Day This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of artic..
Desensitized (Drowning Pool)
Desensitized is a 2004 album by Nu Metal band Drowning Pool. It was the first album to be released by the band after the death of vocalist Dave Williams, and the first (and only) album to feature Jason 'Gong' Jones as the vocalist. Contents 1 Overview2 Track listing3 Personnel4&n..
Desensitized (Green Day song)
"Desensitized" is a B-side track of the band Green Day. It appears on: The Australian and Japanese versions of nimrod. (1997)The compilation Shenanigans (2002) The song opens up with Mike Dirnt smashing objects with a baseball bat. The song is about the Internet. ..
Desenzano del Garda
Coat of arms Map Statistics Region: Lombardy Province: Province of Brescia Location: ..
Deseret
Deseret is a term originally derived from the Book of Mormon, a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church) and other Latter Day Saint groups. According to the Book of Mormon, "deseret" meant "honeybee" in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed to have be..
Deseret-Western Railway
The Deseret-Western Railway is a private railroad operating in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. It is owned by the Deseret Generation & Transmission Co-operative, and exists to transport coal from the co-operative's Deserado Coal Mine (near Rangely, Colorado) to their Bonanza Power Plan..
Deseret alphabet
Sample from the Deseret Second Book, printed in 1868. The first three (and part of the fourth) words read "One of the worst habit..." (The first four words phonetically read "Wu-o-en ah-vee thee wu-o-er-es-tee") The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by ..
Deseret Book
Deseret Book is the largest Latter-day Saint book publisher and also owns a chain of LDS bookstores in the western United States. Over 150 people work in its Salt Lake City headquarters. During holidays, over 1000 employees work at over 30 Deseret Book store locations. Owned wholly by Deseret Manag..
Deseret Chemical Depot
The Deseret Chemical Depot is a chemical weapon storage area located in Utah. It is related to the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. The area has been used to store chemical weapons since 1942 and weapons destruction began in August 1996 at the Depot which held 45% of the total U.S. stockpile..
Deseret Industries
Deseret Industries is the name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' welfare program, as well as the name of the chain of retail thrift stores operated by that program. Deseret Industries thrift stores are modeled after Goodwill. They are generally located in areas were LDS church mem..
Deseret Management Corporation
The Deseret Management Corporation is a for-profit management company of assets for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It owns the following subsidiary companies: Beneficial Financial Group: insurance, investment, and retirement services.Bonneville International Corporation: owns radi..
Deseret Morning News
The Deseret Morning News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is Utah's oldest continually published daily newspaper. It has the second largest daily circulation; only The Salt Lake Tribune surpasses it. The Deseret Morning News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsi..
Deseret Peak Wilderness
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Deseronto, Ontario
Deseronto is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, in Hastings County. The community is located on the shore of the Bay of Quinte. It is an incorporated town with a population of 1,800. ..
Deseronto Bulldogs
The Deseronto Bulldogs are a Senior "AAA" ice hockey team based out of Deseronto, Ontario. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League. ..
Deseronto Thunder
The Deseronto Thunder are a junior 'A' ice hockey team based out of Deseronto, Ontario. They play in the Greater Metro Junior 'A' Hockey League. Mission The Deseronto Thunder Junior 'A' Hockey Club is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to training and developing our amateur hockey player..
Desert
A desert is a dry or waterless landscape. For the food course, usually served after dinner, see dessert. Desert view in Saudi Arabia. The vast majority of the kingdom is sand desert, with distinct features and characteristics that clearly differ between one area and another. In geography, a d..
Desertas Islands
The Desertas Islands (Portuguese: Ilhas Desertas, pron. IPA ['iʎɐʃ dɨ'zɛɾtɐʃ] literally Deserted Islands), are a small archipelago that stands to the south east of the island of Madeira, the whole chain located roughly between the Azores and the Canary Islands. Though only 20 naut..
Deserta Grande Island
The Deserta Grande Island is the main island of the Desertas Islands, a small chain of islands in the archipelago of Madeira, located to the southeast of the island of Madeira. External links [Photos of the Desertas Islands - Ilhas Desertas]   Municipalities of the Madeira Auton..
Deserted medieval village
In England there are reckoned to be more than 3,000 deserted medieval village (DMV) sites. These are settlements, which have been abandoned for one reason or another over the years, usually leaving little but the remains of earthworks or ghostly cropmarks. If, at a DMV, there are less than three inh..
Deserted Palace
Deserted Palace is an album of experimental instrumental electronic music composed and produced by Jean-Michel Jarre, and released in 1972 on Sam Fox. It was Jarre's first album. Track listing "Poltergeist Party" – 2:10"Music Box Concerto" – 2:40"Rain Forest Rap Session" – 1:37"A..
Deserter's Songs
Deserter's Songs is the fourth album by the rock band Mercury Rev, released in 1998. British music magazine NME awarded Deserter's Songs album of the year for 1998. Track listing "Holes" – 5:55"Tonite It Shows" – 3:40"Endlessly" – 4:25"I Collect Coins" – 1:27"Opus 40" – 5:10"Hudson Line..
Desertification
Ship stranded by the retreat of the Aral Sea Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities. Modern desertification often arises from the demands of increased populations th..
Desertion
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. For other uses of Desertion, see Abandonment. For other uses of AWOL, see AWOL (d..
Desertmartin
Desertmartin is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 2 miles from Magherafelt. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 276 people. It had a population of 257 in 1837 and 101 in 1910. It lies within the Magherafelt District Council area. St. Comgalls (Church of Ireland) Church..
Desertshore
Desertshore is the name of a neoclassical, avant-garde album recorded and released by Nico in 1970. It is one of three albums from the period that were produced by John Cale. Personnel Nico vocal, harmonium John Cale all other instruments except trumpet John Cale, Adam Miller & Annagh Wood h..
Deserts and xeric shrublands
In isolation, Hawai'i's Silverswords have adapted to xeric microclimates within volcanic craters, trapping and channeling dew and protecting leaves with reflective hairs. Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by a dry climate. Deserts and xeric shrublands occur in tropical, sub..
Deserts of Australia
Deserts of Australia cover a large portion of the land in Australia. Most of the deserts lie in the central and north-western part of the country. The largest part of Australia is desert or semi-arid. The size of the deserts in Australia combine is 1.3 million square miles, and occupies 44% of the..
Desert (dance music act)
Desert is an electronic and house music duo from Liverpool, England. Members are producers Paul Kane and Paul Pringle. In 2001 they hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Lettin' Ya Mind Go." In 2002 the follow-up, "I See the Light," peaked at #34. See also List of number-one dance ..
Desert Aire, Washington
Desert Aire is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,124 at the 2000 census. Geography Desert Aire is located at [46°41′6″N, 119°55′29″W] (46.685121, -119.924811)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the ..
Desert Air Force
The Desert Air Force (DAF), later known as the First Tactical Air Force, was an Allied tactical air force formed during World War II, and was made up of squadrons from the Royal Air Force, the South African Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force. The DAF was formed in North Africa to provide ..
Desert Bandicoot
The Desert Bandicoot (Parameles eremiana) was a small bandicoot of the arid country in the centre of Australia. The last known specimen was collected in 1943 on the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia. It is presumed extinct. It was about 180–285 mm long, with a tail of around 100 mm, w..
Desert Beaver Observatory
The Desert Beaver Observatory is a private observatory near Benson, Arizona. The asteroid 25893 Sugihara was discovered at the Desert Beaver Observatory by William Kwong Yu Yeung. ..
Desert Bighorn Sheep
The Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep that occurs in the desert Southwest regions of the United States. The trinomial of this species commemorates the American naturalist Edward William Nelson. Populations of the Desert Bighorn Sheep declined drastica..
Desert Biosphere Reserve
The Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Range is a biosphere reserve and experimental range in the western reaches of the U.S. state of Utah. The experimental range was established in 1933 when 225km² of public lands were designated "as an agricultural range experiment station" by Presid..
Desert Blue
Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedy/drama film directed by Morgan J. Freeman and starring Brendan Sexton, Kate Hudson, Ethan Suplee, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Peter Sarsgaard, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard. The story centers on a rising Hollywood starlet (Hudson) who becomes "marooned" in a ..
Desert Botanical Garden
The Desert Botanical Garden is a 50 acre (20 ha) botanical garden located within Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Founded in 1939, the garden now has more than 21,000 plants, including 139 species which are rare, threatened or endangered. Of special note are the rich collections of agave (176..
Desert Camouflage Uniform
The Desert Camouflage Uniform (DCU) is essentially the same as the United States military's Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) uniform, only featuring the three-color desert camouflage pattern of light tan, pale green, and brown as opposed to the dark green, black, brown, and dark tan of the BDU's woodland..
Desert candle
Desert candle (Caulanthus inflatus), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, where it is found at elevations between 150 and 1,500 meters. It is an annual plant growing up to 70 cm in height, with a thick, swollen stem that ..
Desert Center, California
Desert Center, Riverside County, California, is a small town (population 962) located in the Colorado Desert of Southern California, between the cities of Indio and Blythe at the junction of Interstate 10 and State Highway 177. In the vicinity of Desert Center lie the Chuckwalla Mountains, Corn Spri..
Desert cockroach
The desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata, is a member of the Polyphagidae family of cockroaches. Distribution Arenivaga investigata is abundant in sand dunes of the Colorado desert at the foot of Mount San Jacinto, California. Water vapor absorption The desert cockroach can gain weight by abso..
Desert Combat
Desert Combat (DC) is a popular mod, founded by Frank Delise, Brian Holinka and Tim Brophy, for the hit first-person shooter (FPS) computer game Battlefield 1942. DC brings the game's setting to modern warfare in the Middle East, providing the player with the opportunity to drive modern vehicles suc..
Desert Combat Extended
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Desert Combat Extended, al..
Desert Commander
Desert Commander is a NES strategy game based on the North African theatre of World War II. This game is for one or two players and the player(s) could either play as the Allied Forces (combined forces of the English Commonwealth, the Free French, and later the United States of America) or as the Ax..
Desert Coral
Desert Coral (Japanese: デザート・コーラル) is a manga series by Wataru Murayama. Desert Coral has been published in three languages: Japanese, English, and German. Currently, there is five volumes in Japanese, three volumes in English and one volume in German. The manga takes place on ..
Desert Cottontail
The Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae. Desert Cottontails are found throughout the central United States from eastern Montana to western Texas, and in northern Mexico. Westwards their range extends to central Nevada and sou..
Desert Crossing (Enterprise episode)
Desert Crossing is the 23rd episode (production #124) of the television series [[Star Trek: Enterprise]]. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Plot2.1 Teaser2.2 Act One2.3 Act Two2.4 Act Three2.5 Act Four2.6 Act Five3 External links Synopsis Archer and Trip are invi..
Desert dace
The desert dace Eremichthys acros is a rare cyprinid fish known only from the warm springs and creeks of Soldier Meadow in western Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. It is notable not only for its restricted range, but for the ability to live in waters as warm as 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenh..
Desert Development Center (DDC)
The "Desert Development Center" of The American University in Cairo conducts research on ecologically sound and sustainable land development, trains desert settlers and investors, and serves desert communities by interacting with the people, offering extension services, disseminating valuable result..
Desert Drink
Desert Drink is a mixed drink composed of 3/5 Arizona Iced Tea and 2/5 Vodka. It's commonly made with cheaper vodkas, like Skol or Dimitri, as the iced tea almost completely masks the taste. Contents 1 Popularity2 Opposition and Hip Hop Origins3 Metaphor Exploration4 Alter..
Desert Eagle
Desert Eagle Specifications Country of origin: Headquarters/engineering, Fridley, Minnesota, manufactured in Israel Operation: Single Action Action: direct impingement gas-operated Cartridge: .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .440 Cor-bon, .50 Action Express Length: 10.25..
Desert Eagle Observatory
Desert Eagle Observatory is a private amateur observatory. The observatory's primary purpose is the obsevation and discovery of asteroids, which include but are not limited to comets and Near Earth Asteroids (NEA). To date the observatory has discovered 1,732 new asteroids. External links [D..
Desert ecology
In ecology, desert ecology is the sum of the interactions between both biotic and abiotic factors of the desert biomes. The biotic factors of desert ecology include the interactions of plant, animal, and bacterial populations in a desert community. Some of the abiotic factors include latitude and ..
Desert Encounter
Desert Encounter (Danish: Ørkenen Brænder) is a book written by the Danish journalist Knud Holmboe who had converted to Islam. Desert Encounter describes a trip across the Sahara made by Knud Holmboe in an old Chevrolet. In the book he attacks Benito Mussolini's black shirts that terrorized the ..
Desert exploration
Desert exploration is the deliberate and scientific exploration of deserts, the arid regions of the earth. It is only incidentally concerned with the culture and livelihood of native desert dwellers. The nature of deserts ensures that the story of their exploration is filled with tragedy. Many expe..
Desert farming
Desert farming generally relies on irrigation, as it is the easiest way to make a desert bloom. In California, the Imperial Valley is a good example of what can be done. Australia, Israel, and the Horn of Africa are also places with interesting desert agriculture. One problem associated with rais..
Desert Fathers
Coptic Image of "Saint John the Baptist, Angel of the Desert" The Desert Fathers were Christian Hermits who lived in the Sahara desert of Egypt, beginning in about the third century. The original desert hermits were Christians fleeing the chaos and persecution of the Roman Empire's Crisis of t..
Desert Finch
The Desert Finch (Carduelis obsoletus, formerly Rhodopechys obsoleta), sometimes called Lichtenstein's Desert Finch, is a large brown finch found in southern Eurasia. It has an average wingspan of 26 cm. It has a stout black bill, black and white remiges and rectrices, and a slash of rosy-pink on ..
Desert five-spot
Desert five-spot (Eremalche rotundifolia), is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States, where it is found between 50-1,500 m altitude in open places, sandy and rocky areas, and in washes. It can be found in Anza-Borrego Desert State P..
Desert flower
Desert flower may refer to: Desert roseplants found in a desertThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Desert Fox
Desert Fox can have multiple meanings: Another name for the fennec foxA nickname for German Field Marshal Erwin RommelOperation Desert Fox – a U.S.-U.K. bombing campaign against Iraq (December 16-December 18, 1998)The Desert Fox (1951 film) – a 1951 movie about Rommel''Desert Fox - a co..
Desert Fury
Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount Pictures film noir drama motion picture starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey. Directed by Lewis Allen, the story was adapted for the screen by A.I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen, based on the novel Desert Town by ..
Desert glass
Desert Glass, Libyan Desert Glass (LDG), Edeowie Glass, or Great Sand Sea Glass is found in large (tens of kilometers) regions of sandy deserts in the Libyan Desert, Africa, and in South Australia. Contents 1 The geologic origin2 Pseudoscientific speculation3 See also4 Refe..
Desert Gold
Desert Gold was a famous and successful New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse who raced at the time of World War I. Owned by T. H. Lowry, the mare won many races named after her today in New Zealand. She raced in Australia and New Zealand, winning 36 races, 19 of them in a row. In 1914, she won the Gre..
Desert Gold Stakes
The Desert Gold Stakes is a horse race held in Trentham racecourse near Wellington, New Zealand. The horses taking part are fillies and mare, which race under Weight for Age conditions over 2400 meters. ..
Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard
The Desert Grassland Whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus uniparens) is an all-female species. These reptiles reproduce by parthenogenesis; eggs undergo a chromosome doubling after meiosis and develop into lizards without being fertilized. However, ovulation is enhanced by courtship and mating (pseudoco..
Desert Hills, Arizona
Desert Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 2,183 at the 2000 census. Geography Desert Hills is located at [34°32′51″N, 114°22′0″W] (34.547363, -114.366781)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to th..
Desert Hopper
The Desert Hopper is a mollusk created for the film The Future is Wild. The desert hopper is an advanced snail that inhabits the Rainshadow Desert of Pangaea II 200 million years from now. Today, snails are restricted in size on land and they slide along on a sheet of mucus. In a desert, water for c..
Desert horned lizard
The Desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) is a horned lizard native to western North America. They typically range in size from 3 - 5in (7.6 - 13.6cm). They are sometines referred to "Horny Toads" although they are nowhere near a toad. This species of lizard has a distinctive flat-body wi..
Desert Hot Springs, California
Desert Hot Springs is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 16,582 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Demographics4 External links Geography Desert Hot Springs is located at [33°57′40″N, 116°30′29″W] (33...
Desert iguana
The Desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They also occur on several Gulf of California islands. The Desert iguana is a blunt medium-sized lizard. Including the tail, th..
Desert Inn
The Desert Inn was a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel/casino that operated from April 24, 1950 to August 28, 2000. It was the fifth resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip. The property included an 18-hole golf course. Locals nicknamed the resort "The D.I." History The original name was Wilbur Clark's Desert..
Desert island
For the island off the coast of Maine, see Mount Desert Island. A desert island is simply any uninhabited island: the word "desert" is a reference to the island's deserted status, and does not necessarily imply arid desert weather. Such islands are commonly invoked in metaphor, literature, and th..
Desert Island (album)
Desert Island is an album by German New Age group Cusco. It was released in 1981 under Higher Octave Label. Track listing "Desert Island""Lampedusa""Helgoland""Catalina""Straits Of Ormuz""Galapagos""Alcatraz""Hokkaido""Herrenchiemsee""Ireland" ..
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a long running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on January 29 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest running music programme in the history of radio. Guests are invited to imagine themselves as castaways on a desert island, and asked ..
Desert King
Desert King is a thoroughbred racehorse bred in Ireland and born on March 31, 1994. A bay son of Danehill, Desert King raced in the colours of Michael Tabor and was trained by Aidan O'Brien. The winner of five of his twelve races, including the National Stakes, Irish 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby Sta..
Desert Kingsnake
The desert kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula splendida) is a kingsnake native to Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. It is non-venomous, colored yellow and black. The desert kingsnake's diet consists of rodents, lizards, and smaller snakes. ..
Desert Land Act
The Desert Land Act was passed by the United States Congress on 3 March 1877 to encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western United States. Through the Act, individuals may apply for a desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid a..
Desert Lark
The Desert Lark, Ammomanes deserti, breeds in deserts and semi-deserts from the Sahara east through the Arabian peninsula and the Middle East to Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is resident apart from local movements in arid stony areas, and avoids flat sand. Its nest is on the ground in a ro..
Desert larkspur
Desert larkspur (Delphinium parishii) is a flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae (the buttercup family) native to the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico, where it is found between 300–2500 m altitude in California, Arizona, southwestern Utah, and Baja Cali..
Desert locust
Plagues of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) have threatened agricultural production in Africa, the Middle East and Asia for centuries. The livelihood of at least one-tenth of the world’s human population can be affected by this hungry insect. The 2004 desert locust outbreak has caused s..
Desert Lynx
A Desert Lynx (Felis catus x rufus) is a type of cat, that results from the pairing of a domestic cat (Felis catus) Pixie-Bob with a bobcat hybrid (Felis rufus or Lynx rufus). The desert lynx must be at least 12.5% bobcat. External links [Hybrid Exotics] – Desert Lynx and Highland Lynx..
Desert Mountains
The Desert Mountains are located in west-central Nevada south of the Lahontan Reservoir and north of the town of Yerington. The range includes Cleaver Peak, at 6,711 feet above sea level. The range is found in Lyon and Churchill Counties. Desert Peak, at 6,404 feet in elevation, is located in the ea..
Desert Mountain High School
Desert Mountain High School is a grade 9-12 school located in Scottsdale, Arizona in the Scottsdale Unified School District. It opened in 1995. Academics It is the only school in Scottsdale to have the International Baccalaureate Program. Extracurriculars The school offers clubs such as Drama Clu..
Desert Mounted Corps
This article is part of theANZAC series. Military History Australia | New Zealand Expeditionary Forces AIF | NZEF Corps ANZAC | I Anzac | II Anzac Australian | Desert Mounted Divisions Aus 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th NZ & Aus | New Zealand Anzac Mounted | Aus&nb..
Desert Music Festival
The Festival au Désert (Desert Music Festival) is an annual concert in Essakane, Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The Tuareg band Tinariwen first garnered international attention with their performance at the 2001 Festival. A French language docume..
Desert National Park
Desert National Park, Rajasthan, India, is situated in the west Indian state of Rajasthan near the town of Jaisalmer. This is one of the largest national parks, covering an area of 3162 km². The Desert National Park is an excellent example of the ecosystem of the Thar Desert. Sand dunes form aroun..
Desert National Wildlife Refuge
Map showing the Desert National Wildlife Reserve and other federal properties in southern Nevada The Desert National Wildlife Range is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Desert NWR, created on May 20 1936, i..
Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada mostly in Lincoln County, Nevada. The complex covers over 1.5 million acres (6,000 km²) and includes the Ash Meadows National Wildlife ..
Desert night lizard
The Desert Night Lizard Xantusia vigilis is a night lizard native to southern California east of the Sierras and San Gabriel Mountains into Baja California, southern Nevada, sw Utah and extreme western Arizona. Like all night lizards, the desert night lizard is viviparous, giving birth to live yo..
Desert of Hami
The Desert of Hami is a section of the Gobi Desert that occupies the space between the Tian Shan system on the north and the Nan-shan Mountains on the south, and is connected on the west with the Desert of Lop. Contents 1 Przhevalsky, 18792 Futterer, 18963 Inhabitants (or lack the..
Desert of Kum-tagh
The Desert of Kum-tagh is a section of the Gobi Desert which lies east-southeast of the Desert of Lop. It is on the other side of the Kara-koshun and reaches north-eastwards as far as the vicinity of the town of Sa-chow and the lake of Kara-nor, or Kala-chi. Its southern rim is marked by a labyrinth..
Desert of Lop
The Desert of Lop is a desert which extends from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruktagh to the formerly terminal basin of the Tarim, namely Lop Nur. It is an almost perfectly horizontal expanse, for, while the Lake Bosten in the northwest lies at an altitude of 1.030 m -1.040 m, the Lop N..
Desert of Maine
The Desert of Maine is a 40-acre tract of exposed sand in pine forest near Freeport, Maine. It originated when the Tuttle family farmed the site from 1797. Failure to rotate crops, combined with land clearance and overgrazing, led to severe soil erosion, exposing a dune of glacial origin. The site..
Desert of Paran
The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran (Hebrew מדבר פראן Midbar Par'an), is quite likely the place where the Israelites spent part of their 40 years of wandering. King David spent some time in the wilderness of Paran after Samuel died (I Samuel, 25:1). Is is also the place where Abraham'..
Desert of Sin
The Desert of Sin or "Sin Wilderness" (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר סִין, Midbar Sin) is one of the places the Israelites camped at during the Exodus. It is somewhere in the location of Rephidim and between Elim and Sinai. While encamped in the Desert of Sin, the Israelites complained about the lac..
Desert of Wales
The Desert of Wales is a large area in central Wales so called because of its lack of roads and towns and its general inaccessibility. It is not a desert in the conventional sense since it enjoys high-rainfall and much of the area is covered by peat overlain with moor grass or by plantations of no..
Desert Orangetip
The Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura cethura, is a butterfly of the Pierinae subfamily. Its range is the American west in desert areas on rocky hills and ridges. Its caterpillars mostly eat plants of the mustard family. ..
Desert Orchid
Desert Orchid is probably one of the United Kingdom's most famous racehorses over jumps. He was a grey steeplechaser who was affectionately known as Dessie. Desert Orchid's first season started in an unspectacular fashion. Few who saw him on his debut thought they were watching one of racing's su..
Desert Passage
Desert Passage is a 475,000 square foot (44,129 m²) enclosed shopping mall on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The mall has a Moroccan theme to match the Aladdin hotel that adjoins the mall which has 1.2 miles (1.9 km) of shopping with 140 stores. Features an hourly indoor th..
Desert Patrol Vehicle
The Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV), formerly called the Fast Attack Vehicle, is a high-speed, lightly-armored sandrail-like vehicle first used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991. Due to their dash speed and off-road mobility, the DPVs were used extensively during Operation Desert Storm. The firs..
Desert pavement
A desert pavement is a desert surface that is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size. It is thought that they are formed by the gradual removal of the sand, dust and other fine grained material by the wind and intermittent rain. Frequent..
Desert planet
In science fiction, a desert planet is a one-climate planet where the climate is desert, with little or no natural precipitation. The motif is a common one, and includes both real and fictional planets. In a few stories, the motif is accompanied by elements of hydraulic despotism. The desert plan..
Desert Punk
|} is an anime set in a post-apocalyptic world. Japan has been reduced to a desert and the surviving humans eke out a meagre living in the hot sands. One of them is a short man others call "Sunabouzu". He makes a living as a bounty hunter. Like a demon of the sand, he seems unbeatable. Yet, li..
Desert Rain
Desert Rain is an album by Indian Ocean Track Listing Boll WeevilDesert Rain - Susmit, Amit, Asheem, RahulEuphoria - SusmitFrom The Ruins - Susmit, AsheemGoing To Ito - Susmit, Amit, Asheem, RahulMelancholic Ecstacy - SusmitVillage Damsel - Susmit, Amit, Asheem, Rahul ..
Desert rat
Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural can be:- A resident of the Mojave desert region. Not required to be a native, but someone who enjoys the harsh (hot and dry) environment of the Ridgecrest, Mojave, Lancaster areas. An old word for the gerbil.The British 7th Armoured Division.This is a [di..
Desert Rat-kangaroo
The Desert Rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) is an extinct marsupial that lived in the driest, hottest and most desolate environments in Central Australia. It was the size of a small rabbit. It was graceful, scarcely seeming to touch the ground as it hopped, almost floating, effortlessly, thro..
Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps is a real time strategy game that is based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II. There are single player missions they are playable as the German Afrika Korps or the British Desert Rats. There is also online multiplayer. ..
Desert red bat
For the fictional character, see The Red Bat The Desert red bat or Western red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii) is a species of bat from the Vespertilionidae family. See also a related species, the red bat. References Chiroptera Specialist Group (1996). [Lasiurus blossevillii]. 2006 IUCN Re..
Desert Research Institute
The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is the nonprofit research campus of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), the organization that oversees all publicly-supported higher education in the U.S. state of Nevada. At DRI, approximately 440 research faculty and support staff engage in more than ..
Desert rock
Desert Rock is a term given to several bands that hail from the Californian Palm Desert Scene. Often labeled stoner rock, the music might also contain heavy Latin influences, repetitive drum beats, and/or elements of psychedelia. A sub-genre of desert rock is robot rock, a phrase coined by Josh Ho..
Desert rock pea
Desert rock pea (Lotus rigidus), is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mojave Desert in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is found between the Colorado River and Death Valley, and south into Baja California. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to..
Desert rose
Desert rose might be: Desert rose (crystal), a rosette formation of gypsum and barite with sand inclusionsDesert Rose (song), a single by Sting from his 1999 album Brand New DayDesert-rose or Adenium, a flowering plant in tropical Africa and Arabia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] ..
Desert rose (crystal)
Saharan desert rose, 10 cm long. Desert rose is the colloquial name given to rosette formations of the minerals gypsum and barite with sand inclusions. The rosette crystal habit tends to occur when the crystals form in arid sandy conditions, such as the evaporation of a shallow salt basin. G..
Desert Rose (song)
"Desert Rose" is a hit single by Sting from his album Brand New Day (1999). The song is noted for Sting's duet performance with Algerian rai singer Cheb Mami, creating a distinct world music feel to the song. It also has a popular music video featuring Sting taking a trip through the desert in a ..
Desert Rose Band
The Desert Rose Band was a country rock band from California, founded by Chris Hillman (formerly of The Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers), along with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson, in 1985. Rounding out the original lineup were Bill Bryson (bass guitar), Jay Dee Maness (pedal steel guitar),..
Desert Saints Magazine
The Desert Saints Magazine is a monthly publication for the members and friends of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Though not officially affiliated with the Church, the magazine adheres to the principles and values espoused by the Church. Their website states that, "Our goal is to..
Desert Sands Unified School District
The Desert Sands Unified School District is a public school district located in La Quinta, California. Contents 1 Schools1.1 Elementary1.2 Middle1.3 High1.4 Other2 External links Schools Elementary Harry S Truman ElementaryJohn Adams ElementaryCarrillo Ranch Element..
Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War
Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War is a non-fiction historical book written by Dilip Hiro and first published by Routledge in 1992. ..
Desert Shores, California
Desert Shores is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. The population was 792 at the 2000 census. Geography Desert Shores is located at [33°24′11″N, 116°2′27″W] (33.403148, -116.040706)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According ..
Desert Shrew
The Desert Shrew, Notiosorex Crawfordi, is a small shrew that can be found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is a member of the Insectivora Order and the Socridae Family. It is was the only known member of the Notiosorex Genus, until a second distinct species, N. cockrumi,..
Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire is a literary nonfiction work by Edward Abbey (1927-89), published originally in 1968. His fourth book and his first book length non-fiction work, it followed three fictional books, Jonathan Troy, The Brave Cowboy, and Fire on the Mountain. It was his biggest success to date and b..
Desert Solitaire (album)
Desert Solitaire (1989) is a collaborative album by American ambient musicians Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Michael Stearns. This album was conceived as a follow up to Roach and Braheny’s 1987 collaboration Western Spaces. The music consists mostly of subtle electronic textures, tribal percuss..
Desert Song
Desert Song is a song by the band My Chemical Romance. The song was released for the first time on My Chemical Romance's DVD Life On The Murder Scene which was released on 21 March 2006. The song is also played in the main menu for Life On The Murder Scene. Music Musically, this song not very sim..
Desert Sparrow
The Desert Sparrow (Passer simplex) is found in desert and sandy areas of north/central Africa (Passer simplex saharae), and also in areas of Iran and Russia as the Asian Desert Sparrow(Passer simplex zarudnyi). This sparrow is becoming more scarce. References BirdLife International (2004). [..
Desert Speedtrap
Desert Speedtrap Starring Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote was released in 1994 for the Sega Master System console and Game Gear color handheld system. Gameplay The Road Runner must outwit the Coyote, while maintaining his strength by eating birdseed. While the premise is not unlike that of some other..
Desert Spring-Time
Desert Spring-Time is an operating system for the intel i386 architecture. It is comprised of the OCaml bytecode VM and a kernel written in OCaml. Interesting facts The name was inspired by the Dune (novel), being the English translation of sihaya, a nickname Paul had for his wife Chani. External ..
Desert Springs Hospital
Desert Springs Hospital is for-profit hospital owned and operated by Universal Health Services. This 286 bed hospital is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. History The hospital was founded in 1971. Services Diabetes Treatment Center is the only southern Nevada program accredited by the American Diabe..
Desert star
Desert star (Monoptilon bellioides), is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to stony and sandy plains in the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States and in northwestern Mexico. It is also called Mojave Desert Star, and is very common in the northern, eastern, and southern pa..
Desert Star Theater
Desert Star Theater is a dinner theater establishment in Murray, Utah. It started out as a small theater called the Gem, which showed silent movies with a piano for music. It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the Iris Theater by owner Tony Duvall. After his retireme..
Desert Storm (record label)
Desert Storm Founded 1998 Founder DJ Clue Distributing label Def Jam Records Genre(s) Hiphop Country US Web address http://www.myspace.com/desertstorm Desert Storm Records is a United States record label headed by DJ Clue and DJ Envy, a famous hip hop DJ who, among other thi..
Desert Studies Center
The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University located in Zzyzx, California in the Mojave Desert. The purpose of the Center is to provide opportunities to conduct research, receive instruction and experience the Mojave Desert environment. It is officially operated ..
Desert Sun Stadium
Desert Sun Stadium is a stadium in Yuma, Arizona. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Yuma Scorpions minor league baseball team. It originally opened in 1969. It holds 10,500 people. It was the spring training home of the San Diego Padres from 1969 until 1994, and the..
Desert Tortoise
The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The epithet agassizii is in honor of Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Contents 1 Description2 Ha..
Desert Tortoise Natural Area
The Desert Tortoise Natural Area (DTNA) is a 39.5 square mile area northeast of California City, California set aside for the California State Reptile, the Desert Tortoise. The area is located at the southwestern end of the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert, and has an interpretive center for v..
Desert truffle
For European truffles or general information on truffles see Truffles The species of the Terfezia genus, together with Tirmania, are called desert truffles, being endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean Region, where they are associated with Helianthemum species. They are a few cent..
Desert trumpet
The Desert Trumpet (eriogonum inflatum) is a perennial plant of the family Polygonaceae. The plant possesses very small yellow or pink flowers and an inflated stem just below branching segments. Eriogonum: from the Greek erion, "wool", and gonu, "joint or knee", in reference to the hairy or wooll..
Desert varnish
Desert varnish Desert varnish, or rock varnish is a dark coating found on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments. It is one of fourteen different types of rock coatings. Formation Desert varnish forms only on physically stable rock surfaces that are no longer subject to frequent precipit..
Desert View Highlands, California
Desert View Highlands is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 2,337 at the 2000 census. Geography Desert View Highlands is located at [34°35′23″N, 118°9′13″W] (34.589738, -118.153512)[Geographic references#1GR1..
Desert Warbler
The Desert Warbler is an Old World warbler which has two distinctive forms. These were previously treated as subspecies, but are now given specific status. African Desert Warbler, Sylvia deserti is a resident breeder in northwest Africa. Asian Desert Warbler, Sylvia nana breeds in south central ..
Desert warfare
History of Warfare Eras Prehistoric · Ancient · Medieval · Gunpowder · Industrial · Modern Battlespace Air · Information · Land · Sea · Space Theaters Arctic · Desert · Jungle · Mountain · Urban Weapons Armour..
Desert Wheatear
The Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) is a wheatear, a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It is a migratory insectivorous species, 14.5 -15 cm (5.6 inches) in..
Desert Wind
Desert Wind was a passenger train route operated by Amtrak from 1981 to May 10, 1997. When it first entered service, it ran from Los Angeles, California to Ogden, Utah, though it was later rerouted to Salt Lake City. At Salt Lake City the Desert Wind and The Pioneer (Portland, Oregon to Salt Lake ..
Desert Woodrat
The Desert Woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America, ranging from southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho (USA), south to Baja California and extreme northwestern Sonora, Mexico. This pack rat is 8.5 to 15 inches long. Their colo..
Desflurane
Desflurane (1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether) is a highly fluorinated methyl ethyl ether used for maintenance of general anaesthesia. Together with sevoflurane, it is gradually replacing isoflurane for human use, except in the third world where its high cost precludes its use. It has t..
Desford
Desford is a village in Leicestershire, UK. Desford contains a large secondary school and college, Bosworth College, numerous pubs, and an active sports club, Sport in Desford. Caterpillar_Inc. have a large manufacturing plant outside the village.The location of this was previously a grass airfield..
Desg
DESG - Defence Engineering and Science Group 150px 150px The Defence Engineering & Science Group (DESG) is a community of all 9,000 professional engineers and scientists working within the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MoD) to equip and support the UK Armed Forces with state of ..
Desh
Desh (Hindi: देश, derived from the Sanskrit word (देशः) meaning "country") is a region of Maharashtra state in central India. Desh is bounded on the west by the Western Ghats or Sahyadri range, on the north by the Kandesh and on the east by the Marathwada regions of Maharashtra, and o..
Deshabhimani
Deshabhimani is a Malayalam daily published from various cities in India. The publishing house is held by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). ..
Deshaies
Deshaies is a commune located in the south of the island Guadeloupe proper otherwise called Basse-Terre which is part of the Guadeloupe archipelago, belonging to France. It covers an area of 31.11 km², and as of 1999, has a population of 4,154. ..
Deshastha Brahmin
Deshastha Brahmins (Marathi: देशस्थ ब्राम्हण) are a Brahmin sub-caste primarily from the Indian state of Maharashtra, but have spread throughout South India. Deshastha, in Sanskrit, means inland and thus, Deshastha Brahmins are Brahmins living in the interiors (away fro..
Deshat
Deshat is a mountain on the border between the Republic of Macedonia and Albania. The mountain is characterized by its steep peaks: Mal and Golem Krchin and Velivar. The highest peak on the mountain, Velivar, is situated on 2375 meters above the sea level. Other significant peaks are: Deli Senica,..
DeShaun Foster
[] at NFL.com DeShaun Xavier Foster (born January 10, 1980, in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American football running back who plays for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Contents 1 High School career2 College career3 Pro career4 Career stat..
DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson (born April 3 1981 in Fresno, California) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He entered the NBA directly from Washington Union high school in his hometown of Fresno, California and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd overall selection of the 2000 NBA Draft. He'..
Desha County, Arkansas
Desha County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 15,341. The county seat is Arkansas City. Desha County was formed on December 12, 1838 and named for Captain Benjamin Desha who fought in the War of 1812. Local pronunciation of the name is deh-SHAY. ..
Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya
The Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya (National Liberation People's Party) is a political party in Sri Lanka. At the last legislative elections, on 2 April 2004, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6 % of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats. The DVJP was fou..
Deshea Townsend
Deshea Townsend (born September 8, 1975) is a defensive back who is currently playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at the University of Alabama. An eight year veteran of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Townsend grew from a special teams player and nickle back into a solid starte..
Deshengmen
Deshengmen from the 2nd Ring Road (Northern segment, taken in July of 2004) The Deshengmen (德胜门, "success of morals") is one of the old city gates in the north of Beijing, at the northern tip of the 2nd Ring Road. In old times, the army would leave Beijing from Xuanwumen and re-enter th..
Deshiwal
The Deshiwals are a tribe of the Swati origin residing on the eastern slopes of the Black Mountain of Hazara, had a fighting strength of over 1000 armed men at the end of the 19th century, who saw action against the British. Deshi or Deeshan is the name given to the country to north of Agror, and ly..
Deshka River
The Deshka River is river in southern-central Alaska.The Deshka River is one of Southcentral Alaska's premier sport fishing streams, with significant runs of Chinook and Coho salmon, along with resident Grayling, Burbot, and Rainbow Trout. Located within a roadless area, access to the river is diffi..
Deshler
Deshler is the name of some places in the United States of America: Deshler, NebraskaDeshler, Ohio This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you here, you might wan..
Deshler, Nebraska
Deshler is a city in Thayer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 879 at the 2000 census. Geography Deshler is located at [40°8′25″N, 97°43′25″W] (40.140406, -97.723542)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city ..
Deshler, Ohio
Deshler is a village in Henry County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,831 at the 2000 census. Geography Deshler is located at [41°12′25″N, 83°54′9″W] (41.207011, -83.902445)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the vil..
Deshler High School
Deshler High School can refer to: Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, AlabamaDeshler High School in Deshler, Nebraska This [Disambiguationdisambiguation page] lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an referre..
Deshna
Deshna is a type of religious speech in the ardh magadhi language. According to Jainism, after one gains all knowledge, all 24 tirthankars deliver speeches in a samavsaran, where all are welcomed (including non-human creatures, humans, and angels), and these speeches are understood by everyone in o..
Deshnoke
Deshnoke is a small town near near the Ino-Pakistan border in Rajastan, India. This is about 30km from Bikaner. Deshnoke is famous for its 600 year old Karni Mata temple where rats are worshiped. State of Rajasthan Capital Jaipur Divisions Ajmer | Bharatpur | Bikaner | Jaipur | Jodhpur | ..
Deshpande
Deshpande is a common surname in the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, India. The surname indicates the family is of Hindu (usually Brahmin) origin. It derives from the Marathi title dešpande, or ‘district accountant’, formerly a hereditary office, and can be derived from the Sanskrit terms ..
Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
MIT has a long tradition of nurturing innovation, providing the technology for new companies, and of building successful relationships with larger corporations that fund research. But historically, obstacles remained in the innovation process, between initial concepts and commercialization. Unprov..
Deshpremee Jana Samukshya
Deshpremee Jana Samukshya, a joint front of leftist parties in the Indian state of Orissa. DJS existed in September 2004. It consisted of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag, and ..
Deshret
Deshret is the formal name for the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. It would later be combined with the White Crown of Upper Egypt to form the Double Crown by Narmer (or Menes, it is debatable whether Narmer even existed). The symbol sometimes given for this crown, and Lower Egypt, is that of the deity N..
Deshwal
Deshwal or Deswal is a gotra of Jats found in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in India. This gotra is even smaller than the Dalal gotra and people belonging to this gotra are found scattered all over Haryana. They have a few villages in Bhatinda and some in Bahawalpur State and Rohtak. Deshwals a..
Desh Sevak Party
The Desh Sevak Party was a political party in India. It was led by veteran leaders of the Indian National Army, General Mohan Singh and Col. Gurdial Singh Dhillon. In October 1949 it merged with the All India Forward Bloc. Singh became the Forward Bloc chairman of AIFB and Dhillon the general secret..
Desi
Desi (pronounced /ˈd̪e:si/ or /ˈd̪e:ʃi/, and alternatively spelled Deshi), is a term used by South Asians to refer to themselves (in a manner that avoids any allusion to the specific state of origin and pointing to a common broader identity). This is also the name of the subculture found among..
Desians
The Desians are a fictional organization from the Tales of Symphonia game, made by Namco. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The Desians are mainly made up of oppressed half-elves who seek revenge on the humans who discriminate against them. At first, th..
Desiccated thyroid extract
Desiccated thyroid or thyroid extract, refers to porcine (or mixed beef and pork) thyroid glands, dried and powdered for therapeutic use. Pork, or mixed beef and pork, thyroid preparations were developed in the late 1800s, and are still used today to treat hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland)...
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying. A desiccant is a substance that absorbs water. It is most commonly used to remove humidity that would normally degrade or even destroy products sensitive to moisture. Silica gel, calcium sulfat..
Desiderata
1976 edition of The Desiderata of Happiness poetry collection Desiderata (Latin for "desired things", plural of desideratum) is a prose poem about attaining happiness in life. It was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. In the 1960s it became the subject of a hoax when claims were made that it had..
Desiderata (album)
Desiderata is an album by Madder Mortem, released in 2006. Track listing "My Name Is Silence""Evasions""Plague on This Land""Dystopia""M for Malice""Flood to Come, The""Changeling""Cold Stone""Hypnos""Sedition""Desiderata""Hangman" ..
Desiderata (disambiguation)
Desiderata is the title of a 1927 poem by Max Ehrman. It may also refer to: "Desiderata", a song by Lazyboy, which includes the text of the poemGerperga, the second wife of Charlemagne, often erroneously called Desiderata or Desideria..
Desiderata Software
Desiderata Software has been producing software solutions since 1995. They have produced such products as Blazix, an application server, Winductor, a scripting automation language for Windows, EZ JCom, a Java-to-COM bridge builder and FixNews, a freeware Netscape navigator add-on that provides one-t..
Desiderative
In linguistics, a desiderative form is one that has the meaning of "wanting to X". Desiderative forms are often verbs, derived from a more basic verb through a process of morphological derivation. In Sanskrit, the desiderative is formed through the suffixing of /sa/ and the prefixing of a reduplic..
Desideratum
This article is about an ambient music album by Synæsthesia. For the dictionary definition of the word, see [[Wiktionary:desideratum|desideratum]]. Desideratum is the debut album of ambient band Synæsthesia which was released in 1995. Track listing Disc 1 "Andromedia" (8:00)"Orion Nebulua" (1..
Desiderio Costa
Desiderio Costa is the current minister of petroleum of Angola. He replaced Botelho de Vasconcelos, who was moved to the ministry of energy and water. He took over as minister in a series of ministry-shake-ups in December 2002. Costa has traveled around the world, including China, Cuba, Venezuela, t..
Desiderio da Settignano
Desiderio da Settignano (c.1430-1464) was an Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance. He came from a family of stone carvers and stone masons. His work shows the influence of Donatello, specifically his use of low reliefs. His works include: The tomb of Carlo Marsuppini in Santa Croce, Flore..
Desiderio Quercetani
Desiderio Quercetani (born November 7, 1961) is a luthier specializing in the construction of baroque violins in Parma, Italy. He studied with Parma luthier Renato Scrollavezza. He has run his own workshop since 1987, and recently opened a school, Bottega di Parma, for the making of stringed instrum..
Desiderius
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Desiderius (also known as Daufer or Dauferius; Didier in French and Desiderio in Italian), the last king of the Lombards, is chiefly known for his connection to Charlemagne, who married his daughter and conquered his realm. He was originally a royal offi..
Desiderius (disambiguation)
Desiderius ("the longed-for") may refer to Saint Desiderius, lector for Saint Januarius, d. ca 303, martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, d. after 774.Saint Desiderius (Didier) of Langres, an early 5th century bishop.Saint Desiderius (Didier) of Vienne..
Desiderius Erasmus
This article deals with Erasmus, the theologian. For other meanings, see Erasmus (disambiguation). Desiderius Erasmus in 1523 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, probably 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. Erasmus wa..
Desiderius Wein
Desiderius ("Dezső") Wein (January 19, 1873 – June 5, 1944) was a Hungarian doctor and gymnast, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Wein competed in the parallel bars, horizontal bar, vault, and rings individual events. He did not win medals in any of those competitions, tho..
Design
Design, usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavours, is used as both a noun and a verb. "Design" as a verb refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a new object (machine, building, product, etc.). As a nou..
Design-Bid-Build
Design-Bid-Build(D-B-B) is a project delivery method in which the agency or owner holds separate contracts with separate entities for the design and construction of a project. Design-Bid-Build is the traditional method for project delivery. There are three main sequential phases to the Design-Bid..
Design-Build
Design-Build (D-B) is an owner driven project delivery mechanism used to reduce the project delivery time by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. This does not shorten the time it takes to draw the drawings, acquire the building permits or build the building. Rather, it ..
Design-driven development
Design Driven Development (D3) is an agile-based process for creating innovative requirements to build better solutions. It closely works with SCRUM and Extreme Programming (XP) for managing and implementing those requirements. Also it can work with non-agile processes such as RUP. It is based on t..
Designated agent
Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States, known as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), creates the potential role of designated agent for any ISP (Internet service provider) who files a designated agent registration with the United State..
Designated Approving Authority
From Department of Defense Directive 8500.1 (Information Assurance) - E2.1.13. Designated Approving Authority (DAA). The official with the authority to formally assume responsibility for operating a system at an acceptable level of risk. This term is synonymous with Designated Accrediting Authority ..
Designated driver
A designated driver is an individual within a group of people drinking alcoholic beverages at an event/establishment who promises to remain sober to drive the others home afterwards. In order to encourage these arrangements, some proprietors will offer free non-alcoholic drinks to the drivers as a r..
Designated for assignment
Designated for assignment is a contractual term used in Major League Baseball. When a player is designated for assignment, they are immediately removed from the club's 40-man roster. This gives the club 10 days to decide what to do with the player while freeing up a roster spot for another transac..
Designated hitter
A designated hitter (often shortened to "DH"), is an official position adopted by Major League Baseball's American League in 1973 that allowed teams to boost sagging offensive performances by designating a player to bat in place of the pitcher. Since then, most amateur and minor leagues have adopte..
Designated marksman
The Designated Marksman (DM) is a military role in a U.S. infantry squad. (The analogous role in the Israeli army is accurately descriptively named "squad sniper." Soviet and Russian doctrines use the Dragunov rifle in this way.) The designated marksman's role is to supply rapid accurate fire on e..
Designated marksman rifle
Several branches of the US military maintain a Designated Marksman Rifle. A US Marine looks through the scope of a USMC DMR The US Marines have an M-14 which is rebuilt at Quantico Marine Corps Base and redesignated the U.S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle.The US Army have an M-16 whi..
Designated patient
In social psychology, the designated patient is a person socially constructed as "mentally ill", regardless of the existence of real and measurable symptoms. Most social units, such as the family, have a designated patient: i.e., a person seen as "abnormal" or as a nonconformist by the rest of the u..
Designated survivor
A designated survivor is a member of the United States Cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, undisclosed location when the country's top leaders, including the president are gathered at a single location in order to maintain continuity of government with regard to presidential successio..
Designated Targets (book)
Designated Targets is the second volume of John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy. Contents 1 Plot2 Historical characters featured2.1 British Commonwealth2.2 Germany2.3 Japan2.4 USA2.5 USSR Plot [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending det..
Designation Scheme
In England, under the Designation Scheme, a number of important collections in non-national museums have been chosen to be "designated collections". This designated status gives access to the Designation Challenge Fund (DCF). The scheme was launched by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (M..
Designator code
Designator code may refer to: IATA airline designatorICAO airline designator This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
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 cor..
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. Designer is ..
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Designer clothing
Designer clothing are items of clothing made by fashion designers like Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, Gucci etc. These high-priced clothing are more attractive as opposed to their department store cousins and come in a style that enhances respect and sex appeal. ..
Designer Depot
Designer Depot is a division of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), a retailer in Canada. It was created in November 2004. The first location opened as part of the Vaughan Mills Mall in Vaughan, Ontario. It is a large department store that sells designer brand names at prices 20 - 60% below regular depa..
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. Contents 1 History2 Safety and law3 Well-known designer drugs4 S..
Designer Guys
Designer Guys was a design show on HGTV Canada starring Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados. ..
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 jeans are cut for women and men, available in many sizes, and ..
Designer Shoe Warehouse
Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) is a shoe store. External links [DSW official website][DSW Shoes Reviewed] ..
Designer toys
Designer toys are limited edition toys designed by artists in series of 300-1000 items per toy. Generally the artists have backgrounds in graphic design, illustration or low brow art. External links [Vinyl Pulse zine][Vinyl Abuse toy zine][KidRobot - Largest US store for t..
Designer vagina
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DesignHazard
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. designHazard is a multi-disciplinary design firm that covers from architecture to graphic design, from software architecture to information arch..
DesignInfo
Contents 1 RDR2 Design1.1 Mission Info1.2 Technical Info1.3 Ambient Life1.4 Ai1.5 Multiplayer1.6 Ideas...Red Dead 2 Needs YOU!1.7 Design Tool Requests Depot1.8 Game Reviews RDR2 Design This is the Design Page for Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead 2). For..
Designing for impact
Designing for Impact is the title of three study courses completed by students from the Department of Architectural Design, Department H, at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. For 1 1⁄2 years the question has been: What is development? And the answers are now available for discussion and..
Designing Women
Designing Women was a U.S. television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on CBS from 1986 to 1993. Sisters Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) are polar opposites. Julia ..
Designline
Designline is a New Zealand bus manufacturer which is based in Ashburton, producing urban vehicles and inter-city coaches. In the five main centres of New Zealand, those being Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch & Dunedin, many Designline buses can be seen. Many of New Zealand's bus operat..
Designomotion
Designomotion was one of the first broadcast design studios to embrace desktop technology. Founded in the mid 1990s, Designomotion designs innovative show openers, total show packages, commercial animation, and on-air promos. Its clients include Foote Cone and Belding, one of the oldest agencies in ..
Designskolen Kolding
Designskolen Kolding is a University-level school that teaches design. It is located in the town of Kolding in eastern Jutland, Denmark. The school offers a 5-year education in Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interactive Media, Fashion and Textile Design. Designskolen Kolding is on..
Designs in Creative Entertainment
Designs in Creative Entertainment is a board game publisher started in 1992 by Mark Frazier. Games Published (..
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. The company behind the magazine also sells products directed ..
Design Academy
Design Academy Eindhoven is a school for industrial design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands which has gained quite some international recognition over time. Contents 1 History2 Fame3 Alumni4 External Links History The Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland, was established in 1947 ..
Design Academy of Fashion
Design Academy of Fashion was started in 1999 by Daphne Treadaway. The Academy is centrally situated in Cape Town's suburb of Observatory. External links [Official Site] ..
Design and Architecture High School
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Design and Build
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Design and Build is the principle of combining the design and construction phases of a construction proj..
Design Automation Conference
The Design Automation Conference, or DAC is a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation. DAC started as the SHARE design automation workshop in 1964, and has been held yearly since. Up until the mid-70s, DAC had sessions on all types..
Design by committee
Design by committee is a wry, derogatory term referring to the style of design that sometimes results when a group of entities comes together to produce something, particularly in the absence of good leadership - roughly equivalent to the age-old expression, "too many cooks spoil the broth". Its def..
Design by contract
DBC also stands for Direct Bonded Copper, a Power electronic substrate "Design by Contract" is also the name of a trademark of Eiffel Software, Inc. (formerly Interactive Software Engineering), the designers of Eiffel. Design by contract, DBC or Programming by contract is a methodology for designi..
Design choice
In engineering, a design choice is a possible solution to a problem. Given a situation and a set of criteria (design specifications), a concept of how to meet those requirements is drafted. Each of these preliminary possibilities is in reality a design choice. Often these choices never leave the ..
Design classic
A design classic is a product that has been deemed a classic design, that is timeless or relevant to the age. Such designs are viewed as classic pieces of design that can be regarded as much as works of art as pieces of engineering. Much of the design classic have been based on new ideas and ways to..
Design closure
Design closure is the process by which a VLSI design is modified from its initial description to meet a growing list of design constraints and objectives. Every step in the IC design (such as static timing analysis, placement, routing, and so on) is already complex and often forms its own field of ..
Design code
Described succinctly, a design code is a document that sets rules for the design of a new development. It is a tool that can be used in the design and planning process, but goes further and is more regulatory than other forms of guidance commonly used in the English planning system over recent decad..
Design Compiler
Design Compiler is a product of Synopsys that compiles and optimises (in terms of silicon area and maximum clock frequency) high-level electronic circuit descriptions specified by restricted sub-languages of either Verilog or VHDL, into a gate-level netlist representation of a circuit. This procedu..
Design Continuum
Design Continuum is an international design firm specializing in product design, brand, and strategy development. The company was founded in 1983 by Gianfranco Zaccai and Jerry Zindler. The company's main office is in West Newton, Massachusetts, and associated offices in Milan, Italy and Seoul, Kore..
Design Council
The Design Council is a British organisation incorporated by Royal Charter and registered as an independent charity, but effectively a government agency (or, in the jargon of the UK government, a "non-departmental public body"). It "enhances prosperity and well-being in the UK by demonstrating an..
Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications
DoD 5015.2-STD or the Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications was implemented in June 2002. This standard defines requirements for the management of records within the Department of Defense, which has become the accepted standard for many state, county, and l..
Design document
A design document is a description of a software product that a software designer writes in order to give a software development team an overall guidance of the architecture of the software project. It usually accompanies an architecture diagram and has pointers to the detailed feature specification..
Design Document Listing
A design document is stable reference, and outling all parts of a software system,their indvidual operation as well as their interaction. The document should give a fairly complete description while maintaining a high-level view of the software. Design document listing is a usage based list avail..
Design education
Design education is the teaching of theory and application in the design of products, services and environments. It encompasses various disciplines of design, such as Graphic design, User interface design, Web design, Packaging design, Industrial design, Fashion design, Information design, Interior ..
Design engineer
A design engineer is an engineer whose job is to produce a detailed design from a conceptual design, thereby bringing the real from the abstract on a day-to-day basis. The output of a design engineer is usually a set of drawings and specifications that should produce a working product with very l..
Design Exchange Format
Design Exchange Format (DEF) is an open specification for representing physical layout of an integrated circuit in an ASCII format. It represents the netlist and circuit layout. DEF is used in conjunction with LEF to represent complete physical layout of an integrated circuit while it is being desi..
Design firm
A design firm (see design) is an organisation that designs any of a variety of things, in one or more of the design fields, such as graphic design, web design, architecture or engineering. A design studio is similar to a design firm, but may consist of solely an individual designer, whereas a desig..
Design flow (EDA)
Design flows are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit. Moore's law has driven the entire IC implementation RTL to GDSII design flows from one which uses primarily standalone synthesis, placement, and routing algorithms to a..
Design for Assembly
Design for Assembly is a process by which products are designed with ease of assembly in mind. If a product contains fewer parts it will take less time to assemble, thereby reducing assembly costs. In addition, if the parts are provided with features which make it easier to grasp, move, orient and..
Design for Living
Design for Living is a black comedy written by Noel Coward which premiered in 1932. It concerns a threesome of neurotic, camp but intensely artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo. Originally written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (as Otto and Gilda respectively), with Coward himself taking th..
Design for logistics
Design for logistics is a series of concepts in the field of supply chain management involving product and design approaches that help to control logistics costs and increase customer service levels. These concepts were introduced by Professor Hau Lee of Stanford University, and have the three key c..
Design for manufacturability
Design for manufacturability (DFM) refers to the general engineering art of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture. The basic idea exists in almost all engineering disciplines, but of course the details differ wildly depending on the manufacturing technology. Here are e..
Design for manufacturability (IC)
Achieving high-yielding designs in the state of the art, ULSI technology has become an extremely challenging task due to the miniaturization as well as the complexity of leading-edge products. The design methodology called design for manufacturability (DFM) includes a set of techniques to modify the..
Design for Six Sigma
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a separate and emerging discipline related to Six Sigma quality processes. The tools and order used in Six Sigma require a process to be in place and functioning. DFSS has a different objective, that of determining the needs of customers and the business, and driving ..
Design For Test
Design for Test (aka "Design for Testability" or "DFT") is a name for design techniques that add certain testability features to a microelectronic hardware product design. The premise of the added features is that they make it easier to develop and apply manufacturing tests for the designed hardware..
Design for X
"Design for X" is a generic name for the members of a family of methodologies, of which Design for Manufacture is the oldest. The need for such "Design for ..." methodologies was identified as engineers became increasingly aware of a lack of appropriate detailed knowledge in important product life..
Design Invasion
Design Invasion is a television program that ran from 2004 to 2005. External link [Design Invasion Official Website] ..
Design Laboratory
The Design Laboratory Academic Bridge to Business Founded 1999 Location Holborn, London Key people Brent Richards MA RIBA RSA (Head) Yann Mathias (Creative Director) Kevin Tallon (Project Leader) Chris Joscelyne (Project Leader) Boris Thuery (Project Leader) Industry Multidiscip..
Design language
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Design leadership
The term design leadership is raising attention in the recent years in combination with design management. Sometimes design manager are operating in the field of design leadership and design leaders in the field of design management, however design leadership can not be compared to design manageme..
Design life
The design life of a component or product is the period of time during which the item is expected by its designers to work within its specified parameters; in other words, the life expectancy of the item. The design life of components often is denominated as a mean time between failure (MTBF), whi..
Design Line telephone
Design Line is a brand that AT&T has used on several of its telephones. Western Electric Design Line The Bell System began to offer specialty telephones that could be purchased or leased, called the Design Line series. The Design Line name did not refer to one particular telephone; Design Line was ..
Design load
The design load is the maximum amount of something a system is designed to handle or the maximum amount of something that the system can produce, which are very different meanings. For example, a crane with a design load of 20 tons is designed to be able to lift loads that weigh 20 tons or less. How..
Design management
The term design management [dɪˈzaɪnˈmænɪdʒmənt] offers to an organization an approach to make design-relevant decisions in a market and customer-oriented way as well as optimizing design-relevant (enterprise-)processes. It is a long-continuous comprehensive activity on all levels of..
Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
Design Manual for Roads and Bridges or DMRB is the official manual for the design and assessment of trunk roads in the United Kingdom. It includes both technical standards and advice notes. External links [PDF versions of the manual] ..
Design marker
In software engineering, a design marker is a technique of documenting design choices in source code using the Marker Interface pattern. Marker interfaces have traditionally been limited to those interfaces intended for explicit, runtime verification (normally via instanceof). A design marker is a m..
Design matrix
In statistics, a design matrix is a matrix that is used in certain statistical models, e.g., the general linear model. It can contain indicator variables (ones and zeros) that indicates group membership in an ANOVA and it represents the independent variables. The advantage with a design matrix is th..
Design methods
Design Methods is a broad area that focuses on: Exploring possibilities and constraints by focusing critical thinking skills to research and define problem spaces for existing products or services—or the creation of new categories;Redefining the specifications of design solutions which can lead t..
Design Museum
The Design Museum is a museum by the River Thames near Tower Bridge in central London. It is small museum, with exhibitions over two floors, and a "Design Museum Tank" exhibition space out by the water front. It is on South Bank in the affluent Shad Thames area in SE1 London. The museum covers ..
Design objective
Design objective (DO): In communications systems, a desired performance characteristic for communications circuits and equipment that is based on engineering analyses, but (a) is not considered feasible to mandate in a standard, or (b) has not been tested. DOs are used because applicable systems..
Design of a Decade 1986/1996
Design of a Decade: 1986/1996 was the first greatest hits compilation released by pop/R&B singer Janet Jackson. It sold relatively poorly for Jackson's post-Control standards, probably because of the exclusion of many singles from janet. Released in 1995, it features six of Jackson's hits from Co..
Design of Cities
Design of Cities, published in 1967, is an illustrated account of the development of urban form. Written by Edmund Bacon, former Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (1949 to 1970). This work looks at the many aspects that influence city design, including spacial form, int..
Design of experiments
The first statistician to consider a methodology for the design of experiments was Sir Ronald A. Fisher. He described how to test the hypothesis that a certain lady could distinguish by flavor alone whether the milk or the tea was first placed in the cup. While this sounds like a frivolous applicati..
Design on a Dime
Design on a Dime (sometimes referred to as DoD) is a redesigning television series on HGTV. It features one or more people who want a room, etc. made better. The Design on a Dime team uses a $1000 budget typically and remakes the room. There have been a few variations, with episodes for weddings and..
Design patent
In the United States, a design patent is a patent granted on the unique appearance or concept of an item. Designs patents are a type of industrial design right. Design patents typically apply i.a. to jewelry, furniture, and other items with substantial decorative features. In the rest of the world..
Design pattern
Design pattern has a similar meaning in several contexts: Design pattern (architecture), a way of capturing and communicating design ideas in architectureDesign pattern (computer science), a standard solution to common problems in software designDesign Patterns, the book that gave rise to the study ..
Design Patterns
This article is about the book by Gamma et al. For other meanings, see design pattern. "GoF" redirects here. GoF is also used as an acronym for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (ISBN 0201633612) is a software engineering book propos..
Design pattern (architecture)
The idea of capturing design ideas as a "pattern" is usually attributed to Christopher Alexander, an American architect. The patterns serve as an aid to design cities and buildings. The concept of having collections of "patterns", or typical samples as such, is much older. One can think of these col..
Design pattern (computer science)
}}} In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly-occurring problem in software design. A design pattern isn't a finished design that can be transformed directly into code; it is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in man..
Design philosophy
A design philosophy is a guide to help make choices when designing. Some popular types include: Use-centered design, which focuses on how it will be used, often involving the end user early on.KISS ( Keep it Simple, Stupid), which strives to eliminate unnecessary complicationsTMTOWTDI (There's Mo..
Design planning
Design planning is an evolving discipline incorporating design methods and business models in strategizing products, services and environments. Synonyms: Strategic design planning, Innovation planning. ..
Design principles and elements
Design principles and elements are the basic visual toolbox of design tactics in every design discipline. The Elements form the basic vocabulary of visual design, while the Principles constitute the broader structural aspects of the composition. Most compositions are created by using combinations..
Design process
The design process is a series of steps followed by designers, architects and some system designers. It is part of the GCSE curriculum in a number of subjects. Typical stages of the design process include: Design brief - a statement of the task at handAnalysis (systems design) - analysis of current ..
Design process (computing)
A design process generates a conceptual solution for a problem stated in the form of requirements. Examples include: Responsibility driven design (RDD)URDAD ICONIX provides a complete software development process which incorporates a design process. Pure design methodologies can be plugged into sof..
Design process (disambiguation)
Design process can refer to: The design process used to design new products, buildings or systemsThe software engineering design process..
Design research
Design research emerged as a recognisable discipline in the 1960s, initially marked by a conference on Design methods at Imperial College, London, in 1963. It built a network of practitioners and academics, and led to the founding of the Design Research Society (DRS) in 1967. The DRS conference proc..
Design right
Design right is a sui generis intellectual property right in British law. There are two types of design rights: the registered design right (Registered Design Act 1949) and the unregistered design right. The unregistered design right is similar to copyright in that it subsists automatically when a ..
Design rule checking
Design Rule Checking or Check(s) (DRC) is the area of Electronic Design Automation that determines whether a particular chip design satisfies a series of recommended parameters called Design Rules. Design rule checking is a major step during Physical verification of the design, which also involves L..
Design rule for Camera File system
Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) is an ISO specification#redirect [[Template:Fact]] which defines the file system for digital cameras, including the directory structure, file naming method, character set and file format. The file format of DCF is based on the Exif 2.1 specification. The roo..
Design Science
Design Science (DSI) was founded in Long Beach, California in 1986 to develop the math equation authoring tools Equation Editor and MathType. In 2000, they purchased Geometry Technologies in St. Paul, Minnesota and acquired the WebEQ software line for authoring and presenting MathML on the world wi..
Design Science License
Design Science License (DSL) is a copyleft license for free content such as text, images, and music. The DSL was written by Michael Stutz. The original website for the DSL was Michael Stutz's site at http://www.dsl.org/. However, the site has been taken down. The Free Software Foundation has a ..
Design science revolution
The conceptual framework for a Design Science Revolution was probably first articulated by R. Buckminster Fuller as a panacea for problems caused by natural resource depletion, overpopulation and many other 20th century problems anticipated by Thomas Malthus and others. Fuller's answer to the variou..
Design specification
Design specifications are the measurements and characteristics of a structure or object which provide for a workable, sustainable, or pleasing creation or construct. This can apply to a wide variety of manufactured or fabricated objects, such as buildings, automobiles, and clothes and also utility, ..
Design statement
A Design statement is a report required under English and Welsh planning law that sets out, illustrates and justifies the process that has led to the development proposals. It is required to be submitted to accompany a Planning application. The DCLG circular 01/2006 and the Planning and Compulsory ..
Design Technology
Design And Technology Design And Technology, written as D&T for short, is an academic subject of the UK educational system that can be taken at all levels from primary school upwards. It is also offered in several other countries such as Botswana in Africa and it can also be taken at all levels from..
Design technology
Design Technology is an IB course focusing on design, materials, and manufacturing processes. It is one of the Group 4 sciences. IB Design Technology is given elective subject offered in all IB schools globally. Design Technology is also offered in the IBMYP program as a compulsory subject for the ..
Design thinking
Design thinking is a process for creating or solving things. Define | Research | Ideate | Prototype | Choose | Implement | Learn Within these seven steps, we can eventually frame problems, ask the right questions, create more ideas, and choose the best answers. The steps aren't linear; they can ..
Design to Cost
Design to cost is a process or program to design a product or service to an optimum cost vs. value ratio. ..
Design Web Format
Design Web Format (DWF) is an open, secure file format developed by Autodesk for the efficient distribution and communication of rich design data to anyone who needs to view, review, or print design files. Because DWF files are highly compressed, they are smaller and faster to transmit than design..
Design your own jewelry
It has been suggested that this article or section be [Merging and moving pagesmerged] with [Jewellery]. ([Discuss]) To meet Wikipedia's and conform with our [NPOVNPOV] policy, this article or section may require [Cleanupcleanup].The current vers..
Desilu Productions
The "Desilu" logo, used in the 1960s. Desilu Productions was a company jointly owned by American actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The name is a portmanteau of their first names. It was home to such television series as Star Trek, The Andy Griffith Show, [[Mission: Impossible]], The Untouc..
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 Recordings, Barcode, Citrus, and Renegade Hardware. A sufferer of schizophrenia, March..
Desinec
Desinec }} Desinec is a group of two villages in central Croatia, Gornji Desinec and Donji Desinec ("upper" and "lower"), located northeast of Jastrebarsko. ..
Desinicization
Desinicization (Simplified Chinese: }}}; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: , 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..
Desio
Desio Country: Italy Region: Lombardy Province: Milan Location: Latitude: 45° 37'Longitude: 9° 13' Altitude: m ft Area: 14 km² mi² Population: 37,262 31-12-04  Population density: 2489/km² /mi² Frazioni: San Giorgio,San Carlo, San..
Desipramine
Desipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) that inhibits the reuptake of norepinephrine. It is sold under the brand names Norpramin® and Pertofrane®. It is used to treat depression, but not considered a first line treatment since the introduction of SSRI antidepressants. Desipramine is an ..
Desirable Daughters
Desirable Daughters (2002) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee. The sequel to this novel is The Tree Bride (2004). External links [Powells review][Village Voice review][Tribune India review][Desi Journal review] ..
Desire
Desire may mean: Feelings: Interpersonal attractionPreference, on which microeconomic theory is basedMotivation, thought that leads to an actionTanha in Buddhist psychology, as described in the Four Noble TruthsDesire, a concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus complex In..
Desiré-Raoul Rochette
Desiré-Raoul Rochette (March 6, 1790–July 3, 1854), was a French archaeologist. Born at St Amand in the department of Cher, Raoul Rochette received his education at Bourges. He was made professor of history in the College de Louis-le-Grand at Paris in 1813 and in the Sorbonne in 1817. His fi..
Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn Inc. is a corporation founded in 1999 that supplies enterprise software to allow users to build E-learning environments. Corporate headquarters are in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Desire2Learn (D2L) clients include colleges, universities, and schools, as well as associations and other ..
DesiReactor
DesiReactor is an eD2k download site dedicated to Desi Media, such as Bollywood XviD, MP3 etc. eD2k also known as eDonkey2000 is the network that is used with this site. The site is similar to ShareReactor and ShareConnector except that it provides Desi (South Asian) content. External links [..
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". The group is headquartered in Overland Park, Kan..
Desiree
Desiree may refer to: Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern (born 1963)Desiree Cousteau (born 1956), an American porn star.Desiree Heslop (born 1961), a British singer also known by the stage name Princess.Desiree Washington (born 1973), a beauty pageant contestant.Desiree potato, a red-skinned variet..
Desirée (movie)
Desirée is a 1954 film starring Marlon Brando as Napoleon. Jean Simmons played Desirée Clary and Merle Oberon was cast as Josephine Bonaparte. External links [Désirée Clary][The story of Desiree] (ger.) ..
Desiree Casado
Desiree Casado (b. 1985) most notable for her role of Gabriella Rodriguez on Sesame Street. Playing the role since 1993, taking over from a previous actress when the character was SORASed, Gabi is the daughter of Luis and Maria. Her character has become a more integral part of the show's cast in ..
Desiree Cousteau
Desiree 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 Desiree Cousteau. Desiree Cousteau started out in the early 70's as a mainstream actress, landing..
Desiree del Valle
Désirée Del Valle (b. 28 May 1982 as Désirée Lois del Valle Dunham) is an actress from the Philippines. Controversy struck when she married her ex lesbian lover in Las Vegas USA, bit their relationship didnt last that long and the couple separated not long after their marriage. External links ..
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. She co-wrote all the songs for the ..
Desiree Heslop
Desiree Heslop on the cover of her single "Tell Me Tomorrow" (1986) Desiree Heslop (born on 27 November, 1961) is a British singer, who is using the stage name "Princess". In 1970s she worked with group Osibisa. From 1991 to 2003 she lived in U.S., but in 2003 she return to England. Her firs..
Desirée Sparre-Enger
Promotional photograph. 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. Several of..
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. Tyson was ultimately ..
Desireless
For the Eagle-Eye Cherry album, see Desireless (album). Desireless (born 25 December, 1952, as Claudie Fritsch) is a French singer. In 1986/87, her hit song "Voyage Voyage" made it to number one in many European single charts and sold over five million copies. External links [Official websit..
Desireless (album)
Desireless is a 1998 debut album by American-Swedish singer Eagle-Eye Cherry. The album was released in Sweden in 1997, by the small label Diesel. In 1998, Sony Music Entertainment picked it up for American distribution. The album went platinum in the United States and sold over four million cop..
Desire (album)
Desire is an album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on the Columbia Records label in 1976. While it is not often listed among the best of Dylan's albums, it was well-received and commercially successful. Desire peaked at #1 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for 5 weeks, becoming o..
Desire (DC Comics)
Desire is one of the Endless, a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Desire is the third youngest of the Endless. Desire is a beautiful, perfectly androgynous figure who is not so mu..
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. This single is the last released from Do As Infinity to include a ..
Desire (Geri Halliwell song)
Desire was the second single from Geri Halliwell's third album Passion. Released on May 30, 2005 The single peaked at a low twenty-two, the only single of her career, including work with the Spice Girls, that did not enter the top ten, "Desire" went to sell 10,000 copies in the UK. Tracklisting a..
Desire (Manga)
Desire is a yaoi manga written by Maki Kazumi and illustrated by Yukine Honami. It was published in October of 2004 by Digital Manga, Inc. The original Japanese edition was published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. Tokyo in 2001. Digital Manga, Inc published an English version in the U.S.A. a..
Desire (psychoanalysis)
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the term desire designates the impossible relation that a subject has with objet petit a. According to Lacan, desire proper (in contrast with demand) can never be fulfilled. ..
Desire (song)
Rattle and Hum Album Listing "Van Diemen's Land"(Track 2) "Desire"(Track 3) "Hawkmoon 269"(Track 4) The Best of 1980-1990 Album Listing "Sweetest Thing"(Track 10) "Desire"(Track 11) "When Love Comes To Town"(Track 12) This is about the U2 song. For the Talk Talk song from the same year, see ..
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". Although its first few seconds are basically a reprise of the musical themes of those opening two tra..
Desire (TV series)
The program will air for a 65 episode run. A show will run Monday through Friday for 13 weeks, with a "recap" show on Saturdays also airing at 8 p.m. Eastern. References [Telenovela ready to heat up U. S. TV] (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)[Ailes was prepared for UPN's demise ..
Desire Inc.
"Desire Inc." (1990) is a video documentary piece created by the artist Lynn Hershman (now known as Lynn Hershman Leeson). Hershman created a series of seductive television ads in which a sexy woman asked for viewers to call her. The ads, interviews with the respondents to the ad, and commentary fr..
Desire lines
A desire line is the abstract line that represents the airline distance between an origin and destination, and shows where people want to travel. The width of the line represents the amount of demand. Desire lines were used in early transportation planning, prior to the advent of computerized model..
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 occuring among the complex's 660 residents. It is located across Florida av..
Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Characters Ephraim Cabot Simeon Peter - his sons Eben Abbie Putnam Young Girl, Two Farmers, The Fiddler, A Sheriff, and other folk from the neighboring farms The Film In 1958 a film ve..
Desire Walks On
Desire Walks On Album by Heart Released 1993 Genre Pop Length 51:15 Label Capitol U.S. Certification None Heart Chronology Rock the House(1991) Desire Walks On(1993) The Road Home(1995) Desire Walks On was an album released in 1993 by the rock/pop band Heart. It yielded one single - W..
Desiré Wilson
Desiré Wilson (born November 26, 1953 in Brakpan) is a former racing driver from South Africa, one of only five women to compete in Formula One. She tried but failed to qualify for 1 F1 Grand Prix with a non-works Williams FW07, and also raced in the 1981 non-championship South African Grand Prix...
Desiring-production
Desiring-production is a term coined by the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their book Anti-Œdipus (1978). They oppose the Freudian conception of unconsciousness as a "theater", instead favoring a "factory" model: desire is not an imaginary force, but a real, productive force...
Desiro
Desiro DMU, as part of an InterCity Săgeata Albastră (Blue Arrow) train in Romania, run by Căile Ferate Române A Bulgarian State Railways-operated Desiro train at the Central Railway Station in Sofia Desiro is a brand name of modular trains manufactured by Siemens of Germany. Cont..
DesiRock
DesiRock is the third album by British bhangra group Swami. It was their most popular album to date and voted as one of BBC Radio 1's best DJ tracks of the year [BBC Summer Sounds:] Swami. It was also crowned the best Asian album of 2004 by Desitunes4u.com [Desitunes4u.com:] To..
Desislava
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Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH
Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH is the German producer of products such as Orfiril ..
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 re..
Desiya Geetham
Desiyageetham is Tamil film directed by Cheran Plot Keeping in line with his two earlier films he came up with 'Desiyageetham' which created a controversy while in the making. In walks Nasser wearing dark glasses etc as Chief Minister. The four youths led by Murali spit on the banner and abuse Nass..
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" Vijaykanth in Tamil Nadu along the lines of ..
Desizing
Desizing is the process of removing the size material from the warp yarns in woven fabrics. Contents 1 Sizing agents1.1 Natural sizing agents1.2 Synthetic sizing agents2 Desizing processes2.1 Enzymatic desizing2.2 Oxidative desizing2.3 Acid desizing2.4 Remo..
Desi (disambiguation)
Desi is a self-referential term used by South Asian people. Desi may also refer to: Desi Arnaz, a Cuban-born musician, actor, comedian and television producer; or his son, Desi Arnaz, Jr., an actor and musicianDesi Relaford, a professional American baseball playerDesidae, a genus of spidersDelta Ep..
Desi Anwar
Desi Anwar (born Bandung, West Java; 11 December 1962) is an Indonesian news presenter. She worked for RCTI in Jakarta from 1990 to 1999. She then moved to a news web portal Astaga.com before returning to television and joining Indonesia's first 24-hour news channel, Metro TV, in 2001. She was also..
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha, III) (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American musician, actor, comedian and television producer. Contents 1 Early life2 Music career3 Film career3.1 I Love Lucy3.2 Desilu Productions4 Beliefs4..
Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Desi Arnaz, Jr. (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz, IV on January 19, 1953) is an American actor and musician. Contents 1 Early life2 Career3 Private life4 External links Early life He was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California, the son of famous acting team ..
DESI Develop Empower Synergize India
Contents 1 Develop Empower Synergize India - DESI2 Structure of DESI3 Present Board4 Activities5 DESI Grows to Include other Campuses6 External links Develop Empower Synergize India - DESI ["Develop Empower & Synergize India"] also known as DESI, (Desi ..
Desi DNA
Desi DNA is a British television show covering Desi (British Asian) culture, issues and music. The show currently broadcasts on BBC Two and is co-presented by Adil Ray and Anita Rani with occasional contributions by Nikki Bedi, Nihal and Bobby Friction and a number of other presenters. External Li..
Desi Jews
Desi Jews are Jews living in South Asia (or originally from this region, also known as the Indian subcontinent) who belong to communities that had been integrated into South Asian culture and society. The term Desi, found in most South Asian languages, is used by the South Asians to refer to them..
Desi metal
Desi Metal is a subgenre of [Heavy Metal] with thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound but using local language as lyrics and themes. Sometimes even using traditional instruments like tabla and sitar to enrich the music. In 90s many bands from subcontinent tried to mix metal with cl..
Desi Reijers
Dirkje Johanna ("Desi") Reijers (born June 4, 1964 in Doetinchem, Gelderland) is a former freestyle swimmer from The Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she won the silver medal in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay, alongside Co..
Desi Relaford
Desmond Lamont Relaford (born September 16, 1973 in Valdosta, Georgia) is an American professional baseball shortstop who currently plays for the Memphis Redbirds. He has previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Philadelphia P..
Desi Wear
Desi Wear is a South Asian clothing line. It offers trendy t-shirts and other apparel with catchy slogans that identify with South Asian culture. External link [Desi Wear] ..
Desi Williams
Desi Williams is a rugby player who played a few games for the Wigan Warriors, but then got dropped after a bad catch. External link [The Wigan Warriors' short profile of Williams, with photo] ..
Desi Xpress
Desi Xpress is a national UK weekly entertainment newspaper published by Urban Media, who also produce The Asian Today. Desi Xpress was first launched in the Midlands regions in England in 2004 before becoming national in August 2005. The entertainment weekly is the country's only pure entertainm..
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 Dun..
Desjardins Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Desjardins is a former Regional county municipality of Quebec in Canada. Much of it became part of Lévis, Quebec in 2002. ..
Desk
A desk is a furniture form and a class of table. It is often used in a work or office setting to read or write on, using simple implements like a pencil and paper or complicated ones like a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers. The list of desk forms and types gives the most common desk v..
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 De..
DeskBrowse
DeskBrowse is a software utility that allows users to quickly access the web and get bits of information. It is developed by SGS International for the Mac OS. From the DeskBrowse website: DeskBrowse is an innovative web browser with a strong focus on workflow, stability, and speed. It is very lig..
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..
Deskjet
Typical DeskJet printer — DeskJet "Professional Series" 895 Cxi from 1999 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 ..
Desklaunch
Desklaunch is a small software utility from the Oroborus project. It creates small icons on the root window of the X Window System to allow a user to start applications quickly. External link [Oroborus home page] ..
Deskloops
Deskloops application is a new content organizational tool for Windows. It arranges all open windows and applications on a virtual loop. It spreads everything out so you can see all your windows and grab the one you need. Deskloops users can organize open windows and applications and group them int..
Deskman
A deskman is a now, seemingly out-moded, term, referring to a journalist who performs a copy editing (also known as 'sub editng') role on newspapers or magazines. The usage is American-English (unlke the more universal copy editor and sub editor), and is cited in 'Essential English 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 Asse..
Deskmenu
Deskmenu is a small utility from the Oroborus project. It creates a menu when the user clicks on the root window of the X Window System desktop. It can be used together with the Oroborus minimalistic window manager. See also DesklaunchKeylaunch External link [Oroborus website] ..
Deskstar
The Deskstar is a computer hard drive. It was originally produced by IBM until Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive division in 2003. From then on it was called the Hitachi Deskstar. The IBM Deskstar 75GXP, and several other models made around the same time, became infamous for their reportedly high fai..
DeskStation Technology
A Deskstation Raptor Reflex workstation DeskStation Technology (Lenexa, KS) was a manufacturer of RISC-based computer workstations intended to run Windows NT. DeskStation was based in Lenexa, Kansas. Contents 1 MIPS-based systems2 Alpha-based systems3 See also4 External ..
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 associat..
Desktastic
Desktastic is a utility for Mac OS X that allows users to actually paint on the screen, as opposed to in a standard window. External links [Desktastic] ..
Desktop
The IT (information technology) term desktop may refer to: The area behind the windows in the desktop metaphor of computer user interfacesDesktop environment or software that provides a comprehensive computer user interfaceDesktop computer - An independent personal computer, as opposed to other form..
Desktop.com
Desktop.com was an Application Service Provider founded by Katie Burke, Larry Drebes, and Karen Drebes. They created a Web application compatible with the Internet Explorer 4 browser (and announced compatibility with Netscape Navigator 4) that effectivelly simulates a user's desktop over the World W..
DesktopBSD
DesktopBSD is a UNIX-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal is to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the ease-of-use of KDE, which is the default graphical user interface. It is available for the IA-32 and AMD64 platforms. Contents 1 History and development2&..
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 for Windows as well as a desktop object system. User creations can be exported as .desktop files or as widgets. The program, created by S..
Desktop computer
A desktop computer is a personal computer made for use on a desk in an office or home and is distinguished from portable computers such as laptops or PDAs and specialized computers such as servers. Desktops are currently the most affordable computers and ubiquitous in businesses, schools, and h..
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. The conference takes place in Ottawa, Canada each year. It is usual..
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. A DE typically provides i..
Desktop Light Linux
Desktop Light Linux (short DeLi Linux) is a Desktop Linux distribution for old PCs. Contents 1 Release dates2 Requirements3 Shipped Software4 Programs not included5 Prospects of version 0.76 See also7 External links Release dates DeLi Linux Version Dat..
Desktop Linux Consortium
The Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) is a non-profit organization which aims at enhancing and promoting the use of the GNU/Linux operating system on the desktop. Founded on February 4, 2003, it is led by open source activist Bruce Perens as executive director and Jeremy White, CEO of CodeWeavers, as ..
Desktop Linux Summit
The Desktop Linux Summit is an annual conference with a programme of speakers addressing desktop Linux issues. It was in its 4th year in 2006, meeting in San Diego. [Official website] ..
Desktop Management Interface
The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer. Essentially, to the user, it is a table provided by the personal computer BIOS which can be parsed and which gives information about the BIOS and the ..
Desktop manufacturing
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Desktop metaphor
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. A document can be ope..
Desktop notes
Desktop notes are computer applications that allow putting Post-it note-like windows on the screen, with reminders, short notes and other clippings. Desktop notes are typically rectangular and yellow, like their real-world counterpart, but most applications support other colours and more elabora..
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 combinat..
Desktop pet
Desktop pet may mean: Digital petDesktop Pet (Stardock), a computer program by StardockThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended arti..
Desktop Pet (Stardock)
Stardock's Desktop Pet is a digital pet that lives on the desktop of Windows-based computers. It was released on 13 December, 2005. The pet has an animated, 3D form. Its motion and actions are controlled by a relatively simple chemical-based motivation system implemented in VBScript on the Deskto..
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer, page layout software and a printer to create publications on a small economic scale. Users create page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements using desktop publishing software such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDes..
Desktop replacement computer
An HP ZV6000 series laptop, best used as a desktop replacement A desktop replacement computer is a personal computer that provides the full capabilities of a desktop computer while remaining portable. They are often a larger, bulkier laptop. Because of their increased size, this class of com..
Desktop search
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Desktop sharing
Desktop sharing can incorporate many different situations. The most common is a "remote log-in". It can also apply to more than one user being logged onto a single computer terminal. Remote Log-in: See VNC Multiple Users Logged in: Multiple co-inciding "Virtual Desktops", only one of which is view..
Desktop shell replacement
A desktop shell replacement can replace, for example, explorer.exe on a Microsoft Windows based system. Examples of this incude: LiteStep, Geoshell, Emerge Desktop, Secure Desktop, SharpE, and BB4Win See also Shell (computing) External links [Shell-Shocked] - the shell-related online ma..
Desktop Sidebar
Desktop Sidebar is a freeware program based on the Microsoft Operating system Windows Vista, which places a user-friendly sidebar docked to the right or left side of the computer screen. Most useful on widescreen laptop computers, the program permits the user to easily access utilities such as a c..
Desktop wars
Desktop wars refer to the debate among Linux users and developers as to which Linux desktop environment is best, usually with KDE and GNOME being the usual choices advocated. See also Computer zealotrySoftware warsOperating system advocacy ..
Desktop Wiki
Some Wiki software is not intended for collaborative work, but for either content management or for personal information organising. ConnectedText is a non-free personal wiki system with many advanced features.MyWiki is a server-less wiki for the GNUstep and Cocoa environment.Notebook is a freeware..
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager (DWM) is currently the name for the new windowing system that will be available in all versions of Windows Vista, except Starter Edition, to enable the new Aero user interface. Users will need to have a DirectX 9 capable video card to be able to use the Desktop Window Man..
Deskzilla
Deskzilla is an alternative, desktop client application for the Bugzilla bug tracking system, created by an independent software vendor. Deskzilla is not open source and is licensed on per user basis. Version 1.0 was released on October 5, 2005. External links [Deskzilla] ..
Desk Accessory
Early Macintosh Desk Accessories In the operating system for the Apple Macintosh computer, a Desk Accessory (DA) was a piece of software, originally written as a device driver, conforming to a particular programming model. The purpose of this model was to permit very small helper-type applicat..
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. Because of this intended venue and its small size i..
Desk of Books
The desk of books is a full size sculpture of a pedestal desk by the Venetian artist Livio De Marchi. Like the bureau du Roi it was created as a work of art and is valued as such. But like that most famous of French desks it also has everything necessary to support any form of functional desk wor..
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 ..
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. The second piece is a stand made for..
Desk Set
Desk Set (or His Other Woman in the U.K.) is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy (as "Richard Sumner") and Katharine Hepburn (as "Bunny Watson"). Its screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the play by William Marchant. The pl..
Deslandres (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..
Desley Scott
Desley Carleton Scott (born 27 June, 1943) is an Australian Labor Party politician and member for Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, married with three children. Ms Scott holds a Dental Nurse Certificate. Desley Scott was elected in 2001, after working as an ..
Desloge, Missouri
Desloge is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,802 at the 2000 census. Geography Desloge is located at [37°52′22″N, 90°31′14″W] (37.872781, -90.520484)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau..
Desloratadine
Desloratadine is a drug used to treat allergies. It is marketed under several trade names such as NeoClarityn®, Claramax®, Clarinex® and Aerius®. It is an active metabolite of loratadine, which is also on the market. Contents 1 Available forms2 Mechanism of action3 Side effe..
Deslot
Deslot is a term first coined by Dr. Andy Fisher for the process of decreasing number of work slots to increase practice efficiency. Variations include: Redeslot, the removal of work slots that someone has tried to add back to the work schedule. Multideslot, the simultaneous elimination of mu..
Desman
The Desmans or Desmaninae are one of three subfamilies of the mole family Talpidae, the others being Talpinae and Uropsilinae. This subfamily consists of two species of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivores found in Europe. Both species are considered to be vulnerable. They have webbed paws and th..
Desmanthus
Desmanthus is a genus of about 24 species of herbs and shrubs and is sometimes described as being suffruiticose. It is in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae, with bipinnate leaves. Desmanthus is closely related to Leucaena and in appearance is similar to Neptunia. Like Mimosa..
Desmarest
Desmarest is the name of more than one scientist: Nicolas Desmarest (1725 - 1815), andhis son, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784 - 1838) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change..
Desmarestiales
Desmarestiales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. Member of this order have terete or ligulate (flat) pinnately branched thalli attached by discoid holdfasts. They have a sporphytic thallus usually aggregated to form a pseudo parenchyma. Pound F.E. 1962 “The Biology of the Al..
Desmatophoca
Desmatophoca ('skin seal') is an extinct genus of pinniped. The 1,70 m (5 ft 8 in) creature was the first pinniped to develope the streamlined shape also seen in modern sea lions. Its limbs were much shorter, predominantly consisting of feet with elongated, webbed toes. Desmatophoca still had a sh..
Desmatosuchus
Desmatosuchus 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. Desmatosuchus looked like its relatives, possessing an armored body and pig-like head. It used its shovel-shaped snout t..
Desmid
Desmids are the Desmidiales class of green algae, comprise around 40 genera and more than 10000 species, found mostly but not exclusively in freshwater. Most are unicellular, and are divided into two compartments separated by a narrow bridge or isthmus. Desmids assume a variety of highly symmetrica..
Desmoche
Desmoche is a popular two to four player card game in Nicaragua, the country in which it originated. It is similar to games in the rummy family. Contents 1 Object of the game2 The Deck3 Dealing4 Play5 Melds6 Other Rules7 Keeping Score - Betting Object of the ga..
Desmod
Desmod is a Slovak rock band which was founded in 1996. The former formation was completely different from the current one and it has played various genres including heavy metal and punk. Nowadays is Desmod one of the most popular slovak music producers. Members Kuly (singer)Dušan Minka (bassgui..
Desmodium
Desmodium is a genus of plants in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Several Desmodium species contain tryptamine alkaloids in leaf, stem, or root. See also Dimethyltryptamine External links [Trout’s Notes on the Genus Desmodium] Chemistry, ethnomedicine, pharmacology, synonyms and ..
Desmodromic valve
In general mechanical terms, the word desmodromic is used to refer to mechanisms that have different controls for their actuation in different directions. Desmodromic poppet valve Desmodromic valves are those which are positively closed by a cam and leverage system, rather than relying on the ..
Desmoglein
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Desmognathus
Desmognathus is a genus of lungless salamanders known as Dusky Salamanders. There are 19 known species within the genus. Species Desmognathus abditus (Anderson & Tilley, 2003)Seepage Salamander, Desmognathus aeneus (Brown & Bishop, 1947)Apalachiacola Dusky Salamander, Desmognathus apalachicolae (..
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. Description The Southern Dusky Salamander grows from 3 to 6 inches in ..
Desmoid tumor
A desmoid tumor (sometimes referred to as aggressive fibromatosis) is a rare (3 per million population) tumor that may or may not be part of a genetic syndrome such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). The superficial form is also known as Dupuytren's fibromatosis, and is small and slow-growin..
Desmon
Desmon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Mutant Digimon. It is from the Italian Manga. Abilities Attacks Unknown ..
Desmond
Desmond may refer to: County Desmond, a county of medieval IrelandThe Earl of Desmond, an Irish aristocratic titleDesmond's, a 1990s British sitcom, screened by Channel 4Desmond, a slang term for the British 2:2 degree classification Desmond (often shortened to Des) is the first name of: Desmond Ca..
Desmond's
Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. The first series was filmed in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989. The show was made in and set in Peckham, London, England and featured a predominantly West Indian cast. Conceived by T..
Desmond's Hip City
Desmond's Hip City is a 1997 album by Skydiggers. The album differs from the band's conventional country rock sound somewhat, with several songs (notably "Shape of Things to Come" and "November in Ontario") adopting more of a hard rock sound and the title track incorporating electronic keyboards and..
Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner
For other Ackners, see Ackner Desmond James Conrad Ackner, Baron Ackner, PC, QC (born September 18, 1920 - died March 21, 2006) was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and for that reason he was created Baron Ackner of Sutton, West Sussex on January 30, 1986. Contents 1 Early life2 Legal and..
Desmond Armstrong
Desmond Armstrong (born November 2, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is a former United States national team soccer defender, his career spanning 1987-1994. Armstrong's college career was spent at the University of Maryland, where he was chosen for all-ACC honors three times. He played in a total of 78 ga..
Desmond Bagley
The cover of the Fontana 1982 paperback edition of Bagley's The Snow Tiger Desmond Bagley (1923-1983) was a UK journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers. Along with fellow UK writers such as Alistair MacLean and Duncan Kyle, Bagley established the basi..
Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit (born October 19, 1944 in Morriston) is a British actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. ..
Desmond Boal
Boal, Desmond (b. 1929) Politician; Unionist MP (Stormont) Desmond Boal had a legal career before he entered politics in 1960. He was the Unionist MP for the Shankill constituency between 1960 and 1971. He was very critical of the leadership under Captain Terence O'Neill, then Prime Minister of N..
Desmond Briscoe
Desmond Briscoe is a musician and studio manager. He was the founder and original manger of the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A drama studio manager for the BBC in the 1950s, Briscoe began to develop an interest in electronic music as a source of material for productions. Along with Daph..
Desmond Cardinal Connell
Dr. Desmond Cardinal Connell (born 24 March 1926) is a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He is a former Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He was born in Dublin. Contents 1 Early life and education2 Ordination and early work3 Archbishop of Dublin4 Tenure tarnish..
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. He currently lives in Scotland. Carrington's first professional st..
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 Des..
Desmond Child
Desmond Child (born 28 October 1953, Miami, Florida, USA) has worked as a music performer and songwriter. His career started when he formed a soft rock band 'Desmond Child & Rouge' in 1975. This band is known for their inclusion on the soundtrack to The Warriors in 1979, with the song "Last of an An..
Desmond Chumney
Desmond Chumney (born January 8, 1968 in St. Kitts) is a Canadian cricketer, currently resident in Toronto. He represented St. Kitts in the 1985 Leeward Islands youth tournament and is a skilful fielder and wicketkeeper. He became the first player to reach the milestone of 700 runs and 20 wickets ..
Desmond Chute
Father Desmond Macready Chute (1895-1962) was an English artist, who became a Catholic priest in 1927. He was born in Bristol, where his father James Macready Chute ran a theatre. He was educated at Downside School, and the Slade Art School in Manchester. He was a friend of Stanley Spencer, from 19..
Desmond Clark
Desmond Darice Clark (born April 20, 1977 in Lakeland, Florida) is an NFL football player, currently starting tight end for the Chicago Bears. He attended Wake Forest University. College career Clark attended Wake Forest University, where he was a wide receiver and caught at least one pass against ..
Desmond cole
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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. Cory also wrote screenplays for Graham Greene novels..
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”. Other hits inclu..
Desmond Devlin
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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. Contents 1 1960s in Ceylon2 International Song C..
Desmond Dinan
Desmond Dinan is the Jean Monnet Professor at the George Mason School of Public Policy. Bibliography Dinan, Desmond (1993). Historical Dictionary of the European Community. Metuchen : The Scarecrow Press. Dinan, Desmond (1994). Ever Closer Union?: An Introduction to the European Community. Basings..
Desmond Doherty
Desmond Doherty is a Derry solicitor. A past pupil of St. Columb's College, Derry, he is notable for his involvement in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and his inclusion on Anthony Scrivener's defence team for the trial of Saddam Hussein [link]. ..
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 m..
Desmond Doss
Desmond T. Doss (January 17, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor (Cpl. Thomas W. Bennett, an army medic during the Vietnam War, is the only other). He was a Private First Class (at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army assig..
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 th..
Desmond FitzGerald
Desmond FitzGerald or Fitzgerald may refer to several people: Desmond FitzGerald (1888–1947), Irish politician and Government minister.Desmond Fitzgerald (1910–1967), Central Intelligence Agency deputy director.Desmond FitzGerald, currently claimant of the title Knight of Glin. ..
Desmond Fitzgerald (CIA agent)
For other people with similar names, see Desmond FitzGerald (disambiguation) Desmond Fitzgerald (1910 – July 23, 1967) was an American Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, who planned three different assassinations of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He was educated at Harvard University a..
Desmond FitzGerald (politician)
For other people with similar names, see Desmond FitzGerald (disambiguation) Desmond FitzGerald (February 13, 1888 – April 9, 1947), Irish revolutionary, poet and Cumann na nGaedhael politician. Thomas Desmond FitzGerald was born in London in 1888. FitzGerald married in 1911, lived in France..
Desmond FitzMaurice
Desmond FitzMaurice (born 28 September 1980) is a British musician of Irish origin, and founder of British folk band Draioicht na hOiche. Also known as Desmond Morris (legally), he grew up singing with the choir at the First Unitarian Church of Dublin. He was briefly involved with a band called S..
Desmond Foley
For more details of the GAA in Dublin, see Dublin GAA, Dublin GAA/Honours and Dublin Senior Club Football Championship. 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..
Desmond Ford
Dr. Desmond Ford (b.1928?) is an Australian Adventist scholar, known for his dynamic and grace centred preaching. He is a well known figure within Seventh-day Adventist circles for his role in the Glacier View doctrinal crisis of 1980. Ford was converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church after r..
Desmond Governey
Desmond Governey (born September 1920) represented Fine Gael as a TD for Carlow-Kilkenny from 1969–1977 and from 1981–1982. After his defeat in the 1977 general election, Governey was elected to the 14th Seanad by the Industrial and Commercial Panel, where he served from 1977–1981..
Desmond Harrington
Desmond Harrington (born October 19, 1976 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, who gained fame through movies like The Hole and Ghost Ship. When Harrington was three years old, his family moved from Savannah to The Bronx, New York, where he attended Catholic schools. He graduated from Fordh..
Desmond Haynes
Desmond HaynesWest Indies (WI) Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling type leg break googly (LBG) Tests ODIs Matches 116 238 '''Runs scored 7487 8648 Batting average 42.29 41.37 100s/50s 18/39 17/57 Top score 184 152* ..
Desmond Hogan
Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer. Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St. Grellan’s Boys’ National School and St. Josephs’s College, Garbally Park. Some of his earliest work was published in The F..
Desmond Howard
[] at NFL.com Desmond 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) and Detroit Lions (1999-2002). Prior ..
Desmond Hoyte
Hugh Desmond Hoyte (March 9, 1929 – December 22, 2002) was a Guyanese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Guyana from 1984 to 1985 and President of Guyana from 1985 until 1992. He was born in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. He entered Parliament as a member of the People's National Congre..
Desmond Hume
Desmond David Hume is a recurring fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Henry Ian Cusick. Desmond is a man who was living in the DHARMA Initiative research station — the Swan — under the mysterious hatch. In 2006, Henry Ian Cusick was nominated for an Emmy Award for h..
Desmond Keith Carter
Desmond Keith Carter (October 15, 1967 – December 10, 2002) was convicted of the 1992 murder of Helen Purdy and was executed in 2002 by the State of North Carolina at the Central Prison in Raleigh. See also List of individuals executed in North Carolina Sources [http://www.clarkprosecu..
Desmond Kelly
:For the British journalist see Des Kelly Desmond Kelly is the well known Ceylonese musician who has entertained generations of music lovers in Sri Lanka and in Australia. He was born in Colombo in 1936. Contents 1 Songs on Radio Ceylon2 Acting Career in Australia3 See also4 ..
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. External link [Text of the award speech] ..
Desmond Lewis
Desmond LewisWest Indies (WI) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type - Tests First-class Matches 3 36 '''Runs scored 259 1,623 Batting average 86.33 31.82 100s/50s 0/3 0/12 Top score 88 96 Balls bowled 0 0 Wickets 0 0 Bowling average ..
Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Llewelyn as Q in Tomorrow Never Dies Desmond Llewelyn (12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. Q is the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab known as Q-branch. Desmond Wilkinson Llewe..
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 ..
Desmond MacCarthy
Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1878-1952) was an English critic, a member of the "Bloomsbury group". MacCarthy was born in Plymouth, England, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a journalist, editing periodicals such as New Quarterly, Eye Witness and Life and Letters. H..
Desmond Mason
Desmond Tremaine Mason (born October 11 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an NBA basketball player currently playing for the New Orleans-Oklahoma City Hornets. He is designated as a swingman, meaning he plays both shooting guard and small forward. He was drafted out of Oklahoma State University by the..
Desmond McGrath
Father Desmond (Des) McGrath is a Catholic priest, and trade union organizer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He was a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the 2004 federal election. In the late 1960s, McGrath's parish consisted mostly of fishermen. He became concerned with their plight..
Desmond Mobay/Detective Johnny Basil
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Desmond Mobay is played by Lance Reddick on the HBO show Oz. An African American police detective, he is really named Johnny Basil and is an undercover narcotics officer trying to bust the drug trade in Oz. The characte..
Desmond Morris
Dr Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He first came to attention in the 1960s as a presenter of ITV television's Zoo Time. His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, explained from a zoological point of ..
Desmond Morton
There are several people named Desmond Morton: Desmond Morton (officer), a British military officer and government officialDesmond Morton (historian), a Canadian historian This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred yo..
Desmond Morton (historian)
Professor Desmond Morton Desmond Morton, OC, Ph.D., FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Morton is a graduate of the Collège Militair..
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..
Desmond O'Malley
Desmond Joseph (Dessie) 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 Teachta Dála from 1968 to 2002 and as Minister at the Departments of Justice and Industry & Commerce. ..
Desmond Piers
Admiral Desmond W. Piers, DSC , CM , CD , D.sc.Mil , Klj, RCN (Ret'd) (June 12, 1913-November 1, 2005) was a rear-admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and long-time resident of Chester, Nova Scotia, Piers served in the RCN from 1932 to 1967. He was the first graduate of the Royal Mili..
Desmond Plummer
Sir Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, KBE, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone (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. Sir Desmond Plummer, Leader o..
Desmond Rebellions
The Desmond Rebellions occurred in the 1560s, 1570s and 1580s 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 t..
Desmond Sargeant
Desmond Sargeant (born 1983?) is a Canadian filmmaker. In April of 2002, he won top screenwriting honours at the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival for his action movie about a secret branch of the American Special Forces, a story called Suicide Six. Desmond Sargeant also worked on his next..
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Desmond Shawe-Taylor was appointed Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in 2005. He succeeded Christopher Lloyd, CVO, on Mr Lloyd's retirement in July. He had been director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery since 1996. He has overseen the major refurbishment of the Gallery, which was inaugurated by The Que..
Desmond Skirrow
Desmond Skirrow was a British advertising executive and writer of thrillers. In the late 1960s he wrote three outstanding spy novels about a fictional British agent named John Brock. Like his creator, Brock works in advertising in London, but is also a part-time agent for an undercover department ..
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 Secreatry to David Cameron. He was educated a..
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 in early 2004 as a sidekick to Ernest Miller. Profile Height: 5 ft 5 in.Weight: 140 lbBirthday: 1975Hometown: New Orleans,..
Desmond Titterington
Desmond Titterington (b. May 1, 1928, Cultra, near Holywood, County Down - d. April 13, 2002, Dundee, Scotland) was a Formula One driver from Northern Ireland. He participated in 1 grand prix, debuting on July 14, 1956. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 ..
Desmond Tutu
The Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7th, 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Prov..
Desmond Williams
Desmond Williams is an American electronica musician, as well as a record producer and chief sound engineer for the Eighteenth Street Lounge record label. Born in Jamaica and raised in New Jersey, Williams has been known for his remixing and producing style. Eventually he was hired by Thievery Cor..
Desmonema
Desmonema may refer to: Desmonema, a genus of jellyfishes in the family Cyaneidae.Desmonema, a genus of plants generally considered synonymous with Euphorbia. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this pag..
Desmoplasia
In medicine, desmoplasia refers to the formation of adhesions or fibrosis in the vascular stroma of a neoplasm. It originates from the Greek desmos (meaning fetter or band) and plasia (meaning to form). It is usually used in the description of desmoplastic small round cell tumors. ..
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor is classified as a soft tissue sarcoma. It is an aggressive and rare tumor that primarily occurs as multiple masses in the abdomen. Other areas affected include the lymph nodes, the lining of the abdomen, diaphragm , and the pelvis. The most common site of metata..
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. Contents 1 Chemistry2 Method of action3 Uses4 Sid..
Desmosedici RR
June 1st, 2006, marks an historical day in the world of motorcycle as Ducati launched their much anticipated and hyped MotoGP replica to the world. Ducati take pride in becoming the first manufacturer to launch a production replica of their 200+ horsepower MotoGP racer. The RR is almost identical to..
Desmosome
Cell adhesion in desmosomes A desmosome (also known as macula adherens) is a cell structure specialized for cell-to-cell adhesion. It is a type of junctional complex. Desmosomes are molecular complexes of cell adhesion proteins and linking proteins that attach the cell surface adhesion protei..
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. Their closest living relatives are the Proboscid..
Desmostylus
Desmostylus is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal. Desmostylus was a volumous creature of about 1,80 m (6 ft) long which weighed about 200 kg. It had a short tail and powerful legs with four hooves. Both the creature's jaws were elongated and sported forward-facing tusks, which were elongated ..
Desmoteplase
Desmoteplase is a chemical in the saliva of vampire bats. It activates plasminogen to the serine protease, plasmin. Plasmin acts by breaking down fibrin blood clots. When a vampire bat bites its victim, it secretes an enzyme that prevents the blood from clotting. The enzyme is called DSPA (Desmodus ..
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 μm in diameter surrounded by a perforated organic lorica or shell, with many radial pseudopods projecting through the holes to capture food. T..
Desmukh
Deshmukh was the title given to a person who was granted a small territory of land, in certain regions of India. The granted territory is usually referred to as the deshmukhi. The deshmukh was in effect the ruler of the territory, as he was entitled to the collected taxes. It was also his duty to ma..
DeSmuME
DeSmuME (also known as YopYop DS) is a freeware emulator for the Nintendo DS created by YopYop156. DeSmuME is written in C++ for Microsoft Windows and can play Nintendo DS homebrew and commercial roms. The emulator itself is in French (with user translations to English and other languages). It su..
Desna
For the river in the Czech Republic, see Desná. ''For the intercontinental ballistic missile, see R-9 Desna. Desna (Десна́) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, left tributary of the Dnieper. The word means "right hand" in Old East Slavic language. The river Desna is 1,130 km long. Cities a..
Desná
For river in Russia and Ukraine see Desna. Desná is short river in the Czech Republic. It has length of 40.8 km and is left tributary of river Morava (near Postřelmov). ..
Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River
Demographics Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River in relation to the other Saskatchewan ridings'' Population, 2001 64,416 Electors 41,216 Area (km2) Population density (people per km2) Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River (formerly known as Churchill River) is a federal electoral ..
Desnica Radivojević
Desnica Radivojević (Десница Радивојевић) is a Bosnian Serb politician born in Skelani, near Srebrenica. He is the most prominent Serb member of the predominantly Bosniak SDA. At elections in 2002, Radivojevic was SDA's candidate for the position of Serb member of the Presidency..
Desning Hall
Desning Hall is a manor house in the Risbridge Hundred, in Suffolk, England, dating from Anglo-Saxon times. ..
Desnogorsk
Desnogorsk (Russian: ) is a town in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Desna River some 153 km southeast of Smolensk, at [54°09′N 33°17′E]. Population: 32,100 (2005 est.); 32,070 (2002 Census). Desnogorsk was founded as a settlement around the Smolensk nu..
Desojo
Desojo is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. External link [DESOJO in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] () ..
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. It is the only album which features the original lineup. Track listing Ca..
Desolation Angels
This page is about the album. For the novel by Jack Kerouac, see Desolation Angels (novel) Desolation Angels is a 1979 album by the rock band Bad Company. It was their 5th studio release. It is considered the last strong album by Bad Company, mostly because it contains the last big hit by them, ..
Desolation Angels (band)
Desolation Angels is a Detroit, Michigan band formed in 2001. With influences heavy in both the traditional "Detroit Garage Rock" (i.e. White Stripes, Bob Seger System) and Alternative County (Uncle Tupelo, Wilco), they have become a staple of the upper midwest scene. External link [Home page&..
Desolation Angels (novel)
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier, 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 lo..
Desolation Boulevard
Desolation Boulevard, released in 1974, is the second album by Sweet. It contains one of the band's best known hits, "Fox on the Run". (The US version also includes the smash "Ballroom Blitz".) Though coolly received by most rock critics, it made #79 on [Joe S. Harrington's Top 100 Albums&..
Desolation Island
Desolation Island has been used for several islands. The largest and best known is Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean. Desolation Island is a novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the..
Desolation Jones
Desolation Jones is a bimonthly comic book series written by Warren Ellis. Art for the first six-issue storyline was provided by J.H. Williams III and José Villarrubia. The second storyline will be illustrated by Danijel Zezelj. The story follows the former MI6 agent Jones. The series is published..
Desolation Row
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Desolation Row is the final song of Bob Dylan's sixth album, Highway 61 Revisited. The eleven minute song is a ..
Desolation Sound
Desolation Sound is a deep water Glacier fed inlet in British Columbia, Canada. It is a favorite destination for boaters, as it has many waterfalls cascading into milky green glacial runoff. ..
Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park
Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. ..
Desolation Wilderness
Desolation Wilderness ..
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 remo..
Desonide
Desonide is an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid typically used topically. External links S01[BA11] ..
Desorden Público
Desorden público is a ska/rock band from Venezuela. The band's music mixes ska, latin rock, reggae and other more traditional latin styles. The group's lyrics are known for commenting on Venezuela's and Latin America's politics and society. See also VenezuelaVenezuelan music External links ..
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.e. gas or liquid solution) and an adsorbing surface (soli..
DeSoto
DeSoto is the name of several places in the United States of America: DeSoto, IndianaDeSoto, TexasDeSoto County, FloridaDeSoto County, MississippiDeSoto, Missouri There are also places named De Soto, with a space in the name. Many of these are named after Hernando de Soto the explorer such as DeSot..
DeSoto, Texas
DeSoto is a city in Dallas County, Texas (USA). As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 37,646 (though a 2005 estimate placed the city's population at 45,514). Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Demographics4 Government5 Education6 External links7 Refe..
DeSoto (automobile)
The DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) was a brand of automobile based in the United States, marketed by the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 1961. The DeSoto logo featured a stylized image of Hernando de Soto. Contents 1 1929–19422 1946–19603 19614 Termination factors5 M..
DeSoto Adventurer
The DeSoto Adventurer was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1956 through the 1960 model year. While in production, the Adventurer was DeSoto’s top-trim level car, and offered only as a hardtop coupe in 1956. The model range grew..
DeSoto Airflow
The DeSoto Airflow was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation for sale through its DeSoto division during model years 1934, 1935 and 1936. DeSoto received the then-revolutionary Airflow model due to its price structure relationship to larger and more expensive Chrysler brand cars. Airfl..
DeSoto Airstream
The Desoto Airstream was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation and sold through its DeSoto division during model years 1935 and 1936. During both years, the car was sold along with the streamlined DeSoto Airflow. Chrysler also fielded its own Chrysler Airstream model concurrently; visua..
DeSoto Bridge
DeSoto Bridge is a trussed deck-arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It was built in 1958 by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The bridge is painted black, which is typical for railroad bridges but unusual for a highway bridge. The river banks on either..
DeSoto Caverns
DeSoto Caverns are a series of geologic caves and a tourist attraction located near Childersburg, Alabama. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave". In addition in the caves, the park offers various other attractions, including The Lost Trail Maz..
DeSoto Civic Center
The DeSoto Civic Center is an 8,411-seat multi-purpose arena in Southaven, Mississippi. It was built in 2000. It is home to the Memphis Xplorers arena football team and Memphis RiverKings minor league ice hockey team. {| style="margin:0 auto" align=center class="toccolours" |align=center colspan=..
DeSoto County
DeSoto County is the name of two counties in the United States of America: DeSoto County, FloridaDeSoto County, Mississippi This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link ..
DeSoto County, Florida
DeSoto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 32,209. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Cities and towns5 External links5.1 Government links/Constitutional offices5.1.1 Special districts5.1.2 Jud..
DeSoto County, Mississippi
DeSoto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 107,199. The county — along with its county seat, Hernando — is named in honor of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who allegedly died there in May 1542, although it is more accepted that he di..
DeSoto Custom
The DeSoto Custom was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1946 through the 1952 model year. While in production, the Custom was DeSoto’s top-trim level car, and was offered in a full array of body styles, including the extended whe..
DeSoto Deluxe
The DeSoto Deluxe (also known as the DeLuxe) was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto brand from 1946 through the 1952 model year. While in production, the Deluxe was DeSoto's entry-level car, and was offered primarily as two and four-door sedans. The Del..
DeSoto Diplomat
The DeSoto Diplomat was a product of the Chrysler Corporation for sale in export markets outside of the United States. DeSoto Diplomats were essentially rebadged cars — brand cars that were badged as DeSotos and sold outside the United States. They were manufactured both in Detroit, Michigan..
DeSoto Firedome
The DeSoto Firedome was a full-size automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation for its DeSoto brand vehicles from 1952 to 1959. Introduced as DeSoto's premium line of vehicles in 1953 and 1954, the Firedome also occupied the least expensive position in the model lineup during 1955 and 1956 m..
DeSoto Fireflite
The DeSoto Fireflite was introduced in 1955 as De Soto’s flagship model. The car was wider and longer than previous DeSoto models and it came equipped with a V8 engine producing 255 hp and PowerFlite automatic transmission. The transmission was operated by a Flite-Control lever located on the d..
DeSoto Firesweep
The DeSoto Firesweep was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold through its DeSoto brand of automobiles from 1957 through 1959. While the Firesweep resembled other 1957 DeSoto models, its most distinguishing characteristic was its physical relationship to concurrent, smal..
DeSoto Independent School District
DeSoto Independent School District is a school district based in DeSoto, Texas (USA). The district covers most of DeSoto and the Dallas County portions of Glenn Heights and Ovilla. In January 2005, the school district was investigated by the press for its questionable hiring of an outside "gang con..
Desoto Lakes, Florida
Desoto Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,198 at the 2000 census. Geography Desoto Lakes is located at [27°22′33″N, 82°29′34″W] (27.375722, -82.492667)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to t..
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge ..
DESOTO patrol
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DeSoto Powermaster
The DeSoto Powermaster was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation for sale through its DeSoto division during model years 1953 and 1954. The car debuted during DeSoto's 25th anniversary, taking the place of both the entry-level DeSoto Deluxe and the DeSoto Custom. The Powermaster was a ..
DeSoto Site Historic State Park
Amenities Beaches Bicycling Birding Boat Ramp Boat Tours Boating Botanical Sites/Gardens Cabins/Lodging Campfire Circle Camping (Equestrian) Camping (Full Facility) Camping (Group) Camping (Primitive) Camping (Youth) Canoe/Kayak Launch ..
DeSoto Suburban
The DeSoto Suburban was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1946 through the 1954 model year. The Suburban was a continuation of DeSoto's long wheelbase models, first introduced in 1937. While in production, the Suburban was availabl..
DESOXY
DESOXY Chemical name3,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenethylamine or2-(3,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenyl)ethanamine Chemical formulaC11H17NO2 Molecular mass195.26 g/mol Melting pointSee mescaline CAS numbersSee mescaline SMILESCc1c(cc(cc1OC)CCN)OC 4-desoxymescaline, or DESOXY, is a phenethylamin..
Desoxycorticosterone
Desoxycorticosterone (11-deoxycorticosterone) is a mineralocorticoid. It is commonly found in two forms: the acetate salt (desoxycorticosterone acetate, or DOCA) and the pivalate salt (desoxycorticosterone pivalate). Both forms are given as intramuscular injections as replacement therapy for Addis..
Desoxyn
Bulk pharmaceutical bottle of Desoxyn Desoxyn® CII is a pharmaceutical form of methamphetamine hydrochloride (also known as d-methamphetamine and desoxyephedrine, hence the name "Desoxyn"), indicated for treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/..
Despain
The name Despain could refer to: Don G. Despain, Yellowstone National Park ecologistDave Despain, the host of the auto racing show WindTunnel on the SPEED channel This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this..
Despair
In addition to the [[wiktionary:Despair | common meaning]], Despair can refer to: Existential despairThe character Despair in the Sandman series of comic books by Neil GaimanDespair, Inc., a company that makes satirical posters and souvenirsDespair, a novel by Vladimir NabokovDespair, a technical t..
Despair, Inc.
Despair, Inc is an Austin, Texas-based company that produces posters and souvenirs that satirize the motivational indoctrination common in corporate environments. They are probably best known for their cynical and ironic "Demotivator" items, which proclaim a slogan with all the grandiose imagery and..
Despair (DC Comics)
Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Despair is the twin sister of Desire. She is squat, flabby and pale-skinned, with black hair. She does not wear clot..
Despair (novel)
Despair was written by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published in Russia as a serial in Sovremennye Zapiski during 1934. It was then published as Otchayanie (Отчаяние) in 1936 and later translated to English by the author in 1937. In 1978 it was adapted into a movie, which premiered at Th..
Despair Faction
The Despair Faction is the official fan club for American hardcore outfit AFI. Founded in April of 2002, the Despair Faction claims world-wide membership in excess of 25,000 fans spanning the globe from California to Asia and everywhere in between. Contents 1 History1.1 Membership Be..
Despalado
Mate despalado, (spanish, literally "without stems"), refers to a type of yerba mate where the stems and powder have been removed. The other type is "con palo". ..
Despard
Despard can refer to: Edward Marcus Despard, Irish-born British colonel turned revolutionaryDespard, West VirginiaThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point di..
Despard, West Virginia
Despard is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,039 at the 2000 census. Geography Despard is located at [39°16′57″N, 80°18′48″W] (39.282369, -80.313338)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the Un..
Despatch (brig)
The Despatch was a brig noted for having shipwrecked near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador, and for the subsequent heroic rescue of many of its passengers and crew. The Despatch was partly owned by William Lancaster of Workington, England. On May 29 1828 she set sail from Derry, Irelan..
Despatch box
--> The despatch box is a wooden box which serves as a lectern. Two of them sit on the table which divides each house of Parliament in the United Kingdom and Australia, one box for the Government and one box for the Opposition. Ministers address the house from the despatch box. In addition to givi..
Desperado
Desperado ('desperate' in Spanish — this an old usage of the word, today desesperado is far more common) means a violent and reckless person who performs some spectacular feats. Desperado was a videogame developed by the Japanese company Capcom in 1986. Desperado (album) is also the title of ..
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a 2001 computer game, developed by Spellbound. In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting. The protagonist is a wordly knife fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train robber named ..
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge is a 2006 computer game. It is the sequel to the 2001 game [[Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive]]. External links [Official website][Gamespot's webpage for Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge][Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge - review] at BytePres..
Desperados Under the Eaves
"Desperados Under the Eaves" is a song written and performed by Warren Zevon off of the 1976 album Warren Zevon. The song talks about a man who cannot pay for the bill for the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel. It ends with him listening to the sound of the air conditioner humming. ..
Desperado (album)
Desperado is the second album by the American rock band Eagles. It was recorded at Island Studios in London, UK and released in 1973. Track listing "Doolin-Dalton" (Jackson Browne, Frey, Henley, J.D. Souther) - 3:26"Twenty-One" (Leadon) - 2:11"Out of Control" (Frey, Henley, Tom Nixon) - 3:04"Tequi..
Desperado (film)
Desperado is a 1995 film directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. It is the sequel to Rodriguez's earlier El Mariachi, and the second entry in his "Mariachi Trilogy". The trilogy culminated in 2003 with Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Tagline: He came back to set..
Desperado (song)
"Desperado" is a song by the rock-country band The Eagles, written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley. It first appeared on the 1973 album Desperado, and has later appeared on numerous Greatest Hits collections. Many artists, such as Clint Black, Westlife, Carpenters, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, and Japa..
Desperado roller coaster
Desperado roller coaster is a hypercoaster located in Primm, Nevada in the Buffalo Bill's hotel. The Desperado is one of the tallest with a 55-degree, 225 foot, drop and fastest (95 mph) roller coasters in the world. On the 2 minute, 43 second ride, riders will experience almost 4 G's. The a por..
Desperate
Desperate may refer to: In music: Desperate, 1983 album by DivinylsDesperate Bicycles, English punk groupDesperate Straights, album by British avant-garde rock groups Slapp Happy and Henry Cow In film: Desperate (film), 1947 suspense film directed by Anthony MannDesperate Hours, 1990 filmDesperat..
Desperately Seeking Brandi
Desperately Seeking Brandi is a short film that was broadcast on the Nike website to coincide with the 2000 Sydney Olympic games. Plot A teenage girl chronicles her best friend's obsession with American women's soccer star Brandi Chastain and his quest to meet her during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, t..
Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. Arquette plays Roberta, a bored housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section ..
Desperate (film)
Desperate is a 1947 suspense film directed by Anthony Mann. Plot Steve Randall (Brodie) is an independent trucker who is hired by an old friend to haul some freight. Only when Steve arrives at the warehouse, does he realize that what he has been hired to haul away is stolen goods. A cop is killed w..
Desperate Bicycles
The Desperate Bicycles were an English punk group. The band formed in 1977 as an experiment in the economics of punk's DIY methodology. Dave Papworth (drums), Nicky Stephens (keyboards), Roger Stephens (Bass), and Danny Wigley (vocals) wanted to see how cheaply they could record and release music...
Desperate Dan
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Desperate Hours
Desperate Hours is a 1990 film, a remake of the 1955 Humphrey Bogart film, The Desperate Hours, which was in turn based on the novel by Joseph Hayes. Desperate Hours stars Mickey Rourke , Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Kelly Lynch , Lindsay Crouse and David Morse. The film, directed by Michael Ci..
Desperate Housewitches (Charmed episode)
Contents 1 General information2 Synopsis3 Book of Shadows3.1 Enemies3.2 Spells4 Guest stars5 Trivia6 International Titles7 External links General information Episode of the popular U.S. television series, CharmedEpisode Number: 4Season: 8Production C..
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on ABC in 2004. Set on Wisteria Lane in the fictional town of Fairview, Eagle State, the series tracks the lives of four housewives, following their domestic struggles while several mysteries involving ..
Desperate Living
Desperate Living is a 1977 film by Baltimore, Maryland, USA filmmaker John Waters starring Liz Renay, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, Jean Hill, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Susan Lowe. After murdering her husband, uptight suburbanite Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) and her heavyset maid Grizelda (Jean Hill) escape..
Desperate Man's Diary
Desperate Man's Diary is the third album by Glass Casket. Track listing PhenomenonToo Scared To LiveGenesisLess Like HumanA Cork Stops The WhiningPost Traumatic DeathI SleptThe RedeemerName Above All Names Release Date/Album Info Released: June 27, 2006Label: Abacus ..
Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures is a 1998 Action Thriller starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox & Marcia Gay Harden. Plot San Francisco police officer Frank Connor (Garcia) is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch to the potential donor...
Desperate Measures (Stargate SG-1)
"Desperate Measures" }||}}} }|episode list=|overridean=}} episode }|episode list=}} of the science fiction}}} television series Stargate SG-1}}}. Plot } A wealthy businessman purchases a Goa'uld symbiote from a Russian SG team to heal his life-threatening condition and kidnaps Carter for research. ..
Desperate Remedies
Desperate Remedies is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1871. It is also the name of an unrelated 1993 New Zealand feature film. External links [Full text of Desperate Remedies at Project Gutenberg] ..
Desperate Situation! Beast Tamer Mohji vs. Luffy!
"Desperate Situation! Beast Tamer Mohji vs. Luffy!", known as "The Beast Breaker" in the United States, is the sixth episode of the anime adaption of the manga One Piece, and the third episode of the Buggy the Clown Arc of the series. It covers the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14, and 15th chapter of the manga..
Desperate Straights
Desperate Straights LP by Slapp Happy / Henry Cow Released 1975 Recorded The Manor, Oxfordshire,England, November 1974 Genre Avant-progressive rock Length 36:06 Label Virgin Records (UK) Nippon Columbia (Japan) Producer(s) Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Simon Heyworth Professional reviews ..
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is a 2004 album by the rock band, TV on the Radio. Track listing "The Wrong Way" - 4:38"Staring at the Sun" - 3:27"Dreams" - 5:09"King Eternal" - 4:28"Ambulance" - 4:55"Poppy" - 6:07"Don't Love You" - 5:31"Bomb Yourself" - 5:32"Wear You Out" - 7:22 Personnel Mus..
Desperation
Desperation. Desperation is a horror novel by Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators. It was made into a TV movie starring Ron Perlman ten years later in 2006. Contents 1 Plot2 Inspiration3 Release with ''The Regulators''..
Desperation (desperation album)
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. desperation is the first live praise and worship album from the Desperation Band at New Life Church. Track listing "I'm In Love With You" (wo..
Desperation (TV miniseries)
Desperation is a television miniseries in production now, set to air in May 2006. It is based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King. It is about the strange happenings in the remote town of Desperation. External link ..
Desperation Band
The Desperation Band, led by Jared Anderson, Jon Egan, and Glenn Packiam, is the youth worship ministry of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. All three are associate worship pastors at the church, serving under senior pastor, Ted Haggard. Jared leads worship for the Saturday night servic..
Desperation Squad
Desperation Squad is an avant-garde rock and roll band from Pomona, California. The band played its first live show on May 19, 1984 and is still active today. Contents 1 Members1.1 Original 1984 lineup1.2 2006 lineup1.3 Other featured players1.4 Discography Members Or..
Despero
Despero is the name of a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is easily distinguished by his muscular body, pink skin, fin on his head, pointed ears, lavender eyes (and a third eye on his forehead), and sharp teeth. Despero made his first appearance in Justice League of America ..
Despierta
redirect [[Template:Infobox Single]]"Despierta" was the first Edurne's single from her debut album Edurne. It was released in Spain. Remixes Despierta (Caimillu Remix)Despierta (David Penn Remix)Despierta (David Penn Remix Extended) Charts Chart (2005/2006) Peak Position AFYVE Top 20 Singles (S..
Despierta (Remixes)
redirect [[Template:Infobox Single]]"Despierta" was the first Edurne's single from her debut album Edurne. It was released in Spain. Versions 1. Despierta2. Despierta (David Penn Remix)3. Despierta (Caimillu Remix)4. Despierta (David Penn Remix Extended)..
Despierta Los Niños
Despierta Los Niños (a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to "Wake up the kids") is a mostly live EP recorded by Mindless Self Indulgence in 2003. The album is primarily only available at live concerts or resold through Internet merchants, so it is very rare and has not received much press. ..
Despina
Despina can refer to: Despina is a figure in Greek mythology.Despina is a moon of Neptune.Despina Uzun Hasan's wife and daughter of John IV Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you t..
Despina (moon)
Despina Despina as seen by Voyager 2 (smeared horizontally) Discovery Discovered by Voyager Imaging Team Discovered in July 1989 Orbital characteristics Semi-major axis 52 526 ± 1 km Eccentricity 0.0002 ± 0.0002 Orbital period 0.33465551 ± 0.00000001 d Inclination ..
Despina (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Despina (Δεσποινα, "mistress" or "queen") was a nymph, the daughter of Poseidon and Demeter (e.g., in Pausanias 8.42.1). It was also used as an epithet for Aphrodite, Persephone and Demeter. ..
Despina Achladioti
Despina Achladioti was a Greek patriot born on the island of Kastellórizo in 1893. Before the start of World War II, in which her home island was ravaged repeatedly, Achladioti sailed with her husband and mother to the nearby deserted island of Rho where they lived off of a few goats, chickens, and..
Despina Caldis
Despina Melissa Caldis (born May 10, 1983) in Greece, is an Australian actress of Greek descent, known for her role as Effie Poulos in Heartbreak High. She was one of the youngest cast members of series. Miscellanea Her name is derived from the Greek despoina which means queen, lady, mistress, femi..
Despina Pavlou
Despina Pavlou is the head of the Lord Grey School in Milton Keynes, Bletchley. Currently Despina has been excluded for assault allegations despite her strong views concerning anti-bullying. Despite this fact Despina has turned the progress of the Lord Grey school from Bad to brilliant. Her sometim..
Despina Vandi
Despina Vandi Despina Nikolaidis (born Despina Malea (professionally-known as Despina Vandi)); 22 July 1969, Tübingen, Stuttgart, Germany) is a Greek female singer having sold almost one million records in Greece alone. She has been dubbed in interviews and publications of her country as 'the..
Despised Icon
Despised Icon is a band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada which plays a combination of metalcore, grindcore, and death metal commonly called deathcore. They are noted for use of two full-time vocalists. Contents 1 Band members2 Discography3 Trivia4 External Links Band members ..
Despise the Sun
Despise the Sun is an EP by Suffocation. Track listing Funeral InceptionDevoid of TruthDespise the SunBloodchurnCatatonia Credits Frank Mullen - vocalsDoug Cerrito - guitarTerrance Hobbs - guitarChris Richards - bassDave Culross - drums ..
Despite It All
Despite It All is an album by Pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz, released in 1970. Track listing All songs are written by Nick Lowe except where specified *: Country Girl (3:10)The Slow One (5:33)Funk Angel (4:21)Piece of Home (6:19) *AndrewsLove Song (4:10)Star Ship (2:40)Ebury Down (5:15)Old Jarr..
Despite Straight Lines
Despite Straight Lines is the debut album by British New Wave musician Marilyn, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). Marilyn (born Peter Robinson), is a close friend and associate of Boy George from Culture Club. Unlike Culture Club, Marilyn's recordings were more closely aligned with electronic ..
Desporte
Desporte is a rare family name in the USA. Only a couple of families exist. "Desporte" is considered a Roman last name. Other information is not found. ..
Desposyni
The Desposyni (from Greek δεσπόσυνος (desposunos) "of or belonging to the master or lord"[link]) was a sacred name reserved only for Jesus' blood relatives. The closely related word δεσπότης (despotes) meaning lord, master, or ship owner is commonly used of God, human sla..
Despot
Despot can refer to: a Despot, a ruler exercising absolute powera Despot (Despotēs), a Byzantine court titleDespot, a rapper signed to Def Jux Records This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you ..
Despotate
A despotate is a state ruled under a despot or despoinis (in this context it should not be confused with despotism). The title of despot was created by Manuel I Comnenus in the 12th century as the highest title after the Byzantine Emperor. Historical Despotates include The Despotate of Epirus and ..
Despotate of Epirus
The Despotate of Epirus (Greek: Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου) was one of the medieval Greek successor states of the Byzantine Empire, founded in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. It claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Empire of Nicaea..
Despotate of Morea
The Despotate of Morea was a province of the Byzantine Empire which existed between the mid-14th and mid-15th centuries. Its territory varied in size during its 100 years of existence but eventually grew to take in almost all the southern Greek Peloponnese peninsula, which at this time was called th..
Despotes
Despotes (Greek: δεσπότης, despotēs, feminine δέσποινα, despoina, Bulgarian and Serbian despot, feminine despotica, sometimes Anglicized despot), is a Byzantine court title, also granted in the Latin Empire, Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Empire of Trebizond. Contents 1 Origin ..
Despotiko
Despotiko is a Greek island in the Cyclades. ..
Despotism
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Forms of government This series is part ofthe Politics series List of forms of government AristocracyAutoc..
Despotovac
Despotovac (Деспотовац) is a town and municipality located in Serbia, around 130 kilometers southeastern of Belgrade. Its name stems from word Despot in Serbian. In 2002 the town had total population of 4,363, while municipality had a population of 25,611. List of towns and vilages: Bala..
Despot (hip hop)
Despot, also known as Alec Reinstein, is a hip hop rapper signed to New York City based Def Jux Records. Despot makes his home in Forest Hills, Queens, after leaving Purchase College, where he dropped out. (taken from [www.definitivejux.net]) Despot was one of the greatest military ..
Despot Alexius Slav
Despot Alexius Slav was a Bulgarian noble (болярин, bolyarin) of the 12th and 13th century and a descendant of the Asen dynasty. He was first the governor of the medieval Rhodopes principality of the Second Bulgarian Empire, and then an autocrat in these lands. He was first mentioned as o..
Despot Stefan Tower
Despot Stefan Tower stands in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro since about 1405, a couple of years after the city was named capital of Serbian Despotate by this very ruler. Despot Stefan Lazarevic was a son of Lazar of Serbia, last Serbian ruler, who died in Battle of Kosovo on June 28th 1389 in th..
Despréaux
Despréaux is a French surname. Famous people with the name Despréaux: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link..
Desprez Opening
tright The Desprez Opening is a chess opening characterized by the opening move (in algebraic chess notation) 1.h4. The opening is named after the French player Marcel Desprez. Like a number of o..
Despre Tine
Despre Tine is the third single release from O-Zone's second album DiscOZone. Following up their 2004 summer hit 'Dragostea din Tei', Despre Tine proved to be a smaller hit than its predecessor, but a big enough one to make number one in several European countries. It was not, however, released in t..
Desquamation
Desquamation is the shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation. The word comes from the Latin 'desquamare' , meaning "to scrape the scales off a fish". ..
DESQview
DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allowed users to run multiple DOS programs concurrently in windows. Contents 1 DESQ2 DESQview3 DESQvie..
Desroches
Desroches is an island in the Seychelles, the main island of the Amirante Islands, Outer Island District. Desroches was formerlly part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, together with Farquhar, Aldabra and the Chagos Archipelago, but were returned to the Seychelles with the first two. ..
DESRON
DESRON is the USN abbreviation for Destroyer Squadron. A DESRON usually consists of three or more Destroyers or Frigates. A CRUDESRON is a Cruiser Destroyer Squadron and includes cruisers in the ships under its control. In the USN, a DESRON is not generally an operational unit but responsible for tr..
Dess-Martin periodinane
General Systematic name 1,1,1-Triacetoxy-1,1-dihydro-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one Other names Dess-Martin periodinane Molecular formula C13H13IO8 SMILES O=C2C1=CC=CC=C1I(OC(C)=O)(OC(C)=O)(OC(C)=O)O2 Molar mass 424.14 g/mol Appearance white power, chips, crystals or crystalli..
Dessalines
Dessalines can refer to: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a general and statesman of Haiti.* La Dessalinienne, the national anthem of Haiti named in his honor.* Dessalines (Haiti), a town in the Artibonite named for him; also, an arrondissement named after the town.Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, a French nat..
Dessau
Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Population: 77,557 (December 2004). Contents 1 History2 Sights3 People4 External links History Dessau was first mentioned in 1213. It became an impor..
Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of Wörlitz, is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and contintental Europe. It was created in the later part of the 18th century under the regency of Prince-elector Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessa..
Dessau (onomastics)
Dessau This list is [Incomplete listsincomplete]; you can help by [:|action=edit}} expanding it].||}} Contents 1 German words2 Human names3 Dessauer4 External links German words Place names Dessaueinen Ortsteil von Kleinau in der Altmarkeinen Weiler am Lec..
Dessau (region)
Statistics State:Saxony-Anhalt Capital:Dessau Area:4,280.06 km² Inhabitants:529,571 (2002) pop. density:124 inh./km² Map Dessau was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the east of the country. Becoming effective on January 1 2004 the Regierungsbezirk was ..
Dessek
The Desseks are characters in a fictional universe created by Dutch Science Fiction/Fantasy writer Tais Teng. They appear exclusively in his anthology "Glazen Speren" (Glass Spears) (1997), which has not yet been translated in English. A Dessek is a follower of Dessek the Harsh, a legendary hot-tem..
Dessel
Location of Dessel in Antwerp province Dessel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises only the town of Dessel proper. On January 1 2006 Dessel had a total population of 8,773. The total area is 27.03 km² which gives a population density of 3..
Desserians
Desserians is a race of extraterrestrial creatures that appeared on the tv series Tracker. Although there have been several minor Desserian characters such as Zareth and Suudor the only main Desserian character was Nestov, a good natured fugitive con-artist. ..
Dessert
A dessert is a food course, usually served after dinner. For a dry or waterless landscape, see desert. These articles are all partof the Meals series Common meals... Breakfast Second breakfast Elevenses Brunch Tiffin Lunch Tea Dinner Supper Dessert Snack See also... Cui..
Dessertenne
F Dessertenne is a French physician who first described the special type of ventricular tachycardia known as Torsades de pointes. References Dessertenne F. Ventricular tachycardia with two variable opposing foci. Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 1966;59:263-72. PMID 4956181. ..
Dessert crops
Dessert crops are defined as types of crops or plants that are not, (or historically were not) used in everyday consumption. They are used for "dessert," which is a loose definition for special occasions, for use by the elite, or for pleasure rather than sustanance. Some examples of such crops in ..
Dessert fork
A dessert fork is any of several different special types of forks designed to eat desserts, such as a pastry fork. They usually have only three tines and are smaller than standard dinner forks. ..
Dessert spoon
From left: knife, fork, dessert spoon, teaspoon A dessert spoon is a spoon on the scale of a soup spoon, but with a pointed rather than rounded bowl, in a similar manner to a tablespoon or teaspoon. It is commonly but not exclusively used in eating desserts, since a teaspoon may also be used f..
Dessert wine
Dessert wines are those wines which are typically served with dessert, although they are also drunk on their own, i.e. not accompanying food. They are often sweet wines such as ice wine, Sauternes, Tokaji Aszú, Beerenauslese, Bermet, Trockenbeerenauslese and Commandaria or fortified wines such as s..
Dessica II
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Dessie
Dessie (also spelled Dese) is a city and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located on the paved Addis Ababa - Asmara highway in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this city has a latitude and longitude of [11°8′N 39°38′E]. One of the largest cities in Ethiopia, based on f..
Dessie Farrell
For more details of the GAA in Dublin, see Dublin GAA, Dublin GAA/Honours and Dublin Senior Club Football Championship. Dessie Farrell is an Irish Gaelic Footballer who played for Dublin and plays his club football for Na Fianna. Farrell also writes a weekly column on current affairs within the..
Dessie Grew
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Dessie O'Hare
Dessie O'Hare is a convicted republican paramilitary originally from Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He is known by the nickname "The Border Fox". O'Hare was originally a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army before joining the Irish National Liberation Army. In 1987 O'Hare and..
Dessima Williams
Dessima Williams, Grenadian Diplomat and former Ambassador to United Nations from Grenada. She is currently a professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, in Waltham, MA. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. from American University and a Bachelors from the University of Minnesota. She is also the founde..
Dessin d'enfant
In mathematics, a dessin d'enfant (French for a "child's drawing") is a connected graph with a cyclic ordering of edges at each vertex, and each vertex being colored black or white and with no edge having endpoints of the same color. Dessins d'enfant have important connections to several major area..
Dessi España
Dessi España (died May 22, 2004) was an American performer with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She died after a fall while performing aerial acrobatics using Chiffon Scarves without a net at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was married with 2 young children. She..
Desso GrassMaster
Desso GrassMaster is not an artificial turf but a synthetic-enhanced natural grass developed in the Netherlands in the 1980s. A natural grass pitch reinforced with artificial grass fibres, it has been used by football clubs such Arsenal, Liverpool, Reading, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United in ..
DEST
The D. E. S. T. (an acronym of German: or "German Stone & Earth Works Company"), was the German national socialist organization responsible for most of the slave labor in the Shoah. Even before Hitler and his men took office, they had a vision of replacing the defeated Germany of the post-World W..
Destak
Destak is a Portuguese free newspaper, which is distributed in Lisbon and Oporto, mainly at train and subway stations, but also at cafeterias, universities, offices and hospitals. It was the first free newspaper in Portugal, prior to the portuguese edition of Metro International. It was launched in..
Destelbergen
Destelbergen Province: East Flanders District: Gent Area: 26.56 km² Population: 17,109 (2005) Population density: 644.05 /km² Destelbergen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Destelbergen prop..
Desteldonk
Desteldonk is a parish in the municipality of Ghent in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The first historical record of Desteldonk dates back to 967. The area has a population of 900. It became part of Ghent in 1965. ..
Desterro Rugby Clube
The Desterro Rugby Clube is a Brazilian rugby (union) team from the city of Florianópolis, capital of the southern State of Santa Catarina. It has won the Brazilian Rugby Championship in three occasions: 1996, 2000 and 2005. History Desterro’s history began in 1994, when a group of young men go..
Desticius
Desticius is a Roman nomen. Titus Desticius Juba, governor in Britain, 250sTitus Desticius Severus, governor in Raetia c. 166 ..
Destin, Florida
Destin is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, commonly known as "The World's Luckiest Fishing Village". Destin has grown from a historic fishing village to a premiere resort destination. The city sits along the coast in the Florida Panhandle, at the end of a peninsula separating Choctawhatchee Bay f..
Destination
Destination was a disco studio group from New York who had one chart entry: "Move On Up" / "Up Up Up" / "Destination's Theme," which spent four weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979. A trio, Destination consisted of Danny Lugo, Kathleen Bradley and Love Chyle Theus. See also ..
Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing
Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) is table-driven routing scheme for ad hoc mobile wireless networks based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm. Improved on the loop problem by using sequence numbers to mark each node. Routing information is distributed between nodes via sending "ful..
Destination: B-Sides
Destination: B-Sides is Mae's second release. It includes b-sides, remixes, and live recordings. Track listing All songs written by Mae. This Time is the Last Time (Wave Remix) – 3:25Suspension – 3:50Sun (Acoustic) – 5:22Tisbury Lane – 5:45Awakening – 4:16Futuro (..
Destination: Beautiful
Destination: Beautiful is Mae's debut album, released on Tooth & Nail Records on February 25, 2003. Track listing "Embers and Envelopes" (Gimenez) – 4:18"This Time Is The Last Time" (Gimenez) – 3:50"All Deliberate Speed" (Gimenez) – 5:09"Runaway" (Gimenez) – 3:45"Sun" (Gi..
Destination: Morgue!
Destination: Morgue is a collection of 14 short works by James Ellroy. Most of the pieces are nonfiction essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places). Also included are three brand new novellas. More of Ellroy's GQ piece..
Destination: Void
Destination: Void, a novel written by the American science fiction author Frank Herbert in 1966. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Summary In the future, humankind has tried to develop artificial intelligence, succeeding only once, and then disastrousl..
Destination (album)
Destination is the second solo album by Ronan Keating, released on May 20, 2002 by Polydor. It includes the singles "Lovin' Each Day", "If Tomorrow Never Comes", "I Love It When We Do", "We've Got Tonight" (featuring Lulu on the original UK release and Jeanette Biedermann on the German release) and..
Destination (Eloy album)
Fifteenth album by the German progressive rock band Eloy, released in 1992. It was the second album to be recorded with the new line-up of Frank Bornemann and Michael Gerlach. It also marked the return of Klaus-Peter Matziol, who last played with Eloy on the 1984 Metromania album. Track listing Mu..
Destination Adventure
Destination Adventure is a video game, loosely based on characters from The Adventures of Tintin comic book series written and drawn by Hergé. It was released for the Sony PlayStation and PC in Europe by the late 2001. Contents 1 Gameplay2 Availability3 Release dates4 Ext..
Destination Anywhere
Destination Anywhere is Jon Bon Jovi's second solo album. Track listing All songs composed by Jon Bon Jovi except where noted. "Queen Of New Orleans" (Jon Bon Jovi/Dave Stewart)"Janie, Don't Take Your Love To Town""Midnight In Chelsea" (Jon Bon Jovi/Dave Stewart)"Ugly" (Jon Bon Jovi/Eric Bazili..
Destination blind
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Destination blinds have been..
Destination Club
Destination Clubs were "invented" seven years ago, when Rob McGrath, a veteran of the luxury timeshare development business, launched Private Retreats. Since then over 20 companies have launched clubs (and more are being launched every month) targeting affluent families that want the benefits of se..
Destination Docklands
Destination Docklands was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on October 8 and October 9, 1988. The concerts were attended by 200,000 people (not including the people who watched the concert from the nearby streets and households) and the Octob..
Destination Films
is Sony Pictures' "niche" film distribution company. The logo is made up when a planet (presumably the Earth) goes past the bright sun and two halves of a ring are formed at the top and the bottom with a line with a crescent on one end and a star on the other. The site is now offline. Notable film..
Destination Games
Destination Games is the computer game development company created in April 2000 by Richard Garriott, Robert Garriott and Starr Long, following their departure from Orig