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Darago Fluctus

Darago Fluctus is a 775-km-wide lava flow terrain (fluctus) on Venus at 11.5S, 313.5E, IAU-approved in 1994 and named for a Philippine volcano goddess.

Daran Norris

Daran Norris (Daran Morrison Nordland, born 1964, Ferndale, Washington), American voice and on-camera actor: Cosmo, Dad, and Jorgen in The Fairly OddParents, Knock Out in Transformers Prime, Gordy in Ned's Declassified.

Darangen

The Darangen is an ancient epic chant of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines, totaling 72,000 lines and proclaimed a UNESCO heritage masterpiece in 2005.

Darapladib

Darapladib (SB-480848, CHEMBL204021) is an oral selective Lp-PLA2 inhibitor developed by GSK for atherosclerosis. Its phase 3 trials STABILITY and SOLID-TIMI 52 failed to reduce cardiovascular events despite about 65% enzyme inhibition.

Darassa

Darassa, born Shariff Thabit Ramadhan in 1988, is a Tanzanian rapper and singer in hip-hop and Bongo Flava, known for the 2016 hit "Muziki" with Ben Pol.

Daratumumab

Daratumumab (Darzalex, Darzalex Faspro) is a CD38-targeting human IgG1κ monoclonal antibody for multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis, FDA-approved since November 2015, improving survival in newly diagnosed and relapsed disease.

Daratumumab regimen

A daratumumab regimen is a multiple myeloma treatment combining the CD38 antibody daratumumab with backbone drugs such as dexamethasone, bortezomib, or lenalidomide, across newly diagnosed and relapsed disease.

Daraxonrasib

Daraxonrasib, marketed as Rasonque and developed as RMC-6236, is an oral pan-RAS inhibitor from Revolution Medicines, approved by the FDA in August 2026 for metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma after prior therapy.

Darayya massacre

The Darayya massacre was the killing of hundreds of residents of Darayya (داريا), southwest of Damascus, by Syrian government forces and shabiha militias, 20-27 August 2012, with documented tolls from 208 to over 700 deaths, followed by a deadly siege.

Darb al-Arba'in

Darb al-Arba'in (درب الأربعين), the Forty Days Road, was a caravan route linking Darfur and Kordofan with Asyut in Upper Egypt across about 1,100 miles of desert.

Darbar (தர்பார்) (film)

Darbar (தர்பார்) is a 2020 Tamil action thriller directed by A.R. Murugadoss for Lyca Productions, starring Rajinikanth as Mumbai police commissioner Aaditya Arunachalam, with Nayanthara and Suniel Shetty; released 9 January 2020, grossing about ₹247.80 crore worldwide.

Darbel Bay

Darbel Bay (Marin Darbel Bay) is a bay on the Loubet Coast, west Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at 66°30'S 65°55'W, bounded by Cape Bellue and the Darbel Islands and studied for its tidewater glaciers and seafloor moraines.

Darbepoetin alfa

Darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp) is a long-acting erythropoiesis-stimulating agent for anemia of chronic kidney disease and cancer chemotherapy, FDA approved 2001, with a 3-fold longer half-life than epoetin alfa.

Darbhanga (district)

Darbhanga district, Bihar, India: North Bihar district in the Mithila region, established 1875 from Sarkar Tirhut, headquarters Darbhanga city, seat of the Darbhanga Raj maharajas; 2,279 sq km, 3.94 million people (2011), 18 blocks, 3 subdivisions.

Darbhanga (दरभंगा)

Darbhanga (दरभंगा), also called the heart of Mithilanchal, is a city in North Bihar and headquarters of Darbhanga district and division, Bihar's fifth largest city, with 371,356 town residents (2011), Maithili culture, and a rapidly expanding UDAN airport.

Darboux integral

The Darboux integral is a definition of the definite integral using upper and lower sums, equivalent to the Riemann integral, introduced by Jean-Gaston Darboux in 1875.

Darboux transformation

The Darboux transformation, named for Gaston Darboux's 1882 result and named by V. B. Matveev in 1979, generates new solutions of integrable partial differential equations from known ones.

Darbuka

The darbuka, also called tabla or dümbelek, is a goblet-shaped hand drum played across Arab, Turkish, and Persian musical traditions, and a standard of modern Turkish music.

Darbuka Siva

Darbuka Siva (தர்புகா சிவா), born 1982 in Chennai, is an Indian composer, actor, and director in Tamil cinema; composer of Kidaari and Enai Noki Paayum Thota and director of Mudhal Nee Mudivum Nee.

Darby Allin

Darby Allin (Samual Ratsch) is an AEW wrestler from Seattle, known for the Coffin Drop, skateboarding stunts, straight-edge lifestyle, and TNT and AEW World Championship reigns.

Darby and Joan

Darby and Joan (Darby & Joan) is an Australian Acorn TV mystery drama (2022–) starring Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi as ex-cop Jack Darby and widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope, who solve outback mysteries across Queensland; two series, 14 episodes.

Darby Camp

Darby Camp (Darby Eliza Camp, born 2007, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American actress known for Chloe Mackenzie in Big Little Lies, Kate Pierce in The Christmas Chronicles films, Emily Elizabeth in Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Marty Mitchell in Gaslit.

Darby Crash

Darby Crash (Jan Paul Beahm, 1958-1980), aka Bobby Pyn, frontman of LA punk band the Germs; recorded (GI) (1979), died by heroin overdose at 22, one day before John Lennon's murder.

Darby Hills

Darby Hills is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from the 26th district since February 2025, after careers as a Cook County prosecutor and Barrington Hills trustee.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney live-action fantasy directed by Robert Stevenson, based on H.T. Kavanagh's stories, starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Jimmy O'Dea, and Sean Connery, with noted forced-perspective leprechaun effects.

Darby Stanchfield

Darby Stanchfield (born 1971, Kodiak, Alaska) is an American actress known as Abby Whelan on ABC's Scandal and Nina Locke on Netflix's Locke & Key, with an MFA from ACT San Francisco.

Darcey & Stacey

Darcey & Stacey is a TLC reality series (2020-2023), a 90 Day Fiancé spinoff following identical twins Darcey and Stacey Silva in Middletown, Connecticut, across four seasons.

Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell (Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell, born 1969) is an English ballerina, youngest-ever Principal of The Royal Ballet (1989), retired 2007, later Strictly judge and Royal Academy of Dance President.

Darcey Silva

Darcey Silva (born 1974, Middletown, Connecticut) is an American reality television personality known for 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days, the spinoff Darcey & Stacey with twin sister Stacey Silva, and the fashion brand House of Eleven.

Darci Lynne

Darci Lynne (Darci Lynne Farmer), Oklahoma City singer and ventriloquist, won AGT season 12 in 2017 at age 12 with puppets Petunia, Oscar, and Edna; runner-up on AGT: The Champions, later films and Opry tours.