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Dassault Rafale

The Dassault Rafale, also called the Dassault-Breguet Rafale, is a French twin-engine multirole fighter built by Dassault Aviation, able to fly air superiority, ground attack, and nuclear deterrence missions.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, also known as Dassault Systèmes SE, is a French software company founded in 1981 by engineers from Dassault Aviation, known for its CATIA and SOLIDWORKS design software.

Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard

The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard, also Super Etendard, is a French carrier-based strike aircraft serving from 1978 to 2016, famous for Argentine Exocet attacks that sank two British ships in the 1982 Falklands War.

Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet

The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a twin-engine subsonic jet trainer and light attack aircraft jointly developed by France and West Germany, first flown in 1973, with about 500 built.

Dassler brothers feud

Dassler brothers feud: quarrel between Adolf (Adi) and Rudolf (Rudi) Dassler of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, that split Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik and produced rival firms Adidas and Puma, divided the town, and lasted until a 2009 reconciliation match.

Dast-e-Saba

Dast-e-Saba (دستِ صبا) is the second poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, published in 1952 and written largely during his imprisonment in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.

Dastak

The dastak (دستک) was a trade permit issued under Mughal emperor Farrukh Siyar's 1717 farman, letting the English East India Company trade in Bengal duty-free; its abuse by private traders provoked conflict with Bengal's nawabs.

Dastan

Dastan (داستان) is a genre of oral and prose romance narrative that developed in Persian and spread to Urdu, telling of adventure, magic, and warfare.

Dastan Satpayev (Дастан Талғатұлы Сәтпаев)

Dastan Satpayev (Дастан Талғатұлы Сәтпаев), Kazakh forward born 2008 in Almaty; Kairat Almaty academy product, youngest Kazakhstan debutant, signed by Chelsea 2026 for €4m, loaned to Burnley.

Dâstân ve Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân

Dâstân ve Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân covers Ahmedî's verse chronicle of the Ottoman kings, appended to his İskendernâme around 1405-1410 and regarded as the oldest surviving Ottoman historical text.

Dastan-e-Amir Hamza

Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (داستانِ امیر حمزہ) is an epic Urdu tale of fantasy and adventure built loosely around Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dastangoi

Dastangoi (داستانگوئی) is the classical art of Urdu oral storytelling, in which one or two seated narrators recite epic Dastans of adventure and magic using only voice, language, and gesture.

Dastar

Dastar (also pagg, pagri) is the Sikh turban, a daily-wrapped cloth covering the kesh (uncut hair), mandatory for initiated Sikhs since Guru Gobind Singh's 1699 Khalsa; styles include Dumalla, Patiala Shahi, and the Akali-Nihang Dastar Bunga warrior turban.

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, also known as Stop the Pigeon, is a 1969 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday morning cartoon, a Wacky Races spin-off in which Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and the Vulture Squadron fail to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon across 17 episodes.

Dastur al-Muluk

Dastur al-Muluk (دستور الملوک) is a Persian manual of administration from the end of the Safavid period, composed by Mirza Rafia, accountant-general at Isfahan, around 1722 to 1726.

Dasun Shanaka

Dasun Shanaka (Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka), Sri Lankan batting allrounder born 1991 in Negombo; former limited-overs captain, Asia Cup 2022 winning captain, 2023 ODI World Cup captain, and T20I all-rounder with 2,075 runs and 50 wickets.

Dasuo maoyue (census verification campaign)

Dasuo maoyue (大索貌阅) was a census verification campaign of China's Sui dynasty in which local governments checked each inhabitant's face and apparent age against the household register.

Dasuo maoyue and shuji dingyang

Dasuo maoyue and shuji dingyang (大索貌阅与输籍定样) were two linked household-registration policies of China's Sui dynasty, ordered by Emperor Wen in 585 to expose tax evaders.

Dasvand

Dasvand (ਦਸਵੰਧ), literally a tenth part, is the Sikh religious requirement to contribute one-tenth of one's income to the needy or community, instituted by Guru Arjan Dev and collected through the masands.

Dasvi (दसवीं)

Dasvi (दसवीं) is a 2022 Hindi social-comedy directed by Tushar Jalota, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Nimrat Kaur, and Yami Gautam, released on Netflix and Jio Cinema on 7 April 2022 about a jailed chief minister studying for his class 10 exam.

Daswanth

Daswanth was a Hindu painter at Akbar's Mughal court, active from the mid-1560s until his death in 1584, remembered as a leading master of early Mughal painting.

Oct 21, 2026

Dasyatidae

Dasyatidae, whiptail stingrays, is a family of Myliobatiformes rays with a rounded disc, whip-like tail, and venomous sting. Revised in 2016 into four subfamilies and 18 genera; primarily marine, circumglobal.

Oct 20, 2026

Dasyatis pastinaca

Dasyatis pastinaca, the common stingray or blue stingray, is a whiptail stingray of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, benthic to 200 m, ovoviviparous, venomous-spined, and IUCN Vulnerable.

Dasymutilla klugii

Dasymutilla klugii (Klug's velvet ant), a wingless parasitoid wasp (Mutillidae) of North America and Mexico, rated 3/4 on the Schmidt sting pain index, with peptide venom Dk5a and Dk13a acting on cell membranes.

Dasymutilla occidentalis

Dasymutilla occidentalis, the red velvet ant or cow killer, is an eastern US parasitoid wasp (Mutillidae); wingless females have an extremely painful peptide venom, tough cuticle, stridulation, and aposematic coloration in the Eastern mimicry ring.

Oct 21, 2026

Dasypus

Dasypus (long-nosed armadillos), genus Linnaeus 1758, type species D. novemcinctus; most speciose armadillo genus, Argentina to United States, obligatory polyembryony, leprosy host, revised to eight species in 2018.

Oct 21, 2026

Dasyuridae

Dasyuridae, the dasyurid marsupials, is the largest family of Australian carnivorous marsupials (order Dasyuromorphia), spanning the 4-gram long-tailed planigale to the Tasmanian devil, with polyprotodont dentition and male semelparity in some genera.