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Date Munenari
Date Munenari (伊達宗城, 1818–1892) was a Japanese daimyo, the eighth lord of Uwajima, one of the bakumatsu Four Wise Lords, and later a Meiji statesman who concluded the 1871 Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship.
Date Night
Date Night (2010) is an American action comedy directed by Shawn Levy, written by Josh Klausner, starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey as the Fosters; $152.3 million worldwide on a $55 million budget.
Date of birth of Jesus
The date of birth of Jesus, also called the birthdate of Jesus, is unstated in the Gospels; most scholars place it between 6 and 4 BCE, with December 25 first attested in 336 CE.
Date of Easter
The Date of Easter, set by the computus (Paschal computation), is the Sunday Western and Eastern churches celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, ranging from March 22 to April 25.
Date palm
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), the iconic fruit palm of North Africa and the Middle East, cultivated since 4000 BC; dioecious, over 5,000 cultivars, two gene pools, dates over 3,000 calories/kg.
Date rape
Date rape: non-consensual intercourse by an acquaintance or date during a social engagement; also called acquaintance rape. Key facts: alcohol is the most common substance involved, Rohypnol and GHB are classic date rape drugs, and it is not a legally distinct rape category.
Date rape drug
Date rape drugs: any drug or alcohol, most often alcohol, used to make rape or sexual assault easier; includes Rohypnol, GHB, GBL, ketamine. Also called DFSA or chemical submission; rapid elimination hampers detection.
DATE World
DATE World (Decisive Action Training Environment World) is the U.S. Army's official unclassified fictional training universe, built by TRADOC G-2 with invented countries like Torbia and Donovia across Pacific, Europe, Caucasus, and Africa regions for live, virtual, and constructive training.
Dated Brent
Dated Brent is the daily benchmark price of physical North Sea crude oil, published by Platts and the most widely used reference for crude traded worldwide.
Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC is NBC News's primetime newsmagazine, premiered March 31, 1992 with Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips; longest-running NBC primetime series, known for To Catch a Predator, true crime, and podcasts.
Datengxia hydroelectric plant
Datengxia hydroelectric plant (大藤峡, Datengxia Water Conservancy Project) is a multipurpose dam on the Qianjiang River in Guiping, Guangxi, China, with 1,600 MW capacity, built from 2014 to 2023.
DATEX II
DATEX II is the European CEN standard for exchanging road traffic and travel information between traffic control centers, service providers, and other actors such as car park operators.
Dāṭhānāga
Dāṭhānāga (दाठानाग) is the name of a thera, or senior Buddhist monk, in Sri Lanka's Pali commentarial literature, including a tenth-century elder who recited the Abhidhamma for King Mahinda IV.
Datia
Datia (दतिया) is a town and district headquarters in Gwalior Division, Madhya Pradesh, India, former seat of a Bundela princely state founded in 1626, known for Bir Singh Deo Palace and the Pitambara Peeth shrine.
Datia State
Datia State (दतिया रियासत) was a Bundela princely state in present-day Madhya Pradesh, founded in 1626 by Bhagwan Rao, son of Bir Singh Deo of Orchha, and ruled until independence.
Dating
Dating, a twentieth-century American form of courtship between people assessing a relationship, evolved from supervised 'calling' to commercial dates, going steady, the post-1960 sexual revolution, and algorithmic online matching.
Dating Naked
Dating Naked is a VH1 reality dating series (2014-2016, 3 seasons, 33 episodes) in which contestants date nude, hosted by Amy Paffrath and Rocsi Diaz; the format was revived as Dating Naked UK on Paramount+ in 2024 with host Rylan Clark and a £50,000 prize.
Dating Naked UK
Dating Naked UK is a Paramount+ and MTV British reality dating series (2024–) hosted by Rylan Clark, in which ten singles date nude in a tropical villa for a £50,000 prize, shown unblurred unlike the US version.
Dating sim
Dating sim (ren'ai simulation game): a video game genre of courting pre-scripted characters via affection meters, stat raising, and time management; pioneered in Japan, mainstreamed by Tokimeki Memorial (1994), with the female-oriented otome branch.
Dating the Bible
Dating the Bible, also called the date of the Bible, means two things: fixing the age of surviving manuscripts and estimating when the books themselves were composed.
Datis
Datis (داتیس), known as Datis the Mede, was an Achaemenid Persian commander under Darius I who jointly led the 490 BC expedition against Eretria and Athens, ending in defeat at Marathon.
Dative case
Dative case: grammatical case marking indirect objects, recipients, beneficiaries, and experiencers; from Greek dotikē ptōsis via Latin dativus. Covers PIE origins, Greek instrumental-locative merger, Germanic catch-all dative, and syncretism.
Dato' Bahaman
Dato' Bahaman, born Abdul Rahman, was the district chief of Semantan in Pahang who led the Pahang Uprising, also called the Semantan Rebellion, against British rule from 1891 to 1895.
Datong mutiny of 1524
The Datong mutiny of 1524 (大同兵變) was a rising of Ming garrison soldiers at the frontier town of Datong, who killed grand coordinator Zhang Wenjin.
Datong-2 power station
Datong-2 power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Datong, Shanxi, China, built in phases between 1984 and 2009 with ten units totaling 3,720 MW.
Datopotamab deruxtecan
Datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd, DS-1062a, Datroway) is a TROP2-directed antibody-drug conjugate with a DXd topoisomerase I inhibitor payload, approved in the US for EGFR-mutated NSCLC, TNBC, and HR-positive HER2-negative breast cancer, and in the EU for breast cancer.
Datorama
Datorama was an Israeli-founded software company offering an AI-powered marketing intelligence and analytics platform, acquired by Salesforce in 2018 for a reported price above $800 million.
Datrium
Datrium was a hybrid cloud data infrastructure startup founded in 2012 in Sunnyvale, California, known for its DVX disaggregated hyperconverged platform and acquired by VMware in 2020.
Datronia
Datronia is a genus of Polyporaceae wood-rot fungi established by Donk in 1966, type species D. mollis; the 2014 multi-gene revision restricted it to two species and segregated Datroniella and Neodatronia.
Datroniella
Datroniella is a small polypore fungus genus (Polyporaceae) split from Datronia in 2014 by Li, Cui, and Dai, typified by D. scutellata; after Zmitrovich's 2018 transfer to Cerioporus, only D. minuta from Brazil remains.