All articles starting with D

Datsun (ダットサン)

Datsun (ダットサン) is a Japanese automobile brand created by Nissan's predecessor companies in the early 1930s, used for exports until the 1980s and revived for entry-level cars from 2013 to 2022.

Datsun 510

The Datsun 510 was a compact rear-wheel-drive sedan, coupe, and wagon built by Nissan from 1967 to 1973 as the third-generation Bluebird, known for its racing success and affordability.

Datsun Sports

Datsun Sports, also known as the Datsun Fairlady, is a series of open sports cars built by Nissan from 1959 to 1970 and exported as the Datsun 1500, 1600, and 2000.

Datta sampradaya (दत्त संप्रदाय) is a Hindu religious tradition centered on the deity Dattatreya, shaped in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and followed chiefly in western India, especially Maharashtra, Gujarat, and northern Karnataka.

Sep 23, 2026

Dattaji Scindia

Dattaji Scindia (दत्ताजी शिंदे) was a Maratha commander of the Scindia family, a son of Ranoji Shinde who governed Lahore and Multan and died fighting Najib-ud-Daula at Burari Ghat near Delhi in January 1760.

Sep 27, 2026

Dattatray Vithoba Bharne

Dattatray Vithoba Bharne is an Indian Nationalist Congress Party politician serving as Maharashtra's agriculture minister, and has represented the Indapur constituency in the state assembly since 2014.

Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय)

Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय), also known as Dattatray, is a Hindu guru-deity, son of the sage Atri and Anasuya, depicted with three heads and worshipped in western India.

Datu

Datu: Southeast Asian chiefly title for the leader of a pre-colonial Philippine barangay (30-100 families), also rendered dato or datuk; under Spain reduced to cabeza de barangay, and still the core of traditional governance among Magindanaon and Lumad communities.

Datu Puti

Datu Puti is the legendary leader of ten Bornean datus who fled Borneo in the 13th century and bought the lowlands of Panay from the Ati people.

Datu Sikatuna

Datu Sikatuna, also recorded as Katunao, was a chieftain of Bo-ol on Bohol in the Philippines, remembered for sealing a 1565 blood compact with the Spanish conquistador Legazpi.

Sep 24, 2026

Datu Utto

Datu Utto, born Sultan Anwarud-din Uto, was a Maguindanao ruler of the upper Pulangi valley in Mindanao who resisted Spanish conquest until his defeat in 1886.

Datuk

Datuk is a Malaysian honorific conferred in its federal form by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and in its state form by the governors of four states without hereditary rulers.

Datura

Datura (thorn-apple, jimsonweed; Sanskrit dhattūra) is a genus of 14 toxic Solanaceae herbs native from the SW and S-central USA to Mexico, naturalized worldwide, containing atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine; distinct from the pendulous-flowered Brugmansia.

Datura family

Datura family: very young inner main-belt asteroid family around (1270) Datura, discovered 2006, age about 450-530 kyr, 8-km parent body, 91 known members, first of its class.

Datura metel

Datura metel, also known as devil's trumpet or thorn's apple, is a nightshade herb with large trumpet-shaped flowers, native to Mexico and cultivated worldwide as a narcotic and medicine.

Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium (jimson weed, thorn apple), Solanaceae annual herb native to Mexico, now a pantropical weed; all parts contain tropane alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, scopolamine; seeds contaminate grain and cause anticholinergic poisoning.

Dau (film)

Dau (DAU) is Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 2026 experimental drama, the culminating film of the DAU project about Soviet physicist Lev Landau. 195 minutes, 35mm, Venice 2026 Silver Lion for Best Director, starring Teodor Currentzis.

Dau Peninsula

Datu Peninsula (Tanjung Datu), westernmost tip of Sarawak, Malaysia, on the Borneo Indonesia border; home to Tanjung Datu National Park, 1,379 ha, gazetted 1994, with turtle beaches, primates, and Telok Melano village.

Oct 15, 2026

Daubechies wavelet

A Daubechies wavelet is a compactly supported, orthonormal wavelet from a family constructed by Ingrid Daubechies in 1988, notable for combining orthogonality, compact support, and high smoothness.

Daubert standard

Daubert standard: US evidence rule from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993) replacing Frye general acceptance with judicial gatekeeping of expert testimony under Rule 702, extended by Kumho Tire (1999) and codified in 2000 and 2023 amendments.

Oct 20, 2026

Daucus

Daucus is a genus of 45 Apiaceae herb species including cultivated carrot (D. carota subsp. sativus) and wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace; domesticated in medieval Central Asia, orange roots selected in Renaissance Europe.

Daucus (crater on Dione)

Daucus is an 80-km-wide impact crater on Dione, Saturn's icy moon, centered at 15.38°S, 301.14°W. Named by the IAU in 2008 after a Rutulian father of Thymber and Larides in Virgil's Aeneid.

Daucus carota

Daucus carota, wild carrot or Queen Anne's lace, is an Apiaceae biennial native to Europe, southwest Asia, and North Africa and progenitor of cultivated carrot (subsp. sativus), domesticated once in Central Asia with orange carrots later selected in the Netherlands.

Daud (film)

Daud (दौड़), also Daud: Fun on the Run, is a 1997 Hindi road adventure comedy directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Sanjay Dutt, Urmila Matondkar, and Paresh Rawal, with A. R. Rahman's music; a remake of Kshana Kshanam and a box office flop.

Sep 23, 2026

Daud Khan Karrani

Daud Khan Karrani (داؤد خان کرانی) was the last independent sultan of Bengal, reigning from 1573 until his defeat and execution by the Mughals in 1576.

Daudi

Daudi (DAUDI, CVCL_0008) is a human Burkitt lymphoma B-lymphoblast cell line established in 1967 by the Kleins from a 16-year-old male; EBV-positive, MYC-IGH fusion, B2M-deficient, HLA class I-negative, standard for interferon assays.

Daudi Chwa II

Daudi Chwa II was Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1897 to 1939, the 34th in the recorded line, who took the throne as an infant.

Dauer larva

Dauer larva: the stress-resistant, developmentally arrested dispersal stage of Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes, induced by pheromone, starvation, or heat at the L2 molt, controlled by TGF-β, insulin, and DAF-12/dafachronic acid pathways, and living for months.

Daufuskie Island

Daufuskie Island: 5,200-acre boat-only South Carolina sea island southwest of Hilton Head, Gullah Geechee heritage, 1982 National Register historic district, plantation and oyster history, erosion and ferry access.