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De Havilland Venom

The de Havilland Venom (DH Venom) was a British jet fighter-bomber developed from the Vampire, serving the RAF from 1952 and flying in Switzerland until the mid-1980s.

De Hollandsche Spectator

De Hollandsche Spectator was a Dutch moral weekly, written almost entirely by Justus van Effen, published in Amsterdam from 1731 to 1735 in 360 issues.

De Hondsrug UNESCO Global Geopark

De Hondsrug UNESCO Global Geopark, the Netherlands' first geopark (2013; UNESCO status 2015), protects a ~1,000 km² Saalian ice-age landscape in Drenthe and Groningen, centered on the 70 km Hondsrug megaflute ridge.

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, an Amsterdam Nederhop group of rappers Willie Wartaal, Vieze Fur, and Faberyayo with producer Bas Bron, broke through in 2005 with "Watskeburt?!".

De Kuip

De Kuip (Stadion Feijenoord), Rotterdam stadium opened 1937, home of Feyenoord with 51,177 seats; hosted ten European finals and the Euro 2000 final; Feyenoord acquired over 95% ownership in 2026.

De la costilla de Eva

De la costilla de Eva ("From Eve's Rib") is a 1986 poetry collection by Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, combining feminist erotic verse with Contra War poems.

De La Rose (singer)

De La Rose (Yuberkis de la Rosa Bryan, born 2001, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) is a reggaeton and Latin trap singer; hits "Kyoto" and "¿Qué vas hacer hoy?", debut album FX De La Rose (2025).

De La Rue

De La Rue is a British security printing company founded in 1813, headquartered in Basingstoke, which prints banknotes for half of the world's central banks.

De La Rue (lunar crater)

De La Rue is a 135.22-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon at 59.02° N, 52.84° E, named for Warren De La Rue, the nineteenth-century lunar photographer.

De La Salle Brothers

The De La Salle Brothers, formally the Brothers of the Christian Schools, are a Catholic congregation of lay men founded in France in 1680 to educate the poor.

De La Salle Green Archers basketball

De La Salle Green Archers basketball: DLSU's UAAP men's team, nicknamed in 1939 after an NCAA title upset of Ateneo; five NCAA and eleven UAAP championships, including Season 88 in 2025.

De La Salle High School (Concord, California)

De La Salle High School (Concord, California): private Catholic all-boys college-prep school founded 1965 by the Christian Brothers, about 1,020 students, known for its 151-game football winning streak and strong AP results.

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ, La Salle Zobel), a Catholic Lasallian K-12 school in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa, founded 1978 to house DLSU-Manila's elementary department, with a Vermosa campus in Imus, Cavite.

De La Salle University

De La Salle University (Pamantasang De La Salle, DLSU) is a private Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines, founded in 1911 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, granted university status in 1975, with Manila and Laguna campuses.

De La Soul

De La Soul: American hip hop trio from Amityville, Long Island, formed 1988 by Posdnuos, Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo; Daisy Age pioneers behind 3 Feet High and Rising and the Native Tongues collective.

De Laval nozzle

The de Laval nozzle, also called the convergent-divergent nozzle, is a tube that accelerates pressurized gas to supersonic speed, used in rocket engines and steam turbines.

De Lisle carbine

The De Lisle carbine was a British bolt-action, integrally suppressed carbine of the Second World War, designed by William Godfray de Lisle for covert commando work.

De los nombres de Cristo

De los nombres de Cristo is a 1583 prose dialogue by the Spanish friar Luis de León in which three religious discuss the names of Christ in Scripture.

De Luna

De Luna (ДеЛуна) is a 24-hour casino, bar, and billiard hall at Maladziožnaja vulica 194, Navapolatsk, Belarus, offering poker, blackjack, roulette, and slots; distinct from Spain's Luna Casino and León's Casino Conde Luna.

De Magnete

De Magnete is a Latin treatise on magnetism by the English physician William Gilbert, printed in London in 1600, arguing that the Earth is a giant magnet.

De Martonne aridity index

The De Martonne aridity index (DMI) is a climatic index that classifies a location's dryness as annual precipitation in millimeters divided by mean annual temperature in degrees Celsius plus 10.

De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς)

De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς) is a first-century Greek pharmacological treatise by Pedanius Dioscorides that dominated European and Middle Eastern medicine for sixteen centuries.

De minimis

De minimis, from the Latin maxim de minimis non curat lex, is the legal principle that the law does not concern itself with trifles, applied in copyright, tax, criminal, and competition law.

De moeder de vrouw

De moeder de vrouw is a 1934 sonnet by Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff, first published in Nieuwe gedichten, describing a psalm-singing woman on a ship passing the Waal bridge at Zaltbommel.

De Moivre–Laplace theorem

The de Moivre–Laplace theorem, a special case of the central limit theorem, states that a binomial distribution converges to the normal distribution as the number of trials grows.

De Moivre's formula

De Moivre's formula, also called De Moivre's theorem, states that (cos θ + i sin θ)^n = cos(nθ) + i sin(nθ) for any integer n.

De Montfort University

De Montfort University (DMU), a public university in Leicester, England, founded as the Leicester School of Art in 1870 and granted university status on 26 June 1992; named for Simon de Montfort, with Leicester, Dubai, London, Cambodia and Kazakhstan campuses, block teaching, 26,000 students, and REF 2021 with over 60% world-leading research.

De Morgan's laws

De Morgan's laws, also called De Morgan's theorem, are a pair of rules stating that the negation of AND is the OR of negations, and vice versa.

De mulieribus claris

De mulieribus claris, also cited as De claris mulieribus, is a Latin collection of about 104 biographies of famous women by Giovanni Boccaccio, begun around 1360 and the first such collection devoted exclusively to women.

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Mayhem's 1994 debut full-length black metal album on Deathlike Silence Productions, recorded 1992-1993 at Grieghallen, Bergen, by Euronymous, Hellhammer, Varg Vikernes, Blackthorn, and Attila Csihar, released after Euronymous' murder.