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Decker children murders
Decker children murders: May 2025 killings of Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia Decker of Wenatchee, Washington, during a visit with father Travis Caleb Decker, who suffocated them near Leavenworth and died after a three-month manhunt.
Deckers Brands
Deckers Brands, formally Deckers Outdoor Corporation, is an American footwear company founded in 1973 in Santa Barbara, California, and headquartered in Goleta, known for the HOKA, UGG, and Teva brands.
Declamation
Declamation (Latin declamatio, Greek meletē) was a rhetorical exercise of the Greco-Roman world, an oration on an imaginary theme used to train pupils in public speaking.
Declan Donnelly
Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly, known as Dec, English TV presenter and actor, one half of Ant & Dec with Ant McPartlin. Byker Grove actor turned PJ & Duncan pop star, host of Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity, and Britain's Got Talent; 21 consecutive NTA Best Presenter wins.
Declan Doyle
Declan Doyle (born 1996, Iowa City, Iowa) is an NFL offensive coordinator, Baltimore Ravens since 2026, previously Chicago Bears OC 2025, Broncos tight ends coach, Saints offensive assistant.
Declan McGuone
Declan McGuone is an Irish-trained neuropathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, known for NEJM case records and a rabies incubation study.
Declan McKenna
Declan McKenna, British singer-songwriter from Hertfordshire; won Glastonbury's Emerging Talent competition 2015 aged 16 with FIFA protest song Brazil; albums What Do You Think About the Car? (2017), Zeros (2020), What Happened to the Beach? (2024).
Declan O'Scanlon
Declan O'Scanlon is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 13th district in the State Senate since 2018, after serving in the General Assembly from 2008 to 2017.
Declan Rice
Declan Rice (born 1999) is an English midfielder for Arsenal and England captain, 80 caps. Released by Chelsea at 14, he starred for West Ham, won the 2023 Conference League, then joined Arsenal in 2023 for a British-record £105m fee and won the 2025-26 Premier League.
Declaration by United Nations
Declaration by United Nations, signed 1 January 1942 in Washington, D.C. by 26 Allied states including the US, UK, USSR, and China; first official use of the name United Nations, pledging full war effort and no separate peace.
Declaration of Arbroath
The Declaration of Arbroath is a Latin letter dated 6 April 1320 from Scotland's barons and community of the realm to Pope John XXII, seeking recognition of Scottish independence and Robert I as king.
Declaration of Armed Neutrality
The Declaration of Armed Neutrality (Декларация о вооружённом нейтралитете) was a 1780 diplomatic note by Empress Catherine II of Russia asserting free neutral shipping, backed by naval force.
Declaration of Helsinki
The Declaration of Helsinki, also known as the Helsinki Declaration, is a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human participants, first adopted in Helsinki in 1964.
Declaration of Independence (March 1, 1919)
The Declaration of Independence (독립선언서), also called the March 1st Declaration, is the proclamation of Korean independence read in Seoul on March 1, 1919, in the name of 33 representatives.
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Акт проголошення незалежності України)
The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Акт проголошення незалежності України), Verkhovna Rada Resolution 1427-XII of 24 August 1991, declared Ukraine independent; confirmed by the 1 December 1991 referendum with 90.32% yes.
Declaration of Neutrality
Declaration of Neutrality: Austria's Federal Constitutional Law of 26 October 1955 (BGBl. 211/1955) declaring permanent neutrality, banning military alliances and foreign bases, enacted after the 1955 State Treaty ended Allied occupation.
Declaration of nullity
Declaration of nullity (annulment, decree of nullity): a court or tribunal ruling that a marriage or other legal act was never valid from the outset; covers void vs voidable marriages in civil law and declarative nullity judgments in Catholic canon law.
Declaration of Peruvian Independence
The Declaration of Peruvian Independence (Proclamación de la Independencia del Perú) was signed in Lima on 15 July 1821, with José de San Martín proclaiming it publicly on 28 July.
Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Sentiments: 1848 women's rights statement drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann M'Clintock for the Seneca Falls Convention, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, signed by 68 women and 32 men, demanding suffrage and equal rights.
Declaration of Sovereignty of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
The Declaration of Sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR, adopted on 25 October 1990, proclaimed the republic a sovereign state and laid the foundation for Kazakhstan's independence.
Declaration of the Provisional Government of 3 March 1917
The Declaration of the Provisional Government of 3 March 1917 (Декларация Временного правительства) is the programmatic statement of Russia's first Provisional Government, formed the day before.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), French human rights charter of 17 articles adopted 26 August 1789; preamble to the 1791 constitution, ratified 5 October 1789, and still constitutionally binding in France.
Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia
The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia (Декларация прав народов России) was a 1917 Soviet decree proclaiming equality and self-determination for Russia's peoples.
Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited People
The Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited People is a 1918 constitutional act drafted by Lenin, proclaiming Russia a federated republic of Soviets.
Declaration of war
Declaration of war: a formal public act by which a state announces it is at war with another. Congress declared war 11 times, last in 1942; since 1945 formal state-to-state declarations have effectively ceased, replaced by AUMFs and UN Charter rules.
Declaration of war by the United States
A declaration of war by the United States is a formal joint resolution or act of Congress; 11 were enacted across five wars, from 1812 to 1942.
Declaration of War on Germany
China's declaration of war on Germany and Austria in the First World War, issued by Duan Qirui's Beijing government on 14 August 1917 over unrestricted submarine warfare.
Declaration on the Common Language (Декларација о заједничком језику)
Declaration on the Common Language (Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku), published in Sarajevo on 30 March 2017, a statement by over 200 intellectuals asserting that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are variants of one polycentric standard language.
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
UN General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), the Declaration on Decolonization, adopted 14 December 1960 by 89 votes to none with 9 abstentions; proclaimed an end to colonialism and the right of all peoples to self-determination.
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UNDRIP (A/RES/61/295) is the UN General Assembly declaration adopted 13 September 2007 by 143 votes to 4, setting out indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination, lands, and free, prior and informed consent; non-binding but politically and morally influential.