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Deer Garden

Deer Garden names a small zoo in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan (鹿園), the Hong Kong-founded fish soup noodle chain Deer Garden Signatures (鹿園魚湯米線), Shanghai's Michelin-starred Lu Yuan, and deer enclosures in Chinese parks.

Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant

The Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant is Boston's main sewage treatment facility, operated by the MWRA, serving 2.3 million people in 43 Greater Boston communities.

Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador

Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador: a Humber Valley town founded by 1864 Cape Breton settlers, incorporated 1950, home to Deer Lake Regional Airport, the fourth busiest in Atlantic Canada, at the Trans-Canada Highway and Viking Trail junction.

Deer musk

Deer musk, the dried secretion of the musk gland of male Moschus musk deer, used for 2,000 years in Chinese medicine and perfumery; poaching collapsed populations, now CITES-protected with farmed and artificial substitutes.

Deer of Nine Colors

The Deer of Nine Colors (九色鹿) is the hero of a jataka tale depicted in the best-known narrative mural of Mogao Cave 257 at Dunhuang, painted during the Northern Wei dynasty.

Deer Park

"Deer Park" (Luzhai, 鹿柴) is a twenty-character quatrain by the Tang poet Wang Wei, written at his Wangchuan estate and possibly the most translated of all Chinese poems.

Deer Park Energy Center

The Deer Park Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle cogeneration plant in Deer Park, Texas, owned by Calpine, supplying electricity and steam since 2003.

Deer Squad (无敌鹿战队)

Deer Squad (无敌鹿战队, Wudi Lu Zhandui) is a Chinese-British 3D preschool animated series by iQIYI with Nickelodeon supervision, premiered July 15, 2020; first Chinese original animation on Nickelodeon, aired in 160+ countries in 30+ languages.

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites: UNESCO World Heritage serial property in central Mongolia, inscribed 2023, four complexes of deer stones (1200-600 BCE) with khirgisüür burial mounds.

Deer Technology

Deer Technology, formally Fujian Deer Technology Co., is a Chinese manufacturer of fluorine-containing electronic materials founded in 2014 in Shanghang County, Fujian, serving semiconductor and battery makers.

Deer Tick (band)

Deer Tick is an American indie rock/Americana band from Providence, Rhode Island, on ATO Records, formed as John McCauley's solo project in December 2004; nine albums from War Elephant (2007) to Coin-O-Matic (2026).

Deer Valley

Deer Valley Resort, Park City, Utah: skiers-only luxury ski resort opened 1981 by Edgar and Polly Stern, Ikon Pass, 4,300 acres expanding to 5,726, 2002 Olympic freestyle venue and 2034 Games host.

Deer Woman

Deer Woman, or Deer Lady (Lakota Anukite), a supernatural woman with deer hooves in Native American oral tradition, who seduces unfaithful men to death, aids fertility, and now appears in modern Indigenous retellings.

Deer zoo

Deer zoo (Вольєр №1 для тимчасового утримання та розведення оленя благородного) is a small red deer enclosure and zoo near Morshyn, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, used since 2001 to breed red deer for release into the wild.

Deere

Deere & Company, known by its John Deere brand, is an American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment that has built farm machinery since 1837.

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy, founded 1797 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, is an independent coeducational boarding and day school (grades 9-postgraduate) with 649 students, $79,940 boarding tuition, and a Financial Aid Initiative granting free tuition under $150,000 family income.

Deerfield Beach, Florida

Deerfield Beach is a coastal city in Broward County, Florida, between Boca Raton and Pompano Beach, population 86,859 (2020), known for its 976-foot International Fishing Pier, Blue Wave certified beach, and 1925 incorporation.

Deerfield Healthcare Innovations

Deerfield Healthcare Innovations is a series of Delaware private equity funds investing in healthcare, managed by Deerfield Management Company, with three funds raised since 2015 totaling roughly $2 billion.

Deerfield Management

Deerfield Management is a New York City-based investment firm that invests exclusively in healthcare across public equities, private financings, and venture capital, managing over $16 billion since 1994.

Deerfield Private Design

Deerfield Private Design is a series of private healthcare-financing funds managed by New York's Deerfield Management, providing equity, debt, and royalty financing to healthcare companies.

Deerhoof

Deerhoof, the San Francisco experimental rock band formed in 1994 by Rob Fisk and Greg Saunier, fronted by Satomi Matsuzaki, known for noise-pop albums like The Runners Four, Milk Man, and Noble and Godlike in Ruin.

Deerhui

Deerhui (德尔惠) is a Chinese sportswear brand from Jinjiang, Fujian, founded by Ding Mingming and known for its Jay Chou endorsement before it ceased operations in 2017.

Deerhunter

Deerhunter is an American indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed by Bradford Cox and Moses Archuleta, with Lockett Pundt on guitar. Known for Cryptograms, Microcastle, Halcyon Digest, and 2019's Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, the band has been on unannounced hiatus since 2019.

Deerstalker

Deerstalker: a soft tweed cap with visors front and back and ear flaps, designed for deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands and made famous as Sherlock Holmes's hat via Sidney Paget's 1891 Strand illustrations.

Deesis

The Deesis (Greek for "prayer") is a Byzantine icon composition with Christ at the center, flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist in intercession.

DEET

DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) is the most widely used synthetic insect repellent, developed by the U.S. Army in 1946, applied to skin at 5–99% concentrations, repelling mosquitoes and ticks by disrupting olfaction.

Deewaar (दीवार)

Deewaar (दीवार, "The Wall") is a 1975 Hindi crime drama directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim-Javed, starring Amitabh Bachchan as smuggler Vijay and Shashi Kapoor as policeman Ravi, which defined the angry young man era of Hindi cinema.

Deewana (दीवाना) (1992 film)

Deewana (दीवाना) is a 1992 Hindi romantic drama directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Rishi Kapoor, Divya Bharti, and Shah Rukh Khan in his screen debut, with music by Nadeem–Shravan; it earned 18.88 crore on a 4 crore budget, 1992's second highest-grosser.

Deewana Mastana (दीवाना मस्ताना)

Deewana Mastana (दीवाना मस्ताना) is a 1997 Hindi romantic comedy directed by David Dhawan, starring Anil Kapoor, Govinda, and Juhi Chawla as a psychiatrist courted by a crook and her patient; Johny Lever won a Filmfare Award for it.

Deewane (दीवाने)

Deewane (दीवाने) is a 2000 Hindi action-romance film directed by Harry Baweja, starring Ajay Devgn in a double role as cop Vishal and lookalike thief Arun, with Urmila Matondkar and Mahima Chaudhry; it clashed with Dhadkan and flopped.