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Dak Prescott

Dak Prescott, born Rayne Dakota Prescott in 1993, is an American football quarterback who has started for the Dallas Cowboys since 2016 and holds their record for passing touchdowns.

Dak'Art

Dak'Art, the Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar, is a state-organized biennial of contemporary African art held in Dakar, Senegal, established by decree in 1989 and the first art biennial created in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dakar

Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal, on the Cap-Vert peninsula, founded by France in 1857 and former capital of French West Africa.

Dakar Department

Dakar Department is a department of Senegal covering the central peninsula of the Dakar Region, unusual because the city of Dakar is both department and commune.

DaKAR II

DaKAR II is a 2016 double album by South African rapper Kwesta, whose hit single "Ngud'" with Cassper Nyovest helped it become the best-selling South African hip hop album.

Dakar Rally

Dakar Rally (Rallye Dakar, formerly Paris-Dakar): annual rally raid founded by Thierry Sabine, first run 1978-79 Paris to Dakar; Africa 1979-2007, South America 2009-2019, Saudi Arabia since 2020; ASO-organised, W2RC round.

Dakar Rally fatal accidents

Dakar Rally fatal accidents: deaths of competitors, spectators, and staff since 1979, totaling 77 by 2023, including the 1986 helicopter crash that killed founder Thierry Sabine and four others.

Dakar Rally in Africa (1979–2007)

The African-era Dakar Rally, founded as the Paris–Dakar in 1979, crossed Europe and the Sahara to Dakar until security threats moved it to South America in 2009.

Dakar–Niger Railway strike

The Dakar–Niger Railway strike, led by Ibrahima Sarr, was a five-month strike by some 20,000 African railway workers across French West Africa that ended in victory in March 1948.

Daken

Daken (Akihiro) is Marvel Comics' mutant son of Wolverine, debuting in Wolverine: Origins (2006) #5; he served on the Dark Avengers as Wolverine, headlined Daken: Dark Wolverine (2010-2012), and now stars in Hellverine (2024).

Dakerman

Dakerman, also published as Sidon-Dakerman, is a Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I settlement site on the Lebanese coast about 1 km south of Sidon, excavated by Roger Saïdah between 1967 and 1972.

DakhaBrakha (ДахаБраха)

DakhaBrakha (ДахаБраха), Ukrainian "ethno-chaos" world-music quartet founded 2004 at Kyiv's DAKH theater by Vladyslav Troitskyi; name means give/take; albums include Ptakh (2025) and Alambari (2020).

Dakhamunzu

Dakhamunzu, also known as Dahamunzu, is the name Hittite records give an Egyptian queen who asked King Šuppiluliuma I for a son in marriage, probably Tutankhamun's widow Ankhesenamun.

Dakhla, Western Sahara

Dakhla (formerly Villa Cisneros) is Western Sahara's second largest city, on a 40 km Atlantic peninsula. Founded by Spain in 1884, it is now administered by Morocco and known for fishing, kitesurfing tourism, and the Dakhla Atlantic Port project.

Dakhni literature

Dakhni literature is the poetry and prose written in Dakhni, the southern register of Urdu that developed in India's Deccan region between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Dakhni Urdu

Dakhni Urdu (دکنی اردو) is the Urdu of the Deccan, a literary language patronized by the sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda from the fifteenth century.

Daki

Daki is a Brazilian online grocery and quick-commerce company founded in São Paulo in 2021, which delivers from its own dark stores and became a unicorn within ten months.

Dakimakura

Dakimakura (抱き枕), literally hug pillow, is a Japanese body-length pillow; internationally, a printed anime character cover zipped over a separate insert. Sizes 40x120 to 50x160 cm; character covers emerged in the 1990s via Cospa and doujin culture.

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews (Melvin Richard Matthews, born 1940, Oakland) is an American character actor, Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and translator known for Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird and Rocky, and his Drama Desk-winning Henry IV adaptation.

Dakini

A dakini (ḍākinī, Tibetan khandroma, "sky-goer") is a female figure of Hindu and Buddhist tantra, ranging from a flesh-eating cemetery spirit to a wisdom deity and realized woman.

Dakorien Moore

Dakorien Moore, known as Kori, is an Oregon Ducks wide receiver from Duncanville, Texas; a consensus five-star, No. 1 receiver recruit in 2025 who decommitted from LSU, chose Oregon, and earned All-Big Ten honorable mention as a freshman.

Dakota Access Pipeline

The Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as the Bakken pipeline, is a 1,172-mile underground crude oil pipeline from North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois, operating since June 2017.

Dakota Access Pipeline protests

The Dakota Access Pipeline protests, known as NoDAPL, were 2016 to 2017 demonstrations against an oil pipeline crossing under Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Dakota Albritton

Dakota Albritton, nicknamed "Stilts", is a Banana Ball player for the Savannah Bananas who performs as a pitcher, hitter, and entertainer while standing on 10-foot stilts.

Dakota Allen

Dakota Allen (Dakota Devon Allen, born 1995) is an American linebacker from Humble, Texas; a Last Chance U alumnus who played at Texas Tech and EMCC and spent 2019-2022 in the NFL with the Raiders, Jaguars, Browns, and Broncos.

Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994) is an English actress known as Lyra Belacqua in The Golden Compass (2007), Franky Fitzgerald in Skins, and WPC Shirley Trewlove in Endeavour; also a screenwriter and director.

Dakota County, Minnesota, United States

Dakota County, Minnesota: a Twin Cities metro county founded 1849 as one of nine original territorial counties, county seat Hastings, population about 440,000-462,000, third largest of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning (Hannah Dakota Fanning), American actress born 1994 in Conyers, Georgia; child star of I Am Sam, youngest-ever SAG nominee and Academy member, now Emmy-nominated for Ripley and All Her Fault and co-founder, with sister Elle, of Lewellen Pictures.

Dakota Goyo

Dakota Goyo (Dakota Avery Goyo), Canadian actor born 1999 in Toronto, best known as child star Max Kenton in Real Steel (2011), Young Thor in Thor (2011), and voice of Jamie in Rise of the Guardians (2012).

Dakota Johnson

Dakota Mayi Johnson, American actress and TeaTime Pictures co-founder, daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith; famous for Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, Suspiria, Madame Web, and Materialists.