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Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders (born 1967, Fort Myers, Florida), "Prime Time"/"Coach Prime", Hall of Fame cornerback, two-time Super Bowl winner, only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and World Series, now Colorado head coach.
Deir Abou Makar
Deir Abou Makar (دير الأنبا مقار), the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, is a Coptic Orthodox monastery in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, founded in the fourth century, residence of the Coptic patriarchs, with about 120 monks today.
Deir Ali power station
The Deir Ali power station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant south of Damascus, Syria, built in two phases to about 1,500 MW.
Deir Alla
Deir Alla, also known as Dayr Alla, is an archaeological tell in the central Jordan Valley, Jordan, known for a wall inscription naming Balaam son of Beor.
Deir Amba Baramos
Deir Amba Baramos (Dayr al-Baramus, Paromeos Monastery) is a Coptic Orthodox monastery in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, traditionally the oldest Scetis foundation, with a seventh-century Virgin Mary church, medieval wall paintings, and six Coptic patriarchs among its monks.
Deir Apa Jeremiah
Deir Apa Jeremiah (Dayr Apa Jeremiah) was a Coptic cenobitic monastery at Saqqara, Egypt, founded around 470, excavated by Quibell 1906-1910, and abandoned by the ninth century.
Deir el-Atrash
Deir el-Atrash (دير الأطرش), a Roman fortlet in Egypt's Eastern Desert on the Nile-to-Mons Porphyrites road, 8 km north of Ghozza; excavated by MAFDO in 2020, with a wall painting signed by Valerius.
Deir el-Bahari
Deir el-Bahari (دير البحري, 'Northern Monastery') is a Theban mortuary temple site on Luxor's west bank, holding the terraced temple of Hatshepsut, the Eleventh Dynasty temple of Mentuhotep II, and the Amun temple of Thutmose III.
Deir el-Balah
Deir el-Balah is an Egyptian New Kingdom archaeological site in the Gaza Strip, south of Gaza, known for a fortress and a cemetery of anthropoid clay coffins.
Deir el-Ballas
Deir el-Ballas is an ancient settlement on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt, built as a forward campaign palace of the Theban kings during their war against the Hyksos around 1600-1500 BC.
Deir el-Bersha
Deir el-Bersha (also Deir el-Bersheh) is an archaeological site on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, the necropolis of the Hare nome's governors.
Deir el-Gabrawi
Deir el-Gabrawi is a rock-cut necropolis on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, opposite Manfalout, serving as the Old Kingdom cemetery of the 12th Upper Egyptian nome.
Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina, known to its residents as the "Place of Truth", was a New Kingdom village at Thebes housing the workmen who built the royal tombs.
Deir el-Medina strikes
The Deir el-Medina strikes were work stoppages by the royal tomb builders of Deir el-Medina in Thebes in the 1150s BC, over unpaid grain rations, the first documented strike in history.
Deir el-Roumi
Deir el-Roumi, or Dayr al-Rumi, is a Coptic monastery in the Western Theban necropolis, built before the unfinished royal tomb QV 95 and excavated by Ernesto Schiaparelli from 1903 to 1906.
Deir el-Shelwit
Deir el-Shelwit, also written Deir Chelouit, is a small Roman-period temple of Isis on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, modern Luxor, south of Medinet Habu.
Deir ez-Zor (دير الزور)
Deir ez-Zor (دير الزور), also Deir Ezzor or Deir al-Zour, is the capital of Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate on the Euphrates near the Iraqi border, an oil and wheat hub, heavily damaged in the Syrian civil war and besieged by ISIS until 2017.
Deir ez-Zor offensive (2024)
Deir ez-Zor offensive (2024): December 2024 operations in eastern Syria in which the SDF seized regime-held Deir ez-Zor city and the al-Bukamal crossing, then lost the city to HTS-led forces on 10 December 2024.
Deir Tasa
Deir Tasa is an archaeological site on the east bank of the Nile near al-Badari in Middle Egypt, the type site of the Predynastic Tasian culture.
Deir Yassin massacre
Deir Yassin massacre (دير ياسين): killing of Palestinian villagers on 9 April 1948 by Irgun and Lehi forces west of Jerusalem during the 1948 war; death toll disputed (101-250), the event accelerated the 1948 Palestinian exodus, the Nakba.
Deirdre Barlow
Deirdre Barlow (Deirdre Anne Barlow, née Hunt, also Langton and Rachid), fictional Coronation Street character played by Anne Kirkbride from 20 November 1972 to October 2014; wife of Ken Barlow, mother of Tracy, famous for the 1983 Mike Baldwin love triangle and 1998's Free the Weatherfield One.
Deirdre Costigan
Deirdre Costigan, Irish-born British Labour (Co-op) politician, MP for Ealing Southall since 4 July 2024; former Unison disability equality officer, Ealing Council deputy leader, and government whip (May to July 2026).
Deirdre Lenihan
Deirdre Lenihan (born 1946, New York City) is an American former actress, Wendy Nelson on NBC's Needles and Pins and Daisy Garner on The Waltons; Glass Houses (1972) was her only feature film; wife of James Sloyan.
Deirdre Lovejoy
Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962, Abilene, Texas) is an American actress, also credited as Dede Lovejoy, known for Rhonda Pearlman on HBO's The Wire, Cynthia Panabaker on The Blacklist, and The Gravedigger on Bones, with four Broadway credits.
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre R. Meldrum is an American electrical engineer who advanced automated DNA sequencing and single-cell analysis, a University of Washington professor who became Dean of Engineering at Arizona State University.
Deirdre O'Connell (actress)
Deirdre O'Connell (born 1953, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is the American actress distinct from the 1939-2001 Focus Theatre founder. She won the 2022 Tony Award for lip-syncing through Dana H. and was Emmy-nominated for The Penguin in 2025.
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Deirdre of the Sorrows is a three-act tragedy by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, based on the Ulster Cycle legend of Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach.
Deism
Deism is the belief that reason and nature alone reveal a divine creator, without revelation or miracles; it flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Deities and personifications of seasons
Deities and personifications of seasons: divine figures embodying parts of the year, chiefly the Greek Horae (Eunomia, Dike, Eirene; Thallo, Auxo, Carpo; later Eiar, Theros, Phthinoporon, Kheimon), Egyptian three-season calendars, and Roman seasonal gods in imperial art.
Deity
Deity: a sacred supernatural being with personality and will, venerated in religious traditions; also called god or goddess (theos in Greek). Covers pantheons, cosmic and social typologies, Egypt, Hindu polymorphic monotheism, and the Great Goddess debate.