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Dakota Johnson's interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Dakota Johnson's Ellen interview: November 27, 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where Johnson said "That's not the truth, Ellen" about a birthday-party invite, becoming a viral meme tied to the show's 2022 ending.
Dakota Kai
Dakota Kai, now wrestling as Charlie, is a New Zealand professional wrestler from Auckland; former WWE Women's and NXT Women's Tag Team Champion, Damage CTRL member, 2021 Dusty Rhodes Classic winner.
Dakota Meyer
Dakota Louis Meyer (born 1988) is a U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient for the September 8, 2009 Battle of Ganjgal, Afghanistan, where he made five trips into an ambush zone, saved 36 lives, and recovered four fallen Americans; he reenlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 2025.
Dakota people
Dakota people, an 'ally'-named Native American people of the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) centered on Mni Sota/Minnesota; four Santee bands, 1851 cession of 24 million acres, 1862 war and Mankato hangings, four Minnesota nations today.
Dakota Sandstone
The Dakota Sandstone is a widespread Cretaceous sandstone unit named from Dakota County, Nebraska, mapped across the Great Plains and Colorado Plateau in 14 states.
Dakota Skye (actress)
Dakota Skye, born Lauren Kaye Scott (1994-2021), American adult film performer active 2013-2019, also known as Kota Sky and Dakota Doll; NightMoves Award winner who died in Los Angeles at 27.
Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory, a U.S. territory created March 2, 1861, covered the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming before shrinking to the two Dakotas; capitals Yankton then Bismarck; divided into North and South Dakota in 1889.
Dakota War of 1862
The Dakota War of 1862 (U.S.-Dakota War, Sioux Uprising) was a six-week Minnesota River Valley conflict sparked by broken treaties and starvation, ending at Wood Lake and Camp Release, with 38 Dakota men hanged at Mankato on December 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history, followed by Dakota exile from Minnesota.
Dakota–Ojibwe War
Dakota–Ojibwe War: the long intertribal conflict between the Dakota (Eastern Sioux) and Ojibwe over hunting grounds and fur-trade access, erupting in the late 1730s, driving the Santee from central and northern Minnesota, and ending by the mid-1800s under settler-colonial pressure.
Dakotaraptor
Dakotaraptor (Dakotaraptor steini) is a disputed giant dromaeosaurid dinosaur described in 2015 from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, notable for ulnar quill knobs but widely suspected to be a chimeric holotype.
Daksha
Daksha (दक्ष, Dakṣa) is a Hindu Prajapati, progenitor deity and father of Sati. Born of Aditi in the Rigveda and from Brahma's thumb in the Puranas, he excluded Shiva from his sacrifice, triggering Sati's self-immolation and his beheading and goat-headed revival.
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (दक्षिण भारत हिन्दी प्रचार सभा) is an Indian organization founded in 1918 at Madras, under Mahatma Gandhi's presidency, to spread Hindi in South India.
Dakshina Kannada (ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ)
Dakshina Kannada (ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly South Kanara, is Karnataka's southern coastal district with headquarters Mangaluru; area 4,859 sq km, 2011 population 2,089,649, literacy 88.57%, second-highest district HDI in Karnataka.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple (দক্ষিণেশ্বর কালী মন্দির)
Dakshineswar Kali Temple (দক্ষিণেশ্বর কালী মন্দির), also known as Dakshineswar Kalibari, is a nineteenth-century Hindu Kali temple on the Hooghly river north of Kolkata, consecrated in 1855.
Daktari
Daktari, a CBS American adventure-family TV series (1966–1969), follows veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracy at the Wameru animal study center in East Africa with Clarence the cross-eyed lion and Judy the chimp; it was modeled on Nairobi vets Toni Harthoorn and Sue Hart.
Daktronics
Daktronics is an American manufacturer of LED video displays, scoreboards, digital billboards, and dynamic message signs, founded in 1968 and headquartered in Brookings, South Dakota.
Dal
Dal (dhal; Hindi दाल, from Sanskrit dalaḥ, 'to split') names both dried, hulled, split pulses (lentil, mung, urad, chana, toor) and the tempered South Asian stew made from them, eaten daily with rice or roti.
Dal bati (दाल बाटी)
Dal bati (दाल बाटी), served with dal as dal baati churma, is Rajasthan's baked wheat dough balls soaked in ghee, eaten with panchmel dal and sweet crushed churma; its boiled-then-baked Malwa cousin is dal bafla, distinct from Bihar's sattu-stuffed litti chokha.
Dal Khalsa
The Dal Khalsa (दल खालसा) was the Sikh military confederacy that arose as Mughal authority declined, reorganized into eleven misls in 1748 and ended when Ranjit Singh became Maharaja of the Punjab.
Dal Lake
Dal Lake, an 18 sq km urban freshwater lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, with four basins, houseboats, shikaras, and floating gardens (Raad), facing eutrophication and sustained restoration.
Dál Riata
Dál Riata (Dalriada), early medieval Gaelic kingdom in Argyll and County Antrim; kindreds, Senchus fer n-Alban naval muster, Dunadd capital, Iona, and merger with Pictland under Kenneth mac Alpin (843–858).
Dal Shabet (달샤벳)
Dal Shabet (달샤벳), a South Korean girl group produced by E-Tribe under Happy Face Entertainment, debuted January 2011 with Supa Dupa Diva; six members, Golden Disk rookie award, four-member lineup since 2015.
Dal’nevostochnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon
Dal’nevostochnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon (Дальневосточный экономический район), the Far Eastern Economic Region, a Soviet economic region covering Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Yakutia, Amur, Kamchatka, Magadan, Sakhalin; mining, timber, fishing economy.
Dala
Dala (ضالا, الضالة), also Dhala or dali, is a traditional Sudanese alignment board game of the Dara family, popular among the Baggara tribes; played on a 6x6 grid with 12 sticks per player, capturing via three-in-a-row lines.
Dala horse
The Dala horse (Swedish: dalahäst; also Dalecarlian horse) is a carved, painted wooden horse figurine from the Swedish province of Dalarna and one of Sweden's best-known symbols.
Dalada Sirita
Dalada Sirita (දළදා සිරිත, also rendered Dalada Siritha) is a 14th-century Sinhala prose work on the history of the Buddha's tooth relic, adapted from Dhammakitti's Pali Dāṭhāvaṃsa and still governing its worship at Kandy.
Dalai Lake Biosphere Reserve
Dalai Lake Biosphere Reserve (Hulun Lake, 达赉湖), Inner Mongolia, China: UNESCO MAB reserve (2002), Ramsar site 1146, and 7,400 km2 National Nature Reserve (1992) around northern China's largest lake, a key waterbird stopover.
Dalai Lake National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia
Dalai Lake National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia (Hulun Lake area, China): Ramsar site no. 1146, designated 11 January 2002, 740,000 ha, also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve; 284 bird species on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway with declining lake levels.
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي)
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي), Fatah militant born in Beirut, led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, hijacking buses; 35–38 civilians died. She was killed in the attack and is commemorated in Palestinian schools and squares.
Dalälven
Dalälven, Swedish river system formed by Västerdalälven and Österdalälven; 520 km, Sweden's second longest, draining 29,030 km² to the Bothnian Sea, with about 8% of national hydropower and a timber-floating past.