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Dekalog
Dekalog (The Decalogue) is Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz's 1988 cycle of ten one-hour Polish Television films inspired by the Ten Commandments, set on a Warsaw housing estate, with two episodes expanded into A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.
Dekang Medical (Zhejiang Dekang Medical Devices)
Dekang Medical (Decans Medical) is a Chinese orthopedic implant maker founded in 2012 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang by Dr. Xu Xiaobo, making spine, trauma, and joint implants.
Dekang Medical (德康医疗)
Dekang Medical (德康医疗), formally Zhejiang Dekang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd., is a Chinese orthopedic implant developer founded in 2012 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, making Class III spine, trauma, and joint devices.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton, born Donald Kent Slayton, was an American Mercury astronaut grounded for a heart condition who assigned crews and flew on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.
Dekeleia
Dekeleia (Δεκέλεια, Decelea, Tatoi), ancient Attic deme in North East Attica on the former royal Tatoi estate; Palaiokastro fort of the Dekeleian War, over 100 attested Dekeleians, phratry decrees IG II² 1237.
Dekemvriana
The Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά, "the December events") were armed clashes in Athens from December 1944 to January 1945 between the communist-led EAM and Greek government forces backed by Britain.
Dekhmeh Rawansar
Dekhmeh Rawansar, known in Persian as the gordokhme-ye Ravansar, is a rock-cut tomb carved into a hillside at Ravansar in Kermanshah province, western Iran, generally dated to the Achaemenid period.
Dekin no Mogura (出禁のモグラ)
Dekin no Mogura (出禁のモグラ) is a supernatural comedy manga by Natsumi Eguchi, serialized in Kodansha's Morning since 2021, ongoing at 13 volumes, winner of the 71st Shogakukan Manga Award, adapted into a 12-episode Brain's Base TV anime in 2025.
Dekla Tessera
Dekla Tessera is a 1,363 km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 57.4N, 71.8E, named for the Latvian goddess of fate and approved by the IAU in 1985; it lies in quadrangle V-3 near the Manto Fossae groove belt.
DEKRA
DEKRA is a Stuttgart-based German testing, inspection, and certification company founded in 1925, best known for vehicle inspections, with about 48,000 employees in 60 countries.
Dekulakization (раскулачивание)
Dekulakization (раскулачивание, raskulachivanie) was the Stalin-era Soviet campaign of 1930-1933 to "liquidate the kulaks as a class": expropriation, deportation of about 2.3 million peasants, and mass deaths alongside forced collectivization.
Del
Del, written ∇ and also called nabla, is the vector differential operator of vector calculus; combined with three kinds of multiplication it yields the gradient, divergence, and curl.
Del Águila family killings
Del Águila family killings: Murcia, Spain, December 1965 to January 1966, when 12-year-old Piedad Martínez del Águila poisoned four younger siblings with cyanide rat poison and cleaning tablets in milk; she was placed in the Oblatas convent.
Del Amitri
Del Amitri, Scottish pop rock band from Glasgow formed in the early 1980s by Justin Currie and Iain Harvie; hits include Nothing Ever Happens, Always the Last to Know, and Roll to Me; albums Waking Hours, Change Everything, Twisted, and Fatal Mistakes.
Del Bigtree
Del Bigtree (Del Matthew Bigtree) is an American film and television producer who became a leading anti-vaccine activist as founder of ICAN and host of The HighWire.
Del Boy
Del Boy (Derek Edward Trotter), fictional cockney market trader leading BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003), played by David Jason; famous for Trotters Independent Trading, catchphrases like lovely jubbly, and the 1996 millionaire storyline.
Del Close
Del Close (1934–1999) was an American improviser, director, and teacher who created the Harold long-form format and taught Bill Murray, John Belushi, and Tina Fey at Chicago's Second City and iO.
Del Mar, California
Del Mar is a small coastal city in San Diego County, California, incorporated 1959, population about 4,200 on 2.2 square miles. Founded 1885 by Jacob Taylor; home of the Del Mar Racetrack (1937) and Fairgrounds; known for $3.6 million typical home values, bluff erosion, and rail relocation plans.
Del Monte Foods
Del Monte Foods was an American packaged food company in Walnut Creek, California, known for canned fruits, vegetables, and tomatoes under the Del Monte brand, a name since 1886.
Del Pino Calvo-Sotelo family
The Del Pino Calvo-Sotelo family is the Spanish infrastructure dynasty behind Ferrovial, founded by Rafael del Pino y Moreno in Madrid in 1952, with four of his five children controlling about 36% of the company.
Del Records
DEL Records is an independent regional Mexican record label founded by Ángel Del Villar in Bell Gardens, California, in 2008, home to Gerardo Ortiz and Eslabón Armado.
Del Rio, Texas
Del Rio, Texas, is a city in Val Verde County on the Rio Grande across from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, home to about 34,700 people and Laughlin Air Force Base.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover, 1934-1990) was an American rock singer-songwriter whose 1961 No. 1 hit "Runaway", co-written with Musitron inventor Max Crook, made him one of the few pre-Beatles American stars to survive the British Invasion; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
Del Taco
Del Taco is an American quick-service restaurant chain, founded in 1964 in Yermo, California, that sells Mexican-inspired food such as tacos and burritos alongside burgers and fries.
Del the Funky Homosapien
Del the Funky Homosapien (Teren Delvon Jones, b. 1972, Oakland), also Sir DZL and Deltron Zero, is an American rapper of Hieroglyphics and Deltron 3030, known for I Wish My Brother George Was Here and Gorillaz's "Clint Eastwood".
Delacroix (Mercurian crater)
Delacroix is a large, ancient, heavily degraded impact crater on Mercury (Gazetteer feature 1466, southern hemisphere, ~228-233 degrees longitude). Its rim cuts Shelley crater, and MESSENGER imaged it in 2011.
Delafloxacin
Delafloxacin (Baxdela, ABT-492, RX-3341) is an anionic fluoroquinolone antibiotic approved by the FDA in June 2017 for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, non-inferior to vancomycin plus aztreonam, with IV and oral formulations.
Delafossite
Delafossite is a copper iron oxide mineral, CuFeO₂, first described in 1873 from Russia and named for Gabriel Delafosse; it typifies the layered delafossite oxide family.
Delage
Delage was a French luxury automobile maker founded in 1905 by engineer Louis Delâge, which won the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and built coachbuilt luxury cars until 1953.
Delahaye
Delahaye was a French automobile manufacturer founded by engineer Émile Delahaye in Tours in 1894, best known for the 1930s luxury and competition cars built on its Type 135 chassis.