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Delphinion
Delphinion: sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios at Miletus, Turkey, founded 6th century BCE, destroyed 494 BCE and rebuilt; city archive, prytaneion seat, and start of the Sacred Way procession to Didyma.
Delphinion (Greece)
Delphinion (Δελφίνιον, Delphinium): several ancient Greek places tied to Apollo Delphinios, chiefly the Athens sanctuary and lawcourt, the Athenian fortified harbor on Chios, the Milesian civic sanctuary and archive, and the port of Oropus.
Delphinium
Delphinium (larkspur) is a Ranunculaceae genus of 539 accepted annual and perennial herbs with spurred, zygomorphic flowers, native to temperate Old World and North America, toxic via norditerpenoid alkaloids, and a major ornamental cut flower.
Delphinus
Delphinus, the Dolphin, is a small northern constellation near Altair, one of the 48 Greek constellations Ptolemy cataloged, whose diamond asterism is called Job's Coffin.
Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc.
Delphinus Medical Technologies is a Novi, Michigan medical-imaging company founded in 2010 as a spin-out of the Karmanos Cancer Institute that makes the SoftVue breast ultrasound system.
Delphinus Venture Capital
Delphinus Venture Capital is an evergreen venture fund in Aarhus, Denmark, founded in 2025 with DKK 600 million (about €80 million) to invest in research-based deeptech startups.
Delphix
Delphix was a Menlo Park, California enterprise software company, founded around 2008 by Jedidiah Yueh, whose platform virtualized and masked corporate data for development and cloud migration.
Delray Beach, Florida
Delray Beach is a coastal city in Palm Beach County, Florida, formerly named Linton, incorporated 1911/1923 and merged 1927; about 69,800 residents, three-time All-America City, two-mile public beach, Atlantic Avenue downtown.
Delroy Grant
Delroy Grant, the "Night Stalker", a Jamaica-born British serial rapist and burglar who attacked 203 elderly people in south-east London from 1991 to 2009, evading capture after a 1999 police name mix-up until his 2009 arrest and 2011 conviction.
Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo (born 1952, Lewisham, London) is a British-born American actor of Jamaican parentage, a Tony-nominated Broadway performer, Spike Lee collaborator (Malcolm X, Da 5 Bloods), and first-time Oscar nominee for Sinners, now directing Jabari's People in Jamaica.
Delta (emulator)
Delta is a free, open-source iOS emulator by Riley Testut that plays games for the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and Nintendo DS, reaching No. 1 on Apple's App Store in 2024.
Delta (letter)
Delta (δέλτα, Δ δ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, numeral value 4, derived from Phoenician daleth; ancient [d], modern [ð]; ancestor of Latin D and Cyrillic Д.
Delta (wasp)
Delta (wasp): Old World potter wasp genus (Vespidae, Eumeninae), de Saussure 1855, about 49 species in tropical Africa and Asia; builds pot-shaped mud nests and provisions larvae with caterpillars, notably Delta esuriens.
Delta 2914
The Delta 2914 was an American three-stage expendable launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas that flew 30 missions from 1974 to 1979, mostly carrying communications and weather satellites toward geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Delta 7420-10C
The Delta 7420-10C was a two-stage variant of the American Delta II rocket with four solid boosters, flown 14 times between 1998 and 2018, all successfully.
Delta 7920-10C
Delta 7920-10C, also written Delta II 7920-10C, was a two-stage American expendable rocket of the Delta II family that made 17 successful launches between 1997 and its retirement in 2011.
Delta 7925
The Delta 7925 was a three-stage American expendable launch vehicle of the Delta II family, flown from 1990 to 2009 and used to launch GPS satellites and NASA Mars missions.
Delta 7925-9.5
The Delta 7925-9.5 was a three-stage American Delta II launch vehicle with nine strap-on boosters, the workhorse for GPS satellites and NASA missions like Deep Impact.
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines is an American airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, flying to more than 300 destinations on six continents with one of the world's largest fleets.
Delta Air Lines fleet
The Delta Air Lines fleet, also called the Delta fleet, is the aircraft flown by Delta Air Lines and its regional carriers, totaling 1,314 aircraft as of December 2025.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 was a Boeing 727 that crashed on takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth on August 31, 1988, killing 14 of the 108 people aboard.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed on approach to Dallas/Fort Worth on August 2, 1985, after flying into a microburst, killing 134 of the 163 aboard.
Delta Air Lines Flight 9570
Delta Air Lines Flight 9570 was a DC-9 training flight that crashed at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1972 after wake turbulence from a DC-10 killed all four aboard.
Delta baryon
Delta baryons are a family of excited non-strange baryons with isospin 3/2, the spin-3/2 partners of the nucleon; the Δ(1232) has four charge states and decays strongly to a nucleon and a pion.
Delta Blockchain Fund
Delta Blockchain Fund is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on blockchain and decentralized technology, founded in 2021 by Kavita Gupta, formerly of ConsenSys Ventures.
Delta blues
Delta blues is a regional country blues style from the Mississippi Delta, marked by percussive slide guitar, sparse harmony, and intense vocals; key figures include Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters, whose migration carried the style into Chicago electric blues.
Delta Burke
Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born 1956, Orlando, Florida), American actress best known as Suzanne Sugarbaker on CBS's Designing Women (1986-1991); Miss Florida 1974, two Emmy nominations, plus-size clothing entrepreneur.
Delta Cephei
Delta Cephei is a yellow supergiant star in Cepheus whose brightness varies between magnitudes 3.5 and 4.4 every 5.37 days, the prototype of the Cepheid variables.
Delta Connection
Delta Connection is Delta Air Lines' regional airline brand, under which partner carriers Endeavor Air, Republic Airways, and SkyWest operate flights using Delta's DL code.
Delta Connection Flight 4819
Delta Connection Flight 4819 (EDV4819/DL4819), an Endeavor Air CRJ-900LR from Minneapolis to Toronto, crashed landing at Toronto Pearson on 17 February 2025, overturning inverted; all 80 aboard survived, 21 injured; TSB investigation A25O0021.