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Dalip Tahil
Dalip Tahil (Dalip Ghansam Tahilramani, born 1952, Agra) is a Sindhi Indian character actor of film, TV, and theatre; debut Ankur (1974), known for Baazigar's Madan Chopra, Buniyaad, EastEnders, and Bombay Dreams.
Dalit
Dalit: self-designation of South Asia's historically "untouchable" communities at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. Term popularized from the 1970s; Ambedkar's movement, Poona Pact, Dalit Panthers, and Article 17 define its history.
Dalit autobiography in Hindi
Dalit autobiography in Hindi (हिंदी दलित आत्मकथा) is first-person life writing by Dalit authors of North India, emerging in the mid-1990s with Naimishray's Apne-Apne Pinjre and Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan.
Dalit Buddhist movement
The Dalit Buddhist movement, or Navayana, is a religious and socio-political movement led by B. R. Ambedkar in which Dalits converted to Buddhism to escape caste inequality.
Dalit history
Dalit history covers India's untouchable communities, about 17 percent of the population, and the historiography written from Dalit perspectives: the colonial caste census, Ambedkar's 1927 Mahad Satyagraha, and Dalit studies since the 1990s.
Dalit literature in English
Dalit literature in English is writing by members of India's caste-oppressed communities, formerly called untouchables, reaching English largely as translation, with autobiography and protest poetry as leading genres.
Dalit poetry in Hindi
Dalit poetry in Hindi (हिंदी दलित कविता) is poetry by and about Dalits, expressing caste reality and consciousness within a literary movement that first emerged in Marathi in the 1950s.
Daliuta Coal Mine
Daliuta Coal Mine (大柳塔煤矿) is a large longwall underground coal mine in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, operated by China Shenhua Energy since 1996 and ranked the world's third largest underground coal mine on 2003 output.
Dall Island
Dall Island, Alaska: island in the Alexander Archipelago west of Prince of Wales Island, 275 sq mi, named for explorer William Healey Dall; 105,780-acre Tongass roadless area near Cape Muzon.
Dall sheep
Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), also called Dall's sheep, a thinhorn subspecies and the world's only wild white sheep, native to Alaska and Yukon/NWT mountains; up to 300 lb, full-curl rams at 7-8 years, avalanches a leading adult mortality cause.
DALL-E
DALL-E is a family of OpenAI text-to-image systems that creates images from natural-language descriptions, with versions released in 2021, 2022, and 2023 before retirement in 2026.
DALL-E 2
DALL-E 2 is an OpenAI text-to-image model released in April 2022 that generates photorealistic images from captions, edits images by text instruction, and produces variations.
DALL-E 3
DALL-E 3 is a text-to-image model announced by OpenAI on September 20, 2023, integrated into ChatGPT and trained largely on synthetic captions for better prompt following.
DALL-E Mini
DALL-E Mini was an independent, open-source text-to-image model created in 2021 by Boris Dayma, whose distorted images went viral in mid-2022 before rebranding as Craiyon.
Dall's Blake reports
The Dall's Blake reports are William Healey Dall's monographs describing the mollusks and brachiopods dredged by the Coast Survey steamer Blake in 1877 to 1880, published in final form in 1886 and 1889.
Dallah (دلة) (coffee pot)
Dallah (دلة): the long-spouted brass or copper coffee pot of Arabia used to brew and serve gahwa (Arabic coffee), central to Gulf hospitality; three-pot sets (khumra, talquma, mazla), UAE one-dirham coin emblem, UNESCO-listed since 2015.
Dallara
Dallara Automobili, Italian race car manufacturer founded 1972 by Giampaolo Dallara in Varano de' Melegari; sole IndyCar chassis supplier since 2008 (DW12, IR-28 for 2028), also builds F2, F3, Super Formula, Haas F1, and road cars.
Dallara GP2 cars
Dallara GP2 cars: GP2/05, GP2/08, GP2/11 spec single-seaters built by Dallara for the GP2 Series (2005-2017), Mecachrome 4.0 V8 612 hp, succeeded by the Dallara F2 2018 car.
Dallas
Dallas is a city in north Texas and the seat of Dallas County, founded in 1841 and now the ninth largest city in the United States.
Dallas (2012 TV series)
Dallas (2012) is a TNT continuation of the 1978–1991 CBS soap, developed by Cynthia Cidre, starring Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, and returning Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, and Linda Gray; it ran three seasons, 40 episodes, 2012–2014.
Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin, born 1970 in Columbus, Georgia, is an Atlanta-based songwriter and producer behind TLC, Boyz II Men, Madonna, and Monica hits; founder of Rowdy Records and DARP Studios; 1999 Grammy winner and 2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
Dallas Bixler
Dallas Denver Bixler (1910–1990) was an American artistic gymnast who won horizontal bar gold with 55.0 points at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, his only Games, then retired after a 1935 shoulder injury and became a banker, restaurateur, and teacher.
Dallas Braden
Dallas Braden (born 1983) is a former Oakland Athletics left-handed pitcher who threw the 19th perfect game in MLB history on Mother's Day, May 9, 2010, and later became an ESPN and NBC Sports California broadcaster.
Dallas Brodie
Dallas Brodie (born 1962) is a Canadian lawyer, former broadcaster, and MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena, British Columbia, since 2024. Expelled from the BC Conservative caucus in March 2025, she founded OneBC and leads it into the October 2026 election.
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, starring Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof and Jared Leto as the fictional Rayon; made for about $3.5 million after 20 years of development, it won three Oscars from six nominations.
Dallas Clark
Dallas Clark is a former NFL tight end (Iowa Hawkeyes; Indianapolis Colts 2003–2011, then Tampa Bay and Baltimore) who won Super Bowl XLI, made the 2009 Pro Bowl with 100 catches, and joined the Colts Ring of Honor in 2024.
Dallas County, Texas
Dallas County, Texas: county in north central Texas formed March 30, 1846, named for George Mifflin Dallas, seat at Dallas city; second most populous Texas county, over 2.6 million residents, governed by Commissioners Court.
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys, NFL franchise founded January 28, 1960 as the league's 13th expansion team; five Super Bowl wins (VI, XII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXX), NFL-record 20 straight winning seasons, owned by Jerry Jones since 1989, world's most valuable sports franchise.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC), "America's Sweethearts": the Dallas Cowboys' professional cheer squad, reimagined in 1972 under Tex Schramm with the iconic star-spangled uniform, Smithsonian-honored, 85+ USO tours, CMT and Netflix series.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, CMT reality series 2006-2021, 16 seasons, 162 episodes, following Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell auditioning dancers for the DCC squad; succeeded by Netflix's America's Sweethearts.