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Deputy of Wawat
The Deputy of Wawat was a New Kingdom Egyptian office administering Lower Nubia on behalf of the Viceroy of Kush, based at Aniba from the mid Eighteenth Dynasty.
Deputy Prime Minister of India
Deputy Prime Minister of India: an extra-constitutional political title, not a constitutional office, held by seven leaders from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950) to L. K. Advani (2002–2004); vacant since 2004 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in K.M. Sharma v. Devi Lal (1990) to confer no prime ministerial powers.
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deputy Prime Minister of the UK: an honorific title for the prime minister's chosen informal deputy, first held by Clement Attlee 1942–45, distinct from First Secretary of State, with no constitutional succession right.
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, India's second presiding officer elected by members under Article 93; conventionally from the opposition; office vacant since the 17th Lok Sabha began in 2019.
Deputy superintendent of police
Deputy superintendent of police (DySP/DSP): Commonwealth police rank, typically commanding a district sub-division below SP; created 1876 in British India for Indians; recruited directly or promoted from Inspector; state-cadre rank, BPS-17 in KP, Pakistan.
Depyrimidination
Depyrimidination is the loss of a pyrimidine base (cytosine or thymine) from DNA by glycosidic bond cleavage, creating an apyrimidinic AP site; it occurs spontaneously and enzymatically via pyrimidine-specific DNA glycosylases initiating base excision repair.
Dequalinium
Dequalinium (dequalinium chloride, Dequadin, Fluomizin) is a bis-quaternary ammonium topical antiseptic used since the 1950s in sore-throat lozenges and, as 10 mg vaginal tablets, for bacterial vaginosis.
Dequantization (quantum computing)
Dequantization is a quantum machine learning research technique in which classical randomized algorithms reproduce quantum algorithms under analogous data-access assumptions, often erasing claimed exponential speedups; it was introduced by Ewin Tang.
Der (city)
Der was an ancient Mesopotamian frontier city east of the Tigris, between Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, at Tell 'Aqar near Badrah in eastern Iraq, whose patron god was Ištaran.
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, originally known as the Ackermannbüchlein, is an early 15th-century German prose dialogue by Johannes von Tepl in which a widower accuses Death of taking his wife.
Der Bewegte Mann
Der bewegte Mann: 1987 Ralf König comic novel (Rowohlt) about heterosexual Axel and gay Norbert, and Sönke Wortmann's 1994 film with Til Schweiger, over 6.5 million German admissions, Goldene Leinwand and Bundesfilmpreis winner.
Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): Munich Expressionist group founded 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc; members Klee, Macke, Münter, Jawlensky; published the 1912 almanac; dissolved 1914 with World War I.
Der Bockerer
Der Bockerer is a 1981 Austrian-German tragic-grotesque comedy by Franz Antel, based on the Becher and Preses play, starring Karl Merkatz as a Viennese butcher surviving the Nazi era; it won the 1982 Deutscher Filmpreis and spawned two sequels.
Der Dritte Raum
Der Dritte Raum (The Third Room) is a German electronic and trance live act from Göttingen, the project of producer Andreas Krüger, best known for "Hale Bopp" (1998).
Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer (WWV 63, The Flying Dutchman): Richard Wagner's three-act romantic opera after Heine, composed 1840-41, premiered Dresden 2 January 1843, first staged at Bayreuth in 1901.
Der Freischütz
Der Freischütz, Weber's three-act German Romantic opera (libretto Friedrich Kind), premiered Berlin Schauspielhaus 18 June 1821; Wolf's Glen magic-bullet scene; founding work of German Romantic opera.
Der Fuehrer's Face
Der Fuehrer's Face is Disney's 1943 Oscar-winning anti-Nazi Donald Duck propaganda short, directed by Jack Kinney, originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland, renamed after Oliver Wallace's Spike Jones hit song became a novelty-chart sensation.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick: 1956 West German tragicomedy by Helmut Käutner, adapted from Carl Zuckmayer's play, starring Heinz Rühmann as impostor shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt; Oscar-nominated 1957, shot in Hamburg, premiered 16 August 1956 in Cologne.
Der Judenstaat
Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) is Theodor Herzl's 1896 pamphlet, the foundational text of political Zionism, proposing a Society of Jews and Jewish Company to solve antisemitism through organized Jewish statehood.
Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika
"Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika" ("The Boy with the Harmonica") is a German Schlager ballad recorded by Bernd Clüver, a number-1 hit in Germany and Switzerland in 1973.
Der Jüngste Tag
Der Jüngste Tag was a book series published by Kurt Wolff Verlag from 1913 to 1921, issuing works by Expressionist authors such as Kafka, Werfel, and Trakl.
Der Klassiker
Der Klassiker: the name for matches between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, Germany's two biggest clubs. Not a true derby; a media-popularized rivalry born of title races, the 2013 all-German Champions League final, and the earlier Bayern-Gladbach classic.
Der Knabe im Moor
"Der Knabe im Moor" ("The Boy in the Moor") is an 1842 German ballad by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff about a boy's ghost-haunted crossing of a Westphalian bog.
Der Knochenmann
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) is a 2009 Austrian black-comedy crime thriller by Wolfgang Murnberger, the third Wolf Haas Brenner adaptation, starring Josef Hader as a debt collector investigating a Styrian fried-chicken inn.
Der Kommissar (song)
"Der Kommissar" is a 1981 German-language rap-pop song by Austrian singer Falco, composed by Robert Ponger. It hit #1 in Austria and Germany in 1982; After the Fire's English cover peaked at #5 US in 1983.
Der Meridian
Der Meridian is the acceptance speech Paul Celan delivered in Darmstadt in October 1960 on receiving the Georg Büchner Prize, a foundational text of twentieth-century poetics.
Der Messias
Der Messias (The Messiah) is a German religious epic in 20 cantos by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, retelling the Passion and resurrection of Jesus in dactylic hexameters.
Der Moment
Der Moment (דער מאָמענט, "The Moment") was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper published in Warsaw from 1910 to 1939, one of the two leading Yiddish dailies in interwar Poland alongside Haynt.
Der Monat
Der Monat was an influential German-language political and cultural magazine published in West Berlin from 1948 to 1971, founded by Melvin J. Lasky with US sponsorship during the cultural Cold War.
Der Nachtmahr
Der Nachtmahr (The Nightmare) is a 2015 German horror-tinged coming-of-age film by Akiz (Achim Bornhak), starring Carolyn Genzkow as a teen haunted by a creature only she first sees; made for about 80,000-100,000 euros without public funding.