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Derry (Stephen King)
Derry is Stephen King's fictional Maine town, based on Bangor, first appearing in a 1981 short story and famous as the setting of It (1986), where Pennywise attacks every 27 years; also featured in Insomnia, 11/22/63, and HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry.
Derry City F.C.
Derry City F.C., founded 1928, is a Northern Ireland-based club playing in the League of Ireland (Republic of Ireland) since 1985. Nicknamed the Candystripes, it won the Irish League in 1964-65 and League of Ireland titles in 1988-89 and 1996-97.
Derry city walls
The Derry city walls, also called the Walls of Derry, are a complete circuit of 17th-century fortifications in Derry, Northern Ireland, built 1613–1618 and famous for withstanding the 1689 siege.
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is a Channel 4 sitcom (2018–2022) created by Lisa McGee, about teenage friends in 1990s Derry during the Troubles, starring Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Nicola Coughlan, and Siobhán McSweeney; three seasons, 19 episodes, BAFTA and International Emmy winner.
Dersimelagon
Dersimelagon (MT-7117) is an investigational oral selective MC1R agonist by Tanabe Pharma, now LEO Pharma, for EPP and XLP phototoxicity; positive phase 2 and INSPIRE phase 3 trials, FDA NDA under Priority Review.
Dersu Uzala (1975 film)
Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала, デルス・ウザーラ), 1975 Mosfilm Soviet-Japanese drama directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Arsenyev's 1923 memoirs, starring Maksim Munzuk and Yuriy Solomin; his only non-Japanese-language film, 70mm, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 1976.
Dertigers
The Dertigers were an innovative group of Afrikaans poets of the 1930s, known for confessional poetry; leading figures included N.P. van Wyk Louw, Uys Krige, and Elisabeth Eybers.
Deru Campur Debu
Deru Campur Debu is a 1949 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published the year of his death and foundational to modern Indonesian poetry.
Derveni tombs
Derveni tombs: seven rich late 4th-century BC elite graves at Derveni near Thessaloniki, excavated unlooted in 1962; yielded the Derveni krater from tomb B and the Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving book, from tomb A.
Derventio (United Kingdom)
Derventio, a Roman place name in Britain (Derventio Brigantium at Malton), borne by a minor town at Stamford Bridge, forts at Malton, Papcastle, and Derby (Little Chester), all named from the river Derwent.
Dervis Kirikkaleli
Dervis Kirikkaleli (Derviş Kırıkkaleli), born 1985 in Cyprus, is a Cypriot economist and associate professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, known for research on carbon emissions and renewable energy.
Dervişan
Dervişan, whose name means 'dervishes' in Turkish, was a Turkish Anatolian rock group formed in 1974 as Cem Karaca's backing band, best remembered for the protest-era single '1 Mayıs'.
Dervish
A dervish (Persian: درویش) is a member of a Sufi fraternity, or tariqa, the organized brotherhoods of Muslim mysticism, known for devotional practices such as whirling.
Dervish movement
The Dervish movement, a quasi-state founded in 1899 by Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, drew on the Salihiyya Sufi order and fought British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces until its destruction in 1920.
Dervla Kirwan
Dervla Kirwan (born 1971, Churchtown, Dublin) is an Irish actress known for Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart, Assumpta in Ballykissangel, Smother, Ondine, True Detective: Night Country and House of Guinness.
Derwent Reservoir (Derbyshire)
Derwent Reservoir is a reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley of the Derbyshire Peak District, England, brought into use in 1916 to supply drinking water to nearby cities.
Derwent Valley Mills
Derwent Valley Mills, Derbyshire, England: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2001, criteria ii and iv) along a 24 km stretch of the River Derwent. Birthplace of the factory system via Arkwright's Cromford Mill (1771) and the Lombe Silk Mill (1721); settlements at Cromford, Belper, Milford, Darley Abbey.
Derwin James
Derwin James Jr. (born 1996) is an American NFL safety for the Los Angeles Chargers, drafted 17th overall in 2018 from Florida State; five-time Pro Bowler, five-time All-Pro, and since May 2026 the NFL's highest-paid safety on a three-year, $75.6 million extension.
Derwitzer Glider
The Derwitzer Glider was a hang glider built by Otto Lilienthal in 1891, flown near Derwitz in Brandenburg and seen as the beginning of successful human flight.
Derya Baran
Derya Baran is a Turkish materials scientist and associate professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on organic semiconductors for solar cells and thermoelectrics, leading the OMEGA Laboratory.
Deryck Whibley
Deryck Whibley (born 1980) is the Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer who founded and fronted pop-punk band Sum 41, known for All Killer No Filler and Fat Lip, his 2013 liver-failure crisis and sobriety, the 2024 farewell album Heaven :x: Hell, and his memoir Walking Disaster.
Deryn Fogg
Deryn E. Fogg is a Canadian chemist at the University of Ottawa known for designing ruthenium olefin-metathesis catalysts and for mechanistic studies of how those catalysts decompose.
Deryneia Theme Park
Θεματικό Πάρκο Δερύνειας (Deryneia Theme Park), a municipal park in Deryneia, Cyprus, opened May 2002 on Iroon Street, displaying traditional Cypriot water-raising methods (well, Archimedes screw, alakati, ttouloumpa, windmill) with an 800-seat amphitheatre.
Derzhavin (Mercurian crater)
Derzhavin is a 159-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 44.90°N, 35.30°W, named for Russian poet Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816); a type locality in the Victoria quadrangle.
DES
DES is a human gene on chromosome 2q35 that provides instructions for desmin, the intermediate filament protein of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle; pathogenic variants cause desminopathy, often with cardiomyopathy.
Des (TV series)
Des (TV series), ITV three-part 2020 true-crime drama about serial killer Dennis Nilsen, starring David Tennant, Daniel Mays, and Jason Watkins, based on Brian Masters's Killing for Company, directed by Lewis Arnold, aired 14-16 September 2020.
Des Bishop
Des Bishop (Deasún Mac an Easpaig) is a New York-born, Ireland-based stand-up comedian known for RTÉ immersion series like The Des Bishop Work Experience and In the Name of the Fada, Mandarin-language Chinese stand-up, and current Grey Area Tour dates.
Des Lynam
Des Lynam (born 1942, Ennis, Ireland), British sports presenter who anchored BBC's Match of the Day, Grandstand, Wimbledon and the Grand National from 1969 to 1999, then ITV football until retiring after Euro 2004, later Countdown host.
Des Moines-class cruiser
The Des Moines class was a class of three United States Navy heavy cruisers completed in 1948–49, the last all-gun heavy cruisers built for any navy.
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa, the state capital and most populous city (212,086 est. 2025), incorporated 1851-1857, capital since 1857, a global insurance center third after London and Hartford, with a council-manager government and recurring flood history.