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Des O'Connor
Des O'Connor (1932–2020), English comedian, singer and TV presenter, hosted The Des O'Connor Show from 1963, Des O'Connor Tonight for 25 years, and Countdown 2007–2008; had the UK No. 1 single "I Pretend" in 1968 and 36 albums.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Des Plaines, Illinois: a Cook County city 17 miles northwest of Chicago on the Des Plaines River; 60,675 residents (2020 census), median household income $97,875, home to Rivers Casino and near O'Hare airport.
Des R. Richardson
Des R. Richardson is an Australian pharmacologist and biochemist who directs the Centre for Cancer Cell Biology at Griffith University and developed the anticancer iron chelators Dp44mT and DpC.
Des Teufels General
Des Teufels General (The Devil's General) is Helmut Käutner's 1955 West German film of Carl Zuckmayer's play, starring Curd Jürgens as Luftwaffe general Harras, modeled on Ernst Udet, who dies in a sabotaged plane to shield his resistance friend Oderbruch.
Des Walker
Des Walker, full name Desmond Sinclair Walker, is an English former center-back best known for Nottingham Forest, who won 59 England caps between 1988 and 1993.
Des'ree
Des'ree (Desirée Annette Weekes, born 1968) is a British pop and soul singer-songwriter known for "Feel So High", "You Gotta Be", "Life", and "Kissing You" from Romeo + Juliet; Brit and Ivor Novello Award winner who returned in 2019 with A Love Story.
DeSaad
DeSaad (Desaad) is a DC Comics New God of Apokolips, created by Jack Kirby and debuting in Forever People #2 (1971). Darkseid's chief torturer, technologist, and right-hand man, named after the Marquis de Sade, he appears in Zack Snyder's Justice League and Salvation Run.
Desaguadero
Desaguadero (Río Desaguadero): the only outlet of Lake Titicaca, a ~390–398 km Andean river on the Peru–Bolivia border flowing south to Lake Poopó in the TDPS endorheic basin, with Holocene terrace records, salinity of 1–2 g/l, and binational management by the ALT.
Desaignes
Désaignes (Dézagne) is a medieval village de caractère in the Ardèche valley of the Doux, France, with a 14th-century castle, Roman remains, and a Protestant temple history spanning 1608, 1684, and 1822.
Desalination
Desalination is the removal of dissolved salts from seawater or brackish water to produce fresh water; over 20,000 plants operate worldwide, most using reverse osmosis membranes.
Desalination by country
Desalination by country surveys national reliance on removing salt from seawater and brackish water, with global capacity of 69.3 million m³/day led by Saudi Arabia, China, and the United States.
Desalination plant intake and outfall engineering
Desalination plant intake and outfall engineering designs the systems that bring raw seawater into a plant and return concentrated brine, covering up to 20% of facility capital cost.
Desalpur
Desalpur, also called Gunthli, is a small fortified settlement of the Indus civilization in Kutch, Gujarat, India, occupied mainly around 2100-1900 BC and excavated in 1963.
Desamuduru (దేశముదురు)
Desamuduru (దేశముదురు) is a 2007 Telugu romantic action film by Puri Jagannadh, starring Allu Arjun and Hansika Motwani; released 12 January 2007, a box office hit with ₹26 crore distributor share.
Desargues (lunar crater)
Desargues is an 84.85-km-wide lunar impact crater at 70.25°N, 73.42°W on the near side in a libration zone, IAU-named in 1964 for French mathematician Gérard Desargues, with eight lettered satellite craters.
Desarrollismo
Desarrollismo, or developmentalism, is an economic doctrine favoring state-planned heavy industry financed by foreign capital, applied in Argentina under President Arturo Frondizi from 1958 to 1962, with economist Rogelio Frigerio its leading thinker.
Desaster
Desaster is a German black/thrash metal band from Koblenz, formed in 1988. It is currently fronted by vocalist Sataniac, and released albums such as Kill All Idols (2025).
Desbuquois syndrome
Desbuquois syndrome (DBQD, Desbuquois dysplasia) is a rare autosomal recessive osteochondrodysplasia with severe micromelic dwarfism, joint laxity with multiple dislocations, advanced carpotarsal ossification; caused by CANT1 (type 1, Kim variant) or XYLT1 (type 2) mutations.
Descartes Systems Group
The Descartes Systems Group is a Canadian software company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, providing software-as-a-service solutions that help logistics-intensive businesses route, track, and manage shipments.
Descartes Underwriting
Descartes Underwriting is a Paris-based insurtech company that underwrites corporate parametric insurance for climate risks, founded by Tanguy Touffut and Sébastien Piguet, raising $120 million in 2022.
Descartes' rule of signs
Descartes' rule of signs, also called Descartes' sign rule, is an algebra theorem stating that a polynomial's positive real roots number at most its coefficient sign changes.
Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty
Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) is a corneal transplant operation replacing the endothelium and Descemet membrane with a thin donor graft, used mainly for Fuchs dystrophy and bullous keratopathy.
Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty
Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) is a partial-thickness corneal transplant for endothelial disease such as Fuchs dystrophy, replacing the endothelium and Descemet membrane through a small, sutureless incision.
Descendants (2015 film)
Descendants (2015) is a Disney Channel Original Movie musical directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, and Booboo Stewart as villain kids invited to Auradon; it premiered July 31, 2015 to 6.6 million viewers and launched a five-film franchise.
Descendants (franchise)
Descendants is a Disney Channel fantasy-musical franchise about the teenage children of Disney heroes and villains, launched with the 2015 Kenny Ortega film and continued by Descendants 2, Descendants 3, The Rise of Red (2024), Wicked Wonderland (2026), and the greenlit Hidden Heroes.
Descendants 2
Descendants 2 is a 2017 Disney Channel Original Movie musical, sequel to Descendants, directed by Kenny Ortega. Mal returns to the Isle of the Lost where Uma, Ursula's daughter, has seized power; its six-network premiere reached 13 million viewers.
Descendants 3
Descendants 3 is a 2019 Disney Channel Original Movie, the final film of the original Descendants trilogy, directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, and Booboo Stewart, dedicated to Boyce's memory.
Descendants 3 (soundtrack)
Descendants 3 (Original TV Movie Soundtrack) is the Walt Disney Records soundtrack album to the 2019 Disney Channel film Descendants 3, released August 2, 2019.
Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark
The descendants of Christian IX of Denmark, the Danish king who reigned from 1863 to 1906, spread across Europe's royal houses through his six children's marriages.
Descendants of Elizabeth II
Descendants of Elizabeth II: her four children (Charles III, Anne, Andrew, Edward), eight grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren, who fill the 25-person British line of succession under the Mountbatten-Windsor name and the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.