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Descendants of Queen Victoria
Descendants of Queen Victoria: her nine children and 42 grandchildren, the 'grandmother of Europe' whose family sat on seven European thrones by 1914, carried haemophilia, and includes today's monarchs of Britain, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Descendants of the Sikh gurus
The descendants of the Sikh gurus are the biological heirs of the ten Gurus, organized into four Punjabi Khatri clans: the Bedis, Trehans, Bhallas, and Sodhis.
Descendants of the Sun (태양의 후예)
Descendants of the Sun (태양의 후예) is a 2016 KBS2 pre-produced Korean drama by Kim Eun-sook starring Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo; it peaked at 38.8% ratings, aired simultaneously on iQiyi in China, and spawned an Indonesian film adaptation.
Descendants: The Rise of Red
Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) is the fourth Disney Descendants musical film, starring Kylie Cantrall as Red and Malia Baker as Chloe, directed by Jennifer Phang, premiering July 12, 2024 on Disney+ as its most-viewed DCOM premiere and winning five Children's & Family Emmys.
Descendants: The Rise of Red (soundtrack)
Descendants: The Rise of Red (Original Soundtrack) is the Walt Disney Records album for the 2024 Disney+ film, released July 12, 2024 with 13 songs by Kylie Cantrall, Malia Baker, Rita Ora, and Brandy; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtracks and Kid Albums charts.
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland is the fifth Descendants Disney Channel musical film, premiering July 16, 2026 on Disney Channel and July 17 on Disney+. Directed by Kimmy Gatewood, it stars Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker facing new villain Maddox Hatter in Wonderland.
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (soundtrack)
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (Original Soundtrack) is the Walt Disney Records album for the 2026 fifth Descendants film, released July 17, 2026: 12 tracks, 36 minutes, 11 new songs by the cast plus a Torin Borrowdale score suite.
Descendent (2025 film)
Descendent (2025) is Peter Cilella's feature-directing debut, a sci-fi psychological thriller starring Ross Marquand and Sarah Bolger about a Los Angeles security guard who believes aliens abducted him; produced by Rustic Films, released by RLJE Films after a 2025 SXSW premiere.
Descendents
Descendents: Manhattan Beach, California punk band formed by Navetta, Lombardo, and Stevenson; Milo Aukerman joined around 1980. Known for Milo Goes to College (1982), the ALL side project, and as a foundation of pop punk.
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (昭和元禄落語心中) is Haruko Kumota's ten-volume manga about rakugo performers across the Shōwa era, serialized in Itan 2010–2016, adapted into OVAs, two anime seasons, a live-action series, and a Grand Prize musical.
Descent from the Cross (Dionisius)
Descent from the Cross (Dionisius) is a 1502–1503 icon by the Moscow painter Dionysius and his workshop, now in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Descent of Inanna into the Underworld
Sumerian narrative poem, also called Inana's Descent to the Netherworld (ETCSL 1.4.1), in which the goddess Inanna is stripped at seven gates, killed by Ereshkigal, revived via Enki, and must yield Dumuzi as substitute; related Akkadian Descent of Ishtar.
Descent of the Ganges (Mamallapuram)
The Descent of the Ganges, also called Arjuna's Penance or Gangavatarana, is a monumental 7th-century open-air rock relief at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, carved under the Pallava dynasty.
Descent theory
Descent theory is a set of techniques in algebraic geometry and category theory for recovering an object from its pullback along a covering morphism, presented in general form by Alexander Grothendieck in 1960.
Deschampsia
Deschampsia (hair grass), Poaceae genus established by Palisot de Beauvois in 1812, type D. cespitosa; about 64 species native from subarctic to temperate zones, including Antarctic D. antarctica.
Descomplica, Ltd.
Descomplica is a Brazilian online education company founded in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro by physics teacher Marco Fisbhen, now offering test prep and digital college degrees.
Described taxa of Thermococci and Archaeoglobi
A nomenclatural reference enumerating the validly published species and genera of the archaeal classes Thermococci and Archaeoglobi, with description years, corrections, and recent additions such as Thermococcus radiotolerans.
Describing function
The describing function is an approximate frequency-domain method in control engineering that replaces a nonlinear element with an equivalent complex gain, chiefly to predict limit cycles in feedback loops.
Descript, Inc.
Descript, Inc. is a private American software company developing Descript, an audio and video editor where deleting words in the transcript cuts the recording, used for podcasts.
Descriptio Moldaviae
Descriptio Moldaviae, in Romanian Descrierea Moldovei, is a Latin encyclopedic monograph on the principality of Moldavia, written by Dimitrie Cantemir from 1714 to 1716 at the Berlin Academy's request.
Description
Description (writing), one of the four classical rhetorical modes alongside narration, exposition, and persuasion; presents persons, places, or objects through vivid sensory detail. Distinguished from narrative essay forms by conveying a picture rather than telling a story.
Description logic
Description logic (DL) is a family of decidable knowledge representation languages describing domains via concepts, roles, and individuals, and underpinning the Web Ontology Language OWL 2.
Description of Africa (Leo Africanus)
Description of Africa (وصف إفريقيا) is the first comprehensive book about Africa, written in Italian by the diplomat Leo Africanus, completed in Rome in 1526 and published in Venice in 1550.
Description of Greece
The Description of Greece (Greek: Hellados Periegesis) is a ten-book travel guide by the Greek geographer Pausanias, describing the monuments, sanctuaries, and legends of mainland Greece in the second century CE.
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia is a 1745 historical and geographical treatise by Prince Vakhushti Bagrationi, completed in Moscow and the first complete description of Georgia.
Description of the New Astronomical Clock Tower (Xin yixiang fayao)
Description of the New Astronomical Clock Tower (新仪象法要) is a three-juan treatise by Northern Song statesman Su Song, detailing the design of his water-driven astronomical clock tower.
Descriptive complexity theory
Descriptive complexity theory is a branch of finite model theory that characterizes complexity classes by the logic needed to define problems, notably NP via Fagin's 1974 theorem.
Descriptive ethics
Descriptive ethics, also called empirical ethics, is the branch of ethics that studies what people actually believe and do morally, using psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in contrast to normative ethics and metaethics.
Descriptive geometry
Descriptive geometry is a field of geometry and technical drawing, created by Gaspard Monge around 1765, that represents 3D objects on 2D paper so true lengths and angles can be found.
Descriptive research
Descriptive research is research that systematically characterizes a phenomenon, answering who, what, where, when, and to what extent without manipulating variables; it can show patterns and prevalence, but not causation.