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Dama (Alquerque)
Dama (Alquerque) is a Comorian capturing board game on the Alquerque-12 board, 5x5 lines, twelve pieces per side, compulsory capture with huffing, and promotion to a long king; recorded ethnographically on Grande Comore in 2018 by de Voogt.
Dama (Comoros)
Dama (Comoros) is a Turkish-draughts-style checkers game from Grande Comore: 8x8 uncheckered board, 16 pieces per player, orthogonal forward-and-sideways movement, long kings, and the southernmost recorded attestation of Turkish Draughts.
Dama (genus)
Dama (fallow deer), genus of Cervinae deer with two living species, European Dama dama and endangered Persian Dama mesopotamica; palmate antlers, Pleistocene European fossil species, and heavy human translocation since the Neolithic.
Dama (Italy)
Dama (Italy), or dama italiana, is Italy's national draughts variant: 8×8 board, 12 pieces per side, mirrored board, forward-only men, short kings, men cannot capture kings, and mandatory capture with a strict priority hierarchy, governed by the FID founded in 1924.
Dama (Kenya)
Dama (Kenya) is a coastal Kenyan draughts variant, also called Kenyan dama, played on an 8x8 board with 16 pieces per side, orthogonal movement, mandatory maximum captures, and flying kings, documented in Lamu and Mombasa.
Dama (Philippines)
Dama (Philippines), also called Filipino dama or Filipino checkers, is the Philippine draughts variant: 8x8 board, 12 men, backward captures, mandatory maximum capture, flying kings, mirrored Brazilian-style board, and the Damath math offshoot.
Dama (Turkish Draughts)
Dama, or Turkish draughts (Türk daması), is an 8×8 draughts variant using all 64 squares with orthogonal movement, compulsory maximum captures, and rook-like flying kings, played across Turkey and the Middle East.
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar (دما دم مست قلندر), also called Lal Meri Pat, is a Sufi qawwali honoring Lal Shahbaz Qalandar of Sehwan Sharif, attributed to Amir Khusro and adapted by Bulleh Shah, made famous through film melodies, Noor Jehan, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Dama do Bling
Dama do Bling (Ivânnea da Silva Mudanisse, born 1979) is a Mozambican rapper and singer, called the Queen of Hip-Hop of Mozambique, active from the mid-2000s.
DAMA International
DAMA International, originally the Data Administration Management Association, is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent data management association founded in Los Angeles in 1980, publisher of the DAMA-DMBOK guide and sponsor of the CDMP certification.
DAMA-DMBOK
DAMA-DMBOK (Data Management Body of Knowledge) is DAMA International's reference framework for data management: first edition 2009 with 10 knowledge areas, DMBOK2 in 2017 with 11 and the DAMA Wheel, 2024 Revised Edition, DMBOK 3.0 targeted 2027.
DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation controversy
The DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation controversy is the unresolved disagreement over whether the yearly signal reported by the DAMA/LIBRA detector at Gran Sasso, Italy is dark matter or an unexplained experimental effect.
Damac
Damac FC (نادي ضمك) is a Saudi sports club from Khamis Mushait, best known for its football team, which played in the Saudi Pro League from 2019.
DAMAC Group
DAMAC Group is a private, family-owned Dubai conglomerate founded in 1982 by Hussain Sajwani, whose property arm DAMAC Properties is among Dubai's largest private developers.
Damadzâde Ahmed Efendi
Damadzâde Ahmed Efendi (Ebü'l-Hayr Ahmed Efendi) was an Ottoman religious jurist who served as Shaykh al-Islam, the empire's senior mufti, under Sultan Mahmud I from 1732 to 1733.
Damadzâde Feyzullah Efendi
Damadzâde Feyzullah Efendi (1700–1761) was an Ottoman scholar, born in Bursa and son of Shaykh al-Islam Damadzâde Ahmed Efendi, who twice served as Shaykh al-Islam under Sultan Osman III.
Damage (1992 film)
Damage (1992) is Louis Malle's erotic drama, adapted by David Hare from Josephine Hart's novel, starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, and Miranda Richardson; a British MP's affair with his son's fiancée ends in tragedy, earning Richardson an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA win.
Damage Control (comics)
Damage Control is a Marvel Comics construction company created by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colón, first appearing in 1989, that cleans up superhero battle damage; distinct from the MCU's Department of Damage Control government agency.
Damage control resuscitation
Damage control resuscitation (DCR) is a trauma care strategy for severely bleeding patients that combines permissive hypotension, 1:1:1 blood product transfusion, and rapid surgical hemorrhage control.
Damage control surgery
Damage control surgery (DCS) is a staged approach to major trauma in which an abbreviated first operation controls bleeding and contamination, ICU resuscitation restores physiology, and a planned reoperation performs definitive repair.
Damage CTRL
Damage CTRL, WWE women's stable formed at SummerSlam 2022 by Bayley with Dakota Kai and IYO SKY, later joined by Asuka and Kairi Sane; held tag and women's titles before disbanding in 2025.
Damage indicator (tornado)
A damage indicator (DI) is one of 28 standardized structures, trees, or objects used to rate tornado intensity on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, operational since 2007.
Damage mechanics
Damage mechanics is the branch of continuum mechanics describing material deterioration, voids and micro-cracks, via internal state variables degrading stiffness; its continuum form was introduced by Kachanov in 1958.
Damage stability
Damage stability is the branch of ship stability assessing whether a vessel remains afloat, upright, and stable after hull damage causes flooding, required under the IMO's SOLAS Convention.
Damaged (Black Flag album)
Damaged, released December 5, 1981 on SST Records, is Black Flag's debut LP and its first with singer Henry Rollins; MCA refused distribution as 'anti-parent', and the Unicorn lawsuit barred the band from using its name.
Damageplan
Damageplan, originally named New Found Power, was a short-lived Dallas groove metal band formed in 2003 by Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul after Pantera; its only album New Found Power (2004) reached number 38, and the band ended after Darrell was shot on stage in Columbus, Ohio in December 2004.
Damages
Damages: the monetary civil-law remedy awarded to make an injured party whole. Covers compensatory (actual), expectation, reliance, restitution, and punitive damages, plus limits of causation, remoteness, and mitigation.
Damages (TV series)
Damages is an American legal thriller TV series (FX 2007–2012, five seasons, 59 episodes) created by Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, and Daniel Zelman, starring Glenn Close as litigator Patty Hewes and Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, revived by DirecTV after FX cancellation.
Damaji Gaekwad
Damaji Gaekwad (दामाजी गायकवाड), also styled Damaji Rao, was the Maratha head of the Gaekwad house of Baroda from 1732 to 1768, succeeding his assassinated father Pilaji.
Damaliscus
Damaliscus is an African alcelaphine antelope genus (Sclater & Thomas, 1894) holding the topi/tsessebe (D. lunatus) and bontebok/blesbok (D. pygargus); sister to Alcelaphus, with the near-threatened bontebok recovering from an 1830s bottleneck.