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Destratification
Destratification is the artificial mixing of a thermally stratified lake or reservoir, usually by injecting compressed air, to make temperature and dissolved oxygen roughly uniform throughout.
Destrier
The destrier was the elite medieval warhorse, a type rather than a breed, reserved for battle and tournament. Rare and costly, it was smaller than the popular draught-horse image, with coursers and rounceys as commoner warhorses.
Destro
Destro (James McCullen Destro XXIV) is the silver-masked Scottish arms dealer of G.I. Joe, head of M.A.R.S., Cobra's weapons supplier and rival, with his own Iron Grenadiers army; first appeared in Marvel's G.I. Joe comics in 1983 and returned in Skybound's 2024 Energon Universe miniseries.
Destroy All Humans!
Destroy All Humans! is a 2005 Pandemic Studios open-world action game for PS2 and Xbox where alien Crypto-137 harvests Furon DNA in 1950s America; remade by Black Forest Games in 2020, with Reprobed on Switch 2 in 2026.
Destroy All Humans! (2020 video game)
Destroy All Humans! (2020) is Black Forest Games' Unreal Engine 4 remake of the 2005 THQ game, released July 28, 2020 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with alien Crypto-137 harvesting DNA in satirical 1950s America.
Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃)
Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃, Kaijū Sōshingeki) is Toho's 1968 ninth Godzilla film, directed by Ishiro Honda, set in 1999 with eleven monsters freed from Monsterland by the alien Kilaaks and battling King Ghidorah at Mount Fuji.
Destroy Lonely
Destroy Lonely is the stage name of Bobby Sandimanie III, an American rapper from Atlanta signed to Playboi Carti's Opium imprint, whose 2024 album Love Lasts Forever reached the Billboard 200 top 10.
Destroy the Four Olds
Destroy the Four Olds (破四旧) was a Cultural Revolution campaign launched in Beijing in August 1966, in which Red Guards attacked old thinking, culture, customs, and habits.
Destroyer
The destroyer, begun in the 1890s as the torpedo-boat destroyer with HMS Havock in 1893, is a fast, heavily armed multi-mission guided-missile warship central to modern fleets.
Destroyer (2018 film)
Destroyer (2018 film), also known simply as Destroyer, is a Karyn Kusama neo-noir crime thriller starring Nicole Kidman as LAPD detective Erin Bell, who hunts gang leader Silas seventeen years after a failed undercover operation; released December 25, 2018 by Annapurna Pictures.
Destroyer (band)
Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band formed in Vancouver in 1995 by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar, also of the New Pornographers; known for shifting styles from indie folk to sophisti-pop, with 2011's Kaputt as its commercial breakthrough.
Destroyer (Kiss album)
Destroyer (1976) is Kiss's fourth studio album, produced by Bob Ezrin, its first platinum certification, featuring "Detroit Rock City", "God of Thunder", "Shout It Out Loud", and the No. 7 Billboard hit "Beth".
Destroyer (Thor)
Destroyer (Thor): enchanted Asgardian armor in Marvel Comics, built by Odin against the Celestials; debuted Journey Into Mystery #118 (1965) by Lee and Kirby, animated by a host's life force, shattered Mjolnir, and appeared in the 2011 Thor film.
Destroyer escort
A destroyer escort was a small, slow US Navy warship of World War II built to escort convoys and hunt submarines; 563 were built from 1941.
Destroyers-for-bases deal
The destroyers-for-bases deal, concluded by the United States and the United Kingdom in September 1940, traded fifty old destroyers for 99-year rent-free leases on British bases.
Destroying angel
Destroying angel, the common name for all-white deadly Amanita species (A. bisporigera, A. virosa, A. ocreata, A. verna) in section Phalloideae; amatoxin content causes delayed, often fatal liver failure, distinguished by white gills, ring, and basal volva.
Destroying angel (מלאך המשחית) (Bible)
The destroying angel (Hebrew מלאך המשחית, malakh ha-mashḥit) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible who kills multitudes by plague at God's command, appearing in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21.
Destruction (band)
Destruction, German thrash metal band from Weil am Rhein founded by Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer and Mike Sifringer; one of the Teutonic Big Four with Kreator, Sodom, Tankard; sixteen albums from Infernal Overkill (1985) to Birth of Malice.
Destruction of Alalakh (c. 1200 BC)
The destruction of Alalakh (c. 1200 BC) was long attributed to the Sea Peoples at Tell Atchana, Turkey, but reanalysis dates the city's abandonment to around 1300 BC.
Destruction of Alalakh (Level VII)
The destruction of Alalakh (Level VII) was a large-scale fire around 1637–1614 BC that ended the Level VII city at Tell Atchana, Turkey, attributed to Ḫattušili I.
Destruction of Ashkelon (604 BC)
The destruction of Ashkelon in 604 BC was Nebuchadnezzar II's capture and burning of the Philistine port city, recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle and confirmed by archaeology.
Destruction of cultural heritage during the 2026 Iran war
Destruction of cultural heritage during the 2026 Iran war: U.S.-Israeli strikes damaged UNESCO-verified Iranian sites including Golestan Palace, Chehel Sotoun, Masjed-e Jāme, and Khorramabad Valley; Iran later reported 149 sites damaged.
Destruction of cultural heritage during the Gaza war
Destruction of cultural heritage during the Gaza war: damage to Gaza Strip mosques, museums, and archaeological sites since 7 October 2023; UNESCO verified 164 damaged sites by March 2026, with the World Bank assessing 53 percent of heritage sites affected.
Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia
Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia: demolition of mosques, graves, and sites linked to Muhammad and his companions, mainly in Mecca and Medina, driven by Wahhabi doctrine against shirk and by Grand Mosque expansion projects.
Destruction of Ekron (603 BC)
The destruction of Ekron (603 BC), also dated 604 BC, was the Babylonian burning of the Philistine city of Ekron by Nebuchadnezzar II, ending large-scale occupation at Tel Miqne.
Destruction of Gordion by the Cimmerians
The Destruction of Gordion by the Cimmerians is the traditional name for a burnt destruction level at Gordion, the Phrygian capital in central Anatolia, long attributed to a Cimmerian raid around 700 BC.
Destruction of Kanesh level II
The destruction of Kanesh level II, also called the destruction of Level II at Kültepe, was a fire around 1835 BC that ended the Old Assyrian trade colony at Kaneš.
Destruction of Lachish (c. 1150 BC)
The destruction of Lachish (c. 1150 BC) was the burning of the last Canaanite city at Tel Lachish, southern Israel, at the end of the Late Bronze Age.
Destruction of Mayapan
The Destruction of Mayapan (Destrucción de Mayapán) was the mid-fifteenth-century Xiu-led revolt that massacred the ruling Cocom family, burned the walled city of Mayapán, and ended its dominance over Yucatán.
Destruction of opium at Humen
The destruction of opium at Humen (虎门) was the public disposal of over 20,000 chests of confiscated foreign opium in June 1839, directed by Qing commissioner Lin Zexu.