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Daman (2022 film)
DAMaN (Daman) is a 2022 Odia-language adventure drama directed by Vishal Mourya and Debi Prasad Lenka, starring Babushaan Mohanty as a doctor fighting malaria in Malkangiri, Odisha; it won the 70th National Film Award for Best Odia Film.
Daman Gas Field
The Daman Gas Field is a natural gas field in India's Mumbai Offshore Basin, in the Arabian Sea, producing from sandstone reservoirs and operated by ONGC.
Daman Hongren (大满弘忍)
Daman Hongren (弘忍, c. 601–674) was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk, the fifth Chinese patriarch, who led about 700 followers on East Mountain at Huangmei.
Daman, India
Daman, India: coastal city and capital of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; a Portuguese possession from 1559 until its capture in Operation Vijay, December 1961.
Damanhur
Damanhur (دمنهور, Damanhour), capital of Beheira Governorate in Egypt's western Nile Delta; ancient 'City of Horus', Greco-Roman Hermopolis Parva; railway junction on the Cairo–Alexandria line and Delta market center.
Damaoping gas field
Damaoping gas field (大猫坪区块, Damaoping Block) is a natural gas producing block of the Yun'anchang gas field in Wanzhou, Chongqing, China, whose main target is the Upper Permian Changxing Formation reef reservoir.
Damar Gas Field
The Damar Gas Field is a natural gas field in Block PM303, about 200 kilometers off Peninsular Malaysia, discovered in 1979 with first gas in February 2014.
Damar Hamlin
Damar Hamlin, Buffalo Bills NFL safety drafted 212th overall in 2021 out of Pittsburgh, suffered commotio cordis cardiac arrest on Monday Night Football on January 2, 2023, was resuscitated on the field, returned in 2023, and leads the Chasing M's Foundation CPR and AED advocacy.
DaMarcus Beasley
DaMarcus Beasley (born 1982, Fort Wayne, Indiana), American winger-turned-left-back; first USMNT man to play four World Cups (2002-2014), 126 caps, four Gold Cups, clubs Chicago Fire, PSV, Rangers, Puebla, Houston Dynamo; Hall of Fame 2023.
Damaris Lewis
Damaris Lewis (born 1990) is an American model, dancer, actress, and host from Coney Island, Brooklyn, known for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2009-2011, touring as Prince's muse and dancer 2012-2016, co-hosting NBA Style, playing Blackfire in Titans, and founding the candle company Gorudo.
Damaris Phillips
Damaris Phillips (Damaris Lennon Phillips), born 1980, is an American chef and TV personality who won Food Network Star season 9 (2013), hosted Southern at Heart, co-hosts The Bobby and Damaris Show, and wrote Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy.
Damas
Damas: Spanish and Portuguese name for draughts (checkers), especially Spanish draughts, an 8×8 flying-king game from 16th-century Spain; also covers Brazilian and Turkish dama variants.
Damascenone
Damascenone, or β-damascenone, is a C13 norisoprenoid ketone named in 1970 after Rosa damascena; present at only 0.1% of rose oil, it carries its sweet honey note.
Damascus (دمشق)
Damascus (دمشق), also called Al-Sham, is the capital of Syria and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, and was the capital of the Umayyad caliphate.
Damascus Gate
Damascus Gate, also called Nablus Gate or Bab al-Amoud, is the largest gate in the Old City walls of Jerusalem, built in 1537–1540 under Suleiman the Magnificent.
Damascus Governorate
Damascus Governorate (محافظة دمشق) is the Syrian governorate comprising the capital city Damascus, separate from Rural Damascus (Rif Dimashq) governorate; designated a governorate in 1972, with 1.55 million residents in 2004.
Damascus International Airport (مطار دمشق الدولي)
Damascus International Airport (مطار دمشق الدولي), also called Damascus Airport, is Syria's main international gateway, about 25 km southeast of the capital, completed in 1969.
Damascus Opera House
The Damascus Opera House (دار الأوبرا بدمشق), officially Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts, is Syria's main opera house and concert hall at Umayyad Square in Damascus, opened in 2004.
Damascus Station
Damascus Station (2021) is the debut spy thriller by former CIA analyst David McCloskey, published by W. W. Norton. Set in Syria during 2011-13, it follows CIA officer Sam Joseph and his recruit, palace official Mariam Haddad, hunting an American spy's killer in Damascus.
Damascus steel
Damascus steel, also known as Damascene steel or watered steel, is the patterned steel of famed Islamic sword blades, forged from Indian wootz crucible steel.
Damascus Sulcus
Damascus Sulcus is one of four tiger stripe fractures on Enceladus's south polar terrain, IAU-named from the Arabian Nights. It is a 5-km-wide double ridge with a 200–250 m deep medial trough venting dust-rich, organic-bearing plume jets.
Damask
Damask: a reversible figured woven fabric formed by contrasting warp-faced and weft-faced satin weaves, named for Damascus, originating in China, woven on jacquard looms in silk, linen, and cotton.
Damaskin literature
Damaskin literature (Bulgarian and Serbian: дамаскини) is a body of South Slavic manuscript miscellanies of sermons and saints' lives, arising in the late 16th century from translations of Damaskin Studit's Thesaurus.
Damasus II
Damasus II, born Poppo, was the 151st pope, a Bavarian who was bishop of Brixen before Emperor Henry III nominated him; he reigned 23 days in 1048 before dying at Palestrina, most likely of malaria.
Damat
Damat is a draughts variant played at Malacca, Malaysia by Portuguese people, recorded by Newell (1959): 12x12 board, 30 pieces per player, forward diagonal moves, leaping captures, and promoted kings moving any diagonal distance.
Damavand power station
Damavand power station (نیروگاه دماوند), also called the Pakdasht Martyrs plant, is a 2,868 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power station near Tehran, the largest in Iran.
Damb Sadat
Damb Sadat is a prehistoric settlement mound 12 km south of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, whose three phases define the pre-Harappan Quetta culture, dated from about 3000 BCE.
Dambach
Dambach: an Alsatian commune in Bas-Rhin with the castles Schoeneck, Wineck, and Hohenfels and 14th-century walls, and a Bavarian village with a Roman Raetian Limes fort destroyed in 254 AD.
Damballa
Damballa, in Haitian Kreyòl Danbala Wedo, is a great white serpent spirit and one of the oldest and most revered lwa of Haitian Vodou, its father and king.
Dambe boxing
Dambe, Hausa traditional boxing from northern Nigeria, Niger, and Chad: one cloth-wrapped "spear" fist, open "shield" hand, kicks allowed, no weight classes, win by knockdown; butchers' guild origins, now a growing online sport.