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Damien Williams
Damien Williams, NFL running back (born 1992, San Diego), undrafted 2014; Dolphins, Chiefs, Bears, Falcons, Cardinals; scored two fourth-quarter TDs in Chiefs' Super Bowl LIV win; nicknamed Playoff Damien.
Damien Woody
Damien Woody (Damien Michael Woody, born 1977) is a former NFL offensive lineman, 1999 first-round pick, who won two Super Bowls with the Patriots, played for the Lions and Jets, and became an ESPN analyst.
Damien: Omen II
Damien: Omen II (1978), also Omen II or The Inheritance, is Don Taylor's horror sequel to The Omen, starring William Holden and Jonathan Scott-Taylor as teenage Damien Thorn in Chicago; Mike Hodges was the original director.
Damietta
Damietta (Arabic: Dumyāṭ) is a port city and capital of Damietta Governorate in Egypt, on the Nile's eastern branch a few miles from the Mediterranean.
Damietta Governorate
Damietta Governorate (محافظة دمياط), a Nile Delta governorate of Lower Egypt on the Mediterranean, area 910 km², population about 1.5 million, known for furniture manufacturing, the Port of Damietta, Lake Manzala, and Ras El Bar tourism.
Damietta power plant
The Damietta power plant is a 1,200 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power station at Damietta (دمياط) on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, owned by the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company and commissioned from 1989 to 1993.
Damietta SEGAS LNG Terminal
The Damietta SEGAS LNG terminal is an Egyptian liquefied natural gas export plant at Damietta on the Mediterranean coast, Egypt's first LNG facility, onstream in 2004.
Daming Baochao
Daming Baochao (大明宝钞), the "Great Ming Precious Note," was the Ming dynasty's inconvertible paper currency, issued from 1375, the largest paper money in Chinese history, which collapsed by the mid-1400s.
Daming calendar
The Daming calendar (大明曆) was the official calendar promulgated by the Liao dynasty in 994; a Jin revision served the Jin dynasty and early Mongol Empire until the Shoushi calendar replaced it.
Daming Lake Amusement Zone
Daming Lake Amusement Zone (大明湖游乐园) was a 2001 amusement park in Daming Lake Scenic Area, Jinan, with a 68 m Ferris wheel and a Sameco three-loop coaster; its rides were removed by 2024.
Daming Prefecture Old City
Damingfu Old City (大名府故城), also Beijing Damingfu, a buried medieval city site in Daming County, Handan, Hebei; founded 360 AD, Northern Song secondary capital from 1042, destroyed by flood in 1401, three-walled '回' layout confirmed 2023, national heritage site since 2006.
Daming Tuhuan
Daming Tuhuan (大明土断) was a land-registration reform issued by Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song in 457, moving émigré households from tax-exempt white registers onto taxable yellow registers.
Damini (actress)
Damini is a name given in online film listings to a supporting Hindi film actress and, more prominently, to Meenakshi Sheshadri's character in the 1993 Hindi film Damini.
Damini (दामिनी)
Damini (दामिनी) is a 1993 Hindi courtroom drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, and Amrish Puri, about a woman fighting her in-laws for justice after witnessing a rape; it won Sunny Deol a National Film Award.
Daminozide
Daminozide (Alar, B-Nine, SADH, CAS 1596-84-5) is a plant growth regulator registered since 1963; its food uses were canceled in 1989 over the carcinogenic breakdown product UDMH, leaving ornamental uses in the US and EU.
Damion Baugh
Damion Baugh (born 2000) is an American guard from Nashville who played at Memphis and TCU, reached the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets, and now plays for Baskonia in the EuroLeague.
Damion Lee
Damion Lee (born 1992, Baltimore) is an American NBA guard-forward, undrafted 2016 out of Louisville, who played for Atlanta, Golden State (2022 champion), and Phoenix, known as a three-point specialist.
Damiq-ilishu
Damiq-ilishu, also written Damiq-ilišu, was the last king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a Mesopotamian city-state, reigning about 1814–1792 BC until Rim-Sin of Larsa conquered Isin and ended the dynasty.
Damir Mikec
Damir Mikec (Дамир Микец), Serbian sport shooter born 1984 in Split; five Olympics 2008–2024, Tokyo 2020 silver and Paris 2024 mixed-team gold with Zorana Arunović, world 50m pistol champion 2022.
Damita Jo (album)
Damita Jo is Janet Jackson's eighth studio album, released March 2004 on Virgin Records and named for her middle name; produced with Jam & Lewis, Dallas Austin, Babyface, and Kanye West, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum amid the post-Super Bowl blacklist.
Damiya Roman Bridge
The Damiya Roman Bridge was a Roman bridge over the Jordan River at Damiya in the central Jordan Valley, whose remains were described by William Lynch in 1849.
Damjing
Damjing (曇徵) was a Goguryeo monk who went to Japan in 610, recorded as a scholar of the Five Classics and a maker of paper, ink, and colors.
Damkina (crater on Ganymede)
Damkina is a 190-km-diameter impact crater on Ganymede at 30.17°S, 4.88°W, named in 2006 by the IAU for a Babylonian sky and health deity, mother of Marduk.
Damköhler number
The Damköhler number (Da) is a dimensionless quantity in chemical engineering that compares a chemical reaction's rate with the rate at which reactants are transported by flow or diffusion.
Dammam (الدمام)
Dammam (الدمام), administrative capital of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province on the Arabian Gulf; with Alkhobar and Dhahran it forms the DMA, the kingdom's third largest urban center, transformed by the 1938 Dammam No. 7 oil strike.
Dammam development project
The Dammam development project is a two-phase Saudi Aramco crude oil project in Saudi Arabia adding 75 thousand barrels per day, phased onstream in 2025 and 2027.
Damme
Damme, West Flanders, Belgium: small historic town 6.5 km northeast of Bruges, city rights 1180, Bruges's Zwin outport, later a 1616-1617 Spanish fortress; also a German namesake in Lower Saxony.
Damming of the Tigris by Abi-eshuh
The damming of the Tigris by Abi-ešuh was a hydraulic military operation in which the Babylonian king tried to defeat Ilī-ma-ilu of the Sealand by drying up the southern marshes.
Dammu (ధమ్ము)
Dammu (ధమ్ము) is a 2012 Telugu action film starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Trisha, and Karthika Nair, released on 27 April 2012 with an adults-only certificate for its graphic action.
Damn (Kendrick Lamar album)
DAMN. (2017) is Kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album, a 14-track record built on a wickedness-versus-weakness theme, playable in reverse track order. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first for a rapper, and Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammys.