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Damn Daniel
Damn Daniel: 2016 viral catchphrase and video meme created by Josh Holz, praising friend Daniel Lara's white Vans. Tweeted February 15, 2016; Ellen appearance, Vans lifetime supply, hacking, and swatting followed.
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover is Sophie B. Hawkins's 1992 debut single from Tongues and Tails, a Top 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit, UK No. 14, known for homoerotic overtones, a rejected MTV video, and 90210 use.
Damn the Torpedoes (album)
Damn the Torpedoes is the 1979 third album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, produced by Jimmy Iovine on Backstreet/MCA after Petty's bankruptcy fight; it peaked at Billboard number 2 and went RIAA triple platinum.
Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees: 1955 Broadway musical by Adler and Ross, book by Abbott and Wallop from the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant; Faust story about a fan selling his soul so the Senators beat the Yankees; 1,019 performances, seven Tonys, 1958 film, 1994 and 2027 revivals.
Damn Yankees (1958 film)
Damn Yankees (1958) is a Warner Bros. musical comedy directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, adapting the 1955 Broadway Faust-style baseball hit, with Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, and Bob Fosse choreography.
Damn Yankees (band)
Damn Yankees: American hard rock supergroup formed 1989 by Tommy Shaw (Styx), Jack Blades (Night Ranger), Ted Nugent, and Michael Cartellone; 1990 debut went platinum with the hit "High Enough"; disbanded mid-1990s.
Damnatio ad bestias
Damnatio ad bestias, Roman capital punishment by wild animals in the amphitheater, also called condemnation to the beasts. Applied to coiners, murderers, traitors, and Christians; not open to pardon; evidenced by York lion-bite skeleton and Perge terracottas.
Damnatio memoriae
Damnatio memoriae, the modern term for Roman memory sanctions against condemned emperors and traitors: name erasure, statue destruction, coin recall; coined in 1689, never used in antiquity.
Damnation
Damnation is the fate of the damned at death or the Last Judgment in Christian teaching, chiefly understood as eternal separation from God after dying in mortal sin.
Damnation (1988 film)
Damnation (Kárhozat) is a 1987–1988 black-and-white Hungarian drama by Béla Tarr, co-written with László Krasznahorkai, about Karrer's doomed affair with a Titanik bar singer; it began Tarr's long-take Black Series style.
Damnation (TV series)
Damnation is a 2017 American period drama on USA Network, created by Tony Tost, set in 1930s Iowa where fake preacher Seth Davenport (Killian Scott) incites a farmer uprising against strikebreaker Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green). Ten episodes, canceled after one season in January 2018.
Damnation Alley
Damnation Alley (1977), also released as Survival Run, is a Jack Smight post-apocalyptic sci-fi film starring Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard, adapted loosely from Roger Zelazny's 1969 novel, featuring the Landmaster vehicle and Sound 360 audio, and a box-office failure overshadowed by Star Wars.
Damned Whores and God's Police
Damned Whores and God's Police is a 1975 feminist history of Australia by Anne Summers, arguing women were cast as either "damned whores" or "God's police."
Damnum iniuria datum
Damnum iniuria datum is the Roman-law delict of wrongful damage to property, created by the lex Aquilia of about 287 BCE and ancestor of civil-law tortious liability.
Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木)
Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), born Kenji Suzuki, 1950–2024, Japanese vocalist fronting German krautrock band Can 1970–73 on Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days, then led the Damo Suzuki's Network improvising Never Ending Tour with local sound carriers until his 2024 death.
Damocles
Damocles (Δαμοκλῆς), courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius, subject of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations 5.61 parable of a sword hanging by a horsehair; source of the idiom "sword of Damocles" for an imminent, ever-present threat, first recorded in English in 1747.
Damodar Agarwal
Damodar Agarwal, born in 1955, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bhilwara, Rajasthan, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after decades as a BJP organizer.
Damodar Das Arora
Damodar Das Arora, also known as Damodar Gulati, was a Punjabi qissa poet of the Jhang district whose Heer, completed in 1605, is the earliest known Punjabi qissa.
Damodar Raja Narasimha
Damodar Raja Narasimha is an Indian Congress politician who serves as Telangana's health minister, appointed in December 2023, having earlier been Deputy Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh from 2011 to 2014.
Damodar Rawat
Damodar Rawat is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician serving as Minister of Transport in the Government of Bihar, first elected from Jhajha in 2000 and now a six-time legislator.
Damodar River (দামোদর নদ)
Damodar River (দামোদর নদ), the 'River of Sorrows', rises in Jharkhand's Palamu Hills and flows 540 km to the Hugli near Kolkata; recurrent floods led to the Damodar Valley Corporation, India's first multipurpose river valley project (1948).
Damodar Valley Corporation
The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is an Indian statutory power utility created in 1948 to manage the Damodar River basin in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
Damodara Ashrama II
Damodara Ashrama II is the name used for holder no. 71 of the Shankaracharya office at the Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Gujarat, with 1928 given in the official list.
Damodara Tirtha
Damodara Tirtha was the 141st Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Matha at Puri, holding the office from 1883 to 1898, between Loknath Tirtha and Madhusudan Tirtha.
Damodaragupta
Damodaragupta (दामोदरगुप्त) was a Sanskrit poet and chief minister of King Jayapida of Kashmir in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, known for the satirical poem Kuttanimata.
Damodaram Pillai
Damodaram Pillai, also known as C. W. Thamotharam Pillai, was a Tamil scholar born near Jaffna in 1832 who recovered and printed ancient Tamil works from palm-leaf manuscripts.
Damodardeva
Damodardeva (দামোদৰদেৱ), born in 1488, was a Brahmin disciple of Sankaradeva who, after Sankaradeva's death in 1568, founded the Brahma-samhati, one of the four main divisions of Assamese Vaishnavism.
Damodargupta
Damodargupta (दमोदरगुप्त) was a Kashmiri poet and minister at the court of King Jayapida in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, author of the Sanskrit verse novel Kuttanimata.
Damodarpur Copper-plates
The Damodarpur copper-plates (दमोदरपुर ताम्रपत्र) are copper-plate land-sale charters from North Bengal under the Gupta emperors Kumaragupta I and his successors, first edited in 1919-20.
Damola Adamolekun
Damola Adamolekun, born 1989 in Nigeria, is an American restaurant executive who led P.F. Chang's from 2019 and became Red Lobster's youngest CEO in 2024.