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Drápa
Drápa (plural drápur) is a long, laudatory skaldic poem of Old Norse poetry, distinguished from the shorter flokkr by its refrain, the stef, and composed mostly in court meter.
Draper Laboratory
Draper Laboratory, formally The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, is a Cambridge, Massachusetts nonprofit known for the Apollo guidance systems that took astronauts to the Moon.
Drapetomania
Drapetomania, from Greek drapetes (runaway slave) plus mania, was a pseudoillness coined in 1851 by physician Samuel A. Cartwright to explain enslaved people fleeing captivity; now rejected as scientific racism.
Drapsaka
Drapsaka (Drápsaka), a Bactrian city in northern Afghanistan, first town taken by Alexander the Great after crossing the Hindu Kush; from Iranian drafša 'banner'; usually identified with the Bala Hesar at Qonduz.
Drashti Dhami (द्रष्टि धामी)
Drashti Dhami (द्रष्टि धामी), born 1985 in Mumbai, is an Indian television and streaming actress known for Geet Hui Sabse Parayi, Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon, her Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 win, The Empire, and Duranga.
Drass district
Drass district, a district of Ladakh, India notified 27 April 2026 with headquarters at Drass-Ranbirpura, carved from Kargil district with 19 revenue villages; formerly the Drass sub-division, known for extreme cold, the 1999 Kargil War memorial, and Dardic community.
Draßburg
ASV Draßburg (ASV Edelweiß-Draßburg), Austrian football club in Draßburg, Burgenland, founded 14 January 1947; plays at Sportzentrum Drassburg (1,000), reached the third-tier Regionalliga Ost, now in II. Liga Mitte.
Drastamat Kanayan
Drastamat Kanayan, known as General Dro, was an Armenian military commander and politician who fought in World War I, served as Minister of War, and commanded the Armenian Legion in World War II.
DRASTIC
DRASTIC is a GIS-based overlay index method that rates seven hydrogeologic factors, named in its acronym, to assess groundwater vulnerability to contamination from surface pollutants.
Drata
Drata Inc. is a San Diego-based security and compliance automation company founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz, offering continuous SOC 2 and multi-framework compliance through automated monitoring.
Draugen Oil and Gas Field
Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea off Norway, discovered in 1984 and the first Norwegian field north of the 62nd parallel, producing since 1993.
Draught beer
Draught (draft) beer: beer of any style served from a cask or keg rather than bottle or can. Covers unpressurized cask ale and pressurized keg dispense, 38°F/12-15 PSI balance, line cleaning, and its 53.1% US on-premise volume share.
Draughts (12x12)
Draughts (12x12) is a 144-square checkers form with 30 pieces per side, recorded in early nineteenth-century London and surviving as Canadian draughts, which plays International Draughts rules, flying kings, and the majority-capture rule on the largest standard board.
Draugija
Draugija, Lithuanian for "Society" or "Fellowship," was a Catholic literary, scientific, political, and religious journal published in Kaunas in three runs, producing 213 issues.
Draugr
Draugr (pl. draugar), also aptrganga or haugbúi, the corporeal walking dead of Old Norse and Icelandic saga literature: uncorrupted, heavy mound-dwellers guarding treasure, destroyed by decapitation or burning, later a fantasy staple.
Draupadi
Draupadi (द्रौपदी), also Krishnaa and Yajnaseni, is the chief heroine of the Mahabharata: Drupada's daughter, wife of the five Pandavas, disrobed in the dice hall, and a south Indian folk goddess.
Draupathi 2 (திரௌபதி 2)
Draupathi 2 (திரௌபதி 2) is a 2026 Tamil historical action drama by Mohan G, a spiritual sequel to Draupathi (2020), starring Richard Rishi as Veera Simha Kadavarayan; released 23 January 2026, U/A certified, weak box office.
Drava Banovina
Drava Banovina (Dravska banovina) was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941, covering nearly all Slovene-inhabited territory from its seat in Ljubljana.
Drava Valles
Drava Valles is an IAU-approved valley system (vallis) on Mars, about 150-159 km across, centered near -48.9°, 166°E in quadrangle MC29, named in 1982 after the Drava River of former Yugoslavia.
Dravet syndrome
Dravet syndrome, formerly severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy starting in infancy, usually from de novo SCN1A mutations causing Nav1.1 loss in inhibitory interneurons, with drug-resistant seizures, intellectual disability, and elevated SUDEP risk.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகம்)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Tamil Nadu regional party founded by C.N. Annadurai in 1949 from the Dravidar Kazhagam; Dravidian ideology, welfare governance, ruled from 1967, lost power to TVK in 2026.
Dravidar Kazhagam (திராவிடர் கழகம்)
Dravidar Kazhagam (திராவிடர் கழகம், DK) is a Tamil Nadu social organization founded by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy in 1944 from the Justice Party and Self-Respect Movement; a non-electoral rationalist, anti-caste pressure group and parent of the DMK and AIADMK.
Dravidian architecture
Dravidian architecture, also called South Indian temple architecture, is the Hindu temple style of southern India, defined by the pyramidal vimana tower and gopuram gateways.
Dravidian languages
Dravidian languages: family of about 70-80 languages, 215+ million speakers, South Asia; major members Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam; four branches; dated to about 4500 years old; not related to Sanskrit.
Dravidian peoples
Dravidian peoples: speakers of the Dravidian language family (over 24 languages, about 220 to 250 million people) of southern India, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam speakers.
Dravite
Dravite is a magnesium-rich member of the tourmaline group of minerals, named in the 1880s for the Drava river near its type locality in Slovenia.
Dravyagunavigyan
Dravyagunavigyan (Dravyaguna Vigyana, द्रव्यगुण विज्ञान) is Ayurveda's pharmacology and materia medica, analyzing drugs through Rasa, Guna, Virya, Vipaka, and Prabhava; taught as a 400-hour BAMS subject and covered by WHO training benchmarks.
Draw (chess)
Draw (chess): a game ending without a winner, via stalemate, dead position, agreement, threefold repetition or 50-move claims, or automatic fivefold repetition and 75-move rules under FIDE Laws.
Draw bridge
Draw Bridge (Pick-Up Bridge) is a two-player Honeymoon Bridge variant: 13 cards dealt each, 26-card stock, 13 no-trump tricks decide who draws replacements, then normal Bridge bidding, play, and rubber scoring.
Draw poker
Draw poker: poker family where players discard and replace cards, with betting before and after the draw. Classic form Five Card Draw; variants include lowball and 2-7 triple draw; first printed 1850.