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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was the Supreme Court decision, 7-2 under Chief Justice Taney, holding that enslaved Black people were not U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories; overturned by the 13th and 14th Amendments.
Dredd
Dredd, also known as Dredd 3D, is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis, starring Karl Urban as Judge Dredd fighting drug lord Ma-Ma.
Drederick Irving
Drederick Irving, American former basketball player, Boston University guard 1984-88, 1,931-1,935 career points, retired jersey, BU Hall of Fame, played pro in Australia, father of NBA star Kyrie Irving.
Dredge-up
Dredge-up is a set of mixing episodes in low- and intermediate-mass stars where the convective envelope carries nuclear-burning products like carbon and s-process elements to the surface.
Dredging
Dredging, also called dregging, is the excavation and removal of sediment from the bottom of rivers, harbors, lakes, and channels, mainly to keep waterways navigable for shipping.
Dree Hemingway
Dree Hemingway (Dree Louise Hemingway Crisman, born 1987, Sun Valley, Idaho) is an American model and actress, great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, daughter of Mariel Hemingway, star of Starlet (2012), and face of Chloé and JW Anderson campaigns.
Dreeg
Dreeg, or Nürnberger Dreck (Nämbercher Dreeg), is a Franconian compendium card game for three or four players near Nuremberg, built from eight phases of four 66-based sub-games, scored on chalk slates with Bollern blobs.
Dreezy
Dreezy (Seandrea Sledge, born 1994) is a Chicago rapper and singer known for her 2014 "Chiraq" remix, the platinum single "Body" with Jeremih, and the albums No Hard Feelings, Big Dreez, and HITGIRL.
Drehem archive
The Drehem archive, also known as the Puzrish-Dagan archive, is a corpus of over 15,000 Ur III administrative tablets, chiefly livestock records, from a center near Nippur used from about 2056 to 2026 BC.
Dreidel (סביבון)
Dreidel (sevivon, סביבון) is a four-sided spinning top played at Hanukkah; its letters nun, gimmel, hey, shin (pey in Israel) stand for "a great miracle happened there/here," originally Yiddish gambling rules from the teetotum.
Dreissena rostriformis bugensis
Dreissena rostriformis bugensis, commonly the quagga mussel, is a small freshwater bivalve mollusk native to the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine that invaded the Great Lakes in the mid-1980s and displaced the zebra mussel.
Drekavac
Drekavac (дрекавац, "the screamer"), also drekalo, plakavac, svirac, is a South Slavic folklore creature, usually the restless soul of an unbaptized dead child, defined by its terrifying nocturnal cry taken as an omen of death, known in Serbia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.
Drell–Yan process
The Drell–Yan process is a particle physics effect in which a quark and antiquark from colliding hadrons annihilate to produce a lepton pair, proposed by Sid Drell and Tung-Mow Yan.
Dremio
Dremio is a data lakehouse platform for self-service analytics that queries data directly where it is stored, built on open standards including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow.
Drena De Niro
Drena De Niro (born 1971), American actress and filmmaker, daughter of Diahnne Abbott and adopted daughter of Robert De Niro; former model and Armani consultant, directed Girls & Dolls, appeared in A Star Is Born.
Drentse Patrijshond
Drentse Patrijshond (Drentsche Patrijshond, Drentsche Partridge Dog), a Dutch spaniel-type pointing dog from Drenthe, derived from 16th-century Spioenen; recognized 1943, FCI Group 7 standard 224, white-and-brown versatile gundog.
Drepanidae
Drepanidae, hooktip and false owlet moths, is a moth family in Drepanoidea with four subfamilies (Drepaninae, Oretinae, Thyatirinae, Cyclidiinae), about 660 species, sister to Geometridae, with hooked forewings in Drepaninae and quadrifid hindwing venation.
Drepanodus
Drepanodus, conodont genus established by Pander in 1856, Ordovician marine chordate known from curved phosphatic elements; type species D. arcuatus ranges practically throughout the Ordovician worldwide.
Drepanon (promontory)
Drepanon (Δρέπανον, "sickle") is the name of several ancient promontories: in Achaia (modern Drepano), on Crete near Chania, on Cyprus, in Sicily (Trapani), and on Egypt's Red Sea coast (Ras Gargub), each named for a sickle-like shape.
Drepanum
Drepanum, also known as Drepana, was a Carthaginian port city in western Sicily at modern Trapani, where Rome lost the naval battle of Drepana in 249 BC.
Drepanum Chasma
Drepanum Chasma is a 360-km-long chasma on Saturn's moon Dione at 46 degrees south, 265 degrees west, part of the Wispy Terrain, an early N-S horst-and-graben system named for Aeneas's Sicilian harbor.
Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery is a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1416 west of Lhasa, once the largest monastery in Tibet and residence of the early Dalai Lamas.
Dresden
Dresden, capital of Saxony on the Elbe, had 571,510 residents at end-2025 after its first population decline since 2014; known for the rebuilt Frauenkirche, Baroque old town, Silicon Saxony microelectronics cluster, and major art collections.
Dresden Airport
Dresden Airport, also known as Dresden-Klotzsche or Dresden International, is the international airport of Dresden, the capital of Saxony in eastern Germany, opened on 11 July 1935.
Dresden Codex
The Dresden Codex (Códice de Dresde) is a pre-conquest Maya screenfold book of ritual calendars and astronomical tables, held in Dresden and one of only four surviving Maya manuscripts.
Dresden Green Diamond
The Dresden Green Diamond is a 41-carat natural green diamond, the largest known, with color evenly distributed through the stone, set in a hat ornament in Dresden's Green Vault since the 18th century.
Dresden nuclear power plant
Dresden nuclear power plant is a nuclear plant in Morris, Illinois, whose Unit 1 was the first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant in the United States.
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Bank AG was a German commercial bank, founded in 1872 from the Bankhaus Michael Kaskel, that became Germany's second-largest private bank before merging into Commerzbank in 2009.
Dress
Dress: a one-piece garment with bodice and skirt, and more broadly clothing and appearance for an occasion. Covers word history, social meaning, silhouettes from the beadnet dress to the terno, and museum collections.
Dress code
Dress code: rules on clothing and appearance in schools and workplaces, from Tudor sumptuary laws and the 1222 cappa clausa to US Tinker ruling, EEOC religious accommodation, and French uniform trial results.