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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, 1828–1882) was an English poet, painter, and translator who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Hunt, painted some 100 Dante subjects, and published Poems (1870) recovered from his wife's grave.
Dante Gatteschi
Dante Gatteschi (1945–2026) was an Italian chemist at the University of Florence who pioneered molecular magnetism and whose laboratory discovered single-molecule magnetism, building a scientific school of international reach.
Dante Hall
Dante Hall, "The Human Joystick" and "X Factor", Chiefs return specialist and wide receiver (2000-06), 2003 four-game return-TD streak, 12 career return TDs, 2000s All-Decade Team, Chiefs Hall of Honor 2023.
Dante II
Dante II was a tethered, eight-legged walking robot built at Carnegie Mellon University with NASA funding, which in July 1994 rappelled into the Mount Spurr volcano crater in Alaska and sampled gases.
Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta, born in 1970, is a Regents Professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and led NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.
Dante Patrick Bonaquist
Dante Patrick Bonaquist is an American chemical engineer who spent his career at Praxair pioneering cryogenic air separation technologies, earning 123 US patents and the 2015 Schoellkopf Medal.
Dante Pettis
Dante Pettis, born 1995, is an American football wide receiver and return specialist who set the NCAA record of nine career punt return touchdowns at Washington.
Dante's Inferno (video game)
Dante's Inferno is a 2010 Visceral Games/EA action-adventure hack-and-slash adapting Dante's Divine Comedy, with punish-or-absolve holy/unholy upgrades, God of War-style combat, a 73 Metascore, staged E3 protests, and a canceled Purgatorio sequel.
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) is an EA and Film Roman direct-to-video anime anthology film adapting the Dante's Inferno video game, itself loosely based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, with six studios animating segments through the nine circles of Hell. Distinct from the 2007 puppet film and Boris Acosta's Dante's Hell Animated.
Dante's Peak
Dante's Peak is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Roger Donaldson, in which volcanologist Harry Dalton, played by Pierce Brosnan, warns a Washington town of an eruption.
Dante's Satan
Dante's Satan, Lucifer in Inferno Canto XXXIV, is the three-faced, six-winged archangel frozen waist-deep in Cocytus at Hell's center, silently chewing Judas, Brutus, and Cassius while his wings freeze the lake, contrasting sharply with Milton's active Satan.
Danthonia
Danthonia (oatgrass) is a genus of 27 accepted perennial grasses in Poaceae, subfamily Danthonioideae, native from Macaronesia and Europe to temperate and subtropical America, with hairy ligules, three-awned lemmas, and sheath cleistogenes.
Danthron
Danthron (dantron, chrysazin, 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone, CAS 117-10-2) is an anthraquinone formerly used as a laxative, withdrawn in the US in 1999 and classified as a carcinogen by NTP and IARC.
Danti haritaki
Danti haritaki (Dantī harītakī) is an Ayurvedic semisolid leha of Terminalia chebula fruit with Baliospermum (danti) and Operculina turpethum roots, AFI formulation AFI000073, dosed 12–24 g, indicated for śopha, grahaṇī, gulma, arocaka, ānāha, and splenic disease.
Dantodbhedagadantaka rasa
Dantodbhedagadantaka rasa (दन्तोद्भेदगादान्तक ऱस), an Ayurvedic Formulary of India herbomineral tablet for teething disorders in children; 22 ingredients including four bhasmas; standardized in a 2026 JAIMS study.
Danton's Death
Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) is a drama by the German writer Georg Büchner, set in Paris during the French Revolution and depicting Georges Danton's final two weeks before his 1794 execution.
Dantrolene
Dantrolene (dantrolene sodium) is a skeletal muscle relaxant and ryanodine receptor antagonist, the only specific drug for malignant hyperthermia; synthesized 1967, US-approved 1979, also used for spasticity and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Dantu (crater on Ceres)
Dantu is a 126 km diameter impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 24.3°N, 138.23°E, named for a Ghanaian corn-planting god. A deep, floor-fractured crater in Vendimia Planitia with carbonate- and ammonium-rich bright faculae, formed roughly 43–150 Ma ago.
Danu (Irish goddess)
Danu is the reconstructed name of the presumed ancestral mother-goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology; only the genitive Danann is attested, and scholars largely treat her as a modern construction distinct from the attested goddess Anu.
Danu Montes
Danu Montes: 808-km mountain range on Venus along the southern edge of Lakshmi Planum in Ishtar Terra; IAU-named 1985 for a Celtic mother of gods; folded, transpressional orogenic belt.
Danube
The Danube is Europe's second longest river, 2,857 km from Germany's Black Forest to the Black Sea, draining an 800,000 km² basin shared by 19 countries, with major navigation, Iron Gate hydropower, the Danube Delta, and the Roman limes frontier.
Danube Commission
The Danube Commission is an intergovernmental body, set up by the Belgrade Convention of 1948, that works to secure and expand free navigation on the Danube for merchant ships of any flag.
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta, where the Danube meets the Black Sea across Romania and Ukraine, is Europe's largest and best-preserved delta: a 580,000-ha UNESCO biosphere reserve with Chilia, Sulina, and Sfântu Gheorghe branches, over 300 bird species, and heavy human modification.
Danube Islands - Bugeac - Iotormac
Danube Islands - Bugeac - Iotormac (Ostroavele Dunării - Bugeac - Iortmac), Ramsar site 2114, an 82,832 ha Romanian Danube floodplain wetland in Călărași and Constanța counties, designated 2013, with about 40 river islands and rare birds.
Danube Planum
Danube Planum, a 244–248 km wide planum (plateau) on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU-approved 1985, centered near 22.7°S 257.4°W, named for where the mythological Io passed by in her wanderings.
Danube Refinery
The Danube Refinery (Dunai Finomító) is an oil refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary, about 30 km south of Budapest, operated by MOL Group with a capacity of 8.1 million tonnes per year.
Danube school
The Danube school (Donauschule) is a style of painting, graphic art, and sculpture that flourished in the Bavarian and Austrian Danube region from about 1500 to 1550.
Danube Steam Navigation Company
The Danube Steam Navigation Company (Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, DDSG) was an Austrian shipping company founded in Vienna in 1829, by 1880 the world's largest inland shipper.
Danubian Principalities
The Danubian Principalities (Principatele Dunărene) were Moldavia and Wallachia, autonomous tributary states on the lower Danube under Ottoman suzerainty until they united in 1859 as the nucleus of modern Romania.
Danubian Sich
The Danubian Sich (Задунайська Січ) was a community of exiled Zaporozhian Cossacks founded in the Danube delta on Ottoman territory after Russia destroyed their Sich in 1775, lasting until 1828.