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Dewan Negara
Dewan Negara (Senate) is Malaysia's upper house of Parliament: 70 senators, 26 elected by state assemblies and 44 appointed by the Agong, three-year renewable terms, no veto over Money Bills.
Dewan of Mysore
Dewan (Diwan) of Mysore: chief minister heading the administration of the princely Mysore state under the Wodeyar Maharajas. Notable holders include Purnaiah, Rangacharlu, Seshadri Iyer, Visvesvaraya, and Sir Mirza Ismail.
Dewan Rakyat
Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives), lower house of Malaysia's Parliament, first sat 11 September 1959 with 104 members, grew to 159 in 1963 and 222 seats today; elects the government under the Westminster model.
Dewan Sastera
Dewan Sastera is a Malay-language monthly literary magazine published by Malaysia's language agency Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka since January 1971, with Keris Mas as its first chief editor.
DeWanda Wise
DeWanda Wise (born 1984, Jessup, Maryland) is an American actress known as Nola Darling in Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It and Kayla Watts in Jurassic World: Dominion, plus Three Women, Imaginary, and Love, Brooklyn.
DeWanna Bonner
DeWanna Bonner, born 1987, American WNBA forward-guard, Auburn star drafted fifth overall in 2009 by Phoenix Mercury; two-time champion, only three-time Sixth Player of the Year, third all-time WNBA scorer, all-time postseason rebounding leader.
Dewar benzene
Dewar benzene is a highly strained colorless valence isomer of benzene with two fused cyclobutene rings, proposed by James Dewar in 1869 and first synthesized in 1962.
Dewar's
Dewar's is a blended Scotch whisky brand founded by John Dewar in Perth, Scotland, in 1846, now owned by Bacardi. Known for Double Ageing since 1881, five distilleries including Aberfeldy, White Label, and over 1,500 awards.
Dewas (देवास)
Dewas (देवास) is a city and district in western Madhya Pradesh, India, on the Malwa plateau near Indore. Formerly twin princely states (Dewas Senior and Junior), it is an industrial town, soy-processing center, and Chamunda Mata temple site.
Dewayne Dedmon
Dewayne Dedmon (Dewayne Jamal Dedmon), born 1989, undrafted American NBA center from Lancaster, CA; late starter who became a 3-and-D big, peaking with Atlanta (10.8 ppg, 38.2% 3PT in 2018-19).
Dewberry
Dewberry, trailing brambles of genus Rubus (R. flagellaris, R. trivialis, R. caesius, blåhallon, salmbär), low vine-like canes rooting at tips, red-haired slender thorns, earlier-ripening blackberry-like fruit, distinct from upright blackberries.
Dewclaw
A dewclaw is a raised digit on a mammal's limb that does not touch the ground; in cattle, pigs, and sheep, it is a hoof-side accessory digit.
Dewey Bunnell
Dewey Bunnell (born 1952, Harrogate, England), American singer-songwriter and founding member of folk-rock band America; wrote "A Horse with No Name," "Ventura Highway," and "Tin Man"; leads the band's touring lineup since 2024.
Dewey Decimal Classification
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is Melvil Dewey's 1876 library classification with ten main classes 000-900, now owned by OCLC, used in over 200,000 libraries, and distinct from the Library of Congress Classification.
Dewey Defeats Truman
"Dewey Defeats Truman" is the erroneous November 3, 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune banner headline that prematurely declared Thomas E. Dewey the 1948 presidential winner over incumbent Harry S. Truman, who actually won 303 to 189 in the Electoral College.
Dewey Riley
Dwight "Dewey" Riley, David Arquette's Scream character: Woodsboro deputy, later sheriff, brother of Tatum, husband of Gale Weathers; survived four films, died in Scream (2022), returns in Scream 7.
Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuary, now Isulijarniq MBS, is a 1957 Arctic bird sanctuary on Baffin Island, Nunavut, protecting the world's largest lesser snow goose colony and a Ramsar wetland.
Dewi Evans
Dewi Evans, or Dewi Richard Evans, is a retired British consultant pediatrician at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, and lead prosecution expert witness in the 2023 Lucy Letby trial.
Dewi Kam
Dewi Kam is an Indonesian energy investor whose roughly 10 percent stake in Bayan Resources, Indonesia's third-largest coal producer, made her Indonesia's richest woman in 2023 and 2024.
Dewi Persik
Dewi Persik, also written Dewi Perssik and nicknamed Depe, is an Indonesian dangdut singer born in Jember, East Java, in 1985, known for her Goyang Gergaji "saw shake" dance.
Dewi Ratih Chasma
Dewi Ratih Chasma, a Venusian chasma or rift valley near Alpha Regio, IAU-named 2000 for the Balinese moon goddess; about 30 km wide, 450 km long, part of the Dewi-Ratih fracture belt.
Dewi Sukarno (デヴィ夫人)
Dewi Sukarno (デヴィ夫人, Madame Dewi), born Naoko Nemoto in Tokyo in 1940, married Indonesian President Sukarno in 1962 as Ratna Sari Dewi, was First Lady, then a Paris exile and Japanese TV personality, businesswoman, and 2025 political-party founder.
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), Democratic-Republican politician, seventh and ninth governor of New York, NYC mayor, 1812 presidential candidate against Madison, and driving proponent of the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825.
DeWitt S. Goodman
DeWitt S. Goodman (1930–1991) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose laboratory defined how vitamin A travels in blood and who chaired the first National Cholesterol Education Program.
DeWitt Stetten Jr.
DeWitt Stetten Jr. (1909–1990) was an American physician-biochemist who used isotopic tracers to study metabolism, then led Rutgers Medical School as first dean and directed NIGMS from 1970.
Dewoitine D.520
The Dewoitine D.520 was a French single-seat fighter of World War II, the most capable fighter of the French Air Force in 1940, though too few reached squadrons in time.
Deworming
Deworming: anthelmintic treatment of parasitic worms in humans (soil-transmitted helminths, albendazole, mebendazole) and livestock; covers treatment strategies, refugia, targeted selective treatment, and anthelmintic resistance.
Dewpoint Therapeutics
Dewpoint Therapeutics is a Boston-based biotechnology company co-founded in 2018 by Anthony Hyman and Richard Young that develops condensate-modulating small molecules, entering the clinic in 2025 with DPTX3186 for gastric cancer.
Dex (김진영) (entertainer)
Dex (덱스), real name Kim Jin-young (김진영, born 1995), South Korean entertainer and former Navy UDT/SEAL soldier; YouTube channel Dex101 (1.16M subs), fame via Fake Men 2, Bloody Game, Single's Inferno 2; acting debut Tarot 2024; paused YouTube June 2026 for acting.
DEX-SNS-SEPSIS trial
DEX-SNS-SEPSIS (NCT07470775) is a Phase 4, triple-masked randomized trial of early dexmedetomidine 0.5 μg/kg/h versus placebo for 48 hours in 168 adults with Sepsis-3 septic shock, using heart rate variability as the primary endpoint.