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Dramaworld (드라마월드)

Dramaworld (드라마월드) is a bilingual Korean-American comedy-fantasy web series, Viki's first original, created by Josh Billig and Chris Martin. Season 1 (10 short episodes, 2016) stars Liv Hewson as a K-drama fan pulled into her favorite show; a 13-episode Season 2 aired on Lifetime Korea in 2021.

Drambuie

Drambuie is a Scottish liqueur made from aged blended Scotch whisky, heather honey, and herbs, bottled at 40% ABV and known for the Rusty Nail cocktail.

Drammen

Drammen, Norwegian city and municipality in Buskerud at the mouth of the Drammenselva, 40 km southwest of Oslo. Formed 19 June 1811 from Bragernes and Strømsø; timber port, then wood-processing center; merged with Nedre Eiker and Svelvik in 2020; about 106,000 residents.

Drang nach Osten

Drang nach Osten, German for "drive to the East," is a political slogan and historical stereotype of continuous German expansion into Eastern Europe. Originating in the 1848 German-Polish crisis, it was dismissed by historians as a myth and merged with Nazi Lebensraum ideology.

Drangiane/Zarangiane (region)

Drangiane (Zarangiane, Old Persian Zranka, Greek Drangiana) was an ancient eastern Iranian region around Lake Hamun and the Helmand river in modern Sistan, an Achaemenid province later ruled by Alexander, the Seleucids, Greco-Bactrians, and Parthians.

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.

Oct 15, 2026

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.

Sep 29, 2026

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.

Oct 15, 2026

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.

Oct 20, 2026

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.