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Dziwica Chasma
Dziwica Chasma, a 1,300-km chasma (deep trough) on Venus at 16.5S 235E, IAU-named 2003 for a forest maiden in Sorbian Slavic myth; lies near the Parga Chasma rift system.
Dzmitry Douhalionok
Dzmitry Douhalionok (Дзмітрый Доўгалёнок, Dmitry Dovgalyonok), born 1971, Belarusian canoe sprint paddler; Olympic C2 500 m gold for the Unified Team at Barcelona 1992 with Aliaksandr Masiaikou, 9th at Atlanta 1996, 1994 world C2 200 m champion.
DZMM TeleRadyo
DZMM TeleRadyo is a Philippine pay TV news channel simulcasting DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 radio with live booth video; launched 2007 by ABS-CBN, rebranded TeleRadyo 2020, TeleRadyo Serbisyo 2023, and back to DZMM TeleRadyo on May 29, 2025 under the Prime Media-ABS-CBN joint venture.
Dzogchen
Dzogchen, also known as Atiyoga or Great Perfection, is a teaching and practice system of Tibetan Buddhism, found earliest in the Nyingma school and the Bön tradition.
Dzong architecture
Dzong architecture (Dzongkha: རྫོང་) is the Bhutanese tradition of building massive fortified complexes housing both a monastic community and district government offices, a form systematized in the 17th century by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal.
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ)
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ), or Bhutanese, is Bhutan's national language, a South Tibetic Sino-Tibetan language of about 700,000 speakers, written in Uchen and Joyig scripts, related to Tibetan and promoted by the Dzongkha Development Commission.
Dzungar Ancient City
道尔本厄鲁特森木古城遗址 (Dzungar Ancient City), a 1639–1643 walled city in Hoboksar County, Xinjiang, built under Batur Hong Taiji as an early Dzungar Khanate center; national protected site 7-0512-1-512 since 2013.
Dzungar genocide
The Dzungar genocide (1755–1758) was the Qing extermination of the Dzungar Mongols during the conquest of Dzungaria under the Qianlong emperor, killing roughly 70–80 percent of about 600,000 people through warfare, smallpox, famine, and ordered massacre.
Dzungar invasion of Kazakhstan
The Dzungar invasion of Kazakhstan was a series of Dzungar Khanate campaigns against the Kazakh Khanate, culminating in the devastating 1723 invasion known as the Great Disaster.
Dzungar Khanate (Зүүнгарын хаант улс)
Dzungar Khanate (Зүүнгарын хаант улс), also Zunghar or Zünghar Khanate: Oirat Mongol state in Dzungaria (Xinjiang) under Galdan, Tsewang-Rabtan, and Galdan-Tsereng; destroyed by Qing conquest in the 1750s with near-total extermination of the Dzungars.
Dzungaria
Dzungaria, also spelled Zungharia and called the Junggar Basin, is a vast semi-arid basin region in northern Xinjiang, China, ringed by the Altai and Tian Shan mountains.
Dzuzdi Corona
Dzuzdi Corona, a small 80-km-wide corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 35.2°N, 20.6°E; IAU-named in 2003 after a Komi mythological ancestor of the Zyuzdino tribes.
Dzvin
Dzvin (Дзвін, "The Bell") is a Ukrainian literary-artistic and socio-political journal published in Lviv since 1990, tracing its origin to a journal founded there in 1940.
Dzvony
Dzvony (Дзвони, "Bells") was a Ukrainian Catholic literary and scholarly monthly published in Lviv from 1931 to 1939, the principal organ of the Catholic current in interwar Western Ukrainian literature.
Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction
The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) is an antisymmetric exchange coupling that favors twisted spin arrangements with a fixed chirality, arising from spin–orbit coupling in magnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry.
Dzyzlan Vallis
Dzyzlan Vallis is a 250 km volcanic channel system on Venus at 16°S, 182°E, named in 1997 for an Abkhazian river goddess, with measured sinuosity 1.95.
Dʿmt
Dʿmt, also written Daʿamat, was a polity of the first half of the 1st millennium BC centered on Yeha in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and extending into Eritrea, preceding the Kingdom of Aksum.
É
É (é, E-acute) is a Latin letter with an acute accent, U+00C9/U+00E9, decomposing to e plus U+0301. It marks closed /e/ in French and Italian, stress in Spanish, and length in Czech and Irish.
È
È (è), Latin letter E with grave accent, U+00C8/U+00E8; in French marks open /ɛ/ as in très, introduced by 16th-century printers, extended by the 1990 spelling rectifications; also used in Italian and Catalan.
Ë
Ë (ë, e-diaeresis) is a Latin letter encoded at U+00CB/U+00EB in the Latin-1 Supplement. It is an alphabet letter in Albanian and related languages and a diaeresis-marked variant of E in French, Dutch, and English.
E (Cyrillic)
E, also known as э оборотное ("backwards e"), is the thirty-first letter of the Russian alphabet, denoting [e] or [ɛ] with no preceding [j] sound or soft consonant.
E (mathematical constant)
e, also known as Euler's number or Napier's constant, is the base of the natural logarithm, an irrational and transcendental number approximately equal to 2.71828, named for Leonhard Euler.
E (New York City Subway service)
The E is a 24-hour New York City Subway service between Jamaica Center, Queens, and World Trade Center, Manhattan, express in Queens and local on Eighth Avenue.
E & J Gallo Winery
E. & J. Gallo Winery: family-owned Modesto, California wine and spirits company founded 1933 by Ernest and Julio Gallo; largest US wine company with 24% volume share, 100+ brands, and recent Four Roses acquisition.
E Clampus Vitus
E Clampus Vitus (ECV), the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, is a fraternal order founded as a Gold Rush parody and revived in 1931 as a western history society with 51 chapters and over 2,000 plaques.
E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)
E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, or Easy Company, was a U.S. Army parachute rifle company that fought through WWII campaigns from Normandy to Berchtesgaden, famously depicted in Band of Brothers.
E domain
E domain, the ~50-residue intrinsically disordered segment of staphylococcal protein SasG (G5-E repeats); folds cooperatively with neighboring G5 domains to build the Zn2+-dependent biofilm adhesion fibrils of S. aureus.
E Ink
E Ink (electronic ink) is a reflective, bi-stable display technology created at the MIT Media Lab in 1997, used in most e-readers and electronic shelf labels.
E Lai
E Lai (恶来) was a warrior-official of the last Shang king, son of Fei Lian, known for his strength and slander, killed when Zhou Wuwang conquered the Shang.
E major
E major (E大调) is a major key with a four-sharp key signature (F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯), scale E–F♯–G♯–A–B–C♯–D♯, relative minor C♯ minor, diatonic chords E, F♯m, G♯m, A, B, C♯m, D♯dim, and a resonant open-string home key on guitar.