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Darvinte Parinamam

Darvinte Parinamam (ഡാര്‍വിന്‍റെ പരിണാമം, Darwinte Parinamam) is a 2016 Malayalam action comedy drama directed by Jijo Antony, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Chemban Vinod Jose, and Chandini Sreedharan, released March 18, 2016 under August Cinema.

Darwin Awards

Darwin Awards: satirical internet honors, founded 1993 by Wendy Northcutt, for people who die or sterilize themselves through their own idiotic acts; five rules, 88.7% male winners, urban legends excluded.

Darwin's Game (ダーウィンズゲーム)

Darwin's Game (ダーウィンズゲーム) is a Japanese thriller manga by FLIPFLOPs, serialized from 2012 to 2023 in 30 volumes and passing 10 million copies in circulation.

Daryl Braithwaite

Daryl Braithwaite, born 1949 in Melbourne, is an Australian pop singer who fronted Sherbet before a solo career crowned by "The Horses" and two ARIA Hall of Fame inductions.

Daryl Davis

Daryl Davis (born 1958, Chicago) is an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Chuck Berry's longtime piano player, author of Klan-Destine Relationships, and lecturer who befriends KKK members to persuade them to leave hate groups.

Daryl Dixon

Daryl Dixon is a fictional survivor in AMC's The Walking Dead, played by Norman Reedus. Created for TV by Frank Darabont after Reedus auditioned for Merle, absent from the comics, and lead of the Daryl Dixon spin-off ending in 2027.

Daryl Dragon

Daryl Dragon (1942–2019), "the Captain" of Captain & Tennille with wife Toni Tennille, was a Beach Boys keyboardist, produced "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1976 Grammy, Record of the Year), and founded Rumbo Recorders.

Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall, born Daryl Franklin Hohl in 1946 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is an American singer best known as one half of Hall & Oates, who sold about 70 million records.

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah, American actress born 1960 in Chicago, known as Pris in Blade Runner, the mermaid in Splash, and Elle Driver in Kill Bill; Neil Young's wife, environmental activist, and director.

Daryl McCormack

Daryl McCormack (born 1993) is an Irish actor from Nenagh, Tipperary, known for Fair City, Peaky Blinders' Isaiah Jesus, Bad Sisters, and his BAFTA-nominated lead in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande opposite Emma Thompson.

Daryl Mitchell (actor)

Daryl "Chill" Mitchell (born 1965, The Bronx) is an American actor and former rapper (Groove B Chill) known for Galaxy Quest, Ed, NCIS: New Orleans' Patton Plame, and Stitch on ABC's Shifting Gears; paralyzed in a 2001 motorcycle accident.

Daryl Sabara

Daryl Sabara (born 1992, Torrance, California) is an American actor, Juni Cortez in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids trilogy, voice of Hero Boy in The Polar Express and Rex in Generator Rex; married to Meghan Trainor since 2018.

Daryle Singletary

Daryle Singletary (1971-2018) was an American neotraditional country singer from Cairo, Georgia, known for the honky-tonk hits "I Let Her Lie" and "Amen Kind of Love" (No. 2), "Too Much Fun" (No. 4), and a Randy Travis co-produced 1995 debut.

Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga

Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (Hotel Adlon – A Family Saga) is a 2013 German ZDF three-part miniseries directed by Uli Edel, following the Berlin Grand Hotel Adlon from 1904 to its 1997 reopening through the fictional Sonja Schadt.

Das Boot

Das Boot (The Boat) is Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 German war film adapted from Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 novel, following submarine U-96's Atlantic patrol; Bavaria Film's costliest production to date, with six Oscar nominations, a 1985 TV version, and a 1997 Director's Cut.

Das Experiment

Das Experiment (The Experiment) is a 2001 German psychological thriller, Oliver Hirschbiegel's feature debut, based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Moritz Bleibtreu as prisoner Tarek Fahd.

Das Fest

Das Fest is a mostly free annual open-air music festival held since 1985 in Karlsruhe's Günther-Klotz-Anlage park, drawing up to 260,000 visitors each late July.

Das fliegende Klassenzimmer

Das fliegende Klassenzimmer is a 2003 German family comedy-drama directed by Tomy Wigand, adapted from Erich Kästner's 1933 novel and starring Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, and Hauke Diekamp.

Das letzte Schweigen

Das letzte Schweigen (The Silence) is Baran bo Odar's 2010 German crime thriller debut, adapted from Jan Costin Wagner's novel Das Schweigen: 23 years after Pia's murder, Sinikka vanishes at the same spot; 118 minutes, FSK 16, released 19 August 2010.

Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Gustav Mahler's 1908-09 six-movement symphonic song cycle for tenor, alto or baritone, and orchestra, set to Hans Bethge's German adaptations of Tang dynasty Chinese poems; premiered posthumously in Munich in November 1911 under Bruno Walter.

Das Magazin

Das Magazin is a German monthly magazine founded in Berlin in 1924, discontinued during the Second World War, relaunched in East Germany in 1954, and still published today.

Das Marien-Leben

Das Marien-Leben (The Life of Mary) is a cycle of thirteen German poems on the Virgin Mary that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a week at Duino in January 1912.

Das perfekte Geheimnis

Das perfekte Geheimnis is a 2019 German comedy-drama by Bora Dagtekin, a remake of Perfetti sconosciuti, in which seven friends share all phone messages at dinner; over five million admissions, Germany's top German film of 2019.

Das Racist

Das Racist was a Brooklyn alternative hip-hop trio (Heems, Kool A.D., Dapwell), 2008-2012, known for the viral "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", the mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man, and the 2011 album Relax, before splitting in December 2012.

Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold (WWV 86A), the Vorabend of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, composed 1851–1854, premiered Munich 1869; opens with the E-flat Rhine prelude and introduces the ring, Alberich, Wotan, and Valhalla.

Das Superweib

Das Superweib (The Superwife) is a 1996 German comedy by Sönke Wortmann, adapted from Hera Lind's bestseller, starring Veronica Ferres as Franziska, whose accidental divorce makes her a bestselling author; over 2.3 million admissions.

Dasa Kirtana

Dasa Kirtana is the body of Kannada devotional songs composed by the Haridasas of Karnataka from the 14th century onward, a form Purandara Dasa, father of Carnatic music, brought to maturity.

Dasakumaracharitra

Dasakumaracharitra (Daśakumāracarita) is a Sanskrit prose romance attributed to the poet Daṇḍin, in which ten exiled princes recount their adventures; a Telugu translation by Ketana around 1250 made it a classic.

Dasakumaracharitramu

Dasakumaracharitramu (దశకుమారచరిత్రము) is a Telugu verse rendering of Dandin's Sanskrit romance about ten young princes, made by Ketana in the 13th century and counted the first katha kavya in Telugu.

Dasani

Dasani is The Coca-Cola Company's purified bottled water brand, launched 1999, made from municipal water by reverse osmosis with added magnesium sulfate and potassium chloride; withdrawn from the UK in 2004 over bromate.