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Department store
Department store: large multi-department retail establishment selling apparel, home goods, and furnishings; pioneered by Paris' Au Bon Marché (1852) and A.T. Stewart's Marble Palace; heyday 1870s–1960s; now shrinking via Saks bankruptcy and Macy's closures.
Departure (Journey album)
Departure, Journey's sixth studio album (1980, Columbia), produced by Geoff Workman and Kevin Elson, peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with singles "Any Way You Want It" and "Walks Like a Lady", and was the band's last album with founding keyboardist-vocalist Gregg Rolie before Jonathan Cain joined.
Departure and Return
Departure and Return (Chujing Rubi tu) is a pair of Ming dynasty handscrolls at the National Palace Museum in Taipei depicting a Ming emperor's tomb visit.
Departure(s)
Departure(s) is Julian Barnes's 2026 novel, announced as his final book: an autofiction in which narrator Julian recounts twice matchmaking his friends Stephen and Jean, 40 years apart, mixed with memoir of memory, illness, and aging.
Departures (2025 film)
Departures (2025) is a British LGBTQ+ comedy-drama, 82 minutes, co-directed by Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, about Benji and Jake's secret Amsterdam trips that turn toxic; premiered at BFI Flare 2025.
Departures (おくりびと) (2008 film)
Departures (おくりびと, Okuribito) is a 2008 Japanese drama directed by Yojiro Takita, starring Masahiro Motoki as a cellist who becomes a nōkanshi encoffiner; first Japanese film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode: English electronic band formed 1980 in Basildon by Gahan, Gore, Fletcher, and Clarke; 15 studio albums from Speak & Spell (1981) to Memento Mori (2023), over 100 million records sold, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020.
Depeche Mode discography
Depeche Mode discography: 15 studio albums (Speak & Spell 1981 to Memento Mori 2023), 60 singles from "Dreaming of Me" onward, compilations like The Singles 86>98, live albums including 101, and the 12" Singles reissue series, with over 100 million records sold.
Depeche Mode: M
Depeche Mode: M is a 2025 documentary-concert film by Mexican director Fernando Frías, built on Depeche Mode's three sold-out 2023 Foro Sol, Mexico City shows of the Memento Mori Tour, exploring Mexican death culture; Tribeca premiere, October 2025 IMAX release, Netflix January 2026.
Depiction of Jesus
Depiction of Jesus: visual representation of Christ in Christian art, from beardless Roman catacomb Good Shepherd frescoes (2nd-4th century) through the 9th-century bearded Pantocrator type to white European, inculturated, cinematic, and AI-generated images.
Depictions of nudity
Depictions of nudity in art: the Western nude tradition from Greek athletes and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite through medieval suppression, Renaissance revival, academy practice, feminist reclamation, and AI moderation bias.
Depravity (film)
Depravity (formerly Sic) is a 2024 American crime thriller, Paul Tamasy's directorial debut, starring Victoria Justice, Devon Ross, Taylor John Smith, and Dermot Mulroney; Paramount released it digitally October 15, 2024.
Depression glass
Depression glass: inexpensive American machine-pressed colored tableware, roughly 1920s to early 1940s, made by firms like Hocking, Federal, and Hazel-Atlas, given away as premiums, and widely reproduced since the 1980s.
Dept. Q
Dept. Q is a Netflix British crime drama created by Scott Frank, adapted from Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q novels. Matthew Goode stars as DCI Carl Morck in an Edinburgh cold case unit; Season 1 premiered May 29, 2025, renewed for Season 2.
Depth of field
Depth of field is the range of object distances rendered acceptably sharp by a lens, set by aperture, focal length, subject distance, and the acceptable circle of confusion; includes hyperfocal distance, sensor-size effects, focus stacking, and synthetic smartphone bokeh.
Deputy (TV series)
Deputy is an American police procedural drama series that aired on Fox from 2020. It follows Bill Hollister, a deputy who becomes acting sheriff under an arcane county charter rule.
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, originally known as the Ackermannbüchlein, is an early 15th-century German prose dialogue by Johannes von Tepl in which a widower accuses Death of taking his wife.
Der Bewegte Mann
Der bewegte Mann: 1987 Ralf König comic novel (Rowohlt) about heterosexual Axel and gay Norbert, and Sönke Wortmann's 1994 film with Til Schweiger, over 6.5 million German admissions, Goldene Leinwand and Bundesfilmpreis winner.
Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): Munich Expressionist group founded 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc; members Klee, Macke, Münter, Jawlensky; published the 1912 almanac; dissolved 1914 with World War I.
Der Bockerer
Der Bockerer is a 1981 Austrian-German tragic-grotesque comedy by Franz Antel, based on the Becher and Preses play, starring Karl Merkatz as a Viennese butcher surviving the Nazi era; it won the 1982 Deutscher Filmpreis and spawned two sequels.
Der Dritte Raum
Der Dritte Raum (The Third Room) is a German electronic and trance live act from Göttingen, the project of producer Andreas Krüger, best known for "Hale Bopp" (1998).
Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer (WWV 63, The Flying Dutchman): Richard Wagner's three-act romantic opera after Heine, composed 1840-41, premiered Dresden 2 January 1843, first staged at Bayreuth in 1901.
Der Freischütz
Der Freischütz, Weber's three-act German Romantic opera (libretto Friedrich Kind), premiered Berlin Schauspielhaus 18 June 1821; Wolf's Glen magic-bullet scene; founding work of German Romantic opera.
Der Fuehrer's Face
Der Fuehrer's Face is Disney's 1943 Oscar-winning anti-Nazi Donald Duck propaganda short, directed by Jack Kinney, originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland, renamed after Oliver Wallace's Spike Jones hit song became a novelty-chart sensation.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick: 1956 West German tragicomedy by Helmut Käutner, adapted from Carl Zuckmayer's play, starring Heinz Rühmann as impostor shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt; Oscar-nominated 1957, shot in Hamburg, premiered 16 August 1956 in Cologne.
Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika
"Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika" ("The Boy with the Harmonica") is a German Schlager ballad recorded by Bernd Clüver, a number-1 hit in Germany and Switzerland in 1973.
Der Jüngste Tag
Der Jüngste Tag was a book series published by Kurt Wolff Verlag from 1913 to 1921, issuing works by Expressionist authors such as Kafka, Werfel, and Trakl.
Der Knabe im Moor
"Der Knabe im Moor" ("The Boy in the Moor") is an 1842 German ballad by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff about a boy's ghost-haunted crossing of a Westphalian bog.
Der Knochenmann
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) is a 2009 Austrian black-comedy crime thriller by Wolfgang Murnberger, the third Wolf Haas Brenner adaptation, starring Josef Hader as a debt collector investigating a Styrian fried-chicken inn.
Der Kommissar (song)
"Der Kommissar" is a 1981 German-language rap-pop song by Austrian singer Falco, composed by Robert Ponger. It hit #1 in Austria and Germany in 1982; After the Fire's English cover peaked at #5 US in 1983.