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Descent of the Ganges (Mamallapuram)
The Descent of the Ganges, also called Arjuna's Penance or Gangavatarana, is a monumental 7th-century open-air rock relief at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, carved under the Pallava dynasty.
Descriptio Moldaviae
Descriptio Moldaviae, in Romanian Descrierea Moldovei, is a Latin encyclopedic monograph on the principality of Moldavia, written by Dimitrie Cantemir from 1714 to 1716 at the Berlin Academy's request.
Description
Description (writing), one of the four classical rhetorical modes alongside narration, exposition, and persuasion; presents persons, places, or objects through vivid sensory detail. Distinguished from narrative essay forms by conveying a picture rather than telling a story.
Description of Greece
The Description of Greece (Greek: Hellados Periegesis) is a ten-book travel guide by the Greek geographer Pausanias, describing the monuments, sanctuaries, and legends of mainland Greece in the second century CE.
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia is a 1745 historical and geographical treatise by Prince Vakhushti Bagrationi, completed in Moscow and the first complete description of Georgia.
Desdemona
Desdemona, Brabantio's daughter and Othello's wife in Shakespeare's tragedy, from Cinthio's Disdemona through textual history, criticism, Verdi's Otello, and modern stagings.
Desert Hearts
Desert Hearts, Donna Deitch's 1985 lesbian romance adapted from Jane Rule's novel Desert of the Heart, stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau in 1959 Reno; first mainstream feature with a positive lesbian love story, restored by Criterion in 2017.
DESERT HEARTS TAKEOVER W MIKEY LION + LEE REYNOLDS
Desert Hearts Takeover with Mikey Lion and Lee Reynolds is a club event by the Desert Hearts house and techno collective, founded in San Diego in 2012.
Desert Rose (Sting song)
Desert Rose (Sting song), from Brand New Day (1999), a duet with Algerian raï singer Cheb Mami blending Arabic and Western pop; single January 17, 2000, US Billboard Hot 100 peak 17, Jaguar commercial tie-in.
Desert Warrior (2025 film)
Desert Warrior (2025) is a Rupert Wyatt historical action epic set in 7th-century Arabia, starring Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, and Ben Kingsley. Shot in NEOM on a $150 million Saudi MBC budget, it premiered at Zurich 2025, earned 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed under $800,000 worldwide.
Deseterac
Deseterac (десетерац) is a ten-syllable verse line, the principal meter of Serbian and Croatian oral epic poetry, sung with the gusle and first recorded in 1556.
Deshdrohi (देशद्रोही)
Deshdrohi (देशद्रोही), also Desh Drohi, is a 2008 Hindi action thriller produced, written by, and starring Kamaal R. Khan, directed by Jagdish Sharma, banned in Maharashtra, a box-office disaster with a 1.2/10 IMDb rating.
Deshret
Deshret, the Red Crown of ancient Egypt, symbolized rule over Lower Egypt; combined with the white hedjet it formed the pschent double crown, linked to Wadjet and Neith.
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and Desilu cofounder; Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy; pioneered the three-camera, film-based sitcom and reruns; won Emmys as producer, never as actor.
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, born 1953), American actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Dino, Desi & Billy member, Here's Lucy co-star, played his father in The Mambo Kings.
Desi Boyz
Desi Boyz is a 2011 Hindi comedy-drama, Rohit Dhawan's directorial debut, starring Akshay Kumar and John Abraham as London friends who become male escorts after losing jobs in the recession; released 25 November 2011 by Eros International.
Desi daru (देसी दारू)
Desi daru (देसी दारू), also deshi sharab or country liquor, is Indian locally distilled spirits from molasses, mahua, rice, gur, or palm sap, typically 30-33% ethanol versus 42.8% IMFL, legal under state excise laws but repeatedly linked to methanol-laced illicit hooch deaths.
Desi Hits!
Desi Hits! was a South Asian music and entertainment company founded in the mid-2000s by Anjula Acharia-Bath, which grew from a podcast into a Universal Music label venture.
Desi Lydic
Desi Lydic is an American actress and comedian from Louisville, Kentucky, a Daily Show correspondent and rotating host since 2015 who also played Valerie Marks on MTV's Awkward.
Desi trap
Desi trap is a sub-scene of desi hip hop fusing American trap's 808 bass and hi-hats with Indian melodic textures and Hindi, Punjabi, and English lyrics.
Desiderata
Desiderata, Latin for "things desired," is a 1927 prose poem by Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, famous for a false 1692 church attribution, Adlai Stevenson's deathbed copy, and Les Crane's 1971 Grammy-winning recording.
Desierto
Desierto (2015) is a Mexico-France survival thriller directed by Jonás Cuarón, starring Gael García Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, about migrants hunted by a vigilante in the Sonoran desert; Toronto FIPRESCI winner and Mexico's 2016 Oscar entry.
DESIFEST 2023
DESIFEST 2023 was the 17th edition of DESIFEST, Canada's largest free South Asian music festival, held June 3, 2023 at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, headlined by Jonita Gandhi.
Design of Death
Design of Death (杀生, Sha sheng) is a 2012 Chinese dark comedy-mystery by Guan Hu, starring Huang Bo, Simon Yam, and Alec Su, about a doctor investigating a villager's staged death in Longevity Town; it won two 2012 Golden Horse Awards.
Designated Survivor (TV series)
Designated Survivor is an American political thriller (2016–2019) starring Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman, a HUD secretary who becomes president after a State of the Union attack; two ABC seasons, one Netflix season.
Designated Survivor: 60 Days
Designated Survivor: 60 Days (60일, 지정생존자) is a 2019 tvN South Korean remake of the American series Designated Survivor: after a National Assembly bombing kills the succession line, Environment Minister Park Mu-jin (Ji Jin-hee) serves 60 days as acting president. 16 episodes, Studio Dragon/eOne, AACA Best Adaptation winner.
Designing Woman
Designing Woman is a 1957 MGM romantic comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall as a sportswriter and fashion designer in a whirlwind marriage; it won George Wells the 1958 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Designing Women
Designing Women: American CBS sitcom created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, 1986-1993, 163 episodes, set at the Atlanta interior design firm Sugarbaker & Associates with Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, and Meshach Taylor; known for feminist social-issue comedy.
Desiigner
Desiigner (Sidney Royel Selby III, born 1997, Brooklyn) is the rapper behind "Panda", a 2016 Hot 100 number one, triple platinum, sampled by Kanye West; G.O.O.D. Music 2016–2019, then independent.
Desinamamala
Desinamamala (देशीनाममाला), also called Rayanāvalī or Deśīsaddasamgaho, is a Prakrit lexicon of deśī words composed around 1150 near Patan, Gujarat, by the Jain polymath Hemacandra.