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Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange
The Hungarian–Slovak population exchange was a bilateral agreement signed in February 1946 under which Czechoslovakia transferred about 77,000 Hungarians to Hungary in return for roughly 60,000 Slovak volunteers.
Czechs
Czechs (Češi) are a West Slavic nation of Bohemia and Moravia speaking Czech, about 12 million speakers; statehood from Přemyslid Bohemia through 1918 Czechoslovakia to the 1993 Czech Republic.
Dacha
Dacha (дача): seasonal second home with garden plot used by urban Russians and post-Soviet city dwellers; from tsarist land grants through Soviet 600 m² garden plots to post-Soviet suburban homes.
Dagomba people
Dagomba (Dagbamba): ethnic group of northern Ghana in the traditional kingdom of Dagbon, speaking Dagbani, a Gur language. Patrilineal clans, Ya-Na paramount chief, predominantly Muslim, farming livelihoods, fifteenth-century kingdom.
Dai people
Dai people (傣族, Daizu): Tai-speaking ethnic minority of southern and southwestern Yunnan, China, named "Dai" by the state in 1951; about one-quarter live in Xishuangbanna, follow Theravada Buddhism blended with animism, and celebrate the water-splashing New Year.
Daisy Fellowes
Daisy Fellowes (1890-1962), born Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg, was a French heiress, fashion icon, editor, and novelist, wife of Hon. Reginald Fellowes, known for Cartier Art Deco commissions and her novel Sundays.
Daisy McLaurin Stevens
Daisy McLaurin Stevens (1875-1950), Mississippi socialite, daughter of Governor-Senator Anselm J. McLaurin, was president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1913-1915 and presented the Arlington Confederate Monument to President Wilson in 1914.
Dakota people
Dakota people, an 'ally'-named Native American people of the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) centered on Mni Sota/Minnesota; four Santee bands, 1851 cession of 24 million acres, 1862 war and Mankato hangings, four Minnesota nations today.
Dalit
Dalit: self-designation of South Asia's historically "untouchable" communities at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. Term popularized from the 1970s; Ambedkar's movement, Poona Pact, Dalit Panthers, and Article 17 define its history.
Danes
Danes (dansker) are the North Germanic people of Denmark, named in Old Norse danir, Latin dani, Greek danoi. Distinct Viking Age society, sixth-century South Scandinavian hegemony, Jelling Christianization, ~6 million today.
Daniel Kolawole Olukoya
Daniel Kolawole Olukoya (DKO), born 1956, Nigerian microbiologist with a PhD in molecular genetics from Reading, founder and General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), a Lagos-based deliverance church started as a 1989 prayer meeting.
Daniel Kolenda
Daniel Kolenda, American missionary evangelist, President and CEO of Christ for all Nations (CfaN) since 2008 and successor to Reinhard Bonnke, appointed at the 2017 Lagos farewell crusade; leads mass Gospel campaigns and the Decade of Double Harvest.
Danielle Cohn
Danielle Cohn (Danielle Haleigh Cohn), American social media personality, singer, and model who rose to fame on Musical.ly in 2016, debuted with "Marilyn Monroe" in 2017, and is known for the dispute over her birth year, 2004 versus 2006.
Darod
Darod (Reer Darood), one of the four main Somali clan-families, traditionally descended from Darod son of Sheikh Ismail Jabarti of Arabia; major sub-clans Ogaden, Marehan, Harti (Majeerteen, Dhulbahante, Warsangeli), spread across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya.
Dashrath Manjhi (दशरथ मांझी)
Dashrath Manjhi (दशरथ मांझी), the "Mountain Man", was a Musahar labourer from Gehlaur, Gaya, Bihar, who spent 22 years (1960–1982) carving a 110 m road through a hill with hammer and chisel after his wife Falguni Devi died lacking timely medical care, cutting Atri–Wazirganj distance from 55 km to 15 km; died 17 August 2007.
Datuk
Datuk is a Malaysian honorific conferred in its federal form by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and in its state form by the governors of four states without hereditary rulers.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR, NSDAR): women's lineage society founded October 11, 1890 in Washington, D.C. for female descendants of Revolutionary War patriots; distinct from the Sons of the American Revolution and the Dar-ul-Islam movement; known for Constitution Hall, the 1939 Marian Anderson exclusion, and genealogical research resources.
David Mechanic
David Mechanic is an American medical sociologist, the René Dubos University Professor at Rutgers and a National Academy of Sciences member known for research on illness behavior and health policy.
Dayak people
Dayak: umbrella exonym for the indigenous, largely non-Muslim peoples of Borneo, covering 200+ ethnic groups (Iban, Ngaju, Maanyan, Modang, Basap and others) with often mutually unintelligible languages, Christian or Kaharingan religion, longhouse society, and contested customary land rights.
DCinside (디시인사이드)
DCinside (디시인사이드), also called DC, is South Korea's largest anonymous gallery-based community portal, founded October 6, 1999 as a digital camera site by Kim Yu-sik; origin of Korean meme culture and of offshoots Ilbe and Megalia.
Deanna Favre
Deanna Tynes Favre, born 1968 in Kiln, Mississippi, is an American breast cancer activist, author, and philanthropist; wife of quarterback Brett Favre since 1996; founder of the Deanna Favre HOPE Foundation for underinsured breast cancer patients and author of Don't Bet Against Me (2007).
Death of Juliana Marins
The death of Juliana Marins was the 2025 fatal fall of a 26-year-old Brazilian dancer and publicist from a trail on Mount Rinjani, Indonesia, after a four-day search.
Death of Naya Rivera
Death of Naya Rivera: the Glee actress (Santana Lopez) drowned July 8, 2020, at Lake Piru, Ventura County, while boating with her 4-year-old son; body found July 13, ruled accidental drowning.
Deaths in January 2025
Deaths in January 2025: notable deaths that month, including David Lynch, Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Costas Simitis, Wayne Osmond, Peter Yarrow, Sam Moore, Dick Button, and Julius Chan.
Debutante
Debutante: a young upper-class woman formally presented to society at a debutante ball. English in origin (Queen Charlotte's Ball, London Season), spread to America; declined after the 1960s, revived in the 2000s.
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UNDRIP (A/RES/61/295) is the UN General Assembly declaration adopted 13 September 2007 by 143 votes to 4, setting out indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination, lands, and free, prior and informed consent; non-binding but politically and morally influential.
Decline of Detroit
Decline of Detroit: the Motor City's fall from 1,849,600 residents in 1950 to about 633,000, driven by deindustrialization, suburban flight, and the 2013 $18 billion bankruptcy, with tentative stabilization since.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a 2012 U.S. executive-action program granting renewable two-year deportation relief and work authorization to undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children; held unlawful in litigation since 2021, with renewals continuing but new applications blocked.
Definitions of whiteness in the United States
Definitions of whiteness in the United States: federal (OMB SPD 15, Census), legal (1790 Naturalization Act, Ozawa, Thind), and social criteria for who counts as White, including the 2024 MENA removal and boundary expansion to European ethnics.
Delaware Moors
Delaware Moors, a historically distinct mixed-heritage (Native American, African American, European American) community of Cheswold, Kent County, Delaware, ancestors of the state-recognized Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware; unrelated to Moorish Science Temple adherents.