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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.
Dan Savage
Dan Savage (born 1964, Chicago) is an American sex-advice columnist, author, and LGBT activist. He created "Savage Love" (The Stranger, 1991), the Savage Lovecast podcast, and co-founded the It Gets Better Project.
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 Defert
Daniel Defert (1937-2023), French sociologist and partner of Michel Foucault, founded AIDES in 1984 after Foucault's AIDS death, led the first French anti-AIDS association until 1991, and co-edited Foucault's Dits et écrits.
Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman (born 1946) is an American psychologist and former New York Times science writer whose 1995 bestseller Emotional Intelligence popularized EI; co-founder of CASEL and co-director of the Rutgers EI consortium.
Daniel Haqiqatjou
Daniel Haqiqatjou, American Muslim writer born in Houston to Iranian parents, founder of The Muslim Skeptic and Alasna Institute, known for anti-feminist, anti-liberal writings and public debates.
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.
Dark triad
Dark triad: set of three subclinical personality traits, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, coined by Paulhus and Williams (2002). Not a diagnosis; linked to manipulation, crime, and workplace harm, with the Dark Tetrad adding sadism.
Darkness
Darkness: the near-absence of light and the natural nighttime environment. Covers rod-based scotopic vision, dark adaptation, circadian health, melatonin suppression by light at night, and light-pollution conservation.
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.
Darwin–Wedgwood family
Darwin–Wedgwood family: interconnected English dynasties from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I, joined by repeated first-cousin marriages; Charles Darwin married cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839, ten children, inbreeding studies.
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.
Dating
Dating, a twentieth-century American form of courtship between people assessing a relationship, evolved from supervised 'calling' to commercial dates, going steady, the post-1960 sexual revolution, and algorithmic online matching.
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 Hogg
David Hogg (born 2000) is an American gun control activist, Parkland shooting survivor, and March for Our Lives co-founder who later served briefly as DNC vice chair in 2025 and founded Leaders We Deserve.
David J. Wright
David J. Wright, also known as David Jeffrey "Jeff" Wright, is an American conservationist known for 1990s tree distribution and a Kentucky Colonels trademark dispute.
David Lane (white supremacist)
David Eden Lane (1938-2007) was an American white supremacist terrorist, Order member, and convicted killer of Alan Berg who coined the '14 Words' slogan and the 88 Precepts from prison.
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.
David Myatt
David Myatt is a British former neo-Nazi ideologue who converted to Islam in 1998 as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and later renounced extremism through his Pathei-Mathos philosophy.
David Thorstad
David Thorstad (1941–2021), American gay liberation activist, co-author of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935), SWP critic, Gay Activists Alliance president, and NAMBLA founding member; distinct from the contemporary philosopher of the same name.
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.
Dead Internet theory
Dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory, popularized by a January 2021 Agora Road forum post by IlluminatiPirate, that bots and AI generate most online content. Traffic data partially supports bot dominance, while content-level claims remain unverified.
Deadnaming
Deadnaming is calling a transgender person by their birth name instead of their chosen name, intentionally or accidentally. Covers effects, identity documents, media style guides (AP, Reuters, Trans Journalists Association), and US and UK legal treatment.
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 drive
Death drive (Todestrieb, Thanatos): Freud's hypothetical force opposed to Eros, introduced in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), tied to repetition compulsion and the return to the inorganic; widely criticized and scientifically reassessed.
Death of Hedviga Golik
Death of Hedviga Golik: Croatian nurse (born 1924, Rijeka) who died alone in her Zagreb attic apartment, found mummified on her bed in May 2008, 35–42 years later; cause undetermined, TV legend false.