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Daikan

The daikan (代官) was an Edo bakufu post that administered the shogun's direct lands, collecting the land tax and handling local civil administration for the finance commissioners.

Daiki Okai

Daiki Okai (岡井大輝) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder, Representative Director, and CEO of Luup Inc., the Tokyo company behind the LUUP electric micromobility sharing service founded in 2018.

Daikokuten (大黒天)

Daikokuten (大黒天), Japanese god of wealth and food and one of the Seven Lucky Gods, derived from the Indian war god Mahākāla (Shiva's incarnation) and syncretized with the kami Ōkuninushi; iconography of mallet, sack, and rice bales.

Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann, the lower house of Ireland's Oireachtas, has 174 TDs elected by PR-STV from 43 constituencies. First met 21 January 1919; forms and holds accountable the Irish Government led by the Taoiseach.

Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)

Dáil Éireann (An Chéad Dáil), the revolutionary unicameral parliament of the Irish Republic proclaimed in Dublin on 21 January 1919 by Sinn Féin MPs abstaining from Westminster; met 21 times to May 1921, adopted the Democratic Programme, ratified the Treaty 64–57 in January 1922.

Dailuobo (呆萝卜)

Dailuobo (呆萝卜, "Silly Radish") was a Chinese community fresh-grocery e-commerce company based in Hefei, Anhui, founded in 2015, that entered bankruptcy reorganization in March 2020.

Daily Express

Daily Express is a British national daily newspaper published in London, founded in 1900 by Cyril Arthur Pearson, and was owned by Lord Beaverbrook until 1964.

Daily Herald (United Kingdom)

The Daily Herald was a London socialist daily, founded as a 1911 printers' strike sheet and relaunched 15 April 1912; TUC-backed, world's top-selling daily in 1933 at 2 million copies, relaunched as The Sun in 1964.

Daily Kos

Daily Kos: American progressive political blog and community founded May 26, 2002 by Markos Moulitsas, owned by Kos Media LLC, reader-funded, rated Left by AllSides, Ad Fontes, and MBFC with mixed-to-low factuality.

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail: British national newspaper founded 4 May 1896 by Alfred and Harold Harmsworth; tabloid since 1971, owned by DMGT under Lord Rothermere; right-leaning, mostly factual, top IPSO complaint volume.

Daily Mail and General Trust

Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is a British media group controlled by the Rothermere family, publishing the Daily Mail, MailOnline, Metro, and the i.

Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national tabloid newspaper published in London by Reach plc, founded in 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth and known for backing Labour since 1945.

Daily Office (Anglican)

The Daily Office, or Anglican Daily Office, is the Anglican Church's round of daily prayer services, principally Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer, created by Thomas Cranmer in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.

Daily Times (Nigeria)

Daily Times (Nigeria), founded June 1, 1926 in Lagos as The Nigerian Daily Times, was Nigeria's first daily newspaper and most influential title, peaking above 500,000 copies in the 1970s, government-owned from 1975, privatized to Folio Communications in 2004, centenary in 2026.

Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was the English-language daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA, published in Chicago and then New York from January 13, 1924 to January 13, 1958; a labor-focused Stalinist daily that broke with Moscow over Hungary in 1956 and closed in 1958.

Dailyhunt

Dailyhunt is an Indian local-language news and content app operated by VerSe Innovation, founded by Virendra Gupta in Bengaluru in 2007, with over 350 million monthly users.

Daima

Daima is a settlement mound in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, 45 km south of Lake Chad, excavated by Graham Connah in 1965 and 1966 and occupied for roughly 3,000 years.

Daimabad bronzes

The Daimabad bronzes are a hoard of four cast copper figures, including a bull chariot, found in 1974 at Daimabad, the southernmost known Harappan site.

Daimonion (δαιμόνιον)

Daimonion (τὸ δαιμόνιον), the "divine sign" or inner voice Socrates said guided him from childhood, turning him away from actions but never commanding; linked to his 399 impiety trial and debated by Plato, Xenophon, and modern scholars.

Daimyo

Daimyo (大名, daimyō): powerful territorial lords of premodern Japan; in the Edo period, Tokugawa-subordinate houses with at least 10,000 koku assessed rice income, ruling domains under the Bakuhan system until abolition in 1871.

Dainik Bhaskar (दैनिक भास्कर)

Dainik Bhaskar (दैनिक भास्कर) is a Hindi-language daily newspaper founded in Bhopal in 1958, India's largest circulated Hindi daily with 61 editions across 12 states.

Dainik Jagran (दैनिक जागरण)

Dainik Jagran (दैनिक जागरण), Hindi daily founded 1942 by Puranchandra Gupta in Jhansi during Quit India, published by Jagran Prakashan; India's most-read Hindi newspaper with editions across 11 states.

Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作)

Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作; 1928–2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader who led the Soka Gakkai from 1960, founded Soka Gakkai International in 1975, and built the lay Nichiren Buddhist movement into a worldwide organization.

Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group

Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group is a Japanese regional bank holding company in Niigata Prefecture, formed in 2018 by the integration of Daishi Bank and Hokuetsu Bank.

Daiso (ダイソー)

Daiso, or Daiso Industries Co., Ltd., is a Japanese variety-store chain founded in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, known for 100-yen household goods at nearly 5,900 stores worldwide.

Daiso Industries

Daiso Industries is a Japanese fixed-price retail operator founded by Hirotake Yano in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, known for its DAISO 100-yen shops.

Daisuke Okanohara

Daisuke Okanohara (岡野原 大輔) is a Japanese technology founder and researcher who co-founded the Tokyo AI company Preferred Networks in 2014 and became its CEO in 2025.

Daisy (advertisement)

Daisy, officially "Peace, Little Girl," is the 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign ad against Barry Goldwater showing a girl counting flower petals before a nuclear explosion; it aired once on NBC and became a landmark of fear-based political advertising.

Daisy Bates (activist)

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914–1999), Arkansas civil rights leader, NAACP state president, and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, mentored the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 Central High desegregation crisis; honored with a Capitol statue and Daisy Gatson Bates Day.

Daisy Bates (author)

Daisy Bates, also known as Daisy May Bates, was an Australian journalist and anthropologist who wrote the influential book The Passing of the Aborigines in 1938.