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Daisy Coleman
Daisy Coleman, American sexual assault survivor advocate from Maryville, Missouri, featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy and co-founder of SafeBAE; died by suicide in 2020 at 23.
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 Jiang (江澜)
Daisy Jiang (江澜, Jiang Lan) is a partner at GSR Ventures who invests in early-stage internet and mobile companies in China, with a recent tilt toward AI applications.
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.
Daisy Wolf
Daisy Wolf is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading health technology investments in AI-driven healthcare, consumer health, and healthcare fintech, including Function Health and Truemed.
Daito Trust Construction
Daito Trust Construction (大東建託) is a Japanese real estate group, founded in 1974, that builds rental housing for landowners and manages it under sublease contracts.
Daiva Inscription
The Daiva Inscription (XPh) is a trilingual proclamation of Xerxes I recording his destruction of a sanctuary of false gods and worship of Ahura Mazda.
Daiwa House Industry
Daiwa House Industry is a diversified Japanese construction and real-estate group founded in 1955, which builds prefabricated housing, condominiums, hotels, and logistics facilities, and became Japan's largest prefab homebuilder by 2015.
Daiwa Securities
Daiwa Securities is the common name for Daiwa Securities Group Inc., a Tokyo securities group dating to 1902 that spans retail brokerage, asset management, and investment banking.
Daji (妲己)
Daji (妲己) was the favored concubine of Shang's last king, King Zhou; early texts blame her for the dynasty's fall, and the Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi recast her as a nine-tailed fox spirit sent by Nüwa.
Dajian Huineng (大鉴慧能)
Dajian Huineng (大鉴慧能, 638–713) is the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism in China, known for the sudden-enlightenment teaching of the Platform Sutra; all later Chan, Sŏn, and Zen lineages trace back to him.
Dajō-daijin
The Dajō-daijin (太政大臣) was the highest office of the Dajōkan in Japan's ritsuryō state, above the Sadaijin and Udaijin; first appointed in 857, it was abolished in 1885.
Đắk Sơn massacre
The Đắk Sơn massacre was a December 5, 1967 Viet Cong flamethrower attack on the Stieng hamlet of Đắk Sơn in Phuoc Long province, South Vietnam, killing scores of civilians.
Dakar–Niger Railway strike
The Dakar–Niger Railway strike, led by Ibrahima Sarr, was a five-month strike by some 20,000 African railway workers across French West Africa that ended in victory in March 1948.
Dakhamunzu
Dakhamunzu, also known as Dahamunzu, is the name Hittite records give an Egyptian queen who asked King Šuppiluliuma I for a son in marriage, probably Tutankhamun's widow Ankhesenamun.
Dakhni Urdu
Dakhni Urdu (دکنی اردو) is the Urdu of the Deccan, a literary language patronized by the sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda from the fifteenth century.
Daki
Daki is a Brazilian online grocery and quick-commerce company founded in São Paulo in 2021, which delivers from its own dark stores and became a unicorn within ten months.
Dakini
A dakini (ḍākinī, Tibetan khandroma, "sky-goer") is a female figure of Hindu and Buddhist tantra, ranging from a flesh-eating cemetery spirit to a wisdom deity and realized woman.
Dakota Johnson's interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Dakota Johnson's Ellen interview: November 27, 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where Johnson said "That's not the truth, Ellen" about a birthday-party invite, becoming a viral meme tied to the show's 2022 ending.
Dakota Meyer
Dakota Louis Meyer (born 1988) is a U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient for the September 8, 2009 Battle of Ganjgal, Afghanistan, where he made five trips into an ambush zone, saved 36 lives, and recovered four fallen Americans; he reenlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 2025.
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.
Dakota War of 1862
The Dakota War of 1862 (U.S.-Dakota War, Sioux Uprising) was a six-week Minnesota River Valley conflict sparked by broken treaties and starvation, ending at Wood Lake and Camp Release, with 38 Dakota men hanged at Mankato on December 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history, followed by Dakota exile from Minnesota.
Dakota–Ojibwe War
Dakota–Ojibwe War: the long intertribal conflict between the Dakota (Eastern Sioux) and Ojibwe over hunting grounds and fur-trade access, erupting in the late 1730s, driving the Santee from central and northern Minnesota, and ending by the mid-1800s under settler-colonial pressure.
Daksha
Daksha (दक्ष, Dakṣa) is a Hindu Prajapati, progenitor deity and father of Sati. Born of Aditi in the Rigveda and from Brahma's thumb in the Puranas, he excluded Shiva from his sacrifice, triggering Sati's self-immolation and his beheading and goat-headed revival.
Dal Khalsa
The Dal Khalsa (दल खालसा) was the Sikh military confederacy that arose as Mughal authority declined, reorganized into eleven misls in 1748 and ended when Ranjit Singh became Maharaja of the Punjab.
Dál Riata
Dál Riata (Dalriada), early medieval Gaelic kingdom in Argyll and County Antrim; kindreds, Senchus fer n-Alban naval muster, Dunadd capital, Iona, and merger with Pictland under Kenneth mac Alpin (843–858).
Dal’nevostochnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon
Dal’nevostochnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon (Дальневосточный экономический район), the Far Eastern Economic Region, a Soviet economic region covering Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Yakutia, Amur, Kamchatka, Magadan, Sakhalin; mining, timber, fishing economy.
Dalada Sirita
Dalada Sirita (දළදා සිරිත, also rendered Dalada Siritha) is a 14th-century Sinhala prose work on the history of the Buddha's tooth relic, adapted from Dhammakitti's Pali Dāṭhāvaṃsa and still governing its worship at Kandy.
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي)
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي), Fatah militant born in Beirut, led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, hijacking buses; 35–38 civilians died. She was killed in the attack and is commemorated in Palestinian schools and squares.
Dalamabala
Dalamabala (答剌麻八剌, 1264 to 1292) was a Yuan dynasty prince, second son of crown prince Zhenjin and grandson of Kublai Khan, posthumously honored as Emperor Shunzong.