Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson was a prominent lawyer whose career included many stints in United States government service, culminating as United States Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. In these various capacities he played a central role in the creation of many important institutions including Lend Lease, the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, NATO, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, together with the early organizations that later became the European Union and the World Trade Organization
	Dean Martin Bold textItalic text he is cool! Dean Martin was an United States singer and film actor.
	Death Death is the full cessation of vital signs in the biological life. This article discusses death in the biology sense of the term, and its place in various cultures.
	Death Angel ' Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from San Francisco, California. Formed in 1982, they helped define the Bay Area thrash sound with their legendary debut album "The Ultra-Violence". Death Angel broke up in 1991, but reformed at the Thrash of the Titans benefit concert for Chuck Billy in 2001.
	Death cap The Death cap is one of numerous species of mushrooms in the genus Amanita and is renowned as one of the most toxic of all fungi, having been responsible for the majority of deaths from eating poisonous mushrooms. Its dangerousness is heightened by its similarity to some widely eaten species.
	Death mask A death mask is a plaster or wax cast made of a person's face following death. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or be used for creation of portraits. It is sometimes possible to identify portraits that have been painted from death masks, because of the characteristic slight distortions of the features caused by the weight of the plaster during the making of the mould.
	Death Valley Death Valley is a valley in the U.S. state of California, and is the location of the lowest elevation in North America. Located southeast of the Sierra Nevada range in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, it comprises much of Death Valley National Park.
	Death Warrant Death Warrant is a 1990 in film action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at University of Southern California, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially.
	Death Wish Death Wish is a 1974 crime action drama starring Charles Bronson as the character Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered by home invasion. The film was a huge commercial success and begat 4 sequels. Widely denounced by critics for advocating unsanctioned violence against criminals, Death Wish became a metaphor for a rising public tide of anger against unchecked violent crime.
	Death's Head Death's Head is the name of a cyborg bounty hunter created by Simon Furman and artist Geoff Senior for the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. Originally he was planned to star in his own series, but was shelved. A little later, Furman decided to use Death's Head in his UK Transformers stories, and so the character was unleashed, first in a one-page strip that ran in many comics to confirm Marvel's ownership of the character, and then in the Transformers comic itself.
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	Deathblow Deathblow is a fictional comic book character created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi from the Wildstorm universe. Deathblow's real name is Michael Cray.
	Deathwatch Deathwatch is a 2002 in film film directed by Michael J. Bassett.
	Debar Debar is a city in the western part of the Republic of Macedonia, near the border with Albania, on the road from the city of Struga to the city of Gostivar. Debar is surrounded by the mountains Deshat, Stogovo, Jablanica, Republic of Macedonia and Mount Bistra.
	Debate Debate or debating is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. Rules governing debate allow groups and individuals to discuss and decide issues and differences. Debate is an aspect of argument which is distinct from logical argument, in that it encompasses aspects of human persuasion which attempts to appeal to the emotional responses of the audience
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	Debit card A debit card is an ISO 7810 card which physically resembles a credit card, and, like a credit card, is used as an alternative to cash when making purchases. However, when purchases are made with a debit card, the funds are withdrawn directly from the purchaser's current/checking account or savings account account at a bank or credit union.
	Debris Debris is a word used to describe the remains of something that has been otherwise destroyed. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
	Debutante A debutante is a young lady from an aristocratic or upper class family who has reached the age of maturity, and as a new adult, is introduced to society at a formal presentation known as her "debut" or "coming out." Originally, it meant the young woman was eligible for marriage, and part of the purpose was to display her to eligible bachelors and their families with a view to marriage within a select upper class circle.
	Decagon In geometry, a decagon is any polygon with ten sides and ten angles, and usually refers to a regular polygon decagon, having all sides of equal length and all angles equal to 144, therefore making each angle of a regular decagon be 144. Its Schlfli symbol is .
	Decanoic acid Decanoic acid is a type of carboxylic acid. Its formula is CH3(CH2)8COOH. It is also known as capric acid. Salts and esters of decanoic acid are called decanoates. It is used in organic synthesis and industrially in the manufacture of perfumes, lubricants, greases, rubber, dyes, plastics, food additives and pharmaceuticals.
	Decapitated Decapitated are a critically and popularly acclaimed death metal band from Poland; their style places them towards the more extreme and technical side of that genre. They come from Krosno in southern Poland, and they formed in 1996 whilst all the members were at music school. With "Vitek" aged 18 and "Vogg" being aged 22 they are one of the youngest bands in the genre to have had major success.
	Decapitation Decapitation, or beheading, is the removal of a living organism's head. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or Execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, or knife, or by means of a guillotine.
	Decapoda For other meanings of decapod, see decapod. The decapods or Decapoda are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp.
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	Deciduous Deciduous means "temporary" or "tending to fall off" .
	Decision making Decision making is the cognition leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice called a decision. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what.
	Decius Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius, Roman Emperors, In the last year of his reign he co-ruled with his son Herennius Etruscus until both were killed in the Battle of Abrittus.
	Declassified Declassified is a television series produced by Ten Worlds Productions on the History Channel that originally aired on November 9, 2004. The series takes viewers inside vaults and archives around the world to reveal the untold stories of modern history. With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the advent of market economies worldwide, new footage and materials are flooding out of formerly secret organizations like East Germany's Stasi, the Kremlin, the CIA, and state television in Korea.
	Declination In astronomy, declination is one of the two coordinates of the equatorial coordinate system, the other being either right ascension or hour angle. Dec is comparable to latitude, projected unto the celestial sphere, and is measured in degrees north and south of the celestial equator.
	Deco Anderson Luis de Sousa, Order of Infante D. Henrique is a professional football widely known as Deco. He plays internationally for Portuguese national football team and for FC Barcelona at club level.
	Decoder A decoder is a device which does the reverse of an encoder, undoing the encoding so that the original information can be retrieved. The same method used to encode is usually just reversed in order to decode. In digital electronics this would mean that a decoder is a multiple-input, multiple-output logic gate that converts coded inputs into coded outputs, where the input and output codes are different.
	Decolonization Decolonization refers to the achievement of independence by the various Colonialisms in Asia and Decolonization of Africa following World War II. This conforms with an intellectual movement known as Post-Colonialism. A particularly active period of decolonization occurred between 1945 to 1960, beginning with the independence of partition of India from Great Britain in 1947 and the First Indochina War.
	Decomposition Decomposition is a phenomenon common in the sciences of biology and chemistry. In biology, decomposition refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living organism into simpler forms of matter. In chemistry it refers to the breaking down of a large molecule into smaller molecules or atoms and is referred to as chemical decomposition.
	Decompression sickness Decompression sickness ', the divers disease, the bends, or caisson disease is the name given to a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body. It is a type of Diving hazards and precautions and dysbarism.
	Deconstructivism Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, Nonlinear processes of design, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and apparent non-Euclidean geometry,Husserl, Origins of Geometry, Introduction by Jacques Derrida which serve to distort and dislocate some of the Design principles and elements, such as
	Decontamination Decontamination is the process of cleansing station to remove contamination, or the possibility of contamination. Decontamination is sometimes abbreviated as "decon", "dcon", or "decontam". Persons suspected of being contaminated are usually separated by sex, and led into either a decon tent, or a decon trailer, where they shed their potentially contamined clothes in a stripdown room.
	Deed A deed is a legal instrument used to grant a right. The deed is best known as the method of transferring title to real estate from one person to another, often using a description of its "metes and bounds." However, by the general definition, power of attorney, commissions, patents, and even diplomas conferring academic degrees are also deeds.
	Deed of Trust Deed of Trust is an album by the country rock band the Circuit Riders, released in 2000.
	Deems Taylor Deems Taylor was a United States of America composer and music critic. Taylor was born in New York City and educated at New York University. He initially planned to become an architect, however with minimal musical training he soon took to music composition. The result was a series of musical comedies.
	Deep South The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States, differentiated from the Old South as being the post colonial expansion of Southern States in the antebellum period. There are various definitions of the term: *South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana
	Deer A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. A number of broadly similar animals, from related families within the order Artiodactyla, are often also called deer. Depending on their species, male deer are called stags, harts, bucks or bulls, and females are called hinds, does or cows.
	Deerstalker A deerstalker is a type of hat that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting. Because the hat's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it is also a stereotypical hat of a detective. Its main feature is a pair of fore and aft brims and two flexible side flaps. The dual brims provide sun protection for the face and neck of the wearer.
	Defecation Defecation or feceation is the act or process by which organisms eliminate solid or semisolid waste material from the digestive tract. Humans remove waste anywhere from several times daily to a few times weekly; sloths can go for a week or more without eliminating. Waves of muscle known as peristalsis in the walls of the colon move feces through the digestive tract towards the rectum.
	Defence mechanism Defence mechanisms are unconscious resources used by the ego to reduce conflict between the id and superego and thereby anxiety. For that reason they are more accurately referred to as ego defence mechanisms. They can thus be categorized as occurring due to the following scenarios: * When the Ego, super-ego, and id impulses are in conflict with each other;
	Defenestration Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window . The word comes from the Latin Wiktionary:de and Wiktionary:fenestra . Merriam-Webster's dictionary users named it as one of their favorite words of the year in 2004. Defenestration is often murder.
	Defense Information Systems Agency The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for planning, developing, fielding, operating, and supporting command, control, communications, and information systems that serve the needs of the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant commanders, and other Department of Defense components under all conditions of peace and war.
	Defense Intelligence Agency The Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is a major producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense. The DIA, designated in 1986 as a Defense Department combat support and intelligence agency, was established in 1961. It was preceded by the Counter Intelligence Corps.
	Defibrillation Defibrillation is a medical technique used to counter the onset of ventricular fibrillation, a common cause of cardiac arrest, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia, which sometimes precedes ventricular fibrillation but can be just as dangerous on its own. In simple terms, the process uses an electric shock to stop the heart, in the hope that the heart will restart with rhythmic contractions.
	Defibrillator A defibrillator is a medical device used in the defibrillation of the heart. It consists of a central unit and a set of two electrodes. The central unit provides a source of power and control. The two electrodes are placed directly on or in the patient. The device is designed to deliver an electric shock to the patient, in an effort to stop ventricular fibrillation.
	Definite Article Definite Article is the title of British comedian Eddie Izzard's 1996 performance released on video and CD. The video/DVD and CD performances were both recorded on different nights at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, England. Both recordings cover topics such as The Italian Job, Ivan Pavlov and European languages.
	Deflagration Deflagration is a process of subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity. Deflagration is different from detonation which is supersonic and propagates through shock wave compression.
	Deflection Deflection or deflexion may refer to: *Deflection (engineering) *Deflection (military) *Deflection (physics) *Electrostatic deflection de:Ablenkung es:Pendientes y deformaciones en vigas fr:Flexion ]
	Deforestation The conversion of forested areas to non-forest. Historically, this meant conversion to grassland or to its artificial counterpart, grainfields; however, the Industrial Revolution added urbanization and technological uses. Generally this removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.
	Deformation In engineering mechanics, deformation is a change in shape due to an applied force. This can be a result of tensile strength forces, compressive strength forces, Simple shear, bending or torsion. In the figure it can be seen that the compressive loading has caused deformation in the cylinder so that the original shape has changed into one with bulging sides.
	Degaussing Degaussing is the process of reducing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field. Due to magnetic hysteresis it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small "known" field referred to as bias.
	Deinocheirus Deinocheirus was a theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now southern Mongolia, during the Late Cretaceous Period. The only known fossil remains are a single pair of massive, eight-foot-long forelimbs, with 10-inch long claws and the remains of some ribs and vertebrae.
	Deinonychus Deinonychus meaning 'terrible claw' was a 10 foot long, carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous Period. Its name refers to the unusually large, sickle-shaped talon, which was probably held retracted while the dinosaur walked on the third and fourth toes.
	Deism Deism is a Religion philosophy and movement that became prominent in England, France, and the United States in the 17th century. Deists typically reject supernatural events and revelation, along with holy books and revealed religions that assert the existence of such things.
	Delavirdine Delavirdine is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by Pfizer. It is used as part of highly active antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. It is presented as the mesylate. The recommended dosage is 400 mg, three times a day.
	Delaware Delaware is one of five Middle Atlantic States in the United States.ography Delaware is the second-smallest state in the United States, Rhode Island being the smallest. Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania, to the east by the Delaware River, New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean and to the west and south by Maryland.
	Delaware Bay Delaware Bay is a large estuary inlet of the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Delaware River along the coast of the United States. It is bordered by the state of New Jersey on the north, and the state of Delaware in the south. The the two capes are sometimes known as the Delaware Capes.
	Delaware Memorial Bridge The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a set of twin suspension bridges crossing the Delaware River. The toll bridges carry Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 between Delaware and New Jersey. The bridge was designed by the firm known today as HNTB with consulting help from famous engineer Othmar Ammann, whose other designs include the Walt Whitman Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
	Delaware River The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The Delaware was explored by Adriaen Block as part of the New Netherlands Colony, and was named the South River to mark the southernmost reach of that colony. The river meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey.
	Delays Delays are an indie band formed in Southampton, England, consisting of brothers Greg and Aaron Gilbert, Colin Fox and Rowly. Likened to the Cocteau Twins and noted for the lead vocalist's astonishing falsetto, they gained much exposure for their supporting role to the Manic Street Preachers in their Past/Present/Future Spring 2005 tour.
	Delft Media:Nl-Delft.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands, located halfway between Rotterdam and The Hague. It is primarily known for its typical Dutch centre , Delftware , the Delft University of Technology and its association with the House of Orange-Nassau.
	Delhi Delhi is a metropolis in Northern India India. The name Delhi also refers to the National Capital Territory of Delhi , which is a special union territory jointly administered by the Government of India, the NCT elected government and three municipal corporations.
	Delilah Delilah or Dlila, was the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and was his downfall, in the Hebrew Bible Book of Judges. Delilah was approached by the Philistines, the enemies of Israel, to discover the secret of Samson's strength. Three times she asked Samson for the secret of his strength and three times he gave her a false answer.
	Deliverance Deliverance is a 1972 Warner Bros. Studios motion picture drama directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by United States author James Dickey.
	Dell Dell Inc., an United States computer hardware company based in Round Rock, Texas, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells and supports a wide range of personal computers, Server, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants, computer software, computer peripherals, and more.