Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax an…

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was th…

Duriavenator

DuriavenatorTemporal range: Bajocian170–168 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Reconstruction of the skull with holotype elements shown in white …

Durrell's vontsira

Durrell's vontsira Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) (under Salanoia concolor) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia P…
Nature

Dusky dolphin

Dusky dolphin Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II  Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum…
Nature

Dustbin Baby (film)

Dustbin Baby is a BBC television film directed by Juliet May, based on Jacqueline Wilson's 2001 novel of the same name. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 21 …
Arts

E. Urner Goodman

Silver Buffalo Award OA Distinguished Service Award OA Vigil Honor Honorary Doctorate in Humanics Honorary Chief of the Blackfoot Indians Honorary Alpha Phi Ome…
Military

E. W. Hornung

E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories abo…

Eadbald of Kent

Eadbald (Old English: Eadbald) was King of Kent from 616 until his death in 640. He was the son of King Æthelberht and his wife Bertha, a daughter of the Merovi…
Religion

Eadred

Eadred (also Edred, c. 923 – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder a…

Eadwig

Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, c. 940 –  1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the …

Ealdred (archbishop of York)

Ealdred (or Aldred; died 11 September 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in early medieval England. He was related to a n…

Eardwulf of Northumbria

Eardwulf (fl. 790 – c. 830) was king of Northumbria from 796 to 806, when he was deposed and went into exile. He may have had a second reign from 808 until…

Early life of Samuel Johnson

Portrait of Johnson during his 30s, by Sir Joshua Reynolds Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) was an E…

Early Netherlandish painting

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid Ea…
Arts

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one …

Eastbourne manslaughter

R v Hopley (more commonly known as the Eastbourne manslaughter) was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. The case concerned the death of 15-year-o…
History