Dan or DAN may refer to:
People
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Dan (name)
Dan is a name in various cultures. As a given name it is often short for Daniel (given name), Daniel. It is also a surname with multiple origins.
Given name
Origins as a given name
Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several dispute ...
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Dan (king)
Dan (or Halfdan) is the name of one or more of the legendary earliest kings of the Danes and Denmark, as mentioned in medieval Scandinavian texts.
The ''Lejre Chronicle''
The ''Chronicle of Lejre'' ('' Chronicon Lethrense''), written around 1170, ...
, several kings of Denmark
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Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
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Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
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Dan (son of Jacob)
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (, ''Dān'', "judgment" or "he judged") was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Gen ...
, one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible
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Tribe of Dan
The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim and Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin on the ...
, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
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Danel
Danel (, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, " El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria.
Tale of Aqhat
The text in ''Corpus Ta ...
, the hero figure of
Ugarit
Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its height it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Latakia Governorate. It was discovered by accident in 19 ...
who inspired stories of the biblical figure
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Crown Prince Dan
Crown Prince Dan () was a crown prince of the State of Yan during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was also called Yan Dan ().
He lived in the State of Qin as a hostage, but returned to Yan in 232 BC. He sent Jing Ke to assassinat ...
, prince of Yan in ancient China
Places
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Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
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Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
* Dan, subdistrict of
Kap Choeng District, Thailand
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Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
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Dan River (disambiguation)
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Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
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Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel
Organizations
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Dan-Air
Dan-Air (legally ''Dan Air Services Limited'') was an airline based in the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based shipbroker, shipbroking firm Davies and Newman. It was started in 1953 with a single aircraft. Initially, i ...
, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
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Dan Bus Company
Dan Bus Company () is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (Gush Dan).
Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports approximately over 600,000 passengers d ...
, a public transport company in Israel
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Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
*Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the
Autism Research Institute
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Direct Action Network (DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
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Disabled People's Direct Action Network
The Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) is a disability rights activist organisation in England and Wales that campaigned for civil rights with high-profile street demonstrations involving civil disobedience, rallies and protests.
Prio ...
(DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
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Divers Alert Network
Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a group of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving diving safety for all divers. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in 1980 at Duke University providing 24/7 telephonic hot-line div ...
(DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Science
* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see
newton
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DAN (protein)
Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN), also known as polyadenylate-specific ribonuclease or deadenylating nuclease (DAN), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''PARN'' gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian ...
, a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
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Dorsal attention network
The dorsal attention network (DAN), also known anatomically as the dorsal frontoparietal network (D-FPN), is a large-scale brain network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye fields (FE ...
(DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain
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Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons
The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument is an experiment mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity (rover), ''Curiosity'' rover. It is a pulsed sealed-tube neutron source and detector used to measure hydrogen or ice and water at or ...
(DAN), a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover
Other
* ''Dan'', a 1914 film starring
Lois Meredith
Lois Meredith (alternative styling Loïs Mérédith) (June 26, 1897 – January 15, 1967) was a silent film and theatre actress.
Career
She infrequently appeared on the Broadway stage from 1911 to 1926. Meredith appeared in 22 films, of which 21 ...
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Dan (Chinese opera)
''Dan'' is the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles. They may be played by male or female actors. In the early years of Peking opera, all roles were played by men, but this practice is no longer commo ...
, a female role in Chinese opera
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Dan (cuneiform)
The cuneiform ''dan'' sign is a multi-use sign found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Besides dan, (and tan), the following are its uses (from Epic of Gilgamesh):
:dan
:kal
:lab
:lap
:lép
:líb
:líp
:reb ...
, a cuneiform sign
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''Dan'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
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Dan (rank)
The ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it w ...
in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
* English corruption of the title
Dominus
* Do Anything Now (DAN), a
jailbreak for ChatGPT
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Dan (volume), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
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Dan (weight), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight
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Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, a ''Billboard'' chart with the shortcut "DAN"
See also
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Daniel (disambiguation)
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Danny (disambiguation)
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List of people named Dan, people with the given name Dan
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