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Dalmatian (dog)
Dalmatian (Dalmatinski pas), Croatian-origin spotted dog breed; historic carriage and firehouse dog. White coat with black or liver spots, 56-62 cm males; prone to hereditary deafness and urate stones from SLC2A9 mutation.
Dalmatian humanist literature
Dalmatian humanist literature is the Latin, and later Croatian and Italian, writing produced under Renaissance humanism in the eastern Adriatic cities, chiefly from 1409 to the late sixteenth century.
Dalmatian language
Dalmatian (Dalmatic; Vegliote Viklasun) was an extinct Romance language of the eastern Adriatic coast, with Vegliote (Krk) and Ragusan (Dubrovnik) varieties; last speaker Tuone Udaina died 10 June 1898, documented by Bartoli's Das Dalmatische (1906).
Dalmia Group
Dalmia Group is the label for the Dalmia-Jain Group, an Indian conglomerate founded by Ramkrishna Dalmia in the early 1930s, and today's Dalmia Bharat Group, the country's fourth-largest cement maker.
Dalmiro Sáenz
Dalmiro Sáenz (1926–2016) was an Argentine writer, playwright, and screenwriter who published over 40 books and became famous for absurdist humor and provocations against religious and political institutions.
Dalnacogene ponparvovec injection
Dalnacogene ponparvovec injection (BBM-H901, brand name Xinjuning) is a one-time gene therapy for moderate-to-severe hemophilia B in adults, first approved in China on April 10, 2025.
Dalou Mountains
Dalou Mountains (大娄山), NE-SW range in northern Guizhou and Chongqing, watershed of Chishui and Wujiang rivers, boundary of Guizhou Plateau and Sichuan Basin; about 300 km long, highest peak Jinfo Mountain 2,251 m.
Dalpari Oil Field
The Dalpari Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Ilam province, western Iran, owned by the National Iranian Oil Company, discovered in 1978 and producing since 1999.
Dalpatram
Dalpatram (દલપતરામ) was a Gujarati poet, editor, and social reformer, born in 1820 at Wadhwan and died in 1898 at Ahmedabad, known for the play Mithyabhiman and for championing Gujarati as Baroda's state language.
Dalpiciclib
Dalpiciclib (SHR6390) is an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor from Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, approved in China in 2021, used with endocrine therapy for HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer; key trials include DAWNA-1, DAWNA-2, and the adjuvant DAWNA-A, with neutropenia as its characteristic toxicity.
Dalseo-gu
Dalseo-gu (달서구, 達西區) is Daegu's southwestern autonomous district, created January 1, 1988 from Seo-gu and Nam-gu's Seongseo and Wolbae areas; 62.37 km², about 517,000 residents, 23 administrative dongs, office in Wolseong-dong, and Daegu's most manufacturing-dependent district.
Dalstroy
Dalstroy (Дальстрой) was a Soviet state trust created in 1931 to build roads and extract minerals in the upper Kolyma region, operating chiefly with prisoner labor until 1957.
Daltā
Daltā, also rendered Dalta, was king of Ellipi, a kingdom in the Zagros foothills of western Iran, known from Assyrian records from 737 BC until his death and the succession war between his sons.
Dalteparin sodium
Dalteparin sodium (Fragmin) is a low-molecular-weight heparin anticoagulant approved in the US in 1994, dosed by weight subcutaneously; it treats cancer-associated VTE, provides surgical and medical thromboprophylaxis, and covers unstable angina and dialysis circuits.
Dalton (unit)
The dalton (Da), also called the unified atomic mass unit (u), is a non-SI unit of mass equal to one-twelfth of a carbon-12 atom, widely used in biochemistry.
Dalton Castle (wrestler)
Dalton Castle, ring name of Brett Giehl (born 1986), American pro wrestler in Ring of Honor and AEW; former ROH World and TV Champion, "Peacock" persona with The Boys, ex-amateur wrestler.
Dalton Conley
Dalton Conley is an American social scientist, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton since 2016, known for sociogenomics and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Dalton Gang
The Dalton Gang, or Dalton Brothers, was a group of Old West outlaws, led by three brothers and former deputy marshals, who robbed trains from 1891 to 1892.
Dalton Highway
The Dalton Highway (Alaska Route 11) is a 414-mile, mostly gravel highway in northern Alaska running from Livengood to Deadhorse at the Prudhoe Bay oil fields.
Dalton Johnson
Dalton Johnson (born 2003) is an NFL safety, #43, drafted 150th overall in 2026 by the Las Vegas Raiders after five seasons at Arizona, where he was 2025 First Team All-Big 12 with 97 tackles.
Dalton Knecht
Dalton Knecht, NBA wing for the Los Angeles Lakers, drafted 17th overall in 2024 after SEC Player of the Year and consensus All-American season at Tennessee; rescinded Mark Williams trade, reduced 2025-26 role.
Dalton Minimum
The Dalton Minimum was a period of reduced solar activity from 1790 to 1830, named after John Dalton, whose auroral observations first revealed it; it followed the Maunder minimum but was less severe.
Dalton Parlours
Dalton Parlours, near Collingham, West Yorkshire, is a scheduled monument combining an Iron Age settlement (c. 1000 BC) and a Romano-British winged corridor villa occupied c. AD 200-370, excavated 1976-1979.
Dalton Rushing
Dalton Rushing (Dalton Wayne Rushing, born 2001) is a Dodgers catcher and first baseman drafted 40th overall in 2022 from Louisville, a 2024 Dodgers minor league player of the year who debuted in MLB on May 15, 2025.
Dalton School
The Dalton School is a progressive independent K-12 day school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, founded in 1919 by Helen Parkhurst and known for the Dalton Plan (House, Assignment, Lab), about 1,330 students, and international Dalton Plan schools.
Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo, born James Dalton Trumbo, was an American screenwriter, novelist, and director and the most prominent of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted after defying HUAC in 1947.
Dalton, GA Metro Area
Dalton, GA Metro Area (CBSA 19140): two-county northwest Georgia MSA (Whitfield, Murray), 144,160 people, carpet-manufacturing "Carpet Capital of the World," heavily Latino, with PFAS contamination legacy.
Dalton, Georgia
Dalton, Georgia, county seat of Whitfield County, is the Carpet Capital of the World, home to Shaw and Mohawk Industries, founded as Cross Plains in 1847 on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, with a majority-Hispanic population of about 35,000.
Dalton's law
Dalton's law, or the law of partial pressures, states that the total pressure of a non-reacting gas mixture equals the sum of the partial pressures of its gases.
Daluguan Theme Park
Daluguan Theme Park (大路觀主題樂園), also called Da Lu Guan, is a 53.6-hectare cactus, tropical garden, water park, and 866-meter eco-river attraction in Gaoshu, Pingtung, Taiwan, paired with a certified hot spring resort.