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Dinosaur Park "dino park"
Dinosaur park (dino park): a family tourist attraction with life-size, often animatronic dinosaur models on outdoor trails, fossil digs, and paleontology education; examples include Dino Parque Lourinhã, Dino Parc Râșnov, and the DinoPark network.
Dinosaur Park + Garden Glow
Dinosaur Park + Garden Glow refers to the two headline zones of Dubai Garden Glow, a seasonal light-art attraction in Zabeel Park, Dubai, featuring 100 life-size animatronic dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Park Formation
Dinosaur Park Formation: Late Campanian (Campanian) rock unit of the Belly River Group in southern Alberta, Canada, exposed at Dinosaur Provincial Park; ~80 m thick, dated 76.7-74.3 Ma, famed for hadrosaur, ceratopsian, and theropod fossils.
Dinosaur Park Skopje
Dinosaur Park Skopje (Дино Парк) is a dinosaur-themed attraction with 41 replicas from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, opened in May 2021 next to the Skopje Zoo in North Macedonia's capital.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Alberta's badlands, 48 km northeast of Brooks, preserving Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils of the Dinosaur Park Formation, 75-77 million years old.
Dinosaur size
Dinosaur size: sauropod titanosaurs were the largest land animals ever, with Patagotitan (57 t, 37.5 m) and Argentinosaurus (about 70–80 t) as leading candidates; smallest feathered dinosaurs weighed under 1 kg.
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train is a PBS KIDS CGI-animated preschool series created by Craig Bartlett, produced by The Jim Henson Company, premiering September 2009, featuring Buddy the T. rex and his adoptive Pteranodon family.
Dinosaurs (TV series)
Dinosaurs (1991–1994, ABC) is an American family sitcom, based on a Jim Henson idea, about the Sinclair dinosaur family living in 60,000,003 B.C. in Pangaea, performed with Henson Creature Shop animatronic puppets and known for Baby's "Not the mama!" and its satirical finale.
Dinoseb, its acetate and salts
Dinoseb (2-sec-butyl-4,6-dinitrophenol, CAS 88-85-7; acetate CAS 2813-95-8) is a dinitrophenol contact herbicide with amine, sodium, and ammonium salts, an oxidative phosphorylation uncoupler, emergency-suspended by EPA in 1986 and listed under the Rotterdam Convention.
Dinotefuran
Dinotefuran (MTI-446, CAS 165252-70-0) is a third-generation nitroguanidine neonicotinoid insecticide from Mitsui Chemicals, acting on insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; registered in the US in 2004 and EU-approved as a PT18 biocide, highly toxic to adult bees but of low mammalian acute toxicity.
Dinoteriy Bird Park
Динотерий (Динотерій, Dinoteriy Bird Park) is a small zoo and bird park at the exit from Koktebel, Crimea, near Kara Dag Mountain, featuring pigeon feeding, peacocks, and replica Deinotherium and dinosaur skeletons.
Dinotopia
Dinotopia is James Gurney's illustrated fantasy series, beginning with A Land Apart from Time (1992), about an 1862 shipwrecked father and son on an island where humans and sentient dinosaurs coexist; it spawned sequels, novels, a 2002 ABC miniseries, and games.
Dinotopia (miniseries)
Dinotopia (2002): a six-hour Hallmark Entertainment miniseries on ABC, directed by Marco Brambilla, adapted from James Gurney's books about castaway brothers in a human-dinosaur world; $80 million budget and record 1,800 VFX shots.
Dinotrux
Dinotrux is a DreamWorks Animation computer-animated Netflix series (2015-2017, 5 seasons, 52 episodes, plus Dinotrux Supercharged) based on Chris Gall's 2009 picture book, about half-dinosaur, half-construction-vehicle creatures led by Ty Rux against the bully D-Structs.
Dinrigh Chaos
Dinrigh Chaos is a 335-km-wide chaos terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 46.48°S, 132.16°W, IAU-approved in 2022 and named for the Celtic mythological site where Maon slew Covac.
Dinshaw Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel, born 1942, is an Indian-born American structural biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 1992, known for RNA silencing, CRISPR-Cas, and cGAS-STING research.
Dinshaw Wacha
Dinshaw Wacha (दिनशा एदुलजी वाचा) was a Parsi businessman, financial writer, and moderate politician from Bombay who helped found the Indian National Congress and served as its President in 1901.
Dinshaway Incident
The Dinshaway Incident (أحداث دنشواي) was a 1906 clash between Egyptian villagers and British officers in the Nile Delta, followed by executions that fueled Egyptian nationalism.
DINUP trial
DINUP (Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 Inhibition and Narrow-band Ultraviolet-B light in Psoriasis) was a 39-week, single-centre Irish randomized trial in which sitagliptin plus NB-UVB modestly improved psoriasis severity versus phototherapy alone in 118 patients without type 2 diabetes.
Dinutuximab
Dinutuximab (Unituxin, also called ch14.18) is a monoclonal antibody targeting GD2 on neuroblastoma cells, approved by the FDA in March 2015 as the first therapy for high-risk disease.
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868–1913) was king of the Zulu nation from 1884, son of Cetshwayo, twice convicted of high treason, exiled to St Helena, and released in 1910 by Louis Botha.
Dinwoody Petroglyphs
The Dinwoody Petroglyphs are Native American rock art at the head of Dinwoody Lake in western Wyoming, the type site of the Dinwoody Tradition, known for near-life-size surreal human figures pecked over more than 6,000 years.
Dio (band)
Dio was an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 by Ronnie James Dio after leaving Black Sabbath, with Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain, and Vivian Campbell. Ten studio albums, Holy Diver platinum, disbanded 2010.
Dio Brando
Dio Brando (DIO), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure villain from Phantom Blood and Stardust Crusaders, an adopted Joestar who becomes a vampire via the Stone Mask and wields the Stand The World.
Diocese
A diocese, from the Greek dioikesis, is a district of Christian faithful under a bishop's care, the basic unit of Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican church organization.
Diocese of Nitra
The Diocese of Nitra, historically Neutra or Nyitra, is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Nitra, Slovakia, first established in 880 by Pope John VIII and restored around 1105.
Diocese of Rome
The Diocese of Rome, also known as the Archdiocese of Rome, is the Catholic diocese whose bishop is the pope; a cardinal vicar administers it in his name.
Diocese of Sodor and Man
The Diocese of Sodor and Man is the Church of England diocese covering the Isle of Man, led by the Bishop of Sodor and Man and part of the Province of York.
Diocese of Zagreb
The Diocese of Zagreb (Zagrebačka biskupija) is a Roman Catholic diocese in northern Croatia, founded by King Ladislaus I of Hungary around 1094 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1852.
Diocletian
Diocletian (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus), Roman emperor 284–305 from Dalmatia, ended the third-century crisis through the Tetrarchy, fiscal and provincial reforms, the 301 Price Edict, and the Great Persecution, then retired to Split.