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Dolet Hills Power Station
Dolet Hills Power Station was a 650 MW lignite-fired power plant in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, the state's only lignite plant, which operated from 1986 to 2021.
Dolf Weijers
Dolf Weijers is a Dutch plant developmental biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Wageningen University, known for research on the plant hormone auxin and plant embryo development.
Dolfinarium
Dolfinarium is a marine mammal park in Harderwijk, Netherlands, opened 9 July 1965 as the country's first dolfinarium. Owned by Aspro Parks since 2015; in 2026 the government ruled its 22 dolphins are the last, with no new breeding.
Doli Armaano Ki
Doli Armaano Ki (डोली अरमानों की), international title Lies of the Heart, was a Zee TV Hindi drama (2013–2015, 482 episodes) starring Neha Marda and Mohit Malik, about Urmi's abusive marriage to Samrat Singh Rathore in Jhansi and her path to independence.
Doli Saja Ke Rakhna
Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (डोली सजा के रखना), 1998 Hindi romantic drama directed by Priyadarshan, starring Akshaye Khanna and debutante Jyothika, music by A.R. Rahman; a remake of Fazil's Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai that flopped at the box office.
Dolia Roman Villa
Dolia Roman Villa (Villa of the Dolia), submerged Roman complex in the Bay of Agios Vlasis near ancient Epidauros, Greece; about 1,600 square meters, agricultural processing rooms, warehouse with twenty in-situ dolia; distinct from Vetulonia's Domus dei Dolia.
Doliche
Doliche (Dülük), ancient city near Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey, home of the god Iuppiter Dolichenus; founded 3rd century BC, destroyed by Shapur I in 253 AD, excavated by the University of Münster since 2015.
Dolichol
Dolichol is an alpha-saturated polyisoprenoid alcohol lipid (14-24 isoprene units in humans) whose phosphorylated form carries sugars for N-linked glycosylation; defects in its synthesis cause congenital disorders of glycosylation.
Dolichol kinase
Dolichol kinase (DOLK, DK1, EC 2.7.1.108) is a CTP-dependent ER membrane enzyme making dolichol phosphate, the lipid carrier for N-glycosylation; yeast gene SEC59; mutations cause DOLK-CDG with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Dolichol-pathway glycosyltransferases
Dolichol-pathway glycosyltransferases are membrane-bound ER enzymes, encoded by ALG genes, that stepwise build the 14-sugar oligosaccharide Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 on dolichol before its transfer to proteins; defects cause congenital disorders of glycosylation.
Dolichonyx
Dolichonyx is a genus of New World songbirds in the blackbird family, erected by William Swainson in 1827 and containing a single species, the Bobolink.
Dolichopodidae
Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, is the fourth largest dipteran family of predatory flies in Empidoidea, defined by epipharyngeal armature and green metallic coloration; many subfamilies are paraphyletic, and adults prey on aphids and other small insects.
Dolichos
Dolichos L. is a conserved legume genus (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae, Phaseolinae) of about 55-60 Old World tropical species, mostly African; distinguished from Macrotyloma by short standard appendages, reticulate pollen and purple flowers; hyacinth bean (D. lablab) now Lablab purpureus.
Dolichotis
Dolichotis, commonly known as maras, is a genus of large, long-legged, cursorial rodents in the cavy family Caviidae, native to southern South America. It contains the Patagonian mara and, in some classifications, the Chacoan mara.
Dolichovespula arenaria
Dolichovespula arenaria, known as the aerial yellowjacket, is a common North American eusocial wasp that builds its paper nests above ground in trees and shrubs.
Dolichovespula maculata
Dolichovespula maculata, the baldfaced hornet or bald-faced aerial yellowjacket (synonym Vespula maculata), is a black-and-white North American social wasp that builds large aerial paper nests and is not a true hornet.
Dolichovespula saxonica
Dolichovespula saxonica, the Saxon wasp, is a Palaearctic eusocial vespine wasp (11–18 mm) lacking the red tergite spots of D. norwegica; it colonized Britain from 1987 and nests aerially in colonies up to about 1,800.
Doliolida
Doliolida (doliolids) are an order of pelagic tunicates in the class Thaliacea, barrel-shaped filter feeders with 5–9 muscle bands and the most complex, polymorphic life cycle among chordates, forming blooms that affect ocean carbon export.
Dolittle (film)
Dolittle is a 2020 American fantasy adventure comedy directed by Stephen Gaghan, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the veterinarian who speaks to animals, loosely based on Hugh Lofting's novel.
Dolius (crater on Tethys)
Dolius, 190 km IAU-named impact crater on Saturn's moon Tethys at 30.15S, 210.33W, approved 2008 after Penelope's servant; heavily degraded, relaxed basin implying 50 mW/m2 past heat flow.
Dolj
Dolj (Județul Dolj) is a county in southwestern Romania, Oltenia region, capital Craiova. 7,414 sq km, 7th largest; Danube border with Bulgaria; Ford plant; desertification in the south.
Doll
Doll: a toy figure of a person, here traced through tabletop gaming, as free imaginative play, as a component or theme in games like Monopoly L.O.L. Surprise! and Tatari, and as Josh Jordan's two-player RPG Doll.
Dolla (rapper)
Dolla (Roderick Anthony Burton II, 1987-2009) was an Atlanta rapper signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik, known for "Who the Fuck Is That?" and "Make a Toast"; distinct from Ty Dolla $ign, Dolla Boy, and Dolla Black.
Dollar
The dollar is a unit of currency named after a 1519 Bohemian silver coin, now shared by the US dollar and many other national currencies.
Dollar coin (United States)
United States dollar coin: the $1 coin first struck in 1794, later the Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Presidential, and Native American issues; unlike the $1 bill it never gained wide circulation, and GAO found replacing the note would now cost money.
Dollar cost averaging
Dollar cost averaging (DCA), also called pound cost averaging, is an investment strategy of investing a fixed sum at regular intervals, buying more shares when prices are low.
Dollar diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy: early 20th-century US foreign policy under Taft and Knox (1909–1913), substituting "dollars for bullets" via private bank loans and fiscal supervision in the Caribbean, Central America, and China, largely a failure.
Dollar General
Dollar General (NYSE: DG) is a Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based small-box discount retailer founded in 1939, with 21,148 stores in 48 states and Mexico as of July 2026, known for everyday low prices and a heavily documented OSHA safety record.
Dollar Shave Club
Dollar Shave Club is an American men's grooming company founded in 2011 by Michael Dubin and Mark Levine, known for its viral 2012 launch video and $1-per-month razor subscriptions.
Dollar sign
The dollar sign ($) is a currency symbol, a capital S crossed by one or two strokes, used for most dollar and peso currencies and descended from the Spanish abbreviation "ps" for pesos.