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Dolly Sisters
The Dolly Sisters, Jenny and Rosie Dolly (born Yansci and Roszika Deutsch), were Hungarian-American identical twin vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies dancers of the 1910s-1920s, later subjects of the 1945 Fox musical starring Betty Grable.
Dolly Sods Wilderness
Dolly Sods Wilderness: 17,371-acre federally designated wilderness (1975) in Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; windswept heath barrens, bogs, and flagged spruce at 2,500-4,700 feet, a former WWII artillery range with 47 miles of trails.
Dolly zoom
Dolly zoom, also called the Vertigo effect, Hitchcock zoom, contra zoom, or zolly: a camera technique invented by Irmin Roberts for Vertigo (1958), moving the camera while zooming the opposite way so the subject stays constant while the background warps, famously used in Jaws and Goodfellas.
Dollywood
Dollywood is Dolly Parton's 165-acre theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, opened under her name in 1986 from a 1961 railroad attraction, with 50-plus rides, Splash Country, resorts, and about $1.8 billion annual economic impact.
Dolma
Dolma is an openly licensed English pretraining corpus for large language models, created by the Allen Institute for AI in 2023 to train its OLMo model family.
Dolma
Dolma (dolmades, sarma, tolma, mahshi) is a family of stuffed vegetable, fruit, and leaf dishes of Turkish origin name, widespread from the Balkans to Iran, with rice and meat fillings; Azerbaijani tradition is UNESCO-listed since 2017.
Dolmabahçe Palace
Dolmabahçe Palace (Dolmabahçe Sarayı) is a former Ottoman imperial palace on the European shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, built between 1843 and 1856, where Atatürk died in 1938.
Dolmed Montes
Dolmed Montes is a 400-km-wide mountain range on Titan at 11.6S, 216.8W, IAU-approved 5 December 2011 and named after Mount Dolmed of Tolkien's Middle-earth, one of Titan's Tolkien-named montes.
Dolmen
Dolmen is a megalithic tomb made of upright stone slabs and a capstone. The oldest European examples date to the 5th millennium BCE in Brittany, France.
Dolmen of the four Maols
Dolmen of the Four Maols (Dolmain na gCeithre Maol, Ballina Portal Tomb, Table of the Giants): Bronze Age cist tomb, c. 2000 BC, on Primrose Hill, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland; a State-guarded National Monument tied to the legend of four executed brothers.
Dolmen Park
Dolmen Park (고인돌공원) refers to South Korean parks built around goindol megalithic tombs, chiefly the Suncheon Dolmen Park, an open-air museum of 147 relocated Bronze Age dolmens saved from Juam Dam flooding, plus Ganghwa, Osan, and Yeoncheon dolmen parks.
Dólmenes de Antequera
Dólmenes de Antequera (Antequera Dolmens Site), UNESCO World Heritage property since 15 July 2016 in Andalusia, Spain: the Menga and Viera dolmens and Tholos of El Romeral, plus La Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal.
Dolmuş
Dolmuş was a weekly Turkish political humor magazine published in Istanbul from 1956 to 1958, founded by İlhan Selçuk with his brother, the cartoonist Turhan Selçuk.
Dolna Odra power station
The Dolna Odra power station (Elektrownia Dolna Odra) is a power plant at Nowe Czarnowo near Gryfino, north-western Poland, operated by PGE and converted from coal to gas.
Dolnik
Dolnik (Дольник), also called pauznik, is a Russian verse meter with a fixed number of stresses per line and variable 1 to 2 syllable intervals.
Dolno Linevo
Dolno Linevo (Долно Линево) is a village in Lom Municipality, Montana Province, Bulgaria, population 298, with a Roman Danube limes fort and the late antique fortress Trikesa, linked to Justinian I, largely collapsed into the Danube.
Dolno Ozirovo
Dolno Ozirovo (Долно Озирово), village in Varshets municipality, Montana Province, Bulgaria, also a Barrington Atlas ancient fort site. Known for the Roman Kaleto/Gradishte fortress guarding the Ogosta valley and a 1666 Ottoman record of 17 households.
Dolobsk Congress
The Dolobsk Congress (Долобский съезд) was a 1103 meeting of Kievan Rus' princes near Kyiv, where Svyatopolk and Vladimir Monomakh agreed to campaign against the Cumans.
Dolomedes
Dolomedes (raft spiders, fishing spiders) is a genus of about 106 large semi-aquatic Dolomedidae spiders found worldwide except Antarctica, hunting fish and aquatic insects on the water surface; family status separated from Pisauridae in 2025.
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dolomedes tenebrosus, the dark fishing spider, is a large Dolomedidae spider of eastern North America; unlike most fishing spiders it lives in wooded areas and homes, with females 15-26 mm, males dying during mating.
Dolomite (mineral)
Dolomite, also called pearl spar, is a calcium magnesium carbonate mineral with formula CaMg(CO3)2, one of the three most abundant carbonate minerals alongside calcite and aragonite.
Dolomite as a mineral source
Dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2, CAS 16389-88-1) as a mineral source of calcium and magnesium: GRAS Notice 806 for bottled-water remineralization at 40 mg/L Ca and 25 mg/L Mg, versus supplement-grade dolomite with heavy-metal contamination concerns.
Dolomites
The Dolomites are a dolomite-rock mountain range in northeastern Italy, a nine-part UNESCO World Heritage site (2009) of 141,903 ha with 18 peaks above 3,000 m, famed for Triassic fossil reefs, towering limestone walls, and rapidly retreating glaciers such as the Marmolada.
Dolomiti Bellunesi (football club)
Dolomiti Bellunesi, also Dolomiti Bellunesi SRL, is an Italian football club founded in 2021 from the merger of Belluno, San Giorgio Sedico, and Union Feltre; it won Serie D Girone C in 2024-25 and plays in Serie C Girone A.
Dolomitization
Dolomitization is the geologic process in which calcite in limestone is converted to dolomite by magnesium-rich fluids, producing dolostone, abundant in rocks older than 100 million years.
Dolomys
Dolomys Nehring, 1898 is an extinct European vole genus (Arvicolinae, Cricetidae) with rooted hypsodont molars, type species D. milleri from Beremend, Hungary; Pliocene to Pleistocene, once confused with Dinaromys and Pliomys.
Dolon Nor Conference
The Dolon Nor Conference, also called the Dolon Nor Convention or Duolun Conference, was a 1691 meeting at which Khalkha Mongol nobility submitted to the Qing emperor Kangxi, incorporating Mongolia into the Qing empire.
Doloon Nuur Assembly of 1691
The Doloon Nuur Assembly (多伦会盟) was a 1691 convocation held by the Kangxi Emperor at Dolon Nor, where the Khalkha Mongol nobility formally submitted to Qing rule.
Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon (1931–2014) was an American self-trained hypnotherapist who specialized in past-life regression, developed the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, and published more than 19 books through her own press, Ozark Mountain Publishing.
Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne is Stephen King's 1992 novel (Viking Press), a single-monologue confession by a Maine housekeeper suspected of killing her employer Vera Donovan and of her abusive husband Joe St. George's eclipse-day death; paired with Gerald's Game and filmed in 1995 with Kathy Bates.