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Dorsum Heim
Dorsum Heim is a 146.79-km wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in western Mare Imbrium on the Moon, centered at 32.20°N, 29.83°W, named for Swiss Earth scientist Albert Heim and IAU-approved in 1976.
Dorsum Oppel
Dorsum Oppel is a 297.62-km IAU-named lunar wrinkle ridge in western Mare Crisium, approved 1976 for German paleontologist Albert Oppel; modeled as a 60°-dip reverse fault with 4,300 m displacement.
Dorsum Scilla
Dorsum Scilla, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) about 108 km long in northern Oceanus Procellarum at 32.34N, 60.00W; IAU-approved 1976 and named for Italian geologist Agostino Scilla (1639-1700).
Dorsum Termier
Dorsum Termier is an 89.65 km IAU-approved lunar wrinkle ridge in south-southwestern Mare Crisium at 11.63°N, 57.15°E, approved in 1976 and named for French geologist Pierre-Marie Termier (1859-1930).
Dorsum Von Cotta
Dorsum Von Cotta, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in western Mare Serenitatis at 23.60N 11.95E, 183 km long, IAU-named 1976 for German Earth scientist Carl Bernard von Cotta (1808-1879).
Dorsum Zirkel
Dorsum Zirkel, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in Mare Imbrium running northwest from crater Lambert, about 195 km long, IAU-approved 1976, named for German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel (1838-1912).
Dort Oba
Dort Oba (Дорт-Оба, also Pastak) is a 4th-century BC Scythian elite kurgan near Simferopol, Crimea, excavated in 1892 by Veselovsky; Artamonov called it the closest match to Herodotus' royal funeral.
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 1958) is a Danish ice-core scientist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, who led the NGRIP, NEEM, and EastGRIP deep drilling projects in Greenland and reconstructs past climate from ice cores.
Dorticum
Dorticum (Vrav, Bulgaria): early Roman fort and vicus on the Danube in Moesia, Augustan or Tiberian founding, attested in the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary, garrisoned by cohors I Cretum, never excavated and heavily looted.
Dortmund
Dortmund, a kreisfreie city in North Rhine-Westphalia's Ruhr region, had 612,165 residents in 2025 and ranks ninth among German cities. A former coal, steel, and beer center, it is now a technology hub, home of Borussia Dortmund and Germany's largest stadium.
Dortmund-Ems Canal
The Dortmund-Ems Canal (German: Dortmund-Ems-Kanal) is a federal inland waterway in Germany linking Dortmund with the North Sea port of Emden, opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1899.
Dörtyol FSRU
The Dörtyol FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit that imports LNG at Dörtyol, Hatay Province, on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast, operated by BOTAŞ and in service since 2018.
Dory Funk Jr.
Dory Funk Jr. (Dorrance Earnest Funk, 1941–2026), American pro wrestler, WWE Hall of Famer, and NWA World Heavyweight Champion 1969–1973 with the second-longest reign in that title's history; brother of Terry Funk and founder of the Funking Conservatory.
Dorylaeum
Dorylaeum (Greek Dorylaion) was a city of northern Phrygia in Asia Minor, at the Şarhöyük mound near modern Eskişehir, Turkey, occupied from the 3rd millennium BC to the 12th century AD.
Dorylus
Dorylus (driver ants) is a genus of African army ants in Dorylinae, with colonies up to 20 million workers, swarm raids over 1,000 m2 daily, wingless queens, fission reproduction, and sausagefly males.
Doryphoroi
The Doryphoroi (Old Persian arshtibara, "spear carrier") were the corps of 1,000 Persian noblemen, called apple-bearers by the Greeks, who served as the Achaemenid kings' bodyguard.
Doryphoros
The Doryphoros, Greek for "spear bearer," is a lost bronze statue of a spear-carrying warrior by Polykleitos of Argos around 440 BC, known through Roman marble copies.
Dorzagliatin
Dorzagliatin (HuaTangNing, 华堂宁) is an oral dual-acting glucokinase activator by Hua Medicine for type 2 diabetes, approved in China in 2022 as the first marketed GKA, dosed 75 mg twice daily.
Dorzhi Banzarov
Dorzhi Banzarov (Доржи Банзаров; 1822–1855) was a Buryat orientalist who graduated from Kazan University in 1846 and wrote the first scholarly study of Mongol shamanism by someone raised in the tradition.
Dorzolamide
Dorzolamide, sold as Trusopt, is a topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor eye drop first approved in the United States in 1994 to lower elevated intraocular pressure in glaucoma.
DOS
DOS, short for Disk Operating System, is a single-user operating system for early Intel-based personal computers, shipped as IBM's PC-DOS and Microsoft's MS-DOS from 1981.
Dos Bocas refinery
The Dos Bocas refinery, formally the Olmeca refinery (Refinería Olmeca de Dos Bocas), is a Mexican petroleum refinery operated by Pemex at the port of Dos Bocas, Tabasco.
Dos Hermanas, Andalusia
Dos Hermanas is a city about 14 km south of Seville in Andalusia, Spain, and the province's second most populous municipality, with 145,143 inhabitants in 2026.
Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas was a Classic-period Maya city in the Petexbatun region of Petén, Guatemala, founded around 650 AD by Tikal's dynasty and conquered after 761 AD by Tamarindito.
Dos Pilas–Tikal wars
The Dos Pilas–Tikal wars (guerras de Dos Pilas) were seventh-century Maya conflicts in which Dos Pilas, a Tikal outpost allied with Calakmul, defeated and sacked Tikal before its own collapse in 761.
Dos Tipos de Cuidado
Dos tipos de cuidado: 1952 Mexican comedia ranchera by Ismael Rodríguez, starring Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante as rival friends Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo; premiered 5 November 1953, their only shared film.
Dosa (food)
Dosa (dosai), the fermented rice-and-urad-dal crepe of South India, is a crisp breakfast staple served with sambar and chutney; attested in Tamil literature from roughly the sixth century AD and now a global dish.
Dosage form
A dosage form, also called a pharmaceutical form or unit dose, is the physical form a drug takes when dispensed, such as a tablet, capsule, or injection.
Dosan sibigok
Dosan sibigok (도산십이곡) is a set of twelve sijo poems written in 1565 by the Korean Neo-Confucian scholar Toegye Yi Hwang about his retreat at Dosan in Andong.
Dosariyah
Dosariyah is a Neolithic coastal settlement in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, occupied around 5200–4500 BC and known for thousands of imported Ubaid pottery sherds from Mesopotamia.