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Dou Jiande
Dou Jiande (竇建德, 573–621) was a Sui-dynasty rebel leader who built the Xia state over Hebei and declared himself King of Xia in 618.
Dou Jiande's rebellion
Dou Jiande's rebellion (竇建德起義) was a peasant uprising against Sui rule in Hebei led by the farmer Dou Jiande, who took the title King of Xia.
Dou Keqin
Dou Keqin (窦克勤) was a Qing dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar and official from Zhecheng who founded the Zhuyang Academy and wrote on the Classic of Filial Piety.
Dou Rong
Dou Rong (窦融), courtesy name Zhougong, was an Eastern Han statesman and general who held the Hexi corridor for Emperor Guangwu and later served as Imperial Counsellor.
Dou Wu
Dou Wu (竇武), courtesy name Youping, was a Han dynasty official and Grand General under Emperor Ling who died in a failed plot to destroy the eunuch faction.
Dou Wu and Chen Fan conspiracy
The Dou Wu and Chen Fan conspiracy (窦武陈蕃之变) was a failed 168 Han coup by regents Dou Wu and Chen Fan to exterminate the palace eunuchs.
Dou Xian
Dou Xian (窦宪) was an Eastern Han consort-kin minister and general who crushed the Northern Xiongnu and dominated the early court of Emperor He under the Empress Dowager's regency.
Dou Xian's campaigns against the Northern Xiongnu
Dou Xian's campaigns against the Northern Xiongnu (窦宪破北匈奴) were Han dynasty expeditions of 89 to 91, led by Dou Xian, that broke Northern Xiongnu power in the Mongolian steppe.
Dou Ying
Dou Ying (窦婴), courtesy name Wangsun, was a Han-dynasty statesman and kinsman of Empress Dowager Dou who crushed the Seven Princes' rebellion and became Marquis of Weiqi.
Dou-Mu Tesserae
Dou-Mu Tesserae (Dou Mu Tesserae) is a 400-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 60°S, 244°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Chinese life/death goddess.
Douai School
Douai School was an independent Benedictine boarding school at Woolhampton, Berkshire, run by Douai Abbey from 1903 until closure in 1999; founded via Paris (1615) and Douai, France, it merged with St Mary's College and peaked near 330 pupils.
Douala
Douala, Cameroon's largest city, economic capital, and main port on the Wouri estuary; founded around Duala trading polities, colonized by Germany in 1884, then France; about 3.34 million people in 2021.
Douarnenez
Douarnenez, Finistère town in Brittany on Douarnenez Bay; historic Breton sardine port with Roman garum works at Plomarc'h, 40 canneries by 1900, Port-Musée, and kouign-amann origin.
Douay–Rheims Bible
The Douay–Rheims Bible, or Douay Bible, is an English Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, its New Testament published at Rheims in 1582 and its Old Testament at Douay in 1609–1610.
Douban printing
Douban (饾版) is a Chinese woodblock printing technique that divides an image into many small color blocks, developed in the late Ming dynasty behind the Shizhuzhai albums.
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱)
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱, toban djan), Chinese fermented broad bean or chili bean paste; Pixian douban of Chengdu is the GI-protected soul of Sichuan cuisine, base of mapo tofu and hotpot.
Doubao
Doubao (豆包) is ByteDance's AI assistant app and the consumer product of its proprietary large language models, launched in August 2023 and China's most popular AI app.
Doubao (豆包) (assistant)
Doubao (豆包) is a consumer AI assistant app developed by ByteDance, released in China in August 2023 and the country's most-used AI chatbot by mid-2026.
Doubao / Seed (model family)
Doubao / Seed is ByteDance's large language model family, developed by its Seed research line, sold through Volcano Engine, and powering China's most-used consumer AI assistant, the Doubao app.
Doubao voice models
The Doubao voice models are a family of speech models built by ByteDance's Seed team for real-time spoken interaction, including the end-to-end Realtime Voice Model launched in January 2025.
Double (association football)
Double (association football): winning a domestic league and main domestic cup in one season; variants include the league-and-European double (only 17 clubs in 70 years) and domestic cup double; Celtic 1966/67 remain the only quadruple winners.
Double (robot)
The Double is a two-wheeled, self-balancing telepresence robot by Double Robotics of California, first sold in 2012, letting a remote user see, hear, and drive.
Double agent
Double agent: an intelligence asset ostensibly working for one service while controlled by another, used for counterintelligence and disinformation; key cases include Britain's double-cross system, Garbo, ND-98, and Operation Lemon Aid.
Double Album (NOFX album)
Double Album is NOFX's fifteenth studio album, released December 2, 2022 on Fat Wreck Chords. A 10-track companion to 2021's Single Album, it completes a planned double album, followed by Half Album in 2024.
Double aortic arch
Double aortic arch: a congenital heart defect with two aortic arches forming a vascular ring around the trachea and esophagus, causing breathing and swallowing symptoms; treated surgically with excellent outcomes.
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA planetary defense mission that crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, shortening its orbit around Didymos.
Double auction
A double auction is a two-sided market mechanism in which buyers submit bids, sellers submit asks, and a matching rule determines who trades and at what prices.
Double bass
Double bass (contrabass, upright bass): largest, lowest-pitched bowed string instrument of the orchestra, tuned E1-A1-D2-G2 in fourths, gamba-derived hybrid body, roughly 180-200 cm tall, also central to jazz, bluegrass, blues, and tango.
Double beta decay
Double beta decay is a rare nuclear decay in which a nucleus converts two neutrons into two protons, emitting two electrons and two antineutrinos; Maria Goeppert-Mayer predicted it in 1935.
Double bind
Double bind: a communicative trap in which conflicting messages at different levels make every response wrong. Introduced by Gregory Bateson, Jackson, Haley, and Weakland in 1956 as a theory of schizophrenia; later applied to gender, organizations, and AI.