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Dubs (mascot)
Dubs II, Alaskan Malamute, is the University of Washington Huskies' 14th live mascot, serving since 2019; live UW mascots date to 1922, all malamutes since 1959, managed by Anne-Lise Knight.
Dubsmash
Dubsmash was a short-form video app launched in Berlin in 2014 for lip-syncing over audio clips; Reddit acquired it in 2020 and shut it down in 2022.
Dubstar
Dubstar are an English synth-pop and dream pop act formed in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991 by Steve Hillier and Chris Wilkie, with singer Sarah Blackwood. Hits "Stars" and "Not So Manic Now"; albums Disgraceful, Goodbye, Make It Better; since 2018 a Blackwood-Wilkie duo.
Dubstep
Dubstep, an electronic dance music genre from early 2000s South London, also called 140 or UK dubstep versus American brostep. Built on 140 BPM half-time rhythms, deep sub-bass and dub sound system culture, born from UK garage via Big Apple Records, FWD>> and artists like Skream and Kode9.
Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque, Iowa: oldest city in Iowa, on the Mississippi at the Iowa-Illinois-Wisconsin junction. Founded by lead miner Julien Dubuque (1785), chartered 1837; 2020 population 59,667, council-manager government since 1920.
Ducarius
Ducarius was an Insubrian cavalryman serving under Hannibal whom Livy names as the killer of the Roman consul Flaminius at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC.
Ducat
The ducat, or Dukaten, is a gold coin of about 3.5 grams first issued by Venice in 1284 and still struck today in Austria and the Netherlands.
Ducati
Ducati is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer based in Bologna, founded in 1926, known for sport bikes with desmodromic valve gear and a racing program with MotoGP and Superbike titles.
Ducati 1199
The Ducati 1199 Panigale is a 1199 cc sport motorcycle produced by Ducati from 2012, the first superbike with an aluminum monocoque chassis and a name alongside its capacity number.
Ducati Corse
Ducati Corse, founded 1999, is Ducati Motor Holding's official racing division running MotoGP (Ducati Lenovo Team, Desmosedici GP) and WorldSBK (Aruba.it Racing), known for desmodromic valves, winglet aerodynamics, and 2023-2025 MotoGP titles.
Ducati Monster
The Ducati Monster is a naked roadster motorcycle built by Ducati in Borgo Panigale, Italy, since 1993, designed by Miguel Galluzzi and Ducati's best-selling model.
Ducati Panigale V4
The Ducati Panigale V4 is a superbike motorcycle built by Ducati in Bologna and the first production Ducati to use a four-cylinder engine, derived from its MotoGP racer.
Duccio (Mercurian crater)
Duccio is a 132.57-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 58.43°N, 52.41°W, a heavily degraded Tolstojan crater cut by a lobate scarp, named under the IAU artist-naming rule.
Duce
Duce, Italian for 'leader' (Latin dux), became Benito Mussolini's title from 1922 and official state title in 1938; the term names both his Fascist dictator role and, by extension, any authoritarian leader.
Duce Staley
Duce Staley, born 1975 in Tampa, Florida, is a former NFL running back for the Eagles and Steelers, now the Cleveland Browns' running backs coach.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), also called pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, is an X-linked inherited disease causing rapidly progressive muscle weakness in about 1 in 3,500 boys, caused by DMD gene mutations that eliminate functional dystrophin; walking is typically lost by age 12.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy care considerations
Duchenne muscular dystrophy care considerations are consensus standards, updated in 2018 with CDC support, defining comprehensive multidisciplinary DMD care, assessment schedules, anesthesia rules, and emergency management.
Duchess (film)
Duchess (2024), also released in Germany as Scarlett – Diamond of Revenge, is a British crime thriller directed by Neil Marshall, co-written with and starring Charlotte Kirk as Scarlett Monaghan, a London petty criminal seeking revenge in the diamond smuggling underworld; released August 9, 2024 via Saban Films.
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739–1807), regent of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1758–1775, founder of the Weimar Court of the Muses, patron of Goethe and Wieland, and composer of Erwin und Elmire (1776); namesake of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library.
Duchess Helene in Bavaria
Duchess Helene in Bavaria (Néné, 1834–1890), elder sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, was the intended bride of Franz Joseph, married Maximilian Anton of Thurn and Taxis in 1858, and led that house after his 1867 death.
Duchess of Edinburgh
Duchess of Edinburgh, British royal title for the wife of the Duke of Edinburgh, created 1726 and held 2023 by Sophie, wife of Prince Edward, after Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Duchies of Silesia
The Duchies of Silesia were the small Piast-ruled principalities into which the Polish province of Silesia fragmented, at one point ruled by more than thirty dukes at once.
Duchy
Duchy: territory ruled by a duke (Latin dux), from Roman and Frankish military office to hereditary feudal territory; Luxembourg, a grand duchy since 1815, is the only sovereign one today.
Duchy of Anjou
Duchy of Anjou (duché d'Anjou): Loire-valley principality around Angers, a county under Fulk Nerra (987–1040), held by the Plantagenets, a duchy-peerage from 1360, reunited to France in 1480; title later borne by Spanish Bourbons.
Duchy of Aquitaine
Duchy of Aquitaine, also Guyenne, great medieval French fief south of the Loire: Carolingian kingdom from 781, Ramnulfid dukes from c. 898, English under Eleanor and the Plantagenets 1154–1453, ending at Castillon.
Duchy of Aragvi
The Duchy of Aragvi (Aragvis Saeristavo) was a military-administrative unit and later hereditary principality of feudal Georgia, in the Aragvi river valley, from 1335 to 1743.
Duchy of Argveti
The Duchy of Argveti (Georgian: არგვეთი, also Margveti) was a feudal duchy of western Georgia, guarded by the Shorapani fortress on the route from Colchis to Iberia.
Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν) was a crusader state in central Greece from 1205 to 1458, ruled successively by Burgundian, Catalan, and Florentine dynasties.
Duchy of Austria
The Duchy of Austria (Herzogtum Österreich) was an imperial duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1156 when the Margraviate of Austria was detached from Bavaria.
Duchy of Bar
Duchy of Bar (Barrois), a border principality between France and the Holy Roman Empire around Bar-le-Duc; a county from 951, held with Lorraine from René d'Anjou, until French annexation in 1766.