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Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering crossed molecular beam studies of chemical reactions.
Dudley S. Childress
Dudley S. Childress (1934–2014) was an American biomedical engineer at Northwestern University who pioneered prosthetics, created the first commercial proportional myoelectric prosthesis, and originated the roll-over shape concept.
Dudley Storey
Dudley Storey (1939–2017) was a New Zealand rower who won Olympic gold in the 1968 coxed four and silver in the 1972 coxless four, then managed national teams.
Dudley Sutton
Dudley Sutton (1933-2018), English character actor; Tinker the tout in BBC's Lovejoy (1986-94), gay biker in The Leather Boys (1964), Baron de Laubardemont in Ken Russell's The Devils (1971); Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop alumnus.
Dudley Tunnel
Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel in Dudley, England, begun in 1775 to serve limestone mines and now the second longest navigable canal tunnel in the UK.
Dudley W. Lamming
Dudley W. Lamming is an American biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies how nutrient-sensing pathways, especially mTOR and dietary isoleucine, control metabolism and aging.
Dudley's theorem
Dudley's theorem, also called the Dudley entropy integral bound, bounds the expected supremum of a sub-Gaussian process by an integral of the metric entropy of its index set.
Dudleytown, Connecticut
Dudleytown, Connecticut: an abandoned settlement in Cornwall's Dark Entry hollow, never an incorporated town, famed for a fabricated curse legend traced to Edward C. Starr's 1926 History of Cornwall and amplified by Ed and Lorraine Warren; privately owned by the Dark Entry Forest Association and closed to visitors.
Dudu (king of Akkad)
Dudu of Akkad was a late Sargonic king of Akkad, listed in the Sumerian King List for 21 years and succeeded by his son Shu-turul, one of the last two kings.
Dudu (Tarkan EP)
Dudu is a 2003 album by Turkish pop singer Tarkan, released on his own label, HİTT Müzik, mixing new songs with remixes and reaching number 2 in Turkey.
Dudu Miyan
Dudu Miyan (দুদু মিয়াঁ), born Muhsinuddin Ahmad, succeeded his father Haji Shariatullah in 1840 as leader of the Faraizi movement, turning it into a powerful agrarian force in Company-era Bengal until his death in 1862.
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood is a collaboration between Israeli rock musician Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who released the album Jarak Qaribak in 2023.
Dudu Zhongwai Zhu Junshi
Dudu Zhongwai Zhu Junshi (都督中外诸军事), meaning commander-in-chief of the armies central and outer, was the highest military command title of Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties China.
Duduan (Cai Yong's Duduan)
Duduan (蔡邕獨斷), a Han dynasty handbook attributed to the scholar Cai Yong, describes the dynasty's political institutions, ceremonies, and official document forms, and is the earliest surviving Chinese text on document formats.
Duduk
Duduk (դուդուկ, tsiranapogh): Armenian double-reed apricot-wood wind instrument with a warm, nasal timbre, played in pairs with drone and melody, four sizes 28-40 cm, UNESCO-inscribed 2008.
Dudumitsa Dorsa
Dudumitsa Dorsa is a 980-km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus, centered at 13.5°S, 358°E in quadrangle V-43, named in 2000 after a Bulgarian rain deity.
Due Date
Due Date is a 2010 American buddy road comedy directed by Todd Phillips, starring Robert Downey Jr. as an expectant father driving cross-country with Zach Galifianakis.
Due diligence
Due diligence is the investigation a party conducts before committing to a transaction, especially in acquisitions, to verify facts, identify risks, and allow renegotiation or termination.
Due process
Due process of law is a US constitutional guarantee in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that government may not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property unfairly.
Due Process Clause
The Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments bars depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; it grounds procedural due process, incorporation, and contested substantive due process doctrine.
Due South
Due South is a Canadian crime comedy-drama series created by Paul Haggis, following Mountie Benton Fraser solving crimes with a Chicago detective, first broadcast in 1994.
Duékoué massacre
The Duékoué massacre was the killing of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Guéré ethnic group, by forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2011.
Duel
Duel: prearranged two-person combat under agreed conditions, from the medieval judicial duel (duellum, Zweikampf) to the early modern European honour duel with codes, seconds, rapier and pistols, and its decline.
Duel (1971 film)
Duel (1971) is Steven Spielberg's ABC Movie of the Week thriller, written by Richard Matheson from his Playboy story, in which Dennis Weaver's salesman is stalked by an unseen tanker-truck driver; its acclaim launched Spielberg's feature career.
Duel at Diablo
Duel at Diablo (1966) is a Ralph Nelson Western starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier, based on Marvin H. Albert's novel Apache Rising, about a cavalry ammunition convoy attacked by Apaches in Utah.
Duel in the Sun (film)
Duel in the Sun, 1946 Technicolor Western by King Vidor, produced by David O. Selznick from Niven Busch's novel, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, and Joseph Cotten in a fatal Texas love triangle; notorious for its budget, censorship battles, and later critical re-evaluation.
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ)
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ) is a Japanese trading card game by Wizards of the Coast and Takara Tomy, launched May 2002 from a 1999 CoroCoro manga; five civilizations, 40-card decks, shields, evolution creatures, over 8.2 billion cards shipped, and the DUEL MASTERS PLAY'S app.
Duel Masters Trading Card Game
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ) is a Japanese trading card game by Wizards of the Coast and Takara Tomy, first released May 2002 (DM-01); over 8.2 billion cards shipped, 40-card decks, four-copy limit, English support ended 2006, DUEL MASTERS PLAY'S app since 2019.
Duel of the Fates
Duel of the Fates: John Williams's 1999 orchestral-and-chorus theme for The Phantom Menace's climactic lightsaber duel, sung in Sanskrit arranged from the Welsh poem Cad Goddeu, in E minor.
Duel to the Death (生死决)
Duel to the Death (生死決, Xian si jue) is a 1983 Hong Kong wuxia film, Ching Siu-tung's directorial debut for Golden Harvest, about a decennial China-Japan swordsmen duel rigged by conspirators, famous for kite-riding ninjas and its cliff-top finale.