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Dufourspitze
Dufourspitze (4,634 m), also called Monte Rosa summit, is Switzerland's highest peak and the Alps' second highest after Mont Blanc, in the Monte Rosa massif near Zermatt; first climbed 1 August 1855 by Charles Hudson's team, renamed in 1863 for General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
Dug Days
Dug Days is a Disney+ series of Pixar shorts spun off from Up (2009), written and directed by Bob Peterson, voice of Dug. Five shorts premiered September 1, 2021; Carl's Date closed the series in 2023.
Dug Dug
Dug Dug is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language dark satirical comedy-mystery film and the directorial debut of Ritwik Pareek, made in Hindi and Marwari, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Duga radar
Duga, also called Russian Woodpecker, was a Soviet over-the-horizon radar near Chernobyl that detected missile launches, its tapping signal disrupting shortwave radio worldwide from 1976.
Dugald Clerk
Dugald Clerk (1854–1932) was a Scottish engineer who invented the two-stroke internal-combustion engine known as the Clerk cycle and served the British Admiralty in the First World War.
Dugald River mine
The Dugald River mine is an underground zinc, lead, and silver mine about 65 km north-west of Cloncurry, Queensland, wholly owned by MMG Limited and ranked among the world's top 10 zinc mines.
Dugammu
Dugammu, also rendered Dugdammê or, in Greek tradition, Lygdamis, was a Cimmerian ruler in Anatolia in the seventh century BC who took Sardis and raided Ionia.
Dugdamme
Dugdamme, also known as Lygdamis, was a king of the Cimmerians who died around 640 BC during his second campaign against the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Dugdha vati (afi afi-dugdavati)
Dugdha vati (Dugdha vaṭī, AFI000014), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill for shotha (edema), anemia, and jaundice; contains purified cinnabar, Datura metel, and Tinospora or Aconitum ferox; 60 mg dose.
Duggie Stewart
Duggie Stewart (Douglas Norman Stewart, 1913–1991), Scottish army officer and British Olympic equestrian; won team show jumping gold on Aherlow at Helsinki 1952 after a 1948 eventing elimination.
Duginavi (crater on Ceres)
Duginavi is a 155 km diameter impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 39.2N, 4.3E, named for a Kogi agriculture god; it hosts Oxo Crater, the first site where ice was found on Ceres.
Dugong
Dugong (Dugong dugon), sea cow, the only living dugongid sirenian; a Vulnerable seagrass-grazing marine mammal of the Indo-Pacific, with Critically Endangered East African and Endangered New Caledonian subpopulations and its largest population in Australia.
Dugout canoe
A dugout canoe is a boat made by hollowing out a single tree trunk, the oldest boat form known; the Pesse canoe from the Netherlands dates to about 8000 BC.
Dugu clan
The Dugu clan (独孤氏) was a Xianbei-ized aristocratic family of northern China of Xiongnu Tuge origin, one of the eight merit surnames of the Northern Wei elite.
Dugu Ji
Dugu Ji (独孤及, 725–777) was a Tang dynasty official and writer from Luoyang, regarded as a precursor of the classical prose movement later led by Han Yu.
Dugu Pian
Dugu Pian, or Dugu bujian, is a seven-character regulated poem (qilü) by the early Tang poet Shen Quanqi, portraying a Chang'an wife whose husband has been garrisoned at Liaoyang for ten years.
Dugu Xin
Dugu Xin (独孤信, originally named Ruyuan) was a general of Western Wei and Northern Zhou, one of its eight pillar-generals and in-law to three royal houses.
Dugway Proving Ground
Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army test installation in northwestern Utah, established 1942, the nation's leading chemical and biological defense test center on nearly 800,000 acres.
Duha
Duha (દુહો), also written duho or doha, is a self-contained couplet form of medieval Gujarati and Rajasthani folk literature, the most popular form of the Charan bards of Saurashtra.
Duhan van der Merwe
Duhan van der Merwe (born 1995, George, South Africa) is a rugby union winger for Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland, the nation's record men's try scorer (35 tries in 52 games), and a two-time British & Irish Lions tourist (2021, 2025).
Duhem–Quine thesis
The Duhem–Quine thesis is the philosophy of science claim that hypotheses are tested only as part of a bundle of auxiliary assumptions, named for Pierre Duhem and Willard Van Orman Quine.
Duḥkha (दुःख)
Duḥkha (दुःख), Pali dukkha, is the Sanskrit term for the suffering or unsatisfactoriness of conditioned existence, named in Buddhism's First Noble Truth and prominent across Indian religions.
Duhok Governorate
Duhok Governorate (پارێزگای دهۆک), northernmost governorate of Iraq in the Kurdistan Region, established 1969; 1,599,871 residents (2024 census); districts include Zakho, Amadiya, Aqrah; hosts Ninewa IDPs.
Duhok Zoo (حديقة الحيوانات دهوك)
Duhok Zoo (Baxçê Giyanewera Dihok, باخچێ گیانهوهرا دهۆک) is a zoo and family park in the Malta area of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, on Zakho Road; known for African lions kept since 2001 and the rescued Persian leopard Batifah.
Duhu protectorates of the Western Regions
The Duhu protectorates of the Western Regions (西域都护相关建制) were the institutions by which the Sui dynasty organized rule over the Western Regions, chiefly through the Yiwu, Shanshan, and Qiemo commanderies.
Dui De Shijian Dui De Ren
Dui De Shijian Dui De Ren (对的时间对的人, Love Is Always Online) is a 2025 Chinese Tencent Video web drama, 37x45 min, adapted from Gu Xijue's 2014 novel, starring Xiong Ziqi and Cai Wenjing, directed by Zhou Xiaopeng; distinct from the 2018 iQiyi series of the same title.
Dui Ni Buzhi Shi Xihuan
Dui Ni Buzhi Shi Xihuan (对你不止是喜欢, I May Love You) is a 2023 Chinese urban romance drama adapted from Mo Yanchuan's Jinjiang novel, directed by Liu Dong, starring Wei Zheming and Huang Riying, 24 episodes, premiered 25 November 2023 on Mango TV and Tencent Video.
Dui Purush
Dui Purush (দুই পুরুষ, "Two Men") is a Bengali play by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, adapted from his own story, first staged in Kolkata in 1942, and filmed in 1945 and 1972.
Duiba (兑吧)
Duiba (兑吧), or Duiba Group Limited, is a Hangzhou-based Chinese company offering a user-operations SaaS platform and interactive advertising network, listed in Hong Kong in 2019.
Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni (1928–2020) was a Swiss organic chemist and professor at ETH Zurich, known for work on natural-product biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymatic reactions.