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Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria
Wilhelm V, called the Pious, was Duke of Bavaria from 1579 until his 1597 abdication in favor of Maximilian I; he founded Munich's Hofbräuhaus in 1589.
Duke Xian of Jin
Duke Xian of Jin (晋献公) was a Spring and Autumn period ruler of Jin, father of Duke Wen, who doubled Jin's army and conquered Huo, Wei, and Geng.
Duke Xian of Jin exterminates the princely line
Duke Xian of Jin exterminates the princely line (晋献公尽逐群公子), the killing of Jin's collateral princes at Ju in 669 BC, ending the Huan and Zhuang lines.
Duke Xiang of Qin's enfeoffment as a feudal lord
Duke Xiang of Qin's enfeoffment as a feudal lord (秦襄公始封为诸侯) raised Qin to the rank of feudal lord after the fall of Western Zhou, around 771 BC, for merit in rescuing Zhou.
Duke Xiang of Song
Duke Xiang of Song (宋襄公) was a Spring and Autumn period ruler of Song, defeated by Chu at the Hongshui and debated as one of the Five Hegemons.
Duke Xiao of Qin
Duke Xiao of Qin (秦孝公) was a Warring States ruler whose legal reforms with Wei Yang, the Lord of Shang, began Qin's rise to dominance.
Duke Yi of Rong's monopoly
Duke Yi of Rong's monopoly (荣夷公专利) was a state monopoly on profit proposed by Rong Yigong for King Li of Zhou, ending in the king's exile.
Duke Zhuang of Zheng
Duke Zhuang of Zheng (郑庄公), personal name Wusheng, was a ruler of the Spring and Autumn period state of Zheng, a forerunner of the hegemonic lords.
Dukes in the United Kingdom
Dukes in the United Kingdom: highest rank of the British peerage (dux), first English dukedom Cornwall 1337; about 30 dukedoms, 24 non-royal dukes, premier Duke of Norfolk; royal dukedoms, life Dukedom of Edinburgh 2023, removal by Act of Parliament.
Dukhan field
The Dukhan field is Qatar's first and only onshore oil and gas field, on the western side of the Qatar peninsula about 80 km west of Doha. Discovered in 1939, it is operated by QatarEnergy.
Dukinfield Henry Scott
Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854–1934) was a British botanist and paleobotanist who led the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and co-described the Paleozoic seed Lagenostoma Lomaxi in 1904.
Dukkan-i Daud
Dukkan-i Daud (دکان داوود, "shop of David") is an Achaemenid-era rock-cut tomb in the Zagros mountains of Iran's Kermanshah province, venerated by the Ahl-e Haqq as a site of David.
Dukki Gel
Dukki Gel, also spelled Doukki Gel, is an ancient settlement on the Nile in northern Sudan, near Kerma, identified with the ancient city of Pnubs.
Dukki Gel statue cache
The Dukki Gel statue cache is a ritual deposit of seven black granite royal statues found at Dukki Gel, near Kerma, Sudan, in January 2003 and displayed at the Kerma museum.
Dukla Prague
Dukla Prague, also known as Dukla Praha, is a Czech football club based at the Juliska stadium in Prague, founded by the Czechoslovak Army in 1948.
Duklja
Duklja (Latin Doclea, also Dioclea) is the name of a Roman city near present-day Podgorica, Montenegro, and of a medieval principality that won independence from Byzantium in 1042.
Dukoral
Dukoral (WC-rBS) is an inactivated oral cholera vaccine with killed Vibrio cholerae O1 whole cells plus recombinant cholera toxin B subunit, developed in Sweden, licensed 1991, WHO prequalified 2001, given with buffer, mainly for travelers.
Dukorski Maentak
Дукорскі маёнтак (Дукорский маёнтак), Dukorski Maentak, is a museum and ethnocultural complex opened in 2015 in Dukora, Belarus, on the former Osztorp szlachta estate, with an upside-down house, craft street, and distillery.
Dukouhe-Qilibei Gas Field
Dukouhe-Qilibei Gas Field is an onshore gas field in the Sichuan Basin, China, operated by PetroChina, holding China's highest hydrogen sulfide content, 17.06%, and commissioned on June 30, 2025.
Dukovany nuclear power plant
The Dukovany nuclear power plant (Jaderná elektrárna Dukovany) is the first nuclear power plant built on Czech territory, near Třebíč. Run by ČEZ, its four reactors supply about 20 percent of Czech electricity.
Dukug Sulcus
Dukug Sulcus is a 385 km wide grooved-terrain sulcus near Ganymede's north pole, centered at 83.7°N, 2.5°W, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Sumerian holy cosmic chamber of the gods.
DUKW
The DUKW, nicknamed the duck, was a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck built for the US military in World War II, ferrying supplies ashore from Sicily to Normandy.
Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant
Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant, also written Dulhasti, is a 390 MW run-of-the-river power station on the Chenab River in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, commissioned in 2007.
Dulaglutide
Dulaglutide (Trulicity), Eli Lilly's once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist injection for type 2 diabetes, approved in 2014; REWIND trial showed 12% fewer major cardiovascular events (HR 0.88) with boxed thyroid C-cell tumor warning.
Dulahazara Safari Park
Dulahazara Safari Park (ডুলাহাজারা সাফারি পার্ক), formally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, is Bangladesh's first safari park, in Chakaria, Cox's Bazar; about 900 ha, roughly 515 animals of 60 species, still operating largely like a zoo.
Dulanga Coal Mine
Dulanga Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in the Ib Valley Coalfield, Sundergarh district, Odisha, operated by NTPC Limited with a rated capacity of 7.0 million tonnes per year.
Dulari Devi
Dulari Devi (born 1968) is an Indian Mithila, or Madhubani, painter from Ranti village in Bihar who rose from domestic work to receive the Padma Shri in 2021.
Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium
Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium, known as DMEM, is a cell culture medium described by Renato Dulbecco in 1959 and now widely used for mammalian cell culture.
Dulce
Río Dulce (sweet river), Guatemalan river, about 42 km, draining Lake Izabal to the Caribbean at Livingston, Izabal; protected since 1955 as 13,000-ha Río Dulce National Park with Castillo de San Felipe de Lara and manatee habitat.
Dulce Base
Dulce Base is an alleged joint human-alien underground facility beneath Archuleta Mesa near Dulce, New Mexico, originating with Paul Bennewitz's 1979 claims, amplified by Phil Schneider, and unsupported by any verifiable evidence.