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Dumbfoundead
Dumbfoundead, also known as Jonathan (Jonnie) Park, DFD, or Dumb, is a Korean American battle rapper and rapper born 1986 in Buenos Aires, raised in Koreatown, Los Angeles; known for Grind Time battles, albums DFD and Foreigner, and the memoir Spit.
Dumbo
Dumbo (1941) is Disney's fifth animated feature, a 64-minute RKO-distributed film about a mocked circus elephant who learns to fly, made for about $812,000, Oscar-winning for scoring, later criticized for racial stereotypes, remade by Tim Burton in 2019.
Dumbo (2019 film)
Dumbo is a 2019 American fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, a live-action reimagining of Disney's 1941 animated classic about a circus elephant whose ears let him fly.
Dumbo, Brooklyn
Dumbo (DUMBO), Brooklyn: East River waterfront neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, named for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass"; a former industrial district, now a preserved loft neighborhood and tech hub with Brooklyn's highest housing prices.
Dumbwaiter
A dumbwaiter is a small vertical lift that carries food, laundry, documents, or merchandise between floors of a building, distinguished from an elevator by carrying no people.
Dumetella
Dumetella is a monotypic bird genus in the mockingbird and thrasher family Mimidae, established by C. T. Wood in 1837 and holding only the Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis.
Dumfries
Dumfries (Dùn Phrìs), the Queen of the South, is south-west Scotland's largest town and the administrative centre of Dumfries and Galloway, on the River Nith. Royal burgh from 1186, Robert the Bruce killed John Comyn here in 1306, Robert Burns died here in 1796, and the Whitesands flood scheme began construction in 2026.
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway, a unitary council area in south-west Scotland (Gaelic: Dhùn Phris is Ghall-Ghàidhealaibh), Scotland's third largest at over 6,400 km² with about 145,000 people, a rural economy and a unitary council since 1996.
Dumi Mkokstad
Dumi Mkokstad, born Mdumiseni Nzimande, is a South African gospel singer from Cabazana in the Eastern Cape, known for Calvary and Egameni LikaJesu, who runs Shammah Records in Durban.
Dumisani Dlamini
Dumisani Dlamini (born 1963, Durban) is a South African actor, composer, and producer who played Crocodile in Sarafina! on Broadway (1988) and in the 1992 film, and is the biological father of rapper Doja Cat.
Dumisani Maraire
Dumisani Maraire, known as "Dumi" (1944 to 1999), was a Zimbabwean mbira player and educator who taught at the University of Washington and introduced Shona music to America.
Dumitru Alexe
Dumitru Alexe (1935–1971), Romanian sprint canoeist from Mahmudia, Tulcea; Olympic gold in C2 1000 m at Melbourne 1956 with Simion Ismailciuc (4:47.4), world champion 1958 Prague, European gold 1957 Ghent.
Dumitru Mazilu
Dumitru Mazilu (born 24 June 1934) is a Romanian lawyer and diplomat who was detained for a UN report denouncing Ceaușescu, then served as Vice-President of Romania from 1989 to 1990.
Dumitru Paraschivescu
Dumitru Paraschivescu was a Romanian race walker who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games and set a 15,000 m walk mark in 1949.
Dumitru Pirvulescu
Dumitru Pîrvulescu (Dumitru Pârvulescu), 1933–2007, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler; flyweight ≤52 kg. Olympic gold at Rome 1960, first Romanian Greco-Roman champion, bronze Tokyo 1964, world silver 1961.
Dumitru Raducanu
Dumitru Răducanu, Romanian rowing coxswain born 1967 in Bucharest; Olympic gold (coxed fours 1992), silver (1984), bronze (1992), world champion 1996, later a coach at CS Farul Constanța.
Dumm Dumm Dumm
Dumm Dumm Dumm (டும் டும் டும்), also Dum Dum Dum, is a 2001 Tamil romantic comedy-drama directed by Azhagam Perumal, produced by Mani Ratnam's Madras Talkies, starring Madhavan and Jyothika in an arranged-marriage romcom set in Ambasamudram.
Dummer's War
Dummer's War (1722–1725), also called Father Rale's War or Lovewell's War, was fought between the New England colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy, allied with New France.
Dummy
Dummy (2020) is a Quibi short-form comedy series created by Cody Heller, loosely based on her life with Dan Harmon, starring Anna Kendrick as a writer who befriends her boyfriend's talking sex doll Barbara (Meredith Hagner).
Dummy (album)
Dummy (1994) is the debut album by Portishead (Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, Adrian Utley), a founding trip-hop/Bristol sound record on Go! Beat that won the 1995 Mercury Prize and sold an estimated 3.6 million units.
Dummy Boy
Dummy Boy (DUMMY BOY) is 6ix9ine's debut studio album, released November 27, 2018 via Create Music Group after a leak and his racketeering arrest; it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 66,000 units and scored 38 on Metacritic.
Dummy load
A dummy load, also called an RF load or phantom antenna, is a resistive termination that absorbs radio-frequency power as heat, letting transmitters be tested without radiating a signal.
Dummy rummy
Dummy rummy, also called 5000 Rummy, is a North American scoring rummy variant of 500 Rummy with unequal upcard-determined hands, a deal-varying wild card, 100-point aces and wilds, and a 5000-point target.
Dummy variable (statistics)
A dummy variable, also called an indicator variable, is a binary variable that takes the value 1 or 0 to include categorical data in regression models.
Dumnonia
Dumnonia, also known as Kernyw or Dyfneint, was a post-Roman British kingdom covering Cornwall, Devon, and parts of Somerset, absorbed by Wessex by the tenth century.
Dumnonii
Dumnonii (Dumnones): Iron Age and Roman-era British Celtic tribe of Devon, Cornwall, and part of Somerset; no coins or kings, tin-based economy, civitas capital Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter), name surviving in Devon and Breton Domnonée.
DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network (also styled Du Mont), America's fourth TV network, 1946 to mid-1950s, founded from Allen B. DuMont's CRT business with Paramount financing; owned WABD New York and WTTG Washington, later Metromedia.
Dumortieria
Dumortieria, ammonite genus (Haug, 1885), type species Ammonites levesquei d'Orbigny 1844; moderately evolute, keeled Late Toarcian ammonoid found almost worldwide in Levesquei Zone correlatives.
Dump truck
A dump truck, also known as a tipper lorry, is a truck with an open-box bed raised by a hydraulic hoist to unload sand, gravel, or debris.
Dumping (pricing policy)
Dumping, also known as export dumping, is the sale of a product in an export market below its normal value, or home-market price, under WTO trade law.