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Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah (1969) is Frank Herbert's sequel to Dune, showing Paul Atreides twelve years later as emperor facing a conspiracy; it deconstructs the messiah hero and is being adapted as Dune: Part Three (December 2026).
Dune: Awakening
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival game developed and published by Funcom, set on the desert planet Arrakis in the Dune universe, released on PC in June 2025.
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Harkonnen (2000) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson is the second novel of the House prequel trilogy to Frank Herbert's Dune, covering Leto Atreides, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Jessica, Gurney Halleck, and Duncan Idaho before the original novel.
Dune: Part Three
Dune: Part Three is Denis Villeneuve's third Dune film, adapting Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson as Scytale, releasing theatrically and in IMAX December 18, 2026 via Warner Bros.
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two (Dune Part 2) is a 2024 science-fiction epic directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapting the second half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and starring Timothée Chalamet.
Dune: Prophecy
Dune: Prophecy is an American science fiction drama series on HBO and Max. It premiered November 17, 2024, and follows two Harkonnen sisters 10,000 years before Paul Atreides.
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, is the first Legends of Dune prequel novel, dramatizing the war against thinking machines ten millennia before Frank Herbert's Dune and the origins of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, and Fremen.
Dúnedain
The Dúnedain (singular Dúnadan, meaning "Men of the West") are a fictional people in Tolkien's Middle-earth, descendants of the Edain who were granted the island of Númenor.
Dunedin
Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is a New Zealand South Island city on Otago Harbour, founded by Scottish settlers in 1848; a Gaelic form of Edinburgh, it was the country's largest city around 1880 and is now a university and medical research centre.
Dunedin Blue Jays
Dunedin Blue Jays, Florida State League Single-A minor league affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays since 2021 (earlier 1978-79, 1987-2020), playing at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida; 282 alumni reached MLB.
Dunedin, Florida
Dunedin, Florida, a Gulf Coast city in Pinellas County between Tampa and Clearwater, founded by Scottish merchants J.O. Douglas and James Somerville, named for Dùn Èideann, home of Toronto Blue Jays spring training, Honeymoon and Caladesi islands, and the Pinellas Trail.
Dunense Castrum
Dunense Castrum (Dunensis castrum, castellum Dunum): ancient fortified place at Châteaudun, France (Barrington Atlas 11 B4), seat of a short-lived 6th-century bishopric under Gregory of Tours; its late-antique fort is not archaeologically confirmed.
Dunes Point Capital
Dunes Point Capital is a private equity firm in Rye, New York, founded by Timothy White in 2013 to make control-oriented investments in general industrials companies.
Dunfermline
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: ancient royal capital and city since 2022. Home to Dunfermline Abbey, royal mausoleum of Robert the Bruce, birthplace of Charles I and Andrew Carnegie.
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. (the Pars), Scottish club founded 2 June 1885 at East End Park, Fife. Scottish Cup winners 1961 and 1968, 1968-69 Cup Winners' Cup semi-finalists; entered administration in 2013, rescued by fan-owned Pars United, later 99.84% owned by James Bord and Evan Sofer; 2026 Scottish Cup finalists.
Dung beetle
Dung beetle (Scarabaeinae): scarab beetles that feed on and bury animal dung; over 8,000 species, ~600 ball rollers. Known for sun, polarization, and Milky Way compass navigation, ecosystem services, and forest-loss sensitivity.
Dung beetle optimization algorithm
The dung beetle optimization algorithm is a swarm-based metaheuristic introduced by Jiankai Xue and Bo Shen in 2022 that mimics dung beetle behaviors to solve optimization problems.
Dung Dung Sylvanus
Sylvanus Dung Dung (Dung Dung Sylvanus, born 1949) is an Indian field hockey right-back from Simdega, Jharkhand, who won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 2016 Dhyan Chand Award.
Dung Kai-cheung
Dung Kai-cheung (董啟章, born 1967) is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose novels, including the V City series and Natural History trilogy, reconstruct Hong Kong through fictional archaeology.
Dung T. Le
Dung T. Le (Dung Thi Le) is a gastrointestinal oncologist and professor at Johns Hopkins whose trials produced the first US cancer approval based on a tumor's genetic feature, in 2017.
Dung-Hai Lee
Dung-Hai Lee is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and professor of physics at UC Berkeley since 1994, known for work on high-temperature superconductors and topological phases of matter.
Dunga
Dunga (Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri, born 1963), Brazilian defensive midfielder who captained the 1994 World Cup winners, then coached Brazil 2006–2010 (Copa América 2007, Confederations Cup 2009) and 2014–2016, dismissed after Copa América Centenario.
Dunga Oil Field
The Dunga oil field (Дунга) is an onshore oil and gas field in western Kazakhstan about 50 km north of Aktau, discovered in 1966 and producing commercially since 2000.
Dungan people
Dungans: Chinese-speaking Muslim (Hui-descended) minority of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia; arrived in 1877–78 and 1881–83 migrations after the Dungan Revolt; speak Cyrillic-script Dungan.
Dungan Revolt
The Dungan Revolt (陕甘回变), or Hui rebellion, was an armed conflict in Shaanxi and Gansu from 1862 to 1877, devastating the Hui population of the Northwest.
Dungannon
Dungannon (Dún Geannain) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in the Mid Ulster district. Former seat of the O'Neill lordship on the Hill of The O'Neill, now a diverse town with Neighbourhood Renewal designation and town-centre regeneration.
Dungar Singh of Bikaner
Dungar Singh (डूंगर सिंह) was the 20th Maharaja of Bikaner in Rajasthan, reigning from 1872 to 1887; he modernized the state's administration and is called the creator of modern Bikaner.
Dungarvan
Dungarvan (Dún Garbhán) is a coastal market and port town in County Waterford, Ireland, at the head of Dungarvan Harbour on the River Colligan. Chartered by King John in 1215, it is a former county town, RSES Key Town, and terminus of the 46 km Waterford Greenway.
Dungeness
Dungeness, Kent: a cuspate shingle foreland on Romney Marsh, the largest shingle feature in Europe, with lighthouses since 1615, Dungeness A and B nuclear stations, an NNR, and Prospect Cottage.
Dungeness crab
Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister, Cancer magister) is a large edible west coast North American crab from Alaska to California, basis of a 3S-managed fishery worth over $200 million annually.