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Dura
Dura (Dura-Europos, Europos-Doura) was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman garrison city on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, founded by Seleucus I around 300 BC, famed for its synagogue and Christian frescoes, destroyed by the Sassanids around 256 AD.
Dura mater
Dura mater (hard mother, pachymeninx): tough outermost meninx of brain and spinal cord, with cranial periosteal and meningeal layers forming venous sinuses and folds like the falx cerebri and tentorium.
Dura-Europos synagogue
The Dura-Europos synagogue is an ancient synagogue in the ruined city of Dura-Europos, Syria, whose extensive wall paintings of 244–245 CE, found intact in 1932–33, are now in Damascus.
Durability analysis
Durability analysis is the engineering method for predicting how long a component or structure withstands repeated loading and fatigue before failure, using stress-life, strain-life, and fracture-mechanics methods.
Durable good
A durable good, also called a hard good, is a good used repeatedly over a year or more instead of being used up in a single use.
Durable goods monopoly
A durable goods monopoly is a seller with exclusive control of a long-lived product that competes with its own past output, eroding pricing power per Coase's 1972 conjecture.
Durable Medical Equipment
Durable medical equipment (DME) is reusable home-use medical equipment such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, and oxygen equipment, defined for Medicare by 42 CFR 414.202's five conditions and paid under Part B with 20% coinsurance.
Duracell
Duracell is an American battery manufacturer, owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2016 and headquartered in Bethel, Connecticut. It sells alkaline, lithium, coin, and rechargeable cells under lines like Coppertop.
Durag
A durag, also spelled do-rag or doo-rag, is a snug fabric cap, typically silk or satin, worn to train 360 waves and preserve hairstyles; it became a symbol of Black style.
Durai Vaiko
Durai Vaiko, born in 1972, is an Indian politician of the MDMK, the party founded by his father Vaiko, and has represented Tiruchirappalli in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Durak (дурак)
Durak (дурак, "fool") is the most popular Russian shedding card game: 2-6 players, 36-card deck, trump suit, attack-and-defense bouts; the last player holding cards loses. Main variants Podkidnoy and Perevodnoy; winning-strategy decision is PSPACE-complete.
Dural arteriovenous fistula
A dural arteriovenous fistula (dAVF) is an abnormal artery-to-vein connection in the dura mater covering the brain or spinal cord, most common around age 50 to 60.
Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous shunt
Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous shunt (DSM, ORPHA:97339), a rare congenital neurovascular malformation with massively dilated dural sinuses and AV shunts, presenting in neonates and infants with macrocrania, heart failure, or hemorrhage.
Duralumin
Duralumin, also known as duraluminium, is an age-hardenable aluminum alloy with about 4% copper, discovered by Alfred Wilm in 1906 and named after Düren, Germany; it made all-metal aviation possible, including the Junkers F.13 of 1919.
Duramax V8 engine
The Duramax V8 engine, also known as the GM Duramax engine, is a 6.6-liter turbocharged diesel V8 built for GM heavy-duty trucks since 2000, designed by Isuzu and produced in Moraine, Ohio.
Duran Duran
Duran Duran, English new wave/synth-pop band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by Nick Rhodes and John Taylor; 100 million albums, two UK Number 1 singles, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022.
Duran Duran (1981 album)
Duran Duran (1981 album): self-titled debut by the Birmingham new wave band, released 15 June 1981 on EMI, produced by Colin Thurston; UK No. 3, 118 chart weeks, US No. 10 after 1983 reissue.
Duran Duran (1993 album)
Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) is Duran Duran's seventh studio album, officially self-titled, released February 1993; cover shows members' parents' wedding photos; hits "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone"; UK No. 4.
Duran Duran discography
Duran Duran discography: catalogue of the Birmingham new wave band (デュラン・デュラン), 1981–2026. 16 studio albums plus Danse Macabre (2023), two UK No. 1 singles, 12 UK Top 10 albums, over 100 million records sold per Discogs.
Durand Cup
Durand Cup, founded 1888 at Shimla by Sir Mortimer Durand, is Asia's oldest and the world's third-oldest football tournament, run by the Indian Army's DFTS; Mohun Bagan lead with 17 titles.
Durand Line
Durand Line: 2,611 km Afghanistan-Pakistan boundary agreed 12 November 1893 between Mortimer Durand and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan; internationally recognized as Pakistan's border but never accepted by Afghanistan.
Durand Stone
The Durand Stone was a basalt block shaped like a human foot, found on Bahrain in 1879 by Captain Edward Law Durand and bearing a cuneiform dedication.
Duranga
Duranga is a Hindi-language ZEE5 crime thriller web series, the official Indian remake of the Korean drama Flower of Evil, developed by Goldie Behl. Season 1 (9 episodes) premiered 19 August 2022; season 2 (8 episodes, directed by Rohan Sippy, with Amit Sadh joining) premiered 24 October 2023.
Durango
Estado de Durango, a Mexican federal state in the north-central republic, core of colonial Nueva Vizcaya; founded as Villa de Durango in 1563 by Francisco de Ibarra, statehood 22 May 1824, capital Victoria de Durango, 39 municipalities, 1.83 million people (2020).
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, historically the Silverton Branch, is a heritage railroad carrying passengers by steam locomotive between Durango and Silverton in southwestern Colorado.
Durango Volcanic Field
Durango Volcanic Field (Campo Volcánico de Durango), a Pliocene-Quaternary monogenetic basaltic field of ~100 cinder cones and maars covering 2,100 km2 northeast of Durango city, Mexico, with the young La Breña-El Jagüey maar complex and mantle xenolith localities.
Durango, CO Micro Area
Durango, CO Micro Area (CBSA 20420), the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, is a one-county OMB labor-market area coterminous with La Plata County, Colorado, population about 56,300, anchored by the city of Durango.
Durango, Colorado
Durango, Colorado: county seat of La Plata County in the Animas River valley near Four Corners, founded 1880 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, home to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and a tourism-driven economy.
Duranguense
Duranguense, also called pasito duranguense, is an uptempo, synth-driven style of Mexican dance music and its associated dance that originated in Chicago in the early 2000s.
Durania
Durania is an extinct genus of box-shaped rudist bivalves established by Maurice Douvillé in 1908, whose fossils span the last 45 million years of the Cretaceous from the Caribbean to Tibet.