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Durjoy Datta
Durjoy Datta, born 1987, is an Indian novelist and screenwriter who writes romance-centered commercial fiction; his twenty-one novels include the debut Of Course I Love You...! from 2008.
Durk Kingma
Durk Kingma (formal name Diederik P. Kingma), born 1983, is a Dutch computer scientist known for the Variational Autoencoder and the Adam optimizer, and an OpenAI co-founder.
Durkee herbarium
Durkee Herbarium (GRI) is the Grinnell College herbarium in Grinnell, Iowa, holding about 27,000 vascular plant specimens from Iowa and adjacent states, with Henry S. Conard and Durkee among its important collectors.
Dürkopp Adler
Dürkopp Adler is a German manufacturer of industrial sewing machines and automated sewing systems in Bielefeld, formed in 1990 by the merger of Kochs Adler and Dürkoppwerke.
Durlabh Prasad Ki Dusri Shadi (दुर्लभ प्रसाद की दूसरी शादी)
Durlabh Prasad Ki Dusri Shadi (दुर्लभ प्रसाद की दूसरी शादी) is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Siddhant Raj Singh, starring Sanjay Mishra, Mahima Chaudhry, Vyom Yadav, and Pallak Lalwani; released 19 December 2025, streaming on JioHotstar from 23 March 2026.
Durley Hill
Durley Hill, Keynsham, Somerset: site of a large Romano-British courtyard villa under a Victorian cemetery, excavated 1922-4 by Bulleid and Horne, with rare hexagonal triclinia, mosaics, and 3rd-4th century occupation.
Durlobactam
Durlobactam, formerly ETX2514, is a diazabicyclooctane β-lactamase inhibitor developed by Entasis Therapeutics and sold with sulbactam as Xacduro, approved by the FDA in 2023 for pneumonia caused by Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.
Durmish Khan Shamlu
Durmish Khan Shamlu (درمیش خان شاملو) was a Qizilbash amir of the Shamlu tribe who served Shah Ismail I and governed Herat until his death in 1525.
Durmitor
Durmitor: limestone massif in northern Montenegro's Dinaric Alps, also Durmitor National Park (founded 1952), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 with Bobotov Peak 2,525 m, 18 glacial lakes, and the Tara River Gorge, Europe's deepest gorge.
Durnomagus
Durnomagus, Roman cavalry fort (Reiterkastell) at Dormagen on the Lower Germanic Limes, Germania Inferior; garrisoned by the Ala I Noricorum from about 85 AD, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.
Dürnrohr Power Station
The Dürnrohr Power Station is a former coal and gas fired power station in Zwentendorf, Lower Austria, operational from 1987, with coal units shut down by 2019.
Duro Felguera
Duro Felguera is a Spanish industrial engineering and construction company headquartered in Langreo, Asturias. Founded in 1858 as a steelmaker, it now executes energy, mining, and industrial projects.
Duro(i)coregum
Duro(i)coregum (Duroico Regum), an unlocated Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Peutinger Table route from Cassel to Amiens; name probably corrupt, site proposed near Cramont or Domqueur, France.
Durobrivae (Water Newton)
Durobrivae (Water Newton) was a Roman small town in Cambridgeshire on Ermine Street at the River Nene crossing; largest walled small town in England, home of the Water Newton Treasure, the earliest Christian liturgical silver in the Roman Empire.
Durocobrivis
Durocobrivis (Durocobrivae), Roman minor settlement under modern Dunstable, Bedfordshire, at the Watling Street and Icknield Way crossroads; listed in the Antonine Itinerary, occupied 1st to 4th century, distinct from Durobrivae.
Durocornovium
Durocornovium was a Romano-British small town on Ermin Street between Cirencester and Silchester, near Wanborough, Swindon, Wiltshire. About 25 ha, occupied mid-1st to 4th century AD, peak AD 244-367; now a Scheduled Monument.
Durolitum
Durolitum was a Romano-British posting station on the London–Chelmsford road in the Antonine Itinerary, tentatively placed at Little London, Chigwell, Essex, or near Romford; meaning 'the strong lodge'.
Duronto Express (দুরন্ত এক্সপ্রেস)
Duronto Express (দুরন্ত এক্সপ্রেস) is a class of long-distance passenger trains operated by Indian Railways, introduced in September 2009 as its first non-stop superfast services.
Durotincum
Durotincum (Durotingum, Durotinco), Roman Alpine road station in Gallia Narbonensis near La Grave and Villar-d'Arène, Hautes-Alpes, France, on the Peutinger route between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon); distinct from the Lemovices capital of the same name.
Durotomy
Durotomy is a surgical incision, or unintended tear, in the dura mater, the tough outermost membrane around the brain and spinal cord; deliberate in tumor resection, incidental tears are the most common complication of spine surgery.
Durrani Empire
Durrani Empire, or Dorrani Empire, the Afghan state founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 after Nader Shah's death; capital Qandahar, later Kabul; at its height from the Amu Darya to the Oman Sea and Delhi; fragmented in 1818 and collapsed by 1823, giving way to the Barakzai Emirate of Afghanistan.
Durrani rule in Kashmir
Durrani rule in Kashmir (درانی کشمیر) was the Afghan Durrani Empire's governorship of the Kashmir valley from 1753 until Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh forces conquered it in 1819.
Durrell family
The Durrell family, an Anglo-Indian British family of writers Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, parents Lawrence Samuel and Louisa, siblings Leslie and Margo, known for the Corfu years 1935-1939 and My Family and Other Animals.
Durrës
Durrës, historically Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, is Albania's second largest city and main seaport, about 33 kilometers west of Tirana, handling over 90 percent of national port cargo.
Durrës District
Durrës District (rrethi i Durrësit), a former Albanian district now within Durrës County; six administrative units, 175,110 census-2011 population, Albania's largest port handling over 90 percent of port volume.
Dürrî Mehmed Efendi
Dürrî Mehmed Efendi was an Ottoman şeyhülislâm, the empire's chief religious authority, serving from 1734 until his 1736 dismissal under Sultan Mahmud I, and founded the Dürrîzâde ulema family.
Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls, a Later Neolithic henge enclosure near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is Britain's largest henge at about 490 by 468 meters, enclosing a major Grooved Ware settlement with timber circles, later ringed by a 2-km-wide circle of Neolithic shafts.
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Beyefendi
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Beyefendi (1869–1923) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, the state's chief mufti, from April to July 1920, signing fatwas against the National Forces.
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Efendi
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Efendi (1769–1828) was an Ottoman scholar from a family that produced six şeyhülislâms; he held the office twice under Sultan Mahmud II, from 1808 to 1810 and 1812 to 1815.
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi (1740/41–1800) was an Ottoman scholar who twice held the office of Shaykh al-Islam, first briefly in 1785–1786 and again from 1792 to 1798.