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Dutty Boukman
Dutty Boukman, an enslaved Vodou priest in Saint-Domingue, pronounced the oath at the Bois-Caïman ceremony and led the opening of the 1791 slave uprising that began the Haitian Revolution.
Dutty wine
Dutty wine is a Jamaican dancehall dance, usually performed by women, in which the dancer moves the legs like a butterfly while rapidly rotating the neck in a full circle.
Dutugamunu the Great
Dutugamunu the Great (Dutthagamani Abhaya, Gamini Abhaya), Anuradhapura king of Sri Lanka, reigned 161–137 BCE, defeated Elara, unified the island, and built Mirisawetiya, Ruwanwelisaya, and Lovamahapaya.
Duty After School (방과 후 전쟁)
Duty After School (방과 후 전쟁활동, After School War Activities) is a 2023 TVING South Korean sci-fi web drama, 10 episodes, adapted from Ha Il-kwon's Naver webtoon, in which high school seniors are conscripted to fight alien spheres 50 days before the CSAT.
Duty cycle
Duty cycle, also called duty ratio or duty factor, is the fraction of a repetitive pulse waveform's period during which the signal is active, usually as a percentage.
Duty of care
Duty of care: the legal obligation to act with reasonable caution to avoid foreseeable harm, the threshold element of negligence. Known for Donoghue v Stevenson, the Caparo test, and the omissions doctrine.
Duty of support between spouses
The duty of support between spouses is the reciprocal legal obligation, arising from marriage itself, that each spouse provide for the other's necessities and refrain from harm.
Duty to rescue
The duty to rescue is a legal obligation to aid a person in danger; Anglo-American common law imposes it only for special relationships, created perils, or undertaken rescues.
Duty to Warn
Duty to warn, also called Tarasoff duty, is clinicians' legal obligation to warn identifiable third parties of serious threats from patients, originating in Tarasoff v. Regents (1976) and varying by state.
Duty-free shop
A duty-free shop is a customs-bonded retail outlet selling goods to travelers without customs duty, excise duty, or VAT; the first opened at Shannon Airport, Ireland.
Duur
Duur (دور) is a 2000 album by Pakistani pop duo Strings, Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia, which ended an eight-year hiatus, crossed over to India, and is called the band's most popular album.
Duurlig Nars
Duurlig Nars (Дуурлиг нарс) is a Xiongnu (Hunnu) elite cemetery in Bayan-Adarga, Khentii, Mongolia, with about 300 noble tombs, Tomb 1 and the 80 m Tomb 160, excavated since 2006 by the Mongolia-Korea Mon-Sol project and inscribed by UNESCO in 2026.
Duva Oil and Gas Field
Duva is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2016, producing since 2021 via a subsea tie-back to the Gjøa platform.
Duval County, Florida
Duval County, Florida, is a county in northeastern Florida established in 1822 and named for territorial governor William Pope Duval, whose government merged with Jacksonville in 1968.
Duvalia
Duvalia (belemnite genus, Bayle 1878, family Duvaliidae) is an extinct Early Cretaceous cephalopod with compressed, grooved rostra, Tithonian to Aptian, mainly Tethyan; not the homonymous African succulent plant genus Duvalia Haw.
Duvalier family
The Duvalier family ruled Haiti as a hereditary personalist dictatorship from 1957 to 1986: François "Papa Doc" Duvalier (1907-1971) and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" (1951-2014), backed by the Tontons Macoutes militia, US Cold War support, and terror that killed at least 30,000 people.
Duvall Hecht
Duvall Hecht (1930-2022), American rower; 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist in coxless pairs with Jim Fifer; founder of Books on Tape audiobook company and UC Irvine rowing program.
Duván Zapata
Duván Zapata, Colombian centre-forward born 1991 in Cali, Torino captain; first Colombian with 100 Serie A goals; peaked at Atalanta with 23 league goals in 2018-19; returned from an October 2024 ACL rupture.
Düvaz
Düvaz, also known as düvaz-ı imam, is a genre of Alevi-Bektashi religious poetry naming the Twelve Imams in order and praising their virtues, recited in the cem ritual.
Duvdevan Unit (דובדבן)
Duvdevan Unit (דובדבן, Unit 217), IDF undercover counterterrorism unit founded by Ehud Barak in June 1986; disguised arrests and raids in the West Bank; named in the UN Abu Akleh investigation and Commando Brigade since 2015.
Duvelisib
Duvelisib (brand name Copiktra) is an oral inhibitor of the PI3K delta and gamma enzymes, approved in the United States in 2018 for relapsed or refractory CLL/SLL and follicular lymphoma.
Duverger's law
Duverger's law: Maurice Duverger's 1951 proposition that single-member plurality (first-past-the-post) elections favor two-party systems, via mechanical and psychological effects, while proportional representation favors multipartyism.
Duvernay Formation
The Duvernay Formation is an organic-rich Upper Devonian shale in Alberta that is both a major oil and gas source rock and an unconventional reservoir.
Duvet
A duvet, also called a continental quilt, is a soft-filled fabric bag laid over a sleeper, usually inside a washable cover, in place of sheets and blankets.
Duvet (Bôa song)
"Duvet" is a 1998 song by British alt-rock band bôa, also known as the opening theme of Serial Experiments Lain; written by Jasmine Rodgers, it surpassed 1 billion streams after a TikTok revival and reunited the band.
Duvha power station
Duvha power station, the Venda word for the sun, is a coal-fired base-load plant in Emalahleni, South Africa, owned by Eskom and built between 1975 and 1984.
Duvidha (दुविधा)
Duvidha (दुविधा) is a 1973 Hindi film by Mani Kaul, adapted from Vijaydan Detha's Rajasthani folktale, about a ghost who takes a bride's husband's form during his five-year absence; it won the 1974 National Film Award for Best Direction and was remade as Paheli (2005).
Duvvada Srinivas (దువ్వాడ శ్రీనివాస్)
Duvvada Srinivas (దువ్వాడ శ్రీనివాస్), also Srinivas Duvvada, is a YSRCP MLC from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, elected by MLAs; defeated in Tekkali 2009, 2014, 2024 and Srikakulam Lok Sabha 2019, with 11 declared criminal cases and a 2025 YSRCP suspension.
Duwa
Duwa (篤哇) was a Chagatai rebel prince of the Yuan era who allied with Hai Dou against the Yuan court, was wounded by an arrow in 1301, and died in 1306.
Duwamish (fireboat)
The Duwamish is a retired Seattle Fire Department fireboat, launched in 1909 and in service about 75 years before her 1984 retirement, now a museum ship in Seattle.