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Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor, Успенский собор) is the five-domed main church of the Moscow Kremlin, built 1475–1479 by Aristotele Fioravanti for Ivan III, modeled on Vladimir's Assumption Cathedral, consecrated 1479, and used for coronations.
Dormition of the Mother of God
The Dormition of the Mother of God, or Koimisis, is the Eastern Christian feast of Mary's death and bodily translation to heaven, kept on August 15.
Dormitory
Dormitory: a building for sleeping accommodation, especially a college residence hall; from Latin dormitorium; American dorms evolved from Harvard's 1655 Indian College through segregated, gendered housing to modern residence halls.
Dormouse
Dormouse: small arboreal rodent of the family Gliridae (also called Myoxidae), including the hazel, edible, garden, and forest dormice; known for hibernation and torpor, early Eocene fossil record, and the garden dormouse's Vulnerable IUCN status.
Dorna Sports
Dorna Sports is a Spanish sports management and marketing company headquartered in Madrid, holder of the exclusive commercial and television rights to MotoGP motorcycle racing since 1991.
Dornase alfa
Dornase alfa (Pulmozyme), recombinant human DNase I inhaled daily, is a mucolytic for cystic fibrosis lung disease; FDA-approved 1993, it cleaves extracellular DNA in sputum, improving FEV1 and reducing exacerbations.
Dornier 228
The Dornier 228 is a German-designed twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft with short takeoff and landing capability, seating up to 19 passengers, that first flew in 1981.
Dornier 328
The Dornier 328 is a twin-engine, high-wing regional turboprop airliner seating about 30, designed by Dornier near Munich and first flown in 1991, with 217 built.
Dornier DAR
The Dornier DAR (Drohne Anti-Radar) was a West German expendable anti-radar drone built by Dornier to destroy enemy radar installations; the project was canceled in 1994.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17, nicknamed "The Flying Pencil", was a German twin-engine medium bomber flown by the Luftwaffe in early Second World War campaigns, including the Battle of Britain.
Dornier Do 18
The Dornier Do 18 was a German twin-engine flying boat, flown from 1935, that carried airmail across the South Atlantic and performed German maritime reconnaissance.
Dornier Do 217
The Dornier Do 217 was a twin-engined bomber and night fighter built by Dornier for the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, with about 1,730 built.
Dornier Do 31
The Dornier Do 31 was a West German experimental VTOL jet transport built by Dornier, the only jet transport able to take off and land vertically, flying from 1967 to 1970.
Dornier Do 335
The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was a German twin-engine heavy fighter of World War II with one engine in the nose and one at the rear.
Dornier Do J Wal
The Dornier Do J Wal was a German twin-engine all-metal flying boat designed by Claude Dornier, first flown in 1922 and used for pioneering ocean flights.
Dornier Do X
The Dornier Do X was a German twelve-engine flying boat, the world's largest passenger aircraft when it first flew in 1929, though only three were built and none succeeded commercially.
Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve
Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve (Mongolia, designated 2005) protects eastern Mongolian steppe on the Chinese border, 2,428,449 ha, core 570,374 ha, home of Asia's largest Mongolian gazelle herds, threatened by oil and mining.
Doro (musician)
Doro, stage name of Dorothee Pesch, is a German heavy metal singer born 1964 in Düsseldorf, frontwoman of the 1980s band Warlock and later her own solo band.
Dorofeeva
Dorofeeva, also known as Nadya Dorofeeva, is a Ukrainian singer and designer who spent 2010 to 2020 in the duo Vremya i Steklo before a solo career.
Dorohedoro (ドロヘドロ)
Dorohedoro (ドロヘドロ) is Q Hayashida's dark fantasy seinen manga (2000-2018, 23 volumes) about Caiman, a man with a reptile head hunting sorcerers, adapted by MAPPA into an anime (2020, Season 2 in 2026, Season 3 announced).
Doron Aurbach
Doron Aurbach (Hebrew: דורון אורבך) is an Israeli electrochemist and professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for pioneering rechargeable magnesium battery prototypes published in Nature in 2000.
Doron Ben-David (דורון בן-דוד)
Doron Ben-David (דורון בן-דוד), born 1980 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli actor known as Steve Pinto in Fauda, Ofir Leibowitz in Manayek, and the teacher Amir in The Lesson; also a Beit Zvi-trained stage actor and acting coach.
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist and bioinformatician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for olfactory genetics, GeneCards, and the GARD prebiotic evolution model.
Doron Myersdorf
Doron Myersdorf is an Israeli entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a battery company founded in 2012 in Herzliya that develops extreme fast charging cells for electric vehicles.
Doron Shabat
Doron Shabat (דורון שבת) is an Israeli organic chemist and full professor at Tel Aviv University, known for creating self-immolative polymers, dendrimers, and chemiluminescent probes.
Doron Zeilberger
Doron Zeilberger, born 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli mathematician and Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University who pioneered computer-aided proof in combinatorics through WZ theory and Zeilberger's algorithm.
Doronicum
Doronicum (leopard's bane) is a genus of perennial rhizomatous Asteraceae herbs with yellow daisy-like flower heads, native from NW Africa and Europe to the Himalaya, placed in tribe Doroniceae and used ornamentally and medicinally.
Dororo (2019 TV series)
Dororo (どろろ) is a 2019 24-episode MAPPA/Tezuka Productions TV anime directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, adapting Osamu Tezuka's unfinished manga: Hyakkimaru, robbed of body parts by 12 demons, travels with the thief Dororo; distinct from the 1969 anime.
Dororo (どろろ)
Dororo (どろろ) is Osamu Tezuka's dark historical manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 1967-1968, about Hyakkimaru, born without 48 body parts pledged to demons, recovering them with the thief child Dororo; adapted as 1969 and 2019 anime and a 2004 PS2 game.
Dororo (どろろ) (2007 film)
Dororo (どろろ) is a 2007 Japanese live-action dark fantasy film directed by Akihiko Shiota, adapted from Osamu Tezuka's manga, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Ko Shibasaki; it grossed ¥3.45 billion in Japan and spawned no sequels.