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Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović (Доситеј Обрадовић), born Dimitrije, was a Serbian Enlightenment writer and language reformer who founded the University of Belgrade's predecessor and became Serbia's first education minister in 1811.
Dositheos (son of Drimylos)
Dositheos son of Drimylos was a Ptolemaic official who served as eponymous priest of Alexandria and Ptolemais, attested in a papyrus dated to year 25 of Ptolemy III.
Dositheus II of Jerusalem
Dositheus II (Δοσίθεος Βʹ; Dosítheos Notaras, 1641–1707) was Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1669 to 1707, best known for convening the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672.
Dosquebradas
Dosquebradas, Risaralda, Colombia: industrial satellite municipality of Pereira in the Eje Cafetero, named for the Santa Teresita and Las Garzas streams. Founded 1844, municipality since 1972; about 225,540 people, 70.58 km², 1,460 m elevation.
Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton (Dorothy Marguerite Easton, born 1944) is an American San Francisco marriage and family therapist and author; with Janet W. Hardy she wrote The Ethical Slut (1997), a foundational polyamory guide, plus BDSM handbooks.
Dosso
Dosso is a city in southwestern Niger, capital of the Dosso Region and seat of a Zarma kingdom whose rulers, the Zarmakoy, predate the colonial era.
Dosso Region
Dosso Region (French: Région de Dosso) is a first-order administrative region of Niger in the extreme southwest, named for its capital, Dosso, with a 2012 population of about 2 million.
Dost (दोस्त)
Dost (दोस्त, Friend) is a 1974 Hindi drama directed by Dulal Guha, starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini, and Shatrughan Sinha, with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal; a Hit that grossed 2.5 crore net, third-highest of 1974.
Dost Ali Khan
Dost Ali Khan (دوست علی خان) was Nawab of the Carnatic, based at Arcot, from 1732 until his death in battle against the Marathas in 1740.
Dost Mohammad Khan (Bhopal)
Dost Mohammad Khan (دوست محمد خان) was an Orakzai Pashtun soldier from Tirah who founded the Bhopal State in central India, ruling it until his death in 1728.
Dostana (1980 film)
Dostana (दोस्ताना) is a 1980 Hindi action drama directed by Raj Khosla, Dharma Productions' first film, written by Salim-Javed, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, and Zeenat Aman as friends and rivals in love; distinct from the 2008 comedy of the same title.
Dostana (दोस्ताना) (2008 film)
Dostana (दोस्ताना), 2008 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Tarun Mansukhani, produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions; two Miami men pretend to be gay to rent an apartment, the first big-budget mainstream Bollywood film with gay protagonists.
Dostarlimab
Dostarlimab (Jemperli) is a PD-1-blocking monoclonal antibody from GSK for dMMR/MSI-H endometrial cancer, dMMR solid tumors, and locally advanced rectal cancer, approved in the EU from 2021 and the US from 2021.
Dosti: Friends Forever
Dosti: Friends Forever (दोस्ती: फ्रेंड्स फॉरएवर), a 2005 Hindi romantic drama directed by Suneel Darshan, stars Bobby Deol and Akshay Kumar as friends across a class divide; it flopped, earning about ₹8.77 crore net in India.
Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan
Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan is an Indian television drama that aired on StarPlus in 2015. It follows two women, Monica Sehgal and Kashmira Irani, chasing their dreams in Mumbai.
Dostoevskij (Mercurian crater)
Dostoevskij is a 430-km-diameter impact crater (basin) on Mercury at 44.73°S, 178.11°E, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky; its mapped units have model ages near 4 Ga.
Dosulepin
Dosulepin (dothiepin, Prothiaden) is a tricyclic antidepressant, a thio derivative of amitriptyline introduced in 1963, licensed for depressive illness with anxiety, but restricted in the UK because of high overdose toxicity.
Dosun fuwari
Dosun fuwari (ドッスンフワリ) is a Nikoli logic puzzle created in 2015 by Longlife: place one balloon and one iron ball in each grid room, obeying gravity; solving it is NP-complete.
Dosunmu
Dosunmu (Dọ̀sùnmú), also written Docemo, was King of Lagos who ceded the port and island of Lagos to Queen Victoria by treaty in 1861, receiving a pension of about £1,000 a year.
Doswell Energy Center
Doswell Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power station in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia, owned by LS Power, generating about 1,313 MW across nine generators since 1991.
Dot (diacritic)
The dot (diacritic) is a small round mark placed above or below a base letter to create a distinct letter, vowel, or tone, as in Vietnamese dấu nặng, Syriac and Hebrew vowel-point dots, and Unicode combining dots U+0307 and U+0323.
DOT (graph description language)
DOT is a plain-text declarative language for describing graphs in which files state nodes, edges, and attributes, and the Graphviz package renders them to SVG, PostScript, and other formats.
Dot 2 Dot (点对点)
Dot 2 Dot (點對點) is a 2014 Hong Kong romantic drama and the debut feature of director Amos Why (黃浩然), starring Moses Chan and Meng Ting-yi, in which unnumbered connect-the-dots puzzles left at MTR stations revive the city's vanished landmarks.
Dot and Bubble
Dot and Bubble is a 2024 Doctor Who episode (Series 14, episode 5) written by Russell T Davies, set in the social-media colony Finetime, where Lindy Pepper-Bean and other residents reject the Doctor's rescue because of his race.
Dot blot
A dot blot is a membrane-based assay in which protein or nucleic acid samples are spotted directly onto a membrane and detected with labeled antibodies or probes.
Dot Cotton
Dot Cotton (Dot Branning) is a fictional EastEnders launderette worker played by June Brown from 1985 to 2020, mother of villain Nick Cotton, star of the UK soap's only single-character episode, killed off in December 2022 after Brown's death.
Dot da Genius
Dot da Genius (Oladipo Omishore) is a Brooklyn-born hip-hop producer and songwriter, Kid Cudi's key collaborator on "Day 'n' Nite" (No. 3 Hot 100), WZRD bandmate, KIDS SEE GHOSTS co-producer, and Man on the Moon III executive producer.
Dot matrix printing
Dot matrix printing, used in dot matrix printers, is an impact printing method where a print head of pins strikes an inked ribbon, forming characters and graphics from dots.
DOT pictograms
DOT pictograms, also known as AIGA/DOT symbol signs, are a set of 50 copyright-free pictograms designed in the 1970s by the AIGA for the United States Department of Transportation.
Dot plot (statistics)
A dot plot is a statistical graphic displaying each data value as a dot on a number line, with two types: the Wilkinson distribution plot and the Cleveland dot chart.