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Dumnonia
Dumnonia, also known as Kernyw or Dyfneint, was a post-Roman British kingdom covering Cornwall, Devon, and parts of Somerset, absorbed by Wessex by the tenth century.
Dumnonii
Dumnonii (Dumnones): Iron Age and Roman-era British Celtic tribe of Devon, Cornwall, and part of Somerset; no coins or kings, tin-based economy, civitas capital Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter), name surviving in Devon and Breton Domnonée.
DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network (also styled Du Mont), America's fourth TV network, 1946 to mid-1950s, founded from Allen B. DuMont's CRT business with Paramount financing; owned WABD New York and WTTG Washington, later Metromedia.
Dumortieria
Dumortieria, ammonite genus (Haug, 1885), type species Ammonites levesquei d'Orbigny 1844; moderately evolute, keeled Late Toarcian ammonoid found almost worldwide in Levesquei Zone correlatives.
Dump truck
A dump truck, also known as a tipper lorry, is a truck with an open-box bed raised by a hydraulic hoist to unload sand, gravel, or debris.
Dumping (pricing policy)
Dumping, also known as export dumping, is the sale of a product in an export market below its normal value, or home-market price, under WTO trade law.
Dumping syndrome
Dumping syndrome: postprandial gastrointestinal and vasomotor symptoms from rapid gastric emptying after esophageal, gastric, or bariatric surgery; early (within 30 min) and late (hypoglycemic, 1-3 h) forms; diagnosed by modified OGTT; treated with diet, acarbose, somatostatin analogues.
Dumplin' (film)
Dumplin' (2018) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Anne Fletcher, based on Julie Murphy's YA novel, starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, with a Dolly Parton soundtrack and a Golden Globe-nominated song.
Dumpling
Dumpling: small dough parcel, filled or plain, boiled, steamed, fried, or baked; also called jiaozi, gyoza, pierogi, mandu, ravioli. Chinese jiaozi date back over 1,800 years; soup dumpling market exceeds $6.8 billion.
Dumplings (饺子)
Dumplings (餃子, Gaau ji) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film by Fruit Chan, expanded from a Three... Extremes segment, starring Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, and Tony Leung Ka-fai as customers of youth-restoring dumplings made from aborted fetuses.
Dumpster
Dumpster, originally a 1935 Dempster Brothers trademark from Knoxville, Tennessee, is the American common name for a large steel waste container emptied mechanically into a garbage truck, the British equivalent being the skip.
Dumpster diving
Dumpster diving, also called skip dipping or bin-diving, is recovering usable goods, especially food, from waste receptacles; it spans food insecurity, freegan anti-consumerism, and legality under California v. Greenwood.
Dumsor
Dumsor, also written Dum-Sor or Dum So, is the Ghanaian term from Akan words for "off" and "on" for the country's persistent, erratic power outages and load shedding.
Dumuzi Fossa
Dumuzi Fossa, a 619-km fossa (graben) on Pluto in Viking Terra, approved by the IAU on Feb 3, 2021; named for the Sumerian harvest god Dumuzi, husband of Inanna, running parallel to Inanna Fossa.
Dumuzid
Dumuzid (Dumu-zi, Akkadian Tammuz), Sumerian shepherd god and consort of Inanna, dies and descends to the netherworld in Inanna's Descent and Dumuzid's Dream; later equated with Adonis, but modern scholarship rejects his resurrection.
Dumuzid the Fisherman
Dumuzid the Fisherman, also known as Dumuzi the Fisherman, is a legendary king of Uruk in the Sumerian King List who succeeded Lugalbanda and preceded Gilgamesh.
Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) is an American commercial data and analytics company, founded in 1841, that assigns D-U-N-S Numbers and sells business credit and risk insights.
Dún Ailinne
Dún Ailinne (Knockaulin Hill), near Kilcullen, Co. Kildare: Iron Age royal site and ceremonial enclosure of the Kings of Leinster, 13 ha bank-and-internal-ditch henge with White, Rose, and Mauve timber-structure phases, excavated 1968–1975 by Bernard Wailes.
Dún Aonghasa
Dún Aonghasa is a prehistoric stone fort on Inis Mór, the largest of Ireland's Aran Islands, perched on a sea cliff and more than 3,000 years old.
Dun Carloway
Dun Carloway (Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is an Iron Age broch near Carloway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Built around 200 BC, it stands about 9 m tall, is the best-preserved broch in the Western Isles, and is a scheduled monument in Historic Environment Scotland's care.
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire, formerly Dunleary and Kingstown (1821–1920), is a coastal town 12 km south of Dublin, population about 26,500, built around its 1817 asylum harbour, Ireland's first railway (1834), and a former ferry port.
Duna Aszfalt
Duna Aszfalt is a Hungarian road-construction company based in Tiszakécske, founded and wholly owned by entrepreneur László Szíjj, with most work funded by the state.
Duna Surf Lounge
Duna Surf Lounge is a surf venue and beach bar at Praia de Mira, Portugal, organizer of the Secret Surf Fest with Secret Surf School, and the name of a beginner A-frame beach break nearby.
Dunaliella bardawil
Dunaliella bardawil, a halotolerant green microalga isolated near Bardawil lagoon, Israel, in 1976; a form of D. salina that accumulates over 10% dry weight beta-carotene and is GRAS (GRN 351) as a food ingredient.
Dunam
The dunam, from Ottoman dönüm and also spelled dunum, is a Middle Eastern land unit of 1,000 square meters, still used in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Dunama Dabbalemi
Dunama Dabbalemi, also written Dunama Dibalemi, was mai of the Kanem Empire from about 1221 to 1259, ruling at its peak and declaring jihad against neighboring peoples.
Dunama I of Kanem
Dunama I of Kanem (دونما بن هومه) was a king of the Kanem kingdom on Lake Chad, of the Sayfawa dynasty, who expanded the kingdom to the middle Nile and reigned until 1150.
Dunamu
Dunamu (두나무) is a Seoul-based fintech company founded in 2012, best known as the operator of Upbit, South Korea's largest digital asset exchange, launched in October 2017.
Dunant (submarine cable)
Dunant is a private transatlantic submarine communications cable owned by Google, running from Virginia Beach to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France, and entering service around 2020 to 2021.
Dunăreni
Dunăreni, a village in Aliman commune, Constanța County, Romania, beside the Roman auxiliary fort Sacidava on Dealul Muzait; excavated 1969-1979 and since 2014, with the DUNĂRENI 1 coin hoard of AD 378-383.