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Dunhill Records
Dunhill Records, an American label founded in 1964 by Lou Adler as Dunhill Productions, launched as a label in 1965, was bought by ABC-Paramount in 1966, and closed in 1975; catalog now Universal.
Dunhua hydroelectric plant
The Dunhua hydroelectric plant (敦化抽水蓄能电站) is a 1,400 MW pumped storage plant in Dunhua, Jilin, China, with four 350 MW reversible units that was fully commissioned in April 2022.
Dunhuang (敦煌)
Dunhuang (敦煌) is a Silk Road oasis city in Gansu, China, at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, home to the Mogao Caves (492 caves, 45,000 m² of murals) and the 1900-discovered Library Cave manuscripts.
Dunhuang copy-painting tradition
The Dunhuang copy-painting tradition (敦煌壁画临摹) is the practice of hand-copying the murals of the Dunhuang caves, chiefly the Mogao Grottoes, to preserve the deteriorating originals.
Dunhuang embroidered Buddha
The Dunhuang embroidered Buddha is a monumental 8th-century Tang dynasty silk embroidery showing a life-size Śākyamuni preaching on Vulture Peak, now in the British Museum.
Dunhuang manuscripts
The Dunhuang manuscripts (敦煌写经) are tens of thousands of handwritten scrolls, mostly Buddhist sutras, found in 1900 in a sealed cave at the Mogao grottoes near Dunhuang, China.
Dunhuang murals
Dunhuang murals (敦煌壁画) are Buddhist wall paintings preserved in the cave temples of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, above all the Mogao Caves, produced over about a thousand years.
Dunhuang quzi ci
Dunhuang quzi ci (敦煌曲子詞) are a corpus of Chinese song lyrics preserved in Tang, Five Dynasties, and early Song manuscripts from the Mogao Grottoes library cave, precursors of Song ci.
Dunhuang sculpture
Dunhuang sculpture (敦煌彩塑) is the Buddhist painted clay sculpture preserved in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, Gansu, China, made from the fifth century to the Qing dynasty.
Dunhuang shilu (Veritable Records of Dunhuang)
The Dunhuang shilu (敦煌实录) is a lost twenty-juan history of Dunhuang, written around 430 CE by Liu Bing and serving as the de facto history of Western Liang.
Dunhuang Star Chart
The Dunhuang Star Chart (Dunhuang xingtu, 敦煌星图) is a Chinese star atlas of the Tang dynasty, the oldest complete star atlas known, held in the British Library.
Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark
Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark (敦煌世界地质公园), designated 2015 in Dunhuang, Gansu, China, covers 2,067 km² of yardang, desert, and Gobi landforms, with Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Moon Spring, and the Mogao Grottoes World Heritage site.
Dunia Ulimwengu
Dunia Ulimwengu, short for Dunia uwanja wa fujo ("The World Is an Arena of Chaos"), is a 1975 Swahili novel by Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi.
Dunite
Dunite is a coarse-grained ultramafic igneous rock of more than 90 percent olivine, named by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859 after New Zealand's Dun Mountain.
Duniya (ದುನಿಯಾ)
Duniya (ದುನಿಯಾ) is a 2007 Kannada action drama, Soori's directorial debut, starring Duniya Vijay and Rashmi in their first lead roles. Released 23 February 2007, it won Karnataka State and Filmfare South awards and gave both leads their name prefixes.
Duniya Vijay
Duniya Vijay (ದುನಿಯಾ ವಿಜಯ್), real name Vijay Kumar B.R., born 1974, Kannada film actor-director named after his 2007 hit Duniya; director of Salaga and Bheema, Telugu debut in Veera Simha Reddy.
Duniyadari (दुनियादारी)
Duniyadari (दुनियादारी) is a 2013 Marathi coming-of-age romantic comedy drama directed by Sanjay Jadhav, based on Suhas Shirvalkar's novel and set in the late 1970s on a Pune college campus.
Duniyapur (TV series)
Duniyapur (دنیا پور), also styled DuniyaPur, is a 2024 Pakistani Urdu drama on Green TV directed by Shahid Shafaat, written by Radain Shah, 24 episodes, reportedly Pakistan's most expensive drama, about feuding Adam and Nawab families.
Dunk of Death
Dunk of Death (le dunk de la mort): Vince Carter's dunk over 7'2" Frédéric Weis, USA vs France, Sydney 2000 Olympics, September 25, 2000; French media coined the name.
Dunkelflaute
Dunkelflaute, German for "dark wind lulls", is a period of days with low wind and sun that leaves wind and solar power generating very little electricity.
Dunkerbeck
Dunkerbeck refers chiefly to Björn Dunkerbeck (born 1969, Ribe, Denmark), Danish-born windsurfer with 42 world titles, 12 straight PWA overall championships 1988–1999, GPS speed records, windsurf schools on Gran Canaria and Bonaire, and the Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge; also his sister Britt and son Liam, both windsurfers.
Dunkerque-class battleship
The Dunkerque class was a pair of French fast battleships of the 1930s, Dunkerque and Strasbourg, with eight 330 mm guns in two all-forward quadruple turrets.
Dunki (डंकी) (film)
Dunki (डंकी) is Rajkumar Hirani's 2023 Hindi comedy-drama starring Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Boman Irani, and Vicky Kaushal, about illegal UK migration via the donkey flight; released 21 December 2023 to mixed reviews.
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts, known simply as Dunkin' since 2019, is an American coffee and baked goods chain founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, by William Rosenberg.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duinkerke) is a port city in Nord, Hauts-de-France, France's third-largest port, site of the 1940 Operation Dynamo evacuation, 72% destroyed in WWII, now a battery-manufacturing hub with free buses.
Dunkirk (1958 film)
Dunkirk (1958) is a British Ealing war film directed by Leslie Norman, produced by Michael Balcon, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee, dramatizing the 1940 Operation Dynamo evacuation; notable as Ealing's last war film and a Nolan antecedent.
Dunkirk (2017 film)
Dunkirk (2017) is Christopher Nolan's 106-minute war film on Operation Dynamo, told across three timelines (one week, one day, one hour), shot largely on IMAX 65mm, with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and eight Oscar nominations.
Dunkirk evacuation
Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo, 26 May–4 June 1940): Ramsay's sea rescue of 338,226 Allied troops from Dunkirk's mole and beaches, with halt-order debate, ship and aircraft losses, and the Dunkirk spirit myth.
Dunkirk LNG Terminal
The Dunkirk LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification terminal at Loon-Plage in the port of Dunkirk, France, which opened in 2017 and is owned by Dunkerque LNG.
Dunkleosteus
Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of large armored fish (placoderm) that lived 415–360 million years ago, with the species Dunkleosteus terrelli a top predator of Late Devonian seas.