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Duquesne University

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded 1878 by the Spiritans as Pittsburgh Catholic College; the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the United States, with about 8,300 students, 10 schools, and Carnegie R2 research status.

Dur-Abi-eshuh

Dur-Abi-eshuh (Dūr-Abī-ešuḫ) was a fortress built by King Abi-ešuh of Babylon on the Tigris north of Nippur around 1650 BC, known almost entirely from a tablet archive of the Nippur clergy who moved there.

Dur-Athara

Dur-Athara was a fortress city in southern Babylonia on the Surappu river, built by Marduk-apla-iddina II against Sargon II, who captured it in 710 BC and renamed it Dûr-Nabû.

Dur-Katlimmu

Dur-Katlimmu (Dūr-Katlimmu), modern Tell Sheikh Hamad, was an Assyrian city on the Khabur river in north-eastern Syria, founded by Adad-nirari I in the 13th century BC.

Dur-Kurigalzu

Dur-Kurigalzu, also known as Aqar Quf, was a Kassite royal city founded by King Kurigalzu I in the 14th century BCE, about 30 km northwest of modern Baghdad, Iraq.

Dur-Yahdun-Lim

Dur-Yahdun-Lim (Dūr-Yaḫdun-Lim), meaning "fortress of Yahdun-Lim", was a fortress-city on the middle Euphrates founded by Yahdun-Lim, king of Mari, around 1810 BC; its exact site remains unidentified.

Oct 21, 2026

Dura

Dura (Dura-Europos, Europos-Doura) was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman garrison city on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, founded by Seleucus I around 300 BC, famed for its synagogue and Christian frescoes, destroyed by the Sassanids around 256 AD.

Đura Jakšić

Đura Jakšić, born Georgije Jakšić, was a Serbian painter, poet, and dramatist, one of the leading figures of Serbian Romanticism in both art and literature, active from the 1850s until his death in 1878.

Dura mater

Dura mater (hard mother, pachymeninx): tough outermost meninx of brain and spinal cord, with cranial periosteal and meningeal layers forming venous sinuses and folds like the falx cerebri and tentorium.

Dura-Europos synagogue

The Dura-Europos synagogue is an ancient synagogue in the ruined city of Dura-Europos, Syria, whose extensive wall paintings of 244–245 CE, found intact in 1932–33, are now in Damascus.

Sep 29, 2026

Durability analysis

Durability analysis is the engineering method for predicting how long a component or structure withstands repeated loading and fatigue before failure, using stress-life, strain-life, and fracture-mechanics methods.

Durable good

A durable good, also called a hard good, is a good used repeatedly over a year or more instead of being used up in a single use.

Oct 10, 2026

Durable goods monopoly

A durable goods monopoly is a seller with exclusive control of a long-lived product that competes with its own past output, eroding pricing power per Coase's 1972 conjecture.

Oct 21, 2026

Durable Medical Equipment

Durable medical equipment (DME) is reusable home-use medical equipment such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, and oxygen equipment, defined for Medicare by 42 CFR 414.202's five conditions and paid under Part B with 20% coinsurance.

Duracell

Duracell is an American battery manufacturer, owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2016 and headquartered in Bethel, Connecticut. It sells alkaline, lithium, coin, and rechargeable cells under lines like Coppertop.

Đurađ Branković

Đurađ Branković (Ђурађ Бранковић) was the despot of Serbia from 1427 to 1456, the last notable ruler of medieval Serbia, who ruled under mounting Ottoman pressure.

Đurađ Crnojević

Đurađ Crnojević (Ђурађ Црнојевић) was the last medieval lord of Zeta, ruling from 1490 to 1496, who founded the first Cyrillic printing house among the South Slavs at Cetinje.

Đurađ I Balšić

Đurađ I Balšić (Ђурађ I Балшић) was a lord of Zeta, in present-day Montenegro, who ruled from 1362 until his death in Skadar in 1378 and expanded the Balšić lands to Prizren.

Durag

A durag, also spelled do-rag or doo-rag, is a snug fabric cap, typically silk or satin, worn to train 360 waves and preserve hairstyles; it became a symbol of Black style.

Sep 27, 2026

Durai Vaiko

Durai Vaiko, born in 1972, is an Indian politician of the MDMK, the party founded by his father Vaiko, and has represented Tiruchirappalli in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Durak (дурак)

Durak (дурак, "fool") is the most popular Russian shedding card game: 2-6 players, 36-card deck, trump suit, attack-and-defense bouts; the last player holding cards loses. Main variants Podkidnoy and Perevodnoy; winning-strategy decision is PSPACE-complete.