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Durand Line
Durand Line: 2,611 km Afghanistan-Pakistan boundary agreed 12 November 1893 between Mortimer Durand and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan; internationally recognized as Pakistan's border but never accepted by Afghanistan.
Durand Stone
The Durand Stone was a basalt block shaped like a human foot, found on Bahrain in 1879 by Captain Edward Law Durand and bearing a cuneiform dedication.
Duranga
Duranga is a Hindi-language ZEE5 crime thriller web series, the official Indian remake of the Korean drama Flower of Evil, developed by Goldie Behl. Season 1 (9 episodes) premiered 19 August 2022; season 2 (8 episodes, directed by Rohan Sippy, with Amit Sadh joining) premiered 24 October 2023.
Durango
Estado de Durango, a Mexican federal state in the north-central republic, core of colonial Nueva Vizcaya; founded as Villa de Durango in 1563 by Francisco de Ibarra, statehood 22 May 1824, capital Victoria de Durango, 39 municipalities, 1.83 million people (2020).
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, historically the Silverton Branch, is a heritage railroad carrying passengers by steam locomotive between Durango and Silverton in southwestern Colorado.
Durango Volcanic Field
Durango Volcanic Field (Campo Volcánico de Durango), a Pliocene-Quaternary monogenetic basaltic field of ~100 cinder cones and maars covering 2,100 km2 northeast of Durango city, Mexico, with the young La Breña-El Jagüey maar complex and mantle xenolith localities.
Durango, CO Micro Area
Durango, CO Micro Area (CBSA 20420), the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, is a one-county OMB labor-market area coterminous with La Plata County, Colorado, population about 56,300, anchored by the city of Durango.
Durango, Colorado
Durango, Colorado: county seat of La Plata County in the Animas River valley near Four Corners, founded 1880 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, home to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and a tourism-driven economy.
Duranguense
Duranguense, also called pasito duranguense, is an uptempo, synth-driven style of Mexican dance music and its associated dance that originated in Chicago in the early 2000s.
Durania
Durania is an extinct genus of box-shaped rudist bivalves established by Maurice Douvillé in 1908, whose fossils span the last 45 million years of the Cretaceous from the Caribbean to Tibet.
Durant Sihlali
Durant Sihlali (1935–2004) was a South African painter, sculptor, and teacher best known for watercolors documenting black urban life under apartheid, from forced removals to the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Duranta
Duranta (golden dewdrop, skyflower) is a Verbenaceae genus of Neotropical shrubs and small trees, type species Duranta erecta, recognized by axillary spines and yellow four-pyrene drupes; about 29-35 species, ornamental, invasive, and toxic.
Duranta erecta
Duranta erecta (golden dewdrop, pigeon berry, skyflower; synonym Duranta repens) is a thorny Verbenaceae shrub native from Mexico to South America and Florida, grown ornamentally, toxic to people via saponin-rich berries, and invasive in Florida, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Fiji.
Duraplasty
Duraplasty is a neurosurgical procedure in which the dura mater is opened and expanded with a graft, chiefly to treat Chiari I malformation and syringomyelia.
Durarara!! (デュラララ!!)
Durarara!! (デュラララ!!) is Ryohgo Narita's Ikebukuro-set light novel series with Suzuhito Yasuda illustrations, published by Dengeki Bunko since 2004 in 13 volumes plus SH, with manga and 2010 and 2015-16 anime adaptations.
Duration (finance)
Duration, also known as bond duration, is a measure of a bond's interest-rate risk, introduced by Frederick Macaulay in 1938 as the weighted average time to a bond's cash flows.
Duravant
Duravant is a privately held American automation company headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, serving food processing, packaging, and material handling customers in over 190 countries.
Duravastha
Duravastha ("Misery") is a Malayalam khanda kavya by N. Kumaranasan, published in September 1922, set during the 1921 Malabar Rebellion, whose union of a Brahmin woman and a Pulaya man attacks the caste system.
Durayd ibn al-Simma
Durayd ibn al-Simma (دريد بن الصمة) was a pre-Islamic Arab poet and warrior, chief and commander of Banu Jusham of the Hawazin, who fought in about one hundred raids and died at Hunayn in AH 8.
Durban
Durban (eThekwini), South Africa's third-largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, founded 1824 as Port Natal, renamed 1835 after Sir Benjamin D'Urban; busiest South African port, major Indian community, apartheid segregation legacy, 2022 floods.
Durban July Handicap
Durban July Handicap, the July: South Africa's premier Grade 1 handicap, 2200 m at Greyville, Durban, first Saturday of July; first run 1897, R10 million purse from 2026, Hollywoodbets title sponsor.
Durban Platform
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action is a UNFCCC decision adopted at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, in December 2011, launching negotiations that produced the Paris Agreement.
Durbar of Year 12
The Durbar of Year 12, or Year 12 durbar of Akhenaten, was a ceremonial reception of foreign tribute held at Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten around 1340 BC.
Durbin–Watson statistic
The Durbin–Watson statistic, also called the DW statistic, is a test statistic measuring first-order autocorrelation in the residuals of a linear regression, ranging from 0 to 4.
Đurđica Bjedov
Đurđica Bjedov (Đurđa Bjedov), Croatian swimmer born 1947 in Split, won 100 m breaststroke gold in Olympic record 1:15.8 and 200 m silver at Mexico City 1968 for Yugoslavia; first Croatian Olympic swimming gold, ISHOF 1987.
Durdle Door
Durdle Door is a natural limestone sea arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth, Dorset, cut through near-vertical Portland Stone; privately owned by the Welds' Lulworth Estate and named from Old English 'thirl', to pierce.
Durek Verrett
Durek Verrett, also known as Shaman Durek, is an American self-described sixth-generation shaman and author of Spirit Hacking, known for marrying Princess Märtha Louise of Norway in 2024.
Düren (city)
Düren is a Kreisstadt in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the Rur; about 94,500 residents, first recorded 747, paper industry since 1576, center destroyed in the 1944 air raid and rebuilt.
Durendal
Durendal (Durandal, Durlindana), the legendary sword of Count Roland in the Song of Roland, first attested ca. 1100; famed as unbreakable, given Muslim-owner pre-histories in Aspremont and Mainet, with debated etymology.
Dürer (Mercurian crater)
Dürer is a roughly 180–190 km peak-ring impact crater on Mercury at 21.9°N, 119°E, named for Albrecht Dürer, first seen in Mariner 10 photos and imaged by MESSENGER.