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Durham, North Carolina

Durham, North Carolina: Piedmont city and Durham County seat, nicknamed the Bull City for Bull Durham tobacco. Grew from an 1850s railroad station; home to Duke University, NC Central, and Research Triangle Park; population about 305,000.

Duri Oil Field

The Duri Oil Field is a heavy-oil field in Riau Province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, producing since 1958 and the site of the world's largest steamflood operation.

Durian

Durian (榴莲), fruit of Durio zibethinus, the spiny Southeast Asian 'King of Fruits' native to Sumatra and Borneo; bat-pollinated tree up to 25 m; aroma from esters and sulfur compounds; major export crop to China.

Oct 3, 2026

Durian Durian (榴梿飘飘)

Durian Durian (榴槤飄飄, Liulian Piao Piao) is Fruit Chan's 2000 Hong Kong-China drama about a mainland sex worker in Mong Kok; Golden Lion nominee, 2001 Golden Horse Best Picture, first of his prostitute trilogy.

Duricrust

Duricrust is a hard, near-surface crust formed by low-temperature weathering that cements minerals in soil, sediment, or bedrock, shaping landscapes especially in arid and tropical regions.

Durio

Durio is a genus of about 29 accepted Southeast Asian trees in Malvaceae, native from Indo-China to western Malesia, centering on Borneo; it includes the durian, Durio zibethinus, the only widely cultivated species, plus edible wild relatives and timber trees.

Oct 20, 2026

Durio zibethinus

Durio zibethinus (durian) is a Malvaceae tree native to Sumatra and Borneo, the only Durio species grown commercially, known for its sulfury aroma from esters and sulfur volatiles.

Durisdeer

Durisdeer Roman fortlet (SM670), an Antonine-period Roman fortlet in the Lowther Hills pass, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; 18 by 24 m internally, excavated 1938, guarding the Roman road from Crawford into Nithsdale.

Durisen family

Durisen family, an outer main-belt asteroid family named for asteroid 5567 Durisen (1953 FK1); among the reddest Gaia DR3 main-belt families, formerly X-complex, possibly T-/D-type, a proposed 5:2J resonance source of T-/D-type near-Earth asteroids.

Sep 19, 2026

Durium

Durium is an Italian record label of Milan, founded in 1932, known for its unbreakable flexible cardboard records, 1930s jazz 78s, children's fairy-tale discs, and the 1960s urban-song anthologies of Roberto Murolo.

Durius Valles

Durius Valles is an IAU-named valley system on Mars in Terra Cimmeria, about 223 km across, centered near 17.4°S, 172.1°E; named for the Latin name of the Douro River and drained into De Vaucouleurs basin.

Durjoy Datta

Durjoy Datta, born 1987, is an Indian novelist and screenwriter who writes romance-centered commercial fiction; his twenty-one novels include the debut Of Course I Love You...! from 2008.

Durk Kingma

Durk Kingma (formal name Diederik P. Kingma), born 1983, is a Dutch computer scientist known for the Variational Autoencoder and the Adam optimizer, and an OpenAI co-founder.

Oct 20, 2026

Durkee herbarium

Durkee Herbarium (GRI) is the Grinnell College herbarium in Grinnell, Iowa, holding about 27,000 vascular plant specimens from Iowa and adjacent states, with Henry S. Conard and Durkee among its important collectors.

Dürkopp Adler

Dürkopp Adler is a German manufacturer of industrial sewing machines and automated sewing systems in Bielefeld, formed in 1990 by the merger of Kochs Adler and Dürkoppwerke.

Durlabh Prasad Ki Dusri Shadi (दुर्लभ प्रसाद की दूसरी शादी)

Durlabh Prasad Ki Dusri Shadi (दुर्लभ प्रसाद की दूसरी शादी) is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Siddhant Raj Singh, starring Sanjay Mishra, Mahima Chaudhry, Vyom Yadav, and Pallak Lalwani; released 19 December 2025, streaming on JioHotstar from 23 March 2026.

Durley Hill

Durley Hill, Keynsham, Somerset: site of a large Romano-British courtyard villa under a Victorian cemetery, excavated 1922-4 by Bulleid and Horne, with rare hexagonal triclinia, mosaics, and 3rd-4th century occupation.

Durlobactam

Durlobactam, formerly ETX2514, is a diazabicyclooctane β-lactamase inhibitor developed by Entasis Therapeutics and sold with sulbactam as Xacduro, approved by the FDA in 2023 for pneumonia caused by Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.

Sep 23, 2026

Durmish Khan Shamlu

Durmish Khan Shamlu (درمیش خان شاملو) was a Qizilbash amir of the Shamlu tribe who served Shah Ismail I and governed Herat until his death in 1525.

Durmitor

Durmitor: limestone massif in northern Montenegro's Dinaric Alps, also Durmitor National Park (founded 1952), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 with Bobotov Peak 2,525 m, 18 glacial lakes, and the Tara River Gorge, Europe's deepest gorge.

Durnomagus

Durnomagus, Roman cavalry fort (Reiterkastell) at Dormagen on the Lower Germanic Limes, Germania Inferior; garrisoned by the Ala I Noricorum from about 85 AD, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.

Dürnrohr Power Station

The Dürnrohr Power Station is a former coal and gas fired power station in Zwentendorf, Lower Austria, operational from 1987, with coal units shut down by 2019.

Duro Felguera

Duro Felguera is a Spanish industrial engineering and construction company headquartered in Langreo, Asturias. Founded in 1858 as a steelmaker, it now executes energy, mining, and industrial projects.

Oct 10, 2026

Đuro Kurepa

Đuro Kurepa (1907–1993) was a Yugoslav mathematician whose 1935 Paris dissertation gave the first systematic study of trees in set theory, and whose name survives in the Kurepa hypothesis and left factorial conjecture.

Đuro Macut (Ђуро Мацут)

Đuro Macut (Ђуро Мацут), born 1963 in Belgrade, is a Serbian endocrinologist and full professor at the University of Belgrade serving as Prime Minister of Serbia since April 2025, after Miloš Vučević's resignation amid student protests.

Duro(i)coregum

Duro(i)coregum (Duroico Regum), an unlocated Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Peutinger Table route from Cassel to Amiens; name probably corrupt, site proposed near Cramont or Domqueur, France.

Durobrivae (Water Newton)

Durobrivae (Water Newton) was a Roman small town in Cambridgeshire on Ermine Street at the River Nene crossing; largest walled small town in England, home of the Water Newton Treasure, the earliest Christian liturgical silver in the Roman Empire.

Durocobrivis

Durocobrivis (Durocobrivae), Roman minor settlement under modern Dunstable, Bedfordshire, at the Watling Street and Icknield Way crossroads; listed in the Antonine Itinerary, occupied 1st to 4th century, distinct from Durobrivae.

Durocornovium

Durocornovium was a Romano-British small town on Ermin Street between Cirencester and Silchester, near Wanborough, Swindon, Wiltshire. About 25 ha, occupied mid-1st to 4th century AD, peak AD 244-367; now a Scheduled Monument.