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Duronto Express (দুরন্ত এক্সপ্রেস)
Duronto Express (দুরন্ত এক্সপ্রেস) is a class of long-distance passenger trains operated by Indian Railways, introduced in September 2009 as its first non-stop superfast services.
Durotincum
Durotincum (Durotingum, Durotinco), Roman Alpine road station in Gallia Narbonensis near La Grave and Villar-d'Arène, Hautes-Alpes, France, on the Peutinger route between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon); distinct from the Lemovices capital of the same name.
Durotomy
Durotomy is a surgical incision, or unintended tear, in the dura mater, the tough outermost membrane around the brain and spinal cord; deliberate in tumor resection, incidental tears are the most common complication of spine surgery.
Durrani Empire
Durrani Empire, or Dorrani Empire, the Afghan state founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 after Nader Shah's death; capital Qandahar, later Kabul; at its height from the Amu Darya to the Oman Sea and Delhi; fragmented in 1818 and collapsed by 1823, giving way to the Barakzai Emirate of Afghanistan.
Durrani rule in Kashmir
Durrani rule in Kashmir (درانی کشمیر) was the Afghan Durrani Empire's governorship of the Kashmir valley from 1753 until Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh forces conquered it in 1819.
Durrell family
The Durrell family, an Anglo-Indian British family of writers Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, parents Lawrence Samuel and Louisa, siblings Leslie and Margo, known for the Corfu years 1935-1939 and My Family and Other Animals.
Durrës
Durrës, historically Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, is Albania's second largest city and main seaport, about 33 kilometers west of Tirana, handling over 90 percent of national port cargo.
Durrës District
Durrës District (rrethi i Durrësit), a former Albanian district now within Durrës County; six administrative units, 175,110 census-2011 population, Albania's largest port handling over 90 percent of port volume.
Dürrî Mehmed Efendi
Dürrî Mehmed Efendi was an Ottoman şeyhülislâm, the empire's chief religious authority, serving from 1734 until his 1736 dismissal under Sultan Mahmud I, and founded the Dürrîzâde ulema family.
Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls, a Later Neolithic henge enclosure near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is Britain's largest henge at about 490 by 468 meters, enclosing a major Grooved Ware settlement with timber circles, later ringed by a 2-km-wide circle of Neolithic shafts.
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Beyefendi
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Beyefendi (1869–1923) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, the state's chief mufti, from April to July 1920, signing fatwas against the National Forces.
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Efendi
Dürrîzâde Abdullah Efendi (1769–1828) was an Ottoman scholar from a family that produced six şeyhülislâms; he held the office twice under Sultan Mahmud II, from 1808 to 1810 and 1812 to 1815.
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi (1740/41–1800) was an Ottoman scholar who twice held the office of Shaykh al-Islam, first briefly in 1785–1786 and again from 1792 to 1798.
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Atâullah Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Atâullah Efendi (born 1729) was an Ottoman şeyhülislam from 1783 to 1785, dismissed for allegedly plotting with Grand Vizier Halil Hamîd Paşa to depose Sultan Abdülhamid I.
Dürrîzâde Mustafa Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mustafa Efendi (died 1775) was an Ottoman scholar who held the office of şeyhülislam three times in the mid-18th century, under Sultans Osman III, Mustafa III, and Abdülhamid I.
Durrueli di Realmonte
Roman maritime villa at Realmonte, Agrigento, Sicily, identified as the villa marittima of Publius Annius; discovered 1907 during railway works, excavated by Antonino Salinas and by a University of Tsukuba team under Masanori Aoyagi, with peristyle, mosaics of Neptune and Scilla, and private baths.
Durrushevar
Durrushevar (درشہوار), born 1914 and died 2006, was an Ottoman princess, only daughter of the last Caliph Abdulmejid II, who married into Hyderabad's royal family and founded hospitals and girls' schools.
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in Dresden, is a German poet, essayist, and translator who debuted with Grauzone morgens in 1988 and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1995.
Durus
Durus is an energy-efficient bipedal humanoid robot developed by SRI International under a DARPA contract beginning in 2013, later the experimental walking platform of Georgia Tech's AMBER Lab.
Durvalumab
Durvalumab (Imfinzi) is a fully human IgG1 anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody by AstraZeneca, first FDA-approved May 2017 for urothelial carcinoma, now used across NSCLC, SCLC, bladder, biliary, liver, endometrial, and gastric cancers.
Durvalumab and tremelimumab regimen
The durvalumab plus tremelimumab regimen, given as the STRIDE schedule of one tremelimumab dose plus regular durvalumab, is an approved immunotherapy for unresectable liver cancer and some lung cancers.
Durvasa (दुर्वासा)
Durvasa (दुर्वासा), also known as Rishi Durvasa, is an ancient sage of Hindu tradition, son of Atri and Anasuya and regarded as an incarnation of Shiva.
Durvinita
Durvinita (ದುರ್ವಿನೀತ) was a king of the Western Ganga dynasty in Karnataka, reigning from 529 CE, who won his throne by force and was credited with a commentary on Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya.
Durward Knowles
Durward Randolph Knowles, the Sea Wolf (1917-2018), Bahamian Star-class sailor; won the Bahamas' first Olympic medal (bronze 1956) and first gold (Tokyo 1964 with Cecil Cooke), competing in a record eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988.
Duryea Motor Wagon Company
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, founded by brothers Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the 1890s, was the first American company to manufacture and sell automobiles.
Duryodhan Vadh
Duryodhan Vadh (दुर्योधन वध) is the climactic episode of the Mahabharata war in which Bhima kills Duryodhana in a mace duel on the eighteenth day.
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन)
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also called Suyodhana, eldest of the hundred Kaurava sons of Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata; his jealousy, the dice game, and refusal of land cause the Kurukshetra War, ending in his mace duel with Bhima.
Dus (दस)
Dus (दस) is a 2005 Hindi action thriller directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, and Shilpa Shetty as anti-terrorist agents stopping a Canada attack; a tribute to Mukul S. Anand's unfinished 1997 film.
Dus Kahaniyaan (दस कहानियाँ)
Dus Kahaniyaan (दस कहानियाँ), a 2007 Hindi anthology film of ten twist-ending short stories by six directors including Sanjay Gupta, Meghna Gulzar, and Hansal Mehta; a box office disaster despite a large cast.
Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff, born in London in 1945, is a British mathematician who helped establish symplectic geometry as a core field and teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.