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Dusty Dvorak
Dusty Dvorak (Douglas Scott Dvorak, born 1958, California) is an American volleyball setter, USC Hall of Famer, 1984 Olympic gold medalist, and winner of the 1985 World Cup and 1986 Worlds (Triple Crown); International Volleyball Hall of Fame 1998.
Dusty Henricksen
Dusty Henricksen (Dustin Henricksen, born 2003) is an American slopestyle and big air snowboarder from Mammoth Lakes, California: 2020 Youth Olympic slopestyle gold medalist, 2021 X Games double gold medalist, and 2022-23 FIS slopestyle Crystal Globe winner.
Dusty Hill
Dusty Hill, born Joseph Michael Hill in 1949, was the American bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist of Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top from 1970 until his death in 2021.
Dusty Johnson
Dusty Johnson, born 1976, is an American Republican who has represented South Dakota's at-large House district since 2019, after serving on the state Public Utilities Commission.
Dusty plasma
A dusty plasma, also called a complex plasma, is a plasma containing charged solid or liquid particles, found in planetary rings, comet tails, and semiconductor processing discharges.
Dusty Rhodes
Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Runnels, 1945–2015), "The American Dream," American pro wrestler from Austin, Texas; three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Hard Times promo, War Games creator, 2007 WWE Hall of Famer, father of Goldust and Cody Rhodes.
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (Dusty Cup): WWE NXT bracket-style tag team tournament honoring Dusty Rhodes, first held 2015, won by Finn Balor & Samoa Joe; 2026 edition has 14 teams from five brands.
Dusty Spencer
Dusty Ray Spencer, Florida death row inmate convicted of the 1992 murder of his wife Karen Spencer in Orange County; executed June 25, 2026 at age 74, the oldest person executed in modern Florida history.
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield (Mary O'Brien, 1939-1999), English blue-eyed soul and pop singer of the 1960s British Invasion; hits "I Only Want to Be with You", "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", "Son of a Preacher Man"; Dusty in Memphis; Pet Shop Boys comeback; Rock Hall 1999.
Dusty torus
A dusty torus is an optically thick distribution of dust around the accretion disk and supermassive black hole of an active galactic nucleus, re-emitting absorbed radiation in the infrared.
DUT-49
DUT-49 is a mesoporous metal-organic framework (MOF) synthesized at the Technical University of Dresden, known since its 2016 Nature report as the first material exhibiting negative gas adsorption.
Duta-kavya
Duta-kavya (दूतकाव्य), also called sandeśa-kāvya, is a Sanskrit genre of lyric poetry in which a separated lover sends a message via a messenger like a cloud.
Dutasteride
Dutasteride (Avodart) is a dual type 1 and type 2 5α-reductase inhibitor approved in 2001 for benign prostatic hyperplasia; it cut biopsy-detected prostate cancer 22.8% in REDUCE but is not recommended for chemoprevention.
Dutch Americans
Dutch Americans, Americans of Dutch (Netherlands) ancestry, numbered 5,045,046 in the 2024 ACS. Distinguished by the New Netherland colonial era, the 1846-47 Calvinist Midwest migration, and post-1946 immigration.
Dutch angle
A Dutch angle, also called a Dutch tilt or canted shot, is a camera shot with the camera rolled so the horizon sits off level in the frame.
Dutch auction
A Dutch auction, or descending auction, is an auction where the price starts high and falls until the first bidder accepts and wins at that price.
Dutch baby pancake
Dutch baby pancake, also called German pancake, Bismarck, or Dutch puff: a large sweet oven-baked American pancake with steam-puffed edges, popularized at Manca's Cafe in Seattle by Victor Manca; name from 'Deutsch', not the Netherlands.
Dutch book arguments
Dutch book arguments, also called Dutch book theorems, hold that degrees of belief should satisfy the probability axioms because incoherent beliefs allow bets guaranteeing a loss.
Dutch Bros. Coffee
Dutch Bros. Coffee (Dutch Bros Inc., NYSE: BROS) is an American drive-thru beverage chain founded in 1992 in Grants Pass, Oregon, by Dane and Travis Boersma, with 1,225 shops in 25 states as of June 30, 2026.
Dutch Cape Colony
The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie) was a European colony at the Cape of Good Hope, founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652 as a refreshment station.
Dutch capture of Bahia
The Dutch capture of Bahia (Invasão holandesa da Bahia) was the seizure of Salvador, capital of Portuguese Brazil, by a Dutch West India Company fleet in May 1624.
Dutch capture of Curaçao
The Dutch capture of Curaçao in 1634 was the seizure of the Spanish-held island by the Dutch West India Company under Johannes van Walbeeck, completed by 21 August.
Dutch Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean: the six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), reorganized on 10 October 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved into three constituent countries and three Dutch special municipalities.
Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange (DCSX)
The Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange (DCSX) is a securities exchange in Curaçao, opened for trading in Willemstad in January 2011 and the only authorized exchange in the Dutch Caribbean.
Dutch colonial novel
The Dutch colonial novel (Indische roman) is Dutch-language fiction about the Netherlands' overseas colonies, above all the Dutch East Indies, founded by Multatuli's Max Havelaar (1860).
Dutch colonization of the Americas
Dutch colonization of the Americas, also called Dutch America, was settlement and commercial exploitation by the Dutch Republic and the Dutch West India Company, chartered in 1621.
Dutch conquest of Bali
The Dutch conquest of Bali was a series of military campaigns between 1846 and 1908 that brought the Balinese kingdoms under Dutch colonial rule, including the Puputan Badung of 1906.
Dutch conquest of Jambi
The Dutch conquest of Jambi was the 1858 Netherlands Indies expedition that bombarded the sultan's palace on Sumatra, deposed Sultan Thaha Saifuddin, and installed a rival sultan.
Dutch conquest of Malabar
The Dutch conquest of Malabar (കൊല്ലം) was the Dutch East India Company campaign from 1658 to 1663 that seized Portuguese forts on the Malabar coast of present-day Kerala.
Dutch conquest of Malacca
The Dutch conquest of Malacca (Penaklukan Melaka oleh Belanda) was the capture of Portuguese-held Malacca by the Dutch East India Company and Johor after a six-month siege, ending on 14 January 1641.