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Dynamo Dresden
SG Dynamo Dresden: German football club founded 12 April 1953 in Dresden, East Germany's most successful side with five 1970s DDR-Oberliga titles, 1989 championship and three doubles; now in Bundesliga 2 after 2025 promotion.
Dynamo model
A dynamo model is a mathematical and numerical description of how convecting, electrically conducting fluid in a planetary core or star generates and sustains a magnetic field.
Dynamo theory
Dynamo theory describes how the motion of an electrically conducting fluid, such as molten iron in a planetary core or ionized plasma in a star, generates magnetic fields.
Dynamometer
A dynamometer is a device that applies a controlled load to an engine or motor while measuring its torque and speed to determine power output.
Dynamometer car
A dynamometer car is a rolling laboratory railroad car coupled directly behind a locomotive to measure and record drawbar pull, speed, and train performance on real track.
Dynamometry
Dynamometry is the quantitative measurement of the force or torque a muscle produces, using handheld or fixed devices to assess neuromuscular function and track rehabilitation progress.
Dynapac
Dynapac is a Swedish manufacturer of road construction equipment, principally soil and asphalt rollers, pavers, and planers, headquartered in Karlskrona and owned since 2017 by France's Fayat Group.
DynaPark
DynaPark (DinoPark, Dinopark) name shared by unrelated dinosaur-themed attractions: the 8-park DinoPark Europe chain founded 2002 in Plzeň, plus parks in Minsk, Sevastopol, Kyiv, and Phuket, all with life-size animatronic dinosaurs.
DYNASMART
DYNASMART is a simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment model developed at the University of Texas at Austin that combines network traffic simulation with routing of individual vehicles.
Dynastic race theory
Dynastic race theory, sometimes called the Dynastic Race, is the discredited claim that an invading eastern master race brought civilization to ancient Egypt, proposed by Flinders Petrie in 1939.
Dynasties in Chinese history
Dynasties in Chinese history (朝代): the canonical sequence of ruling houses from the traditional Xia through the Qing (to 1911), covering the Mandate of Heaven, archaeology of Shang versus Xia, overlapping regimes, and modern critiques of the dynastic cycle.
Dynastinae
Dynastinae, the rhinoceros beetles, is a scarab beetle subfamily of about 225 genera and 1,500 species worldwide, marked by male head and pronotum horns, giant Dynastes hercules, and pests like Oryctes rhinoceros.
Dynasty
A dynasty is a family or line of rulers whose sovereigns of a country belong to a single family or descend from a common ancestor.
Dynasty (1981 TV series)
Dynasty (1981 TV series): ABC prime time soap opera, 1981-1989, about Denver oil tycoon Blake Carrington, wife Krystle, and ex-wife Alexis; number one show of 1984-85, famous for Nolan Miller fashions and the Moldavian wedding cliffhanger.
Dynasty (2017 TV series)
Dynasty is an American soap opera that aired on The CW from 2017 to 2022, a reboot of the 1980s series centered on the wealthy Carrington and Colby families.
Dynasty (Kiss album)
Dynasty is Kiss's seventh studio album, released May 23, 1979 on Casablanca, produced by Vini Poncia with a disco-pop lean; Anton Fig drummed all but one track, and "I Was Made For Lovin' You" hit US #11.
Dynasty 0
Dynasty 0 (Dynasty Zero), also called the Protodynastic Period, is the modern label for late Predynastic Egyptian rulers of Naqada III (c. 3200–3000 BC) before the First Dynasty, including Scorpion I and II, Ka, and Narmer, during Egypt's unification.
Dynasty E
Dynasty E, also called the Dynasty of E, is the Babylonian King List's label for the kings of Babylon from roughly the tenth to eighth centuries BC.
Dynasty of Arrapha
The Dynasty of Arrapha ruled the Hurrian kingdom of Arrapha, a Mitanni vassal with its capital at modern Kirkuk, during the 15th and 14th centuries BC.
Dynasty of Eshmunazar
The Dynasty of Eshmunazar, or House of Eshmunazar, was the royal house that ruled Phoenician Sidon under Persian rule in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
Dynasty of Hiram I
The Dynasty of Hiram I was the royal house that ruled Tyre from Hiram I's accession c. 969 BC until Ithobaal I seized the throne in the 880s BC.
Dynasty of Ithobaal
The Dynasty of Ithobaal, or House of Ethbaal, was the royal house of Tyre founded by Ithobaal I, a priest of Astarte who seized the throne c. 887 BC.
Dynasty of Kish
The First Dynasty of Kish is the opening postdiluvian dynasty of the Sumerian King List, a largely legendary line of kings of the city of Kish in Early Dynastic Sumer.
Dynasty Warriors (三國無双)
Dynasty Warriors (三國無双, Sangoku Musou) is Koei Tecmo's Omega Force hack-and-slash series based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms; began as a 1997 fighting game, defined Musou action from Dynasty Warriors 2 (2000), with Origins (2025) its highest-rated entry.
Dynasty Warriors 4 (真・三國無双3)
Dynasty Warriors 4 (真・三國無双3, Shin Sangoku Musou 3) is Omega Force's 2003 PS2 hack-and-slash set in the Three Kingdoms era, with 42 characters, experience-based weapons, and Metacritic scores of 78 (PS2) and 75 (Xbox).
Dynasty Warriors 8 (真・三國無双7)
Dynasty Warriors 8 (真・三國無双7, Shin Sangokumusō 7) is Omega Force's 2013 musou action game on Wei, Wu, Shu, and Jin; released July 16, 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360, with Xtreme Legends and Empires expansions, Metacritic 68.
Dynasty Warriors 9
Dynasty Warriors 9 (Shin Sangoku Musou 8) is Omega Force and Koei Tecmo's 2018 open-world hack-and-slash for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with the State Combo System and 83 returning officers; reception was mixed.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
Dynasty Warriors: Origins (真・三國無双 ORIGINS) is Omega Force's 2025 tactical action game for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, covering the Yellow Turban Rebellion to Chibi through an amnesiac hero, Ziluan, with nine companions and ten weapon types.
Dynasty: The Murdochs
Dynasty: The Murdochs is a four-part Netflix documentary series (March 13, 2026) directed by Liz Garbus about the Murdoch family succession battle over Fox Corp and News Corp, ending with Lachlan Murdoch's control and a $1.1 billion-per-sibling settlement.
Dynasty: The Reunion
Dynasty: The Reunion is a two-part, four-hour ABC miniseries aired 20 and 22 October 1991, reuniting John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins and others to resolve the cliffhangers left when Dynasty was canceled in 1989.