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Dobre Miasto Dobre Miasto () is a town and municipality in Poland (Olsztyn County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). The municipality of Dobre Miasto is situated in the northern part of the Olsztyn Lakeland (in the Masurian Lakeland) in the heart of the historical region Warmia.
Dobretići The municipality of Dobretići is one of the youngest and smallest municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina hence being one of the poorest municipalities as well. It is located on the mountain of Ranča in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dobrica Ćosić Dobrica Ćosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Добрица Ћосић) (born 29 December 1921 in Velika Drenova, near Trstenik, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, today in Serbia) is a Serbian writer, as well as a political and national theorist. He was the first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993.
Dobrich Dobrich (Bulgarian: Добрич, historical names: Hacıoğlu Pazarcık in Ottoman Turkish, Bazargic in Romanian, Tolbuhin during the Socialist era) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. Dobrich is the eighth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja, and is located 30 km west of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, not far from resorts such as Albena, Balchik, and Golden Sands.
Dobrich Knoll Dobrich Knoll (Dobrichka Mogila 'do-brich-ka mo-'gi-la) rises to over 400 m in the middle of Veleka Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island. Situated overlooking Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the east and Arkutino Beach to the west.
Dobrogea Plateau The Dobrogea Plateau (Romanian: PodiĹźul Dobrogei) is a plateau in Eastern Romania located in the Dobruja region, surrounded to the north and west by the Danube and to the east by the Danube Delta and the Black Sea.
Dobromir, Vlach leader Dobromir, known to the Byzantines as Chrysos, was a leader of the Vlachs (and, doubtless, Bulgarians too) while Alexios III Angelos was Byzantine emperor. He became prominent in 1197 and is last heard of in 1202.
Dobrovol'skiy (crater) Dobrovol'sky is a small lunar crater on the Moon's far side. The northwest part of the crater rim is intruded upon by the somewhat larger Shirakatsi crater, and the outer [of that feature covers most of the interior floor of Dobrovol'sky.
Dobroyd Head Dobroyd Head is a locality in the most southerly part of the Manly local government area, in the suburb of Balgowlah Heights. It is a part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, which contains examples of ecosystems at risk such as coastal heath.
Dobrudzha Glacier Dobrudzha Glacier (Lednik Dobrudzha 'led-nik 'do-bru-dzha) is located on the Burgas Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island, and is bounded by Ruse Peak and Asen Peak to the north and by Kuber Peak to the west. The glacier flows southeastward into Bransfield Strait.
Dobruja Dobruja, or sometimes Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian, Добруджа—transliterated Dobrudzha—in Bulgarian, Dobruca in Turkish, and Δοβρουτσά—transliterated Dhovrutsa—in Greek), is an informal region shared by Bulgaria and Romania, located between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta, Romanian coast and the northernmost part of the Bulgarian coast.
Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych (, Dobrynya Nikitich i Zmey Gorynych) is a Russian traditionally-animated feature film directed by Ilya Maksimov, made by Melnitsa Animation Studio. It opened in Russia on March 15, 2006.
Dobson Cellular Dobson Cellular, aka Dobson Cellular Systems is a wireless telecommunications provider in several regions of the United States, including Alaska. Dobson Cellular Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dobson Communications Corporation based in Oklahoma City.
Dobson River, New Zealand The Dobson River is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. It flows south for 45 kilometres from its source to the east of Mount Hopkins, in the Southern Alps, before joining with the Hopkins River, close to the latter's entry into the northern end of Lake Ohau in the Mackenzie Country.
Dobson's Encyclopædia Dobson's Encyclopædia was the first encyclopedia published in the newly independent United States of America, by Thomas Dobson from 1789–1798. Although based on the contemporary 3rd edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (published 1788–1797), Dobson's Encyclopædia was a somewhat longer work in which many articles were re-written for a patriotic American audience; for example, the term Britannica was dropped from the title, the dedication to King George III was omitted, and sundry facts about American history, geography and peoples were added.
Dobsonfly The name dobsonfly refers to any species of the genus Corydalus (family Corydalidae). The most well-known of the numerous species is Corydalus cornutus, a long, dark-colored insect of North and Central America, that spends most of its life in its larval stage.
Dobsonian telescope The Dobsonian telescope is a design that has become popular amongst amateur astronomers because it results in an extremely simple and rugged large-aperture instrument at low cost. The term "Dobsonian" or "Dob" refers to any telescope with an alt-azimuth mount and a Newtonian telescope tube assembly that feature several innovations popularized by John Dobson.
Dobsonville Shopping Centre Dobsonville Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Dobsonville and is the first shopping centre to be built in Soweto and is seen as a symbol of economic development in the area.
Dobsonville, Gauteng Dobsonville is a township included into the greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, suburbs of Soweto, on its southern border.
Dobunni The Dobunni were one of the Celtic tribes living in the British Islands prior to the Roman invasion of Britain. The tribe lived in part of West and South West England, including the former Avon, north Somerset and Gloucestershire.
Doc and Raider Doc and Raider was a Canadian comic strip, created by Sean Martin. Published in newspapers and magazines for LGBT audiences beginning in 1987, the strip's main characters were Doc and Raider, two gay men who began the series as roommates but eventually became a couple.
Doc Adkins Merle Theron (Doc) Adkins (August 5 1872 - February 21 1934) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1902) and New York Highlanders (1903). Adkins batted and threw righthanded.
Doc Ayers Yancey Wyatt "Doc" Ayers (May 21, 1891 – May 26, 1968) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who specialized in throwing the spitball pitch. He played nine seasons in the American League with the Washington Senators (1913-19) and Detroit Tigers (1919-21).
Doc Blanchard Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard (born December 11, 1924, raised in Bishopville, South Carolina) is best known as the Army football player who won the 1945 Heisman, Maxwell Award, and Sullivan Award. The son of a doctor who had played football at Tulane and Wake Forest, Felix Blanchard was nicknamed "Little Doc" as a boy.
Doc Corbin Dart Doc Corbin Dart (1953 - ) was lead singer, founder, and lyricist of Lansing, Michigan, USA's seminal 80's punk rock act the The Crucifucks. He is the son of Rollin Dart, chairman of the Dart National Bank, and more distantly related to the Dart Container family.
Doc Cramer Roger Maxwell "Doc" Cramer (July 22 1905 – September 9 1990) was an American center fielder and left-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from 1929 to 1948. A mainstay at the top of his team's lineup for many years, he led the AL in at bats a record seven times and in singles five times.
Doc Edwards Howard Rodney Edwards (born December 10, 1936 in Red Jacket, West Virginia) was a backup catcher with the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, and the Philadelphia Phillies over parts of five seasons spanning eight years. He earned his nickname of "Doc" as a Navy medic.
Doc Films The Documentary Film Group, better known as Doc Films, is a student-operated film society at the University of Chicago. The society is on record with the Museum of Modern Art in New York as the longest-running organization of its kind in the United States.
Doc Frankenstein Doc Frankenstein (published 2004 to present) is a comic book created by Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce, written by the Wachowski Brothers (Andy and Larry, better known for their work on The Matrix series), and drawn by Steve Skroce. The book is published bimonthly by Burlyman Entertainment, though recently they have fallen behind this deadline quite a bit (most likely because of the Wachowski Brother's involvement in the film adaptation of V for Vendetta).
Doc Frankenstein(Doc Frankenstein character) Doc Frankenstein is the name that The Frankenstein's Monster took on, after his Creator/Father, Doctor Victor Frankenstein; death, at the end of the Mary Shelley novel. He is now a super-scientist/monster hunter, who is enemies with both the Vatican, and all of those who abuse super-science and technology and plan to use their knowledge to enslave mankind.
Doc Hammer Doc Hammer (born Eric Alexander Hammer on February 2nd in New London, Connecticut, USA) is a multi-disciplinary artist, most notable as co-writer (with Christopher McCulloch), editor, and voice actor (Doctor Girlfriend, Henchman #21 and Master Billy Quizboy) for the animated television series The Venture Bros.. He is also a musician and was part of the bands Mors Syphilitica and Requiem in White with then-wife Lisa Hammer, whom he has since divorced, but still works with on The Venture Bros.
Doc Hastings Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings (born February 7, 1941), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the Fourth Congressional District of Washington. Hastings won his seventh term in the election held November 7, 2006.
Doc Holliday John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K.
Doc Cheatham Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, much better known as Doc Cheatham (13 June, 1905 - 2 June, 1997) was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. While a reliable player in some of the top jazz groups from the 1920s on, Cheatham's career enjoyed an unusual flowering of renewed creativity and acclaim in his later decades; Doc himself agreed with the critical assessment that he was probably the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70.
Doc Love Doc Love (real name Thomas Hodges) is a relationship coach for heterosexual men who has authored several books on the subject of how to date women and how to keep them interested in a romantic relationship. He also writes a free weekly column, which is published on AskMen.
Doc Martin Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama starring Martin Clunes. Created by Dominic Minghella, it is filmed on location in and around the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, with filming of most interior scenes and production carried out in a converted barn at a local farm.
Doc Medich George "Doc" Medich (born December 9, 1948 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1972-1982. His nickname stems from the fact that during his early baseball career he was a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh.
Doc Newton Eustace James "Doc" Newton (October 26, 1877 - May 14, 1931) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from Indianapolis, Indiana who played for several teams in both the National League and American League. He finished with a 54-72 win/loss record, 3.
Doc Otaku Doc Otaku is a character from the Freedom City setting of the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game. Like most characters from Freedom City, Doc Otaku is similar to an existing comic book character, in this case the Marvel Comics villain Arcade, with aspects of other characters such as DC Comics' Toyman, and the Control Freak from the Teen Titans animated series.
Doc Potts Doc Potts or Doc Potts and Weselly was an animated television series employing the Syncro-Vox technique proposed by Clark Haas and Cambria Studios. Dick Brown and Edwin Gillette prepared a pilot episode in 1960, but the series was never produced.
Doc Prothro James Thompson "Doc" Prothro (July 16, 1893 - October 14, 1971) was an infielder and manager in American Major League Baseball. Prothro was so nicknamed because he was a practicing dentist before signing his first professional baseball contract at age 27.
Doc Rivers Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers (born October 13, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player from Marquette University who played point guard in the National Basketball Association notably for the Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, and San Antonio Spurs. After retiring from the league, he became a coach and is currently head coach of the Boston Celtics.
Doc Sadler Doc Sadler is the head Men's basketball coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was hired on August 8, 2006 to take over for former coach Barry Collier, who left to become athletic director at Butler University.
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-08488-9, hardcover, 1973, 226pp; Bantam, expanded paperback, 1975; Playboy, updated paperback, 1981) is a fictional biography by Philip José Farmer about Doc Savage.
Doc Walker Doc Walker is a country music group from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. They have won Canadian Country Music Awards and had radio hits with the songs "I Am Ready" and "The Show is Free" from the 2003 album "Everyone Aboard".
Doc Watson Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. According to Doc on his three CD biographical recording "Legacy", he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname to go by.
Doc White Guy Harris "Doc" White (April 9, 1879 - February 19, 1969) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for two teams, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox, during his career which lasted from 1901 to 1913.
Doc-O-Matic Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation] systems, including both [[Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats as well as the following programming languages: C/C++, C++/CLI, C#, Delphi, Java, IDL, VB.
DocBook DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for authoring technical documents related to computer hardware and software but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
Doce Pares Doce Pares is the world's leading organization of the traditional Filipino martial art known as Eskrima or Arnis (stick fighting). Magellan's sword-wielding conquistadors fell to Maharaja Lapulapu who used Eskrima to defeat the Spanish at the battle of Mactan.
Docent A docent (the word being derived from the Latin word ducere, meaning to lead) is officially defined as a professor or university lecturer, but the term has been expanded to designate the corps of volunteer guides who staff many of the museums and other educational institutions in the world.
Doceticism In Christian Theology, Doceticism (derived from the Greek verb doketein, to appear) is the belief that Jesus Christ was a purely divine being, and that he only appeared to be human. It was viewed as heresy and wiped out in the early Catholic Church.
Docetism In Christianity, Docetism (from the Greek [dokeĹŤ], "to seem") is the belief that Jesus' physical body was an illusion, as was his crucifixion; that is, Jesus only seemed to have a physical body and to physically die, but in reality he was incorporeal, a pure spirit, and hence could not physically die. This belief treats the sentence "the Word was made Flesh" (John 1:14) as merely figurative and has historically been regarded as heretical by most Christian theologiansbelief is most commonly attributed to the Gnostics], who believed that matter was evil, and hence that [[God would not take on a material body.
Docimodus Docimodus is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to east Africa. The genus contains two species; Docimodus johnstoni endemic to Lake Malawi, Lake Malombe and the upper reaches of the Shire River and Docimodus evelynae which is limited in its distribution to Lake Malawi.
Dock (computing) The Dock is a graphical user interface feature first introduced in the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems, and radically changed and refined in Mac OS X, where it behaves more like the Apple Newton's Newton OS Dock.
Dock (Hayden Scott-Baron) Hayden Scott-Baron (Better known as Dock, born April 6, 1980) is an English professional illustrator and graphic designer. In 2001 he joined up with other comic creators Laura Watton, Sam Brown/Subi and Foxy in founding one of the largest UK Manga Studios, Sweatdrop Studios.
Dock Boggs Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7,1898–February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of play, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of old-time Appalachian mountain music and the blues.
Dock connector Although a Dock Connector can refer to many things, Apple Computer has established the small, rectangular, 30 terminal connector used to connect a full sized iPod to a personal computer or power adapter as "the Dock Connector" This device is often called a "30-Pin Connector".
Dock landing ship The United States Navy Dock Landing Ship (Navy hull classification LSD) was designed to support amphibious operations. These amphibious assault ships transport and launch amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel.
Dock pudding Dock Pudding is a delicacy produced in the north of England, now chiefly in the Calder Valley area of West Yorkshire. Its main ingredients are the leaves of bistort (sometimes called "gentle dock" or "Passion dock", though it is not a member of the Rumex genus), together with oatmeal, nettles, onion, and seasoning to taste.
Dock Tarn Dock Tarn is a small tarn located within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England at grid reference . It is situated on moorland at 400 metres above sea level near the summit of Great Crag, midway between Watendlath, the Stonethwaite valley and Borrowdale.
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union (1889-1922) was a British trade union. It emerged in response to the outbreak of the London Dock Strike in 1889 and rapidly became the principal union for dockworkers in London, Bristol, Cardiff, and other ports in the south and south-west.
Dockapps Dockapps, or docked applications are computer programs which appear to reside inside an icon rather than a window in graphical computer systems. Their display is constantly-updated just like a windowed application, but appears inside a small (64x64 pixel) icon.
Docking (animal) Docking is used as a term for the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or ears. The term cropping is also used, more commonly in reference to the docking of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail.
Docking (dog) Docking is used as a term for the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or ears. The term cropping is also used, more commonly in reference to the docking of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail.
Docking and Stowage Module The Docking and Stowage Module (DSM) was a planned Russian element of the International Space Station that provided facilities for stowage and additional docking ports. The Docking and Stowage Module would have been used for additional stowage and to support Soyuz docking, and would have been launched to the International Space Station on a Proton launch vehicle.
Docking sleeve In engineering, a docking sleeve or mounting boss is a tube or enclosure used to couple two mechanical components together, or to retain two components together; this permits two equally-sized appendages to be connected together via insertion and fixing within the construction. Docking sleeves may be physically solid or flexible, their implementation varying widely according to the required application of the device.
Docking station A docking station is a part of a portable computer that remains on a desk, containing hardware that is not needed when on the road, while a smaller section detaches to provide a lighter laptop. Docking stations are often used to outfit a light-weight ultraportable so that it is more of a desktop replacement, for use at home.
Docking Station Creatures Docking Station is the free, online version of the computer game Creatures and the newest yet. It is an artificial life game, where the player takes care of highly advanced creatures called Norns, Ettins and Grendels.
Docking web The docking web is a fictional device used on the science fiction television show Farscape. The web is an invisible force field (similar to a tractor beam used in other science fiction drama) which is used drag ships and other objects into a vessel's docking bay.
Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail public transport metro serving the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, England. It extends to Stratford to the north, Greenwich and Lewisham to the south, west close to London city centre and east to the rest of the Docklands, London City Airport and eventually Woolwich (currently North Woolwich).
Docklands Light Railway rolling stock The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is operated by high-floor, bi-directional, single-articulated cars with four doors on each side, with each train normally composed of two cars. The cars have no driver’s cab, although there is a small driver’s console concealed behind a locked panel at each car end from which the passenger service agent (PSA) can drive the car in an emergency.
Dockrillia All terete leaved Dendrobium species have been moved into a newly created genus, Dockrillia, named after Alick Dockrill, a contemporary Australian orchidologist. It mainly grows as an ephiphytic or lithophytic, and found mainly along the east coast of Australia.
Docks of Dover (band) The Docks of Dover were an American psychedelic rock group active from 1967-1970 and again for a reunion concert in 2004. They were named for a chapter in a 1932 Edgar Parks novel, "Edgar Parks Examines the Art of Ship Manufacturing".
Dockstavarvet Dockstavarvet is a Swedish shipyard which specializes in fast aluminum boats, such as pilot boats, patrol craft, and military assault craft. It was founded in 1905 as N & C Sundins BĂĄtbyggeri; the current name of the company simply means "Docksta shipyard".
Dockum Group The Dockum is a Late Triassic (aproximatley late Carnian through Rhaetian, or 223-200 Ma) geologic group found primaraly on the Llano Estacado of western Texas and eastern New Mexico with minor exposures in southwestern Kansas, eastern Colorado, and Oklahoma panhandle. The Dockum reaches a maximum thickness of slightly over 650 m but is usually much thinner.
Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts The Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (Dukljanska akademija nauka i umjetnost, DANU; Latin Academia Dioclitiana Scientiarum et Artium) is a scholar's academy in Montenegro. It is named after the historic state of Duklja on the territory of today's Montenegro.
Docodonta Docodonta is an order of extinct mammals that lived during the mid- to late-Mesozoic era. Their most distinguishing physical features were their relatively sophisticated set of molars, from which the order gets its name.
Docomomo International Docomomo International (sometimes written as DoCoMoMo) is a non-profit organisation whose full title is International Working Party for Document and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement.
Docosahexaenoic acid Docosahexaenoic acid (commonly known as DHA; 22:6 omega-3, all-cis-docosa-4,7,10,13,16,19-hexaenoic acid, trivial name cervonic acid) is an omega-3 essential fatty acid. Chemically, DHA is a carboxylic acid with a 22-carbon chain and six cis double bonds; the first double bond is located at the third carbon from the omega end.
Docosanol Docosanol is a drug used for topical treatment for recurrent herpes simplex labialis episodes (episodes of cold sores or fever blisters). A saturated 22-carbon aliphatic alcohol, docosanol exhibits antiviral activity against many lipid enveloped viruses including herpes simplex virus (HSV).
Docs Keepin Time Docs Keepin Time is a Black American Quarter Horse most famous for starring as Black Beauty in the film adaptation of Anna Sewell's novel. He went from having an unsuccessful racing career, to being one of Hollywood's most sought after equine performers.
Docstring In programming, a docstring is a comment included in source code to document the purpose of a piece of code. Unlike conventional source code comments, or even specifically formatted comments like Javadoc documentation, docstrings are not stripped from the source tree when it is parsed, but are retained throughout the runtime of the program.
Doctest doctest is a module included in the Python programming language's standard library that allows the easy generation of tests based on output from the standard Python interpreter shell, cut and pasted into docstrings.
Doctor (band) Doctor is a Canadian rock band founded by vocalist Daniel Greaves, formerly of The Watchmen, and bassist Rob Higgins, formerly of Change of Heart. The duo was joined in studio by guitarist Jamie Edwards and drummer Dan Cornelius to record the band's debut album, High Is As High Gets.
Doctor (Doctor Who) The Doctor is the central fictional character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series.
Doctor (children's game) Doctor, Playing doctor, or Doctors and nurses is a children's game linked to sexual curiosity. Typically in such a game, children play roles of doctor and patient, using the imaginary clinical setting as a pretext to examine one another without clothes.
Doctor Akakia Doctor Akakia (full title: Histoire du Docteur Akakia et du Natif de St Malo) is a satirical essay of a very biting nature by Voltaire, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis, the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, which so excited the anger of Frederick the Great, the patron of the Academy, that he ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman, after 30,000 copies of it had been sold in Paris.
Doctor Almasaro Doctor Almasaro, or The Jews of Palermo (original Yiddish title Doctor Almasaro, oder Die Yiden in Palermo) is an historical, dramatic operetta in rhymed couplets by Abraham Goldfaden, written some time between 1880 and 1883. The title character's name is also variously rendered as Doctor Almasado, Doctor Almaraso, and Doctor Almasada.
Doctor Aybolit Doctor Aybolit (Aibolit) is a fictional character from the Aybolit (Doctor Aybolit) poem for children by Korney Chukovsky, that was followed by several more books by the same author. The name may be translated as "Ow, it hurts!
Doctor Barney Is Here Doctor Barney is Here is the 26th episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
Doctor Bong Doctor Bong is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He possess an advanced knowledge of genetic engineering, and his bell-shaped helmet can be struck to create a number of effects.
Doctor Clayton Forrester (MST3K) Doctor Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester is a fictional character on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), a show that pokes fun at B-movies and the occasional sci-fi classic. The creators chose the name Dr.
Doctor Death (magazine) Doctor Death was the title of a short-lived pulp magazine published by Dell Magazines in 1935, as well as the name of the main character featured in that magazine. An earlier, somewhat different, version of Doctor Death appeared in the magazine's predecessor All Detective Magazine.
Doctor Detroit Doctor Detroit is a 1983 comedy film, written by Bruce Jay Friedman and Carl Gottlieb. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Lynn Whitfield, Fran Drescher, and Donna Dixon, with a special appearance by James Brown.
Doctor Dillamond Doctor Dillamond is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical and West End theatre musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel.
Doctor Dolittle (film) Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 musical film which tells the story of a doctor who learns from his pet parrot to talk to animals. The film stars Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough.
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, and differs considerably in tone from its predecessors; the stripped down narrative does not have room for any of the sub-plots and tales previously present. Instead there is a growing sense of an event about to happen that is almost spooky in tone.
Doctor Dolittle's Return Published in 1933, Doctor Dolittle's Return was the first Doctor Dolittle book in five years. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon was supposed to be the last book but, as with Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, the author relented.
Doctor Dolittle's Zoo In Hugh Lofting's 1925 book Doctor Dolittle's Zoo, Doctor Dolittle returns from his voyages and sets his house in order. This includes expanding his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents.
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