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Donald Turnupseed Donald Turnupseed (1932–1995) of Tulare, California, USA was the driver who collided with the car of actor James Dean on September 30 1955 near Cholame, California, resulting in fatal injuries to Dean. Dean, who had received a speeding ticket two hours before the accident, was driving a silver Porsche 550 Spyder and Turnupseed was in a 1950 Ford.
Donald Tyson Donald Tyson is a Canadian author of modern occult literature who has built a highly practical system of magic which delves into complex areas of the occult such as Enochian magic and sexual union with spirits.
Donald và bạn hữu Donald và bạn hữu (Vietnamese for "Donald and friends") is a bilingual weekly Disney comics magazine in Vietnamese and English published by Tre Publishing House in co-operation with The Saigon Times under license from the Walt Disney Company.
Donald Vance Donald Vance is a American civilian who was held in dentention at Camp Cropper, the United States military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad for ninety seven days beginning in April 2006. He said he planned to sue the former defense secretary, Donald H.
Donald W. Nicholson Donald William Nicholson was a 20th century American politician from the state of Massachusetts. Born in Wareham, Massachusetts on August 11, 1888, he attended the public schools and took college extension courses.
Donald W. Wolf Donald William Wolf (February 7, 1919 – October 9, 1942) was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Donald Wade, Baron Wade Donald William Wade, Baron Wade, DL (16 June, 1904 – 6 November, 1988) was a British Solicitor who became a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. Wade's time in Parliament coincided with the time the Liberals were at their lowest ebb but his job as Chief Whip kept the party operating until times were better; however, his own seat was dependent on a local pact with the Conservatives and when it broke down, he was defeated.
Donald Weber Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature and film studies. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, where he has been a professor since 1981.
Donald Wilson (writer and producer) Donald Wilson (born September 1 1910, Dunblane, Scotland; died March 6 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967.
Donald Winnicott Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April,1896 - January 28, 1971) was a pediatrician and psychoanalyst. Born in Plymouth, Devon, England, to a prosperous middle-class Methodist family; the son of Sir Frederick (a merchant) and Elizabeth Martha (Woods) Winnicott.
Donald Wismer Donald Wismer (born December 27, 1946) is an American author of four science fiction novels, as well as the definitive bibliography on the Islamic Jesus, which is represented in Harvard University as a recommended research tool. He also has had several short stories published in anthologies with Charles Waugh.
Donald Yenko Donald Yenko (May 27, 1927 – March 5, 1985)Family Search - Donald Yenko, also known as Don Yenko, was a race car driver who was best known for creating a high performance version of the Chevrolet Camaro known as the Yenko Camaro.
Donald's Golf Game Donald's Golf Game is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1938. Donald falters on the fairway while his caddies Huey, Dewey, and Louie all try to "tee" him off, with a grasshopper and a bag of trick clubs.
Donald's Ostrich Donald's Ostrich features Donald Duck as a train station custodian in charge of the unloading and loading of crates and luggage. In the beginning of the cartoon, a train unloads a bunch of cargo, among which is dropped off an ostrich in a crate.
Donald's Quack Attack Donald's Quack Attack was a television series on The Disney Channel which featured Disney animated short films, especially those with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. A similar Mickey Mouse version was called Mickey's Mouse Tracks.
Donald's Snow Fight Donald's Snow Fight is an animated short film featuring classic cartoon character Donald Duck engaged in a boisterous snowball fight with his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. It was released in 1942 by Walt Disney Productions and is also known as Snowball Wars.
Donaldina Cameron Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 - January 4, 1968) Presbyterian advocate for social justice who rescued and educated more than 3,000 Chinese slave girls and women during her long career of social reform in San Francisco from 1895 to 1934.
Donaldism Donaldism refers to the fan culture that is found among fans of Disney comics and animated motion pictures and shorts. The word comes from "Donald Duck" and it was first used systematically and in writing by the Norwegian Jon Gisle, notably in his book Donaldismen from 1973 (with a second updated edition being published in 2006).
Donaldson Report In response to the explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 after leaving Kennedy International Airport in New York City, retired United States Navy Commander William S. Donaldson III, in cooperation with the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, issued a highly critical report of the National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government entities titled "Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Actions of the NTSB and the FBI" on July 17, 1998.
Donaldson's theorem In mathematics, Donaldson's theorem states that a positive definite intersection form of a simply connected smooth manifold of dimension 4 is diagonalisable to the identity matrix. It was proved by Simon Donaldson.
Donard Park Donard Park is a public park located in Newcastle, County Down in Northern Ireland. The park is next to the Glen River, which forms the boundary along one side, it is popular among youths for its many rock pools which become a hotspot in the summer.
Donata Maria Assunta Gottardi Donata Maria Assunta Gottardi (born on October 17 1950 in Verona) is an Italian politician. She is a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when she took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election.
Donatas Banionis Donatas Banionis (born April 28, 1924 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian actor, popular in the Soviet Union. He is best known in the West for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin.
Donatella Versace Donatella Versace (born May 2, 1955) is an affluent, high-end Italian fashion designer, like her famous brother, Gianni Versace, the founder of the high-end Versace clothing empire. Her current title is Vice-President of the Versace Group and Chief Designer of the fashion line.
Donatello Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) (1386 – December 13, 1466) was a famous Florentine artist and sculptor of the early Renaissance. He became well recognized for his creation of the shallow relief style of sculpting, which made the sculpture seem much deeper than it actually was.
Donatello (TMNT) Donatello (or "Don" or "Donny" or "Donnie" or "Don-San"), a fictional character, is one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). His bandana is typically portrayed as purple, his favorite color (although originally all four Turtles had red bandannas), and his weapon is a bo (quarterstaff), which he sometimes uses as a tool or a walking stick.
Donati (crater) Donati is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the Faye crater, and the two outer rims are separated by a gap of less than 10 kilometers.
Donatio mortis causa A donatio mortis causa (Latin, meaning literally "gift caused by death (in the future tense)") is a gift made during the life of the donor which is conditional upon, and takes effect upon, death (in the United States, it is often referred to as a gift causa mortis). It is separate and distinct from both a normal inter vivos gift, under which title passes immediately to the transferee, and from a testamentary gift, which takes effect under the provisions of a properly executed will.
Donation of Constantine The Donation of Constantine (Latin, Constitutum Donatio Constantini or Constitutum domini Constantini imperatoris) is a forged Roman imperial edict devised probably between 750 and 850. Its precise purpose is not entirely certain, but it was clearly a defense of papal interests, perhaps against the claims of either the Byzantine Empire, or the Frankish king Charlemagne, who had assumed the former imperial dignity in the West and with it the title "Emperor of the Romans".
Donation of Sutri The Donation of Sutri was an agreement reached at Sutri by Liutprand, King of the Lombards and Pope Gregory II in 728. At Sutri, the two reached an agreement by which the city and some hill towns in Latium (like Vetralla) were given to the Papacy, "as a gift to the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul" according to the Liber Pontificalis.
Donationware Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational software to the user and requests a donation be paid to the programmer. It generally falls into two categories and the programmer should specify which of these meanings they intend.
Donatist The Donatists (founded by the Berber Christian Donatus Magnus) were followers of a belief considered a heresy by the broader Catholic community. They lived in the Roman Africa Province, and flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Donato Bramante Donato Bramante (1444 – March 11, 1514) was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica.
Donato Cardinal Sbarretti Donato Raffaele Cardinal Sbarretti Tazza (NovemberSources differ as to whether he was born November 10 or 12. 1856 - April 1, 1939) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate whose career included pastoral service in Italy and Cuba, diplomatic service in America and the Pacific, and ultimately high office in the Roman Curia.
Donato Coco Donato Coco (born 1956 in Foggia, Italy) is an automobile designer, currently chief designer at Ferrari. Born in Italy, Coco studied architecture in Besançon, France, before taking a masters degree in vehicle design at the Royal College of Art in London.
Donato Gama da Silva Donato Gama da Silva (born December 30, 1962), often called simply Donato, is a former Spanish football defender and midfielder of Brazilian origin, well known as a member of the club Deportivo de La Coruña during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Donatorio A Donatorio, a Portuguese word roughly meaning 'endowed' sometimes anglicized as Donatary, was a private person (often a nobleman) who was bestowed by the crown with a considerable piece of land, called a donátaria, which was handed over at his discretion, exempt form normal colonial administration trough some royal governor etc., so de facto equivalent to a British Lord Proprietor.
Donatus O'Murray Archbishop Donatus O'Murray was a fifteenth century Archbishop of Tuam, an archdiocese in western Ireland surrounding Galway, who granted the status of collegiate church to the St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in Galway in 1484.
Donau-Ries Donau-Ries (Danube-Ries) is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Ansbach, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Eichstätt, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Aichach-Friedberg, Augsburg and Dillingen, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg (districts of Heidenheim and Ostalbkreis).
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft The Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (en: The association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services) was a sub organization in pre-war Vienna, Austria of the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG), a shipping company for transporting passengers and cargo on the Danube. The DDSG still exists today in the form of the now private companies DDSG-Blue Danube Schiffahrt GmbH (passenger transport) and the DDSG-Cargo GmbH.
Donaueschingen Donaueschingen is a town in the southwest of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar District. It is located about 13 km south of Villingen-Schwenningen, 24 km west of Tuttlingen, and about 30 km north of the Swiss town of Schaffhausen.
Donauinsel The Donauinsel (Danube Island), an island of about 20 km in the river Danube, is known to most visitors to Vienna, Austria as a recreational mecca with bars, restaurants and nightclubs, a wealth of sports opportunities from rollerblading, cycling and swimming to canoeing and a beach that looks and feels so good that it has been nicknamed the "Copa Cagrana/Copa Kagrana" (as it lies in the 22nd District of Vienna named Kagran).
Donaustauf Donaustauf is a market town in Bavaria, 5 km east of Regensburg at the foothills of the Bavarian Forest. The ruins of a medieval castle, presumably erected between 914 and 930, tower above the small town and situated nearby on a hill rising from the Danube is the imposing Teutonic temple of fame, Walhalla, a costly reproduction of the Parthenon in Athens of around 1830.
Donauturm The Vienna Donauturm (English: Danube Tower) was created in 1964 by architect Hannes Lintl in the course of the Viennese International Horticultural Show (WIG 64). Since then it has become a part of the Viennese skyline and has become a popular lookout point and a tourist attraction.
Donauwörth Known as Nordschwabens freundliche Mitte (North Swabia's Friendly Center), Donauwörth is a city in the German State of Bavaria (Bayern), in the region of Swabia (Schwabenland). It is said to have been founded by two fisherman where the Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz rivers meet.
Donavan Freberg Donavan Freberg, sometimes credited as Donovan Freberg (born April 6, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American advertising creative, photographer, voice actor, and writer. He was known only as Baby Boy until he received his name on his fifth birthday.
Donavon Frankenreiter Donavon Frankenreiter, born December 10, 1972, in Downey, California, is an American roots musician and surfer. He is a long-time friend of Jack Johnson and his debut self-titled album was released in 2004 on Johnson's Brushfire Records through Universal Music and made the Australian ARIA Top-40 charts in April 2004.
Donax Donax is a genus of bivalve mollusk found on tropical and temperate coasts worldwide. Members of this genus are generally filter feeding and some species, such as Donax variabilis, migrate vertically and horizontally with changes in the tides.
Donburi Donburi (丼, lit. "bowl", also frequently abbreviated as "don", thus less commonly spelled "domburi") is a Japanese "rice bowl dish" consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice.
Doncaster Doncaster is a town in the English county of South Yorkshire, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The town is located approximately 20 miles from Sheffield and is popularly referred to by some of its residents as Donny.
Doncaster and District Senior League The Doncaster and District Senior League is a football competition based around Doncaster, England. The league has two divisions, of which the senior, the Doncaster and District Senior League Premier Division, sits at level 13 of the English football league system.
Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust The Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust, DaSH, is a Mental Healthcare Trust serving over 850 000 inhabitants of Doncaster, Rotherham and parts of South Humber. Its headquarters are situated at St Catherine's Hospital in Doncaster.
Doncaster Boys League The Doncaster Free Press Junior Sunday Football League is a football league providing competitive matches for juniors aged from under Seven's to under Eighteen's. Both boys and girls participate but mixed football ends at under Ten's level.
Doncaster Cup The Doncaster Cup, known at times in the past as the Doncaster Gold Cup, is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 2 miles 2 furlongs (3,621 metres) at Doncaster Racecourse during the St Leger meeting in September.
Doncaster Education City Doncaster Education City (or DEC) is a ÂŁ90m higher and further education facility in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The centrepiece of the project is a new purpose-built campus in the centre of the town nicknamed The Hub.
Doncaster Handicap The Doncaster Handicap is a Group 1 thoroughbred horse race held at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney. It is held each year on Easter Monday. The race is contested over 1600 metres (one mile) and has a current prize of $2,500,000. Many great horses have won the race, including several who have also won the spring equivalent, the Epsom Handicap, while Super Impose created history in 1990 and 1991 by becoming the only horse to win both races on two occasions.
Doncaster Hill Doncaster Hill is one of the highest points in the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. Located in the suburb of Doncaster, it is 120 metres above sea level and has sweeping 360 degree views of the city, Port Phillip Bay, Macedon Range, the You Yang Ranges and Dandenong Ranges.
Doncaster Panthers The Doncaster Panthers was a former basketball team in the British Basketball League from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The Panthers played out of the Doncaster Dome and competed professionally from 1993 to 1996 when the team withdrew from the league.
Doncaster PSB Doncaster PSB (Power Signal Box) is a signalling centre on the East Coast Main Line railway in the United Kingdom, principally covering the line from London to Edinburgh but also encompassing other lines diverging and converging to the ECML. The signal box celebrated its 25th birthday in 2006.
Doncaster Royal Infirmary Doncaster Royal Infirmary is a district general hospital of 800 beds. Each year the hospital treats around 150,000 patients along with 95,500 A&E patients (combined figures for Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montague Hospital).
Dondang Sayang Dondang Sayang (Love Song or Dear Song) originated in Melaka sometime in the 15th century. It is a traditional Malay form of entertainment where Baba and Nyonya singers exchange extemporaneous Malay Pantun (poetry), in a lighthearted and sometimes humorous style.
Dondon Hontiveros Donaldo Hontiveros (born June 1, 1977), commonly known as Dondon, is a Filipino basketball athlete coming from Cebu playing for the San Miguel Beermen team in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is married to fellow Cebuana, musician Gail Blanco, whom he shares a four year-old son with.
Dondukov Dondukov is a Russian princely family descending from Donduk-Ombo, the sixth khan of the Kalmucks (reigned 1737-41). In 1732 he led 11,000 Kalmuck households from the Volga banks to the border of the Ottoman Empire at the Kuban River, asking the sultan for protection.
Done in the Open Done in the Open was the only book of poetry ever published by famous western author Owen Wister. Published in 1903, the book was a collaboration with the artist Frederic Remington, who illustrated Wister's verses.
Done Lying Down Done Lying Down were a British-American rock group, active during the mid-1990s. Their reputation for intense, energetic live performances won the group major acclaim in the British music press and a number of devoted fans.
Done the Impossible Done the Impossible is a fan documentary about the rise and fall and then rise again of Firefly and Serenity. The title is taken from a line of dialogue, spoken by Malcolm Reynolds in the original pilot episode of Firefly, which referred to the Independents' achievement of (temporarily) holding Serenity Valley against the Alliance: "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
Donegal (Dáil Éireann constituency) Donegal is a former parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, covering the whole territory of County Donegal in the North-West of Ireland. Elections were held by the single transferable vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
Donegal Bay Donegal Bay (Bá Dhún na nGall in Irish) is an inlet (or bay) in the north western region of Ireland. Three counties – Donegal to the north and east, Leitrim and Sligo to the south – have shorelines on the bay, which is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Donegal Castle Donegal Castle () or O’Donnell’s Castle () is a castle situated in the centre of Donegal town, County Donegal in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland. For most of the last two centuries, the majority of the buildings were in ruins but the castle was almost fully restored in the late 1990s.
Donegal Democrat The Donegal Democrat is a local newspaper, originally from Ballyshannon, County Donegal and first published there on June 16th, 1919. It was founded by John Downey, and today it has offices in Donegal town and Letterkenny.
Donegal fiddle tradition The Donegal fiddle tradition is a kind of Irish traditional music, based on a tradition, or set of coexisting traditions, at least 200 years old, of playing the fiddle in County Donegal, Ireland. Donegal is a remote partly Irish-speaking highland-county in northwestern Ireland and one of the three counties of the northern Irish province of Ulster that are part of the Republic of Ireland.
Donegal GAA The Donegal County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste DĂşn na nGall) or Donegal GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Donegal. The county board is also responsible for the Donegal inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
Donegal North East (Dáil Éireann constituency) Donegal North East is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 58,208 and at present is served by 3 Teachtaí Dála (TDs).
Donegal Railway Centre The Donegal Railway Heritage Centre commemorates the operations of the County Donegal Railways Committee which operated two narrow gauge railways in County Donegal from 1863 until 1959. The centre, opened in 1995 and housed in the old station house in Donegal Town, was restored by the County Donegal Railway Restoration Society.
Donegal Senior Football Championship The Donegal Senior Football Club Championship or the RTÉ Radió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Donegal Clubs. The winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Donegal Senior Hurling Championship The Donegal Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Donegal Clubs. The winners of the Donegal Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Donegal X-Press The Donegal X-Press is a Celtic rock band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1997. In recent years, the band has incorporated a distinct country/roots rock sound into their brand of Irish music, although they have always been known for their eclectic mix of musical styles.
Donegal-Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency) Donegal-Leitrim is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. Covering a small part of northern County Leitrim and a larger area of south and western County Donegal, it existed from 1969–1977.
Donegall Road The Donegall Road in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland is named after the Marquess of Donegall, not the Irish county of Donegal as commonly thought. The road runs from Shaftsbury Square in the city centre to the Falls Road in West Belfast.
Donella Meadows Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of Limits to Growth, and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene in a system.
Donelson Hoopes Donelson Farquhar Hoopes (December 3, 1932 – February 22, 2006) was an American curator of painting. His 1964 exhibition "The Private World of John Singer Sargent" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is credited with restoring the reputation of Sargent, a realist who had fallen out of favor following impressionism.
Donemana Donemana is a small market village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 11 kilometres north-east of Strabane, on the banks of the River Dennett and at the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains. The village name is an Anglicised version of the Irish: Dun na manach meaning Fort of the Monks.
Donepezil Donepezil, marketed under the trade name Aricept® (Eisai), is a centrally acting reversible acetyl cholinesterase inhibitor. Its main therapeutic use is in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease where it is used to increase cortical acetylcholine.
Donercius Donercius or Donort is the second Bishop of Mortlach according to the list of the Aberdeen Registrum.Cosmo Innes, Registrum episcopatus Aberdonensis : ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis regesta que extant in unum collecta, (Spalding and Maitland Clubs, 1845), vol.
Donetsk National University Donetsk National University (DonNU) (, Donets’kyi Natsional’nyi Universytet) is the leading higher educational institution in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The University's history starts in 1937 from the moment of creation of a pedagogical institute in Donetsk (then Stalino).
Dong Ap Bia Dong Ap Bia (Ap Bia Mountain) is a mountain on the Laotian border of South Vietnam. Rising from the floor of the western A Shau Valley, it is a looming, solitary massif, unconnected to the ridges of the surrounding Annamite range.
Dong Biwu Dong Biwu (Chinese: č‘Łĺż…ć­¦, Wade-Giles: Tung Pi-wu) (1886 - April 2, 1975) was a Chinese communist political leader during the regime of Mao Zedong. He was the President (Chairman of the Executive Committee) of China from 1948 to 1949 and from 1972 until January 17 1975 when Zhu De became the succeeding chairman.
Dong Fang Hong Dong Fang Hong (东方红), meaning The East is Red, is a space satellite program for the People's Republic of China, which started in 1970. Satellites in this series were placed in either low Earth orbit or geostationary orbit and carried out a variety of purposes: testing, remote sensing, telecommunications, meteorology, and scientific studies.
Dong Fang Hong I Dōng Fāng Hóng I (东方红一号), also known as China 1, was the People's Republic of China's first successful space satellite, launched on April 24 1970 as part of the PRC's Dong Fang Hong space satellite program. At 173kg, it was heavier than the first satellites of other countries.
Dong Haichuan Dong Haichuan (č‘Łćµ·ĺ·ť) was born on the 13th of October 1797 (or 1813) in Zhu village, Ju Jia Wu Township, Wen An County, Hebei Province, China and died on the 25th of October 1882 in Beijing. He is widely credited as the founder of Baguazhang and most, if not all, existing schools of Ba Gua Zhang place Dong Haichuan at the beginning of their lineage.
Dong Kingman Dong Kingman (31 March, 1911 - 12 May, 2000 is a Chinese American artist. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he is known for his watercolor landscape paintings as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry.
Dong people The Dong (; own name: Gaeml, in IPA [], also referred to as Kam) people are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, and are famed for their carpentry skills and unique architecture, in particular a form of covered bridge known as the "wind and rain bridge" (Chinese: 风雨桥).
Dong Son culture The Dong Son culture is a prehistoric Bronze age culture that was centered at the Red River Valley of Vietnam. The culture also flourished in other parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indo-Malayan Archipelago from about 1000 to 1 BC.
Dong Son drum Dong Son drums (also called Heger Type I drums) are bronze drums fabricated by the Dong Son culture, in the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam. The drums were produced from about 600 BC until the third century AD, and are one of the culture's finest examples of metalworking.
Dong Xi Dong Xi (董襲) (wg: Tung Hsi) styled Yuandai was a courageous Wu kingdom general from Kuaiji who first entered service with Wu under Sun Ce. Dong Xi was supposedly eight feet tall and his warrior skills surpassed many.
Dong Xian Dong Xian ([(23 BC](?)-[[1 BC) was a Han Dynasty politician who quickly rose from obscurity as a minor official to being the most powerful official in the imperial administration of Emperor Ai within a span of a few years.
Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming (1937-, Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng), from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time.
Dong-Ah Broadcasting College Dong-Ah Broadcasting College is a technical college in South Korea specialized in training professionals in the fields of media design and production. The campus is situated in Samjuk-myeon, Anseong City, Gyeonggi province, South Korea.
Dong-Feng 4 The Dong Feng 4 or DF-4 (also known as the CSS-3) is a long-range two-stage Chinese Intermediate-range ballistic missile with liquid fuel (Nitric acid/UDMH). It was thought to be deployed in limited numbers in underground silos beginning in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim (born July 25 1984 in Seoul) is a young South Korean classical pianist. Lim made a controversial headline by refusing to accept the third prize at the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 2000.

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