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Douglas Fowley Movie and television actor Douglas Fowley (May 30, 1911-May 21, 1998) was born in The Bronx, New York, USA. The 5'11" actor is probably best remembered by movie buffs for his role as a movie director Roscoe Dexter in Singing in the Rain.
Douglas Gageby Robert John Douglas Gageby (September 291918 - June 242004) was an eminent journalist and newspaper editor. Despite his eminence, there were only two press clippings about him in The Irish Times at the time of his death.
Douglas H. Ginsburg Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in October 1986 by President Reagan.
Douglas H. Wheelock Douglas Harry Wheelock (Colonel, USA) is a NASA astronaut, specifically a mission specialist, was born May 5, 1960 in Binghamton, New York and considers Windsor, to be his hometown. Married to Cathleen Hollen, they have one child.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig KT GCB OM GCVO KCIE ADC (June 19, 1861 – January 28, 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I. He was commander of the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of the Somme and the 3rd Battle of Ypres.
Douglas Haxton Sconce Douglas Haxton Sconce was a former pupil of The King's School Chester who died on March 16 1933 attempting to rescue rowers from King's School Chester who were drowning in the River Thames. He rescued all 4 rowers, however he himself died, it is reported, due to the long overcoat he wore that day.
Douglas Henderson Douglas Henderson (16 July 1935 – 15 September 2006) was a Scottish politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for the Scottish National Party (SNP), representing the Aberdeenshire East constituency from February 1974 to March 1979, and held virtually every national office in the SNP, short of party leader.
Douglas Henry Douglas Henry, born May 18, 1926 in Nashville, is a Tennessee politician and member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 21st district, which is composed of part of Davidson County. He has served as a state senator since the 87th General Assembly, prior to which he was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives during the 79th General Assembly.
Douglas Hodge Douglas Hodge (born 1960 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK) is a British actor. Some of his TV appearances include leading roles in Bliss, Middlemarch, The Uninvited, The Scold's Bridle, Shockers: Dance, The Law, The Russian Bride and Red Cap.
Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic. He is probably best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (abbreviated as GEB) which was published in 1979, and won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
Douglas Hurd Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group, and remains an active figure in public life.
Douglas Channel Douglas Channel is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. Its official length from the head of Kitimat Arm, where the aluminum smelter town of Kitimat to Wright Sound, on the Inside Passage ferry route, is 90 km.
Douglas J. Moo Douglas J. Moo[is a New Testament] scholar who, after teaching for more than twenty years at [[Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, has served as Blanchard Professor of New Testament at the Wheaton College Graduate School since 2000.
Douglas Jardine Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900, Bombay - 18 June 1958, Montreux) was a British cricketer and captain of the controversial 1932-33 Bodyline tour of Australia. He captained the England side from 1931 to 1933-34.
Douglas Kirkland Douglas Kirkland (born 1934 in Toronto, Ontario) is a prominent photographer based in the United States. At age twenty-four, Kirkland was hired as a staff photographer for Look magazine and became famous for his 1961 photos of Marilyn Monroe taken for Look's 25th anniversary issue.
Douglas Labalmondière Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas William Parish Labalmondière CB (1815–8 March 1893) was the first Assistant Commissioner (Administrative) of the London Metropolitan Police and acted as Commissioner for three months in 1868–1869.
Douglas Lawrence Douglas Lawrence is an Australian organist who serves as Director of Music at The Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded and directs the Australian Baroque Ensemble and the Australian Chamber Choir.
Douglas Leahey Douglas Leahey is a meteorologist and air-quality consultant based in Calgary, Alberta. He is currently employed as principal scientist in the Air Quality Division at Jacques Whitford Environment Limited Despite having http://www.
Douglas Leedy Douglas Leedy, born March 3rd, 1938 in Portland, Oregon is an American composer. He studied with Karl Kohn at Pomona College and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was in a composition seminar with membership including La Monte Young and Terry Riley.
Douglas Lewis (boxer) Douglas Lewis (born August 6, 1904) was an welterweight professional boxer from Canada, who competed in the 1920s. He won the bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, losing against Hector Mendez in the semi-finals.
Douglas Lloyd Campbell Douglas Lloyd Campbell (May 27, 1895-April 23, 1995) was a politician Manitoba, Canada . He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for 47 years, and served as Premier of Manitoba from 1948 to 1958.
Douglas M. Costle Douglas Michael Costle was born July 27, 1939 in Long Beach, California. One of the architects who created the United States Environmental Protection Agency, in 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed him to serve as its Administrator; he served from 1977 – 1981.
Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur (January 26 1880 - April 5 1964), was a famous American general who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II. He was poised to command the invasion of Japan in November 1945 but was instead instructed to accept their surrender on September 2, 1945.
Douglas Mackiernan Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (April 25, 1913– April 29, 1950) was the first of over 70 officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be killed in the line of duty. He had gone to China in 1947 to work for the State Department, but soon found his talents employed in espionage.
Douglas Major Douglas Major (born 1953 near Scranton, Pennsylvania) is a prominent composer of sacred music and concert organist. He is the former choral director and organist at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC.
Douglas Maple Douglas Maple (Acer glabrum) is a maple native to western North America, from southeastern Alaska, British Columbia and western Alberta, east to western Nebraska, and south through Washington, Montana and Colorado to California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Douglas Marland Douglas Marland (born Marland Messner, May 5, 1935 - March 6, 1993) was an American writer of soap operas, most known for his tenure as Head Writer and co-creator (with Agnes Nixon) of Loving. He was also a soap opera actor.
Douglas Moore Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10 1893 - July 25 1969) was an American composer, educator, and author. He wrote for music the theater, film, ballet and orchestra, but his greatest fame was for his two operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956).
Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson (1837 - January 3, 1909} was a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon. After earning his degree in 1857 from The University of St Andrews, he went to Berlin to study under Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870).
Douglas Morrow Douglas Morrow (1913 - 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an academy award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident.
Douglas Netter Douglas Netter is a United States television industry executive, his credits largely being in the field of science fiction. He is first credited as associate producer of the 1967 Matt Helm (Dean Martin) movie "The Ambushers" which involved a US-government built flying saucer.
Douglas Nicholls Pastor Sir Douglas Ralph "Doug" Nicholls, KCVO, OBE (9 December, 1906 - June 6, 1988) was an Australian Aborigine from the Yorta Yorta people of the Murray river region of New South Wales and Victoria. He was a professional athlete; a pastor and church planter with the Churches of Christ in Australia Christian movement; and a pioneering campaigner for reconciliation.
Douglas Niles Douglas Niles is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles was one of the creators of the Dragonlance world and the author of the first three Forgotten Realms novels, and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game.
Douglas Nygren Douglas Dean Nygren, (born June 30, 1955) is a fish and wildlife conservationist. He served as President of the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society in 1988, past Chairman of the Mississippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Association from 2004-2005, and current Fisheries Chief of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.
Douglas Oliver Douglas Dunlop Oliver (September 14, 1937— April 21, 2000) was a contemporary poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Douglas Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s.
Douglas Patrick Harrison Douglas Patrick Harrison is a Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineer with Louisiana State University's Gordon A. and Mary Cain Department of Chemical Engineering where he has taught undergraduate and graduate classes, served as dissertations advisor to Ph.
Douglas Pipes Douglas Pipes is a film music composer who's most famous work is the 2006 soundtrack to Monster House (film). His loud, brassy instrumentations have drawn comparisons to action-music composer guru Alan Silvestri.
Douglas Point Douglas Point, in full Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station, was Canada’s first full-scale nuclear power plant and the second CANDU Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor. Built and owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and run by Ontario Hydro, the station was in service from September 26th 1968 to May 5th 1984.
Douglas railway station Douglas railway station serves Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man. It is the terminus for the Port Erin to Douglas line of the Isle of Man Steam Railway but in the past also had a branch line to Peel on the west of the island.
Douglas Rain Douglas Rain is a Canadian actor and narrator who was born in 1928 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is primarily a stage actor but, in film, his most famous role was as the voice for HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
Douglas Range Douglas Range () is a sharp-crested range, with peaks rising to 3,000 metres, extending 120 km (75 mi) in a northwest-southeast direction from Mount Nicholas to Mount Edred and forming a steep east escarpment of Alexander Island, overlooking the north part of George VI Sound.
Douglas Ranges The Douglas Ranges are a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia, about 70 km east of downtown Vancouver, north of the Fraser River and between the valleys of Stave and Harrison Lakes. They are approximately 4900 km² (1900 sq mi) in area.
Douglas Reed Douglas Reed (1895-1976) was a journalist, playwright, novelist, and author of a number of books on political analysis. His book Insanity Fair (1938) was one of the most influential in publicising the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler before the war.
Douglas Reeman Douglas Reeman is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, many set during World War II or during the Napoleonic Wars. Reeman, born in 1924, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 16 and served during World War II and the Korean War.
Douglas Reynolds Douglas Reynolds (September 20, 1882 - February 23, 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Douglas Richman Douglas D Richman, MD is a US medical virologist. Richman has worked primarily in the HIV field over the past twenty years, with major contributions in the areas of resistance and pathogenicity: he was one of the group of researchers who first demonstrated HIV drug resistance in 1989,Larder B, Darby G, Richman DD (1989) HIV with reduced sensitivity to zidovudine isolated during prolonged therapy.
Douglas Road The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior. Over 30,000 men are reckoned to have travelled the route in 1858-59, although by the end of the 1860s it was virtually abandoned due to the construction of the Cariboo Wagon Road, which bypassed the region.
Douglas Robb (musician) Douglas Seann Robb (born 2 January 1975, in Agoura Hills, California), commonly referred to simply as Doug Robb, is an American musician and lead singer of rock band Hoobastank. His father is of Scottish ancestry and his mother is of Japanese ancestry.
Douglas Roche Douglas James Roche, OC, KCSG (born June 14, 1929) is a former Canadian politician, He served as Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton—Strathcona from 1972 to 1984. In 1984, he was appointed Canada's Ambassador for Disarmament, a position he held until 1989.
Douglas Shire Council Douglas Shire Council is a Local Government Area situated in Far North Queensland, Australia. The two main towns situated within the shire boundaries are Mossman and Port Douglas, with numerous minor localities such as Wangetti to the far south and Cape Tribulation to the far north.
Douglas Schwartz Douglas Schwartz is an American TV scriptwriter and television creator who along with Michael Berk, is most famous for creating and writing the earlier scripts of Baywatch a show which exceeded a global audience of 1 billion people.
Douglas Sills Douglas Sills (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the suburb of Franklin, where he was friends (and did amateur theatrics and films) with both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
Douglas Silva Douglas Silva, (born 1989 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actor, his most famous role is that of "Dadinho" ("Li'l Dice") in the 2002 Brazilian film, City of God. He then played Acerola in the spin-off series City of Men.
Douglas Sladen Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856, London-12 February 1947, Hove) was an English author. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and went to Australia (1879), where he became the first professor of history in the University of Sydney.
Douglas Sloan Douglas Sloan served as a producer, writer, director, and guest star on various television shows, such as Power Rangers, Big Bad Beetleborgs, and VR Troopers. He is probably best known for his work on the former, serving as a writer, director, and supervising producer until leaving the show about halfway through Power Rangers: Turbo in 1997.
Douglas Slocombe Douglas Slocombe (February 10, 1913) is a British cinematographer who has enjoyed a long career in the British film industry. His many films as director of photography include Robbery (1967), The Italian Job (1969), Nijinsky (1980), the James Bond film Never Say Never Again in 1983, and the three Indiana Jones films between 1981 and 1989.
Douglas Smith (broadcaster) Douglas Smith began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service (now the World Service) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme. He is perhaps best known as the very formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken (1958–1963), its more famous successor Round the Horne (1964–1969) and the short-lived Stop Messing About (1969–1970), where his 'BBC accent' was used to comic effect.
Douglas Spotted Eagle Douglas Spotted Eagleis Native American (An American citizen born in America), he is married to a Dine woman from Valley Junction, Iowa. He calls his music "modern ethnic", as it mixes jazz, new age, pop, and world beat with Native American music.
Douglas Squirrel The Douglas Squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii, is a pine squirrel found in the Pacific coastal states and provinces of North America. It is sometimes known as the Chickaree or Pine Squirrel, but since Chickaree is also used for the American Red Squirrel and Pine Squirrel for the genus Tamiasciurus, these alternative names are better avoided.
Douglas Stanes Douglas Moncrieff Stanes (born February 28, 1917 in England; died April 29, 2001) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969.
Douglas Summers Douglas Walter Levi Summers (12 October 1911 - 1 January 2000) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and slow left arm bowler who played in a single first-class game, appearing for Worcestershire against Warwickshire in 1930.
Douglas T. Jacobson Major Douglas Thomas Jacobson (1925-2000) was a United States Marine who earned the United States' highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. "Private First Class Jacobson destroyed a total of sixteen enemy positions and annihilated approximately seventy-five Japanese, thereby contributing essentially to the success of his division's operations.
Douglas Tilden Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1861 to August 5, 1935) was a world-famous deaf sculptor who went to the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). He made many statues that sit in San Francisco, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Douglas Tottle Douglas Tottle is a trade union activist and the author of the controversial book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism the Myth of the Ukrainian Genocide from Hitler to Harvard. To the best of our knowledge, Tottle received no formal education in history.
Douglas Townsend Douglas Townsend (born November 8, 1921) is an American composer and musicologist who became interested in composition while a student at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, in New York City, and taught himself composition, counterpoint and orchestration.
Douglas Wakiihuri Douglas Wakiihuri (born September 26, 1963) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome. No other male Kenyan runner has ever won the marathon at World Championships or Olympic Games.
Douglas Walter Belcher Douglas Walter Belcher (15 July 1889-3 June 1953) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Douglas Water, South Lanarkshire Douglas Water is a small village in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Named after the Douglas Water, which flows through the village, local mining operations provided employment to local people, and the village was bolstered by the Coltness Iron and Coal Company establishing an operation nearby.
Douglas Watt James Douglas Watt (born April 13, 1914 in Reston, Manitoba, died December 24, 1985) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1977, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Walter Weir.
Douglas Whalen Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist who is presently a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he is affiliated with the Cognitive NeuroscienceDocumenting Endangered Languages]and [[Linguistics]programs.
Douglas Wilkie Douglas Wilkie (1909 - 10 April, 2002) was a respected columnist for The Sun News-Pictorial (Australia). The son of travelling Shakespearean actors, he began his newspaper career as a copy boy with the Hobart Mercury.
Douglas Wilkie Medal The Douglas Wilkie Medal is an award presented to those who do the least for Australian rules football, in the best and fairest manner. An accolade presented by the Anti-Football League, it is named after Douglas Wilkie, a Sun News-Pictorial columnist who wrote for the paper during the years 1946-1986.
Douglas Wilson (ice hockey) Doug Wilson (born July 5, 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. After playing junior hockey for the Ottawa 67's in the Ontario Hockey Association, Doug was drafted 6th overall in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft.
Douglas Wimberley Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (15 August 1896 - 26 August 1983), MC, DSO was commander of the 51st (Highland) Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II and lead it across North Africa to Sicily.
Douglas Wiseman Douglas Jack Wiseman (born July 21, 1930 in Smiths Falls, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1971 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bill Davis.
Douglas XB-22 The Douglas XB-22 was to be a modified B-18A Bolo with much more powerful engines. Despite a 60% increase in power, however, the re-engined XB-22 had unsatisfactory estimated performance and the project was cut before any aircraft were converted.
Douglas XB-31 The Douglas XB-31 (Douglas Model 423) was the design submitted by Douglas after the request by the United States Army Air Forces for a very heavy bomber, the same request that led to the B-29 Superfortress and B-32 Dominator.
Douglas XP-48 The Douglas XP-48 was a small lightweight fighter designed in 1939. Intended to be powered by a Ranger SGV-770 engine, the contract was cancelled before construction of a prototype could begin due to concerns about the projected performance of the aircraft.
Douglas Y1B-7 The Douglas Y1B-7 was the first monoplane given the B- 'bomber' designation. The monoplane was more practical and less expensive than the biplane, and the United States Army Air Corps chose to experiment with monoplanes for this reason.
Douglas-Coldwell Foundation The Douglas-Coldwell Foundation is a Canadian think tank devoted, in the words of its slogan, to "promoting education and research into social democracy." It was founded in 1971, and is based in Ottawa.
Douglas-Daly Experiment Station The Douglas-Daly Experiment Station was an extensive research site of the Northern Territory Administration (NTA) of the Government of Australia and, after statehood, of the Northern Territory Government. It formed part of a string of similar research sites in northern Australia.
Douglas, Augusta and Gulf Railway The Douglas, Augusta and Gulf Railway was created as a subsidiary of the Georgia and Florida Railway to consolidate lines of several smaller railroads. It started in 1905 by acquiring the Barrows Bluff, GA to Douglas, GA line that was from the Wadley and Mt.
Douglas, Dundee Douglas and Angus (commonly referred to as Douglas) is an area of Eastern Dundee, Scotland. It is located between Whitfield to the North and Broughty Ferry to the East, bordering the neighbouring council area of Angus.
Douglas, Tucker County, West Virginia Douglas is an unincorporated community on the North Fork Blackwater River in Tucker County, West Virginia, USA. Originally known as Albert, the community's name was changed to Douglas by an official Board on Geographic Names decision in 1965.
Douglass Adair Douglass Adair (died May 2 1968) was an American historian and historiographer. He attended the University of the South, Harvard University, and Yale University, and taught at Princeton University and the College of William and Mary.
Douglass High School, Kingsport, Tennessee Douglass High School in Kingsport, Tennessee closed in 1966. It was the city's African-American school, originally called the Oklahoma Grove School, which began in 1913 when the all-white Kingsport Public School moved to a new building and location.
Douglass North Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Washington from 1950 - 1983 subsequently joining the faculty of Washington University in Saint Louis in 1983 as the Henry R.
Douglaston (LIRR station) Douglaston is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Douglaston section of the borough of Queens in New York City. The station is located at 235th Street and 41st Avenue, off Douglaston Parkway and Wainscott Avenue, and is 13.
Douglaston, Queens Douglaston, population 14,168 (2000 Census), is a community in the New York City borough of Queens. Douglaston is comprised of six distinct neighborhoods: Doug Bay, Douglas Manor, and Douglaston Hill, all located north of Northern Boulevard on the peninsula abutting Little Neck Bay; Douglaston Park, located between Northern Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway; and two areas south of the Expressway, Winchester Estates and an area simply known as Douglaston.
Douhua Dòufǔhuā (, literally "bean curd flower"), also called Dòuhuā (豆花) or dòufǔnǎo (豆腐腦), is an extra soft form of doufu (tofu) that is used in both desserts and salty dishes. It slightly resembles a custard.
Douchan Gersi Douchan Gersi is a Slovak-born, African and Belgium-raised, Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and author, producer/star of Explore, a PBS mini-series. He is the author of numerous books including Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers and Explorer.
Douche A douche () is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. The word comes from the French language, in which its principal meaning is a shower (it is thus a notorious false friend encountered by non-native speakers of English; the phrase for vaginal douching is douche vaginale).
Douiret Douiret (Arabic: دوريت) is a ruined Berber village in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. Located on a hilltop near a modern village of the same name, Douiret was a fortified granary, or ksar (plural ksour.
Doukissis Plakentias station Doukissis Plakentias is an Attiko Metro Blue Line (Line 3) Station situated in Agia Paraskevi near Doukissis Plakentias Avenue, in Athens. Named after the Duchess of Plaisance, a philhellene, who owned much of the land in this part of Athens, it is located near Attiki Odos, and serves as a connection point with the Athens Suburban Railway (Proastiakos Sidirodromos).
Doum palm The doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica, الدوم in Arabic) is a type of palm tree, also called gingerbread tree, with edible oval fruit, originally native to the Nile valley. It is a member of the family Arecaceae.
Doune Doune (Gaelic: An DĂąn) is a burgh in the district of Stirling, Scotland, on the River Teith. The town is dominated by Doune Castle (where much of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail was filmed), built in the late 14th century.
Doune Castle Doune Castle is an imposing Medieval castle in the Stirling district of central Scotland, sited on a wooded bend where a tributary joins the River Teith, across a bridge from the village of Doune. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Stirling where the River Teith flows into the River Forth.
Doune Hillclimb Doune Hillclimb, near Doune in the district of Stirling, Scotland, is the home of the only round of the British Hill Climb Championship to be held in Scotland. The course is 1,476 yards (1,350 metres) in length (although when it was first constructed in 1968 it was around 33yd / 30m longer) and meetings are staged by the Lothian Car Club.
Dounreay Dounreay (Ordnance Survey ) is the name of a now ruinous castle on the north coast of Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. The castle, however, is within grounds used by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment) and the Ministry of Defence (Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment).
Douris (vase painter) Douris (Δούρις, Duris) was a Greek vase painter who flourished in the 5th century BCE known for his red-figure pottery though he also utilized the black figure technique. His signature has been found on 40 vases, and more than 200 have been attributed to him.

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