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Dudley Butt Dudley Butt MLC (born 1946) is currently a Member of the Legislative Council in the Isle of Man. He is a former Detective Chief Inspector of the Isle of Man Constabulary and ran his own private investigation firm after retirement.
Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester (1573-1632), English diplomatist, son of Antony Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and of Jocosa, daughter of John Goodwin of Winchendon, Buckinghamshire , was born on March 10, 1573, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A.
Dudley DeGroot Dudley Sargent DeGroot (November 10, 1899 - May 5, 1970), born in Chicago, Illinois, was an American athlete and coach and is best known as a football coach for the Washington Redskins. He competed successfully in many sports as an amateur and began his professional career as a collegiate coach.
Dudley Digges Sir Dudley Digges (Digges Court, Barham, Kent, 19 May ca 1583–18 March 1639), of Chilham Castle, Kent (which he completed in 1616), was a Member of Parliament, elected to the Parliament of 1614 'House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 08 April 1614', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 1: 1547-1629 (1802), pp. 456-57.
Dudley Do-Right Dudley Do-Right was the eponymous hero of a segment on The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show which parodied early 20th century melodrama and silent film. Dudley Do-Right was a Canadian Mountie who was always trying to catch his nemesis Snidely Whiplash, invariably without success.
Dudley Field Malone Dudley Field Malone (Born New York, New York, June 3, 1882 - Died October 5, 1950), son of Tammany Democratic official William C. Malone and Rose (McKenny) Malone, was a lawyer and member of the Democratic Party who served as the collector of the Port of New York (1913-1917) and resigned to protest the failure of the Wilson Administration to advocate a Woman Suffrage Amendment.
Dudley Freightliner Terminal Dudley Freightliner Terminal was opened on the site of Dudley Station in October 1967, as one of Freightliner (UK)'s first rail terminals. It was an instant financial success and by 1981 was one of the most profitable freightliner terminals in Britain, but Freightliner UK announced plans to close it and transfer the staff to the less successful Birmingham terminal.
Dudley George Anthony O'Brien "Dudley" George (March 17, 1957 – September 7, 1995) was a Ojibwa protestor who was shot and killed near Ipperwash Provincial Park in Ontario in 1995 during the Ipperwash Crisis. He was protesting the Canadian government's seizure of the Stoney Point landPeter Edwards, One Dead Indian.
Dudley Girls High School Dudley Girls High School was a selective higher education school which provided education for girls aged 11 to 18 years. It was located in Dudley, England, and opened in 1910 near the town centre in Priory Road; 13 years after neighbouring grammar school for boys.
Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Lt Col Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DSO LLD (May 6 1883–April 16 1972) was a British peer, soldier, and industrialist, the son of John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.
Dudley Graham Johnson Major-General Dudley Graham Johnson VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC (13 February 1884 - 25 February 1975) 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.
Dudley Hewitt Cup history The Dudley Hewitt Cup is the Central Canadian ice hockey championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League. The tournament is a round robin and championship playdown between a predetermined host and a champion from each of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League, and Superior International Junior Hockey League.
Dudley J. LeBlanc Dudley Joseph "Cousin Dud" LeBlanc (August 16, 1894 -- October 22, 1971) was a popular Democratic and Cajun member of the Louisiana State Senate whose entrepreneurial talents netted him a fortune through the alcohol-laden patent medicine known as "Hadacol." He is also considered the "father of the old age pension" in Louisiana.
Dudley Joel Dudley Jack Barnato Joel (April 26, 1904 - May 28, 1941) was a British businessman and politician. Part of the wealthy and prominent Joel family, he was the son of businessman Solomon Barnato Joel and his wife Ellen (Nellie) Ridley and was married to Esme Oldham.
Dudley Leavitt Dudley Leavitt is an early patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon pioneer and an early settler in southern Utah. Leavitt crossed the Great Plains on the Mormon pioneer trail as a young man.
Dudley McGarel-Hogg, 3rd Baron Magheramorne Dudley Stuart McGarel-Hogg, 3rd Baron Magheramorne (December 3, 1863 – March 14, 1946) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the second son of James McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne and was educated at Radley College.
Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 – March 27, 2002), was a British comedian, actor and musician. He became famous as a performer in "Beyond the Fringe" in the 1960s, and later for his work with Peter Cook.
Dudley North Sir Dudley North (May 10, 1641 – December 31, 1691), English economist, was 4th son of Dudley, 4th Lord North, who published, besides other things, Passages relating to the Long Parliament, of which he had himself been a member.
Dudley North, 4th Baron North Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602–1677), increased the family fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of the 1st Earl of Manchester. He was the older son of Dudley North, 3rd Baron North.
Dudley Observatory Dudley Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Along with Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School, Albany Medical College, the Graduate College of Union University, and Union College, it is one of the constitutent entities of Union University.
Dudley railway station Dudley Railway Station was a passenger railway station located at Dudley, England, built where the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line and the South Staffordshire Line diverged to Wolverhampton and Walsall and Lichfield respectively.
Dudley Railway Tunnel Dudley Railway Tunnel is a railway tunnel located in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It was opened in 1850 to allow the new railway between Stourbridge and Walsall to pass for several hundred yards beneath a hilly area of Dudley which would have been difficult if not impossible to have constructed a railway through.
Dudley Randall Dudley Randall (1914 - 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. He operated a publishing company called Broadside Press from 1965 to 1977, which published many leading African-American writers.
Dudley Riggs Dudley Riggs (born 1932) is a noted improvisational comedian who created the Instant Theater Company, which later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to become the Brave New Workshop (BNW) comedy troupe. Riggs was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and joined the circus when he was five years old.
Dudley Saltonstall Dudley Saltonstall was commander of the Penobscot Expedition in 1779 against a British army fort in Maine, during the Revolutionary War, which is generally acknowledged as the worst naval defeat in United States history.
Dudley Sports Centre Dudley Sports Centre was an outdoor sports centre located in Dudley, England. It was laid out at the end of the 19th century and expanded in 1928 on the construction of a football ground on the site; which became the home of the town's football team.
Dudley Square (MBTA station) Dudley Square (originally Dudley Street or Dudley) is a ground-level bus depot in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, served by local buses of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and their Silver Line bus rapid transit service. In addition to the Silver Line it serves the 1, 8, 14, 15, 19, 23, 28, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 66, 170, and 171 bus lines.
Dudley Stagpoole Dudley Stagpoole (VC, DCM) (1838- August 1, 1911), born in Killunan, County Galway he was an Irish 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.
Dudley Tredger Dudley Tredger (born 15 November 1980, Surrey, England) is an epee fencer, and fenced for England at the 2002 Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Newcastle, Australia, winning a bronze medal. His other notable fencing achievements include: last 8 at Luxembourg A Grade, 1st Bristol Open 2001, 1st Sussex Open 2001, 3rd Welsh Open 2002 and best young fencer on two occasions during his schooling at Whitgift School.
Dudley William Mason Dudley William Mason was the captain of the tanker SS Ohio during the World War II operation codenamed Operation Pedestal, which was a convoy intended to relieve the island of Malta. He was awarded the George Cross for his service in this operation [http://www.
Dudley Wright Knox Commodore Dudley Wright Knox (21 June 1877 – 11 June 1960) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I. He was also a prominent naval historian, who for many years oversaw the Navy Department's historical office, now named the Naval Historical Center.
Dudo Dudo (Spanish I doubt), Cacho, Perudo, or Cachito is popular dice game played in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and other Latin American countries; originating in Peru. This game can be played by two or more players and, basically, consists in guessing how many dice, placed under cups, there are on the table showing a certain number.
Dudo of Saint-Quentin Dudo, or Dudon was a Norman historian, and dean of Saint-Quentin, where he was born about 965. Sent in 986 by Albert I, Count of Vermandois, on an errand to Richard I, Duke of Normandy, he succeeded in his mission, and, having made a very favorable impression at the Norman court, spent some years in that country.
Duduza Duduza is a township west of Nigel on the east Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1964 when africans were resettled from Charterston because it was considered by the apartheid government to close to a white town.
Dudwara Dudwara is a primarily farming community in the Billawar tehsil of Kathua district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Dudwara is south of the village of Bhaddu and located uphill from the Bhini bridge on the river Bhini.
Dudweiler Dudweiler is a town in the southwest of Germany, part of SaarbrĂĽcken, on the Sulzbach. In 977, Dudweiler was first mentioned in official documents of German Emperor Otto_II as the location of a chapel (Duodonisvillare).
Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium, is the home of the Mississippi State University baseball team and has long been regarded as one of the biggest and best campus venues for college baseball in America. Although it has recently been surpassed by Auburn,Arkansas,LSU and and a host of other schools in stadium upgrades, it is still the largest and most unique stadium in the country.
Due diligence Due diligence is a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person, or the performance of an act with a certain standard of care. It can be a legal obligation, but the term will more commonly apply to voluntary investigations.
Due process In United States law, adopted from English law, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that the government must normally respect all of a person's legal rights instead of just some or most of those legal rights when the government deprives a person of life, liberty, or property. Due process has also been frequently interpreted as placing limitations on laws and legal proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental fairness, justice, and liberty.
Due to Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled Due to Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled is a 1969 book by Irene Kampen, an account of her return to school at the University of Wisconsin after 25 years, and how she learns to adapt to the student culture of the late Sixties. While it is listed as non-fiction, Kampen includes fictionalized students and other characters in the book.
Duel A duel is a formalized type of combat. As practised from the 15th to 20th centuries in Western societies, a duel may be defined as: A consensual fight between two people, with matched deadly weapons, in accordance with rules explicitly or implicitly agreed upon, over a point of honor, usually accompanied by seconds (who might themselves fight), and in contravention of the law.
Duel in the Sun (book) Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon is a 2006 book by freelance sportswriter John Brant. Expanded from an article featured in Runner's World magazine, the book tells the story of two American distance runners, Dick Beardsley and Alberto Salazar, and how their lives changed after both men ran the 1982 Boston Marathon.
Duel in the Sun (film) Duel in the Sun is a 1946 Western film which tells the story of a half-Hispanic girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. It stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Sidney Blackmer, Butterfly McQueen, Otto Kruger and Chief Tahachee.
Duel Project The Duel Project was a challenge issued to Ryuhei Kitamura and Yukihiko Tsutsumi by producer Shinya Kawai during a night of drinking. The challenge was for the two directors to see who could make the best feature film with two principal actors/actresses battling in one principal location in the time span of one week.
Dueling Banjos Dueling Banjos was a scene from the 1972 movie Deliverance. The scene depicts Billy Redden playing the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" (a spinoff of the classic song Yankee Doodle) opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar.
Dueling Society Dueling Societies were formal societies usually at Universities (University of Leipzig among them) in which two men dueled for sport. They gained a certain amount of popularity in Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War.
Duelists' Convocation International The DCI (formerly, Duelists' Convocation International) is the official sanctioning body for competitive play in Magic: The Gathering and various other games produced by Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill. The DCI provides game rules, tournament operating procedures, and other materials to private tournament organizers and players.
Duell Duell is a 2-player dice game set on a board of 9x8 squares. Players take it in turn to move one of their dice in order to capture their opponent's pieces, with the ultimate aim of capturing the opponent's king which results in a game win.
Duesberg hypothesis The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim, initially put forward by Peter Duesberg, that various non-infectious factors including recreational and pharmaceutical drug use are the cause of AIDS, and that HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a harmless passenger virus. The majority of the scientific community consider that Duesberg's arguments are the result of cherry-picking of scientific data and selectively ignoring evidence in favour of HIV's role in AIDS.
Duet (TV series) Duet was a Fox sitcom (April 19, 1987 - August 20, 1989) starring Matthew Laurance as Ben Coleman, Mary Page Keller as Laura Kelly, Chris Lemmon as Richard Phillips, and Alison LaPlaca as Linda Phillips. Ben was a struggling mystery novelist and his girlfriend Laura was a caterer with her younger sister Jane (Jodi Thelen).
Duet Acting Duet Acting (often shortened to "Duet" or abberviated as "DA" in tournament schedules and results) is an event in competitive high school forensics. Similar to Duo Interpretation, Duet Acting varies in two major respects: first, Duet is not an official National Forensic League event although some state organizations, such as the Texas Forensic Association and the Louisiana High School Speech League, practice the event.
Duet for One Duet for One (1986) is a film based on an award-winning British playcy Tom Kempinski about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis. It is set in London and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
Duetos de leyenda Duetos de leyenda, is a venezuelan music album of 1999, made by Magdalena Sánchez with the seal Studio Yamila Oropeza, in this album she presents a duet, with famous venezuelan singers in different styles of venezuelan folk music.
Duets (Elton John album) Duets started out as a 1993 Christmas project of Elton John's that soon grew into an album of its own. Each song (except for the last one) was a duet (hence the name of the album) with another recording artist.
Duett "Duett" is a power ballad in Norwegian, sung by Bettan & Jan Werner as a duet in Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix 1994. "Duett" won in Norway, and finished 6th in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994.
Duetto buffo di due gatti Duetto buffo di due gatti ("humorous duet for two cats") is a popular performance piece for sopranos. Although frequently attributed to Gioacchino Rossini, it was in fact a contemporary parody of his Otello.
Duff Cooley Duff Gordon "Sir Richard" Cooley (March 29, 1873 - August 9, 1937) played Major League baseball primarily as an outfielder, although over the course of his career he played games at every defensive position except pitcher. Cooley was born in Leavenworth, KS.
Duff Goldman Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman (born December 17 1974) is the star of the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes. He is a baker and food artist who has been described as both audacious and creative.
Duff Hart-Davis Peter Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), generally known as Duff Hart-Davis, is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for the The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter.
Duff McKagan Michael Andrew McKagan, better known as Duff 'Rose' McKagan, was born February 5 1964. He is an American musician and bassist, who is best known for his thirteen-year tenure in the 1980s hard rock band Guns N' Roses.
Duff's device In computer science, Duff's Device is an optimized implementation of a serial copy that uses a technique widely applied in assembly language for loop unwinding. Its discovery is credited to Tom Duff in November of 1983, who at the time was working for Lucasfilm.
Duffen Cory James Ostrowski (born May 8th 1960) is an Magician and American Artist, based in Chicago,Illinois. James also known as Duffen Cory is recognized in the United States and United Kingdom for his close up magic and his famous association with David Hockney, who painted him several times and who also did extensive rare commissioned photo work of him for a 1985 Vogue Paris issue.
Dufferin (VIVA) Dufferin, or Dufferin Street, is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, at the intersection of Dufferin Street and Centre Street in Vaughan, Ontario.
Dufferin Grove Dufferin Grove is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto. The neighbourhood is bordered by Bloor street to the North, Dovercourt road to the East, College and eventually Dundas to the South which vears up the railways tracks back to Bloor and closing the rectangle(y) neighbourhood.
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is one of the largest school boards in Ontario with 137 school facilities (115 elementary schools, 22 secondary or high-schools) throughout the Ontario, Canada municipalities of Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, Orangeville and Dufferin County. It employees roughly 5,000 teachers; about 3,000 at the elementary level, and the remaining 2,000 at the secondary school level.
Dufferin—Caledon Dufferin—Caledon is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. It is also an Ontario provincial electoral district that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Duffield Bank Railway The Duffield Bank Railway was built by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood in the grounds of his house on the hillside overlooking Duffield in Derbyshire in 1874. Although the Ordnance Survey map circa 1880 does not show the railway itself, it does show two tunnels and two signal posts.
Duffman Barry Duffman, better known as Duffman, voiced by Hank Azaria, is the mascot and spokesman for the Duff Beer company. He is an athletic and smooth-talking corporate personality who wears blue and red tights, a red cape, white gloves, and the Duff logo emblazoned across his chest.
Duffryn Duffryn () is a large council-built housing estate in the southwest of the city of Newport, comprising a large portion of the Tredegar Park electoral district (ward). Built on land belonging to Tredegar House, it was completed in 1978 and at the time won several awards for its design.
Duffy Daugherty Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty (born September 8, 1915 in Emeigh, Pennsylvania; died September 25, 1987 in Santa Barbara, California) was the head coach of the Michigan State University Spartans football team from 1954 to 1972, where he compiled a career record of 109-65-5. He was best known for his wit, good humor, and wisdom.
Duffy Lewis George Edward "Duffy" Lewis (April 18, 1888 - June 17, 1979), born in San Francisco, California, was a left fielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1910-17), New York Yankees (1919-20) and Washington Senators (1921).
Duffy's Tavern Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS, 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who created the show, Ed Gardner.
Dufile Dufile (also Dufilé, Duffli, Duffle, or Dufli) was originally a fort built by Emin Pasha, the Governor of Equatoria, in 1879; it is located on the Albert Nile just inside Uganda, close to a site chosen in 1874 by then-Colonel Charles George Gordon to assemble steamers that were carried there overland. Emin and A.
Dufus (band) Dufus is an American anti-folk band, led primarily by Seth Faergolzia. The band is known (affectionately) for their revolving door membership, where they may start one tour with two members, and the next with upwards of twenty.
Dug North Dug North (né Douglas Ian North) is an American artist known for hand-cranked animated sculpture known as 'Contemporary automata'. North draws inspiration from the masterworks of automatists such as Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Henri Maillardet.
Duga Uvala Duga Uvala is a tourist complex in the Vinjole cove, 3 km southeast of Krnica, on the south-eastern side of the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. Construction of the tourist complex started in 1971, when the main road infrastructure was partly finished.
Dugald Campbell Dugald Campbell was a Scottish doctor from the Isle of Arran who went to Hawai'i and set up the national health service during the 1890's. Campbell travelled extensively and in Hawai'i he took up the post of government physician on the islands, where he set about raising cash for a hospital that would treat all islanders for free.
Dugan Aycock Dugan "Doog" Aycock (April 8,1908 in Charlotte, North Carolina - March 23, 2001) was an American professional golfer and golf course designer. Aycock was a member of the PGA for 68 years and served as the Carolinas Section President for more than 15 years and as National Vice President (now known as District Director).
Dugan McNeill Dugan McNeill, is an American bass guitarist who most notably worked with the 1980s Minnesota rock band Chameleon with members: Charlie Adams, Yanni, Mark Anthony, and Johnny Donaldson. He has worked extensively on producing, engineering, and mixing for various artists such as Robert Stanton, Bradley Joseph, and "various artist" tribute CDs for ABBA, Jimmy Buffet, Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Michael W.
Dugba The Director of University, Governmental, and Budgetary Affairs (or DUGBA) was the lobbyist for the Academic Assembly of the Associated Students of Michigan State University until the position was eliminated in April 2006. The two new positions created to replace the DUGBA were the Director of Education Policy (DEP) and the Director of University Budgets (DUB).
Dugda Bora Dugda Bora is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Shewa Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Dugda Bora is bordered on the southeast by Lake Awasa, on the south by Adami Tullu and Jido Kombolcha, on the west by the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, on the northwest by the Mirab Shewa Zone, on the north by the Awash River which separates it from Ada'a Chukala, on the northeast by Koka Reservoir which separates it from Adama, and on the east by the Arsi Zone.
Dugdemona River The Dugdemona River (pronounced duhj-duh-MO-nuh) is a tributary of the Little River, about 85 mi (137 km) long, in north-central Louisiana in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry Via the Little, Ouachita and Red Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Duggan-Schwartz theorem The Duggan-Schwartz theorem is a result about voting systems designed to choose a nonempty set of winners from the preferences of certain individuals, where each individual ranks all candidates in order of preference. It states that, for three or more candidates, at least one of the following must hold:
Duggie Brown Duggie Brown, real name Dougie Dudley, was born on 7 August 1940 in Rotherham, Yorkshire and is a British comedian and actor. He is the brother of the late Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie (real name Jean Dudley).
Dugit Dugit (Hebrew:דוגית) was an Israeli settlement located in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip closet to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in a mini-settlement bloc including Elei Sinai and Nisanit. While Dugit was under the municipal authority of the Hof Aza Regional Council it was not physically in the Gush Katif bloc where the bulk of the 'Gush Katif' settlements were located.
Dugnad Dugnad is a Norwegian word for unpaid, voluntary work. It might be like a Barn raising, where friends and family meet to help an individual, or the members of a club meet to build a clubhouse, arrange a flea market and so on.
Dugong Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are the smallest members of the order Sirenia (which also includes the manatees and Steller's Sea Cow), with adults generally growing to less than 3 meters long. The name dugong originated from the Malay language duyung meaning lady of the sea or mermaid.
Dugrai Dugrai is a village across plains of Sumli valley of Borokathal in Sadar sub-division of West Tripura in the state of Tripura] [[India]. It also falls under the [[Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council.
Dugway Proving Ground Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in Tooele County. It encompasses approximately 800,000 acres (3200 km²) of the Great Salt Lake Desert and is surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges.
Duh Duh is an American English slang exclamation that is used to express disdain for someone missing the obviousness of something. For example, if one read a headline saying "Scientific study proves pain really does hurt", the response may well be "Well, duh!
Duhallow The Barony of Duhallow is located in the northwestern part of County Cork in the province of Munster in Ireland. It is located on the borders of counties Kerry and Limerick, and is bounded on the south by the Boggeragh Mountains.
Duhamel's integral In theory of vibrations, Duhamel's integral is a way of calculating the response of linear systems and structures to arbitrary time-varying external excitations. This method is now widely invoked in the field of structural dynamics because of its universal applicability and adaptability to numerical simulations.
Duhamel, Alberta Duhamel is a small rural hamlet located in the central prairies of Alberta, Canada. It is located on Highway 21, at , approximately 100 km SSE of Edmonton and 20 km SW of Camrose, the closest major trading center.
Duhem–Quine thesis The Duhem–Quine thesis (also called the Duhem–Quine problem) is that is it is impossible to test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more background assumptions (also called auxiliary assumptions or auxiliary hypotheses). The hypothesis in question is by itself incapable of making predictions.
Duchcov Duchcov, (also Tokczav; German: Dux) is a town in the Teplice District in the ĂšstĂ­ nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has a population of 9,000 and is located at the foot of the Ore Mountains (coordinates ).
Duchenne muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) (also known as muscular dystrophy - Duchenne type) is an inherited disorder characterized by rapidly progressive muscle weakness which starts in the legs and pelvis and later affects the whole body. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy.
Duchesne Academy (Houston) Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (pronounced dew- shen) is a combined primary and secondary girls' school located at 10202 Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas. It offers a highly competitive college preparatory education for young women.
Duchesne College Duchesne College is located within the University of Queensland's St Lucia Campus, among nine other university residential colleges. Duchesne College was founded in 1937 by the collaboration of the University and the Religious of the Sacred Heart, at the direct wish of His Grace, Archbishop Duhig.
Duchess (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Duchess is a character invented by Lewis Caroll, who appeared for the first time in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, in 1865. Caroll does not describe her physically in much detail, although her hideous appearance is strongly established in the popular imagination thanks to John Tenniel's illustrations and from context it is clear that Alice finds her quite unattractive.

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