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Dunkeld Cathedral Dunkeld Cathedral stands on the north bank of the River Tay in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Built in square-stone style of predominantly gray sandstone, the cathedral proper was begun in 1260 and completed in 1501.
Dunkelwerk Dunkelwerk is the name of a German band which describes its sound as Endzeit Electro (dark electronic beats and sounds often combined with horror themes or apocalyptic scenarios and distorted vocals), referring to a genre which was originally established by bands like :Wumpscut: and Leaether Strip and is nowadays produced by bands like The Retrosic, Suicide Commando or Hocico. Dunkelwerk consits of only one person and is a pure studio project, not doing any live performances or any other public events.
Dunkerque class battleship The Dunkerque class was a new type of warship of the French Navy, labelled as "fast battleship". Not as large as other contemporary battleships, they were designed to counter the threat of the German pocket battleships of the Deutschland class.
Dunkin' Donuts Center The Dunkin' Donuts Center is an indoor arena located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Built in 1972, the arena was built as a place for the emerging Providence College men's basketball program and the high demand for tickets to their games in Alumni Hall, as well as for the then-Providence Reds, who played in the nearly fifty-year old Rhode Island Auditorium.
Dunkirk Raiders During the Dutch revolt (1568 - 1648) the Dunkirk Raiders or Dunkirk Privateers (Dutch: Duinkerker kapers) were privateers in the service of the Spanish Empire operating from the port of Dunkirk at the Flemish coast.
Dunkirk spirit The Dunkirk spirit is a phrase used to describe the tendency of the British public to pull together to overcome times of adversity. It came into use following the evacuation of allied troops across the English Channel by flotillas of pleasure boats, working barges and other civilian craft at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940.
Dunkirk, Nottingham Dunkirk is a residential area of Nottingham, England which is located to the south east of the University of Nottingham and the Queen's Medical Centre. It is in the electoral ward of 'Dunkirk and Lenton', part of the Nottingham South constituency.
Dunkleosteus Dunkleosteus was a large Placoderm (armoured prehistoric fish) that lived in the late Devonian period, about 360 – 415 million years ago. The largest of the genus grew to around 8 to 10 m (27 to 33 feet) long, and were probably the top predators of their time.
Dunlaps Dunlaps, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is a family owned chain of department stores the central and southern United States catering to most classes depending on the location. The chain currently operates under the trade names of Dunlaps, Stripling & Cox, MM Cohn, Rogers, Clark's, Schreiner's, Kerr's, Kline's, The White House, and Gabriel's.
Dunlop Cry Baby The Jim Dunlop Cry Baby (also known as the Crybaby) is a highly popular wah-wah pedal, manufactured by Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc.. It is the best selling guitar pedal of all time, as extensively shown on the packaging the pedals come in.
Dunloy Dunloy (in Irish: DĂşn LathaĂ­, ie fort of the muddy place/marsh) is a village in northern County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated between Ballymena, 18 kilometres to the south and Ballymoney, 10 kilometres to the north west.
Dunluce Castle Dunluce Castle is one of the most extensive ruins of a medieval castle on the island of Ireland. It is located on the edge of a basalt outcropping in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and is accessible via a bridge connecting it to the mainland.
Dunmail Raise Dunmail Raise, high point (238m) on the A591 that bisects the English Lake District National Park north to south between Keswick and Ambleside. Dunmail Raise rises between Grasmere and Thirlmere and is marked by a large cairn of stones reputed to be the burial mound of Dunmail, last king of Cumbria and after whom the pass is named.
Dunman High School Dunman High School is an autonomous co-educational secondary school in Singapore. It is generally recognised as being one of the top schools and the top co-educational secondary school in Singapore in terms of academic results.
Dunmanway Massacre The Dunmanway Massacre refers to the killings of ten Protestant civilians, allegedly by maverick elements of the Irish Republican Army, in and around Dunmanway,County Cork between 26 April/28 April, 1922, apparently triggered by the killing of a member of the IRA, Michael O'Neill, Acting O/C of the Bandon Battalion by one of those subsequently killed. The IRA, plus pro and anti Treaty Sinn Fein representatives, immediately and vociferously condemned the killings.
Dunmore East Dunmore East (Dún Mór in Irish) is a small village in County Waterford, Republic of Ireland, located on the west side of Waterford Harbour on Ireland's southeastern coast, in the barony of Gaultier (Gáll Tír in Irish - land of the foreigner - refers to the influx of Normans from France who settled in the area).
Dunmore's War Dunmore's War (or Lord Dunmore's War) was a war from 1773 to 1774 between militiamen led by Lord Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, and American Indians of the Ohio Country, primarily Shawnees and Mingos. The conflict resulted from escalating violence between British colonists who were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River—modern West Virginia and Kentucky—and American Indians who hunted there.
Dunmurry Dunmurry () is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland situated between the cities of Belfast and Lisburn. The village has in recent years grown enormously as private and public housing estates have been built.
Dunn Baronets There have been three creations of baronetcies on families bearing the surname Dunn; all three were in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The first was settled on William Dunn of Lakenheath, Suffolk, for whom the Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University are named.
Dunn Field (Elmira) Dunn Field is a stadium in Elmira, New York primarily used for baseball. Located on the banks of the Chemung River at the end of Luce St, it has been the home of various incarnations of the Elmira Pioneers since it's opening in 1939.
Dunn language The dunn language is a style of street slang spoken by East Coast rappers which was popularized in the mid-1990s by rappers such as Mobb Deep, Big Noyd, Capone-N-Noreaga, Tragedy Khadafi, Nas, and some members of the Wu-Tang Clan. The term dunn language has its origin in the Mobb Deep song "Quiet Storm," from their 1999 album Murda Muzik in which Prodigy raps: "You's a dick blower tryin' to speak the dunn language/ What the drilly wit' that though/ It ain't bangin'/ You hooked on Mobb Phonics/ Infamous 'bonics.
Dunnage Dunnage is a term for off-cut or spare pieces of scrap wood. "Dunnage" is a common word throughout many trades in New Zealand, Australia, The Americas, and Britain such as welding, carpentry, building construction, etc.
Dunneworthy Dunneworthy is a district located approximately 16 kilometres west of the town of Ararat, Victoria, Australia. When surveyed in the 1850s there were plans for a sizable township and indeed a railway station was built.
Dunning (process) Dunning is the process of methodically communicating with customers to ensure the collection of accounts receivable. Communications progress from gentle reminders to almost threatening letters as accounts become more past due.
Dunning School The Dunning School is a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877). It was named after Columbia University professor William Archibald Dunning who opposed allowing black people to vote or bear arms.
Dunnington Dunnington is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, approximately 6 km (4 mi) east of the city of York. It has a a pleasant older centre of which parts are a conservation area, surrounded by modern development that is generally well-planned.
Dunnock The Dunnock, Prunella modularis, is a small passerine bird found throughout temperate Europe and into Asia. It is by far the most widespread member of the accentor family, which otherwise consists of mountain species.
Dunnottar Castle Dunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky outcrop on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. Its recognizable architecture is 13th century, but an earlier castle was built on this site by Caledonian tribes by 84 ADTed Cowan, Angus: Scotland's Birthplace, Angus Council Report 336/05, March 10, 2005.
Dunnville, Kentucky Dunnville, Kentucky is an unincorporated village with a post office in southern Casey County, near the intersection of the Green River and Goose Creek. It was named for Virginian James Richard Dunn, who settled the area in the 1840s and operated a mill.
Dunnville, Ontario Dunnville is a farming community in southern Ontario of approximately 13,000, about 45 minutes from Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Fort Erie and Buffalo, New York. It is located near the end of the Grand River in Haldimand County, Ontario, historically near the Talbot Trail.
Dunny Dunny is Australian slang for toilet, either the room or the specific fixture, especially an Outhouse, portacabin or other outdoor toilets. It is often used to specify a distinction between a flushing toilet and a non-flushing toilet (e.
Dunragit Dunragit (Gaelic: DĂąn Reicheit) is a village on the A75, between Stranraer and Glenluce in Dumfries and Galloway (previously Wigtownshire) in south-west Scotland. It grew up around the west gate of Dunragit House, an 18th century three-storey four-bay country house.
Dunrobin Castle Dunrobin Castle is a stately home in Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland, and the seat of the Earls of Sutherland. It is close to the A9 road, and to a Far North Line railway station, which is named for the castle.
Duns Duns was created a Burgh of Barony in 1490, and is a former county town of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. The feudal Laird is Alexander Hay of Duns and Drumelzier, his family acquired Duns Castle in 1696 and were responsible for the present Gothic edifice, prior to that it had been a substantial Pele tower belonging to the descendants of the Earl of Moray, who had been granted the estate by Robert I.
Duns Castle Duns Castle, Duns, Berwickshire is a historic house in Scotland, the oldest part of which, the massive Norman Keep or Pele Tower, dates from 1320. The earlier house was transformed into a Gothic castle, 1818-22, by architect James Gillespie Graham.
Dunsbach Ferry, New York Dunsbach Ferry is an Upstate New York hamlet in northern Albany County that now stands in the shadows of the Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge (also known as "The Twin Bridges", where Interstate 87 crosses the Mohawk River. It is located in the Town of Colonie.
Dunshaughlin Dunshaughlin () While Domhnach Seachnaill remains the common name among the natives, since the Placenames Order, 1975 the alternative recorded name for the town, DĂşn Seachlainn, is designated as the official name. Both names are equally legitimate with Domhnach Seachnaill appearing in ecclesiastical records and DĂşn Seachlainn appearing in secular records.
Dunsparce are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Dunsparce in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Dunst (queer network in Copenhagen) Since 2001, the queer network Dunst has contributed to gay life in Copenhagen. The group is well-known for its bizarre and tongue-in-cheek drag personalities, including such names as Ramona Macho, Miss Fish, Puta and Tove Hansen.
Dunstable Town railway station Dunstable Town railway station (originally Dunstable Church Street) was a terminus station on a spur off the Great Northern Railway between Leighton Buzzard and Hatfield. It served the town of Dunstable until closure in 1965 under the Beeching axe.
Dunstablians Dunstablians Rugby Football Club (The D's for short) are an English rugby union team who play in Midlands Division One. Their ground in Dunstable is known as Bidwell Parkclub enjoys numerous rivalries within the area most notably with Luton Rugby Club].
Dunstan Baby Language Dunstan Baby Language is a claim about infantile speech patterns and language acquisition in humans. The claim is that across cultures and linguistic groups there are five sounds, each with a meaning, that are used by infants during the beginning of the language acquisition period.
Dunster Castle Dunster Castle is the historical home of the Luttrell family located in the small town of Dunster, Somerset, England (). Colonel Sir Walter Luttrell gave Dunster Castle and the greater part of its contents to the National Trust in 1976.
Dunster House Dunster House, built in 1930, is one of the first two Harvard University dormitories constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan, and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Harkness. In the early days, room rents varied based on the floor and the size of the room.
Dunston Checks In Dunston Checks In is a 1996 film starring Jason Alexander, Eric Lloyd, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, Graham Sack and Sam as Dunston. It was written by John Hopkins and Bruce Graham and directed by Ken Kwapis.
Dunston Pillar Dunston Pillar is a stone tower in Lincolnshire, England and a former 'land lighthouse'. It stands beside the A15 road approximately 10 km south of Lincoln near the junction of the B1178 (also known as Tower Lane).
Dunt Is a fault that can occur during the firing of ceramic articles. It is the 'cracking that occurs in fired ceramic bodies as a result of a thermally induced stress': ASTM and is caused by ‘ware cooled too quickly after it has been fired’: Dodd & Murfin
Dunta Robinson Willie Dunta Robinson (born April 11, 1982 in Athens, Georgia) is an American football cornerback currently playing for the Houston Texans of the NFL. He was drafted in the 2004 NFL Draft with a first round pick out of the University of South Carolina.
Dunthorne (crater) Dunthorne is a small lunar impact crater that is located to the northwest of the Palus Epidemiarum lunar mare, in the southwest part of the Moon's near side. It lies to the southwest of Campanus crater, and east of Vitello crater.
Dunthorpe, Oregon Dunthorpe is a highly affluent unincorporated suburb of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is located just south of the Portland city limits and north of the Multnomah County line on the west side of the Willamette River.
Duntroon, New Zealand Duntroon is a small farming town in the North Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located north of Oamaru in the Waitaki District that straddles the border of Otago and Canterbury; just north of the town is the Waitaki River that forms the traditional border between the two regions.
Dunun A Dunun (also known as dundun, doundoun, or djun-djun) is the generic name for a family of African bass drums that developed alongside the djembe in West Africa. It is known and pronounced as "dundun" in Yorubaland of Nigeria.
Dunvallo Molmutius Dunvallo Molmutius (Welsh: Dyfual moel myd) was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of Cloten, the King of Cornwall, and he restored order after the Civil War of the Five Kings.
Dunwhich Records Dunwhich Records was a record label started by Bill Traut, Eddie Higgins and George Badonsky in 1966. After first trying to distribute their records themselves, they quickly went for a distribution deal with Atco Records.
Dunwich Dunwich () is a small town in the county of Suffolk in England. It was once a prosperous seaport and centre of the wool trade during the early Middle Ages, with a natural harbour formed by the mouths of the River Blyth and the River Dunwich, most of which has since been lost to erosion.
Dunwich Dynamo The Dunwich Dynamo is an annual semi-organised, through-the-night bicycle ride from London Fields park in Hackney, London, England to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. The distance is approximately 120 miles (193 kilometres).
Dunwich, Queensland Dunwich is a small town on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in the Australian state of Queensland. The town is part of the Redland Shire local government area, based on the mainland in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Cleveland.
Duo Interpretation Duo Interpretation, or often simply called Duo Interp, is an official speech event of the National Forensics League, and the National Catholic Forensics League. The event involves a pair of performers acting out a short literary piece under certain restraints, including not looking at or touching your partner, and no props.
Duo Maxwell Duo Maxwell (derived from Latin 2, duo) is a fictional character from the anime and manga series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. He is a central character of the anime, and he is the pilot of Deathscythe, one of the five Gundams.
Duo Princess Duo Princess is a fan created "sequel" of the RPG game Threads of Fate. In the original game, third ending (the real ending) game the players a hint at a possible sequel but Squaresoft has no current plans to develop one (possibly due to the fact that the original game only had modest success with mainstream game community).
Duobao Glazed Pagoda Duobao Glazed Pagoda is a Chinese Buddhist pagoda at the back of Longevity Hill inside the Summer Palace of Beijing, China. It was built during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1735-1796) of the Qing Dynasty.
Duobinary signal In telecommunication, a duobinary signal is a pseudobinary-coded signal in which a "0" ("zero") bit is represented by a zero-level electric current or voltage; a "1" ("one") bit is represented by a positive-level current or voltage if the quantity of "0" bits since the last "1" bit is even, and by a negative-level current or voltage if the quantity of "0" bits since the last "1" bit is odd.
Duodenal switch The Duodenal Switch (also known as Bilio-Pancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch or the DS) procedure is a weight loss surgery that alters the gastrointestinal tract with two approaches: a restrictive aspect and a malabsorptive aspect.
Duodji Duodji, the Sami handicraft, originates from the time when the Samis were self-supporting nomads, therefore should an object first and foremost serve a purpose. The artistic ornamentation of an artifact was hence of less importance.
Duolan Khan Yöngyulü Tülan-Qağan (Tunga-Turan, Tulan-Khan, 都蘭可汗, 雍虞閭) The son of Ishbara and the seventh qaghan of the Göktürk empire. He married his mother, Princess Zhou Tsienkien, now under the name princess Sui Dai.
Duology Duology also known as dilogy is a set of two works of art, usually a two-part series relating to literature or film, that develop a single theme over two works. A duology may or may not involve a sequel and/or prequel.
Duolun Duolun is a city of the province of Inner Mongolia, China. The town proper almost exclusively occupied by Chinese, is about a mile in length by half a mile in breadth, has narrow and dirty streets, and cone tains a population of about 26,000.
Duomo Duomo is a generic Italian term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral (the latter always in a town that no longer has a bishop nor therefore a cathedral, as for example Trevi).
Duomo di Orvieto The Duomo di Orvieto is a large fourteenth century Roman Catholic cathedral situated in the Italian town of Orvieto in Umbria. The building was constructed under the orders of Pope Urban IV to commemorate and provide a suitable home for the Corporal of Bolsena, a miracle which is said to have occurred in 1264 in the nearby town of Bolsena, when a traveling priest who had doubts about the truth of transubstantiation found that his Host was bleeding so much that it stained the altar cloth.
Duomo di San Martino Construction of the Romanesque Cathedral of St Martin in Lucca, Italy, was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm (later Pope Alexander II). Of this structure, the great apse with its tall columnar arcades and the fine campanile remain.
Duomo di Viterbo The Duomo di Viterbo, (or Viterbo Cathedral), officially named the Cathedral of San Lorenzo is the main Roman Catholic church of the city of Viterbo in the Province of Viterbo in the northern part of the Italian state of Lazio. The church is an imposing Romanesque structure situated high on the hill which the city climbs, but it lacks much of the spectacular decoration with which it was originally adorned, thanks to an ill-advised sixteenth century reconstruction.
Duomo of Florence The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore of Florence, Italy, is the cathedral church (Duomo) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, noted for its distinctive dome. Its name ("Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower") refers to the lily, symbol of Florence, or to the old town name Fiorenza.
Duoneb Duoneb is a combination of two bronchodilators, Albuterol Sulphate and Ipratropium Bromide. It is used to treat symptoms (ie, bronchospasms) in patients with lung disease (ie, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD).
Duophonic Records Duophonic Records is an independent record label formed by the British rock group Stereolab. The label has two imprints: Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks for releases on compact disc format, and Duophonic Super 45s for vinyl records.
Duotang Duotangs are paper folders made of harder cardstock paper with flat metal teeth that persons use to bind multiple sheets of paper simply by bending the metal teeth. They are rarely seen outside of Canada and North American Waldorf Schools.
Duotheism Duotheism is the in belief two deities, most commonly in a single god and a single goddess, although it can also be used to regard a mutual power between two deities. It is sometimes explained with the phrase, "All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess," purportedly from the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Duoviri In ancient Rome, duoviri, or less correctly duumviri, was the official style of two joint magistrates. Such pairs of magistrates were appointed at various periods of Roman history both in Rome itself and in the colonies and municipia.
Duoying Li Duoying Li (April 27, 1992 - Present) is a Chinese-American student that currently attends Stanton College Preparatory School and is a member of their crew team. He is planning to be a engineer in the United States Army.
Dupatta Dupatta (Hindi: दुपट्टा, Urdu: دوپٹا) is a long scarf that is essential to many Indian and Pakistani women's suits. Some "dupatta suits" include the salwar kameez, the trouser suit, and the kurta.
Duping Duping refers to the practice of exploiting a bug in the game software to illegitimately create duplicates of unique items or currency in a persistent online game, such as an MMOG. This method of cheating has been used in Diablo and Diablo II to generate copies of items, including rare or unique artifacts.
Dupleix (D 641) The Dupleix is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel (beside also two French commercial ships) named after the XVIIIth Century Gouvernor of Pondichéry and Gouverneur Général of the French possessions in India marquess Joseph Dupleix (see French ship Dupleix for the others).
Duplessis Orphans The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) are the victims of a scheme in which several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada and confined to psychiatric institutions. It is widely regarded as the largest case of institution-based child abuse in Canadian history.
Duplex (band) Duplex is an electronic music duo based out of Rotterdam. After several 12 inch singles, remixes and EPs released on labels such as Clone Records, Dub Recordings and Groundzero, Duplex issued their debut album Late Night Driving in 2005 on Clone.
Duplex (building) A duplex house is a two-unit apartment building or condominium, usually indistinguishable from a normal house on the exterior. Duplexes are especially common in the Northeastern United States and urban areas throughout the United States.
Duplex (telecommunications) A duplex communication system is a system composed of two connected parties or devices which can communicate with one another in both directions. (The term duplex is not used when describing communication between more than two parties or devices.
Duplex locomotive A duplex locomotive is a steam locomotive that divides the driving force on its wheels by using two pairs of cylinders rigidly mounted to a single locomotive frame; it is not an articulated locomotive. The concept was developed in the early 1930s by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the largest commercial builder of steam locomotives in North America, under the supervision of its then chief engineer, Ralph P.
Duplex mismatch In Ethernet, a duplex mismatch is a condition where two connected devices operate in different duplex modes, that is, one operates in half duplex while the other one operates in full duplex. The effect of a duplex mismatch is a network that works but is often much slower than its nominal speed.
Duplex printing Duplex printing is a feature of computer printers that allows the automatic printing of a sheet of paper on both sides. Most printers can only print on a single side of paper ('simplex printing') automatically.
Duplicate code Duplicate code is a computer programming term for a sequence of source code that occurs more than once in a program. A minimum requirement is usually applied to the quantity of code that must appear in a sequence for it to be considered duplicate rather than coincidentally similar.
Duplicate characters in Unicode Unicode has a certain amount of duplication due to aiming to allow legacy encodings to be converted to Unicode without losing any information. Sometimes these characters are rendered identically, other times they are rendered with different sizes or styles at least in the fonts intended to match up with the expectations of legacy systems.
Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge (青衣複制南橋) or Duplicate Tsing Yi Bridge (青衣複制橋) or Kwai Tsing Bridge (葵青橋) is a bridge connecting Tsing Yi Island and Kwai Chung over the Rambler Channel of Hong Kong in parallel to Tsing Yi Bridge, which fell ill owing to years of heavy usage. The duplicated bridge was built to relieve the overburdened Tsing Yi Bridge and opened in 26th July, 1999 before the commencement of Tsing Yi Bridge renovation.
Duplication matrix In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the duplication matrix and the elimination matrix are linear transformations used for transforming half-vectorizations of matrices into vectorizations or (respectively) vice-versa.
Duplo Duplo is a version of Lego bricks from the well known Danish toy company, LEGO Group. Duplo bricks are eight times the size (twice the length) of traditional Lego bricks, and are easier to handle for younger children.
Dupont Valley Times The Dupont Valley Times is one of five community publications published by the Times Group Inc in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is a freely circulated, monthly newspaper which is direct mailed to zip codes 46818, 46825, 46845 in Fort Wayne, 45748 in Huntertown, Indiana and 46765 in Leo, Indiana with a circulation of over 19,000 addresses.
Dupont, Tennessee Dupont is a rural community within the small town of Seymour, Tennessee, within Sevier County, Tennessee, in the eastern division of the State of Tennessee, United States. <BR><BR>Dupont got it's name from Dew Point.
Dupuit assumption The Dupuit assumption holds that groundwater moves horizontally in an unconfined aquifer, and that the groundwater discharge is proportional to the saturated aquifer thickness. It was first designed by Jules Dupuit in 1863 to simplify the groundwater flow equation for analytical solutions.
Dupuy de Lôme (A759) The Dupuy de Lôme (A759), named after the 19th century engineer Dupuy de Lôme, is a signal and communication intelligence ship that entered the service of the French Navy in April 2006. In contrast with the Bougainville, the ship that she will replace, the Dupuy de Lôme was specifically designed for sea intelligence, in the framework of the MINREM project (Moyen Interarmées Naval de recherche ElectroMagnétique).
DuPage 3 The Du Page 3 refers to the towns of Burr Ridge, Hinsdale, and Oak Brook in the Chicagoland area. The three suburbs put together constitute an area of prestige and wealth that rival that of Lake Forest, Winnetka, and other towns to the north of Chicago.
DuPage River The DuPage River, a tributary of the Des Plaines River actually starts as two individual streams. The West Branch of the DuPage River flows through the entire county, starting in Hanover Park in Cook County, and flowing south through Bartlett, Wheaton, Warrenville, Winfield, and Naperville.
DuPage Valley Conference The DuPage Valley Conference (DVC) is an organization of eight high schools in northeastern Illinois, representing seven communities in Chicago's suburbs. These high schools are all members of the Illinois High School Association.

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