Dirty Dozen

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Dirty Dozen can refer to:

• The Dirty Dozen film
• The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, a New Orleans jazz band
• A list of politicians published by the League of Conservation Voters who have poor environmental records. In the 1970s, the League managed to get 7 of 12 politicians on its list voted out of office during the uproar over the burning of the Cuyahoga River
• D12, a rap group with Eminem as the lead rapper.
• Dirty Dozen (American football), the 1975 rookie class of the Dallas Cowboys that helped them advance to Super Bowl X and would be a factor in the team's success during the remainder of the 1970s into the early 1980s.
• A list of 12 toxic substances, outlawed by the Stockholm Convention (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, toxaphene, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) group, dioxins and furans.)
• A list of 12 agents with bioterrorism potential (anthrax (Bacillus anthracis), plague (Yersinia pestis), tularemia (Francisella tularensis), glanders (Burkholderia mallei), melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei), Brucella species, Q fever (Coxiella burnetii), smallpox (Variola), hemorrhagic fever viruses (Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Lassa virus), botulin toxin (Clostridium botulinum), ricin toxin (Castor bean), and Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (Staphylococcus))
• The first 12 non-Brazilians to be promoted to Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
• The Council of American Forensic Entomologists