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Dick Rockwell Richard Waring Rockwell (December 11, 1920 – April 18, 2006) is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known as Milt Caniff's uncredited art assistant for 35 years on the adventure strip Steve Canyon. Rockwell was a nephew of the famed painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell.
Dick Rubenstein Major Richard Arthur Rubinstein, wartime hero who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma. Commonly known as Dick Rubenstein was born in Baker Street on August 29 1921.
Dick Rude Dick Rude (born 1964) is a writer, director, and actor known for his appearance in and contributions to many Alex Cox films and has directed the music videos Catholic School Girls Rule and Universally Speaking as well as the live concert dvd, Off The Map for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Dick Rutan Richard Glenn “Dick” Rutan (born July 1, 1938) is an aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with the assistance of Jeana Yeager. He was born in Loma Linda, California, where he gained an interest in flight at a young age.
Dick Ruthven Richard David Ruthven (born March 27 1951 in Sacramento, California, USA) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher with a 14 year career from 1973 to 1986. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs all of the National League.
Dick Sandwich Dick Sandwich is a seven-track EP released by Frenzal Rhomb in 1993. The EP was only available for a short period of time, but all of the tracks have since resurfaced in a remastered state on the compilation CD For the Term of Their Unnatural Lives.
Dick Saslaw Dick Saslaw is a Democratic Party politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. He has been a State Senator since 1980 and is the Minority (Democratic) Leader in his chamber of the General Assembly.
Dick Savitt Richard "Dick" Savitt (born on March 4, 1927 in Bayonne, New Jersey) was an American male tennis player. He is one of the three American men to win both the Australian and British Championships in one year (following Don Budge, 1938, and preceding Jimmy Connors, 1974).
Dick Scobee Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut who died commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.
Dick Shearer Dick Shearer is most famous as lead trombonist and music director for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, since taking over the lead chair from Jim Trimble in the early 1970s until Stan's death in 1978. He led the band during Stan's illnesses, and produced several of the band's last recordings.
Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism The Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism was established in 2002 to honor the memory of one of Americas pre-eminent sports writers, Dick Schaap. The award is presented by the Nassau County Sports Commission and is given out to the journalist, in any medium, that best exemplifies the principles and talents of Dick Schaap during the past year.
Dick Schafrath Dick Schafrath is a retired line backer for the Cleveland Browns, former Ohio State Senator and author. During his tenure as an athlete he won national football championships with the 1957 Ohio State University Buckeyes and the 1964 Cleveland Browns.
Dick Schoenaker Dick Schoenaker (born November 30, 1952 in Ede, Gelderland) is a retired football midfielder from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, wearing the number three jersey. His biggest club successes came when he played for Ajax Amsterdam in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Dick Schofield Richard Craig "Dick" Schofield (born November 21, 1962 in Springfield, Illinois) was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played a total of 14 seasons, spanning from 1983-1996. Schofield played the majority of his career with the California Angels, but played on the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays team that eventually won the World Series.
Dick Smith (make-up artist) Dick Smith (born Richard Emerson Smith, June 26, 1922 in Larchmont, New York) is a make-up artist known for his work on such films as The Godfather, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and Little Big Man. He won an Academy Award for Makeup for his work on Amadeus.
Dick Smith Electronics Dick Smith Electronics is an Australasian electronics retailer founded in 1968 by Dick Smith. The business started as a small car radio installation business in the Sydney suburb Artarmon, but has expanded to the point where it currently employs more than 2,000 people.
Dick Spring Richard "Dick" Spring (; born August 29, 1950 in Tralee County Kerry), is a businessman and former senior Irish politician. He was first elected as a Labour Party TD in 1981 and retained his seat until 2002.
Dick Standish Dick Standish is an award winning veteran reporter who joined KYW-TV in 1979 after working at sister radio station KYW-AM since 1967. Standish, a Rutgers University graduate, also has taught some journalism courses at his alma mater.
Dick Stuart Richard Lee (Dick) Stuart (November 7, 1932 - December 15, 2002) was a Major League Baseball first baseman from 1958 to 1969. Throughout his baseball career, Stuart was known as a fine hitter, but a subpar fielder, garnering the unique nickname of "Dr.
Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne Dick Taverne, Lord Taverne (born 18 October 1928) is an English politician, who is one of the small number of members of the British House of Commons elected since the Second World War who was not the candidate of a major political party.
Dick Taylor Dick Taylor (born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, in Dartford, Kent, England) was an early bass player for Rolling Stones. He left to become an art student at Sidcup Art College and while there formed The Pretty Things in September 1963.
Dick Tärnström Dick Tärnström (born January 20 1975, in Sundbyberg, Sweden) is a professional ice hockey player that started his professional career in AIK. He was drafted 272nd overall in the eleventh round by the New York Islanders in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.
Dick Thornett Dick Thornett was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player - a dual international. He represented the Wallabies in 11 Tests in 1961-62 and the Kangaroos in Tests against South Africa in 1963, on the 1963-6 Kangaroo Tour and in 3 matches of the 1968 World Cup.
Dick Tidrow Richard William Tidrow (born May 14,1947 in San Francisco, California) was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and New York Mets from 1972 to 1984. Tidrow was nicknamed "Dirt" a reference perhaps to his physical appearance as he sported a droopy walrus like mustache or due to the fact that he threw sinker balls so often when he pitched.
Dick Todd (hockey) Richard "Dick" Todd is a retired former ice hockey coach who is the winningest coach in Ontario Hockey League history. Todd got his start as a coach with the Peterborough Petes in the 1970's as a trainer and worked his way up, becoming the team's head coach in 1982.
Dick Tracewski Richard Joseph "Dick" Tracewski (born February 3, 1935 in Eynon, Pennsylvania) was a player and coach in Major League Baseball. In his career, he was an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers.
Dick Tracy Dick Tracy is a long-run comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains.
Dick Traum Dick Traum is the founder of the Achilles Track Club for disabled athletes, and the first runner to complete a marathon with an prosthetic leg. Terry Fox credited Traum with inspiring Fox's cross-Canada run for cancer research.
Dick Tremayne Dick Tremayne (Ian Buchanan) is a fictional character on the 1990-1991 primetime ABC series Twin Peaks. He is an Englishman of the older mould, and has a keen interest in self-preservation and his appearance, particularly his clothing.
Dick Urine Dick Urine is both a fictional record producer and a psuedonymn associated with transgressive punk rock singer/songwriter/performance artist GG Allin through his friend and independent label owner/producer Peter Yarmouth. Dick Urine was Yarmouth's stage name (which he always hated) and the name was created by GG right before the show at the old RI Auditorium.
Dick Van Arsdale Richard Albert (Dick) Van Arsdale (born February 22 1943 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a former professional basketball player and coach, and a current NBA executive. A 6'5" guard who played collegiately at Indiana University, Van Arsdale was selected by the New York Knickerbockers in the 2nd round of the 1965 NBA Draft.
Dick Wagner (baseball) Dick Wagner (October 19, 1927 – October 5, 2006) was a sports, entertainment, and broadcasting executive who spent twenty-five years in Major League Baseball. He was best known for running the Cincinnati Reds during the 1970s and the Houston Astros during the 1980s.
Dick Weber Dick Weber (December 23 1929 - February 13 2005) was a famous bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Weber was known not only as a bowling superstar, but was also a bowling pioneer and one of the sport's most popular players.
Dick White Sir Dick Goldsmith White, KCMG, KBE (20 December 1906–21 February 1993), was a British intelligence officer. He was Director-General (DG) of MI5 from 1953 to 1956, and Head of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1956 to 1968.
Dick Whittinghill Dick Whittinghill (born March 5, 1913 in Montana – died January 24, 2001 in Los Angeles, California) was a movie and television actor, recording artist and radio dsic jockey. His early music career included membership in The Pied Pipers vocal group which sang with Tommy Dorsey's big band.
Dick Whittington Dick Whittington (also Dick Wittington) is a character in a British pantomime, very loosely based on the real-life Richard Whittington, who was born, probably in Gloucestershire, in the late 1350s and died in London in 1423. There are several versions of the traditional story, which tells how Dick, a boy from a poor family, sets out for London to make his fortune, accompanied by his cat.
Dick Wilson Dick Wilson (born Riccardo DeGuglielmo on July 30, 1916) is an American actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999).
Dick Wood Malcom Richard "Dick" Wood (born February 29, 1936 in Lanett, Alabama) is a former American football quarterback who played at Auburn before being drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1959. He signed with the Denver Broncos as a free agent in 1962.
Dick's Creek Falls Dick's Creek Falls is a waterfall that features a 60 foot drop of Dicks Creek into the Chattooga River. Located in the Chattahoochee National Forest, it is reached by using the Dick's Creek Trail, which is short trail (about 1.
Dick's Picks Volume 1 Dick's Picks Volume 1 is the first live album in the Dick's Picks Series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on December 19 1973 at the Curtis Hixon Convention Center in Tampa and contains a rare "Nobody's Fault But Mine".
Dick's Picks Volume 10 Dick's Picks Volume 10 is the tenth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at Winterland Arena in San Francisco on December 29, 1977, with extra tracks recorded the next day.
Dick's Picks Volume 20 Dick's Picks Volume 20 is the twentieth installment of the popular Grateful Dead archival series. It documents the majority of the concerts on September 25, 1976 at the Capital Centre, Landover, MD and September 28, 1976 at the Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY.
Dick's Picks Volume 21 Dick's Picks Volume 21 is the twenty-first live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at Richmond Coliseum on November 1 in 1985, with bonus tracks recorded on September 2, 1980 at Community War Memorial in Rochester.
Dick's Picks Volume 22 Dick's Picks Volume 22 is the twenty-second installment of the popular Grateful Dead archival series. It documents portions of the concerts on February 23 and 24, 1968 at the King's Beach Bowl, King's Beach, Lake Tahoe, CA.
Dick's Picks Volume 27 Dick's Picks Volume 27 is the twenty-seventh installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on December 16, 1992 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena with bonus tracks from the following day which include the encore (first Grateful Dead release of the "Baba O'Riley" > "Tomorrow Never Knows" medley).
Dick's Picks Volume 28 Dick's Picks Volume 28 is the twenty-eighth installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on February 26, 1973 at Pershing Municipal Auditorium in Lincoln and on February 28 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.
Dick's Picks Volume 29 Dick's Picks Volume 29 is the twenty-ninth installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on May 19, 1977 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta and on May 21 at Lakeland Civic Center, with bonus material recorded on October 11 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Dick's Picks Volume 30 Dick's Picks Volume 30 is the thirtieth installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. Just prior to their famous Europe '72 tour, the Dead played a seven show run at the New York Academy of Music in Brooklyn.
Dick's Picks Volume 31 Dick's Picks Volume 31 is the thirty-first installment in the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on August 4 and 5, 1974 at the Civic Convention Hall Auditorium in Philadelphia and on August 6 at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City.
Dick's Picks Volume 9 Dick's Picks Volume 9 is the ninth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on September 16, 1990 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City during the first tour with new keyboardists Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby.
Dick's Sporting Goods Park Dick's Sporting Goods Park is located in Commerce City, Colorado, and is home to the Colorado Rapids professional soccer team. It can seat up to 18,500 people, yet can also accommodate up to 25,000 for certain events and is built on over 360 acres (1.
Dickens World Dickens World is a theme park-style attraction currently under construction at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. It is due for completion in April 2007, and is based on the life and times of author Charles Dickens, briefly a resident of Medway as a child and who, as an adult, lived at Gads Hill Place in nearby Higham.
Dickey Amendment The Dickey Amendment is the name of a piece of federal legislation passed by United States Congress in 1995, and signed by former President Bill Clinton which prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes or for research in which human embryos are destroyed. HHS funding includes the funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
Dickey Betts Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (born December 12, 1943 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, most known for his work as a founding member of the southern blues/rock group The Allman Brothers Band.
Dickey-Stephens Park Dickey-Stephens Park is a new stadium in North Little Rock, Arkansas, that is nearing completion. It will be primarily used for baseball and will be the home field of the Arkansas Travelers minor league baseball team.
Dickeyville Historic District The Dickeyville Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places listed community located just inside the western edge of Baltimore City, Maryland near the intersection of Interstates 70 and 695 and adjacent to Kernan Hospital. A small community of about 140 homes and an historic mill, the village is on the banks of the Gwynn's Falls and lies at the start of the Gwynn's Falls Trail - a 15 mile walking and biking trail that is part of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.
Dickie A dickie (sometimes known as a tuxedo front or tux front) is a type of false shirt-front designed to be worn with a tuxedo, usually attached to the collar and then tucked into the cummerbund. The rigid plastic dickie came into fashion in the latter years of the 19th century, and was one of the first successful commercial applications of celluloid.
Dickie Boon Richard R. "Dickie" Boon (Born - January 10, 1878 in Belleville,, Ontario, Canada - Died - May 3, 1961) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal AAA of the CAHL and the Montreal Wanderers of the FAHL in the early 1900's.
Dickie Davies Dickie Davies (born 30 April 1933) is a British television presenter, best known for presenting World of Sport from 1968 until 1985. Even after that he continued to present other sporting events, mainly boxing and snooker on ITV.
Dickie Goodman Dickie Goodman (April 19 1934 - November 6 1989) is considered one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music, through a series of "break-in" records he created from 1956 to 1986. His first song, "The Flying Saucer," was co-written with partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a description of a news-covered invasion of earth from a Martian space ship.
Dickie Kerr Richard Henry "Dickie" Kerr (July 3 1893 - May 4 1963) was a starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox from 1919-1921. As a rookie he won 13 games and won both his starts in the notorious 1919 World Series that essentially terminated the careers of outfielders Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, and Happy Felsch, among others.
Dickie Noles Dickie Ray Noles (born November 19, 1956 in Charlotte, North Carolina) was a Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies (1979-81 and 1990), Chicago Cubs (1982-84 and 1987), Texas Rangers (1984-85), Cleveland Indians (1986), Detroit Tigers (1987) and Baltimore Orioles (1988).
Dickie Rock Dickie Rock born in Cabra, Dublin was the charismatic frontman of the Miami Showband. As one of Ireland's biggest heart throbs in the 1960s he inspired a devotion among Irish music fans which was unparalleled at the time.
Dickie Thon Richard William "Dickie" Thon (born June 20, 1958 in South Bend, Indiana) is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball. He was signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent on November 23, 1975.
Dickin Medal The Dickin Medal was instituted in 1943 by Maria Dickin to honour the work of animals in war. It is a large bronze medallion, bearing the words "For Gallantry" and "We Also Serve" within a laurel wreath, carried on ribbon of striped green, dark brown and pale blue.
Dickins and Jones Dickins and Jones was a department store that had operated between 1835 and 2006 (tracing origins as early as 1803) in London, United Kingdom. Originally opening under the name of Dickins, Smith & Stevens it had latterly changed names to Dickins and Jones in 1856 by Sir John Prichard Jones.
Dickinson classification The Dickinson classification is a library classification scheme used to catalogue and classify musical compositions. It is fully detailed by Carol June Bradley in The Dickinson classification : a cataloguing & classification manual for music; including a reprint of the George Sherman Dickinson Classification of Musical Compositions published by Carlisle Books (1968).
Dickinson College Dickinson College is a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly-recognized United States.
Dickinson Homestead The Dickinson Homestead, located at 280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, was the home of poet Emily Dickinson, and currently is the site of a museum dedicated to her. The home is shown by guided tour, and special events include tours of the adjacent gardens that Emily loved, parties that feature Emily's cakes (including her famous gingerbread), readings, and other events throughout the year.
Dickinson State University Dickinson State University (DSU) is a four-year public university in Dickinson, North Dakota, a part of the North Dakota University System. It was founded in 1916 as Dickinson Normal School, and granted full university status in 1987.
Dickinsonia Dickinsonia is an ancient ovoid fossil with somewhat radial tubes from a (sometimes missing) central ridge. The ends are different, with close spaced tubes on one end and larger, more widely spaced tubes on the other.
Dickon Edwards Richard Dickon Edwards (also known as Dickon Edwards and Dickon Angel) is a London-based indie pop musician, writer, critic, DJ and online diarist. He has been a founding member of several bands, including Orlando and Fosca, and has played guitar in the band Spearmint.
Dicks Edmond de la Fontaine (24 July 1823 – 24 June 1891), better known as Dicks, was a Luxembourgian jurist, writer, poet, and lyricist, best known for his work in the Luxembourgish language. He is considered the national poet of Luxembourg, and, along with Michel Lentz and Michel Rodange, one of the most important figures in the history of Luxembourgian literature.
Dickson Experimental Sound Film The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first example of a motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison.
Dickson Mounds The Dickson Mounds National Historic Site, a Native American settlement site and burial mound complex near Lewistown, Illinois, is located in Fulton County on a low bluff overlooking the Illinois River. A museum erected on the site in the 1970s by the U.
Dickson Range The Dickson Range is a subrange of the Chilcotin Ranges subset of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwest-central British Columbia. It is located just west of the town of Gold Bridge between the valley of Slim Creek to the north (a tributary of Gun Creek) and Downton Lake Reservoir to the south.
Dicksoniaceae The Dicksoniaceae is a family of tropical, subtropical and warm temperate ferns. Most of the 5-6 genera in the family are terrestrial ferns or have very short trunks compared to tree ferns of the family Cyatheaceae.
Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky The law firm Dickstein Shapiro LLP was formerly known as Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, but underwent an official name change in the summer of 2006. The firm was founded by Sidney Dickstein and David Shapiro, originally in New York City, and the two men opened the Washington, D.
Diclectin Diclectin is an essential micronutrient - vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride) in combination with the antihistamine doxylamine succinate has been found to be the optimal treatment for Nausea and/or Vomiting of Pregnancy (NVP). It has been used for 30 years in Canada under the brand name Diclectin®.
Diclofenac Diclofenac (marketed as Voltaren, Voltarol, Diclon, Dicloflex Difen, Difene, Cataflam, Rhumalgan and Abitren) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) taken to reduce inflammation and an analgesic reducing pain in conditions such as in arthritis or acute injury. It can also be used to reduce menstrual pain.
Diclonius (Elfen Lied) The Diclonius are a fictional subspecies of humanity from the Japanese manga and anime series Elfen Lied characterised by two rounded horns emanating out of the skull as well as limited psychic ability such as sensing a fellow diclonius' presence via telepathy and the telekinetic ability to manipulate solid matter through the use of limited range invisible or translucent non-corporeal arms known as "vectors". The name "diclonius" translates from Latin as "double sprout", referring to the horns which visually marks a member of the sub-species.
Dicotyledon Dicotyledons or "dicots" is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group Flowering plants that are not dicotyledons are monocotyledon]s, typically having one embryonic leaf.
Dicraeosauridae Dicraeosauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Africa and South America. Currently only three genera are recognised; the Jurassic South American genus Brachytrachelopan, the Jurassic African Dicraeosaurus and the South American Early Cretaceous Amargasaurus, with its distinctive neck spines.
Dicranostigma Dicranostigma, also known as the eastern horned poppies, is a genus in the poppy family Papaveraceae, the species of which are native to the Himalaya and western China. Although resembling the true horned poppies of Glaucium, they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns".
Dicta Boelcke The Dicta Boelcke is a list of fundamental tactics of air combat formulated by the first great German flying ace of the First World War, Oswald Boelcke. Many modern flyers still see his Dicta as relevant today as it was during the Great War.
Dictaphone A Dictaphone is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print. The name "Dictaphone" is a trademark of a corporation which makes such devices, but has also become a common way to refer to all such devices, especially historic versions that used phonograph cylinders as the recording medium, as was common from the late 19th century until the early-mid 20th century, when vinyl records became the preferred medium.
Dictator Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. In modern usage, it refers to an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes sole power over the state (though the term is normally not applied to an absolute monarch; see also Oliver Cromwell).
Dictator game The dictator game is a very simple game in experimental economics, similar to the ultimatum game. Experimental results in the dictator game have often been cited as a conclusive rebuttal of the rationally self-interested individual (homo economicus) model of economic behavior,Henrich, Joseph, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis (2004) Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies.
Dictatorship of the proletariat The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is a term employed by Marxists that refers to a temporary state transition period between the capitalist society and the classless and stateless communist society; during this transition period, "the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat". The term does not refer to a concentration of power by a dictator, but to a situation where the proletariat (working class) would hold power and replace the current political system controlled by the bourgeoisie (propertied class).
Dictatus papae Dictatus papae is a compilation of 27 axiomatic statements of powers arrogated to the Pope that was included in Pope Gregory VII's register under the year 1075. Some historians argue that it was written by Gregory VII himself; others argue that it has been inserted in the register at a later date, and that it had a different origin "Ernst Sackur (see below) has made it probable that the so-called "Dictatus Papæ" (see GREGORY VII) were composed by Deusdedit.
Dictee Dictee, (1982) is the best known written work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. The book focuses on several women, who are linked by their struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted their lives.
Dictionarius (Johannes de Garlandia) Dictionarius is a short work written about the year 1200 by the medieval English grammarian Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland. For the use of his students at the University of Paris he lists the trades and tradesmen that they saw around them every day in the streets of Paris.
Dictionary The dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. In a few languages, words can appear in many different forms, but only the lemma form appears as the main word or headword in most dictionaries.
Dictionary attack In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by searching a large number of possibilities. In contrast with a brute force attack, where all possibilities are searched through exhaustively, a dictionary attack only tries possibilities which are most likely to succeed, typically derived from a list of words in a dictionary.
Dictionary coder A dictionary coder, also sometimes known as a substitution coder, is any of a number of lossless data compression algorithms which operate by searching for matches between the text to be compressed and a set of strings contained in a data structure (called the 'dictionary') maintained by the encoder. When the encoder finds such a match, it substitutes a reference to the string's position in the data structure.
Dictionary Corner The Dictionary Corner occupies part of the Countdown Studios, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, which consists of two people, either men or women, who look up the words the contestants have given as their best solution, to see whether or not they are acceptable.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures is a dictionary style reference for many algorithms, "algorithmic techniques", "archetypal problems" and data structures found in the field of Computer Science http://www.nist.
Dictionary of American English A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles was a dictionary of terms coined in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944. Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it was begun in 1925 by William A.
Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons The Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons (DANAS) is a work being written by the Naval Historical Center. It covers naval air squadrons in much the same way as the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships covers commissioned vessels.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS for short) is the primary reference work for the basic facts about every ship ever used by the United States Navy. Although called a "dictionary", it is more accurately described as a specialized encyclopedia.

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