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Dictionary of Australian Biography The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Australian history. With approximately a thousand entries, the book took more than twenty years to complete.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB) is a dictionary of biographical entries for individuals that have contributed to the History of Canada. The DCB, which was initiated in 1959, is a collaboration between the University of Toronto and Université Laval.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. As declared by Smith in the Preface: "The Dictionary of Geography ...
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0-500-51088-1) is a book written by Anna L. Dallapiccola, and contains information on over one thousand concepts, characters, and places of Hindu mythology and Hinduism, one of the major religions of the Indian subcontinent.
Dictionary of chemical formulas This is a list of chemical compounds with chemical formulae and CAS numbers, indexed by formula. This complements alternative listings to be found at list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds and inorganic compounds by element.
Dictionary of International Biography The Dictionary of International Biography is a biographical dictionary published annually by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, reflecting contemporary achievement in every profession and field of interest in as many countries as possible. also==
Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic The Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr is widely regarded as the foremost Arabic-English bilingual or translation dictionary and has particular usefulness for students of Modern Standard Arabic. The morphology and syntax of written Arabic is essentially the same in all Arabic countries.
Dictionary of National Biography The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online.
Dictionary of Received Ideas The Dictionary of Received Ideas (in French, Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911-3 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a reference work consisting of extensive biographies of scientists from antiquity to modern times, excluding scientists who were alive when the Dictionary was first published. It includes scientists who worked in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and earth sciences.
Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan The Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan is a trilingual--English, French, and Japanese--dictionary of texts from pre-modern Japanese history and literature. Compiled under the auspices of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo (ShiryĹŤ hensan-jo), it consists of entries written and edited by some of the foremost scholars of pre-modern Japanese history and literature in the world today.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a 13-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages published by the American Council of Learned Societies between 1982 and 1989, with a supplemental volume added in 2003. It was first conceived and started in 1975.
Dictionary of the Scots Language The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) () is an online Scots-English language dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd (formerly the Scottish National Dictionary Association), based at George Square, at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The initial project, which ran from February 2001 to January 2004, was based at the University of Dundee, with some financial additional support from the Scottish Executive, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, the Russell Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Dictionary of Western Australians The Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two multi-volume biographical dictionaries containing details of European and non-European settlement in Western Australia from the foundation of the Swan River Colony in 1829 until 1888.
Dictionary tower The term "Dictionary Tower" is used to describe a building containing sophisticated equipment specifically designed to analyse or 'listen into' various forms of communication media such as telephone calls, emails and possibly even internet activity.
Dictionary-based machine translation Machine translation can use a method based on dictionary entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does — word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. Dictionary lookups may be done with or without morphological analysis or lemmatisation.
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique The Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (or Historical and Critical Dictionary in English) was a biographical dictionary written by Pierre Bayle, a Huguenot who lived and published in Holland after fleeing his native France due to religious persecution. The dictionary was first published in 1697, and enlarged in the second edition of 1702.
Dictionnaire Infernal The Dictionnaire Infernal is a book on demonology that includes the names and description of many demons, organised in hellish hierarchies. It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818.
Dictionnaire philosophique The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) was a very controversial 1764 book written by Voltaire. In it he used an alphabetical format to air his own views on theology, modern religious beliefs, and many other subjects, in a series of short essays, which comprised articles contributed by him to the Encyclopédie.
Dicto simpliciter a Dicto simpliciter (Latin: "from a maxim without qualification" -- meaning 'from a universal rule') or ad Dictum simpliciter (Latin: "to a maxim without qualification" -- meaning 'to a universal rule') The a (meaning "from" is often omitted when this phrase is used in English, being mistaken for an indefinite article.
Dictophyma renale The Dictophyma renale or giant kidney worm is a common parasital worm found especially in carnivorous animals, particularly minks and mustelids. Becoming up to 60 centimeters in length in mink and up to 100 centimeters in lupine animals, this vermillion kidney worm is one of the largest of all parasitic nematodes.
Dictum In common law legal terminology a dictum (plural dicta) is any statement that forms a part of the judgment of a court, in particular a court whose decisions have value as precedent under the doctrine of stare decisis.
Dictum of Kenilworth The Dictum of Kenilworth, issued in October 1266, established the terms of the supporters of Simon de Montfort for ending their resistance against Henry III of England. Issued from Kenilworth Castle, its main demand was the right to buy back confiscated estates.
Dictyate The Dictyate stage of meiotic prophase is a prolonged resting phase that is terminated shortly before ovulation. Although the majority of oocytes are produced in female fetuses before birth, these pre-eggs remain arrested in the Dictyate stage until puberty commences and the cells undergo oogenesis.
Dictyocaulus Dictyocaulus is a genus of nematode parasites of the bronchial tree of horses, sheep, goats, deer, and cattle. Dictyocaulus arnfeldii is the lungworm of horses, and Dictyocaulus viviparus is the lungworm affecting ruminants .
Dictyoptera Dictyoptera includes three groups of insects, the Isoptera (termites), Blattodea (or Blattaria; cockroaches) and the Mantodea (mantids, or praying mantises). The use of the term Dictyoptera has changed over the years, and while largely out of use for much of the last century, it is becoming more widely used.
Dictyosiphonales Dictyosiphonales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. Member of this order have a sporphytic thallus with true parenchyma formed by both longitudinal and transverse cell division with a thallus that is solid, tubular flat, saccate, branched or foliose.
Dictys Cretensis Dictys Cretensis, (Dictys of Crete), alleged to have been of Knossus in Crete, was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the Iliad. With the rise in credulity in Late Antiquity, the story of his journal, an amusing fiction addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally.
Dicyclic group In group theory, a dicyclic group is a member of a class of groups Dicn (n > 1), a non-abelian group of order 4n, which are formed by an extension of a group (generally a cyclic group) by a cyclic group of order 2 (the latter giving the name di-cyclic).
Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) is an organic compound with chemical formula C13H22N2 whose primary use is to couple amino acids during artificial protein synthesis. Under stardard conditions, DCC exists in the form of white crystals with a heavy, sweet odor.
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone The Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Dicynodon, a genus of mammal-like reptile, that flourished in the Permian Period and whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Dicynodon trautscholdi Dicynodon trautscholdi is a species of large Dicynodont, whose fossil remains have been found at Sokoli on the Dvina River near Archangelsk in Russia. It lived during the latest Permian, and was a contemporary of Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dvinia.
DiC Entertainment DiC Entertainment (pronounced "deek") is an international film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg (RTL). The company's name was originally an acronym for Diffusion, Information et Communication.
DiC Kids Network The DiC Kids Network or DiC Kids Block is a US program that airs selected DiC programs on local FOX, MyNetwork TV, CW and independent stations. Most of DiC's programs are distributed by Tribune Entertainment, with the exception of those owned by Warner Bros.
Did It Again "Did It Again" was the second single released from singer Kylie Minogue's 1997 album Impossible Princess. The single went gold in Australia reaching a peak of #14 on the Australian charts and #15 in the UK.
Did My Time "Did My Time" is a song by nu metal band Korn and the first single from their 6th studio album, Take a Look in the Mirror, it was also promoting single for the movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
Did U "Did U" is the b-side to the single "Wishing On The Same Star" (2002) by Namie Amuro. Although a music video was produced for the song, it has never been included on any of her studio albums.
Did We Really Love Did We Really Love (우리가 ě •ë§ ě‚¬ëž‘í–을까 in South Korea (also known as True to Love or Have We Really Loved?)) is an MBC TV drama series and has been a major part of the Korean Wave both in Asia and throughout the United States.
Did Ya' Understand That "Did Ya' Understand That" is the second and last single off of Willa Ford's album Willa Was Here. The story line of the song is about how through Willa's whole relationship with a guy, she is treated badly.
Didacticism Didacticism is an artistic philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art. Didactic art should not primarily "entertain" or pursue the subjective goals of the artist.
Didanosine Didanosine (2'-3'-dideoxyinosine, ddI) is sold under the trade names Videx® and Videx EC®. It is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, effective against HIV and used in combination with other antiretroviral drug therapy as part of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
Didascalia Apostolorum Didascalia Apostolorum (or just Didascalia) is the tile of a treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15), but is really a composition of the third century.
Didcap In BDSM, a didcap (a portmanteau between DID, for "damsel in distress" and vidcap, for "video capture") is a freeze frame of a mainstream movie or TV series showing a beautiful woman tied up and/or gagged.
Didcot Girls' School Didcot Girls' School is a comprehensive secondary school for girls in Didcot, Oxfordshire and serving Didcot and the surrounding rural area. The school has been awarded with Language College and Technology College status (as of 2006).
Didcot Junction Didcot Junction is a triangular railway junction on the former GWR main line in Oxfordshire, England where the line splits into lines to Oxford and north and the West Country. A further western curve completes the triangle.
Didcot Parkway railway station Didcot Parkway railway station is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire in England. The station was opened as Didcot in 1844, and renamed to Didcot Parkway in the 1980s to reflect a new role as a park and ride railhead.
Didcot Railway Centre Didcot Railway Centre, located in the town of Didcot in the English county of Oxfordshire, is based around the site of an old engine shed which became redundant due to the nationalisation of the UK railways, as well as the gradual switch from steam to diesel power.
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway was a cross-country railway running north-south between the towns listed in its name although it actually reached Southampton by running over the London and South Western Railway tracks from Shawford Junction, south of Winchester. At Newbury, it had junctions with the Berks and Hants branch of the Great Western Railway east and west of the town, running over Great Western tracks for the short distance in between and sharing the Great Western station.
Diddillibah, Queensland Diddillibah is a suburb of the Maroochy shire in Queensland, Australia. Its name comes from a local Aboriginal word dhilla, which means "coarse grass" or "carpet snake" and ba, which means "place".
Diddle In percussion, a diddle consists of two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL). This is similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed, where drags are played at twice the speed as the context in which they are placed.
Diddley bow The diddley bow is an American string instrument of African origin. It is typically homemade, consisting usually of a wooden board and a single wire string stretched between two screws, and played by plucking while varying the pitch with a metal or glass slide held in the other hand.
Diddy (dance act) Diddy is the stage name of London DJ Richard Dearlove, responsible for the dance hit Feverpitch/Positiva release Give Me Love and also for a number of Blondie single remixes for the Chrysalis Records label. His remix of Blondie's "Atomic" reached #1 on the American Billboard dance charts.
Dideba zetsit kurtheuls Dideba zetsit kurtheuls (Praise Be To The Heavenly Bestower of Blessings, á“áá“á”á’á á–á”áŞáá— á™áŁá á—á”áŁášáˇ in Georgian) was the national anthem of Georgia from 1918 to 1920, and from 14 November 1990 to 23 April 2004. It was written and composed by Kote Potskhverashvili (1889-1959).
Didemnins Didemnins are cyclodepsipeptide compounds isolated from a tunicate (sea-squirt) of the genus Trididemnum (family of Didemnidæ) that were collected in the Caribbean Sea. They were first isolated in 1978 at the University of Illinois.
Dideoxyribonucleotide Dideoxyribonucleotide is a modified nucleotide used in the Sanger Method of DNA sequencing. Its structure is that of a ribonucleotide, with OH groups replaced with H groups at the 2' and 3' positions of the ribose ring.
Diderik Batens Diderik Batens is a Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent, known chiefly for his work on adaptive and paraconsistent logics. His epistemological views may be broadly characterized as fallibilist.
Diderik Wagenaar Diderik Wagenaar is a sandy-haired Dutchman from Utrecht who has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born in 1946 to a musical family that includes among its number Johan (although not Bernard) Wagenaar, he began playing piano at the age of eight and by the time he was fourteen had set his sights on a musical vocation.
Diderot (crater) Diderot is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies within the southwestern interior floor of the huge Fermi walled plain, about midway between the basin mid-point and the southwest rim.
Didi Conn Didi Conn (born Edith Bernstein on July 13 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film, stage and television actress. She attended Midwood High School, and is married to composer David Shire; her brother is opera singer Richard Bernstein.
Didi Perego Didi Perego was a statuesque actress who appeared in over 80 films and television shows. She made her debut in 1959's Death of a Friend and followed it up in the same year with perhaps her best-known performance, as Sofia in Kapò for which she won the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.
Didi Senft Didi Senft (born 1952 in Germany) is known as the Tour de France devil or El Diablo. Since 1993, he has been seen in the Tour's many stages wearing his red devil costume and painting a trifork on the road some miles before he'll show up.
Didi's Comedy Show Didi's Comedy Show was a German comedy television show starring Dieter Hallervorden. Didi is a bumbling detective who is struck by "brilliant" ideas which turn out disastrously; he eventually comes out on top, however.
Didicoy Didicoy (Romani diddicoi; also diddicoy, diddycoy) was a 19th and early 20th century term of the Roma (gypsies) for travellers with no Roma blood. There was often fierce competition between the groups, and the Roma tended to blame their own reputation for criminality on the didicoys masquerading as gypsies.
Didier André Didier Andre is a race car driver born in Lyon, France on the 3rd of September 1974. In the late 1990s he competed in Indy Lights, driving in the Indy Racing League in 2001 and Nissan World Series from 2003 until the present day.
Didier Artzet Didier Artzet (born 10 February 1963 in Nice, France) is a race car driver who drove for Apomatox in the Formula 3000 championship of 1990. Prior to that he drove part of both the 1988 and 1989 Formula 3000 seasons for Racetech.
Didier Breton Didier Breton is the Chief Operating Officer of Trader Classified Media, one of the world's largest classified advertising companies. He was previously president of Groupe Bull, focusing on systems and infrastructure, and he was formerly an executive Hewlett Packard and Valeo.
Didier Courrèges Didier Courrèges (born June 15, 1960 in Evreux) is a high-level horse rider. He is professor of equitation at the National School of Equitation in Saumur, France, and a member of its equestrian display team, the Cadre Noir.
Didier Daeninckx Didier Daeninckx (born April 27, 1949) is a French author, best known for his romans noir. He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism.
Didier Dinart Didier Dinart (born January 18, 1977 in Pointe-Ă -Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French handball player, currently playing for Ciudad Real in Spain. Before joining Ciudad Real, Didier Dinart played for the current best French club Montpellier HB.
Didier Domi Didier Domi (born 2 May 1978) is a French professional football player who currently plays for Olympiacos as a defender after signing his three year contract with the greek giants. French left-back Didier Domi can also be used in midfield and combines positional intelligence with strength and pace.
Didier Hernández Didier Hernández (born July 18, 1979 in Cuba) is a singer who was a member of the well known boy band, Menudo. He was one of the last members of the group to join while the band was still named "Menudo".
Didier Julia Didier Julia (born February 18 1934) is a French politician. He is currently (as of 2004) representing the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from Seine-et-Marne in the French National Assembly, a post he has held from 1967.
Didier Leclair Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema 1967 in Montreal) is a Canadian francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. He has lived in various countries in Africa, and has studied at Toronto's Glendon College.
Didier Lestrade Didier Lestrade (born February 22, 1958, in Mehdia, Algeria), is a leading AIDS & gay rights advocate. He grew up in the Southwest of France, and left home in 1977 after failing twice to graduate from the French equivalent of high school.
Didier of Cahors Saint Didier, bishop of Cahors (died November 15 (his feast day), traditionally 655) a Merovingian royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction, succeeded his own brother Saint Rusticus as bishop of Cahors. He governed the diocese, which flourished under his care, from 630 to 655.
Didier Opertti Didier Opertti Badán (born 1937) was the interior minister of Uruguay from 1995 to 1998 and foreign minister from 1998 until March 1 2005. He also served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1998 to 1999.
Didier Pfirter Didier Pfirter is a Swiss diplomat. He was the legal advisor to Alvaro de Soto, the Special Cyprus Advisor of the UN's Secretary-General Kofi Annan and is currently Ambassador at Large for Special Assignments at the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Didier Ratsiraka Admiral Didier Ratsiraka (born November 4, 1936) was the President of Madagascar from 1975 until 1993 and from 1997 until 2002. Ratsiraka served as foreign minister under Gabriel Ramanantsoa from 1972 until 1975.
Didier SĂ©nac Didier SĂ©nac (born October 2, 1958 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a former football defender from France, who obtained three international caps for the French national team during the early 1980s. A player of RC Lens (1977-1988), he was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Didier Theys Didier Theys (born October 19, 1956, Nivelles, Belgium), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1987-1993 seasons with 47 career starts, including the 1989, 1990 and 1993 Indianapolis 500.
Didim Didim is a small town on the western Aegean coast of Turkey that takes its name from Didyma of Antiquity, sited close by. Didim is the name of the district but it includes a number of small towns including Altinkum, Yenihisar, Mavisehir and Akbuk.
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival The Didmarton Bluegrass festival is held annually on the first weekend after the August bank holiday and is one of the most popular bluegrass festivals in the United Kingdom. It was originally staged at the Holford Arms, Knockdown for many years, before moving to nearby Kemble Airfield in 2004.
Didn't I Didn't I was a non-single release by Aqua distributed in various ways, most notably with the Around The World video. A dance track compared to most of Aqua's releases, "Didn't I" compared to the final track of the Aquarium album, "Calling You".
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" is a 1970 single by The Delfonics, produced by Thom Bell and released on his Bell record label. The recording is considered one of the most notable early Philly soul singles to be released.
Didymium Didymium is a mixture of the elements praseodymium and neodymium. It is used in safety glasses for glassblowing and blacksmithing, especially when a gas (propane) powered forge is used, where it provides a filter which blocks the yellowish light emitted by the hot sodium in the glass, without having a detrimental effect on general vision, unlike dark welder's glasses.
Didymoteicho Didymoteicho (also spelled Didimoteixo, Didimoticho), (Greek, Modern: Διδυμότειχο, Ancient/Katharevousa: Διδυμότειχον, meaning twin walls from didymos twin and teichos wall, Turkish: Dimetoka, Bulgarian: Димотика, Dimotika) is a town located in the eastern part of the prefecture of Evros, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality and the province of the same name.
Didymus the Musician Didymus the Musician was a music theorist in Alexandria of the 1st century AD who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. According to Andrew Barker, his intention was to revive and produce contemporary performances of the music of Greek antiquity.
Didz Hammond David Jonathan Hammond (born on July 19, 1981), better known as Didz Hammond, was the bassist and backing vocalist in The Cooper Temple Clause (while also occasionally playing other instruments), and current bassist and backing vocalist in Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things.
DiDA The DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications) is an optional information and communication technology (ICT) course studied by Key Stage 4 or equivalent school students (aged 14-16) in the United Kingdom. The course was introduced in 2005 (after a pilot starting in 2004) by the Edexcel examination board and is being taken up by an increasing number of schools to replace their previous BTEC or GCSE courses in ICT.
Die (manufacturing) A die is a tool used in the manufacturing industry to create a wide variety of products and components. From a simple paper clip, to complex pieces used in the latest cutting edge technology, dies are involved in producing products we use in everyday life.
Die anderen Bands Die anderen Bands ("the other bands") is a term combining alternative bands of 1980s GDR. They shared a more or less open criticism of their country's political system, and a high degree of creativity which was lacking from the more established music scene of East Germany.
Die Aktion Die Aktion ("The Action") was a German literary and political magazine, edited by Franz Pfemfert and published between 1911 and 1932 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; it promoted literary Expressionism and stood for undogmatic left-wing policies. To begin with, Die Aktion was published weekly, after 1919 every two weeks, and only sporadically beginning from 1926.
Die by the Sword Die by the Sword is a computer swordfighting game developed by Treyarch, and published by Tantrum Entertainment (a sub-brand of Interplay Productions) on February 28 1998. The title's main selling point was the introduction of the VSIM control system, which allowed players to independently command the movement and swordfighting of their ingame avatars; running, jumping, and turning with one hand, while simultaneously slashing, stabbing, and parrying with the other.
Die Bad Die Bad (Hangul: ěŁ˝ę±°ë‚ íąěť€ ë‚ěę±°ë‚; rr: Jukgeona hokeun nabbeugeona) is a (2000) South Korean movie. It was the debut film of director Ryu Seung-wan and starred the director and his brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Park Seong-bin and Bae Jung-shik.
Die BĂĽchse der Pandora Die BĂĽchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) is a play by Frank Wedekind, written in 1903, upon which Alban Berg's opera Lulu was based. A silent movie, Pandora's Box, loosely based on the play, was filmed in 1929.
Die Braut von Messina Die Braut von Messina (English: The Bride of Messina) is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller; it premiered on March 19, 1803 in Weimar. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller, as he used many elements common to Greek tragedies (which were considered obsolete at the time it was written).
Die Deutschen Konservativen Die Deutschen Konservativen (The German Conservatives) is a German conservative anti-communist organisation, which developed out of a conservative campaign to support Franz Josef StrauĂź in the 1980 federal election. Formally established circa 1986, its President was former Berlin Senator for the Interior Heinrich Lummer, and the Chairman was the well-known journalist and later Latvian MP Joachim Siegerist.
Die Feen Die Feen (The Fairies) is Richard Wagner's first completed opera, composed entirely in 1833, when Wagner was 20 years old. The year before, Wagner had abandoned his first attempt at writing an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding).
Die Feuerzangenbowle Die Feuerzangenbowle ("The Fire Tongue Bowl", "The Punch Bowl") is a German book and movie telling the story of a famous writer going undercover as a pupil at a small town high school after his friends tell him that he missed out on the best part of growing up by being educated at home. The novel by Heinrich Spoerl was published in 1933 and adapted to film three times.
Die Frau im Mond Die Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) is a science fiction novel written in 1928 by Thea von Harbou, about a fictitious moon mission. It was filmed by von Harbou's then-husband Fritz Lang in 1929 as Frau im Mond.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB) is a dictionary of biographical entries for individuals that have contributed to the History of Canada. The DCB, which was initiated in 1959, is a collaboration between the University of Toronto and Université Laval.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. As declared by Smith in the Preface: "The Dictionary of Geography ...
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0-500-51088-1) is a book written by Anna L. Dallapiccola, and contains information on over one thousand concepts, characters, and places of Hindu mythology and Hinduism, one of the major religions of the Indian subcontinent.
Dictionary of chemical formulas This is a list of chemical compounds with chemical formulae and CAS numbers, indexed by formula. This complements alternative listings to be found at list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds and inorganic compounds by element.
Dictionary of International Biography The Dictionary of International Biography is a biographical dictionary published annually by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, reflecting contemporary achievement in every profession and field of interest in as many countries as possible. also==
Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic The Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr is widely regarded as the foremost Arabic-English bilingual or translation dictionary and has particular usefulness for students of Modern Standard Arabic. The morphology and syntax of written Arabic is essentially the same in all Arabic countries.
Dictionary of National Biography The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online.
Dictionary of Received Ideas The Dictionary of Received Ideas (in French, Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911-3 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a reference work consisting of extensive biographies of scientists from antiquity to modern times, excluding scientists who were alive when the Dictionary was first published. It includes scientists who worked in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and earth sciences.
Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan The Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan is a trilingual--English, French, and Japanese--dictionary of texts from pre-modern Japanese history and literature. Compiled under the auspices of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo (ShiryĹŤ hensan-jo), it consists of entries written and edited by some of the foremost scholars of pre-modern Japanese history and literature in the world today.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a 13-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages published by the American Council of Learned Societies between 1982 and 1989, with a supplemental volume added in 2003. It was first conceived and started in 1975.
Dictionary of the Scots Language The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) () is an online Scots-English language dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd (formerly the Scottish National Dictionary Association), based at George Square, at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The initial project, which ran from February 2001 to January 2004, was based at the University of Dundee, with some financial additional support from the Scottish Executive, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, the Russell Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Dictionary of Western Australians The Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two multi-volume biographical dictionaries containing details of European and non-European settlement in Western Australia from the foundation of the Swan River Colony in 1829 until 1888.
Dictionary tower The term "Dictionary Tower" is used to describe a building containing sophisticated equipment specifically designed to analyse or 'listen into' various forms of communication media such as telephone calls, emails and possibly even internet activity.
Dictionary-based machine translation Machine translation can use a method based on dictionary entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does — word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. Dictionary lookups may be done with or without morphological analysis or lemmatisation.
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique The Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (or Historical and Critical Dictionary in English) was a biographical dictionary written by Pierre Bayle, a Huguenot who lived and published in Holland after fleeing his native France due to religious persecution. The dictionary was first published in 1697, and enlarged in the second edition of 1702.
Dictionnaire Infernal The Dictionnaire Infernal is a book on demonology that includes the names and description of many demons, organised in hellish hierarchies. It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818.
Dictionnaire philosophique The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) was a very controversial 1764 book written by Voltaire. In it he used an alphabetical format to air his own views on theology, modern religious beliefs, and many other subjects, in a series of short essays, which comprised articles contributed by him to the Encyclopédie.
Dicto simpliciter a Dicto simpliciter (Latin: "from a maxim without qualification" -- meaning 'from a universal rule') or ad Dictum simpliciter (Latin: "to a maxim without qualification" -- meaning 'to a universal rule') The a (meaning "from" is often omitted when this phrase is used in English, being mistaken for an indefinite article.
Dictophyma renale The Dictophyma renale or giant kidney worm is a common parasital worm found especially in carnivorous animals, particularly minks and mustelids. Becoming up to 60 centimeters in length in mink and up to 100 centimeters in lupine animals, this vermillion kidney worm is one of the largest of all parasitic nematodes.
Dictum In common law legal terminology a dictum (plural dicta) is any statement that forms a part of the judgment of a court, in particular a court whose decisions have value as precedent under the doctrine of stare decisis.
Dictum of Kenilworth The Dictum of Kenilworth, issued in October 1266, established the terms of the supporters of Simon de Montfort for ending their resistance against Henry III of England. Issued from Kenilworth Castle, its main demand was the right to buy back confiscated estates.
Dictyate The Dictyate stage of meiotic prophase is a prolonged resting phase that is terminated shortly before ovulation. Although the majority of oocytes are produced in female fetuses before birth, these pre-eggs remain arrested in the Dictyate stage until puberty commences and the cells undergo oogenesis.
Dictyocaulus Dictyocaulus is a genus of nematode parasites of the bronchial tree of horses, sheep, goats, deer, and cattle. Dictyocaulus arnfeldii is the lungworm of horses, and Dictyocaulus viviparus is the lungworm affecting ruminants .
Dictyoptera Dictyoptera includes three groups of insects, the Isoptera (termites), Blattodea (or Blattaria; cockroaches) and the Mantodea (mantids, or praying mantises). The use of the term Dictyoptera has changed over the years, and while largely out of use for much of the last century, it is becoming more widely used.
Dictyosiphonales Dictyosiphonales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. Member of this order have a sporphytic thallus with true parenchyma formed by both longitudinal and transverse cell division with a thallus that is solid, tubular flat, saccate, branched or foliose.
Dictys Cretensis Dictys Cretensis, (Dictys of Crete), alleged to have been of Knossus in Crete, was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the Iliad. With the rise in credulity in Late Antiquity, the story of his journal, an amusing fiction addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally.
Dicyclic group In group theory, a dicyclic group is a member of a class of groups Dicn (n > 1), a non-abelian group of order 4n, which are formed by an extension of a group (generally a cyclic group) by a cyclic group of order 2 (the latter giving the name di-cyclic).
Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) is an organic compound with chemical formula C13H22N2 whose primary use is to couple amino acids during artificial protein synthesis. Under stardard conditions, DCC exists in the form of white crystals with a heavy, sweet odor.
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone The Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Dicynodon, a genus of mammal-like reptile, that flourished in the Permian Period and whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Dicynodon trautscholdi Dicynodon trautscholdi is a species of large Dicynodont, whose fossil remains have been found at Sokoli on the Dvina River near Archangelsk in Russia. It lived during the latest Permian, and was a contemporary of Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dvinia.
DiC Entertainment DiC Entertainment (pronounced "deek") is an international film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg (RTL). The company's name was originally an acronym for Diffusion, Information et Communication.
DiC Kids Network The DiC Kids Network or DiC Kids Block is a US program that airs selected DiC programs on local FOX, MyNetwork TV, CW and independent stations. Most of DiC's programs are distributed by Tribune Entertainment, with the exception of those owned by Warner Bros.
Did It Again "Did It Again" was the second single released from singer Kylie Minogue's 1997 album Impossible Princess. The single went gold in Australia reaching a peak of #14 on the Australian charts and #15 in the UK.
Did My Time "Did My Time" is a song by nu metal band Korn and the first single from their 6th studio album, Take a Look in the Mirror, it was also promoting single for the movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
Did U "Did U" is the b-side to the single "Wishing On The Same Star" (2002) by Namie Amuro. Although a music video was produced for the song, it has never been included on any of her studio albums.
Did We Really Love Did We Really Love (우리가 ě •ë§ ě‚¬ëž‘í–을까 in South Korea (also known as True to Love or Have We Really Loved?)) is an MBC TV drama series and has been a major part of the Korean Wave both in Asia and throughout the United States.
Did Ya' Understand That "Did Ya' Understand That" is the second and last single off of Willa Ford's album Willa Was Here. The story line of the song is about how through Willa's whole relationship with a guy, she is treated badly.
Didacticism Didacticism is an artistic philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art. Didactic art should not primarily "entertain" or pursue the subjective goals of the artist.
Didanosine Didanosine (2'-3'-dideoxyinosine, ddI) is sold under the trade names Videx® and Videx EC®. It is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, effective against HIV and used in combination with other antiretroviral drug therapy as part of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
Didascalia Apostolorum Didascalia Apostolorum (or just Didascalia) is the tile of a treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15), but is really a composition of the third century.
Didcap In BDSM, a didcap (a portmanteau between DID, for "damsel in distress" and vidcap, for "video capture") is a freeze frame of a mainstream movie or TV series showing a beautiful woman tied up and/or gagged.
Didcot Girls' School Didcot Girls' School is a comprehensive secondary school for girls in Didcot, Oxfordshire and serving Didcot and the surrounding rural area. The school has been awarded with Language College and Technology College status (as of 2006).
Didcot Junction Didcot Junction is a triangular railway junction on the former GWR main line in Oxfordshire, England where the line splits into lines to Oxford and north and the West Country. A further western curve completes the triangle.
Didcot Parkway railway station Didcot Parkway railway station is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire in England. The station was opened as Didcot in 1844, and renamed to Didcot Parkway in the 1980s to reflect a new role as a park and ride railhead.
Didcot Railway Centre Didcot Railway Centre, located in the town of Didcot in the English county of Oxfordshire, is based around the site of an old engine shed which became redundant due to the nationalisation of the UK railways, as well as the gradual switch from steam to diesel power.
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway was a cross-country railway running north-south between the towns listed in its name although it actually reached Southampton by running over the London and South Western Railway tracks from Shawford Junction, south of Winchester. At Newbury, it had junctions with the Berks and Hants branch of the Great Western Railway east and west of the town, running over Great Western tracks for the short distance in between and sharing the Great Western station.
Diddillibah, Queensland Diddillibah is a suburb of the Maroochy shire in Queensland, Australia. Its name comes from a local Aboriginal word dhilla, which means "coarse grass" or "carpet snake" and ba, which means "place".
Diddle In percussion, a diddle consists of two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL). This is similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed, where drags are played at twice the speed as the context in which they are placed.
Diddley bow The diddley bow is an American string instrument of African origin. It is typically homemade, consisting usually of a wooden board and a single wire string stretched between two screws, and played by plucking while varying the pitch with a metal or glass slide held in the other hand.
Diddy (dance act) Diddy is the stage name of London DJ Richard Dearlove, responsible for the dance hit Feverpitch/Positiva release Give Me Love and also for a number of Blondie single remixes for the Chrysalis Records label. His remix of Blondie's "Atomic" reached #1 on the American Billboard dance charts.
Dideba zetsit kurtheuls Dideba zetsit kurtheuls (Praise Be To The Heavenly Bestower of Blessings, á“áá“á”á’á á–á”áŞáá— á™áŁá á—á”áŁášáˇ in Georgian) was the national anthem of Georgia from 1918 to 1920, and from 14 November 1990 to 23 April 2004. It was written and composed by Kote Potskhverashvili (1889-1959).
Didemnins Didemnins are cyclodepsipeptide compounds isolated from a tunicate (sea-squirt) of the genus Trididemnum (family of Didemnidæ) that were collected in the Caribbean Sea. They were first isolated in 1978 at the University of Illinois.
Dideoxyribonucleotide Dideoxyribonucleotide is a modified nucleotide used in the Sanger Method of DNA sequencing. Its structure is that of a ribonucleotide, with OH groups replaced with H groups at the 2' and 3' positions of the ribose ring.
Diderik Batens Diderik Batens is a Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent, known chiefly for his work on adaptive and paraconsistent logics. His epistemological views may be broadly characterized as fallibilist.
Diderik Wagenaar Diderik Wagenaar is a sandy-haired Dutchman from Utrecht who has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born in 1946 to a musical family that includes among its number Johan (although not Bernard) Wagenaar, he began playing piano at the age of eight and by the time he was fourteen had set his sights on a musical vocation.
Diderot (crater) Diderot is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies within the southwestern interior floor of the huge Fermi walled plain, about midway between the basin mid-point and the southwest rim.
Didi Conn Didi Conn (born Edith Bernstein on July 13 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film, stage and television actress. She attended Midwood High School, and is married to composer David Shire; her brother is opera singer Richard Bernstein.
Didi Perego Didi Perego was a statuesque actress who appeared in over 80 films and television shows. She made her debut in 1959's Death of a Friend and followed it up in the same year with perhaps her best-known performance, as Sofia in Kapò for which she won the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.
Didi Senft Didi Senft (born 1952 in Germany) is known as the Tour de France devil or El Diablo. Since 1993, he has been seen in the Tour's many stages wearing his red devil costume and painting a trifork on the road some miles before he'll show up.
Didi's Comedy Show Didi's Comedy Show was a German comedy television show starring Dieter Hallervorden. Didi is a bumbling detective who is struck by "brilliant" ideas which turn out disastrously; he eventually comes out on top, however.
Didicoy Didicoy (Romani diddicoi; also diddicoy, diddycoy) was a 19th and early 20th century term of the Roma (gypsies) for travellers with no Roma blood. There was often fierce competition between the groups, and the Roma tended to blame their own reputation for criminality on the didicoys masquerading as gypsies.
Didier André Didier Andre is a race car driver born in Lyon, France on the 3rd of September 1974. In the late 1990s he competed in Indy Lights, driving in the Indy Racing League in 2001 and Nissan World Series from 2003 until the present day.
Didier Artzet Didier Artzet (born 10 February 1963 in Nice, France) is a race car driver who drove for Apomatox in the Formula 3000 championship of 1990. Prior to that he drove part of both the 1988 and 1989 Formula 3000 seasons for Racetech.
Didier Breton Didier Breton is the Chief Operating Officer of Trader Classified Media, one of the world's largest classified advertising companies. He was previously president of Groupe Bull, focusing on systems and infrastructure, and he was formerly an executive Hewlett Packard and Valeo.
Didier Courrèges Didier Courrèges (born June 15, 1960 in Evreux) is a high-level horse rider. He is professor of equitation at the National School of Equitation in Saumur, France, and a member of its equestrian display team, the Cadre Noir.
Didier Daeninckx Didier Daeninckx (born April 27, 1949) is a French author, best known for his romans noir. He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism.
Didier Dinart Didier Dinart (born January 18, 1977 in Pointe-Ă -Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French handball player, currently playing for Ciudad Real in Spain. Before joining Ciudad Real, Didier Dinart played for the current best French club Montpellier HB.
Didier Domi Didier Domi (born 2 May 1978) is a French professional football player who currently plays for Olympiacos as a defender after signing his three year contract with the greek giants. French left-back Didier Domi can also be used in midfield and combines positional intelligence with strength and pace.
Didier Hernández Didier Hernández (born July 18, 1979 in Cuba) is a singer who was a member of the well known boy band, Menudo. He was one of the last members of the group to join while the band was still named "Menudo".
Didier Julia Didier Julia (born February 18 1934) is a French politician. He is currently (as of 2004) representing the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from Seine-et-Marne in the French National Assembly, a post he has held from 1967.
Didier Leclair Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema 1967 in Montreal) is a Canadian francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. He has lived in various countries in Africa, and has studied at Toronto's Glendon College.
Didier Lestrade Didier Lestrade (born February 22, 1958, in Mehdia, Algeria), is a leading AIDS & gay rights advocate. He grew up in the Southwest of France, and left home in 1977 after failing twice to graduate from the French equivalent of high school.
Didier of Cahors Saint Didier, bishop of Cahors (died November 15 (his feast day), traditionally 655) a Merovingian royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction, succeeded his own brother Saint Rusticus as bishop of Cahors. He governed the diocese, which flourished under his care, from 630 to 655.
Didier Opertti Didier Opertti Badán (born 1937) was the interior minister of Uruguay from 1995 to 1998 and foreign minister from 1998 until March 1 2005. He also served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1998 to 1999.
Didier Pfirter Didier Pfirter is a Swiss diplomat. He was the legal advisor to Alvaro de Soto, the Special Cyprus Advisor of the UN's Secretary-General Kofi Annan and is currently Ambassador at Large for Special Assignments at the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Didier Ratsiraka Admiral Didier Ratsiraka (born November 4, 1936) was the President of Madagascar from 1975 until 1993 and from 1997 until 2002. Ratsiraka served as foreign minister under Gabriel Ramanantsoa from 1972 until 1975.
Didier SĂ©nac Didier SĂ©nac (born October 2, 1958 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a former football defender from France, who obtained three international caps for the French national team during the early 1980s. A player of RC Lens (1977-1988), he was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Didier Theys Didier Theys (born October 19, 1956, Nivelles, Belgium), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1987-1993 seasons with 47 career starts, including the 1989, 1990 and 1993 Indianapolis 500.
Didim Didim is a small town on the western Aegean coast of Turkey that takes its name from Didyma of Antiquity, sited close by. Didim is the name of the district but it includes a number of small towns including Altinkum, Yenihisar, Mavisehir and Akbuk.
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival The Didmarton Bluegrass festival is held annually on the first weekend after the August bank holiday and is one of the most popular bluegrass festivals in the United Kingdom. It was originally staged at the Holford Arms, Knockdown for many years, before moving to nearby Kemble Airfield in 2004.
Didn't I Didn't I was a non-single release by Aqua distributed in various ways, most notably with the Around The World video. A dance track compared to most of Aqua's releases, "Didn't I" compared to the final track of the Aquarium album, "Calling You".
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" is a 1970 single by The Delfonics, produced by Thom Bell and released on his Bell record label. The recording is considered one of the most notable early Philly soul singles to be released.
Didymium Didymium is a mixture of the elements praseodymium and neodymium. It is used in safety glasses for glassblowing and blacksmithing, especially when a gas (propane) powered forge is used, where it provides a filter which blocks the yellowish light emitted by the hot sodium in the glass, without having a detrimental effect on general vision, unlike dark welder's glasses.
Didymoteicho Didymoteicho (also spelled Didimoteixo, Didimoticho), (Greek, Modern: Διδυμότειχο, Ancient/Katharevousa: Διδυμότειχον, meaning twin walls from didymos twin and teichos wall, Turkish: Dimetoka, Bulgarian: Димотика, Dimotika) is a town located in the eastern part of the prefecture of Evros, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality and the province of the same name.
Didymus the Musician Didymus the Musician was a music theorist in Alexandria of the 1st century AD who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. According to Andrew Barker, his intention was to revive and produce contemporary performances of the music of Greek antiquity.
Didz Hammond David Jonathan Hammond (born on July 19, 1981), better known as Didz Hammond, was the bassist and backing vocalist in The Cooper Temple Clause (while also occasionally playing other instruments), and current bassist and backing vocalist in Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things.
DiDA The DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications) is an optional information and communication technology (ICT) course studied by Key Stage 4 or equivalent school students (aged 14-16) in the United Kingdom. The course was introduced in 2005 (after a pilot starting in 2004) by the Edexcel examination board and is being taken up by an increasing number of schools to replace their previous BTEC or GCSE courses in ICT.
Die (manufacturing) A die is a tool used in the manufacturing industry to create a wide variety of products and components. From a simple paper clip, to complex pieces used in the latest cutting edge technology, dies are involved in producing products we use in everyday life.
Die anderen Bands Die anderen Bands ("the other bands") is a term combining alternative bands of 1980s GDR. They shared a more or less open criticism of their country's political system, and a high degree of creativity which was lacking from the more established music scene of East Germany.
Die Aktion Die Aktion ("The Action") was a German literary and political magazine, edited by Franz Pfemfert and published between 1911 and 1932 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; it promoted literary Expressionism and stood for undogmatic left-wing policies. To begin with, Die Aktion was published weekly, after 1919 every two weeks, and only sporadically beginning from 1926.
Die by the Sword Die by the Sword is a computer swordfighting game developed by Treyarch, and published by Tantrum Entertainment (a sub-brand of Interplay Productions) on February 28 1998. The title's main selling point was the introduction of the VSIM control system, which allowed players to independently command the movement and swordfighting of their ingame avatars; running, jumping, and turning with one hand, while simultaneously slashing, stabbing, and parrying with the other.
Die Bad Die Bad (Hangul: ěŁ˝ę±°ë‚ íąěť€ ë‚ěę±°ë‚; rr: Jukgeona hokeun nabbeugeona) is a (2000) South Korean movie. It was the debut film of director Ryu Seung-wan and starred the director and his brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Park Seong-bin and Bae Jung-shik.
Die BĂĽchse der Pandora Die BĂĽchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) is a play by Frank Wedekind, written in 1903, upon which Alban Berg's opera Lulu was based. A silent movie, Pandora's Box, loosely based on the play, was filmed in 1929.
Die Braut von Messina Die Braut von Messina (English: The Bride of Messina) is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller; it premiered on March 19, 1803 in Weimar. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller, as he used many elements common to Greek tragedies (which were considered obsolete at the time it was written).
Die Deutschen Konservativen Die Deutschen Konservativen (The German Conservatives) is a German conservative anti-communist organisation, which developed out of a conservative campaign to support Franz Josef StrauĂź in the 1980 federal election. Formally established circa 1986, its President was former Berlin Senator for the Interior Heinrich Lummer, and the Chairman was the well-known journalist and later Latvian MP Joachim Siegerist.
Die Feen Die Feen (The Fairies) is Richard Wagner's first completed opera, composed entirely in 1833, when Wagner was 20 years old. The year before, Wagner had abandoned his first attempt at writing an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding).
Die Feuerzangenbowle Die Feuerzangenbowle ("The Fire Tongue Bowl", "The Punch Bowl") is a German book and movie telling the story of a famous writer going undercover as a pupil at a small town high school after his friends tell him that he missed out on the best part of growing up by being educated at home. The novel by Heinrich Spoerl was published in 1933 and adapted to film three times.
Die Frau im Mond Die Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) is a science fiction novel written in 1928 by Thea von Harbou, about a fictitious moon mission. It was filmed by von Harbou's then-husband Fritz Lang in 1929 as Frau im Mond.
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